QUETTA: Unidentified armed assailants opened fire at an anti-measles vaccination team in Balochistan's Pishin district on Saturday, Levies officials confirmed. Moreover, four Afghan Tajik nationals......
What can you say when a friend of 30 years, a lifetime really, is snatched from you in the killing fields of Karachi?What can you say when the friend is taken away in the prime of his life; when, in......
KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday declined Rangers’ request to install biometric system for the upcoming by-polls for Karachi’s constituency of NA-246, to be held on......
In A Song of Ice and Fire series of books, the iron throne is far more menacing than the version blunted by budgetary constraints in the Game of Thrones TV show. Standing at 40 feet, the seat can......
KARACHI: Pakistani marine forces on Saturday arrested 47 Indian fishermen for allegedly violating territorial waters in the Arabian Sea, police said.Pakistan's Maritime Security Agency also captured......
"I think we should be starting as favourites to win the ODI series against Pakistan. I think this is our best chance to win against Pakistan. Everyone in the team believes so, too."Bangladesh captain......
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, while addressing a press conference after reaching Karachi for the party’s April 19 rally, said Karachi couldn't become the city which it was......
KABUL: The Islamic State (IS) group claimed to have carried out a deadly suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan Saturday that killed at least 33 people and injured more than 100, Afghan President......
LONDON: The latest phase of the ‘Masterplan’ redevelopment of Lord's was unveiled on Friday with a scheme to replace the “tired” Allen and Tavern stands in the south-west corner of the self-styled......
It was exactly ten years ago that my aunt passed away after an eight-month long battle with liver cancer.When we first heard that she had stage III cancer, it was an indescribable shock to the whole......
SRINAGAR: Indian police shot dead a 16-year-old boy on Saturday during an anti-India demonstration in Kashmir as a separatist strike shut down the Himalayan region on a second day of violent clashes,......
After a bad quality teaser was leaked online, director Zack Snyder and Warner Bros. decided to release the official first teaser trailer for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.The trailer begins with......
Injury prone fast bowler Umar Gul will get another opportunity to make a comeback to the Pakistan side after rookie paceman Ehsan Adil was ruled out of Pakistan-Bangladesh ODI series with a hamstring......
KARACHI: The funeral of Dawn's Marketing Director Masood Hamid, who was shot dead a day earlier in Karachi's Defence's neighbourhood, will be held on Sunday (tomorrow).The funeral will be held after......
Ensemble Pakistan hosted an exclusive event yesterday featuring Telenor Fashion Pakistan Week collections by some of Karachi’s top designers. It was a great way for customers to see these fashion......
KAKUL: While addressing the 132nd passing out parade of Pakistan Military Academy on Saturday, Afghan Army Chief Sher Mohammad Karimi emphasised that Pakistan and Afghanistan must cooperate closely......
KARACHI: Anjuman Naujwanan-i-Islam (ANI) chief and member of Sunni Ittehad Council Tariq Mehboob died in custody on Saturday, however, it is not clear whether his death took place in Central Jail......
KARACHI: A grenade attack in Karachi's Bolton Market on MA Jinnah Road on Saturday left three people injured.Two motorcyclists attacked a shop in Bolton Market with a grenade which exploded with a......
JALALABAD: A suicide bomb blast in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad killed 33 people and injured more than 100 outside a bank where government workers collect salaries, the city's police chief......
SCIENTISTS and all those who matter — those hundreds of thousands across the whole world — have been going crazy for years now, to stop the rot: for the industry of the world to lower carbon......
EVERY day is Earth Day. That’s how it should be, but it sadly isn’t. April 22 has been celebrated as Earth Day around the world since 1970, and events take place worldwide to draw attention towards,......
ANCIENT tales and beliefs about a “curse” put on a person or thing is well known in many cultures, but how much of all this is true?Let us examine a belief related to the pharaohs of Egypt. Famous......
HALF asleep, before Ammi woke me up, I heard birds chirping outside my bedroom window. Sometimes a bird sang to itself, at another two birds seemed to be deep in discussion. During breakfast I would......
DHAKA: Pakistan knows that it must avoid a 3-0 series defeat against Bangladesh to maintain its seventh place ranking in the Reliance ICC ODI Team Rankings when the two sides face off in the first of......
