BEIRUT/ANKARA: At least 48 civilians, including nine children, were killed on Saturday in regime air raids on Syria's northwest province of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights......
PESHAWAR: A US drone strike late on Saturday left five suspected militants dead and two others injured in North Waziristan Agency, sources told DawnNews.It further said that two missiles were fired......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked 27.5 million active SIMs which could not be verified till May 15 — the revised deadline which ended on Friday.Some 75.5 million......
QUETTA: The political stakeholders in Balochistan on Saturday vowed to resist an alleged change in the proposed route of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).The Opposition and ruling......
KARACHI: Corps Commander Karachi Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar said Saturday that the Karachi operation is completely apolitical, adding that it will continue without any discrimination.Speaking at a seminar......
WASHINGTON: US special operations forces killed a senior Islamic State (IS) leader, who helped direct the group's oil, gas and financial operations, during a raid in eastern Syria, the Pentagon and......
This year's Cannes Film Festival didn't disappoint, style-wise. In fact, it gave that other seminal fashion event — the Met Gala — a run for its money.The Cannes Film Festival is one of the most......
KARACHI: At least four suspected terrorists were killed and six others were arrested on Saturday when Sindh Rangers conducted an intelligence-based operation in Karachi's Old Golimar area, an......
The re-publication of my 2012 Mother's Day submission for Dawn had a lot in store for me. I, however, while sitting in Brooklyn three years later, had little idea of the flood of delighted to......
LAHORE: Tickets went on sale in Pakistan Saturday for next week's cricket series against Zimbabwe, days after a major militant attack put the visit — the first by a Test playing nation in six years —......
CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 other defendants to death on Saturday over jail breaks during the 2011 uprising.Morsi, sitting in a caged......
This is an attack on PakistanThey were killed for being Pakistanis, not IsmailisThis line of response to atrocities within Pakistan is not new, but has become rather common, as was seen after the......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said Saturday that the war on terrorism will be won at any cost to bring back peace in the country, said a report published on Radio......
DUBAI: Iran will help oppressed people in the region as much as it can, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying on Saturday, ratcheting up his rhetoric against regional rival Saudi......
ROME: Serbia's Novak Djokovic moved a step closer to defending his Italian Open title after seven-time champion Rafael Nadal was stunned in the last eight by Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland on......
LONDON: Brendan Rodgers has called on Liverpool's players to give Steven Gerrard the perfect Anfield farewell present with a victory against Crystal Palace on Saturday.Emotions will be running high......
NEW YORK: The NBA is forging ahead with plans for world domination, hoping that India will be the next Asian power to be seduced by hoop dreams after already captivating China.The landmark appearance......
Feeling down in the dumps? Danish Ali provides relief in his latest comedy sketch, The Little Joys of Life.True to his satirical trademark, Ali pokes fun at typical Pakistani foibles — our tendency......
Abdullah: The Final Witness, starring Imran Abbas, Sajid Hasan, Sadia Khan and Hameed Sheikh, registered its presence in the film market as it emerged as a surprise last minute entry to the Cannes......
While designer dresses and bling ruled the red carpet at Cannes this week, a very different celebration of the arts unfolded in a ruined Gaza neighbourhood.The Karama-Gaza Human Rights Film Festival......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have arrested two campaigners of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) from Notia Bazaar Peshawar late on Friday.Leaflets......
SHANGHAI: China and India signed 26 business deals worth more than $22 billion in areas including renewable energy, ports, financing and industrial parks, an Indian embassy official said on......
WASHINGTON: An alliance of Asian American groups on Friday filed a federal complaint against Harvard University, saying that school and other Ivy League institutions are using racial quotas to admit......
BUJUMBURA: President Pierre Nkurunziza returned on Friday to his presidential palace in the capital, a spokesman said, after a military coup failed amid weeks of protests over his decision to seek a......
