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LAHORE: At least four people were killed and more than 30 injured when the Peshawar-bound Rehman Baba Express derailed near Sher Shah Railway Station in Multan district on Tuesday. Minister for Railways Hanif Abbasi confirmed the death of four passengers in the incident. The minister also appointed ...
The fourth edition of the Labour Rights Index, launched on the eve of the World Day for Decent Work (October 7), shows that between January 2024 and January 2026, far more countries strengthened their labour laws than weakened them. The global debate on jobs is shifting from how many jobs are create...
Pakistan earned $30.14 billion from goods exports in the year to June 2026. That was 5.9 per cent less than the $32.04bn of the year before. Over the same twelve months, imports rose 8.1pc to $69.76bn, so exports paid for only 43pc of what the country bought abroad. The trade deficit came to $39.6bn...
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has condemned continued Israeli military actions in Syria, calling for Israel’s withdrawal from all occupied Syrian territory and full respect for the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement. Speaking at a UN Security Council briefing on the humanitarian and political situati...
LAHORE: At least five people were killed and more than 30 injured when the Peshawar-bound Rehman Baba Express derailed near Sher Shah Railway Station in Multan district on Tuesday. A Pakistan Railways spokesperson confirmed the casualty toll to Dawn. Earlier, Rescue 1122 official Muhammad Arshad tol...
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” *— William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming* OPENING NOTEWilliam Butler Yeats’ chilling 1920 poem had a backdrop: World War I, the flu pandemic, the Russian Revolution and a sense of impending doom, an inflecti...
LAHORE: At least four people were killed and more than 40 injured when the Peshawar-bound Rehman Baba Express derailed near Sher Shah Railway Station in Multan district on Tuesday. Rescue 1122 official Muhammad Arshad told Dawn that 49 people had been injured in the incident and that a rescue operat...
LAHORE: At least four people were killed, and more than 40 were injured when the Peshawar-bound Rehman Baba Express derailed near Sher Shah Railway Station in Multan district on Tuesday. Rescue 1122 official Muhammad Arshad told Dawn that 49 people were injured in the incident and a rescue operation...
LAHORE: The 47-Up Rehman Baba Express, travelling from Karachi to Peshawar, derailed near Sher Shah Railway Station in Multan district on Tuesday, Rescue 1122 said. Casualties have been reported in the incident. Further details were awaited. More to follow.
PESHAWAR: With riot police and prison vans deployed across the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, only a handful of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) workers stepped out on Monday to stage brief protests in different areas of the city. What the PTI had called a “flash protest” was staged in Nishtarabad, Ha...
SUNDAY brought what was being whispered about in Islamabad for days: the dismissal of the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The whispers had turned into news by Saturday. All day long, the mainstream media kept reporting on the possibility of an emergency, adding that the prime minister would ho...
A CLUTCH of unforeseen events have combined to pose the existential crisis Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing from unemployed youth and young students, who after claiming his education minister’s scalp recently are now determined to win the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, India’s chief election co...
