QUETTA: Balochistan Assembly Opposition Leader Maulana Abdul Wasey, who belongs to the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), narrowly escaped a remote-controlled blast in Pishin Friday night.Levies......
MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, while addressing a public gathering in Multan on Friday, said PML-N's middle stump will soon be knocked over, DawnNews reported.Imran was......
ISLAMABAD: Army Chief General Raheel Sharif emphasised the need for intelligence agencies to play a more proactive and coordinated role for an effective counter-terrorism campaign in order to curtail......
America’s largest dating site, MissTreatedTravel.Com, has released the results from the 2015 Sexiest Nationalities Survey, and the members have spoken.It’s no surprise that diverse, exotic......
QUETTA: Security forces claim to have killed 13 suspected militants during an extensive search operation being carried out in Kalat and Mastung districts of Balochistan during the past 36 hours.Law......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated Pakistan’s first ever ‘modern’ train on Thursday— the Greenline Train— that will cover the Karachi-Islamabad route in 23 hours, an occasion where he......
It’s the late 1960s. Dev Anand and Dilip Kumar are holding strong, various Kapoors are running all over the screen, Dharmendra has already taken off his shirt, and Amitabh Bachchan has made his first......
PESHAWAR: Eight-year-old Iqra resumed schooling in Peshawar after a two-week gap. She is now at a new school, quitting the previous one after she was brutally beaten by a teacher for failing to......
Contrary to Ali Zafar's earlier declared intention to solely focus on his own production, the rumour mill has it that the Kill Dil star will next be seen in a road trip film in Bollywood, according......
LAHORE: Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has officially confirmed it will be sending its team to Pakistan as per schedule next week, a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) spokesman said on Friday.Agha Akbar, a PCB......
Kalaf-wala kurta? Check. Choori-daar pajama? Check. Embroidered shawl? Check. Black traditional sandals? Check. A pair of black shades? Check.With a classy ensemble like that, Indian Prime Minister......
QUETTA: A man severely injured two Christian girls in Quetta on Friday when he threw acid on them in the city's Kasi road.Through a syringe, the accused sprayed acid on the faces of both the women,......
Nuclear power and patriotic pride are inextricably intertwined in Pakistan. In the decades since the tests were conducted, Pakistan’s possession of a nuclear bomb is believed to be by many, the sole......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani air strikes on Friday killed at least 17 militants in the country's restive tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, security officials said, part of a major operation against the......
GHOTKI: Thirteen-year-old Fida Hussain and nine-year old Wakeel were killed in a grenade explosion in Ghotki's Faisal Kolachi village on Friday.According to police sources, the two children were......
LONDON: Steven Gerrard, who plays his last home game for Liverpool on Saturday, is a player destined to be remembered as much for his extraordinary achievements as for his agonising near-misses.The......
It's always good news to hear of a new Pakistani film in production, especially when it's to star beloved actors like Sanam Saeed and Mohib Mirza, but the upcoming film Bachaana is doubly special for......
SYDNEY: Cricket greats Shane Warne and Sachin Tendulkar are planning to start a new Twenty20 competition for former international players, reports said Friday.Unconfirmed reports say that Warne and......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday officially restored Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Saad Rafique's membership in the National Assembly (NA).Previously, an......
KARACHI: Former jail superintendent of Hyderabad police Aijaz Haider was killed Friday when gunmen opened fire on his car near Karachi's Pehlwan Goth area.According to Senior Superintendent of Police......
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the two Asian giants should build mutual trust by "controlling their differences" and strengthening cooperation.Xi......
QUETTA: After losing one of his two sons to the worst attack against minority Shias in Pakistan's history, Ali was determined for the other to find a new life abroad.“Go,” he told Iqbal Hussain, who......
Shah Rukh Khan certainly knows how to get our attention.The king of Bollywood just hit 13 million followers on Twitter and celebrated by posting a video on the site featuring him, himself and his......
