Six years with no international cricket is a long time and the first game to break this isolation proved to be a thriller towards the end as Pakistan sealed a five-wicket victory over......
AMSTERDAM: The Dutch government on Friday agreed to introduce a partial ban on the wearing of the full-face veil in public places, the Home Affairs Ministry said in a statement.The proposed ban,......
QUETTA: Balochistan police arrested the main accused involved in the disastrous attack on Quaid-i-Azam residency after carrying out a successful raid in Hazar Ganji area of Quetta on......
KUNDUZ: The Afghan government has enlisted hundreds of militia fighters controlled by local commanders to battle Taliban militants near the northern city of Kunduz, officials said, underlining how......
PESHAWAR: Two people were killed and two others injured when unidentified assailants opened fire at a vehicle in Peshawar's Hayatabad area on Friday.According to the police sources, Wali Ahmad Jan......
CAIRO: A bomb exploded at a Shia Houthi mosque in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday, wounding 13 people, a security source said, and the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack in a......
QUETTA: Balochistan Assembly Speaker Jan Muhammad Jamali tendered his resignation from his post as the legislature's custodian Friday to avoid a no-confidence motion against him by the government.Jan......
OBOCK: Fleeing the war at home, thousands of Yemenis have made it across the Gulf of Aden to find refuge in Djibouti, a sleepy Horn of Africa nation where the United Nations has set up a staging hub......
An area otherwise known for its arid climate and pressing issues of drought, Tharparkar echoed with sound as Jamshoro-based sufi band 'The Sketches' decided to hold a concert on the sandy dunes of......
There was no scenic backdrop, no bending of the knee, no quartet of violinists serenading the object of Imran Khan's affections.Imran proposed to Reham Khan in his container. And no, it wasn't......
Once upon a time, long before this era of murder and marauding; before religion was dragged into politics and the pulpit became imperiled, the mosque was a sacred space.Exemplifying the spirit of......
SANAA: Huge explosions rocked the outskirts of the Yemeni capital Friday after Saudi-led air strikes against positions held by Houthi rebels and their allies, residents said.“It was a morning of......
RIYADH: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest during Friday weekly prayers at a Shia mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia, killing 21 people and wounding several others, a hospital official......
DHAKA: Leading authors, including Salman Rushdie and fellow Booker prize winners Margaret Atwood and Yann Martell, called on Bangladesh's government Friday to put an end to a spate of deadly attacks......
CHENNAI: One of India's most powerful politicians, Jayalalithaa Jayaram, is set to return as chief minister of the southern state of Tamil Nadu following a nine-month break, after a court overturned......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Friday dismissed a 24-year-old petition against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif carrying money laundering charges by declaring it......
KARACHI: A heavy contingent of police on Friday entered the residence of disgruntled leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party and Sindh's former home minister Dr Zulfiqar Ali Mirza in Phase V of......
NEW DELHI: Advocating a ban on cow slaughter, Indian Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Thursday that all those who wanted to eat beef could go to Pakistan, IANS news agency......
In Pakistan we use the internet to gain information, conduct financial transactions, follow sporting events, endlessly share amusing pictures of grammatically challenged cats and send ‘fraandship’......
DOHA: A cross border rocket attack launched from inside Yemen killed one Saudi citizen and wounded two others on Thursday in the southern province of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia's state news agency (SPA)......
QUETTA: At least one person was killed and four others wounded in a blast near a Frontier Corps (FC) vehicle on Quetta's Qambrani road on Friday.A police official who request not to be named told......
To many, Tahir, Saad, Azfar and Nasir may appear new militant characters. But, profiles and ambitions of similar characters have been highlighted many times in the recent past.The confessions made by......
If there's ever a soundtrack needed for matters of the heart, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is happy to oblige. For director Mohit Suri's next, he's whipped out 'Zaroori Tha' from his arsenal of sappy love......
BANGALORE: Ignoring noisy buses and curious onlookers, street dentist Allah Baksh plunges his hands into a patient's mouth to fit a sparkling set of dentures for $12 in the Indian city of......
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court in Karachi on Friday indicted two suspects in the case relating to the murder of slain Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Zahra Shahid Hussain.Kaleem, the key......
PESHAWAR: Two suspected militants on Friday confessed to facilitating a suicide attack on Peshawar's Imamia Imambargah in which at least 25 people were killed and 59 others were injured.Read: 21......
