LONDON: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met British counterpart David Cameron at 10 Downing Street on Saturday.During the meeting, the two leaders discussed a wide range of issues pertaining to bilateral......
Originally meant to feature Sheheryar Fazli in conversation with Mohammad Hanif, the session at the Islamabad Literature Festival was changed to pay a tribute to The Second Floor (T2F) Director......
Another day, another loss for Pakistan.That seems to have become the script for Pakistan on its tour of Bangladesh. But while the results may be shocking to many, the 4-0 scoreline, days after the......
Pakistan's left-arm seamer Rahat Ali has been ruled out of the Bangladesh Test series after suffering a hamstring injury, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Saturday.The 26-year-old Rahat,......
LAHORE: Two students were injured when student groups clashed near Chauburji on Saturday.Lytton Road SHO Asif Zulfiqar told Dawn that two student groups from Government Quarters High school Chauburji......
KARACHI: A case was registered Saturday over the brutal murder of human rights activist Sabeen Mahmud, who was gunned down in Karachi a day earlier.Read: Rights activist shot dead after seminar on......
It’s easy to be cynical. Being cynical means not having to do anything, and the lack of action creates its own self-fulfilling prophecy. The cynical person sees a protest march and thinks, “That......
ISLAMABAD: The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) condemned the killing of rights activist Sabeen Mahmud, who was brutally gunned down in Karachi a day earlier.Director General ISPR, Asim Bajwa......
DHAKA: Bangladesh included uncapped fast bowler Mohammad Shahid in their 14-man squad announced Saturday for the first Test against Pakistan in Khulna.The 26-year-old right-armer, who has 56......
Asrar’s obsession with the idea of ishq only seems to be increasing — the singer is back again with his new single ‘Mast Hua’ after ‘Ishq Hawa Main’.With lines Mast hua barbaad hua/Ishq ka kalma yaad......
KARACHI: The funeral procession of prominent rights activist Sabeen Mahmud, who was shot dead a day earlier in Karachi, was held at The Second Floor (T2F) on Saturday at 3:30pm.Read: Rights activist......
KATHMANDU: A powerful earthquake struck Nepal on Saturday, killing at least 1,180 people across a swath of four countries as the violently shaking earth collapsed houses, leveled centuries-old......
This article was originally published on April 25, 2016.The fingers type, but I don’t feel them moving. The ears sense a commotion, but I cannot hear. The eyes fight back tears, but it’s futile to......
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Local government (LG) elections in 42 of the 43 cantonments across the country took place on Saturday after a long interval of 17 years.Police, assisted by paramilitary forces, had......
Chernobyl disasterApril 26, 1986THE Chernobyl disaster is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history. On the morning of this day, reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant......
WORDS are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Food coma’, a new entrant to the Oxford Dictionary.Food comaDefinition: (Noun; Informal)A state......
Hills of iceICE hummocks can form when sea floes, or floating masses of ice, crush against each other and create block-like hills or ridges. They are found in both Antarctic and Arctic oceans and in......
World’s biggest rabbit gets ready to give up his title — to his own giant son!WE are not talking about little cuddly bunnies here, this is about the world’s biggest bunny Dad Darius, which measures......
IMAGINE, light from the distant quasars proceeded for its travels towards our galaxy some eight billion years ago, or more. Yet the biggest telescopes, both optical and radio, have been observing......
“SALAR, turn off that music and get yourself down here,” I heard my mother call out.As I went downstairs, one headphone was still hanging from my left ear, my hair was tangled up as if someone had......
AFTER months of studying and weeks of preparations, the final hour is here – for some of you who begin your exams later than those who are already in their new academic year.Giving an exam is the......
KARACHI: Abdul Quddoos, senior journalist and a former member of the Sindh Assembly, was laid to rest at the Essa Nagari Graveyard in Karachi on Friday.A large number of journalists and political......
QUETTA: Talks between the Balochistan government and protesting transporters of the province failed on Friday after which the latter resumed their protest by blocking national highways at different......
QUETTA: Lawmakers of the provincial assembly bitterly criticised the Wapda management for unscheduled loadshedding in Balochistan.Due to loadshedding standing crops were being damaged and demanded of......
QUETTA: The government has decided to check national identity cards and local and domicile certificates issued since 2000 in Balochistan to find out how many Afghan refugees have been issued these......
