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Govt presents resolution for debate NCOC recommends curtailing inbound flights from...

The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Thursday recommended the curtailing of inbound flights to Pakistan from May 5 to May 20 amid...

Indifferent attitude towards overseas Pakistanis ‘unforgivable’, PM Imran tells ambassadors

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday asked the country’s ambassadors serving abroad to forgo colonial-era attitudes and treat overseas Pakistanis with compassion, saying the...

Cabinet or a deck of cards?

By:Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, April 25, MORE than halfway into his five-year term, Prime Minister Imran Khan reshuffled his cabinet for the sixth time on April...

Senior Kashmiri leader Ashraf Sehrai dies in police custody in IoK

Senior Kashmiri leader Mohammad Ashraf Sehrai, who challenged India’s rule over occupied Kashmir for decades, died on Wednesday while in police custody. He was...

‘Whole world has rejected electronic voting’: Shehbaz rebuffs proposal to use...

. PML-N President and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday rejected Prime Minister Imran Khan’s proposal to use...

Pakistan cannot increase tariffs or taxes, IMF told: Shaukat Tarin

Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said on Wednesday that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had been informed that Pakistan didn’t currently have the capacity to...

Ambassador, 6 officers of Pakistani embassy in Riyadh called back...

Pakistan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia has returned to the country while orders have been issued to six other officers of the embassy in Riyadh...

Imran urges same standards for holocaust, blasphemy

• Calls on western govts to outlaw negative comment against Holy Prophet • Confiscation of TLP assets ordered • Fawad terms imposing ban on TLP internal...

210 cases, including one filed against S. Rizvi, to go through...

Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid on Wednesday said that 210 first information reports (FIRs) registered against workers of the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), including against...

Banned: What does the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) want?

A look at the demands put forward by the group, its negotiations with the government and the violence that ensued. Protests erupted across major cities...

LHC bench gives split ruling on Shehbaz’s bail plea

LAHORE: Judges of a Lahore High Court (LHC) bench on Saturday finally came up with a split decision on the post-arrest bail petition of...

Opposition terms cabinet changes ‘meaningless’

ISLAMABAD: Lashing out at the government’s economic policies, the opposition parties have termed the latest reshuffle in the cabinet “meaningless”, saying the problem does...

‘Disgusting behaviour’: PTI lambasts PML-N’s Abbasi for threatening to hit NA...

Members of the government and the ruling PTI on Tuesday denounced PML-N senior leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi for threatening to hit National Assembly Speaker...

In meeting with army chief, Russain FM acknowledges Pakistan’s efforts in...

Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday acknowledged Pakistan’s sincere efforts in the Afghan peace process in his meeting with Chief of Army...

HRCP ‘appalled’ by PM Imran’s remarks linking incidence of rape to...

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday said it was appalled by Prime Minister Imran Khan’s remarks linking the incidence of rape...

Citizens aged 80 and above to be vaccinated at hom

ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has decided to administer Covid-19 vaccines to citizens aged 80 years and above in their homes. The...

ANP holds PML-N, JUI-F responsible for breakdown of opposition alliance

Awami National Party (ANP) leader Aimal Wali Khan has held the PML-N and the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) responsible for playing a major role in...

British MP says Pakistan travel curbs led by ‘politics not data’

LONDON: A British Labour MP has criticised the UK government’s decision to curtail travel from Pakistan in view of Covid-19 cases, dubbing the move...

PM, wife contract Covid as positivity rate tops 9pc

• Modi sends best wishes to Imran • Ministers dispel impression vaccine caused infection • No vaccinations on Sundays, national holidays • Pakistan Day parade to go-ahead ISLAMABAD:...

Tareen, Hamza face arrest in sugar scandal

LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has detected Rs110 billion earning by the sugar mafia during the last one year through ‘speculative pricing’ and...