KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Haider Abbas Rizvi, while addressing a press conference at MQM headquarters Nine Zero, categorically denounced "baseless allegations" levelled against......
CAPE TOWN: Dav Whatmore has signed a four-year contract to coach Zimbabwe, the country's cricket board said on Thursday.“We signed a contract yesterday which is going to be a four-year deal,”......
Sabeen was killed six days ago, Masood Hamid a week earlier and the Queen song “Another one bites the dust” keeps playing over and over again in my mind.I find myself singing it as I drive back from......
Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) chief and member of National Assembly Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao was targeted in a suicide attack in Charsadda Thursday evening, where he had gone to attend Alamzeb Omerzai's......
Pakistan's Hamza Akbar beat Pankaj Advani India 7-6 to win the country's first Asian Snooker Championship after a gap of 17 years after a hotly contested final in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia on......
Pakistan, Bangladesh and West Indies are now locked in a tight struggle for the remaining two slots in the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 whose cut-off date is 30 September 2015.If Pakistan, who are......
KARACHI: SSP Malir Rao Anwar announced the arrest of two terror suspects last night, whom he claimed were members of Indian spy agency RAW (Research and Analysis Wing).Speaking to the media on......
ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister's Delivery Unit (PMDU), which will not only monitor but also ensure timely implementation of key development projects, commenced on Thursday.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif,......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said Thursday that the government will maintain the same prices of petroleum products for the month of May.Speaking to media representatives in the federal......
Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) president Faisal Saleh Hayat’s withdrawal from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) vice-presidency polls against his Indian counterpart Praful Patel has resulted......
ISLAMABAD: The Peoples Republic of China has reaffirmed its commitment for the multi-billion dollar project of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the fate of which was sealed during Chinese......
Earlier on Sunday a tornado hit Peshawar and its surroundings, leaving dozens dead and many more injured; the unprecedented extreme weather startled residents and local climatologists. They don’t......
With announcement of release dates for several films nowadays, many may have forgotten about the much-awaited biopic Kaptaan based on the life of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan,......
KARACHI: The Teachers' Association of the University of Karachi on Thursday demanded of the government to arrest the killers of Dr Wahidur Rahman within 15 days.Addressing a press conference in......
Zimbabwe will be the first team to tour Pakistan since the 2009 terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore, Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Wilson Manase announced in a press conference on......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday expressed serious concern over the plight of Pakistani seamen in India and said treatment meted out to them was in violation of international law and......
SWAT: An anti-terrorism court of Swat on Thursday sentenced ten men to 25 years imprisonment in the case related to the 2012 attack on child activist Malala Yousufzai.The ten convicts were identified......
Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) president Hayat was due to run for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) vice-presidency for the South Asia Zone later on Thursday against All India Football......
Outrage, outrage, outrage! How can our cricket team lose so tamely to Bangali-desh? We should thoroughly investigate the debacle. We shouldn’t have lost at all, simply because we eat more meat than......
With exactly 22 days remaining in the release of Pakistan’s first full-length animated film, 3 Bahadur, Waadi Animations launched its official smart phone game at an event held at Kidz Dunya.The game......
ISLAMABAD: Federal police on Thursday dismissed a pending case against former CIA station chief Jonathan Banks over his role in the the death of two tribesmen in a US drone attack.The federal police......
In a series of tweets posted on his official Twitter account on Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after the latter called him and appreciated India's......
KATHMANDU: Rescue teams toiled in pouring rain on Thursday in the debris left by last week's devastating earthquake in Nepal, but officials said the chance of finding any more survivors was bleak as......
KHULNA: Mohammad Hafeez struck his maiden Test double hundred as Pakistan feasted on Bangladesh's limited bowling resources to post a commanding 537 for five wickets on day three and take charge of......
WASHINGTON: The FBI facilitated a 2012 ransom payment of $250,000 to Al-Qaeda from the family of a kidnapped US aid worker later killed in a drone strike, The Wall Street Journal reported on......
PARIS: French cartoonist Luz, who drew Charlie Hebdo's cover picture of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) following the massacre of the satirical weekly's editorial team, has said he will no longer draw the......
RESIDENTS of model village Chak Shahzad have been suffering from chronic civic problems for the last couple of years. Messy streets are covered with oozing sewage owing to lack of regular upkeep and......
