LONDON: A primary school trust in east London banned Muslim pupils from fasting on school grounds during Ramazan, reported The Telegraph.The Barclay Primary School, which serves London's Leyton area,......
RIYADH/SANAA: The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen denied claims that it carried out a strike on Friday on the historic old quarter of the country's capital, suggesting a rebel ammunition cache may......
JAIPUR: An electrical wire fell on a bus carrying people to a wedding in western India on Friday, killing at least 17, a local official said.Government official Rekha Gupta said the bus was carrying......
Back in January, when news first emerged that teachers were now allowed to carry arms in school, I remember thinking how that couldn’t possibly end well for anyone and lamented the varied forms of......
This weekend, you just might get your retail fix at home.Online retailer Daraz.pk is launching a new initiative — a three-day online fashion show titled Daraz Fashion Week — that will showcase the......
PESHAWAR: At least one person was killed and five others wounded in a blast reported on the Pakistani side of the Torkham check post at the Pak-Afghan border.The deceased was identified as a civilian......
LAHORE: In an act of extreme cruelty, a man in the Fazal Park locality of Shahdara here on Friday slit the throats of three of his nephews.The three children included six-year-old Azeem,......
Pakistan Cricket chief Shahryar Khan on Tuesday confirmed that a deal was struck with Zimbabwe but rubbished claims that the African side was ‘bribed’ into touring Pakistan.Zimbabwe became the first......
I don’t know about you but when the heat gets brutal, I barely ever want to eat anything hot.All I want is icy lemonade, raita, and cool salads.If you are anything like me, then these two salads are......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday said that no Non-Government Organisation (NGO) working against the country's national interest will be allowed to continue its......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders issued strong reactions to the Sindh Rangers' statements regarding the involvement of political parties in funding......
Only last week the Sultan of Swing, Wasim Akram, walked the ramp for the first time with his wife Shaniera Akram. But it seems that wasn't enough excitement for the happy couple — they topped off......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has rejected the European Union's (EU) concerns over the death penalty and said Pakistan is not violating international laws, the Foreign Office said on Friday."Only such convicts......
KARACHI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Friday that the culture of strikes in Karachi should be discouraged as it adversely affects the industrial sector and commerce, said a report published on......
LAHORE: A Rs1.45 trillion estimated provincial budget outlay for the fiscal year 2015-2016 was presented in the Punjab Assembly by Punjab Finance Minister Dr Ayesha Ghous-Pasha on Friday, reported......
FATULLAH: Murali Vijay hit an unbeaten 144 to lift India to 393 for three by lunch on the third day as play finally resumed in the rain-hit Test against Bangladesh in Fatullah on Friday.Vijay, who......
SEOUL: South Korea on Friday reported an 11th death from the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus outbreak, but officials said they are seeing a fewer number of new infections and......
SANTIAGO: Arturo Vidal buried his Champions League heartache to set up a 2-0 opening victory for Chile over Ecuador as the Copa America kicked off here on Thursday.Juventus star Vidal bounced back......
BEIJING: Four siblings, aged between five and 13 and left unattended by their parents for months, apparently committed suicide by drinking pesticide in southwest China, state media reported on......
BANGKOK: Five Thai students detained in Pakistan for trying to board a plane with a pistol and ammunition have no links to the self-styled Islamic State militant group or any criminal organization, a......
COLOMBO: Pakistan batsmen, except for opener Ahmed Shehzad and veteran Younis Khan, could not impress on the opening day of their three-day warm-up match against a Sri Lanka Board President’s XI as......
LONDON: Former England wicket-keeper Matt Prior announced on Thursday that he has retired at the age of 33 due to injury.Prior made the last of his 79 Test appearances against India at Lord’s 11......
ZURICH: FIFA’s director of communications Walter de Gregorio is to resign after making a joke on television about the scandal-hit soccer body, while pressure mounted for his boss Sepp Blatter to step......
KINGSTON: Jerome Taylor struck two early blows but pace partner Kemar Roach’s no-ball woes proved costly again as Australia recovered to 91 for two at lunch on the opening day of the second and final......
