ISLAMABAD: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited Prime Minister Imran Khan to participate in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Heads of government meetings being organized in New Delhi on November 30. He gave the invitation to all the eight members and four observer countries on Tuesday during the online summit of the organization held […]
Special Assistant to the Chief Minister of Punjab for Information Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan said Monday that the province had decided to impose smart lockdowns in areas where cases of the virus are surging. The special assistant, addressing media in Lahore, said that the implementation of coronavirus Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) will ensure in marriage […]
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan granted bail to Jang/Geo Editor-in-Chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman on Monday. He was held in detention for more than 200 days by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in a case related to the purchase of a property more than 30 years ago. The senior-most executive journalist of Pakistan’s largest media group […]
Azerbaijan says it seized Nagorno-Karabakh’s 2nd-largest city. But Armenian officials were quick to deny the claim that Shusha had been seized. Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said that his country’s forces had taken Shusha, the second-largest city in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. Armenian officials immediately denied the claim. If accurate, this would be a major strategic victory […]
Afghanistan reels from attack on Kabul University that left at least 22 people, including 18 students, dead. Sami Mahdi, a professor at Kabul University, is shaken by the killing of his students by gunmen on Monday. He has just returned after laying them to rest but their memories still remain fresh. He recalls the dreams […]
PTI’s ‘isolated’ leader Jahangir Tareen arrived in Lahore on Friday after spending several months in the United Kingdom. He was accompanied by his son Ali Tareen. Earlier this year, a sugar inquiry commission — formed on the directives of the premier to probe the rise in the price of the commodity — had revealed names […]
ISLAMABAD: The PTI government has been left with no other option but to seek rollover of $4 billion deposit loans obtained from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) for another year in order to avoid dwindling of foreign exchange reserves, it was learnt. Top official sources confirmed that Pakistan decided to […]
WASHINGTON: The US election was plunged into chaos early Wednesday as President Donald Trump prematurely declared victory and sought Supreme Court intervention to stop vote-counting — even as his Democratic rival Joe Biden voiced confidence in his own chances. In a divisive election cast under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed more […]
.ÏVIENNA: A mass shooting at several locations in the Austrian capital Vienna left at least two people dead and more than a dozen injured, shattering the city’s calm atmosphere and sending everyone into a panic. As music lovers enjoyed an opera and young people in bars raised a final glass together before a new coronavirus […]
0Rescuers in Izmir pull the girl out alive from the rubble, as the death toll in the earthquake crossed 100. A three-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building 91 hours after a powerful earthquake hit western Turkey, as the death toll rose to 100 on Tuesday, said the local mayor. “We […]
