Flash Flood: Death toll rises to 1061 as floods sweep country, damage about 1m...
PESHAWAR: Flash flood triggered by heavy and unprecedented monsoon rains across much of Pakistan have killed over 1,061 people, displaced thousands more besides taking...
Toshakhana Case: ECP directs Imran Khan to submit record by Sept 7
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday adjourned the hearing of a reference for the disqualification of Imran Khan over not disclosing...
Tarin allegedly directs Punjab, KP to backtrack from IMF commitments to pressurize Centre
ISLAMABAD: Former Finance Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shaukat Tarin has allegedly asked Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Finance Ministers to backtrack from IMF...
Contempt hearing: Islamabad advocate general seeks to add Imran’s statements ‘against institutions’ to record
ISLAMABAD: The advocate general of Islamabad has said he wanted to seek permission to “display different statements of the respondents on different occasion against...
Government slaps additional Rs38 billion in taxes on cigarettes
ISLAMABAD: The federal government promulgated an ordinance to slap an additional Rs36 billion tax on cigarettes, Rs2 billion on tobacco processing, and reduced levies...
Premier Shehbaz leaves for Doha on two-day official visit
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has left for Doha on a two day official visit to Qatar on the invitation of Amir of state...
Record floods devastate Pakistan, kill hundreds of people
ISLAMABAD: Record monsoon rainfall has caused huge devastation all over country and destroyed huge number of houses and other building and hundreds of people...
Police raid Shahbaz Gill’s room in Parliament Lodges; recover weapons, satellite phone
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Police raided incarcerated PTI leader Shahbaz Gill's room in Parliament Lodges late Monday and it recovered weapons, satellite phone, and foreign currency...
Qatar to give $2bn in bilateral support to ease Pakistan’s funding crunch
ISLAMABAD: In order to help ease Pakistan’s funding crunch and consequent risk of default, State of Qatar is expected to give Islamabad funds worth...
Farmers break barricades as protests return to Indian capital
NEW DELHI: Protesters broke barricades and shouted slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Indian capital of New Delhi on Monday, after thousands...
