ZURICH: Sepp Blatter on Tuesday resigned as president of FIFA as a mounting corruption scandal engulfed world football's governing body.The 79-year-old Swiss official, FIFA president for 17 years and......
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Dr. Ishratul Ibad sought Citizen Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) Chairman Ahmed Chinoy's resignation on Tuesday, reported DawnNews.According to sources, the provincial......
It happened again. In an unfortunate incident which took place in Balochistan on Friday night, dozens of heavily armed gunmen wearing the uniforms of security forces (as described by eyewitnesses),......
As a precondition for returning to their homes, tribespeople who fled because of incessant Taliban violence and military attacks are facing a huge collective fine imposed by authorities in the......
ISLAMABAD: Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Chairman Zafar Hijazi said Tuesday that the commission can only take action against local IT company Axact after completion of......
According to findings by the crisis intervention team of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Collective in India's Telangana state, there have been 15 instances of 'corrective rapes'......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday said India’s reaction to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project was clear proof that the Indian leadership was not happy......
ROSEAU: West Indies and Australia commence a short Test series at Windsor Park Stadium in Dominica on Wednesday with the visitors favoured to extend their 20-year dominance over the Caribbean......
My mother used to make the most delicious Namkeen Gosht, but only once a year at Eid-ul-Azha, hence it was truly an Eid-to-Eid fare. I begged and pleaded but Ammi always said, 'Bakra Eid is just......
CAIRO: An Egyptian court Tuesday postponed its final ruling on ousted president Mohamed Morsi, who was sentenced to death along with dozens more over a mass jailbreak during the 2011 uprising.The......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will host the 36th Session of the D-8 Commission on June 4-5 in Islamabad.The meeting of the commission would be inaugurated by Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Foreign......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has dismissed India's concerns the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project saying it will go ahead with the project which will benefit the whole region.Zee News had quoted Indian......
Fans are always waiting for an opportunity to bombard their favourite celebrities with questions and Twitter happens to be the best means to do so. Following the famous trend of reaching out to fans......
PESHAWAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday ordered re-polling in the PK-95 constituency of Lower Dir in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to absence of women voters during the May 7......
DHAKA: A ban on using chairs in mosques has provoked outrage in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, with critics saying it will exclude the elderly and infirm from prayers.The Islamic Foundation, an......
PARIS: Rafael Nadal believes all the pressure will be on Novak Djokovic in Wednesday's French Open quarter-final with the nine-time champion dismissing the headline-grabbing collision as “not......
DHAKA: A ban on using chairs in mosques has provoked outrage in Bangladesh, with critics saying it will exclude the elderly and infirm from prayers.The Islamic Foundation, an autonomous government......
PARIS: Roger Federer's clash with fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka is the standout match as the quarter-finals begin at the French Open on Tuesday.Federer takes on his Davis Cup-winning team-mate on Court......
SYDNEY: Australian opening batsman Chris Rogers has been ruled out of this week's first Test against the West Indies with concussion after being struck on the helmet in the nets.Rogers took the hit......
HAVANA: Brazilian legend Pele backed Sepp Blatter's re-election as FIFA president despite the corruption scandal embroiling world football's governing body, saying it needed an “expert” chief.“I was......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A judicial magistrate on Tuesday handed over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Revenue Minister Ali Ameen Khan Gandapur to police on a one-day physical remand.The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)......
NEW YORK: Sepp Blatter's top lieutenant Jerome Valcke made $10 million in bank transactions to an account controlled by another high level FIFA official, The New York Times reported on Monday.US......
NEW DELHI: Indian police are investigating whether a group of occultists beheaded a 55-year-old man in the country's east as a sacrifice to the gods for a better harvest, an officer said Tuesday.The......
WASHINGTON DC: The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in partnership with the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) hosted a three-day event on Monday for the 67th World......
NEW DELHI: Ravi Shastri will lead India on their tour of Bangladesh later this month, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Tuesday, as deliberations continue over a permanent......
If one was to look up the definition of larger than life, finding Hassan Sheheryar Yasin’s name next to it would not come as a surprise.The HSY acronym no longer just represents a brand, it stands......
MAZAR SHARIF: Nine Afghan employees of a Czech aid organisation were killed when militants attacked their guesthouse in northern Afghanistan early on Tuesday, officials said.“Those killed in Zari......
