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Pakistan, Qatar, Turkiye and Indonesia on Wednesday signed a multilateral pact to promote cooperation in defence production and capabilities, the Turkish defence ministry said. The Foreign Office has yet to comment on the signing of the defence pact. According to the Turkish ministry, the signing to...
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday took an apparent swipe at counterpart Donald Trump of exploiting France’s riots for advantage in the US midterm election battle, as Paris prepared for more protests this weekend. Macron, speaking during a visit to Qatar, implied that Trump, and possibly Israeli...
The first Ebola case detected in Nigeria is the Bundibugyo strain, which is behind a major DR Congo outbreak, and the patient is a diplomat, an emergency meeting heard on Wednesday. The case in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, was detected in a woman who had travelled from Uganda to the capi...
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Ten people were killed and 44 others injured when a passenger bus overturned after hitting a road divider on the Indus Highway in Rajanpur district’s Rojhan tehsil, Rescue 1122 said. The accident occurred in the Bangla Hidayat area at around 5:45am. The bus was reportedly speeding w...
Washington’s envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Saint Petersburg early Wednesday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin following what US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described as “positive” talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. The trip by President Donald Trump’s special envoy i...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday vowed to strengthen Pakistan’s relations with the Maldives, as the two countries signed 20 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) during the visit of President Dr Mohamed Muizzu. Muizzu arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday on a three-day visit at the invitation of ...
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday directed its office to prepare and issue the election programme for local government elections in the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT). A five-member bench, headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, issued the order...
The Maldives’ President Dr Mohamed Muizzu was welcomed at Prime Minister House in Islamabad with a guard of honour on Wednesday morning. Muizzu arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday on a three-day visit at the invitation of PM Shehbaz Sharif. The visit marks the first by a Maldivian president to Pakistan ...
ISLAMABAD: The government has increased profit rates on several national savings schemes, including those for pensioners, senior citizens and families of martyrs, with the revised rates taking effect from October 21. According to the revised schedule issued by the Central Directorate of National Sav...
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Pakistani triathletes Sana Arif (left) and Anisha Ali at the competition venue of the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan | Courtesy Sana Arif For Sana Arif, the journey to the Asian Games began with a sport she had only learnt a few years earlier. One of Pakistan’s pioneering women triathletes,...
ISLAMABAD: The accused involved in allegedly defrauding International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI) student Laiba in the name of a US visa was killed in firing by his own accomplices, police said on Tuesday. A spokesperson for the Islamabad police confirmed the killing of the accused. Accordin...
