KARACHI: Sindh Rangers conducted targeted raids on suspected hideouts of banned organisations in different parts of Karachi Thursday, arresting a total of 145 suspects.Targeted raids were carried out......
WASHINGTON: The United States Thursday offered to help Pakistan investigate a deadly Karachi bus attack that left 45 members of the Ismaili community dead.“We will support efforts to bring all those......
LAHORE: Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) Secretary Rana Mujahid on Thursday announced the 18-member national hockey squad for an upcoming tour to South Korea.Talking to media at the National Hockey......
QUETTA: Security forces killed eight suspected militants and apprehended several others during a search operation in the Splinji and Johan areas of Balochistan's Mastung and Kalat districts on......
KARACHI: Zimbabwe pulled out of this month's historic cricket tour to Pakistan and then retracted their decision within 16 minutes in a bizarre turnaround on Thursday.Zimbabwe Cricket initially......
MADRID: Stopping prolific Barcelona forwards Lionel Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez in the Champions League final will be a formidable task, Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said after his side......
HARARE: Zimbabwe cricket authorities said Thursday they were examining a report on the safety of playing in Pakistan, ahead of what is scheduled to be first tour by a Test-playing nation since a......
As 3 Bahadur nears its May 22 release, the film's team treats its to-be audience with another delightful track.Titled 'Raunaqein', this new song, also sung by Shiraz Uppal, is a fantastic follow-up......
You'd think the pop/rock band Soch would be on to their next big thing by now, but the song that shot them to fame is still picking up honours!Their song 'Awari', which was included in the soundtrack......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday accepted for hearing a petition filed by Mumtaz Qadri — the killer of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer — challenging the Islamabad High Court's decision......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday accepted for hearing a petition calling for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's name to be added to the Exit Control List (ECL), and will hold its first......
Ismailis, among the first Muslims to arrive in the subcontinent, are under attack today in a country that was founded to safeguard the interests of Muslims.The attack on the community is not only......
NEW DELHI: An Indian schoolgirl and her lover were beaten to death in eastern India and their bodies burnt by a group of outraged relatives in a suspected “honour killing”, police said......
LAHORE: Punjab is set to launch an innovation for water-short Pakistan: Solar-powered ATMs that dispense clean water when a smart card is scanned.The two-foot-square prototype machine looks and......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand's top players are overwhelmingly against plans to play “day-night” Test cricket when they tour Australia this year, fearing it will “devalue” the game, the New Zealand Cricket......
It was 1962 and I was an eight-year-old boy living in Quetta. I was vaguely aware of an uncle, my father’s younger brother, who lived in the USA. One day, a ripple of excitement ran through the......
ISLAMABAD: As questions are being raised over effectiveness of the Rangers-led operation in Karachi after the brutal attack on an Ismaili community bus, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran......
SYDNEY: Cricket Australia (CA) said Thursday it will commission an independent review into the death of Test batsman Phillip Hughes to try to prevent similar tragedies in the future.Hughes, 25, died......
KARACHI: At the conclusion of an hours long apex committee meeting attended by senior Sindh government officials and the army and intelligence top brass, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Raheel......
MADRID: Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti said he isn't the man to judge whether he will stay in charge of the Spanish giants next season after Juventus dumped the holders out of the Champions......
MADRID: Juventus defender Patrice Evra confirmed he will shake Luis Suarez's hand before the Champions League final with Barcelona despite their troubled past over a racism row.Suarez was banned for......
KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan has extended an invitation to prominent officials of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and functionaries of the Indian......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday issued a strong denial of the claims made by American investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, who wrote that Pakistan had prior knowledge of the US raid that......
Sorry folks; the 2016 Bollywood Wedding of the Year will not be Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif's.It's finally happening, we had thought, but spokespersons for the celebrity couple were quick to......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Thursday said the Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) is involved in various terrorist activities across Pakistan.Chaudhry......
CHARIKOT: Military helicopters flew over eastern Nepal, and a team sent up a drone on Thursday to search for a missing United States Marines Huey chopper, as the death toll from the 7.3 magnitude......
SYDNEY: Australian cricketers are in shock over Kevin Pietersen's banishment from the international game and delighted they won't have to face him in this year's Ashes series.Pietersen, England's......
