ISLAMABAD -UNS: A medical report on the health of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, who is scheduled to return to Pakistan later this month after four years in self-imposed exile, was submitted to the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday. The report said that the ex-premier had “some residual anginal symptoms” […]
Month: October 2023
ISLAMABAD -UNS: The Centre for Afghanistan Middle East and Africa (CAMEA) at the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), in collaboration with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)hosted a two-day International Conference on “Navigating Peace & Security in the Region & Beyond: Pakistan’s Role.” The two-day International Conference brought […]
NEW YORK-UNS/AFP: Former US president Donald Trump shared classified information about US nuclear submarines with an Australian businessman shortly after he left office, in a meeting at his Florida private members club Mar-a-Lago, US media said on Thursday. The New York Times, citing unnamed sources, identified the businessman as billionaire […]
KARACHI -UNS: Multinational corporations operating in Pakistan have found it difficult to repatriate their profits because of a shortage of dollars, Bloomberg reported. It noted that firms including Nestlé, Unilever and Philip Morris had around one to two billion dollars’ worth of profits stuck in Pakistan due to an acute […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS:PTI chairman on Thursday filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for suspension of the trial court verdict in the Toshakhana case. A month earlier, the IHC had suspended PTI chief’s three-year sentence in the Toshakhana case. A trial court in Islamabad had declared the PTI chief […]
Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur hopes his team will have two wins under their belts before they face old rivals India in the eagerly-awaited World Cup blockbuster. The 1992 champions face the Netherlands first up in Hyderabad on Friday followed by Sri Lanka at the same venue four days later. Pakistan […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: Interim Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani has discussed the “challenges confronting regional peace and stability” with his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi in a meeting in Tibet on Thursday. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in a statement released on social networking platform X, stated that Jilani “underscored that […]
MANCHESTER -UNS/Reuters: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sets out plans to overhaul post-16 education in England with a new qualification and promises a tax-free bonus of up to 30,000 pounds ($36,372) to help attract and retain teachers in key school subjects. The government said it would provide an initial 600 […]
QUETTA-UNS: At least two people, including a 12-year-old child, were killed on Wednesday when an Afghan sentry opened “unprovoked and indiscriminate” firing on pedestrians at the Chaman border in Balochistan, the military’s media affairs wing said. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a child was also injured during the […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir and US Defense Secretary Lloyd J Austin on Tuesday discussed “areas of mutual interest as well as recent regional developments”, according to the US Department of Defense. In a brief statement, the US Defense Department noted that Chief of Army […]
