DHAKA: Bangladesh outplayed Pakistan by 79 runs in the first one-day international in Dhaka on Friday, in only their second win over their rivals in 48 games across all three formats.Tamim Iqbal and......
KARACHI: The NA-246 battleground is heating up as polling day nears, with major contenders revving up their rhetoric. But there still appears to be a standoff between the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and the......
QUETTA: Security forces seized a vehicle packed with more than a tonne of explosives in the country's restive southwestern province of Balochistan, officials said Friday.Government paramilitary......
KARACHI: Paceman Mohammad Amir's comeback after his ban for spot-fixing has been halted by a hamstring injury which will take up to three weeks to recover, his agent said Friday.The left-arm quick......
The past few months have been a struggle for those fighting for digital rights in Pakistan. While they are a small minority in the grand pool of activists in the country, they have had their hands......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) today sent Mustafa Kanju, alleged killer of a Lahore youth Zain, and four of his accomplices on a 14-day-long judicial remand.Last week, the ATC’s presiding......
BEIJING: China does not plan to use either its new Asian Infrastructure Development Bank (AIIB) or Silk Road fund to finance the $46 billion Pakistan-China Economic Corridor, with money to come from......
ISLAMABAD: According to the Foreign Office, President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping will address a joint session of Parliament during his two-day state visit to Pakistan from April 20......
SYDNEY: A Muslim couple racially abused by a Sydney train passenger have thanked another commuter who defended them, with a video capturing the incident going viral on social media as police launched......
In the lead up to the 8th PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week (PSFW) being held from the 18 – 21st of April 2015, the Pakistan Fashion Design Council has revealed the names of participating designers, textile......
Despite the rapid economic development in India in the 1990s, Indian children are shorter than those in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, the first-born children in India, especially sons, are taller than......
MELBOURNE: Captain Michael Clarke may have hoped to have seen the back of Kevin Pietersen inTest cricket, but concedes the controversial batsman could yet return to threaten Australia's hopes of......
QUETTA: Five children died of anti-measles injections Friday as the Balochistan government launched an anti-measles campaign across the province.Five children ranging from two to nine years died in......
It is not known yet for sure if they were responsible. On Thursday evening, Debra Lobo, the Vice Principal for Student Affairs at Karachi Medical and Dental College and a Professor of community......
Too much of something is never good and this applies to the fashion we see on the red carpet too.Unfortunately, at recent fashion weeks and award shows some designers have overdone their red carpet......
KARACHI: The US academic recovering in a hospital after being shot by suspected militants has made an “immeasurable" contribution to the medical college where she works, her colleague said on......
SRINAGAR: Indian police said that a top Kashmiri separatist leader has been arrested for leading an anti-India protest march and raising pro-Pakistan slogans earlier in the week.Police officer K.......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday issued notices to President Mamnoon Hussain, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and nine other parties, directing them to submit responses within 15 days......
HASANABDAL: Pilgrims descended from all over the world on a small town in Pakistan that is home to one of Sikhism's holiest sites this week, dipping into holy spring water and solemnly offering......
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Rawalpindi on Friday initiated proceedings against former president Asif Ali Zardari in an assets reference.Also read: Corruption cases against Zardari......
RIO DE JANEIRO: China thrived at the Beijing Games in 2008. Britain excelled in London in 2012. Next year, Brazil will try to show it can produce a historic performance at its home Olympics.The......
PARIS: A fuzzy ball the size of an orange shunts along a slanted ledge before dropping to the floor and bouncing onto the strings of a waiting wooden racquet.Play begins yet again in a game of real......
"Chewie, we're home."So declares Harrison Ford's Han Solo in a new trailer released on Thursday for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the much anticipated return of one the most celebrated movie......
PESHAWAR: As the local body election schedule has already been announced for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the provincial assembly through a belated resolution on Thursday asked Election Commission of Pakistan......
KOHAT: An alleged terrorist was arrested near the Kohat Friendship Tunnel from a Bannu-bound coaster while carrying explosives during snap checking here on Thursday.The police said that officials of......
PESHAWAR: The Municipal Corporation of Peshawar has decided to shift cattle pens out of the provincial capital to an open place.The development comes on the complaints of the people, a relevant......
