India has formally requested Pakistan to extradite Hafiz Saeed, suspected of involvement in the...
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Hamas officials due in Cairo for truce talks as Israel bombs...
GAZA STRIP (AFP): Israel pounded south and central Gaza on Friday as Egypt was to host a high-level...
US Navy ship intercepts missile and drone fired in Red Sea by...
RIYADH (Arabnews): An anti-ship ballistic missile and a drone fired by Houthis on international...
Global
Austin Praises Close U.S.-Kenya Partnership
By: Joseph Clark WASHINGTON DC: The two leaders held talks at the Pentagon just months after...
Austin Thanks Blue Star Families for Their Support During Global...
By: David Vergun WASHINGTON DC: Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III thanked members of Blue...
US CENTCOM Conducts Strike Killing Kata’ib Hezbollah Senior...
WASHINGTON DC: At 9:30 p.m. (Baghdad Time) February 7, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces...
Business
SNGPL cuts off 485 connections for theft
F.P. Report LAHORE: During the ongoing crackdown against gas pilferers, SNGPL continued raids in...
New policies, reforms required for ease of doing business in...
ISLAMABAD (INP): President All Pakistan Business Forum (APBF), Syed Maaz Mahmood has stressed the...
Pakistan’s earns $892.972 million from IT services’ export in 4...
ISLAMABAD (APP): Pakistan earned US $892.972 million by providing different Information Technology...
Editorial
Economic diplomacy
A meeting Chaired by the Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Quershi at the Foreign Office and attended...
Purchase of equipment for hospitals
Over the years, lack of expansion in physical infrastructure and dearth of medical equipment in the...
Fish rot from the top
It is a matter of record that practice of doling out subsidy on export of sugar was started in the...
Pakistan
PHC orders Haripur DC to appear before court today
Humayun Khan PESHAWAR: A divisional bench of Peshawar High Court (PHC) comprising of Justice...
Top court allow Bilawal to contest election
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Hours before the elections 2024 in the country, a petition has been filed in...
Over 21.982m voters to exercise right of franchise in KP on...
F.P. Report PESHAWAR: As many as over 21.982 million registered voters would exercise right of...
Afghanistan
ARA signs accord with Iranian counterpart to operate Khaf-Herat...
KABUL (Agencies): The Afghanistan Railway Authority (ARA) said this week on X that it has signed an...
Taliban warn ‘Israel will be wiped off world map’
KABUL (AT News): In a stern and ominous proclamation, a high-ranking Taliban official in Kabul has...
Stanikzai: Use of Water of Amu River is right of Afghanistan
KABUL (Tolo News): Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, said at the...
Islamic Emirate establishes commission for Afghan...
Crimes drastically decreased in Kabul: Kabul Police
Exhibition of Women’s handicrafts held in Capital
‘Vice’ at Kabul wedding halls has declined...
Second earthquake in northwestern Afghanistan causes...
FAO’s Depy DG in Kabul for talks on food security
Entertainment
Slovak film director Jakubisko dies
PRAGUE (Reuters): Slovak film director Juraj Jakubisko, who was named the best director of the 20th...
New ‘Lord of the Rings’ films announced by Warner...
NEW YORK (AFP): Multiple new “Lord of the Rings” films are on the way from Warner Bros...
Alec Baldwin pleads not guilty to ‘Rust’ manslaughter
LOS AGELES (AFP): Hollywood star Alec Baldwin pleaded not guilty Thursday to manslaughter over the...
Rihanna to perform ‘Black Panther’ song at...
Stars of thriller ‘Infinity Pool’ share on...
Milan Fashion Week opens with celebrity stardust...
Spielberg channels inner child at Berlin film festival
Kate taps her husband behind at BAFTA, fans swooned
Imran Ashraf’s ex-wife breaks silence over divorce...
Articles
Most urgent proposal!
Saleem Tariq Lone General. Making Pakistan in the image of the Riasat e Madina the way forward, In...
Oslo Accords created a second Nakba in Jerusalem
Daoud Kuttab Thirty years on from the signing at the White House of the Declaration of Principles...
Britain’s monarchy is dying, and no PR can save it
Andrew Mitrovica By now, the British monarchy ought to have been put into hospice care. It would...
International collaboration vital in space realm
Biden’s Vietnam embrace repeats past US mistakes
Will Sino-US space competition stop at Mars?
Developers and their Tory allies are killing the high...
America’s lethal epidemic: The tragic toll of gun...
Putin will give me a jail sentence for opposing his...
Arts & Literature
The beauty of Childhood Wonder in Dreamy Murals by Lula Goce
Monitoring Desk From New York City to Azerbaijan to Kristianstad, Sweden, artist Lula...
Harikat: The heritage of Peshawar’s present
Amani Mehr In the quick- paced world that is home to the upcoming generation, they are fast...
The miniature art on used tea bags by Ruby Silvious
Monitoring Desk From her studio in Coxsackie, New York, Ruby Silvious (previously)...
Sports
Taijul grabs 10 wickets in match as Bangladesh crush New Zealand
Sylhet (AFP): Taijul Islam grabbed his second 10-wicket haul in Tests as Bangladesh defeated New...
Lee, Hoshino set up final round duel at Australian Open
SYDNEY (Reuters): Australia’s Min Woo Lee and Japan’s Rikuya Hoshino look set for a...
Southee refuses to blame New Zealand’s defeat on World Cup...
DHAKA (Reuters): New Zealand cricket captain Tim Southee said they were outplayed by an “ever...
Technology
Will robots replace humans at Amazon?
WASHINGTON (AFP): At Amazon’s robotics laboratory on the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts...
NASA sticks to plan to launch Moon rocket Wednesday
WASHINGTON (AFP): NASA said Friday it plans to attempt its long-delayed uncrewed mission to the...
Musk halts Twitter’s $8 blue check amid proliferation of...
CALIFORNIA (Reuters): Twitter paused its recently announced $8 blue check subscription service on...
Health
Coronavirus kills two more Pakistanis
F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Pakistan after a gap of several days has recorded two coronavirus deaths and...
Virus testing new normal as China sticks to ‘zero-Covid’
BEIJING (AP): Thousands of coronavirus testing sites have popped up on sidewalks across Beijing and...
1.2m patients treated free of cost at cost of Rs.29.5b
F.P. Report PESHAWAR: Under the Sehat Card Scheme of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, over 1.2...
News in Picture
HYDERABAD: Visitors taking interest in paintings displayed in...
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Travel
Fleeing sanctions, oligarchs seek safe ports for superyachts
WASHINGTON (AP): The massive superyacht Dilbar stretches one-and-a-half football fields in length...
The Avenue Landscaping and Remediation Project – one of the...
F.P. Report LONDON: This is a story about one of the most ambitious and effective remediation...
Russia’s Aeroflot says halting all flights abroad from...
MOSCOW (AFP): Russia’s flagship airline Aeroflot said Saturday that it was suspending all its...
Tears, anger at airport as Indian students return from...
Qatar Airways to operate 66 weekly flights from...
Tycoons bound for ISS aren’t tourists, insists...
Russia bans airlines from 36 countries
British Airways re-routes jets after Russia flights ban
CAA restores meal services during domestic flights only
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Food
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon hits September record as...
NEW YORK (Reuters): Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest affected the largest area for...
Australia’s New South Wales braces for more floods with 64...
WELLINGTON (Reuters): Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales was bracing on...
UKHSA and ONS release estimates of excess deaths during summer...
F.P. Report LONDON: A joint report by UKHSA and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows the...