WASHINGTON: The United States plotted to find Osama bin Laden by concealing tracking devices in medical supplies, possibly through Red Cross hospitals, a report said Thursday, citing documents leaked......
KIEV: European mediators in the Ukrainian crisis said on Thursday that two men captured by Kiev’s troops had confessed to being members of the Russian armed forces sent in to back up pro-Moscow......
QUETTA: The acting Speaker of the Balochistan Assembly, Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo, was sworn in as acting governor of the province on Thursday.Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Noor......
LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron said Thursday that restricting welfare payments to EU workers was an “absolute requirement” of his efforts to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the bloc,......
ON May 13, Dawn published a letter by Iqbal Ahmed in response to the article ‘Spirit of the arts lobby’ (May 9) by ‘left-leaning Abbas Nasir’, as Mr Ahmed refers to him. Apparently, for Mr Ahmed,......
THIS is apropos the news item “Punjab to ‘outsource’ basic health project” (May 14). I just want to add that the health sector in Punjab is deteriorating.The people do not trust government hospitals......
I FLEW by PIA from Karachi to Islamabad on May 5 at 11am. My adventure started as soon as I reached the airport. A senior citizen awards plus passenger in a wheel chair waited for 45 minutes to......
ALMOST every day we hear that many Taliban are killed in Waziristan and for that we appreciate our army.But the Taliban are not just in Waziristan. They are found all over the country. Killing them......
IN budget year 2013-14, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) proposed withdrawals of some income tax exemptions, including reduction in tax rebate for full-time teachers, researchers, scholars and......
THIS refers to Azmat Ansari’s letter ‘Kalabagh dam’ (May 15). I fully agree with the writer that the Kalabagh dam should be built as it offers the best option in terms of cost and time-frame required......
PESHAWAR: A total of 11,211 polling stations will be set up in 24 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the upcoming local council elections.Among them, 3,428 are for men, 3,059 for women and 4,724......
NOWSHERA: The Afghan refugees agreed during talks with the district administration here on Thursday to vacate the Azakhel refugee camp.The action to get the camp vacated was being supervised by......
LAKKI MARWAT: The provincial government has started taking practical measures to set up offices equipped with facilities for the village and neighbourhood councils.A relevant official said on......
PESHAWAR: A new team of professionals is facing a daunting task of replacing the rotten health care system at the teaching hospitals with a new one, especially at the Lady Reading Hospital where the......
ABBOTTABAD: Tensions eased in Abbottabad city on the second day of violence on Thursday after the administration promised to arrest the relevant DSP and SHO over the killing of a man and hold a......
PESHAWAR: The district administration of Peshawar has asked the candidates to remove within 24 hours all the banners displayed at various places in violation of the code of conduct issued for the......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa home department will soon increase the people’s access to the Provincial Public Safety and Police Complaints Commission by putting in place the grievances redressal......
PESHAWAR: A high-level meeting of police officers on Thursday reviewed the security issues concerning the local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and decided to create security zones outside......
PESHAWAR: An appellate judge on Thursday disqualified a PTI candidate for the seat reserved for woman in the Peshawar Cantonment Board elections.Additional district and sessions judge, Nusrat......
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that he will visit Kabul next month to cement ties between people of Pakistan and Afghanistan.Speaking at a press conference here on Thursday, he......
SWABI: Speaker of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Asad Qaisar on Thursday announced Rs500 million funding for different projects in the Gadoon Amazai Industrial Estate.He visited the estate along......
KOHAT: The district health department decided on Thursday to launch an eight-day special anti-polio vaccination campaign in the four high-risk areas of Kohat district.In this regard a daylong......
MARDAN: The two-day international conference on ‘Nato drawdown from Afghanistan, opportunities and challenges’ concluded here on Thursday with local and foreign experts expressing their views on the......
PESHAWAR: After Ayoub Sabir, a noted Pashto poet who had pioneered ‘blank verse’ in Pashto in early 20th century, many followed his style and diction. A few poets could add something new and......
RAWALPINDI: Hundreds of protesters blocked Adiala Road after a 20-year-old man was hit and killed by a recklessly-driven prison van of Islamabad police on Thursday morning.“We want the accused driver......
