PESHAWAR: Accepting mismanagement and rigging in the recently held local government election, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Wednesday said his government was ready to form a......
KARACHI: After a week-long spell of intense heat, residents found some respite as the weather took a pleasant turn Wednesday evening when a dust storm was followed by reports of drizzles in several......
This article was originally published on June 3, 2015.One of my colleagues asked me some time ago:‘Can you believe that Hindus and Muslims can pray at the same place simultaneously?’‘Well, of course......
West Indies bowling great Curtly Ambrose has termed Pakistan's pace bowling legend Wasim Akram as one of his “all-time favourites”, adding that the left-armer, who turned 49 today, could do......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Ali Ameen Gandapur had manhandled female polling staff and police officials in his early morning visit to Himad polling station a day after......
ISLAMABAD: Looks like the PML-N government will be winning quite a few hearts with the launch of its mega bus project as everyone from senior citizens to daily wage workers is eagerly anticipating......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is in talks with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for short tours to the country after it successfully hosted Zimbabwe for two Twenty20 Internationals and three......
A comedy troupe trusted to take the mickey out of those in the limelight, the Bhai Log Company has announced its comeback in a teaser image put up on its Facebook page and website.If there's a......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit called upon Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad on Wednesday for a briefing on the state of Pakistan-India relations.Basit, who arrived from New Delhi......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is a beacon for ethnic Rohingya fleeing oppression and violence in Myanmar, but countless migrants like Mohammed Ismail are still searching for the promised land years after......
RAWALPINDI: A special Customs Court in Rawalpindi denied super model Ayyan Ali's bail application after hearing arguments from both sides on Wednesday.Ayyan was arrested in March on charges of......
To date, his claim to fame is his pedigree. His legendary mother, Benazir Bhutto, inspired millions of downtrodden in Pakistan. Yet, if Bilawal Bhutto Zardari inspires to do justice to his mother’s......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Wednesday announced two days of mourning in Karachi, calling for all businesses to remain shut over the custodial death of a party worker at the Aziz Bhatti......
Mark your calendars, folks: rom-com Dekh Magar Pyaar Say, starring Humaima Malick and Sikander Rizvi, will have an Independence Day release.The release date was announced in a animated poster:...
PARIS: Roger Federer surveyed the wreckage of another French Open on Tuesday and insisted he can bounce back by becoming the oldest man to win Wimbledon.The 17-time Grand Slam winner was knocked out......
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) Chief Asfandyar Wali during a press conference on Wednesday demanded the resignation of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League - Quaid (PML-Q) on Wednesday submitted a resolution in the Punjab Assembly against the sale of donkey hide and meat.Explore: Two donkey meat casesMPA Amir Sultan......
DAMMAM: The remains of four Saudi Shia “heroes” blown to pieces after preventing a suicide bomber from entering a mosque will be buried in the kingdom's east on Wednesday.The ceremony comes more than......
Ayyan's figured out this whole jail thing pretty quickly.We don't know whether it's because she's been watching Sly Stallone movies or popular TV prison drama Orange is the New Black, but whatever......
ALMATY: Tajikistan has issued an international arrest warrant for the commander of its elite police force who joined Islamic State (IS), prosecutors said on Wednesday, accusing him of treason.Colonel......
NEW YORK: Sepp Blatter is the focus of an FBI corruption investigation in the United States, American media reported Tuesday, shortly after his shock resignation as president of FIFA.An FBI spokesman......
KARACHI: Swashbuckling opener Ahmed Shehzad made a comeback to the Test side as Pakistan announced its squad for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka on Wednesday.The 23-year-old Shehzad, dropped from the......
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Research and Development International (RDI) — the new joint China-Pakistan think tank on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) — congratulated PM Nawaz and the......
NEW DELHI: Indian shopkeepers withdrew a popular brand of instant noodle from their shelves Wednesday after tests revealed the snack contained lead above permissible levels.At least 10 Indian states......
