ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Tuesday stressed the need of a "well-coordinated" security operation in Afghanistan to achieve shared goals of peace and prosperity in the two......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday expressed grave concern at the plight of the minority Muslim community in Myanmar, which has been facing extreme human rights violation at home resulting in flocks......
Once, when I was an undergraduate at LUMS in Pakistan, we were asked to create 'future CVs' for ourselves, imagining where we would be 10 years down the road.According to my calculations, by the age......
CAIRO: Egypt summoned Pakistan's charge d'affaires to protest Islamabad's criticism of the death sentence handed down to ousted president Mohamed Morsi, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.Egypt......
RIYADH: Ten Pakistanis have been executed in Saudi Arabia so far in 2015, as the kingdom's total number of executions rose to 88 on Tuesday.The interior ministry identified the latest to be put to......
BUKIT BURMA: It's a one-hour trek through thick jungle from the nearest road to the ramshackle camp along Malaysia's northern border, but for all its remoteness this was a perfect setting for human......
HYDERABAD: At least 800 people have died in a major heatwave that has swept across India, melting roads in New Delhi as temperatures neared 50 degrees Celsius.Hospitals were on alert to treat victims......
Had I known that cake rusks could be made at home, bakery style, I would have pestered Ammi to make them every day of my childhood.Oddly enough, I did not stumble upon this information until a week......
KANDAHAR: At least 26 Afghan police or soldiers have been killed in multiple Taliban attacks in the volatile south, including a 16-hour siege of college dormitory, officials said on Tuesday.The......
KARACHI: Seven militants were killed in raids by security forces in Karachi, a military official said Tuesday.Brig Gen Mohammad Khurram told reporters that the two overnight raids came after reports......
After a short sabbatical, Reham Khan returned to television with the first episode of The Reham Khan show and her first guest was none other than her husband, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran......
ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the cabinet, presided over by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, gave its approval for Budget Strategy Paper (BSP) 2015-16? on Tuesday.Secretary Finance Dr Waqar Masood Khan gave a......
SARGODHA/FAISALABAD/LAHORE/TOBA TEK SINGH/GUJRANWALA/SAHIWAL: Seven death row convicts were sent to the gallows in jails across Pakistan in the early hours of Tuesday.Convict Amjad Ali was involved......
Set to release this Eidul Fitr, the team behind Momina Duraid’s production Bin Roye didn’t let a major setback — in the form of the film's original director leaving — prevent the film from wrapping......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking the abolition of death penalty, maintaining that life and liberty are not absolute under the Constitution of Pakistan.The......
LAHORE: Angry lawyers in Lahore are attempting to break into the Punjab Assembly Tuesday, having so far succeeded in setting fire to the security shed in front of the Punjab Assembly gate.Police have......
QUETTA: A day after its launch, the second phase of an anti-polio campaign was suspended in Quetta due to security reasons on Tuesday, according to sources in the Balochistan Health Department......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday refused to entertain an unconditional apology submitted before it by Inspector General of Sindh Police (IGP) Ghulam Haider Jamali for his failure to......
QUETTA: Frontier Corps (FC) personnel claimed on Tuesday to have arrested four suspects involved in the Sunday night attack on the convoy of President Mamnoon Hussain's son in Balochistan's......
NEW DELHI: As Indian premier Narendra Modi's first year in office concluded, he took to Twitter to share an open letter he penned about his government, saying that the world is optimistic about India......
LONDON: Klara Balogova was 18, penniless and heavily pregnant when she rode thousands of miles from Slovakia to England to marry a man she had never met.She knew he did not want her, or her child. He......
In Pakistani politics, clothes really do make the man — and woman.If you're a Pakistani politician, your choice of either an ajrak, a blazer, a waistcoat or a three-piece lawn suit says a lot about......
ISLAMABAD: President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, who was scheduled to arrive today in Islamabad on a two-day official visit to Pakistan, delayed his visit until May 28 due to the death of his......
LANDI KOTAL: The elders of Sipah have refused to pay the fine imposed on the tribe for inflicting losses on the security forces during military operation in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.Khyber Agency......
PESHAWAR: Reacting to the imposition of Gas Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC) by the federal government, the All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) on Monday observed a sit-in on Sher Shah Suri......