PESHAWAR: Civil Judge Nowshera Abdul Wahab Qureshi on Tuesday granted bail to Awami National Party (ANP) central general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain in the case pertaining to the killing of a......
NEW DELHI: An Indian woman has accused a driver contracted with online taxi company Uber Technologies of trying to sexually harass her after she hailed his cab, prompting the US-based firm to suspend......
KABUL: A new study says civilian and military casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan total almost 149,000 people killed, with 162,000 seriously wounded.The study, called Costs of War and produced by......
RAWALAKOT: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Senator Sirajul Haq on Monday announced Rs1 billion reward for anyone who arrests Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Addressing a gathering in Azad Jammu and......
SHANGHAI: Rescuers fought bad weather on Tuesday as they searched for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a ship capsized on the Yangtze River in what was......
QUETTA: While chairing an All Parties Conference (APC) in Quetta on Tuesday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that enemies of Pakistan want to divide the nation."There are some who wish to make us......
The newly appointed chief executive of loss-making Malaysia Airlines said on Monday the carrier is "technically bankrupt", underlining the case for a restructuring to cut a third of jobs, scrap some......
THE way the lawyers’ community has handled the killing of their colleagues in Daska raises questions if judgements on crimes are to be decided in a court of law or on the streets.Praise should be for......
THE disclosure that the suspects of the Safoora Goth massacre were educated youth from well settled families came as a great surprise to many people.It is generally perceived, correctly to some......
MARKETING in Pakistan follows the principle that old formulas work. However, sometimes, the client and advertising agency goes a tad overboard.A TV commercial of a life insurance company portrays a......
Parents Day is observed on June 1 every year to acknowledge the unconditional love, attention and care lavished on every child by their mother and father.In September 2012, the UN declared June 1 as......
“This is with reference to “Widen the spectrum of audit” by M.I qbal Ghori (May 4).The learned writer proposes creating an independent financial reporting council (ifrc) in the forthcoming finance......
YOUR editorial ‘NAP going nowhere’ (May 29) is really a charge-sheet against the government, particularly the prime minister and the interior minister.The fact is that there is no will of the......
WHEN it comes to matters between Pakistan and India, even birds are not allowed to cross the international boundary. The Pakistani pigeon may not have been caught, injured, and prosecuted, had it a......
LAHORE: The Kisan Board Pakistan (KBP) on Monday protested against, what it called, rising cost of production, declining cost of outputs and increasing poverty among the farmers in the country.In......
LAHORE: A Chinese consortium will invest $1.8 billion in the Pakistan Railways (PR) infrastructure to facilitate transportation of fuel to the sites where coal power projects are being installed.An......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Lahore, on Monday filed a reference against eight officials of the Railways, Pakistan Steel Mills and two contractors in a ‘pig iron case’ in the......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday sought assistance from attorney general office on a petition seeking action against an ex-parliamentarian for writing anti-Pakistan slogan on a ballot paper......
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has welcomed the conclusion of local council elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) but also expressed its concern that the right of women to cast......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leaders have condemned an increase in petroleum prices ahead of Ramazan and called it an anti-people decision.Calling the decision a “pre-budget present” for......
LAHORE: PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain has termed the arrest and handcuffing of Awami National Party (ANP) leader Mian Iftikhar Husain “highly regrettable”.Talking to Ghulam Ahmad Bilour on......
WASHINGTON: The US nuclear deal with India has affected the strategic stability that existed in South Asia before the deal, says Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry.The foreign secretary, who will......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan said on Monday that maintaining law and order during the local bodies’ elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was the sole responsibility of the provincial......
PESHAWAR: Thirteen suspected militants were killed in a clash with security forces in Sawkai area of Dattakhel district in North Waziristan on Monday.Sources said that some `militants’ attacked a......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman visited the headquarters of People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) China on Monday.A smartly turned out contingent presented him a......
LAHORE: Four workers were injured when a gas cylinder exploded in a shop in Sherakot here on Monday.Wasif, Bashir, Majid and Rizwan were working at a welding shop when its cylinder exploded with a......
LAHORE: Once active and energetic, Punjabi poet Nasreen Anjum Bhatti has now become frail and weak to such an extent that it has become difficult to even recognise her.Well known for composing poetry......
