The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen has announced an end to its operation, a statement read out on Saudi-owned Arabiya TV said, adding that the campaign "successfully managed to thwart the threat......
PESHAWAR: A new polio case surfaced on Tuesday after the Chief Minister’s Polio Control Cell in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa confirmed that an eight-month-old boy was diagnosed with the deadly virus in......
ISLAMABAD: A local court in Islamabad on Tuesday acquitted Mumbai attacks mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi in a case pertaining to the abduction of an Afghan national.The Islamabad police had booked......
NEW DELHI: India seized 200 kilograms of heroin from Pakistani drug traffickers aboard a boat on the Arabian sea, a defence official said on Tuesday.The $15 million haul is one of the country's......
Pakistan's great fall had been a long time coming. It has finally happened.And with Pakistan's fall came the rise of Bangladesh.“Bangladesh ends 16-year long wait,” the headlines read. And it did not......
GHOTKI: A woman — who sustained burn injuries last month while trying to protect her daughter from being burnt alive — succumbed to her injures on Monday night at Karachi's Civil Hospital.The woman's......
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday sentenced five individuals to 25 years of collective imprisonment each, under various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code, including section 353.Section......
KARACHI: Pakistan's injury setbacks continued Tuesday as paceman Sohail Khan was ruled out of the Test series in Bangladesh and was replaced by another fast bowler Imran Khan, an official......
Superstar all-rounder Shahid Afridi quashed speculations over his return to the ODI side after Pakistan's series loss to Bangladesh and called upon fans to be patient during the team's 'rebuilding'......
Pakistan's embattled all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez was ready to play a pivotal role with the ball after having his action cleared by the Sri Ramachandra University in India, the 34-year-old revealed on......
KARACHI: Disgraced former Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt said Tuesday he was due to appear before the anti-corruption unit of the game's governing body to try to have his spot-fixing ban......
As predicted, Day Three of PFDC Fashion Week saw celebrity appearances on the red carpet dwindle.This was because Day Three was reserved for textiles, and so with the absence of designers showing......
ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan has granted approval for assigning a division of Pakistan Army's special security for the protection of Chinese citizens working in Pakistan, President Mamnoon......
Resurgent Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal says his team's performance in the World Cup was no flash in the pan and termed the series win over Pakistan as a testament to the vast strides the Tigers had......
Every time the generous people at Dawn publish one of my blogs, I start receiving phone calls from friends in the dozens. Write about this, one would say, as another would insist on a different......
QUETTA: Security forces killed five suspected militants in Gwadar and Awaran districts of Balochistan on Tuesday.A spokesman for the Frontier Corps Khan Wasey said forces launched an operation......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court (SC) to withdraw its order for a stay of execution of six men convicted by the recently established military courts.Take a look:......
ISLAMABAD: A Karachi-bound flight of Shaheen Air made an emergency landing at Benazir Bhutto International Airport in Islamabad on Tuesday after one of its engines caught fire soon after the take......
China's first lady Peng Liyuan may not be as flamboyant as Modi when it comes to her attire but there's no doubt she chooses her clothes with care.During Chinese president Xi Jinping's visit to......
I sat at my dearest friend’s house in Dubai insisting that I was too stuffed to even consider a sip of water let alone dessert. Despite my protests, out came Banoffee and my resolve went down the......
CAIRO: An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced ousted president Mohamed Morsi to 20 years in prison over the killing of protesters in 2012, the first verdict to be issued against the......
ISLAMABAD: Chinese President Xi Jinping said Tuesday a $46 billion economic corridor offered Pakistan a “historic development opportunity”, but security fears linger over the project which involves......
DUBAI/TEHRAN: Iran's deputy foreign minister said he was optimistic that a ceasefire in Yemen would be announced later on Tuesday, in a sign diplomatic efforts may be underway to stop almost a month......
"Your Excellency, President Xi Jinping, honorable Chairman Senate, honorable Speaker, respected Chinese friends, my fellow parliamentarians.Today is a great day for this Parliament and for the people......
CATANIA: Eight hundred are believed dead in Sunday's migrant boat disaster off the coast of Libya. Among the 27 survivors rescued, two suspected of people trafficking have been arrested by Italian......
GUJRANWALA/FAISALABAD/SIALKOT/MULTAN/SAHIWAL/GUJRAT/LAHORE/RAWALPINDI/QUETTA: 17 condemned prisoners were sent to the gallows in various jails on Tuesday morning, a day which marks the highest number......
