Arsenal edge past Sheffield, West Ham spoil Leicester’s perfect start

LONDON: Arsenal moved into the Premier League top four as two goals in three minutes saw off Sheffield United 2-1, while Leicester City’s perfect start came to a shuddering halt with a 3-0 defeat at home to West Ham United. Arsenal have taken nine points from their opening four games as they look to return […]

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Bearish trend continues at PSX as KSE-100 sheds 998 points

Stocks took another hammering on Monday, with the benchmark KSE-100 index bleeding 998 points (2.49 per cent) by the day’s end to close below the 40,000 level at 39,072.47. Equities remained under pressure throughout the session and the market fell as low as 38,865.10. The index touched the day’s high at 40,070.83 points. Trading volume […]

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Most Pakistanis fear country headed in wrong direction: survey

ISLAMABAD: Majority of Pakistanis continue to fear that the country is heading in the wrong direction since last year, claims a survey. France-based organisation lpsos, in its survey titled “Consumer Confidence Survey in Pakistan”, released on Sunday claimed that four in five Pakistanis continued to fear that the country was heading in the wrong direction […]

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Millers denying billions to cane growers producing high sucrose content crop

LAHORE: Growers are losing billions to the powerful sugar manufacturers from south Punjab and Sindh because of reluctance of provincial governments to enforce the law requiring the mill owners to pay ‘quality premium’ to them on the recovery of higher than the base-level sucrose content of 8.7 per cent during any given crushing season. The […]

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IHC throws out petition seeking ban on Nawaz’s speeches

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed a petition seeking a ban on PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif’s speeches, noting that the “tendency of invoking the constitutional jurisdiction of a high court in matters involving political content is certainly not in public interest”. The petition stated that Nawaz has started actively participating in politics and […]

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Professor belonging to Ahmadi community shot dead in Peshawar allegedly after religious argument

A professor belonging to the Ahmadiya community was shot dead in a targeted attack in Peshawar on Monday, allegedly over his religious beliefs, police and officials said. Police identified the deceased as Prof Dr Naeemuddin Khattak, who was a faculty member at the Government Superior Science College Peshawar. Naeemuddin, 57, whose death coincided with International […]

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Khawaja Asif’s statement meant to create rifts within opposition: Zardari

Former president Asif Ali Zardari on Monday called out senior PML-N leader Khawaja Asif for creating rifts within the opposition after the latter said he still had “reservations” about the PPP co-chairman. “Khawaja Asif made the remarks against me at someone’s behest. It is an attempt to create rifts within the opposition,” Zardari said during […]

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President Alvi visits Kuwait, offers condolences over Sheikh Sabah’s death

President Arif Alvi on Monday visited Kuwait to offer condolences over the demise of former Kuwaiti emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, who passed away last week at the age of 91. A statement released by the President’s office prior to his departure said Pakistan and Kuwait are bound by a close fraternal relationship. “Under the leadership of […]

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Nearly all of Iran on coronavirus red alert as cases, deaths hit records

Iran’s health ministry said on Monday nearly the whole country was on a coronavirus red alert as cases and deaths rose to record levels, with a member of the state task force’s warning field hospitals might be needed if people flout the rules. Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told state television that 26 of Iran’s […]

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