ISLAMABAD: For the first time in the two years that the case has been pending, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) finally appeared before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in the dispute regarding the......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has delayed summer vacations in the educational institutions to the second week of June as the government wants the presence of students in the......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology (IT) is scheduled to meet with stakeholders on Friday for a public hearing on the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill......
Pakistan is in an unambiguous state of war with violent extremist groups since the most chilling attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16, 2014. Yet the PML-N government seems to......
ISLAMABAD: Expressing concern over an alarming witnessed trend among private TV channels, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) issued advice to all licence holders, reminding......
ISLAMABAD: The government finally decided to take stakeholders on board 25 days after launching the uniform prayer timings system in the federal capital.Addressing a press conference on Thursday,......
ISLAMABAD: After PTI chief Imran Khan, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has now called Emir of Jamaat-i-Islami Senator Sirajul Haq and other politicians of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to answer......
TAXILA: The commercial and residential areas of Hassanabdal wore a dirty look with piles of garbage littering the entire city as sanitary workers strike entered third day on Thursday.They went on......
ISLAMABAD: The contractual employees of the Federal General Hospital (FGH) and representatives of other hospitals in the capital on Thursday protested in front of the National Press Club demanding......
Capital schools still short of IT teachers, labsLike the lack of quality education and teachers, the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE)-run model schools are short of information technology (IT)......
ISLAMABAD: It might come as a shock to many, especially patients suffering from cancer and their families, that medicine used in the treatment of the disease is 23 times costlier in Pakistan compared......
ISLAMABAD: An analysis of the threat of terrorist attacks in major cities by a leading US risk assessment firm puts Islamabad among world capitals that are at ‘extreme risk’ of terrorism.The study......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan on Thursday said global climate agreement unlikely unless rich nations directed finances towards countries vulnerable to......
RAWALPINDI: The National Tariff Commission (NTC) chairman, Abbas Raza, has said that the NTC has strong reservations over Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China.“We have conveyed our concern to the......
MULTAN: PML-N candidate Rana Mehmoodul Hassan won the by-election in PP-196, while Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Rana Abdul Jabbar remained runner-up on Thursday.According to unofficial results, Mr......
LAHORE: As the country faces a threat of ‘chronic kidney disease epidemic’, the fact that Punjab has no rules and regulations for promotion of nephrologists highlights the apathy of the......
LAHORE: It was a turbulent day for Punjab Assembly on Thursday; quorum was pointed out four times and found missing twice, the opposition staged a 10-minute walkout and the house could not complete......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on maintainability of a petition seeking repatriation of former Pakistan ambassador to US Husain Haqqani, the prime suspect of the......
SAHIWAL: The personnel of Counter-Terrorism Department with Elite Force and Sahiwal police raided a house in Railway Colony in Chichawatni on Thursday and took into custody Ahmed Khan Zai for his......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek has announced a nationwide protest against what it alleges government-dictated false report on the Model Town killings by the Joint Investigation Team.PAT President......
LAHORE: A woman allegedly shot dead her brother for expelling her from the house of parents in Ghalib Market on Thursday.Police said Javed, 35, of Ittehad Colony, had a property dispute with his......
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) have apprehended that following the 21st Amendment, juveniles suspected of committing......
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Thursday stopped the City District Government of Lahore (CDGL) from conducting inquiry into the recent deaths of six siblings at Kot Khawaja Saeed, entrusting the......
LAHORE: The City District Government of Lahore on Thursday seized 1,940kg unhygienic and dead animals’ meat from four illegal slaughterhouses at Kahna, Bedian Road and Dharampura.According to Deputy......
LAHORE: Punjab Governor Rafiq Rajwana on Thursday visited the Lahore High Court Bar Association without protocol and spent time with the bar members.The governor, a lawyer by profession, also......
KASUR: Lawyers and police officials are face on face again.Police lodged three first information reports (FIRs) against lawyers on Thursday, and arrested a dozen lawyers for manhandling a sub......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has termed it a matter of shame for Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif that his party MPA has raised a voice against the terrible condition of public hospitals......
GUJRANWALA: The Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco) detected 107 connections stealing power and fined their owners Rs1.9 million.Gepco Chief Executive Zahoor Ahmad Chohan said this at a meeting......
TOBA TEK SINGH: An anti-terrorism court of Faisalabad issued on Thursday death warrants for a man who had killed six members of his family over a property dispute nine years ago.He will be hanged in......
