GHOTKI: The Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Ghotki Saqib Sultan and SSP Rahim Yar Khan Zaffar Chattha on Monday said 11 dacoits were killed in the kutcha area of Ronti, Ghotki during an......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday directed Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal to ensure maximum utilisation of the allocated Public Sector Development Programme......
PESHAWAR: A joint resolution was passed in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday, requesting the federal government to move against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain under......
GARLAND: Police and FBI on Monday searched the Arizona apartment of one of two gunmen shot dead on Sunday after they allegedly opened fire with assault rifles outside a Texas exhibit of caricatures......
LONDON: Prince William and his wife Kate announced on Monday that their new baby princess will be called Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, as the sound of gun salutes and bells pealing rang out over......
ISLAMABAD: In a press conference on Monday, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said the election tribunal's decision to hold a re-election in NA-125 and PP-155 was a result of his......
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal accepts that finding a cure for his side's misfiring forward line will be essential if they are to challenge for the Premier League title next season.United's......
England coach Peter Moores said his team needed be more ruthless after they were beaten by West Indies in the third Test in Barbados and drew the three-match series 1-1.The tourists, who won the......
England has slipped one place to fourth in the Reliance ICC Test Team Rankings following its five wickets defeat in the Barbados Test, which has helped the West Indies to level the three-Test series......
ISLAMABAD: A baby born in a Pakistan Army field hospital in Nepal has been named 'Pakistan', said an Inter-Services Public Relations official on Monday.This is the second infant to have been born at......
LAHORE: Deflecting all charges, Khawaja Saad Rafique said Monday that an election tribunal's decision to order re-election in NA-125 constituency was against the presiding and residing officers of......
Pakistan's sad exit from the quarterfinal stage of the World Cup has been followed by a mortifying whitewash at the hands of the hosts, in the limited-overs wing of the Bangladesh tour. The Bengalis......
ADELAIDE: Jason Gillespie turned down a chance to coach South Australia state on Monday, opting to remain at English county cricket side Yorkshire and in position to consider a potential offer to......
LAHORE: An election tribunal on Monday ordered re-election in Lahore's NA-125 and PP-155 constituencies after irregularities on the seats were proven during the 2013 general elections.The one-page......
Bangladesh's superb rearguard action that led to an unlikely draw in the first Test against Pakistan last week could well be the “turning point” their coach believes will inspire the side to build on......
LAHORE: Security guard Abbas stationed at a Dera Ghazi Khan high school for boys died due to accidental fire from his own rifle on Monday reported Nabeela Ghazanfar, spokeswoman for Inspector General......
Having battled to break down one of Europe's meanest defences in the quarter-finals, Real Madrid will have to do it all over again when they face Juventus in their Champions League semi-final.The......
KARACHI: At least two children were killed and two others were injured when a water tanker ran over them in Karachi's Orangi Town on Monday.Eyewitnesses said the four children had left a madrassa in......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's annual inflation rate fell to 2.11 per cent in April from 2.49 per cent in March, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.On a month-on-month basis, prices rose 1.32......
Ghee. For most of us Pakistanis, that word conjures up a vivid image of our mother or grandmothers, dupatta tied at the waist, dipping into a big tin with a cow on it and serving up warm parathas;......
LAS VEGAS: For all that Floyd Mayweather says it's not in his make-up to lose, there's one fight he just can't seem to win.Mayweather burnished his perfect ring record and reputation as a consummate......
Espionage — check. Rom-com — check. Road-trip film — check. Caper — check.Despite the recent barrage of film releases, it appears that the horror genre remains largely unexplored in this new age of......
KARACHI: Nothing frustrates me more than going to see my tailor. Our former love/hate relationship has lately become a hate/die relationship.He almost never gets my clothes right on the first go,......
ISLAMABAD: President of the Republic of Maldives Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom will undertake a two-day state visit to Pakistan on May 6 and May 7 at the invitation of Prime Minister Nawaz......
MUMBAI: Facebook Inc is launching an open platform for online content and application developers to join its Internet.org service, in a move the social media giant said would boost efforts to get......
