KABUL: Fourteen people, including two Pakistanis and at least seven other foreigners, were killed in a Taliban attack on a Kabul guesthouse that trapped dozens attending a concert and triggered an......
KARACHI: Pakistan hockey team will qualify for next year's Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) despite the difficulties it has been facing, chief coach Shahnaz Shaikh assured on......
BANJUL: Gambian President Yahya Jammeh sacked an internationally-renowned Pakistani appointed last year as Gambia's top judge, according to judicial sources, appointing a Nigerian as his temporary......
CAIRO/RIYADH: A five-day truce in Yemen appeared to be broadly holding on Wednesday, despite reports of air strikes overnight by Saudi-led forces and continued military activity by the country's......
PESHAWAR: A new polio case was confirmed on Tuesday from the Shabqadar Tehsil of Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), where two-year-old Muhamad Rahem was dignosed with the virus, according to......
MADRID: Messi to Suarez to Neymar, goal. Messi to Suarez to Neymar, goal.That devastating and increasingly familiar combination served up by Barcelona's attacking trident of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez......
ANTALYA: Nato and Afghan leaders on Wednesday agreed on a framework for a future joint military-civilian presence in Afghanistan when the alliance's current mission ends, Nato's Secretary General......
ISLAMABAD: Zimbabwe touch down next week, the first Test-playing nation to visit Pakistan in more than six years.The anticipation is building, heightened by a delay in selling tickets until Friday......
I am telling nothing but the truth when I tell you that Indian mangoes are better than Pakistani mangoes. It infuriates me when Pakistanis don't agree. That makes mangoes an India-Pakistan dispute......
LOS ANGELES: Tiger Woods wrote a personal letter of support to a schoolboy who contemplated suicide because of a stutter, saying “I know what it's like to be different and not fit in”.In the letter,......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate resumed proceedings on Wednesday and adopted a unanimous resolution condemning a terrorist attack targeting the Ismaili community in Karachi today.The Senate suspended routine......
MADRID: Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has welcomed the prospect of facing eternal rivals Real Madrid for the first time in a Champions League final in Berlin early next month.The Catalans sealed......
The spiritual leader of the Ismaili community His Highness Aga Khan expressed shock and sorrow over the attack on a bus carrying Ismailis near Safoora Chowk in Karachi which left 43 dead and 13......
It is supposed to be safe for the children, but it isn’t. Piped water in urban Punjab is inferior in quality than other sources.Despite the state being the source of piped water, the incidence of......
LASHKAR GAH: Gunmen opened fire on a gathering of Afghan Muslim clerics in the southern province of Helmand, killing seven people, police said on Wednesday.The Ulema Council, the highest religious......
LOS ANGELES: "More than anything else I mourn the apathy I see around me, as I feel that Pakistanis empathise with victims only if they represent their sect, ethnicity or religion and not as a......
KARACHI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a high-level meeting on Karachi's security situation at the Governor House on Wednesday after gunmen killed 43 people in an attack on a bus carrying......
Priyanka Chopra has joined the FBI......in the new ABC drama serial Quantico, that is.As a young recruit of the FBI Academy — "the toughest boot camp and grad school, rolled into one" — Chopra finds......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday chaired a meeting in which representatives of all political parties were briefed on the proposed route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor......
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is considering sending United States military aircraft and ships to assert 'freedom of navigation' around rapidly growing Chinese-made artificial islands in the disputed......
Activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi's life has been anything but uneventful. Born to a Brahmin family in Thane, Maharashtra, it was only during her college days that Laxmi found her calling. Since 1990,......
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced to observe a day of mourning across the country on Thursday following a deadly attack on Karachi's Ismaili community on Wednesday in which 43......
Zehra*, an old friend of mine tells me:"When I started at school, the kids asked each other if they were Shia or Sunni. I have no idea why a first-grader would start off an introduction like that,......
Kevin Pietersen is not the only one trying to work out why he is unwanted by England's cricket selectors.England's fiercest rivals, Australia, are also puzzled by his omission and somewhat bemused by......
DHAKA: Bangladesh plan to revive a lucrative Twenty20 tournament in December, two years after it was suspended in the wake of match-fixing scandals, officials said on Wednesday.The Bangladesh Premier......
