MADRID: At least four people were killed when an Airbus A400M military plane crashed near Spain's southern Seville airport during a training flight, the first fatal accident involving the new......
LONDON: Former captain Andrew Strauss has been appointed as the England and Wales Cricket Board's director of cricket, the governing body announced Saturday.Strauss, twice an Ashes-winning skipper,......
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Saturday directed Secretary Interior and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sindh Ghulam Haider Jamali to provide adequate security to former......
LONDON: Peter Moores is poised to be sacked as England coach for the second time when Andrew Strauss is appointed as director of English cricket, British media reported on Saturday.Moores succeeded......
The year is 1968 and I am getting a haircut at the Ideal Hair Dressing Salon, main market, Satellite Town, Rawalpindi. A Mercedes Benz drives by. The barber looks admiringly at the car and comments,......
Prominent Islamabad-based Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Muaffaq Zaidan was put on a watch-list of suspected terrorists by US authorities based on the suspicion that he was a member of Al Qaeda, The......
LONDON: Louis van Gaal fears a virus sweeping through the Manchester United squad could damage his side's hopes of sealing their place in the Champions League.With just three games remaining in......
ROME: Novak Djokovic returns to clay-court action after a three-week break hoping to put the final touches on his impeccable game with a fourth title at the Italian Open.Despite starting 2015 by......
Atif Aslam's latest single 'Zindagi Aa Raha Hoon Main' has been released, with Indian actor Tiger Shroff playing a key role in the video.Directed by Ahmed Khan, the video features some pretty fancy......
BAGHDAD: Six guards and 30 detainees were killed in a prison break north of Baghdad during which 40 inmates also escaped, an interior ministry spokesman said Saturday.The spokesman said the break on......
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Saturday approved the bail of former Sindh home minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza in three cases.Dr Mirza, a disgruntled and disowned leader of the Pakistan......
Like billions out there, I am a devout Salman Khan fan. My first Bollywood memory is of Andaaz Apna Apna.As a toddler, I took it upon myself to nickname Salman Khan, my first crush, ‘Samsung’. Then,......
We haven't heard much about Raees from Mahira Khan since she jetted off to Mumbai for its shoot in late April, and we might now have the answer as to why.Hinting at sleepless nights in a tweet,......
LAHORE: Only 73,478 votes polled in Lahore's NA-122 in the May 2013 general elections could be "authenticated", a National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) report said on Saturday.The......
“I am the hero in my story,” declared Muniba Mazari, speaking at Pond’s Miracle Journey event this Thursday.Wheelchair-bound for the past seven years, the artist spoke of her daily struggle to......
SANAA: Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition struck Sanaa's international airport on Saturday, shortly after authorities in the rebel-controlled Yemeni capital said it would reopen to receive......
KARACHI: A homoeopathic doctor was shot dead on Saturday when unknown motorcyclists opened fire at his clinic in Karachi's Nazimabad area.Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Central Captain......
Hollywood has its Freddy Krueger and Frankenstein’s monster, but here, in Pakistan, we have another phenomenon whose very mention can strike terror in the hearts of every man, woman and child – the......
KABUL: Afghan officials say gunmen killed at least two people and kidnapped others in an assault on a cricket match in a rural area near the Pakistan border.Gen. Zelmai Oryakhail, the police chief of......
MALAHIDE: England players rallied to the support of Peter Moores on Friday as reports emerged that the under-fire coach is on the verge of being sacked for the second time.James Taylor, who skippered......
DHAKA: Leg-spinner Yasir Shah claimed a match haul of seven wickets as dominant Pakistan crushed Bangladesh by 328 runs in the second and final Test in Dhaka on Saturday to clinch the series 1-0.The......
ISLAMABAD: The bodies of those killed in Friday's helicopter crash in Gilgit-Baltistan's Naltar Valley were brought to Rawalpindi's Nur Khan Airbase on Saturday.Read: Army copter crashes in Naltar; 7......
IT is the time of the year when it is starting to get hot, at least in daytime. Also, you start seeing cars on the roadside with the bonnets open and the driver with a bottle of water trying to cool......
