LAHORE: Pakistan's 15-man squad flew out of Lahore for Colombo late on Monday night with Test skipper Misbah-ul-Haq announcing that his boys will go all out for victory against Sri Lanka.The team......
LONDON: United Kingdom's customs authority on Monday detained five Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) crewmembers from a London-Karachi flight on charges of smuggling and money......
Through her TV show, Reham Khan continues to bring to light personalities that have contributed in uplifting Pakistan’s image and have become a source of inspiration for the audience.The guests in......
Selection inconsistencies and poor player management have been the major factors contributing to Pakistan's embarrassing slump in one-day internationals, former all-rounder Azhar Mahmood......
QUETTA: A shutter-down strike was observed in Quetta on Monday after the previous day’s Hazara killings as shops and business centers at Bacha Khan Chowk, Alamdar Road and Liaquat Bazar remained......
“All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on the cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid’s eyes,” said Matthew Hayden.Dogged. Determined. Steely. A team-player par......
It was meant to be a compliment but it seems to have gone sour.As he concluded his two-day visit to neighbouring Bangladesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised his counterpart Sheikh......
Education activist Malala Yousafzai on Monday spoke up for the rights of Rohingya Muslims, urging influential world leaders to take action against the persecution of the minority group, said a......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday repeated his offer of holding re-elections for local government (LG) seats in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Last week, Imran had offered......
MUMBAI: The Sahara Group of jailed Indian tycoon Subrata Roy said Monday it had reached a deal with Britain's billionaire Reuben brothers to avert the sale of three luxury hotels overseas.Roy, who......
TEHRAN: Iran's official IRNA news agency is reporting that four young Saudi pilgrims have died in Iran as a result of an accidental mass poisoning in their hotel.The Monday report says the victims......
MAUNGDAW: Some 150 migrants found adrift in a boat off Myanmar's coast were set Monday for transfer to neighbouring Bangladesh, an immigration official said, returning them to homes many tried to......
It has been one year since the Jinnah International Airport (JIA) of Karachi came under a deadly attack by militants on the night of 8th June, 2014.Twenty four valuable lives were lost and property......
ISTANBUL: Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party on Monday weighed its future strategy after losing its absolute parliament majority for the first time since winning power 13 years ago, in a stunning......
KARACHI: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Vice President Sherry Rehman on Monday was elected as senator from Sindh unopposed.Last week, Rehman filed nomination papers for a general seat of the Senate......
DHAKA: A Rohingya man suspected of involvement in people trafficking has been shot dead in Bangladesh, police said Monday, as the country battles a migrant crisis.Police said the 30-year-old man died......
NORTH WAZIRISTAN: At least 19 suspected militants, including five commanders, were killed during an exchange of fire with security personnel on Sunday near the North Waziristan-Afghan border......
TACOMA: The US soldier who murdered 16 Afghan villagers in 2012 says he had lost compassion for Iraqis and Afghans over the course of his four combat deployments.The News Tribune newspaper of Tacoma......
DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an address at Dhaka University on Sunday blamed Pakistan for spreading terrorism and fear in neighbouring India, according to a report on Hindustan Times......
GUJRAT: Polling in Mandi Bahauddin's NA-108 constituency concluded on Monday amid a confrontation between Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and PML-N workers near some polling stations, injuring more......
Does crossing the border always have to cause a controversy?It's no secret that local TV darling Mawra Hocane feels right at home in India. She's been in and out of Mumbai in the last few months and......
PARIS: They came, they saw but never conquered and now Novak Djokovic is staring into the same Paris abyss that swallowed up the Grand Slam ambitions of Pete Sampras, Stefan Edberg and Boris......
LONDON: England, not for the first time, will try to re-launch themselves as a One-Day International cricket side when they face World Cup finalists New Zealand in the first of a five-match series at......
GILGIT: Polling for 24 seats of the second Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly concluded on Monday. Voting began at 8am and continued until 4pm, without any breaks.About 600,000 registered voters......
GUJRAT: A local holiday has been declared in the Mandi Bahauddin district on Monday (today) by the administration in connection with the by-election in NA-108, for which the campaigns by candidates......
SAHIWAL: On the orders of the Supreme Court, four former policemen, who were punished in connection with the 29 lawyers burning case on May 5, 2007, were released from Central Jail on Saturday......
