PESHAWAR: At least four suspected militants were killed when a US drone targeted a vehicle in Shawal Tehsil of North Waziristan Agency, near the Afghan border, late on Monday.According to......
OTTAWA: A Pakistani citizen, charged with being a member of a banned sectarian group, will be deported from Canada next month after being caught with a cache of firearms, an immigration hearing heard......
LAGOS: Around 69 people were burnt to death in southeast Nigeria after a petrol tanker lost control, rammed into a busy bus station and burst into flames, the Red Cross and police said on Monday.“The......
PESHAWAR: Inspector General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Nasir Durrani told DawnNews on Monday that First Information Report (FIR) was filed against Awami National Party central general secretary Mian Iftikhar......
Ninth-ranked Pakistan has stayed in touching distance of seventh-ranked West Indies and eighth-ranked Bangladesh in the Reliance ICC ODI Team Rankings after completing a 2-0 series victory over......
LAHORE: Pakistan gave a huge sigh of relief Monday after Zimbabwe's high-stakes, high-security tour ended without major incident, the first top-level international cricket in six years.Cricket-mad......
New Zealand thrashed England's bowlers for quick runs to leave the hosts facing a record chase to win the second Test at Headingley on Monday's fourth day.The Black Caps extended their overnight 338......
KARACHI: As reports of rifts within his party thrive, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari returned to Karachi Monday after being away from the country for nearly seven......
ISLAMABAD: The chairman of National Assembly committee on foreign affairs, Sardar Awais Leghari, said Pakistan should hand over the Afghan Taliban leaders demanded by Kabul — if they are in Pakistan......
In spite of an increase in the education budget, there are more than 7,000 multi-grade (from class 1 to 5), single room schools with just a single teacher in Balochistan. These schools have no......
Zoe Viccaji's debut album Dareeche won the Best Mixed Album (Non-Film) Award at the Indian Recording Arts (IRA) Awards on May 30. The IRA Awards recognise under-celebrated technical expertise in......
ISLAMABAD: The National Economic Council in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at PM Office on Monday approved a Gross Domestic Product growth target of 5.5 per cent for the upcoming......
TEHRAN: An Iranian officer has been killed near the Iraqi city of Ramadi while advising Iraqi forces on how to recapture it from the Islamic State (IS) group, state media reported Monday.Jassem......
When Shehzad Roy went from being a singer to an education activist his transition was smooth and seamless. As he set about to reform government schools with his NGO Zindagi Trust, his next album......
RAHIMYAR KHAN: Three children, aged between 2 to 8 years, died of wounds suffered during an attack by five to six dogs in a field situated in the outskirts of Rahimyar Khan's Chak-80, Feroza on......
The Pakistani economy is looking good. After years of downturns and rough patches, things appear to be finally moving in the right direction.The World Bank believes that the growth rate should be......
A wife, mother, painter and avid footballer, Sofia Bilgrami is now set to take center stage as a designer. Nothing about the budding entrepreneur is ordinary; by launching her label, Sofetskiya,......
KUNDUZ: The commander known as Pakhsaparan, or the “wall breaker”, barked out commands at his bandolier-draped fighters, part of a patchwork of anti-Taliban militias in northern Afghanistan seeking......
LAHORE: More important than any result in the last two weeks for the Pakistan Cricket Board was its demonstration of tight security during Zimbabwe's tour, the first by any top sporting team since a......
I have changed five Internet connections in the course of a year, broadband, mifi, cable net, fibre optic and evo-shevo you name it, each one worse than the other.It’s as if my workplace is entirely......
All of us complain about the education system in the country and say we want things to change but so we see enough of that sentiment in pop culture?Addressing that issue, musical campaign Gao Suno......
ISLAMBERG: Just beyond the gated entrance to the tiny Catskills community of Holy Islamberg, population 200, cows graze and ducks glide on a tranquil pond. Modest houses of wood and cinder block sit......
Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Najam Sethi has withdrawn his candidature for the International Cricket Council (ICC) presidency, making way for a former Pakistan Test cricketer to take......
MUZAFFARABAD: Arshad Rashid thinks he has an answer to his country's energy shortages.For a few hours a day, a few days a month, the villager in Katahi, about 50 kilometres outside of Muzaffarabad,......