I wouldn't want to put anybody off by calling it a dhaba, but Maantu Gul Kitchen isn't your average dhaba anyway.A couple of years ago, I was traveling the country for a research assignment and ate......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday said that Pakistan and Kashmir are inseparable, and that Kashmir is "an unfinished agenda of partition".The statement was......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Ambassador Syed Abrar Hussain met the Afghan Wolesi Jirga’s Speaker Abdur Rauf Ibrahimi in Kabul on Tuesday and underscored the need for intensifying efforts to strengthen and......
ISLAMABAD: The inquiry commission investigating allegations of rigging in the 2013 general elections took exception to an utterance by the PML-Q counsel when he said that all previous elections were......
ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court judge wondered on Tuesday if an all-party conference was a new route to seek consensus before proposing major amendments in the Constitution instead of getting a fresh......
ISLAMABAD: Mexico is reopening its embassy in Islamabad after a break of about six years as the Latin American country seeks to reinvigorate its ties with Pakistan.Mexico’s Ambassador to Iran Ulesis......
ISLAMABAD: As the parliamentary committee on electoral reforms is set to begin review of constitutional provisions, a consensus seems to be emerging among the country’s major political parties that......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) issued notices to the federal government on Tuesday, asking it to submit replies to questions raised in a petition challenging the appointment of Zafarul Haq......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman visited the China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) on Tuesday and called on its Vice Chairman Gen Fan Changlong.Both officials......
THE so-called Islamic State is a fallout of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Before that, it was only a small group of Sunni extremists. Now, it has almost 30,000 fighters, it governs a territory and......
I WOULD like to give some suggestions for the 2015-16 federal budget. All thresholds (Rs400,000) before the imposition of taxes become applicable should be abolished and at least a token tax......
OMAN is a thriving Gulf state, with a sound educational infrastructure. More than two million expatriates are working here in different sectors in which education is very vital.A number of Pakistani......
HEARING the 170 petitions by consumers, the Lahore High Court has declared as illegal the collection of various charges by electricity distribution companies every month for years.The government has......
DADAAMB is recognised as one of the highest peaks of Balochistan situated in Kulanch near Gwadar. The prevalence of beautiful animals makes the region important. But, unfortunately, the animals such......
THE Islamabad High Court ordered the demolition of a religious seminary, illegally constructed and operated in sector G-11.Replying to a question, the counsel for the cleric, who committed this......
THE other day I was browsing through your website when I came upon an AFP report on the art work that adorns trucks and rickshaws in Pakistan. I enjoyed it.I admire the creativity and skills of the......
SWABI: Awami National Party (ANP) district president Ameer Rehman has emerged as the frontrunner in the Swabi district nazim elections. Local ANP leaders insist Ameer Rehman is likely to be a......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s party has rejected the results of May 30 local government elections and threatened to launch a series of protest sit-ins against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and its......
PESHAWAR: Casting further doubts on the transparency and fairness of the May 30 local government elections in the province, Senior Provincial Minister Shahram Khan Tarakai has termed the polls in his......
MINGORA: Six major political parties have formed a grand alliance in order to form local government in the Swat district.The allied parties are Pakistan Muslim League-N, Awami National Party, Jamiat......
KOHAT: Local police on Tuesday foiled an attempt to smuggle huge quantity of arms and ammunition from the gun manufacturing town of Darra Adamkhel to Lahore.Officials said that a police party was......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will be provided its full share of 13.4 per cent of the total electricity production on daily basis and the access electricity available at any feeder will be shifted......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday expressed displeasure at PTI chairman Imran Khan’s criticism of its orders for the suspension of the functioning of dispute resolution councils in the......
PESHAWAR: Two women were gunned down in Wazir Colony while on way to a local court here on Tuesday.A police official said that the women had just left their residence located in the limits of......
NOWSHERA: The brother and nephew of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak were declared successful in the elections to the district and tehsil councils, respectively, according to unofficial results......
MANSEHRA: Police are taking extra measures for the security of tourists, visiting Kaghan valley in the tourism season.“All possible measures are being taken for the security of tourists coming from......