KASUR: Six armed robbers shot dead a man and injured another on resistance during a robbery bid at Khirpa Chak village in Raja Jang on Sunday.Reports said that Kamran of Pakpattan along with Muhammad......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: A seven-bed intensive care unit established with donations of philanthropists at the teaching hospital of Ghazi Medical College (GMC) needs government’s supervision for its smooth......
GUJRAT: The district government and the association of the allied health workers on Sunday finally ended their month-long stand-off over the issues of the transfer of Executive District Officer......
SIALKOT: Two young cousins drowned while swimming in the Chenab near Head Marala here on Sunday.Muhammad Ramzan, 15, and Ulfat, 13, were swimming in the river to beat the heat when they......
LAHORE: Most of the brain tumours are curable if detected at early stage and the need of the hour is to create awareness among masses about this disease.This was stated by known neurosurgeons at a......
LAHORE: The cost to be incurred on land and structure acquisition and other ancillary services for construction of the Kahna Kachcha Flyover has doubled in the revised PC-I of the project.The cost......
LAHORE: The Punjab Muttahida Mahaz Asatiza has decided to resume its sit-in at Charing Cross from June 15, alleging that the government has been turning a deaf ear to its just demands for the last......
LAHORE: Police claimed on Sunday in its monthly report of May that they had arrested 132 suspects, including absconders of 51 gangs, involved in robbery, car theft and murder cases and recovered......
LAHORE: The proposed allocation of Rs41 billion for Pakistan Railways under the 2015-16 Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) is commendable, compared to that of the whole PPP regime but the......
LAHORE: A team of the Lahore Development Authority on Sunday sealed two sheesha cafes built unlawfully in violation of the building rules in Gulberg.According to an LDA spokesman, the......
KASUR: Two men who crossed the border accidently were handed over to Pakistan by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Sunday.The BSF and Pakistani intelligence agencies handed over the suspects......
LAHORE: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto is being approached with request to visit Punjab during Ramazan to meet the workers at Iftar parties, says party’s Punjab president Mian Manzoor Wattoo.“I am......
KASUR: A would-be groom, along with around hundred guests, had to leave a wedding hall without the Nikah ceremony on Sunday after they failed to establish before its administration that the girl to......
LAHORE: A committee comprising officials of different departments is learnt to have finally approved the draft law for the protection of whistle-blowers in government departments, but limiting the......
LAHORE: People living in Nathia Gali (Ayubia National Park) are confronted with a host of issues from deforestation to solid waste management and from human-leopard conflict to impact of communities......
BAHAWALPUR: The suspension of restoration work on Farid Gate, one of the monuments defining the city, has rendered the site an eyesore for the citizens.The restoration work on the historic gate was......
PESHAWAR/LANDI KOTAL: The leaders of different political parties have rejected the recommendations of Fata Reforms Commission and demanded local government elections in Federally Administered Tribal......
UPPER DIR: Women and children were among at least 21 people injured in a cylinder blast and a road accident here, police and local residents said on Sunday.According to police, nine members of a......
LANDI KOTAL: Repatriation of thousands of displaced families of Shalobar tribe of Bara will begin today (Monday), local administration officials said on Sunday.They said that the repatriation of......
MANSEHRA: A non-governmental organisation has given away a grant of Rs4 million to 80 poor families in Gari union council here to help them start small businesses to earn a respectable living.The......
MARDAN: Jamaat-i-Islami, the coalition-partner of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in the provincial government, has joined the tripartite alliance of Awami National Party, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F and......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa elementary and secondary education department claimed on Saturday it would ensure 100 per cent utilisation of its annual development allocations by end of current......
PESHAWAR: The eight newly-elected councillors of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Jamiat Ulema-i- Islam-Fazl have joined hands in Town-4, Peshawar, to win the seat of town nazim with the support of......
MINGORA: More than 40 scholars are presently busy in research for their PhD theses on the art, culture, traditions and ancient civilisation of Swat, says Dr Mohammad Ashraf Khan, the director of......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a symposium have stressed the need for management of the patients, who are exposed to mental disorders due to other diseases.“We should pay attention to all the patients, who......
PESHAWAR: Most of the returning officers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have failed to display the official results of the local government elections on Sunday (June 7) as notified by the Election Commission......
LAHORE: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch claims his two-year rule has at least changed political, economic and security situation of his province if not brought about a revolution......
PESHAWAR: Just a day after the tri-partite alliance in the province announced a strike and demanded of the provincial government to step down for what it called rigging the recently held local......