ISLAMABAD: The Lowari tunnel and Nowshera-Chitral Highway (N-45) projects would be completed by October 2017, said an official of National Highway Authority (NHA) on Thursday.He said that work on......
KOHAT: Officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) raided a house and seized four illegal gateway exchanges in Junglekhel town here on Thursday. They also arrested a man from the......
UPPER DIR: Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) country director Ruza Auat and field coordinator Prue Coakley visited the district headquarters hospital, Dir, to have firsthand knowledge of the facilities......
MARDAN: Reham Khan, wife of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan, on Thursday asked women to come forward and get a high position in the society through maximum participation in different......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday dismissed the bail petition of a former commissioner income tax in a corruption case.Asif Haider Orakzai was arrested in March last year by the NAB,......
SWABI: The local farmers and leaders of different political parties have demanded of the provincial government to declare those areas of the district calamity-hit where hailstorm has destroyed......
MANSEHRA: District returning officer Ameer Khattak has announced the people wanting to contest the upcoming local body elections no more need to file affidavit affirming that no criminal and tax......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday disposed of a petition about several issues related to cellphone companies, including the use of unauthorised and illegal SIMs, observing the government......
PESHAWAR: Inspector General of Police Nasir Khan Durrani on Thursday directed the police high-ups in the districts to prepare a contingency plan and make clear command and control for ensuring......
MARDAN: PPP leader Khursheed Shah on Thursday asked the PML-N-led federal government to abide by parliament’s resolution on Yemen conflict.He was speaking to reporters after visiting Hoti House here......
PESHAWAR: The Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) started a two-week fumigation drive in the provincial metropolis on Thursday to control breading of mosquitoes and flies.The campaign was......
LAKKI MARWAT: The All Subject Specialists Association has demanded of the government to promote principals and senior subject specialists of higher secondary schools as per the recommendations of the......
WASHINGTON: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Thursday for an immediate ceasefire in Yemen to spur peace talks and get lifesaving aid into the impoverished Middle East nation.The UN......
GUJRAT: Some lawmakers of ruling PML-N have expressed their reservations over the transfer of District Police Officer Rai Ijaz Ahmed who has reportedly been removed on the pressure of a group of......
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Thursday made through an amendment to ordinance overcharging by transporters an offence prescribing fine for its commission.The Provincial Motor Vehicles (Amendment)......
LAHORE: Young Doctors’ Association (YDA), Punjab, activists called off their province-wide protest on Thursday after, they said, the government had accepted their major demands, giving them “a......
LAHORE: A ruling on the stayed project of 7-km long signal-free corridor from Qartaba Chowk to Liberty Chowk Main Boulevard, Gulberg, will be announced on Friday (today) as a Lahore High Court full......
LAHORE: The province-wide drive to fight polio through a large-scale immunisation programme may suffer a blow as Chief Minister Road Map Project Manager Dr Emma Hannay and officials of the health......
LAHORE: Provincial Food Minister Bilal Yasin has said the Punjab government will purchase four million tons of wheat at Rs1,300 per maund from farmers during the procurement drive.According to a......
LAHORE: With his wild curly hair and thick moustache, Italian classical guitarist Carlo Ambrosio’s persona complements his classical music. Dressed in a simple white cotton shirt and pants, he sits......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court said on Thursday the decision of shutting down shops and business places at 8pm was a policy matter of the government and the court had no jurisdiction to interfere in......
LAHORE: Traders on Thursday observed a shutter-down strike against the Walled City of Lahore Authority for allegedly teasing them unnecessarily in various official routine activities related to the......
LAHORE: Two persons were killed in an encounter between Manawan police and murder suspects on Thursday. The police said they were killed in firing by their own accomplices.One of the deceased was......
GUJRANWALA: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said on Thursday that a traveling agency owner, wanted in a Rs110 million fraud case and 218 cases of human smuggling, would be extradited from......
WHILE almost the entire world, including Pakistan, is frenetically engaged in enhancing women’s rights and empowerment, the SECP has recently decided to bar women witnesses on shareholding documents.......
I WAS quite surprised to read in your sports columns about the ‘record-breaking’ feat of sprinter Liaquat Ali of the Army in the 46th National Championships which concluded in Islamabad recently. His......
