Palestinians carry pots with food west of Deir al-Balah city in the central Gaza Strip. Photo: AFP UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council will vote Monday on a resolution endorsing US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, diplomats said. Last week the Americans officially launched negotiations within the 15-member Security Council on a text that…
Epstein mentioned the now-incarcerated PTI founder in his email conversations with an unidentified individual Disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein termed former prime minister Imran Khan a major “threat to peace” in 2018, days after his PTI won Pakistan’s general elections. Epstein mentioned the now-incarcerated PTI founder in his email conversations with an unidentified individual on…
By Shabina Faraz/Abdul Rahim | PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 Can an age-old heritage survive or will it sink into memory? Our traditional wooden boat-building industry, an age-old craft is deeply embedded in the cultural and economic fabric of fishing towns such as Gwadar, Pasni, Ormara, Surbandar, Damb, Gaddani, and Karachi. Over two million people are…
Islamabad, Amman reject Palestinian displacement; PM, Jordan’s king vow to enhance relations President Asif Ali Zardari and PM Shehbaz Sharif welcome Jordan’s King Abdullah II upon his arrival in Islamabad. PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and First Lady Aseefa Bhutto also seen in the picture. Photo: Online ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Jordan on Saturday discussed further…
PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 In 2012, Sanya* joined an institute to learn MS Office. When the teacher was delivering a lecture, she noticed the girl sitting next to her was writing furiously. Her pen danced across the page like an Olympic sprinter on the track. “Wow, such fast English shorthand!” she thought. Later, curious to…
PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 US President Donald Trump’s decision to restart US nuclear weapons testing, after a three-decade hiatus, has left allies anxious, adversaries alert and arms-control experts warning that even a hint of renewed testing could unravel a decades-old global taboo. Announced via a Truth Social post, Trump claimed he had instructed the rechristened…
PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 I never had a chance to meet Dr Arfa Sayeda Zehra in person, yet I have always felt a deep and personal connection with her. It was in the early 1980s, during my years at the Oriental College, Punjab University—where I was pursuing my master’s in Urdu Literature—that I first heard…
PUBLISHED November 16, 2025 ISLAMABAD: After the collapse of Istanbul dialogue and two terror attacks on its soil originating from Afghanistan, Pakistan’s any likely decision to simultaneously exercise the options of blocking across the border human and trade movement and flexing security muscles can compound Kabul’s woes and build internal pressure on the regime to…
Food ministry requests creation of special purpose vehicle to manage commodity’s stocks “However, the food department ignored these requests,” he said. According to Rehman, he sold the wheat stock to districts and sent the amount of Rs500 million collected back to food department. PHOTO: REUTERS ISLAMABAD: The country’s economic managers have rejected the establishment of…
Athar Minallah, Supreme Court Judge. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ruled that a state that fails to safeguard the inheritance rights to its women fails in its duty to uphold the principles of equity, faith and justice. “It is incumbent upon the State under the Constitution and the clear injunctions of Islam, to…