KARACHI: With the arrival of hot summers and stifling humidity, most Karachiites head to the seaside to dip their feet into the cool waters, splash about and sometimes plunge deeper into the sea.......
AWEEK that began with a multiparty conference in Quetta, convened by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the request of the Balochistan government after the Mastung carnage, ended with more disturbing......
ONE good thing to come out of the budget is an emphasis on measures to promote documentation of the economy.In his post-budget news conference on Saturday, the finance minister also laid emphasis on......
AS the sun set on 2014, the tally of new polio cases during the year had crossed 300, breaking Pakistan’s own record of nearly a decade and a half. But now, after a harrowing year, there is finally......
THIS is apropos A. Habib’s letter ‘Imran and ECP’ (May 6). The writer’s criticism of Mr Khan about the local bodies’ elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is not justified.Mr Khan and the KP government......
THIS refers to the news item about the Punjab chief minister offering to help launch a metro bus-like project in Karachi. We have heard much about metro bus projects of Lahore and......
DURING the seventh round of the US-Pakistan Security, Strategic Stability and Non-Proliferation Working Group in Washington, Pakistan made it clear that access to peaceful nuclear technology for......
THIS is apropos the news report ‘Surge in generator imports gives reality check to govt claims’ (May 31). It is shocking to note that industrialists and traders imported power generating machines to......
THIS refers to the letter ‘Locust control’ (June 5). The subject of locust control brings to mind a number of questions.How many aircraft of the Plant Protection Department are airworthy? How many......
THIS is apropos your editorial ‘Balochistan solution’ (June 4). You feel that a militarised approach in Balochistan will intensify the suffering of ordinary Baloch and alienate them further.In your......
THIS is apropos Dr Mubarak Ali’s article ‘Dead language’ (May 31). His diagnosis is correct but his prognosis is wrong. He has pronounced Urdu dead as an academic language.No, sir, Urdu has not died,......
THE syllabus followed in Sindh’s schools and colleges is obsolete. The Sindh Textbook Board has been publishing books since 1970.Books on science subjects like biology, physics and chemistry have not......
THE government provides the service of university point buses to students. These low-fare buses pick students from their locality and drop them at Karachi University.There are over 30,000 students......
IT is great to know that K-Electric is working day in and day out for better transmission of grid lines.I am a resident of Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Block-2, and we had a change of PMT power lines last......
TAXILA: Police on Sunday claimed to have recovered explosives from the possession of five people who have been arrested in connection with the murder of a watchman on Thursday.The police arrested the......
ISLAMABAD: On sweltering June afternoons, even the most delicious of oil slathered favourites such as Nihari and Korma seem unappetising, while a lightly drizzled vibrant green salad appeals to the......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) failed to arrange capacity-building training sessions for teachers throughout the financial year 2014-15 despite the availability of......
TAXILA: Unchecked and large-scale quarrying on the Margalla hills is causing serious threat to the Unesco world heritage sites in the Taxila valley.The stone crushing activities on the hills are not......
ISLAMABAD: Incidents of fraud, involving people posing to be associated with influential people, appear to be on the rise in the federal capital.During last week, the police arrested two men, in......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has assured the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) that, together with its Chinese partners, it would work to make the gigantic China-Pakistan Economic Corridor......
ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday formally announced to rename the metro bus service as the Pakistan Metro Bus Service.It may be noted that at the launch of the bus service at......
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday directed the contractors of the metro bus project to install fences along the track in Islamabad.Earlier, to avoid being dubbed as ‘Jangla......
ISLAMABAD: The traders of the federal capital have sought amendment to the Rent Restriction Ordinance (IRRO) 2001 which has become a bone of contention between traders and owners of commercial......
ISLAMABAD: Shalimar Police, responding to a call from a women requiring assistance, reached the spot and found two vehicles with the same registration number and arrested four people.A woman......
HYDERABAD: A man completely shaved off the head of his wife in unit 12 of Latifabad on Sunday in what his spouse said was the ‘punishment for being unfaithful’ but the husband insisted he did it only......
HYDERABAD: Sindh Minister for Minority Affairs Gyan Chand Esrani has said the foremost responsibility of his department is to ensure protection of religious places of minorities. The government is......
BADIN : A couple committed suicide in Fotto Chang village near Rahuki town on Sunday due to starvation, police said.They said that 40-year-old Kewal Kohli and his 35-year-old wife, Najoo Kohli, had......