Oscar-winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Andy Schocken's documentary 'Song of Lahore' received a standing ovation at its screening at the ongoing 14th annual Tribeca Film Festival at various......
1942. A tumultuous year by any definition.In India, Gandhi-ji would call for a nationwide protest known as the Quit India Movement (Bharat Choro Aandolan) whereas in Europe an even darker phase in......
After a hiatus of more than five years in the local industry, Shiraz Upal is back with a bang with the official music video for 3 Bahadur, which is set to hit screens on May 22 all across......
ISLAMABAD: President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping departed from Pakistan after a historic two-day visit to the country’s capital.The Chinese delegation was seen off by high-ranking......
PESHAWAR/BUNER: Three alleged terrorists were on Monday arrested, two from Buner and one from the outskirts of the provincial capital.In Peshawar, the counter-terrorism department arrested the......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was informed on Monday that green forests had been harvested ruthlessly during the last 10 years in the name of dry trees and those felled by strong winds......
PESHAWAR: The Federal Investigation Agency arrested a female model after a local court rejected her pre-arrest bail on Monday in a case of sharing objectionable pictures of another female on social......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is facing a daunting task to find out the children, who have not been covered under the polio vaccination programme, according to sources.They said that about 35 per cent......
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has ordered merger of all the Maktab schools in the province into the government primary schools, while rejecting a proposal to abolish about 1,000 such......
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party has criticised the federal government for what it calls adopting discriminatory policies against the small federating units of the country.Addressing a press conference......
PESHAWAR: The Kashgar-Gwadar Action Committee on Monday expressed concern about the change in the economic corridor route and announced it would present a memorandum to the visiting Chinese president......
LAKKI MARWAT: Three people, including two brothers, died in road and firing incidents on Monday.The local police said two brothers Sadiq Hussain and Hidayatullah, residents of Asmatabad Ghaznikhel,......
CHINA has proved to be the most reliable strategic partner of Pakistan, which has helped us in our defence capacity building, apart from assisting us in achieving economic self-sustenance and......
A PHILOSOPHER once remarked that a politician thinks of the present era, while a leader thinks of generations. Hats off to the PTI, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and Imran Khan for not only......
BY visiting government hospitals you always realise the discrimination factor that results in human losses. In government hospitals, you observe a multitude of people who come from far-off areas of......
THIS is apropos difficulties being faced by the people in Karachi during CNG closure for at least three days in a week while public transport is not available. This results in reaching our workplaces......
OWING to the apparent fuel shortage recently in Punjab, every provincial department has been directed to control fuel refineries and filling stations.But doing so, the DCO, Lahore office, has......
ACCORDING to State Bank statistics, the country has suffered a trade deficit of almost $16bn in the first nine months of the year (July 16 to March 15). Exports and imports are moving in just the......
NOW that the Judicial Commission (JC) has been set up, which contains none other than the sitting Chief Justice of Pakistan and two judges of the Supreme Court, it would be good if they are allowed......
IT was indeed sad news hearing about the sale of Nishat Cinema which had been inaugurated by the Late Fatima Jinnah.There is no need for me to elaborate on the heritage value of Nishat Cinema. What......
I WAS appalled to see a security guard using megaphone at high pitch to disperse visitors from the courtyard of the Aga Khan University Hospital on April 12 around 9pm.When both my wife and I......
BALOCHISTAN has been confronting many problems for the past many years. The law and order situation is one of them.Recently, 20 labourers were killed in ‘Gookdan’ Turbat. All were killed during their......
PESHAWAR: The tourism departments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan finally made peace with each other and decided to push aside their differences and take part in Shandur International Polo......
KOHAT: The lawmakers of the ruling PTI, MPA Ziaulllah Bangash and MNA Shehryar Afridi, have not fielded candidates of their party from their hometown Muhammadzai union council for the local......
PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Monday arrested a divisional forest officer posted at Kohistan, Tariq Khan, on charges of possessing assets disproportionate......
MANSEHRA: The people of Ghanool union council of Balakot are deprived of health facilities as the local basic heath unit, which was destroyed in the 2005 earthquake, has yet to be reconstructed.The......
KHAR: The Bajaur political administration has banned driving by teenagers and without licence keeping in view rising road accidents in the tribal agency.An official of the local administration told......