BAHAWALPUR: Six people were killed in three incidents in Bahawalpur on Thursday.Police said three people were shot dead allegedly by their rivals in a panchayat or village council at village 19/BC......
SAHIWAL: Two rival groups of grain traders clashed with each other over a dispute during a visit of MPA Mansha Butt and Punjab Local Government Secretary Khalid Masood at Pakpattan’s Jamal Chowk on......
LAHORE: The Government College University, Lahore, on Wednesday got another invention patented with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.The ZNO-SIO2 Nano-powder was tested at the Punjab......
KASUR: Unidentified people stole three donkeys, slaughtered them and peeled off their hides on Thursday at village Gahlan Hithar.Allahabad police registered a case.KILLED: Two people were killed and......
LAHORE: Punjab Rangers Director General Maj Gen Umar Farooq Burki visited Qadhafi Stadium on Thursday to watch the security arrangements made for the first T20 cricket match between Pakistan and......
LAHORE: The two-day 7th Phonetic Workshop, organised by the Dawn Media Group in collaboration with the Oxford University Press, concluded here on Thursday.Part of ‘Dawn in Education Programme,’ the......
KARACHI/LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party lawmaker Suhail Anwar Siyal on Thursday took the oath as home minister, relieving the chief minister of the additional portfolio that he has held since the PPP......
KARACHI: Despite a steady increase in education budget over the years and legislation to make school education compulsory and free for children, the fact that 6.2 million children in Sindh aged......
KARACHI: Walls are believed to have ears, but here in Karachi they have vision also as they become the eyes as well as ears of the city, telling any passer-by about the current political wave or any......
CONFERENCEInternational colorectal conference titled ‘Colocon 2015’, organised by the Colorectal Disease Patients’ Welfare Association, an NGO under care of surgical unit 3, the Civil Hospital......
KARACHI/HYDERABAD: Antiterrorism courts in Karachi and Hyderabad issued on Thursday black warrants for the execution of six convicts in cases of murders and hijacking of a PIA Fokker plane in......
KARACHI: Although Punjab has been violating the water accord since its signing in 1991, Sindh has been silent over the issue for the past 24 years as successive governments have never taken the issue......
KARACHI: The Sindh education department announced on Thursday the two-month summer vacation for all school and colleges in the province.According to a notification of the secretary of education, the......
KARACHI: The US consul general in Karachi, Brian Heath, on Thursday said his government’s key focus to help Pakistan was on education for which the United States was providing opportunities to......
KARACHI: Medical experts on Thursday expressed their concern over the increasing manifestation of some rare but treatable diseases in Pakistan.Such diseases as lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs),......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution showering security forces particularly the Sindh police with praise over making a swift breakthrough by arresting four of a......
HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Sindh High Court Hyderabad circuit comprising Justices Munib Akhtar and Mohammad Iqbal Kalhoro on Thursday expressed satisfaction over the ongoing relief work ......
KARACHI: The Rs487 million contract for the rehabilitation of the 18th century Sadhu Belo temple in Sukkur which has fallen into decay over the decades will be cancelled because of unnecessary delay......
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Dr Sikandar Mandhro, referring to the report under caption “Army action against corrupt officials likely, warns Mandhro” published in Dawn’s May 17......
KHAIRPUR: Corruption is a perpetual menace infecting the development process of a state. It has plagued most developing countries. It has a destroying effect for a state’s security as it causes......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Thursday remanded four Safoora Goth attack suspects in police custody in nine cases pertaining to an encounter, illicit weapons and explosive material till June......
YANGON: Four Malaysian navy ships began searching the seas for stranded boat people on Thursday in the first official rescue operation since desperate migrants started washing onto Southeast Asia’s......
CAPE CANAVERAL: A SpaceX Dragon capsule left the International Space Station on Thursday and returned to Earth.The capsule, containing more than 1,360 kilograms of experiments and equipment, splashed......
BERLIN: Human rights group Amnesty International on Thursday honoured Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei and US folk singer Joan Baez as joint winners of its Ambassador of Conscience Award. The......
BRUSSELS: Nato’s supreme commander has said that he was worried that boats attempting to carry migrants across the Mediterranean to southern Europe may also be ferrying criminals and potential......
COLOMBO: Four members of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena’s cabinet have resigned because they felt “marginalised on account of our close ties to Mahinda Rajapaksa (the former head of......