BANGKOK: Nearly 800 “boat people” were brought ashore in Indonesia on Friday, but other vessels crammed with migrants were sent back to sea despite a UN call to rescue thousands adrift in Southeast......
MAIDUGURI: Boko Haram fighters seized back the border town of Marte in northeastern Nigeria and attacked outlying villages on Friday, weeks after the military said it had contained the Islamic......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged leaders in the Southeast Asia region to keep their borders and ports open for Rohingya and Bangladeshis.Despite an......
KARACHI: Davis Cupper Yasir Khan has been top seeded for men’s singles event in the 3rd Essa Lab Open National Juniors & Seniors Ranking Tennis Championship which goes into action at Karachi Gymkhana......
SHANGHAI: Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will face Jamaican rival Veronica Campbell-Brown at the Shanghai Diamond League meeting on Sunday as she begins her quest for a third straight 100m......
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s tour of Pakistan will proceed as scheduled, a leading newspaper in the African country revealed on Friday.‘The Herald’ which is the country’s largest daily newspaper reported that......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s cricket chief said on Friday that Zimbabwe would be touring as scheduled after a major militant attack put the visit — the first by a Test playing nation in six years — in......
CAPE TOWN: Zimbabwe’s planned tour of Pakistan remained up in the air on Friday as discussions continued over whether they would become the first test-playing nation in six years to visit the south......
SYDNEY: Cricket greats Shane Warne and Sachin Tendulkar are planning to start a new Twenty20 competition for former international players, reports said on Friday.Unconfirmed reports say that Warne......
ROME: Roger Federer kept up his pursuit of the elusive Italian Open title with a 6-3, 6-3 win over sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych on Friday to reach the semi-finals of the clay-court tournament.Along......
ISLAMABAD: Former Test fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz said on Friday that Zimbabwe cricket team’s tour to Pakistan has come as a big ray of hope for cricket lovers in the region and it will be a huge step......
LONDON: Ian Bell hailed Joe Root as a future Test captain despite being replaced as vice skipper by his fellow batsman in this week’s turbulent shake-up of English cricket.Root’s appointment was all......
LONDON: New Zealand’s hope of getting more meaningful practice were undone ahead of next week’s first Test against England by the weather after rain washed out Thursday’s first day of their second......
LONDON: Colin Graves, the incoming chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, was adamant on Friday that he “didn’t make any promises” to Kevin Pietersen about a possible return to Test......
LAHORE: Pakistan national hockey squad left here on Friday for South Korea to play a series of four Test matches there. The squad will play the matches on May 18, 20, 22 and 23 before returning home......
KINGSTON HULL: Reigning champion Nicol David had to come from behind against one of the tour’s most improved players on Thursday before reaching the quarter-finals in search of her sixth British Open......
PARIS: Holders Sevilla, who crushed Fiorentina, face unheralded Ukrainians Dnipro in the Europa League final in Warsaw on May 27.The finalists progress to the Polish capital finale in wildly......
ZURICH: FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Friday he hopes to head off a Palestinian call for a vote to expel Israel from football’s governing body but that Israel must make a concession.Blatter......
DOHA: Doha organisers are sticking with their plan to hold the marathon at night at the 2019 world athletics championships and will hold test events for athletes to get used to it.The 2019 worlds are......
CHARLOTTE: Denmark’s Lotte Friis notched the second-fastest time in the world this year to win the women’s 1,500m freestyle at the Charlotte Pro Swim meeting here on Thursday.Friis’s time of 16min......
MELBOURNE: Australia’s David Saker has quit as the England team’s bowling guru to become coach of the Victorian state side, Cricket Victoria said on Friday.Saker, 48, who has been the bowling coach......
KARACHI: Usman Salahuddin and Fawad Alam shared a century partnership to help Pakistan ‘A’ reach 287-5 on the penultimate day of the rain-disrupted second unofficial Test against Sri Lanka ‘A’ in......