GUWAHATI: Heavily armed separatist rebels have ambushed a paramilitary convoy in India's remote northeast, killing eight soldiers and injuring six, officials said Monday.The militants opened fire on......
After so many false dawns, West Indies cricket fans will be wary of reading too much into Sunday's third Test win over England but in drawing the three Test series, the Caribbean side showed some......
BADIN: A mixed response was witnessed on Monday in Badin and its surrounding areas, to a strike call given by Dr Zulfiqar Mirza over the registration of three FIRs against him and around 60 of his......
ATHENS: A brawl in an Athens prison wing housing foreigners left at least two inmates dead and 21 others injured on Sunday, many seriously, authorities said.The fight, involving makeshift knives,......
LOS ANGELES: Avengers: Age of Ultron scored the second-biggest domestic opening in history this weekend, kicking off summer blockbuster season with a mammoth $187.7 million debut.Globally, the film......
GARLAND: Texas police shot dead two gunmen who opened fire at an exhibit near Dallas of caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) organised by an anti-Islam group, authorities said on Sunday.The......
RIYADH: Solutions will be hard to find on Tuesday when Gulf monarchs hold their annual summit in a region threatened by jihadists and a war in Yemen that has raised tensions with Iran.“You go down......
BALTIMORE: Baltimore’s mayor on Sunday lifted a curfew that was imposed across the East Coast city following widespread riots, as thousands of National Guard troops began withdrawing from the scarred......
RAWALPINDI/GUJAR KHAN: A plan to attack a religious gathering on Saturday night was foiled by the police who seized 15kg of explosive material. The Counter-Terrorism Department also managed to trace......
PESHAWAR: Although officials claim that most areas of North Waziristan Agency have been cleared of the militants, yet return process of the internally displaced persons to the conflict stricken......
There is no doubt about the benefits of the usage of LNG by diesel-based power plants, industry, fertilisers and the transport sector.However, the handling of its import and supply-chain mechanism by......
Four years down the line, Punjab’s initiative to promote urban agriculture and keep prices of vegetables under control seems to be running aground. With almost non-existent manpower and services in......
The ban imposed on the use of wooden crates, boxes and cases in exports of fruits and vegetables, effective May 20, has come at a time when exporters are struggling to push up foreign sales.The......
Food security is designed to ensure access for all the people to nutritious and adequate quantity of food at all times and at affordable prices. Important foods include not only cereals like wheat,......
During the six-month period surrounding a hedge fund manager’s divorce, his investment performance is an annualised 4.3 percentage points lower than previously, on average, according to a Wall Street......
Online and written brainstorming sessions generate more high-quality ideas, produce more creative ideas per person and yield ideas that evoke higher levels of satisfaction than face-to-face......
In an experiment, half the university students who were hired for a tedious, repetitive job — entering bibliographic records into a database — were willing to sacrifice part of their pay to increase......
Research participants rated red wine as tasting better (5.07 versus 4.36 on a 9-point scale, on average) if they learned that the winemaker donates 10pc of its revenue to the American Heart......
WITH yet another year of record cane harvest, India’s sugar crisis is worsening, as the retail price of the sweetener continues to plunge. The world’s largest consumer of sugar and the second-largest......
OBSERVERS of the US political scene complain about a dearth of leadership. The same is also true of the corporate world. Just as politicians are mesmerised by polls, chief executives are enslaved to......
Sabir and Shama, a typical working class couple, cut the discussion short about their jobs, which they find to be hard, boring and unrewarding.They shared sad tales and felt they deserved better. “I......
Earlier last month, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar had announced the constitution of a committee to give recommendations for improving ‘ease of doing business’ in the country.The decision came in the......
The role of accounting, audit and regulators is essential to safeguarding the interests of all stakeholders. But unfortunately, both auditors and regulators have failed to perform their due roles......
The rupee remained under pressure from both the dollar and the euro in the local currency market last week. Trading was reduced to four sessions, with Friday (May 1) being a public holiday.On the......
Hard pressed for time to evolve a consensus amidst sharp, diverse views, the federal government has not ruled out the possibility of the 7th National Finance Commission Award being extended for one......
