KARACHI: Sindh Police Inspector General (IG) Ghulam Hyder Jamali, “taking serious notice of the besiege, disorder and vandalism by nominated accused Zulfiqar Mirza and his armed miscreants” at the......
KARACHI: Pakistan appointed a local umpire who survived the 2009 terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team for the Pakistan-Zimbabwe series after the International Cricket Council (ICC) refused to send......
CAIRO/SANAA/RIYADH: At least 10 people were killed in overnight battles between Houthis and militiamen in the Yemeni city of Taiz, residents and medical sources said on Sunday.The fighting in Taiz......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani sentenced to death for drug smuggling on Sunday, bringing to 84 the number of executions in the ultra-conservative kingdom this year, the interior ministry......
BERLIN: Germany's foreign intelligence agency helped United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, where United States special forces killed the Al Qaeda......
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities hanged six men convicted of killing soldiers Sunday, police said, ignoring appeals to spare them amid allegations that two of them had been in custody at the time of their......
KARACHI: Five policemen and their in-charge were suspended and arrested for shooting and killing two motorcyclists in Karachi's Bahadurabad area early Sunday morning, Senior Superintendent of Police......
KARACHI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) today informed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Zimbabwe Cricket that it is not appointing its match officials for the upcoming series between the......
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers personnel arrested 24 suspects during targeted raids conducted in various parts of Karachi, an official press release said Sunday.Those arrested include target killers,......
If someone were to observe me at a grocery store, they would probably find my behaviour a little bit odd. I analyse ingredient labels for ages, put most things back and either scoff like a food snob......
LAHORE: Six children of a family died in a fire near Shah Bagh in Lahore's Kot Khwaja Saeed area late Saturday, when flames erupted in a building due to a short circuit.Fire and rescue teams reached......
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has criticised an Egypt court's decision to sentence to death deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, saying it "bodes ill" for the......
KABUL: A suicide car bomber rammed a European Union vehicle near the main airport in Afghanistan's capital on Sunday, killing at least three people in the latest attack in the city, officials......
CHARSADDA: The local police thwarted a terror bid and seized a 14-kilogram bomb, suicide vest and other explosives during a search operation in Prang area here on Saturday.District Police Officer......
PESHAWAR: Parents of the students killed by terrorists last year in the Army Public School attack have complained the federal government has yet to hold a judicial inquiry into the killings and......
PESHAWAR: A military officer had a narrow escape on Saturday when terrorists exploded an improvised explosive device on the roadside in Hayatabad Township here.The local police said the blast......
NOWSHERA: The Afghan refugees living at Azakhel refugee camp have refused to vacate the site after the district administration ordered them to move to another place.Official sources said that about......
CHARSADDA: Qaumi Watan Party chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has said his party MPAs supported the provincial government for the rights of people and participated in the demonstration outside the......
PESHAWAR: As the local government elections are just 13 days away, electioneering has reached its peak throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with candidates making every effort to make their campaign......
SWABI: Former chief minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has said that Swabi is a stronghold of Awami National Party (ANP) and the party will form the next local government in the district after the......
KARAK: Member parties of a major tripartite alliance have failed to implement its plan of fielding joint candidates in Karak in the local government elections and except a few constituencies......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar on Saturday urged the government to protect the people’s right to live and express themselves freely.The seminar on ‘global day of citizen action’ was arranged by Blue......
KOHAT: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf candidates are going to get a big boost as the party chairman, Imran Khan, is scheduled to visit Kohat on May 21 to address a public meeting here.Political......
MINGORA: Women in Swat have vowed to cast their vote, saying that no one could bar them from using their constitutional right in the upcoming local government elections.They were speaking at a......
MARDAN: Officials of the district administration have failed to take action against the vendors who have been washing vegetables in contaminated water of a local nullah, posing serious health hazards......
MANSEHRA: PTI provincial president Azam Khan Swati was extended a warm welcome on Saturday by the workers and local leaders of the party on his arrival in his native town after being elected a......
ISLAMABAD: In order to benefit more people, government would increase allocation for the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) in the budget for 2015-16, federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on......
ISLAMABAD: All cellular companies operating in the country have completed biometric verification of Subscriber Identity Modules (SIMs) within the final deadline given to them by the interior......
ISLAMABAD: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) has decided to support the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in the forthcoming by-election on a Punjab Assembly seat from Multan.The decision to support PPP......
