QUETTA: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has filed a reference against former Balochistan food minister Asfandyar Kakar for embezzlement of Rs292 million after which an accountability court......
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated his resolve to break ice with the neighbouring country through “cricket diplomacy” despite the apprehensions raised by some Bharatiya Janata Party......
ISLAMABAD: Two former senior Pakistan military officials told AFP on Tuesday that a ‘defector’ from country’s intelligence agency did assist the US in its hunt for Osama bin Laden but denied the two......
KARACHI: The Asian Development Bank on Tuesday approved a $6 billion loan to help build up Pakistan's dilapidated power network and other key infrastructure, Islamabad said.Among the projects to be......
FAISALABAD: Fast bowler Mohammad Amir said on Tuesday he was focused on joining Pakistan's national side for next year's World Twenty20 tournament after impressive bowling in a domestic match held on......
Saudi-led air strikes pounded the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday just hours before a five-day humanitarian ceasefire was set to begin.Looking to prepare for the truce and jumpstart......
Salman Khan is back to being a sought-after star.Just days after being granted bail after his five-year sentencing, Khan has already bagged his first foreign assignment — an invitation to attend and......
PESHAWAR: Four security personnel were killed on Tuesday near Tank District's Sheikh Otar area bordering South Waziristan.According to a security source, the security personnel were on duty at the......
LAHORE: The election tribunal on Tuesday ordered the verification of thumbprints in the PP-160 and NA-128 constituencies in a petition submitted by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's Karamat Ali Khokhar,......
LONDON: England director of cricket Andrew Strauss said Tuesday that Kevin Pietersen was “not part of our plans for the summer”, saying there was a “massive trust issue” between the England and Wales......
MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Rai Hasan Nawaz elected from the NA-162 constituency in Cheecha Watni was disqualified by an election tribunal in Multan over non-disclosure of......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Home Department issued the black warrants of three condemned prisoners languishing in Central Jail Machh.Sources in the Home Department told DawnNews that the black warrants......
When there is nothing else to eat in the house, there is always Qima (also commonly spelled Keema, Qeema); an assumption I have lived by as a child. Hence, qima alloo (mincemeat and potatoes) with a......
LAHORE: A woman in Lahore has approached the Lahore High Court to register a murder case against a vet for the alleged murder of her pet cat.Petitioner Dr Attiya Masood Chaudhry has requested that......
The 68th Cannes Film Festival will now be screening three films from Pakistan, as Hashim Nadeem’s Abdullah: The Final Witness starring Imran Abbas will be also be screened.The film, which also stars......
Fifth-ranked England and sixth-ranked Pakistan have slipped down the ladder after dropping five points apiece following the annual update of the Reliance ICC Test Team Rankings.The drop in the......
DHAKA: The chief spokesman of Bangladesh's main opposition party who went missing in early March was found Tuesday in a hospital in northeastern India, his wife said.Salahuddin Ahmed's disappearance......
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf recently marked its 19th Foundation Day. In my opinion, and without any doubts, Imran Khan has worked hard to propel the party from one seat in 2002 to over 30 seats in......
The bonhomie on display between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of......
Every girl grows up wishing for her life to be like it is in fairy tales — happily ever after. Most of the time, it doesn't work out that way.There’s that one girl who craves an education but isn’t......
Indian viewers might love Fawad Khan for his looks and acting, but his 1947 Partition themed drama Dastaan has still raised quite the furore.Upset viewers have reported the drama series to I&B......
ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) lawmakers' protest against power outages on Tuesday came to an end after talks with Federal Defence Minister Khawaja Asif who assured the KP government that water,......
KATHMANDU: A new earthquake and several powerful aftershocks hit devastated Nepal on Tuesday, killing at least 66 people and injuring thousands, said the Nepal Home Ministry.Most of the reported......
NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take his global investment push to China this week, as Asia's rival superpowers look to put aside a festering border dispute and identify areas of......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during a press conference in Kabul on Tuesday strongly condemned the surge in attacks by the Afghan Taliban under their Operation Azm offensive, which Pakistan......
Chief executives of Samsung Electronics plan to work at the company’s overseas offices including those in Silicon Valley and New York on a regular basis, aiming to transform the Seoul-based tech......