HYDERABAD: President Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (Butt group) Afzal Butt has said that the PFUJ planned to launch a decisive struggle, adding that about 80 per cent journalists in Karachi......
KARACHI: Former president Pervez Musharraf and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah congratulated Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain on Friday on the success of his party’s candidate in......
Losing a seat in an election is not something that surprises the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), its leaders and ideology-driven loyal workers. But after the NA-246 by-election results, what probably shocked......
NEW DELHI: Do Pakistanis envy India’s apparent economic progress or curse their own run-in with terrorism and economic difficulties? Whatever the truth they are the happier people compared with the......
ISLAMABAD: The Minister for Water and Power, Khawaja Mohammad Asif, said on Friday that the government would overcome power loadshedding by the end of 2017 despite exclusion of Gadani-based 6,600MW......
KARACHI: The customs authorities have confiscated 419.56 million tonnes of wheat imported from Ukraine for being unfit for human consumption.Official sources disclosed here on Friday that a company......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has dismissed allegations levelled by its former additional secretary Mohammad Afzal Khan that the 2013 general elections were massively rigged......
KARACHI: Peace activist and founder of T2F Sabeen Mahmud, who died from gunshot wounds on Friday, was a woman of many talents that mostly revolved around creating digital platforms for arts and......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly again faced quorum problem on Friday, drawing criticism of opposition lawmakers. The treasury benches again failed on Friday, the second consecutive day, to ensure......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has said that federal, provincial and military leadership are on the same page on the issue of Balochistan and they all want to resolve the......
ISLAMABAD: The National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) has refused to entertain an application filed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, seeking change of director general of......
LAHORE: Polling for 10 seats of Lahore Cantonment and Walton boards each is going to be held here on Saturday (today) as around 200 candidates are in the run.Local government elections in the......
IT is important to remember that strikes just don’t happen, they are caused. Since strikes in Pakistan are getting a lot more common now, picture a strike along with its effects: the work area is......
THIS refers to the pathetic condition of University Road in Karachi. It is surprising that this road is being ignored by the city administration.Unrestricted encroachment along the road points to the......
THIS refers to news regarding the approval of a ‘Cyber crime bill’ by a standing committee of parliament before being put to vote in the National Assembly. It is an alarming development insofar as......
AFTER the completion of the burial ceremony of poet-philosopher Allama Iqbal, an English officer said: “Today, you have buried the last true Muslim of this subcontinent.”The 77th death anniversary of......
PTCL has been advertising high profits for the past one year, which is ironic as it is making profits worth $800 million on the government of Pakistan. Now that the people have demanded PTCL pay......
Apropos your editorial ‘Karachi operation’ (April 19), you rightly give the operation an overall positive review and make excellent suggestions for expanding its scope.However, the editorial embodies......
A LARGER bench of the Lahore High Court in its unanimous judgement on April 17 rightly held that the decision of the Punjab government to build a signal-free corridor in the Lahore city violates......
UNITED NATIONS: Severely criticising the London tabloid, “The Sun”, for calling migrants ‘cockroaches,’ the United Nations human rights chiefFriday urged the British authorities and media to take......
BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces recaptured a key bridge from militants of the self-styled Islamic State in the capital of Anbar province on Friday, said an Iraqi security official, as the country’s......
WASHINGTON: Sawyer Sweeten, known for his role as one of twin sons in the US sitcom “Everybody loves Raymond”, committed suicide on Thursday aged 19, US media reported.“This morning a terrible......
TOKYO: Extremely high levels of radiation have been discovered in a playground in Tokyo, officials said on Friday, fanning fears for the health of children in the area.Soil underneath a slide at 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,......
GAZA CITY: Israeli tanks hit a position of the Hamas in the Gaza Strip after a rocket was launched on southern Israel from the Palestinian enclave, the army said on Friday.A military statement said......
WASHINGTON: The US drone strike that accidentally killed two hostages in Pakistan exposes intelligence shortfalls that former and current US officials say appear to be growing more frequent as......
ALMATY: As oil-rich Kazakhstan votes for a president on Sunday, the governing elite is pounding home a mantra of stability as fears percolate about the country’s massive Russian minority taking......
