ISLAMABAD: The adviser to the prime minister on national security and foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz, expressed serious concern over the statement made by Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar that......
ISLAMABAD: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Saturday slashed the benchmark interest rates to a 42-year low of seven per cent, hoping to stimulate growth in the long dormant economy.“The State Bank (of......
KARACHI: Senior journalists associated with Bol Network — the sister organisation of Axact — have announced their resignations from the company just days after an explosive New York Times story......
Glory be, for international cricket has returned. Not since March 2009 have Pakistan played a game at home, and yesterday the brave Zimbabwean team entertained the crowd with a stellar batting......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan vowed Saturday that a probe into the Axact fake degree scandal would be transparent, and urged the media not to give into speculation.He was......
DUBLIN: Irish voters backed same-sex marriage by a landslide in a referendum marking a dramatic social shift in the traditionally Catholic country, government ministers and opponents of the bill said......
PESHAWAR: Three security personnel were killed in a blast on Saturday in North Waziristan's Datakhel district.The blast was caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).According to a security......
My friend Salam Dharejo ordered me to write about Hashu after having read my blog about Gidu Mal sahib. The history of this country is filled with tales of exile, but most of them are self-imposed......
PESHAWAR: Niaz Bahadar recalls the heartbreaking moment when his four-year-old daughter ? his only child ? discovered he was blind.It was just a few days after the horrific explosion that had ripped......
We've all faked it.Whether once or twice or a few dozen times — be it through forced smiles or forged signatures, replicated art pieces or plagiarised papers, fake IDs or fake orgasms — we have all......
After several rumours floated about the same, Shaan Shahid has officially confirmed signing on as the lead actor of Syed Noor's upcoming action flick Bhai Wanted, his spokesperson revealed."Syed Noor......
MULTAN: The roof of a private school in Multan's Basti Ali Wala area collapsed on Saturday, leaving at least nine children injured.According to rescue officials, over 25 students were trapped under......
Veteran singer Alamgir has been battling polycystic kidney disease for years and is ready to take the next step towards relief from the pain he has long suffered.Alamgir is about to leave for......
International cricket returned to Pakistan on Friday after six, long years.Thousands of die hard fans braved the scorching Lahore heat and gathered at the infamous Gaddafi stadium to watch the......
LAHORE/FAISALABAD/MULTAN/SAHIWAL: Four death row convicts were sent to the gallows in jails across Punjab early Saturday morning.A convict named Ehsaan was sentenced to death by an Anti-Terrorism......
Karachi-based theatre company Made for Stage Production's next play will be East is East, revealed the company's founder Nida Butt in a series of tweets.But this production will be unlike their......
NEW DELHI: One of India's most powerful politicians returned Saturday as chief minister of southern Tamil Nadu state, less than a fortnight after a court acquitted her of corruption.Former film star......
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan strongly criticised the decision of a joint investigation team (JIT) — constituted to investigate last year's Model Town tragedy — to give......
The visit of the Zimbabwe cricket team to Pakistan to play a one-day series and T20 matches in Pakistan may prove in the end a precursor for the future tour to come and hopefully it will. It has come......
MADRID: The trial in which Barcelona are accused of concealing how much they paid for the transfer of Brazilian star Neymar will take place in the Catalan capital after an appeal for the case to be......
PARIS: Nine-time champion Rafael Nadal and world number one Novak Djokovic were placed on a mouth-watering French Open quarter-final collision course in Friday’s draw.Nadal is seeded a lowly sixth......
LONDON: West Indies must find a way to turn the undoubted talent in their ranks into consistent performances that will win Test series, former fast bowler Curtly Ambrose said on Thursday.Ambrose, 51,......
LONDON: Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor mastered a lifeless England attack to lift New Zealand to 303 for two at the close on the second day of the first test at Lord’s on Friday.Replying to......
LAHORE: Fans gave overwhelming response to the first Twenty20 International between Pakistan and Zimbabwe at the Gaddafi Stadium on Friday as international cricket returned to Pakistan after six long......