KATHMANDU: Rescuers battled Wednesday to reach survivors of a deadly new earthquake in Nepal that triggered landslides and brought down buildings, as the search resumed for a US military helicopter......
KARACHI: Pakistan's cricket chiefs face a battle to address the reasons behind their disastrous tour to Bangladesh as they gear up for their first home series against Test opposition in six......
KARACHI: At least 43 people were killed and 13 others wounded on Wednesday when armed men opened fire inside a bus carrying members of the Ismaili community near Safoora Chowk in Karachi.Sindh Police......
WASHINGTON: At least five people were killed and dozens injured after a train derailed and overturned in Philadelphia late Tuesday.Emergency personnel said six of the injured were in critical......
SEOUL: North Korean Defence Minister Hyon Yong-Chol has been executed by anti-aircraft fire for disloyalty and showing disrespect to leader Kim Jong-Un, South Korea's intelligence agency said......
THIS refers to the article ‘Spirit of the arts lobby’ ( May 9) by Abbas Nasir. That the piece was biased is quite obvious given Mr Nasir’s active involvement in the left-leaning politics of that era.......
THE proper definition of the term amnesty refers to a pardon that is provided either by the government or an entity to a person or a group of individuals.I reside in an area where electricity usually......
RECENTLY, I got the opportunity to visit the archaeological sight of Mohra Muradu Buddhist stupa, which is located near Taxila. It is well-preserved, and work was further under progress on the stupa......
IT is very strange that while we are made by the media to remember the sad incidents of May 12, the Tahir Plaza burning, the Baldia factory fire, etc., we never hear about ghastly incidents of the......
ALL the time Ishaq Dar is beating the drum that due to the prudent policy of the government our economic indicators are improving with each passing day.I would like to ask him what improvement has......
NADRA has declared that 93,852 voters in NA-122 cannot be verified. Isn’t this the time to decide that the subsequent elections in the country, whether of local government or at national level,......
I DO not quite agree with Huma Yusuf’s article ‘Broken society’ (April 27). The writer has mentioned the murder of Sabeen Mahmud in Karachi recently as an argument in support of her contention that......
A FEW days ago a family of squatters with a tent moved into the plot reserved for park in F-8/3, Islamabad. Their number has now increased to some 20 men, women and children. It seems like the......
THE behaviour and conduct of those at the helms of affairs in various power centres remain as it were decades ago. They continue taking the people for a ride, which is increasingly becoming difficult......
EDUCATION in Pakistan is in tatters. Since the country came into being some 23 policies and action plans have been introduced, but the educational sector is waiting for a saviour. The government of......
KARACHI: The flight from Quetta had arrived. Media personnel crowded outside the airport’s cargo section, waited for a glimpse of the casket carrying Saulat Mirza’s remains after his execution at......
KARACHI: Omar Shahid Hamid, son of the slain KESC MD Shahid Hamid, has said that Saulat Mirza’s family had tried to approach him and his mother on many occasions to seek their pardon.“Saulat Mirza’s......
KARACHI: A large number of lawyers on Tuesday staged a protest demonstration on M.A. Jinnah Road to mark the eighth anniversary of the May 12 carnage in Karachi.More than 45 people were killed and......
PESHAWAR: Fata parliamentarians on Tuesday broke silence on the core issues of their region and called for ‘genuine’ reforms there.Accompanied by five MNAs and Senators at a news conference here,......
KHAR: About 29 former militants were set free after completing vocational training at Navi Saha -- an internment centre in Bajaur Agency.A ceremony to this effect was held here the other day on the......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday dismissed two identical petitions challenging several provisions of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act (LGA) 2013, including those on the holding......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission has arrested a senior auditor of the District Accounts Office Shangla on charge of amassing illegal wealth.The suspect, Umar Hayat, was produced......
PESHAWAR: The upcoming local government polls have again brought to spotlight the tussle for tickets among the workers of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in the province, especially in Peshawar.In a related......
PESHAWAR: Local lawyers on Tuesday condemned the police’s failure to arrest the people involved in the May 12, 2007 Karachi killings and called upon the federal and Sindh governments and Supreme......
