ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has decided to reinvigorate the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) in a manner that in the coming 30...
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has decided to reinvigorate the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) in a manner that in the coming 30...
A paramedic administers polio drops to a child in a hospital in Islamabad. Polio is still endemic in Pakistan and efforts to stamp...
ISLAMABAD: During the quarter of a century between 1989 and 2014, more than 4,900 Pakistani citizens have perished in around 3,000 incidents of...
ISLAMABAD: Several construction firms working on the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metro Bus Project have submitted prolongation cost claims running into millions of rupees due to...
KARACHI: The apex committee of the Student Loan Scheme approved yesterday Rs173.57m ($1.74m) worth of interest-free loans to be given to deserving students...
KUWAIT CITY: Oil-dependent Gulf states will face budget shortfalls if the recent decline in oil prices persists, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde...
LOS ANGELES: A US student who had issued chilling warnings on Twitter opened fire in a school cafeteria on Friday, killing at least...
TEHRAN: Iran hanged Saturday a woman convicted of murdering a former intelligence officer she claimed had tried to sexually assault her, defying international...
DOHA: Qatargas sold its first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Jovo LNG Storage and Transportation Co., Ltd. (JOVO), an independent LNG...
GENEVA: The death toll from the Ebola epidemic rose to 4,922 out of 10,141 known cases in eight countries through Oct. 23, the...
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait's oil minister on Saturday called for economic reforms by energy-dependent Gulf states to cope with a drop in oil prices...
NEW YORK: The State of Qatar called for intensified efforts to remove the threat posed by proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD),...
YANGON: Myanmar's press council Saturday said the army had admitted to shooting dead a man in its custody who activists claim was a...
BEIJING: A coal mine accident occurred in far West China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region late Friday night, causing an unspecified number of deaths...
FRANKFURT: Deutsche Bank (DBK) AG, Germany’s largest lender, said it expects to log 894 million euros ($1.13 billion) of litigation costs in the...
CAIRO: Egypt declared a three-month state of emergency would begin Saturday in the north and centre of the Sinai Peninsula after a suicide...
GENEVA: Hundreds of thousands of Ebola vaccine doses could be rolled out to west Africa by mid-2015, the World Health Organization said Friday,...
Paramilitary troopers stand guard in front of shuttered shops during a one-day strike called by Kashmiri separatists protesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...