GENEVA: The world’s largest particle smasher broke the record for energy levels late on Wednesday in a test run after a two-year upgrade, CERN announced on Thursday.“Last night, protons collided in......
KANDAL: A Cambodian underwater demining team pulled an American-made bomb from the Mekong River for the first time on Thursday, as the country battles the wartime legacy of unexploded mines that have......
ON BORDER: On a windy hilltop overlooking the mountainous Syrian border, a fighter from Lebanon’s Hezbollah says the battle against militants in the area is among the toughest the group has ever......
BARCELONA: Nearly a decade ago, Albert Rivera caused a stir in Spanish local politics by posing nude in campaign posters. These days, he sports Hugo Boss suits but his campaign on the national stage......
AGATHA Christie is best known as the ingenious plotter of scores of murder mysteries, but the queen of crime also wrote a very personal memoir of the archaeological trips she made to the ancient......
VIENNA: Behind the kitsch, glitz and smoke machines of the Eurovision Song Contest — hosted on Saturday by Vienna — hide more serious international geopolitical tensions, says the creator of the......
LONDON: A London taxi driver who made bombs targeting coalition troops in the Iraq war was on Thursday convicted in a British court of murdering a US soldier eight years ago.Anis Sardar, 38, built an......
WASHINGTON: The US National Security Agency developed plans to hack into data links to app stores operated by Google and Samsung to plant spyware on smartphones, a media report said on Thursday.The......
UNITED NATIONS: The international community must fight back through openness and acceptance of the world’s myriad traditions as the planet’s cultural diversity comes under continued attack from......
CAIRO: Saudi shells hit an international aid office in Yemen on Thursday killing five Ethiopian refugees, a local official said, while violence across the country put United Nations-led peace talks......
LJUBL: A Slovenian doctor was in custody on Thursday on suspicion of having killed at least seven terminally ill patients, authorities said.“After a very thorough investigation, we believe there are......
TEHRAN: Iran voiced support on Thursday for efforts to relaunch political talks on the Yemen crisis but said it opposed foreign interference in the conflict in which it backs the Houthi......
WELLINGTON: A New Zealand hiker’s body that lay frozen in a glacier for more than four decades has been formally identified, police said on Thursday.David Erik Moen, 19, was caught in an avalanche in......
RIO DE JANEIRO: This is a sure sign the 2016 Olympics are getting close.Officials of next year’s games in Rio de Janeiro stood by Wednesday evening as fireworks exploded above a huge version of the......
BERNE: Luis Figo and Michael van Praag pulled out of the FIFA presidential election race on Thursday, leaving Jordan’s Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein as the only challenger to incumbent and runaway......
KARACHI: Opener Shan Masood and Umar Amin hit contrasting centuries to put Pakistan ‘A’ in command of the decisive third and final unofficial Test against Sri Lanka ‘A’ in Dambulla on......
ISLAMABAD: Defending champions Army and PAF remained unbeaten as the 14th National Men’s Netball Championship started here at Hamidi Hall of the Pakistan Sports Complex on Thursday.The three-day......
KARACHI: Unheralded Dera Murad Jamali made history on Thursday by reaching the PCB-Pepsi Cricket Stars U-16 Tournament final after cantering to a 10-wicket rout of Bahawalpur at the Iqbal Stadium in......
KARACHI: Leg-spinner Hussain Ali grabbed five wickets for just nine runs to help Zone-IV whip Zone-III by 10 wickets in their Division-I match of the KCCA Under-15 Inter-zonal Cricket Tournament here......
LAHORE: Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) chief Faisal Saleh Hayat on Wednesday hoped that the AFC A-License Coaching Course, currently underway in Lahore, will help improve the standard of coaching......
DUBAI: Pakistan beat Kyrgyzstan 3-1 on Wednesday to grab a consolation win and third place in Group ‘B’ of the AFC U-23 Championship qualifiers being held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).Having......
KARACHI: A week long Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Sports Administration course for men’s and women’s begins at a local hotel on Monday with 29 officials belonging to Sindh attending it.The Pakistan......
KARACHI: Administrator of the DMC East Syed Salahuddin Ahmed has assured to create facilities of swimming pool, indoor gymnasium and squash court at the Olympian Iftikhar Syed Sports Academy (OISSA)......