PESHAWAR: There will be one-to-one contest between the candidates of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Inaf and Jamiat Ulma-i-Islam-F in the by-election scheduled to be held today (Wednesday) to fill the vacant......
MANSEHRA: Police have seized a suicide vest, six improvised explosive devices and other material from an empty plot adjacent to the residence of an alleged terrorist, who was arrested after killing a......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a daylong consultation on Tuesday called upon the government to make legislation in line with the UN Convention Against Torture (UNCAT) to protect citizens from torture by the......
CHITRAL: The mysterious disease that has caused drying up of thousands of deodar trees in Chitral Gol National Park has not attracted the attention of wildlife department during the last 10......
KOHAT: The administration of Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST) on Tuesday accepted the demand of striking students to start the summer semester.Officials said that now examinations......
ABBOTTABAD: Angiography machine of the Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, has been out of order for last nine months, as a result of which serious cases are referred to Peshawar and......
KARAK: The district president of Khattak Ittehad, a rights organisation, Maulana Mirzaqeem Khan on Tuesday complained the district got Rs2.8 billion as oil and gas royalty and Rs900 million as......
SWABI: Adviser to the Prime Minister, Amir Muqam, claimed that the protest sit-in led by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak outside the Parliament House in Islamabad on Tuesday was......
KARACHI: Despite receiving little official and public attention, teachers and employees of the Federal Urdu University for Arts, Science and Technology continued with their protest on Tuesday,......
ISLAMABAD: Important officials from five seminary boards refused to sit with government officials, on Tuesday, in protest of the comments made by the information minister last week.The officials said......
As the judicial commission continues to examine evidence related to allegations of rigging in the 2013 general elections, there is a distinct lack of new evidence among the proofs that has been......
ISLAMABAD: The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) will be given the status of a police station and a summary has been sent to the chief commissioner’s office.Inspector General of Police (IGP) Tahir......
RAWALPINDI: Despite the passage of 17 days after the cantonment board elections, the elected members have not been called to take oath.In the past, the oath-taking meeting used to be held a week......
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s directions to the contractors of the metro bus project to complete the finishing work by Friday seems not materialising as the latter have sought......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) has decided to arrange training programmes for the teachers on handling child’s neuro developmental problems.This was stated by the head of......
RAWALPINDI: Police have registered cases against heads of 13 government and private schools for not making proper security arrangements in their institutions.Among those who were booked under the......
ISLAMABAD: One of the businesses sealed on Monday, as part of the Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) drive against businesses being run in residential areas, was illegally reopened on Tuesday......
ISLAMABAD: Running the country’s 120 missions abroad has cost the federal government over Rs47 billion.In contradiction with the austerity measures the current government claims to have adopted, it......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has decided to set up five new model schools in G-13 and G-14 to cope with growing number of students seeking admissions in model colleges’......
ISLAMABAD: The currency smuggling case against supermodel Ayyan Ali was not so complicated as it seems to be, because a few months before her arrest a foreigner facing a similar offence was set free......
ISLAMABAD: Grey traffic in international telephone calls to Pakistan has decreased significantly since the country withdrew from the International Clearing House (ICH) regime, Minister of State for......
ISLAMABAD: Nursing staff of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) organised a walk on Tuesday to mark International Nursing Day.The day is observed around the world on May 12, the birth day......
ISLAMABAD: “No nation can progress without giving due respect to teachers,” said State Minister for Education Balighur Rehman on Tuesday.He was speaking following his meeting with All Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Begum Kalsoom Nawaz on Tuesday inaugurated Thalassaemia Centre established by Pakistan Baitul Mal (PBM) at Fatima Jinnah Park.Speaking on the occasion, the first lady reaffirmed the......
ISLAMABAD: A film screened at the Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Services (PIPS) on Tuesday took viewers through the thousands of years of spiritual history of the land where Pakistan stands......
LAHORE: Electricity workers continued their protest on Tuesday in front of the headquarters of the Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) on Queen’s Road while a group of angry protesters besieged......
LAHORE: A team of the Lahore Development Authority’s Directorate of Estate Management-1 faced on Tuesday a massive resistance from a number of illegal occupants after it reached Johar Town’s ......
