Pakistan was ranked second-worst country in terms of gender parity in the latest Global Gender Gap Report link released by the World Economic Forum. The nation of 220 million people was placed at 145 out of 146 countries. Since 2006, the Global Gender Gap Index has measured the world’s ...

ISLAMABAD – Finland has been ranked as happiest country in the world for the fifth year in a row, while Afghanistan has been named as the unhappiest in a UN-sponsored index. The World Happiness Report 2022 has been published by United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network on ...

ISLAMABAD – Mountaineers have found two bodies below the Bottleneck on K2, one of which is identified as Muhammad Ali Sadpara who went missing during the K2 Winter 2021 Summit attempt earlier this year. Besides Ali Sadpara, Iceland’s John Snorri and Chile’s Juan Pablo Mohr had lost their ...

*The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network has released the World Happiness Report 2021 and Pakistan has ranked 105 out of 149 countries in the list.* Finland has been ranked as the world’s happiest country for the fourth consecutive year followed by Iceland, Denmark, Switzerland, ...

PESHAWAR – The government of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has inaugurated the first climbing wall named after Muhammad Ali Sadpara, the Pakistani mountaineer who was declared dead days after gone missing on the second-highest peak in the world. The 52 feet high wall boasting three categories ...

SKARDU – The Pakistan Army has decided to launch a photographic survey from F-16 jets as it continues to search for missing mountaineers. Earlier on Sunday, it was revealed that the recovered sleeping bag and tents do not belong to any of the climbers. Vanessa O’Brien, the British-American ...

Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on overseas Pakistan Zulfi Bukhari said that Prime Minister Imran Khan and Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa were concerned and personally following all developments regarding our missing mountaineers. Taking to Twitter, Bukhari said that high ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan has improved three places to 105th position in the 2020 Democracy Index’s global ranking, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit. Pakistan has assigned a score of 4.31, 0.6 points higher as compared to 4.25 in 2019. Out of 167 countries, the Democracy Index ...

ISLAMABAD – Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi telephoned his Icelandic counterpart Gudlaugur Thor Thórdarson to discuss the issue of missing mountaineers, MOFA said Saturday link . Qureshi apprised the Iceland Foreign Minister about the steps taken by Pakistan to search and rescue John ...

*The Pakistan Army launched another search operation Sunday morning to rescue Muhammad Ali Sadpara, the Pakistani on the mission to hoist the national flag on the world’s second-highest mountain K2, and two foreign climbers after they lost contact with their teams on Friday. * Two helicopters ...