LAUSANNE: FIFA will meet on July 20 to decide the date on which Sepp Blatter’s successor as president will be selected, the embattled body said Thursday.“The extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee......
LAHORE: Income Tax officials on Thursday held discussion with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) authorities having called upon the latter at the Gaddafi Stadium to settle the issue of recovering heavy......
FATULLAH: Heavy rain forced the second day’s play to be abandoned without a ball being bowled in the one-off Test between Bangladesh and India here on Thursday.Umpires Kumar Dharmasena and Nigel......
LOS ANGELES: Floyd “Money” Mayweather has beaten Manny Pacquiao again: the undefeated US boxer leads his Filipino rival atop Forbes’ latest list of the world’s highest-paid sports figures.Mayweather......
KARACHI: Jahangir Khan excelled with a splendid all-round performance to help Sakhi Hasan Gymkhana score a three-wicket victory against Orangi Muslim CC in the KCCA Zone-VI Daud Khan Memorial Cricket......
KARACHI: The draws ceremony of the 30th Karachi Gymkhana Ramazan Cricket Tournament was held here at KG Ground on Thursday.Sixteen leading outfits from Karachi, Interior of Sindh and Balochistan and......
KARACHI: Hammad and Mohammad shared five goals amongst themselves as retired Brig M.H. Atif XI overwhelmed Tanveer Dar XI 10-1 in the camp trainees hockey tournament at the Olympian Iftikhar Syed......
KARACHI: The inaugural Ehsan Abbasi Memorial Pairs Bridge Tournament will be held at the Aslam Bridge Hall here on Friday, the Karachi Bridge Associates (KBA) announced on Thursday.“Ehsan Abbasi was......
KARACHI: Ibrahim Iltifat and Noor-e-Mustafa displayed brilliant game on Thursday to advance in the 37th KTA Development Series Ranking Tennis event being played here at the Bath Island......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s Dar Hockey Academy won their third match of the ongoing tour of Holland, beating Den Bosch Club 3-1.Usman Senior (2) and Usman Junior (1) were the scorers for the winners.Published......
SINGAPORE: Badminton star Lee Chong Wei’s first SEA Games in 10 years came to a premature end when Malaysia lost 3-2 to Indonesia in the men’s team semi-finals on Thursday.Lee, 32, comfortably beat......
PORTO ALEGRE: A first-half goal from Roberto Firmino was enough to give Brazil a 1-0 win over Honduras in their last Copa America warm up match on Wednesday, but the South Americans lost first-choice......
KARACHI: Aggressive borrowing for budgetary support has made it doubtful whether the government could keep the fiscal deficit at 5 per cent of GDP for this fiscal year.The finance minister in his......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) claims that the Karachi Goal project is “fully functional”. On a closer look, though, it doesn’t seem so.A PFF spokesperson claimed Dawn had......
LAHORE: Former Olympian and one of the members of the incumbent national hockey selection committee Arshad Ali Chaudhry died here on Thursday. Arshad, who had been fighting cancer for the last six......
KARACHI: Former first-class cricketer and head of Dollar East Zaheer Ahmed who met PCB chairman Shaharyar M Khan in Lahore last Tuesday said the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is fully focused to......
KARACHI: A deadly bowling spell by slow left-armer Salman Khan, who captured seven wickets in the last one hour of the match handed an amazing victory to KCCA Zone VI over rivals Zone V by 323 runs......
KARACHI: Curtain fell on the month-long free 34th summer camp for budding boys and girls at the Athletics Fitness School (AFS) Hockey Club of Pakistan Stadium here on Thursday.Around 125 athletes of......
LAHORE: National champion Aqeel Khan and Shahzad Khan qualified for the men’s singles final of the inaugural SNGPL All-Pakistan Men and Women Tennis Championship at the Cosmopolitan Club here on......
KARACHI: Mohammad Uzair and Mubashir Nawaz bowled brilliantly to steer their teams to victories in Division-I matches of the KCCA Under-15 Inter-zonal Cricket Tournament here on Wednesday.Zone-Vi......