PUNTUALITY is the most important characteristic of all successful people. Students, officials, traders and even laymen all have to observe punctuality to succeed in life.Although parliamentarians are......
THIS is apropos the PMDC decision to take doctors’ exit test after the completion of the house job.This decision is not justifiable. First, it questions the credibility and capability of those......
MOENJODARO is the centre of one of the oldest civilisations of the world called the Indus Civilisation. It is also counted amongst Unesco’s world heritage sites.Unesco and many other international......
THE senate of Pakistan has been named Federal House without passing through the mandated process of constitutional amendments.This change in nomenclature seems more like a gimmick than anything of ......
STREET urchin is a term used for children who are homeless, live on the street and sleep on the footpath or under a bridge. Their problem is getting more and more serious with the passing of every......
STUDENTS of institutes of higher education are considered builders of a nation’s future. South Korea is a developed country, but about 40 years ago it was an underdeveloped one. It owes its present......
ALL kudos to Babar Sattar for his article ‘Is coercive consensus enough?’ (May 4) in which he has put in a clear perspective the dangerous implications of use of force and coercion by the state and......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for National Health Services (NHS) Saira Afzal Tarar on Friday blamed provinces for the consistent increase in thalassaemic patients suffering as they failed to implement the laws......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has announced that all the media persons working in Peshawar will be provided residential plots in the Peshawar Model Town, a mega development project.The......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Friday gave the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) time to file response to a PTI MPA’s petition against the KPEC Act and detention of his father by the......
MARDAN: Over 100 posts, majority of them of professors, associate professors, assistant professors and lecturers, have been lying vacant at the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) for......
MANSEHRA: A local jirga on Friday allowed the former MPA of Pakistan Muslim League-N, Wajiuzaman Khan, to contest the by-election on PK-56 constituency here on the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf ticket.“I......
PESHAWAR: The staying away of the women from the KP-95 Lower Dir by-election on Friday provoked an outcry with the Provincial Commission on the Status of Women, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, political parties......
SWABI: Pressure groups have surfaced in the Swabi district to give a tough time to the major political parties, who have forged three different alliances for the May 30 local government elections.The......
PESHAWAR: Making amendments to the relevant law, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday reduced the tenure of vice chancellors of government universities in the province and empowered the......
PESHAWAR: Directorate of Culture, Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (TCKP) and Directorate of Archaeology & Museums jointly organised a cultural evening at the Peshawar Museum here for the......
MANSEHRA: Five members of a family, including two women, were killed and another sustained critical injuries when a jeep plunged into a ravine in Battagram on Friday evening.The jeep was on its way......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister for Information Technology Shahram Khan Tarakai has said that the provincial government is going to launch new means of information communication......
LANDI KOTAL: The wrangling among Bar Qambarkhel tribal elders of Bara and reservations of the political administration about its working have put the future of the recently formed traditional......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department is heavily relying on the expertise of professionals from abroad to implement the Health Reforms Act 2015 that seeks a paradigm shift in the......
PESHAWAR: Links with timber smugglers led to suspension of four police officials here on Friday.The suspended cops included a station house officer Jahanzeb, additional station house officer Mohammad......
ISLAMABAD: This is one of the ‘model schools’ in the federal capital, where most of the students have to sit in a tent or under the open sky to pursue education.Around 230 students of the Islamabad......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has taken notice of disenfranchisement of women voters in the recent by-elections in PK-95 Lower Dir and has sought reports from the provincial......
RAWALPINDI: The Regional Police Officer (RPO) has directed the district police to launch a crackdown on drug peddlers and gambling dens in the district.He was chairing a meeting of City Police......
RAWALPINDI: Fatima Batool, a government schoolteacher, took a day off to get her inflated electricity bill corrected from Iesco office on Friday. However, she was shocked to find the office......
RAWALPINDI: The legal team representing supermodel Ayyan Ali finally received copies of case documents from the customs officials after a Rawalpindi judge reprimanded them for not providing the same......
TAXILA: A stupa dating back to the 3rd Century BC was discovered at the ancient Buddhist site of Badalpur near Taxila during excavations carried out by the Taxila Institute of Asian Civilisations......