PESHAWAR: Two opposition parties in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly have refused to participate in the Tuesday demonstration outside Parliament House to be led by Chief Minister Pervez Khattak......
PESHAWAR: The adjournment of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly’s session without taking up the agenda owing to incomplete quorum has become a permanent feature of the august house.In the previous 10......
PESHAWAR: The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) and all its stakeholders have prepared a contingency plan for the coming monsoon season.This was disclosed at a meeting presided over by......
PESHAWAR: A co-producer of Pashto films has announced directing his first Pashto movie to highlight different aspects of the Pakhtun society in a positive manner.Speaking at a news conference at the......
OUR automobile manufacturers are charging prices higher than most Asian countries, with no safety features such as air safety bags. It is unfortunate that successive governments have failed to......
THIS refers to an important pending project. An agreement for construction of a flyover at the Kahna railway crossing in Lahore on a build, operate, transfer (BOT) basis, with private investment, was......
IT is almost a daily routine to see motorbikes falling while crossing rail tracks on the underpass at Jhelum Road, Rawalpindi cantonment. The riders, including women and children, who get injured are......
THE Shandur polo festival is again in the news. This time the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been trapped in mire. After a seminar in Peshawar some irrelevant elements from Peshawar......
ON Lasbela Road, some people take advantage of speeding vehicles and endanger their own lives by creating accidents. It is done only for some cash which is no more than Rs50 or Rs100.These people are......
OWING to the increasing number of qingqi rickshaws, the number of buses is declining day by day.Travelling by qingqis is distressful and we have to endure a lot of problems.These qingqis vibrate......
I REMEMBER when I used to be a student of Class 1, I was slapped by one of my class-fellows. Being younger and physically weaker, I cried. A complaint was made by me against the offender to some......
THE government has introduced a Nizam-i-Salaat for unified Azan and prayer timings in the federal capital. The system has been implemented from May 1 and a calendar for the whole year has been......
SHADA Islam’s article (April 18) was informative, depicting Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar’s sad life in exile in Rangoon.Had the last Mughal emperor’s own verses Na kisi ki aankh ka noor hoon / Na kisi......
THE letter titled ‘NA-125 repercussions’ in our issue of May 8 was published under a wrong name.The letter was, in fact, written by Mr Ali Abbas from Chakwal. The mistake is regretted.Published in......
PESHAWAR: While issuing standard operating procedure to their officials to ensure smooth, transparent and safe local body elections in the province on May 30, the provincial police have declared......
PESHAWAR: The Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Association (FAPUASA) has opposed amendments to University of Peshawar Act, 1974 and warned to resist the same at all......
MARDAN: Speakers at a condolence reference here on Monday paid tribute to ANP leader Azam Khan Hoti and declared his death a great loss for Pakhtun nation.The event was attended by ANP provincial......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has planned to establish a centre of excellence to provide treatment and education to children affected by autism, according to officials.“We have planned......
UPPER DIR: The police arrested 14 suspects in a search operation launched after a student of a private school in Bibyawar here complained to the teachers that some unidentified men tried to give him......
LANDI KOTAL: As many as 4,500 youth from three subdivisions of Khyber Agency have submitted their applications for 187 new posts in Levies Force, which were re-advertised recently by the political......
PESHAWAR: For the first time two archaeologists from Pakistan and UK have joined hands to trace the origin of Kalash people, rumoured to have ancestral link to Alexander the Great, living in the......
KOHAT: The students of Kohat University of Science and Technology continued their protest for the sixth day on Monday as the varsity management struck off nine students’ leaders for boycotting......
MANSEHRA: A man was killed and a constable was injured when unidentified motorcyclists opened firing on them in College Doraha area on Karakoram Highway on the night between Sunday and Monday.“A man......
SWABI: A local non-government organisation disclosed on Monday that people in some localities of Adina union council had plainly refused to allow their women to exercise their right of vote in the......
PESHAWAR: PML-Q provincial president Intikhab Khan Chamkani on Monday alleged that the PTI-led provincial government was rigging the upcoming local body elections by announcing new development......
RAWALPINDI: While strong winds and light drizzle on Monday offered the residents of the twin cities some respite from the sweltering heat over the last two weeks, the winds caused an accident at......
RAWALPINDI: The long wait is over. After a six-month break, the CNG filling stations will resume sale next week.However, it is still not clear for how many days a week or hours a day the filling......