THE unanimous decision of neutrality made by parliament on the Yemen conflict is undoubtedly a fresh breath for all peace-loving people.Despite the consensus in parliament, the government is still......
THREE years ago a clean sweep campaign was conducted by a group of students from the Department of Psychology, University of Karachi.These youths took up the task of collecting funds for installing......
NATURAL resources are gifts and must be tapped for a nation’s progress. Our country badly needs foreign exchange to meet its various requirements,besides lessening IMF debts.One good option is to......
I WOULD like to refer to a news item which appeared in Dawn’s Metro South (April 13) where the Government of Sindh in a Public-Private Partnership arrangement is launching an inter-city bus service......
THE ongoing imbroglio between Saudi Arabia and Yemen and the ensuing diplomatic dilemma confronting Pakistan have launched me down memory lane. It was over 50 years ago when Pakistani academics and......
APROPOS the news in the Metro section regarding non-compliance of closing business by 8:00pm by the traders of Islamabad and Rawalpindi (April 13 and 14), the law has been there for a long time; it......
PESHAWAR: The fifth round of the anti-polio drive under the Sehat Ka Ittehad programme concluded across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday.During the three-day drive, over 1.370 million children under the......
PESHAWAR: In a major action against encroachments, the district administration removed over two-decade old structures of about 760 kiosks and cabins in the famous Karkhano Market here on......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday urged the federal government not to ignore backwardness and misery of the province and Fata caused by protracted militancy while signing......
MARDAN: Prominent political leaders, government functionaries and civil society members visited Hoti House here on Friday to condole the death of ANP leader Senator Azam Khan Hoti.Qul of the deceased......
PESHAWAR: Making first arrests since it became functional few months ago, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) on Friday held five people, father of a PTI MPA, on the charge of grabbing......
MANSEHRA: Battagram deputy commissioner Zarif Almani on Friday issued a notification imposing a ban on political activities of government employees in the district during the local government......
PESHAWAR: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Friday complained about sluggish repatriation of the people displaced from conflict-stricken areas of Fata, especially North Waziristan Agency, and......
PESHAWAR: Students from different tribal regions have demanded complete repeal of Article 247 of the Constitution and empowerment of Fata parliamentarians to legislate for their own region.They were......
PESHAWAR: Doctors here have rejected the biometric system and independent monitoring unit (IMU) introduced by the health department of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to monitor the presence and......
KOHAT: The Pesco is frequently resorting to unannounced loadshedding across the Kohat district with the advent of the hot weather to the miseries of the consumers.In rural areas, loadshedding......
NOWSHERA: Police here on Friday foiled a smuggling attempt and recovered a big cache of arms and ammunition from a pick-up van at Bara Banda railway track.Official sources said that following a......
SWABI: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has planned to finance research projects of the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology.This was stated by provincial science and......
GILGIT: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday approved a summary for holding elections to the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly on June 8.An official of GB Council told Dawn that the region’s......
ISLAMABAD: Mrs Gul Mohammad lost her husband, a dispatch rider (DR) with the information ministry, to cardiac arrest on Oct 30 last year. The shattered mother of six was, however, consoled by her......
RAWALPINDI: Business had been slack for Muhammad Rafiq and Sagheeruddin for weeks as the two brothers-in-law sat worrying in their sign painting shop in Gulzar-i-Quaid locality last Tuesday.Late in......
Music without bordersPolish musicians Maria Pomianowska and Pawel Betley along with Ustad Sachu Khan and The Band will perform on Saturday, April 18 at Marriott Hotel at 5:30pm.Walk for a......
ISLAMABAD: With 21 polio cases already confirmed in the country during the current year, the National Institute of Health (NIH) is analysing 20 suspected cases.In the year 2014, as many as 306 polio......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to inaugurate the Rawalpindi-Islamabad metro bus service on April 30 so that the residents of the twin cities could travel on the buses on Labour Day.The......
ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has started preparations to deal with floods in the monsoon season.“Though it is not possible to accurately predict the intensity of rains......
ISLAMABAD: The manicured green lawns of the National Art Gallery were the venue for the three-day Second Annual Music Mela that started on Friday night. The event is being organised by the US embassy......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday summoned the government in two weeks to respond to concerns about the planned execution of murder convict Shafqat Hussain.Shafqat was arrested in......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) have devised a plan to regulate traffic during the upcoming visit of Chinese President, who is scheduled to arrive on April 20.According to the plan, 416......