QUETTA: Electricity supply to several cities and towns in the border districts of Balochistan has been suspended or curtailed as Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has stopped providing diesel to small power......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly on Saturday unanimously passed a resolution, calling upon the government to abolish checkposts in towns near the borders with Afghanistan and Iran to ensure smooth......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan ranks at 113 out of 124 countries in the ‘Human Capital Index’ because of its poor performance on educational outcomes, says the Human Capital Report 2015 issued by the World......
KARACHI: Speaking at length about problems being faced by violence-hit Karachi, challenges of the militancy it had been going through and solution to come out of the woods, Corps Commander Karachi Lt......
CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced deposed president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 other people to death for their role in a mass jailbreak during the 2011 uprising.Hours after the......
Lahore: 101 Tales of a Fabled CityBy Abdul Majid SheikhThe latest collection of writings on the city of Lahore by the renowned journalist, Lahore: 101 Tales of a Fabled City, captures the history,......
BY SAMEEN AMERIT isn’t particularly unusual for writers to choose not to publish one or more of their manuscripts during their lifetime. A number of celebrated authors have specified that some of......
BETWEEN the publication in 1915 of T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, and ‘Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror’ by John Ashbery in 1975, there was an extraordinary flowering of poetry......
HARUKI Murakami has a knack for taking mundane situations and transforming them into feats of fantastical journeys of both physical and psychological nature. And he does just that in his short story......
IN his memoirs, 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary, Robert L. Grenier, the CIA’s station chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1999 to 2002, recounts:“In effect we were telling our tribals they could......
Some years ago, I spent a night at one of Karachi’s private hospitals following a change in my battery — literally, as I had my pacemaker replaced. On the morning following the procedure, breakfast......
There is a very interesting chapter in Blood and Rage, British author Michael Burleigh’s hefty and comprehensive book on the history of terrorism.The chapter is about the rise (and fall) of left-wing......
The Rawal Lake is a source of drinking water for over two million residents of the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, but the illegal human settlements and livestock pens around the lake......
After the integration of Persian culture into Muslim society, the Abbasid Revolution brought to light the difference in the concept of a historical or a religious past. When the capital was shifted......
Technology is the real game changer. American hip-hop royalty, Jay-Z buys a music streaming service to counter Spotify, Neil Young is promising a new music player called Pono while U2’s album, Songs......
When Mary McBride last toured Pakistan three years ago, she won over the local crowd by performing fusion music with Abu Ayaz and Farid Qawwal. Thrilled by this style of music, she plans to do it......
The VJ-cum-actress who shot to instant fame with her noteworthy performance in the immensely successful film Namaloom Afraad, Urwa Hocane, can now be seen in a yet-to-be-titled film alongside the......
No, this news item is not about his marital status. It’s about Atif Aslam’s new song Zindagi Aa Raha Hun Main, whose video was released recently. To be honest, the track doesn’t have much to write......
My o my, the swords are out, unsheathed. Miss gorgeousness personified Katrina Kaif is no struggler in the Indian film industry, therefore she can say ‘no’ to the big guns of Bollywood.Recently, it......
Karachi is a resilient city abounding with die-hard fans of the arts and music. This artistic energy keeps the pulse of the city throbbing while it can rightly be said that the arts and music......
While Piku’s trailer had not quite tickled one’s fancy, high hopes were resting on Shoojit Sircar (Vicky Donor, Madras Café) making a film about the cranky old timer Bhaskor Banarji (Amitabh......
Fraught with risks, careless carnal activity can be a perilous pursuit, especially for a teenager. But for 19-year-old Jay Height (Maika Monroe), a cheerful and pretty college student, such risks......
I could have sworn it felt like the carnival was in town, but the villagers of Sakri joked it was my wedding instead: “All these people have come to take a look at you, as if you were a bride,”......
The British general last week election was spicier than a tikka masala curry, with the leaders of three major parties resigning consecutively, among them, a very bitter Nigel Farage of the United......
There was great flux in Afghanistan during the 1970s: a power struggle was raging between King Zahir Shahi and his prime minister, Mohammed Daud; the constitutional monarchy was on its last legs and......
It is an old Catch-22: one needs refuge from the blazing sun and muggy weather, but switching on the air-conditioning means a very, very hefty burden on your budget. But technological innovations......
Brushing your teeth at least twice a day is important for good oral health and preventing plaque, decay, infection and disease. But do you know that your innocent looking toothbrush can contain as......