MANILA: Seventy-two people died in a huge blaze at a footwear factory in the Philippine capital, authorities said Thursday, as angry relatives and workers described sweatshop conditions including......
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his ancestral home town at the start of a three-day visit to China on Thursday as the two Asian giants work to......
ISLAMABAD: Employees of Workers Welfare Board Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), protesting outside the residence of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief, since April, finally received news that they would be......
I am writing this letter while watching on TV scenes the gruesome murder of 43 persons of the peaceful Ismaili community in a bus in Karachi. This is the city where I have lived for most part of my......
I.I. Chundrigar Road is a busy thoroughfare of Karachi. Recently, one of the buildings, Business and Finance Centre, situated opposite the State Bank of Pakistan, has occupied a huge portion of the......
THIS is apropos the news report ‘Fishermen reject fisheries draft bill’ (May 1). The Fisheries Department has drafted ‘The Sindh Fisheries and Aquaculture Bill, 2015,’ which has been submitted to the......
IN my quest for exploring Karachi, I thought of visiting the World War II cemetery, located on Dalmia Road, Karsaz, Karachi. When I reached there, the security guard did not allow me to go inside the......
THIS is in response to the report ‘Move to build nuclear plants on the outskirts of Karachi criticised’ (April 28). I am very disappointed with the reporting.There was a clear inclination against the......
IT is shocking how K-Electric is targeting honest consumers who regularly pay their bills. There used to be charges for ‘tampered’ or ‘tilted’ meters and share in line losses, but now it has crossed......
A TEAM of trainers and I had the unfortunate experience of delivering a five-day workshop of presentation skills at the CDA Training Academy, Pak-China Friendship Centre, Islamabad, from Feb 23 to......
THE Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has been involved in a rigorous political battle with the federal government over an inquiry into the 2013 elections and long-term election reforms.It is a party which......
KOHAT: The police on Wednesday arrested two persons who with the connivance of the officials of social welfare department and NGOs had been selling food aid meant for the internally displaced persons......
SWABI: The police arrested three alleged car-lifters and recovered a stolen car in raids conducted in different areas of Swabi here on Wednesday.District police officer Sajjad Khan told reporters......
KARAK: The residents of Karak city have complained of acute shortage of drinking water, forcing them to purchase the commodity.They told Dawn here on Wednesday that out of five tube-wells of the......
LANDI KOTAL: Khyber Agency political administration on Wednesday reopened government higher secondary school for girls in Kalanga village of Akkakhel in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.As many 686 girls......
MANSEHRA: The National Commission for Human Development has begun an inquiry into the alleged embezzlement of funds meant for improving educational standards, checking school dropouts and increasing......
PESHAWAR: Following a decision of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, the district administration sealed at least 27 illegal stands of buses, vans and rent-a-car and fruit and vegetable markets in......
PESHAWAR: Azam Khan Swati of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Wednesday won the by-election on a Senate seat, which fell vacant after the death of Awami National Party Senator Azam Khan Hoti on April......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Wednesday said that as many as 1,000 community-based girls schools were being established throughout the province during the current......
NOWSHERA: The Health Regularity Authority (HRA) has sealed 14 illegal clinics and laboratories in Nowshera district.During the drive launched in collaboration with the anti-corruption police the HRA......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Paramedical Association has expressed concern over the draft regulations for implementation of the health reforms law in the four teaching hospitals, saying that the......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan heard the appeals of two teachers of different universities, facing action for their unauthorised long study leave, and decided the......
PESHAWAR: Civil society organisations on Wednesday expressed concern about the absence of women voters in the recent PK-95 Lower Dir by-election and demanded re-election in the constituency.They......
GILGIT: Demonstrations were held in various parts of Gilgit-Baltistan against Karachi carnage that left 43 people belonging to Ismaili community dead and 13 others injured on Wednesday.Markets in......
ISLAMABAD: As many as 50 students from various educational institutions of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad showed their hidden talent in a three-day drama workshop at Pakistan National......
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N government opposed the inclusion of former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, former Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar and its own former minister Zahid Hamid as co-accused in high......
TIMERGARA: No political party is currently canvassing for women’s participation in the coming local government elections though there are over 239,000 registered women voters in Lower Dir.Human......
