KARACHI: Only two per cent of women in Pakistan own land, according to a latest survey, highlighting the stark gender gap in land ownership and economic empower…
NAWABSHAH: Emboldened by a big turnout of supporters in a city like Nawabshah, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Sec…
KARACHI: The assembly plant of BYD in Gharo, Sindh, which was scheduled to become operational in the first half of FY26, has missed the deadline. According to a…
India brushed Pakistan aside in an emphatic seven-wicket win when the two sides met during the Women’s Asia Cup in Dubai on Saturday, marking India’s seventh As…
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has launched a lie-detector dragnet to comb through high-ranking military officials and identify who leaked information about US muniti…
• Party warns of nationwide wheel-jam strike if demands face delays; says protests will continue alongside negotiations• Hafiz Naeem claims demonstrations force…
ANYONE who has even casually followed Pakistan cricket over the years will know that our cricket board’s response to losing the current Test series in England i…
ISLAMABAD: The National Agri-Trade and Food Safety Authority (NAFSA) has unveiled plans for a modern, transparent and digitally enabled regulatory framework fo…
The debate over whether Karachi should be separated from the province of Sindh is one of the oldest in Pakistan. On one side, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) a…
THE collective memory of Muslim societies, particularly in the West and South Asia, is based on the persistent idea that since the collapse of the Ottoman Empir…
THE world is edging into climate territory governments have spent years trying to avoid. A new UN Environment Programme report warns that the Paris Agreement’s …
ISLAMABAD: After the Aug 26 incident at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) in which 14 newborn babies died amid a fire eruption, the Pakistan Med…
Chief of Defence Forces and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir on Saturday visited Quetta Garrison, where he reaffirmed that the peace, prosperity and…
West Indies batting great Brian Lara on Saturday joined an international appeal for proper medical treatment and dignified conditions for imprisoned former Paki…
Russian President Vladimir Putin began talks with US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff on ending more than four years of war in Ukraine in the Kremlin Satu…
Nearly 130 countries on Saturday agreed on a text defining lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) — “killer robots” to their critics — a first step towards ta…
ISLAMABAD: The Inter Board Coordination Commission (IBCC) on Saturday decided that Science Group equivalence would be awarded to students of foreign boards who …
The US ambassador to Israel said on Saturday there was no plan underway to force Palestinians out of Gaza, after Israeli ministers laid out ideas on how to expe…
A suspect who allegedly attacked a woman with acid in Karachi’s Upper Gizri area recently has been arrested, South Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Syed Asad Raza…
KARACHI: Police on Saturday said they had arrested two suspects in connection with the alleged assault of a young man in DHA Phase 8. South Deputy Inspector Gen…
ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Saturday warned that the party would launch a nationwide wheel-jam strike if the government delayed…
GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Amjad Hussain has constituted a three-member committee to review the 1999 Trekking Rules and Regulations, according to a…
Eight members of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) have rejected proposed amendments seeking to make the council’s proceedings and deliberations confidential, sayi…
Fighting between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government forces and the country’s Houthi rebels killed more than 60 people on Saturday, including civilians, medical and…