KARACHI: A hefty grant of Rs160 million has been approved for the ill-managed Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) to provide water through 1,000 tankers to the city’s water-starved localities on......
KARACHI: A celebratory spirit tinged with a bit of sadness marked the launch of a book titled Street Smart — Professionals on the Street by Rumana Husain at the Arts Council Karachi on Thursday......
THE barbaric attack on a group of unarmed and peaceful citizens is shocking beyond belief. After repeated attacks, the same lines are repeated ad nauseum but no meaningful steps to provide......
IT was a powerful message, sent to the Afghan Taliban by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, which clearly showed that Pakistan is against violence in its neighbouring country because that also affects......
THIS is apropos the letter ‘FPSC’s logic’ (April 22). Although largely commendable, the recent decision of the FPSC to change the groupings and marks scheme of various subjects is not wholly......
ON May 8, two days before the stenotypist test in the federal government through the NTS, I contacted the latter to ask about the test pattern outline. They replied that I would come to know about it......
KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa Universities (Amendment) Act, 2015, passed last week, mandates that the vice-chancellor of Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, should have an MBBS or equivalent medical degree......
PESHAWAR: A police official and two alleged terrorists were killed in two different incidents in the provincial metropolis on Thursday.Official sources said that Shakirullah Khan, an assistant......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department has arrested six quacks and sealed 10 laboratories in Dabgari Gardens and Afghan Colony on Thursday.A team of the Health Regulatory Authority headed......
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Thursday declared illegal the last year appointment of the Mardan Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education controller of examination on deputation.The......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan has said that unannounced and prolonged power loadshedding will not be tolerated any more in the province.He said that Pesco authorities......
PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has arrested Shezada Behram, the then executive engineer Public Health Engineering Department (PHED), Nowshera, presently posted as......
SWABI: Local welfare bodies and non-governmental organisations have launched a campaign in the district to educate voters about the importance of their participation in the May 30 local government......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Thursday ordered the establishment of a new B-type hospital in Kanjoo Township of Swat and up-gradation of Basic Health Unit in Matta to......
GILGIT: The authorities have recommended deployment of army at polling stations in Gilgit and Diamer districts during the upcoming polls.The polls for Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly will be held on June......
KOHAT: The traffic police have warned public transporters to remove all obscene pictures and sound systems from their vehicles within two days or get ready to face strict action.Giving details,......
PESHAWAR: Schoolchildren highlighted various aspects of the rich culture of Peshawar at a painting and calligraphy contest arranged by Gandhara Hindko Academy here on Thursday.The contestants, both......
ABBOTTABAD: About 135 of the total 616 polling stations have been declared ‘most sensitive’ and 250 ‘sensitive’ in Abbottabad district.District police officer Sher Akbar Khan said that the election......
MANSEHRA: The district administration has asked all the candidates to strictly follow the code of conduct for the May 30 local government elections to maintain peace during elections otherwise cases......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court – hearing two identical appeals against the March 9 Islamabad High Court (IHC) judgment accepting Mumtaz Qadri’s plea to annul provisions of the Anti Terrorism Act (ATA)......
ISLAMABAD: Out of the 38 water filtration plants in the federal capital, eight are out of order, State Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Shaikh Aftab Ahmed told the Senate on Thursday.In response to......
RAWALPINDI: A housemaid was killed by a bullet allegedly fired by her employer’s relative in a domestic dispute in a house in the Saddar area on Thursday.The police told Dawn Shamim Akhtar, 35, was......
The senseless killing of 43 Ismailis in Karachi earlier this week overshadowed a sitting of the country’s top political leadership, convened by the government to dispel doubts regarding the......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday restrained the federal government from notifying the promotion of 24 civil servants from grade 20 to 21.Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui issued the......
RAWALPINDI: Punjab government has decided to administer inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) through injections in addition to oral polio vaccine (OPV) to children especially in high risk union councils......
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a conference, on Thursday, agreed that South Asian countries face a similar fate when it comes to natural disasters and must sign agreements to work in cooperation with one......