RAWALPINDI: A gang stormed a private commercial bank on Peshwar Road in broad daylight on Monday, injuring the security guards on duty and keeping the staff at the bank hostage before escaping with......
ISLAMABAD: The National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) will set up 540,000 literacy centres throughout the country.“This intervention will increase the literacy rate by 10 per cent,” said......
MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) code of conduct is being violated in by-elections in PP-196.He said this......
KASUR: Two members of a family were electrocuted on Monday when an 11KV live transmission line broke and fell on them after a windstorm on Peerowala Road.Ghulam Nabi, of village Patwan Kalan, with......
ISLAMABAD: At long last the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has started enforcing its laws on the powerful and the influential of the city.It sealed five houses on Monday where businesses were......
RAWALPINDI: A former president of the proscribed Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat (ASWJ), Rawalpindi chapter, who was on the most wanted list of the Punjab Counterterrorism Department (CTD), was arrested from......
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab Child Protection Bureau (CPB) in collaboration with the City District Government Rawalpindi and the police is launching a campaign against beggary in the garrison city on......
ISLAMABAD: At a press conference organised on Monday, physiotherapists drew attention towards lack of a regulatory body for the registration of physiotherapists and the monitoring of physiotherapy......
ISLAMABAD: A single bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday referred the petition against the suspension of Islamabad IG Aftab Ahmed Cheema and sacking of SSP Mohammad Ali Nekokara to the......
ISLAMABAD: Civil society activists on Monday submitted a petition to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) challenging the results of the by-elections in PK-95, Lower Dir, on the grounds that......
RAWALPINDI: A bridegroom and three wedding guests landed in a police lockup on charges of terrorism after they shot at a police party attempting to stop them from firing in the air in celebration.A......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed death-row prisoner Shafqat Hussain’s petition seeking his age verification to avail the benefit of Juvenile Justice System......
MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) code of conduct is being violated in by-elections in PP-196.He said this......
BAHAWALPUR: The government was making effort to create an environment of mutual respect and tolerance in the country and the Salat system introduced in Islamabad was part of such endeavours.State......
MULTAN: Samina Bibi, 37, is making handicrafts with date leaves and reed (konder) to earn livelihood for her family after the death of her husband some two years back.Her eldest son is studying in......
LAHORE: The marathon exercise of biometric verification of SIMs and withdrawal of the International Clearing House (ICH) could not eliminate grey traffic as incoming international calls up to one......
LAHORE: A new mobile phone application has been launched in Lahore to preserve crime scene within an hour of the incident.Hundreds of policemen had been trained for collecting evidence in heinous......
LAHORE: A retired inspector-general of Punjab police had to remind a traffic warden who was about to hand him over a fine slip for not wearing a seat-belt while driving his car that the law’s......
LAHORE: A majority of the government hospitals, including teaching institutions, in Punjab are lacking critical burns units for the patients.There are a total of 23 teaching and 36 district......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency on Monday arrested a visa consultancy owner in Defence on charges of human smuggling.According to a spokesman, Pervaiz Kausar, owner of P&A consultancy firm......
LAHORE: A large number of electricity workers on Monday besieged headquarters of the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) to block entry for a delegation of the Privatisation Commission and senior......
LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party has submitted a resolution in the Punjab Assembly demanding ‘one dress code’ for both public and private sector schools in Punjab.PPP MPA Khurram Jehangir Wattoo......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has given a one-month deadline to the executive district officers (health) to improve key performance indicators (KPIs) or face action.The step was taken by Adviser to......
LAHORE: A police constable was found shot dead at Canal Road Park here on Monday in Dharampura in Mughalpura police precincts.Police were clueless about the motive behind the killing of 27-year-old......
LAHORE: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has agreed to assist in strengthening the newly-established Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC).In order to materialise the assistance,......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab President Ejaz Chaudhry has lambasted the provincial government for its “failed” wheat policy, saying because of it middleman is badly exploiting farmers who......
LAHORE: The divisional administration has sought suggestions from individuals, groups and civil society for the rehabilitation and restoration of historical spots of the city.“We welcome suggestions......
GUJRAT: Scores of district health department workers staged a protest on Monday against an executive district officer (EDO) by blocking the city’s busiest square, Kutchehry Chowk, which was going on......
