KARACHI: The director of The Second Floor (T2F), Sabeen Mahmud, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Karachi on Friday.Sabeen, accompanied by her mother, left T2F after 9pm on Friday evening and......
DHAKA: Pakistan's miserable tour of Bangladesh continued as the hosts recorded their first-ever Twenty20 win over the rivals with a seven-wicket romp in Dhaka on Friday.Debutant seamer Mustafizur......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday issued notices to the home secretary, provincial police Chief, Rangers director-general and others on petitions seeking the whereabouts of three......
MUMBAI: Police in Mumbai have arrested three officers who allegedly raped a model in a police station and then demanded Rs500,000 as blackmail to keep quiet, a deputy commissioner said Friday.Three......
ROME: Italian police said on Friday they had dismantled a network of militants they suspect of having had ties to Osama bin Laden and being behind one of Pakistan's deadliest bomb attacks — October......
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Freedom Network (FN) are calling for a complete overhaul of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PEC) approved by the National Assembly standing committee on......
Looking at projected populations, PEW Research Center has released a report (2nd April 2015) stating that the population of Hindus in India will fall down from the present 79.5 per cent to 76.7 per......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reached London on Friday on the invitation of Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, DawnNews reported.He was received at Heathrow Airport by Representative of......
GENEVA: At least 115 children have been killed and 172 maimed in the violence raging in Yemen since Saudi-led air strikes began on March 26, the UN children's agency Unicef said Friday.“We believe......
Actors Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner apologized on Thursday for making "tasteless" and "juvenile" comments in which they called their Avengers co-star Scarlett Johansson's superhero character "a......
LAHORE: Imam of the Ka’aba Dr Shaikh Khalid Al Ghamidi during a sermon at the mosque in Lahore's Bahria Town told the congregation that Islam forbade violence and terrorism.Addressing the......
NEW DELHI: India has cracked down on the Ford Foundation, saying the US charity can no longer give money to local organisations without government permission, the latest move against a foreign NGO,......
There was no upset in NA-246: Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) Kunwar Naveed won, which means Muttahida will bag a National Assembly seat from the constituency for a record seventh time.But most......
RAWALPINDI: A district and sessions court here on Friday extended the judicial remand of supermodel Ayyan, who is being held at Rawalpindi's Adiala Jail in a money-laundering case.Ayyan was presented......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and National Harmony Sardar Muhammad Yousaf on Friday announced Haj Policy 2015 under which 143,368 pilgrims will perform the pilgrimage this......
Does anyone else think Aishwarya Rai Bachan's response to Kalyan Jewellers 'racist' ad was weak?You may have heard that Aishwarya Rai Bachan has become embroiled in a furor over a “racist” ad. The......
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday issued a fresh death warrant for the execution of condemned prisoner Shafqat Hussain after an executive inquiry by the Federal Investigation Agency......
ISLAMABAD: Speaker National Assembly (NA) Sardar Ayaz Sadiq warned bureaucrats, particularly federal secretaries, of suspension from service if they provide what he called inadequate and incomplete......
ISLAMABAD: During their visit to Saudi Arabia on Thursday, the Pakistani leadership once again assured Riyadh of its support in the prevailing crisis in Yemen.Pakistan also expressed its deep......
Six episodes down and Diyar-e-Dil is not losing any momentum. The story, deeply-rooted in family ties captures the rift between father and son beautifully, that despite the anger and bitterness......
PESHAWAR: At least five security personnel were injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast on a van of the police's Quick Response Force in Peshawar's Gulbahar area on Friday morning.A......
I AM a student of mass communication and my younger brother recently appeared for the Class IX examinations of the secondary education board.He is a bright student and was disappointed when he found......
THE 6th Road has become a very congested place in Rawalpindi these days. The reason behind the congestion on this road is the number of schools situated there.However, wrong parking due to the metro......
THIS refers to the reports on Baldia Town fire (Feb 27 and March 4). The most painful part of the report was the words, ‘almost forgotten,’ for the incident which occurred in September 2012.It is......
THIS refers to the Pakistan media that always reports and highlights if something bad happens to women, but ignores whenever the same thing happens to men.Men and women both deserve to be treated......
THE Chinese president’s visit has opened vast gates of opportunities, specifically for Pakistan’s unemployed workforce. The decision to invest in many sectors, mainly energy and infrastructure......
