QUETTA: At least 20 people were killed and several injured Friday night when unknown militants opened fire at kidnapped passengers in Mastung area of Balochistan, DawnNews reported.Earlier in the......
KARACHI: Two workers of Sindh’s ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) were shot dead in Malir on Friday evening in a suspected targeted attack, according to police and party officials.They added that......
LAHORE: Legendary paceman Wasim Akram Friday declared cricket cannot be kept away from Pakistan after watching the passion and successful staging of a limited over series against Zimbabwe.The......
Pakistan's digital-rights advocate Nighat Dad has been named in the TIME’s list of next generation leaders, TIME magazine reported on Friday.The list comprises six young innovators who are leading by......
HYDERABAD: Dizzying temperatures caused water shortages in thousands of Indian villages and killed hundreds more people over the past day, driving the death toll from a weeks-long heat wave to at......
An investigation into a fake degree business in Pakistan is currently ongoing. This is a good time to take up the side-topic and ask ourselves some questions about the dire state of education in our......
Laughter is the best medicine they say, but in a country like ours where real life is often more ridiculous than reel life and everyday news stories make you ROFL, comedy shows don't stand a......
LAHORE: Rana Sanaullah took oath as Punjab law minister on Friday at the Governor House in Punjab.Punjab Governor Rafique Rajwana administered the oath of office to the newly sworn-in law......
DAMMAM: The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a car blast during Friday prayers outside a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia's Dammam city which killed four people, including a driver.The attack was......
KUNDUZ: When the Taliban descended a month ago on Dam Shakh, a hamlet on the wheat-growing plains of northern Afghanistan's Kunduz province, nobody was prepared.“They turned up suddenly and took us......
After Snapchat, the latest app to feed our narcissistic side is Dubsmash. Dubsmash allows users to pick an audio recording of well-known songs or dialogues and record a video of themselves.The......
We know Priyanka Chopra has had her eyes set on the international horizon, what with her new TV show ABC's Quantico and musical collaborations with the likes of Jay Sean, will.i.am and Pitbull.What......
Tomorrow, the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa go to the polls to elect new local bodies, exercising their hard-earned democratic right of casting ballots for leaders of their choice.However, a dark......
Approximately 194.6 million people are undernourished in India which accounts for the highest number of people suffering from hunger in any single country, said a report published on The Times of......
LAHORE: The Indian government on Thursday released three Pakistani prisoners from Indian jails.Indian authorities handed over the prisoners to Pakistan Rangers officials at Wagah border here,......
PESHAWAR: Two security personnel were killed and one injured Friday in North Waziristan's Ghulam Khan area when militants opened fire at a security forces' vehicle.According to security sources,......
PATHANKOT: A pigeon which crossed the Indo-Pak border into India's Pathankot area was captured and detained for being a 'suspected spy' on Thursday, according to a report published on The Times of......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday held a meeting with President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, who started his two-day visit to Pakistan yesterday.During the meeting......
WASHINGTON: Transit officials in Washington have temporarily suspended all issue-oriented advertisements on the region's rail and bus system.The move comes as the agency was asked to consider an ad......
NEW YORK: Nearly 60 per cent of Americans approve of drone strikes that target extremists in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen despite concerns that they endanger innocent civilians, a new poll found......
THE telecommunications sector is one of the most important business sectors in Pakistan. In the last one decade or so investment in this sector has increased greatly, creating opportunities for......
LAWYERS are protectors of the law, whereas police officers implement that law. Both these groups have a duty to uphold the sanctity of the law, but what happened in Daska was humiliating for both......
ISHAQ Dar’s denial of taxing foreign remittances in the coming budget is well taken care of and well-received by expatriates and their families. But knowing Mr Dar’s past reputation, one is......
THERE is a wave of euphoria because the Sindh police have hit the jackpot. In one go they have solved not only the Safoora Goth massacre , but also Sabeen Mehmud’s murder and a plethora of other......
THIS is with reference to the news report ‘Call to end feudal system’ (May 24). The discourse and activism around land reforms in Pakistan have been actually shaped in a conventional style. As a......
WHAT is happening in Pakistan? Let us look at the following incidents: The Model Town massacre, Imran Khan’s and Tahir-ul-Qadri’s prolonged ‘sit-ins’, the two JIT reports (one suppressed, the other......