HANOI: When Tank 390 crashed through the gates of Saigon’s presidential palace 40 years ago, it heralded the end of Vietnam’s war. But the men who manned it have since lived in obscurity, poor yet......
GALLIPOLI PENINSULA: Turkey hosted leaders from the former Allied powers of World War I on Friday to pay tribute to the tens of thousands killed in the Battle of Gallipoli 100 years after one of the......
ZARZIS: Tunisian fishermen rescued a group of around 80 migrants on Friday after their boat got into difficulties while trying to sail from Libya to Europe, the Red Crescent said.“The flow (of......
BEIRUT: Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate and other Islamist fighters made gains on Friday in a joint offensive on the last major regime bastion in the northwest province of Idlib, a monitor said.The......
UNITED NATIONS: Actress Angelina Jolie on Friday criticised the UN Security Council’s failure to end the war in Syria, as she appealed for urgent help for the growing ranks of Syrian refugees.The......
BEIRUT: Rustom Ghazaleh, Syria’s former political intelligence chief, died on Friday after being fired for a quarrel with another regime official in which he was beaten up, a source close to his......
WELLINGTON: A strong 5.9-magnitude earthquake rattled New Zealand on Friday, seismologists said, panicking shoppers and residents but causing no major damage.The quake hit at 3:36pm with its......
KANCHANABURI: Thai wildlife officials began a headcount Friday of nearly 150 tigers kept by monks at a temple which has become the centre of a dispute over the welfare of the animals.Wat Pha Luang Ta......
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......
NYON: Barcelona will have the chance to avenge their 2013 humbling by Bayern Munich after being paired with the Germans again in the Champions League semi-final draw on Friday which also pitted......
KARACHI: Deserted grounds, deprived fans and falling standards - Pakistan has suffered badly from six years without hosting international cricket, but Zimbabwe’s planned tour next month could restore......
ST GEORGE’S: Joe Root struck an unbeaten 182 as England were bowled out 464 against West Indies in the second Test at Grenada before strengthening their position with a wicket before lunch on the......
ISLAMABAD: On the opening day of men’s singles main draw, two unseeded players Abdul Haider and Jibran-ul-Haq made upsets while defeating top seeded players at the Pakistan Tennis Federation Tennis......
KARACHI: Pakistan cueists experienced mixed fortunes on the second day as draws of the 31st Asian Snooker Championship were revised at Kuala Lumpur on Friday.According to results available here,......
LONDON: Sevilla’s Kevin Gameiro grabbed a late equaliser in a 2-2 draw at Zenit St Petersburg on Thursday to send the Europa League holders into the semi-finals after woeful goalkeeping had......
NYON: The possibility of an all-Italian Europa League final remained alive when Napoli and Fiorentina were kept apart in Friday’s semi-final draw.Fiorentina will play holders Sevilla, with the first......
SAN FRANCISCO: Defending champion Lydia Ko shot a five-under 67 to seize the early lead at the LPGA Tour’s Swinging Skirts Classic tournament on Thursday.The world number one from New Zealand looked......
KARACHI: The KE Under-16 Lyari Football League final will be played at the People’s Stadium Lyari on Sunday.According to details a prize purse of Rs 100,000 awaits winning team of K-Electric Under-16......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan legendary Test umpire Mahboob Shah returned here on Friday from Afghanistan after conducting Level-I Umpiring Courses for local umpires.These four-day courses were organised......
KARACHI: The annual 34th summer athletics camp will be held at the Hockey Club of Pakistan Stadium from May 31 under the aegis of Athletic Fitness School (AFS). The camp that is being held earlier......
LAHORE: Five-goal blitz by Taimur Ali Malik helped Dawood Group crush Sakuf 11-4 in the Copper Polo Cup here on Friday.Taimur had leveled the score 2-2, ending rivals’ 2-0 lead on handicap by scoring......
SHEFFIELD: Judd Trump will play Hong Kong’s Marco Fu in the second round of the World Championship following his 10-6 win over Stuart Carrington on Thursday.Trump, the 2011 finalist, led 7-2......
LAHORE: Except seventh seed Shahjahan Khan, all seeded players marched into the quarter-finals of the International Squash Tournament, which failed to attract any foreign player, as main round......
KARACHI: The rules for the June 30 elections of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) which have drawn ire from the opposing body have been ratified by FIFA, a top PFF official claimed on......