LANDI KOTAL: Elders of Kukikhel tribe in Jamrud have demanded immediate resumption of talks between officials of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and members of Kukikhel jirga to help resolve the......
ISLAMABAD: Despite making claims of bringing significant improvement in higher education sector, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has failed to take action against illegal universities in the......
ISLAMABAD: Oxford University Press Pakistan (OUPP) has finalised arrangements for the capital’s third literature festival which begins on Friday.The three-day festival will feature panel discussions......
ISLAMABAD: Human Rights Watch, Privacy International, Digital Rights Foundation and other organisations have expressed serious concerns over the proposed Prevention of Electronic Crimes (PEC) Bill......
ISLAMABAD: Two people were killed, and the body of another, who had been missing, was found by police.In the first incident, a man was stabbed to death by a rival in Khanna over a disagreement......
RAWALPINDI: A convict in non-terrorism case will be hanged in the Central Jail Adiala on early Tuesday morning, while the execution of another convict was deferred to April 27 by the Lahore High......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Monday informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that it had detained Squadron Leader (SL) Hassan Akhtar under espionage charges.The revelation was made in a......
RAWALPINDI: Sheikh Rashid’s Awami Muslim League and Dr Tahirul Qadri’s Pakistan Awami Tehreek drew new battle lines by agreeing on Monday to support each other’s candidates in the cantonment......
TAXILA: A young woman was allegedly gang-raped by six people in village Malhi in Hassanabdal police area on Monday.In her complaint to the police, she alleged that a milk shop owner and his friends......
ISLAMABAD: Owing to security arrangements for Chinese president Xi Jinping, the FBISE has cancelled SSC paper slated for Tuesday in five sectors. The sectors are G, E, H, I and F.“The paper of......
ISLAMABAD: The controversy over the death of a suspected thief, who allegedly fell in a nullah during a police chase, has grown and doctors who conducted the autopsy are being contacted by senior......
ISLAMABAD: The crisis at the Federal Urdu University of Arts and Sciences deepened on Monday when the syndicate terminated the services of the officiating vice chancellor, Dr Salman D. Mohammad, on......
GUJAR KHAN: The untimely wet spell is poised to damage the wheat crop which is ready for harvesting in the Potohar region.This year, the crop was quite bumper and the farmers were expecting a good......
RAWALPINDI: The ruling PML-N contacted Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) to get its support in the wards where it (JI) could not field candidates for the April 25 cantonment elections.The JI has fielded......
LAHORE: Speakers at a two-day workshop held here on Monday expressed their concern at the rising malnutrition in the country.The event was organised by Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN)......
LAHORE: The Excise and Taxation Department de-sealed the Expo Centre in Johar Town two hours after sealing it on Monday when the administration promised to clear its tax dues within two days.An E&T......
BAHAWALPUR: An 18-year-old girl suffered serious burns in an alleged acid attack in Basti Raidan on Monday.According to police, suspect Anwar wanted to marry Shahnaz and sent a proposal to her family......
LAHORE: Training of another 450 unskilled youth in nine trades has begun at the institutes of Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (Tevta) under Prime Minister’s Youth Skill......
LAHORE: Four people, including a minor girl, were injured when the basement of an under-construction building collapsed in Sabzazar on Monday.According to police, labourer Manzoor, 45, was residing......
SHEIKHUPURA: A man was shot dead by his captors over non-payment of ransom on Monday.Reports said three suspects – Aqib, Farman and Bilal –allegedly kidnapped Naeem of Habib Colony, took him to near......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday issued bailable warrants for Punjab Labour Secretary for not responding to court’s notices.The court had summoned the secretary on last hearing when he failed......
OKARA: PPP district president and former provincial minister Ashraf Khan Sohna had to pay a heavy price for exchanging hot words with Tehsil Municipal Administration head on Monday, when the TMA......
GUJRANWALA: Seven people, including three minors, died in separate incidents when roofs and walls of their houses collapsed during a thunderstorm in Gakkhar and Kamoki towns late on Sunday.They were......
OKARA: Police on Sunday arrested two bridegrooms and their six relatives in separate incidents of jubilation firing.Hujra Shah Muqeem police arrested bridegroom Sajid and his friend Javid for......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Gojra city police claim to have recovered a boy kidnapped for ransom on Monday and arrested his kidnappers.Police said Model City resident Mushtaq’s son Usman, 12, was kidnapped at......