HYDERABAD: A delegation of World Bank representatives held a meeting with Sindh Chamber of Agriculture (SCA) office-bearers and members on Sunday for a briefing on the WB-funded Sindh Agriculture......
DADU: Ten more devotees of Hazrat Qalandar Lal Shahbaz died of heatstroke and two drowned in Aral Wah canal near the Sufi saint’s shrine when they were having a dip in the canal’s cool waters to take......
KARACHI: “The dichotomy of this country is that it prides itself on more becoming a democratic state, yet various forms of slavery still exist within its borders,” says Dr Ghulam Haider, who works at......
Once during Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi’s (1916-2006) tenure as the director general of the Majlis-i-Tarraqi-i-Adab, Lahore, a sarkari babu compiled a report against the institution and the biggest ‘charge’......
KARACHI: A young man and his minor son were shot dead while his wife was critically wounded in an armed attack in Sohrab Goth in the early hours of Sunday.Police said gunmen stormed the house near......
KARACHI: Three young men were shot dead in Lyari’s Chakiwara locality on Sunday evening, according to police.“Gangsters linked with the group of Noor Mohammed alias Baba Ladla attacked them on street......
KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami and the Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen held separate rallies in the city to highlight the plight of the Rohingya people and to urge the world to save the lives of scores of......
HYDERABAD: Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani has reaffirmed that the lawmakers who tore off the book containing the rules of procedure of the house will not be spared.“Action will sure be......
KARACHI: The Karachi University (KU) administration seems to be clueless on how to end the impasse over admissions to the MPhil/PhD programme in linguistics at the department of English as it has......
SHORTLY after the start of the new millennium, a few of us were speculating about the new century that had just dawned, and what it would bring. This is the sort of idle chatter one has with friends......
BANGKOK: Thailand is eager to show its new-found toughness on human trafficking, taking reporters on patrols and tours of former camps, cooperating with neighbouring countries and the US, and......
TIXTLA GUERRERO: Rebellious teachers and protesters seeking to thwart Mexico’s midterm elections on Sunday burned ballots, blocked polling stations and forced one southern town to scrap the vote.The......
MUMBAI: A fire in a high-rise apartment block in Mumbai has killed seven people after they became trapped on the upper floors, officials said on Sunday.Fire officials are probing the cause of the......
SANAA: Twenty civilians were among at least 45 people killed in Saudi-led air strikes on the rebel-held armed forces headquarters in the Yemeni capital early on Sunday, a medic said.The raids on the......
TRIPOLI: Militants of the Islamic State group have killed three soldiers loyal to Libya’s self-declared government controlling Tripoli, state news agency LANA said on Sunday.IS forces have profited......
RABAT: Authorities say 11 teenagers have drowned in the Atlantic during a beach outing just south of the Moroccan capital after they were carried away by waves.The report by the state news agency......
POMONA: South Korean boffins carried home the $2 million top prize on Saturday after their robot triumphed in a disaster-response challenge inspired by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown in......
This Thursday afternoon in London, the noted auction house Bonhams will hold a major auction on Modern & Contemporary South Asian Art on their premises located at London’s New Bond Street. The sale......
NEW YORK: One of the US military’s most secretive special forces credited with killing Osama bin Laden — SEAL Team 6 — has morphed into a “global manhunting machine,” with limited outside oversight,......
MAIDUGURI: A female suicide bomber killed two people and injured four others in northeast Nigeria, while two people were injured when a bomb exploded near a military checkpoint, police said on......
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi issued a rare apology on Sunday over a police officer beating a lawyer with a shoe last week, an attack that sparked a general one-day strike by the......
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has upheld a sentence of 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes against blogger Raif Badawi on charges of insulting Islam, his wife said on Sunday.The judgment came......
BAGHDAD: Iraqi troops backed by Shia militias recaptured key parts of the northern refinery town of Beiji from the self-styled Islamic State on Sunday, a general said.The commander of the Interior......
LILLE: Access to the port of Calais in northern France was closed on Sunday as demining teams prepared to defuse several World War II bombs discovered during construction work.Among the discoveries......
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s Islamic-rooted ruling party lost its absolute parliamentary majority in legislative elections on Sunday, dealing a severe blow to strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s......
PARIS: There were no jeers this time as Swiss Stan Wawrinka defied the odds to win the French Open with a courageous 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 victory over world number one Novak Djokovic in an enthralling......