Huge hoard of dinosaur eggs discovered!IT might sound like something straight from Jurassic Park, but dozens of fossilised dinosaurs eggs have been discovered by builders carrying out road works in......
WHERE we are now is the border line between astronomy and astro-physics. At many places the dividing line is quite blurred — though it doesn’t matter much! Because, in a way they are, sort of, twins.......
“DADDY, maths always gives me a headache. Why do people even learn math? It’s only about numbers and letters, it doesn’t have any practical use,” said John showing his dislike for math.“No son, math......
SUMMER is synonymous with fun, probably because we have our long summer vacation — almost three months — and without school! But summer being summer, which is very hot, we need to know how to have......
Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Death stare’, a new entrant to the Oxford DictionaryDeath stareDefinition: (Noun; informal)A......
THE Supreme Court is grappling with a two-fold question: can a constitutional amendment ever be struck down? And does the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, as a result of which a new regime of......
IN a series of disclosures, the finance ministry has put out some numbers on how much Operation Zarb-i-Azb has cost thus far, and what sort of expenditure will be incurred in rehabilitating the IDPs......
RESTRAINT and good taste are not the first adjectives that spring to mind when describing the fare dished out on most Pakistani television channels.Now the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory......
THE National Assembly of Pakistan is about to go through its annual ritual of receiving and passing the federal budget — without, in all probability, any meaningful scrutiny, or budget-focused......
A specialist unit of the Karachi police tasked with fighting terrorism says it has cracked the Safoora Goth Ismaili Shia massacre, rights activist Sabeen Mahmud’s murder and several other unsolved......
ON July 23, 1999, two of Britain’s very distinguished judges, Lord Justice Sedley and Justice Collins, made important observations on freedom of speech in a case concerning two women preachers which......
PAKISTAN is a country of paradoxes: while we rank 105th in terms of Gross National Income (GNI), we are placed fourth in the world for the amount we give to charity as a percentage of our per capita......
I WANT to draw the attention of authorities concerned towards the pathetic condition of roads in Malir. I am a student of Fast (Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology) University,......
WE, the residents of Gul Mohar Street, Gurumandar, Garden East, would like to draw the attention of the authorities concerned towards the blocked sewerage line in our locality. This is causing severe......
THE garbage is strewn all over the road by stray cattle and dogs in North Karachi. Rag-pickers also go through the garbage and further spread it out on the road. The whole area stinks so much that it......
THIS is apropos Irfan Husain’s article ‘A house for Zardari’ (May, 16). The writer has indeed aptly highlighted what lamentably is the current state of mind of those ruling the country. The flaunting......
KARACHI roads are already congested because of Qingqis, and now camel milk sellers are roaming main roads and using roundabouts as their milk shops. I would like to ask the Commissioner of Karachi......
SUDDENLY our media has been flooded with advertisements inviting Pakistanis to buy luxury apartments and houses in Dubai, costing Rs20m to over Rs1bn.As our rupee is not a valid currency in Dubai,......
THE use of polythene bags causes pollution and adversely effects our planet. An international research study says that every year more than 500bn plastic bags are used worldwide. We use one million......
COMMODITY prices are on the decline the world over. These include edibles like wheat, rice, palm oil and sugar and non-edibles like oil and coal. However, Pakistanis have not reaped the fruits of......
THIS is apropos a recklessly-driven police car (LWB 8119) which made a mockery of traffic rules on May 14 in the DHA, Lahore. It did all the possible road acrobatics about 4pm starting on Walton......
Although I grew up in Pakistan, I can never imagine returning to a place where a draconian constitution decides who is a Muslim and who isn’t.The Islamic Republic of Pakistan — is it really Islamic......
PESHAWAR: It was around 7:45am - the time of day when most workers arrive to start labour.As workers enter Khalid Bin Walid Park in Peshawar cantonment area, they rush towards a huge tree under which......