ISLAMABAD: Religious leaders belonging to different schools of thought condemned the massacre of Ismaili community members in Karachi and blamed the government for failing to stop faith-based......
TAXILA: The participants of National Harmony Workshop’2015 at National Defence University on Thursday were informed that Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) is exporting its products to over 40......
ISLAMABAD: After a decade, the capital police on Thursday managed to arrest the proclaimed offender wanted in connection with the murder of the Bari Imam Shrine’s caretaker.The newly established......
ISLAMABAD: The meeting of the representatives of the traders of the capital with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been delayed because of the recent terrorist attack in Karachi and the helicopter......
FDE needs funds to run O/A Levels programmeIn 2012, then-prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf inaugurated the IGCSE O and A level programme at two public schools of the capital in the hopes of bringing......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will formally become an associate member of the world’s top nuclear physics laboratory, the European Organization for Nuclear Research – also known by its French acronym CERN –......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan told the Senate on Thursday that both hospitals and industries were violating environmental laws on the safe disposal of hazardous......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Drug Surveillance Laboratory (FDSL) could not be shifted to its building even after four years as the building is still occupied by the Federal Medical and Dental College......
LAHORE: Civil society activists held a demonstration at Liberty Chowk on Thursday against the killing of 45 people of Ismaili community in Karachi on Wednesday.Holding placards they raised slogans......
GUJRANWALA: Seven people, including a woman and a minor boy, were injured in a crossfire between two rival groups on Thursday in Jinnah Colony, Wazirabad.Reports said that Arshad had contracted......
LAHORE: A delegation of the European Union trade office of generalised system of preferences (GSP) program visited the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association to review the benefits of GSP plus......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested two passengers for trying to leave the country on fake documents here on Thursday.According to an official, Ghulam Murtaza and Shahzad Hasan......
LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has opposed the government’s decision to outsource rural health centres (RHCs) and basic health units (BHUs) in the province.“The decision to outsource the......
MUZAFFARGAH: Two ringleaders of Choto gang were killed in an ‘encounter’ on Thursday morning in Kundai police precincts, some 100-km away from city area.Talking to Dawn, District Police Officer Rai......
SAHIWAL: A labourer was burnt to death and another was seriously injured when a boiler burst in a cigarette factory at Qadirabad.Eyewitnesses said the boiler of the factory burst at noon when Abid......
LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), Lahore, in a joint operation with intelligence agencies arrested three members of banned outfits AlQaeda and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) who ......
LAHORE: A woman and her two minor daughters were killed while her son injured after the roof of their house collapsed due to rain in Manawan here on Thursday.Reports said that Sumbal, 35, wife of......
LAHORE: “Unregistered” life-saving medicines are being administered to cardiac patients at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) Lahore ignoring the fact that such practice had claimed lives of......
LAHORE Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday gave approval to the Ramazan Package worth billions of rupees for providing relief to the people in the month of fasting.Under the package, flour bags......
LAHORE: The Punjab government plans to install 2,000 public service centres by the year end for getting feedback from customers on the performance of around 100 services and departments.Punjab......
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Public Accounts Committee-I has identified massive irregularities in the affairs of Punjab Livestock and Dairy Development Board, including sale of livestock farms’ milk at......
FAISALABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue, Faisalabad, has detected 16 mills showing fake production and recovered sales tax to the tune of Rs220 million during the last five months.Sources told Dawn......
Artist in the wider sense of word may simply be defined as a human being, male or female who is endowed with the gift of creative imagination and has the capability to express it in some recognised......
LAHORE: Electricity workers renewed their pledge to resist privatisation of power distribution companies on Thursday before ending their four-day besiege of the Lesco headquarters on Queen’s......
LAHORE: The Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) on Thursday removed its 11 employees, including a woman medical officer, posted at Janke Devi Hospital.Janke Devi Hospital is under administrative and......