Dear Auntie I am a boy of 17. Once my mama’s friend — married with kids — came to see her. I liked her personality and later texted her from my mother’s Whatsapp, asking her about her qualification......
In the current artscape, dominated by the contemporary miniature and new media arts, a cadre of young abstract art painters are quietly moving forward and staking their claim by reinvigorating an old......
The painting ‘The Arnolfini Portrait’ also called the ‘Arnolfini Marriage / Wedding’ is considered one of the most original and complex paintings of the Netherland Renaissance. Painted by Jan van......
The inscription on the invite for a recent show at Karachi’s Koel Gallery reads: ‘I found I could say something with colours and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way —things I had no words for’......
The first decade of the 21st century introduced the country to new ideologies, and particularly art absorbed the international contemporary trends. Exhibitions and fairs with modern work and related......
There is so much excitement about Zimbabwe’s tour of Pakistan, not only within the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) but also among cricket supporters here. This wonderful team that showed such......
Just a few months ago, the TDAP was spinning London dreams; of double-decker buses swathed in truck-art, the Grand Hall of the Olympia mapped out a la the G.T. Road and royal attendees at the......
PESHAWAR: Six suspected militants were killed and two others wounded in a US drone strike in the remote Shawal Valley in the North Waziristan tribal region late Saturday afternoon, sources said.These......
QUETTA: A multi-party conference (MPC) rejected on Saturday any alteration in the master plan of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and urged the federal government to stick to its original route......
One of the most courageous steps undertaken by any government in decades, for documentation of the economy, was a little section inserted into the Income Tax Ordinance of 2001 that allowed......
News from North Waziristan, when there is any, tends to underscore the problem with much of the information from the region — there is too little of it; it is difficult to independently verify; and......
While the selfie showing Narendra Modi and Li Keqiang smiling at Beijing’s Temple of Heaven was promptly posted on the social media, the Chinese prime minister admitted there were “some disagreements......
It might be making a dent in the city’s coffers, but there is no doubt that it would improve the commute no end: some 1,500 city-owned billboards across Tehran, which like their kind in any of the......
The lack of political consensus and insecurity would be two major challenges towards the implementation of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. Failure to address these irritants will......
A blow to the solar plexus and some wretched hope for the mind — it’s been one of those weeks in Pakistan.So let’s jump right in. First, Karachi. Much has been debated — and more will be. But what of......
The coercion worked. Fearing for her life, Dr Bernadette Dean, an eminent Pakistani educationist and one of the 12 members of the Government of Sindh’s advisory committee on school curricula reform,......
Pakistan is not a failed or even a failing state, and is actually walking further away from the abyss gradually. Though it still performs poorly on many developmental and security indicators, a......
MAY 13 was indeed a black day for every Pakistani, as Karachi bled once again. What is the answer to terrorism?The answer was given by the Aga Khan University Education Board on the very same day.......
I WOULD like to suggest to the authorities to use Pakistan-made reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to monitor Karachi’s law and order situation. The city can be divided into a few......
Apropos news reports published a few days ago about Dr Bernadette L. Dean leaving the country and the brutal murder of 45 people in Karachi a day later.Dr Bernadette, a senior educationist, was......
THERE is a long list of discriminatory policies in the State Bank of Pakistan.Seniority in promotion and elevation of employees has been ignored. No seniority list of officers or employees is......
I WISH to highlight the pensioners’ pitiable plight. Pensions like salaries of government servants consist of basic pension and medical allowance. What retired government servants get is their total......
WHEN the cyclone hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Imran Khan and the KP chief minister should have been there with the sufferers, if not on the same day, then at least early next day.But the first one to be......
I HAVE read with great interest Zoya Anwar’s report (May 14) about the symposium ‘Heritage for the youth’. The discussions, I gather, was based on heritage buildings found in abundance in......
I WANT to protest against water shortage in low income areas like Baldia Town.I would like to ask the public’s representatives in the provincial assembly both on the treasury benches and on the......
ISLAMABAD: A police team was manhandled by men from a religious seminary after they were caught with a banner inscribed with slogans against a federal minister on Friday night.Three separate cases......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has surrendered unutilised Rs20 million to the government during this fiscal year.Sources in the IHC told Dawn that the IHC Chief Justice Mohammad Anwar Khan......
ISLAMABAD: A man was arrested on the charge of defrauding the excise and taxation office (ETO) by submitting bogus payment receipts for the registration of vehicles.Sources in the ETO told Dawn that......
