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KARACHI: Due to the Ramazan factor, the remittances sent by overseas Pakistani workers grew 27.4 per cent month-on-month in March, but the country lost $2.5 billion in the first nine months of FY23 due to an artificial exchange rate cap. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported on Monday that...

A doctor and member of the PML-N social media team threatened a Karachi based food delivery service, SpicOgetti when they informed him of their inability to fulfill a particular request of his. His messages show him engaging in sectarianism, revealing ties to the army (army brat?), proclaiming...

LAHORE: Punjab police in a province-wide crackdown arrested hundreds of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) workers, claiming to have averted chaos and violence and blocked roads to maintain law and order. All the deputy commissioners had handed over lists of PTI workers to police for their arrests...

Rent an army

PML-N leader and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has voiced his support for an upcoming draft bill that would amend the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), and award up to five-year imprisonment to whoever scandalises, or ridicules the Pakistan Army...

Assets Recovery Unit under Shahzad Akbar recovered more corruption money in last one year than 17 years combined.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan The crash of C-130 plane near the Pakistani city of Bahawalpur, 531 kilometers (330 miles) south of Pakistani capital Islamabad on Aug. 17, 1988, killing country’s President and Army Chief Gen. Muhammad Ziaulhaq continues to remain shrouded in mystery. The crash also killed...

Prime Minister Imran Khan met Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday, the last day of his four-day official visit. Prior to his meeting with President Xi, the prime minister and his delegation met Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and discussed bilateral...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel passed a law on Thursday to declare that only Jews have the right of self-determination in the country, something members of the Arab minority called racist and verging on apartheid. The “nation-state” law, backed by the right-wing government, passed by a vote of...

Sending a text to the wrong person can be embarrassing in any circumstances, but imagine how one French operative felt when he realized he’d mistakenly sent a message to a suspected Islamist radical he was collecting data on. The incident, described in the French media as an “epic fail,”...

QUETTA: The Balochistan Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) registered a First Information Report (FIR) against detained Indian 'spy' Kulbushan Jadhav under various sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act, sources in the Balochistan government confirmed on Tuesday. Sources in the provincial home and...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Russia have agreed to deepen cooperation in the energy sector as they will jointly set up liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) air-mix plants in an effort to tackle the persisting energy crisis. “For establishing the LPG air-mix plants in Pakistan, Russia has nominated its...

In an attempt to demonstrate the usefulness of knife-proof vests amid a wave of stabbing attacks against Israelis, a Channel 1 reporter agreed to get stabbed on camera – and was actually injured, much to the embarrassment of the manufacturer. As part of an educational report covering the...

FAISALABAD: In a rather strange case, Faisalabad police on Monday said they had arrested at least three people on charges of abducting a cat belonging to a female Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) activist. Imtiaz Asif, a resident of Nisar Colony, moved an application alleging her neighbours and...

The Russian Defense Ministry has released rare footage of a Tor-M2U surface-to-air missile launcher firing on the move, a feat as yet unachieved by any competitor. The launcher was driving off-road at 25 kpm/h and successfully hit a Saman practice target with the first missile fired, the...

YOGYAKARTA: An Indonesian jet fighter taking part in an aerobatic show crashed and burst into flames Sunday, killing two pilots. No one on the ground was injured. The KAI T-50 Golden Eagle, a US-South Korean-made light attack aircraft, spun out of control and crashed into an air force base...