Selling hits banking, fertilisers, oil and gas stocks, KSE-100 hovers near 167,000, down 1.19% at midday KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) remained under the hammer during Friday’s early trading as geopolitical tremors continued to fuel panic selling, eroding the benchmark KSE-100 Index by over 2,000 points by midday. After plunging nearly 2,400 points in…
‘There’s nothing worse than a nuclear weapon that takes out cities, destroys the Middle East,’ US President Donald Trump speaks at a press briefing at the White House. SCREENGRAB: Department of State on X US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would not use a nuclear weapon in the war against Iran. “Why would I use a nuclear weapon?…
ISLAMABAD: Foreign ministers of Pakistan and seven other Muslim countries on Thursday condemned Israel’s “unacceptable” violations against Islamic and Christian sites in Jerusalem, describing them as repeated breaches of the historic and legal status quo at the holy sites by Israeli occupation authorities. The condemnation came amid continued reports of incursions, as a day earlier,…
. DHAKA: Bangladesh recorded 194 child deaths due to measles in an outbreak that began last month, while the number of suspected child cases exceeded 28,000, the government data showed on Thursday. Between three and five children died from the disease every day for the past week. Five children died on Wednesday, including three in…
ISLAMABAD: The Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP) on Thursday finalized its electoral strategy for the upcoming Gilgit-Baltistan elections and announced candidates for nine seats in the first phase.The decisions were taken at a meeting of the party’s 20-member Electoral Board chaired by its President Abdul Aleem Khan, held here to review preparations for the June 7 polls,…
ISLAMABAD: The country is bracing for its first heatwave of the season, with the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) warning that temperatures across much of the country will soar well above seasonal norms from Friday (today) and persist until May 5. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), through its National Emergencies Operation Centre (NEOC), on Thursday…
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday rejected what it described as India’s propaganda campaign of “baseless allegations” linking Pakistan to the Pahalgam incident, and called on New Delhi to demonstrate responsible behaviour and refrain from inflammatory rhetoric and actions. The Foreign Office did not specify what statements or allegations it was referring to. However, an…
QUETTA: Armed men stormed a copper and gold mining site in Balochistan’s Chagai district on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people, including a foreign worker, and torching machinery after a fierce exchange of fire with guards posted at the site, local officials said on Thursday. Although there has been no formal confirmation from the Balochistan…
Pezeshkian touts ‘iron unity’ after Trump’s criticism US president threatens to shoot boats laying mines I TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Iran and the US appeared locked in a prolonged war of attrition, as Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf issued near-identical statements on Thursday asserting national unity following US President…
ISLAMABAD: No signs of the next round of talks between Iran and the United States, as of now. Yet, security details remain intact in Islamabad. This suggests that the door to a diplomatic breakthrough, however narrow, has not entirely closed, even as uncertainty continues to hang over the next phase of negotiations. “There is no…