“I’ve spent my life doing many different things. I worked as an electrician for 10 years, a construction worker for 20 years, ran a shop for 15 and now, for the last three years, I have been driving......
ISLAMABAD: Members of the business community on Friday said a non–elected person was representing traders in talks with the government over early closure of markets.Speaking at a meeting here, they......
ISLAMABAD: As the Islamabad High Court (IHC) is yet to announce its judgment on a petition regarding the age determination of condemned prisoner Shafqat Hussain, the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) has warned some 60 big and small hospitals in the federal capital that their waste disposal methods violate environmental laws.They were......
ISLAMABAD: “What can you say under such circumstances? The news catches the breath and leaves one speechless,” said Dr Ayisha Barbara Mustafa, a Pakistani-American of Scandinavian heritage upon......
RAWALPINDI: The City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) has diverted the services of its sanitary workers to removing the construction material waste left by contractors of metro bus project on......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police on Friday arrested a convicted prisoner who escaped during the Bannu jailbreak in April 2012.On a tip-off, the police rounded up Rahim Gul, the escapee, in a slum near......
ISLAMABAD: When Pakistani expatriate Kamran Ghafoor, living in the United Kingdom, purchased a plot in picturesque D-12 sector in 2011, he had plans to build a house for the family.But today his plan......
ISLAMABAD: The ministry of Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) on Friday authorised heads of educational institutions to purchase close circuit television (CCTV) cameras for their......
LAHORE: The Thalassaemia Society of Pakistan (TSP) on Friday organised a colourful programme to express solidarity with the patients at the Children’s Library Complex.A number of young thalassaemia......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Young Pharmacists Association (PYPA) has alleged that the Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan (DRAP) is deliberating delaying registration of a low-priced hepatitis C drug,......
LAHORE: Acting Punjab Governor Rana Muhammad Iqbal and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif have expressed deep sense of sorrow and grief over the death of ambassadors of Norway and Philippines and wives of......
LAHORE: The Punjab government is strengthening the SPU (Special Protection Unit for foreigners), also deciding to charge for the guard duty at the foreign or foreign-funded provincial......
LAHORE: A four to five days spell of scattered thundershowers with dust storms is likely to break the current heat wave in the country from Saturday evening (today).The heat wave has been gripping......
LAHORE: Three hydel power stations operated by the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) delivered 110.190 million units of electricity to the national grid on Friday compared to 64.037......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab President Ejaz Chaudhry has said the latest Alif Ailaan report has acknowledged PTI government’s efforts towards education reforms in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.On the......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif says a state-of-the-art Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute and Research Centre is being set up in the provincial metropolis.He said this at a meeting on Friday,......
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal has chided PTI Chairman Imran Khan for what the minister said initiating a blame game against the elected government in the name of......
LAHORE: Provincial Home Minister retired Col Shuja Khanzada says that geo-tagging of 13,794 seminaries has been completed under the National Action Plan (NAP) and data is available to security......
LAHORE: The Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) approved on Friday six development schemes worth Rs1.3 billion.These schemes were approved in the 45th meeting of the PDWP of the current......
LAHORE: Two men were shot at and injured by robbers in different areas of the city on Friday.Three armed men barged in the house of Aurangzeb in Lower Mall police precinct, shot at and injured him......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has summoned Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for May 14 on a petition against non-payment of compensation of the land acquired by the government for a trust.The......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Police may seek help of the army and Rangers for an operation against notorious gangs at Katcha area along the border of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan.DIG Investigation Tariq Masood......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Courts handed down death sentence to two persons and life imprisonment to eight others on Friday in two dacoity-cum-murder cases.District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Yar Wallana......
FAISALABAD: A 20-bed children ward of THQ Hospital, Samundri, is overcrowded because of a gastroenteritis outbreak. Two to three patients are being treated on one bed.Lack of space has forced the......
SHEIKHUPURA: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq told a party workers’ convention here on Friday his party, once in power, would eliminate discrimination from society and would provide equal......