LAHORE: The PPP and the PML-Q have condemned the killing of PML-N MPA Rana Shamshad and criticised the Punjab government for the deteriorating law and order situation in the province.The PPP has also......
LAHORE: Inspector General (IG) of Punjab Police Mushtaq Sukhera said that despite threats policemen performed tremendously to provide security during the recently concluded cricket series between......
LAHORE: Health Secretary Jawad Rafiq Malik has said that the government is going to start a pilot project of inventory management system in Sheikhupura DHQ Hospital with the collaboration of UK......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency on Monday arrested two Afghan nationals for their alleged involvement in illegal currency business of hawala and hundi.According to a spokesman, an FIA team......
LAHORE: The 15th World Milk Day, initiated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2001, brought together different stakeholders at the University of Veterinary and Animal......
BAHAWALPUR: Local cotton growers have expressed concern over the alleged permission given to some businessmen by the Punjab government to set up sugar mills in Channigoth area despite a ban, warning......
SHEIKHUPURA: People beat up a Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) team, led by Mangtanwala Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) Jehangir Bhatti, in Jokhianwala village on Monday.The SDO said they raided......
MULTAN: Scores of traders of Zakariya Town on Monday staged a protest demonstration against what they said police failure to control the rising incidence of robbery and theft in the area.The Multan......
GUJRAT: A woman who was set on fire allegedly by her husband on May 27 in Khosar, Mandi Bahauddin, is in a critical condition at Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Hospital.Mandi Bahauddin District Police Officer......
They are best known for their love of food -- savoury, spicy and delicious -- and always seem willing to go the extra mile looking for a place better than the one they dined at the other day. Eating......
NOWSHERA: The incident of killing of an activist of PTI in Pabbi Town took a new turn on Monday when his father told a court that Mian Iftikhar Hussain , the arrested leader of Awami National Party,......
PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party staged a comeback in the local government polls and reclaimed some of its lost ground not because of the failure of the PTI-led provincial government but because......
ABBOTTABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf edged out rival parties to secure first place during the local body elections in Abbottabad, Mansehra, Battagram, Kohat, Dera Ismail Khan and Tank......
GHALANAI: Over Rs35 million were distributed on Monday to the owners of land on which Mohmand Marble City is being constructed at Ekkaghound here.The cheques were distributed among 61 tribesmen at a......
PESHAWAR: It is clarified that no family member of education minister, Atif Khan took part in the local government in his native Mardan district.In Mr. Ashfaq Yousafzai’s story “Internal rifts,......
LANDI KOTAL: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has demanded of the federal government to arrange for honourable repatriation of all the families displaced from the Federally Administered......
MARDAN/PESHAWAR: Provincial president of Awami National Party and former chief minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Monday lashed out at the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led provincial government for......
KARAK: The losing candidates on Monday threatened to launch a protest movement if the election commission didn’t order re-polling in Karak district, where they alleged mismanagement and......
MINGORA: Observers have claimed lack of development work in Swat district during the last two years is to blame for the ruling PTI’s failure to do well during the local body elections in the......
LANDI KOTAL: Inspired by the holding of local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, people belonging to different tribal regions have also demanded the introduction of a similar system in the......
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami, a partner of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led ruling coalition in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Tuesday held the Chief Minister’s House responsible for the ‘worst rigging’ in the......
PESHAWAR: Hundreds of candidates on Monday thronged the offices of the district returning officer and returning officers along with visual and documented proof of what they called the massively......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Provincial revenue minister Ali Ameen Gandapur surrendered to the local police on Monday night after high drama.The development comes reportedly after the intervention of the......
KOHAT: The police on Monday booked a former MNA and four others on the complaint of National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) for helping Afghan refugees in getting computerised national......
ISLAMABAD: Two days before the formal inauguration of the metro bus service, over 300 mediapersons from across the country, led by Information Minister Pervaiz Rasheed, had their first ride on the......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Monday ordered the demolition of a religious seminary illegally constructed on a graveyard land at Sector G-11 within a week.Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of......
ISLAMABAD: A senior member of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) was gunned down in the suburbs of Islamabad on Monday, police said.Maulana Ilyas Khan was targeted when he was travelling in his car after......
RAWALPINDI: Former official of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), a key witness in the case, on Monday refused to testify against the suspects of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) being tried in......
