UNITED NATIONS: Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to add Israel to annual “List of Shame” of children's rights violators, after more than 500 children......
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan captain and batting great Javed Miandad expressed shock over the exclusion of Saeed Ajmal from the tour of Sri Lanka, adding that the selectors would ‘shatter’ the......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday evening unveiled the Pakistan Economic Survey 2014-15, with a focus on success stories over missed targets.The minister had set an economic growth......
KARACHI: The Sindh apex committee meeting on Thursday, chaired by Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, reviewed the implementation of decisions taken earlier regarding the ongoing security operation in......
ACCRA: At least 90 people were killed in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana's capital, Accra, as they sought shelter from heavy rains that caused widespread flooding, emergency services said on......
PARIS: Rafa Nadal's brutal French Open defeat at the hands of Novak Djokovic on Wednesday provoked the predictable question of whether the Spaniard's career is in terminal decline.Those in the know,......
MUMBAI: India have been without a head coach since Duncan Fletcher left in March, and with two low-profile tours in the offing and the appointment of a new advisory panel just this week, the......
During his evening prayers on the 16th of December 2002, Aasif Karim’s phone rang. He did not answer it, his daughter did. The caller was Asif Papamshi, the Kenyan chairman of selectors.Four years......
TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Thursday for unity in the Muslim world in order to counter “oppression” from the West, on the anniversary of his predecessor's death.In a......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated Islamabad's new Metro Bus Project, with a speech to a packed Convention Centre on Thursday.Nawaz was elated at the completion of the million-rupee......
DENGANMAL: In the parched village of Denganmal, in western India, there are no taps. The only drinking water comes from two wells at the foot of a nearby rocky hill, a spot so crowded that the......
GUAHATI: A group of rebels ambushed a military convoy in India's insurgency-wracked northeast on Thursday, killing at least 20 soldiers and wounding 11 others in the latest major attack in the region......
BAGHDAD: The self-styled Islamic State group has reduced the amount of water flowing to government-held areas in Iraq's western Anbar province, an official said Thursday."The reduced flow through an......
Following the success of The Prisoner, author Omar Shahid Hamid is returning with another novel titled The Spinner's Tale. Slated for publication on June 19, will explore terrorism in Pakistan.A......
LEEDS: England have been told to improve their cricket basics if they are to acquire the ruthless edge that will see them regain the Ashes.Caretaker coach Paul Farbrace believes this is something......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has seen a major fall in polio cases this year, officials said Thursday, as a military operation has allowed vaccinators to reach areas previously off-limits because of militant......
LONDON: Liverpool announced on Thursday that they have agreed to sign England midfielder James Milner from Premier League rivals Manchester City on a free transfer, subject to a medical......
ISLAMABAD: In response to recent anti-Pakistan statements from Indian political leadership, Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif stated that Pakistan will not be intimidated by such......
Fledgling designer Nida Khurram has become famous overnight... for all the wrong reasons.For Nida is the latest copycat caught out plagiarizing from the West. The designer, in her newly launched line......
AWAT: When Chen Naibao got into the wine business, he left out the pigeon blood and lamb meat that have been hallmarks of vintages in China's Xinjiang region for more than a thousand years.The animal......
QUETTA: At least 16 bodies were recovered in Khuzdar district's Sarona area near Shah Noorani on Thursday, after 20 people were washed away in a flash flood caused by torrential rains.Around 20......
KARACHI: Five more police officials were suspended following the custodial death of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) worker Mohammad Wasim in Karachi's Aziz Bhatti police station yesterday.Inspector......
Yesterday, Indian police detained a pigeon at the border with Pakistan, after it was found carrying a warning note to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Last year as well, India had arrested a pigeon,......
DHAKA: Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Mortaza's preparations for the One-Day International series against India have been disrupted by hand injuries sustained while riding to training in a cycle......
NEW DELHI: New Delhi authorities on Wednesday rejected fresh licence applications by US-based Uber and two of its rivals to operate in India's capital, in another blow for the company.Indian police......
Who thought that Jawad Ahmad, the flag bearer of patriotism, would be back with not just a new single but a video too!Last seen in 2003, Ahmad is back with ‘Bhola Kya Karay’.Ahmad, who gained......
NEW DELHI: United States Defense Secretary Ashton Carter Wednesday finalised agreements with India to jointly develop next-generation chemical and biological protection for troops and military mobile......
