LAHORE – Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday held a telephone conversation with H.

ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court of Pakistan has ruled that imposing concurrent (overlapping) sentences for multiple murders substantially diminishes the seriousness of taking more than one life, holding that such a practice artificially equates kill…

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chief Bilawal Bhutto Zardari yesterday extended heartfelt Eid-ul-Azha greetings to the people of Pakistan and the wider Muslim Ummah, urging the nation to uphold the values of sacrifice, unity, compassion,…

ISLAMABAD – Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi visited the camps of Pakistani pilgrims in Mina, where he reviewed arrangements and assessed the facilities being provided to the Hajj pilgrims.

ISLAMABAD – The National Emergencies Operation Center (NEOC) of the National Disaster Management Authority has issued a nationwide weather outlook for May 26 to 31, warning that rising temperatures, heatwave conditions, glacial melting, flash floo…

PTI, TTAP, JI urge govt must respect sentiments of Pakistanis.

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif met with Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Chief Investment Officer Konstantin Limitovskiy in Lahore and discussed matters of mutual interest, including expanding institutional cooperati…

UNITED NATIONS/ JEDDAH – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the deadly terrorist attack against a shuttle passenger train near Chaman Phatak in Quetta on Monday, and called for bringing the perpetrators to justice.

RAMALLAH – Israel has issued an expropriation order for land in the occupied West Bank near the site of a Biblical prophet’s grave north of Jerusalem, an Israeli NGO reported Tuesday.

UNITED NATIONS – Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Senator Ishaq Dar, flew into New York from Beijing late Monday evening on a three-day visit during which he will take part in important United Nations’ meetings and hold bilat…