Last week’s diplomatic calendar changed entirely after the tragic helicopter accident in Naltar, Gilgit. Most of the planned events were either postponed or held in a low-key manner.In the accident,......
ISLAMABAD: The Photographic Art Society of Pakistan in collaboration with Lok Virsa launched Yearbook 2015 that highlights the efforts of talented photographers.The yearbook showcases the impressions......
OKARA: DPO Muhammad Faisal Rana claim to have arrested one member of a car-lifter gang and recovered four of the eight vehicles from the outhouse of a landlord in Asadullahpur village, Deepalpur......
ISLAMABAD: A UK national of Pakistan origin was allegedly kidnapped but was later released by his abductors freed after receiving huge ransom, police said here on Saturday.The Kohsar police have......
For the last many years, life has become difficult for Mohammad Khan, a resident of Islamabad, and his family as his son has autism.“My son, now seven years old, never behaves like a normal child. He......
Mohammad Iqbal has almost lost his entire gram and wheat crops in the recent rains and hailstorms.“I sowed wheat and gram but now there is nothing left to harvest,” regrets Iqbal.“What is more......
LAHORE: The newly launched Green Line Train will start its 22-hour journey between Islamabad and Karachi from May 22.A decision was taken at a meeting held at the Pakistan Railways headquarters here......
LAHORE: A kidnap-for-ransom and murder convict was hanged at Kot Lakhpat Central Jail early on Saturday.An anti-terrorism court had found Ahmed Khan guilty of murdering Sufi Abdul Majeed in 2002. He......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Traders of Talab Bazaar observed a shutter-down strike and demonstrated against the police on Saturday at Saddar Bazaar Chowk for arresting three shopkeepers under the Wall-Chalking......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: One of the most important districts in Punjab regarding livestock population is Rahim Yar Khan. It is considered among the top five districts of the province with huge livestock,......
SAHIWAL: The District Steering Committee (DSC) finalised 91 development schemes being managed with Rs20 million discretionary development funds allocated to each PML-N parliamentarian for their......
GUJRANWALA: City Police Officer Waqas Nazir appointed first response officers (FROs) in civil lines and city division police stations on Saturday.FROs have been provided with investigation bags that......
GUJRAT: Police claimed on Saturday to have recovered 19 cattle from a four-member gang of rustlers of Azad Jammu & Kashmir.Gujrat’s acting District Police Officer Kamran Mumtaz told reporters at a......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau on Saturday arrested a proclaimed offender in connection with the Double Shah scam.According to a spokesman, the Punjab NAB raided the whereabouts of Sheikh......
BAHAWALPUR: A large number of PML-N activists and railway officials welcomed the Green Line express train at Bahawalpur railway station on Saturday.As the Karachi-to-Islamabad Green Line arrived at......
He observes life with the sharp eyes of an investigator and feels it with a poet’s heart. After blending all the experiences with his creative imagination, he comes up with stunningly beautiful......
When the begum is away, far away, and a Sunday dawns on you and there is just no person to order around, the silence calls for a positive response. So it was last Sunday. For a pucca Lahori a......
LAHORE: The Lahore Arts Council will hold grand finale of finalists from the open talent hunt singing and instrumentalists show in the first week of June.Talking to Dawn on Saturday, permanent host......
LAHORE: Authorities in Punjab are devising contours of the new local government system and a separate administrative set-up in view of the local elections scheduled to be held in September this year,......
LAHORE: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani has warned of dire consequences if an attempt is made to roll back the devolution of powers process to provinces under the 18th Amendment to the......
SIALKOT: The Indian Border Security Forces resorted to unprovoked intensified heavy firing on Sialkot border villages in Charwah sector of the Sialkot Working Boundary late on Friday, according to......
LAHORE: Punjab government on Saturday launched its growth strategy-2018, aiming to overcome the huge challenge of creating jobs for youth that makes 66 per cent of the province’s total......
LAHORE: Rangers gunned down an alleged smuggler and seized bottles of Indian liquor in Batapur on Saturday.Rangers claimed in a news release that their personnel foiled an attempt to smuggle Indian......
LAHORE: Speakers at a condolence reference on Saturday paid rich tributes to the late Ms Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan for her devotion to the cause of the downtrodden and her fearless support to the......
