Pakistan
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Modi, Shehbaz meeting likely in Uzbekistan at SCO summit
Islamabad: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Secretary General Zhang Ming is visiting Pakistan on Friday for three days and will invite Pak Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to participate in the SCO annual summit to…
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‘Azadi’ march cases: Court extends Imran’s interim bail till July 30
Islamabad: A district and sessions court on Thursday extended the interim bail of former Prime Minister and PTI chairman Imran Khan till July 30 in 11 cases related to the party’s “Azadi…
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Imran slams Pak govt over prevailing economic crisis
Islamabad: Former Prime Minister and Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, has slammed the ruling government under Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for failing to tackle the prevailing economic crisis in the…
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Pakistan rupee at all time low owing to political instability
Islamabad: Pakistani rupee fell to an all-time low against the dollar on Tuesday when it closed at Rs 222 in the interbank market, as the coalition government announced to complete its term.…
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Pakistan: 19 women drowned, several missing as boat capsizes in Indus River
Islamabad: 19 women were killed and several others are missing after a boat capsized in the Indus River near Machka, approximately 65km from Rahim Yar Khan on Monday. According to Dawn, around…
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Pakistan: Imran demands fresh elections after impressive show in Punjab by-polls
Lahore: Imran Khan has demanded fresh general elections in Pakistan after his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party registered an impressive electoral victory in the crucial Punjab assembly by-polls, dealing a major blow to Prime Minister…
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NMC mulls holding exams for persecuted minorities from Pakistan
New Delhi: The National Medical Commission has formed a group of experts to frame guidelines for a proposed exam to allow medical graduates from persecuted minorities who migrated from Pakistan and got…
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Imran Khan urges Pak generals to take U-turn’ on support for govt led by Shehbaz Sharif
Islamabad: The Pakistani military should take a U-turn on its support to the “failed” government headed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, ousted premier Imran Khan has said, urging the powerful generals to…
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Maryam Nawaz offers ‘hand of friendship’ to Imran Khan’s party
Lahore: Ruling PML-N leader and deposed premier Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz has for the first time offered a “hand of friendship” to Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, saying fighting between the two…
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90-year-old Indian woman in Pakistan to visit ancestral home in Rawalpindi
Lahore: An Indian woman’s long-cherished dream of visiting her ancestral home in Rawalpindi materialised on Saturday when Pakistan granted 90-year-old Reena Chhibber Varma a visa and she arrived here via the Wagah-Attari…
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Pak police arrest over 160 people as protests triggered by youth’s killing erupt in Sindh
Karachi: Over 160 people have been arrested in Pakistan’s Sindh province where clashes have erupted between Sindhis and Pakhtuns after the killing of a Sindhi man at a hotel in Hyderabad. The…
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Pak top court rejects Imran Khan’s claims of regime change conspiracy
Islamabad: Pakistan’s top court has categorically rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s narrative of a foreign conspiracy of a regime change that led to his ouster from power, stating the actions undertaken…
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India’s policies in Kashmir could have “potentially catastrophic consequences”: Pak minister
United Nations: While admitting to a “fragile” food situation in his country, Pakistan’s Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal has thrown a warning that India’s policies in Kashmir could have “potentially catastrophic…
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Husband on the run after boiling wife’s body in a cauldron in Karachi in front of his children
Karachi: In a shocking incident, a mother of six children was killed and boiled in a cauldron allegedly by her husband in Gulshan-e-Iqbal neighbourhood in Karachi, local media reported. The body of…