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ISLAMABAD: The British-Pakistani father of a 10-year-old girl found dead at her home in England last month was on a plane back to the United Kingdom with his partner and brother, Pakistan police said on Wednesday, after the trio went on the…

ISLAMABAD: British High Commissioner to Pakistan Jane Marriott Wednesday stressed free, credible, transparent and inclusive elections in Pakistan in a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja in Islamabad. The…

MUZAFFARGARH: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday said his party believed that Pakistan’s pressing issues and myriad crises necessitated engagement with all political parties to secure a sustainable solution. The former…

ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi on Wednesday wrote a letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja and proposed November 6 as the date for elections. In the letter, the president said he had dissolved the National…

ISLAMABAD: A special court established under the Official Secrets Act extended PTI Chairman Imran Khan and party's Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi's judicial remand till September 26 in the cipher case.  Khan has been imprisoned in jail…

Zahid Hussain It was the most audacious cross-border incursion by the TTP. Reportedly, hundreds of heavily armed militants stormed Pakistani security posts in Chitral last week. The intruders were said to have been beaten back after…

ISLAMABAD: US Ambassador Donald Blome visited Gwadar to underscore the United States’ commitment to the people of Balochistan, a partnership that remains steadfast and robust, the US embassy said in a statement. The visit explored…

WASHINGTON: The militant Islamic State group (IS) has become a more enduring threat than Al Qaeda after the US withdrawal from Afghanis­tan, Gen Kenneth Frank McKenzie, former head of the US Central Command, said in television interviews…

UNITED NATIONS: A third of the world’s population is still without access to the internet, even though the number of people connected has never been so high, according to the latest UN statistics. Around 100 million more people are able to…

GILGIT: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar on Tuesday urged all the sectors to concentrate all of their attention and energies on achieving self-dependence which was inevitable to put the country’s economy on course to revival.…