KANDAHAR: A suicide truck bomb attack and a separate roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan killed 11 people and wounded dozens more on Monday, as the Taliban clashed with supporters of the Islamic......
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday banned left-arm spinner Raza Hasan, who played one one-day international and 10 Twenty20 matches for the national side, for two years after he failed a......
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused the New York Times of meddling in Turkey's affairs with a critical editorial, angrily telling the US daily to “know your place”.In a......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has been a sort of promised land for Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar. The tens of thousands who endured perilous journeys to get here find more work......
ISLAMABAD: Quaid-i-Azam University is Pakistan’s best university in the general category, according to rankings for 2014 released on Monday by the Higher Education Commission (HEC).University of......
For all the cricket-starved in this country, the past three days have been an exhilarating tale of entertainment and anticipation, with the T20 series ending with a last-over thriller. Spectators......
QUETTA: Three people were killed and six injured in three separate firing incidents in Quetta on Monday, leaving the city in a state of panic.On an incident on Jinnah Road, armed men opened fire,......
ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry of Pakistan along with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) wrote a letter to the US agency Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking legal assistance to......
Pakistan will have to sweep the three One-Day International series against Zimbabwe, starting in Lahore on May 26 (tomorrow), to ensure that it doesn’t drop points on the Reliance ICC ODI Team......
LAHORE: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) disclosed on Monday that 40,155 votes polled in the constituency of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Mohsin Latif — a......
LAHORE: After two nail-biting finishes in the Twenty20 series marking the return of international cricket to Pakistan, the hosts and Zimbabwe move to the three-match one-day series on Tuesday aiming......
QATIF: Saudi Arabia's Shia minority prepared a mass funeral Monday for the victims of a mosque bombing that authorities described as an attempt by Sunni extremists to sow sectarian strife.Take a......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz told the first senior officials' meeting of the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process that enemies of......
Living with a chronic illness is no picnic. I know because asthma has been my constant companion since childhood. We have a love-hate relationship – it loves being with me while I hate it. But it......
Bollywood is abuzz with news that Kangana Ranaut rejected a 2 crore commercial deal for a fairness cream. By way of explanation, Ranaut stated she felt she’d be insulting all those who have dusky......
DHAKA: Two members of a banned Bangladeshi radical group have been arrested for trying to recruit young Muslims to fight with the Islamic State organisation, police said Monday.Aminul Islam Baig, 40,......
This year's HUM TV awards, aired in full on the TV channel this weekend, showed an unprecedented level of organization and high production values from dances to lighting and sets.Like most award......
QUETTA: 51 union councils in Balochistan have been declared to be at a 'high risk' for polio virus by the Balochistan Polio Emergency Cell.Provincial Coordinator Emergency Cell Dr Saifur Rehman said......
SIALKOT: Protests erupted in several cities across Punjab after two lawyers — including Daska Bar Association President Rana Khalid Abbas — were killed and two others wounded on Monday during a clash......
KANDAHAR: A suicide truck bomb exploded in a southern Afghan province Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 62, authorities said.The blast struck the gate of the provincial council's......
LAHORE: “The enthusiasm of the crowd in Lahore during the first Twenty20 was unparalleled. It didn’t seem like it was the revival of international cricket in Pakistan, it was as if the team was......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday reinstated Chaudhry Rashid Ahmed as the chairman of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra).President Mamnoon Hussain had dismissed......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday granted conditional permission to parliamentarians to take part in election campaigning.A single bench of the Lahore High Court, headed by Justice Syed......
LAHORE: Former captain Shoaib Malik and fast bowler Mohammad Sami have been recalled to the Pakistan one-day squad for the three-match series against Zimbabwe starting on Tuesday.Malik, 33, played......
HYDERABAD: About 230 people have died since mid-April in a heat wave sweeping two southeast Indian states, officials said Saturday.More than 100 people have died from the brutal heat in Andhra......
PESHAWAR: A training aircraft of the Pakistan Air Force crashed in Swabi district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday.In a short statement, PAF spokesperson Air Commodore SM ALi said that a K-8......
