ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has rejected as “fake and fabricated” a New York Times report claiming that Pakistan Air Force (PAF) aircraft were being employed against Yemen’s Houthis from Saudi Arabia. In a fact-check issued on Thursday, the ministry said the New York Times report, titled “Explosions […]
ISLAMABAD: Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik has said the government cannot change petroleum levy targets set in the federal budget without consulting its multilateral partners. “The targets for the petroleum levy are allocated in the budget, and we cannot change them without our multilateral partners,” Malik said while addressing a […]
ISLAMABAD: The 12th edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) will be played from March 18 to May 2, 2027, with all eight franchises returning to compete for the title, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Thursday. The eight-team format will continue for the second successive season following a […]
LONDON: Monitored populations of nearly 5,800 vertebrate species declined by an average of 73% between 1970 and 2022, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in its latest Living Planet Report published on Thursday. The Living Planet Index, managed by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and WWF, tracked […]
STOCKHOLM: Canadian poet and writer Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for her “bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”, the Swedish Academy said. The prize is worth 12 million Swedish crowns ($1.2 […]
ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has warned that Imran Khan would not receive relief if the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) sought to pressure the government through its long march, saying the government would not yield to political pressure. Speaking to media at Parliament House, Asif accused PTI of acting in concert […]
ISLAMABAD: Security forces have killed nine Fitna al-Khwarij terrorists during intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in several areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, security sources said on Thursday. According to the sources, the operations were conducted in Palangzai, Nadeem Kot and Kot Khazri areas of North Waziristan. Several terrorist hideouts were […]
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has accused India of providing material and logistical support to the Taliban government in Afghanistan to facilitate terrorist attacks against Pakistan, saying Islamabad remains fully aware of the cost of what it described as India-sponsored terrorism. Muhammad Jawad Ajmal, counsellor at Pakistan’s Permanent Mission to the United […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Bahrain on Thursday agreed to establish a joint working group on trade and investment and push for the early finalisation of the GCC-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement as the two countries signed the agreed minutes of the third session of their Joint Ministerial Commission (JMC). Deputy Prime Minister […]
GOA: Veteran Indian actor Nana Patekar has died at the age of 75 after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Goa, Indian media reported on Thursday. Hospital sources cited by NDTV said doctors tried to revive the Bollywood actor for around 45 minutes after he was brought to […]