The government raised Rs255.064bn from the auction of Treasury bills of various tenors on April 29, despite receiving bids worth a much bigger Rs723.74bn.Of the total, six-month T-bills fetched......
AMONG the country’s fertiliser companies — all of whom concentrate on producing and selling urea — Fauji Fertiliser Bin Qasim holds the distinction of being the sole producer of di-ammonium......
THAT Pakistan’s tax system is regressive and skewed in favour of the wealthy is widely acknowledged, though not by policymakers. Indirect taxes made up 61pc of the revenues collected in the first......
The despite the 2005 free trade agreement has since been scaled up to 25pc, virtually blocking Pakistan out of this segment of its market.Islamabad has not been able to resolve the issue, leading to......
LONDON: The club anthem Blue is the Colour resounded around a joyful Stamford Bridge and champagne flowed as Chelsea clinched their first Premier League title for five years with a typically stubborn......
LAS VEGAS: The pressure of a $180 million payday never got to Floyd Mayweather Jr, even if the richest fight ever wasn’t the best.Using his reach and his jab on Saturday night, Mayweather frustrated......
BRIDGETOWN: England were bowled out for 123 in their second innings on the third day of the third and final Test leaving West Indies with a target of 192 to win and level the series at 1-1.The home......
KHULNA: Having dominated Pakistan in the last two days of the Khulna Test, Bangladesh skipper Mushfiqur Rahim believes drawing the first Test was as good as winning it.Bangladesh, in their second......
KHULNA: Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan and Pakistan fast bowler Wahab Riaz were fined for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct during the final day’s play of the drawn first Test in......
LEVERKUSEN (Germany): Bayer Leverkusen substitute Julian Brandt scored on his 19th birthday on Saturday to inflict a 2-0 defeat on a second-string Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga champions’ first......
LAS VEGAS: Britain’s former two-time light-welterweight world champion Amir Khan has said he wants to be the next opponent for Floyd Mayweather after watching ringside as the American outpointed......
MILAN: His appointment protested against, coach Massimiliano Allegri won over any last doubters as Juventus clinched a fourth successive Serie A title on Saturday with four matches to spare and a......
JEREZ: Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo savoured his first MotoGP victory of the season on Sunday with a pole-to-flag victory in his home Spanish Grand Prix ahead of reigning world champion Marc Marquez.The......
MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo’s record-breaking 25th La Liga treble maintained Real Madrid’s title aspirations as they ended Sevilla’s 34-game unbeaten run at home with a 3-2 win on Saturday.Ronaldo......
MADRID: World number two Simona Halep crashed to a shock 7-6 (8-6), 6-3 defeat to France’s Alize Cornet, whilst Eugenie Bouchard’s slump continued in the first round of the Madrid Open on......
NASSAU (Bahamas): Not even Usain Bolt could overcome a big American lead as the US team, led by Justin Gatlin and anchored by Ryan Bailey, won the 4x100 relay, sprinted to a convincing victory over......
HYDERABAD: Hyderabad continued their winning streak in the PCB Regional (Hyderabad region) Inter-district Under-19 Cricket Championships by registering their fourth straight success by innings here......
MUNICH: World number three Andy Murray will have to wait a bit longer at his first shot at a clay court title after the Munich final on Sunday against Germany’s Philipp Kohlschreiber was postponed......
KARACHI: Unknown pedigree bay colt Amazing Power stumbled and was later destroyed as rider Zohaib Qamar fell from his mount in the Gymkhana race meeting at the Karachi Racecourse on Sunday.Officials......
KARACHI: Makran Sports and Young PIB will clash for All Karachi Muslim Khatri Golden Jubilee Football Tournament title after they won their respective semi-finals on Saturday.Goals by Mohammad......
ISTANBUL: Top-seeded Roger Federer claimed his 85th career title on Sunday with a 6-3, 7-6 (13-11) win over Pablo Cuevas in the final of the Istanbul Open.The 17-time Grand Slam winner fended off......
KARACHI: Faisalabad-born Hamza Akbar, who became the second Pakistani cueist to win the Asian snooker title on Thursday, declared that playing the professional league in England was his next......
