KARACHI: The inflow of workers’ remittances has increased 12 per cent to $10.6 billion during the first four months (July–October) of the current fiscal year 2021/22, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Sunday. The inflow of workers’ remittances was $9.42 billion in the first four months of the fiscal year 2020/21. The central … Read more
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb on Sunday responded to Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain’s tweet about electoral reforms. Marriyum Aurangzeb said Prime Minister Imran Khan had made every national agenda controversial. All the political parties wanted electoral reforms, but Imran Khan, she said adding that the only thing that … Read more
MOSUL, Iraq: Iraqi wheat farmer Khamis Ahmad Abbas lost it all when his battle with drought forced him to abandon his land, pushing him into unemployment. Experts have warned that record low rainfall, compounded by climate change, are threatening social and economic disaster in war-scarred Iraq. “Growing wheat and barley is a gamble. It all … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Twitterati on Sunday demanded capital punishment, mostly about hanging Zahir Jaffer after the surveillance camera footages related to Noor Mukadam’s murder in Islamabad surfaced the internet. The new closed circuit TV (CCTV) footages show how Noor Mukadam made an abortive attempt to flee from house of Zahir Jaffer. On July 18, at 10:19pm, Noor … Read more
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador: Prison inmates from rival gangs in Ecuador fought each other with guns, explosives and blades in a bloodbath that left at least 68 dead in the same prison where a riot in September claimed 119 lives, officials said Saturday. Authorities said late Saturday they had re-gained control of the prison in Guayaquil for … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Sunday said electoral reforms was a national agenda and all political parties should come forward for this purpose. “The electoral reforms is not an agenda of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf or Prime Minister Imran Khan,” Fawad Chaudhry said in a tweet. He stressed that all political … Read more
JOHANNESBURG: Internationally acclaimed author Wilbur Smith has died in South Africa aged 88, his publisher announced Saturday. “Global bestselling author Wilbur Smith died unexpectedly this afternoon at his Cape Town home after a morning of reading and writing with his wife Niso by his side,” said a statement released on the Wilbur Smith Books website. … Read more
KARACHI: Police have recovered Nazim Jokhio’s clothes and a cellphone from a well near the Jam House in Karachi’s Malir Memon Goth area. Investigation officials on Sunday relayed the clothes and mobile phone were recovered on identification of the suspects arrested in Nazim Jokhio murder case. The suspects had confessed to throwing the mobile phone … Read more
SUKKUR: At least three policemen were badly wounded in an attack of robbers at a police picket in Gari Teghu area of Shikarpur district on Sunday. Police said after the indiscriminate firing, the suspects fled towards Kacha area. The injured police officials include a station house officer Ralph Pathan. Two of them were shifted to … Read more
DUBAI: Australia and New Zealand meet on Sunday in the Twenty20 World Cup final in Dubai. AFP Sport looks at three memorable cricket clashes between the two neighbours: 1974 Christchurch New Zealand beat Australia by five wickets — For nearly 30 years, New Zealand were simply ignored by Australia, who didn’t consider them worthy opponents. … Read more
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday denied claims Moscow is helping to orchestrate a crisis that has left hundreds of migrants from the Middle East trapped on the Belarus-Poland border. Blaming Western policies in the Middle East for the crisis, Putin hit back at claims from Poland and others that Russia is working with … Read more
LAHORE: A major development has taken place about freedom of Tehreek e Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) chief Saad Rizvi as the Punjab government has filed a plea seeking withdrawal of the reference against him. Bol News quoted sources as saying that the application filed with the Federal Review Board (FRB) read that the provincial government wanted … Read more
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will visit Nowshera to address his party’s public gathering on November 19 (Friday). Bol News has quoted sources as saying that a brother of senior Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) leader and Federal Minister for Defence Pervez Khattak will announce to join the PPP on this … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Saturday said the national Covid positivity ratio during the past 24 hours was recorded at 0.68 per cent during the last 24 hours in Pakistan. The tally of Covid-19 active cases was recorded 23,090 with 231 more people tested positive for the deadly virus and 460 … Read more
ROME: Half a century after investigative journalist Mauro De Mauro disappeared in Sicily, the discovery of a body in a cave has raised fresh hopes of cracking one of Italy’s mafia mysteries. Crime laboratory analysts are expected to perform a DNA test on the corpse, which was found in September on the slopes of Mount … Read more
SUKKUR: Senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Khursheed Ahmed Shah on Saturday said distances between the PPP and the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), an alliance of the opposition parties against the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) government, were slowly diminishing. “There may be differences, however our goal is the same. We will not allow this … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Waada and Zong 4G have officially joined hands as partners to distribute micro-insurance services to the masses of Pakistan. Zong 4G, coming on board as the distribution partner, will enable Waada to distribute insurance services to its 40 million-plus customer base, a statement said. The alliance is a strategic move by Waada to enhance … Read more
SINGAPORE: Bangladeshi migrant worker MD Sharif Uddin used to spend his days off with friends outside his cramped Singapore dormitory, but coronavirus curbs have for 18 months left him stuck inside during his spare time. More than 300,000 migrant workers, many of them from South Asia, live in dorms in the prosperous city-state, where they … Read more
