No more extensions? Sindh to reconsider policing powers for Rangers
KARACHI: The federal and Sindh governments seem to be heading for a showdown with the provincial chief executive hinting at withdrawing policing powers from the paramilitary Rangers force, which has...
View ArticleSouth Africa trip: Terrorists successfully dislodged from sanctuaries: Gen...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military has successfully dislodged terrorists from their established sanctuaries in the country’s tribal areas and will continue to crack down against them until they are...
View ArticleIn memoriam : Anniversary of folk singer Mai Bhagi
ISLAMABAD: The death anniversary of legendary folk singer Mai Bhagi was observed on Tuesday as her fans remembered her contributions in the field of folk singing. The fans including the officials of...
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Heat is on: Similar heatwave may scorch Pakistan in 2016
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Tuesday was informed that there is a 90% chance of another heatwave scorching Pakistan next year. The NA Standing Committee on Climate Change was informed of the...
View ArticleBasic rights : Cut ‘8 days of military spending’ for universal education: Malala
OSLO: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday urged world leaders to cut “eight days of military spending” to give all children access to 12 years of free education. About $39 billion...
View ArticleCorruption charges : ‘No case proved against any PML-N leader’
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Senator Pervaiz Rashid apprising his party on Tuesday said no corruption case had been proved against any leader of Pakistan...
View ArticleAnswers demanded: NGO closure causes a stir in Senate
ISLAMABAD: A senator from Balochistan on Tuesday demanded briefing over government’s decision to ban Non-Governmental Organizations [NGOs]. Answers were sought over the closure of the Save the...
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Serving the nation: In Balochistan growing numbers vie for elite Civil...
QUETTA: In a province wracked by insurgencies, a growing number of young men and women appear to be far more interested in climbing the highest echelons of the government rather than taking up arms...
View ArticleBatsman dies after being struck in the chest by a ball
LONDON: A batsman playing in the British Tamil League died after he was struck in the chest, his club announced on Wednesday. Bavalan Pathmanathan, 24, was appearing for Manipay Parish Sports Club (UK)...
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Coordinated action: Islamabad, Kabul vow polio-free border areas
ISLAMABAD / QUETTA: Officials from Pakistan and Afghanistan have vowed to increase coordination in an effort to eradicate the crippling polio virus from the border regions of the two neighbouring...
View ArticleNeelum Jhelum project: Govt rejects higher interest payments on Chinese loan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has turned down China’s demand for higher interest payments on a $576-million loan for the Neelum Jhelum hydroelectric power project in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, fearing it may have...
View ArticlePower crisis: Load-shedding to end by 2018
ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali on Wednesday informed the Senate that the menace of power load-shedding would end by 2017-18. Responding to various reports, the...
View ArticleTraders, industrialists see drop in extortion cases
KARACHI: There is no denying that the security situation in Karachi has improved. The question is by how much? Traders and industrialists in the city have declared the situation in Ramazan as the best...
View ArticlePakistan-Korea: Countries reach consensus on FTA
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Korea have formally reached an understanding to start a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) study that would be completed within one year. The agreement was reached in accordance with...
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Young Afghans find freedom through freerunning flips
KABUL: On the dusty streets of Kabul, amid the ruins of war, a group of young Afghans are finding freedom among the blast walls and checkpoints through the jumping, backflipping sport of parkour. They...
View ArticleIndia’s two-speed inflation strains country’s indebted companies
MUMBAI: Indian firms battling towering debts are calling for more interest rate cuts as they worry the central bank is tying monetary policy too much to consumer inflation and ignoring the longest...
View ArticleIndian business dreads lifting of Iran sanctions
NEW DELHI: Indian businessman Pankaj Bansal is losing sleep. He says that any nuclear deal under which global powers lift sanctions against Iran could wipe him out. “I have been forced to take sleeping...
View ArticleKazakhstan to supply India with 5,000 tonnes of uranium
ASTANA: Kazakhstan on Wednesday signed an agreement with India to supply New Delhi with 5,000 tonnes of uranium over the next five years, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said after meeting Indian...
View ArticleLoss of health staff could increase maternal mortality in Ebola-hit countries
More than 4,000 women could die from complications during pregnancy and childbirth in Ebola-hit countries due to the loss of doctors, nurses and midwives to the epidemic, the World Bank said on...
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India to become permanent SCO member, Putin tells Modi
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday India’s accession into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) has begun. “We are beginning the process of...
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