LAHORE: Through a fresh application filed in the main petition demanding disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on money laundering charges, the LHC has been asked to place the name of the......
LAHORE: Lahore having a population of over 10 million souls, besides hosting visitors from other areas, needs another fully-fledged institute of cardiology.Health Secretary Jawad Rafique Malik said......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Unicef has selected 1,146 Toba Tek Singh schools for its early childhood education (ECE) project.Punjab Education Minister Rana Mashood Ahmad said this at a gathering of teachers and......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab President Ejaz Chaudhry says extremely bad governance of the Water and Power Ministry has been exposed.By issuing notices to heads of five power......
KARACHI: Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad gave his approval on Thursday to the Sindh Commission on the Status of Women Act 2015, to be enforced immediately throughout the province.The Act outlines the......
KARACHI: The commissioner of Karachi has taken notice of increase in prices of edible items ahead of Ramazan and directed authorities concerned to take necessary action against profiteers.The......
KARACHI: Representatives of civil society have expressed concern over the re-arrest of a former chief conservator of forest and called for an impartial investigation into the allegations levelled......
KARACHI: The Sindh health department has proposed to the provincial government to approve funds for a next fiscal year project aimed at reducing neonatal deaths, the ratio of which is the worst in......
KARACHI: The schools operating under the Aga Khan University Examination Board (AKU-EB) conducted all exams at their facilities as per schedule on Thursday.The AKU-EB on Wednesday announced that the......
KARACHI: Speakers at a demonstration on Thursday condemned Israel for committing atrocities against Palestinians and demanded that they be given equal rights and allowed to live on their land in......
KARACHI: Dr Zulfikar Mirza, a disgruntled leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party who was recently booked in a series of criminal cases, suffered a setback in his legal battle with the authorities on......
KARACHI: The Anti-Terrorism Court-1, Karachi, on Thursday extended the remand of two alleged agents of the Indian spy agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), on the request of the investigation......
BADIN: A clash between supporters and opponents of Pakistan Peoples Party’s disowned leader and former home minister Dr Zulfikar Ali Mirza in Pangrio town heightened political tension in parts of......
SUKKUR: A team of Rangers raided Sabbar Bozdar village near Mirpur Mathelo town on Thursday and picked up four suspects, one of them said to be Sikandar aka Sikoo carrying a head-money of......
HYDERABAD: Cantonment police have arrested a man for allegedly carrying fake Indian currency of Rs100,000, two Kalashnikovs and live bullets near Defence phase-II on Thursday.Police said a suspect......
HYDERABAD: A day of mourning was observed across Sindh on Thursday to mourn 46 Ismaili community members’ massacre in an attack on their bus near Safoora Chowrangi in Karachi a day earlier.The......
KARACHI: Forty-three people belonging to the Shia Ismaili community were laid to rest on Thursday in the community’s North Nazimabad graveyard amid mourning in the metropolis.At least 43 people,......
KARACHI: Life in the provincial metropolis came to a standstill on Thursday as people mourned the death of over 40 victims of the Wednesday bus attack.The government declared Thursday a ‘day of......
KARACHI: I take out a piece of paper in which I have jotted down the names of the members of the Al Azhar Garden welfare society and read it out to the boy scouts who have blocked the way to the Al......
KARACHI: The Indus River Commission (IRC) has approved four flood protection schemes with a total estimated cost of Rs 1,194 million and recommended them to the Federal Flood Commission (FFC) for......
BEIRUT: Fighters of the self-styled Islamic State group advanced to the gates of ancient Palmyra on Thursday, raising fears the Syrian world heritage site could face destruction of the kind the......
TEHRAN: In an unusual move by Tehran’s mayor, hundreds of copies of famous artworks — both of world masters and Iranian artists — have been plastered on some 1,500 billboards across the city,......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama began six hours of consultations with Arab leaders at the Camp David presidential resort on Thursday afternoon as part of a summit meeting called to offer......