LAHORE: Odds-on favourite bay filly Melsi produced a high calibre run to emerge as a magnificent winner of the Farewell Cup during the 35th Lahore Winter Meeting at the Racecourse here on......
THIS is apropos of Kulsoom Arif’s letter ‘Karachi operation’ (April 28). Although one must appreciate the Rangers’ action against criminals and terrorists in Karachi, the writer is right as certain......
THIS is apropos the news report ‘Two Hazara men killed at bus stand’ (April 28). This news reminds us about a government decision that security to the Hazara community will be provided from Hazara......
THIS government is resorting to what amounts to robbery. It was announced, and has been practised, that when a shareholder of a company gets his dividend, a tax is deducted at the rate of 10pc for......
THIS is with reference to Dr Mubarak Ali’s article ‘The high cost of hatred’ (March 29) revealing some historical inaccuracies, which need to be discussed here.According to the writer, the first......
THIS September it will be 50 years since the 1965 war. Why don’t we start a big campaign to celebrate 50 years of it in a big way? Tell the country about the great sacrifices of the armed forces and......
BRITISH laptop diplomats based in Dubai need to improve their knowledge about the social, cultural and religious structure of Pakistani society, as they are rejecting visa applications of members of......
I WANT to bring to the notice of authorities concerned the confusion of candidates as regards case No 196/2014 for the post of assistant director, Anti-Narcotics Force.The written test for this post......
IT is regrettable that the shareholders who have invested their savings in the shares of public limited companies are the worst sufferers.It has been observed that after the announcement of profit at......
KARACHI: With the temperature rising and water supply decreasing, tanker operators have begun charging as much as Rs12,000 for a fill-up, pushing the city into a water crisis.“These are not our......
KARACHI: In what appears to be an attempt to appease the establishment, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement has condemned the Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and other foreign powers for......
KARACHI: Closed for nine days, The Second Floor, popularly known as T2F reopened on Sunday afternoon, after its director Sabeen Mahmud was shot dead on April 24. The mood was somber with many......
KARACHI: The Majlis-i-Wahdatul Muslimeen held a rally from the Mehfil Shah-i-Khorasan imambargah to the Numaish traffic intersection on Sunday to mark the birth anniversary of Hazrat Ali.A large......
KARACHI: Improvisational theatre was the offering at the second day of the Napa-I am Karachi Theatre and Music Series. Presented by the theatrical group Zahrss, the play called Madya not Medya,......
HYDERABAD/UMERKOT: Renowned scholar, writer, researcher and nationalist leader Abdul Wahid Arisar passed away in a hospital in Karachi after long illness on Sunday. He was 66. He has left a wife and......
KARACHI: Women lawmakers of the Pakistan Peoples Party have warned former home minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza that they will no more tolerate his hurling baseless allegations at party co-chairman Asif......
HYDERABAD: Sindhi writers and social activists paid rich tributes to The Second Floor (T2F) director Sabeen Mahmud and demanded of the government to apprehend her killers.They were speaking at a......
KARACHI: A very senior and highly influential pilot of Pakistan International Airlines caused a serious air safety hazard when he operated a Trans-Atlantic long haul flight without mandatory rest,......
IT has become something of a ritual to complain about dying reading habits. Urdu publishers say that now books don’t sell and people do not read anymore. However, talk to someone interested in......
KARACHI: The continuous ruthless hunting of pangolins has brought its population to a point that if conservation efforts are not strictly imposed, the scaly mammalian could go extinct within a few......
KARACHI: That’s how book launches should be: short, sweet and to-the-point. And that’s why it is important to keep putting out books on a variety of subjects so that reading habits could be......
ROME: About 5,800 migrants desperate to reach Europe were rescued this weekend as they tried to cross the Mediterranean on rickety boats, more than 2,150 of them on Sunday alone, the Italian......
ADEN: The Saudi-led coalition battling Houthi rebels in Yemen sent a ‘limited’ force to the city of Aden on Sunday, Yemeni sources said.A spokesman for the coalition denied that a major ground force......
DADU: At least 13 people were burned to death and 50 others injured when a coach carrying a wedding party touched a high-voltage electric wire and caught fire on Indus Highway in Khairpur Nathan Shah......