CAIRO: Egypt's high court said on Thursday former president Hosni Mubarak would be retried in the case of the 2011 killing of protesters.The judge accepted the public prosecution's appeal against an......
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's picture featured in "Top 10 Criminals" in the Google search engine.The image has been featured among the likes of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Al Capone,......
WASHINGTON DC: Foreign Secretary Pakistan Aizaz Chaudhry in a meeting with Acting Administrator of US Agency for International Development (USAID) Alfonso Lenhardt on Thursday expressed appreciation......
NAIROBI: When a crack unit of Kenyan narco cops raided a Mombasa villa in November, after an eight-month undercover US investigation, it marked a step change in Africa's fight against drug......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain while addressing a joint session of Parliament on Thursday stressed the need for completion of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), saying "We will have......
NEW DELHI: Indian police have arrested five men on charges of assaulting and raping two women tourists in India's beach capital of Goa, a local official said late on Wednesday.The men stopped the......
KARACHI: Traffic was thin and business activities remained suspended on Thursday following the Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) announcement for a two-day mourning over the custodial death of a party......
SWABI: The defeat of the ruling parties in the May 30 local government election, also termed by provincial senior minister Shahram Khan Tarakai massively rigged, has created a serious rift among......
PESHAWAR: The candidates for the recently held local government elections including the nominees of the ruling parties continued levelling allegations of rigging and counter-allegations during......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Hunting and Sporting Arms Development Company (PHSADC) will establish a modern common facility training centre (CFTC) for upgrading of hunting and sporting arms manufacturing......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar have expressed concern over the threats to media persons and urged the government to ensure protection to journalists and ensure freedom of expression in the......
KARAK: The losing candidates of local government elections in the district have decided to stage sit-ins outside the offices of Election Commission of Pakistan and the house of PTI chief Imran Khan......
LAKKI MARWAT: Several losing candidates for district and tehsil councils have demanded of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to probe rigging in the May 30 local government elections and order......
PESHAWAR: With a local court granting bail to Provincial Minister Ali Amin Ghandapur in a case of election-related violence, a report by the district police of Dera Ismail Khan surfaced giving......
MANSEHRA: The agriculture experts have advised people of Kohistan to grow high quality seeds to get maximum yield of wheat, maize and other crops to enhance their livelihood resources.“We have been......
LANDI KOTAL: The principals of at least five government high schools in Landi Kotal are not performing their duty regularly despite several reminders and show-cause notices issued to them by the......
MARDAN: The Schools Officers Association and All Education Employees Coordination on Wednesday demanded of the government to register FIRs against all those political activists, who tortured or......
KOHAT: The opposition parties and hundreds of losing candidates on Wednesday demanded a judicial probe into what they called the worst type of rigging in the May 30 local government elections.Local......
ISLAMABAD: The academic session at the schools and colleges of the federal capital ends tomorrow (Friday) with summer holidays being observed from June 6 to August 9.“I have directed the Federal......
RAWALPINDI: A customs official, allegedly investigating the money laundering case against model Ayyan Ali, was shot and killed on Tuesday. On the other hand, Pakistan Customs refuted claims that......
ISLAMABAD: Moving to put a stricter regime in place for the monitoring and scrutiny of international non-government organisations (INGOs) currently operating in the country, the government is......
RAWALPINDI: A special court of customs, excise and taxation on Wednesday rejected the post-arrest bail application of supermodel Ayyan Ali.Sardar Latif Khosa and Sardar Ishaq, counsel for Ayyan,......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police on Wednesday arrested over 200 clerks of the nearby districts when they tried to enter Islamabad through different routes to participate in a protest rally, police......
KARACHI: A massive dust storm hit Karachi on Wednesday, bringing down the visibility level to as low as 50 metres, causing suspension of flight operations at the airport and disruption in power......
KARACHI: With no effective measures taken by the authorities to check growing threats against the Orangi Pilot Project whose team was recently forced to stop work and relocate, the perpetrators have......
EACH country has its own reasons to lament war and many have developed ways to remember the dead. A most visually arresting exercise was when the centenary of the First World War was observed.The......
THE Khyber Pakhtunkhwa local government election was flawed on many counts — this much is already obvious. But does overall mismanagement and sporadic incidents of serious violence amount to a stolen......