LYARI Expressway, though partially complete, is a great source of relief for commuters like me. However, it requires immediate attention of the National Highway Authority (NHA).The garbage dumps on......
SOME faculties of Dawood University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, have been deprived of recognition by the Higher Education Commission.The faculties of petroleum and gas, energy,......
ADMINISTERING vaccines in Pakistan is still a hot issue. Even after many fatwas given by renowned scholars, people do not vaccinate their children, especially in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.I,......
I HAVE a word of thanks for China’s first lady Peng Liyuan for honouring Pakistan by dressing in the colours of Pakistani flag. No money, no grant, no assistance can win a nation’s heart but a small......
APROPOS of Faisal Bari’s article ‘Anti-competitive practices’ (April 24), it is unfortunate that parents are willing to pay high fees but never ask the authorities to justify the high charges.Even......
ENSURING the safety of students should not only be confined to classrooms, but to their vans as well. I was on my way home from university recently when I saw a school van with little children left......
I WOULD like to draw the attention of the authorities to the presence of burqa-clad beggars and hawkers selling flowers and other items at the main entrance and exit of the traffic signals at Karachi......
OUR opposition leader rose on a point of order in the National Assembly and rhetorically lamented the downfall of our cricket team. He was feeling great pain for that degradation of this game.There......
THIS is about the death of two-year-old Abu Bakar whose life could have been saved had a ventilator been provided to him. This incident took place recently at Faisalabad, a stronghold of the PML-N......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday declared the functioning of executive magistrates in the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Pata) under the Nizam-i-Adl Regulation 2009......
PESHAWAR/NOWSHERA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has started compensating the families of the people killed in the mini-cyclone that struck three central districts of the province on Sunday,......
PESHAWAR: Students representing various political groups in Peshawar University have expressed concern over the increase in different kinds of fee and demanded of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar......
CHARSADDA: Awami National Party central president Asfandyar Wali Khan on Wednesday vowed to resist the plan to change the route of the Pakistan-China Economic Corridor, saying the federation could......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will soon have whistleblower protection and vigilance commission law to facilitate people to make disclosures about irregular, illegal or corrupt practices by......
PESHAWAR: Minister of State for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali on Wednesday directed immediate repair of the faulty air-conditioners at the surgical ward of the Lady Reading Hospital.The minister......
PESHAWAR: Minister of State for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali on Wednesday said around 90 percent of Wapda infrastructure damaged by the recent rainstorm in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had been......
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami, a coalition partner in the PTI-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, has formed an alliance with Pakistan Peoples Party in Cantonment Board Peshawar (CBP) and nominated Waris......
MANSEHRA: Wajiuzaman Khan, who was disqualified as MPA after Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N moved the Election Commission against him, has established contacts with Imran Khan’s PTI to secure ticket for PK-56......
KOHAT: The counter-terrorism department (CTD) has recovered a property dealer from a house in Hafizabad area of Kohat and arrested ring leader of kidnappers who have been demanding Rs20 million as......
SWABI: Speakers at a youth convention here on Wednesday noted that increasing population and lack of education were major causes of violence in the society.The convention was organised by the......
KHAR: Revolutionary steps would be taken to improve standard of education in tribal areas and restore trust of people in the government educational institutions, said Fata Education Director......
MARDAN/UPPER DIR: Four people, including two women, were killed in separate honour-related incidents in Mardan and Upper Dir on Wednesday.In Mardan, the officials of Takhtbai police station said that......
ISLAMABAD: Legal practice seemed not suiting former Accountant General of Pakistan Revenues (AGPR) Tahir Mehmood as the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday fined him Rs100,000 for filing a......
KARAK: Police registered FIRs against four private schools and a commercial bank for not following the directions of government regarding security measures of the institutions.Police authorities......
PESHAWAR: A free medical camp was held at the Peshawar Press Club here on Wednesday for the media persons and their families, where over 200 people were treated and given medicines.The camp was......
ISLAMABAD: The contractual employees and teachers of the Workers Welfare Board, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Wednesday held a protest demonstration and sit-in in front of the Central Secretariat of the......
KARAK: The six-party alliance has constituted a committee headed by Jamaat-i-Islami district president Maulana Tasleem Iqbal for making seat-to-seat adjustment among the likeminded groups and parties......