"You’re going to New York?! I am so jealous." "You are so lucky." "Three months in the United states? Wow!"These were some of the excited reactions I received, as I planned my three month-long,......
FAISALABAD: The overt sale of drugs at a place in Warispura is not a problem only for the customers (addicts) but also for people residing nearby.Scores of addicts are made to queue up for their turn......
RAWALPINDI: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Pervaiz Rashid has emphasised the need for disseminating the teachings of Quran and the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) to make......
ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said here on Sunday that his Indian counterpart’s recent statement about sponsoring terrorism to counter terrorism had confirmed “our assertions of Indian......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A militant video released on Sunday purported to show a Chinese tourist kidnapped by Taliban-allied fighters in Pakistan a year ago asking for his government to help him be......
THE present educational system is based on the principle of earning money only so as to fill the coffers of the owners of schools, colleges, universities and coaching centres.In private universities,......
THIS refers to the report ‘Drug-makers plan 10 FDA-certified laboratories’ (May 17). The stance of the Pakistan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association (PPMA) and its chairman’s approach to......
FOLLOWING the ongoing security operation in Karachi, the government and law-enforcement agencies have taken many steps which have directly hit the common and mostly poor people.Security conditions by......
THIS is apropos the news item ‘Senators want increase in age-limit for CSS exam candidates’ (May15). The reason for such action was that aspirants from backward areas are not able to compete with......
IT is true, as said by every politician and every TV channel, that the nation’s reputation has been badly tarnished by Axact’s fake degrees. But how come the nation’s reputation is not tarnished when......
THIS is apropos your editorial ‘Fire tragedy’ (May 19). Whereas the media, both print and electronic, has reported on the matter extensively and the tragedy is indeed heartbreaking where six lives......
I live in Modern Colony, Kot Lakhpat, Lahore. I deposited Rs2,100 in the Habib Bank branch, Pindi Stop, Kot Lakhpat, on April 22, 2014, for the replacement of my domestic electricity meter, but so......
WHY is it that we have failed to inculcate the essence of democracy among our ranks even after 67 years of existence? Are the values of democracy too demanding for our people? Or are we as a nation......
MANSEHRA: Three tourists from Rawalpindi drowned while two others were rescued by local people when their car skidded off the road and fell into the Kunhar River in Kaghan valley on Sunday.“Local......
KOHAT: Two sisters and their niece died when roof of their house collapsed in Garhi Behram Khan here on Sunday.Police and local people said that the roof of a room in a mud house of one Tariq Khan......
Hearing a writ petition a few days ago the Peshawar High Court put on notice several administrative secretaries, including the additional chief secretary Fata, asking them to explain the delay in......
TIMERGARA: Provincial Minister for Finance Muzaffar Syed has said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government would allocate Rs449 billion for development projects in the province in its tax-free budget......
KARAK: At least five people were killed and 11 others injured in a road accident in a mountainous area here on Sunday.According to police and hospital sources, a passenger van (C-9039 Peshawar) was......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar district administration on Sunday imposed section 144 banning pillion riding for a month keeping in view the fragile law and order situation and to ensure peaceful holding of......
PESHAWAR: The ideological workers of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, who were protesting against the appointment of Azam Swati as provincial president of the party, got another bad news from none other......
PESHAWAR: The local people thronged the Ladies’ Club to enjoy cultural music, dances and cuisine on the last day of the two-day summer festival on Sunday evening.The festival was organised jointly by......
MARDAN: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has threatened not to allow the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor route to pass through his province if the federal government changed its original plan. He also......
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party provincial president Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has alleged that PTI-led provincial government has been using development funds as bribes to get votes in the upcoming local......
MINGORA: Keeping all worries and fears aside, Saadia Shah, a 15-year-old singer in Banr area of Mingora, has vowed to enthral music lovers with her soft sweet voice.Saadia is from a family of singers......
