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Karachi Additional Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Javed Alam Odho said on Monday that the city’s streets would be cleared of protest sit-ins ahead of Maghreb prayers, saying citizens had “suffered enough” over the past few years. three days. The sit-ins, which have continued over the past week, blocked major roads to protest the Parachinar…
Pakistan reported one new polio case in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Monday, raising the year’s total to 68, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said in a statement. Pakistan is one of the last two countries in the world, along with Afghanistan, where polio remains endemic; The disease mainly affects children under five…
The bulls decided to take control of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) floor on Monday as the stock gained over 3,900 points on investors’ expectations that the key interest rate would hit single digits in the near future. The benchmark KSE-100 index rose 3,678.20, or 3.30 percent, to settle at 115,029.37 from the previous close…
Widely popular among young people for their dizzying variety of flavours, including apple, watermelon and cola, the time for disposable e-cigarettes is over in Belgium, the first EU country to ban them. From January 1, the sale of single-use vaporizers will be banned in Belgium, in a bid to protect the health of young people…
Jimmy Carter — the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as US president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work — died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday. He was 100. US President…
An energy policy is effectively an industrial policy. To unlock growth, it remains essential that an export-oriented industrial policy is formed that is adequately supported by an efficient and market-oriented power regime. Over the next 12 months, to stimulate sustainable growth, current electricity infrastructure must be operated efficiently and with market-oriented pricing rather than arbitrary…
THE world seems more unstable and unpredictable today than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Rising geopolitical tensions, wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and uncertainties in the global risk environment make the international outlook problematic for the coming year. The global order has been fragmenting for some time. Meanwhile,…
Fast bowlers Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen became batting heroes on Sunday as South Africa beat Pakistan by two wickets to win a thrilling first Test in Centurion and book a place in next year’s World Test Championship final. Rabada scored 31 and Jansen 16 in an unbeaten partnership of 51 off 50 balls to…
Syria’s new authorities have arrested nearly 300 people, including informants, pro-regime fighters and former soldiers, in a crackdown on loyalists of ousted former president Bashar al-Assad, a monitor said on Sunday. Since rebels led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group overthrew Assad three weeks ago, ending more than five decades of family rule, new…
PPP leader Hassan Murtaza said on Sunday that unless the PML-N eases the PPP’s reservations and includes them in policymaking, their coalition “will not survive.” There have been tensions between the PPP and the ruling PML-N, and Ali Haider Gilani, parliamentary leader of the PPP in the Punjab Assembly, said Sunrise in June that despite…