United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a meeting of the North Atlantic Council in NATO foreign ministers format in Helsingborg, Sweden, Friday, May 22, 2026. PHOTO: REUTERS DUBAI: The United States has seen some progress towards a deal with Iran but more work is required, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday,…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif speaks with members of a Chinese delegation in Islamabad. PHOTO: APP ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday appreciated IBI Group’s decision to establish its Pakistan Digital Economy Headquarters and expressed satisfaction at the expanding business-to-business (B2B) cooperation between Pakistan and China. He was talking to a high-level 11-member Chinese business…
Report calls on both provincial, federal govts to invest in human capital and reform governance A new study has painted a detailed and sobering portrait of youth in Balochistan, revealing a generation caught between soaring aspirations and grinding structural inequality, increasingly shaped by social media and shifting geopolitical currents. The study, published in the Contemporary Journal…
Clarifies that measures for which no specific period has been defined will remain applicable until further notice Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Photo: Radio Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday extended several austerity measures aimed at reducing fuel consumption till June 13 to cope with the ongoing fuel crisis amid the US-Iran conflict. According to a notification…
Novak Djokovic was at his brilliant best against Stefanos Tsitsipas. Photo: AFP LONDON: Novak Djokovic sent out a warning to his Wimbledon title rivals with an impressive straight-sets victory over Stefanos Tsitsipasto reach the Wimbledon third round for the 20th time on Wednesday. The 39-year-old eased to a 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 win under the Centre Court roof…
New Chenab River projects raise fears over India’s control of flows vital to Pakistan’s food security A view of the Uri-II hydroelectric project dam on the Jhelum River which flows from Indian Kashmir into Pakistan-administered Kashmir, near Uri in India-administered Kashmir’s Baramulla district, May 7, 2025. REUTERS In a move that has sharply escalated hydro-political…
History hardly remembers the hangman, but the person hanged, beheaded for a righteous cause is remembered forever George C Marshall served as the Chief of Staff of the US Army under President FD Rosevelt and Harry Truman and then as Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense under President Truman. But he is more famous…
Two-week exercise designed to enhance interoperability by refining drills, procedures, techniques, ISPR says Pakistan and Egypt successfully concluded a joint counterterrorism exercise, “Thunder-II”, held at Cherat in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the military’s media wing said on Monday. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the two-week exercise was “designed to enhance interoperability by refining drills, procedures, and…
Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari talks to media representatives at the Parliament House on Thursday. Photo: X/PPP ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, reached the Parliament and joined the budget session after meeting with Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar. Earlier, PPP denied rumours that the party had decided to boycott…
Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad said UNSC resolutions were legal obligations under the UN Charter Pakistan and China jointly convened a UNSC Arria-Formula meeting to examine how the world body can ensure the full, effective and non-selective implementation of its resolutions, the Foreign Office said in a statement on Thursday. An Arria-Formula meeting is an informal…