SWABI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Sunday held a huge rally here to show its political muscle less than a week before the local body elections.The participants of the rally converged at Bakar Chowk......
MINGORA: All the candidates for the upcoming local government elections in Manglawar tehsil here on Sunday talked about their future plans during a public forum in the presence of their voters.The......
PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party chairman Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao has accused the federal government of intentionally neglecting Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the economic plans.He said that the problems being......
LAKKI MARWAT: A local body candidate was killed over a petty dispute here on Sunday.The deceased, Imtiaz Gul, was vying for the general councillor seat in Samandi ward. He was shot dead in Wanda......
RAWALPINDI: Metro bus service would facilitate over 200,000 commuters using public transport daily and the project would bring a revolution in the public transport sector.Chairman Metro Bus Project......
RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has started chalking out a plan for the upcoming local government elections in Punjab to avoid the defeat it faced in the recent cantonment board......
RAWALPINDI: Intelligence officials investigating the money smuggling case against model Ayyan Ali now want to question a rich woman of Karachi who bought the model a luxury apartment for Rs15 million......
RAWALPINDI: The district health department has failed to fumigate low-lying areas of the city to prevent the spread of dengue virus. Entomologists have declared five areas in the cantonment and......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Study Group (ASG) hosted a wonderful sing-along session at the Serena Hotel, with the extremely versatile Khalid Tirmizi and his band of accomplished musicians.Tirmizi’s......
ISLAMABAD: Construction work on one of the two parking plazas being built in Jinnah Super Market, F-7, by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) is almost complete and will open for parking next......
ISLAMABAD: Owing to the negligence of Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD), the Private Educational Institution Regulatory Authority (PIERA) is working without a permanent head for......
ISLAMABAD: One Window Facilitation Desk has started working at Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) which will help overseas Pakistanis in sorting out their grievances relating to at least 12......
ISLAMABAD: Live cooking at restaurants is not a fad that has caught on in Pakistan, apart from roadside restaurants and dhabas, where one is compelled to share seating space with the tandoorwallah......
ISLAMABAD: National Party (NP), which is a coalition partner in Balochistan government, on Sunday announced that it would participate in the upcoming local bodies elections in Punjab and the federal......
ISLAMABAD: The special investigation unit of the capital police busted two gangs of carjackers who had allegedly stolen 28 vehicles during the last three months.The police said two of the suspects......
ISLAMABAD: National Book Foundation (NBF) has completed re-developing of textbooks up to the international level and optimal standardisation in three months.For this purpose, workshops on textbook......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has finally started taking action against illegal housing societies in the city.Action is being taken against those housing societies which have......
RAWALPINDI: It seems Bank Road in Saddar is the main focus of development projects launched by the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) ignoring adjoining areas inhabited by low-income people.A visit to......
NAROWAL: The Narowal Tehsil Administration (TMA) lacks funds to repair roads and lift garbage from streets and roads.City roads, especially of Main Bazaar, Hajwair Colony, Abbas Nagar, Eidgah,......
LAHORE: Litigation on two mega projects launched by the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has not only delayed timely completion of development/construction works but also caused a huge financial......
LAHORE: All police stations in Punjab are being given biometric machines to check whereabouts of people not possessing their Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) within no time, quickly......
LAHORE: Police arrested a man for allegedly desecrating pages of the Holy Quran at Gulshan-i-Ravi on Sunday.Humayun Faisal Masih has been booked in a case lodged by Syed Zeeshan under 295-B......
LAHORE: Police claimed to have arrested on Sunday the main suspect involved in attacking activists of civil society at a vigil held to mark the death anniversary of slain Punjab governor Salman......
LAHORE: The authorities have made several ‘overnight’ amendments to the proposed Fatima Jinnah Medical University Bill 2015 for political gains, triggering a debate on the impartiality of the......
LAHORE: Three motorcyclists were killed and five others injured in three accidents on Sunday.In the first incident, three people riding two motorcycles, crashed into each other near Ravi grid station......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Railways crossed another milestone in the freight sector on Sunday with the departure of a train-load of fertilizer from the Engro Chemicals at Dharki.After four years or so, a......
