Pakistan on Sunday stepped up labour diplomacy by engaging Bangladesh and the Philippines on the sidelines of the Abu Dhabi Dialogue, exchanging views on shared challenges faced by overseas workers and exploring cooperation in skills development, training systems and migrant welfare frameworks. Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Chaudhry Salik Hussain met Bangladesh’s […]
The federal government has approved the promotion of seven officers of the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) to grade-18, issuing formal notifications through the Establishment Division on the recommendations of the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC). The promotions come alongside key inter-provincial postings, reflecting an administrative reshuffle across Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as the […]
PM’s Coordinator for Religious Harmony and PUC Chairman Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mahmood Ashrafi has said Pakistan is committed to fostering interfaith harmony, dialogue, peace, and tolerance to ensure national unity. In a message issued on Sunday on the occasion of World Interfaith Harmony Week, being observed from February 1 to 7, Ashrafi said interfaith harmony […]
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) organised a massive rally under the banner ‘Kashmir will become Pakistan’ in Lahore on Sunday, marching from Nasir Bagh to Charing Cross. The rally was led by former prime minister and PPP Central Punjab President Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and was attended by General Secretary Syed Hassan Murtaza, Information Secretary Shehzad Saeed […]
Fifteen years after publishing a memoir that shook Pakistan’s most powerful political dynasty, writer and activist Fatima Bhutto is returning with a deeply personal account of abuse, survival and renewal. Bhutto’s forthcoming memoir, The Hour of the Wolf, details a decade-long coercive and abusive relationship that she says she endured in silence, believing it to […]
Elon Musk’s social media platform X was back up after a brief outage affected more than 19,000 US users on Sunday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The outage lasted about 45 minutes and was largely resolved by 12:04 p.m. ET, the website said X did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The […]
The top US and Israeli generals held talks at the Pentagon on Friday amid soaring tensions with Iran, two US officials told Reuters on Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity. The officials did not offer details about the closed-door discussions between US General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Eyal […]
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry was laid to rest on Sunday at his ancestral graveyard in his native village of Chechian with full state and military honours. Prior to the burial, his funeral prayer was offered at the Quaid-e-Azam Cricket Stadium in Mirpur, where thousands of people gathered to pay […]
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said the United States would respond in a significant way if Canada proceeds with the trade agreement that it negotiated with China. “If they do a deal with China, yeah, we’ll do something very substantial,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “We don’t want China to take over […]
The foreign ministers of eight Muslim nations, including Pakistan, have strongly condemned Israel’s repeated violations of the ceasefire in Gaza, which have resulted in the killing and injury of more than a thousand Palestinians. A joint statement issued by Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar said that Israel’s […]