KARACHI: National champions Peshawar Panthers showed their teeth while coasting to a seven-wicket victory over Rawalpindi Rams in the vital Group ‘A’ fixture of the Cool & Cool presents Haier Super 8......
KARACHI: Temperamental Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal produced a sublime knock as Lahore Lions overwhelmed Faisalabad Wolves comprehensively in Group ‘B’ clash of the Cool & Cool presents Haier Super 8......
KARACHI: The Sindh Olympic Association (SOA) and Karachi Olympic Association will jointly organise the Sindh Beach Games 2015 next month, President, SOA Usama Qadri announced on Friday.Usama also......
KARACHI: A two-month summer coaching camp for boys and girls under the aegis of Olympian Iftikhar Syed Sports Academy (OISSA) begins at their Gulshan Iqbal premises on Saturday.According to an......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Model College for Boys Rawalpindi recorded an impressive five-wicket win over Comsats in a regional round match of the Red Bull Campus Cricket 2015.Comsats failed to take......
THIS is apropos Umair Javed’s article `Compulsory patriotism’ (May 11). The writer rightly pointed out that “patriotism can and should never be compulsory and neither should it be be thought of as......
THIS is apropos the news item ‘No plan to close down Bara markets: Dar’ (May 14). According to the minister, the government is helpless before sellers of smuggled goods and cannot take any action......
ALTHOUGH Naushahro Feroze is district headquarters, the zonal office of Sui Southern Gas Co cuts off supply of gas from 10pm to 6am daily.It is unjust to make consumers suffer like this. The zonal......
I DO not agree with Shahzia Hasan’s report, ‘Please, I need to be alone with him’ (May 13).The reporter has shown sympathy for a person who has destroyed so many families and was a culprit in the......
KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange requested investors / clients of the absconding broker ACE Securities to submit their claims arising out of transactions made subject to the regulations of the......
ISLAMABAD: The centre on Friday agreed to allow the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government a greater say in electricity distribution as a quid pro quo measure for recovery of bills and efforts to control......
ISLAMABAD: Taking notice of declining exports, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday called for boosting exports, and said that the devaluation was not the answer to check the declining trend.“We have......
KARACHI: The stock market remained range bound on Friday with the KSE-100 index closing down by 64.53 points or 0.19pc at 33,039.20.In a dull session where institutional investors remained on the......
LONDON: The world’s chances of achieving new international development goals will be slim without more ambitious action to curb climate change, researchers said.Pakistan, for example, is unlikely to......
Top US airlines get $71bn in subsidies: EtihadABU DHABI: Etihad Airways said on Friday that the US government has provided America’s three biggest airlines with more than $70 billion in benefits and......
LONDON: Gold held near three-month highs on Friday, heading for its biggest weekly gain since mid-January, as soft US consumer sentiment data weighed on the dollar and further diminished hopes for a......
KARACHI: Revival of buying interest pushed prices higher on the cotton market on Friday. Many needy millers rushed back to replenish their stocks to meet their near future demand.However, limited......
KARACHI: Although persistent structural weaknesses continue to take a toll on the country’s overall economic performance, the GDP growth is likely to remain higher than last year’s level, said the......
KARACHI: South Africa has imposed provisional anti-dumping duties of 14.29 per cent to 77.15pc on Portland Cement, originating in or imported from Pakistan from May 15 for a period of six......
LAHORE: The National Bank of Pakistan and the Habib Bank on Friday offered the Punjab government to underwrite project financing, amounting to Rs84 billion for its 1,200MW LNG-based power plant at......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar told the Tax Advisory Council on Friday that the government was focusing on participatory budget-making and it “will thoroughly discuss the proposals coming from......
KARACHI: Two more deaths caused by Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the ‘brain-eating’ amoeba, have been reported from a private hospital in Clifton during the past 15 days, bringing the total......
