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 […]
RAWALPINDI: A high-level delegation from Belarus, led by Lieutenant General Aleksandr Volfovich, State Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus, called on Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, Chief of Army Staff and Chief of Defence Forces (COAS & CDF), at General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi. During the […]
STOCKHOLM: Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a long-standing riddle involving asymmetric “mirror-image” molecules, the Nobel Prize-awarding body said on Wednesday. The discovery has proved important for pharmaceutical manufacturing, where producing the correct version of a molecule can determine how a […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Wednesday stepped up pressure on the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, with Defence Minister Khawaja Asif warning that “important decisions” had become necessary, while Parliamentary Affairs Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said the provincial government’s conduct was paving the way for the imposition of an emergency. In a […]
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said the government’s doors remained open for negotiations but warned that no demands could be accepted by holding the state hostage or creating political instability. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Sanaullah urged political parties not to place […]