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ISLAMABAD: The government on Saturday announced to reduce prices of all petroleum products by Rs 5 per litre. According to the announcement, the new price for petrol, to be effective from February 01, would be Rs 71.25 and the price of high speed diesel would be Rs 75.79 per litre. Similarly, high octane price would be Rs 75.66...

  KARACHI: Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Ashraf Wathra on Saturday said that local economy was facing different challenges despite the macro-economic indicators have showed sustainability during the last financial year. The SBP kept the policy rates unchanged in the first monetary policy announced in year 2016,...

 Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, locked in a tight race in Iowa with billionaire Donald Trump just two days before the state's crucial U.S. presidential nominating contest, urged a packed house of supporters to give him the first victory of the 2016 campaign. Ten Republicans and three Democrats were campaigning in Iowa...

LAHORE: Nishat Group Chairman and Pakistan's leading industrialist Mian Mohammad Mansha has served a legal notice in England through Carter Ruck (the UK's leading defamation law firm) against Pakistani media house ARY Network Ltd for false and defamatory allegations broadcast by the television network on-air. As stated in the...

The oil market scored modest gains Friday, ending a turbulent January that drove prices sharply lower amid worries about the global crude oversupply. Speculation that Russia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will meet to discuss oil output cuts to push up prices supported sentiment for a second day,...

 Up to 100 masked men, dressed in black, gathered in central Stockholm to attack people from immigrant backgrounds, reports say. Swedish police say the large gang distributed leaflets inciting people to assault refugees. Witnesses said the men physically attacked people they believed were foreigners. However, police have...

  Thousands of people marched in the Paris rain on Saturday to denounce plans to renew France's state of emergency and revoke the French citizenship of dual nationals convicted of terrorism. Human rights groups, politicians and unions joined the march in the French capital and in other demonstrations around France. The...

Turkey has accused Russia of again violating its airspace and warned it would "face consequences" if such infringements continue. The foreign ministry said a Russian jet flew into its airspace on the border with Syria on Friday. Moscow described the claim as "baseless propaganda". Tensions between the two countries have...

span class="articleLocation" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> span class="articleLocation">The New York Times's editorial board endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John Kasich as they seek to become their parties' nominees in the U.S. presidential election, calling Clinton one of the most "deeply qualified...

  ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs Senator Ishaq Dar as the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) chairman on Saturday accorded anticipatory approval to amend 0.6 per cent Withholding Tax (WHT) rate on banking transactions to 0.3 per cent in respect of non-filers till February 29, 2016. The...

ISLAMABAD - In a meeting held in Peshawar on Saturday, military commanders from Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to enhance coordination and security measures on both sides of the border. An eight-member delegation of the Afghan National Army, headed by Corps Commander Lieutenant General Mohammad Sharif Yaftali, visited the Corps...

A month ago, I was seated in a dimly-lit room in downtown Karachi, talking to militants representing three factions of the Taliban-al-Qaeda conglomerate that has ruled the underworld of Afghanistan and Pakistan since the 1990s. Not generally eager to reveal themselves, let alone to talk shop with a journalist, previous twice-yearly...

LAHORE - Punjab Assembly Leader of Opposition and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed has termed the Orange Line Train project meant to the economic murder of the masses. Addressing a press conference along with leaders of other political parties here on Saturday, Rasheed said that he was not against...

  One of three inmates who escaped a week ago from a maximum-security jail in Southern California has been taken into custody after surrendering to law enforcement, while the other two were believed to be in the Bay Area, police said on Friday. Bac Duong, 43, gave himself up to police in Santa Ana shortly before noon, Orange...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad Civil Judge Abdul Ghafoor Kakar on Saturday gave 14 days judicial remand of Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) Director Enforcement Muhammad Iqbal to the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) in the Afghan slums case. The accused was produced in the court by FIA personnel. The FIA prosecutor told the...

  SARGODHA - An unmanned aircraft of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) crashed after a technical glitch developed in it, here on Saturday. Sources said that the drone was on a routine flight in the 106-northern area of Sargodha when it encountered a mechanical fault and crashed. PAF officials and police reached the crash site after...

Renowned political theorist Noam Chomsky is often cited for his criticism of the US political system. In the second of a special two-part interview, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to discuss the US presidential election and the rise of Islamophobia. The US academic says Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has...

  The long and sometimes arcane ritual of electing the next U.S. president begins on Monday in more than 1,100 schools, churches and libraries across Iowa, a state that wields political influence far greater than its small size. After more than a year of up-close and personal evaluation of the candidates, Iowans will gather...

  Europe has begun to roll out a data superhighway in orbit above the Earth. The first node in the network is a telecommunications satellite that was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. It will use a laser to gather pictures of the planet taken by other spacecraft and then relay them to the ground. One benefit will...

   Story highlights The USS Curtis Wilbur sailed within 12 nautical miles of the Triton Island The island is claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam (CNN)The U.S. Navy sent a ship near a contested island in the South China Sea on Saturday to challenge "excessive maritime claims that restrict the rights and freedoms...

  Almost 40 people drowned and 75 were rescued after a boat carrying migrants to Greece sank off Turkey's western coast on Saturday, according to local officials and the Turkish Dogan news agency. More than one million refugees and migrants arrived in the European Union last year and some 3,600 died or went missing, forcing...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Delegates are the key to claiming both the Republican and Democratic nominations for president, and the battle to win them starts Monday at the Iowa caucuses. All of the Democratic contests award delegates in proportion to the vote, meaning you don't have to come in first to win some. Most of the GOP states...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The first major break in the hunt for three dangerous jail inmates came exactly a week after their escape, when one of them walked up to a Southern California auto shop where a friend works, had her call police and stood and smoked a cigarette until he was arrested. He then told investigators that a day...