Land record freeze costs govt millions
MAILSI: Land transfer operations have been at a standstill across dozens of villages in Tehsil Mailsi for several months, plunging…
Wildfires, heat threaten northern hemisphere forests
Forest fire. Photo: Reuters GENEVA: Record wildfires and rising temperatures are threatening decades of forest growth in the northern hemisphere,…
K-P opposes NFC rollback
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday opposed any move to reduce provincial shares in federal taxes through an amendment in the Constitution, urging…
Flights snarl as PIA, engineers clash
A man enters the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) office in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 12, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS LAHORE: The dispute…
Japan deploys troops after record bear attacks
. A trapped brown bear in Sunagawa, Hokkaido prefecture. Authorities in Akita prefecture meanwhile say bear sightings have jumped six-fold…
Europe locks down poultry as bird flu spreads
. Bird flu. Photo: AFP PARIS: A surge in deadly bird flu cases across Europe has forced more countries to…
Vawda meets Fazl as 27th Amendment talks gain pace
Senator Faisal Vawda shakes hands with Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman after a meeting at the latter’s residence in…
Pakistan, Afghan Taliban to meet in Istanbul
Upcoming dialogue is a follow-up to earlier talks that produced a last-minute interim deal Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif and…
Driver rams into pedestrians in western France, five injured
Suspect’s car struck pedestrians and cyclists in various areas of the Oleron island off France’s Atlantic coast A French gendarme…