BADIN: Badin police registered on Sunday cases against Sindh’s former home minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza, his 21 aides and supporters and 50 to 60 unidentified people under sections 365, 395 and 324......
RAHIMYAR KHAN/SUKKUR: A large group of outlaws kidnapped seven policemen on Sunday morning from a post in Machka area along the Indus.According to Rahimyar Khan district police chief Sohail Zafar......
THE government had apprehended “a much bigger blowback than it faced” of military operations launched to eliminate militants’ sanctuaries in Waziristan, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on......
ONG JMEL: Tunisians have unfurled a national flag the size of 19 football pitches in a bid to set a Guinness world record and promote patriotism in the face of Islamist extremism.Hundreds of people......
With just days to go before the closest UK general elections in decades, I find myself in a quandary. As a UK resident, my vote has been registered for the first time, and I have less than a week to......
LONDON: The birth of a princess on Saturday demonstrated the enduring strength of Britain’s rulers, consolidating four generations of a family now more popular than ever, but cannot hide the......
HAVANA: Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Saturday that Tokyo wants to launch “large-scale cooperation” with Havana to support the island’s reforms.In the first visit to Cuba by a Japanese......
UNITED NATIONS: As the World Press Freedom Day was observed on Sunday, top UN officials observed in a statement that ‘freedom of expression and press freedom’ were critical to the successful......
KATHMANDU: Three people were pulled alive from the rubble of their home eight days after Nepal’s devastating earthquake, as a supply logjam threatened to hamper relief efforts bolstered by the......
ATHENS: Two inmates were killed and 21 others injured during fighting that broke out in an Athens prison on Sunday, the justice ministry said.The violence erupted between Albanian and Pakistani......
RIGA: The UN’s cultural body on Sunday awarded its annual press freedom prize to Mazen Darwish, a Syrian journalist and rights activist who has been jailed by the regime for more than three......
MALE: Maldives authorities have detained 175 supporters of jailed former president Mohamed Nasheed for two weeks, according to court documents on Sunday, after the US warned that democracy was in......
BEIJING: A pilot said Sunday that he is anxious but excited about flying a solar plane solo from China to Hawaii on the longest leg of the first attempt to fly around the world without a drop of......
COLOMBO: US Secretary of State John Kerry ended a visit to Sri Lanka on Sunday after pledging support for minority Tamils following decades of ethnic war, a local Tamil politician said.Kerry met......
KABUL: Fierce fighting between government forces and Taliban insurgents in northern Afghanistan has forced thousands of people to flee their homes, officials said on Sunday.Around 2,000 families have......
HERAT: At least 18 people were killed and three injured on Sunday when a minivan overturned in western Afghanistan, provincial officials said.The accident in the Bala Murghab district of Badghis......
MOSCOW: Russia on Sunday mourned the death of Maya Plisetskaya, one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century who dazzled the world with her sensual performances and rare beauty.Plisetskaya,......
LAHORE: A resolution has been submitted by Jamaat-i-islami with the Punjab Assembly secretariat against the recent anti-army speech by MQM chief Altaf Hussain.Read: BA adopts resolution against......
LAHORE: Boycott of one election after another has made the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) workers cynical about electoral policy of the party and also critical of its ‘unconditional’ support to......
LAHORE: Opposition leader in the Punjab Assembly and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Mahmoodur Rasheed has said his party will submit a condemnation resolution in the house against MQM chief Altaf......
LAHORE: The Punjab government is planning to procure more mobile health units (MHUs) despite the fact that the existing health infrastructure of the province is largely dysfunctional forcing a huge......
LAHORE: The federal and Punjab governments are confident that the three Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)-run power plants they plan to construct in the province will start partial generation before summer......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s committee to review the party performancein cantonment boards elections is expected to begin its probe next week.It is learnt that the review committee will......
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority has decided to stop temporary or permanent commercialisation of the Wapda Town main boulevard after its town planning wing received applications from......
LAHORE: Punjab wildlife and parks department is for the first time preparing a comprehensive database of wild birds, reptiles and mammalian species in the province for forming better conservation......
