ISLAMABAD: Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari said his party wanted to bring reforms in the existing electoral system, adding that the next general......
WASHINGTON: United States intelligence officials on Wednesday released documents they said were recovered during the 2011 raid on a compound in Pakistan where US forces killed Al Qaeda leader Osama......
ASHGABAT: Pakistan and Turkmenistan on Wednesday decided to enhance connectivity by establishing transportation and communication links and to pay special attention to establishing air, road and rail......
RIYADH: Yemen's government in exile wants rebels to pull back from seized territory before it agrees to join United Nations-convened talks in Geneva on May 28, Yemen Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin......
BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces said they fought off an overnight attack by Islamic State militants near the city of Ramadi, which the insurgents overran at the weekend in the most significant setback for the......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali on Wednesday requested the media refrain from arriving at conclusions on the Axact fake degrees scam, saying he had ordered an inquiry into......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Wednesday announced the arrest of terror suspects who had allegedly carried out the Safoora Goth massacre and the killing of T2F Director Sabeen......
ISLAMABAD: United States Export-Import (Exim) Bank has agreed to provide $55 million funding to Pakistan for the refurbishment of Pakistan International Airlines' (PIA) Boeing aircraft engines by......
LAHORE: Ahsan Raza is looking forward to umpiring Pakistan's match against Zimbabwe, putting behind him the morning when he was shot twice in an attack that slammed the door closed on international......
Fake academic credentials do not differ much from fake hair or bosoms. Essentially, they are manifestations of our attempt to project an enhanced, yet false, image of ourselves.The allegations......
LONDON: Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal was rending on the social media in Britain on Wednesday after an eccentric turn at the club's end-of-season awards ceremony at Old Trafford.The......
LONDON: An amateur cricketer from England is believed to be the first batsman to have been given out for handling a no-ball, British newspaper The Times reported on Wednesday.Bryn Darbyshire, 35, was......
DOHA: The controversies surrounding Qatar's hosting of the football 2022 World Cup may continue unabated but so do the country's preparations for the tournament itself too.“I can say we are on......
Remember Medora's cult classic lipstick, Siss?There was a time when Medora was the most exciting local makeup brand around.Medora's products, including Siss, a neutral, sandy shade which is still a......
Around 200 sharp traffic wardens wait to patrol the popular University Road of Peshawar, provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in their new uniforms with the colours of their outfits changed from......
MADRID: Real Madrid goalkeeper and Captain Iker Casillas turned 34 on Wednesday with uncertainty still clouding his future with the European champions and real reportedly lining up David De Gea as......
Zimbabwe will have one eye on the Reliance ICC T20I Rankings when it goes head to head with former ICC World Twenty20 champion Pakistan in Lahore on Friday and Sunday.Zimbabwe is currently sitting in......
A seth sahab gets into his Mercedes and drives off to his villa-home to his wife. They Skype-chat with their two younger children in New York; both are art majors, while their elder brother helps out......
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday selected Harbhajan Singh for a one-off Test in Bangladesh next month, ending the veteran off-spinner's two-year absence from the international game.The 34-year-old,......
Flamboyant and swashbuckling, Pakistan’s middle order batsman Umar Akmal has spoken up for himself after a recently concluded disappointing World Cup stint.He expressed his disappointment over his......
QUETTA: A polio eradication campaign was launched amid tight security in Quetta's 18 union councils on Wednesday.More than 400,000 children below the age of five years would be administered the polio......
A critical darling, a money-spinner and a cultural touchstone – and to think that Piku is about bowel movements and death.Its creator, Juhi Chaturvedi, is everybody’s favourite screenwriter for the......
MUMBAI: A Pakistani national was given a new lease on life by Indian doctors who performed a risky heart surgery on him at Bandra's Asian Heart Institute in Mumbai, said a report published on The......
LAHORE: Bemused players said they hoped to take the focus off security and put it back on cricket after authorities mounted an unprecedented operation to guard insurgency-hit Pakistan's first home......
