Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar has urged the people to follow precautionary measures for preventing the spread of COVID-19. In a message on Twitter Monday morning, Asad Umar referred to the devastation…
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ISLAMABAD: An Afghan delegation led by Hezb-e-Wahdat-e Islami Ustad Karim Khalili is arriving in Islamabad today on a three-day visit to Pakistan. Foreign Office in a statement said during the visit, Ustad Karim Khalili will call…
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One year ago, China announced the first death from a new virus in Wuhan -- 12 months later, Covid-19 has claimed 1.9 million lives in an unrelenting march across the world. But in the central Chinese city of 11 million where the first…
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Pakistan was hit by a massive power blackout early Sunday, officials said, with much of the country, including all major cities, plunged into darkness. The electricity distribution system in the nation of more than 210 million people is…
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Pakistan on Sunday said that it was fully abiding its own statutes and fulfillment of international obligations in Mumbai case, which was stalled due to Indian reluctance to  send witnesses. “The investigations, prosecutions &…
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday denounced the members of the ethnic Hazara community for refusing to bury the killed miners until his visit to Quetta. "The condition that he first visit and then the bodies will be buried…
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ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi yesterday held telephonic conversations with his Saudi and Qatari counterparts and congratulated them for a successful summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council. According to a statement…
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The world's poorest countries can expect to start receiving their first Covid-19 vaccine doses between the end of January and mid-February, the World Health Organization said Thursday. Vaccination is already under way in some of the…
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Two members of Donald Trump's cabinet resigned Thursday with days left in the administration in protest over the storming of the Capitol by a mob of the president's supporters. The education secretary and transportation secretary -- the…
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Facebook said it would block US President Donald Trump’s accounts “indefinitely” and for at least the next two weeks until the presidential transition is completed. The decision by Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg comes after…
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QUETTA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that "we are now dwelling in a Pakistan where everything has become expensive, only thing which is cheap is the blood of the people adding that a state that…
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Prime Minister Imran Khan promised that his government would take steps to provide security to the terror-hit Hazara community. In an exclusive interview with ‘a News’, a Turkish news channel, PM Khan the Machh terrorist attack an …
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China's internet erupted in mirth at America's troubled democracy after supporters of President Donald Trump broke into the US Capitol, comparing the chaos to the Hong Kong anti-government protests of 2019. On Thursday morning, state…
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Congress gavelled back into session late Wednesday to resume the process of certifying Joe Biden's presidential election victory, after a mob protesting Donald Trump's defeat violently invaded the US Capitol and plunged Washington into…
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Tense officers pointing guns, lawmakers with gas masks, camouflaged protesters smashing windows -- this was the day that President Donald Trump's bid to overturn the US election went "wild." Inside the great domed US Capitol building,…
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