CRIME is on the rise in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. First my friends and later on I myself became victim. All of us have the same story, and it has been going on for a long time. We all lost our cars, one......
I AM quite sure that if Saddam Hussein were ruling Iraq today, the so-called Islamic State would not have been able to threaten Iraq and take over Ramadi.There was absolute peace under Saddam in Iraq......
THE official website of the Lahore Development Authority, which is the most pertinent portal for obtaining property-related information, is never found in working condition.It seems the officers......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) on Thursday arrested former provincial minister and provincial PPP information secretary Liaquat Shabab on the charge of possessing assets......
PESHAWAR: The National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) has written letters to the heads of all the major political parties to remind them their responsibility of ensuring participation of......
PESHAWAR: Reacting to delay in promotion of the health workers, the Insaf Paramedics Forum (IPF), a sister organisation of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, has announced to boycott the election duties and......
PESHAWAR: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Thursday that ensuring peace in the country was prime responsibility of Frontier Constabulary.Addressing the passing out parade of 2,340......
MANSEHRA: A group of independent candidates is likely play an important role in formation of the district and tehsil governments following the May 30 local government elections.The group has fielded......
MARDAN: Tough contest is expected among three candidates on the seat reserved for minorities in the elections of Cantonment Board Mardan, to be held on Friday (today).The situation is very......
PESHAWAR: The first-ever research fair in a public sector medical college of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was held in the Khyber Medical College here the other day.The function was organised by the KMC’s......
NOWSHERA: ANP central general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain has alleged that the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was using all its resources to rig the May 30 local body elections to prevent......
MINGORA: A civil society organisation on Thursday claimed that high turnout of women voters was expected in the May 30 local body elections in Swat district.Only 7.5 percent of the total women voters......
SWABI: The district administration has banned celebratory firing by candidates and their supporters after winning the local government election.Sources said that the police would make a formal......
ABBOTTABAD: The district administration has finalised arrangements for the local government elections scheduled to be held on Saturday (tomorrow).According to officials, all arrangements, including......
PESHAWAR: As part of crackdown on encroachments in Peshawar, the district administration on Thursday removed sandbags from outside the Gulbahar police station and thus, reopening the adjacent service......
PESHAWAR: Each police station in the province has been asked to impound at least 200 public transport vehicles for transportation of the election staff and material for the local government elections......
PESHAWAR: Police authorities have decided to withdraw security guards from the houses of VIPs to perform duty on the polling day to provide security to people during the local government elections in......
LANDI KOTAL: Two labourers were buried alive when a stone mine collapsed in Jamrud on Thursday.Khasadar officials said that Younas Torkhel and Saifur Khan were busy working in a mine near Sur Kamar......
ISLAMABAD: A man was shot and killed by a woman riding behind him on a moving motorcycle, on Thursday.Police officials told Dawn that the victim had been identified as Bilal Safdar, a Pindigheb......
ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has recommended that children should start schooling at the age of seven in their local language, but should also be taught Arabic and expected to......
ISLAMABAD: Thursday’s all-parties conference (APC) was meant to smoothen over differences between the government and the rest of the political parties in parliament over the China-Pak Economic......
RAWALPINDI: Tax officials have summoned for questioning a Karachi-based woman who, tax investigators say, bought model Ayyan Ali an apartment for around Rs15 million.Sources close to the teams......
RAWALPINDI: About half of the CNG stations in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad are reopening on Friday and will supply the cheap fuel to motorists for nine consecutive days.A leader of the......
Politician Imran Khan is many things to many people. His foes call him naïve and unprincipled but to his fans he is a stubborn fighter for fair and just politics. That is also the image his Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for National Health Services (NHS) Saira Afzal Tarar on Thursday said the implementation of the decision to enhance the size of pictorial warning on cigarette packets had been......
RAWALPINDI: Mystery shrouds the burning of two air-conditioned buses plying on Rawalpindi-Kalar Syedan route.A ten bus fleet was recently inaugurated by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.......
University ignores glaring mistakeFor almost two years, the administration of the Federal Urdu University of Arts Science and Technology (FUUAST) has failed to rectify a blatant misspelled signboard......
MUZAFFARABAD: An Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) minister on Thursday took strong exception to the AJK Council for “acting as a parallel government”.“The AJK Council is acting as a parallel setup,......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday conditionally allowed the federal government to notify the promotion of civil servants to BPS-21.Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, however, made it......