MARDAN: Terming the May 30 local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a big fraud in the history of the country, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl has demanded re-election in the province and called an......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed the Kohat district police officer (DPO) and a military intelligence agency to submit separate comprehensive replies to a petition of an Indian......
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami provincial chief Professor Ibrahim Khan on Tuesday said Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf had broken all records of rigging in the local government elections.The JI leader told a......
KOHAT: With 13 seats in the district council and 12 seats in tehsil council the candidates winning independently in Kohat would play a decisive role by putting weight behind either the Pakistan......
NOWSHERA: A local court on Tuesday granted bail to ANP central general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain in a murder case against Rs200,000 surety bonds.The police had arrested Mian Iftikhar on Sunday......
FAISALABAD: Industrialists are up in the arms about the deployment of employees of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) at the textile units, demanding their immediate withdrawal.The FBR says it has......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has formulated a policy under which faculty members cannot leave medical and dental colleges before completing a mandatory three-year......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) is likely to announce summer vacation from June 6.Earlier, Federal Directorate of Education had announced summer holidays from June 11 to August 10,......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday summoned the summary moved for the appointment of Chaudhry Rashid Ahmed as chairman Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and an......
RAWALPINDI: A convict in a non-terrorism case was sent to the gallows in Adiala jail on Tuesday.The death warrants for Abdul Rehman were issued after all his mercy appeals were rejected. Sabir Masih......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police seized four kilogrammes of heroin worth Rs40 million which was being transported to Karachi from Peshawar and arrested its carrier on Tuesday.SHO Ramna police Rukhsar......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on National Health Services on Tuesday proposed to the government to launch polio campaigns without prior announcement to avoid killings of polio......
ISLAMABAD: Punjab MPA Sobia Anwar Satti, from the PML-N, alleged on Tuesday that her family are being victimised for political reasons and the Punjab police are being used for the purpose.Addressing......
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Inspector General of Police Mushtaq Ahmed Sukhera is furious at police officers for filing ‘fictitious’ reports about their counter-terrorism activities in the province and......
TAXILA: Pakistan Academy of Family Physicians has urged the federal government to apply domestic tariff on the utility services being provided to the charity hospitals.The demand was made by Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Police have arrested seven outlaws from various areas of the city besides recovering 37 wine bottles, 50 litre wine and weapons from their possession, a police spokesman......
ISLAMABAD: India must not be allowed to use terrorism as an instrument of state policy, said Masood Khan, former ambassador and the director general of the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad......
ISLAMABAD: “The country’s education sector requires support from the government and the communities,” said Dr Faisal Bari on Tuesday.He was speaking at the Pakistan Innovation Corridor, which brought......
RAWALPINDI: The district health department came into action against spurious drugs on Tuesday and sealed a warehouse where illegally imported stents were stored.Adviser to Punjab Chief Minister on......
GUJRAT: The PML-N and the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) want to hold their election rallies at the Quaid-i-Azam ground in Mandi Bahauddin on the same date - June 5.Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran......
GUJRANWALA: Two minor children of a labourer died of burns in Madu Khalil village when the house caught fire on Tuesday.Abid Ali was in the Gujranwala city while his wife, Parveen, was busy cleaning......
GUJRAT: The jogging track of around 2.5 kilometres and a cricket ground at the under-construction Shahbaz Sharif park along the bank of the river Chenab was inaugurated on Tuesday.PML-N lawmakers......
OKARA: The staff of the district coordination officer’s office remained on strike for the second consecutive day on Tuesday in protest against the misbehaviour by a group of lawyers.They were joined......
FAISALABAD: Industrialists are up in the arms about the deployment of employees of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) at the textile units, demanding their immediate withdrawal.The FBR says it has......
LAHORE: As if numerous health issues in the country are not enough, a potential risk of contracting tuberculosis (TB) for a large number of children looms large due to the last two-month interruption......
LAHORE: The Punjab health managers called an important meeting here on Tuesday in wake of a crucial conference planned in Islamabad on polio, and shared latest countrywide statistics on the......
LAHORE: A westerly wave generated light rain and strong winds in many parts of the country on Tuesday, keeping temperatures much below their normal value of the month.Dark clouds, which were......