SAHIWAL: Tehsil bar association members observed a strike on Monday after Chichawatni Saddar police arrested a lawyer in connection with a rape case.Police registered a case against lawyer ‘Mu’ on......
MUZAFFARGARH: A dacoit was killed in an alleged encounter with police in Alipur, some 45kms from here, late on Sunday night.DPO Rai Zameerul Haq said that Abdul Hameed Foji alias Hameeda Naich was......
VEHARI: A private tracker and a robber were killed during a police encounter with robbers at Chak 113-WB in the Mitro police limits.Police claimed they were following the dacoits with the help of......
OKARA: A man allegedly shot dead a woman in fields on Sunday evening.Hujra Shah Muqeem police said they had arrested Amin, of village 2-D, who confessed to killing the 20-year-old woman of the......
KARACHI: More than 60 places where motorbike snatching and theft are common have been identified across the city, it emerged on Monday.Officials believe pure vigilance by the area police and......
When Saulat Ali Khan, aka Saulat Mirza, accused the Muttahida Qaumi Movement of “using workers like him as tissue paper” in a video statement aired by news channels on March 18, he perhaps had no......
KARACHI: The provincial assembly of Sindh on Monday took a lead in initiating a discussion on pre-budget proposals for the provincial budget 2015-16 and on financial reports about nine-month......
KARACHI: The Milli Yakjehti Council, an alliance of religious parties meant to create sectarian harmony, announced on Monday that it would observe a protest day on Friday against Federal Information......
KARACHI: The ongoing tussle between the chairperson of Karachi University’s (KU) biotechnology department and some teachers for the past many years is likely to aggravate in the coming days after the......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has announced that a $1.269 billion Karachi Light Rail and Brown Line project will be launched on a war footing so that it could be completed by the......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court was informed on Monday that “hundreds of arms licences” had been issued in the name of Dr Zulfikar Mirza, former home minister, his wife and son, proving that he had......
KARACHI: A young man was found tortured and killed in Mobina Town on Monday, police said.The body of the man in his early 20s was found at a roadside in Gulzar-i-Hijri, said Gulshan-i-Iqbal SP Abid......
KARACHI: Commissioner of Karachi Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui has constituted a team to check violation of traffic rules by heavy vehicles on Northern Bypass.The team, including officials of the excise......
KARACHI: A senior educationist and member of the government-appointed advisory committee for curriculum and textbooks reforms has left the country ‘fearing for life’ after receiving threatening calls......
HYDERABAD: Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa), Hyderabad, employees on Monday threatened to disrupt water supply to the city in protest against non-payment of their salaries and dues and the relevant......
KARACHI: Sindh is among the four provinces of the country which have received the directive from Islamabad that they strengthen legislation on hate speech and extremist material in their respective......
KARACHI: Former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza, who is already facing three terrorism cases registered against him for allegedly storming the office of a police officer and enforcing a shutterdown......
LARKANA: Members of the Government Secondary Teachers Association (GSTA), Larkana district, observed a boycott of their duties as the education department put in place the biometric system to......
HYDERABAD: The family of a man languishing in an Indian jail since Feb 2013 has appealed to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and relevant officials for help.Abid Qureshi, who accompanied the family, told......
BEIJING: A full size replica of parts of Beijing’s nationally sensitive Old Summer Palace has opened 1,000 kilometres away from China’s capital, state media reported on Monday, despite managers of......
WASHINGTON: Leaders of Gulf nations unnerved by Washington’s nuclear talks with Iran and Tehran’s meddling across the Mideast look to President Barack Obama to promise more than words and weapons at......
CAIRO: A Saudi-led coalition has been targeting Shia rebels and their allies in Yemen in a campaign of air strikes since March 26. Here’s a look at the Sunni Arab countries involved in the fighting......
ON a recent evening in a Midwestern US city, a middle-aged woman with bandaged arms and a missing thumb entered a crowded restaurant. The maimed woman, Rafida Ahmed, scanned the room nervously. The......
KATHMANDU: Janaki Karmacharya sits on a plastic chair under the tarpaulin that now serves as her office and despairs at the wreckage of her once magnificent library in the heart of Kathmandu.Until......
SYDNEY: Starring in music videos at the age of 100, Eileen Kramer is probably the oldest working dancer and choreographer in Australia, if not the world — and the centenarian revels in her age.“I......