LAHORE: The Mayo Hospital’s Cardiology Department failed to provide treatment to its own medical superintendent, it is learnt.Mayo Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Amjad Shahzad was taken to the......
LAHORE: Dua for renowned lawyer, social thinker and writer Mahmood Mirza will be offered at 48 Mayo Gardens on Wednesday (today) at 5:30pm.Mahmood Mirza passed away peacefully on Monday was laid to......
KASUR: Three people were burnt alive and six others suffered serious burn injuries on Tuesday when the motorcycle-rickshaw they were riding caught fire after a head-on collision with a motorcycle......
LAHORE: Two more constituencies from Lahore will go through the voters’ thumb verification test as per orders of an election tribunal here on Tuesday.On a petition submitted by Pakistan......
SAHIWAL: An additional sessions judge on Tuesday admonished Shah Kot police for involving a six-year-old boy in a case pertaining to injuries caused to another boy, ordering them to ascertain whether......
FAISALABAD: Industrialists will go on strike on Wednesday (today) against the Federal Bureau of Revenue for issuing sales tax notices to the industry.However, the Anjuman-i-Tajran City, a main......
SARGODHA: Around 500 camels have fallen a victim to a ‘mysterious disease’ in the last few days at Noorpur Thal and adjoining areas.It is learnt that these camels have died while grazing gram at......
GUJRAT: The Pakistan People’s Party has lost yet another former lawmaker when ex-MPA from Mandi Bahauddin city Tariq Sahi formally announced joining the PTI in his native village on Tuesday.The......
OKARA: An alleged dacoit wanted by police in various districts was shot dead accidentally by his own accomplices during an encounter, police claimed on Tuesday.Early on Tuesday, an alleged gang of......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The last date for demarcation of the union councils and wards for the upcoming local council elections has been extended from May 14 to 31.District Election Commissioner Mian Akbar......
MULTAN: Scores of owners and workers of CNG stations on Tuesday staged a demonstration against the closure of their business for over six months.The protesters organised a rally from Pul Mauj Durya......
SHEIKHUPURA: The daughter of a former union council nazim who was kidnapped by four people on Monday has not been found 24 hours after the incident.Former union council nazim Mushtaq Rehmani and his......
GUJRAT: The district government constituted a three-member inquiry team headed by the additional district collector to probe allegations of use of abusive language and misbehaviour levelled against......
LAHORE: The Muttahida Mahaz Asataza Punjab on Tuesday appealed to the Lahore High Court chief justice to take notice of the indifference of the Punjab government towards the ‘just’ demands of......
LAHORE: World Wide Fund for Nature -Pakistan and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) signed an MoU to partner for the International Eco-Internship Programme (IEIP) under which the latter......
LAHORE: Punjab University Vice Chancellor Mujahid Kamran says the Muslims have made almost no contribution to the creation of scientific knowledge during the past few centuries which is the major......
LAHORE: The International Nurses Day was observed in the provincial capital on Tuesday.The Punjab Institute of Cardiology Lahore organised a ceremony where Deputy Chief Nursing Superintendent Samina......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said measures were being taken for taking full benefits of the GSP Plus status awarded to Pakistan by European Union and a cabinet committee had been......
LAHORE: A youth and a girl were axed to death allegedly ‘in the name of honour’ in the Chuhng area on Tuesday.The deceased were identified as Tahir, 25, of Pattoki and Iqra, 21, of Shahpur Kanjran.A......
LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has said the PML-N government is giving false hope to the people regarding elimination of loadshedding by 2018.“The government is misleading the people by......
KARACHI: Only six lawmakers from the treasury and opposition benches each on Tuesday took part in a discussion on the financial report of the Sindh government’s third quarter expenditure and......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed the home secretary, provincial police chief, director general of Rangers and others to submit their comments in petitions against illegal detention......
KARACHI: National and regional identity is distinct in the European Union for which the policymakers have to be careful and respectful by not being an agent of removing these distinct identities,......
KARACHI: A worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was shot dead and a passer-by wounded in North Nazimabad on Tuesday evening, Hyderi Market police and party officials said.Khurram Ahmed, 35, was......