GUJRAT: The University of Gujrat launched its first three-day book fair here on Monday at its Hafiz Hayat Campus.UoG Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Ziaul Qayyum inaugurated the event at a ceremony.The book......
FAISALABAD: Immediately after reaching the school, students of the Government Primary School for Boys, Kot Farid Mahmood Kathia, Shorkot, have to fix the lever of a hand pump. Similarly, they have to......
LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party will hold a rally in Cantonment areas here on April 23.The PPP candidates have been advised to go door to door to seek votes for Cantonment elections to be held on......
LAHORE: The Punjab chapter chief of a banned organisation was nabbed while preaching on the New Campus of Punjab University on Monday.Muslim Town police said the PU administration informed them that......
LAHORE: An 11-year-old boy, who was admonished by his teacher, allegedly attempted suicide by setting himself ablaze outside a private school in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, police said on Monday.Asif, son of......
LAHORE: The Punjab School Education Department decided on Monday to conditionally promote to the next grade all students who appeared in grades V and VIII examinations.Both examinations were......
LAHORE: The day-long sit-in of hundreds of paramedics which continued till late in the night outside the Club Road on Monday for the service structure brought traffic in the provincial capital to......
LAHORE: Rights activist and former MNA Mehnaz Rafi has questioned leaving out chief ministers of other three provinces and only inviting Punjab’s to receive the Chinese president.“Chief Minister......
LAHORE: Retail brands and voile shows dominated the ramp on Day Three of the ongoing Pakistan Fashion Design Council (PFDC) Sunsilk Fashion Week, while the lounge areas also saw a flurry of activity......
LAHORE: A team of the City District Government of Lahore’s (CDGL) health wing on Monday raided a marriage hall in Samanabad and got its owner arrested for not following anti-dengue......
LAHORE: Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khwaja Salman Rafiq has said the Punjab government is upgrading nursing schools of the province to colleges and revising their curriculum.Addressing the......
KARACHI: Rangers on Monday asked the people of Karachi to carry their original computerised national identity cards with them, otherwise they could be arrested.“Citizens of Karachi are requested to......
KARACHI: As the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and the Jamaat-i-Islami take on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) separately in its stronghold after failing to forge an alliance against their common......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday asked the home secretary, director general of Rangers and jail superintendent to file their respective comments on a petition against the authorities for not......
KARACHI: With electioneering for the NA-246 by-poll set to come to a close on Tuesday night, the contesting parties on Monday sped up efforts to win support from different groups, with the Muttahida......
KARACHI: Personal and political cannot be separated in the novels of Pakistani writers writing in the English language, said scholar David Waterman while discussing salient features of his book,......
KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the solution of all our problems is in bringing an honest and corruption-free leadership forward and such an opportunity awaits......
SANGHAR: A strike was observed across Sanghar city on Monday against excessive power and gas loadshedding, water shortage, rundown civic infrastructure and a lack of basic amenities.All trade and......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Monday suspended the operation of judgement of the Election Tribunal Hyderabad that had suspended the Sindh Assembly membership of Pakistan Peoples Party’s MPA Muhammad......
KHAIRPUR: Following in the footsteps of Pakistan Peoples Party’s leader Benazir Bhutto, the Sindh government has established nine more universities and provided jobs to countless people in Sindh in......
LARKANA: Three armed men intercepted a car driven by a cash supplier to the counters of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) near Rasool Abad locality within the jurisdiction of the Civil......
HYDERABAD: A meeting of around 50 NGOs has called for establishing a minority rights commission at the provincial level to ensure implementation on legislation introduced by the Sindh Assembly with......
HYDERABAD: Sajjada Nashin (custodian) of the Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai shrine Syed Waqar Hussain Shah on Monday launched his political party by the name of All Pakistan Latifi Jamaat (APLJ). He said he......
HYDERABAD: As electioneering in different wards of the Cantonment Board Hyderabad (CBH) picks up, candidates vying for seats of councillors get a taste of problems their voters have to face in......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday sentenced three men associated with the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi to 14 years in prison in explosive substance cases.Syed Saud Altaf, Syed Ahmed Hassan alias......
CONFERENCEThe inaugural session of the one-day international conference on “Process of democratisation in Pakistan” organised by the Karachi University’s department of political science in the KU......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed the fisheries and livestock department to complete a residential facility for fishermen by the end of next month.He issued the directives......