BARCELONA: Defending champion Kei Nishikori made his way into the Barcelona Open semi-finals by holding off Roberto Bautista Agut 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 on Friday.After the top-seeded Nishikori won the first......
LAHORE: The Red Bull Campus Cricket 2015 edition came alive with an incredibly exciting game between National College of Arts (NCA) and Government College of Science (GCS) which was won by the GCS......
KARACHI: Reposing full confidence in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is also Patron-in-Chief of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), the PHF President Akhtar Rasool has expressed optimism that the......
KARACHI: Opener Mansoor Khan played an exceptional knock to help K-Electric score an unconvincing five-wicket victory over Dubai Hawks in their final-round 20th Hinopak Trophy KCCA Inter-departmental......
KARACHI: Wapda and Pakistan Army completed the semi-final line-up of the NBP Challenge Cup underway in Lahore when they won their last-eight ties on Friday.Wapda recorded a come-from-behind 2-1......
VILLA PAZ: Reigning world champion Sebastien Ogier won the first special stage in the Rally of Argentina on Thursday which took place in the tourist centre of Merlo, 234 kilometres south of the......
LAHORE: The Inter-Varsity Athletics Championships will be held at the Wapda Sports Complex here on Saturday.More than 45 universities are fielding their men and women athletes in the one-day......
KARACHI: The second string of the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) on Friday proved that they are a force to be reckoned with when they thumped Water And Power Development Authority (Wapda) 3-1 in a......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Ministry on Friday notified 9th National Finance Commission (NFC) to work out a mechanism to distribute resources between federal government and the provinces for the next five......
KARACHI: Hybrid vehicles are becoming popular in Pakistan, imports data shows, mainly because of their perceived fuel-efficiency.Used Honda Vezel 1,500cc, Insight 1,333cc, Fit 1,333cc, and Toyota’s......
LAHORE: Wapda on Friday signed an agreement with the Power Construction Corporation of China for 132kv transmission line from Duber Khwar Hydel Power Station to Dasu Hydropower Project.The contract......
LONDON: Deutsche Bank’s expected move to sell much of its retail banking business will see it join a growing list of banks choosing to shrink and simplify to survive.The benefits of size and reach,......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Friday notified the draft of Modaraba Regulations 2015.The regulations are aimed at providing a level-playing field to......
KARACHI: United Bank Limited (UBL) posted earnings of Rs7.5 billion during the first quarter (Jan-March) of 2015, up by 15 per cent quarter-on-quarter and 37pc on a year-on-year basis.This translated......
HYDERABAD: Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research Sikandar Hayat Bosan on Friday supported subsidy for farm sector and asked provinces to invest in agriculture.Speaking at ‘Mango......
KARACHI: Stocks rallied on Friday with the KSE-100 index adding 318.38 points, or 0.95 per cent, to close at 33,775.12.Volumes stood reduced to 307m shares valued at Rs15 billion against 348m shares......
LONDON: Global banking giant HSBC on Friday said it had launched a review on whether to remain headquartered in Britain as the country tightens regulation of the sector.In a surprise announcement......
Adamjee Life assigned positive outlookLAHORE: Pakistan Credit Rating Agency (PACRA) has recently assigned ‘Positive Outlook’ to the Insurer Financial Strength (IFS) rating ‘A’ (Single A) of Adamjee......
BEIJING: China plans to take a giant step towards making the yuan more convertible by extending a pilot scheme allowing the currency to be traded with few restrictions to all its free trade zones,......
KARACHI: Election will be held in only one of the two wards of Cantonment Board Korangi Creek (CBKC) on Saturday when 15,933 voters will elect their councillor from the 12 candidates in the run for......
SUKKUR: Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen leader Allama Raja Nasir Abbas has said that the federal government has failed to ensure safety and security of citizens, and urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to......
SUKKUR: Fifteen people, including three women, were injured in a clash between two groups belonging to the Gujrani community over the ownership of a piece of land in Khan Mohammed Gujrani village of......
HYDERABAD: Sindh University (SU) will convene a conference to pay tribute to renowned intellectual Mohammed Ibrahim Joyo on May 27. It is being held under a series of programmes chalked out by Sindhi......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday directed the provincial government to deposit the amount of compensation for families of victims of the Superhighway traffic accident tragedy with the SHC......