ISLAMABAD: “In Pakistan, the space available to minority groups, marginalised communities and progressives is continuously shrinking and those human rights’ activists who support such groups are also......
LAHORE: Rana Sanaullah Khan is being handed over his lost portfolio of Punjab law and parliamentary affairs minister on Friday (today).Dr Aisha Ghaus Malik is taking oath as finance minister along......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Additional District and Sessions Judge Ishfaq Mehmood Sheikh on Thursday sentenced a driver to pay Rs29 million as compensation money to the families of 12 people run over by his......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Meteorological Department has forecast below normal rains during the forthcoming monsoon season that lasts the country from July to September.According to its preliminary......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday directed the Punjab government to strictly implement its policy on private schools against collection of consolidated fee from students for summer......
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik said on Thursday those involved in the killing of lawyers in Daska would be brought to justice very soon.The chief justice was talking to a......
LAHORE: A City District Government of Lahore’s team sealed on Thursday 15 medical stores in Garhi Shahu, according to a spokesman.The team, headed by drug inspector Shaukat Wahab, sealed stores for......
LAHORE: The admission board for medical and dental institutions of Punjab has finalised the new policy and forwarded it to the chief minister for final approval, making many changes to the syllabus......
LAHORE: The Punjab health department has decided to make legislation for mandatory salt iodisation along with Micronutrient Initiative (MI).Talking to media after attending a conference of members of......
LAHORE: Two men were found shot dead in different areas of the city on Thursday.A 45-year-old man was shot dead by unidentified person(s) in a street of Ghalib Market.Police said Siddique of Karachi......
LAHORE: Political economist Akbar Zaidi says debt is not a bad thing if it is used in a transparent manner with ensured accountability.He was speaking at a consultation with civil society......
LAHORE: At least 1,520kg meat of dead animals was seized from various localities of Nishtar, Iqbal and Shalimar towns here early on Thursday.According to CDGL’s Deputy District O(livestock) Dr Rahat,......
BAHAWALPUR: Lawyers locked the main gate of courtroom of District and Sessions Judge Rana Masood Akhtar on Thursday to protest the Daska firing incident.Bahawalpur District Bar Association activists......
GUJRAT: The allied health workers on Thursday observed a complete strike in all public sector facilities and staged a day-long sit-in at the main gate of the district government complex against the......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A robber was killed while three villagers were injured in an encounter involving villagers and police near Pirmahal.According to Arrouti police, three robbers reached Chak Dohraabad......
VEHARI: Police recovered four-year-old boy and arrested three alleged kidnappers after a raid at a house in the suburban area of Burewala on Thursday evening.DPO Sadiq Ali Dogar told reporters that......
FAISALABAD: Police claimed on Thursday to have traced a ‘gang of midwives’ involved in kidnapping newborns and infants and selling them.Police recovered four children and said three others had passed......
SAHIWAL: A known town planner, property and prize bond dealer has gone missing for the last two days, family says.Mian Zaheer Abbas left his prize bond shop at Jinnah Chowk by his car to make payment......
OKARA: Two robbers were shot dead allegedly by the firing of their own accomplices during an encounter with police near Chak 2-D while two others managed to escape.Talking to the media, District......
KARACHI: In a meeting aimed at an ‘exchange of thoughts’, a delegation of traders and industrialists on Thursday put before Corps Commander Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar their concern over and suggestions......
KARACHI: Highlighting how public health and safety is being compromised on account of a haphazard increase in the number of private vehicles on city roads, participants in a seminar on Thursday urged......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday warned the provincial authorities that it would take action against the police officers responsible for the SHC siege on the occasion of Dr Zulfikar Mirza’s......
KARACHI: “The Arab Spring demolished two myths about the Arabs: one that they are passive and the other that the only alternative to authoritarian rule is Islamic radicalism,” said retired ambassador......
KARACHI: Holding the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement responsible for the water crisis, the Karachi chapter of the Jamaat-i-Islami on Thursday announced a plan to stage a......
KARACHI: The Mut-tahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has said the completion of the K-IV project is crucial to solve water crisis in the metropolis and accused the national leadership of ignoring the......
KARACHI: A strike called by doctors and paramedics of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) on Thursday sent thousands of patients unattended......
BADIN: An elderly couple seriously injured during a police raid on their house on Wednesday was handcuffed at the Hyderabad Civil Hospital and several other villagers, including a 70-year-old man,......