SWABI: A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) training aircraft crashed in fields at Shahmansoor village here on Monday, however, the two pilots ejected safely using parachutes.District Police Officer Sajjad......
GHALANAI: Nephew of a businessman was killed in an attack here on Monday.Political administration officials and local residents said unknown armed men attacked house of Haji Bughdad Shah in Durbakhel......
PESHAWAR: Lawyers on Monday boycotted local courts for the third consecutive day against the alleged torture of a colleague by the police.They even stopped policemen from producing suspects in......
PESHAWAR: While a petition of civil society organisations against the barring of women voters from participating in the recent Lower Dir by-election is pending with the Peshawar High Court, another......
PESHAWAR: Saraf and Jewellers Association, Peshawar, has given eight-day deadline to the provincial government for the arrest of robbers involved in broad daylight looting of gold and cash from......
MANSEHRA: The district administration has claimed there’re no more ghost schools in Kohistan.“In the past, there existed ghost schools in our district and that teachers used to habitually remain......
KARAK, May 25: The residents of Jehangeri union council took to streets against disconnection of power supply to over a dozen localities and blocked Indus Highway for several hours on Monday.The......
PESHAWAR: The Young Leaders of Fata Organisation, a group of youths from different parts of tribal region, will hold the ‘Lead Fata Youth Conference’ on June 7 at a hotel here to create awareness of......
PESHAWAR: Zafar Ali from Buner district, one of the qualified candidates for the post of teaching assistant, has accused Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government of inducting 70 candidates in the education......
KOHAT: The local residents on Monday staged a demonstration against PTI lawmaker Ziaullah Bangash, holding him responsible for delay in launch of development projects, and nepotism in awarding......
MARDAN: As the upcoming local body elections will mostly be contested on the basis of tribal and family affiliations, independent candidates are going to give a tough time to the candidates of......
RAWALPINDI, May 25: The Airport Security Force (ASF) on Monday seized 6.9kg heroin and arrested a passenger who was leaving for Colombo via Abu Dhabi at Benazir Bhutto International Airport.The......
ISLAMABAD: Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) has, once again, been declared the top varsity in the country.The Higher Education Commission’s (HEC) universities’ rankings for 2014 – which were released......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to become a party in a case related to sacking and suspension of SSP and IG of Islamabad police.They avoided ‘use of force’ against the protesters......
RAWALPINDI: Three women were killed and another was injured after being run over by a speeding car near the Mandra police station on Monday.Police said the women, two of them from Murree, were......
ISLAMABAD: The registration board of the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) has approved new rules for the registration of medicine to ensure their quality, stability and efficacy.Now, not......
ISLAMABAD: Two out of every five (44 per cent) children under five are stunted, 32 per cent are underweight and 15 per cent children are suffering from acute malnutrition in Pakistan.This was said by......
RAWALPINDI: Despite getting a two-third majority, the ruling PML-N failed to finalise the names of Rawalpindi and Chaklala cantonment boards’ vice-presidents due to groupings in the party.On April......
MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed on Monday inducted one more member in his cabinet, raising its strength to 24.The new inductee, Sardar Abid Hussain......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has announced countrywide strike on Tuesday against the killing of two lawyers in police firing.The Daska Bar Association president, Rana Khalid Abbas, and......
ISLAMABAD: The assertion by some people that the history of this region started with the arrival of Mohammad bin Qasim is not correct. The history of the region is 9,000 years old during which people......
ISLAMABAD: Three persons, including a minor boy and a girl were murdered in Islamabad, police said on Monday.In the first incident, a security guard and a minor boy were killed during an armed......
MUZAFFARABAD: An ad-hoc judge in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Supreme Court was sworn in on Monday, amid a strike by the AJK Bar Council.Advocate Masood A. Shaikh was administered oath by AJK......
RAWALPINDI: The Rawal Town municipal officer was removed from the post for giving a piece of government land on rent without adopting the legal procedure.A senior official told Dawn that TMO Liaquat......
RAWALPINDI: A convict in a non-terrorism case will be hanged at the Central Jail Adiala on Wednesday.Police said after the death warrants for Khan Bahadur of Dara Malakand were issued by the court of......