BADIN: Supporters and opponents of former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza within the Pakistan Peoples Party held separate rallies in Golarchi and Nindo Shehr towns, respectively, on Friday.Seemingly......
THATTA: PPP Senator Dr Karim Khwaja has said the country is teetering on the edge of a water crisis because of raging disputes between Pakistan and India over sharing trans-boundary rivers.If the......
KARACHI: To mark World Intellectual Property Day (April 26), the National Academy of Performing Arts and the US consulate organised a panel discussion on the subject of music piracy in the academy’s......
KARACHI: While congratulating voters of the constituency on the recognition of the power of their vote, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf candidate in the recently-held by-election on NA-246 Imran Ismail, who......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Kanwar Naveed Jameel has asked the federal government to stop what he called a “stepmotherly treatment meted out to Karachi”.Speaking at a press conference at......
KARACHI: The Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) Pakistan on Friday took out a rally in support of Saudi Arabia.The rally that started from the Guru Mandir traffic intersection......
KARACHI: The Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) on Friday urged the government to play the role of a mediator between Saudi Arabia and Yemen by showing respect to the resolution passed by the......
KARACHI: Except the candidate of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, the remaining 13 candidates who lost the NA-246 by-election forfeited their security deposit under the election rules, it emerged on......
KARACHI: A modern system is being introduced in the city to collect and process garbage under international standards, according to managing director of the Sindh Solid Waste Management Board Roshan......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court issued on Friday a black warrant for the execution of a condemned prisoner and asked the jail authorities to send him to the gallows on May 6.Shafqat Hussain was......
KARACHI: A day after a decisive electoral triumph of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in the fiercely contested NA-246 by-poll, the Rangers chief on Friday sought to reject the widely held view that the......
KARACHI: All necessary preparations have been made to hold local government election in seven of eight cantonment boards in the province which will elect 39 out of 208 candidates in the first polls......
KARACHI: With the latest cybercrime bill passed by a National Assembly committee, freedom of expression has once again come under threat adding onto the gag on reporting and talking on certain issues......
KARACHI: More than 149,000 voters in the Cantonment Board Faisal (CBF) will go to the polls on Saturday (today) to elect 10 councillors who will represent them on the military dominated board.Local......
HYDERABAD: In the Cantonment Board Hyderabad (CBH) elections being held after 17 years, 32,399 voters in eight of the total 10 wards will go to the poll on Saturday (today) to elect eight general......
KARAK: The Subject Specialist Association (SSA), Karak district chapter, on Friday condemned the decision of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Kohat, for ignoring them in the......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Nasir Khan Durrani has suggested end to disparity in the compensation package for the policemen killed in the line of duty across the......
MANSEHRA: The Election Commission has increased the number of polling stations for men and women in Mansehra district from 600 to 750 for the May 30 local government elections.“We first reserved 600......
SWABI: Provincial general secretary of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F, Maulana Shuja-ul-Mulk asked on Friday the people to select those candidates in the local government elections who could......
MARDAN: Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif said here on Friday that the federal government would soon remove reservations of the opposition parties concerning change in the Pakistan-China......
NOWSHERA: The elections in the two cantonment boards here on Saturday would prove a test case for the political parties to weigh their public support at grassroots level before the upcoming local......
PESHAWAR: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday paid tribute to the sacrifices of officers and Jawans of Frontier Corps, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the fight against terrorism and......
KOHAT: A police clerk and a detective foot constable (DFC) have been arrested for issuing character certificates to two persons, allegedly involved in murder, kidnapping for ransom cases, to be able......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Friday directed the provincial irrigation secretary to post a sub-divisional officer of the department back to the Kabul River Canal subdivision.The directions......
PESHAWAR: A policemen was killed and eight others and a civilian suffered injuries in a bomb blast along the main GT Road near a Peshawar police station on Friday.An official of the Gulbahar police......
PESHAWAR: All is set for the elections to the nine cantonment boards of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa today (Saturday).The Election Commission has handed over all the relevant material to the election......
PESHAWAR: Pakhtun Awareness Movement (PAM), a civil society organisation, has announced to organise an all parties conference in Peshawar to take a unified stand on the Pak-China Economic Corridor......