SAHIWAL: A drug store owner and his employee were arrested on Friday for selling intoxicant drugs without doctor’s prescription on Karbala Road.Executive District Officer (Health) Dr Muhammad Ashraf,......
BAHAWALPUR: Scores of dwellers of a katchi abadi on Friday blocked the busy airport and Yazman roads for hours to protest the inclusion of their area in a proposed residential colony being......
KARACHI: All seems set for the hanging of Saulat Mirza, a death row convict belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, as the Sindh High Court on Friday threw out his wife’s petition seeking......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party has roots deep down among the masses and yet some forces have been attempting to eliminate the party since its inception. Dr Zulfikar Mirza’s actions are their......
KARACHI: With tears streaming down their faces and choked voices, the wife and the sister of Saulat Mirza appealed to the president, prime minister of Pakistan and the chief of army staff on Friday......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly was on Friday informed that the government would reintroduce a free tanker service from next week for the residents of water-starved localities in the metropolis.Winding......
KARACHI: It was sheer auditory delight listening to one of the finest modern-day pianists, Bugge Wesseltoft, play his heart out at Habib University on Friday evening. The musician is known, and......
KARACHI: Napa’s next production is what its programme director Arshad Mahmud calls their “best foot forward”, a dramatisation of Maxim Gorky’s play The Philistines. Directed by industry veteran Zia......
ENGINEERING CONGRESSInauguration of the 5th International Mechanical Engineering Congress under the auspices of the Institution of Engineers Pakistan at its building on Sharea Faisal at......
KARACHI: Around 40 per cent of thalassaemic children have finally found a panacea for their ailment in the shape of a Rs10 capsule which if used on a daily basis can offer them independence from......
KARACHI: The Sindh health department on Friday decided to administer inject-able polio vaccine (IPV) to 114,688 children of 177 union councils in 13 districts of the province, officials said.Special......
KARACHI: A sessions court reissued on Friday non-bailable warrants for the arrest of 34 absconders in 10 cases and also issued show-cause notices to three station house officers for not complying......
KARACHI: The Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) on Friday organised a huge rally under the banner of ‘Tehreek-i-Difa-i-Harmain’ as the party leaders vowed to go to any extent to defend Saudi Arabia in......
THATTA: A 12-year-old boy was slain in the oldest seminary of Sujawal on Friday morning causing panic among other students and people of the town.The condition of the body suggested that someone......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday granted protective bail to former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza for 10 days in two more cases.Dr Mirza, a disgruntled and disowned leader of the Pakistan......
HYDERABAD: A team of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officers on Friday collected Liaquat University Hospital’s records relating to the purchase and disposal of medicines worth millions of......
COPENHAGEN: Four buses were destroyed and a fifth was vandalized in a pre-dawn fire with anti-Israel graffiti at a bus depot here on Friday.Investigator Jens Moeller Jensen said police suspected......
LONDON: A colourful left-wing politician nicknamed “Gorgeous George” Galloway suffered a disaster in Britain’s election as he lost his seat on Friday and was reported to police for breaking election......
LONDON: Alan Mak, a former corporate lawyer whose parents emigrated to Britain from southern China, became the first ethnic-Chinese person to be elected to the House of Commons on......
PAISLEY: At the age of just 20, Mhairi Black has become Britain’s youngest member of parliament since 1667 in a victory which symbolises an expected nationalist landslide in Scotland.Black still has......
GLASGOW: Scotland’s nationalists swept to a “watershed” victory north of the border in Britain’s general election, leaving the pro-independence party in a prime position to push its cause at......
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping talked up ties in Moscow on Friday as some two dozen world leaders headed to Russia for a grandiose World War II victory parade snubbed......
UNITED NATIONS: The number of illegal migrants crossing the Bay of Bengal has almost doubled over the past year amid a dangerous uptick in human smuggling and trafficking across the region,......
MUMBAI: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan’s five-year prison sentence for killing a homeless man with his SUV after a night out drinking 13 years ago was suspended on Friday pending an appeal.The actor......
PARIS: Europe held sombre ceremonies to mark 70 years since victory over Nazi Germany on Friday as leaders warned of modern day threats such as the war in Ukraine and Islamist extremists.Celebrations......
