RIO DE JANEIRO: The BRICS nations will convene for a summit in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday and Monday, with members hoping to ...

ROME: A huge explosion at a petrol station in a Rome suburb on Friday left 45 people hurt, two of them seriously, ...

Is microfinance truly a beacon of hope for the penurious class, or merely a macro-trap further pauperising an already ...

KARACHI: Following the imposition of a carbon levy and an increase in sales tax under the federal budget 2025-26, several automobile assemblers have begun passing the impact on to consumers from July ...

A FORMER security contractor for controversial new Israel and US-backed aid distribution sites witnessed colleagues opening fire several times on hungry Palestinians who had posed no threat. Speaking ...

KARACHI: Microsoft has decided to close its office in Pakistan and laid off five employees, Dawn has learnt. Earlier, media reports suggested that the global tech giant had moved its operations out of ...

ISLAMABAD: As a demand-side intervention, the government is cautiously considering lifting the ban on new gas connections to ease pressure from a persistent surplus in the gas supply chain that ...

ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday made important decisions to facilitate pilgrims travelling to Iran and Iraq, including a new travel management system to be implemented from Jan 1, 2026, and an ...

ISLAMABAD: In compliance with Lahore High Court directives, the government has restored the two-tier appellate ...

According to the notification, the president sanctioned “with effect from July 1, 2025 and till further orders, an Ad-hoc Relief Allowance-2025 at the rate of 10pc of running basic pay to Armed Forces ...

DAMASCUS: Syria said on Friday it was willing to cooperate with the United States to re-implement the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel, which created a UN-patrolled buffer zone separating the ...

ISLAMABAD: Prime Mi­­nister Shehbaz Sharif met with leaders from Iran, Turkiye, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan on Friday, hol­ding a series of bilateral discussions on the sideli­nes of the 17th Economic ...