RAWALPINDI: As residents of cantonment areas go to the polls today, the three largest mainstream parties that are contesting the polls wrestle with internal divisions over the award of......
RAWALPINDI: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) is the only religious political party which is participating in the cantonment board elections.The JI fielded eight candidates for the 20 seats of Rawalpindi and......
RAWALPINDI: An independent candidate for the cantonment board elections has threatened self-immolation after he was not allotted an election symbol of his choice.Mohammad Afzal Khan was associated......
RAWALPINDI: Today’s elections to the cantonment boards are unique because this is the first time in the history of the country that they are being held on a party-basis.This was mandated by the......
RAWALPINDI: The results of the cantonment board elections are likely to be a reflection of the results of the 2013 elections with Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N and Imran Khan’s PTI emerging as the two......
ISLAMABAD: The outlawed Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat (ASWJ) and former jihadists organised a rally and conference on Friday under the banner of Tehreek Difa-i-Harmain Sharifain in which they expressed......
ISLAMABAD: If the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (PCEB) 2015 is passed by the National Assembly in its current form, it may encounter resistance in the upper house of parliament.Participants at......
ISLAMABAD: The International Islamic University (IIUI) administration and a group of students on Friday resolved their dispute over a makeshift mosque.A local court on Friday resumed hearing of a......
ISLAMABAD: Another year sees another literature festival in what Ameena Saiyid says was once seen as a synthetic city with no roots.The Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF), held annually at Margalla......
ISLAMABAD: There is a misconception that human rights are a western idea and the West has been trying to implement it. The fact is that rights were guaranteed in different civilisations and religious......
ISLAMABAD: The district and sessions court of Rawalpindi directed the Adiala jail administration to ensure anti-allergy treatment to supermodel Ayyan after the model complained that she had developed......
ISLAMABAD: Emotions are always part of an author’s tools. That is what distinguishes poets and fiction writers from non-fiction writers and scientists.A novel or an epic poem and also a theatre play......
LAHORE: The girls again outshined boys in academics at the 13th convocation of the Government College University (GCU) here on Friday as they clinched prestigious academic medals for top positions in......
LAHORE: At least 171 black spotted turtles out of 504 confiscated by the Punjab Wildlife Department at Allama Iqbal International Airport on 20 April were released in Head Balloki on Friday in the......
SHEIKHUPURA: An expatriate was deprived of foreign currency, gold ornaments and other valuables on Lahore Road near Khanpur stop on Friday.Safdar Ali, who came from Dubai, was going with his two......
LAHORE: Punjab Rangers carried out an operation against smugglers in Wagha sector on Friday and recovered 49 bottles of Indian liquor.A news release issued by Ranger’s spokesman said that Rangers......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday sustained its registrar office’s objection to a petition seeking recovery of three members of defunct Hizbut Tahrir from the alleged custody of agencies.The......
LAHORE: Two people, including a minor, were killed in an accident on Canal Road near Journalist Housing Society on Friday.Police said Irfan, 20, and Kashif, 8, of Batapur, were riding a motorcycle......
MULTAN: Mango Growers’ Cooperative Society Limited chairperson Syed Zahid Husain Gardezi says that ban on the use of wooden crates for the export of mango by the Plant Protection and Quality Control......
LAHORE: Polling for 10 seats of Lahore Cantonment and Walton boards each is going to be held here on Saturday (today) as around 200 candidates are in the run.Local government elections in the......
LAHORE: A City District Government of Lahore (CDGL) squad inspected on Friday various roads and intersections of the metropolis and detained 19 beggars, of them six are women.The officials shifted......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) leadership has once again refused to join proceedings of the Joint Investigation Team set up to probe the Model Town killing case, saying the JIT does not......
LAHORE: Funeral prayers of the police constable, who was killed when eight people opened fire at him in Green Town, were held at Qila Gujjar Singh Police Lines on Friday.Constable Muhammad Younis,......
LAHORE: British High Commissioner to Pakistan Philip Barton called on Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif here on Friday and discussed matters of mutual interest, promotion of bilateral relations and......
LAHORE: A 12-year-old girl was abducted and raped by unidentified person(s), police said on Friday.She was found unconscious outside her home situated along Hafeez Road. The victim was shifted to the......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Three bogies of a goods train were derailed between Gojra and Pacca Anna railway stations near abandoned Kot Saleem Shaheed railway station on Friday.As the rail track was broken, it......
