Seven former Australia cricket captains have written to the country’‘s foreign minister, Penny Wong, to raise concerns over PTI founder Imran Khan’s incarceration, terming it a matter of “basic humanity”, Cricinfo reported on Tuesday. Imran, 73, has been imprisoned since 2023 and...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday directed that effective measures be taken to bring the quality of Pakistani products up to international standards to enhance national exports. He issued the directives while chairing a review meeting in Islamabad on enhancing exports and ...
Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi had no objection to the Indian women’s team refusing to collect the Asia Cup trophy from him, said Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Vice President Rajeev Shukla on Monday. The remarks came as criticism mounted over Shu...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi stressed the need for enhanced efforts for “harmony” between the Centre and the province and to resolve people’s issues on Tuesday, according to a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO...
China imposed sweeping travel restrictions on its citizens on Tuesday, including exit bans on those deemed to endanger the country’s “industrial or technological security”. Citizens who violate technology import and export regulations could be banned from leaving China, the State...
WASHINGTON: The United States has acknowledged that its war on Iran resulted in “strategic inventory shortfalls and revealed industrial base bottlenecks for munitions resupply” for America. The admission came in the first Pentagon Inspector General’s report on the US-Israeli war ...
Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) Chief Justice Aminuddin Khan on Tuesday stressed constitutional supremacy and observed that every public exercise must be in accordance with it. “The Constitution must remain supreme and every exercise of the public authority must remain with in...
The people living along Balochistan’s beaches have always fought to defend the sea that feeds them. For years, fishermen from Gwadar to Lasbela accused large trawlers from Sindh of sweeping up everything in their path when they entered Balochistan’s twelve-nautical-mile waters. T...
A former Google DeepMind employee on Monday became the latest AI researcher to warn that the technology could “kill all humans”, saying time could be running out to avoid the outcome. Public alarm about the potential danger posed by AI is growing, after Anthropic researcher Jacob...
Simonetta Fornasiero Fifteen years before a guilty plea in New York exposed an Indian government employee’s alleged role in a plot to assassinate a Sikh activist, the body of a 15-year-old Bangladeshi girl hung from the India-Bangladesh border fence for hours. Felani Khatun was s...
CENTURIES before Charles Darwin theorised our shared human evolution from the fish, multiple traditions linked humanity to a single common fold. The 18th BRICS summit in Delhi saw Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the host leaning on the Sanskrit phrase ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbaka...
LAHORE: In a major breakthrough, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested Syed Inayatul Haq Shah, the North Punjab emir of banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), on the multiple charges, including terror financing for the violent march of the party in October 2025. T...
IT was a humid Sunday afternoon in Islamabad. The small pharmacy was empty with just one man behind the cash counter. A woman approached him, prescription and medicines in hand. She was simply but not shabbily dressed. But she still returned a quarter of the medication once the b...
THE prime minister’s decision to subsidise petrol purchases for motorcycle and small-car owners is understandable amid consumer outcry against high fuel rates. But it is unlikely to offer much relief. The Rs75bn package may sound substantial but is barely a fraction of annual pet...
People wait in front of a counter at the Federal Govt Civil Dispensary in the airport area for their online registration for Nadra-integrated vaccination certificates. —Fahim Siddiqi / White Star KARACHI: Hundreds of travellers were left scrambling at Karachi’s only designated va...
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary committee was informed on Monday that the leakage of O/A level papers had originated likely from some other country as no evidence was found to establish its link with Pakistan. The National Assembly Standing Committee on Federal Education and Professio...
A crane belt supports Madhubala so she can stand and make small movements.—Dawn KARACHI: Safari elephant Madhubala fighting multiple illnesses for over a year now faces a life-threatening medical emergency as she’s unable to stand up on her own, it emerged on Monday. Sources said...
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: The business community on Monday gave a mixed response to the State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) decision to keep the policy rate unchanged at 11.5 per cent, with some backing the move while others called for further cuts to revive investment and industrial activity...