PESHAWAR: The father of deceased Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) activist Habibullah said in court on Monday that he was pressured into registering a case against Awami National Party (ANP) central......
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court in Karachi on Monday issued death warrant for condemned prisoner Shafqat Hussain, and ordered his execution on June 9.Superintendent Central Jail Karachi wrote a......
KUNDUZ: The United States is in talks with Qatar on the status of five Taliban figures who may be free to return to Afghanistan a year after their release in a US prisoner swap, the head of the CIA......
DHAKA: Bangladeshi police on Monday charged 41 people including the owner of the Rana Plaza factory complex with murder over the building's collapse in 2013 that killed more than 1,100 people.The......
ISLAMABAD: A special customs court hearing the currency smuggling case against Ayyan Ali Monday sent the supermodel on a judicial remand for the twelfth time since her arrest on March 14.Ayyan Ali......
SRINAGAR: Police in India-held Kashmir on Monday claimed that four suspected militants were killed during a sixteen-hour gun battle with Indian army personnel which ended late on Sunday, foiling an......
PESHAWAR: Three political administration officials were killed in a blast Monday in South Waziristan's Raghzai area.According to a source, Political Muharar Farooq Wazir and his two associates were......
PESHAWAR: Poll-related violence continues in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Monday as 11 people were killed and several injured in Tank and Kohat districts.Last night, eight people were killed......
PESHAWAR: The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Monday claimed responsibility for the killing of Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) member of Punjab Assembly (MPA) Rana Shamshad who was shot......
KARACHI: Karachi-based utility K-Electric has sold 22 billion rupee ($215.9 million) worth of seven-year Islamic bonds, the largest listed corporate sukuk in the country, the firm said in a bourse......
MUZAFFARABAD: At least three labourers were killed and 10 others, including two Chinese engineers, were wounded Monday when a blast occurred inside a tunnel at a construction site for a major dam......
LAHORE: The Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems across Pakistan are consuming about 2,000MW of electricity, while substandard electrical equipment and home appliances are proving to be a......
GIVEN the complexity and sprawl of the local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday, few expected that this first-time exercise under the new LG system would be entirely......
I WOULD like to ask the PMDC Islamabad as to why CME hours are included in the renewal of PMDC degree on the instructions of doctors working abroad (Oman and Saudi Arabia) who have dual nationality......
STATE agencies behave in a way that gives an impression that all criminals, terrorists and target killers hail from just one party or community, whereas we all know that the killings cut across......
THIS is apropos your editorial ‘Budget in the dark’ (May 28). An ambitious revenue collection target is always set, but it is never achieved because of massive tax evasion with the collusion of FBR......
DR Har Gobind Khorana was the Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine in 1968. He had done his Master’s in 1945 from Punjab University’s Institute of Chemistry.He obtained his doctorate from the......
PEOPLE who believe in the supremacy of the law were shocked to see footage on various TV channels of a group of masked policemen beating supporters of Dr Zulfikar Mirza, ex-Sindh home minister, in......
MANY news channels show funny clips taken from the Internet. I suggest to our TV news channels to inform the viewers about the latest progress of development projects instead of showing outdated......
RAFIA Zakaria, in her article ‘Art, history and artefact’ (May 27), observes that “they (Taliban and Daesh) are proving correct the thesis that the only way to preserve the past of former colonised......
EVERY advertisement, pamphlet, sticker and signboard of IBA, Sukkur, depicts its motto ‘Merit, quality, and excellence’. However, it seemed baseless when I met a delegation of 300 people representing......
THERE is an Islamabad Model College for Boys in Chak Shehzad. It is situated just 50 yards from Park Road. This college has 800 students on its roll and conducts classes from VI to FA and FSc.For the......
THE first transgender person, Manabi Bandyopadhyay, will join Krishnagar Women’s College as principal in India on June 9. She experienced several ups and downs in life but faced all her problems......
PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party chairman Aftab Ahmad Sherpao has condemned incidents of firing during Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local government elections and demanded formation of a judicial commission on the......
PESHAWAR: The tripartite alliance of ANP, JUI-F and PPP has accused the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government of resorting to the worst kind of rigging in the May 30 local government elections and warned to......