STUDY LAUNCHLaunching ceremony of a study titled ‘Profiles of land tenure system in Pakistan’ by Kaiser Bengali under the auspices of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research at the......
KARACHI: After a lapse of more than four years to the enactment of the Sindh Child Protection Authority Act meant to provide for the establishment of an authority to ensure rights of children in need......
LARKANA: Four people were killed in two incidents of house collapse during rains in Larkana as thunder showers coupled with dust storm hit parts of many districts in Sindh on Monday night and......
HYDERABAD: State Minister for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali has said the Sindh government has given up reconciliation of power dues after agreeing on bills amounting to Rs12 billion, although an......
DADU: A total of 10 dacoits were killed and many others wounded and arrested in separate police operations carried out in Dadu, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas, Shikarpur and Thatta districts on Tuesday, Sindh......
HYDERABAD: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed the civil administration in the drought-hit Tharparkar area to adopt a proactive role in continuously discharging its responsibilities with regard......
SUKKUR: Sindh Education Department Secretary Dr Fazalullah Pechuho has said the biometric system has been introduced for the verification of presence of all school teachers on their duties.He was......
NAJRAN: Khatim Umm Salem’s quiet, secure life betrays no signs of the war taking place just a few miles away. In the mornings, the elderly woman sits in front of a fan outside her tiny shop in the......
THE victory of the Conservative Party in British elections last week has brought two possibilities closer to fulfilment: withdrawal from the European Union, and, more drastically, the secession of......
LANGKAWI: Thousands of migrants believed to be stranded at sea without food and water could die unless Southeast Asian governments act urgently to rescue them, migrant groups and the UN warned on......
DHAKA: A masked gang wielding machetes hacked a secular blogger to death on Tuesday in northeastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack by suspected Islamists since February.Police said Ananta......
KABUL: The number of drug users in Afghanistan soared to a record high of three million last year, almost doubling over a two-year period in the world’s leading producer of opium, officials said on......
SOCHI: US Secretary of State John Kerry met on Tuesday Russian President Vladimir Putin in a bid to ease badly strained relations over the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, but the tone ahead of the......
NEW YORK: A painting by Pablo Picasso set a world record for an art work at a New York auction, selling for $179.4 million on Monday night.A statue by Alberto Giacometti set a record for the most......
ZURICH: Swiss telephone firm Swisscom on Tuesday unveiled a driverless car that is being tested on the roads of Zurich, a first in the country.The Volkswagen Passat, which began road tests last week......
CANNES: Cannes put finishing touches to its famous film festival which opens on Wednesday with a star-studded line-up of movies featuring Cate Blanchett, Matthew McConaughey, Colin Farrell and a new......
DUBAI: The Arab Media Forum, the largest annual gathering of its kind, opened on Tuesday in Dubai with lively debate on the future of the industry amid upheaval in the Middle East.Attended by around......
NEW YORK: Jeb Bush, brother of former US president George Bush, is in troubled waters as his presidential campaign hit a snag after he said like his brother, he, too, would have authorised the......
WASHINGTON: The White House said on Tuesday that US President Barack Obama and King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia have discussed a nuclear agreement that the United States and five other world......
MADRID: Real Madrid must overcome a 2-1 first-leg deficit to keep their season alive when a Juventus side boosted by the return of Paul Pogba visit the Santiago Bernabeu in the return of their......
Carlo Ancelotti would be licking his lips at the prospect of fielding Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo against Juventus as Real Madrid look to overturn a 2-1 first-leg deficit in the......
HARARE: Zimbabwe on Tuesday announced a 16-man squad to tour Pakistan for three One-day and two T20 Internationals.The tour beginning on May 22 is the first by a Test-playing nation since terror......
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 key domestic event.The......
LONDON: England director of cricket Andrew Strauss said on Tuesday that Kevin Pietersen was “not part of our plans for the summer”, saying there was a “massive trust issue” between the England and......
KINGSTON HULL: Mohamed El Shorbagy served up a warning that he intends to achieve the last of his three main goals this season by winning the British Open for the first time.The world number one from......