LAHORE: Efforts of the two sisters have played a major role in ending the differences between their father and brother, according to sources close to the Zardari family.PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto......
SIALKOT: The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) resorted to unprovoked heavy shelling on villages in Shakargarh sector of Sialkot Working Boundary here on Monday night.According to the Sialkot-based......
LAHORE: A good number of parents have heaved a sigh of relief as many private educational institutions have implemented the decision of the Lahore High Court (LHC), restraining them from collecting......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking action against station house officers (SHOs) of Daska police who threatened to resign in protest against transfer of District......
LAHORE: Former Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab president Ejaz Chaudhry has hailed the Lahore High Court (LHC) decision exposing PML-N government’s extortion through different surcharges in......
LAHORE: Hearing a petition against collection of summer vacation fee in advance by private schools, the Lahore High Court on Tuesday directed the Punjab education department to apprise it about the......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition against the bail granted to a woman, who had knocked down three men to save her life during a violent protest outside Yohannabad.A......
LAHORE: The Punjab University Syndicate in its 1712th meeting held on Tuesday discussed 20 out of 27 agenda items as four of its members had to leave to attend to other engagements.Presided over by......
LAHORE: The Kissan Ittehad Pakistan on Tuesday demanded that the government impose heavy duty on import of milk powder and whey powder as unchecked import is badly hurting the dairy......
BAHAWALPUR: The Pakistan Kissan Board organised a farmers’ rally against Punjab government at the University Chowk here on Tuesday.The farmers from different parts of the division demonstrated amid......
BAHAWALPUR: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has accorded accreditation to the Government Sadiq College Women University (GSCWU).According to a press release issued by the varsity’s registrar......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Kamalia is being supplied electricity from the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) instead of the Multan Electric Power Company from Tuesday.Fesco Chief Executive Chaudhry......
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 on......
WASHINGTON: The United States confirmed on Tuesday for the first time that a US ambassador has held talks with Yemen’s Shia Houthi militia in Oman.Washington’s top diplomat for the Near East, Anne......
NEW YORK: It was Pharrell Williams who was being honoured as a fashion icon, but it was another music superstar who got a lot of the attention at the annual Council of Fashion Designers of America......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said on Tuesday that child abuse and violence were costing countries in East Asia and the Pacific $209 billion a year.The first costing of......
OSLO: Former security contractor Edward Snowden won a Norwegian prize for freedom of expression on Tuesday and received yet another invitation to leave his exile and receive the award in person.The......
Mazar-i-Sharif: Gunmen killed nine Afghan employees of a Czech aid organisation in their beds during an overnight raid in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, one of the deadliest recent attacks on......
WASHINGTON: The wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan have left nearly 150,000 soldiers and civilians dead since 2001, a new US study estimates.Another 162,000 have been wounded since the US-led offensive......
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon says it has determined that possibly live anthrax was mistakenly sent to labs in Canada and Washington state, in addition to the numerous labs in the US and abroad that were......
THE only thing as heartbreaking as Sahar Qanbar’s smile is her story. Simple and terrible, it leaves any visitor to her grandmother’s home with an unfathomable question: how much can a five-year-old......
MOSCOW: A few months after the politburo chose him as Soviet supremo in early 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev halted his cortege in downtown Leningrad for an impromptu walkabout that signalled change was in......
ISTANBUL: Turkey on Sunday votes in legislative elections with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted ruling party facing the biggest poll challenge of its 13 years in power as it seeks a......
WATERLOO: The little Belgian town of Waterloo is feverishly preparing to celebrate the 200th anniversary of one of history’s greatest battles, hoping it can reclaim its name from a London railway......
SANAA: Armed tribesmen killed 18 Houthi fighters in an ambush in Yemen’s central province of Ibb on Tuesday, residents said, in one of the deadliest ground attacks in over two months of war.The......
SEOUL: South Korea on Tuesday reported its first deaths from an outbreak of the MERS virus that has infected 25 people, caused widespread alarm and triggered a closer watch by Asian neighbours on......