LAHORE: The City District Government of Lahore (CDGL) on Saturday declared 130 residential and commercial buildings dangerous and requested the residents to vacate them immediately.According to a......
LAHORE: Two persons exchanged fire and killed each other in Shahdara on Saturday.Shahbaz, 30, and Punu, 35, were relatives to each other and were living in shanties at Farrukhabad.Police said both......
LAHORE: The General Cadre Doctors’ Association, Punjab, has appealed to schoolteachers to play a key role in vaccinating children against the crippling disease in the five-day anti-polio short......
LAHORE: Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) Chairman Engineer Qamarul Islam Raja has said that huge funds will be allocated for education in the forthcoming budget.“The upcoming provincial budget will......
KARACHI: Relevant civic agencies have chalked out plans to check the level of chlorine in the water being supplied to mosques and the presence of algae in water tanks, it emerged on Saturday.These......
KARACHI: Rangers on Saturday claimed to have killed four suspected militants of the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) in Pak Colony in a first such action that suggested the presence and......
KARACHI: A man and his young son were killed when they resisted a robbery attempt in their Korangi house on Saturday, police said.They said some six armed men forced their way into the house of Abdul......
KARACHI: An owner of a cattle pen in the Cattle Colony died of Congo Crimean Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) on Saturday, the first death in Sindh because of the deadly tick-borne virus this year,......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday granted pre-arrest bail to 47 associates of disgruntled Pakistan Peoples Party leader Dr Zulfikar Mirza in three cases till May 19.Dr Mirza along with......
HYDERABAD: In view of the current retail price of sugar, the Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) has asked the provincial government to fix the support price of sugar cane at Rs250 per 40 kilograms......
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: A Pakistan Army Havaldar who died in action in Wana two days ago was buried at a local graveyard in Abbas Kondhar village near Khan Wahen, about 32km from Naushahro Feroze, on......
BADIN: Sindh Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Sikendar Mandhro has said that the army is likely to launch a crackdown on corrupt government officials and those involoved in “economic......
KARACHI: Who says paper flowers are less beautiful than real ones because they are not fragrant? Come to Paper Market on Hasan Ali Effendi Road with a bunch of real flowers and see which flowers are......
KARACHI: It does not happen very often when Karachi’s intellectual crème de la crème gather under one roof. It happened on Saturday evening when a book detailing the movement for freedom of......
KARACHI: A sessions court on Saturday directed the provincial law department to appoint a special public prosecutor in the Baldia Town factory fire case.The owner of ill-fated industrial unit, Abdul......
KARACHI: A variety of views on heritage preservation were expressed at a seminar titled ‘Reimagining Karachi – Preserving Our Heritage’, organised by SEED Ventures in a local hotel on Saturday.Sadaf......
BOSTON: A US jury on Friday sentenced 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, one of the worst assaults on American soil since the September 11, 2001......
KANO: A girl about 12 years old carried out a suicide attack at a bus station in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, killing seven and injuring 31,witnesses said, shortly after officials revealed that......
ISTANBUL: Turkey said it shot down a Syrian helicopter on Saturday that had violated its airspace, while Syrian state media said it was a remotely controlled surveillance drone.Nato member Turkey, an......
WASHINGTON: Hillary and Bill Clinton have earned at least $30 million since January 2014, including more than $25m for delivering about 100 speeches, according to a government filing.Hillary Clinton,......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said on Saturday that if member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council faced an external threat, the United States would deal with it the same way it dealt with......
BEIJING: A chemical leak in northern China has killed eight people and injured two others.A statement from Yangcheng County in Shanxi province said the carbon disulfide leak occurred on Saturday......
DUBAI: Iran will help oppressed people in the region, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday, days after Gulf Arab leaders met US President Barack Obama and expressed concern about......
BALTIMORE: A senior at Washington College has been awarded a $62,900 literary prize.Alexander Vidiani, who grew up in Hunt Valley, a Baltimore suburb, was named the Sophie Kerr winner on Friday. It......
BEIJING: China’s foreign minister told top US diplomat John Kerry on Saturday that Beijing was “unshakeable” in its defence of sovereignty, as tensions between the powers mount over Chinese......
YANGON: Myanmar refused to shoulder the blame for an escalating migrant crisis on Saturday, and cast doubts on whether it will attend a meeting to be hosted by Thailand later this month aimed at......
MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday lost a Mexican satellite on launch just hours after a glitch with a manoeuvre involving the International Space Station, the latest in a string of embarrassing failures for......
