The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) ended Friday’s session with a spectacular rally as the benchmark KSE-100 index surged nearly 3,000 points to a historic high. The index settled above 162,250 after touching the intra-day peak of 162,422, the highest level in history. Bulls dominated the session from the opening bell, fueled by aggressive buying in […]
Former UK prime minister Tony Blair could take a leading role in a transitional authority for Gaza under US-led peace plans, various British media reported on Friday. It follows Blair’s involvement in discussions with the administration of US President Donald Trump and others over the post-war transitional body for the Palestinian territory. The plan could […]
Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 50 people across the Palestinian territory on Friday. The Israeli military is pressing an offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza City, from which hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee in recent weeks. The civil defence agency — a rescue force operating under Hamas authority […]
The PPP and the PML-N — the two major allies that primarily sustain the current political dispensation — continued to trade barbs over flood relief in Punjab, the country’s political powerhouse. The PPP on Friday called Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz’s recent statements “divisive” and the PML-N advised the PPP to put its house in […]
Websites openly selling citizens’ data on the internet have yet to be shut down while the team formed earlier this month to probe the data leak has requested three more weeks to finalize its report. Federal Minister for Interior Mohsin Naqvi September 7 took notice of the illegal sale of citizens’ private data on various […]