BANGUI: Armed groups in strife-torn Central African Republic released 350 child soldiers on Thursday, honouring a deal signed with Unicef, the United Nations children’s agency said.“After two years......
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his ancestral hometown at the start of a three-day visit to China on Thursday as their countries work to boost......
NEW DELHI: An Indian schoolgirl and her older 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 on......
BUJUMBURA: Burundian troops loyal to the president fought off soldiers backing a top general on Thursday a day after he launched a coup against the central African nation’s leader Pierre......
YANGON: Poverty-stricken and loathed at home, Myanmar’s Rohingya are one of the world’s most persecuted minorities — yet their dire situation has long been ignored in Southeast Asia.The Muslim......
“IT is equal to living in a tragic land/ To live in a tragic time,” said Wallace Stevens in the poem “Dry Loaf” . It is about an attempt to portray a bucolic scene — “That was what I painted behind......
DAKAR: Senegal says it is sending troops to Saudi Arabia in an act of “solidarity” for the kingdom’s Yemen operation, but critics say the support has more to do with cold, hard cash.Unlike the other......
PANAJI: Ranbir Kapoor, the scion of ‘Bollywood’s First Family’, acknowledges his latest role as a streetfighter in Mumbai’s underworld marks a dramatic departure for an acting heartthrob long......
VILNIUS: The three Baltic countries — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — are asking Nato to permanently deploy ground troops to their nations as a deterrent against an increasingly assertive Russia.The......
ZAMBOANGA: Three militants and a soldier were killed in the southern Philippines on Thursday when troops raided a bomb factory of an Al Qaeda-linked group, a military official said.The troops......
OFF LIPE: A boat crammed with scores of Rohingya migrants, including many young children, was found drifting in Thai waters on Thursday, with passengers telling that several fellow boatpeople had......
NEW YORK: Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan created quite a stir in the media when she openly carried a copy of the Holy Quran after her first day of community service in Brooklyn on Wednesday.A report......
KINSHASA: Suspected rebels in Congo’s North Kivu province using machetes and axes killed 23 people in overnight attacks on villages in the country’s east, an official said on Thursday.The bodies were......
CANNES: The Cannes Film Festival slipped into high gear on its second day on Thursday by screening the new “Mad Max” blockbuster and starting the competition for its Palme d’Or.“Mad Max: Fury Road”,......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s cricket chief on Thursday said his country was hopeful of reviving ties with arch-rival India with a series in December following what he called a “successful” meeting with his......
KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan said late on Thursday that Zimbabwe’s tour of the country is still on after a bizarre 16-minute episode during which the Zimbabwe cricket......
LONDONZ: Yorkshire opener Adam Lyth is set to make his England debut after being named Thursday in a 12-man squad for next week’s first Test against New Zealand at Lord’s.Apart from England captain......
SYDNEY: Cricket Australia (CA) said on 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,......
ROME: Rafael Nadal became the first player to break John Isner’s serve in nearly a month, and he did it twice in a 6-4, 6-4 win to reach the Italian Open quarter-finals on Thursday.Andy Murray and......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s top players are overwhelmingly against a proposal to play “day-night” Test cricket when they tour Australia this year, fearing it will “devalue” the game, the New Zealand......
LOS ANGELES: The US men’s 4x100m relay team has been stripped of the 2012 Olympic silver medal because of Tyson Gay’s doping case, the US Olympic Committee confirmed.USOC chief communications officer......
DONGGUAN: Malaysia’s hope of advancing in the Sudirman Cup on Thursday were crushed by South Korea at the quarter-finals, with Lee Chong Wei’s victory the only silver lining for the team.Malaysia......
MADRID: Juventus shattered Real Madrid’s dream of a record-extending 11th European crown when Alvaro Morata scored against his former club to secure a 1-1 Champions League draw with the holders on......
KINGSTON HULL: World number one Mohamed El Shorbagy had to survive injury problems and a two-point deficit in the final game against Borja Golan before reaching the quarter-finals of the British......