UPPER DIR/TIMERGARA: The ruling Jamaat-i-Islami has won majority seats in both Upper and Lower Dir districts in the local government elections, according to unofficial results.In Upper Dir, JI bagged......
PESHAWAR: Peshawar district returning officer on Sunday announced re-polling in 26 polling stations in different areas of the provincial capital where the voting process was either suspended on the......
PESHAWAR: The local government election has been a replay of the general elections where Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf suffered due to internal rifts and nepotism in distribution of election......
ABBOTTABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-N regained its position in the district by getting 20 seats in the Saturday’s local body polls followed by 18 seats of the ruling PTI.Jamaat-i-Islami, which is......
SWABI: The Awami National Party (ANP), which had utterly failed in the 2013 general elections in its stronghold here in Swabi district, has staged a grand comeback in the Saturday’s local government......
UPPER DIR/MINGORA: The women in Upper Dir, after several decades, cast their votes in the Saturday’s local government elections.However, a clash over the issue of women vote left at least seven......
NOWSHERA: The police arrested the ANP’s central secretary general Mian Iftikhar Hussain after a teenaged worker of PTI was killed while celebrating victory of a party candidate at Pabbi early on......
PESHAWAR: A day after the local government polls, the Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) in its preliminary report pointsout irregularities and mismanagement as the major issues reported by its......
PESHAWAR: The death toll from the election related incidents climbed to seven on Sunday as two more people, including a woman, were killed in Peshawar and Nowshera.Shabana Shaheen, wife of Haji......
ABBOTTABAD: Three people, among them a newly elected councillor, were killed and four others suffered injuries when a police van skidded off the road and fell into a deep ravine here on......
RAWALPINDI: Efforts by the inspector general of police Punjab to appoint hardworking and reputed inspectors as the station house officers across the province after getting their clearance from......
TAXILA: Two persons were killed after being hit by a speeding tractor trolley near Wah Garden area in limits of Hassanabdal police station on Sunday.Police sources said Danial Alam and his friend......
ISLAMABAD: Capital police have arrested four people allegedly involved in various murder cases and also caught five outlaws from various areas of the city.The police also recovered 1.7kg hashish, 20......
ISLAMABAD: A team of ‘Tobacco Smoke Free Capital’ visited Saint Thomas Church in Sector G-7/2 on Sunday to create awareness among people against the hazards of using tobacco.The visit was part of a......
RAWALPINDI: Yogurt has been popular in South Asia for as long as anyone can remember. From easing ulcers to curing hair fall, yogurt is a one-solution-fits-all, especially in Punjab.However, a new......
RAWALPINDI: The Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) has sought help from the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) in getting the banks of Leh Nullah cleared of the construction material waste -......
SIALKOT: The Pasrur Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) has auctioned 144 five-decades-old trees in the Nawaz Sharif Park allegedly for peanuts over which social, religious, business, educational......
BAHAWALPUR: The Bahawalpur airport on Sunday handled the Multan passengers traffic due to the suspension of operation at Multan airport on Saturday night. According to PIA Station Manager Mansoor......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan wants its snow leopard back that was sent to the Bronx Zoo in New York eight years ago.At a meeting on Sunday, Secretary Forest Gilgit-Baltistan Sajad Haider requested the Federal......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has not felt the need to increase the development budgets of the Ministry of Federal Education and the Higher Education Commission (HEC) in the forthcoming fiscal......
RAWALPINDI: Imported glass sheets have been used to build the metro bus stations but there is no cooling system for passengers in the summer days.Even the roofs of the stations are not heatproof and......
ISLAMABAD: Secretariat police have registered a case against the owners and contractor of an under-construction hotel after two labourers fell to their deaths on Saturday.Charges of negligence and......
ISLAMABAD: The executive council of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has approved the appointment of Dr Mohammad Naeem Qureshi as registrar.According to the AIOU spokesman, the new registrar, who......
ISLAMABAD: Breast cancer continues to account for the highest number of new cancer cases among women in Pakistan while lung cancer has the highest number of incident cases for men. However, as a......
BAHAWALPUR: The Baghdadul Jadid police on Sunday registered a case against 12 students for the alleged kidnapping and torturing of two students Muhammad Irfan Aslam and Muhammaed Usman of Islamia......