KABUL: At least a dozen Afghan police officers were killed in a series of insurgent attacks on checkpoints in the country's southern Uruzgan province, an official said.Nematullah Khan Roshan, deputy......
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday ordered the suspension of a controversial measure banning Palestinians from riding the same buses as Jewish settlers when returning......
SEOUL: North Korea said Wednesday it has the technology to make nuclear missile warheads, less than two weeks after announcing it had launched a ballistic missile from a submarine.It also cancelled a......
ISLAMABAD: At least 13 suspected militants were killed on Wednesday during airstrikes conducted by military fighter jets in the Dattakhel area of North Waziristan Tribal Agency, according to a......
LONDON: New Zealand's Tim Southee will return to the scene of one of his greatest triumphs on Thursday for the first Test against England at Lord's.Two years ago, the swing bowler gained a coveted......
SYDNEY: Mohammad Amir admits he almost gave up cricket after being hit with a five-year ban for spot-fixing, but the paceman is now fired up to take wickets and repair his reputation.The left-arm......
QUETTA/FAISALABAD: Two death-row convicts were hanged to death in Machh and Faisalabad jails on Wednesday morning.Mohammad Musa was hanged in Balochistan's Machh jail for murdering a man named Liaqat......
Organic living: it started almost like a fad, but grew to establish its roots as the preferred lifestyle of a passionate few.The passionate few have Rizwan Naeem to thank in Lahore.The founder of......
LUCKNOW: A train rammed into a tractor pulling a wagon loaded with people at an unmanned railroad crossing in northern India, killing 10 people and injuring more than 30 others, a police official......
PESHAWAR: Bahadur Khan, the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) belonging to the counter-terrorism department (CTD) of Peshawar police, was gunned down by armed men in Gulbahar area of Peshawar on......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during his visit to Turkmenistan said Pakistan's priority is to expand trade and economic relations with central Asian countries, said a report published on......
NAWAZ Sharif’s picture onDawn’s front page (May 13) arriving, hand in pocket, at Dilkusha Palace in Kabul, to be received by the Afghan president, is not in the best of taste.True, pockets are there......
THIS is with reference to the death threats to Dr Bernadette Dean, owing to which she had to flee Pakistan. As one of the members of the committee handling the updating of the school syllabus, I have......
THIS is with reference to Pervez Hoodbhoy’s article ‘More lethal than RAW’ (May 16). The writer is questioning as to why generals point the accusing finger at India’s spy agency RAW without providing......
MASSACRES like that of Safoora Goth have made all Pakistanis psychologically ill.The government’s foremost duty is to provide security to the people, but unfortunately the federal and provincial......
THIS is apropos the report ‘FDE needs funds to run O/A levels programme’ (May 15) by Kashif Abassi. Prof Moazzam Hussain has rightly pointed that the programme is funding itself from the monthly fees......
WE all know that an efficient public relations team is virtually a half job done, and conversely a lack of it is simply asking for trouble.With so much of muck and a lot more space to cover, the......
THE ministry of religious affairs’ Haj application and balloting system is ‘powered’ by a ‘provincial’ information technology department.I wonder what the ministry of IT, National Information......
I WOULD like to draw the attention of the authorities concerned to an issue which has been plaguing me and my fellow students for some time. I am, or rather was, a student of Batch 38, session......
APROPOS S.W.A. Maulai’s letter (May 4), I may add that there are some limited companies which have not been paying any dividend to their investors, nor giving any reason thereof, since their very......
PESHAWAR: Former president and PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari said here on Tuesday that PTI did nothing for the Pakhtuns during the first two years of its government in the province.Addressing a......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek Insaf chairman Imran Khan has cancelled his scheduled public meetings across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa till May 30 after receiving notice from Election Commission of Pakistan on......
PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party has expressed concern over ‘ignoring’ Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other smaller provinces in promotions of officers of the district management and provincial civil......
PESHAWAR: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) on Tuesday inaugurated Humanitarian Response Facility (HRF) in Jalozai, Nowshera district.A......
