ISLAMABAD: The 23rd meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Wednesday reaffirmed their commitment to a peaceful settlement of differences and ...

LAHORE: As Punjab plans to request the Foreign Office to take up cross-border pollution with India, the provincial government has closed primary schools in Lahore this week, ostensibly to save ...

GAZA STRIP: Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 31 people in the Gaza Strip in a day, Reuters quotes Palestinian medics as saying, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army ...

LAHORE: Federal Privatisation Minister Abdul Aleem Khan welcomed provincial governments to take over the airline’s control and run it in a professional manner. While addressing a press conference on ...

ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia has agreed to invest another $600 million in Pakistan as it signed seven more memoranda of understanding (MoUs), taking their total number from 27 — signed recently in Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD: Justice Yahya was sworn in as the 30th Chief Justice of Pakistan on Saturday. President Asif Ali Zardari administered him oath of his office at a ceremony held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. The ...

NORTH WAZIRISTAN: At least eight people, including four policemen and two security officials, embraced martyrdom and several others were injured in a suicide bomb blast at a joint police and security ...

ISLAMABAD: Opposition members in both houses of parliament on Friday continued their protest over the alleged harassment of their lawmakers, categorically saying that they would never vote for the ...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least 15 security personnel were martyred in militant attacks across Khyber Pakh­tun­khwa over the past couple of days, officials and sources confirmed. The deadliest incident ...

ISLAMABAD: Attor­ne­­y General for Pakistan Mansoor Usman Awan on Friday informed the Islamabad High Court that a Pakistani delegation will visit the United States soon after the presidential ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtun­khwa government has formally conveyed to the federal government that it is ready to offer a bid for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), which would surpass the highest ...

ISRAEL: Rockets fired from Lebanon have wounded 11 people in central Israel, Israeli emergency services said, after one of them hit a house, as prospects for a ceasefire dimmed, Reuters reports.