LAHORE: A five-day training workshop for non-teaching staff of six public universities of Punjab concluded at the Government College University (GCU) here late on Saturday.Arranged by the Higher......
LAHORE: The Punjab prosecution department may face another human resource shock as majority of its senior prosecutors are expected to apply for the 158 seats of additional sessions judges announced......
GUJRAT: The University of Gujrat (UoG) has planned to shift the administrative and academic process to automation mode from the manual system of paperwork in three phases in the next six......
BAHAWALPUR: The Bahawalpur airport on Sunday handled the Multan passengers traffic due to the suspension of operation at Multan airport on Saturday night.According to PIA Station Manager Mansoor......
SIALKOT: The Pasrur Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) has auctioned 144 five-decades-old trees in the Nawaz Sharif Park allegedly for peanuts over which social, religious, business, educational......
GUJRAT: Though several mainstream political parties are in the run for NA-108 by-poll, the actual contest, according to local observers, is among the candidates of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), PPP......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Some employees of the local Sheikh Zayed Medical College Hospital (SZMCH) are working on their seats against the rules and regulations.After the retirement of Prof Dr Muhammad Saeed......
SAHIWAL: Around 20 telephone booths have been set up in the Central Jail Sahiwal to allow prisoners to talk to their families and lawyers under surveillance.Punjab Prisons Inspector General Main......
LAHORE: Notwithstanding opposition by its finance managers, the Nawaz government is likely to introduce some “pro-people” measures in the budget to prove its claims that the economy has improved......
LAHORE: As the position of the five telecom operators has remained unchanged after the biometric verification of SIMs, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is ‘reluctant’ to disclose the number......
LAHORE: Three people were electrocuted to death in an under-construction building in Shalimar Town on Sunday.Bashir Ahmed, 55, his brother Naseer Ahmed, 48, and nephew Ahmed Nawaz, 18, of Shalimar......
LAHORE: A stray bullet injured a teenage girl when she was sitting on the rooftop of her house in the Kot Lakhpat area.Irsa, 14, daughter of Kashif of Ittehad Colony, was sitting with her family on......
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has been given the go-ahead to introduce an amendment to the Integrated Master Plan of Lahore (IMPL-2021) under which the city’s north-western and......
LAHORE: A dust storm lashed Lahore on Sunday evening, blowing away heat that earlier gripped the city despite scattered light rain in the morning.The maximum gust of the storm was 70km per hour. It......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif says a major programme of construction and rehabilitation of rural roads has been started which will be a ‘game changer’ for the rural economy.He was presiding......
SHEIKHUPURA: A woman was allegedly electrocuted by her husband over dowry dispute at Sadhan village on Sunday.Nisar tied the knot with Shabnam about three months ago and the woman did not bring the......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) principal seat and its allied benches decided 7,957 pending cases in the first two weeks of May.According to available LHC statistics, the court decided 535 old......
LAHORE: The vice-chancellor of the Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) could not get herself appointed as Professor Emeritus in the recent meeting of its Syndicate, it was learnt.“The sitting......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) provincial organiser Chaudhry Sarwar says his party will surprise its rivals in the upcoming local government (LG) elections in Punjab.He was talking to......
LAHORE: Activists of the Tehreek Azadi Kashmir staged a demonstration outside the Press Club here on Sunday to show solidarity with the Kashmiris who had hoisted Pakistani flags in their rallies in......
KARACHI: Japanese traditional music depicts many shades of everyday life in Japan and to introduce this distinct and rich tradition, the Japanese consulate general here hosted an evening with......
KARACHI: A 33-year-old man from Hub town in Balochistan died of Naegleria fowleri germ, commonly known as the ‘brain-eating amoeba’, at the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK) after having remained under......
KARACHI: The deserted corridors of the Orangi Pilot Project-Research and Training Institute (OPP-RTI) were a distressing sight to behold. Once the hub of much activity that saw researchers, social......
KARACHI: Despite a lapse of over six weeks, no action has been initiated by the aviation regulator as well as by the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) against the influential pilot, Qasim Hayat,......
LARKANA: The Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party (STP) took out rallies in different cities of Sindh on Sunday in its campaign for getting Sindhi recognised as one of the national languages and condemning the......