ISLAMABAD: The Loi Bher police have booked a man for criminal intimidation and rape on the complaint of a girl.The complainant said the accused raped her by drugging her and then carried on......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday set aside the termination of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) chairman Chaudhry Rashid Ahmed.Justice Noorul Haq N. Qureshi......
ISLAMABAD: Though the unusual rain in the current month has puzzled the meteorologists, it brought respite to the people from the heat of May.In the afternoon, the mercury had hit 37 degree......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hosted on Monday the first of the three meetings of senior officials of the Heart of Asia - Istanbul Process as a prelude to the Ministerial Conference scheduled for later this......
LAHORE: The national power demand, excluding K-Electric, on Monday crossed 20,000MW mark, with generation hovering around 13,600MW – leaving a deficit of over 6,400MW and necessitating over eight......
RETIRED Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan has recently been appointed the chairman of the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR), after relinquishing charge of the post of chief justice of the Republic of......
IT is pathetic to mention that instead of improvement in medical facilities at Adhwal village located in Rawalpindi, the facilities have further deteriorated. The mini-hospital, (initially approved......
This is with reference to the article by Peerzada Salman titled ‘What is Karachi’s audience?’ (May 18).Since the article is relevant to ‘I Am Karachi’ and the work that this movement has initiated to......
IN Peshawar, the University Town was once considered a posh, green and quiet residential area. But nowadays the University Town looks like being under siege because of commercial encroachments.Owing......
WE would like to draw the attention of the prime minister and the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC) towards the prime issue of students who have passed MA examinations in 2014.Under the......
RECENTLY, the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) announced jobs in the education department which requires one to fill up an online application form.I too applied for it and while doing so, I......
THE Higher Education Commission (HEC) has been framing and endorsing rules without logic. The HEC has an age limit of 35 years for indigenous as well as for foreign MS/PhD scholarships.What benefits......
THE Internet service provided by the PTCL in Abbottabad and its surrounding areas is dead slow and has an unstable connection.I contacted the PTCL general manager at its Hazara office but in vain.It......
I HAVE been trying to call FPSC UAN on 051 111 000 248 and 051 9205075 for a month but in vain as nobody answers my calls.I request FPSC authorities to look into the matter as soon as possible and......
LAHORE: Some pharmaceutical companies are involved in an illegal business of selling cardiac medicines, surgical items and orthopaedic implants at Jinnah Hospital with the alleged connivance of......
LAHORE: An official of the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) with an independent engineer will go to France for the pre-shipment inspection of machinery to be installed at two landfill sites at......
LAHORE: Renowned Karachi-based ghazal singer Nadira, popularly known as Munni Begum, will perform in Lahore on May 29 after a gap of 15 years.Munni Begum ruled Radio Pakistan and PTV in the 70s and......
GUJRAT: A fire erupted on Monday in makeshift shops at the Model Bazaar on GT Road, reducing to ashes clothes, blankets, shoes and other valuables worth more than Rs10 million.Police said the fire......
GUJRAT: A three-member inquiry committee probing allegations of misconduct against Gujrat Executive District Officer (EDO) health has found him guilty of the charges and recommended his removal from......
KASUR: A man may have drowned who was searching a drowned boy on Monday in the Raja Jang Canal.Hamad Shafiq, a factory worker at Raiwind, came to the Raja Jang canal for a bath. At the canal, he......
MULTAN: Governor Malik Rafique Rajwana announced establishment of a service tribunal and a registry of the board of revenue here.He announced this while addressing members of the Lahore High Court......
MUZAFFARGARH: A 35-year-old married woman was found murdered here on Monday at Shafiqnagar on Mahmood Kot Road.Saddar SHO Mohammad Saleem Bhutta said police received information that body of a woman......
GUJRANWALA: A lawyer was injured when two unidentified motorcyclists opened fire on him at Kamoke on Monday.The district bar association protested against the incident and demanded arrest of the......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A young man allegedly committed suicide by self-immolation in Kamalia’s Husain Shahwala locality on Monday.Naeem Sarwar was alone at home when he set himself on fire and died of......
BAHAWALPUR: The Punjab government has launched a project to make deserving widows of less than 60 years of age financially self-supporting in rural areas across the province.The deserving widows, who......
