Sindh faces gas and oil crises

Sindh, which is the third largest province of Pakistan is currently facing an acute shortage of oil and natural gas. This is mainly due...

Monthly allowance for poor children increased under the Ehsaas Nashonuma Program

On Monday, Dr. Sania Nishtar, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Social Protect and Poverty Alleviation revealed that the government has increased...

Op-ed: Are we citizens of this country or we remain merely subjects?

My late father Nazir Ahmed Malik was born a subject of the British Empire on July 15, 1920, in Ludhiana, East Punjab. To be...

Elon Musk, the prophecy of Wall Street?

With his social media prognostications about Bitcoin or GameStop, Elon Musk has been venturing further away from his own businesses and becoming more like...

PIA will now seize passports of crew members after the missing flight attendant incident

On Monday, Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) released a set of orders for its cabin crew, which also include seizing their passports once they land...

Pakistan’s exports cross $2 billion mark for 4th successive month

Pakistan’s exports have sustained growth and for the first in 8 years, have crossed the $2 billion mark in four consecutive months, revealed Adviser...

Was India lobby behind the seizure of PIA’s passenger plane in Malaysia?

Federal Minister for Avia­tion Ghulam Sarwar Khan claimed on Monday that there was Indian lobby’s conspiracy behind the seizure of the Pakistan Inter­national Airlines...

KP Govt offers employment to Pakistan’s Charlie Chaplin

The provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has offered a job to Usman Khan, a Peshawar-based lookalike of Charlie Chaplin. Provincial Minister for Labour and...

France debates bill against ‘disease’ of Islamist extremism

French lawmakers on Monday began debating a controversial bill against what the interior minister described as the "disease" of Islamist extremism eating away at...

Energy Minister Omar briefs US official on Pakistan’s energy sector reforms

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Pakistan Affairs Lesslie C Viguerie Monday called on Federal Minister for Energy Omar Ayub Khan and discussed...

Teaching Arabic made compulsory in educational institutions across Islamabad

Teaching the Arabic language has been made compulsory in primary and secondary schools in Islamabad, through a bill passed by the Senate unanimously. According...

Two teams to start a final push to scale K2 Summit in Winter

Two teams of local mountaineers have started another attempt to scale K2 Summit in what is called a final push to the Winter Expedition...