The US blundered into an unnecessary war. Without a rationale and out of some unexplained compulsion, stories have emerged how Trump made the decision on the spur. Iran-Israel war got more intense with greatly more lethal longer-range weapons joining the fracas. Israel and its people bore the brunt. Russia-Ukraine war goes on relentlessly. Israel’s Gaza […]
Israel has stopped aid from entering northern Gaza but is still allowing it to enter from the south, two officials said on Thursday after images circulated of masked men on aid trucks who clan leaders said were protecting aid, not Hamas stealing it. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a joint statement with Defense Minister […]
Israel has acknowledged being hit by more than 50 missiles during the 12-day war with Iran, but the true extent of the damage may never be known due to stringent press restrictions. Such regulations are nothing new in Israel, where any written or visual publication deemed potentially harmful to the loosely defined concept of “national […]
Rainfall across various parts of Pakistan has brought much-needed relief from the intense summer heat, with the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) forecasting more showers and thunderstorms over the next two days. In the past 24 hours, rain and thunderstorms were reported across Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Islamabad, Kashmir, and northeastern Balochistan, with several areas experiencing heavy […]
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said he was unaware of any intelligence suggesting Iran had moved any of its highly enriched uranium to shield it from US strikes on Iran’s nuclear program over the weekend. “I’m not aware of any intelligence that I’ve reviewed that says things were not where they were supposed […]
The Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee on Thursday announced the sighting of the Muharram-ul-Haram moon for the Islamic year 1447 AH, marking the beginning of the new Islamic year from Friday, June 27. Accordingly, Ashura — the 10th of Muharram — will be observed on Sunday, July 6. The announcement was made by Committee Chairman Maulana Syed […]
Stocks came under selling pressure at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Thursday as the benchmark KSE-100 index gave up early gains and closed with a drop of over 700 points amid profit-taking. At the commencement of trading, the market extended its healthy momentum of the past two days, hitting intra-day high at 123,418 within […]
Efforts are underway to reconstruct the sequence of events leading to the Air India plane crash this month that killed 260 people, and identify contributing factors, India’s civil aviation ministry said on Thursday. The London-bound BoeingBA.N787 Dreamliner crashed moments after takeoff from India’s Ahmedabad city on June 12, killing 241 of the 242 people on […]
Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Thursday that his party was wholeheartedly supporting federal budget after the government accepted its demands to exempt income tax on salaried individuals earning Rs100,000 and reduce sales tax on solar panels. The income tax on annual income of Rs1.2 million has been exempted on the PPP […]
Cristiano Ronaldo is reportedly nearing a two-year contract extension with Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr, just days before his existing deal was set to expire. The 40-year-old Portugal captain’s potential decision to stay in Saudi Arabia marks a significant shift from his previous social media post, where he declared “the chapter is over” following Al-Nassr’s final […]