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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Zardari highlighted Pakistan’s growing role in regional security on Sunday as the nation observed on 61st Defen…
Security forces killed over 20 terrorists during multiple engagements in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa between September 3 and 5, the military’s media affairs wing said on…
Karakoram Highway being cleared in Murtazaabad, Hunza.—Photo by the writer • Floods damage homes, farmland and orchards; roads blocked• Babusar Top gets season’…
LAHORE: The Flood Forecasting Division (FFD) of the Pakistan Meteorological Department on Saturday warned of inundation of the low-lying areas of seven Punjab c…
• Interior minister says new units have to be created as population can’t be managed through existing structure• Khawaja Asif says devolution of power ‘inevitab…
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…