MINGORA: Unidentified assailants shot dead a policeman at Taj Chowk here on Tuesday morning.Mingora police said Ihsanullah was on duty at busy Taj Chowk in Mingora city when unidentified gunmen......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed the National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to continue with an inquiry into the alleged irregular appointments to the Workers......
LANDI KOTA: The reconstruction and widening of the two and a half kilometres road passing through the main Bara Bazaar was started on Tuesday after the administration agreed to form a committee to......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday sought a written reply from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government in a petition of father of two internees of an internment centre, who were declared black by......
KOHAT: The district administration has registered a case against an influential contractor and his son for instigating traders to resist demolition of illegally built vegetable market and for abusing......
MANSEHRA: The Jamaat-i-Islami on Tuesday warned it would move the Peshawar High Court if the University of Haripur didn’t follow merit in the filling of its over 100 vacancies.“We have come to know......
KARAK: The political and social activists have complained many candidates for the May 30 local body elections are violating the election code of conduct in the district.They demanded the district......
SWABI: The society has witnessed a swift transformation over the last one and a half decade causing drama to undergo a tremendous change.This was the crux of the speeches delivered at the prize......
PESHAWAR: Members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly have lost interest in legislation and dealing with other matters on the agenda, while the prime interest of the house is to fulfil the......
ISLAMABAD: The United States and the international community should use diplomatic, intelligence and military channels to ensure Pakistan and Afghanistan never supported anti-state actors against......
KARAK: Awami National Party-Wali (ANP-W) provincial president Fareed Tofan has urged the Election Commission of Pakistan to impose ban on announcement of developmental projects during the course of......
GHALANAI: A jirga of Halimzai extended full support to the local administration and security forces in eliminating militants from the area.Assistant political agent, Ghallanai, Zeeshan Abdullah,......
LAKKI MARWAT: The elders of Marwat tribe have asked the provincial government to notify settlement of the boundary dispute between Lakki and DI Khan districts in the light of the report submitted by......
ISLAMABAD: The Disciplinary Committee of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) on Tuesday suspended the licence of eight doctors after they were found guilty of negligence.According to an......
RAWALPINDI: Although the date of inauguration of the metro bus service is yet to be decided, the venue of the ceremony has been changed from the garrison city to Islamabad because of “security......
RAWALPINDI: Murree Road will remain closed to traffic on Friday on the eve of the inauguration of the much-delayed metro bus project, sources said.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be the chief guest......
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a seminar stressed the need of addressing journalists’ issues as they work in an unfavourable environment.They were addressing a seminar organised by Pakistan Federal Union of......
ISLAMABAD: Special Investigation Unit of CIA has traced a gang involved in sale and purchase of stolen vehicles, Dawn has learnt from police officials, sources said.They purchased a Toyota Corolla,......
ISLAMABAD: Unlike most of the natural disasters, there is no way to predict an earthquake. However, the only option for people in the earthquake-hit area is to adopt an effective response......
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government on Tuesday released Rs25 million for replacing Rawal Dam Filtration Plant which was installed in 1962.Wasa Managing Director Raja Shaukat Mehmood told Dawn that the......
ISLAMABAD: Those who wish to visit the foreign missions located in the Diplomatic Enclave may find it much harder going than usual after the Islamabad High Court (IHC), on Wednesday, scrapped the......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif turned up in the National Assembly on Tuesday, bringing smiles to the faces of party lawmakers who seldom get a chance to shake his hand or even be in his......
RAWALPINDI: Customs staff at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Tuesday seized eight pieces of antique statues, including one from the Gandhara art, and arrested a German national of......
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has called an internal meeting on Wednesday (today) to review the developing Axact scandal over the sale of fake degrees and diplomas.The New York......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday withdrew summons it had issued to Imran Khan just the previous day to explain his purportedly illegal plan to campaign for his PTI......