KARACHI: A former superintendent of the Hyderabad central prison was gunned down in the Pehlwan Goth area on Friday, police said.They said the former jailer, Aijaz Haider, along with three women was......
KARACHI: Lawmakers belonging to the opposition parties in the Sindh Assembly on Friday demanded that Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah accept the responsibility of the Safoora carnage and resign from......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday directed the home secretary, provincial police chief, the director general of Rangers and others to submit their respective replies on different......
KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) seems reluctant to make the zoo financially independent, even partially, and lose the lucrative business the public facility generates ever year,......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has issued notices to the chief secretary, works and services secretary and others for May 27 in a contempt of court application for not implementing a court earlier......
LARKANA: The Sindh High Court’s Larkana circuit bench comprising Justice Nadeem Akhtar on Thursday stayed the shifting of Sweet Homes from Larkana to a place near Karachi and issued notices to the......
SUKKUR: Two brothers died when a grenade they found outside their house exploded in the Saifal Khan Kolachi village in Ghotki district on Friday morning.According to reports, Fida Hussain Kolachi,......
SUKKUR: The Sukkur Express on Friday crushed to death a man who was trying to cross the tracks near Jacobabad station.The victim was identified as Mohammed Younis, son of Haji Dildar Talani, a......
THATTA: An army soldier, Pir Mohammed, son of Wali Mohammed Brohi, who was killed in a recent attack on a military checkpoint in the Shikai valley of Wana by terrorists, was laid to rest in his......
BADIN: The Badin district and sessions court on Friday granted interim bail to former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza in three cases registered against him at the Tando Bago, Kario Ghanwar and......
WASHINGTON: So far there is no evidence of an operational linkage between the self-styled Islamic State (IS) and the militants in Pakistan and other parts of South Asia, the US State Department......
WASHINGTON: The White House on Friday received a bill from Congress that requires congressional review of a nuclear deal with Iran.The House of Representatives passed the proposed legislation on......
BAMAKO: Mali’s government and allied fighters signed a peace accord on Friday in a ceremony attended by numerous heads-of-state but missing the crucial backing of the war-scarred nation’s main......
NEW YORK: Blues legend B.B. King, whose crisp but powerful guitar licks ranked him among the instrument’s greatest masters, has died at 89, his daughter said early on Friday.King, a towering......
NEW YORK: A former Al Qaeda operative Khaled Abdul Rehman Hammad al-Fawwaz was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for his involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania —......
BEIJING: At least 35 people died on Friday when a bus apparently plunged off a cliff in China, reports said, in the latest deadly traffic incident in the country.The accident in Chunhua county, in......
NICOSIA: Cyprus’ rival leaders met on Friday at a United Nations compound to restart talks aimed at ending the small Mediterranean island nation’s four decades of division.In an echo of previous......
THE report commissioned by the Qatari government in the wake of the international outcry that followed the Guardian’s investigation into the plight of migrant workers in the tiny Gulf state made 62......
TO count in an increasingly complex and interdependent world, you have to be connected. This is true for individuals, institutions, companies, continents, regions and countries. The growth of social......
NEW YORK: Woody Allen premieres his latest film at the Cannes Film Festival, finding comfort and adulation in Europe away from controversies that have tarnished his name in the United States.The......
LAHORE: Another three to four-day spell of rain-thundershowers with dust storms is likely to lash upper parts of the country and north-eastern Punjab, including Lahore from Sunday.These areas have......
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly unanimously adopted on Friday resolutions on the Naltar helicopter crash and the Karachi terrorist attack, tabled by the treasury and opposition.Law Minister Mujtaba......
LAHORE: Owners of 12 restaurants outside the Qadhafi Stadium have been issued notices by the City District Government of Lahore to keep their business shut from May 18 to June 1 in the wake of T-20......
LAHORE The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday issued schedule for election to the Senate seat vacated by Rafique Rajwana after being appointed as Punjab governor as well as for reserved......
MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan says the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government is going to introduce the provincial finance award (PFA) under which the funds would be transferred to......
LAHORE: Indian troops on Friday opened unprovoked fire at the Charwa sector near the Sialkot working boundary.A Punjab Rangers spokesman, through a text message, said Indian Border Security Force......
LAHORE: More than 41 per cent of births in Punjab are handled by ‘unskilled birth attendants’ as over 45 per cent of the posts of medical officers (MOs)/women medical officers (WMOs) are vacant at......
LAHORE: A minor girl was killed while her mother and brother were injured in a roof collapse incident in Badami Bagh on Friday.Police said Naghma Bibi, wife of Muhammad Ahmed, her daughter Nimra, 2,......
LAHORE: Distinguished journalist and author Ahmed Rashid on Friday recounted several ‘mistakes’ made by Pakistan, the United States and the international coalition after entering Afghanistan in the......
LAHORE: Robbers and thieves struck four times on Friday in the city and took away cash, jewelry and valuables all worth Rs2.3 million.Nine gunmen looted mobile phones, jewelry and Rs54,000 from the......
LAHORE: The divisional administration on Friday allowed a non-government organisation to have stalls in all Sunday and upcoming Ramazan bazaars to create awareness among the visitors about interfaith......
LAHORE: A ‘Dance Day Manao’ or celebrate the dance day will be held on May 17 at Alhamra Art Centre, The Mall, where performances of eminent classical, folk, sufi and modern dancers of Pakistan will......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has directed that sale of substandard, haram (forbidden) and unhygienic meat shall not be tolerated and the elements involved in this heinous trade should be......
LAHORE: Liaquatabad police recovered on Friday a week-old baby girl from Bahawalnagar and arrested a woman who had kidnapped her from Peco Road a few days ago.Suspect Ghulam Fatima told police that......
SAHIWAL: The district police on Friday arrested two bank managers and three owners of petrol pumps for not making proper security arrangements at their workplaces despite repeated reminders.They have......
BAHAWALPUR: The Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) has launched a campaign to recover the arrears of about Rs150 million from tubewell owners in the district.Mepco officials have reached an......
SARGODHA: Pakistan Science Foundation Chairman Prof Dr Muhammad Ashraf appreciated the contribution of the University of Sargodha (UoS) to science and technology.He was addressing a one-day workshop......
MULTAN: The Lahore High Court (LHC), Multan bench, directed on Friday the syndicate of the Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU) to probe the credentials of Institute of Social Sciences and Distance......
GUJRAT: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Planning and Development has approved the uplift of Gujrat campus of Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) for which the relevant......
SIALKOT: Police claimed to have busted 12 inter-district gangs of dacoits and arrested more than 50 of their members during an ongoing campaign launched against criminals in the district.District......
BEIJING: Visiting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told his Chinese counterpart on Friday that Beijing needed to “reconsider its approach” to bilateral relations, as the Hindu nationalist leader......
BAGHDAD: Fighters of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group seized the government compound in the city of Ramadi on Friday and edged closer to what would be their biggest victory in Iraq this year,......
NEW DELHI: Saying Shias have overtaken Hindus and Christians as targets of sectarian killings, Fatima Bhutto has said that Pakistan has become a country of ghosts.“They are everywhere, the victims......
WASHINGTON: The United States and members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have agreed to develop joint ballistic missiles capability and an early warning system to prevent any external threat......
WARSAW: Poland is paying a quarter of a million dollars to two terror suspects allegedly tortured by the CIA in a secret facility in this country, prompting outrage among many here who feel they are......
PESHAWAR: Military planes bombed suspected terrorist hideouts in Datakhel area of North Waziristan on Thursday night and killed 15 militants.Inter-Services Public Relations said in a statement issued......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said he hopes that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor projects will benefit from the improvement in performance of Pakistan Railways.Addressing the launching......