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis praised Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as an “angel of peace” during a meeting on Saturday at the Vatican that underscored the Holy See’s warm relations with the......
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has deplored settlement activities by the Israeli authorities in occupied West Bank, including in East Jerusalem, a spokesman for the UN......
LOS REYES: A topsy-turvy international child custody saga ended on Friday when a Mexican judge allowed a teenager to travel to Texas with her mother, a month after sending the wrong girl to the......
BUJUMBURA: Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza was in a confident, defiant mood as his motorcade rolled back into the capital Bujumbura following a failed coup, cheered by supporters and safely......
PANAMA CITY: When he ran for office, Panama’s former president Ricardo Martinelli promised graft-weary voters he would never steal a cent: “why would he need to, since he was already a millionaire?,”......
THE death of B.B. King forces us to think about the custody of the blues itself. Where does the music go now? Or has it already left? And to where?King, who died in Las Vegas on Thursday at the age......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s Twenty20 and One-day Internationals squads for the forthcoming home series against Zimbabwe will be named on Tuesday, chief selector Haroon Rasheed said on Saturday.“We are going......
LONDON: Hull City were left on the brink of relegation from the Premier League on Saturday as Leicester City completed one of the great escapes to preserve their top-flight status.With Burnley and......
LONDON: Kevin Pietersen again indicated he’d been misled about the possibility of an international comeback when he said on Saturday that he had been offered a “clean slate” by incoming England and......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s campaign at the AFC U-23 Championship Group ‘B’ qualifiers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) started off with a 5-0 thrashing at the hands of Jordan on Saturday.The qualifiers of......
KARACHI: Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) presidential candidate Zahir Ali Shah has written to world’s football governing body FIFA regarding several discrepancies in the rules for the June 30......
DOHA: Justin Gatlin sent a message to Usain Bolt on Friday — both with his legs and his mouth.Gatlin lived up to the pre-season hype by winning the 100 metres in a world-leading 9.74 seconds at the......
ROME: Serbia’s Novak Djokovic swept David Ferrer aside in straight sets on Saturday to qualify for the final of the Italian Open where he will meet either Stan Wawrinka or Roger Federer.Djokovic, the......
CHARLOTTE (North Carolina): Michael Phelps finished third in the 100 meters butterfly at the Arena Pro Swim Series meet on Friday and conceded he still has a lot of work to do in his bid to return to......
LE MANS: Spain’s defending two-time world champion Marc Marquez rode a powerful final lap to clinch pole position at the French Moto Grand Prix on Saturday.The Honda rider was more than half a second......
BERLIN: Borussia Moenchengladbach secured a Champions League group stage place for the first time after two goals from Raffael secured a 2-0 win over Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga on Saturday.With......
HULL (England): Laura Massaro came from match point down to beat defending champion Nicol David in the semi-finals of the British Open on Saturday.Massaro, only recently returned from a break in......
DONGGUAN (China): China advanced to the finals of the Sudirman Cup on Saturday after winning tightly contested matches against Indonesia.Indonesia fell 3-1 in the semi-finals to home-team powerhouse......
KARACHI: Lahore Lions owed their success to Umar Akmal for the second time in three days as they marched into last-four phase of the Cool & Cool presents Haier Super 8 T20 Cup after overcoming Multan......
KARACHI: Sialkot Stallions rode on a hurricane century from debutant Bilal Asif to gallop into the semi-finals of the Cool & Cool presents Haier Super 8 T20 Cup with a barnstorming 87-run victory......
GHALANAI (Mohmand Agency): Mohammad Owais of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa won the inaugural Governor KP Mohmand Tour De Cycle Race here on Saturday.As many as 72 contestants from 12 teams — Army, Wapda, SSGC,......
KARACHI: Aamir Zaib smashed a quickfire century to help Peshawar make a strong reply after Multan had been restricted to 232 on the first day of the two-day quarter-final fixture of the PCB-Pepsi......
KARACHI: Nouman Aftab, Eibad Sarwar, Zubair Raja, Sameer Ali won their respective matches in their categories on the opening day of the 3rd Essa Lab Open Tennis tournament here on Saturday at the......
SARGODHA: The University of Sargodha surged past the Azad Kashmir University of Muzaffarabad, in a one-sided regional round encounter of the Red Bull Campus Cricket 2015.Batting first, the team from......