HYDERABAD: Sindh organiser of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Dr Arif Ali commenting on the Karachi corps commander’s statement about governance in Sindh and his recent meeting with traders to......
MIRPURKHAS: About 250 invitees to a wedding including women and children fell unconscious after eating dinner presented by their hosts at Amina marriage lawn in Digri town late on Saturday night.They......
KARACHI: With the stitched head, multiple fractures in a leg and an arm, and a big red spot in one eye, 22-year-old Owais is still lucky to have survived a serious road traffic accident. He is......
KARACHI: Three suspected robbers were shot dead in two separate incidents in the city on Sunday.Officials at the Sir Syed police station said two men entered a home in Sector 11-B, North Karachi, and......
DHAKA: A fire broke out at a garment factory in Bangladesh on Sunday and a fire department official said fire-fighters were trying to put out the blaze.It was not known whether anyone was trapped......
PARIS: The anti-IS coalition will meet in Paris on Tuesday after a series of shock battlefield gains by the jihadists, with Iraq under pressure to step up its fight by being more inclusive of the......
“FRANK is just like you. Just like me. Only bigger.” — George Schlatter, a friendLet’s get one thing straight. There can’t be another Frank. These days, you don’t operate on that plane and get away......
KILLER floods in Texas. The terrible suffering of Rohingyas in the seas of Southeast Asia. A rampant self-styled Islamic State. The Queen’s speech outlining the Conservative government’s legislative......
KATHMANDU: Thousands of children affected by earthquake in Nepal returned to schools on Sunday, a working day in the Himalayan nation, five weeks after the disaster killed more than 8,600 people and......
DUBAI: Aircraft from a Saudi-led coalition bombed Yemen’s Houthi outposts throughout the country on Sunday, residents said, while Yemen’s government in exile said the militia was in talks with the......
NEW DELHI: India will only buy 36 Rafale fighter jets as they are “way too expensive”, the defence minister said on Sunday, dashing lingering French hopes of a larger deal that has been years in the......
NANJING: The revolutionary Solar Impulse 2 aircraft took off early on Sunday for a six-day, six-night flight over the Pacific Ocean, the most ambitious leg of its quest to circumnavigate the globe......
SINGAPORE: China on Sunday rejected US demands to stop reclamation works in the South China Sea, saying it was exercising its sovereignty and using the controversial outposts to fulfil international......
KRAKOW: Colorful dragons made from paper, fabric and plastic came from around the world to the Polish city of Krakow for the 15th annual Dragon Festival.The weekend festival began with an evening......
WASHINGTON: US police have shot and killed 385 people during the first five months of this year, a rate of more than two a day, the Washington Post has reported.The death rate is more than twice......
WASHINGTON: The US Senate started debating on Sunday a proposal to extend laws that provide legal cover to measures of national security, such as telephone surveillance.The laws that law-enforcers......
NEW YORK: A piece of mechanical equipment being lifted by a crane at a Manhattan office building broke free on Sunday morning and fell about 28 stories to the sidewalk below, causing minor injuries......
GENEVA: US Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in a bicycle crash on Sunday, apparently after hitting a curb, and scrapped the rest of a four-nation trip that included an international......
DARUS SALAAM: Elections in Burundi should be delayed by at least a month and a half and all violence must stop, East African leaders said on Sunday after a regional summit on the crisis.The leaders,......
LAHORE: Pakistan cricket hungry fans defied fear. The jubilant spectators while shrugging off all security fears raised in wake of a failed suicide attack carried out during the Friday’s ODI thronged......
ROSEAU: West Indies officially turned the page on the past on Saturday when Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the team’s second-highest run-maker, was as expected left out of the Test squad to face......
LAHORE: A top Zimbabwe cricket official on Sunday expressed delight in contributing to the revival of international cricket in Pakistan after a six-year hiatus, hoping it will open more doors for......
LEEDS: Stuart Broad starred with both bat and ball before Mark Wood took two wickets to give England the edge in a see-saw second Test against New Zealand at Headingley on Sunday.Broad ensured first......
