Pakistan Breaking News

Prime Minister Imran Khan will reach Lahore on a day-long visit today (Tuesday). 

According to sources, Prime Minister Imran Khan will preside over key meetings…

Former Prime Minister Mr. Nawaz Sharif has alleged that the Pakistan Army Chief and the ISI leader orchestrated his conviction on corruption charges and his subsequent ouster. In a clear departure from prior allegations against "the establishment", Mr. Sharif has named names of the chiefs of the Army and the ISI in his anti-military address over the telephone from London to a joint opposition rally in Gujranwala. Where does he go from here? Is he following in the footsteps of MQM founder…

Speaking with Fareed Zakaria on US cable news network CNN, former US Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers told Zakaria's audience that "if the US had handled the pandemic as well as Pakistan,  we would have saved around $10 trillion ". 

Ex US Treasury…

Sindh News

A massive fire broke out at a factory located near Ghani Chowrangi, in Karachi's SITE area on Saturday morning. 

Fire brigade vehicles reached the…

Sindh News

At least three people were critically wounded after a speeding car rammed into footpath in Karachi on late Friday night.

According to details, the incident…

India ranks 94th among 107 nations ranked by World Hunger Index in 2020. Other South Asian have fared better: Pakistan (88), Nepal (73), Bangladesh (75), Sri Lanka (64) and Myanmar (78) – and only Afghanistan has fared worse at 99th place. The COVID19 pandemic has worsened India's hunger and malnutrition. Tens of thousands of Indian children were forced to go to sleep on an empty stomach as the…

World News

As much as 30 people lost their lives so far after torrential rains hit southern India, officials said Thursday. 

A local official told AFP, at least nine people were killed when a wall caved in while 10 others died due to…

Pakistan Breaking News

Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an alliance of major opposition parties, is ready to show its power in Gujranwala today (Friday). 

The first public meeting of…

Global food prices are soaring by double digits amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to Bloomberg News. Bloomberg Agriculture Subindex, a measure of key farm goods futures contracts, is up almost 20% since June. It may in part be driven by speculators in the commodities markets. These rapid price rises…

World News

Despite strict Covid-19 restrictions in the parts of the United Kingdom under a new three-tiered system, it has recorded 143 more deaths on Tuesday,…

Sindh News

Fire that erupted at a chemical warehouse located in the Shershah area of Karachi on late Tuesday night which spread rapidly and engulfed the entire…

On October 12, 1999, Pakistani military toppled democratically elected Prime Minister Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif. This action followed the Prime Minister's sudden decision to sack Army Chief General Pervez Musharraf and the Prime Minister's simultaneous orders to deny landing permission to the Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777-200 that was bringing the Army Chief…

World News

New measures to deal with a growing COVID-19 crisis will be announced by the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, moving to work more closely with local leaders…

Pakistan English News

The number of coronavirus infection in the country has reached 319,317 on Monday after more cases were reported in different parts of the country.

According to the…

Sindh News

After the targeted killing of Maulana Adil Khan of Jamia Farooqui in Karachi, display of arms at public places was banned. 

According to media reports, a police…

Sindh News

A woman died after she was allegedly administered a wrong injection at the Civil Hospital in Tando Allahyar on Saturday morning.

According to details, the heirs blocked traffic by placing…

In his recently published book entitled "The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous", Harvard Professor Joseph Henrich argues that western democracy and prosperity in America and Europe can be traced back to the Catholic Church's ban on cousin marriages and polygamy. These bans promoted individualism and created what is now known as a "nuclear family". Cousin marriages and strong kinship remain prevalent in present-day Pakistan,…

In a recent article entitled "Is Pakistan really handling the pandemic better than India", The Economist says Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has "crowed" about his government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. It also cites an Indian-American professor who says "test not, find not" to raise questions about Pakistan's coronavirus data. Conspicuously absent from the article is any emphasis on  the covid19 test "…

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Acting President and Chairman Senate Sadiq Sanjrani will arrive in Sehwan Sharif today (Tuesday) to pay his respects to Hazrat Lal Shahbaz…

Pakistan Breaking News

Prime Minister Imran Khan will chair the federal cabinet meeting today (Tuesday) to discuss a 15-point agenda including the economic and political situation of the…