LARKANA: Newly appointed Home Minister Suhail Anwar Siyal has said that the Rangers-led operation against terrorists will continue and criminals will be crushed with an iron hand. He rejected the......
HYDERABAD: Like other parts of the country, the 17th anniversary of ‘Yaum-i-Takbeer’ was celebrated on Thursday in Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Sukkur and some other parts of Sindh.In Hyderabad, PML-N......
KARACHI: Warisan-i-Shuhda Committee Shikarpur chairman Maulana Maqsood Ali Domki has appealed to the Sindh government to implement the 22-point agreement it had signed with the committee on Feb 19 as......
NEW DELHI: A 23-year-old economics graduate was crowned on Thursday maharaja of a centuries-old royal family in southern India in an elaborate ceremony involving 40 priests and attended by 1,000......
COPENHAGEN: Several Nobel Peace Prize winners on Thursday called for an end to the persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, describing it as “nothing less than genocide,” and appealed for......
BEIRUT: A rebel coalition led by the Syrian affiliate of Al Qaeda stormed and seized the last regime-held city in Idlib province on Thursday, as Iraq exhumed the remains of 470 jihadist victims.The......
THE HAGUE: The world’s chemical watchdog said on Thursday that 90 per cent of the global chemical weapons stockpile has been destroyed, calling it a “major milestone”.The stockpiles included caches......
BANGKOK: The proportion of people suffering from hunger in the Asia-Pacific region has fallen by half in the last 25 years, the United Nation’s food body said on Thursday.Using 1990 as a base year,......
NEW DELHI: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh this week gave an hour-long lecture on handling the Indian economy to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi claimed on......
COLOMBO: Prospects for completion of the Colombo Port City project brightened on Wednesday after the Sri Lankan cabinet approved a proposal by the prime minister to set up a committee to look into......
PARIS: British Prime Minister David Cameron called for “flexible and imaginative” reforms from the EU as he swung through Paris on Thursday on a tour of Europe to lobby for changes to the 28-nation......
HOUSTON: Many Texas cities remain in danger though a barrage of deadly thunderstorms has tapered, as officials warn about the possibility of more flooding from rain-swollen rivers.The storms and......
BEIJING: China accused the United States on Thursday of threatening to sow “chaos” in the Asia-Pacific region by inciting countries whose territorial claims in the South China Sea clash with those......
UNITED NATIONS: A top United Nations official tasked with monitoring the way children are affected by armed conflict has recommended placing the Israeli military on a shortlist of terror groups that......
WASHINGTON: As many as 22 people in South Korea and four US lab workers may have been exposed to anthrax after the American military accidentally shipped out at least one live sample, officials......
HYDERABAD: Eating onions, lying in the shade and splashing into rivers, Indians were doing whatever they could to stay cool during a brutal heat wave that has killed more than 1,400 in the past......
LONDON: The notion that young women are travelling to Syria solely to become “jihadi brides” is simplistic and hinders efforts to prevent other girls from being radicalised, new research......
LEEDS: Ben Stokes will find himself the centre of attention when England face his native New Zealand in the second Test at Headingley on Friday.His 85-ball hundred, the fastest Test century ever......
LAHORE: Though Zimbabwe will be without in-form Elton Chigumbura in the second ODI today, Pakistan, after surviving the scare in the series opener, will have no respite as the hosts would need to......
Zimbabwe cricket team’s visit to Pakistan has come like a breath of fresh air for the supporters of Pakistan cricket who have been waiting for the last six years to watch their own players performing......
ZURICH: Shame and humiliation have been brought on FIFA following the turbulent events of the last two days which included the arrest of leading football officials at their Zurich hotel, the world......
ZURICH: UEFA president Michel Platini delivered one of his most emotional and animated performances since his playing days when he said it was time for Sepp Blatter to quit as president of FIFA with......
JOHANNESBURG: South African Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula on Thursday denied allegations that huge bribes were paid to win the right to host the 2010 World Cup, saying that public money had not been......
SYDNEY: The first cracks in Asia’s support for embattled FIFA boss Sepp Blatter emerged on Thursday when Australia’s federation announced it would be voting for a new president at Friday’s......
LONDON: Worried that their reputations will be tarnished by their links to FIFA, major sponsors are demanding that football’s global governing body clean up its act, with Visa even warning it is......