PESHAWAR: Two people were killed and as many suffered injuries in a sectarian attack here on Friday.The deceased and the injured were members of Shia community.According to a witness, unidentified......
PESHAWAR: The Board of Directors of Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) on Friday approved setting up of five new subdivisions in Abbottabad and Timergara districts ostensibly to facilitate......
LAKKI MARWAT: A fire caused by electric short-circuit gutted equipment, record and other material at the office of the district election commissioner here on Friday.According to reports, fire......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has directed the provincial health secretary and Khyber Teaching Hospital board of governors to respond to a woman doctor’s petition against the secretary over the......
KOHAT: The chairman district development advisory committee Hangu, MPA Shah Faisal has asked journalists to play role of a bridge between the citizens and the government for betterment of the......
MANSEHRA: The sub-divisional education officer of Kohistan Tanveer Khan has said that about 90 per cent teachers in the district are untrained and less educated, which is the main cause of education......
PESHAWAR: The Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) has held the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government responsible for the increasing unemployment, price hike, lawlessness and weakening......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police on Friday decided to constitute a ‘jirga council’ of North Waziristan Agency for keeping liaison with the relevant officials to resolve the problems of......
SWABI: The number of total registered voters in the district has surged to 783,691 for the coming local government elections from 705,918 of the 2013 general elections as population of the district......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Friday tabled the much awaited ‘Establishment of Civil Mobile Courts Bill 2015’ in the provincial assembly so as to make functional mobile courts in......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan has abolished the directorate of information in the civil secretariat, Fata, according to a notification issued here on Friday.Staff of......
ISLAMABAD: To check rising incidents of robberies and car thefts, the police have advised the residents of Islamabad to depute a security guard in their streets besides putting in place barriers at......
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has notified committees at the district level to hand over the local government’s assets to the metropolitan municipal corporations (MMC) that would start......
ISLAMABAD: People thronged the office of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) on Friday to watch documentaries and participate in discussions on gender issues.The event was held to celebrate three years of......
TAXILA: As many as 100 people including the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) MPA were booked on charges of besieging police station and blocking road.They were protesting against the police’s......
ISLAMABAD: At least 30 petitions have so far been filed with the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against recommendations for the promotion of bureaucrats by the Central Selection Board (CSB).The......
ISLAMABAD: Heeding the concerns of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of Information Technology (IT) industry stakeholders, the National Assembly Standing Committee on IT has asked its members to sit......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has announced that summer holidays will commence from June 11.According to FDE Director-General Shahnaz A. Riaz, schools and colleges will observe......
RAWALPINDI: Work on all eight packages of metro bus project will be completed by Sunday, but the bus service will be launched next month.This was said by Commissioner Zahid Saeed on Friday after......
ISLAMABAD: Ceding to the demands of traders and the business community, the government on Friday agreed to allow shops in Islamabad to operate up to 10pm and restaurants as long as they......
ISLAMABAD: Two persons drowned in a nullah in Kural area here on Friday, police said.Hayat, 18, and Murtaza, 20, residents of Amarpura in Rawalpindi, came to a nullah in Islamabad. During swimming,......
RAWALPINDI: City Traffic Police have launched a crackdown against motorcyclists doing one-wheeling.Besides arresting the riders, the police will impound motorcycles modified for......
LAHORE: After six years long wait, Lahore got its cricket festivity back on Friday when a large number of cricket lovers thronged the Qadhafi Stadium to watch the first T20 fixture between Pakistan......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday expressed its surprise over the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) “code of conduct” for by-polls that bar the president, the prime minister, ministers......
LAHORE: The PAT held a protest demonstration on Friday outside the Punjab Assembly building against a report released by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) over the Model Town incident.Led by PAT......
LAHORE: Five people were injured in two fire incidents in the city on Friday.Three people, including two minors, suffered burn injuries when a fire erupted in a house near Lal Bridge. Rescuers......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Punjab, President Ejaz Chaudhry has said the PML-N government has ruined the lives of poor masses with its policies in the last two years. In the upcoming......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday recorded statements of the two doctors who conducted postmortem of the Christian couple lynched at Kot Radha Kishan.Amid high security before the......