LAHORE: Police are being allowed in Punjab to directly raid wedding ceremonies to take cognisance of violation of the allowed one-dish meals and holding of the functions beyond the permitted time of......
GUJRANWALA: The Crime Investigation Agency ( CIA) claimed on Friday to have arrested seven members of a car lifters’ gang and seized eight cars from their possession.At a press conference, CIA SP......
GUJRAT: The provincial home department has extended the detention of three leaders of a banned outfit for two months besides detention orders of another seven activists of the sectarian and banned......
BAHAWALPUR: The Punjab government has approved a building project for the establishment a museum conservation laboratory on the premises of the local museum costing about Rs15 million.It is learnt......
BAHAWALPUR: The Quaid-i-Azam Medical College, one of the known institutions in Punjab, has been facing faculty shortage for long.There are 22 vacant posts of professors, 17 of associate professors......
GUJRAT: Patients at the Government Maternity Hospital of Fawara Chowk have been facing numerous problems due to a lack of medical equipment, out-of-order machinery, shabby operating theatre and......
SAHIWAL: A cart pusher was crushed to death by a bus at Pakpattan Chowk on Friday.Manzoor Ahmed, 24, a resident of Manzoor Colony, was crossing the roundabout when the bus, coming from the wrong......
ISLAMABAD: The PPP has decided to work with mainstream political parties and pressure the government into introducing the local government system and extending jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (SC)......
LAHORE: Islam does not allow religious prejudice and bias and teaches Muslims to love other people, said Imam of the Grand Mosque in Makkah Dr Khalid al-Ghamidi in the Friday sermon he delivered at......
ISLAMABAD: The Haj Policy 2015 was announced here on Friday by Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Muhammad Yousaf who said 143,368 Pakistanis would perform Haj this year.Haj applications will be......
WASHINGTON: Two influential rights groups — Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union — urged the United States on Friday to be more transparent about its drone strikes.In a......
SANAA: Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh urged on Friday his rebel allies to implement UN Security Council decisions in return for a halt in Saudi-led coalition air strikes.“I call on......
ANKARA: Iran’s foreign ministry summoned the Saudi charge d’affaires on Friday in protest against Riyadh’s interception of two Iranian planes carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen, the Students News......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkmenistan agreed on Friday to expedite work on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) gas pipeline project which is scheduled to be completed by 2018.President......
ROME: Italian police arrested on Friday 10 people and were looking for eight others suspected of belonging to an armed group linked to Al Qaeda who had plotted attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan and......
ISLAMABAD: Local government elections in 42 of the 43 cantonments across the country will be held on Saturday. The election in Balochistan’s Ormara cantonment will take place after the resolution of......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office expressed on Friday shock at the death of two western hostages in a US drone attack in tribal areas in January and recalled its criticism of the US drone war for causing......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office endorsed on Friday Saudi action against rebels in Yemen, which was aimed at curbing ‘external’ involvement in the Middle East and reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to......
KARACHI: Sabeen Mahmud, social media campaigner and human rights activist who founded the social forum T2F, was shot dead on Friday evening, minutes after the end of an interactive discussion......
The voters in NA-246 have spoken, and spoken decisively. As the unofficial numbers began to pour in from the 213 polling stations in the constituency, it soon became clear that the MQM’s Kunwar......
It may have been an exercise in damage limitation, but it will take some time before the success — or failure — of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s trip to Saudi Arabia becomes apparent.The Saudi regime......
The title of chief whip may sound impressive. The term conjures up the image of someone in control, sternly directing a group of charges through an assignment that has to be completed within a......
One of the abiding myths of the last half of the 20th century was that democracy, combined with free trade, would lead to liberal societies and peace between nations.The leading example of this......
There was widespread joy in Indian Kashmir when, on April 20, three top separatist leaders came together on the same platform — Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik — after five......
The MQM has romped home in the by-election in NA-246 which includes the party’s famed headquarter Nine Zero. That unprecedented and ironclad security measures were in place ensured the exercise was......
The news is that the high and mighty heading the 200-million strong Islamic Republic of Pakistan have just returned from the world’s petro-capital, Riyadh.The prime minister, chief of army staff,......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain on Saturday invited all political parties in the country, including the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), to work together......