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) High Court on Friday served notices on AJK Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed and Chief Secretary Abid Ali Khan, asking them to explain before April......
ISLAMABAD: Many glacial lakes have cropped up in the Himalayan region with many of them being dangerous and volatile.This was stated by the experts highlighted that the glaciers were shrinking the......
RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi and Chaklala cantonment boards have formed special teams that will transport ballot papers from Lahore under the security of police and the army. Rawalpindi Cantonment Board......
RAWALPINDI: A baby boy was stolen from the gynaecology ward of the Military Hospital (MH) on Friday, police said.Shahzad Ahmed, a resident of Dhoke Hassu, who works in a bakery as an accountant, took......
ISLAMABAD: Despite an attack on one of their own, the capital city’s police department seems hesitant to proceed against suspects — who assaulted an on-duty constable and fled, leaving behind a......
RAWALPINDI: Though all political parties claim to be working for the emancipation of women, none of them fielded a woman in the cantonment board elections scheduled to be held on April 25.Moreover,......
LAHORE: The Punjab government suffered a major blow to its uplift projects drive as the Lahore High Court scrapped on Friday the 7km long signal-free corridor from Qartaba Chowk, Jail Road, to......
LAHORE: The City District Government of Lahore (CDGL) plans a model graveyard -Miani Sahib-2- in Lahore along the pattern of cemeteries in the United States.The need for a spacious, planned final......
LAHORE: The Civil Lines police registered a case against some 300 protesters, among them seven nominated, for assembling on The Mall and blocking traffic here on Friday.A large number of protesters......
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) will soon challenge the verdict of the Lahore High Court by filing an appeal in the Supreme Court.Official sources in the LDA told Dawn that the verdict......
LAHORE: Three gunmen shot at and injured a teenaged boy and a security guard on Friday near a missionary school in Behar Colony, police said.They snatched a motorcycle from 14-year-old Lucky, of......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Lahore President Abdul Aleem Khan has demanded that the Election Commission should depute federal government employees to hold the upcoming Cantonment Board......
LAHORE: Former State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) governor Dr Ishrat Hussain regretted that provinces are not exploiting their revenue generation potential after getting a significant share from the......
LAHORE: Complainants in a criminal case on Friday foiled an attempt by two suspects to escape after their bail was rejected by the Lahore high Court.Adeel and Kashif were trying to flee by tricking......
LAHORE: The excessive, decorative lighting and serving of meals to all those present at election offices of the candidates in Lahore Cantonment polls may mislead a passerby to believe that some......
LAHORE: The ceremony to name a baby baboon at the Lahore Zoo on Friday was an absolute joy for schoolchildren as well as other visitors.It was an exciting morning for the Lahore Grammar School (LGS)......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Punjab President Ejaz Chaudhry has said the Punjab government minister’s confession that 21 per cent people in the province are living below the poverty line is......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court judge on Friday remanded Mustafa Kanju and his four guards in judicial custody for 14 days in the murder of a teenage boy.The Crime Investigations Agency (CIA) police......
LAHORE: A suspected robber was shot dead and a police official injured in an alleged encounter in Nawab Town in the wee hours on Friday.Police claimed a team was dispatched in response to a call on......
GUJRANWALA: First the government restricted the number of dishes for wedding ceremonies. Taking a step further, the Gujranwala district coordination officer (DCO) issued an order on Friday that......
FAISALABAD: The family of a German who was allegedly kidnapped on Feb 7 says they have got different police version of the case.Thekariwala police is looking into the alleged kidnap of Ali Mohammad......
GUJRAT: Three more spurs along the bank of the River Chenab in Gujrat tehsil have been found damaged, raising the number of damaged spurs to seven.These damaged spurs need immediate repair before the......
LAHORE: World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan (WWF-Pakistan) in collaboration with Cleaner Production Institute (CPI) organised a training workshop on Best Water Management Practices (BWMPs) for......
LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer retired Capt Amin Wains has said that admin officers will have to play their due role in implementing the National Action Programme (NAP) with regard to tenant......
KASUR: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Friday visited Gatti Kalanger village, some 20km from here, to condole the death of two minor boys who had lost their lives in jubilation firing on April 8.The......