LAHORE: The World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan celebrated the International Day for Biological Diversity at the Virtual University (VU) here to spread understanding and awareness of biodiversity......
LAHORE: The district and sessions judge on Friday issued death warrants for two murder convicts who will be hanged on May 27 at the Kot Lakhpat Central Jail.The judge issued the black warrants for......
LAHORE: A five-day (May 18-22) exhibition featuring artworks, writings, poetry and photographs based on Lahore titled ‘Sheher Sazi and Soch Wichar (building cities and brainstorming) concluded on......
LAHORE: The election tribunal had declared the election of the returned candidate from PP-97 (Gujranwala) null and void to the extent of 33 polling stations of the constituency.It is clarified that......
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over reports of civilian casualties in a security forces operation conducted in Kalat district and called details of the......
FAISALABAD: The government has increased 14 times the Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC) it will ‘bankrupt’ industrialists of the textile sector as they cannot pay the huge tax amid energy......
MUZAFFARGARH: An unusual construction activity is going on a piece of 82 acres land in mauza Jugmal, Jatoi tehsil. Armed guards man the fort-like wall and do not allow anyone to come close to the......
KASUR: Two autopsy reports of a deceased person are creating a confusion for the court and police.Dawn learned Khudian police registered a case against 13 people for killing Sultan on April 25,......
GUJRAT: A man bludgeoned to death one of the two rapists of his wife at their house at Koocha Bandi and buried him at a deserted place near Haryiewala Chowk along GT Road bypass.Ehsan Ghaus appeared......
KASUR: A gang of drug pushers on Friday shot at and injured six members of a family on suspicion that one of the injured had informed police about their activities at Kot Ghulam Muhammad.According to......
FAISALABAD: A seven-year-old boy was electrocuted in Ali Park, Jaranwala, due to the alleged negligence of Fesco employees on Friday.Fesco Chief Executive Officer Rasheed Aslam has suspended Ahmran......
GUJRAT: A drill/mock exercise for disaster management was organized at the premises of the University of Gujrat on Friday by the Office of Research, Innovation & Commercialization (ORIC) in......
LAHORE: A ruling party parliamentarian created a scene in the Punjab Assembly on Friday when he blamed a party MNA for using “abusive language” against him.Taking part in the House on general......
FAISALABAD: Intelligence and Investigation Inland Revenue of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), Faisalabad, has busted a gang which has been using the computerised national identity cards (CNICs) of......
KARACHI: Police on Friday claimed to have arrested three suspects outside the Defence residence of former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza and booked them for possessing illegal weapons, storming the......
BADIN: Six suspects arrested for allegedly slaughtering donkeys and supplying the meat to certain outlets in taluka Matli were produced before Matli Civil Judge Abdul Salam Khaskheli, who gave them......
KHAIRPUR: Strong winds followed by light showers hit Khairpur town and its surrounding areas late on Thursday evening causing considerable damage to the electricity network in the affected areas.Most......
HYDERABAD: In a vigorous drive against power theft and electricity bill defaulters, the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) and the Sukkur Electric Power Company (Sepco) on Friday cut off......
BADIN: A Pakistan Peoples Party worker has lodged a mugging case at the Model police station of Badin against five of the closest associates of former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza.Nominating Diber......
KARACHI: The provincial government must wait till May 29 for the arrest of former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza, as the Sindh High Court on Friday approved his protective bail in yet another case —......
SUKKUR: A group of Sawand clansmen carrying the body of a victim of armed attack held a demonstration outside the office of the Kandhkot SSP on Friday and demanded immediate arrest of the......
KARACHI: Amidst the tyranny faced by religious minorities in the country, symbols of hope and perseverance are cropping up to challenge the various extremist elements within the state. One such......