KARACHI: Dashing all-rounder Bilal Asif has expressed hope that his fastest Twenty20 hundred on his debut may change his fortunes in getting a breakthrough in international cricket.“It could be a......
KARACHI: An 18-hole Suzuki amateurs golf tournament will be played at the Arabian Sea Country Club course on May 24, says an announcement.Competition will be held in amateurs, seniors, juniors and......
LAHORE: The Lahore Race Club (LRC) has announced the Lahore Summer Meeting programme spread over seven weeks to start at the Racecourse here on Sunday.The summer meetings will be held on Sundays and......
ISLAMABAD: A World Bank study has explored the potential of Islamic financial sector in supporting the Sustainable Development Goals.Practical measures are required to enhance the contribution of the......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s pharmaceutical export stands at $200 million per annum against India’s export of $ 15 billion. Pakistan’s annual sales of pharmaceutical are $2.5bn while India’s sales have......
KARACHI: The All-Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) has urged the government to either place Iranian cement in the negative list or clamp dumping charges to help the local industry......
KARACHI: The Sindh government recovered Rs300 million from property tax defaulters during a drive launched by the Excise Department recently.The campaign is directed towards individuals and......
BEIJING: China’s foreign minister worked on Saturday to allay concerns that Beijing’s new regional infrastructure bank would not meet international standards as he met with US Secretary of State John......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan-China Investment Company’s (PCICL) total assets at the end of December 2014 stood at Rs20.008 billion while the net profit earned by the company was Rs469 million.The company......
KARACHI: The Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has warned of protest in case the National Assembly passes the Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC) Bill 2015 on Monday.In a......
MUMBAI: ICICI Bank Ltd, India’s biggest private sector lender by assets, on Saturday opened its first branch in China as trade between the two flourishes.The Shanghai branch got regulatory approval......
RIYADH: Who won this round of oil market battle?Few insiders in Riyadh are beginning to smell victory. While talking to The Financial Times, an unnamed Saudi official, reportedly confirmed; “there is......
LONDON: Britain’s finance minister announced plans for a second 2015 government budget on Saturday to quickly implement his Conservative Party’s campaign promises of spending cuts and savings......
WASHINGTON: Like an underachieving student, the US economy isn’t living up to the high hopes it began the year with.Consumers have been uncharacteristically frugal, even as the country added jobs and......
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin is stockpiling dollars again, suggesting Russia’s first recession in six years can’t keep him from rebuilding his war chest.The Bank of Russia said it plans to buy......
HONG KONG: India’s e-commerce hierarchy looks far from fixed. The exponential growth of smartphone users is rapidly changing shopping habits in the nation of 1.2 billion people. Investors have poured......
KARACHI: The cotton market turned easy on slow trading and lack of buying from spinners on Saturday. However, underlying sentiment remained firm.Floor brokers said spinners were unwilling to pay......
MUMBAI: It’s rare that a woman runs a stock exchange — there are just three in the world. Even rarer to find one who was chosen 23 years ago for the crack team that created it and then climbed the......
“She will be here any moment, madam … she comes in a motorbike … she is very punctual,” a staff member of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) told me as I waited to meet V. Saritha, the first......
GUJAR KHAN: Denying the impression that the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group had gained a foothold in the country, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Saturday that peace would be......
YOU must have noticed pictures with captions in magazines and also on the internet sites. Sometimes the captions are just facts and information and sometimes they are more than that as they describe......
EARTH’S mightiest heroes are back and this time they are pitted against an enemy that is more powerful than they can comprehend. Avengers: Age of Ultron begins with Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Iron......
Giant meat-eating salamander captured in China!A PARK ranger in southern China’s Heyuan City caught an enormous Chinese salamander that is the world’s largest living amphibian and is known as the......
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” — OvidTHE key to a happy life and a successful present is to stop taking tension. Do you......
MANY a time, history is recorded in the most unlikely of places. Inside remote caves, in unique fossils, stone carvings, ancient artefacts, etc., but there is also a non-material side to recorded......
“YEAH, Taylor Swift is the best singer,” said Ambreen who was busy talking to her friend on the phone.“Ambreen! Ambreen!” a voice came from the kitchen. It was her elder sister, Dania.“Ambreen,......
WHETHER scientific or general, discoveries usually come about after painstaking, goal-oriented lab work while some discoveries come about unintentionally when a person tries for something and ends up......
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Saturday, calling him “an angel of peace”, days after the Vatican said it was preparing to sign its first accord with Palestine to......