ISLAMABAD: Casualties in terror attacks, which had gone down after the launch of Zarb-e-Azb military operation in mid 2014, are showing an upward trend.Compared to April, May recorded more than 33......
ISLAMABAD: Azad Kashmir politicians Sardar Maqsooduz Zaman and Sardar Gul Khandan crossed over to PTI from their respective PPP and the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference parties.Sardar Zaman......
ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday blamed Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)’s prolonged sit-in against the government in Islamabad last year for the six-month delay in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday admitted for regular hearing the government’s intra court appeal against the reinstatement of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority......
RAWALPINDI: Sharp-shooters will be deployed at rooftops of the buildings located along the metro bus route on Wednesday when the service will finally be inaugurated.Besides, the bomb disposal experts......
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Monday called upon workers belonging to various sectors to unite in the fight against internal and external threats faced by the country.“We are united......
RAWALPINDI: A shopkeeper was arrested under the National Action Plan after he was found selling armed forces uniforms. The shop was, however, not sealed.The police had already been directed to launch......
ISLAMABAD: In the wake of a possible operation, slum dwellers in the capital have focused their attention on the local government elections to save their homes.On May 29, the National Assembly......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed a petition filed by four former inspectors general for reinstatement of sacked senior superintendent of police (SSP) Mohammad Ali......
BAHAWALPUR: Local cotton growers have expressed concern over the alleged permission given to some businessmen by the Punjab government to set up sugar mills in Channigoth area despite a ban, warning......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation started on Monday its bus service between Rawalpindi and Naran.PTDC Managing Director, Kabir Ahmad Khan while inaugurating the bus service, said......
ISLAMABAD: National Party (NP) on Monday held a peaceful demonstration to condemn the Mastung incident in which innocent passengers of two Karachi-bound buses were killed.The participants protesting......
OKARA: A group of lawyers thrashed and injured a peon on Monday when he tried to stop a lawyer from entering the office of the district coordination officer (DCO) through a gate locked for security......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday observed that the action taken by the chief minister against some police officers responsible for the May 23 siege of the SHC was mere eyewash.Justice Sajjad......
KARACHI: A sessions court on Monday allowed former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza to travel abroad for three weeks for the treatment of his MNA wife.The disgruntled and disowned leader of the......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court issued on Monday a fresh black warrant for the execution of a condemned prisoner and asked the jail authorities to send him to the gallows on June 9.Shafqat Hussain......
KARACHI: All the opposition parties, save the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, in the Sindh Assembly on Monday formed a three-member committee to finalise their budget proposals and demanded that the......
KARACHI: The art of storytelling has the power to influence perceptions, change mindsets and act as a catalyst to social change. But the narratives in documentary films remain neglected, getting......
KARACHI: Power is everywhere. It makes us who we are. This is how the French philosopher Michel Foucault defines power with reference to a ‘regime of truth’. But artist Yousuf Bashir Qureshi, a known......
KARACHI: The dramatic readings held at Habib University on Monday saw the group Zambeel perform on the works of progressive Urdu writers Qurratulain Hyder and Ismat Chughtai.Titled as ‘Lady Changez......
EXHIBITIONAn exhibition of works by Anam Rani opens at the ArtChowk Gallery at 5pm. The exhibition titled ‘Aesthetics of terror’ will remain open till June 18, daily from 11am to 7pm (Sundays......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday indicted four men for killing Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Zahra Shahid.Muhammad Rashid alias Master, Zahid Abbas Zaidi, Irfan alias Lamba and Kaleem have......
KARACHI: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has chosen Karachi for a pilot project on violence against healthcare, said Jerome Alexander Imstepf, who is serving as the deputy......
HYDERABAD: A large portion of the fortification wall of the 17th century Pucca Qilla, a protected heritage site, was dismantled overnight and levelled to the ground right under the nose of......
THATTA: Two children died and six other people were injured when a concrete-made water tank built about eight feet above the ground burst and crashed minutes after its inauguration in Haji Mubarak......
HYDERABAD: Seven families of farmers who were forced into bonded labour at a brick kiln in Jhelum Cantonment and were liberated recently on court orders were receiving threats of dire consequences......
KARACHI: Local Government Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has said arrangements have been made to install a desalination plant with a capacity to convert four million gallons daily (mgd) of seawater......
LARKANA: Sindh’s Senior Minister for Education Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said the biometric system launched to monitor the absenteeism of teachers and verifying genuineness of their appointments would......