WASHINGTON: At least five people died after violent storms and tornadoes battered parts of the southern United States over the weekend, leaving at least eight more missing and dozens injured,......
RIYADH: A Pakistani and a Saudi were killed on Monday when the Saudi Arabian border region came under renewed bombardment from Yemen, official media reported.The Pakistani’s killing was a rare death......
HAVANA: French President Francois Hollande on Monday called for an end to the US embargo on Cuba, during the first visit by a Western leader to the island since Washington and Havana moved to restore......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has condemned the suicide attack against a bus transporting employees of the Attorney General’s Office in Kabul, which......
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled his new cabinet on Monday after an unexpected election victory that gave his Conservative party a narrow majority in parliament for the first......
BANGALORE: The head of India’s largest Tamil party was cleared of corruption on Monday, a verdict that sparked wild celebrations by supporters and paved the way for the return of one of the......
WASHINGTON: The rulers of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have dropped out of a White House summit planned at Camp David this week.Officials in Washington confirmed that the......
BOGOTA: Four Colombian soldiers were killed and two others wounded on Sunday when their helicopter crashed in the central Uribe region, the military said.The UH-60L Black Hawk, US-manufactured......
SRINAGAR: A crowded bus veered off a rocky village road and fell into a deep gorge on Monday, killing at least 23 people near Srinagar, police said.The driver apparently lost control of the bus while......
GHAZNI: Nineteen of 31 Shias abducted in Afghanistan were released on Monday in exchange for scores of Uzbek militants in government prisons, provincial officials said, ending a two-month ordeal......
LONDON: New Zealand have made the perfect start to their tour of England after wrapping up a 66-run victory in their opening match against Somerset at Taunton on Monday.The Black Caps started the......
As Mohammad Amir waited at the top of his mark to bowl his first ball in the top tier of domestic cricket yesterday after a Grade II rehabilitation following a four and half year ostracisation from......
ROME: Grigor Dimitrov opened his Rome Masters campaign with a 6-3 7-6(4) victory over Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz on Monday.The Bulgarian world number 11, beaten by Rafa Nadal in the quarter-finals in......
LAHORE/KARACHI: The decision on the contentious elections of the Punjab Football Association (PFA) by Sports Board Punjab (SBP) director-general Usman Anwar is pending till Tuesday when he is likely......
PARIS: Rafael Nadal has dropped three places to number seven in the latest ATP rankings released on Monday a day after his defeat in the Madrid Open final to Andy Murray.It is the Spaniard’s lowest......
KARACHI: Zone-VI emerged new champions of the Karachi region in the PCB Regional Inter-district U-19 Cricket Championships despite drawing their final-round fixture against Zone-V here on Monday.The......
KARACHI: The third edition of Essa Lab Open Juniors and Seniors National Ranking Tennis Championships will be held here at Karachi Gymkhana from May 16 to 22.The national ranking events to be......
ISLAMABAD: Hassan Memorial and Imran Memorial registered sensational victories in two thrilling contests of the National Bank of Pakistan and Islamabad Cricket Associations (ICA) Inter-club Cricket......
PONTE BEACH: American Rickie Fowler produced a stunning finish to claim the lucrative Players Championship in a playoff at TPC Sawgrass on Sunday.The 26-year-old outlasted 2008 champion Sergio Garcia......
KARACHI: Previously tainted Pakistan paceman Mohammad Amir made a fairytale entry into the major realm of domestic cricket when he claimed a wicket with the first legitimate ball he delivered in the......
ISLAMABAD: An 85-member Pakistan contingent will take part in the Special Olympics World Games slated to be held in July this year in Los Angeles, it was announced on Monday.The contingent will have......
LAHORE: Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) president retired Lt Gen Arif Hasan has expressed his disappointment over the preparations of the Pakistan contingent for next year’s Rio Olympics,......
LAHORE: Following their dismal tour of Australia, the Pakistan hockey team will now undertake a training tour of South Korea for a four Test series against the hosts from May 15 to 25.Pakistan will......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s Mohammad Afzal won a gold medal in the triple jump event at the inaugural Asian Youth Athletics Championship which concluded in Doha, Qatar on Monday.Afzal’s achievement,......
