New cyclone ‘Maha’ to intensify in next 24 hours

KARACHI: After cyclone Kyarr hit several coastal villages and localities of Karachi this week, Pakistan Meteorological Department on Thursday warned that a new cyclone...

Hareem Shah displays aerial firing skills in new video

A social media star, Hareem Shah, who was in the news after she was seen in a government building last week, made headlines again...

Polio toll at 79 after two cases emerge in KP

PESHAWAR: The National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed two new polio cases in Lakki Marwat and Tank districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday,...

Cellular internet partially suspended in Lahore amid Azadi March

LAHORE: It has emerged that cellular internet has been partially shut down across the provincial capital after the Punjab government directed the cellular service providers to...

PTCL says internet services fully restored

LAHORE: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) on Wednesday announced that internet services have fully been restored, a day after Pakistan faced a countrywide disruption following...

Internet services disrupted across Pakistan as submarine cables go offline

Internet services across the country partially crashed on Tuesday evening, due to a fault that developed in international submarine cables that connect Pakistan. "We regret...

UN body urges for full restoration of human rights in IoK

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) while expressing "extreme concern" over human rights abuses in India-occupied Kashmir (IoK) has urged the...

Lebanon’s PM Saad Hariri resigns amid unprecedented protests

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s under-fire prime minister Saad Hariri has resigned following nearly two weeks of unprecedented protests demanding political change. Hariri told a press conference he had...

UK politician says India revoked IOK invitation as he wanted to ‘move freely’

Chris Davies, member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the UK, on Tuesday said that he had received an invitation to travel to Indian...

PEMRA chief gets contempt notice for misusing court’s name

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday issued a contempt of court notice to Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) Chairman Saleem Baig...

Aviation body rejects India’s complaint on Pakistan’s airspace denial to Modi

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has rejected India's complaint against Pakistan's refusal to allow Prime Minister Narendra Modi to use its airspace for...

EU team to visit occupied Kashmir today to see ground situation

A 23-member delegation of European Union Members of Parliament left for Indian occupied Kashmir on Tuesday morning to see first-hand the ground situation in the region...

IS chief Baghdadi buried at sea by US military

WASHINGTON DC: US officials have said the body of Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was buried at sea, as fresh details surfaced...

Govt denies gagging anchors’ voices as criticism mounts

--Firdous says order is assertion of watchdog's code of conduct, anchorpersons ‘free to discuss anything and everything’ --Issues another notification to clarify ‘misinterpretation’ of its...

Far-right Euro MPs lead landmark trip to occupied Kashmir

Nearly 30 Euro MPs, drawn mainly from extreme right-wing parties, will on Tuesday be the first international delegation to visit India-occupied Kashmir since authorities...

Modi approaches global body after Pakistan denies airspace

A day after Pakistan refused to let Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s special flight use its airspace, New Delhi on Monday took the matter to...

Event highlighting Rao Anwar’s encounters ‘forcefully shut down’

--DG Parks Mirza says event was shut down because it was 'vandalism'  KARACHI: An installation titled 'Killing Fields of Karachi' by artist Adeela Suleman displayed at...