RAWALPINDI: After winning all the seats of the two cantonment boards in the garrison city, the ruling PML-N is set to elect four minority and peasant members on May 29 without any hindrance.Sources......
RAWALPINDI: Three police officials were suspended for not facilitating the captain of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s helicopter in reaching the parade ground of the Police College Sihala on......
LAHORE: Through an application filed in the Lahore High Court, the chief justice has been requested to constitute a seven-member large bench to hear a 26-year-old petition seeking disqualification of......
LAHORE: A clash between officials of the Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA) and traders led to death of a shopkeeper of Shahalam Market on Tuesday afternoon, triggering protest in the area.After......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif says revolutionary reforms are being introduced in the health sector.Addressing a meeting through video link at the Civil Secretariat on Tuesday, he said the......
LAHORE:Advisor to Punjab chief minister on health Khwaja Salman Rafique has said there is an acute shortage of anesthesiologists in the government hospitals in the province.He said contact had been......
LAHORE: It was an embarrassing day for the Punjab Assembly; of the 10 resolutions, which it adopted on Tuesday, at least were two “illogical,” as some members of the House put them and asked the......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Tuesday granted bail to two accused involved in the Kot Radha Kishan lynching case.Tajamal Husain and Qari Hanif were directed to submit two surety bonds......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the commissioner and others on a petition seeking action against Rescue 1122 and fire brigade for their alleged failure to save six siblings......
LAHORE: Panelists discussed on Tuesday the impact of hate material in textbooks on society at a conference by the National Commission for Justice and Peace on “Uprooting Religious Intolerance through......
LAHORE: The central executive committee of the Muttahida Mahaz Asatiza Punjab will meet here on Wednesday (today) to decide future course of action in the wake of the `cold’ response of the......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to challenge the bails granted to the accused in the murder case of party worker Haq Nawaz in the Supreme Court.The PTI Punjab meeting at its......
LAHORE: Former governor Chaudhry Sarwar has stressed the government prepare fiscal budget 2015-16 while properly considering requirements to win the war against terrorism.Sarwar, who is Pakistan......
LAHORE: Corps Commander Lt-Gen Naweed Zaman called on Governor Malik Rafiq Rajwana at the Governor House here on Tuesday and discussed the overall law and order situation of the country and important......
LAHORE: The divisional administration has asked the officials of Lahore, Kasur, Sheikhupura and Nankana Sahib to establish special counters for senior and disabled citizens at all Ramazan bazaars......
LAHORE: Participants at a policy dialogue on education called for framing rules of business under the Punjab Free and Compulsory Education Act 2014 and their implementation in letter and spirit so......
LAHORE: The PPP has asked Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to take a policy decision to ‘de-politicise’ police in order to improve the law and order situation in the province.“Postings and transfers in......
LAHORE: Although the deadline for filing candidatures is on Wednesday (today), the ruling PML-N has not yet invited applications from the party cadre to award ticket for the Senate seat vacated by......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau on Tuesday arrested two proclaimed offenders.According to a spokesman, Uzair Asghar and his wife Yasmeen allegedly embezzled millions of rupees from the AG......
LAHORE: Inspector General of Punjab police Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera has said the task of geo-tagging of all 14,000 seminaries in the province has been completed.At a meeting held here on Tuesday at the......
FAISALABAD: A three-and-a-half-month tussle between the Solid Waste Management Company (SWMC) board of directors and its Managing Director (MD), Amjad Awan, ended on Tuesday with the latter tendering......
GUJRAT: The complicated processes mentioned in the amended local government by-laws with regard to registration of birth at union council level are causing problems for the applicants, especially the......
FAISALABAD: Family members of a man who died at Allied Hospital on Tuesday have alleged the deceased was suffering from dengue fever, but the on-duty doctors gave him a routine treatment.However,......
MUZAFFARGARH: Two persons were booked on Monday under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) for acid attack on a woman.According to police, Samina Bibi, 27, a resident of Tibba Kareemabad in the City police......