SIALKOT: Two convicted rapists Abid Maqsud and Sanaullah alias Billu will be hanged at the district jail on April 22.Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Judge Bushra Zaman issued black warrants for their......
SHEIKHUPURA: Two persons were allegedly burnt alive while two others sustained injuries on Friday when a fire erupted at an illegal fuel station near Jhamke on Sargodha Road.Naveed and Shamsul Qamar......
MULTAN: A bank robbery attempt was foiled by a security guard and a police constable here on Friday.As per police, two dacoits entered Allied Bank’s BCG Chowk branch and held the bank staff at......
SAHIWAL: Six murder convicts, including two brothers, will be hanged at the Central Jail, Sahiwal, on April 21, 22 and 23.Jail Superintendent Gulzar Butt said the jail administration had received......
KARACHI: Only a day after rejecting the Rangers proposal for video surveillance of the NA-246 by-election for want of time, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah agreed to the paramilitary force......
KARACHI: An American academic recovering in a private hospital after being shot by suspected militants made an “immeasurable” contribution to the medical college where she worked, her colleague said......
KARACHI: A 35-year-old policeman was shot dead in New Karachi on Friday evening, the Bilal Colony police said.They added that Mohammed Naeem was riding a motorcycle when a gunman travelling in a car......
KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami has “sacrificed the lives of at least nine workers in Karachi central district” in recent years after which it becomes the party’s moral responsibility to contest the......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Friday strongly protested the release of irrigation water to the Chashma-Jhelum link canal, calling it a violation of the inter-provincial agreement by the Indus......
SUKKUR: The Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) on Friday took out a rally in Jacobabad, where over 55 people were killed and many others wounded in a suicide bomb attack on Jan 30, to condemn the......
HYDERABAD: Rights activists and peasant leaders on Friday demanded an end to the practice of parceling out state land to army and corporate sector and urged the government to formulate a......
SUKKUR: A PPP activist, booked in an extortion case at a Jacobabad police station, was granted interim bail by the Sindh High Court on Friday.The case against Mir Farooq Jakhrani, the man in charge......
MIRPURKHAS: A man received gunshot wounds and a police constable escaped death when a group of armed men resorted to firing during a brawl with the policeman in the Napier area of Mirpurkhas late on......
KARACHI: The government audit of the Fishermen Cooperatives Society (FCS) has not been carried out for over seven to eight years owing to non-production of records by the management, said Sindh Law......
HYDERABAD: The Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party (STP) on Friday kicked off a Sindh-wide campaign against moves to settle outsiders in Sindh, usurpation of the province’s resources and denial of the......
KARACHI: The administrative crisis plaguing the Federal Urdu University for Arts, Science and Technology for the past two years worsened on Friday as the Rangers had to intervene to defuse the......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court issued on Friday black warrants for the execution of two condemned prisoners in a murder case and asked the jail authorities to send them to the gallows on April......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday asked medical superintendent (MS) of the Civil Hospital Karachi to make vascular and isolation wards at the hospital operational.The MS assured the division......
BAGHDAD: A series of bombings ripped through Baghdad on Friday, mainly targeting public places and killing at least 40 people, Iraqi officials said.No group immediately claimed responsibility for the......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations called upon international community on Friday to urgently provide $273.7 million to meet the life-saving and protection needs of 7.5 million people affected by the......
BEIJING: A Chinese court on Friday convicted a 71-year-old journalist of leaking state secrets and jailed her for seven years, it said, with rights groups condemning the “arbitrary” verdict as a ......
MIAMI: Rising temperatures across the planet have set more new records, as the US government announced on Friday that the globe experienced its hottest month of March since record-keeping began in......
MAIDUGURI: Boko Haram militants have slit the throats of 12 people in northeast Nigeria as the army was trying to evacuate civilians from the area, a military source and a witness said on Friday.The......
NEW DELHI: India, forever sullen about maps depicting its territorial claims against its liking, has found a quarry in Al Jazeera, reports said on Friday.The Hindu said an inter-ministerial committee......
BAGHDAD: Ezzat Ibrahim al Douri, former right-hand man to late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, has been reported killed by Iraqi forces and Shia militias.Douri was killed in a military operation,......
MIAMI: The US state of Georgia became the 24th US state to legalise medical marijuana on Thursday, underscoring the increasing acceptance of the drug across America despite remaining an illegal......