ISLAMABAD: Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday summoned the deputy commissioner Islamabad to respond on the matter of shops and markets closing at 8pm.The court......
ISLAMABAD: After failing to get the government attention despite holding a shutter-down strike, the business community on Wednesday warned to continue its resistance against the market closure timing......
MULTAN: Former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani told reporters on Wednesday that former Sindh interior minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza was trying to make issues out of non-issues.He said the PPP was......
ISLAMABAD: A large number of people associated with the Information Technology (IT) Industry, civil society and students on Wednesday gathered at F-6 Markaz to protest against the cybercrime bill......
ISLAMABAD: The contractual employees and teachers of the Workers Welfare Board, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Wednesday held a protest demonstration and sit-in in front of the Central Secretariat of the......
ISLAMABAD: Authorities are still in the process of retrieving deleted data from the mobile phones seized from model Ayyan Ali at the time of her arrest.According to the interim challan submitted in......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday observed that the stance taken by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on the detention of a squadron leader was ‘shaky and cloudy.’Though Justice......
ISLAMABAD: An official of the paramilitary Rangers died under unexplained circumstances here on Wednesday.Lance Naik Abdul Khaliq, 45, received multiple shots from his G3 rifle. He was deployed at......
ISLAMABAD: For decades after an act of parliament declared them non-Muslim in 1974, Ahmedis continued to live in harmony, and even kinship, with Muslim in the town of Shamsabad in Kasur district. But......
Q: What is your reaction to the opposition leader’s outburst on the floor of the house?A: I think Mr Shah should have not protested before the house, because the Sindh education minister was present......
ISLAMABAD: Amid an outcry from the faculty members, the Qauid-i-Azam University (QAU) is all set to place before the syndicate its plan to sell a piece of land to the Pakistan Institute of......
RAWALPINDI: Local police sent a request to the interior ministry for the names of two former army officers involved in the biggest heist at the airport to be put on the Exit Control List (ECL).A......
ISLAMABAD: Legal practice seemed not suiting former Accountant General of Pakistan Revenues (AGPR) Tahir Mehmood as the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday fined him Rs100,000 for filing a......
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) will put in place a command and control centre for the metro bus service in Saddar in the first week of June.“To monitor the bus service and......
Q: How is your work reflective of your ethos?A: The Studio is very interested in making products or buildings which narrate the story of the consumer or the community. This allows us to access design......
MUZAFFARABAD: A senior officer of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) department of Inland Revenue, who had pinpointed losses to the AJK exchequer to the tune of Rs8 billion, is being made to pay a......
ISLAMABAD: If visitors find this body of work weird and haunting, the purpose has been fulfilled. The new exhibition at My Art World which opens on Thursday has been inspired by the multiple facets......
ISLAMABAD: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah committed a mistake by refusing to grant Bengali language the status of national language.This was stated by Dr Syed Jaffar Ahmed, Director, Pakistan Study......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab President Ejaz Chaudhry lambasted the Sharif brothers for running a “royal democracy” and deciding to spend Rs120 million from the public exchequer to hold a......
LAHORE: Punjab is all set to revolutionise the immunisation activities in the province with an innovative E-card initiative.According to a press release issued on Wednesday, the E-vaccs card is an......
LAHORE: The Punjab Higher Education Department has advised all the public- and private-sector universities and institutes in the province to nurture nationalism among their students.Addressed to vice......
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq alleges that the party could not win in the recent Karachi by-polls because the rival MQM had prepared bogus voters’ list and identity cards.He was speaking......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) sent on a 10-day physical remand 47 suspects allegedly involved in the lynching incident after twin blasts at churches in Youhanabad.Police have so far produced......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Wednesday took up a 17-year-old writ petition of former president Asif Ali Zardari seeking quashment of a drug case wherein he had already been......
LAHORE: The Quaid-i-Azam Medical College (QAMC) of Bahawalpur, one of the major institutes in south Punjab, is facing threat of closure thanks to the Punjab government’s ‘flawed’ recruitment......
LAHORE: The vice chancellors of public universities have demanded the government introduce a transparent structure of incentives and rewards for the vice chancellors.The demand was made after the......