LAHORE: The LRCA Commissioner Cup saw three more matches played here on Thursday.Meiji Beaconhouse beat Embroidery House Kips by 182 runs at Bagh-i-Jinnah Ground Lahore while Harvest Group Aitchison......
WASHINGTON: Moody’s Investors Service on Thursday upgraded Pakistan’s foreign currency issuer and senior unsecured bond ratings to B3 from Caa1, and assigned a stable outlook.It has also upgraded the......
WASHINGTON: Energy shortages in Pakistan, which have weighed on investment and activity in recent years, are expected to diminish gradually as investment in energy projects increases supply, says a......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) registered 426 companies during May 2015.Around 90 per cent of companies have been registered as private limited companies, around......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s export of services witnessed a growth of 19.50 per cent during first 10 months of this fiscal year.In absolute terms, the services export proceeds reached $5.022 billion during......
KARACHI: Stocks continued to rally on Thursday which saw the bulls toss the KSE-100 index over the 34,500 level for the first time in four months.The index advanced by 270.86 points (0.79 per cent)......
KARACHI: The growth of pharmaceutical industry has dropped to around eight per cent per annum from approximately 16 per cent, said Pharma Bureau (PB) Chairman Arshad Saeed Hussain on Thursday.Talking......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves increased to $17.446 billion as of June 5 compared to $17.028bn a week earlier, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Thursday.The......
ZURICH: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is testing samples of a Nestle instant noodle brand that was recalled from stores across India last week, a spokeswoman for the Swiss food group said......
KARACHI: The cotton market remained under pressure where prices moved lower on slow demand and lack of buying interest from spinners. However, underlying sentiment remained firm and steady.Floor......
LONDON: Gold prices fell on Thursday, snapping three days of gains, as European stocks rallied and the dollar strengthened ahead of key US economic data.Bullion prices remain under pressure in the......
KARACHI: The managing director of Karachi Stock Exchange has dispelled rumours of advanced talks with the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) for sale of 40pc strategic shares in the demutualised KSE.In......
KARACHI: Builders and developers said that for the first time the government had recognised the importance of construction industry and that 10 per cent of their proposals had been accepted in the......
SHANGHAI: Morgan Stanley Capital International’s (MSCI) decision to defer including Chinese shares in its emerging market benchmark share indexes for a second time may have trapped the index provider......
GENEVA: Kazakhstan has completed the negotiations needed to join the World Trade Organisation, the Geneva-based trade body said in a statement, and is on track to become the 162nd WTO member by the......
BRUSSELS: Greece’s creditors piled pressure on cash-strapped Athens on Thursday as the IMF pulled its team out of talks and the EU warned Athens to stop gambling with the possibility of default and a......
Al Shaheer Co. receives bids for 54m shareKARACHI: Al Shaheer Corporation Limited, the sellers of fresh beef and mutton in the local and international markets, has received bids for 54 million shares......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate standing committee on finance and revenue has demanded an investigation into alleged violations of the consensus reached at an all-party conference recently that the western......
WASHINGTON: The United States is considering setting up additional bases in Iraq similar to a new hub planned in Anbar province to help Iraqi forces battle the self-styled Islamic State, the Pentagon......
WASHINGTON: A combat-decorated US military officer told a congressional committee on Thursday that all American hostages in Pakistan could have been rescued, but bureaucratic infighting failed......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has constituted a 12-member new Board of Governors (BoG) for the Shaikh Zayed Post Graduate Medical Institute (SZPGMI).Surprisingly, the government has made adviser to......
LAHORE: The Airport Security Force (ASF) has arrested four young Thai nationals after recovering weapons and bullets from the luggage of one of them at Allama Iqbal International Airport.An ASF......
LAHORE: The Punjab government will announce its budget for the fiscal 2015-16 on Friday (today) with an estimated outlay of Rs1.2 trillion, give or take a few billions, allocating more than Rs400......
