Pakistan

India said Sunday that its troops, along with their Chinese counterparts, had completed a pullback from a disputed part of their Himalayan border after months of heightened tensions. The nuclear-armed neighbours fought a border war in…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday announced new guidelines that expand Coronavirus vaccine eligibility to everyone age 60 or older. Taking to Twitter,  Asad Umar, head of the government's Covid prevention team, said that registration for…
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The United Nations has released a statement welcoming the recent landmark judgment by the Supreme Court of Pakistan restricting the use of the death penalty on severely mentally ill prisoners. The statement is endorsed by eight leading…
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Rich countries are on course to have over a billion more doses of COVID-19 vaccines than they need, leaving poorer nations scrambling for leftover supplies as the world seeks to curb the coronavirus pandemic, a report by anti-poverty…
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NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely inside a vast crater, the first stop on a search for traces of ancient…
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KARACHI: Former finance minister Miftah Ismail said the power sector in Pakistan should move towards the privatisation in order to solve its long-standing issues. Mr Ismail said this during a webinar titled: “Pakistan’s Power…
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GILGIT: Pakistani mountaineer Ali Sadpara has been declared dead along with his two foreign counterparts by their families and the government of Pakistan. The announcement was made by Ali Sadpara's son, Sajid Sadpara, in Skardu. "I will…
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres described the goal of providing vaccines to all as “the biggest moral test before the global community”, underlining that everyone, everywhere must be included. “Defeating COVID-19, now that we have…
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ISLAMABAD - PML-N stalwart Senator Mushahidullah Khan passed away in Islamabad early Thursday morning. He was 68. Senator Mushahidullah had been unwell for quite a long time. The senior PML-N leader was the chairperson of the Senate…
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday described agriculture as “central to human survival” and proposed a five-point agenda to end poverty and hunger from across the world. The prime minister in his virtual address called for…
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ISLAMABAD: Speaking at the annual Asma Jahangir Memorial Lecture instituted by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), Senator Raza Rabbani observed that, although the Constitution protected the right to freedom of association,…
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Saudi Arabia's king, not the younger de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, will be the one getting a first phone call from US President Joe Biden, the White House said Tuesday. Biden is using telephone diplomacy to underline…
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Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Tuesday grilled the regional head of social media platform, Twitter, for silencing voices of thousands of Kashmiri and Pakistani activists projecting the plight of people of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu…
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MULTINATIONAL MARITIME EXCERICISE AMAN-2021 CULMINATES WITH THE CONDUCT Of INTERNATIONAL FLEET REVIEW (IFR) Karachi, 16 Feb 21: Pakistan Navy Multinational Maritime Exercise AMAN-21 culminated in the North Arabian Sea with a graceful…
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ISLAMABAD- Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is to face a range of legal challenges about his stay in UK as his Pakistani passport expires on Tuesday. Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid has ruled out the renew of Sharif's passport over his…
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