LAHORE: The city witnessed a huge crowd of people outside the Gaddafi Stadium and on the roads leading to the venue for the second T20 match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe.The provincial capital......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Police have alleged that Pir of Bharchundi Sharif, Ghotki, provides shelter to dacoits, notorious criminals and proclaimed offenders.In a press release issued by the DPO office on......
MULTAN: Governor Malik Rafiq Rajwana has said that positive progress will take place for the establishment of a ‘sub civil secretariat’ in Multan in order to transfer powers to the southern......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A police constable and a robber were killed in an ‘encounter’ near Gojra late Saturday night.Police said four robbers took shelter under bushes near Chak 347-JB when they saw two......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: The dilapidated condition of Jinnah Hostel building of Khawaja Freed Government Postgraduate College (KFGPC) is a constant danger for its resident students.The hostel was raised soon......
GUJRAT: The Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq has kicked off the party’s fund-raising campaign “Prosperous Pakistan Fund” from the Gujrat district.JI’s district emir Dr Tariq Saleem presented a cheque......
BAHAWALPUR: Kissan Board Pakistan Vice President Jam Hazoor Bakhsh has announced staging a ‘big’ rally in Lahore on May 31.According to him, the farmers would protest against the ‘apathy’ of the......
KASUR: At least 18 people, including14 students and three teachers, were injured when their school van turned turtle near Phoolnagar on the Multan Road on Sunday.According to details, the van of a......
SAHIWAL: A news and feature website, with a focus on cultural and social activities of Sahiwal and about 10 surrounding districts, was launched at the Jinnah Hall here on Sunday.The site,......
KARACHI: Scores of workers and leaders of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz (JSM) on Sunday staged a demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club in protest against the killing of 46 Ismailis in an attack on......
HYDERABAD: A member of the coordination committee of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, MNA Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, has said the MQM will launch protests with the first on June 5 at Kohinoor Chowk against......
KARACHI: The Karachi police chief claimed on Sunday that the police seized weapons “stolen from Nato containers” from 11 suspects who were accompanying former Sindh home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza on......
KARACHI: Sindh Katchi Abadis Authority (SKAA) has started pursuing several federal government agencies to get their opinion regarding the regularisation of more than 100 settlements in the province,......
KARACHI: The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency’s (Sepa) recent approval of two separate Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) reports on the coal terminal being operated by the Karachi Port Trust......
Urdu is Pakistan’s national language, at least that’s what the Article 251 (1) of the 1973 Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan says. The article is reproduced here, verbatim: ‘The......
KARACHI: Dow University of Health Sciences held its 6th convocation on Sunday and conferred degrees, gold medals and shields to more than 2,200 graduates belonging to different disciplines on its......
KARACHI: An area otherwise known to be impoverished and often ignored by the town settlers, Machhar Colony saw children playing around with different art installations as Numaish Karachi held the......
KARACHI: Three young men were found shot dead in a Mehmoodabad locality on Sunday morning, police said.They added that the three bullet-riddled bodies were found in Chanesar Goth.It appeared that......
DADU: A fierce fire swept through a village near Mehar town killing a child, injuring 20 other people, perishing a large number of cattle head and reducing 35 houses and tonnes of food grain to ashes......
SUKKUR: Several hundred policemen who have not undergone weapons training are being placed at different police stations, posted in the security detail of prominent political leaders and deployed for......
HYDERABAD: A condemned prisoner of the Central Jail Hyderabad died of cardiac arrest on Sunday while he was on his way to Liaquat University Hospital (LUH) Hyderabad from the jail hospital.Jail......
What an old softie he was, compared with the throat-cutting killers of the “Islamic State”. The black-bannered executioners are back at work in Ramadi and Palmyra and yet, back from the dead, old......
BEIRUT: A Syrian brigadier-general was killed in a blast that targeted his car in downtown Damascus on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.The Britain-based group said “a......