KARACHI: A 40-year-old Thatta resident died on Friday at a private hospital where he had been under treatment for Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the ‘brain-eating amoeba’, for the past three......
KARACHI: In what appears to be an attempt to dispel reports of a ‘gulf’ between the military and civilian leadership in Sindh, Corps Commander Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar held separate meetings......
KARACHI: There is a telling scene in Pakistan’s first feature-length animated film 3 Bahadur that opened across cinemas in Karachi on Friday which reflects our attitude towards......
KARACHI: While International Day to End Obstetric Fistula is being celebrated across the world on Saturday, up to 5,000 women in Pakistan needlessly suffer from the medical condition every year, said......
KARACHI: An exhibition of paintings to be sold by silent auction to raise funds for the renovation of Cantt Railway Station opened at Gallerie Sadequain, Frere Hall, on Friday evening. The title of......
KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami on Friday announced its full support for former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, Ikhwanul Muslimeen leader Mohamed Badei, prominent Islamic scholar Yusuf Al-Qaradawi......
KARACHI: An unidentified man was found murdered in a Surjani Town’s graveyard on Friday, police said.They said that the victim was in his early-40s and the body was found in the graveyard in Abdul......
BEIJING: A funeral has finally been held for one of the Chinese Communist party’s early high-profile political targets nearly 50 years after he disappeared, but state-run media said on Friday it was......
BUJUMBURA: Thousands of anti-government protesters in Burundi marched on the streets of the capital Bujumbura Friday, defying one of the heaviest pushes by police to end weeks of......
MEXICO CITY: At least 37 people were killed on Friday in a gunfight with federal police in Mexico’s troubled western state of Michoacan, in one of the bloodiest clashes in the country’s drug war.Two......
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......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said on Friday he “forcefully” objects to suggestions that policy differences between his administration and the Israeli government signal his lack of support for......
GENEVA: Some 3,000 cases of cholera have been reported in Tanzania, mainly among Burundian refugees fleeing political violence, the UN said on Friday, adding that up to 400 new cases were being......
MILAN: Venice officials have ordered the closure of a working mosque in an ex-church, set up as Iceland’s exhibit for the Venice Biennale contemporary art fair.The Icelandic pavilion was closed on......
WASHINGTON: Cuba and the United States reported making progress toward restoring diplomatic relations following two days of talks and pledged on Friday to continue informal negotiations in the coming......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations education envoy has said that “shocking figures” relating to the position of children in emergency situations underlined the need for a new humanitarian fund to......
NAIROBI: Islamist gunmen raided a village in northeastern Kenya, the interior ministry said on Friday, the latest in a string of brazen attacks by the Somali-led, Al Qaeda affiliated insurgents.There......
BOGOTA: Colombia’s largest rebel group on Friday called off a unilateral ceasefire in reaction to a military raid on a guerrilla camp that killed 26 of its fighters, further straining negotiations to......
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned in the “strongest terms” the terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia targeting a Shia mosque in the town of al-Qudaih in the Eastern Province.The......
LONDON: A London taxi driver, convicted of making bombs which were used against US forces in Iraq, was jailed for life on Friday and told he would spend at least 38 years behind bars. One of the......
GOLETA: The operator of a broken oil pipeline that fouled a California shoreline says it could be weeks or even months before investigators are able to determine what caused the break and subsequent......
THEY may disagree on many issues, but as they struggled to respond to their respective refugee crises, the European and Asian governments acted with an equally distressing disregard for human......
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous country, holds a general election on Sunday, the first since the death of long-time strongman Meles Zenawi whose successor Hailemariam Desalegn is......
PWN (8 points, to dominate an opponent). Thanx (15 points, thanks). Bezzy (18 points, several meanings, not all of which are printable).Do these words sound “ridic” (8 points, ridiculous)? Collins,......
LONDON: Sunderland manager Dick Advocaat has revealed he will wait until next Thursday before telling the Premier League club whether he will accept their offer to remain in charge.Advocaat arrived......