BADIN: Under a compromise reached between the Badin police and some Bhurgari families of Allah Rakhyo Bhurgari village near Nindo Shahar, three elderly women were released on Monday and the FIR......
SUKKUR: The 737th Urs of Sufi Saint Hazrat Sadruddin Shah began at his shrine here on Monday.Adviser to the Sindh chief minister on Auqaf Dr Abdul Qayoom Soomro accompanied by Caretaker (Sajjada......
MIRPURKHAS: Hundreds of growers staged protests in Mirpurkhas and Badin districts on Monday against acute shortage of water and its theft by influential landlords in connivance with irrigation......
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......
THE self-styled Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has ramped up its activities in Southeast Asia so effectively that there is now an entire military unit of terrorists recruited from Indonesia,......
WHEN it comes to covering Hillary Rodham Clinton, some campaign reporters are feeling less equal than others.Major news organisations have established their own press pool to cover the leading......
LAGOS: Sixty-nine people 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......
SAN FRANCISCO: A Silicon Valley recycling company disclosed on Monday that it was looking for a woman who dropped off a rare Apple computer subsequently snapped up by a collector for $200,000.The......
SANAA: An American among several believed to be held by Iran-backed Houthis in war-ravaged Yemen was on Monday freed and flown to neighbouring Oman, which is hosting talks between the US and the......
TOKYO: The corpse of a woman that had been stuffed in a suitcase and left in a locker at one of the world’s busiest train stations went undiscovered for a month, Japanese police said on Monday.The......
JOHANNESBURG: A lion leapt through a open car window and mauled to death an American tourist at a privately-run game park just outside Johannesburg on Monday, a park official said.“There was a car......
NEW YORK: Cuba-born artist Carmen Herrera says she’s still bursting with ideas she wants to put on canvas, but the centenarian doesn’t feel any urgency to hurry.“I don’t let anything push me,” said......
YANGON: More than 700 migrants found packed aboard an overcrowded boat in the Andaman Sea were still being held offshore by Myanmar’s navy on Monday, more than three days after the converted fishing......
PORT LOUIS: The government of Mauritius on Monday designated Ameenah Gurib-Fakim as the Indian Ocean island nation’s new president, making her the first woman to hold the ceremonial position.The......
DHAKA: Bangladeshi police on Monday charged 41 people including the owner of the Rana Plaza factory complex with murder after the building collapsed killing more than 1,100 people in 2013.A court in......
NAGOYA: The record-breaking Solar Impulse 2 landed in Japan on Monday on an unscheduled stop after mission controllers decided the weather was not right for the sun-powered plane to cross the vast......
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday in favour of a Muslim woman who claimed she was denied a sales job with fashion retailers Abercrombie & Fitch as a teen because of her headscarf.By an......
TOKYO: A giant kite weighing three-quarters of a tonne crashed into a crowd of spectators in Japan at the weekend, an official said on Monday, hurting four people, including an elderly man.The......
ABOVE us, white clouds graze the top of Tel Moussa, 2,800 metres of red rock above foothills of granite and valleys of innocent-looking cherry orchards.Across the gaunt peaks and caves of the......
BRUSSELS: The European Union on Monday called for FIFA to reform quickly in the wake of a corruption scandal engulfing football’s governing body, saying that the sport’s integrity was at......
TURIN: Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini has “no problem” with Barcelona forward Luis Suarez and said on Monday he will shake hands at the Champions League final when they meet for the first time......
PARIS: Defending champion Maria Sharapova was sent packing from the French Open at the fourth-round stage on Monday, but top seed Serena Williams survived a scare to seal her quarter-final......
LAHORE: The favourite three-year-old bay filly, Proposal, came home rushing from behind to dislodge front-running colt, Blazing Heart, and win the feature event run over 900 metres during the first......
KARACHI: Defending champion Pakistan’s women team maintained their top spot at the 18th Bridge Federation of Asia and Middle East (BFAME), being held in Amman, Jordan, despite a stunning loss to the......
BEIJING: China has assured the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of its respect for human rights as part of its bid to host the 2022 Winter Games, an Olympic panel said on Monday, prompting anger......
LAHORE: The ongoing 3rd All Pakistan Fatima Jinnah Gold Cup Hockey Tournament has entered into an interesting stage in Multan, according to a report issued by the Pakistan Hockey Federation.Wapda top......