SHEIKHUPURA: Twenty passengers were injured when their bus turned turtle while trying to overtake another on the Lahore road.Two Lahore-bound buses started a race. As they reached near Javednagar,......
THATTA: A grade-18 official of the fisheries department was kidnapped and held hostage for 15 hours before being released on Tuesday, allegedly under a deal between his kidnappers and Dhabeji......
SUKKUR: Two children died after suffering from gastroenteritis near Khanpur Mahar in Ghotki district on Tuesday.They were identified as nine-month-old Fazila, daughter of Muhammad Yousuf Malik,......
KARACHI: A 45-year-old man was shot dead in Quaidabad’s Sherpao Colony on Tuesday, according to police.They added that Fazal Muhammad Khan was sitting outside his home in Swati Mohalla when armed......
BADIN: Senate Deputy Chairman Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidery of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl has said that all conspiracies against seminaries were doomed to fail.Speaking to journalists and......
KARACHI: Dr Zulfikar Mirza, a disgruntled and disowned leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party, on Tuesday thwarted the provincial government’s efforts to arrest him as the Sindh High Court on his plea......
NAWABSHAH: Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has said four suspects involved in the brutal attack on the Shia Ismaili community bus near Safoora Goth are being grilled to find clues to the......
KARACHI: Legal proceedings remained suspended at the subordinate judiciary of the city on Tuesday as lawyers observed a boycott against non-confirmation of two additional judges of the Sindh High......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on the last day of a general discussion on budget proposals witnessed commotion when the finance minister’s remarks that there were people who first destroyed Karachi and......
KARACHI: The federal government appears reluctant to address concerns of Sindh and the other provinces pertaining to oil and gas matters and a proposed power generation policy for the year 2015, as a......
KARACHI: Several health facilities in the city and in many districts of Sindh are facing an acute shortage of staff and have been closed down because of the health department’s policy to cancel......
KARACHI: Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman visited the PAF Masroor Base on Tuesday.Upon his arrival, the air chief was presented with a guard of honour by a smartly turned out......
KARACHI: Secularism and the Constitution were discussed at a seminar organised by the Society for Secular Pakistan and the Women’s Action Forum at the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science......
KARACHI: A suspected militant was shot dead in an alleged encounter in Sohrab Goth on Tuesday.Police said that acting on a tip-off about the presence of some militants in Janjal Goth, a police team......
KARACHI: More than 90 species of flora and fauna have been recorded at Buleji, a coastal part of Karachi, in a recent study that also calls for declaring the ecologically rich area protected.The......
HYDERABAD: None of the 30 builders who were issued notices for their personal appearance before the Sindh Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) director general turned up on Tuesday for the hearing of......
BADIN: A seventh FIR was registered against Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) dissident leader and former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza in Badin district in addition to a few registered recently in......
WASHINGTON: A US federal judge ordered the State Department on Tuesday to inform the court within a week when does it plan to release former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s emails.“We take our......
BRASILIA: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang came to the rescue of Brazil’s slumping economy on Tuesday with trade, finance and investment deals worth tens of billions of dollars in energy, mining, aviation......
UNITED NATIONS: Top United Nations officials have turned the heat on the leaders of Southeast Asia to protect the lives of migrants afloat on high seas seeking shelter and sustenance.In a joint......
KANO: Eight people were killed on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a livestock market in northeast Nigeria, as Boko Haram violence escalated further after a period of relative......
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Pesident Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday told Lankans that his government will give priority to ethnic reconciliation in order to give the island nation sustainable peace and......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations said on Tuesday that some 1,850 people had been killed and more than 500,000 displaced as a result of the conflict raging in Yemen since late March.As of May 15,......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed a legal restriction that forbids foreign financial institutions from purchasing petroleum and petroleum products from Iran.The restriction has......
KABUL: A Taliban car bomber ripped through the parking lot of the justice ministry in Kabul on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding dozens of others in the latest in a string of attacks to shake......
SALGAR: Residents of the Colombian town hit by a massive landslide began a difficult clean-up on Tuesday, as rescuers resumed the increasingly hopeless search for those still missing after a disaster......