LAHORE: A woman was found murdered at her rented house in Sherakot on Sunday.Police said Rani, 28, had developed differences with her husband Mansha of Pakpattan and came to Lahore some months ago......
OKARA: Sadar police station house officer was shot at and injured by unidentified attackers on Sunday evening when he was on routine patrol in the rural area.According to police, official vehicle of......
LAHORE: Rich tributes were paid to comrade Islamul Haq at a condolence reference here on Sunday.Those who spoke included Munoo Bhai, Prof Ijazul Hasan, Prof Azizuddin Ahmed, Sardar Aseff Ahmad Ali,......
LAHORE: Tanzeem-i-Asatiza Pakistan, a teachers’ body decided on Sunday to join the Muttahida Mahaz Asatiza Punjab’s “Taleem Bachao” drive.Teachers belonging to the both bodies from all over the......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The District Cricket Association’s bid to get recognition as an independent entity has not borne fruit despite intervention by the Lahore High Court.The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)......
LAHORE: A City District Government Lahore livestock team on Sunday morning seized 2,250 kg dead animals meat during raids at some illegal slaughterhouses in Kot Kamboh (near Babu Sabu) and Samanabad......
VEHARI: Two youngsters raped a nine-year-old girl at Chak 287/EB in Burewala on Saturday.Reports reaching here said two neighbours abducted a labourer’s nine-year-old daughter from his house when......
KASUR: The B-Division police are reluctant to register a case against an ASI and six other policemen for highhandedness, abuse of power and loot despite orders of a local court.According to......
GUJRANWALA: The district government sealed 26 illegal refilling shops of the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and booked their owners on Sunday.Two persons were killed in a cylinder blast during LPG......
GUJRAT: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has formally nominated former PPP MNA Chaudhry Tariq Tarrar of Raika, who had joined the party last year, as its candidate for the by-election in NA-108......
SIALKOT: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal on Sunday gave a cheque of Rs1 million to the family of the farmer who was killed by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF).The......
ISLAMABAD: Federal auditors have pointed out a number of serious natures of financial and administrative irregularities in the books of the Pakistan High Commission in London, and its three......
BAKU (Azerbaijan): Pakistan pledged on Sunday to fulfil around 25 per cent of Nepal’s requirements of providing shelter to 300,000 people rendered homeless by the devastating earthquake as the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan assured Nepal on Sunday of continuing its relief operation for people affected by the devastating earthquake last week.“Pakistan under special directives from Prime Minister......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan urged rich nations on Sunday to deliver on their $10 billion pledges to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) set up last year to meet......
WASHINGTON: Two peace groups are urging India and Pakistan to rethink their strategy for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, as United Nations launched a drive to curb nuclear weapons.“It is......
KARACHI: Three suspected militants were killed in a reported encounter with police in Baldia Town here on Sunday evening.Officials said that a police mobile van was patrolling the area when it came......
KARACHI: Local and foreign journalists attending a three-day conference here on Sunday called upon the government of Pakistan to implement all instruments on protection of journalists the country is......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate will take up on Monday a resolution calling upon the government “to take effective steps for implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) to counter terrorism in the......
WASHINGTON: Repor-ters Without Borders, which campaigns for media freedom around the world, issued a freedom index on Sunday to mark the World Press Freedom Day.According to this index, Finland tops......
ISLAMABAD: Like other parts of the country, the World Press Freedom Day was also observed in Islamabad on Sunday.A large number of journalists gathered in front of the National Press Club (NPC) and......
ISLAMABAD: Robbers continue to come up with innovative techniques to deprive people of money. In a recent incident, a man was robbed of Rs118,000 in the Bhara Kahu area.A man named Rizwan Akhtar was......
ISLAMABAD: The government will be reviving the controversial multi-billion rupee ‘Safe City’ project, under which close to 2,000 surveillance cameras would be installed in the capital.The project was......
ISLAMABAD: While the 40 traders arrested by police on Saturday night, for not closing their shops at the stipulated time, were released by the police on Sunday morning, the issue of closing time......