PESHAWAR: A non-government organisation, Child Rights Movement (CRM), has demanded of the provincial government to ensure legislation on the bills related to the children’s welfare, which have been......
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N government opposed the inclusion of former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, former Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar and its own former minister Zahid Hamid as co-accused in high......
ISLAMABAD: The civil society on Wednesday gathered outside the National Press Club (NPC) to protest the murder of over 40 people from the Ismaili community in Karachi.Human rights activist Farzana......
RAWALPINDI: As many as 70 Pakistanis, including two women, who were deported from the UK arrived at the Islamabad airport on Wednesday.They were escorted by 140 British security officials during......
RAWALPINDI: There is enough water in Rawal and Khanpur dams but the residents of the garrison city and cantonment areas are still suffering from water shortage.The Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa)......
ISLAMABAD: As many as 50 students from various educational institutions of the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad showed their hidden talent in a three-day drama workshop at Pakistan National......
ISLAMABAD: Bangladesh has better health indicators than Pakistan and now Afghanistan’s health sector is also improving at a better rate than Pakistan.On Wednesday, speakers at a meeting quoted......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police have arrested six outlaws from different areas of the city and recovered liquor, narcotics, and valuables, police said here on Wednesday.The Aabpara police arrested a......
ISLAMABAD: Many young people who come to the twin cities from various parts of Pakistan, to study at the universities and colleges are forced to live at expensive private hostels because of a......
ISLAMABAD: Assistant Commissioner (Shalimar) Islamabad Syed Jawad Muzaffar, during surprise inspection of food outlets in F-10 area, imposed fines worth Rs30,000 on the unhygienic food outlets. He......
Everyone talks about intolerance and extremism and the importance of teaching our children better values, but nobody seems to be doing anything about it.Gauher Aftab is a teacher, an entrepreneur and......
ISLAMABAD: Instead of taking action itself, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has once again asked public and private universities to stop running illegal campuses.A similar directive issued by......
RAWALPINDI: A colourful show was organised by the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) including folk music and dances to highlight the cultural hues of the various areas of the......
FAISALABAD: Industrialists on Wednesday brought their workers on road for a protest demonstration against the Federal Bureau of Revenue for issuing sales tax notices to the industry.A majority of the......
FAISALABAD: PML-N parliamentarians will meet Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for the formation of a joint investigation team to grill a gang of target killers and detect the hidden hands using them to......
TAXILA: The recent rains played havoc with harvested wheat crop lying in the open, causing huge loss to the farmers.The rain which began on Monday and continued until Tuesdaybrought a pleasant......
OKARA: A gunman died by his own accomplices near Lahorianwala in the Chuchak police jurisdiction late on Tuesday, District Police Officer (DPO) Faisal Rana told reporters on Wednesday.The DPO said......
MULTAN: District Coordination Officer Zahid Saleem Gondal said an application for provision of six companies of Rangers for by-election in PP-196 has been dispatched to the interior ministry on the......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday exempted Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif from personal appearance on May 14 (today) in a land compensation case.However, the court asked the Punjab......
LAHORE: In order to improve health facilities for the man in the street, the Punjab government will “outsource” the rural health centres (RHCs) and basic health units (BHUs) of the six low-performing......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday approved the bail plea of two suspects who were booked for attacking a mosque after the twin suicide attacks on churches in Youhanabad.Nishter Colony......
VEHARI: Police have failed to find any clue to four members of a dacoits’ gang which kept police engaged for three days near Chak 113-WB and killed a tracker and a constable in the shootout.The......
LAHORE: Health Secretary Jawad Rafique Malik has said that his department is considering a proposal for age relaxation for contract appointments of medical teachers and medical officers for the basic......
LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Lahore chapter on Wednesday held deliberations on fielding candidates in all the constituencies in the city in the local polls.At a meeting presided over by......
LAHORE: The Karachi tragedy has been widely condemned by people from all walks of life.Punjab Governor Rafique Rajwana and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif condemned the shooting and expressed deep......
LAHORE: Activists of the All Pakistan Hydro Electric Workers Union (CBA) on Wednesday continued for the third day their protest in front of the headquarters of the Lahore Electric Supply Company......