ISLAMABAD: The judicial commission made it clear on Friday that it had every intention of completing its investigation into allegations of malpractices in the 2013 general elections within the......
KARACHI: Police investigators are slowly arriving at the conclusion that the self-styled Islamic State militant group was behind the Safoora Goth carnage, it emerged on Friday.The attackers left an......
ISLAMABAD: Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif has called for an effective strategy for thwarting the plots of ‘hostile agencies’ to destabilise the country and for countering terrorism.Gen Sharif visited......
KARACHI: The following office-bearers of Pakistan Herald Workers Union (PHWU) were elected unopposed on Friday for a two-year term of 2015-17:Rishad Mahmood (president), Shafiuddin Ashraf (general......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: Two brothers were shot dead in Sobatpur area of Nasirabad district on Friday.According to police, Abdul Aziz and Ata Mohammad were going home when men on a motorcycle shot them......
The number of asylum seekers Pakistan has been producing since 2010 has risen phenomenally. But the government seems least interested in arresting the trend and is, intentionally or unintentionally,......
PESHAWAR: Taliban attacked a group of youths celebrating their victory in a cricket match in South Waziristan, killing one of them and injuring five.The youths were punished because they had defied......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition members in Senate staged a walkout from the house on Friday to register their protest against the sale of Heavy Electrical Complex (HEC) to what they called a fake company at a......
ISLAMABAD: A National Assembly committee urged the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) on Friday to evolve a mechanism to protect Pakistanis in Gulf countries in case of any untoward situation.The......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain will address a joint sitting of parliament on June 4 and the government will announce its third federal budget on June 5.According to a summary approved by the......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain urged the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Friday to improve the transmission line and electric infrastructure with the help of private......
QUETTA: The death toll of suspected militants during a search operation in Johan area of Kalat district during the past 36 hours increased to 13 after five more men, including an alleged leader of a......
QUETTA: Maulana Abdul Wasey, the leader of opposition in the Balochistan Assembly, escaped an attack on his vehicle in Khanozai area of Pishin district late on Friday night.Official sources said a......
RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has arrested 15 people and seized drugs worth millions of rupees in actions across the country.According to a spokesman, the ANF carried out 15 operations......
QUETTA: Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Noor Meskanzai has promoted three additional sessions judges to the rank of district and sessions judge.According to a notification issued here......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will examine, on May 23, the state of implementation on the recommendations of a commission it constituted to probe alleged irregularities in the affairs of......
RAWALPINDI: The intelligence and investigation wing of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has summoned Ayyan Ali’s mother Farhat Sultana to know the source of Rs35 million they have found in her bank......
ISLAMABAD: As the authorities have failed to reach any decision on the market closing timings in the capital, the local administration has started ignoring the issue and shops are doing business......
ISLAMABAD: Four officials of the Islamabad and Rawalpindi police were arrested in Attock for their alleged involvement in a kidnapping for ransom case.Sources said that three days ago a constable of......
ISLAMABAD: The tobacco manufacturers are lobbying to stop the implementation of the government decision to have pictorial warning on 85 per cent of cigarette packets.At a meeting held on Thursday......
RAWALPINDI: Despite failure of the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) to ensure completion of the metro bus project on time, the local administration has started making arrangements to launch the......
ISLAMABAD: As many as seven girl schools in the federal capital have been functioning for the last seven years without regular staff and necessary budget.According to sources in the Federal......
ISLAMABAD: Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Friday announced that it would double funding under its ‘Thematic Research Grants Programme’, which is aimed at addressing contemporary issues facing......
RAWALPINDI: A woman was robbed while a goldsmith was deprived of gold in Sadiqabad on Friday.Naseem Mughal, his wife and two children left their house for shopping in a nearby market when they were......
RAWALPINDI: The Madina Market traders have called off the sit-in scheduled to be held at Fawwara Chowk on Saturday against non-payment of compensation money.The local administration on Friday assured......