LONDON: Bafetimbi Gomis scored a late, technology-assisted winner as Swansea City compromised Arsenal’s quest for automatic Champions League qualification with a smash-and-grab 1-0 away victory on......
KARACHI: A four-member Pakistan team including reigning Asian champion Hamza Akbar will compete in the third Asian Team Event and fourth 6-Red Snooker Championships being held in Kish Island, Iran......
ROME: Defending champion Novak Djokovic scraped over his first hurdle at the Rome Masters with a 6-1, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 victory over Spanish clay-court specialist Nicolas Almagro on Tuesday.The world......
MEXICO CITY: Mexico named their 23-man squad for next month’s Copa America on Monday, with coach Miguel Herrera leaving out Real Madrid striker Javier Hernandez and several other European-based......
ZURICH: In a rare interview with a free Swiss daily newspaper during his re-election campaign, FIFA president Sepp Blatter claims he has tried to “tame the monster” of football’s success during his......
KARACHI: Pakistan Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq proved on Tuesday he had not lost his crave for cricket’s shortest format while inspiring Faisalabad Wolves to a seven-run win against Multan Tigers in......
KARACHI: Experienced all-rounder Shoaib Malik lit up the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad late on Monday night with a vintage innings as Sialkot Stallions eased to a seven-wicket victory over Peshawar......
LAHORE: While Balochistan struggled hard to beat Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Wapda and Punjab recorded easy victories on the second day of the 48th National Senior Men’s Volleyball Championships at the......
KARACHI: Commissioner Karachi Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui has said that the city administration will continue with it sports promotional activities in a bid for cleansing the society of social evils and......
ISLAMABAD: The National Inter-Provincial Men’s Netball Championship starts here at Hamidi Hall of Pakistan Sports Complex from May 24.According to Mudassr Arian, secretary of the Pakistan Netball......
KARACHI: Newly-crowned PCB Regional Under-19 inter-district (Karachi region) champions Zone-VI suffered a shock seven-wicket defeat against Zone-V in their KE U-19 Colour Kit Cricket Tournament......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) described it as a “milestone achievement”, although it comes in the 12th edition of the Pakistan Premier Football League (PPFL).“It’s never too late to......
BEIJING: China has adopted the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF)standards to calculate its balance of payments data, the Chinese currency regulator said on Tuesday, as authorities work to turn the......
LONDON: Question marks over the euro’s prospects as a sought-after global reserve currency are premature even though its presence in central bank’s reserves is likely to drop to historical lows,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have agreed on a plan to end the power circular debt through tariff hike and privatisation.There was a consensus to eliminate over Rs600......
KARACHI: Some dealers are charging “premium or on money” on spot sale of newly launched locally assembled Japanese bike as buyers cannot buy it at company’s fixed price.The new Yamaha 125cc was......
KARACHI: The State Bank has allowed exchange companies to charge up to one per cent as spread between buying and selling, surprising even currency dealers who were doing business with half a per cent......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has agreed to provide $6 billion over the next five years under the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS), aligning its lending programme with the......
KARACHI: Pakistan Real-time Interbank Settlement Mechanism (PRISM) settled 198,250 transactions of Rs51.5 trillion during the third quarter (Jan-March) of this fiscal year, an increase of 5 per cent......
BRUSSELS: The EU and Turkey agreed to update a 20-year-old customs union on Tuesday, while Brussels promised to address Ankara’s concerns about a huge European trade deal with the United......
KARACHI: Stocks staged partial recovery on Tuesday as the KSE-100 index recouped 517.44 points (1.59 per cent) to close at 33,023.80.Institutional investors’ in the oversold market, which dived down......
WASHINGTON: Joseph Stiglitz and a team of his fellow economists have a new plan to reduce inequality, grow the middle class and get the US economy to work better for working people. It is firmly......
Mobilink appoints new CTOKARACHI: Mobilink has announced key structural changes in its technology division where Khalid Shahzad will replace on July 1 the company’s current CTO Gabriele......
SYDNEY: Brunei’s financial regulator plans to launch a securities exchange as early as 2017, a must-have if the Sultanate is to diversify its economy away from oil and catch up to more mature capital......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures rose to five-week high on Tuesday on a weakening ringgit and robust demand in early May.The benchmark July contract on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives......