LAHORE: Pakistan one-day captain Azhar Ali admitted on Sunday that his team was 30 to 40 runs short in the last ODI match against Zimbabwe which was later abandoned due to rain and dust-storm at the......
LEEDS: New Zealand’s hopes of forcing a series-levelling win in the second Test against England were dealt a major blow after rain washed out most of the fourth day’s play at Headingley on Monday.The......
LAHORE: The Zimbabwe cricket team departed for Harare via Dubai during the early hours of Monday after completing their historic tour of Pakistan where they played two Twenty20 Internationals and......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s unprecedented success in reaching the Cricket World Cup final earlier this year has resulted in honours for captain Brendon McCullum and coach Mike Hesson.Both were......
ISLAMABAD: With just 19 days left before the 2016 Olympic qualifiers in Belgium, the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) is yet to set up a training camp for the national team.The reason for the delay......
LAHORE: Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Najam Sethi on Monday withdrew his nomination for ICC presidency, requesting a former cricketer from the country to take his place as per the demand......
ROME: Lazio bounced back from two debilitating losses and survived a storming Napoli fightback, including a missed penalty, as they won 4-2 on Sunday to finish third in Serie A and qualify for the......
KARACHI: Pakistan cricket is mourning the passing away of former Test batsman Azmat Rana, who died of cardiac arrest in his hometown of Lahore on Saturday at age of 63.During Sunday’s final One-day......
KARACHI: “Zimbabwe tour may well have proceeded without any untoward incident but that in no way means future tours in Pakistan are safe,” Heath Mills, chief executive of New Zealand Cricket Players......
SYDNEY: There were a few fissures but no major cracks apparent in FIFA president Sepp Blatter’s bedrock of Asia-Pacific support as officials began returning to the region from the annual congress of......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s annual inflation rose to 3.16 per cent in May from 2.11pc in the previous month, driven by a surge in food prices.On a month-on-month basis, the inflation measured through the......
KARACHI: Exporters are seeking reduction in refinance rate after a recent cut in the policy rate by 100 basis points, from 8 to 7 per cent.Talking to Dawn leaders of trade bodies engaged in export......
ISLAMABAD: The Board of Investment (BoI) and Pak-Saudi Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PSJCCI) on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to encourage and facilitate bilateral......
KARACHI: The market remained generally starved of news as the managements of companies put major decisions of expansions and financial matters on the hold, awaiting the budget slated to be announced......
KARACHI: Sales of locally produced tractors remained brisk during the last 10 months rising to 38,356 units compared to 28,694 during the same period a year earlier.Sales of Massey Ferguson and Fiat......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has given its go ahead to the Indus Ecoregion Community Livelihood project, being developed by WWF-Pakistan in Sindh to improve the livelihoods of local communities.The......
KARACHI: Stocks staged surprise rally on Monday with the KSE-100 index gaining 506.59 points (1.53 per cent) to close at three-week high at 33,563.38.Volumes, however, declined by 14pc to 261.2......
Microsoft to launch Windows 10 on July 29NEW YORK: Microsoft on Monday announced that the latest version of its Windows operating system will be available July 29 for computer and tablet users.The......
SEOUL: China and South Korea on Monday formally signed a free trade agreement (FTA) that would remove most tariffs between Asia’s largest and fourth-largest economies, whose trade is already worth......
PARIS: Six leading oil and gas companies Monday called on governments to put into place a carbon pricing system, saying this would be the most effective way of cutting the emission of greenhouse......
LONDON: Britain will launch a sale of shares in Lloyds to private retail investors in the next 12 months in what is expected to be the biggest privatisation since Margaret Thatcher’s government sold......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has decided to rationalise processing fee for refund requests against the penalties imposed on account of violations recorded in the inspection......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures rallied nearly 4 per cent to their highest in 2-1/2 months on Monday, tracking a jump in overseas soyoil markets and further underpinned by strong exports for......
TOKYO: Japan on Monday adopted a corporate governance code that backers hope will usher in a new era of transparency for investors and nudge firms to spend some of their massive cash piles.Long......
MOSCOW: The World Bank on Monday said it saw some improvement in Russia’s battered economy, predicting it would shrink by 2.7 per cent this year and return to growth of 0.7pc in 2016.The Russian......