APROPOS Rauf Parekh’s literary note, ‘Urdu writers and poets who died young’ (April 13), knocked my memory and I for the time being not only found myself in a time tunnel with prominent Urdu writers......
A FEW years ago the building of Government Primary School, Arifabad, Sudhnoti district, AJK, collapsed, as a result of which students have been facing a host of problems.They study in a rest-house......
THE mode of billing by the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) is creating problems.Previously, for 250 units, gas consumption was charged for the first 100 units @ Rs106.14 per MMBTU as per the first......
RECENTLY I watched at one of the TV channels news about the beginning of board examinations. It was indeed very shocking to see candidates engaged in ‘free for all cheating’.TV cameras showed......
FOOTPATHS are made for pedestrians. However, they are mosly used by hawkers for their carts and stalls.Owing to this encroachment, pedestrians are left with no alternative but to walk on the road.......
WHEN Nepra and Ogra announce new prices in rupees, they also mention paisas. But why are prices given in decimals?Last year the government notified that one-to-50-paisa coins would cease to be legal......
ISLAMABAD: The people of Pakistan can now raise their issues directly in the Senate and its committees by lodging complaints against any ministry or department on the official website of the upper......
ISLAMABAD: Describing critics of the new law on cyber crime as “a mafia”, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology approved the Prevention of Electronics Crime Bill, 2015 on......
ISLAMABAD: A local court has issued notice to an assistant registrar of the Supreme Court (ARSC) to reply to charges that he blackmailed the contractor/developer of a housing society and received Rs......
For the past few weeks, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has been all over the media, both for what he said and did not say. In fact, his silence spawned more news. Stories appeared thick......
ISLAMABAD: The 30-day stay of execution granted to death row prisoner Shafqat Hussain is set to expire on Friday.However, an executive inquiry to verify his age is expected to make its findings......
ISLAMABAD: A report on the state of children in Pakistan on Thursday stated that the country had failed to meet the millennium development goals (MDGs) on the rights of children.Prepared by the......
A special lecture by visiting Professor Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, vice chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be held on Friday, April 17 at Marriott Hotel at 4pm.Music......
RAWALPINDI: Over a hundred polling stations, established for the upcoming Cantonment Board elections, were declared sensitive and the Election Commission asked law enforcement agencies to deploy......
ISLAMABAD: The names of Bahria Town chairpersons Malik Riaz and his son were taken off from a case registered on Monday on a complaint by Ijaz Rafi Butt.On Monday, Nilor police registered an FIR......
ISLAMABAD: Two persons were arrested on the charge of trespassing on a grave to practice a black magic.Raza Mohammad complained to the Golra police that he spotted two people, including a woman,......
Mohammad Safeer, a security guard, dreamed for his daughter to attend a school in the capital. But at the Islamabad College for Girls (IMCG) F-6, he was not even allowed to enter the premises. “I......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a number of amendments to its rules to make the business of the house more effective and making it mandatory for the ministers to appear before......
RAWALPINDI: Director General Anti-Narcotics Force said on Thursday that drug addiction is a bigger threat to the world than terrorism. “Addiction is on the rise, 39 people are killed by terrorists......
TAXILA: Three cops were injured when a wanted man opened fire at a police team in the village Gogga in the limits of the Hassanabdal Police Station on Wednesday.Sub divisional Police officer DSP......
TAXILA: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan called upon the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to take notice of the campaign being run by some parliamentarians belonging to Taxila and Wah......
FAISALABAD: Speakers at a workshop stressed the need for strenuous efforts to eliminate poverty and hunger.They said globally about 805 million people were facing hunger and 1.2 billion people were......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab President Ejaz Chaudhry has said the “royal style” governance of Shahbaz Sharif has ruined every segment of society and even the visually impaired are not......
KASUR: Pattoki police on Thursday registered a case against a sub-inspector, an assistant sub-inspector and four constables after a suspected robber died of a ‘cardiac arrest’ during investigation at......
LAHORE: Allowing the petition of a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s candidate, the Lahore High Court (LHC) said on Thursday that a dual nationality holder could contest the LG election.Petitioner Khwaja......