APROPOS of your editorial ‘Military justice’ (April 4), six terrorists have been sentenced to death and one to life imprisonment by the military court.One wonders whether the convicts had been given......
IT is indeed heartening to see that finally after 34 years (the last amendment was made in 1981), the Federal Service Public Commission has made the much-needed changes to the syllabus of the......
THE residents of Block 2, Clifton, Karachi, welcome Asif Zardari’s decision to voluntarily remove roadblocks from the main road running along the ‘Bilawal House’.These road barriers were a great......
THIS refers to Hassan Javid’s review of the book, ‘The Colonel who would not repent’ (April 19). Going through the review, one can notice with ease that writer Salil Tripathy has tried to maintain......
BANNERS regarding a ban on selling petrol in bottles etc can be seen at some petrol pumps, but unfortunately these rules cannot be implemented in letter and in spirit as there are so many shops......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak is running out of patience with the federal government over disinterest in resolving core issues of the province related to the centre.He......
LANDI KOTAL: Corps Commander Peshawar Lt Gen Hidayat ur Rehman visited Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency and torched thousands kilograms of contraband, which the security forces had seized during the last......
PESHAWAR: The Fata Secretariat has launched online Performance Monitoring and Reporting System (PMRS) for ensuring transparency and efficiency in the developmental initiatives as well as service......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Thursday asked the federal government to impose the federal excise duty on crude oil, pay arrears and mark-up in the head of net hydel profit to the......
PESHAWAR: The Gandhara Hindko Board, a literary, cultural and social welfare organisation, took out a rally at Qissa Khwani Bazaar on Thursday to remember scores of people, who died when the British......
PESHAWAR: With arrangements finalised for the April 25 elections in cantonment areas in the province, 43 candidates are in the running in five wards of Peshawar Cantonment Board.Candidates and their......
PESHAWAR: The provincial assembly would pass soon the Minorities Properties Protection Bill to remove sense of insecurity among non-Muslim communities in the province, said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa......
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Thursday rejected the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and opposition’s criticism of the Pakistan-China Economic Corridor agreements and claimed the......
TIMERGARA: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that the credit goes to Rangers for conducting peaceful by-election in NA-246 Karachi.Addressing party meetings in Darangal, Boota, Jabagai,......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan on Thursday directed the Fata Development Authority (FDA) to take coordinated steps without delay to ensure the early establishment of......
PESHAWAR: Glowing tributes were paid to former Peshawar High Court chief justice Late Abdul Karim Khan Kundi at a reference arranged at the high court on Thursday.PHC Chief Justice Mazhar Alam......
KOHAT: The enraged protesters stormed the local office of Pesco, broke the furniture and burnt the official record in Happy Valley area here on Thursday.The people continued protest against the......
MANSEHRA: The sanatorium in Dadar area , once the biggest centre for treatment of tuberculosis in the entire Asia, has turned into a ghost house as neither the federal nor provincial government is......
KARAK: The Khushal Khan Khattak University Karak on Thursday organised a colourful function on campus to remember the great Pashto poet, Khushal Khan Khattak.The speakers highlighted different......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday summoned heads of four ministries and departments in separate contempt cases.The contempt petitions filed by Raja Saifur Rehman advocate for a......
ISLAMABAD: Every person has different kinds of talents but they remain unaware of them. However, sometimes circumstances and changes in society work as the driving force to exploit the talents.This......
President Xi Jinping’s address to the joint sitting of the Pakistan parliament last Tuesday will be remembered for many firsts. Three Chinese leaders have spoken to the Pakistani legislators before......
ISLAMABAD: After 1.3 million doses of pentavalent vaccine were found spoiled at a store of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) on February 24, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS)......
ISLAMABAD: Satrang Gallery hosted its annual Artist Panel Talk with internationally acclaimed miniature artists Aisha Khalid and Imran Qureshi. The event was held in the beautiful Sheesh Mahal Hall......
ISLAMABAD: The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of stakeholders has asked that the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (PECB) 2015 be reconsidered by the National Assembly Standing Committee on......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday pardoned Inspector General of Police (IGP) Tahir Alam Khan after he tendered an unconditional apology for passing ‘derogatory’ remarks against......
ISLAMABAD: The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) of the capital police arrested four women on the charge of robberies.The police said the accused used to get job as housemaids and looted cash, gold......