LAHORE: Around 27,000 fans are ready to throng the Gaddafi Stadium as the countdown to the high-stakes series ends on Friday when the green-shirts take on Zimbabwe in the much-awaited first T20.No......
KARACHI: Of all Pakistan players who have the honour of playing international cricket, the title of most enigmatic among the lot will rest with Mohammad Sami, the fast bowler who has been recalled......
LONDON: Joe Root and Ben Stokes both fell agonisingly short of a hundred after rescuing England from a dire position on the opening day of the first Test against New Zealand at Lord’s here on......
LAHORE: With the T20 series between Zimbabwe and Pakistan all set to explode today, Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq hopes that five-day game will also resume in the country so that he can lead the......
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan hopes that Zimbabwe’s tour of the country will be a proving ground for others and has called on their Asian rivals to lead the......
ROME: Substitute Alessandro Matri was the unlikely hero when he scored an extra-time winner to give Juventus a 2-1 win over Lazio in the Coppa Italia final at the Stadio Olimpico on Wednesday,......
LONDON: Sunderland secured their Premier League survival after manning the barricades to tough out a 0-0 draw at Arsenal, for whom a point was enough to all but seal third place and a spot in the......
LONDON: Charlie Austin has completed his remarkable rise from bricklayer to the England squad in the space of six years after being called up by his country for the first time.The Queens Park Rangers......
RIO DE JANEIRO: The venue scheduled to host water polo at next year’s Rio Olympics will be dropped from the Games, after months of construction delays and a funding shortfall, officials said on......
BARCELONA: Barcelona midfielder and captain Xavi confirmed on Thursday he will leave his boyhood club at the end of the season and has agreed to join Qatari side Al Sadd after a glittering career......
ISLAMABAD: Having legally secured Rs145 billion Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC), the government has announced to expand the scope of withholding tax (WHT) on tax evaders, bring foreign......
KARACHI: The US dollar rose to as high as Rs103.35 in the open market on Thursday, as buying from the families planning to spend their summer vacations abroad picked up pace.It was the highest price......
KARACHI: The import of cars (over 90 per cent of them used) jumped by 35pc to $218.4 million during the first 10 months of this fiscal year compared to $161m a year earlier.All Pakistan Motor Dealers......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday sought help from business community for broadening of the narrow tax-base.“Without broadening the tax base, the economic prosperity would always......
KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange’s (KSE) benchmark 100-share index managed to break out of a four-session losing streak on Thursday, though it could only post a recovery of 18.74 points (0.06pc)......
KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $17.749 billion during the week ending May 15 compared to $17.739bn the previous week, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on......
Bank Alfalah partners with IBPKARACHI: Bank Alfalah on Thursday signed an agreement with the Institute of Bankers Pakistan (IBP) for capacity building of banks’ human resource, said a press......
TOKYO: Japan unveiled a plan on Thursday to provide $110 billion in aid for Asian infrastructure projects, as China prepares to launch a new institutional lender that is seen as encroaching on the......
ISLAMABAD: The United States Department of Agriculture on Thursday concludes its agriculture and cold chain development project in Balochistan by funding construction of 78 cold storages, banana......
LONDON: Banks should provide customers with the means to create one-off passwords from August to make buying over the Internet safer, European Union banking regulators said on Thursday.The European......
RIO DE JANEIRO: The head of the IMF encouraged Brazil on Thursday to pursue fiscal discipline, saying it was needed to protect social programmes benefitting the poorest members of society.Christine......
KARACHI: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar will launch the first National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) in Islamabad on Friday, said a press release issued by the State Bank on Thursday.The strategy......
DUBAI: Islamic finance continues to expand globally but the industry risks losing its differentiation from conventional financial products and lacks official data to ensure better supervision, an......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures ended higher on Thursday, recovering from the morning session and snapping four straight days of losses as weak prices attracted buying interest for the......
SINGAPORE: Oil traders Gunvor and Vitol placed the lowest offers for a tender by Pakistan State Oil Co seeking 600,000 tonnes of gasoline for delivery over May to August, industry sources said.Gunvor......
PARIS: The gap between the rich and poor in most of the world’s advanced economies is at record levels, according to an OECD study that also found glaring differences between men and women.In most of......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s trade agenda cleared a key US Senate hurdle and advanced toward passage on Thursday despite the strong opposition of most of his fellow Democrats.The 62-38 vote......