PAKISTAN’S fractious politics and the push and pull of civil-military ties have made the ‘all-party conference’ a go-to mechanism to demonstrate that all stakeholders “are on the same page”, which is......
I HAVE 25 years of experience in classroom instruction at college level. This quarter century of my association with education has given me first-hand knowledge of many major flaws in our education......
THIS refers to Ishaq Dar’s announcement about the increase in Employees’ Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) pension from Rs3,600 to Rs5,250 effective April last.I am thankful, but this promise of......
THE plight of the Rohingyas is an infinite tragedy. Rendered stateless people de jure by military dictator Gen Ne Win in the 1980s, they are not at home in their own country, Myanmar, and face......
RECENTLY a 23-year-old man, whose family works with us, died. He was a victim of a traffic accident. He was immediately rushed to the nearest government hospital and required a ventilator.For the......
THE Sindh and Punjab governments are involved in issuing fake weapon licences. This, however, is not considered a crime and no leader has condemned it even mildly. It may be illegal and unethical,......
ABOUT 5,000 candidates appeared in the written part of a departmental test for the post of a senior assistant in the Election Commission of Sindh on Feb 8. However, only 50 meritorious candidates......
THIS is apropos the news report ‘Nawaz for pro-people initiatives to prove economic growth claims’ (June 1).I would like to suggest that the UAE has a technology of mobile homes which they supplied......
OUR areas lack the necessary facilities which are one of the reasons for the increase in the urban population. People from rural areas migrate when they see abundance of facilities in cities.The main......
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party president Asfandyar Wali Khan on Wednesday demanded resignation of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and dismissal of the provincial assembly as the controversy over......
CHARSADDA: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Jamaat-i-Islami have developed an understanding with their rival and former coalition partner Qaumi Watan Party to form coalition district......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Wednesday said his government was ready for fresh local body elections in the province if the opposition parties wanted so.Like all......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday directed the provincial home department to allow brother to meet Dr Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor imprisoned for having links with militants, in......
PESHAWAR: In the wake of the complaints against policemen regarding their involvement in misuse of official powers on the polling day, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police Nasir Khan......
PESHAWAR: A tribal jirga comprising representatives of various political parties has rejected the reforms committee for Fata and asked the government to take the tribal people on board before taking......
PESHAWAR: An accountability court on Wednesday remanded in NAB custody for seven days the central character of a high profile scam of cheating people on pretext of providing them attractive profit on......
ISLAMABAD: Last year, climbers and adventure tourists stayed away from a particularly dangerous mountain of Pakistan. This year, many still desire to come but some think better stay away from......
ISLAMABAD: Even as leaders on both sides of the border continued posturing for the world stage on Wednesday, academics and diplomats at an Islamabad Policy Research Institute’s (IPRI) seminar put the......
ISLAMABAD: Robbers, burglars and thieves struck at four different places and made off with valuables and cash, police said here on Wednesday.Some burglars broke into two houses in G-9/2 and G-13/1......
Sorayya Khan is the author of three novels, Noor, Five Queen’s Road and the recently published City of Spies. The daughter of a Pakistani father and Dutch mother, she spent part of her childhood in......
RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurates the much delayed mass transit metro bus service between Rawalpindi and Islamabad today (Thursday).Though buntings and streamers festoon the......
ISLAMABAD: The Met Office said on Wednesday that the country would witness unstable weather conditions this week, which would cause thundershowers and dust storms.Some parts of twin cities of......
ISLAMABAD: The failure of the Non-Proliferation Treaty’s (NPT) Review Conference to produce a document with a substantive consensus has convinced many Pakistani experts that the country’s leadership......
LAHORE: The Punjab Blood Transfusion Authority (PBTA) has ‘failed’ to meet its target as only 34 out of the total 450 registered blood banks have been licenced all over the province during the last......
LAHORE: The Civil Society Network, BG Foundation and other organisations held a demonstration outside the press club here on Wednesday against the atrocities being meted out to Rohingya Muslims in......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has launched an important project to check fraud in property dealing with the cooperation of the Punjab Information Technology Board.The project is aimed at eliminating......
LAHORE: Dark clouds, wind and occasional rain made Wednesday a climatic oasis in an otherwise extremely hot peak summer month of June.Maximum temperature in the city was 35 degrees Celsius and 32......
