The Senate elections are underway in the national and provincial assemblies as 133 candidates contest for 52 seats on Saturday. The Senate — the Upper House of parliament — is a body of 104 lawmakers. Each serves a term of six years, barring resignation, disqualification, or other extraordinary circumstances. They …

ISLAMABAD: Anxiety among 30 Pakistani doctors who want to attend a conference related to liver diseases in India is increasing as New Delhi has so far not issued visas to them. After getting visas the doctors will apply for NOCs from their respective organisations and that process will also take …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has expressed concern over falling foreign exchange reserves and claimed that the reserves are sufficient only for imports of less than three months. PTI leader Asad Umer, while sharing statistics, claimed that the State Bank of Pakistan had only $12.3 billion in reserves. In addition to …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi presided over on Friday a meeting of parliamentary committee of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and directed party legislators to ensure their full presence in the national and provincial assemblies on the day of Senate elections on Saturday (today). Interestingly, some of the …

ISLAMABAD: Fata mem­bers of the National Assembly have reached a consensus on the name of a PML-N-backed candidate for the Senate elections, but they are still divided over the names of two other candidates. The lawmakers from Fata accepted PML-N candidate Shamim Afridi’s name for the election to the upper …

BAKU: Twenty-five people perished in a fire which tore through a drug rehabilitation clinic in the Azerbaijani capital Baku early on Friday, with activists saying safety standards had not been met. Footage broadcast on local television showed huge flames leaping through barred windows of a one-storey wooden hospital ward. It …

JERUSALEM: Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara on Friday for the first time in a corruption case that involves the country’s largest telecommunications company, Israel Radio said. Police confirmed that an anti-corruption unit had questioned the couple for several hours each, but did not say …

WASHINGTON: The Uni­ted States has assured Pakistan that it does not want to sever bilateral ties with this important ally while Islamabad extended its “wholehearted support” to the US-backed Afghan offer of peace talks with the Taliban. The two statements supplement renewed efforts to improve relations between the US and …

Bollywood star Anushka Sharma’s upcoming film Pari has been banned in Pakistan. Chairman Central Board of Films Censors Islamabad Mubashir Hassan confirmed the news and said, “it (Pari) flouts various sections of the existing rules and code of CBFC. Innumerable dialogues and scenes are against the established religious, social and …

After Akshay Kumar starrer Padman faced some vile criticism from the country’s Federal Censor Board which refused to give its nod for its release, Bollywood star Anushka Sharma’s Pari has been flogged more or less, under the same banners as well. Owner of Atrium Cinemas, Nadeem Mandiwalla, said that the …