ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel has tasked the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) with investigating the abrupt and continuing devaluation of the rupee, directing it to submit a detailed report by Dec 22. Taking notice of the sharp decline in the value of the rupee against the dollar to an unprecedented low, …

Pakistan’s initiative to open the Kartarpur corridor was appreciated by everyone, except India, said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Pakistan held the groudbreaking ceremony of the corridor in November. The open corridor will give the pilgrims easy access to Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, which is located in Kartarpur, Narowal. The present gurdwara …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) — the parent organisation that regulates affairs of the legal fraternity — has petitioned the Supreme Court seeking a direction declaring that Law Minister Farogh Naseem cannot stay a member of the council. “The respondent No 1 [the minister] ceases to be a member …

Winter showers lashed different parts of Karachi on Sunday. It rained on II Chunrigar Road, Tariq Road, Jail Chowrangi, Bahadurabad, Sharae Faisal and North Nazimabad. Karachi had received its first winter rain on Sunday morning. It rained in Defence, Korangi and Gulshan-e-Hadeed and light showers were reported in Nazimabad and …

WASHINGTON: With­drawing US troops from Afghanistan would create instability in South Asia and give terrorists the space to plan another attack on the American people, warns US military chief General Joseph Dunford. That’s why he recommended maintaining US military presence in Afghanistan for as long as it takes to stabilise …

An Indian TV actor Devoleena Bhattacharjee was detained by the police and grilled for several hours for alleged invovlement in a murder case. She stars in Saath Nibhana Sathiya. A Mumbai-based diamantaire Rajeshwar Udani’s body was found in the forests of Raigad district on Thursday. He had gone missing on November 28. The …

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Sunday rejected demands to extradite suspects connected to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as sought by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We do not extradite our citizens,” Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference in Riyadh at the end of a summit of Gulf Cooperation …

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Sunday rejected demands to extradite suspects connected to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as sought by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We do not extradite our citizens,” Adel al-Jubeir told a news conference in Riyadh at the end of a summit of Gulf Cooperation …

Police on Sunday launched an investigation into a blast that occurred during a Milad gathering organised by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) at a residential complex in Block-17 of Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar area the previous night. Eight people, including a woman and a minor boy, sustained injuries in the incident. The …

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