LAHORE: Fata, Pakistan Navy and Pakistan Air Force won their respective matches to qualify for the next round of the 48th National Senior Men’s Volleyball Championships which started at the Wapda......
KARACHI: Opener Haider Ali smashed a towering 249 as Karachi drew their second-round PCB-Pepsi Cricket Stars U-16 Tournament fixture against Hyderabad here at the National Stadium on Monday.Karachi,......
LAHORE: Pakistan Judo Federation (PJF) president Col Rana Shujaat has been elected vice-president of the Judo Union of Asia (JUA) in Kuwait on Monday, according to a press release issued by the......
MUNICH: Pep Guardiola has promised embattled Bayern Munich will put up a fight in Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final, second-leg, in their near-impossible bid to deny Barcelona an eighth final......
LONDON: The England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) new chairman Colin Graves insisted on Monday that the decision on England’s new head coach was one for Andrew Strauss.Former captain Strauss was on......
KARACHI: Several members of Pakistan cricket team returned home here on Monday evening from Bangladesh after the month-long tour where they won the two-Test series 1-0 but lost the three-match......
COLOMBO: Pakistan will tour Sri Lanka in June and July to play three Tests, five One-day Internationals and two Twenty20 matches, Sri Lanka Cricket said on Monday.Schedule:June 8: ArrivalJune 11-13:......
LONDON: Kevin Pietersen hit a superb career-best unbeaten triple century for Surrey on Monday to offer a reminder of his talents ahead of new England cricket director Andrew Strauss’ first news......
KARACHI: Shares at the Karachi stock market came crashing down on Monday, with the KSE-100 index posting a massive loss of 1,023.94 points (3.05pc).The index settled at 32,506.36 points after Rs192......
GWADAR: The Gwadar Port, which started its operations about eight years ago, for the first time on Monday handled commercial containerised cargo for export of seafood.M V Zi Jingson, a bulk-break......
KARACHI: Remittances from overseas Pakistanis grew by 16 per cent year-on-year to $15 billion during July-April 2014-15, just below $15.83bn remitted during the entire FY14, the State Bank of......
KARACHI: The price of sugar increased by up to Rs4 per kg to Rs60-62 per kg on Monday from Rs58-59 at the end of last week.Sugar price has been on the rise since last month when it was hovering at......
SINGAPORE: Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has issued its first tender to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) after it recently completed an import terminal, industry sources said on Monday.The company is......
RIYADH: The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) expects oil prices to be about $76 a barrel in 2025 in its most optimistic scenario, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a......
LAHORE: The head of a three-member Chinese delegation, Mr Lon Zou, on Monday called for joint ventures in iron and steel sector which would help Pakistani entrepreneurs to get modern......
BRUSSELS: Greece said on Monday it would meet a huge IMF payment deadline to avoid a catastrophic default but despite some progress in talks with its eurozone partners a bailout deal still seemed far......
SINGAPORE: China overtook the United States as the world’s top importer of crude oil for the first time in April, and its purchases are expected to remain strong despite a slowing economy, with......
Engro, TCF inaugurate schoolKARACHI: Engro Polymer and Chemicals Ltd and The Citizens Foundation (TCF) inaugurated a primary school in Ghaggar Phattak, a small village near Port Qasim, said a press......
LONDON: The Bank of England on Monday kept its key interest rate at a record low 0.50 per cent in the first monetary policy decision since the Conservatives won Britain’s general election.The meeting......
KARACHI: Smuggling of tiles has reached 50 per cent of local production capacity, much to the chagrin of local industry which says it has left with little room for survival.Around 30 million square......
NEW DELHI: Indian private banker K.V. Kamath was named Monday as the first head of a new development bank being set up by the so-called emerging BRICS nations, officials said.The BRICS — Brazil,......
KARACHI: Lacklustre conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Monday as both buyers and sellers kept to the sidelines. However, the underlying sentiment remained firm and steady.Floor brokers said......
SYDNEY: The Australian government on Monday announced a world-leading crackdown on alleged tax avoidance by 30 multinational companies in a move that could force the likes of Apple Inc and Microsoft......
SINGAPORE: China’s smartphone market contracted in the first quarter for the first time in six years with Apple becoming the top vendor, researchers said on Monday.International Data Corporation......
ISLAMABAD: The poll inquiry commission looking into allegations of widespread malpractices in the 2013 general elections was told on Monday that neither any demand for printing additional ballot......