LAHORE: A meeting held on the instructions of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif decided on Wednesday to resolve the problems of Journalists Colony, Harbanspura.The participants learned the Water and......
LAHORE: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mushtaq Sukhera on Wednesday terminated a woman deputy superintendent of police (DSP) from service over negligence, misconduct and violation of ......
LAHORE: Russia supports Pakistan’s peace efforts in Yemen and its role in Afghanistan to bring stability in the region, said Ambassador of the Russian Federation Alexey Yurivich Dedov.Speaking at a......
LAHORE: A minor girl and a man allegedly committed suicide in two different areas of the city on Wednesday.The Shafeeqabad police said that 12-year-old Maha Noor was found hanged with a ceiling fan......
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif presided over a meeting here on Wednesday to review solar energy projects being set up in the province.The chief minister said that speedy measures had......
LAHORE: The Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) in collaboration with the Lahore Arts Council held a dance show at Alhamra Art Centre, The Mall, on Wednesday in connection with the International......
LAHORE: The PPP has warned Evacuee Trust Property Board Chairman Saddiqul Farooq to refrain from sacking employees hired during the last PPP regime.PPP’s Lahore President Samina Ghurki said here on......
LAHORE: The federal government has been criticised for keeping the Imam-i-Kaaba away from Barelvi school of thought during his recent visit to the country.“The government showed discrimination by not......
LAHORE: The PPP Human Rights Wing held a reference to pay a tribute to slain rights activist Sabeen Mahmud here on Wednesday.PPP’s Khalid Butt, Naseer Ahmed, Ayub Naqvi and Yasmin Farooq lauded......
LAHORE: University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Fazal Ahmad Khalid has emphasised the need for collaboration among public and private sector universities and......
KASUR: A man and his sister were shot dead while three others were seriously injured by their neighbours on Wednesday in village Khokhar Ashraf in the jurisdiction of Chunian police.Muhammad Yamin......
FAISALABAD: Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) officials have been trying hard for the last one-and-a-half months to recover a meter allegedly installed illegally to energise the foundry unit......
BAHAWALPUR: Patients on Wednesday protested against the alleged lack of attention from doctors and technical staff of the department of radiology at Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH).According to......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said the issues regarding registration of religious seminaries are moving towards a positive solution through talks with the......
LAHORE: The PPP has criticised the Punjab government for failing to utilise development funds proportionate to the nine months of the current financial year.“The funds spent during the first three......
FAISALABAD: A case has been registered against eight policemen of the Counter Terrorism Department on charges of thrashing a student and trying to kidnap him from the Government College University,......
MULTAN: Former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani told reporters on Wednesday that former Sindh interior minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza was trying to make issues out of non-issues.He said the PPP was......
GUJRAT: The Centre for Languages and Translation Studies (CeLTS) of the University of Gujrat (UoG) organised a literary and cultural night.Dr Anwar, Dr Tabassum Kashmiri, Dr Saadat Saeed, Dr Mirza......
OKARA: The 20-day Jashan-i-Baharan or spring festival concluded here on Wednesday with a big sports show at the district stadium by students of six schools for children with special needs.They took......
KARACHI: Academic activities will remain suspended at Karachi University (KU) on Thursday in protest against Dr Waheed-ur-Rehman’s murder, announced KU teachers at a press conference held in the arts......
KARACHI: Better known by his pen name ‘Yasir Rizvi’, Dr Waheed-ur-Rehman, the Karachi University teacher and journalist who was shot dead on Wednesday morning, was a popular teacher and a trusted......
KARACHI: While a joint interrogation team investigating the allegations made by former Muttahida Qaumi Movement activist Saulat Mirza has completed the task and filed its report to the home......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement legislator Khawaja Izhar-ul-Hassan was appointed leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday.In less than two years to the May 2013 general election,......
KARACHI: What is the utility of civilian institutions such as the police and the judiciary if their functions are ultimately taken over by the military and paramilitary forces? Shouldn’t structural......
EXHIBITIONAn exhibition of works by two artists, Uzma Sultan and Qadir Jhatial, opens at the Koel gallery at 5pm. The show will remain open till May 11.JALIB AWARDThe 22nd Habib Jalib Peace Award to......
KARACHI: “The National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) has long been criticised for mostly staging adaptations and translated plays. We have decided to address these claims and are introducing a......
