KARACHI: As an unplanned economic assessment by the visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) team entered its second day, ...

ISLAMABAD: In order to reduce a startling tax gap of more than Rs6 trillion, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Tuesday approved five proposals to transform the Federal Board ...

KARACHI: Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election continued to impact global commodity markets as the world gold rate plunged by a record $77 per ounce to $2,593 on Tuesday. As a result, ...

QUETTA: Three passengers were killed and over 30 others, including women and children, injured when a speeding passenger coach overturned in the Lakpass area of Mastung district on Tuesday. According ...

PORT LOUIS: Mauritius opposition leader Navin Ramgoolam was confirmed as prime minister on Tuesday following a thumping election victory for his coalition that took every parliamentary seat on the ...

ZHUHAI: A man killed 35 people and injured 43 more when he ploughed his car into people exercising around a sports centre in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai on Monday, local police said on Tuesday ...

HAMBANTOTA: Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who wants a fresh mandate in the legislature to drive economic ...

LONDON: The leader of the world’s Anglican communion, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, announced on Tuesday he was resigning following a damning report that concluded the Church of England ...

AN IMF mission is in Islamabad for unusual, early talks with the Pakistani authorities as the lender seems worried over the government missing critical targets and veering off the course charted for ...

AFTER silently watching Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza for the past one year, the leaders of the Arab and Muslim countries ...

DONKEYS are reputed to be stubborn beasts. That possible misinterpretation of their instinct for self-preservation ...

THIS is with reference to the editorial ‘BISP overhaul’ (Nov 6), which raised concerns about the inclusion of ineligible beneficiaries in the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). The matter ...