BISHKEK: The city of Lahore has been named the Tourism and Cultural Capital for 2026-27 by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). The decision was announ…
How the electricity crisis in eastern Libya became a water crisis that revived an older argument about power, resources and regional inequality in the country…
The government on Tuesday raised the price of petrol by Rs1.08 per litre and that of high-speed diesel (HSD) by Rs0.51 per litre. Following the revision, petrol…
LAHORE: The Suthra Punjab Authority (SPA) on Tuesday launched an e-challan system to penalise littering at public places in Lahore, whereas burning tyres and wa…
KARACHI: National selector Aaqib Javed on Tuesday defended the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) controversial mid-series shake-up, saying the team’s inability to …
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Egypt on Tuesday evening, making a rare trip to the Middle East as both countries face the threat of US sancti…
IT Minister Shaza Fatima Khawaja meets Abdullah bin Sharaf Alghamdi, president of the Saudi Data and AI Authority.—APP • Shaza Fatima Khawaja stresses innovatio…
LAHORE: Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdul Kareem has said that immediate action is being taken to curb sexual crimes against women and children on …
Five security personnel, including two officers, and a Customs official were martyred during a “coordinated attack in an attempt to breach the Customs House” on…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said water was the “lifeblood” of the region and must never be weaponised, as he addressed a summit of the Shanghai Coo…
KARACHI: A police task force on narcotics in Karachi, in collaboration with a federal civilian intelligence agency, carried out an intelligence-based raid on a …
Britain’s foreign secretary vowed a tough response to “appalling” violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, drawin…
KARACHI: The judicial commission formed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the murder of Mir Raza Ali and possible negligence in the case on Tuesday r…
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution seeking an effective legal ban on social media accounts for children under 16 years of age. The resol…
A knife-wielding woman stabbed and killed two people in New York’s tourist-filled Times Square on Monday, before she was shot and killed by police. Mayor Zohran…
A Karachi additional sessions court on Tuesday sought responses from the South senior superintendent of police (SSP) and Darakhshan station house officer (SHO) …
IMAGINE someone in Pakistan is standing at a counter this morning. She is being told that the system will not accept her name as it appears on her degree. Her n…
REJECTED by voters in his own constituency, lawyer Iftikhar Gillani has been chosen as the new prime minister of Azad Jammu & Kashmir. A local PML-N leader, he …
Germany on Tuesday blamed Russia for an attempted “hybrid attack” involving an explosive-laden drone at a strategic airport last month and announced diplomatic …
THE unanimous decision by the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague is unambiguous: India’s unilateral withdrawal from the Indus Waters Treaty is invalid.…