Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on Friday the launch of the government’s “first dedicated mental health app and helpline”. The development comes as the world celebrates World Health Day. This year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is celebrating its 75th anniversary. “On this World Health Day, I am pleased to announce the launch of government’s first dedicated mental health app #Humraaz & …

Israel’s military hit sites in Lebanon and Gaza early on Friday, in retaliation for rocket attacks it blamed on Hamas, as tensions following police raids this week on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem threatened to spiral out of control. Israeli authorities said two people were killed during a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank on Friday. Israel’s military said …

Stormy Daniels, the adult film star at the centre of the criminal case against Donald Trump, said she does not think the former president should go to prison if convicted of concealing hush money payments he made to her. “I don’t think that his crimes against me are worthy of incarceration. I feel like the other things that he has done, if …

• Qaiser says willing to consider amendment to condone delay in polls beyond 90 days LAHORE: PTI has termed “worthless” the National Ass­embly’s resolution, rejec­ting the Supreme Court’s decision on elections in Punjab, saying that any such move required a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament. The party has also set in motion a plan to disqualify ministers who signed the declaration …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has ruled that loyalty to the state has to be distinguished from loyalty to the government whose offices are being occupied by a political party as not everyone will have doctrinal affinity with a ruling party and, therefore, must be free to express feelings of disaffection towards its policies. “Why should a citizen or a …

ISLAMABAD: The cost of power generation facilities of the 4,500-megawatt Diamer Basha dam project is estimated to have surged by a massive 60 per cent (Rs555 billion) in nine months – between June 2022 and now – to Rs1.5 trillion just because of currency devaluation. The revision in the cost estimates of power generation facilities to Rs1.236tr in January this …

A Lahore Anti-Terrorism Court on Friday directed six PTI leaders, including PTI Secretary General Asad Umar, to appear before a joint investigation team (JIT) formed to probe the March 18 Zaman Park clashes that took place between PTI supporters and the Punjab police. On March 18, as PTI Chairman Imran Khan had left his Za­­man Park residence in La­­hore to appear before …

MELBOURNE: Australia opener David Warner is in the frame for the World Test Championship final against India but selectors’ boss George Bailey declined to back him as an automatic inclusion for the Ashes squad. Selectors will pick a wider squad in about two weeks for the WTC decider at The Oval from June 7-11 and for the first two Tests …

KARACHI: Football coaches across Pakistan had tuned in to the livestream of the 2024 Paris Olympics qualifying tournament match between the national women’s team and the Philippines on Wednesday. As much as the whole exercise was to watch the side in action, it was more to see who was on the bench as head coach. The Pakistan Football Federa­tion Normalisation …

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday appointed all-rounder Nida Dar as captain of the women’s national team and brought back New Zealander Mark Coles as head coach ahead of a hectic year-long programme. Nida, 36, replaces Bismah Maroof, who stepped down after Pakistan’s disappointing performance in the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa in February, where the team lost three …