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly deferred the Protection of Women against Violence Bill 2015, scheduled to be tabled in the House on Thursday, as lawmakers, especially women, on both sides of the divide......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB).Lahore, has filed a reference against the mother and a brother of Ms Ayesha Ahad (who claims to be the wife of MNA Hamza Shahbaz) for alleged......
LAHORE: Twelve judicial officers, who were subjected to forced retirement, on Thursday invoked constitutional jurisdiction of the Lahore High Court (LHC), challenging the decision of its......
LAHORE: The Inspector General Police Punjab has proposed amendments to the ‘Punjab Traffic Warden Service (PTWS) Rules 2007’ demanding service structure and criteria for promotion of traffic wardens......
MULTAN: A three-day free army medical camp provided treatment to around 15,000 patients in Khokhranwala village in Shujabad tehsil.According to a handout issued by the Inter Services Public Relations......
LAHORE: Pakistan has the highest rate of breast cancer in Asia and its incidence is alarmingly increasing in young girls aged 18 to 22 years.Addressing at an awareness seminar on breast cancer here......
LAHORE: The second alumni conference of the Post-Graduate Medical Institute (PGMI) was organised on Wednesday.Several senior surgeons and physicians attended the conference and shared their......
LAHORE: The Punjab chapter of Pakistan Sugar Mills Association has alarmed the federal government for not maintaining minimum sugar reserves by not implementing the 2006’s decision of the Economic......
LAHORE: A young tailor allegedly committed suicide shortly after killing a girl over a marriage dispute in Nawab Town on Thursday.Initial police inquiries said Zulfiqar Ali was running a shop in a......
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan will now have a regularly constituted Mujahid Force with rank structure similar to that of Pakistan Army up to a level. It will have Commissioned Officers, Junior Commissioned......
ONCE I had a discussion with a former chairman of the Balochistan Public Service Commission. After arguments over the wherewithal of those who prepare competitive examinations papers, I asked him......
I WOULD like to draw the attention of higher authorities towards the unsatisfactory state of affairs of the Water Department of the Cantonment Board of Clifton (CBC).DHA and Clifton areas have always......
Pakistan’s problems are not insurmountable, but it seems that it requires generations to fill the leadership vacuum to deal with them.I am talking in the context of the establishment of military......
IT is a matter of satisfaction that the statement of Chief of Army Sraff Gen Raheel Sharif was clear, candid and conclusive. The statement has kept the Kashmir issue alive. The Quaid-i-Azam had......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday stayed the July 12 by-elections in the provincial assembly constituency, PK-95, Lower Dir, where the last month by-polls were declared void by the......
MINGORA: A 12-year-old boy was accidentally shot dead by his teacher while cleaning pistol in the school at Sangota area of Manglawar here on Thursday.According to Sangota police, Majid Ahmad, a......
CHARSADDA: The Shabqadar police claimed to have foiled a terrorist attempt and seized explosives and other devices used in bomb making near a checkpost here on Thursday.Officials said that the police......
PESHAWAR: Inspector General of Police Nasir Khan Durrani has said that the law and order situation has improved compared to the last five years, but the fight against terrorists would continue till......
KOHAT: Strongly criticising Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan and its two lawmakers from Kohat, local leaders of opposition parties have said that the slogan of change has been exposed in......
UPPER DIR: Dir town’s private schools, Allama Iqbal Model School (AIMS) and Fatima Girls’ Model High School have got the top positions in the secondary school certificate (SSC) annual......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday asked the defence secretary, Bannu cantonment station commander and other relevant officials to separately respond to a case of alleged misbehaviour of......
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Thursday stayed recruitment of medical and hospital directors to Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, the biggest government hospital in the province, under the......
SWABI: The harvesting of White Patta (WP) tobacco is in full swing across Swabi district, while tobacco companies and traders have begun preparations for the upcoming crop buying season with an aim......
PESHAWAR: Experts have found larva and adult dengue fever mosquitoes in water inside houses in Timergara and surrounding villages in Lower Dir district.Dir recorded 267 dengue fever cases in 2013 and......
