LAHORE: As Punjab plans to request the Foreign Office to take up cross-border pollution with India, the provincial government has closed primary schools in Lahore this week, ostensibly to save ...

GAZA STRIP: Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 31 people in the Gaza Strip in a day, Reuters quotes Palestinian medics as saying, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army ...

LAHORE: Federal Privatisation Minister Abdul Aleem Khan welcomed provincial governments to take over the airline’s control and run it in a professional manner. While addressing a press conference on ...

ISLAMABAD: Attor­ne­­y General for Pakistan Mansoor Usman Awan on Friday informed the Islamabad High Court that a Pakistani delegation will visit the United States soon after the presidential ...

ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia has agreed to invest another $600 million in Pakistan as it signed seven more memoranda of understanding (MoUs), taking their total number from 27 — signed recently in Pakistan ...

LAHORE: The Punjab government imposed a “green lockdown” in designated smog hotspots across Lahore on Wednesday, imposing restrictions on barbecue joints, motorcycle-rickshaws and marriage halls — ...

WASHINGTON: White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said Iran should not respond to Israel’s strikes carried out last week, but if it does, the US will support Israel, Al Jazeera reports. “Iran ...

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtun­khwa government has formally conveyed to the federal government that it is ready to offer a bid for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), which would surpass the highest ...

ISRAEL: Rockets fired from Lebanon have wounded 11 people in central Israel, Israeli emergency services said, after one of them hit a house, as prospects for a ceasefire dimmed, Reuters reports.