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ISLAMABAD: The federal government has started work on formulating a policy to implement the recommendations of a rightsizing committee to reduce its expenditures. According to sources, the government is going to make changes to the Civil…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reiterated its longstanding policy that the issue of Kashmir issue could only be resolved through the United Nations Security Council resolutions. At a weekly press briefing, Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra…

JERUSALEM (Reuters): Massive protests swept Israel on Sunday following the death of six hostages in Gaza as frustration mounted over the failure of the country's leadership to secure a ceasefire deal that would free Israeli captives.…

NEW YORK: American poet and intellectual of Pakistani origin Raies Warsi has been awarded lifetime achievement award by US President Joe Biden. Warsi is the president of Urdu Center in New York. He has been working tirelessly for the last…

ISLAMABAD: A former Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir has said that we need to change our strategy regarding the issue of Kashmir. Sardar Atiq was speaking at a seminar held in connection with the third death anniversary of Kashmiri leader…

CAIRO: Six dead bodies of hostages abducted by Hamas in October last year have been recovered from Gaza, the Israeli forces said today. The victims included one American national and five Israelis. They were three women and as many men.…

JAKARTA  (Reuters): When Pope Francis visits Indonesia next week, he will stop by a mosque in Jakarta that has an unusual feature - a tunnel connecting it to the city's Catholic cathedral, as part of a push for interfaith harmony on his…

KARACHI: Police in Karachi detained a professor of the University of Karachi for six hours without any charges and released him after protest by students and faculty of the university. According to family and university sources, Prof Dr…

KARACHI: A judicial magistrate in Karachi East has allowed the police to arrest the woman, who killed a female student and her father and injured three other persons in a hit-and-run accident at Karsaz last week, in another case. The new…

ISLAMABAD: The police in Islamabad have arrested a former Jamaat Islami Senator and his wife along with scores of the supporters of the party for violating Section 144 to hold a rally in support of the people of Gaza. Police said the JI…