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Irshadullah Khan PESHAWAR: The Provincial Alliance for Sustainable Tobacco Control has commended the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government for its decisive action to levy a new tobacco tax through the provincial excise duty. This significant…

Irshadullah Khan CHITRAL: Class IV employees in Chitral staged a protest outside the press club on Friday demanding an increase in their pay and allowances in accordance with the rising inflation. The protesters, carrying placards and…

CAIRO (Reuters): Israeli forces killed at least 60 Palestinians in aerial and ground bombardments across the Gaza Strip on Thursday. The Israeli forces battled in close combat with Hamas-led militants in areas of the southern city of…

NEW YORK: The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution designating July 11 as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica. Out of the total votes, 84 countries, including Pakistan, voted in…

ABU DHABI: UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Thursday announced to invest 10 billion dollars in multiple sectors in Pakistan. He made the commitment at a meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Abu Dhabi. Deputy…

Monitoring Desk NEW YORK: Former President Donald Trump is falsely claiming that President Joe Biden authorized the Department of Justice to have him assassinated when raiding his Mar-a-Lago estate in 2022 for classified documents.…

SAN PEDRO GARZA GARCIA (Reuters): A stage collapsed at a Mexican election campaign rally on Wednesday, killing nine people and injuring dozens as high winds tore apart the large, concert-style structure, scattering politicians and…

ISLAMABAD: The plain areas of Pakistan are under the grip of a heatwave with the Met Office saying the temperature will further rise in a couple of days. However, partly cloudy weather with rain-wind and thunderstorm is expected in upper…

WASHINGTON: Pakistan and United States have held many dialogue processes to promote shared objectives and continue to work on an agenda that is beneficial for the two countries," said Masood Khan, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States.…

Press release Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Dr. Waleed Rasool, Sardar Zulfiqar Roshan Khan and Qadar Chang visited the grave of Ambassador Yusuf Buch in Muzaffarabad who was the most recognizable authority on Kashmir freedom struggle. Dr. Fai…