NEW YORK: Nobel prize-winning US mathematician John Nash, who inspired the film “A Beautiful Mind”, was killed with his wife in New Jersey in a car crash, police said on Sunday.Nash, 86, and his......
TOKYO: Thousands of demonstrators formed a human chain around Japan’s parliament in Tokyo on Sunday, protesting the planned construction of a new US airbase on the southern island of Okinawa.The......
SHANGHAI: Heavy rain which caused mudslides and flooding in southern and central China has left at least 35 people dead and another 13 missing, the official Xinhua news agency reported on......
KANDAHAR: Taliban insurgents attacked police checkpoints on Sunday in volatile southern Afghanistan, killing at least 10 officers, authorities said.Mohammad Ismail Hotaki, the director of Helmand......
DHAKA: Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday slammed the country’s economic migrants, many of whom are stranded in dire conditions at sea, calling them “mentally sick” and accusing them......
CANNES: A French thriller spotlighting the plight of traumatised refugees building new lives, “Dheepan”, captured the Palme d’Or top prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.As countries around......
BAGHDAD: The self-styled Islamic State group has executed 16 Iraqi traders taking food from the city of Baiji to the government-controlled western city of Haditha, officials said on Sunday.“Daesh......
KATHMANDU: Thousands of panic-stricken villagers fled their homes fearing flash floods after an overnight landslide blocked a river in quake-hit Nepal’s mountainous northwest, officials said on......
SAN MARCOS: Up to 10 inches of rain fell over 24 hours in parts of Texas, prompting numerous evacuations and rescues overnight and into Sunday, while a firefighter in northeast Oklahoma died after......
WIRKSWORTH: Deep in the English countryside, there’s a bizarre sight: rows of trees being grown into upside-down chairs, slowly taking shape over years of careful nurturing.Around 150 armchairs, 100......
WITH the self-styled Islamic State now in control of the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, the world awaits the inevitable videos of priceless ancient monuments and artefacts being destroyed by......
LAHORE: Five-year-old unknown pedigree mare Hurram put up a smashing performance by winning the feature event during the 2nd Lahore Summer Meeting at the Lahore Racecourse here on Sunday.Ridden by......
LAHORE: Mukhtar Ahmed starred with another blazing half-century before Pakistan overcame a late order collapse to secure a tense two-wicket victory over Zimbabwe to wrap the two-match Twenty20......
LAHORE: Laptops became cumbersome for journalists covering the second T20 between Pakistan and Zimbabwe.The main device for journalists to send their reports in time to the desk became burdensome......
LAHORE: Member of Parliament in Britain, Yasmin Qureshi, who is of Pakistani origin hailed on Sunday the atmosphere and sporting attitude of Lahorites during the second T20.The newly-elected British......
LONDON: Ben Stokes scored the fastest-ever Test hundred at Lord’s, while England captain Alastair Cook weighed in with a less spectacular but equally valuable century of his own as the hosts fought......
MADRID: Atletico Madrid secured a berth in the Champions League group stage for next season and Deportivo La Coruna narrowly escaped relegation when they came from two goals down to draw 2-2 at......
LONDON: Hull City were relegated and Newcastle United survived the drop on a dramatic final day of the Premier League season marked by high scores and high-profile departures on Sunday.Newcastle’s......
PARIS: Monaco, locked in a three-way tussle with St Etienne and Olympique Marseille, booked the third and final French ticket to next season’s Champions League thanks to a 1-0 win over Lorient in the......
MILAN: Defender Miguel Britos was sent off for head-butting an opponent as Napoli lost 3-1 at Serie A champions Juventus on Saturday, all but ending their hopes of Champions League football next......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army on Sunday retained the National Netball Championship title defeating Pakistan Air Force 31-29 in a neck-and-neck final here at the Hamidi Hall of the Pakistan Sports......
MONACO: Nico Rosberg took a surprise hat-trick of Monaco Grand Prix victories on Sunday after Mercedes blew championship-leading team mate Lewis Hamilton’s chances with a late pitstop, in one of......