EXHIBITIONAn exhibition of works by two artists, Uzma Sultan and Qadir Jhatial, opens at the Koel gallery at 5pm. The show will remain open till May 11.JALIB AWARDThe 22nd Habib Jalib Peace Award to......
KARACHI: In order to understand the social model of pre-Partition India, the British presented it as a hierarchical society, which was a representation based on the pattern of the Brahmanical system......
KARACHI: A sessions court on Wednesday disposed of as unmaintainable an application seeking the registration of a case against Rangers and jail officials over the death in custody of religious party......
KARACHI: Imagine your home illuminated by natural light, with circulation of fresh air, running on solar energy and a roof garden providing you with fresh organic fruit and vegetables. Well, the city......
KARACHI: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) will stage a rally on Friday to demand an end to ‘propaganda’ against seminaries and campaign for Saudi Arabia’s defence in case of aggression against the......
SUKKUR: Assailants said to be dacoits fired a rocket targeting a team of the Jarwar police leaving an SHO dead and three constables wounded in the kutcha area of Jarwar in Ghotki district on......
KARACHI: Sabeen Mahmud, rights activist and founder of social forum The Second Floor, might have been targeted by religious extremists, said a senior police official on Wednesday.“A strong......
KARACHI: A senior official of the fire brigade department was shot dead on busy University Road on Wednesday evening, PIB Colony police said.They added that when 45-year-old Ghulam Farid left the......
KARACHI: A seminar on the missing persons of Balochistan is being organised on the premises of Karachi University on May 6 to support the struggle initiated by slain human rights activist Sabeen......
THATTA: About two dozen suspects were arrested and a number of sophisticated arms with their ammunition seized during an operation carried out by a team of Rangers that raided and cordoned off......
HYDERABAD: Qaumi Awami Tehreek president Ayaz Latif Palijo has said that whenever the Muttahida Qaumi Movement feels under pressure because of sudden developments in cases of Dr Imran Farooq murder......
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Finance Syed Murad Ali Shah has said the issue of outstanding electricity bills has been controversial since 2010 and until the federal government reviews it afresh the......
KARACHI: Blaming the Pakistan Peoples Party-led Sindh government for what he called an artificial water crisis, a senior leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has warned of disturbances which......
KATHMANDU: Nepalese villagers blocked trucks carrying supplies for earthquake victims on Wednesday, calling upon the government to do more to help after last week’s disaster left more than 5,000......
NEW YORK: Jack Ely, whose 1963 song “Louie Louie” was so unintelligible that the US government investigated it for secret messages, has died aged 71, his family said on Tuesday.Ely was the......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s new Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, appointed by royal decree on Wednesday, has waged war against Al Qaeda and survived a suicide bombing claimed by the jihadists.King Salman......
The world’s longest-serving foreign minister, Saudi Arabia’’ Prince Saud al Faisal, steered the oil giant’s diplomacy for four decades before stepping down.The aged minister, born in 1940, asked to......
WASHINGTON: Shinzo Abe became the first Japanese prime minister to address a joint meeting of the US Congress on Wednesday, offering heartfelt testimony on the need for deeper ties while facing......
RIYADH: Saudi King Salman’s youthful son Prince Mohammed, appointed on Wednesday as second in line to the throne, wields enormous power and is leading a war against rebels in neighbouring......
UNITED NATIONS: A group of United Nations independent experts welcomed the announcement by the United States government of a review of two counter-terrorism operations involving the use of drones at......
BAMAKO: Armed insurgents exchanged fire with soldiers in Mali on Wednesday, plunging peace negotiations into disarray in the first clash this year between government forces and the main Tuareg rebel......
GENEVA: The world is doing far too little to combat the misuse of antibiotics which is fuelling drug resistance and allowing long-treatable diseases to become killers, the World Health Organisation......
LVIV: He fought alongside the Nazis, then against them. He tried to drive the Soviets out of his native Ukraine, and spent 11 years in a prison camp in Russia.What does that make Oles Gumenyuk — a......
BALTIMORE: Pierre Estep was 16 when, he says, a Baltimore police officer put a gun to his face and taught him a lesson about respect for the law.“He told me he was the next thing to God,” Estep......
BEIJING: Yi Zhenxing’s movie career started by posting clips of himself online with a paper bag over his head commenting on computer games.The videos got lots of views so Yi, formerly a civil......