LONDON: England must put their dismal World Cup campaign behind them and play with ‘freedom and no fear of failure’ when they take on New Zealand in a five-match One-day International series,......
BIRMINGHAM: American Jeneba Tarmoh defeated compatriot and Olympic champion Allyson Felix by the narrowest of margins on Sunday after both athletes clocked the same time over 200metres at the......
LEICESTER (England): Grant Elliott and Luke Ronchi scored unbeaten centuries as World Cup finalists New Zealand prepared for their one-day series against England with a crushing 198-run win over......
WELLINGTON: Former English all-rounder Dimitri Mascarenhas has been appointed New Zealand’s bowling coach full-time in the wake of the team’s encouraging Test series in England.Appointed in an......
BERLIN: Barcelona were crowned kings of Europe for the fifth time after beating Juventus 3-1 in a pulsating Champions League final at the Olympic Stadium on Saturday as the Spaniards became the first......
KARACHI: First-class player Babar Hussain Agha excelled with a brilliant all-round performance as KCCA Zone-VI chalked up their fourth successive victory in the PCB Senior Inter-District Karachi......
LAHORE: The funds which were meant to be utilised for building a football training centre in Jhang now rest in a fixed deposit account with the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) eating off interest......
KARACHI: The Olympic Day that binds sportspersons together besides spreading message of the Olympic Movement globally was commemorated at the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) Coaching Centre on Sunday......
KARACHI: Zone-VI trounced Zone-III by 10 wickets in their Division-I fixture of the KCCA Under-15 Inter-zonal Cricket Tournament at the KCCA Stadium on Saturday.Playing their fourth match, Zone-VI......
THE GDP growth target set in the FY16 budget appears achievable. But it might not be driven by the reluctant private sector, which finds the business environment not yet congenial for long-term......
BY lowering interest rates and tightening the risk-free banking spread enjoyed by financial institutions, the central bank has virtually ensured that banks would need to go back to acting as......
Equity investors are unlikely to celebrate the much-awaited arrival of the budget when the market opens for trading today.Their worst fears materialised as Finance Minister Ishaq Dar announced a hike......
EXCEPT for its bigger size and generous social-sector allocation, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led coalition government’s third budget for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa looks no different from the previous......
THE target of 1pc increase in the annual economic growth rate projected for five years, starting from the next fiscal’s target of 5.5pc, indicates a paradigm shift from the focus on stability towards......
LEFTWING politicians are in electoral retreat across most of the western world. The one exception is the United States. At 15pc in the Democratic polls, Bernie Sanders, the senator from Vermont, is......
BALOCHISTAN’S development lag is widening in spite of a significant increase in its share of revenues from the federal tax divisible pool over the last five years under the 7th National Finance......
GREECE notified the International Monetary Fund that it would not make a scheduled 300m-euro loan repayment last Friday after opposition to a bailout compromise with creditors erupted inside the......
FIRST it was the unseasonal rains and hail storms in March which destroyed crops, including wheat, rapeseed, potatoes and vegetables across north and central India. Then it was the heat wave last......
IRAQ, the second-biggest oil producer in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, has the fourth-largest oil reserves in the world. But the $221bn economy is struggling to rebuild its......
THE Sindh irrigation department is seeking around 50pc more funds for its development programme under the provincial annual development plan 2015-16 to focus on water conservation, given the......
AS the Punjab government prepares the third budget of its current tenure, it seems to have gotten its focus right.As the current thinking and reports from official circles suggest, the budgetary......
The livestock and fishing sectors grew at their fastest pace during the last seven years, and forestry also expanded substantially. But a sharp decline in the growth rate of major crops had a telling......
THE Nawaz Sharif government’s third budget, often referred to as the midway or midpoint budget, betrays its desperation to set growth in motion and create new jobs by pushing public and private......
FINANCE Minister Ishaq Dar’s growth agenda for the remaining tenure of the PML-N government seems to draw strength from the expected kick-off of the $46bn worth of energy and construction projects......
Marginal changes were observed last week on the currency market as major currency dealers sidelined themselves awaiting the budget speech of the finance minister.On the interbank market, the rupee......
INVESTMENTS of all scheduled banks rose 0.98pc to Rs5,592.404bn in the week ending May 22, against the preceding week’s level of Rs5,537.653bn, according to recently released central bank data.When......