KARACHI: An unequal number of voters in different wards of the Cantonment Board Karachi (CBK) will continue to cast a shadow over the true representation of people in the April 25 local government......
KARACHI: A young man hailing from Jamshoro district was found shot dead in Rizvia Society on Monday, according to police.The officials said the body with a single bullet in the head was found under......
WASHINGTON: A pilot programme launched by the Obama administration to prevent radicalisation from taking root is creating suspicion that it’s a plot to profile American Muslims.Law enforcement......
SANAA: Saudi-led air strikes on a missile depot in Yemen’s rebel-held capital on Monday sparked explosions that left at least 18 people dead and 300 wounded, flattening houses and shaking faraway......
NEW DELHI: A red coloured Chadar (Holy Cloth), which was sent by US President Barack Obama on the occasion of the 803th annual Urs of Hazrat Khawaja Moinudeen Chishty, was offered at Ajmer Dargah......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama held a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates to discuss top issues for the Gulf region, particularly the Saudi-led air......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has put security forces on alert for a possible militant attack on a shopping mall or energy installation, Interior Ministry spokesman Mansour Turki said on Monday.“There was......
BEIJING: Chinese and foreign film producers, companies and investment firms signed movie cooperation deals worth 13.8 billion RMB ($2.3bn) on Monday, demonstrating how foreign movie makers......
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he was ready to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping at an Asian-African summit in Jakarta this week if the chance arises, the latest sign of......
TAIPEI: One man died and another was hospitalised on Monday after a fire caused by a powerful quake off Taiwan that set buildings shaking in the capital Taipei and sparked a short-lived tsunami......
JOHANNESBURG: Worried about their safety, hundreds of African immigrants headed out of South Africa in buses on Monday following deadly attacks on foreign-owned shops.South Africa’s anti-immigrant......
WASHINGTON: US Secret Service agents arrested an intruder who scaled the White House fence late on Sunday, officials said.The individual was immediately arrested while climbing the fence on the south......
GENEVA: The Mediterranean is turning into a “vast cemetery” because of soaring migrant deaths, the UN human rights chief said on Monday, as he strongly condemned “callous” EU migration......
JAKARTA: Asian and African leaders gather in Indonesia this week to mark 60 years since a landmark conference that helped forge a common identity among emerging states, but analysts say big-power......
PORTSMOUTH: Britain’s last surviving warship from Gallipoli is being restored to mark the bloody campaign’s centenary, as a new exhibition tries to counter myths surrounding the disastrous World War......
SAN LORENZO: In Puerto Rico’s misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava and sweet......
CAIRO: An Egyptian criminal court on Monday sentenced 22 people to death after convicting them of storming a police station outside Cairo and killing an officer on July 3, 2013 — the day the military......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s cricket board on Monday accused the world governing body of “gravely” disrupting the sport in the island by withholding its share of proceeds from World Cup tournaments.The......
KARACHI: Former skipper Misbah-ul-Haq has defended the poor performance of Pakistan cricketers in the opening two One-day Internationals against Bangladesh.“This is a young team and needs more time......
LONDON: Australia great Stephen Waugh has told England to forget about an international recall for Kevin Pietersen, saying he was no longer a great player and wasn’t worth a place in the current Test......
ST GEORGE’S (Grenada): The West Indies drop Sulieman Benn from their squad for the second Test against England, starting at the National Cricket Stadium here from Tuesday (today).Benn was replaced by......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s legendary hockey Olympian Samiullah Khan backed the government’s decisions of conducting an audit of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) and controversial National Games held......
TERMAS HONDO: Valentino Rossi survived a late battle with defending world champion Marc Marquez, who crashed with two laps to go, before the Italian icon went on to win a dramatic Grand Prix of......
KARACHI: A superb 69-ball 138 by opener Ajmal Khan helped Baqai Medical University hammer Sindh Medical College by a whopping 90 run margin in another match of the Red Bull Campus Cricket tournament......
LONDON: The month of truth could end bitter-sweet for Bayern Munich and their star coach Pep Guardiola as they seek to reverse a 3-1 deficit against FC Porto in the Champions League quarter-final......
LONDON: Kumar Sangakkara ensured the crowd at Cardiff’s Sophia Gardens on Sunday witnessed a hundred from a world-class batsman as Surrey team-mate Kevin Pietersen missed out on the first day against......