LONDON: The British government must submit new plans to the European Commission by Dec 31 to tackle the harmful air pollutant nitrogen dioxide, the UK Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday.Environmental......
PARIS: France will increase its defence budget by 3.8 billion euros ($4.2 billion) over four years from 2016 to ensure the army can tackle problems at home and maintain missions abroad, notably in......
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court on Wednesday acquitted more than two dozen activists who helped launch mass protests in 2013 against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after a trial slammed by rights......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama and a leading presidential candidate – Hillary Clinton – on Wednesday stressed the need for redefining race relations in America as thousands protested for......
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League party was declared the winner of mayoral elections on Wednesday after the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party boycotted the polls, claiming they were......
CAIRO Egypt jailed 69 Islamists for life on Wednesday for torching a church near Cairo in August 2013 during a crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, a judicial official said.The......
LONDON: An abandoned London station believed to have been used by Winston Churchill as a wartime bunker is up for rent, under plans to raising funds by leasing disused corners of the world’s first......
SYDNEY: Australia have a huge hunger for an Ashes triumph in England, according to all-rounder Shane Watson, while batsman Steve Smith believes this year’s series will not even be close if the......
LONDON: It was a disappointing Tuesday night for both Liverpool and Bayern Munich but there was joy for Barcelona and Paris St Germain.Hull City shredded Liverpool’s slim hopes of Champions League......
LAHORE: Announcing a reserved verdict, the Lahore High Court has dismissed a petition of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) against levy of over Rs3.6 million as property tax by excise and taxation......
SHEFFIELD: Judd Trump overcame illness to secure a berth in the World Championship semi-finals on Wednesday after completing a one-sided 13-4 victory over China’s Ding Junhui in Sheffield.Picking up......
SYDNEY: A bid from Australia to host the Summer Olympics for the third time in 2028 would have a good chance of winning what he hoped would be a hotly-contested bidding process, Olympic chief Thomas......
LONDON: New Zealand’s John Bracewell has been appointed Ireland’s new head coach, Cricket Ireland announced on Wednesday.The former Black Caps player and coach succeeds Phil Simmons, now in charge of......
LONDON: Daniel Lawrence broke three County Championship records against Surrey here on Tuesday on a day to remember for the 17-year-old.As well as becoming Essex’s youngest centurion, Lawrence’s 161......
KARACHI: Kusal Perera clobbered his second century in as many matches while inspiring Sri Lanka ‘A’ to an unbeatable 2-0 lead in their three-match one-day series against the touring Pakistan ‘A’ on......
HYDERABAD: Hyderabad recorded their straight innings win in the PCB Regional (Hyderabad region) Inter-district Under-19 Championships when annihilated Badin by an innings and 328 runs at the Niaz......
KARACHI: The International Islamic University (IIU) recorded a 39-run victory over Mohammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU) in a high-scoring thriller at Islamabad’s Comsats Ground on Wednesday.The......
KARACHI: Makran FC reached the semi-finals of the All Karachi Muslim Khatri Association Golden Jubilee Football Tournament defeating Maymar Sports FC 3-2 on shootout.In another match, Frontier City......
PRAGUE: Top seed Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic overcame a slow start, cold and rain to defeat Annika Beck of Germany in the first round of the Prague Open here on Tuesday.The 14th-ranked......
KARACHI: The fourth IC Trophy Ranking Tennis Championship will commence at Union Club here from May 5 where events including men’s singles, ladies singles, juniors singles, 16 & under singles,......
KARACHI: Good performances from Wasim Ahmed and Tauheed Khan enabled Medicam Group score a clinical 148-run victory over Dubai Hawks in their final-round match of the 20th Hinopak Trophy KCCA......
LAHORE: Pakistan men’s team beat Thailand 40-30 to record their first win in the International Handball Federation (IHF) U-21 Continental Trophy being held in Bangkok, Thailand.After the end of the......
KARACHI: Zone-V are the new leaders in the Karachi region standings in the PCB Regional Inter-district Under-19 Cricket Championships after cantering to an innings win against Zone-IV here on......
It was a blustery November evening in Islamabad when at a plush hotel in the capital, Faisal Saleh Hayat addressed a select group of journalists.The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) president had......
