Iran-US tensions; Pakistan urges both to showrestraint

ISLAMABAD: Iran and US tension escalated after commander Soleimani killings in US air strike at an airport in Baghdad. Pakistan urged Iran and the United...

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince allocates $200m for SMEs in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan has directed the Khalifa Fund to allocate $200 million for supporting small- and...

Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N hints at supporting government’s Army Act bill

ISLAMABAD: Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) hinted at supporting PTI government’s Army Act a,emd,emt bill. Asif Kirmani, a close confidant of PML-N supremo Nawaz...

Terrorist attacks declined by 44% in 2019

ISLAMABAD: Terrorist attacks in Pakistan during outgoing year 2019 have dropped to the lowest level during the last fifteen years while 44 per cent...

Taliban deny any ceasefire plan for Afghanistan

KABUL: Taliban denied agreeing to any ceasefire in Afghanistan after rumors swirled of a potential deal that would see a reduction in fighting after...

Peoples Party terms NAB ordinance ‘mother of all NROs’

ISLAMABAD: Peoples Party (PPP) leader Qamar Zaman Kaira slammed the government for the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Amendment Ordinance 2019 by referring to it...

Federal Cabinet approves NAB Amendment Ordinance 2019

ISLAMABAD: Federal Cabinet has approved to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Ordinance, 2019, which will now be sent to President Arif Alvi for his...

NAB will stay away from you, PM assures business community

KARACHI: NAB will stay away from you as federal government has issued an ordinance to keep the National Accountability Bureau away from the business...

Hindutva ideology of Modi government has divided India: FM Qureshi

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday said that the Hindutva ideology of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has created a division...

Government planning to shed huge number of tourism officials: report

ISLAMABAD: Government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has finalised a plan to sack more than 400 employees of the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) through...