Karachi , December 2: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight escaped a mid-air disaster on Saturday after one of the aeroplane's engines caught fire mid-air.
As per initial reports, the plane's engine malfunctioned and caught fire mid-air, shortly after taking off from Karachi for Madina.
The flight captains took control of...
Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan admitted misplacing a confidential diplomatic cable as he was interrogated by Pakistan's top investigative agency at the Attock Jail in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act for wrongful use of the classified document.
Khan, 70, is currently serving a three-year jail term...
Lahore, Dec 14: A top Pakistani court has suspended the election commission's decision to appoint bureaucrats as Returning Officers (ROs) for the February 8 general elections, prompting a war of words between political parties, with two of them terming it as a "conspiracy" to postpone the polls.
Lahore High Court...
Islamabad: Acute food insecurity in Pakistan is likely to rise in the next months if the country's economic and political turmoil intensifies, aggravating the consequences of the 2022 floods, according to a new United Nations report released on Monday.
The report, titled 'Hunger Hotspots: FAO-WFP Early Warnings on Severe Food Insecurity'...
Islamabad , October 14: The pen-down strike in Punjab government departments entered the fourth day on Friday as the employees refused to resume work till their demands were met.
On the call of the joint alliance of government employees, teachers, and revenue officials under the platform of the All Government...
A research analyst came down heavily on Pakistan for openly recruiting mercenaries and terrorist organizations to pursue its own interests and political agenda in South Asia.
Luce Plaid was speaking at the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
She said, "Among the list of UN-designated terrorist entities...
Islamabad , December 25: The Pakistan Election Commission (ECP) received a total of 28,626 nomination papers from candidates who showed interest in contesting the upcoming general elections scheduled for February 8, 2024.
It reported that 7,242 men and 471 women filed nomination papers for national assembly seats, whereas for provincial...
Sukkur , April 5: Ahead of the provincial government's long-delayed operation against outlaws in Pakistan's riverine area, a gang of dacoits once again struck, killing a Station House Officer (SHO) and injuring five others including a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), reported Dawn.
The outlaws attacked a large police contingent...
Karachi: All arrangements have been completed in the Army cantonment area here for the burial of Pakistan's former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf after sunset prayers on Monday as a special flight from Dubai is expected to bring his mortal remains, officials said.
Musharraf, the architect of the Kargil War...
KARACHI: The total liquid foreign reserves of Pakistan reached US$ 12.5766 billion while reserves held by the central bank stood at $7.5 billion.
The State Bank of Pakistan, in a statement issued here on Thursday, informed that SBP’s reserves increased by $ 13 million to $7.5 billion.
The total liquid foreign...