LAHORE: A high-level meeting is scheduled for Thursday at the PCB headquarters in which the cricket board is likely to make strategic changes to the current policies pertaining to the national team......
KHULNA: Opener Mohammad Hafeez led Pakistan’s strong reply with his third hundred in as many Tests after Bangladesh lost their last five wickets for 27 runs on the second day of the first Test at......
LAHORE: The national selection committee, in consultation with the team management, has announced Bilawal Bhatti as a replacement for injured pace bowler Rahat Ali in the Pakistan Test squad......
KARACHI: Highly talented Hamza Akbar defeated Malaysian Mohammad Reza 6-2 to become the third Pakistani cueist ever to reach final of the 31st Asian Snooker Championship at Kuala Lumpur on......
KARACHI: The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s countrywide Business Confidence Index (BCI) jumped by 17 percentage points (pps) over the previous index of one per cent recorded in......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Wednesday passed the Securities Bill 2015.The bill has already been passed by the Senate and it will become a law soon after the president’s assent.Presently the......
KARACHI: National Bank of Pakistan profit rose to Rs3.8 billion during the first quarter (Jan-March) of 2015, up by 15pc on a quarter-on-quarter basis. However, the result — driven by higher Net......
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday directed the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) to address the matter related to the unspent amount of Rs1.1 billion released......
KARACHI: Stocks declined for the second day on Wednesday with the Karachi Stock Exchange’s (KSE) benchmark 100-share index falling 115.93 points, or 0.35 per cent, to settle at 33,460.01.Traded......
BoP posts record profit of Rs2bnLAHORE: The Bank of Punjab (BoP) on Wednesday posted record profit-before-tax at Rs2 billion during the first quarter (Jan-March) of 2015 as compared to Rs0.7bn in the......
MUMBAI: Weak oil and commodity prices are offsetting concerns at India’s central bank over the impact of a spike in gold imports on the broader economy, officials say, even as the industry forecasts......
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft figures one way to get people psyched about Windows 10 is to make sure there are plenty of cool features and apps for smartphones and tablets that use the new operating......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures touched a fresh eight-month low on Wednesday, tracking weakness in comparative edible oils, although traders expect selling pressure to reduce ahead of the......
LONDON: Gold fell on Wednesday as investors took profits following a two-day rally, but soft US economic data that hurt the dollar and lowered expectations for a Federal Reserve rate rise in June......
LONDON: Scandal-hit bank Barclays warned on Wednesday that fines over its alleged role in foreign exchange market rigging could top £2 billion ($3.1bn, 2.8bn euros), after posting plunging......
KIEV: The World Bank sharply cut its outlook for war-torn Ukraine on Wednesday, forecasting its economy will shrink by a massive 7.5 per cent this year due to the conflict with pro-Russian......
WASHINGTON: The US economy skidded to a near halt in the first three months of the year, battered by a triple whammy of harsh weather, plunging exports and sharp cutbacks in oil and gas drilling.The......
FRANKFURT: Loans to the private sector in the euro area, a gauge of economic health, have started growing again, suggesting the European Central Bank’s monetary policy is beginning to work, ECB data......
DUBAI: The outlook for most of the rich Gulf Arab economies has dimmed for this year and next as oil prices have remained relatively low, according to a Reuters poll published on Wednesday that......
KARACHI: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has decided to take stern action against the directors of ACE Securities (Pvt) Limited for defrauding its clients, initiating an......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan again asked the government on Wednesday to come clean on the Pakistan-China Economic Corridor and said it was too good an opportunity for the......
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary General’s good offices are available to resolve the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan provided both countries ask for it, spokesman for the UN chief......
ISLAMABAD: India has failed to respond to Pakistan’s desire for good relations, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said in rare rebuke of the country with which he has promised to mend ties.Mr Sharif made......
ISLAMABAD: ‘Sehat Ka Ittehad’ — the joint campaign being run by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Pakistan Army and Fata Secretariat — saved the day for Pakistan at the 12th meeting of the......
QUETTA: A multi-party conference held here on Wednesday decided to stage a sit-in in front of the provincial assembly building on May 5 to protest against changes reportedly made in the route of the......
KARACHI: An international media conference titled “One World One Media” to be held in Karachi from May 1 to 3 will be inaugurated by Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad.The conference, to be spread over......