LAHORE: The barbaric killing of members of the Ismaili community in a bus attack in Karachi is highly condemnable but it deserves more than mere words of censure and sympathy from the authorities,......
LAHORE: Inspector General (IG) of Punjab Police Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera has said police emergency number 15 has been upgraded by adding 25 more features to reduce response time to public......
SAHIWAL: The Rai Hasan Nawaz camp is undecided about the future course of action regarding his disqualification as MNA from Chichwatni.His immediate family members informed Dawn on Wednesday the......
LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing of bail applications of the seven accused in the Kot Radha Kishan incident and directed the Joint Investigation Team......
GUJRAT: The Punjab government has asked the Gujrat district administration to install online cameras at the construction site of the Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed Hospital in Kunjah to monitor the......
SHEIKHUPURA: An excise inspector was allegedly kept in illegal confinement by the staffers of a sugar mills in Nankana for several hours and was later freed by his senior with the help of......
SAHIWAL: Shaiwal will be connected with Faisalabad-Multan Motorway with a 48km two-lane expressway at Chak Bahadur Shah Sherazi point.Provincial Minister for Zakat and Ushr Malik Nadeem Kamran told......
LAHORE: A peace conference attended by around 50 NGOs and civil society organisations held here on Wednesday demanded the UN play an active role in resolving international disputes.Organised by the......
FAISALABAD: Industrialists on Wednesday brought their workers on road for a protest demonstration against the Federal Bureau of Revenue for issuing sales tax notices to the industry.A majority of the......
FAISALABAD: PML-N parliamentarians will meet Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for the formation of a joint investigation team to grill a gang of target killers and detect the hidden hands using them to......
BAHAWALPUR: A woman was seriously burnt on Wednesday in an alleged acid attack by her husband at Head Rajkan village, Yazman, about 50km from here.According to police, Azam Bakhsh of Liaqatabad......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: The extension of different departments of the Khanpur Tehsil Headquarters Hospital (THQ) has not been completed even after five years of approval.The hospital was established in......
GUJRANWALA: A crackdown was launched on medical stores selling illegal and expired medicines.District Coordination Officer (DCO) Azmat Mehmood ordered the assistant commissioners, the prosecution......
HYDERABAD: To hear their viewpoint and concerns, representatives of the World Bank (WB) on Wednesday held a meeting with the office-bearers of the Sindh Abadgar Board (SAB) regarding the multi......
KARACHI: Religious parties and groups on Wednesday condemned the attack on Ismaili community members travelling in a bus near Safoora Chowrangi and killing over 40 of them.Jamaat-i-Islami’s chief......
KARACHI: Examination papers scheduled at colleges and universities for Thursday have been postponed due to the Safoora bus tragedy, though these institutions, along with schools, have been directed......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Wednesday reserved for a day its order on an application of Dr Zulfikar Mirza, the disowned leader of the Pakistan People’s Party who was recently booked in a......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday directed the Election Commission of Pakistan and others to submit their respective comments on a petition challenging election of Barrister Muhammad Ali......
HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC) Hyderabad circuit on Wednesday turned down a petitioner’s plea for search within the Hyderabad Central Prison by a court official for......
KARACHI: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is not a single road, it’s a network. It will spur the growth of industrial zones supported by energy plants, connecting Kashgar in China to......
KARACHI: The debate on land reforms has been an integral part of freedom movements, and since partition Pakistan has been seeking to establish policies, to varying levels of success, that positively......
KARACHI: Faysal Mujeeb, a White Star photographer who works for Dawn, was beaten up by Rangers personnel at the Memon Medical Hospital where the bus attack victims were brought on Wednesday......
KARACHI: A symposium held at the NED Architecture and Planning Department (NAPD) (old campus) titled ‘Heritage for the youth’ by SEED Ventures and ‘I am Karachi’ on Wednesday highlighted the need for......
KARACHI: Al-Azhar Garden and surrounding residential buildings in Safoora Goth give a serene view. Almost all the residents there hail from the Ismaili community and to facilitate their travel within......
KARACHI: As the horrific attack on members of the Shia Ismaili community in Safoora Goth on Wednesday added another black date to the ever-growing calendar of tragedies in the country, it also put a......
KARACHI: While the Rangers-led Karachi operation has managed to restore a measure of peace to the city, a renewed wave of violence has swept the metropolis in the past two months. Some of the......
