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• US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed for the release of the detainees, while recognising the decision would be "unpopular".

KARACHI: The weather report on Sunday (August 9, 2020) and the forecast for Monday (August 10, 2020)....

KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah on Sunday said that 303 new cases of Coronavirus have surfaced...

ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is authorized to investigate Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman...

PESHAWAR: Like other parts of the country, a monsoon plantation campaign launched in sub-division Landi Kotal on...

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday suggested that technology be used to pursue...

PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said the country stood isolated due to the...

ISLAMABAD: Over 0.2 million Pakistanis were unable to go to abroad due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this was claimed by...

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Unknown gunmen gunned down a care taker of Imambaragah in Dera, in the limit of University police...

KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan Railways, Habib-ur-Rehman Gillani arrived in Karachi and held an important meeting...

QUETTA: Heavy rainfall and flooding have wreaked havoc in Balochistan as the Levies have found two dead bodies in...

KARACHI: President of National Forum of Environment and Health (NFEH), Naeem Qureshi has warmly welcomed the...

LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lashed out at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government on...

WELLINGTON: New Zealand marked 100 days on Sunday with no recorded cases of the coronavirus in the community but...

NEW YORK: Twitter is in preliminary discussions for a possible combination with TikTok, the Wall Street Journal...

NEW DELHI: India's plan to regulate "non-personal" data has jolted US tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google, and a...

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Flood Commission (FFC) has said all main rivers (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej) are...

SIALKOT: Brisk development work on 'Product Development Centre' (PDC) for composite based sports goods in Sialkot...

KARACHI: All timings are in PST (Pakistan Standard Time).

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ALGIERS: Currency depreciation, inflation, negative growth, businesses closed: Algeria's economy has been battered ...

LAHORE: With two days left for his appearance before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore in a Rs 50...

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has formally notified cumulative increase of Rs...

FORT BREGANCON, (France): An emergency donor conference on Sunday for blast-stricken Lebanon raised pledges worth...

BEIJING: As many as 270 Chinese technicians to be airlifted from Chengdu, the capital of China's southwest Sichuan...

ISLAMABAD: Commissioners Inland Revenue in the field formations of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) are exercising...

ISLAMABAD: The president-elect of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Volkan Bozkir on Sunday arrived here on...

NEW YORK: Barclays Plc is being probed by the United Kingdom's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's...

TAIPEI: A senior member of US President Donald Trump's administration landed in Taiwan Sunday for Washington's...

ISLAMABAD: Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and government's team are said to have completed four rounds of talks...

NEW DELHI: India's plan to regulate "non-personal" data has jolted US tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google, and a...

DADU: Death toll in the submerged villages of Kachho area of Dadu district reached 50 on Sunday due to alarming ...

KABUL: The Afghan government agreed on Sunday to release 400 "hard-core" Taliban prisoners, paving the way for peace...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday welcomed the Afghan Loya Jirga's recommendation to release remaining 400 prisoners,...

SIALKOT: President Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) Muhammad Ashraf Malik in a press statement said...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday launched the largest tree plantation campaign aimed at planting 3.5...

• At least 21 people are still missing from the huge blast.

• In a statement he said tree plantation campaign was for our own survival, and for the survival of future generations.

• The spokesperson urged the international community to reinforce its support for the success of intra-Afghan negotiations for sustained and durable peace and stability in Afghanistan.

• This was stated by Deputy Commissioner Karak Shah Rukh Ali while talking to media. He said the trees are being planted under the Tiger Force Tree Plantation Day, he said after planting a tree in Ahmedwala.

• The government has announced to observe August 9 as ‘Tiger Force Day’ across Pakistan when over a million volunteers along with government would plant trees as part of 10 billion Tree Tsunami initiative.

• "By yesterday evening, we had taken out 26 dead bodies. We have taken out three more today," a district police official told AFP.

• It noted that patrol boats are making daily interventions although Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told Patel last month that "more resources" were needed.

• At least 19,674,290 cases of coronavirus have been registered in 196 countries and territories.

• The behemoth, recently dethroned by Apple as the world's most valuable listed company, posted a net profit of $6.6 billion for the three months to June 30 compared to $24.7 billion for the same period of 2019.

• The objective today is to act quickly and effectively to coordinate our aid on the ground so that it goes as efficiently as possible to the Lebanese people.

• "We must all work together to ensure that neither violence nor chaos prevails," he added. "It is the future of Lebanon that is at stake."

• "Prepare the gallows because our anger doesn't end in one day," warned one message circulating on social media in response to Tuesday's earthquake-strength blast of a huge pile of industrial chemicals.

• He said that Miyawaki forests would also be planted around 154 kanal in the city with the collaboration of 'Tiger Force'.

• He said that Forest department, Local Government, district administrations and Public Health Department would jointly participate in the drive to achieve the target.

• Forest is also important part of agriculture and the incumbent government would surely promote it.

• According to official sources here, he said this while talking to a delegation of party workers on Sunday.

• FO says Qureshi will hold discussions with Volkan Bozkir on issues relating to peace and security, development and human rights

• Around a million volunteers of the PM’s Tiger Force will participate in the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami initiative

• Usman Dar said it was the first time in the history that modern technology was being employed to carry out a plantation drive in the country.

• “The federal government should also consider giving incentive to the PPE exporters to encourage them in gaining maximum market share,” he added.

• The use of technology in the courts is a welcoming sign. Why technology is not being used in the cases against Nawaz Sharif, he questioned.

• The jirga also decided that the freed prisoners should not return to the battlefield while permanent ceasefire should be imposed

• Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department said on Sunday, the total number of deaths has so far been recorded as 2169.

• Net profit fell to 24.6 billion riyals ($6.57 billion) for the quarter to June 30 from 92.6 billion riyals a year earlier.

• Minister says Nawaz Sharif should join the trial proceedings via video-link and cases against him should be heard at once