MAIDUGURI: A bomb blast at a busy meat market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday killed about 50 people, an eyewitness and hospital sources said, in an attack that bore the......
KARACHI: A counterterrorism cell having representation of all intelligence agencies has started functioning in the corps headquarters, while there are plans afoot to have surveillance through static......
BADIN: The Badin district and sessions court on Tuesday allowed former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza to go abroad for three weeks.Dr Mirza, through his counsel, filed an application in court......
KARACHI: The provincial assembly, Chief Minister House and the Karachi registry of the Supreme Court of Pakistan are among the several prominent places where unchlorinated water is being supplied — a......
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has directed the Sindh government to immediately resolve the ongoing water crisis in the metropolis.Mr Bhutto-Zardari chaired a......
KARACHI: Does the reign of terror have an aesthetic side to it? This is a loaded question and better left unanswered. That being said, who can stop artists from exploring such uncharted territories?......
KARACHI: The city president of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Ali Zaidi, on Tuesday presented proposals pertaining to healthcare, education, water, transportation, police and energy projects for......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Tuesday issued warrants for the arrest of the investigation officers of two cases pertaining to possession of explosive substance and extortion.Accused Abdul Sattar......
KARACHI: Administrator of Karachi Saqib Ahmed Soomro said on Tuesday that with the renovation of the swimming pools in the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Sports Complex at a cost of Rs2 million......
KARACHI: The Sindh United Party has announced that it will launch a mass mobilisation and awareness campaign against corruption and bad governance by the government which “has pushed the country in......
HYDERABAD: An FIR was registered against a suspect on Tuesday for allegedly demolishing a small portion of the fortification wall of the 18th century Pucca Qila on a complaint of a culture department......
BADIN: A thunderstorm followed by light and moderate rain played havoc with hoardings, trees and thatched houses across Badin district while a dust storm swept through parts of Sukkur division late......
UMERKOT: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) MNA Lal Chand Malhi has alleged that under political victimisation, shops of his voters have been demolished.The notice inviting tender (NIT) by the Municipal......
SUKKUR: Villagers belonging to the Waseer community staged a demonstration on Tuesday in front of the Sukkur press club in protest against kidnapping of a young man of their community.Residents of......
KARACHI: Former captain Zaheer Abbas has termed his nomination for the presidency of the International Cricket Council (ICC) as a great honour for Pakistan and himself.The 67-year-old Zaheer, while......
BARCELONA: Luis Enrique followed in the footsteps of Pep Guardiola, and now he can match his predecessor’s place in Barcelona club history by winning the Champions League title to complete a......
TURIN: Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri believes his team’s strength of character could be the deciding factor in Saturday’s Champions League final against Barcelona.Juventus will undoubtedly be......
LAHORE: Around 30 probables have been called for the training camp for the Rio Olympics qualifying round scheduled to be held in Belgium.The probables have been asked to report to head coach Shahnaz......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) has postponed the first Quaid-i-Azam Inter-provincial Games which were scheduled to be held here from June 9 to 12 at the Sports Complex.Sources told Dawn......
BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Andres Iniesta says midfield team mate Xavi deserves to go out on a high in Saturday’s Champions League final against Juventus in Berlin.Xavi can win his fourth Champions......
LAHORE: Four matches were decided in the first LRCA Commissioner Cup Cricket here on Tuesday.CDGL Laxchman Singh High School beat Meiji Beaconhouse School by six wickets at the Bagh-e-Jinnah Ground......
EUGENE: Tyson Gay is finally at peace with himself after a 2013 doping positive cost him his reputation and the only Olympic medal he ever won.Now the American sprinter hopes to rekindle the speed......
PARIS: Stumbling on his way to the net, Roger Federer dropped his racket and fell to his knees on the red clay. Hardly the sort of grace and precision the world has come to expect from the 17-time......
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......
KARACHI: Zone-I recorded contrasting victories in the latest round of matches in the KCCA Under-15 Inter-zonal Cricket Tournament at the KCCA Stadium here on Monday.In the Division-I fixture, Zone-I......