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has controversially turned religion into a campaign issue in the officially secular country’s upcoming polls, which promise to be the biggest election......
MADRID: Police found an eight-year-old boy hidden in a suitcase that was smuggled across the border into Spanish territory in north Africa, an official said on Friday.A 19-year-old woman took the......
LONDON: The Conservative party’s unexpected triumph in Britain’s general election delivers a hefty blow not only to the routed Labour party, but also to the pollsters who predicted a dead heat.“The......
The space age will come to earth next season — on Bond Street, at least. An era of nostalgia which has embraced fashions as diverse as 70s bohemia and 90s minimalism is making way for an......
BELIEVE it or not, there is more to the European Union than the recent elections in Britain and London’s erratic and volatile relationship with Brussels.The EU is also not just about the dire......
DHAKA: Bangladesh faced a long haul to save the second and final Test against Pakistan in Dhaka after they were set an improbable victory target of 550 on the third day on Friday.The hosts were 63......
LONDON: Peter Moores is set to be sacked for the second time as England coach after Andrew Strauss takes up a new post in the national set-up, several British newspapers reported on Friday.Strauss is......
MALAHIDE (Ireland): Rain meant only 18 overs were possible as the lone One-day International between Ireland and England at Malahide ended in a washed-out no result on Friday.The rain, which......
SAO PAULO: Pele was in stable condition in a hospital on Thursday after undergoing surgery for an enlarged prostate, doctors said, just the latest health scare for the Brazilian football legend.The......
NEW DELHI: Former England interim coach Peter Taylor will manage Kerala Blasters in this year’s Indian Super League, the ISL club said on Friday.The Kerala team, co-owned by retired Indian cricket......
CANBERRA: A group of scientists from the Australian National University (ANU) have teamed up with the country’s Test wicket-keeper Brad Haddin to unlock the secrets behind a good cricket bat.They are......
KARACHI: Karachi Port Trust (KPT) registered their third successive victory in the final round of the 20th Hinopak Trophy KCCA Inter-departmental Cricket League after walloping Dubai Hawks by nine......
PARIS: A brace of stunning goals from Aleix Vidal helped defending champions Sevilla to a commanding 3-0 victory over Fiorentina in the first leg of the Europa League semi-finals on Thursday.In......
MADRID: Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema will be in their squad to face Valencia in La Liga on Saturday but may not be fit to start, coach Carlo Ancelotti said on Friday.Real’s injury worries are......
COBHAM: Jose Mourinho has paid tribute to Steven Gerrard ahead of the Liverpool midfielder’s final visit to Stamford Bridge on Sunday.Gerrard and his Reds team-mates are expected to provide a guard......
LAHORE: Sports Board Punjab (SBP), in the wake of the death of two foreign ambassadors, a couple of spouses of two other ambassadors and pilots of Pakistan Army in a tragic helicopter crash in Naltar......
KARACHI: The first round of the Red Bull Campus Cricket ‘citywise matches’ ended on May 5 during which it covered seventeen cities and eighty five campuses. The winning teams from each city will now......
KARACHI: Pakistan ‘A’ just can’t find a way to dismiss Kusal Perera cheaply with the player striking his third ton in four matches against the tourists as Sri Lanka ‘A’ made a fine recovery on the......
KARACHI: He’s showing Pakistan’s footballers a way forward and on the latest path on his trailblazing path, Kaleemullah has reached California.The Chaman-born striker is on a one-month trial at......
MADRID: Serena Williams’s stunning 27-match winning streak was snapped in resounding fashion by Petra Kvitova on Friday as the Czech progressed to the Madrid Open final 6-2, 6-3.Kvitova will face......
LAHORE: Eight regional teams, divided into two pools, are featuring in the Cool and Cool Haier Super Eight T20 Cricket Cup to be held at the Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad from May 11 to 18.The......
KARACHI: Zone-VI were on verge of winning the Karachi region title of the PCB Regional Inter-district U-19 Championships despite drawing their penultimate-round match against Zone-IV here on......