KABUL: Mohammad Nabi has stepped down as captain of the Afghanistan national cricket team after more than two years in the job, citing his own poor form and the team’s performance.“I have served......
LONDON: Young Lancashire batsman Liam Livingstone has smashed a world record 350 in just 138 balls during a one-day match.The 21-year-old all-rounder bludgeoned 34 fours and 27 sixes for Nantwich in......
KARACHI: Shah Faisal Nazimabad FC and hosts Hussaini Football Club won their matches in the All Karachi Muslim Khatri Association Gulden Jubilee Football Tournament at the Noorani Eid Gah Ground.In......
LAHORE: Trials to select Pakistan team for participation in the 4-Nation Hockey Tournament will be held at the National Hockey Stadium on Saturday. The four-nation event is being held in Hobart,......
KARACHI: Hania Naveed, Hasan Farooq and Ibrahim Noman were among the winners in their respective categories at the STA 2nd PTF Development Series Juniors Ranking Tennis being played at the Union......
KARACHI: History of sorts was created on Monday when former champions PIA crashed out in the quarter-finals of the 34th National Junior Hockey Championship at the Hockey Club of Pakistan Stadium.The......
KARACHI: It took them four days but finally the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) issued a news release on the winner of the contentious Punjab Football Association (PFA) elections on......
KOLKATA: Tragedy struck Indian cricket on Monday when a 20-year-old player died as a result of a freakish on-field collision with a team-mate during a club match here in Kolkata.Four months after......
LAHORE: Lahore Lions won the 5th National T20 Veterans cricket tournament by beating last year’s champions Karachi Omar Associates by five wickets in the final played at the LCCA ground here on......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC) on Monday appointed former two-time World Cup winning captain, Abdul Razzaq as coach of national team.Syed Sultan Shah, PBCC chairman, has appointed......
KARACHI: Kizilbash accumulated 59.16 victory points to win the Karachi Bridge Association’s weekend bridge tournament, said a news release issued on Monday.Team Kizilbash having Anwer Kizilbash,......
LONDON: Two hotly-contested derbies were played late on Sunday in Europe with one having a bearing on the title race whilst the other being a mid-table clash for merely bragging rights.Ten-man......
LAHORE: Expressing disappointment over Pakistan’s one-day series loss to Bangladesh after 16 years, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar M Khan admitted that the main concern apart from......
BOSTON: Ethiopian runner Lelisa Desisa and Kenya’s Caroline Rotich were the top male and female finishers at Monday’s Boston Marathon, two years after the race was struck by a deadly bombing......
LONDON: Former fast bowler Matthew Hoggard has accused England of being too ‘timid’ and is urging his country to follow Australia coach Darren Lehmann’s lead by encouraging a more positive and......
SHANGHAI: Global car makers showed off hundreds of vehicles in China’s commercial hub Shanghai on Monday, as the world’s biggest auto market continues to attract despite a sharp deceleration in sales......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures rose in tight trade on Monday, lifted by robust overseas sales of the tropical oil, although a firm ringgit and bearish outlook on technicals put a lid on......
LONDON: India has posted the biggest gain in hard currency reserves of any major emerging economy in the past year, bucking the weaker trend in fellow BRICS states Russia, Brazil and South......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has notified new regulations for the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), easing the requirements for establishing funds.REIT......
JAKARTA: Indonesian President Joko Widodo turned on his man-of-the people charm at a key Asian business forum on Monday, telling investors they could just give him a call if they ran into......
TOKYO: Japan and the United States continued the second of two days of tough trade talks on Monday that could pave the way for a broader trans-Pacific agreement, although Tokyo shrugged off......
ISLAMABAD: Exports of textile and clothing witnessed a negative growth of 16.23 per cent to $1.033 billion in March 2015 from $1.233bn in the same month last year, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics data......
KARACHI: Banks disbursed Rs326 billion in loans to the agriculture sector during the first nine months (July-March) of this fiscal year, a growth of 27.5 per cent over the disbursement of Rs255.7bn......
KARACHI: Auto assemblers have criticised the government for giving “unfair” advantages to dealers and importers of used cars.In its pre-budget proposals on Monday, Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers......
KARACHI: Stocks witnessed intense volatility on Monday with the KSE-100 index closing up by 69.91 points, or 0.21 per cent, at 33,304.64.The initial euphoria was caused by the visit of the Chinese......