LONDON: Global manufacturing growth accelerated slightly last month but remained weak as firms again turned to existing orders to keep active, a business survey showed on Monday.JPMorgan’s Global......
PARIS: French unemployment rose to a fresh record high in April, official statistics published on Monday showed, with 3.53 million people out of work, a rise of 26,000 compared with the previous......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s foreign currency reserves dropped by $49 billion in the first four months of 2015 following the dive in world oil prices, a report said on Monday.The reserves, piled up in the......
ISLAMABAD: After completing a review of laws, a sub-committee of the parliamentary body on electoral reforms is now set to take up constitutional provisions related to elections.The most important......
OTTAWA: A member of a banned Pakistani group will be deported from Canada in the next month after being caught with a cache of firearms, an immigration trial heard on Monday.According to the daily......
MUZAFFARABAD / LAHORE: Three labourers were killed and 16 others, a Chinese national among them, suffered injuries in a blast in an under-construction portion of the tunnel of a major power project......
QUETTA: At least 13 suspected militants were killed and four people, including two security personnel, injured in gunbattles during search operations launched by security forces in Kalat and Panjgur......
QUETTA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will preside over an All-Party Conference to be held here on Tuesday to discuss the security situation in the wake of Mastung massacre.Other issues faced by the......
QUETTA: Hearing in the Nawab Akbar Bugti murder case, scheduled for Monday, was adjourned till June 17 because of the lawyers’ boycott in protest against the Mastung massacre.Twenty-two passengers......
ISLAMABAD: Unhappy with the results of cantonment boards’ elections and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local government polls, the newly appointed caretaker set-up of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has......
THREE cities, two plane journeys and a packed bus ride later, we finally make it to the scenic seaside town of Cannes in the south of France. With tall palm trees lining the 2km beach road, one......
WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter arrives in India on Tuesday to sign a 10-year defence framework agreed during President Barack Obama’s visit to New Delhi in January.During his two-day......
BAGHDAD: A huge suicide attack on an Iraqi police base killed at least 37 people on Monday as an operation against the self-styled Islamic State group continued but looked far from retaking Ramadi.In......
ISLAMABAD: The National Economic Council (NEC) approved on Monday the country’s consolidated development budget of Rs1.689 trillion for the next financial year, showing an increase of around 28 per......
KARACHI: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari returned home on Monday after staying abroad for more than six months, fanning speculations about his differences with his father, former president Asif......
NOWSHERA/D.I. KHAN: The killing of a PTI activist in Pabbi Town took a new turn on Monday when the activist’s father told a court that the arrested leader of Awami National Party, Mian Iftikhar......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: A pack of stray dogs mauled to death three brothers at Liaquatpur, 90km from here, on Monday.Assistant Commissioner Liaquatpur Zahoor Husain Bhutta told Dawn that Ali Husnain, 8,......
ISLAMABAD: Najam Sethi, who was the caretaker chief minister of Punjab during the 2013 elections, conceded before the poll inquiry commission on Monday that his powers as the chief executive of the......
QUETTA: Frontier Corps on Monday claimed to have killed 13 suspected militants who were allegedly involved in the Mastung carnage that claimed at least 20 lives.“FC launched targeted operations in......
THERE is unanimity of view that Pakistan faces enormous deficiencies in its infrastructure, particularly the energy sector, that is slowing down the rate of growth and creating stress and......
FOR all their caring and offers of help to alleviate Nepal’s trauma from the recent earthquake, there were countries in the melee of do-gooders that are primed to inflict far greater devastation on......
FOR the state, NGOs, donor agencies and multilateral institutions, culture is a segregated affair, perceived as a ‘set of things’ requiring sectoral interventions as in music, the arts and......
PARLIAMENT, through the 18th and 19th Amendments, established the judicial commission and parliamentary committee for the appointment of superior court judges.The former nominates individuals to don......
A STRONGLY worded letter leaked to the media from Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to Pakistani civil and military authorities suggests that all is far from well in Pak-Afghan ties — just when there had......
THE ugly episode in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa town of Pabbi on Sunday — and its aftermath — illustrates that despite the claims by some quarters that a new political culture is being forged in Pakistan,......
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favour of a Muslim woman who sued for discrimination after being denied a sales job at age 17 at an Abercrombie & Fitch Co clothing store in......