BARCELONA: A magical Lionel Messi goal, the first of a personal double, led Barcelona to the Copa del Rey title with a 3-1 victory over Athletic Bilbao on Saturday, giving the Catalans their second......
MILAN: A last-gasp equaliser saw champions Juventus held to a 2-2 draw at Hellas Verona in their last Serie A match of the season as Luca Toni netted again to leave him on the verge of clinching the......
LONDON: Britain said Europe should consider boycotting future World Cups if Sepp Blatter doesn’t quit as head of football’s governing body over a corruption scandal, while Swiss authorities denied......
LONDON: Holders Arsenal won the FA Cup for a record 12th time on Saturday, outclassing Aston Villa 4-0 at Wembley with stunning goals from Theo Walcott and Alexis Sanchez setting up their one-sided......
PARIS: Paris St Germain became the first French side to win the domestic treble after Edinson Cavani’s goal secured a 1-0 French Cup final victory over Ligue 2 team AJ Auxerre on Saturday.Uruguay......
BERLIN: VfL Wolfsburg scored three times in 16 minutes to come back from a goal down to beat Borussia Dortmund 3-1 to win the German Cup for the first time on Saturday, a fitting coronation after a......
PARIS: Kei Nishikori became the first Japanese man in more than 80 years to reach the quarter-finals at the French Open, breezing past Teymuraz Gabashvili of Russia 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 as rain played havoc......
MUGELLO (Italy): Jorge Lorenzo made it three straight wins with a dominant victory at the Italian Moto GP on Sunday, slashing Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi’s lead at the top of the overall......
KARACHI: Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) president retired Lt Gen Syed Arif Hasan on Sunday urged participants of the Olympic Council of Asia Administration Course to spread the knowledge that......
KARACHI: Both the teams of hosts Iran – A and B – set up a title clash after overcoming two Pakistan outfits in the semi-finals of third Asian Team Event snooker championship at Kish Island, Iran, on......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has no plan to initiate any new development scheme for sports in fiscal year 2015-16.According to budget documents available with Dawn, for fiscal year 2015-16, the......
EUGENE (Oregon): Pole vault world record holder Renaud Lavillenie cleared an impressive 6.05 metres and Justin Gatlin added the year’s fastest 200 to his resume at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond......
KARACHI: Tahir Ahmed became the new president of the Sindh Squash Association (SSA) in the quadrennial elections held at the Roshan Khan-Jahangir Khan squash complex on Sunday.He succeeded Tahir......
WHEN the first US export shipment of liquefied natural gas leaves the US Gulf Coast this year, gas trading will fulfil its long-held promise of going truly global.Cheniere Energy’s Sabine Pass......
PAKISTANIS who cannot afford the cost of a private education pay as much in taxes as a percentage of their earnings as perhaps those who compete for the number of private planes they own.The......
FACING the difficult task of balancing fiscal stabilisation with economic growth, the PML-N government’s third budget would involve around Rs270bn in fresh tax measures in order to increase the......
THE cut-off yields on Treasury bills dropped in the first auction to take place after the lowering of the deposit rate and the introduction of the central bank’s ‘target rate’ earlier on.The......
The rupee fell steeply against the dollar in the open market last week, while staying close to the 102-level in the interbank market.The gap between interbank and open market rates for the dollar......
THE State Bank of Pakistan’s twin decision to reduce the discount rate by 100 basis points and introduce a ‘target rate’ within an ‘interest rate corridor’ can best be described as commercial banks......
A new billionaire was created in China almost every week in the first quarter of this year, according to a report jointly released on last Tuesday by UBS AG and PricewaterhouseCoopers.James Chang,......
GHANDHARA Nissan Limited identifies its principal activities as the assembling and progressive manufacturing of Nissan passenger cars, Japanese UD trucks and buses, and the import and marketing of......
THE Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s promise of ‘change’ is not matched by its development performance in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The provincial government could utilise only Rs54bn, or 38pc, of its Rs139.8bn......
THE Shahbaz Sharif government’s scanty investment in developing South Punjab — the sub-region containing the vast majority of the province’s poor people — during the current year is scandalous.This......
IN an unprecedented move, the National Assembly’s standing committee on industries has directly sent a three-year-old sugar subsidy case to the National Accountability Bureau for investigation,......