KHAR: A pro-government tribal elder was killed along with five companions in a roadside bomb blast in Mamond tehsil of Bajaur tribal region on Monday.Officials and local people said the blast......
KARACHI: Syed Shahid Husain, a well-known economist and former senior vice president at the World Bank, passed away in Washington after a prolonged illness, according to his family here. He was 83.Mr......
QUETTA: Members on both treasury and opposition benches in the Balochistan Assembly expressed on Monday resentment over the federal government’s decision to stop the release of Rs15 billion......
ISLAMABAD: Eulogising the services of the two foreign diplomats and the spouses of two others who died in a helicopter crash in Naltar last week, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced the civil......
ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench set free on Monday 97 members of the Hindu community, including 38 women and girls, who had been kept as bonded labourers in Jhelum district for......
QUETTA: Death-row prisoner Saulat Mirza will be executed in Mach Jail at 4.30am on Tuesday, prison authorities said on Monday.Heavy contingents of Frontier Corps, police and Levies were deployed in......
QUETTA: Provincial Minister for Planning and Development Dr Hamid Khan Achakzai, who is a leader of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, said on Monday that councillors from the PkMAP would accompany......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau arrested on Monday two accused in as many cases, officials said.A NAB spokesman said that Chaudhry Mohammad Arif, chief executive officer of Rose......
KHUZDAR: A bullet-riddled body was found in Johan area of Kalat district on Monday, Levies officials said.The body was shifted to hospital where the person was identified as Lala Kakar, a resident of......
GWADAR: The headmistress of Government Girls High School, Degari Kahan, was killed and three people were injured in a road accident in Turbat area of Kech district on Sunday night.Levies officials......
A few days before the British election took place on May 7, I asked my fruit vendor in south London — who originally hails from Kasur — whether he planned to vote. “Yes, definitely,” he responded.......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif will travel to Kabul on Tuesday on a daylong trip at a time when the honeymoon between Pakistan and the new Afghan government......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army said on Monday that it had completed the induction training of FM-90 air defence missile system recently imported from China.Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif witnessed the......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has barred PTI Chairman Imran Khan from campaigning for his party’s candidates in by-elections in three constituencies of the national and provincial......
WASHINGTON: The White House rejected on Monday as “baseless” a report, which claimed that the official US version of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound was a cover up.“There are too many......
ISLAMABAD: The government reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on Monday for the disbursement of a tranche of $506 million next month as part of the $6.8 billion package under......
ISLAMABAD: The ruling PML-N heaved a sigh of relief on Monday as the Supreme Court suspended the May 4 decision of an election tribunal to de-seat Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique. The tribunal......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Monday asked Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad to quit his office and return to the party fold as a ‘worker’ .It is not for the first time that Dr Ibad — an......
QUETTA: Convicted murderer Saulat Mirza was hanged to death in the early hours of Tuesday at Balochistan’s Machh Jail.Mirza's body was shifted from Machh Jail to the Edhi morgue in Quetta. Eighteen......
THE provinces have become the favourite punching bag of Islamabad, donors and commentators alike. They are being chastised for failing to generate adequate resources to fund their constitutional......
THE brouhaha over Salman Khan’s conviction for running over pavement dwellers 13 years ago, killing one and injuring some others, can be all too easily explained in the simplistic rich-poor binary.......
Yet another scorching summer has descended on Karachiites whose woes have been aggravated by a dire water crisis. Areas connected to piped water supply are experiencing long, unbearable gaps in the......
CONCERN has always been expressed at the state of law enforcement in Balochistan, and last month’s targeted killing of 20 labourers in Turbat once again generated debate on the topic. There have been......
It is a story that will not go away — and rightly so. A new, sensational account of the run-up to the May 2, 2011 American raid in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden alleges that not only did the......
BY the government’s own admission, some of the 7,500 names currently on the Exit Control List have been languishing there for decades and even include individuals who found themselves placed on it......
WITH temperatures sizzling, the woes of citizens in many parts of Karachi have been aggravated by the ongoing water crisis.As it is, the supply of water the metropolis receives is not enough to meet......
KARACHI: Former Sindh home minister Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza, who was already facing multiple cases on charges of creating violence in Badin, was booked in another case by Karachi police on Monday.Aram......