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over the number of executed death row prisoners in Pakistan this year reaching 135 on Wednesday, the highest for any year......
LAHORE: Upgrading of the Punjab Institute of Cardiology Lahore, establishment of Government General Hospital at Chak No 224-RB of Faisalabad and expansion of 150-bed new block at Children Hospital......
LAHORE: A number of workers of the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) observed Wednesday as protest day throughout the country against the proposed privatisation of power distribution......
LAHORE: Police claimed on Wednesday to have arrested two suspects for their alleged involvement in the rape-cum-murder case of a minor girl.Tibbi City police said suspects ‘Z’ and ‘S’ were taken into......
LAHORE: Former Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab President Ejaz Chaudhry has said the Sharif brothers are burning nation’s resources on multi-billion mega projects to keep their businesses......
LAHORE: A condemned prisoners was executed in Kot Lakhpat Central jail, while black warrants of another two were issued on Wednesday.Convict Javed had killed Qasim and Saddiq in Cantonment Courts......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of a petition against lavish foreign tours of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from public exchequer.Petitioner barrister Javed Iqbal......
BAHAWALPUR: The jewellers of Machhli Bazaar and Sarafa Bazaar pulled down their shutters on Wednesday to protest an armed robbery during which a goldsmith suffered a bullet injury and 15-tola gold......
SHEIKHUPURA: The ‘corrupt clerical mafia’ in the Education Department issued a fake posting order to an applicant for the post of a clerk on Wednesday.Victim Jehangir of Chak 537, Malianwala,......
SIALKOT: At least 1,000 male and female CTI lecturers have been made redundant after the completion of their eight-month contract in different government colleges in the region.Gujranwala division’s......
GUJRAT: The protest drive of the health workers against Executive District Officer Dr Ijaz Haider has resulted in registration of a criminal case against the leaders of protesters for “trying to......
BAHAWALPUR: Forensic medicine experts have hit out at the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) for converting the forensic medicine discipline into forensic pathology in the medical colleges......
OKARA: The dispute between a group of lawyers and staff of the DCO office was resolved on Wednesday after days of protests from both sides.The DCO and the District Bar Association president made......
GUJRANWALA: Two murder accused stabbed and injured each other and a constable in the lock-up of the sessions court here on Wednesday.Reports said that police brought prisoners Wahab Khan, Imran and......
GUJRAT: Scores of Jamaat-i-Islami activists staged a sit-in outside Mandi Bahauddin district coordination officer’s office on Wednesday against denial of permission to the party for holding its......
SAHIWAL: The Supreme Court suspended on Wednesday the decision of the election tribunal, Multan, and restored Rai Hasan Nawaz as MNA on his NA-162 seat (Sahiwal III), Chichawatni. He had won the 2013......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Abdul Rasheed walks slowly in his three-acre grapevine yard and examines a light green bunch of grapes. He says he will get the first crop from the yard within a few weeks.The yard is......
KARACHI: Four policemen were arrested and two senior police officers suspended after a Muttahida Qaumi Movement worker died in the custody of the Aziz Bhatti police, officials said on Wednesday.“Four......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Wednesday demanded that a judicial commission be set up to investigate ‘extrajudicial killing’ and enforced disappearances of its workers.Speaking at a press......
KARACHI: Markets and business centres in different parts of the city were abruptly shut on Wednesday afternoon following the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) appeal for mourning over the worker’s......
KARACHI: Production of the computerised national identity card (CNIC) and birth registration certificate at the time of marriage be made mandatory to effectively implement the law against underage......
KARACHI: The ongoing demolition of the illegally constructed portions of the Jahangir Khan Sports Complex is expected to continue for some more time as some portions of the building are still not......
KARACHI: A boy was found brutally murdered near Safoora Goth on Wednesday, Sachal police said.They added that the body of the boy, aged two to three years, was found in the bushes behind Serena......
KARACHI: The focal group, which collects water samples and tests them for chlorination, on Wednesday found water supplied to four major hospitals of the city with no chlorine at all, leaving everyone......
KARACHI: Sindh Local Government Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon has directed the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board chief to start arrangements for the installation of a desalination plant to convert......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court issued on Wednesday notices to the director general of Rangers Sindh, home secretary, provincial police officer and others on petitions seeking whereabouts of nine men,......
