KARACHI: Karachi has always managed to top the rankings of street crime in Pakistan. After being controlled for a few years, street crime is making a comeback for every citizen of Karachi. Almost every citizen has experienced or heard of incidents in which threats at gunpoint have been made during mugging attempts. According to the […]
New Delhi [India], Feb.11 (ANI): Since when has Pakistan been trying to court the abyss? Is it from recent times or right from the time it became independent? To start with, Pakistan was created due to the insecurity that prevailed among Muslims in the then un-partitioned Indian subcontinent prior to 1947. What the country’s founding father, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, promised during his […]
Canadian rapper Drake has become the best-selling recording artist of 2016, beating the late rock icon David Bowie all the way up to the top spot, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) on Wednesday. The ranking by the global industry body showed Drake scored worldwide success with his fourth album Views, […]
Myanmar is engaged in advanced negotiations with Pakistan to licence-build the indigenously developed JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft for its air force, IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly has reported. The South East Asian country has already decided to purchase 16 JF-17s from Pakistan, the military news periodical said. Quoting sources in the Myanmar Air Force (MAF), the report said […]
Qatar’s ambassador to Pakistan, Saqr bin Mubarak Al Mansouri, asserted that the Qatari government is not involved in the Panamagate controversy in Pakistan. According to the Dawn, in a short video released by the Aaj News for their show Rubaru, Mansouri said that the Panamagate is an internal matter for Pakistan. Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) […]
PARACHINAR: A bomb tore through a crowded vegetable market in a tribal region on Saturday morning, killing and maiming dozens of people and breaking a relatively long lull in terrorist violence in the region. Two terrorist groups — the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Alami — claimed they had coordinated the attack in the vegetable market, […]
ISLAMABAD: Imagine a deep-sea port where, while so-called development experts enjoy a breath-taking view from their regal five star hotel rooms located on the grand Koh-e-Batil hill, indigenous fishermen are left with little choice except migrating permanently to far-flung harbours. Imagine a place where one of the most expensive commodities is a […]
ISLAMABAD: Experts believe that India wasted the whole year of 2016 and did not respond to Pakistan’s offers for dialogue on all outstanding issues including Jammu and Kashmir. Daily Times contacted the experts of regional affairs to know their stance on Indo-Pak relations during 2016. In this regard, Aziz Ahmed Khan, who remained Pakistan’s High […]
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called on the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to protect the interests of the fishermen of Gwadar Port, most of whom have reservations about the over 50 billion dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. Highlighting this concern of the fishermen, HRCP secretary general […]
WASHINGTON: The US State Department on Friday expressed concern over the missing Pakistani bloggers and social media activists and said they were monitoring the situation. Replying to a question, State Department spokesperson, Mark C. Toner said, “We’re very concerned by reports that several Pakistani bloggers and activists have been reported missing and we’re going to […]