PARIS: Roger Federer enlivened a routine day at the office with a violet and pink outfit and a several dabs of brilliance to launch another French Open quest but his mood darkened after a security......
KARACHI: Despite opener Shoaib Ahmed scoring a superb century on Sunday, Karachi earned a handy 70-run lead on the first innings against Dera Murad Jamali on the second day of the three-final of the......
KARACHI: The Sindh Olympic Association (SOA) will play host to a week-long Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) Sports Administration course for men and women at a local hotel from Monday.Sindh Secretary......
KARACHI: Never-say-die Lava Man, an 11-year-old chestnut horse, overcame victory jinx by lowering the colours of public fancy three-year-old chestnut filly Miss Oscar to land the day’s feature event......
KARACHI: The quadrennial elections of Sindh Squash Association (SSA) will be held at the Roshan-Jahangir squash complex on May 31 at 3pm, says an announcement.The elections are being held on the......
QatarQATAR, the world’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas and one of the smaller oil producing countries, has enjoyed significantly high economic growth.It is now one of the richest nations......
INDISCRIMINATE and excessive use of urea, a highly subsidised fertiliser, by farmers in India has led to large-scale degradation of soil. Urea is one of the most subsidised commodities in India.While......
Chief executive pay is a scandal. It is too high, too complicated and has badly damaged the image of business. Even fervent defenders of free markets think top pay is out of control.Simon Walker,......
David Cameron had not expected to win outright. But Britain’s electorate had just presented the prime minister with a spectacular election victory and the rest of Europe with a big problem.Mr......
Coming to San Francisco for the first time in a few years brings home how much it has been transformed. Whatever you call what is happening — a boom, a bubble or a flood of money into what was known......
HSBC has become one of the biggest global banks to say that it will begin charging clients on deposits in a range of European currencies.The decision underlines the extraordinary measures banks are......
Fsical year 2014-15 has been a mixed story of largely improved economic indicators, along with missed targets.Almost all the key sectors of the economy — agriculture, industry, services — showed......
The focus of the Sindh budget is not expected to change much, except for probably providing greater allocations for visible development projects in three major cities: Karachi, Hyderabad and......
Punjab's failure to use more than half of its development budget during this fiscal year will cost its economy dearly and increase the social and economic infrastructure gaps in the province.Punjab......
The rupee came under pressure against the dollar in both the interbank and open markets last week. A surge in demand for the reserve currency in the open market led it to breach the Rs103-mark.In the......
With its core business sailing smoothly, Allied Bank appears to be now gearing to invest in technological and infrastructure upgrades and alternative revenue streams to prop up future earnings.The......
Even before China became the world’s No 1 manufacturing base in 2010, the ‘made-in-China’ label was everywhere.Books, such as A Year Without ‘”Made in China’: One Family’s True Life Adventure in the......
THE government raised Rs61.683bn from the auction of Pakistan Investment Bonds of various tenors last Wednesday.Of the total, three-year bonds fetched Rs26.097bn at a cut-off yield of 7.5527pc,......
The export of textile goods grew by a marginal 2pc to $1.08bn in April, according to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.However, the value-added textile segment managed to grow by an......
A LEADING provider of automation, control systems integration, proprietary energy management solutions and support services, Avanceon Limited completed 25 years in 2014. It went public last year, and......
IT looks as if the third national budget of the pro-business government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif — expected on June 5 — will not have much to do with reviving the sluggish manufacturing......
After achieving commissioning of five wind energy projects of 255MW and financial closing for seven projects of 377MW — with a cumulative investment of $1.7bn — the government’s decision to stop......
PROMOTING agriculture through budgetary measures alone is difficult in Sindh where law and order, social sector schemes and infrastructure projects are likely to consume the bulk of the provincial......
AS the Punjab government presents its next budget two weeks from now, the farmers have many complaints, as well as expectations. Over the last one year, they have protested against the crashing......