SIALKOT: A newly-wed man died of suffocation while his wife fell unconscious as their room was filled with generator smoke in Poorab village, Pasrur, on Thursday.Muhammad Ali and his wife Yasmeen......
SHEIKHUPURA: A fatal car-lorry crash claimed the lives of three members of a family on Thursday on Faisalabad Road near Bhiki. Two others also were injured in the crash.Police said Ashraf along with......
BAHAWALPUR: A 100MW unit of the Quaid-i-Azam Solar Park, the first of its kind in the country, had a successful test run, Dawn learnt on Thursday.According to sources, the solar park unit was run on......
KARACHI: The Preedy police station house officer (SHO) was shot dead in a suspected sectarian attack on the main Korangi Road in the Defence Housing Authority on Thursday morning, officials......
KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami on Thursday said it was not going to withdraw its candidate in any party’s favour for the NA-246 by-poll, rejecting speculation about their understanding with the......
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers on Thursday informed an antiterrorism court about 90-day preventive detention of five men, including a leader of the Sunni Ittehad Council, and three officials of the......
KARACHI: Officials of the provincial health department have sealed five ‘illegal’ clinics in the Malir town neighbourhood while several other facilities run by shadowy medical practitioners have been......
KARACHI: A major drive is under way at Safari Park to check the spread of tuberculosis that has killed four animals in recent weeks, it emerged on Thursday.Sources said the disease that had initially......
KARACHI: Isn’t it an interesting title for an art exhibition: ideas are black and white? It is. Now replace the word ‘ideas’ with ‘dreams’. Doesn’t it augment the effect of the whole concept? It......
KARACHI: While Chief Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party Sindh president Syed Qaim Ali Shah at a meeting on Thursday vowed to make Sindh a polio-free province, Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari resolved that she......
KARACHI: As the death toll of suspects in encounters with law-enforcers in the city rose by 92 per cent in the first quarter of the year, a 93pc drop has been witnessed in the number of......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday rejected the appeal of a death row convict who had murdered his 19-year-old fiancée for another woman and buried her body in his clinic to conceal the......
KARACHI: Steel cutting ceremony of Fast Attack Craft (Missile) No 3, being built for the Pakistan Navy, was held at the Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works (KSEW) on Thursday.Fast Attack Craft......
KARACHI: The Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) has performed 27 cochlear implants since December 2013 after selection on the basis of standard international criteria of cochlear implant......
KARACHI: Pakistan Pensioners’ Forum (PPF) Sindh chapter comprising retired professors held a press conference to highlight their problems at the Karachi Press Club on Thursday.It was shared that the......
SUKKUR: Commissioner Mohammed Abbas Baloch on Thursday announced that participants in street protest would not be allowed to block any road to disrupt vehicular traffic in Sukkur division.Cases would......
LARKANA: The Aug 11, 1947 speech of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, in which he spelled out rights of minorities and called for an end to faith-based discrimination, is being incorporated in the......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has asked the provincial works and services department to complete 33 roads sector schemes by the end of June by utilising Rs9.7 billion fund......
HYDERABAD: An official of the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI) threatened on Thursday that traders and industrialists would observe a strike if Hesco did not withdraw eight-hour......
DADU: The Crime Investigation Agency in Dadu on Thursday claimed to have arrested two robbers following what it described as an “encounter” in Nabban Khan Loond village, some three kilometres from......
WASHINGTON: A protester who landed his mini helicopter on the US Capitol lawn appeared in court on Thursday to face charges of flying an illegal aircraft and violating national defence airspace.US......
UNITED NATIONS: Jamal Benomar, the UN special envoy for Yemen, has stepped down from his post amid criticism of his failure to broker an end to the conflict in the country.In a statement late on......
GENEVA: Italian police arrested 15 African men suspected of throwing about a dozen Christians from a migrant boat in the Mediterranean on Thursday, as the crisis off southern Italy......
ATHENS: Seismologists in Greece say a magnitude 6.1 earthquake has struck near the island of Crete, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage.The Athens Geodynamic Institute......
CALAIS: France was in shock on Thursday after a nine-year-old girl was found dead in a wood shortly after being snatched in front of her mother from a playground in the northern city of Calais.A......
VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog said it had a “constructive exchange” with Iran this week but there was no sign of a breakthrough on aspects of its nuclear programme that the agency says Tehran has......
CAPE TOWN: South African President Jacob Zuma on Thursday appealed for calm as a wave of anti-immigrant violence spread to Johannesburg, raising fears the country’s economic woes could spark......
TIRUPATI: Kanagarani last saw her husband when he left their village on a mountainside in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to look for work.She only found out he was dead when his picture......
YANGON: Sixteen Myanmar soldiers died in a major offensive to flush rebels from a strategic hill-top in the northeastern region bordering China, state media said on Thursday, as fighting with ethnic......
AGRA: Vandals who attacked a northern Indian church wrapped a dog chain around the neck of a Virgin Mary statue, police said on Thursday, in the latest assault on Christian places of worship in......
MOSCOW: Top Russian defence officials lashed out at the United States on Thursday, accusing it of undermining global security by funding revolutions and expanding Nato in a bid to contain......
MOSCOW: A Ukrainian journalist known for his pro-Russian views was gunned down on Thursday in broad daylight in Kiev, local police said, a day after a pro-Russian lawmaker was found dead.Oles Buzyna,......
HELSINKI: After 25 years of tranquil post Cold War relations, Finns are once again worried about the threat posed by their resurgent eastern neighbour Russia, though they remain firmly opposed to......
BEIJING: The fifth Beijing International Festival opened on Thursday in China’s capital city, where the local government and national film authorities are hoping to raise the event’s profile by......
NEW DELHI: Every morning just before dawn, hundreds of trucks loaded with buffaloes trundle into New Delhi’s sprawling slaughterhouse complex where young men rush to unload the bellowing cargo.......
NEW YORK: Chelsea Clinton’s star is rising. Photographed, interviewed and increasingly prominent in her family’s charitable empire, there is no more ardent cheerleader for her mother’s bid for the......
LONDON: They may only win a handful of seats at next month’s general election, but the Welsh nationalists could find themselves propelled from relative obscurity to influence across Britain.With no......
MONTE CARLO: Roger Federer joined holder Stan Wawrinka as an upset victim at the Monte Carlo Masters on Thursday as the 2014 finalist lost 6-4, 7-6 (7/5) to France’s Gael Monfils.Grigor Dimitrov......
LONDON: The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) added all-rounder Moeen Ali to the squad for the final two Test matches of their tour of West Indies.Moeen, recovering from a side strain suffered......
LONDON: The International Cricket Council said on Thursday it would write to the Sports Minister of Sri Lanka regarding possible government interference into the running of cricket on the......
KARACHI: Faisal Saleh Hayat says Hafiz Salman Butt was banned by FIFA but football’s world governing body says it’s unaware.In a press conference in Lahore on Monday, Pakistan Football Federation......
NEW DELHI: Cricket’s Asia Cup will switch from the one-day format to Twenty20 next year with the format of future tournaments matching that of the subsequent World Cup, a top official said on......
DHAKA: Saeed Ajmal returns to centre stage after almost eight months hoping to strike early form with a remodelled bowling action when Pakistan open their tour of Bangladesh with the first One-day......
NORTH SOUND (Antigua): Gary Ballance and Ben Stokes put England in complete control as they reached lunch on 224 for four on the fourth day of the first Test against the West Indies here at the Sir......
KARACHI: Former batting great Zaheer Abbas believes the naming of Azhar Ali as Pakistan ODI captain will put him under pressure, stating that he was surprised by the youngster’s appointment, for he......
MANAMA: World champion Lewis Hamilton vehemently denied on Thursday that he has requested ‘number one’ driver status in the Mercedes team and claimed he and team-mate Nico Rosberg are reunited......
MOSCOW: Russia’s hopes of winning a place in the Fed Cup final suffered a setback as world number two Maria Sharapova dropped out through injury just days ahead of the semi-final with Germany.Before......
LAHORE: Mohammad Abid will face Heera Ashiq in the final of the third Long Beach Punjab Open Tennis Championship after both won their respective semi-finals at the Bagh-i-Jinnah courts here on......
