Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a deeply volatile session, as sustained selling pressure overshadowed early gains and dragged the benchmark KSE-100 index sharply lower. The market opened on a relatively firm note, with the index climbing to an intra-day high of 174,336.86 points during early trading hours. However, the positive momentum proved short-lived as profit-taking […]
The appointment of Mahmood Khan Achakzai as Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, following his nomination by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder and former prime minister Imran Khan, has been challenged in the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) Justice (retd) Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, counsel for PTI founding leader Akbar S Babar, filed a 55-page constitutional petition […]
Iran said Monday that a US attack of any scale would spur the Islamic republic to respond “ferociously”, after President Donald Trump said he was considering limited strikes against the country. The United States has built up forces in the Middle East to pile pressure on Iran to make a deal at negotiations due to […]
International Olympic Committee president Kirsty Coventry lauded Milan-Cortina 2026 as a “new kind of Winter Games” as she declared them closed on Sunday. These Olympics used mainly existing venues for 16 days of medal-filled action spread for hundreds of kilometres across the Italian Alps. “You delivered a new kind Winter Games and set a new […]
A bus in Nepal skidded off a mountain road and plunged into an icy river on Monday, killing at least 19 people, according to police sources. The bus, en route from the tourist city of Pokhara to the capital city Kathmandu, fell more than 200 metres (655 feet) into the Trishuli River in Dhading district […]
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will undertake an official visit to Qatar from February 23 to 24 at the invitation of Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Foreign Office said on Sunday. The prime minister will be accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, along with other ministers and senior officials. […]
Denmark and its territory, Greenland, on Sunday rejected Donald Trump’s offer to send a naval hospital ship to the Arctic island coveted by the US leader. A day earlier, Trump said he was sending “a great hospital boat to Greenland to take care of the many people who are sick, and not being taken care […]
By day, 27-year-old Rizwan Pathan hauls heavy slabs of marble in a factory, earning barely enough to keep his children fed. By night, despite aching limbs and exhaustion, he heads to the sports ground to train. “I work so my children don’t sleep hungry,” he says. “And I train so the sportsman inside me doesn’t […]
Strasbourg beat Lyon 3-1 to end the visitors’ seven-match winning streak in Ligue 1 on Sunday, a result that dampens their outside shot at the title. Lyon had won 13 consecutive games in all competitions but failed to equal the club record set in 2006. Paulo Fonseca’s side remain third on 45 points and nine […]