MOSCOW: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday announced a less pessimistic forecast for Russia’s economy, predicting no more than 3.4 per cent contraction in 2015 and emergence from......
MUMBAI: Indian e-commerce firms are offering funding help and tech support to woo small retailers, emulating a strategy used by Chinese online retail giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd to expand into......
ISLAMABAD: Finally Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari appeared in an accountability court in Rawalpindi on Thursday to face the assets reference and was granted exemption from......
QUETTA: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has said that successes achieved in the Zarb-i-Azb operation have created space for a “decisive surge” against terrorists in urban areas of the......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s Focal Person on Polio Eradication Senator Ayesha Raza Farooq assured the global community on Thursday that Pakistan is on the track to defeat polio.Addressing the World......
ISLAMABAD: The ability of the National Database and Registration Authority to verify voters’ thumb impression will not be affected by the use of ordinary or magnetised ink on the electoral roll,......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat will take up next week the issue of alleged discrimination in the promotion of senior government officers by the Central Selection......
WASHINGTON: Six months before the US raid that killed him, Osama bin Laden contemplated leaving Abbottabad, reveals a letter he wrote.In a letter to his wife, Khairiyah, bin Laden said that it would......
KARACHI: A man and his two sons were shot dead in a suspected sectarian attack in Malir area on Thursday night, according to Al Falah police.The three were sitting at their restaurant in......
PESHAWAR: At least 10 militants were killed when military planes bombed suspected positions in Dattakhel area of North Waziristan Agency later on Wednesday night, officials said.They said five......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: A man shot dead his wife and her alleged paramour in a village near Dera Allahyar area of Jaffarabad district.Police said on Thursday the incident had taken place in Goth Jatoi......
KARACHI: Two suspected militants were shot dead and two policemen injured in an alleged encounter in Manghopir area on Thursday night.A police party on a tip off about the presence of suspected......
Haji Bashir has been preparing the pitches at Gaddafi Stadium since November 1959 when the ground hosted its first Test. He has had many proud moments, but the excitement he is feeling at the start......
NEW DELHI: The Modi government has approved in record time visa to Allama Iqbal’s grandson and two Pakistani scholars of his work to attend a celebration in Kolkata of the poet who penned India’s......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday ruled out any nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, saying that it supported objectives of non-proliferation as well as nuclear safety and security.“As a responsible nuclear......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court indicted on Thursday 106 suspects in a case relating to lynching of a Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan last year after blasphemy allegations had been levelled......
ISLAMABAD: Taking exception to the fact that the judiciary is often blamed for its failure to punish terrorists, a Supreme Court judge on Thursday asked why it was necessary to hand over the “seat of......
ISLAMABAD: The government made on Thursday a financial adjustment of more than Rs250 billion by deciding to reduce power sector subsidies and gain additional revenue on account of lower oil price to......
KARACHI: Police investigators said on Thursday that the four terrorists arrested for killing 45 members of the Shia Ismaili community in a bus attack near Safoora Goth last week told them that they......
A week after the brutal slaying of around 50 Shia Ismaili Muslims in Karachi, there seems to be some forward movement in the case.On Wednesday, Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan told the media that......
The New York Times exposé that has rocked the IT and media industries in Pakistan and sent ripples across the political landscape is a story of two halves.First, there is the central allegation......
THE tragedy that has been unfolding in the Andaman Sea has only been turned into a spectacle of even more distressing proportions given that it is occurring just out of sight of some of the world’s......
THE recent murder of innocent members of the Ismaili community in Karachi was an act directed by the militants not just against a peaceful community settled in the city forever, but also against......
TRANSPARENCY and accountability are to be desired in good measure for a smooth, successful, and more than that, fair, running of any operation. The terms could be on the most-wanted list of someone......
SIR Syed Ahmad Khan, a prominent 19th-century Muslim scholar, thinker and reformer of the Indian subcontinent, is vastly admired for his sharp observation of the challenges that faced his society. He......
A COUPLE of months ago I wrote on these pages vis-à-vis the need to think critically about new information technologies and how they will shape life on the planet in the long-run. As Keynes famously......
MULTAN: According to unofficial results announced by returning officers after the by-poll in Multan's PP-196 constituency, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz candidate Rana Mahmodul Hassan was leading with......