LAHORE: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has appointed Pakistan’s Tayyab Ikram who is also chief executive of Asian Hockey Federation as member of its Sports and Active Society Commission......
ISLAMABAD: Wapda edged past Army in a thrilling final to win the 18th National Women Basketball Championship 2015 at the Sports Gymnasium, Bahria University here on Monday. The event was jointly......
LAHORE: Wapda and Punjab University Club reached the final of the third All Pakistan Fatima Jinnah Gold Cup Hockey Tournament at the District Sports Ground in Multan on Tuesday.PU Club were fourth on......
KARACHI: A pair of 19-year-olds played a major part in helping Sialkot Stallions win the Super 8 T20 Cup tournament in Faisalabad prior to the arrival of Zimbabwe cricket team for the first......
LEEDS: New Zealand bowled with fire and fielded superbly to crush England by 199 runs in the second Test on Tuesday and level a gripping two-match series at 1-1.Off-spinners Kane Williamson and Mark......
ZURICH: Sepp Blatter resigned as FIFA president on Tuesday in the face of a US-led corruption investigation that has plunged world football’s governing body into the worst crisis in its......
LAHORE: Pakistan on Tuesday nominated former captain Zaheer Abbas to become president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) after the game’s world governing body said it was seeking......
NEW DELHI: Former captain Ravi Shastri was on Tuesday named India’s interim coach for next week’s tour of Bangladesh after officials failed to appoint a full-time successor to Duncan......
HARARE: Zimbabwe cricket officials said Tuesday they were vindicated after the national team returned from a high-security tour of Pakistan.“We went to Pakistan, we are back and we are safe,”......
SAN FRANCISCO: Google isn’t making much headway diversifying its workforce beyond white and Asian men, even though the Internet company hired women to fill one out of every five of its openings for......
RIYADH: Opec kingpin Saudi Arabia is forecast to post a budget deficit of 20 per cent of gross domestic product because of the sharp decline in oil revenues, the IMF said on Tuesday.“Government......
MUMBAI: India’s central bank on Tuesday cut interest rates for the third time this year and played down recent strong growth in Asia’s third-largest economy, saying investment and demand remained......
JAKARTA: Islamic finance aims to move into infrastructure, as governments and bankers plan a new organisation to handle deals and expand efforts to use sukuk for projects in majority-Muslim......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has rebuffed India’s objection to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and termed it a violation of established norms of international economic......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has proposed the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to withdraw 5 per cent tax on bonus shares and applicability of current capital......
KARACHI: The city government, for some unexplained reasons, has started pushing up the rates of chicken at a time when the retailers are inclined to sell it at rates cheaper than before.Earlier in......
KARACHI: Packages Limited, a company listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange, announced on Tuesday the completion of its 55 per cent acquisition of Flexible Packaging Converters (Proprietary) Ltd, a......
ISLAMABAD: Rejecting the proposed five per cent sales tax on value-added textile products, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Tuesday demanded revival of zero-rated status for five leading......
ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission has formed a task force on trade facilitation and regional connectivity to focus on achieving two important goals set in Vision 2025, it was announced on......
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday approved a Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP) for Afghanistan covering the period of April-December, 2015.The SMP is designed to build a track......
KARACHI: Stocks rose again on Tuesday with the KSE-100 index advancing by 331.96 points (0.99 per cent) to close at 14-week high at 33,895.34.Foreign fund managers intensified their buying to $13.23......
CDC conducts investor awareness seminarsKARACHI: Central Depository Company of Pakistan Limited conducted another series of Investor Awareness Seminars in the northern parts of the country including,......
ATHENS: Greece submitted a proposal for an agreement with its bailout lenders, the country’s prime minister said on Tuesday, in the hope of getting desperately needed rescue money — but its creditors......
LONDON: A global carbon emissions pricing system pushed by top energy companies is unlikely to be a big part of any United Nations’ deal to curb global warming, some experts say, because many......
WASHINGTON: Some countries with high public debt levels might be able to “just live with it,” because cutting back carries its own risks, three IMF officials said in a paper that disputes decades of......