AN international seminar held at Faisalabad’s university of agriculture on May 14 was told that it was time Pakistan adopted precision agriculture.Precision agriculture enables the farmer to produce......
ISLAMABAD: The looming crisis in the Middle East, where a Saudi-led coalition of Gulf countries is fighting off an uprising in Yemen, has definitely taken a toll on Pakistan as well.Even though a......
QUETTA: The United Nations refugee agency has initiated an education project in Ziarat under a programme aimed at improving educational facilities in various districts of Balochistan.The......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Sunday appointed DIG Traffic Dr Ameer Shaikh to investigate the incident in which journalists had been manhandled by police outside the Sindh High......
MUZAFFARABAD: Hundreds of people held a rally here on Sunday to condemn India’s effort to seek United Nations sanctions against the leader of Hizbul Mujahideen.Participants of the procession,......
ISLAMABAD: Tajikistan has invited Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to visit Dushanbe in the second week of June to attend an international conference on implementation of the International Decade for......
QUETTA: A trader was killed and another injured when unidentified men fired at them at close range here on Sunday, police said.The deceased was identified as Fazal Muhammad and injured as......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) is likely to make a landmark decision by allowing private housing schemes — high-rise buildings and sugar mills — to generate and......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has built a Humanitarian Response Facility (HRF) at a cost of $3.5 million covering an area of more than 28,300 square metres in Jalozai to......
ISLAMABAD: A number of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) will be signed between companies of Pakistan and Belarus on Monday for joint venture collaboration in agro-machinery and dairy......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior will meet here on Thursday for a briefing on the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) to counter terrorism.According to the agenda,......
KHAR: A soldier was killed when suspected militants attacked an FC checkpost from across the Afghan border in Ghakhi area of Mamond tehsil, on Sunday, official sources said.Political administration......
CAIRO: Saudi forces and Yemen’s Houthi militia traded heavy artillery fire which destroyed part of the main border crossing between the two countries overnight, residents said on Sunday, an......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the PM on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said that Pakistan and India needed to work together to defeat terrorism.In a statement on Sunday, he expressed serious concern over a......
TEHRAN: A senior Iranian military official told parliament on Sunday the armed forces need a bigger budget to confront the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group whose influence is growing in......
CLEVELAND: Some 71 people were arrested in Cleveland overnight during protests that flared after a police officer was found not guilty in the shooting deaths of an unarmed black man and a woman......
KUALA LUMPUR: Mass graves and suspected human-trafficking detention camps have been discovered by Malaysian police in towns and villages bordering Thailand, the country’s home minister said on......
MULTAN / LAHORE: Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani received a phone call on Sunday from his kidnapped son Ali Haider Gilani.Talking to newsmen at his residence in Multan, the former prime......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan accorded all credit to Zimbabwe for the revival of international cricket in Pakistan.The Zimbabwe team’s arriving in Pakistan to play......
QUETTA: Salman Mamnoon, a son of President Mamnoon Hussain, escaped a bomb attack on his convoy in Hub on Sunday evening. Three people were killed in the blast and 15 injured.“The convoy of Mr Salman......
ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission raised a number of serious objections against a key project for Lahore worth over Rs165 billion, but could not secure any change in it before its approval, sources......
RECENTLY, it was reported that women were barred from voting in the Lower Dir by-election held earlier this month. It was not the first time, however, that this has happened, nor is it limited to Dir......
In February, Oxfam, in collaboration with the department of economics at LUMS, published a report on persistent inequality and multi-dimensional poverty in Pakistan. The core message at the heart of......
AS interest rates drop to historic lows and the government announces a shift in its economic policy approach, away from austerity towards fuelling growth, a sense of optimism hangs in the air.The......
THE only thing that is clear is that some two dozen people have lost their lives. Beyond that, the details of what has transpired in the Kalat and Mastung districts of Balochistan this week are hotly......
AMONG the many, far too many, attacks on minorities in Pakistan in recent years, the lynching of Shama and Shahzad in November 2014 stands out for its sheer scale of bestiality.The Christian couple,......