MINGORA: The families and young people thronged Wadudia Hall in Saidu Sharif to enjoy the live performance of famous Pashto singers on Wednesday evening.After several years of gloom and destruction,......
KARAK: Khattak Ittehad, a local rights organisation, has demanded of Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) to install power meter at each house in the district.The demand was made in a meeting of......
ISLAMABAD: Following weeks of uncertainty regarding the fate of several international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) working in the country, the government sealed the Islamabad offices of......
ISLAMABAD: In an unusual move, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) sought help from Rangers to vacate the vice chancellor officer at the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior on Thursday notified Capt (retired) Mushtaq Ahmed as the deputy commissioner and Sajid Kiani as the senior superintendent of police (operation) Islamabad.The post......
ISLAMABAD: The slum dwellers of Sector I-11 on Thursday held a protest gathering against the recent remarks of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Khan to remove katchi abadis from Islamabad.The public......
After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007, her son Bilawal had calmed down the enraged Pakistan People’s Party workers by telling them that his mother had taught him that “Democracy is the......
Islamabad: The Ministry of Climate Change and World Food Programme teamed up on Thursday to help improve farmers’ abilities to produce food in changing climate, to ensure food security.“Climate......
TAXILA: Indian Sikh pilgrims are scheduled to arrive at the Gurdawara Panja Sahib in Hassanabdal on June 14, to perform rituals marking the death anniversary of Guru Arjan Devi Ji, the fifth of the......
ISLAMABAD: Though the annual budget of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has seen a steady increase for several years, in the recent ranking none of the Pakistani universities could make a place......
While the number of private schools in Islamabad is growing each day, there is no adequate accountability mechanism to ensure quality education and facilities at these institutions. The sole......
An academic delegation from Yunan Open University (YOU)China, visited Allama Iqbal Open University(AIOU) on Thursday and assured support for setting up a Chinese language centre and launching of......
RAWALPINDI: One of the four policemen who allegedly shot dead two brothers five days ago was arrested in Peshawar and brought to the garrison city, the police said here on Thursday.A senior police......
GUJRANWALA: Former SHO, accused of killing two lawyers in Daska incident, submitted on Thursday a petition before the anti-terrorism court for removal of terrorism clause from the first information......
SIALKOT: Two Japanese students of ‘Iqbaliyat’ gave a fine performance of singing the poetry of Allama Iqbal during a special ceremony held at the auditorium of the University of Gujrat’s Sialkot......
BAHAWALPUR: A majority of the air-conditioners (ACs) in 30 wards and operation theatres of Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) were found inoperative on Thursday.Dawn learnt that a large number of ACs......
GUJRAT: The Punjab government has transferred Kharian tehsildar Sultan Ahmed, who has also been the sub-registrar in that tehsil, due to the registration of a corruption case against him at the......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Agricultural experts have successfully inter-cropped mung-bean, a pulse, and sugarcane on 17 acres of land of farmers at Chak-314 JB, Bariaran, near Gojra.Ayub Research Institute......
OKARA: The district administration, on the orders of the Lahore High Court (LHC), sealed the Abdullah Sugar Mills for defaulting on Rs400 million growers’ dues and taxes, said a handout issued by the......
GUJRAT: PML-Q parliamentary leader in Punjab Assembly Moonis Elahi inaugurated the Sui gas supply projects of at least 30 villages in his constituency, PP-110, during the last two days.According to a......
GUJRAT: The Punjab government will launch the psychological profiling of policemen from constable to senior police officers in every district of the province in the wake of the Rawalpindi incident in......
KARACHI: Provincial health authorities on Thursday confirmed the eighth death of the current year caused by the lethal ‘brain-eating amoeba’, or Naegleria fowleri, in the city.Officials said a......
KARACHI: A young man was shot dead in an ‘encounter’ in the Sukhan area on Thursday morning, police said.They added that a police patrol motioned two men on a motorcycle to stop in Cattle Colony,......