KARACHI: The secretary for Inter-provincial Coordination (IPC) Ejaz Choudhry has assured the Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Federation (PBSF) that their special grant for the year 2015-2016 would be......
HYDERABAD: Two matches were played in the ongoing Red Bull Campus Cricket on Thursday.In the first match played at the Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad, Govt Degree College beat ISRA University by seven......
KARACHI: Young PIB FC edged past a strong Sindh Muslim FC by 1-0 in the All Karachi Muslim Khatri Association Golden Jubilee Football Tounament being played at the Hussaini Football Ground New......
LAHORE: Turkey, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and India have confirmed their participation in the National Pentathlon Championship scheduled to be held in May as part of the Punjab International Sports......
PARIS: Luis Suarez hit a brilliant second-half double as Barcelona appeared to end Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League dream for another year with a 3-1 quarter-final, first leg win at the Parc......
LAHORE: With the Election Commissioner for the Punjab Football Association (PFA) polls relocating the venue of the elections from a local hotel to the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) House on......
KARACHI: Fancied National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) opened their title defence campaign on a winning note while handing a crushing 4-0 defeat to Railways in the pool ‘A’ match of the 34th National......
KARACHI: Four-time winners Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) needed a last-minute strike by Samad to get their NBP Challenge Cup campaign off to a winning start with a come-from-behind 2-1 victory......
LAHORE: Two matches of the National Veterans T20 Cup, organised by the Pakistan Veterans Cricket Association, were played in Lahore on Wednesday.In the first match played at Shah Faisal cricket......
LAHORE: Seven goals by seasoned campaigner Shah Shamyl Alam helped Rijas register an 8-6 win against Diamond Paints in the Bronze Cup Polo here on Thursday.Having two goals handicap, the losing side......
KARACHI: Banking industry’s pre-tax profit surged by 52 per cent to an all-time high of Rs247 billion in 2014 thanks to their huge investments in government securities, the State Bank said on......
LAHORE: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has stated that there were certain restrictions for new entrants in power sector procurements which needed to be avoided.In a report “Opinion on......
ISLAMABAD: Five years after being presented in parliament, the senate on Thursday passed the Securities Bill-2015, paving the way to upgrade and consolidate legal structure for regulating the capital......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Commerce on Thursday announced several measures aimed at facilitating the flow of Afghan transit trade through Pakistan in a bid to arrest the trend of diversion to Iran.As......
KARACHI: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) increased by $1 million to $710m in the first nine months (July-March) of 2014-15 as compared to $709m in the same period last year, the State Bank of......
KARACHI: Stocks stormed ahead on Thursday with KSE-100 index recording a gain of 487.58 points, or 1.51 per cent, to close at a four-week high of 32,736.44.A bevy of positive news ignited investors’......
KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $16.818 billion during the week ending April 10 compared to $16.706bn the previous week, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said......
ISLAMABAD: As many as 18 per cent of adults in South Asia own a debit card compared to 31pc in developing countries on average, says the World Bank suggesting that shifting payments for agricultural......
India’s TCS yearly profits muted on FX volatilityMUMBAI: India’s biggest outsourcing firm Tata Consultancy Services Thursday reported only a marginal rise in its earnings for the just-ended financial......
LONDON: London, centre of the $5-trillion-a-day global currency market, now wants to be home to a controversial upstart — bitcoin. British authorities have come out in support of digital currencies......
WASHINGTON: The European Union said Thursday it filed formal charges in an anti-trust case against Google to speedily resolve allegations that the tech titan abuses its search engine’s market......
LONDON: Opec said its oil output surged in March, adding to a global glut, despite more evidence that the producer group’s strategy of letting prices fall to hurt other producers is taking......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures ended lower for the first time in five days on Thursday as the contract succumbed to the strong ringgit and concerns that demand in April would be weaker than......
FRANKFURT: The economic skies above Europe are brightening, with both growth and inflation seen moving higher, not least as a result of the European Central Bank’s policy measures, an ECB survey......
NEW DELHI: An Indian delegation will visit Iran this week to scout for investment opportunities ahead of an anticipated nuclear deal between the Opec-member and world powers that would soften......
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the worst was over for Russia’s crisis-hit economy as he shrugged off widespread concerns over the impact of the Ukraine crisis in his annual......