LONDON: Global oil prices rebounded sharply Tuesday on the falling greenback, which makes dollar-priced crude cheaper for buyers using stronger currencies.US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for......
TEHRAN: Iran may be about to restore banking links with the rest of the world after years of separation, but the process won’t be easy as its Islamic financial system has evolved in ways that will......
AMERICAN investigative journalist and author Seymour M. Hersh, in his latest report about the US raid in Abbottabad in 2011 to kill Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has revealed some startling......
QUETTA: Lawyers boycotted court proceedings in Quetta and several other districts in the province on Tuesday in response to a call given by the Balochistan Bar Association and Balochistan High Court......
ISLAMABAD: Eight members, among them four from opposition parties, were elected unopposed as chairmen of different standing committees of the Senate on Tuesday.The members elected from the opposition......
ISLAMABAD: Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday that Sindh and Balochistan would be the biggest beneficiaries of power generation triggered by the China-Pakistan Economic......
QUETTA: A man belonging to the Hazara community was killed and five others, including two policemen, were injured, apparently in a targeted attack at Kasi Road area here on Tuesday.SHO of Quaidabad......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) approved on Tuesday filing of a reference against some officials of the Balochistan health department, including a former secretary.A NAB executive......
ISLAMABAD: A special force comprising 12,000 marines will be raised to help make the protection of the country’s sea boundary invincible, Minister for Ports and Shipping Senator Kamran Michael......
ISLAMABAD: Senior counsel Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, who represents the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), highlighted the trend of printing ballot papers in excess of the total number of registered voters......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government requested the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday to allow the appointment of acting chairman of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) to run the affairs of the......
A DELEGATION of Pakistani civilian and military officials, including Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, has renewed Islamabad’s commitment to work towards peace and economic development in......
ISLAMABAD: The government thwarted any chance of a stand-off with the participants of a PTI-led demonstration outside Parliament House on Tuesday by agreeing to hold talks on their demands.The......
QUETTA: The Balochistan home department issued on Tuesday black warrants for three death-row convicts kept in the Central Jail, Mach.Sources in the department confirmed to Dawn that death warrants......
ISLAMABAD: Using some of the strongest language to date, Pakistan warned the Taliban on Tuesday that their violent acts in Afghanistan in future would be treated as terrorism.Pakistan and......
QUETTA: Saulat Mirza, the killer of the KESC’s former managing director Shahid Hamid, was hanged at Balochistan’s Mach Central Prison in the small hours of Tuesday. He had been on death row for 16......
ISLAMABAD: A federal minister dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told the Senate that the government was not constitutionally bound to give the National Finance Commission (NFC) award to the......
MULTAN: An election tribunal disqualified on Tuesday a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA for concealing his assets.Rai Hasan Nawaz was elected in the 2013 general elections from NA-162......
ISLAMABAD: Khawaja Mohammad Asif, the federal Minister for Water and Power, dropped a hint on Tuesday that power supply would be disconnected to areas with 90 per cent power theft because the problem......
A LARGE number of professionals, academics and businessmen repeatedly ask a simple question: what is the real state of health of the Pakistani economy? Who is telling the truth? The finance ministry......
LATE last year, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism released a report that tabulated data from 1970 to 2013. The purpose of the report was to study how,......
FIFTY years ago, Dawn reported that Gen Ayub “reiterated his Government’s determination to break up the concentration of wealth and ensure equitable distribution of national resources, which belonged......
LAST Saturday’s parade in Moscow, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi war machine in Europe, also served as a reminder of a less auspicious outcome of the Second World War:......
THE realisation is dawning slowly and inexorably: the horror that was Dec 16, 2014 was no turning point. The curtain has not been brought down on extremist elements; not only do they remain free to......
THE code of conduct for by-elections has always been a contentious subject. The usual complaint is that the government’s side uses its position to influence the polls.The government is often accused......
THE finance minister has announced that the power of the Federal Board of Revenue to issue exemptions for specific parties from various types of taxes is being withdrawn.This power was exercised via......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has agreed to grant British investigation authorities access to the main suspects arrested in Dr Imran Farooq's murder case, DawnNews reported.Sources privy to the matter said......