LAHORE: Police registered a case on Monday under anti-terrorism act against the people who had vandalized a church in Basti Dhoop Sarri in Sanda and wounded several policemen deployed there to......
LAHORE: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) told an election tribunal on Monday that 40,155 votes cast in PP-147 could not be verified during forensic inspection of ballots of......
LAHORE: Three people, including a minor, were killed and four others injured in a boiler explosion in Township on Monday.Kashif, 30, Bilal, 15, Abdul Reman alias Ahmed, 8, Yasir, 15, Zulfiqar, 20,......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday conditionally allowed parliamentarians and heads of political parties to take part in election campaign of their respective candidates in by-polls being held......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday issued notices to the Punjab health department on a petition questioning lack of kidney treatment facilities at public hospitals in the province.Advocate......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to declare water theft a non-bailable offence and until a law is passed by the assembly, which is not in session, an ordinance will be promulgated soon to......
KARACHI: Resistance poetry has had a major impact in shaping the trajectory of states around the world. Be it poetry written at the time of the French Revolution, verses that depicted the 1857 War of......
KARACHI: As part of a series of live conversations with some of the biggest and brightest figures in Pakistan, DawnTalks hosted its third conversation with Pakistan’s only Oscar winner, Sharmeen......
KARACHI: A highly critical French work on the history of Urdu has been published for the first time in the Urdu language by the Pakistan Study Centre of Karachi University (KU), it emerged on......
KARACHI: Two years in the making, Bin Roye will be finally running in cinemas across the country and globally, announced the Hum Films team on Monday at a press conference at a hotel.Having recently......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday granted interim pre-arrest bail to former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza and his 18 associates in a fresh case till May 30.Dr Mirza, who has been nominated......
SHIKARPUR: A villager was killed and another one was wounded when they traded fire over animal grazing in the Humayoon Sharif area of Shikarpur district on Monday.Officials at the Humayoon police......
SUKKUR: A clash over a land dispute between two tribal communities in Bhooral Pitafi village near Khanpur Mahar town of Ghotki district left eight people injured on Monday.Two large groups of the......
HYDERABAD: A leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and grandson of Allama Iqbal, Waleed Iqbal, has expressed the hope that all things regarding the transparency of the elections would be clear......
NAWABSHAH: Lawyers in Nawabshah and Naushahro Feroze have strongly condemned their fellow lawyers’ killing in Punjab by police and demanded exemplary punishment for the culprits.Talking to Dawn on......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court chief justice has notified justice Ashraf Jehan as member of Karachi University’s syndicate, according to a press release issued by the university registrar office on......
MIRPURKHAS: A large number of people from all walks of life including religious scholars, traders, lawyers and civil society activists participated in a rally organised by the Mirpurkhas Shehri......
KARACHI: In another bank heist, robbers broke open as many as 90 lockers of a commercial bank and walked off with cash and jewellery worth over Rs10 million in a Gulshan-i-Iqbal locality, police said......
KARACHI: While apparently believing that the entire operation of cordoning off the Sindh High Court on the occasion of Dr Zulfikar Mirza’s appearance in court on May 23 was conducted under the......
KARACHI: Law enforcers on Monday claimed to have killed three suspected militants belonging to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in an ‘encounter’ in Surjani Town.According to officials, Pakistan......
KARACHI: Interesting views on the subject of freedom of expression were expressed at a panel discussion captioned ‘Who regulates the citizens’ voice?’ organised by the Herald at the Indus Valley......
WASHINGTON: The self-styled Islamic State group’s takeover of the Iraqi provincial capital Ramadi has prompted criticism from Defence Secretary Ash Carter and raised new questions about the Obama......
VENEZUELA is afflicted with the world’s highest inflation, its second highest murder rate and crippling shortages of food, medicine and basic consumer goods. Its authoritarian government is holding......
THE American mathematician John Nash, who was killed on Saturday night in a car crash, was in Oslo five days ago to receive the Abel prize from the king of Norway. The half a million pounds Abel —......
MEXICO CITY: A tornado raged through a city on the US-Mexico border on Monday, destroying homes, flinging cars like matchsticks and ripping an infant from its mother’s arms. At least 13 people were......