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States of meddling in the affairs of football’s governing body FIFA and hinted that its corruption investigation is part of an attempt to......
DUBAI: Qatar is keeping quiet about the American and Swiss raids that have rocked FIFA and thrown another unwelcome spotlight on the tiny Gulf nation’s hosting of the 2022 World Cup.The Supreme......
WARSAW: Sevilla retained their Europa League title and lifted the trophy for a record fourth time amid a cascade of tears and ticker tape after securing a 3-2 victory over Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in......
ISLAMABAD: Former Test fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz on Thursday said the current crop of Pakistan bowlers need to deliver more as they are not the same they used to be in the department of bowling......
PARIS: Novak Djokovic came through an injury scare Thursday and made his way into the third round at the French Open by beating Gilles Muller 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.The top-ranked Serb slipped near the end of......
LAHORE: Sindh crafted a 3-0 win against Punjab (Whites) while Army and Wapda played a thrilling 1-1 draw in the third All-Pakistan Fatima Jinnah Women Gold Cup hockey tournament at the District......
ISLAMABAD: Unseeded players Hamza Bin Asif and Aman Atiq booked their places in the under-18 semi-finals of the Pakistan Tennis Federation Junior Ranking tournament.In the first quarter-final played......
KARACHI: After experiencing shock elimination in the knockout stage one after the other, Pakistan ‘A’ and ‘B’ teams conjured up emphatic victories over their respective opponents in their opening......
LEEDS: England captain Alastair Cook may be on the verge of breaking Graham Gooch’s England Test runs record but he insisted on Thursday that his mentor was still in a class of his own.Cook,......
LAHORE: Muslim Gymkhana has announced the teams of Inzamam-ul-Haq XI and Taufeeq Umer XI for the 45th Annual Festival cricket match of the Gymkhana at the Bagh-e-Jinnah ground here on June 3.After......
ISLAMABAD: Except for four lucky ministries, the government has either reduced or kept unchanged the allocations to others for the next fiscal year under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP......
KARACHI: Aggressive dollar buying by the State Bank from the inter-bank market has put the exchange rate under its influence, keeping the greenback around Rs102, market sources said on Thursday.The......
ISLAMABAD: The Centre on Thursday assured the provinces of increased allocations for federally funded provincial projects based on their importance and viability.Sources in the Planning Commission......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan house financing is less than half a per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) which is one of the lowest in the world.“We currently have a shortfall of 9 million housing units.......
KARACHI: The earlier day’s rally proved short-lived as the investors scrambled to seek an exit from the market, pulling the KSE-100 index down by 79.11 points (0.24 per cent) to settle at 32,763.48......
KARACHI: Pakistan is becoming more attractive for the United States as a trade partner and an investment destination, said Raymond Ellis, Vice President of the Global Business Development Division of......
KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $17.494 billion during the week ending May 22 compared to $17.749bn the previous week, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on......
DRESDEN: Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven economic powers discussed ways to revive the faltering global recovery on Thursday as the United States leant on Europe to reach a deal to avert a......
Online payment solutionKARACHI: Easypaisa, a joint venture of Tameer Microfinance Bank and Telenor Pakistan, has developed an end-to-end online payment solution to facilitate different payment......
DHAKA: Two garment factories in Bangladesh on Thursday became the first to be declared safe under a scheme set up to prevent a repeat of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters.The owners of......
KARACHI: The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) of the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has recently initiated 16 inquiries against undertakings violating Section 10 of the Competition Act,......
KARACHI: All Pakistan Motorcycle Spare Parts Importers and Dealers Association (APMSPIDA) on Thursday urged the government to reduce the import duty from 35 per cent to 20pc on spare parts and......
KARACHI: Trading remained slow and restricted on the cotton market on Thursday amid falling cotton stocks held by ginners.Some needy spinners did get hold of quality lint but they could not get their......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures rallied to a two-week high on Thursday as traders took advantage of a falling ringgit, supported by gains in competing markets and signs that the El Nino......
CARACAS: Venezuela and Russia’s top oil producer, Rosneft, have agreed on around $14 billion in investment in the South American Opec country’s oil and gas sector, President Nicolas Maduro......
LONDON: The North American oil boom is proving resilient despite low oil prices, producer group Opec said in its biggest and most detailed report this year, suggesting the global oil glut could......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: A woman and a man were killed in the name of honour in a village in Nasirabad district.Babul Khan opened fire on his sister and her alleged paramour in Goth Manzoor Umrani when he......