KARACHI: K-Electric has successfully launched another sporting event, the Under-19 Cricket Tournament, which will commence on here at the Rashid Latif Academy in Korangi on Saturday, May 9 and will......
KARACHI: Multan, Bahawalpur and Lahore emerged as only winners as the remaining five fixtures in the opening round of the PCB-Pepsi Cricket Stars Under-19 Tournament were draw on Friday.Lahore......
KARACHI: Asian snooker champion Hamza Akbar added Rs300,000 to his kitty that were doled out by three individuals on his remarkable feat in Kuala Lumpur recently. Raising funds was part of the......
ISLAMABAD: A day after the Engro Elengy Terminal Limited (EETL) alleged unfair treatment and wrongdoing in barring it from bidding for the second LNG terminal, the prime minister approved the......
MOSCOW: Russia and China signed a $25 billion deal to boost Chinese lending to Russian firms and a host of other accords deepening economic cooperation on Friday as Moscow’s ties with the West fray......
KARACHI: Minister for Commerce Khurram Dastagir Khan said on Friday that Pakistan and Thailand will soon start talks on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA).He further said that his ministry would......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade gap widened by 11.28 per cent to $17.923 billion during the first 10 months (July-April) of this fiscal year, compared to $16.106bn a year earlier, the Pakistan Bureau of......
KARACHI: The State Bank has partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to initiate Environmental and Social Risk Management (ESRM) survey in Pakistan.The results of the survey, being......
LAHORE: Wapda authorities held a meeting with presidents of eight leading banks to explore ways and means for arranging finances for construction of Dasu Hydropower Project.The representatives of......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) registered 512 companies during April 2015, an increase of 10 per cent compared to the same period last year.Around 90pc firms......
KARACHI: Bears dominated right from the start of the trading at KSE on Friday, as the index closed the last session of the week with a loss of 212.58 points (0.63 per cent) at 33,530.30.Intra-day the......
Jubilee General starts takaful operationsKARACHI: Jubilee General Insurance Company Ltd has recently launched its window takaful operations, said a press release.Its Managing Director and Chief......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures fell on Friday as traders squared positions before the weekend and as weakness in competing oils weighed, but Indonesia’s approval of export levies......
KARACHI: Trading was slow on the cotton market on Friday as falling cotton stocks and higher rates being sought by ginners kept spinners away from the proceedings.Floor brokers said that some phutti......
LONDON: Gold edged higher on Friday, snapping two days of losses, as revisions to US payrolls data supported speculation that the Federal Reserve may hold off raising interest rates in the immediate......
ISTANBUL: Food wasted by consumers is an enormous economic problem and nations should ensure excess food is given to the hungry instead of being thrown away, agriculture ministers from the Group of......
ATHENS: The US wants Greece to focus on a Western-backed pipeline project rather than a rival gas pipeline that Athens is discussing with Russia, the top US energy diplomat said on Friday after talks......
WASHINGTON: The US economy pumped out a solid 223,000 net new jobs in April, rebounding modestly from a dismal March, the Labour Department reported Friday.The jobless rate fell to a seven-year low......
ISLAMABAD: Former Punjab election commissioner Mehboob Anwar conceded before the judicial commission on Friday that the ban on political activities imposed 48 hours before polling day remained in......
COLOMBO: Pakistan is involved in a number of social and educational uplift projects in Sri Lanka benefiting not just the Muslims, but all communities in the island nation. On Friday, Pakistan donated......
ISLAMABAD: Disgr-untled PPP leaders have formed a new party in a bid to “save the legacy of PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and its former chairperson Benazir Bhutto”.The Pakistan Peoples Party......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on National Food Security and Research has recommended that the Rs6.5 billion loans provided to agriculturists in Balochistan should be written......
QUETTA: Governor Balochistan Muhammad Khan Achakzai has underlined the need for increasing compensation for coalminers who lose their lives or suffer injuries in mine incidents.Presiding over a......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate was informed on Friday that a comprehensive policy on Afghan refugees’ repatriation would be finalised by August and submitted to the cabinet for approval.Minister of States and......