CAIRO: A four-day meeting of Libyan tribal leaders opened on Monday in Egypt which is exploring ways to unite warring parties and bring peace to its oil-rich neighbour.Those attending the conference......
BEIRUT: Syrian government aircraft carried out intense strikes on Monday against the self-styled Islamic State group in and around the ancient city of Palmyra after its fall to the jihadists, a......
JERUSALEM: Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to eight months in prison for corruption on Monday, the latest legal blow in a spectacular fall from grace.Lawyers for Olmert, who......
MOUNT IDA: Scientists are warning that the plant world could become a virtual mystery in the coming decades as college students increasingly shy away from studying botany and universities across the......
UNITED NATIONS: A UN conference convened to end the violence in Yemen has been postponed indefinitely, according to an official.The postponement came after the exiled government refused to......
WASHINGTON: Iraqi forces have shown no will to fight the self-styled Islamic State, although they outnumber the extremists, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said in an interview to the CNN on......
WANG KELIAN: Malaysian police said on Monday they had found 139 grave sites and 28 abandoned detention camps used by people-smugglers and capable of housing hundreds, laying bare the grim extent of......
NEW DELHI: Soaring temperatures have gripped parts of southern and northern India in an extreme heatwave which has killed more than 500 people and looks set to continue this week, officials said on......
TUNIS: A Tunisian soldier the authorities say had psychological problems seized a gun at a barracks on Monday and killed seven comrades before being shot dead himself.The interior ministry said the......
ISTANBUL: 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......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said on Monday that this Memorial Day was “especially meaningful” because it was the first since America’s war in Afghanistan came to an end.In a Memorial Day......
WASHINGTON: A bomb squad safely destroyed a pressure cooker found in a “suspicious” vehicle parked on the National Mall near the US Capitol and the vehicle’s owner was found and arrested, a US......
KANDAHAR: Taliban gunmen have surrounded a police compound in a the volatile southern province of Helmand after killing 19 policemen and seven soldiers in an ongoing siege, the senior police officer......
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates on Monday laid out a strategic framework for a newly created space agency that aims to integrate various arms of the Gulf federation’s burgeoning space......
LAHORE: The IOC Solidarity Badminton Technical Coaching Course, allotted by the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) to the Pakistan Badminton Federation (PBF), began here at a local hotel on......
LAHORE: Despite their T20 series victory and their One-day International history against Zimbabwe, Pakistan face a tough challenge in the three-match ODI series which begins on Tuesday as they look......
LAHORE: Spinner Raza Hasan was on Monday served a two-year ban for testing positive in anti-doping test conducted by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in January.Having taken his urine sample during......
KARACHI: Former Test captain Javed Miandad says Pakistan cricketers need to bring more improvement in T20s ahead of next year’s ICC World Twenty20.“Pakistan faced a stiff challenge from Zimbabwe in......
LONDON: England completed a remarkable win to beat New Zealand by 124 runs in the first Test at Lord’s here on Monday.New Zealand, set 345 to win on the fifth and final day, were dismissed for 220 as......
LONDON: Australia’s Trevor Bayliss may have overtaken compatriot Jason Gillespie in the race to be the new permanent head coach of England, according to media reports on Monday.Yorkshire coach......
LONDON: Former England manager Steve McClaren has been sacked as Derby’s head coach, the Championship side announced on Monday.McClaren, who took charge at the iPro Stadium in September 2013, has......
PARIS: Defending women’s champion Maria Sharapova reached the French Open second round on Monday but was jeered by fans after she refused to carry out an on-court TV interview.Second-seeded Sharapova......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) and the Ministry of Inter-provincial Coordination (IPC) will brief the sports federations and Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) regarding the upcoming......
KARACHI: Lt Cdr Saeed Khattaq and Mrs Humair Khalid won the amateur gross and ladies titles respectively in the inaugural Suzuki Amateur Golf Tournament here at the Arabian Sea Country Club on......
KARACHI: Former Asian 6-Reds champion Mohammad Asif and reigning Asian snooker champion Hamza Akbar emerged group champions by staying unbeaten in the fourth Asian 6-Reds snooker championship at the......
NAIROBI: Former world 5,000m and 10,000m champion and Olympic medallist Vivian Cheruiyot seeks a return to form when she competes in her first track race in nearly two years at the Prefontaine......