NEW YORK: Hussain Haqqani, Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, has strongly opposed the use of American military aid to fight extremists in Pakistan and said instead it will fuel......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) reserved on Monday its order on a petition filed by Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) Akhtar Buland Rana for the release of his salary.The salary had been......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has vowed to protect secrecy of ballot in the by-election for Karachi’s NA-246 constituency slated for April 23.Giving details of the decisions......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court allowed the federal government on Monday to resubmit an amended appeal against the March 9 judgment of the Islamabad High Court accepting Mumtaz Qadri’s plea to annul a......
ISLAMABAD: International rights organisations, including Human Rights Watch, on Monday urged Pakistan’s parliament to reject a proposed cybercrime bill which they alleged threatened freedom of......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the National Assembly sought on Monday clarifications from the treasury benches on a number of issues related to the China-Pak Economic Corridor.The opposition lawmakers......
WASHINGTON: Compared to the $46 billion China plans to invest in Pakistan, the $7.5 billion US package for Pakistan was too thinly scattered, according to a former Pentagon official.David S. Sedney,......
ISLAMABAD: Chinese President Xi Jinping does not like yellow flowers and feels uncomfortable in temperature over 24 degrees Celsius.Officials on protocol duty were under instructions to avoid yellow......
QUETTA: Suspected militants attacked the air traffic control radar in Pasni area of the Gwadar district late on Monday night.Official sources said a group of militants reached the site of the air......
GWADAR: Doctors associated with government and private hospitals observed a token strike in Turbat on Monday in protest against the kidnapping of Director Health Balochistan, Dr Amir Bakhsh......
QUETTA: Transporters blocked main roads in the city for hours on Monday in protest against the shifting of the mini-bus stand to Hazargangi.Commuters faced hardship and inconvenience while......
QUETTA: A condemned prisoner will be executed in Central Jail, Mach, on Tuesday.Jail authorities said on Monday that arrangements had been made to carry out the execution.The family of Riaz Ahmed,......
This piece was first published on April 21st, 2015. It has been written by the daughter of late Masood Hamid, Dawn's former Marketing Director.When people ask me why I became a journalist I tell them......
One of the many reasons the 7th National Finance Commission (NFC) award is often referred to as a milestone in the country’s history is that after decades of wrangling with other federating units,......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the Senate accused the government on Monday of going slow on the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) and called for formation of an oversight parliamentary......
I step into a narrow road at Liaquatabad No 3, the road further constricted by motorcycles parked alongside pushcarts selling shoes and plastic goods. Behind them is a row of run-down shops thronged......
DHAKA: Assailants wielding iron rods attacked the car of Bangladesh’s former prime minister and main opposition leader Khaleda Zia on Monday during an election rally and then shot at it as the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China agreed on Monday to elevate their bilateral relationship to ‘all weather strategic cooperative partnership’ that envisages strong defence and security ties, continued......
ISLAMABAD: The ruling party’s chief whip in the National Assembly who is also the Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Sheikh Aftab Ahmed, told the National Assembly on Monday that he was so......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China signed on Monday agreements worth $28 billion to immediately kick-start ‘early harvest’ projects under the Pakistan-China Economic Corridor (PCEC).A statement issued by......
ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) submitted biometric analysis reports of 37 constituencies of the national and provincial assemblies on Monday to the judicial......
It often seems an evil world we live in. What is good and evil? They relate to states of feeling and perception that are real and communicable which in turn relate to perceptions and feelings of......
At a Moharram majlis in my native village of Mustafabad, which is part of Sonia Gandhi’s parliamentary constituency today, a believer was overcome with grief during a recitation of the tragedy of......
KARACHI: Residents of Karachi have been asked to carry their computerised national identity cards (CNICs) with them at all time and warned that failure to do so can result in their detention,......
As the oft-estranged neighbours continue to grapple with a whole host of complex challenges, including unrelenting militancy and extremism, the Afghan National Army chief’s call for closer......
Rarely has a by-election turned into such a national issue. The contest for NA-246, the seat vacated by Nabeel Gabol, is taking on the contours of a referendum on the dominance that the MQM has......
To appreciate the gravity of the problem, consider this; the reported deaths of migrants at sea so far this year are 30 times higher than in 2014, itself a record year.On Sunday, in the worst......
Bangladesh’s historic ODI series win over Pakistan on Sunday is a testament to the fact that the former, dubbed as minnows of international cricket until a few years ago, have finally come of age,......