KARACHI: When this play was performed for the very first time at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1902, references to the then Russian Empire’s explosive social tensions had already been cut by the censors.......
BEHSUD: Like thousands of Afghan returnees, Neik Mohammad became unwanted in Pakistan after a Taliban massacre at a Peshawar school, forcing him to return home to a life of misery and fear in a......
THITU ISLAND: Philippine military chief General Gregorio Catapang looks worried as he surveys the rusted cranes and eroded runway on the tiny island of Thitu, now on the front line of a rapidly......
CANNES: The Cannes Film Festival opened on Wednesday with a star-studded gala premiere of gritty French drama “Standing Tall” — only the second time a female director has taken the first night......
SEOUL: North Korea executed its defence chief by putting him in front of an anti-aircraft gun at a firing range, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service told lawmakers, which would be the latest in a......
MANILA: At least 28 people were killed and dozens more feared dead after a fire tore through a factory producing flip-flops in the Philippine capital Manila on Wednesday, the city’s fire marshal......
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican officially recognised the state of Palestine in a new treaty finalised on Wednesday, immediately sparking Israeli ire and accusations that the move hurt peace prospects.The......
UNITED NATIONS: Nearly 200 non-combatants have died in Yemen over the past week as the country saw its deadliest period of fighting since the air strikes by the Saudi Arabia-led alliance began in......
CIUDAD JUAREZ: Six men died in the crash of a small plane in northern Mexico and authorities are investigating the cause, officials said on Wednesday, as local residents claimed gunmen shot it......
CAIRO: Bomb attacks killed four Egyptian soldiers and three civilians on Wednesday in the Sinai Peninsula, where security forces are fighting an Islamist insurgency, police and medics said.Jihadists......
BUJUMBURA: A top Burundian general launched a coup attempt against President Pierre Nkurunziza on Wednesday, after weeks of violent protests against the president’s bid for a third term.General......
NEW YORK: Seven people were killed when a passenger train travelling from Washington to New York City partially derailed in Philadelphia on Tuesday night. The train was carrying 238 passengers and......
COLOMBO: Former Sri Lankan defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Wednesday got an interim injunction from the Supreme Court against his arrest.The injunction is valid until the court gives its......
WASHINGTON: Five people were found shot dead in a home in Arizona in a possible murder-suicide, local media reported.The adult victims appeared to have died some time on Tuesday in the city of......
WASHINGTON: On the eve of an Arab summit he is hosting at Camp David, US President Barack Obama assured the Arab world that he too saw Iran as a troublemaker and was also committed to creating a......
DHAKA: Secular activists marched through the Bangladeshi city of Sylhet on Wednesday to demand justice for a blogger hacked to death this week, the third such attack by suspected Islamists since......
PALMERSTON NORTH: Britain’s Prince Harry performed a fearsome Maori war dance, or haka, and mingled with tattooed ex-convicts on his trip to New Zealand on Wednesday.Red-faced and sweating with......
SYDNEY: 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......
LONDON: Kevin Pietersen joked on Twitter that he had applied for the England coaching job on Wednesday, a day after being sidelined by new director of cricket Andrew Strauss.“Morning all, after a......
KARACHI: Opener Dhananjaya de Silva narrowly missed scoring a century by only four runs on Wednesday as Sri Lanka ‘A’ reached 244-4 on the opening day of the second unofficial Test against Pakistan......
ROME: Andy Murray improved his record on clay this year to 10-0 with a 6-4, 6-3 win over 38th-ranked Jeremy Chardy to reach the third round of the Italian Open on Wednesday.Fresh from winning......
NEW DELHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan said on Wednesday that the broadcast rights issue will not be a hindrance for December’s proposed Indo-Pak cricket series in the United......
KARACHI: Pakistan hockey team will qualify for next year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics despite heavy odds stacked against it, chief coach Shahnaz Shaikh said on Wednesday.“Pakistan team learnt a great......
PARIS: Holders Sevilla are on the brink of a return to the Europa League final as they take a 3-0 lead to Italy for the second leg of their semi-final against Fiorentina on Thursday.It would take a......