BEIRUT: Insurgents in Syria captured the last military base and several small villages in the northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday, marking the latest collapse of government troops in the region......
CANNES: The Cannes Film Festival is coming under scrutiny for its strict dress code after women not wearing high heels were turned away from a premiere.Many are criticising the festival after Screen......
GALWAY: Prince Charles on Tuesday became the first British royal to meet Irish republican leader Gerry Adams, on a visit that will take him to the scene of his great-uncle’s murder by the......
LANGSA/DHAKA: A teenage son fleeing poverty on a perilous sea voyage, his relatives in a squalid refugee camp, and the cousin who made it to a marginally better life in Malaysia — the story of one......
WASHINGTON: Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat’s dark kohl-lined eyes are immediately recognisable. Now she is bringing their gaze on Iranian and Arab women’s resistance to oppression to this most......
LONDON: Former Australia fast bowler Jason Gillespie said on Tuesday that it was “very flattering” to be linked with the vacant England coaching job.The Yorkshire coach was named by the England and......
LAHORE: All-rounder Shoaib Malik and paceman Mohammed Sami were recalled by Pakistan to their T20 squad for the two-match series against Zimbabwe which begins at the Gaddafi Stadium from Friday.In......
LAHORE: Pakistan chief selector Haroon Rasheed said the inclusion of Shoaib Malik in the squad for the Zimbabwe series will offer the side a bowling option with off-spinner Saeed Ajmal having been......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi on Tuesday led his country in welcoming the Zimbabwe team and praised the visitors’ “courage” after they became the first Test-playing nation to......
LONDON: New Zealand legend Richard Hadlee has warned England that the Black Caps are ready to add to the hosts’ woes in the forthcoming Test series.Although New Zealand have won just eight of 99......
MILAN: Dries Mertens scored twice to help Napoli stagger to a 3-2 win over relegated Cesena on Monday which kept them in contention for a place in the Champions League next season.Gregoire Defrel......
LONDON: Jessica Ennis-Hill will take part in her first heptathlon since winning gold at the 2012 London Olympics when she competes in the biggest multi-discipline meeting of the year in Austria on......
BIRMINGHAM: Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas was sent off in bizarre circumstances as the below-par Premier League champions, playing with 10 men for over an hour, slumped 3-0 at West Bromwich Albion......
LONDON: New Zealand’s left-arm quick Mitchell McClenaghan will join Middlesex for the second half of their domestic T20 Blast campaign, the English county announced on Tuesday.McClenaghan, who is......
MADRID: Barcelona legend Xavi Hernandez will leave the Catalan club he has served since boyhood for Qatari side Al Sadd at the end of this season, his father said on Tuesday.“The moment has come for......
MILAN: When Massimiliano Allegri was sacked by AC Milan in January 2014, few could have predicted that a year later he would be on the brink of steering Juventus to treble success.Italian football......
NEW DELHI: An advisory panel of the International Cricket Council (ICC) has recommended that Test-playing nations should look at holding five-day matches under floodlights to attract more......
KARACHI: Zone-II will clash with Zone-V in the final of the K-Electric Under-19 Colour-kit Cricket Tournament after scoring contrasting semi-final victories here on Monday.Zone-II survived close......
LONDON: With a new cricket director, coach and chairman, England return to the field of play in the first Test against New Zealand on Thursday following an extraordinary period of upheaval.Alastair......
SYDNEY: Former Australia Test batsman Justin Langer ruled himself out of the running for the England and India coaching jobs by signing a two-year contract extension with Western Australia on......
LONDON: Robin Soderling is sick of being the answer to a favourite quiz question, the one which asks who is the only player to beat nine-time champion Rafael Nadal at the French Open.That is why he......
KARACHI: Karachi’s Jinnah Government College continued to stamp their authority in the ongoing edition of the Red Bull Campus Cricket when they outclassed Superior College by 82 runs here on......