ISLAMABAD: An exhibition showcasing the contribution of a Baloch family to art opened at Gallery6 on Thursday.The exhibition, “Yak Baloch Kahol-i-Hashar,” included works by Baloch artist Akram Dost......
RAWALPINDI: Three under-trial prisoners (UTP) have been assigned the same barrack in Adiala Jail as the supermodel Ayyan Ali allegedly to protect her against other prisoners and even......
RAWALPINDI: A day before people from cantonment areas go to the polls to select those who will represent them on cantt boards, major political parties and their candidates turned up the heat on......
ISLAMABAD: Members of parliament can request ministers to facilitate a particular development project that is important to their constituents, but it federal secretaries – both former and serving –......
ISLAMABAD: Even before the onset of the summer, the power shortfall is beginning to be visible across the country, creating fears among the citizens that the intensity of the loadshedding might......
TAXILA: With the elections to cantonment boards less than 24 hours away, the Pakistan People’s Party’s (PPP) unlikely alliance with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in Taxila has raised many......
LAHORE: A large number of government employees on Thursday took out a procession from Nasser Bagh to the Civil Secretariat on the call of the All Pakistan Clerks Association (Apca) to press for their......
LAHORE: Norwegian Ambassador to Pakistan Leif H Larsen has called for increasing economic cooperation between the two countries, expressing concerns at the present low trade volume between them.He......
LAHORE: “Sher ki ek din ki zindagi geedar ki so sala zindagi sae behtar hoti hai!” (One day of lion is better than the hundred days of jackal!), utters Tipu Sultan while drawing his sword.Companions......
LAHORE: A young girl was strangled allegedly by her father and brother in the name of honour in the Lower Mall area on Thursday.The deceased was identified as Nadia, 19, a BA student, and a resident......
LAHORE: Pakistan Rangers (Punjab) Director General Maj-Gen Umer Farooq Burki on Thursday visited frontline check posts of Desert Rangers, Bahawalpur.According to a news release issued by Rangers’......
LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer Amin Wains has said that the challan of cases registered under the National Action Plan (NAP) should be completed at the earliest and sent to the courts.The CCPO......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday reserved verdict on a Pakistan Cricket Board’s petition against levy of over Rs60 million property tax by excise department.Lawyers of the Punjab government......
LAHORE: Former state minister for information and broadcasting Ahmed Saeed Awan died of heart attack on Thursday. He was 73.His funeral prayers will be offered in Bhakkar district at 9am on Friday......
LAHORE: An eight-day ‘Indigenous On-Campus Training’ workshop for non-teaching staff of the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore, concluded here on Thursday.Published in Dawn, April......
FAISALABAD: A large number of arms licences, including those of prohibited bores, have been issued to people in back dates by the arms licencing branch (ALB) of the DCO office.Among beneficiaries are......
BAHAWALPUR: A local anti-terrorism court handed down life imprisonment and fined Rs2.2 million to an accused in an acid attack case here on Thursday.According to the prosecution, Muhammad Azhar had......
GUJRAT: A seminar on “The Role of University of Gujrat (UoG) in Community Development” was organized by the journalist community at the Press Club here on Thursday.The main objective of the seminar......
OKARA: Two gunmen fleeing police custody were shot dead on Thursday when their accomplices got them free after injuring two constables, District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Faisal Rana told......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Three boys suffered bite wounds as several stray dogs attacked them near Chak 301-JB, Gojra, on Thursday.The eyewitnesses said Adnan Ashfaq and Shabbir Liaqat of Chak 302-JB and Zain......
FAISALABAD: Abdul Hameed was lying on a makeshift bed placed among powerlooms at Piranwala Chowk, Qadirabad, and waiting for the restoration of power supply suspended about six hours ago.The......
MULTAN: Scores of traders of Baara Market, Khanewal Road, on Thursday staged a protest demonstration against what they called police failure to control the incidents of dacoity and theft in the......
LAHORE: The Lahore divisional administration has given a go-ahead to the departments concerned for launching pilot projects in order to ease the public mobility and access to various destinations......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and PML-N are the main contenders for the Cantonment boards’ elections as the PPP is conspicuous by absence in canvassing. The polling is scheduled to be......
LAHORE: Just ahead of the Cantonment boards’ polls, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Lahore chapter held public meetings in all wards where the party leadership was welcomed and garlanded.The PTI......