“The Dhol is an amazing instrument and I have been playing it for the last four years. The beat of the Dhol takes you to another world. Once I played the Sindhi beat at a wedding function in......
RAWALPINDI: To make the Metro Bus Service successful, the Regional Transport Authority (RTA) has changed the route of public transport plying between Saddar and Pakistan Secretariat.The public......
ISLAMABAD: Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University has decided to involve its staff to create awareness of thalassaemia.There are an estimated 10 million thalassaemia carriers in Pakistan out......
ISLAMABAD: After breaching Rs100 mark in the retail markets, tomatoes shed more than Rs50 per kg, thanks to the sudden change in weather conditions in central and southern Punjab that ripened the......
ISLAMABAD: In a new painting exhibition at My Art World gallery, famous women of Pakistan such as Fatima Jinnah, Mukhtaran Mai and Malala Yousafzai are on display.The visuals are not obvious and have......
PESHAWAR: The current volume of trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan is very low due to irrational tariff regime, illegal trade, and absence of duty-free access to manufacturing products of both......
PESHAWAR: Printing presses in Punjab province and the neighbouring Afghanistan take away almost half of the business generated by the upcoming local government elections to print publicity material......
KOHAT: The police arrested 10 absconders and recovered weapons and stolen vehicles from their possession during an operation carried out in different areas of the district on Friday.The seizure......
PESHAWAR: Representatives of various political parties and civil society organisations on Friday asked the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to stop work on the Pakistan-China Economic Corridor (PCEC) in......
PESHAWAR: A local accountability court here on Friday acquitted former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Ameer Haider Hoti’s brother, Ghazan Khan, in a high-profile case about the receiving of......
PESHAWAR: Members of the Young Women Writers’ Forum Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, an initiative supported by the Pakistan Women Writers’ Forum, on Friday reiterated their commitment to encouraging young......
PESHAWAR: The law-enforcement agencies on Friday evening conducted a mock security exercise in the jurisdiction of the West Cantonment police station for checking their response time in case of a......
SWABI: Haji Rehmanullah, a former parliamentarian and leader of Awami National Party who dominated the local political landscape for about three decades, passed away after brief illness in a hospital......
LAKKI MARWAT: Aafia Movement, an organisation campaigning for Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s release, on Friday held a rally in the city bazaars to highlight the objective of the movement to press the......
MANSEHRA: The district administration has declared majority of the local polling stations set up for the May 30 local body elections either highly sensitive or sensitive and announced it will take......
CHARSADDA: The district health officer (DHO) and two other officials, arrested by the anti-corruption police in an embezzlement case, were presented in the court of senior civil judge, Charsadda......
AFTER a substantial delay, the government finally convened a meeting of the leaders of all parliamentary parties to discuss the China Pakistan Economic Corridor.The attempt to take the various......
THE “scourge of terrorism is taking its last breath”, and Wednesday’s atrocity in Karachi exposed the “desperation of the terrorists”, President Mamnoon Hussain told a gathering in Islamabad on......
SHORT CUTS create copycats. Thus, in a city and province where conventional and legal procedures are thought to be too tedious, it is only logical that a hospital should choose to cut corners and......
Our generals say India’s spy agency RAW is up to its nasty tricks again. No evidence provided but, okay, we’ll buy the story for now. There are two good reasons. First, it’s safer not to question the......
THE cycle of violence gripping Pakistan has become endless. The brutality of the killers, whether spurred by a warped sense of divine sanction or some other corrupted ideology, appears to know no......
THE article which Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif contributed to The New York Times last month was a diplomatic overture; pregnant with meaning and precise in its formulations.The......
I’m currently having a problem getting my head around the concept of a house with a covered area of 82,959 square feet.I suppose this is because when I’m in Karachi, I stay in my old flat measuring......
BOSTON: A US jury on Friday unanimously sentenced Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for perpetrating one of the bloodiest assaults in America since the September 11, 2001 attacks.It took the......