THE decision by Gazprom Neft, Russia’s third-largest oil producer, to use renminbi for trade settlement may prompt more Russian firms to follow suit, experts said last Wednesday.The Russian company......
KARACHI: Law-enforcement agencies personnel killed two alleged gangsters in Lyari’s Chakiwara area in an ‘encounter’ on Sunday night.The Rangers and police had launched a joint operation following......
QUETTA: Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Mohammad Noor Meskanzai has called upon government officers to utilise their administrative ability and leadership qualities for solving the problems......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has asked heads of departments to implement a cabinet decision to gradually introduce Urdu as official language.According to a circular, heads of government......
KHUDZAR: A man and his three sons were killed in a road accident and three boys drowned in a reservoir on Sunday, police said.Asghar Ali Raisani was going with his family on a motorcycle when a car......
GWADAR: Electricity supply to three districts of the Makran division could not be restored on Sunday despite a passage of 36 hours.The supply was suspended after militants blew up a pylon connected......
GWADAR: Four tribesmen were killed in a clash between two groups of Mohammad Hassani tribe in Mashkey area of Awaran district on Saturday evening.Official sources said it was not clear what exactly......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) criticised on Sunday the federal budget for 2015-16 and announced that it would oppose the budgetary proposals in parliament.Speaking at a press conference......
FAISALABAD: Devastated by abject poverty, a man strangled his three little daughters to death in a village near here on Sunday.According to police, Irshad Ahmed used a rope to kill six-year-old......
GILGIT: About six hundred thousand registered voters are exercising will elect 24 members of the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly on Monday.All administrative and security arrangements have been......
ISLAMABAD: PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has expressed concern over reports that the government is withdrawing subsidy on wheat supplied to Gilgit-Baltistan and said that PPP will resist any such......
KARACHI: A three-ship formation of JF-17 Thunders along with a Pakistan Air Force contingent comprising pilots and technicians departed from an Operational PAF Air Base on Sunday to participate in......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) handed over on Sunday a cheque for Rs4.06 million to the Iranian consul general, a NAB spokesman said.The amount was recovered from Khalid Aziz,......
ELMAU CASTLE (Germany): The leaders of Germany and the United States hammered home a tough line on Russia on Sunday as they kicked off a G7 summit dominated by crises in Ukraine and Greece.German......
MAUNGDAW (Myanmar): Buddhist hardliners in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state are planning a day of protest against moves to help desperate migrants found adrift on boats in the Bay of Bengal,......
KABUL: Militants have kidnapped at least 12 de-miners in separate incidents in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province, the provincial police chief said on Sunday.Gen Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai said Taliban......
KARACHI: Turbulent weather conditions developing in the Arabian Sea for the past few days and having the potential of becoming a cyclonic activity have for the first time started posing a threat to......
ISLAMABAD: Former PML-Q senator Haroon Akhtar has been appointed Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Revenue.His appearance at Saturday’s post-budget press conference alongside Finance Minister......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif said on Sunday that Operation Zarb-i-Azb had been started to bring enduring peace and stability in Pakistan and the region.According to a statement......
QUETTA: Five people belonging to the Shia Hazara community, a man and his son among them, were killed when gunmen stormed a teashop in a busy shopping area near Bacha Khan Chowk here on Sunday......
ISLAMABAD: Despite its claim of following ‘policy of austerity’, the government is seeking parliament’s post-facto approval for a Rs139 billion ‘regular supplementary budget’ for the current......
TAXILA: In the village of Dolian, near Wah Cantt, the family of 21-year-old wrestler Badshah Khan are hopeful that the young man would represent the green flag at the stage of World Wrestling......
RAWALPINDI: The expressway was blocked on Sunday evening for over an hour to protest the killing of two young men by officials of the Muhafiz Squad late Saturday night.Funeral prayers were offered on......
IN Morocco, the annual Gnawa music festival is held every year in the fishing port of Essaouira. When it was first initiated some 18 years ago, it was criticised on the basis that it featured trashy......
ANOTHER Pakistani woman has done us proud. Nighat Dad, founder of the not-for-profit organisation Digital Rights Foundation, was recently named by Time magazine as one of its Next Generation Leaders.......
Considered a fact of life in big cities elsewhere, mass transit projects such as the Bus Rapid Transit system have become a source of political polarisation in Pakistan. The arguments, as presented......
THE political parties are jubilant for various reasons at the unofficial results of the local government elections held recently in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf wants us to......
