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MUSCAT: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has met the new ruler of Oman, Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said, and condoled the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said on behalf of the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan. Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who is on a visit to Oman, met Sultan Haitham and...

PESHAWAR: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Monday suspended Mufti Kifayatullah as the party’s Mansehra chief for “violating party discipline and taking part in activities against the party policy”. The party also formed a three-member committee to probe the matter. The decision was taken...

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has decided not to tour Pakistan for tests, offering instead to play T20 matches. The President of BCB, Nazm ul Hasan, has said that as per government instructions, Bangladesh can play the limited over matches but not tests. Bangladesh was supposed to tour...

ISLAMABAD – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday has reached Mashhad following the directives of Prime Minister Imran Khan to defuse Middle East tensions between Iranian regime and the U.S. The foreign minister was received by deputy Governor of Khorasan Razavi on his arrival. Mr...

KARACHI – Soon after MQM-P senior politician Khalid Maqbool Siddiqi announced his resignation as the Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication over certain reservations with the ruling PTI's government on Sunday, Sindh Governor Imran Ismail telephoned the allied party members of...

Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader and Minister for Information Technology, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, on Sunday announced that he will be resigning from the federal cabinet, dealing a blow to the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government. The announcement was made at a press...

Lahore: An FIR has been registered against constable for attacking Deputy Inspector General (DIG) in Lahore last night. According to details, DIG Shahzad Aslam was walking back to his home in police lines colony, when a constable named Muhammad Rafique attacked him with a knife. FIR reported...

Two pilots of the Federal Department’s Plant Protection Unit lost their lives in a deadly crash on Sunday when their plane crashed purportedly due to a “technical fault” in Sadiqabad while spraying insecticide in fields. The aircraft was called by the district administration to spray...

Srinagar, January 12 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism martyred two Kashmiri youth in Pulwama district, this morning. The youth were killed by the troops during a cordon and search operation in Tral area of the district. Till the last reports came...

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the truth be told after learning that a Ukrainian passenger jet had been mistakenly shot down, Fars news agency reported Saturday, January 11. Fars said it had learned that "as soon as the supreme leader was informed of the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have called for a ceasefire to end the conflict in Libya. The two leaders are seen to back rival sides in a conflict dragging in an increasing number of states. After talks in Istanbul, Mr Erdogan and Mr Putin...

Oil prices and U.S. stock futures whipsawed overnight after Iran fired on Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops, but markets quickly rebounded after there were no reports of casualties and President Trump addressed the nation. The Dow climbed 200 points at midday on Wednesday after Trump’s speech on...

OTTAWA -- The Canadian military is temporarily relocating some soldiers from Iraq to Kuwait due to security concerns, chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance said Tuesday. The move, which Vance announced in an open letter to the families of Canadian soldiers in Iraq that was posted to...

Dubai: International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday released its latest test rankings, with Pakistan retaining its spot at number seven, and climbing to three on the test championship rankings. India continued to hold the number one spot on the test rankings, followed in sequence by Australia...

PARIS (Reuters) - UNESCO said on Monday that the United States has signed treaties committing it not to harm cultural heritage in the event of armed conflict. U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday stood by his threat to go after Iranian cultural sites, warning of a “major retaliation” if Iran...

Defence Minister Pervez Khattak chaired meeting of the Standing Committee on Defence and devised a strategy as how to get the three bills approved for Pakistan's armed forces. ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly (NA) standing committee on defence deliberated on the extensions of the tenures of the...

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is briefing the Senate on tensions in the Middle East that arose after the killing of top Iran commander Qasem Soleimani in a US air strike. The minister began his speech by recounting how the crisis-like situation in the region unfolded, starting with the...

Educational institutes across Punjab will have longer vacations than planned. The Punjab education department extended on Monday their vacations. Schools and colleges were supposed to open on Monday, January 6, after winter holidays but the education department extended vacations due to the...