LAHORE: Imam of Ka’aba Dr Shaikh Khalid Al Ghamidi reached Lahore on Thursday evening on a four-day visit to Pakistan.Jamiat Ahle Hadith President Senator Sajid Mir, Pakistan Ulema Council chairman......
LAHORE: Dozens of Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) employees protested on Thursday at the board’s decision to suspend their services and issuing them notices. They chanted slogans against the ETPB......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif presided over a meeting at the Arfa Karim Software Technology Park on Thursday which reviewed an overall law and order situation and security......
Would the prime minister, the cabinet ministers, the members of the National Assembly, the senators and other power wielders pause for a moment and ponder over what the president of the People’s......
LAHORE: The Project Management Unit of the Punjab Board of Revenue arranged on Thursday a conference for representatives of the Punjab Bar Council, government members and office-bearers on the Land......
KARACHI: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) came under severe criticism at a press conference on Thursday at the Karachi Press Club where speakers highlighted their concerns on the......
KARACHI: Ever since King Salman has come to power, there’s a gung-ho feeling in Riyadh. Yemen’s is not a sectarian issue rather the Saudis are trying to make the country into Saudi Yemenia, said Raza......
TRAININGA four-day ‘Indigenous on-campus training, jointly organised by the Higher Education Commission and the University of Karachi under the Modern University Governance Program begins at the KU’s......
KARACHI: The cyber rights groups have voiced their demands from the government to publically share the draft of the cyber crime bill and called for inclusion of civil society members in the revision......
KARACHI: The city has never been accused of being a sleepy, idyllic town, but April 23 — the day by-election for NA-246 was to be held — started off on a similar note. Parts of city’s district......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday directed the provincial authorities to provide security to Dr Zulfikar Mirza, a disgruntled leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, in accordance with law.A......
HYDERABAD: The Sindh High Court Hyderabad circuit on Thursday directed the relief inspecting judge, who is also a senior civil judge at Mithi, to personally appear in court on April 28 and assist it......
KARACHI: The first-ever DNA lab in Sindh was inaugurated on Thursday by Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah who said the laboratory would help the law enforcement agencies in emergencies and solve......
SUKKUR: Electricity consumers have to suffer over 13 hours a day outage in towns and more than 18 hours in rural areas despite scorching summer days, people complain.They told Dawn on Thursday the......
SUKKUR: The administration on Thursday sealed the food department silos in Ghotki district following escape of the official in charge of the local centre a little before assistant commissioner Abdul......
MIRPURKHAS: A team of the Karachi National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday carried out a raid on the offices of the Sindhri town committee in the investigation into alleged misappropriation......
KARACHI: A semblance of peace amid elaborate security and election arrangements, which welcomed the constituents of NA-246 as they came out to vote in the by-election on Thursday, was marred by......
KARACHI: It is 7:30am and there is no sign of the media or Imran Ismail, the PTI candidate for NA-246 by-election, at his residence in Phase VIII of Defence Housing Authority on Thursday. A couple of......
KARACHI: “We are not contesting the PTI or JI; everyone knows who we’re up against,” said a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader when asked why Kanwar Naveed Jameel, the party’s candidate for NA-246......
KARACHI: With his ‘staunch’ young workers on motorbikes and cars, Jamaat-i-Islami candidate Rashid Nasim was busy taking hectic rounds of some polling stations one after another since the first hour......
MIAMI: Five nursing students were killed and two injured in a fiery highway accident involving seven vehicles in the US state of Georgia, officials said.The university students, who were reportedly......
NEW DELHI: A top Indian jewellery company has withdrawn an advert featuring Bollywood star and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan after activists slammed it as racist and for promoting child......
CHARLOTTE: Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose career was destroyed by an extramarital affair with his biographer, was sentenced on Thursday to two years’ probation and fined $100,000 for......
KABUL: The Taliban stormed a police checkpoint in a northwestern province in Afghanistan and killed nine border guards, while a roadside bombing killed six civilians in the country’s southwest,......
NEW DELHI: The producer of “Nanak Shah Fakir”, a film on the life and teachings of Sikh founder Guru Nanak, has cancelled screening of the film that critics deemed blasphemous. The film has, however,......
WASHINGTON: Ten years after its launch, YouTube has become a household name for online video but faces an array of rivals in the market and lingering questions about its business model.The first......
