KSE-100 plunges to a five-week low, loses $430m as SBP raises interest rates above market expectations

Organisation is dominated by oil-rich Saudi Arabia

Lawyers in Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Sahiwal and Sargodha have announced a 21-day boycott

Real midfielder tipped to break Ronaldo-Messi duopoly in Paris on Monday

Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Monday, while hearing a suo motu case on disposal of medical waste from public hospitals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, questioned on what basis it is said that the province has been “transformed into heaven”. KP health secretary appeared in court as a bench headed by Justice Nisar […]

Rovman Powell smashes 61 to help his side clinch first title

The French government says it will consider imposing a state of emergency amid the worst civil unrest in more than a decade, which has caught authorities off guard. Two weeks of nationwide protests against fuel taxes and living costs by the “yellow vest” movement have shaken France to its foundations, with a defiant President Emmanuel […]

The commander of US naval forces in the Middle East, Vice Admiral Scott Stearney, was found dead in his residence in Bahrain on Saturday, the US Navy announced. “It’s my sad duty to inform you that Vice Adm. Scott Stearney, our commander of US Naval Forces Central Command/US 5th fleet, was found deceased in his […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded on Saturday that Saudi Arabia extradite suspects in the killing in Istanbul of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, taking to task the kingdom’s crown prince who was basking in his quick return to the world stage at the G20. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s presence at the summit of the Group […]

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