ISLAMABAD: The judicial commission, which formally commenced its investigation into allegations of rigging in the 2013 general elections on Thursday, accepted the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s request......
KALAYA: Ten suspected militants were killed in air strikes and six others arrested when security forces backed by helicopter gunships and military planes continued a search operation in different......
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry conveyed the Obama administration’s concern on Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi’s release when he spoke with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif earlier this week, the US......
ISLAMABAD: The government is believed to have agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to slash the current year’s Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) by another Rs20 billion to......
NEW YORK: Pakistan’ nobel laureate, education activist, Malala Yousafzai once again made it to the list of the Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people.The list includes US President Barack Obama......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ordered on Thursday the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to get a Hindu temple in Karak restored and reconstructed.The order came after Additional Advocate General Waqar......
KARACHI: Leader of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) Abdul Qadeer Baloch, better known as Mama Qadeer, claimed on Thursday that five of the 13 suspected militants killed by security forces......
QUETTA: Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti said on Thursday that the provincial government had decided to establish special cells of security forces, including Frontier Corps, police,......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate referred on Thursday the issue of killing by security forces of 13 suspected perpetrators of the last week’s Turbat carnage to the house committee on human rights after......
ISLAMABAD: As mystery shrouds many aspects of the magnetised ink fiasco from the 2013 general elections, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday claimed it had delivered the ink to the......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan informed Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad on Wednesday about the progress in the investigation into Dr Imran Farooq murder case.According to an......
GWADAR: An FC man was killed and two others were injured in an attack on a checkpost in Tasp area of Panjgur district on Thursday.The FC post came under fire by men on motorcycles, official sources......
A storm has descended upon Islamabad overnight, with whipping winds, cloudbursts and lightning. But the piles of mud, dug out to create the underground tunnel for the construction of the metro-bus......
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has sought Pakistan’s help in bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table for the peaceful settlement of over a decade old conflict in Afghanistan for the sake of......
ADEN: Al Qaeda militants on Thursday seized a provincial airport in southeast Yemen while tribal forces took over an oil terminal, as the war-wracked country slid further into turmoil.“The military......
ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, who is on a visit to Russia to attend a conference on international security, held a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu and......
ISLAMABAD: The government said on Thursday it had assured Saudi Arabia of its support in enforcing the United Nations Security Council’s arms embargo on Houthi militia and forces loyal to former......
KARACHI: A woman identified by police as a US national was shot at and wounded here on Thursday.According to Firozabad police, Debra Lobo, vice principal of the city’s Jinnah Medical and Dental......
ISLAMABAD: The handing down of death sentences to six militants by the military courts was highlighted on Thursday when the Supreme Court suspended their execution.“Meanwhile the execution of death......
ISLAMABAD: Chinese President Xi Jinping is arriving in Pakistan on Monday on a two-day visit which is expected to further strengthen economic and strategic relationship between the two......
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has never been known for delegating responsibility. Nevertheless, his reluctance to appoint a full-time foreign minister is most intriguing. Few other countries have more......
Heedless of the lessons that should have been learnt from history, the old playbook on how to tackle Balochistan has not been revised.The army chief’s high-profile visit to the Frontier Corps......
The so-called annual spring fighting season in Afghanistan was always going to be a challenge for the President Ashraf Ghani-led national unity government.But already a difficult spring appears to be......
A new study released by WWF-Pakistan has found that agriculture here could face a loss of up to 10pc of its output by 2040 due to climate change.This is a huge percentage, but fortunately the authors......
Worker remittances to Pakistan have increased sharply since the launch of the Pakistan Remittance Initiative (PRI) in 2009.Thirty-three years after the first remittances began to trickle in from the......
In recent days there have been a couple of observations by the Lahore High Court that raise hopes of some reform in the schools soon. Last Friday, the Lahore High Court asked the Punjab Textbook......
The story goes back to the year 2000 when 1,100 participants from 164 countries assembled in Dakar (Senegal) for the World Education Forum.The Dakar moot set for itself the goal of ‘Education for......
World Autism Awareness Day, observed every year on April 2, was introduced for the first time by the UN in 2008 to highlight the concern of the world community for affected children and adults. This......