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who has been keenly waiting for the inauguration of the metro bus service, was on Sunday disappointed over the poor workmanship on the multi-billion......
DebateUnesco Islamabad has organised a debate on World Press Freedom Day on ‘Let Journalism Thrive! Towards Better Reporting, Gender Equality & Media Safety in the Digital Age’ on Monday, May 4 at......
ISLAMABAD: Due to the apathy of the officials concerned, the condition of the Marghzar Zoo in Islamabad could not be improved even after years.Internal politics in the Capital Development Authority......
TAXILA: The owners and employees of CNG stations and transporters on Sunday took out a protest rally in Hassanabdal and staged a sit-in at the main bus stand of the town against the prolonged closure......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Model Postgraduate College, H-9, has been unable to make a private firm vacate some shops it has rented out on the college premises.In 2012, during the tenure of the Federal......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police arrested four suspected auto-thieves and claimed to have recovered three stolen vehicles from their possession.A police spokesman said a special team constituted to nab......
ISLAMABAD: In March this year, Federal Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Asif warned in no unclear terms that Pakistan will face acute water shortages in the coming years.Despite this awareness,......
ISLAMABAD: Shorn of its manpower and facilities, the challenge of running the National Institute of Electronics (NIE) would only have been accepted by a mad man. In January of this year, however, the......
The government does not seem to be doing a great job of patronising innovation and invention. To understand why research and development has primarily been the domain of the public sector and whether......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf activists on Sunday blocked the Sher Shah Suri Road here against the alleged distribution of tickets among friends and relatives by certain party leaders for the......
ABBOTTABAD: ANP provincial president Ameer Haidar Khan Hoti has alleged that utilisation of development funds in KP is very slow and the province is badly suffering due to delayed decisions by the......
PESHAWAR: The federal government has turned a deaf ear to the proposals of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police regarding full deployment of the Frontier Constabulary troops along the porous Peshawar-Torkham......
PESHAWAR: Rescue 1122 and Airport Security Force (ASF) on Sunday conducted a joint safety training operation at the Bacha Khan International Airport here.Bilal Ahmed Faizi, a spokesman of 1122, said......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government lags behind other provinces and the federal capital to enact law on provision of free and compulsory education to students up to the secondary level.After......
MARDAN: Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) chairman Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani said on Sunday that the country’s rulers had not been paying any heed to the Islamic teachings.“The constitutional......
LANDI KOTAL: Hundreds of local residents here on Sunday staged a protest demonstration against the administration of Khyber Agency and MNA Shahji Gul Afridi for what they called their failure to......
SWABI: Speakers at the prize distribution ceremony of an art exhibition in Ghulam Ishaq Khan (GIK) Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology said on Sunday that art and painting had the......
MANSEHRA: The people of Mansehra city have been consuming highly polluted water, which is causing water-borne diseases among them.“The water supply scheme which was started some three decades ago is......
WHILE pygmies running this country traffic half-baked inane ideas of saviour-hood, one can feel sand slipping through the fingers. Some events slap you out of the otherwise benevolent complacency......
THE Election Commission of Pakistan recently announced the preliminary results of elections to 42 cantonment boards. With 1.9 million registered voters, 199 wards of these boards are worth just five......
PAKISTAN can learn from the UK’s counterterrorism (CT) approach. The UK has 35 years of experience fighting a variety of militant groups. Its history of dealing with terrorists dates to the 1605......
THE 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign provides an interesting opportunity to examine the impact of the world wars on the Indian independence movement, and to make a larger point about how......
WITH what words does one bid farewell to a spirit as noble and strong as Rajab Shah, one of Pakistan’s most accomplished mountaineers and the first to scale all 8,000-metre peaks in the......
IT is rarely a good thing when the news media itself becomes the story. Yesterday, May 3, marked World Press Freedom Day and it is with the heaviest of hearts that it has been reported that the media......
PAKISTAN’S shortcomings when it comes to protecting religious minorities as well as followers of various Muslim sects are well known.Yet when these inadequacies are amplified on the world stage the......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister (CM) Dr Abdul Malik Baloch on Sunday said he was not taken into confidence by anyone with regards to the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).Talking to Dawn.com......