KARACHI: Having won the 6-Reds individual title once and seized second position in team event at home last year, a four-member Pakistan snooker team leaves to Kish Island, Iran, via Dubai on Saturday......
KARACHI: Sri Lanka ‘A’ were left battling to avert heavy defeat after the touring Pakistan ‘A’ secured a massive 307-run advantage on the first innings in the series-deciding third and final......
KARACHI: Team Zone II emerged as the winner of K-Electric’s U-19 Tournament here at the Rashid Latif Cricket Academy when they beat Zone-V outfit in the final which proved to be a thrilling......
KARACHI: Hassan Farooq outplayed Nouman Aftab to win the Under-18 boys singles title while Hania Naveed beat Rida Khan to clinch the U-18 girls singles title in the 3rd Edition of Essa Lab Open......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Sports Board has called a meeting of sports federations and Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) for Tuesday to take them into confidence over Inter-provincial Games, slated to......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) on Friday announced holding the third edition of the Development Series National Ranking Tournament from May 27.The five-day championship will be......
ISLAMABAD: Defending champions Army joined the PAF and Sindh in the semi-finals lineup for the 14th National Men’s Netball Championship here at Hamidi Hall of the Pakistan Sports Complex on......
LAHORE: Twenty coaches from all over the country will attend the IOC Solidarity Badminton Technical Coaching Course to be held at a hotel here from May 25 to June 7 under the auspices of the......
LAHORE: From Pakistan’s most popular fan Chacha Cricket to the Head of State, a nation of 200 million celebrated the return of international cricket in Pakistan for six years on Friday.Hundreds of......
LAHORE: A magnificent 142-run opening stand between upcoming Mukhtar Ahmed and Ahmed Shehzad backed by a three-wicket burst from returning Mohammad Sami steered Pakistan to a five-wicket win against......
LAHORE: Meher Khalil earned fame and success after saving Sri Lanka’s cricket team from a deadly 2009 attack in Pakistan, but the bus driver calls the incident “tragic” and says it is best......
LONDON: Northeast rivals Hull City and Newcastle United face a shootout for Premier League survival this weekend as the 2014-15 campaign reaches its conclusion.Hull must win at home to Manchester......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar reviewed on Friday the measures and proposals regarding the second phase of withdrawal of the concessionary regime (SROs).Chairing the meeting of a high-level......
KARACHI: A total of 3,130 trucks were sold in July-April 2014-15 compared to 1,975 a year earlier, according to Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association (PAMA).Sales of market leader Hino rose......
SINGAPORE: China is likely to hold a 25-30 per cent stake in the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) while India will be the second-biggest shareholder, delegates said on Friday after a......
KARACHI: Stocks closed flat on Friday with the KSE-100 index recording minor drop of 12.12 points (0.04 per cent) to settle at 32,605.62.The volumes fell further to 75.5 million shares of Rs3.6......
LAHORE: Marketing companies raised the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by Rs5 per kg on Friday, which means an increase of Rs30-40 on a domestic cylinder and Rs120-160 on a commercial......
PSO holds procurement conferenceKARACHI: Pakistan State Oil (PSO) held its largest ever procurement conference with the theme “Transforming the Procurement Process, Together” at a local hotel to help......
JERUSALEM: Gaza’s economy is in a worse state than any other in the world, with unemployment at a global high, output contracting sharply and the long-term prospects worrying, the World Bank said on......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures fell on Friday and hit their lowest level in 3 weeks, snapping a two-week uptrend, on rising scepticism among investors about the sustainability of the robust......
LAHORE: All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) has suggested 25 per cent customs duty, which is currently at 1pc, to discourage import of Iranian cement.The association in a statement......
LONDON: Twenty of the world’s biggest banks have paid more than $235 billion in fines and compensation in the last seven years for a litany of misdeeds that has scarred the industry and is delaying......
TOKYO: The Bank of Japan (BoJ) on Friday held off launching more stimulus as its chief said the world’s number-three economy was on the upswing, days after data showed stronger-than-expected growth......