MUNICH: Neymar struck twice as Barcelona reached the Champions League final by beating Bayern Munich 5-3 on aggregate in their semi-final despite losing Tuesday’s second-leg 3-2 at the Allianz......
ZURICH: Former FIFA executive committee member Reynald Temarii has been banned for eight years for accepting more than 300,000 euros ($339,330.00) from disgraced former Asian Football Confederation......
KUALA LUMPUR: Asian football’s long-serving general secretary was suspended on Wednesday over cover-up claims dating back to the dark days of disgraced ex-president Mohamed bin Hammam.Alex Soosay, a......
LAHORE: The glamour and glory of the Winter Meetings were the positive aspects of the horse-racing scene from last September to May 10 at the Lahore Racecourse.The 36th Lahore Winter Meeting which......
KINGSTON HULL: Nicol David, alert, resilient, and calm, had to resist an unexpected ambush before beginning the defence of her British Open title with a four-game win.The record-breaking Malaysian is......
KARACHI: Riffatullah Mohmand and Mohammad Rizwan produced excellent knocks as Peshawar Panthers kept alive their semi-final aspirations alive with a six-wicket win over Abbottabad Falcons in the Cool......
KARACHI: Haider Ali, touted as a wonder boy following his double century in the previous round, scored another as Karachi took command of their PCB-Pepsi Cricket Stars Under-19 Cricket Tournament......
LAHORE: Former Test captain Saleem Malik hailed Zimbabwe cricket team’s visit to Pakistan while former Test leg-spinner and chief selector Abdul Qadir said he was not in favour of a visit by any......
KARACHI: The Pakistan football team was due to leave for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the wee hours of Wednesday night where they will feature in the Group ‘B’ qualifiers of the AFC U-23......
KARACHI: Opener Marina Iqbal slammed a splendid century to star in Omar Associates’ clinical 260-run defeat of Lahore in the runs in 10th Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah National Women Cricket Tournament at......
LAHORE: After three-day trials, Taimur Hassan of the Islamabad Golf Club emerged as the top contender for selection in the seniors national golf team to represent Pakistan in the Asia Pacific Seniors......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) is all set to hold a mega national event under the title of 1st Quaid-i-Azam Inter-Provincial Games from June 9-12 here at the Pakistan Sports......
KARACHI: The four-week 34th annual free summer athletics coaching camp for boys and girls of the city under the aegis of Athletic Fitness School (AFS) that was scheduled to commence at the Hockey......
ISLAMABAD: Mohammad Afzal wants more. After winning gold in the triple jump at the recently-held inaugural Asian Youth Athletics Championship in Doha, he wants to win more laurels for Pakistan.“In......
LAHORE: Army, Navy, Wapda and Pakistan Air Force (PAF) advanced to the next round of the 48th National Senior Men’s Volleyball Championship after winning their respective matches at the Wapda Sports......
BEIJING: China’s money supply grew at its slowest pace on record and investment growth sank to its lowest in nearly 15 years as April data showed the world’s second-largest economy was still losing......
ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Wednesday approved Rs538.5 billion worth of 10 development projects for implementation, including the Rs165 billion......
KARACHI: The cut-off yields on treasury bills (T-bills) have been slashed again by up to 44 basis points (bps) reflecting the possibility of an interest rate cut in the upcoming monetary policy......
KARACHI: Demand for new cars has outstripped their production, and buyers are either paying premium (on money) on spot sales or are asked by the authorised dealers to wait for two to four months to......
TOKYO: Uncertainty over Britain’s future in Europe is unsettling Asian investors, analysts say, warning if voters opt in a referendum to leave the EU, the United Kingdom would lose a major drawcard......
KARACHI: After a strong start on Wednesday, the stocks relapsed and the KSE-100 index closed with a loss of 108.36 points (0.33 per cent) at 32,915.44.The investor sentiments were jolted after the......
PARIS: France posted its fastest economic growth rate in two years in the first three months of 2015 but Germany slowed from the robust pace it rattled along at late last year, official data showed......
Tundra unveils world’s 1st frontier marketKARACHI: Tundra Fonder AB, based in Stockholm, is launching the world’s first frontier market fund with a sustainable profile, a press release said on......
LONDON: Productivity growth is slowing down. So say the statistical wizards of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which gathers data from rich countries. Many......
