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SWABI: Police raided various areas to arrest PTI workers to stop them from holding a meeting in the Shewa Adda area of Razaar tehsil here on Sunday. As per arrangements, former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Sohail Afridi planned to reach Shewa Adda on Sunday evening and address the workers, but ...
KARACHI: Around 25 per cent of cancer patients at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) are unable to complete their treatment, speakers said on the concluding day of a two-day conference, attributing the situation to the high cost of newer therapies and inconsistent philanthropic assistance...
KARACHI: Environmentalists and residents from across the city, including Clifton Block 5 Residents Association, Clifton Defence Community (CDC) and Karachi Residents’ Community (District South), gathered at the construction site of Nehr-i-Khayam on Sunday to protest the building of a commercial be...
RECENT events are another reminder of how elusive political stability remains in the country. The confrontation between PTI and the government escalated after an effort at dialogue between them ended in mutual recriminations. PTI pressed ahead with its protest march that the federal government tried...
BORN in Karachi in 1945, Anwar Shaikh, a giant of Marxian economics and professor at The New School in New York, passed away last week. His father served in the Foreign Service as a result of which his family moved around frequently, through Malaysia, Canada, Kuwait, and finally the US. It was in Ku...
THE federal government on Sunday made good on its threat to dismiss an elected government and impose governor’s rule and emergency in KP. The president obliged. The head of state, the only civilian elected twice to that office, has now imposed governor’s rule three times: Punjab in 2009, Balochistan...
AS URDU’S literary world is embracing the digital realities and moving towards the online versions, some of Urdu’s literary journals, in particular ones published by our universities’ Urdu departments, have adopted the digital-version-only strategy. So, the literature buffs who are not so tech-savvy...
A fresh Houthi strike hit Riyadh’s international airport on Sunday, killing one person — a Pakistani resident — and wounding 11 others, a day after another deadly attack claimed by the Yemeni group forced authorities to suspend operations there. Saturday’s attack, the deadliest on Saudi soil in more...
Announcing last Thursday that the United States will not launch military strikes against Iran before the midterm election, President Trump also made clear that the ongoing US naval blockade of Iran’s oil exports will remain in full force. Some are now questioning this assertion while Iran makes its ...
THE significance of Mir George Ali Murad Khan Talpur II, the last ruler of the former princely state of Khairpur who died on Oct 5, lies in more than just having witnessed the disappearance of a world. In Khairpur’s final years, he presided over an experiment in representative government and social...
• FPCCI urges Nepra to reject inflated, disputed claims; flags previously disallowed, unverified adjustments• Demands detailed written responses, participation in public hearings• Discos claim Rs2.64tr in revenue requirements for CY2027 ISLAMABAD: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and ...
KARACHI: Just days after kidnapped sailors from MT Honour 25 were reunited with their families, another Pakistani seafarer’s family is seeking the return of his mortal remains, following his demise after his ship came under attack near the Strait of Hormuz last month. Muhammad Hammad Obaida, a third...