NEW YORK: Switzerland tops a global ranking of happiness, closely followed by Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Canada in a comprehensive study unveiled by academics in New York on Thursday.The 2015 World......
BRUSSELS: EU leaders sat down for crisis talks on Thursday on possible military action against human traffickers in Libya, in a desperate bid to halt the tidal wave of refugees trying to reach Europe......
BEIJING: China has issued a list of its top 100 officials and others wanted on suspicion of corruption who are believed to have fled abroad, the latest step in President Xi Jinping’s aggressive......
PUERTO VARAS: A volcano in Chile that had been inactive for over 50 years suddenly erupted twice in the space of hours, blasting huge clouds of ash into the air and forcing the evacuation of around......
BUCHAREST: Romanian authorities arrested 26 people on Thursday over links to the so-called academy of criminals, a network suspected of robbing jewellery stores across Europe, anti-mafia prosecutors......
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations officials appealed to the European leaders on Thursday to put human life, rights, and dignity first when agreeing to a common response to what they called the “tragedy......
TOKYO: The day after Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sat down for his first substantial talks with China’s Xi Jinping, three of his cabinet ministers on Thursday visited the war shrine Beijing sees......
DUSHANBE: Rustam Gulov was walking in Khudzhand, a city in Central Asia’s Tajikistan, when police detained him and took him to the station. By the time he came out, his beard had been shaved clean —......
DHAKA: Holding a photograph of her son in one hand and a bone in another, Mehera stands silently surrounded by rubble at the site which once housed Bangladesh’s ill-fated Rana Plaza factory......
LONDON: Few mothers taking a new baby home would want a crowd of photographers snapping them from every angle at the hospital door, but Kate, future Queen of England, is likely to handle the bizarre......
MENLO PARK: It’s 10 years to the day since the first clip (“Me at the Zoo”) was uploaded on YouTube, and the service — now owned by Google Inc — has dominated online video-sharing ever since.But for......
BERLIN: The German parliament approved tighter rules on Thursday for firms selling financial products, including online platforms that support fledgling businesses through crowdfunding, to protect......
KARACHI: Prices remained steady on the cotton market on Thursday amid sustained demand for quality lint from spinners. However, trading was slow as ginners were reluctant to shed stocks at this......
LONDON: Gold edged above a three-week low on Thursday, following its biggest drop in over a month on Wednesday, as the dollar eased after weaker-than-expected US economic data.Spot gold was up 0.1......
LONDON: Global oil prices rebounded to a four-month peak Thursday as Saudi-led coalition warplanes launched new strikes in Yemen, stoking new supply concerns over the crude-rich Middle East.Brent......
ALBANY: Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $2.5 billion in a settlement with US and British authorities over the manipulation of benchmark interest rates used globally for its own financial gain.The US......
TOKYO: Negotiators for the Trans-Pacific Partnership have agreed trade rules for six broad categories as officials race to conclude a trade pact, a Japanese government source said on Thursday.The......
ISLAMABAD: Faced with country’s 55 per cent of undocumented businesses and just 0.5 per cent of population filing tax returns, the government plans to soon launch first countrywide tax survey in 15......
CHAKWAL: Bestway Cement Limited, a subsidiary of Bestway Group, has taken over Lafarge Cement plant located near Kallar Kahar.To mark the acquisition, a ceremony was held at the plant on......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports of non-textile products dropped by 11.29 per cent year-on-year from $8.703 billion to $7.72bn during the first nine months (July-March) of this fiscal year, according to......
ISLAMABAD: A joint working group on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is being constituted to start consultations with provinces on industrial parks and economic zones.In this regard, a......
KARACHI: Overvalued rupee and rebates given by regional countries have eroded the benefits of GSP+ and made the country’s textile exports uncompetitive, said Chairman All Pakistan Textile Mills......
KARACHI: The Oil and Gas Development Company Ltd (OGDCL) recorded an after-tax profit of Rs20.2 billion during Jan-March, a quarter-on-quarter rise of 3.4 per cent from Rs19.5bn (eps Rs4.54).This......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan has asked commercial banks to deploy more automated teller machines (ATMs) as the currently available network of 9,000 machines is insufficient to match the......
KARACHI: It was a roller coaster ride at the stock market on Thursday with the KSE-100 index closing down by 33.91 points, or 0.10 per cent, at 33,456.74.The index started on a positive note with the......
KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $17.491 billion during the week ending April 17 compared to $16.818bn the previous week, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said......
PQA to set up coal-fired power projectKARACHI: Port Qasim Authority (PQA) on Thursday signed an agreement with Port Qasim Electric Power Company to set up 1,320MW coal-fired power project at an......
MILTON GLOUCESTER: One has Britain’s highest jobs growth rate, the other the lowest.Milton Keynes and Gloucester are just 80 miles (120 kilometres) apart but the two cities show up the deep economic......
ISLAMABAD: Habib Metropolitan Bank is among the 12 banks of Asia and the Pacific region that have won an Asian Development Bank (ADB) award for their role in supporting trade.All the awardees, except......
SEOUL: Samsung Electronics has pulled out all the stops on its new Galaxy smartphones, but their modest prices compared to the latest iPhones throw an uneasy spotlight on the long-term cost of......
PARIS: International tennis chief Francesco Ricci Bitti has flatly denied saying he saw no problems with Crimean players turning out for Russia.The ITF president caused a stir in the tennis community......
Pakistan never expected Bangladesh to be doing to them what they had done to the Tigers in their previous encounters in bilateral One-day International series. Bangladesh’s first-ever whitewash of......
BARCELONA: Rafa Nadal’s bid to get back to top form before the French Open suffered a setback when he crashed to a 6-4, 7-6 (8-6) defeat to 13th-seeded Italian Fabio Fognini in the third round of the......
Shahram, Asif hammer century breaksKARACHI: Islamabad-based Shahram Changezi hammered two elegant century breaks as he blanked Japan’s Shuji Hase straight 4-0 to make a brilliant start in the 31st......
KARACHI: Former first-class cricketer and ex-international umpire and Afzaal Ahmed Rizvi died after a protracted illness early on Thursday.Afzaal, 66, passed away at 7:00am at a local hospital,......
KARACHI: It seems the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) has quelled the threat to Faisal Saleh Hayat’s presidential hot-seat.Hayat’s 12-year reign as chief of the country’s football governing body......
LAHORE: Seven goals by seasoned campaigner Shah Shamyl Alam helped Rijas stage a brilliant comeback to beat Sakuf Spot 9-6 in the Copper Polo Cup here on Thursday.Sakuf Spot’s two-goal handicap saw......
SOCHI: The new 24-hour Olympic television channel will be up and running “by April or May 2016”, Yiannis Exarchos, chief executive of the Olympic Broadcasting Services, announced on Wednesday.At a......
KARACHI: Young Azizabad FC reached the quarter-finals of the All Karachi Muslim Khatri Association Golden Jubilee Football Tournament after edging past a strong Irfan Mmemorial side 1-0 at the......
REAL Madrid’s Champions League pedigree is such that the ten-time European champions have faced each of their potential semi-final opponents this season — Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Juventus — at......
KARACHI: Holders National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) and last year’s runners-up Water And Power Development Authority (Wapda) set a repeat final after their teams won one-sided semi-finals in the 34th......
LODNON: Holders Real Madrid and Italian champions Juventus scraped into the Champions League semi-finals on Wednesday by eliminating Atletico Madrid and AS Monaco to join already-qualified Bayern......
Farrukh, Shiraz excel in Hinopak TrophyKARACHI: Farrukh Rizvi and Shiraz Hussain made telling contributions to help Hinopak Motors launch their Group ‘B’ campaign in the final round of the 20th......
KARACHI: All three opening-round matches in the PCB Regional Karachi region Inter-district Under-19 Cricket Championships ended without yielding conclusive results here on Thursday.On the last day of......
KARACHI: A six-member Pakistan team including three women will fly to Shanghai on Friday evening to compete in the World Individual Table Tennis Championship which is being held at Suzhou from April......
KARACHI: All-rounder Fahaddis Bukhari has been named to lead Zone-VI in the PCB Regional Inter-district Under-19 Cricket Championship for Karachi region.Zia Ahmed Siddiqui, president of KCCA Zone VI,......
KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) recorded a come-from-behind 3-1 extra-time victory over K-Electric on Thursday to join four-time winners Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) in the......
