TEHRAN: Iranian bank cards can now be used in Russia, state television reported, as the two countries linked their banking ...

DONKEYS are reputed to be stubborn beasts. That possible misinterpretation of their instinct for self-preservation ...

KARACHI: As an unplanned economic assessment by the visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) team entered its second day, ...

ISLAMABAD: In order to reduce a startling tax gap of more than Rs6 trillion, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Tuesday approved five proposals to transform the Federal Board ...

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on National Food Security and Research at its meeting on Tuesday discussed the status of cess, and was informed that about Rs3 billion in cess arrears are owed ...

ISLAMABAD: Interior Mini­ster Mohsin Naqvi and PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Tuesday strongly condemned the recent wave of terror attacks on security ...

QUETTA: Three passengers were killed and over 30 others, including women and children, injured when a speeding passenger coach overturned in the Lakpass area of Mastung district on Tuesday. According ...

QUETTA: Bolan Medical College has been closed for two weeks following a clash between two student organisations on its campus on Tuesday. According to police, the violence erupted over a dispute ...

HAMBANTOTA: Sri Lanka votes to elect a new parliament this week in a snap general election called by its Marxist-leaning president who wants a fresh mandate in the legislature to drive economic ...

KYIV: A majority of Ukrainians oppose ceding any land captured by Russia in exchange for peace, even as their army is on the back foot against advancing Russian forces, a survey said on Tuesday. The ...

BEYOND rhetoric, unity is rare within the Muslim world. Yet it was reassuring to see Muslim states speak with ...

AN IMF mission is in Islamabad for unusual, early talks with the Pakistani authorities as the lender seems worried over the government missing critical targets and veering off the course charted for ...