HYDERABAD: High velocity winds and dust-storm blew away hundreds of electricity poles, thatched houses, roofs of semi-concrete structures, hoardings, signboards and many other things in their way on......
SUKKUR: Several hundred Hindu devotees from across Sindh and Balochistan, as well as some parts of India, thronged Sadhu Bela (or Sadhu Belo in Sindhi and Hindi) to participate in the 152nd annual......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court sentenced on Wednesday an accused to 14 years imprisonment in an explosive material case.Mohammad Ajmal was found guilty of possessing explosive substances in Jamshed......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has released Rs3.90 billion to 28 sugar mills operating in the province for payment of Rs12 subsidy per 40kg to sugar cane growers.This was informed when Chief Minister......
HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court issued on Wednesday notices to the secretary of the local government department, its director, provincial election commissioner, deputy......
BEIRUT: Lebanese movement Hezbollah, fighting in Syria to support the ruling regime, said on Wednesday it was tightening the noose around the last remaining jihadist pockets along the Lebanese-Syrian......
TOKYO: Japan plans to ban the public from flying drones above residential areas and at night, as it scrambles to legislate after a device was found on top of the prime minister’s office in......
DELHI: Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen said on Wednesday she had left her home in India for the United States after receiving death threats from Islamists behind the recent murders of atheist......
SANAA: Saudi-led coalition warplanes intensified raids on Yemen’s capital on Wednesday, as Washington confirmed a top US diplomat had met representatives of Iran-backed rebels to try to revive......
LOS ANGELES: Water consumption dropped 13.5 per cent in California in April compared to the same month a year ago, as the western US state fights a debilitating drought with mandatory cuts.The......
BANGKOK: A high-ranking Thai army officer wanted on human trafficking charges handed himself into police on Wednesday, the first military figure in the junta-ruled kingdom to be arrested over the......
NEW DELHI: India’s capital banned the sale of Nestle instant noodles on Wednesday after safety inspectors found high lead levels in packets of the product in two states in a growing food safety......
UNITED NATIONS: The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has expressed outrage at a two-year prison sentence handed down to writer U Htin Lin Oo on charges of insulting......
OTTAWA: Canadian police smashed a mafia drug trafficking ring with the arrest of 19 alleged high-ranking members of the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta criminal organisation, officials said on Wednesday.The......
NEW DELHI: Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday expressed concern over arms sale to Pakistan, ahead of his meeting with visiting US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter. The two later......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has warned Israel that its refusal to renew peace talks with the Palestinian Authority will “make it hard” for the US to veto anti-Israel motions in the United......
SITTWE: More than 700 migrants found adrift on a fishing boat six days ago disembarked in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine on Wednesday as the US warned it was monitoring their fate “very......
TAHERA Ahmad’s allegations of discrimination on a United Airlines flight over the weekend spread like wildfire.“People know this isn’t just about a can of diet soda,” she told The Guardian after......
NEW YORK: Infinity pools, climate-controlled wine cellars and golf simulators — it’s the little things that count in the booming market of luxury real estate coveted by the super-rich in New......
THE first revelation from the Snowden documents, less than two years ago, exposed systematic storage and analysis of all Americans’ telephone records by the National Security Agency and the FBI. As......
LEEDS: England will rest James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Moeen Ali, Ian Bell and Gary Ballance in the five-match one-day series against New Zealand starting next Tuesday.Kent wicketkeeper Sam Billings......
LONDON: Former Bayern Munich and Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack has tipped Juventus to pull off an upset by beating favourites Barcelona in Saturday’s Champions League final in Berlin.Both teams......
MADRID: Rafa Benitez was appointed Real Madrid coach on Wednesday, the much-travelled 55-year-old taking on one of the most demanding jobs in club football in which he will be expected to deliver......
PARIS: FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke said on Wednesday he was not guilty of any corrupt practice in a $10 million bank transaction under investigation by US authorities and saw no reason to......
ZURICH: A day after announcing his decision to resign, Sepp Blatter was back at work at FIFA headquarters on Wednesday as the worst corruption crisis in the governing body’s 111-year history......
WASHINGTON: The resignation of FIFA president Sepp Blatter will give the international football organisation an opportunity to improve its image, said White House press secretary Josh Earnest on......
DOHA: Qatar’s World Cup football organisers said Wednesday that the recent dramatic events at FIFA would “not impact” on the country’s preparations for its hosting of the controversial 2022......