ISLAMABAD: The National Commission on Status of Women (NCSW) has come forward to support female parliamentarians who have been reportedly denied development funds.A statutory body established in......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court took notice on Wednesday of instances of abuse of women in Sindh and summoned reports from the provincial police.Chief Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk fixed the matter for hearing......
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court sent on Wednesday former managing director of the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation Mir Shah Jahan Khetran on judicial remand till May 12.He has been accused......
QUETTA: A power company has said that all possible steps will be taken to protect marine life and environment in Hub town while setting up a coal-based plant.During a briefing to former speaker of......
ISLAMABAD: Expressing dissatisfaction over Pakistan’s ranking in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI), President Mamnoon Hussain urged the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday to net......
WITH the death of Talal Akbar Bugti, chief of his own faction of the Jamhoori Watan Party, in Quetta on Monday, questions arise about what direction the Balochistan-based JWP — founded in 1990 by......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) recommended on Wednesday reduction in the prices of petrol and high speed diesel (HSD) for May.In a summary sent to the government, Ogra,......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has hinted at providing additional assistance to Pakistan for development and uplift projects.During a meeting with Finance Minister Ishaq Dar here on......
ISLAMABAD: While the PML-Q has requested the poll probe commission to summon the chiefs of ISI and MI as witnesses to produce evidence of rigging in the 2013 elections, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khurshid Shah accused the government on Wednesday of selling state entities in the name of privatisation to provide benefit to its......
ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia is likely to accept Pakistan’s offer for a humanitarian assistance role in Yemen.Saudi Charge d’affaires in Pakistan Jassim bin Mohammed Al Khalidi, talking to reporters at a......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was informed on Wednesday that there were five foreign nationals on death row in the country.During question hour, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh......
NEW DELHI: Marital rape, recognised in much of the world as violence against women, cannot be applied in India as marriage is treated as a sacrament or sacred as per mindset of the Indian society,......
ABUJA: Nigeria was seeking to identify on Wednesday nearly 300 women and girls rescued from Boko Haram, raising hopes they might include schoolgirls seized in a high-profile kidnapping last year.The......
PARIS: Is a long, black skirt a “conspicuous” sign of Islam? Or is that pushing France’s strict secularity laws a little too far?The outrage over the case of a Muslim girl who was twice banned from......
ISLAMABAD: The population and housing census is expected to be held in March next year and its preliminary results will be compiled within three months. On Wednesday, the governing council of the......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman appointed a new heir and made his young son second in line to the throne on Wednesday, a major shift in power towards the two princes who have overseen a more......
ISLAMABAD: The United States has welcomed the proposed multi-billion dollar Chinese investment in Pakistan’s energy sector but asked the government to put on hold the gas pipeline project until......
KARACHI: In the second targeted killing of a well-known figure here in a week, an assistant professor of Karachi University’s mass communication department, Dr Syed Waheed-ur-Rehman, was shot dead on......
KARACHI: In the absence of political stakeholders, Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif reviewed the ongoing operation in Karachi on Wednesday and directed the authorities concerned to......
THE geopolitics of western South Asia — Afghanistan, Pakistan, India — is mostly a case of politics undermining geography.The staggering potential trade and economic linkages among one and a half......
AS the developments coming out of Riyadh on Wednesday illustrated, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is experiencing a period of great political change.While the reshuffle in government posts can be......
THERE is of course no doubt that activist Sabeen Mahmud’s murder last week in Karachi dealt a grievous blow to the already shrinking space for debate, discussion and progressive ideas in this......
LAST week I wrote about the Karot Hydropower project, the documents for which were signed during President Xi Jinping’s visit to Pakistan recently. This week I took a closer look at the Quaid-i-Azam......
THE recent NA-246 by-election in Karachi needs to be analysed from more angles than one as it brought into focus some of the basic challenges to democratic politics in Pakistan.The extraordinarily......
AN anecdote about the judicial system of Pakistan refers to the following conversation between an elephant and a cow in a jungle.The elephant found a cow looking for a place to hide and asked if......
PAKISTAN’S current copyright regime is essentially a muddied product of thoughtless legal transplantation. The primary legislation in this area, the Copyright Ordinance 1962, has been blindly......