KARACHI: Out of 562 listed companies, 246 paid dividends to their shareholders while as many as 114 did not despite earning profit, according to Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) Annual Report......
LONDON: Global regulators meet in London next month to try to tighten their grip on markets after banks were fined billions of dollars for manipulating interest rates and currencies, Britain’s top......
ISLAMABAD: In an age where knowledge-based economies are viewed as the recipe for progress, Pakistan has failed to invest in research and development of new technologies, which, in the government’s......
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate Mian Raza Rabbani proposed on Friday that a regional seminar should be held on terrorism at which regional countries should share their experiences in countering the......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court dismissed on Friday as non-maintainable a petition seeking disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for alleged money laundering.After hearing arguments of......
ISLAMBAD: A minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has said the ruling coalition has taken a political risk of annoying bureaucracy by deciding to establish a strong and powerful local government system in......
KARACHI: A sessions court allowed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday to examine the bank accounts of a software company accused of being involved in a fake degrees scam.An assistant......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has strongly condemned the terrorist attack inside a mosque in Saudi Arabia on Friday.According to a statement issued by the PM House, Mr Sharif extended his......
ISLAMABAD: PPP Senator Abdul Latif Ansari tendered his resignation on Friday to pave the way for the party’s Vice President Sherry Rehman to become member of the upper house of parliament.According......
HYDERABAD: A team of the Karachi police is reported to have picked up on Friday morning Khalid Minhas, the younger brother of Tahir Minhas, the alleged mastermind of the attack on a bus of Shia......
ISLAMABAD: A non-governmental election observer told the judicial commission on Friday that the results of 218 out of 264 National Assembly constituencies surveyed in the 2013 elections were exactly......
QUETTA: The post of speaker of the Balochistan Assembly fell vacant on Friday after acting Governor Mir Abdul Qudoos accepted the resignation of Mir Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali.At a cabinet meeting on......
QUETTA: A man was killed and 11 people, seven security personnel among them, were injured in two bomb blasts in Quetta and Noshki on Friday.Sources said that a bomb placed in a rickshaw went off when......
ISLAMABAD: The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, is arriving here on a two-day visit on May 26 at the invitation of President Mamnoon Hussain. It will be the first ever visit by any......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain approved on Friday the Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC) Bill-2015.The president’s spokesperson said: “On a summary initiated by Senate secretariat, the......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly adopted on Friday a resolution, asking the federal government to direct the management of PIA to begin direct flights from Quetta to Dubai and other Gulf states and......
DAMASCUS: The self-styled Islamic State (IS) group consolidated its control of the Iraq-Syria border on Friday after capturing an Iraqi provincial capital and a famed Syrian heritage site in an......
YANGON: Myanmar’s navy has brought ashore 200 Bangladeshis found in a boat off its coast, after its military chief said some of the thousands of migrants that have landed in Malaysia and Indonesia......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department released on Friday 296 emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, showing that she did use her private account for receiving information about the 2012......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar turned down on Friday a proposal by the country’s top taxman to tax remittances.“There is going to be no tax whatsoever on foreign remittances,” the finance......
DUBAI: A suicide bomber killed 21 people on Friday in a packed mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia, residents and the health minister said, the first attack in the kingdom to be claimed by militants of......
QUETTA: Police claimed on Friday to have arrested another accused involved in an attack on the Ziarat Residency of Quaid-i-Azam.“Pukar Marri, a resident of Spin Tangi area of Shahrag, was wanted by......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday issued directives for forming a parliamentary committee to investigate the alleged irregularities in the purchase of land for the construction of the......
CHARSADDA: A suspected militant was killed when he blew up his suicide vest in a mosque, leaving four people injured on Friday night, police said.SHO Shabqadar Waliat Shah said that acting on......
LAHORE: The Punjab government’s drive against the producers of ‘hate literature’ has come under a cloud after the release by courts of publishers and booksellers arrested by an overzealous police......