Companies with female CFOs are 17.4pc less likely than other firms to set up tax shelters and less prone overall to ‘push the envelope’ on tax law, says a team led by Bill B. Francis of Rensselaer......
MOST political parties in India, except the left, are generally agreed on the need to sell off at least minority stake in public sector undertakings to raise funds for social sector projects and to......
IS it possible to have too much finance? Harmed by the aftermath of financial crises, enraged by bailouts of financial institutions, irritated by the generous remuneration, aghast at repeated......
BALOCHISTAN’S agriculture sector is set to get larger allocations in FY16, with focus on crop raising, mechanisation of farm and livestock activities and the development of fisheries.In FY15, the......
FARMERS are busy preparing their nurseries for paddy cultivation in Sindh, while the civil administration is trying to strictly enforce the ban on the sowing of rice on the left bank of the Indus in......
ISLAMABAD: The National Economic Council (NEC) is expected to approve on Monday nearly Rs1.6 trillion for the country’s consolidated development programme for the fiscal year 2015-16 after......
QUETTA: A complete strike was observed in Quetta city and several district headquarters of Balochistan on Sunday to denounce the Mastung massacre and express solidarity with the bereaved families.All......
QUETTA: Political and military leaderships vowed on Sunday to jointly fight terrorists who are killing innocent and unarmed people, labourers, passengers and schoolchildren in Balochistan.Speaking at......
KARACHI: Police claimed to have killed six robbers in three encounters in different parts of the city on Sunday.On a tip-off about the presence of suspected criminals, police raided a place in Landhi......
WASHINGTON: The United States and Pakistan, which begin the third round of their strategic dialogue in the US capital this week, will also look for a window for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s second......
KARACHI: Shahid Hayat Khan, the Federal Investigation Agency’s Sindh Director, claimed on Sunday that sufficient evidence had been collected against an information technology firm involved in a fake......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists headed by Rana Azeem has decided to hold protest rallies and sit-ins from Monday to demand withdrawal of restrictions on Bol TV channel.It also......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan raised one of his old demands yet again when he called for the resignation of all provincial chief election commissioners and said that the......
KOHAT: Three relatives of a candidate were killed and five others injured in an attack on his house here on Sunday night, police said.Zabeeullah of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl had arranged a party in......
NEW DELHI: Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Sunday there was no flip-flop in Delhi’s policy towards Pakistan nor was any engagement planned with Islamabad in the near future.She told a......
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be travelling to Israel, the first such visit by an Indian prime minister to the Jewish country with which bilateral defence cooperation is on an upswing,......
LAHORE: About 200 women religious scholars declared here on Sunday that honour killing is not allowed in Islam.Assembled at the Sheikhatul Hadith conference organised by the Tanzeem Ittehad-i-Ummat,......
MORE than 24 hours after the mass murder of over 20 Pakhtuns in Mastung on Friday night, the United Baloch Army claimed responsibility for the attack. The UBA is one of several separatist groups......
PESHAWAR: As unofficial results of local government elections continued to pour in from different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday night, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is leading in......
GUJRANWALA: A PML-N member of Punjab Assembly, his son and a friend were killed and his nephew was injured in an attack in Kamoki area on Sunday.Police said MPA Rana Shamshad Ahmed Khan, along with......
AT one stroke, some 100,000 individuals who defined themselves as Pakistanis have found that they have been shorn of their nationality.They comprise those whose computerised national identity cards......
GIVEN the state of turmoil through which much of the world seems currently to be passing, the news is inclined towards the grim. It isn’t often that consumers receive anything that even remotely......
NATIONAL progress is a universal aspiration but the root causes of why it eludes most countries remain a near-universal puzzle. People usually focus on immediate causes.Imagine a typically......
CONCEALING a wound does not heal it; in fact, it can make matters worse as the impression is given that the injured individual is fine and does not need any special attention.Something along those......
LAST week much hilarity ensued when the Times of India ran a story about a ‘spy’ pigeon, apparently from Pakistan, which had been detained in Pathankot in Indian Punjab. The offending avian......
EXACTLY a month after Sabeen Mahmud was murdered while driving home in Karachi, a small group of her friends and admirers met in a cosy Delhi basement to remember the extraordinary Pakistani......