ST GEORGE’S (Grenada): Skipper Alastair Cook led from the front with a timely return to form as England progressed to 143 for one at lunch on the third day of the second Test against West Indies at......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s left-handed batsman Haris Sohail gained 17 places to rise to 79th spot while captain Azhar Ali is ranked 85th in the latest ICC Rankings released on Thursday.Also, fast bowler......
LAHORE: The apparently composed Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan while deciding to take the shambolic performance by Pakistan in his stride has decided to wait until the......
LONDON: Chris Woakes is likely to miss England’s upcoming Test series at home to New Zealand after undergoing knee surgery on Wednesday.The 26-year-old all-rounder tore his left meniscus while......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday defined liquefied natural gas (LNG) as petroleum product, instead of natural gas, just to bypass the legal requirement of public hearing by the regulator for its......
QUETTA: Canadian High Commissioner Heather Cruden and UNODC Representative in Pakistan Cesar Guedes handed over essential operational equipment to the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) of Balochistan.The......
QUETTA: A book on the journey of former mayor of Karachi H.M. Habibullah Paracha was launched here on Thursday.Titled as ‘Paracha-HM Habibullah’s Journey Across the Silk Road and Beyond’ the book has......
GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan police and Chinese immigration authorities have agreed to work in closer cooperation for curbing illegal cross-border movements, human trafficking and drug smuggling and......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has offered to Albania to provide higher education and training facilities to its people.In a meeting on Thursday with the President of Albania, Mr Bujar Nishani, in Istanbul on......
ISLAMABAD: The government has assured political parties that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will soon brief them on key national issues, including the Pakistan-China Economic Corridor (PCEC), electoral......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate has decided to reconstitute the special committee of the house on devolution to oversee the process of implementation on 18th Amendment in the Constitution and resolve unsettled......
LANDI KOTAL: Twenty suspected militants, three would-be suicide bombers among them, were killed in air strikes in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on Thursday.Military planes pounded militant hideouts......
KARACHI: Three presiding officers were among five people detained by law enforcement personnel on Thursday on charges of alleged bogus voting and other malpractices during the polling for by-election......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday appointed Mohammad Naeem as chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission for a period of three years, PAEC announced on Thursday.Mr Naeem serving as PAEC member......
Despite the havoc wrought by the cement plants here, the scenic hills and valleys of the Salt Range present a beguiling picture with lush green fields, loquat trees in fruit, and natural springs of......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan called on Thursday for regional cooperation against the threat posed by the self-styled Islamic State.“We have to cooperate to deal with it. There has to be better coordination,......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s candidate Kanwar Naveed Jamil emerged victorious on Thursday in the most talked-about by-election in the city’s NA-246 constituency.The result was not a surprise......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan directed officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday to speedily proceed with major corruption cases and go after big fish and......
ISLAMABAD: The ruling PML-N was finally dragged on Thursday into the controversy revolving around allegations of malpractices in the 2013 general elections and now the subject of investigation by an......
ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia treated on Thursday a crucial visit by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif to Riyadh in a low-key manner.There was no substantive announcement from......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties and a government ally boycotted the National Assembly (NA) midway through its sitting on Thursday - the third day of protests at a perceived disregard of the house by......
A friend had her son, in grade two, admitted to a private school in Islamabad. She had to pay Rs75,000 upfront. This included tuition fee for three months, admission fee and a number of other......
Someone said it was like having a wedding in the family after a long, long wait. That settled it then. There had to be, ultimately, that ‘small’ incident to betray the long-brewing tensions within......
Weddings are important ceremonies. It is said that the first wedding was held in paradise when Hazrat Adam got married to Hazrat Bibi Hawwa. Thereafter, this rite came to earth along with Hazrat Adam......
Beyond the spectacle, what is the long-term significance of the Chinese president’s much-hyped two-day visit to Islamabad? Grandstanding aside, what stood out most was the virtual unanimity of......
Importing liquefied natural gas is not rocket science. The technology is very old now and the market for LNG highly developed. India began importing LNG in 2003.Today, it is the world’s fourth......
The government is right to prioritise the China Pakistan Economic Corridor and push ahead with its implementation, but it would be a mistake to minimise the political controversies that are growing......
No doubt, many would be justified in describing the situation inside Pakistan as a security nightmare. However, such epithets appear inconsequential to officialdom as demonstrated by the serious......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) candidate Kunwar Naveed Jamil was declared the winner of the by-election held in Karachi's NA-246 constituency, according to an announcement made by Syed......
