He urged the UN Secretary-General to implement the Plan of Action for the protection of religious sites. Pakistan, he said, had circulated to the United Nations a detailed dossier, with concrete ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan first satellite mission to the moon, iCube Qamar, has been launched on board China’s Chang’E6 from Hainan, China. The launch was telecast live on the IST website as well as the ...

LOS ANGELS: Police forcibly removed scores of defiant pro-Palestinian protesters at several colleges on Thursday, including taking down an encampment at UCLA in a jarring scene that underscored the ...

KARAKORAM: At least 20 people died while 21 others were injured on Friday morning when a passenger bus overturned on the Karakoram Highway in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Diamer district, rescue officials said.

ISLAMABAD: A 50-member business and official delegation from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is due on Sunday (May 5) to hold business-to-business (B2B) meetings with focus for trade deals and ...

ISLAMABAD: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) announced on Thursday that the 969-megawatt Neelum-Jhelum Hydro­power Project, valued at over Rs500 billion, has been completely shut down ...

HERAT: A gunman in western Afghanistan mosque killed six people, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, with local residents claiming the Shia community had been targeted.

LEBANON: Hamas’s armed wing said its members in Lebanon’s south has launched a slew of rockets at a northern Israeli military position. Hamas fighters “have fired a concentrated rocket barrage from ...

In a meeting with Bill Gates, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday that Pakistan was working tirelessly to eradicate polio. The meeting between the two took place on the sidelines of the World ...

Columbia University began suspending student demonstrators on Monday after they defied an ultimatum to disperse. The move follows almost two weeks of protests against Israel’s military offensive in ...

GAZA: US President Joe Biden has urged the leaders of Egypt and Qatar to “exert all efforts” towards securing the release of hostages held by Hamas as part of negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire, AFP ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that the release of the final $1.1 billion tranche by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the stand-by arrangement (SBA) would bring ...