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Dozens of Indian opposition lawmakers began a march on Tuesday seeking the resignation of the election chief over a controversial revision of voter lists, as hundreds of security personnel kept vigil in the heart of the Indian capital and barricades were thrown up. Parties opposing Prime Minister Na...
Research in particle physics, astrophysics or the invention of an “invisibility cloak” are some of the achievements that could be honoured when the Nobel physics prize is awarded Tuesday. The award, to be announced at 11:45 am in Stockholm, is the second Nobel of the season, after the Medicine Prize...
KARACHI: Residents of Clifton and Defence, who rely on water tankers, have been facing difficulty in getting a bowser from the Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) as its tanker service is facing delays due to an acute shortage. At a recent meeting between the CBC and the Clifton Defence Community (CDC), ...
UNITED NATIONS: Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad leaves New York this week to take up his new responsibilities as Pakistan’s foreign secretary, ending his two-year assignment as the country’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN). He arrived in New York in October 2024 for his third assi...
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres arrived in Islamabad in the early hours of Tuesday for a two-day official visit, the Foreign Office (FO) said. FO said the UN chief was visiting from October 6 to 8 at the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar. “Upon arri...
LAHORE: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz received the UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour Award for the ‘Apni Chhat, Apna Ghar’ project at a ceremony held at the Convention and Exhibition Centre in Muscat. The chief minister was specially invited to Muscat as a state guest to receive the award. She was welcomed ...
IT may not be inaccurate to say that Manmohan Singh created India’s middle class, and the middle class created Narendra Modi. Marxists call them/us the ‘vacillating class’. Janus-like, we are suspiciously double-faced and have a split identity. We look towards the capitalists with one face, wishing ...
ISLAMABAD: After almost six weeks having passed since the fire incident, the capital’s largest hospital Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) got a new executive director (ED) and joint executive director (JED). However, the notifications raised eye brows as the charge of ED has been given t...
LAST night, I dreamt of Hogwarts again. Indeed, the time is ripe to revisit Harry Potter and Hogwarts — the boarding school where the series is based — for here in Pakistan, we are living in the most ‘confunding’ times possible. Surely, the ‘Confundus Charm’ has been used on everyone. And the result...
THE Kissan Board Pakistan has demanded that agriculture receive at least 10pc of the federal and provincial budgets to lower input costs and address recurring deficits. The farmers’ body also wants support prices of Rs5,000 per 40kg for wheat and Rs700 for sugarcane, citing declining profitability. ...
• Asim Iftikhar says Islamabad backs more elected seats on UNSC• Foreign secretary-designate highlights country’s role in peaceful dispute settlement• Notes Islamabad presses for peaceful settlement of Kashmir dispute WASHINGTON: Pakistan opposes adding new permanent members to the UN Security Counc...
ISLAMABAD: The National Cyber Security Emergency Response Team (NCERT) has detected a number of suspected phishing domains created in the name of key national institutions, apparently aimed at stealing sensitive information from citizens. According to the NCERT’s Threat Intelligence Centre, suspicio...