MADRID: Real Madrid paid more than 200 million euros ($227.76 million) to assemble their forward line of Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema but the attacking trio failed them against......
MADRID: A Spanish court on Thursday suspended a planned strike by star footballers in protest against a new TV rights law, meaning Barcelona could seal the La Liga title this weekend.The National......
LONDON: Ferrari received $38 million more in Formula One payments than runaway title-winners Mercedes last year, despite finishing just fourth in the constructors’ championship, a report......
After Alvaro Morata scored on Wednesday, television cameras closed in on Gianluigi Buffon at the other end of the pitch. For millions of viewers across the world, those pictures encapsulated a......
KARACHI: Just 32.1 overs were possible on the second day of the second unofficial Test between Sri Lanka ‘A’ and Pakistan ‘A’ as heavy rains pelted down in the Sri Lankan hill town of Pallekele on......
KARACHI: Karachi and Sialkot were the only sides to win in the third and final round of the PCB-Pepsi Cricket Stars U-16 tournament on Thursday with both crushing their respective opponents by......
MULTAN: A stunning match-winning knock of 108 by Ahmed helped Islamia University Bahawalpur (IUB) record a crushing eight-wicket win over Government Emerson College, Multan in the opening clash of......
KARACHI: Sarfraz Ahmed played a captain’s innings that launched Karachi Dolphins’ campaign in the Cool & Cool presents Haier Super 8 T20 Cup with a handsome seven-wicket victory over Multan Tigers at......
KARACHI: Omar Associates set a new record in women’s domestic one-day cricket on Thursday when they thrived on three centuries to plunder a massive 450-5 against Sialkot in the 10th Mohtarma Fatimah......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC) on Thursday said the first Twenty20 Asia Cup was postponed due to the tragic Naltar incident. The T20 event was scheduled to be held from May 20......
KARACHI: Rawalpindi Rams have all but sealed their semi-final berth in the Cool & Cool presents Haier Super 8 T20 Cup by completing a 27-run win against Sialkot Stallions in the Wednesday night Group......
HARARE: Zimbabwe cricket authorities on Thursday abandoned a planned tour to Pakistan citing poor security — before retracting their decision within 20 minutes and saying discussions were still......
KARACHI: Bulls dominated the stock market on Thursday as the KSE-100 index added 188.29 points (0.57pc) to close at 33,103.73.On a day of mourning for the civilians killed a day earlier, the traded......
BENGALURU: After ping pong tables, motivational posters and casual dress codes, India’s tech start-ups are following Silicon Valley’s lead and embracing the “fail fast” culture credited with fuelling......
Khushhalibank launches ATM/debit card facilityISLAMABAD: Khushhalibank (KBL) has recently launched its ATM/debit card, said a press release on Thursday.The card can be used at ATMs connected to 1Link......
LONDON: The global pharmaceutical industry should set up a $2 billion (1.8-bn euro) global innovation fund to help kickstart research into developing more resistant antibiotics, experts said on......
SARAJEVO: The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is in discussions with Chinese officials to study the use of Islamic financing in the planned Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the head of the......
KARACHI: All wholesale markets, shopping centres and shops remained closed on Thursday to mourn killing of innocent citizens in a bus attack a day earlier. The industrial units remained partially......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has approved the publication of proposed rules, envisaging the formation of committees for resolution of small disputes between......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to allocate over Rs250 billion for infrastructure sector including energy and transport in budget 2015-16 that would have an overall Rs600bn development......
ISLAMABAD: The International Finance Corporation (IFC) on Thursday launched the ‘Lighting Pakistan’ programme to help the government provide safe, affordable, high-quality lighting to more than a......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations latest report on the economic outlook for Asia and the Pacific has feared that Pakistan’s economy will still be constrained by macroeconomic imbalances despite expected......
KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $17.739 billion during the week ending May 8 compared to $17.690bn the previous week, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on......
