Pakistan

Sindh Assembly after taking oath of newly-elected lawmakers on February 24, 2024. — NNI KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah is slated to present the province’s […]

Security forces’ personnel are seen taking position during an anti-terror operation at an undisclosed location. — ISPR/File RAWALPINDI: As Pakistan continues to combat the menace

The new high-capacity wagons seen at the Cantt Railway Station in Lahore on June 12, 2024, in this still taken from a video. — Pakistan

Sheikh Maher Al-Muaiqly, an imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, delivers the Hajj sermon at Masjid-e-Nimrah on June 15, 2024. — X/@insharifain Delivering Hajj

A photograph of the National Assembly during a session. — X/@NAofPakistan As Pakistan’s 16th National Assembly completed its first 100 days since the oath-taking of

(Left to right) PML-N President Shehbaz Shehbaz, PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari during a press conference in Islamabad, on February

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday announced an over Rs200 billion “relief package” for industrial electricity consumers through a 24% reduction in their current

Sindh High Court Chief Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi speaks during a public event in this image released on March 14, 2018. — Facebook/Themis School of

The State Bank of Pakistan building in Karachi. — SBP website/File State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) announced Wednesday a three-day public holiday for banks on the

ISLAMABAD: Hackers have attacked the accounts of Pakistan’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN), compromising both the official email account and the YouTube channel. The breach

Security and media officials gather in front of the Parliament House building in Islamabad. — AFP/File ISLAMABAD: The federal government plans to grant a health

Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Qamar Zaman Kaira at a public meeting in Chakwal on February 1, 2024. —X/ @QamarKairaPPP On reports circulating in media

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (left) is seated with JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and his parties senior leaders at his residence in Islamabad on June

PTI founder chairman Imran Khan (L), Awami Mulsim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed (C) and Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi (R) seen in this

PTI founder Imran Khan (left) and party’s senior leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi. — AFP/File ISLAMABAD: The acquittal of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and

Unidentified robbers looting pan shop in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal area in the undated images. — Screengrab/Geo News KARACHI: Police arrested three suspects including Deputy Superintendent Police

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Masood Khan. —World Affairs Council of Philadelphia/ File WASHINGTON: Underscoring the need to have a result-oriented structured dialogue between

Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah. — APP/File With the aim to resolve the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) reservations regarding Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz, talks between the Bilawal Bhutto

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Malik Shehzad Ahmed Khan addressing the opening ceremony of judicial complex e-courts in Rawalpindi on June 14, 2024. —

Kashmiri poet Ahmed Farhad. — Instagram/@ahmad.farhad.official MUZAFFARABAD: Kashmiri poet Ahmed Farhad Friday was granted bail by the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) High Court weeks after his

(Left to right) LHC Justice Shahid Bilal, Lahore High Court Chief Justice Malik Shahzad Ahmad and Sindh High Court Chief Justice Aqeel Abbasi. — LHC

  A sign is posted in front of a Google office on January 30, 2024, in Mountain View, California. — AFP ISLAMABAD: A high-level and

A family rides on a motorcycle during heavy rainfall in Lahore. — Online/File The ongoing heat spell in Pakistan is likely to subside in the

A boy walks on a wall while searching for drinking water in Rawalpindi on July 8, 2020. — AFP KARACHI: K-Electric (KE), the city’s sole

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah delivers bdget speech in the Sindh Assembly on June 14, 2024. — PID The Sindh government has allocated

US envoy Andrew Schofer and other officials pictured in front of Mazar-e-Quaid in Karachi. — Supplied KARACHI: Andrew Schofer, the Chargé d’affaires (CDA) of the

Kashmiri poet Ahmed Farhad. — Instagram/@ahmad.farhad.official MUZAFFARABAD: Kashmiri poet Ahmed Farhad walked free following release from prison on Friday as per Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK)

A person fills his car’s tank at a fuel station in this undated file image. — AFP The Prime Minister’s Office on Friday night announced

Rain water falls on a glass window as a passer by walks on a street in Karachi. — AFP/File KARACHI: Drizzle was witnessed by different

PkMAP chief and PTI-SIC candidate Mahmood Khan Achakzai addresses the press conference after presidential election on March 9, 2024. — Screengrab/Geo News The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan on Friday stated that there is no point in negotiating with a government that lacks authority. During an informal

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) heard a petition regarding the restoration of the students union in the University of Karachi and sought a response

ISLAMABAD: The Cyber Crime Circle of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested suspect Babar Shahzad on Friday involved in extorting money and blackmailing a female

LAHORE: The Railway Police personnel saved four lives on Friday, including a woman and children from an oncoming train at Attock Railway Station, Express News

RAWALPINDI: The PTI has decided that a delegation led by Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chairman Mahmood Khan Achakzai, the chief of the opposition alliance

ISLAMABAD: In a significant move concerning national security, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has decided that Pakistani citizens who seek asylum abroad will no longer be

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has approved an additional $1 billion loan for the Dasu hydropower project but at the same time sees a whopping $18

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan stated on Wednesday that there are no permanent friends or foes in politics, emphasising the former

KARACHI: In a tragic incident in Karachi a 10-year-old boy took his own life using his father’s licensed pistol after his request was denied, Express

Finance Minister Mohammad Aurangzeb on Wednesday proposed a 22-25% increase in salaries on an ad-hoc basis and a 15% increase in pensions for retired government

KARACHI: Former Sindh governor Muhammad Zubair, who was seen as a close confidante of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, parted ways with the Pakistan Muslim

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) Chairman, Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi on Sunday underscored the importance of maintaining the sanctity of Hajj as a purely

As Supreme Court judges urge former Prime Minister Imran Khan to negotiate with political leaders to resolve issues, the ball is now in the PTI’s

ISLAMABAD: PTI founding chairman Imran Khan and JUI chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman, once political rivals are now coming together for a joint effort against the

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Aal Al-Sheikh has declared that performing Hajj pilgrimage without an official permit is not permissible. In a statement