WASHINGTON: Senators of both parties worked on Wednesday to revive US trade legislation that’s a top priority for President Barack Obama, a day after his fellow Democrats repudiated him nearly......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures briefly touched a five-week top on Wednesday on worries an El Nino weather pattern would curb yields, but expectations of weaker export demand in the second......
LONDON: Gold rose two per cent to above $1,200 an ounce on Wednesday, heading for a second session of gains as the dollar hit a near three-month low after disappointing US employment data.US retail......
SINGAPORE: Pakistan State Oil cancelled a June spot requirement for liquefied natural gas (LNG) and is now seeking a cargo for October instead, a tender document showed on Wednesday.The company is......
PARIS: A glut in the global oil market has not evaporated with other countries stepping up output while US shale producers have cut back due to the sharp drop prices since last year, the IEA said on......
ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the country’s top political leadership has agreed to set up a special bicameral parliamentary committee for regular oversight of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Raheel Sharif called Prince Karim Aga Khan and offered his heartfelt condolences on the killing of innocent people in the Karachi terrorist attack.The COAS......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar informed the Senate on Thursday that the government had no plan to close down Bara markets in the country because the matter had political, administrative and......
ISLAMABAD: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl has said that the government of Iran has stopped a delegation led by the party’s chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman from visiting the country despite having visas,......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested on Wednesday a co-accused in a Rs104 million Modaraba scandal.Muhammad Walli of the Al Safa Property and Builders (Marwa Town) was......
ISLAMABAD: Condemning the terrorist attack on a bus carrying members of the Ismaili community in Karachi, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) members staged a token walkout from the Senate on......
KARACHI: President Mamnoon Hussain has asked people to remain united against anti-state elements who are bent upon destabilising peace of Karachi.Addressing a laptop distribution ceremony at the NED......
MUZAFFARABAD: The international fund established by Malala Yousafzai for raising girls’ literacy has decided to finance education expenses of poor children in Azad Kashmir as well.Viki Jonson, the......
ISLAMABAD: Citing `security reasons’, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari did not appear on Wednesday before an accountability court in Rawalpindi to attend the hearing of a......
ISLAMABAD: A formal understanding was apparently reached between the rival PML-N and PTI to immediately cease media talks by political leaders after the senior counsel representing the two political......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Three security personnel, five militants and four civilians were killed in a clash and shellings in the tribal regions of South and North Waziristan on Wednesday.Intelligence and......
CAIRO: 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 Houthi......
QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court here on Wednesday granted permanent exemption to former president Pervez Musharraf from appearance in the Nawab Akbar Bugti murder case.Judge Aftab Ahmed Lone......
KARACHI: Giving the lie to law-enforcement agencies’ claims of having restored peace in Karachi, heavily armed militants struck on Wednesday morning and, in one of the most organised and ruthless......
KARACHI: Denouncing Wednesday’s attack on a bus carrying members of the Shia Ismaili community and other incidents of terrorism taking place in the city, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ordered......
WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to end the NSA's dragnet collection of telephone data from millions of Americans, a controversial program revealed in 2013 by former......
FIRST, the good news. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Kabul visit with army chief Gen Raheel Sharif and DG ISI Gen Rizwan Akhtar in tow, and his emphatic, unprecedented denunciation of violence by the......
IT is the vibrancy and plurality of Pakistan that the militants wish to destroy.In targeting Ismailis in Karachi, the militants have grotesquely reiterated their message to the country: no one —......
THE government has agreed with the IMF to implement a plan to reduce the circular debt next year to reportedly half of what it is today.The circular debt has been a millstone around the neck of the......
IF the scandalous exclusion of women from the recent polling in Lower Dir does not lead to enforcement of their right to vote, nothing else will, as this case clinches the argument for long-delayed......
SINCE at least January of this year, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has been talking about an extraordinary expenditure that he needs to meet of roughly Rs150 billion for security operations and IDP......
A ROBUST national statistical system is pivotal for development, equitable growth and planning as it facilitates evidence-based policies and, judicious and timely decision-making to achieve goals set......
After almost 70 years of independence, the debate, whether education in Pakistan should be in Urdu or English, rages on. The 1973 Constitution written in English, made Urdu the national language,......