ISLAMABAD: The government is deeply sceptical about Middle Eastern terrorist outfit Islamic State’s (also known as Daesh) claims about having carried out Wednesday’s bus shooting in Karachi and is......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly expressed solidarity with the Ismaili community on Thursday and offered prayer for those who lost their lives in the terrorist attack near Safoora Goth in Karachi on......
ISLAMABAD: With terrorist attacks continuing to occur in different parts of the country, President Mamnoon Hussain claimed on Thursday the scourge of terrorism was on its last legs.“The scourge of......
PESHAWAR: Security forces handed over 29 Afghan nationals to their government at the Ghulam Khan checkpost in North Waziristan on Thursday.They were arrested during the Zarb-i-Azb operation, said an......
GWADAR: The chairman of a union council, an employee of the health department and a Levies man were kidnapped from Saeedabad area of Ormara town on Thursday.Official sources said armed men......
ISLAMABAD: Senior counsel Shahid Hamid tried to dispel a perception before the poll inquiry commission on Thursday that ballot papers were printed in excess to the total number of registered voters......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project was not being welcomed by many internal and external forces who did not want to see......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate was informed on Thursday that the national flag carrier would soon be acquiring 12 aircraft on dry lease.Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmad told the......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court suspended on Thursday the short order of Lahore High Court (LHC), declaring the Rs1.5 billion signal-free Jail Road project illegal.The decision was given by a......
ISLAMABAD: Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Thursday that Pakistan and China had agreed to “fill in the blanks” in the existing route between Gwadar and Kashgar under the CPEC......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate urged the government on Thursday to immediately do necessary legislation for increasing the age-limit of candidates appearing in the CSS examinations.It also asked the......
UNKNOWN to most of its inhabitants, the beating heart of Karachi — the very cornerstone of its existence — lies about 50km east of this city of 20 million. It is located in the little town of......
KARACHI: While police widened the scope of investigation into Wednesday’s brutal attack on a bus carrying Shia Ismailis, Sindh Rangers claimed to have arrested 145 suspects in targeted operations in......
KARACHI: The Sindh apex committee decided on Thursday to speed up the ongoing operation against criminals in the city and to continue it without any discrimination on political, religious, ethnic or......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spent almost an hour with former president and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday evening.According to a statement issued by the PM’s Office, the......
QUETTA: The Frontier Corps claimed on Thursday to have killed 10 suspected militants in clashes during search operations in Mastung, Kalat and Panjgur districts. Three security personnel were injured......
IN the aftermath of the massacre of members of the Shia Ismaili community in Karachi, it would appear that the black banners of the Daulat-i-Islamia (self-styled Islamic State or IS) have finally......
THE country has an extremism problem. To state that is to suggest the obvious. But the state appears to be either in denial of Pakistan’s extremism problem or afraid of its true dimensions.After each......
ON Wednesday, the Vatican recognised the state of Palestine in a new treaty, giving legal cover to the Holy See’s earlier support for the Arab nation.The Vatican’s deputy foreign minister said he......
THE minister for water and power appears to be rather frustrated in his efforts to increase recoveries, and is now blaming the province of Sindh for not paying its dues.The federal government has......
THE eighth National Finance Commission (NFC) has been constituted and at least one preliminary meeting between the centre and provinces has been held. The NFC is designed to determine the envelope of......
IN case you all have been wondering, the PPP is very much around, pressing for a one-dress code at schools which could as yet cradle the much-needed equality in the country the party has been chasing......
TALKING about prisons, the chief justice of Sindh said last Saturday that more than retribution and deterrence the main purpose of imprisonment should be reform and rehabilitation. In Pakistan, where......
EXPORTS are down, the growth of large-scale manufacturing (LSM) has slowed and credit to the private sector has declined during this financial year. We, the armchair economists, are trying to......
CAMP DAVID: Barack Obama whisked six Gulf leaders away to his Camp David presidential retreat Thursday, for a fence-mending summit bedeviled by disagreements, royal no-shows and raging crises in the......
