The ruling PTI emerged as the biggest winner in the cantonment board elections, while the PML-N came in at a close second, according to unofficial results cited by state broadcaster Radio Pakistan on Monday. On Sunday, polling was carried out for election on 206 general seats in as many wards of 39 cantonment boards across the country. No major disruptions or incidents …

ISLAMABAD: In a significant political development, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader and federal Minister for Water Resources Chaudhry Moonis Elahi on Sunday called on Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari at the latter’s residence known as Zardari House. The meeting between the two young leaders of the past allies acquired more importance as it took place a day before …

KOHAT: A French motorcyclist touring the world reached Kohat on Sunday to a warm welcome by the locals. The tourist, Mr Pierre, was received by MPA Ziaullah Bangash and the people garlanded him during a tour of the bazaars. Speaking to reporters on the occasion, Mr Pierre said that the world perception about Pakistan had proven wrong after he visited …

The UN is convening an aid conference in Geneva today (Monday) in an effort to raise more than $600 million for Afghanistan, warning of a humanitarian crisis there following the Taliban takeover. Even before the Taliban’s seizure of Kabul last month, half the population — or 18 million people — was dependent on aid. That figure looks set to increase due …

MARDAN: Former senior provincial minister and founding leader of Pakistan Peoples Party Rahimdad Khan, who died of coronavirus the other day, was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard in Hatyaan Shergar locality here on Sunday. He was 78. According to the family and party sources, the veteran politician remained under treatment in privates hospitals, first in Peshawar and then …

DUBAI: Private sector companies in the UAE will have to fill 10pc of their positions with Emirati nationals in five years time, the UAE said on Sunday in its latest tranche of economic reforms. The Gulf state also said it plans to spend 24 billion dirhams ($6.53 billion) to create 75,000 private sector jobs for its citizens over five years. …

NEW DELHI: A pilot’s failure to follow operating procedures led to a deadly passenger plane crash in southern India last year, an investigation by the civil aviation regulator has found. Air India Express Flight 1344, a Boeing 737, crash-landed at Kerala state’s Kozhikode airport with 190 passengers and crew abroad in August last year. The jet overshot the runway in a storm, …

WASHINGTON: Two major US newspapers — The New York Times and The Washington Post — are questioning the US military claims that its Aug 29 drone strike in Kabul destroyed a car operated by an ISIS-K sympathiser. Soon after the strike, the US Central Command claimed the car contained explosives destined for the Kabul airport. “Significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a …

North Korea carried out successful tests of a new long-range cruise missile over the weekend, state media said on Monday, seen by analysts as possibly the country’s first such weapon with a nuclear capability. The missiles are “a strategic weapon of great significance” and flew 1,500 kilometres before hitting their targets and falling into the country’s territorial waters during the …

The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque is to be sentenced on Monday for several civil rights and hate crimes in an attack that terrified a community. Emily Claire Hari, who was previously known as Michael Hari and recently said she is a transgender person, faces a mandatory minimum of …