ISLAMABAD: The decision by an all-party conference (APC) on Thursday to form a parliamentary committee to oversee the implementation of China- Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project can become a......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Belarus vowed on Thursday to build a broad-based, substantive and long-term relationship in all fields, including trade, economic, education, defence and culture.This was......
LAHORE: About 100,000 Pakistanis have lost their ‘nationality’ as the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has either blocked their computerised national identity cards (CNICs) or......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan unequivocally condemned all attacks on and violence against journalists in the performance of their professional duties.Participating in a debate on Protection of......
QUETTA: A man was gunned down in the Eastern Bypass area on Thursday.Police said attackers on a motorcycle shot dead a man sitting in a hotel and escaped.The body of Rozi Khan Tarakai was shifted to......
ISLAMABAD: Warning that conspiracies were being hatched to create an East Pakistan-like situation, the newly elected chairman of the Senate’s standing committee on interior, Rehman Malik, said on......
KARACHI: Three convicted hijackers of a Pakistan International Airlines aircraft were hanged in Hyderabad and Karachi prisons on Thursday on the 17th anniversary of the country’s nuclear tests in......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) ordered the management of Bol Television on Thursday to stop their transmission until the directors of their parent company......
KARACHI: A retired official of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), who was accused of being involved in default of over Rs140 million but whose name was ultimately cleared, is being appointed......
QUETTA: Mayor of Quetta Metropolitan Corporation (QMC) Dr Kalimullah disclosed on Thursday that QMC’s only 550 employees, out of 1,957 had been performing their duties.During a meeting with the......
GWADAR: A strike was observed in different areas of the Makran region on Thursday on the 17th anniversary of nuclear tests conducted by Pakistan on May 28, 1998, in Rasko area of the Chagai......
ISLAMABAD: The recently conducted selection process for appointment of community welfare attaches in Pakistani missions abroad has apparently become controversial after a number of candidates......
GWADAR: A councillor survived a grenade attack here on Thursday night.Police said that a grenade was thrown into the house of Councillor Sher Ali, who belongs to the Balochistan National Party......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Thursday, calling on the centre to accommodate approximately 5,000 qualified engineers belonging to the province in federal......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) decided on Thursday to file a reference against former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in the rental power projects scam. A NAB’s executive......
QUETTA: The Balochistan region of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has recovered Rs10 million embezzled by the officials of Habib Bank.The director general of NAB’s Balochistan region, retired......
CHRONICLES of carnage rarely differ; their time, date, season mere variables. But with each, we are more permanently damaged. There are survivors, tales of lives extinguished and debris of the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hinted on Thursday that it was sticking to its deadline of Dec 31 for the repatriation of Afghan refugees to be completed.“According to our information, no new MoU has been signed......
ISLAMABAD: Doubts expressed by the political leadership over the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor were partially addressed by the government on Thursday and an all-party conference held at the prime......
ISLAMABAD: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government defended parliament in the Supreme Court on Thursday and said when it amended the constitution, it exercised constituent power and not legislative.Senior......
ISLAMABAD: In a surprising development, the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) expressed reservations on Thursday over the outcome of the 2013 general elections and said the results were......
A REVIEW by the country’s political and military leadership of the progress made under the National Action Plan has resulted in an unsurprising though troubling admission: in key areas of NAP, the......
THE vein of obdurate misogyny that runs through society has been unable to come to terms with any gains, however halting, made on women’s rights in this country. One of the most consistent offenders......
FIFA, the world’s football governing body, has been embroiled in a spate of controversies over the last four years. However, the latest scandal to hit the high-profile organisation is easily the most......
A NATIONAL budget should be the embodiment of an overall economic vision of a government. Rather than being a mere collection of numbers worked out on the basis of taking the previous year’s......
THE frontiers are being pushed. Things are moving beyond simple statements and beyond the usual heat of speeches on television screens. There are hints — broad ones — that the push for change and......
RUMANA Husain’s recently published Street Smart: Professionals on the Street comes as a reminder of how we are losing the city where many of us have lived and worked for most of our lives. Karachi is......
BETWEEN 2012 and now, four bloggers in Bangladesh have fallen victim to the wrath of extremists who choose violence to articulate their differences. It is only very recently that in Bangladesh the......
