China’s foreign ministry lodges “stern representations” over the transit, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office said in a statement.

US president-elect Donald Trump aims to make loyalist Kash Patel the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...

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ISLAMABAD: The ten-year embargo on trade between Pakistan and India will be lifted on Dec 7 under a trade protocol the two countries signed today [Nov 30] in New Delhi. The protocol, which is the ...

MEDICAL TEST FIASCO: It is sur-prising that The Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) is compromised almost every year, but no concrete measures have been taken to stop this bungling. The ...

WE lost a committed progressive writer when Saeeda Gazdar, who emerged on our literary horizon in the 1970s and remained noticeable in the 1980s, recently passed away. In the last about two decades, ...

IT is a travesty that, decades after HIV/AIDS first perplexed medics, awareness about the disease remains low in Pakistan, particularly among vulnerable populations. As HIV/AIDS incidents drop ...

BANGKOK: More than 30 crew members of Thai fishing boats were detained in Myanmar waters on Saturday after an encounter with other vessels which left one person dead, a navy commander said. Suwat ...

HANOI: Vietnam said on Saturday that it will build a $67 billion high-speed railway from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, in a much-needed boost to infrastructure that is expected to drive growth and ...

ISLAMABAD: A six-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court will take up on Wednesday challenges by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to implementation of the amendments to the Elections Act, ...

QUETTA: In a groundbreaking initiative, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Netherlands and the School of Leadership Foundation (SLF) inaugurated the first Adolescent and Youth Friendly ...

ISLAMABAD: With Mohenjodaro and other heritage sites in Sindh facing growing vulnerability to disasters, the Unesco has mobilised funds to preserve the province’s cultural heritage sites. Recognising ...