ZURICH: The FBI’s investigation of football governing body FIFA includes scrutiny of how the organisation awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 competition to Qatar, a US law enforcement......
KARACHI: Off-spinner Abid Noori returned startling figures of 5-9 to help Zone-II complete a resounding 10-wicket victory over Zone-IV in their Division-I fixture of the KCCA Under-15 Inter-zonal......
KARACHI: Opener Fazal starred with a dazzling innings of 99 as Zone-VI came from behind to hand Zone-VII a 10-wicket defeat in the PCB Senior Inter-district Cricket Tournament at the TMC Ground here......
axKARACHI: The vice-president of the International Billiards and Snooker Federation, Maxime Cassis, who is also the president of the European Billiards and Snooker Association, has submitted a......
LAHORE: Openers Ahmed Shehzad and Shan Masood were recalled along with paceman Ehsan Adil for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka as the national selectors made three changes to the Pakistan Test squad......
ROSEAU (Dominica): Australia restricted West Indies to 85-3 at lunch after the home side opted to bat first in the the opening Test at Windsor Park on Wednesday.Shai Hope, in his second Test, hit a......
LAHORE: Test greats Javed Miandad and Sarfraz Nawaz congratulated former team-mate Zaheer Abbas for his nomination as ICC president by the Pakistan Cricket Board on Wednesday while coming down hard......
LAHORE: Centre-half Rashad Mahmood and forward Rizwan Senior have been included among 30 probables to attend a training camp at the Naseer Bunda Hockey Stadium in Islamabad from Friday.The camp is......
LAHORE: Pakistan Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq and former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq were hopeful that Pakistan would beat Sri Lanka in the upcoming Test series in the Emerald Island, starting on June......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s women team retained their crown and their veterans completed a grand double by grabbing the seniors’ title in the 18th Bridge Federation of Asia and Middle East (BFAME) in the......
DHAKA: Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim may be unable to keep wicket due to injury when the Tigers take on India in a one-off Test match next week, an official said on Wednesday.The diminutive......
PARIS: There was no trophy, and no title, on offer for Novak Djokovic at Court Philippe Chatrier.Perhaps there should have been, considering what he accomplished.Thoroughly outplaying the best......
LEEDS: England captain Alastair Cook insisted his side could yet regain the Ashes despite being held to a 1-1 Test series draw by New Zealand.Asked if he thought England could regain the Ashes, Cook......
LAHORE: In the fourth segment of the Samson Memorial golf tournament held at the Lahore Gymkhana golf course on Wednesday, the top performers turned out to be Taimur Shabbir and Shafiq Masih in the......
ISLAMABAD: Unemployment rate in Pakistan was estimated to be 11.7 per cent for the age group 15-19 years during 2013-14, revealed a government report.The age-specific joblessness was even higher in......
ISLAMABAD: As the country has surplus stocks of wheat, rice and other agricultural commodities, the government is likely to impose duty ranging from 15 to 30 per cent on the import of these products......
KARACHI: Small and Medium Enterprises Alliance (SAMEA) has urged the government to instruct banks to offer loans of up to Rs3 million without collateral.The alliance said incentives should to be......
KARACHI: Major changes have been made in the Capital Adequacy Framework for microfinance banks (MFBs) through amendments in the prudential regulations.“The capital adequacy instructions for......
KARACHI: Stock market took a breather on Wednesday with the KSE-100 index closing up by marginal 13.28 points to 33,908.62.The surprise grand rallies in the previous two days, spearheaded by the......
ISLAMABAD: The Model Customs Collectorate (MCC) Quetta witnessed a growth of over 61 per cent in its collection during the first 11 months of this fiscal year.It collected Rs5.568 billion under......
KARACHI: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Wednesday gave approval for Dolmen City REIT, the country’s first Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Fund.The fund, sponsored by......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Wednesday allowed exchange companies to collect utility bills and install ATMs in their premises.The central bank said that in order to enhance the scope......
LAHORE: The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) on Wednesday urged the government to bring down import duty on polyester staple fibre (PSF) to zero.In a press release, Aptma acting......
Intel Pakistan launches ICSLAHORE: Intel Pakistan on Wednesday launched ‘Intel Compute Stick’ (ICS), a device capable of transforming any HDMI display/monitor into a fully functional computer.—Staff......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) launched on Wednesday a plan of soybean seed multiplication and promotion in the coming autumn season.During the season, the soybean crop......