ROME: Emotions were running high in Italy on Friday as the country struggled to cope with a new influx of migrants amid “worrying” allegations of clashes between Muslim and Christian refugees on a......
KIEV: Hundreds of US paratroopers have arrived in Ukraine to train its forces fighting pro-Russian rebels, the US army said Friday, a move Moscow warned could “destabilise” the war-torn ex-Soviet......
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the governor of the southern island of Okinawa clashed on Friday over the relocation of a contentious US air base, an irritant in US-Japan ties, a week......
NEW DELHI: Dalits in Rampur, who had threatened to convert to Islam if their houses fall target to the demolition drive of the civic body, on Thursday ended their agitation, The Hindu said on Friday.......
JOHANNESBURG: Countries neighbouring South Africa on Friday prepared to evacuate their citizens from South Africa as the UN raised alarm over deadly xenophobic attacks which have displaced......
LOS ANGELES: Experts have discovered a World War II US aircraft carrier that is “amazingly intact” despite languishing on the bottom of the Pacific for more than 60 years.The ship is upright,......
SARAJEVO: Aromas of comfort food wafted through Sarajevo’s central square on Friday as Bosnian chefs cooked what they said was the largest ever chicken broth, in the hope of scoring a Guinness World......
ISTANBUL: Yasmin Rostomyan makes no big outward show of her origins but works daily to keep her Armenian heritage alive and preserve it for the future in modern Turkey.“Turkey is my country, I do not......
Our young and vivacious Myanmar guide is mystified by my question. Who exactly is this “Indian king” whose grave I want to visit in Yangon? When did he die here — why was he here in the first place?......
KARACHI: Shahbaz Green FC thumped Jeya Lal FC 4-1 in the All Karachi Muslim Khatri Association Golden Jubilee Football Tournamenthere on Friday at the Noorani Eid Gah Ground.Goal scorers for Shahbaz......
LONDON: Chelsea will face an in-form Manchester United as they try to move one step closer to the Premier League title at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.Jose Mourinho’s table-toppers are currently seven......
LAHORE: Turkey, India, Nepal and Tajikistan confirmed their participation in the International Handball Championships to be started in Faisalabad from May 10.The Sports Board Punjab in holding the......
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......
ISLAMABAD: Following ordering audit of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), the federal government, as a step forward, has decided to hold audit of the 2013 National Games on which Rs130 million......
LONDON: The latest phase of the ‘Masterplan’ redevelopment of Lord’s was unveiled on Friday with a scheme to replace the “tired” Allen and Tavern stands in the south-west corner of the self-styled......
MELBOURNE: Australia Test skipper Michael Clarke’s will captain the Melbourne Stars in Australia’s Big Bash League for the next two seasons after not playing Twenty20 cricket for three years.The......
NORTH SOUND: James Anderson claimed a record-equalling wicket and England’s spinners kept their team on course for victory over the West Indies on the final day of the first Test at the Sir Vivian......
LAST Thursday, Italy’s famous pink paper La Gazzetta Dello Sport ran a long feature analysing Juventus’ chances of emulating Inter Milan’s 2010 treble this seasonThe Serie A champions have a 12-point......
LONDON: Napoli put a foot in the Europa League semi-finals with a perfectly crafted 4-1 win at VfL Wolfsburg on Thursday as Marek Hamsik scored twice in an Italian masterclass to bring cheer to......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Sports Minister Navin Dissanayake on Friday defended his decision to appoint an interim committee to oversee cricket, saying it was his “sovereign right”.The comments came after......
KARACHI: Aces from Lahore clinched the National Bridge Championship by accumulating 139 International Match Points (IMPs) at the Aslam Bridge Hall housed at the National Stadium here on Thursday......
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 on Friday.He suffered the......
MONTE CARLO: Winning a game against Novak Djokovic these days is quite an achievement. Even when you’re an US Open champion.Djokovic won the first eight games of his Monte Carlo Masters quarter-final......
LAHORE: Sixteen weightlifters were selected after one-day trials to attend a training camp from which a Pakistan team will be selected for the upcoming International Weightlifting Championship.The......
KARACHI: Abdul Rauf Sadozai was elected Balochistan Football Association (BFA) president by a coin-toss on Friday.Sadozai and his election rival Khalil Ahmed received eight votes each and agreed to......
KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board’s Inter-region U-19 Tournament will be held here at different venues of the city from April 22, the Board announced on Friday.Seven zones of Karachi City Cricket......
LAHORE: Four-nation first Asia Deaf T20 Cup is being held here from April 20 to 26 on different grounds.The competition begins with the opening match between Pakistan and Afghanistan.India and Sri......
KARACHI: Four hat-tricks including one double by PIA’s Owais-ur-Rehman, stole the limelight in one-sided matches played on the second day of the 34th National Junior (under-20) Hockey Championship at......
LAHORE: As feared, the elections of the Punjab Football Association (PFA) became disputed with both the contesting rival groups — Arshad Khan Lodhi and Sardar Naveed Haider Khan — claiming victory......
MULTAN: Government Emerson College beat Bahauddin Zakariya University of Multan in a nail-biting contest that saw both teams competing fiercely, displaying lot of passion to win a chance to represent......
KARACHI: Sixteen special players from Sindh, who had bagged medals in the Special Olympics Asia Pacific Games held at New Castle Australia last year, were given cash awards by Special Olympics......
KARACHI: The second edition of the K-Electric Lyari U-16 League kicked off at the Peoples Sports Complex here on Friday with this edition being held in collaboration with the ‘I am Karachi’......
KARACHI: Habib Bank Limited (HBL) stunned holders Pakistan Air Force (PAF) 1-0 as Group ‘C’ of the NBP Challenge Cup kicked off in Lahore on Friday.Saeed Ahmed scored in the 58th minute of the match......
LAHORE: Rabia Momin of Islamabad and Sajjab Fatima of Lahore won the senior and junior titles respectively of the Punjab Open Women Archery Championships at the Punjab Stadium here on Friday.In the......
KARACHI: The Department of Plant Protection (DPP), Ministry of National Food Security and Research (MNFSR), has banned the use of wood packaging including crates, boxes and cases, for storing fruits......
KARACHI: The third quarter of this fiscal year witnessed a current account surplus of $961 million, thus slashing the overall deficit to $1.456 billion during the first nine months of 2014-15, the......
ISLAMABAD: Large-scale manufacturing (LSM) posted a paltry year-on-year growth of 0.92 per cent in February, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.The growth in the industrial output has......
ISLAMABAD: In a fresh setback, the petroleum ministry’s move to dispatch Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) for a second refill of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar was stopped by......
WASHINGTON: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said that the government hopes to achieve 5 per cent GDP growth this year.“We had inherited a highly fragile and broken economy… many pundits had bet the......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) on Friday approved 11 new high-yield rice varieties for cultivation in various ecologies.The varieties approved by the Variety Evaluation......
KARACHI: Bulls went completely berserk at the stock market on Friday tossing the KSE-100 index up by 498.29 points, or 1.52pc, to six-week high at 33,234.73 points.The major trigger that threw market......
SBP renews status of credit rating agenciesKARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan on Friday renewed the status of JCR-VIS and PACRA as Eligible External Credit Assessment Institutions (ECAIs) for the......
WASHINGTON: Finance officials from the world’s major economies are searching for the right mix of policies to bolster a still-weak global recovery nearly six years after the Great Recession while......
LONDON: A two-hour outage at news and market data provider Bloomberg LP hit financial markets around the world on Friday, prompting debt sales to be postponed and exacerbating a spike in volatility......
BRUSSELS: Greece and its international creditors will meet Saturday in Brussels to discuss Athens’ massive debt bailout programme and reforms it must adopt in exchange for urgently needed funds, the......
JAKARTA: Malaysian palm oil futures edged up on Friday as traders closed short positions before the weekend, but gains were capped by a strengthening ringgit.“The rise is because of short-covering......
WASHINGTON: The emerging economies of the G24 group sharply criticised the United States on Thursday for holding up what they see as critical reforms of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).Speaking......
ISLAMABAD: Ahead of its spring meeting this year in Washington, the World Bank has outlined an action plan with an aim to ending poverty and hunger by 2030.The World Bank, in its report “Ending......
ISLAMABAD: A meeting of officials of Pakistani and Afghan health departments in Kabul, which was also to be attended by representatives of UN agencies, was cancelled because of security concerns.The......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has summoned a joint session of parliament on April 21 which will be addressed by Chinese President Xi Jinping.“On a summary initiated by the Ministry of......
