Boards of seminaries refuse to be “subservient to the government.”
ISLAMABAD: In contrast to the forum's 2019 position, in which traditional madressah boards agreed to give the federal education ministry some degree of authority, the Ittehad Tanzeemat-i-Madaris Pakistan announced on…
Balochistan’s polio drive has been delayed by two weeks.
QUETTA: An official said on Tuesday that the polio vaccination program, which was supposed to start this week in all 36 districts of Balochistan, has been postponed for two weeks.…
Mahnoor, undefeated, dominates the US Junior Squash Open U13 final.
After defeating China's Zinyuan Yin in the semi-finals on Monday night in Philadelphia, Mahnoor Ali of Pakistan advanced to the Under-13 final of the US Junior Open. Ali defeated Yin…
Israeli officials travel to Doha to discuss a truce in Gaza and a hostage agreement: report
A source familiar with the negotiations tells AFP that Israeli officials arrived in Doha, Qatar yesterday for negotiations aimed at a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostage-prisoner swap between Israel…
After 12 years, the port authority bill was presented.
ISLAMABAD: On Monday, after a 12-year wait, the government presented a bill to the National Assembly to create a land port authority to lower the cost of doing business and…
Industry and trade demand a single-digit policy rate.
KARACHI: Local businessmen were disappointed by the State Bank's decision to lower the interest rate by 200 basis points to 13 percent on Monday, excluding foreign investors and multinational corporations…
Production in large industries declines from July to October.
ISLAMABAD According to data provided by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on Monday, the Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) sector shrank 0.64 percent in the first four months of the current fiscal…
Pakistan is urged by the UK envoy to carry out IMF-adopted reforms.
ISLAMABAD Jane Marriott, the British High Commissioner to Pakistan, warned that if Pakistan doesn't carry out its obligations to economic reforms under the IMF agreement, it may lose access to…
Without nature funding, combating the climate crisis is impossible: SC judge
LAHORE: The Supreme Court's senior puisne judge, Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, argued Monday that climate finance is fundamentally the same as climate justice. He claimed that although there is…
Al Jazeera denounces the Israeli strike on Gaza that killed journalist Ahmad Baker Al-Louh.
In a statement, Qatar-based Al Jazeera denounced the death of one of its journalists in an Israeli strike on Gaza yesterday, referring to the incident as a "targeted killing." Since…
