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Two Pakistanis make list of finalists for ‘Women Building Peace Award’

Two Pakistani women, Asia Jamil and Tabassum Adnan, have succeeded in making their place in the list of ten finalists for the inaugural Women Building Peace Award announced by the US Institute of Peace (USIP)

Sindh government extends lockdown by another month

As the pandemic continues to rage on, the Sindh government has extended the coronavirus induced lockdown measures currently in place in the province by another month

Pakistani woman scientist gets rare honour

Pakistan-born scientist Asifa Akhtar has become the first international female vice president of the biology and medicine section at Germany’s prestigious Max Planck Society

Pakistan, US to work as partners in battling international parental child abduction

Pakistan and the US have decided to work together to address the problem of international parental child abduction under the Hague Abduction Convention, announced the  State Department on Thursday

Pakistan to implement single-window system for trade

The government is all set to comply with the World Trade Organisation provisions to implement Pakistan Single Window (PSW) to streamline the cross-border movement of goods and regulatory bottlenecks

‘Unexplained decline in COVID-19 cases’ in Pakistan puzzles health experts and policymakers

The presence of a kind of “non-specific immunity” that is unique to the Pakistani people due to multiple exposures to various vaccines, including BCG and Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV), high humidity in the current monsoon season and a low transmission rate in the peak summer season could be some of the factors slowing down the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan, health experts and officials told The News on Tuesday

Daniel Pearl murder: Detention of accused persons extended

The Sindh Home Department on Wednesday extended the detention of the accused persons in the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl by three months, Geo News reported

'Will build biggest dam in Pakistan's history': PM Imran Khan

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday vowed to build the "biggest dam in Pakistan's history" after kicking off construction work at the Diamer-Bhasha Dam project, adding that the project will also benefit the people living in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB)

Karachi witnesses uptick in street crimes with over 9,000 phones, 700 cars snatched this year

More than 9,000 mobile phones were stolen at gunpoint between January and July 2020 in the city, compared to 8,517 phones last year, according to data released by the Citizens Police Liaison Committee (CPLC)

Three Pakistani soldiers killed in Balochistan ambush

Three soldiers of Pakistan Army were killed and eight others, including an officer, were injured in an ambush on their convoy near Gichak valley in Balochistan’s Panjgur district on Tuesday, the military said

PML-N leader defends his remarks on minorities in Pakistan

The parliamentary leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in the National Assembly, Khawaja Mohammad Asif, has defended his remarks last week in the House about the rights of minorities, stating that his speech was “in accordance with the Quaid-i-Azam’s vision and the rights granted to minorities by the Constitution”

FM Qureshi discharged from hospital after 10 days following COVID-19 treatment

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday said that he has been shifted home after being treated for the coronavirus and undergoing plasma therapy at Rawalpindi's Military Hospital (MH), but is yet to test negative

Pakistan finds new oil, gas reserves in K-P

Pakistan has found new deposits of oil and gas in exploratory well Mamikhel South-01, located in Tal block in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P)

Reports of Pakistan government unfreezing top JuD leaders' bank accounts spark controversy

A media report claimed that the Pakistan government has restored the bank accounts of top five leaders of the defunct Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD)/Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) including Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, sparking serious controversy over Islamabads closed-door facilitations

Threat of Omani airspace ban looms over PIA

As the Pakistan aviation regulator and the national flag carrier grapple with the credibility crisis that hit the institutions last month, a threat of a ban on Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flights in the airspace of Oman looms large as the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) assured them that credentials of all pilots had been scrutinised to ensure flight safety