PARIS: The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on Wednesday sharply lowered its global growth forecasts for 2015 and 2016, dragged down partly by a “transitory” shortfall in US......
CAPE TOWN: Around 80 per cent of sub-Saharan Africa’s 800 million people should have access to mobile telephones by the end of the decade, double the current rate, although government help is needed......
BARCELONA: An international commitment to provide $100 billion a year by 2020 to help vulnerable countries tackle climate change is unlikely to be met if only government funding from rich nations is......
CUBUK: Turkey’s agriculture sector, a key pillar of the domestic economy, is increasingly feeling the pinch in a troubling development for the ruling party that is counting on farmers’ support in......
SHOULD promotions at the top level of the bureaucracy be entirely on merit, or should the quota system be invoked here too, as it is at the time of appointment to public service, to rationalise a......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain will take the podium for a second time on Thursday to open the third year of the current parliament, even as a boastful opposition leader predicted that the year......
GWADAR: Balochi language poet, writer and film actor Anwar Sahib Khan was kidnapped along with his son from their home in Pasni in Gwadar district on Wednesday night.Police said armed men barged into......
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate remanded four more officials of a software company in the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency on Wednesday in a fake degrees and money laundering case.The FIA......
ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be a change of mind, the PML-N government has expressed its willingness to expand investigation into the treason case to the extent of three abettors, but it is feared......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal has proposed what he has termed US-Pakistan Knowledge Corridor to boost cooperation between the two countries in education sector.“If I......
KARACHI: The city police lodged on Wednesday a case against Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s senior leader Amir Khan for ‘harbouring criminals’ and on other charges, almost three months after he was......
QUETTA: A large number of students, including girls, thronged the DAWN Education Fair here on Wednesday, the first day of the two-day event.The event, organised by the Dawn Media Group in a hotel, is......
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has rejected a report of the Free and Fair Election Network on the election in his NA-122 constituency and has written to the poll inquiry......
KARACHI: To address the job crisis for media professionals at Bol TV which emerged after Axact scandal, the Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) announced a policy of hiring back ‘as many media......
KARACHI: Emil Wyss, Consul-General of Switzerland, inaugurated a training programme on capacity-building of journalists at the office of Karachi Union of Journalists. The programme on “Sustainable......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was told that the 21st amendment, which established military courts to try hardened terrorists, had seriously undermined, disturbed and distorted the five broad......
KARACHI: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has offered cooperation to Sindh government in launching a Metro-style bus service in Karachi.Mr Sharif arrived here on Wednesday to invite Sindh......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani and Afghan health officials agreed at a meeting here on Wednesday to carry out joint vigilance for eradication of polio as one block.The meeting was originally scheduled for......
DOHA: The self-styled Islamic State (IS) is a “global threat” which will take a generation or more to defeat, Washington’s envoy for the US-led coalition fighting the militant group said on......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan told US officials that access to peaceful nuclear technology was a socio-economic priority for the energy-starved nation, says a joint statement issued on Wednesday.Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Kashmir once again took the centre stage in the troubled bilateral ties between Pakistan and India with Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif reminding Delhi that Kashmir was Pakistan’s......
ISLAMABAD: Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) disclosed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday that it tapped 6,856 telephones across the country in the last month of May, which was a little higher than......
ISLAMABAD: Economic Survey — the report card of the government for the current financial year ending on June 30 — to be unveiled by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday is likely to be a mixed bag......
ISLAMABAD: The poll inquiry commission has indicated that it will conclude the investigation into allegations of ‘systematic malpractices’ in the 2013 general elections during the week commencing on......
NO two nations in the world are as proud of their armed forces as Pakistan and India. These armies are more than swords; they are sceptres of national sovereignty.Wars bring out the worst in humans,......
BY most accounts, this year’s budget is promising to be a bit of a non-event, even though some rather extraordinary things are happening in the run-up. The main reason for this is the near total......
NOTHING that happened in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the local government elections, including violence, mismanagement and electoral malpractices, was unexpected. While every effort should be made to......
THE budget season is here. Like every year we’ll be hearing calls to increase the education budget. By now we all know that the Pakistani state — the federation as well as the provinces — spends a......