ISLAMABAD: The 54th Amateur Golf Championship tees off here at the Islamabad Golf Club on Thursday.A two-member Sri Lankan team comprising N. Ranga and M. Arumgam will also participate in the......
BEIJING: Controversial sprinter Justin Gatlin ran into a fresh row on Tuesday when he flew home on the eve of the Beijing World Challenge meeting, angrily claiming the organisers had told him they......
KARACHI: For the first time in the history of Karachi an indoor night cricket tournament will be organised later this month with eight teams competing for honours.Former Test paceman Jalaluddin and......
LAHORE: The fog has cleared as the Zimbabwe squad finally landed here on Tuesday morning to play two Twenty20s and three ODIs, and with it Pakistan has come out of a six-year- long isolation from......
KARACHI: Former Test cricketer and chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed Sallu, while expressing delight over the resumption of international cricket in Pakistan after more than six years, says it was made......
LONDON: Yorkshire batsman Joe Root has been elected England Cricketer of the Year for 2014-15 by British sports journalists, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Monday.The......
ISLAMABAD: In a fresh twist to the liquefied natural gas (LNG) saga, the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has refused to provide gas to Universal Development Gas Company (UGDC), an umbrella......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Tuesday that the bi-monthly monetary policy will be announced on May 23. Speculators expect downward revision in the interest rate by 50 basis......
KARACHI: Pakistan Iron and Steel Merchants Association (PISMA) on Tuesday opposed a proposal to impose 40 per cent regulatory duty on the imports of bars, billets and wire rods.The association asked......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has issued requirements for managing internationally renowned Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance (CPPI) methodology based......
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has asked the government to end the monopoly of the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) with respect to insurance of public property.The......
Vodafone sees net profits tumbleLONDON: Vodafone’s annual net profits slumped dramatically but the performance was skewed by the sale of its stake in Verizon Wireless, the British company said......
MUMBAI: India’s Finance Ministry could have sidestepped a damaging multibillion-dollar tax row with foreign investors if it had acted on regular warning letters that officials had been sending since......
LONDON: Britain’s annual inflation rate sank into negative territory last month for the first time in more than half a century, official data showed on Tuesday.The rate hit minus 0.1 per cent in......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations is lowering its growth estimate for the global economy this year, saying its previous forecast of 3.1 per cent growth in 2015 is now more likely to be 2.8pc......
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s competition watchdog said Tuesday it had opened an investigation into foreign currency price fixing by several international banks, including Citigroup, Barclays, JP......
KARACHI: Revival of buying interest pushed prices higher on the cotton market on Tuesday as many spinners rushed to replenish their stocks to meet their near future demand.However, the issue of Gas......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures slipped for a third session to their lowest in more than a week, tracking declines in competing oil markets.By Tuesday’s close, the benchmark August contract......
LONDON: Gold’s five-day rally ran out of steam on Tuesday as the dollar extended gains after positive US data while global shares gained ground following the European Central Bank’s suggestion it may......
TOKYO: Japan will announce a $100 billion plan to invest in roads, bridges, railways and other building projects in Asia, a report said on Tuesday, weeks after China outlined its vision for a new......
QUETTA: Confusion prevailed in the Balochistan Assembly on Tuesday as opposition members said that the province was facing a constitutional crisis because the governor and the speaker of the assembly......
QUETTA: A large number of professors and lecturers of government colleges held a demonstration outside the Balochistan Assembly building here on Tuesday in protest against the government’s decision......
ISLAMABAD: A committee formed by the National Accountability Bureau has recommended a number of measures to curb corruption and malpractices in Haj arrangements.In pursuance of Section 33C of the......
QUETTA: After doctors and health workers have agreed to end their protest, a three-day anti-polio campaign in all districts of Balochistan will be launched on Wednesday.Earlier the government had to......
MARDAN: A suspected militant was killed when he opened fire at a polio vaccination team in Tambulak area near Kuragh Chock here on Tuesday.A constable accompanying the polio team was injured in the......
QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) held rallies in Nushki, Dalbandin and Kharan on Tuesday in protest against what it called extra-judicial killing of several Baloch people in......
QUETTA: A suspected militant was killed and two security personnel were injured in an exchange of fire in Mashkay area of Awaran district, while five hideouts of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan......
GWADAR: Police arrested three highwaymen after raiding their hideout in Turbat, late on Monday night.They were reportedly involved in highway robberies, snatching salary of government employees and......
ISLAMABAD: The government and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) signed here on Tuesday a grant agreement for provision of 10 mobile clinics for rural areas.IDB President Dr Ahmad Mohamed Ali, who......
ISLAMABAD: A minister admitted on the floor of the Senate on Tuesday that a proposal to shift the headquarters of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) from Karachi to Islamabad was under......
ISLAMABAD: What the common litigant desires most is prompt justice and is least bothered about the cherished goals of independence of the judiciary, a senior counsel representing the government......
ISLAMABAD: The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for Polio has expressed satisfaction over the overall performance of Pakistan for eradication of polio from the country.In a report released here on......
RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has claimed to have arrested three members of a gang allegedly involved in supplying drugs in educational institutions in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.An ANF......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office protested on Tuesday the second drone attack in three days and reiterated the call for immediately ending such strikes.“We condemn such strikes which are in disregard of......
ISLAMABAD: A disgruntled leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, MNA Gulzar Khan, who revolted against party chief Imran Khan’s order to resign his National Assembly seat, has rejected National......
JAKARTA: The Indonesian ambassador who was on a Pakistani military helicopter that crashed this month killing two other foreign envoys died on Tuesday after battling severe burn injuries, Indonesia’s......
WASHINGTON: Six Chinese nationals, including three university professors, were charged with economic espionage in a US indictment unsealed on Tuesday alleging the theft of technology used in mobile......
TEHRAN: A delegation from the Afghan Taliban’s Qatar-based political office is in Tehran for talks, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.The visitors led by Tayyab Agha, head of the political bureau,......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court sentenced on Tuesday a prayer leader of Kasur to five years in jail for delivering a hate speech at a public gathering.A case under Section 9 of the Anti-Terrorism Act......
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: A day after the publication of a New York Times report against a Pakistani software company, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) launched on Tuesday a probe into the alleged......
ISLAMABAD: The government managed on Tuesday to get a bill passed with support from the PPP, to levy a controversial gas tax amid a boisterous protest by an unlikely alliance of the MQM, PTI and the......
KARACHI: As police on Tuesday disclosed the arrest of four militants, including the mastermind of the Safoora Goth carnage, evidence emerged that religious extremists rather than India’s premier......
ONE of the most serious challenges that needs to be tackled in the forthcoming budget is the growing undocumented, or informal, sector of the economy.This is a structural weakness that has been......
IF both sides are committed to meaningful implementation, the landmark agreement between the ISI and the Afghan intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security, could fundamentally alter......
THIS is a big moment for Pakistan cricket. The Zimbabweans are here. There is an ex-executive of the Pakistan Cricket Board who is obliged to acknowledge all the congratulatory messages on Twitter......
YET another massacre, yet another day of mourning. An endless macabre dance of death unfolds. The 45 Ismailis killed execution-style last week seem another statistic in the spiralling list of victims......
PAKISTANIS know how to search for the truth; they also know that it is, in most cases, elusive or just plain unattainable. Americans, on the other hand, genuinely believe, await and expect to know......
A VISIT to most villages in Sindh is a journey back in time. Pot-holed roads, overflowing open sewerage drains, closed government schools and barefoot children playing in the dirt. Women run their......
THERE was a sense of déjà vu about the Delta Force mission that led to the death of Abu Sayyaf in Syria last week, given the obvious similarities with the Abbottabad operation four years ago:......
MANILA: The Philippines said Tuesday it was ready to help Rohingya and Bangladeshi boatpeople, as its Southeast Asian neighbours faced outrage for turning them away.The Philippines is obliged to help......
