KARACHI: As an unplanned economic assessment by the visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) team entered its second day, ...

ISLAMABAD: In order to reduce a startling tax gap of more than Rs6 trillion, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Tuesday approved five proposals to transform the Federal Board ...

KARACHI: Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election continued to impact global commodity markets as the world gold rate plunged by a record $77 per ounce to $2,593 on Tuesday. As a result, ...

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on National Food Security and Research at its meeting on Tuesday discussed the status of cess, and was informed that about Rs3 billion in cess arrears are owed ...

ISLAMABAD: Interior Mini­ster Mohsin Naqvi and PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Tuesday strongly condemned the recent wave of terror attacks on security ...

QUETTA: Three passengers were killed and over 30 others, including women and children, injured when a speeding passenger coach overturned in the Lakpass area of Mastung district on Tuesday. According ...

QUETTA: Bolan Medical College has been closed for two weeks following a clash between two student organisations on its campus on Tuesday. According to police, the violence erupted over a dispute ...

The letter said the PTA has made “significant efforts” to block adult and blasphemous content, but “the said material is still accessible online”, which “violates our cultural and religious values”.

HAMBANTOTA: Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who wants a fresh mandate in the legislature to drive economic ...

PORT LOUIS: Mauritius opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam was confirmed as prime minister on Tuesday following a thumping election victory for his coalition that took every parliamentary seat on the ...

KYIV: A majority of Ukrainians oppose ceding any land captured by Russia in exchange for peace, even as their army is on the back foot against advancing Russian forces, a survey said on Tuesday. The ...

BANGKOK: Eleven people were killed when a teashop in Myanmar was hit by a military airstrike in the town of Naungcho in the northern Shan state on Tuesday afternoon, a spokeswoman for a local ethnic ...