KARACHI: Karachi clinched the PCB-Pepsi Cricket Stars title after their three-day final against Dera Murad Jamali ended in a draw at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad on Monday.Karachi, who won the......
HYDERABAD: Hyderabad recorded their second successive win in the regional inter-district tournament when they crushed Sanghar by an innings and 104 runs at the Niaz Stadium here on Monday.Electing to......
KARACHI; Three musclemen will represent the country in the 49th Asian Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation (ABFF) championship which is being held at Kitakyushu, Japan, from June 5 to 8.According to......
KARACHI: Team Deuce completed a well-deserved double on Sunday evening when they earned 63.44 Victory Points (VPs) to win Karachi Bridge Association (KBA) weekend Bridge Tournament here at Aslam......
LONDON: Norwich secured an immediate return to the Premier League and an estimated promotion windfall of up to $235 million by beating Middlesbrough 2-0 in the second-tier play-off final on......
LONDON: Argentina legend Diego Maradona has attacked world football chief Sepp Blatter, calling the 79-year-old Swiss “a dictator” and claiming his bid for a fifth term as FIFA president is “an......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army edged Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in a nail-biting inter-departmental netball final on Monday while Sindh outclassed Punjab to lift the inter-provincial title on......
KARACHI: Prof Paianda A Malik, the Pakistan Gymnastic Federation (PGF) secretary and a former principal of Islamia College Lahore, shed light on the Olympic Movement — Introduction, History and......
KARACHI: Jawed Shamim clinched the ‘Premier’ division title with 7 wins and a spread of 234 at the Danpak 10th Ranking Scrabble Tournament played at Beach Luxury hotel on Sunday.Waseem Khatri made a......
KARACHI: A two-member delegation of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) returned here on Monday after inspecting grounds in the interior of Sindh.The delegation comprising former chief selector and......
DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday confirmed that the bowling action of UAE’s Mohammad Shahzad has been found to be legal, and the player can now resume bowling in international......
LONDON: Gold prices were marginally lower on Monday, as the dollar gained traction against major currency rivals, on signs the Federal Reserve is preparing to tighten monetary policy for the first......
WASHINGTON: Iranians will demand their government spend a windfall from the lifting of economic sanctions on improving the quality of life at home, limiting the degree to which a future nuclear deal......
ATHENS: Struggling Greece will keep on repaying its EU-IMF creditors for as long as it can, with some 300 million euros due next week and no deal in talks over the country’s remaining bailout funds,......
JOHANNESBURG: Africa’s overall economy should advance in 2015, expanding by 4.5 per cent, showing resilience despite weak commodity prices and the devastating Ebola epidemic, an annual report......
TOKYO: Japan’s trade balance reverted to a deficit in April but narrowed sharply from the previous year as the plunge in oil prices cut fuel import costs.The 53.4 billion yen ($439.6 million) deficit......
KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) shed the gloom of the previous week as its 100-share index closed with a gain of 101.60 points (0.31 per cent) to 32,707.22 on Monday.The index started out......
KARACHI: Pakistan has exported around 2,200 tonnes of mangoes, fetching $1.1 million, since the start of export season on May 20.All Pakistan Fruit and Vegetable Exporters, Importers and Merchant......
ISLAMABAD: The Annual Plan Coordination Committee (APCC) meets today to finalise around Rs1.4 trillion development programme, aimed at achieving 5.5 per cent economic growth rate for the next fiscal......
KARACHI: Discrepancies in official trade data of Pakistan and China lend credence to suspicion of massive under-invoicing by Pakistani importers in bilateral trade between the two countries.It......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on National Food Security has recommended the government to increase wheat procurement target of Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Services......
LAHORE: Sialkot exporters have decided to observe a ‘zero export day’ on Wednesday (May 27) to press the government for release of their outstanding duty drawback claims and sales tax refunds.It will......
MUMBAI: A recovery in India’s credit growth could elude the country’s banks until early 2016, despite an economy that in the first three months of this year is expected to have outpaced China.A 12.6......
SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube’s legacy extends beyond its pioneering role in the Internet’s video revolution.YouTube’s rapid rise demonstrated that influential media hubs could be built around free content......
