Spain failed to find back of the net against spirited Cape Verde. Photo: AFP LONDON: Mikel Merino said Spain have to react to the “grief” of failing to beat debutants Cape Verde in their World Cup opener, but is confident the European champions are still contenders to win the competition. It was a familiar story…
Pakistan built a world-class Polio system. Then 40,000 Karachi families said no Forty thousand Karachi families refused polio vaccines this year. In a city where the virus circulates through every district, those refusals represent the gap between Pakistan’s impressive polio infrastructure and its inability to close the final mile of eradication. Pakistan has cut polio…
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chairs a meeting on the gemstone sector in the federal capital. PHOTO: APP ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday noted that Pakistan had been blessed with abundant natural resources, including precious stones, and stressed that the sector offered strong potential to increase exports using local resources. The premier chaired a…
KARACHI: Pakistan has one of the lowest rates of female entrepreneurship in the world. According to the World Bank and the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), only around 1% of entrepreneurs in Pakistan are women. The Asian Development Bank further reports that women own less than 8% of the country’s small and medium-sized enterprises, with…
Partial restoration of Hormuz oil flows boosts June output, but regional production below levels seen pre-conflict Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, Musandam, Oman, May 18, 2026. REUTERS Global oil supply posted its largest monthly increase in months in June as the recovery of shipments through the Strait of Hormuz lifted Gulf production, although output…
EASING PAYMENT OBLIGATIONS: Sources said Pakistan was working on multiple options to extend the longevity of its short-term external debt and also stagger the upcoming payments of energy debt being obtained by Chinese firms to set up power plants under CPEC. PHOTO:FILE ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on Thursday that it was “all good”…
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday reduced the prices of petrol and high-speed diesel for the week beginning June 13 (today), providing marginal relief to consumers in the latest fortnightly review. The government has slashed the price of petrol by Rs4 per litre and diesel by Rs2 per litre. According to a notification issued by the…
NCCIA objects to maintainability of pleas, says sentence suspension applications were filed prematurely Lawyer and rights activist Imaan Mazari and her husband, advocate Hadi Ali Chattha. PHOTO: EXPRESS The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday reserved its decision on the maintainability of applications seeking the suspension of sentences awarded to lawyer Imaan Mazari and Hadi…
RAWALPINDI: A prolonged internet outage at the domicile issuance branch located within the District Courts complex in Rawalpindi has left thousands of students, job seekers and members of the public facing serious difficulties, with no new domiciles reportedly issued during the past month. Sources said the branch’s internet and biometric verification system has remained non-functional…
. NIGERIA/ SOUTH AFRICA: Nigeria urged South Africa on Monday to do more to prevent xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African migrants, saying repeated violence was straining ties and raising questions about whether the government was complicit. The comments came during talks in Abuja between Nigerian officials and a South African delegation led by…