Leading Turkish star Engin Altan Duzyatan and wife Neslisah Alkoclar are celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary today (Friday) August 28. Engin, who essays the titular role in historic drama series Dirilis: Ertugrul or Ertugrul Ghazi, turned to Instagram and shared a loved-up photo with wifey Neslisah Alkoclar and showered love on her. He mentioned 28.08.2014, the date of their wedding in …

Facing a nation-wide moment fraught with racial turmoil and a deadly pandemic, United States President Donald Trump accepted his party’s renomination on a massive White House South Lawn stage on Thursday night, boasting of helping African Americans and defying his own administration’s pandemic guidelines to address a tightly packed, largely maskless crowd. As troubles churned outside the gates, Trump painted an optimistic …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed the provinces to ensure swift approvals of applications and No Objection Certificates regarding housing, construction and development. Presiding over a meeting of the National Coordination Committee on Housing, Construction and Development on Thursday, the prime minister asked chief secretaries of all provinces to expedite “the process of approval of under process applications so …

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving premier, said on Friday he was resigning because of poor health, ending a stint at the helm of the world’s third-biggest economy during which he sought to revive growth and bolster its defences. “I cannot be prime minister if I cannot make the best decisions for the people. I have decided to step down …

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) submitted on Thursday its new rules to the Supreme Court that have come into force at once. The apex court on July 23 had directed the anti-corruption watchdog to furnish the NAB Rules 2020 framed by its chairman in terms of Section 34 of the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 1999. The court is seized …

ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Thursday moved the Supreme Court to seek suspension of the Sindh High Court’s Aug 17 order that had declared the constitution of the sugar inquiry commission — formed to probe the recent crisis of the commodity in the country — and its report illegal. Filed by Attorney General Khalid Jawed Khan, the petition argued that the high …

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday accused India of blocking the implementation of International Court of Justice’s verdict in spy Kulbhushan Jadhav’s case by not cooperating in the legal proceedings in the Islamabad High Court. “Our understanding is that India is making every possible effort to frustrate Pakistan’s efforts for implementation of the ICJ judgment and use Kulbhushan Jadhav’s case …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is considering extending the period of lifting ban on the import of red kidney beans from Ethiopia on the condition that the SOPs the two countries agreed to observe are fully complied with by the Ethiopian government, Minister for National Food Security and Research Syed Fakhr Imam said on Thursday. Speaking to Pakistan’s ambassador-designate to Ethiopia Syed Shozab …

• City receives beaviest rainfall in single day in 53 years • 19 people killed in rain-related incidents • All key roads flooded, underpasses and streets submerged and life paralysed • K-Electric forced to suspend power to over 900 feeders • PM orders immediate relief, rescue operation, assures CM Murad of help from Centre • Sindh government declares public holiday …

LAHORE/GUJRAT: Expecting heavy to very heavy rainfall in catchment areas of rivers Kabul, Jhelum, Chenab and Ravi, the Flood Forecasting Division has issued a significant flood warning to provincial authorities. “Heavy downpour may generate exceptional high flood at Mangla upstream in River Jhelum and at Marala, Khanki and Qadirabad in Chenab,” it warns, predicting medium flood in the nullahs of …