ISLAMABAD: Afghan Army Chief Gen Sher Mohammad Karimi will be the chief guest at the passing out parade at the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), Kakul, on Saturday, the military’s public affairs......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government will soon launch a one-year training programme for educated youths in the country, Maryam Nawaz, former chairperson of Prime Minister’s Youth Development Programme......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday issued a show cause notice to a senior counsel representing the Bahria Town real estate tycoon over charges of misconduct, which if established, may lead to the......
ISLAMABAD: The government defended on Friday the blocking of millions of unverified mobile phone SIM cards, saying that it was a long-standing demand of the law-enforcement agencies.Responding to a......
QUETTA: A terrorism bid was foiled as security forces seized on Friday an explosives-laden pick-up in the border town of Chaman and detained two suspects.Official sources said that Frontier Corps......
KARACHI: MQM chief Altaf Hussain expressed on Friday his anger over `non-compliance’ of his directives by the party leaders and then disconnected the phone saying goodbye to supporters listening to......
QUETTA: The Model Customs Collectorate has been making all-out efforts to control smuggling of scrap, dry fruit, vehicles and other items from Afghanistan and Iran to help boost legal trade and......
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry has decided to set up joint verification committees (JVCs) at the sub-divisional level for verification of doubtful or suspect cases of Computerised National Identity......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Pakistan signed on Friday a $42.9 million loan agreement for upgrading water management and irrigation systems in Federally......
HASAN ABDAL: Pilgrims descended from all over the world on the small town of Hasan Abdal that is home to one of Sikhism’s holiest sites this week, dipping into holy spring water and solemnly offering......
LAHORE: “The state of human rights in the year 2014 overall has been bad,” said I.A. Rehman.The HRCP general secretary was speaking at launch of the annual report on the State of Human Rights (for......
SRINAGAR: Demonstrators set fire to an Indian flag and hurled rocks at riot police here on Friday as protests over the arrest of a top leader turned violent.Hundreds took to the streets in India-held......
WASHINGTON: Iran’s foreign minister submitted on Friday a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, outlining a four-point peace plan for Yemen.The plan, which Foreign Minister Javad Zarif......
SANAA: Al Qaeda overran on Friday a key army camp in Yemen’s Hadramawt provincial capital of Mukalla, seizing heavy weapons and consolidating their grip on the city, an official said.Residents......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office said on Friday Pakistan had taken steps to comply with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for restrictions and arms embargo on Yemeni......
KARACHI: Masood Hamid, the marketing director of Pakistan Herald Publications Limited, was found murdered in his car in Defence Housing Authority Phase-VIII on Friday night, The Dawn Media Group said......
QUETTA: Amid unconfirmed reports that five children of Qila Saifullah died after having been administered measles vaccines during a government campaign, Balochistan Health Minister Rehmat Saleh......
ISLAMABAD: With Pakistan and China expected to sign agreements worth $50 billion during the forthcoming visit of President Xi Jinping, Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said Islamabad......
WHAT do Afghanistan, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Mali, northern Nigeria, Pakistan’s tribal areas and Yemen have in common?They all have Muslim populations, are socially backward, mistreat women, and have......
“THE Aam Aadmi Party cannot sit in coalition with these parties [the Congress and the BJP] without severely eroding its brand equity, which is a refreshingly different style and substance of......
DURING most of last year, Pakistan was on the brink of a political and constitutional breakdown. Political violence appeared imminent, and military intervention seemed to be round the corner. With......
THE media images of blindfolded/hooded MQM leaders and workers, as once was the norm for transporting enemy soldiers, huddling in Rangers vehicles surrounded by armed paramilitaries in body armour,......
THE latest report by the State Bank on the banking sector provides a glimpse of some very unhealthy trends that continue to hang over the economy. The report undoubtedly tries to downplay the......
THE decision by the full bench of the Supreme Court to suspend the death sentences awarded by military courts to six convicted terrorists is the right and courageous one and ought to have been taken......
FOR the London Metropolitan Police, the obstacles in the way of solving this whodunnit must be baffling. The victim, MQM leader Dr Imran Farooq, sought political asylum in the United Kingdom as a......
KARACHI: Mr Masood Hamid, Director Marketing, Pakistan Herald Publications Private Limited (PHPL), was found murdered in his car in Defence Housing Authority’s phase-8 on Friday night, The Dawn Media......