QUETTA: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) of Quetta Abdul Razzaq Cheema said on Friday that security was not a major issue or hindrance in carrying out a polio vaccination campaign in Quetta ......
SWABI/KOHAT: The two pilots who were killed along with foreign ambassadors in the military helicopter crash in Gilgit hailed from Swabi and Kohat districts, according to their families.Pilot Major......
KARACHI: Former speaker of the National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza called on Friday for ‘political solution’ of the situation developed after her husband Dr Zulfikar Mirza poured scorn on his......
KHUZDAR: One suspected militant was injured and three were arrested after an exchange of fire during a search operation in Khuzdar, officials said.A Frontier Corps spokesman said on Friday that......
QUETTA: Pakistani authorities handed over 123 Afghan nationals to the Afghan officials at the Chaman border crossing, officials said on Friday.These Afghans were arrested in different areas of Chagai......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department said on Friday it had no reason to doubt Pakistan’s claim that a helicopter crash which killed several people, including two ambassadors, was an accident.Asked at......
ISLAMABAD: A spokesperson for President Mamnoon Hussain has clarified a news item published in Dawn on Wednesday under the headline, “President assails Jirga decision against polio drive”. The......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: At least two people were shot dead and three others injured in attacks in Usta Muhammad and Goth Korar, while 10 were wounded in a tribal clash in Tambo area of Nasirabad district......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Friday expressed his deepest grief over the tragic loss of precious lives of Major Altamash, Major Faisal, Naib Subaidar Zakir, and......
GWADAR: A mutilated body was found in Darkhshan River in Panjgur town on Friday, police said.People of the Vashbu area informed the police about the body in the river.“The body was at least one week......
SANAA: Saudi Arabia announced on Friday a humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen starting on May 12, even as it stepped up retaliatory air strikes on Houthi rebels in the north of the country.“We have made......
WASHINGTON: The United States is training moderate Syrian forces to fight the self-styled Islamic State (IS) as part of an “ever-expanding programme”, according to Defence Secretary Ashton......
KUNDUZ: Foreign fighters allied with the self-styled Islamic State (IS) are training Taliban militants in a volatile Afghan province, an official said on Friday, the first such claim as the......
What was supposed to be an exciting inauguration of a ski chairlift in scenic Naltar Valley and an excursion trip for the members of Islamabad-based diplomatic corps turned into a tragedy when an......
ABBOTTABAD/MANSEHRA: A district council candidate was injured and his five guards and driver were killed in an attack in Baldehr area of Haripur on Friday.Hazara Deputy Superintendant of Police......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday night said that the Mi-17 helicopter that crashed in Naltar while transporting foreign envoys and their spouses was fully airworthy.“The crash occurred after 11......
LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives won a stunning victory in Britain’s election on Friday, which cut short the careers of his top three rivals and put the country’s future in the......
NOT one woman, not one single woman out of 47,280 registered women voters exercised her right to vote.The apparently hugely successful boycott by the women in Lower Dir of the by-election in the......
IN a dismal reminder of just how unprincipled, myopic and against the public interest politicians can be at times, Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah suggested on Thursday that his provincial......
DEMOCRACY is about equality. For all people to be equal, the signs and symbols representing them must also be seen as equal.It is perhaps what the Election Commission officials had in mind when they......
“He is the original live suicider. Do you know how big this is?” That’s how a hysterical TV reporter announces the planned suicide of a nameless farmer in a remote village in the 2010 film Peepli......
A NEWS photograph of the Karachi University arts lobby showing defiant participants of a seminar on the missing Baloch earlier this week triggered a flood of memories with the mind zooming in and out......
THERE is little reason to be jubilant over the Indian government’s decision to set up a panel to look into the Official Secrets Act, 1923 (OSA) in the light of the Right to Information Act, 2005.......
ACCORDING to the election tribunal investigating complaints of irregularities in the counting of votes in Lahore’s NA-125 constituency, the conduct of the 2013 election there left much to be......
QUETTA: Security forces arrested three Iranian nationals in Panjgur, near the Pakistan-Iran border, for illegally entering Pakistan.Frontier Corps spokesman Khan Wasey, while talking to Dawn.com,......