KARACHI: In the absence of buying interest, lacklustre conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Monday. However, the undertone remained firm and steady.Floor brokers said that both buyers and......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has constituted a committee to prevent corruption in the health sector.The Prevention Committee on Health Affairs was formed by NAB chairman Qamar......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court threw out on Monday a petition of the chief executive of Axact, an information technology firm allegedly involved in an international fake degree scam, seeking an......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan disposed of on Monday petitions against Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq and other politicians who had been accused of violating the code of conduct......
ISLAMABAD: Petroleum and Natural Resources Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Monday that the power sector was a major obstacle to signing a long-term contract for import of liquefied natural gas......
QUETTA: While condemning the rocket attack on the house of Health Minister Rehmat Baloch in Panjgur, Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch said on Monday that no compromise would be made......
QUETTA: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court (BHC) ordered the home secretary on Monday to ensure removal of FC checkposts from Whyte and Samungli roads in the city.The secretary was asked......
KARACHI: Personnel of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, escaped a suicide attack in Orangi Town on Monday night, police said.“During a search operation by the paramilitary force, a suicide bomber blew himself......
THIS scorching Saturday afternoon is just another day at the Karachi fish harbour. The place is swarming with fishermen, trolleys, ice and fish crates, and sweating labourers.Right away, I find the......
ISLAMABAD: Business leaders of Pakistan and Belarus signed 12 contracts worth $42 million on Monday.The contracts were signed after meetings at the Pak-Belarus business forum organised by the Board......
ISLAMABAD: The poll inquiry commission has asked the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to come up with its stand positively by Tuesday on its perceived reluctance to make available ‘Form 15’ of......
SRINAGAR: Militants attacked a mobile phone shop in India-held Kashmir on Monday, killing one employee and wounding two, in the second attack in as many days to target telecommunication businesses in......
DHAKA: Bangladesh on Monday banned a militant group suspected of involvement in the murder of atheist bloggers that sparked protests in Dhaka and outrage around the world, an official said.The Home......
SANAA: Rebel forces and loyalist fighters were locked in fierce fighting in Yemen on Monday as hopes of a political solution faded after the United Nations postponed peace talks.Clashes raged in the......
ISLAMABAD: The ongoing episode of Axact allegedly awarding fake degrees echoed in the Supreme Court on Monday during the hearing of challenges to the 18th and 21st amendments.“It is known that the......
ISLAMABAD: An investment exhibition, inviting the crème de la crème of society to put their money in real estate opportunities in the Middle East, does not sound like the kind of place the government......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif on Monday for “consultations” on security challenges.“Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif met Prime Minister Muhammad......
DASKA: Sporadic violent protests erupted in several cities of Punjab after the Daska police shot dead two lawyers, including the president of the local bar association, on Monday.Daska police station......
QUETTA: Four people, three of them belonging to the Shia Hazara community, were killed and eight others, two women among them, suffered injuries in three incidents of firing here on Monday.Bazaars,......
THE rise of the self-styled Islamic State in the Middle East has been marked by its ruthlessness on the battlefield and resultant occupation of territory in Iraq and Syria, as well as its manifest......
IT is a measure of how outrageous and offensive Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s recent assertion that terrorism should be fought with terrorism is that it has been roundly condemned inside......
SKI masks teamed with civilian gear do not conjure up the image of law-enforcement. Quite the contrary in fact, especially in a city like Karachi which has more than its share of criminal happenings......
THE government is justifiably ecstatic at the IMF’s, and now Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s, endorsement of its claims of having achieved a fair degree of macro-economic stability reflected in some......
BOOKS can sometimes shepherd us to unplanned journeys. One that I picked up last week relentlessly targets Hillary Clinton’s alleged shady deals, including some with cash-rich Indian nuclear......
IN mid-April, the Chinese president signed agreements worth $46 billion under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project (CPEC). Among other aims, the project is to offer a secure, all-weather, and......
A LANDMARK Pak-Afghan agreement on intelligence-sharing and conducting coordinated operations against militants along their troubled border is unquestionably the most meaningful fence-mending effort,......
KARACHI: A huge explosion took place during a Rangers search operation in Karachi's Orangi Town area late Monday night, completely razing a house, DawnNews reported.The explosion was followed by......
