RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday said an Iranian attack on an oil tanker operated by its national shipping company killed two Filipino sailors in the Strait of Hormuz. The vessel, Sidr, is owned by Saudi shipping company Bahri and was one of two supertankers carrying Saudi crude that were reportedly […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Wednesday approved a new local government system for Islamabad under which the federal capital will be divided into three councils, each headed by its own mayor. Under the proposed framework, each council will consist of 21 members, including general councillors as well as representatives for […]
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday reiterated that no leniency would be shown to officials found guilty of criminal negligence in the August 26 fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), which claimed the lives of 14 babies. After returning to Islamabad from Kyrgyzstan, the prime minister […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has decided to increase its flight operations to London, with seven weekly flights scheduled from October 27. According to a PIA spokesperson, five of the weekly flights will operate from Islamabad, while two will depart from Lahore. The national flag carrier currently operates four weekly […]
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Wednesday said India could not walk away from its international legal obligations under the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) simply because the outcome did not go in its favour, warning that New Delhi’s conduct was damaging the sanctity of treaties and the broader international dispute-resolution system. […]
CAIRO: The United States and Iran exchanged attacks on Tuesday, ending a period of relative calm and raising fears of a renewed escalation in the conflict. The latest confrontation marked the most significant exchange between the two sides in several weeks. Washington warned that further strikes could be more severe, […]
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has purchased 50 additional buses for the Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system at a cost of Rs2.139 billion, with the total fleet expected to reach 296 once all newly purchased buses are delivered. Provincial Finance Adviser Muzammil Aslam said 25 of the newly purchased […]
John Mearsheimer’s “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics” is an unsentimental book. The world, he writes, is too large for any state to become a global hegemon. What states can pursue, and what they reliably do pursue, is regional dominance. India wants that role in South Asia. Size, wealth and […]
RAWALPINDI: Doctors at Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi have successfully reattached the completely severed hand of a five-year-old boy from Jhelum in a complex replantation surgery. The child was brought to the hospital on August 28 in critical condition after his hand was completely severed from his body in an […]
KATHMANDU: Devastating floods and mudslides near Nepal’s border with China have killed at least 734 people in Nepal, while 2,498 remain missing, the country’s disaster management authority said on Sunday as rescue operations entered their fifth day. The latest figures pushed the combined death toll from the disaster in Nepal […]