OTTAWA: A Canadian court on Monday ordered tobacco firms to pay Can$15.5 billion (USD 12.4bn) to smokers in Quebec who claimed they were never warned about the health risks associated with......
LONDON: An international campaign to stamp out corporate tax dodging will fail and G20 leading economies should instead adopt a global minimum tax rate for multinationals, a coalition of 10 charities......
KARACHI: Cotton prices remained steady amid slow trading as ginners were mostly reluctant to sell their limited stocks on Tuesday.Floor brokers said spinners also showed less interest in building up......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures hit a three-month high on Tuesday, extending gains into a fourth straight session, buoyed by an overnight rally in soyoil markets and a weak ringgit.The US......
ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday witnessed a heated debate over the issue of fake degree scam involving the IT firm, Axact, as some senators assailed the......
ABBOTTABAD: Three activists of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf were killed and two others were injured in an incident of violence related to local government elections here on Tuesday.With the latest......
QUETTA: The participants of an all-party conference strongly condemned the Mastung carnage that claimed 23 lives.A communiqué issued after the conference said the killing of innocent people was a......
ISLAMABAD: Two former heads of the Rawalpindi branch of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) are facing an internal investigation on allegations of having filed a wrong reference against a......
ISLAMABAD: Japan has taken over from Pakistan the command of the Combined Task Force 151 (CTF-151), the anti-piracy force operating off the coast of Somalia and Horn of Africa under the ambit of the......
HYDERABAD: A 16-year-old boy caught by the Indian Army in 2011, charged with ‘spying’ and convicted by a court for illegally crossing the border returned to his home in Nagarparkar on Tuesday.Samero......
JIANLI COUNTY: Rescuers searched on Tuesday for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a cruise boat was hit by a freak tornado and capsized on the Yangtze River......
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rightwing Hindu nationalist government has ordered India’s armed forces to organise a ‘carnival’ to mark 50 years of a war with Pakistan in 1965, The......
NEW DELHI: Bottles of acid are too easily available in India and the makers should take responsibility for the rising number of acid attacks, the head of India’s National Commission for Women (NCW)......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan will not sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) because it considers it discriminatory, said Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry as he led the Pakistani team at a......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to cut power sector subsidies by around 50 per cent to Rs118 billion in the next year’s budget to meet a commitment made to the International Monetary Fund.The......
QUETTA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that foreign forces, with the help of local elements, have been promoting terrorism and violence in the country.Addressing an all-party conference here on......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has severely criticised India for opposing the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.“India’s reaction and outburst on the CPEC project......
ISLAMABAD: Nearly a month after a men-only turnout in a by-election in PK-95 Dir sparked a nationwide controversy, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — in a landmark verdict — on Tuesday......
ISLAMABAD: As the controversies surrounding last week’s local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa deepen, the provincial ruling party Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is finding it difficult to......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law landmark legislation ending the government's bulk telephone data dragnet, significantly reversing American policy by reining in the most......
ONCE it is decided that the time has come for Pakistan and India to undergo another round of heightened hostilities there is never a dearth of issues to build up in order to sustain the tension.There......
DECLINE is manifested in many ways; not all of them play out in the glare of the media. Particularly not when they take place in the lives of the poor.In Karachi, amidst its vast swathes of urban......
THE new development budget for the next fiscal year shows some skewed priorities at play.Irrigation projects have been reduced, as have health and education, under the argument that these are now......
BARELY six months after the Peshawar Army Public School tragedy that left almost 150 schoolchildren and others dead in a terrorist attack, some six million voters turned out to vote in the Khyber......
THE reaction to last week’s sports-related arrests in Switzerland has been reminiscent in some ways of the aftermath of a football match. There has been jubilation in some quarters, accompanied by......
FIRST it was the settlers, then labourers from other provinces, and now it is the local Pakhtuns. Last month’s carnage of labourers working on a dam, followed by the execution-style killing of bus......
THE draft of the Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Bill (2015) was referred to a standing committee last week. On the face of it, and given Pakistan’s dismal record regarding the treatment......