KARACHI: The president of Karachi chapter of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Syed Najmi Alam, has held the Muttahida Qaumi Movement responsible for the current water crisis in the metropolis and said the......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Thursday remanded in police custody till June 24 two suspects, who were picked up for their alleged involvement in Safoora Goth tragedy, in four other cases of bomb......
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Thursday claimed to have estimated more than Rs230 billion being generated annually from Karachiites through extortion, smuggling of Iranian diesel, water supply......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notices to the federal finance and planning secretaries after the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) chief submitted in court that unavailability of......
KARACHI: The provincial election commission on Thursday put on display the delimitation lists of 1,486 union councils and union committees of Sindh’s 29 districts.The lists have been displayed at 231......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Thursday said he had spoken to Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar for provision of a smooth and regular gas supply to all the seven industrial......
SUKKUR: The ministry of water and power has suspended Sukkur Electric Power Company (Sepco) chief executive officer Farmanullah Khan and chief technical officer Dilawar Hasnain Memon reportedly for......
LARKANA: The mother of five-year-old Fozia aka Sindhu Soomro, who was strangled to death after criminal assault in Yar Mohammad Kalhoro Colony in December 2014, pardoned her daughter’s tormentors on......
KHAIRPUR: Shah Abdul Latif University (SALU) Khairpur has prepared a five-year strategic plan which covers all aspects of academics, research, governance, finance and curricular activities.This was......
BADIN: The SHO of Golarchi Ibrahim Jatoi on Thursday failed to comply with a court order to register an FIR against 110 police officers and personnel including SSP of Badin Khalid Mustafa Korai, two......
KARACHI: Gearing up for Europe’s most established educational motorsport competition, the Formula Student (FS), the Interactive NUST Formula Student Team unveiled its race car for this year at the......
KARACHI: There will not be significant changes in the overall relationship between the United Kingdom and Pakistan after the recently held parliamentary elections in Britain, said Philip Barton, UK......
KARACHI: Urdu translations of Vibhuti Narain Rai’s Hindi novels titled Tabadla and Ghar by Zeba Alvi were launched at the Arts Council Karachi on Thursday night.Distinguished novelist Dr Hasan......
KARACHI: A separate intensive care unit for the patients of chest diseases was inaugurated at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre on Thursday.Dr Nadeem Ahmed Rizvi, head of the chest diseases......
COLOMBO: Two former prime ministers of Sri Lanka have quit the ruling party faction led by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and cast their lot with the group led by Maithripala Sirisena, the......
From the moment you push open the battered brass doors of the wrecked Beit al Agha Restaurant in the ruined old Syrian city of Homs and meet Elias Saman, you might sniff a familiar story.The famous......
NEW YORK: The Committee to Protect Journalists on Thursday called for an independent investigation into the death of Jagendra Singh, an Indian freelance journalist who died from burn injuries in a......
STOCKHOLM: Muslims in the Nordic region can expect new guidelines for coping with a sun that never sets ahead of Ramazan, a Swedish Muslim association said on Thursday.Ramazan begins on June 18 this......
MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday warned the United States of consequences if it moves to deploy land-based missiles in Europe in contravention of a key Cold-War era arms control treaty.“It is clear that......
BEIJING: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, state media said, during her closely watched first visit that China hopes will establish a line of......
BEIJING: China’s former security chief Zhou Yongkang was jailed for life on Thursday after a secret trial, state-media said, the highest ranking ex-official prosecuted by Beijing for corruption in......
MOSCOW: Three astronauts landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday, safely returning to Earth after their flight back home was delayed for a month by a Russian rocket failure.Russia’s Anton Shkaplerov,......
LONDON: For centuries, women and sometimes men have squeezed their feet into tiny shoes or balanced on towering heels to feel sexy, empowered and to show their wealth and status.Now their sacrifice......
ANKARA: The new Turkish parliament will show greater diversity than before, with three Armenians elected from three different parties and also representatives from other minority ethnic or religious......
QUETTA: Two mutilated bodies of unidentified people were found in Khud Kucha area of Mastung district on Thursday.According to Levies officials, the area residents informed the local administration......
QUETTA: The house of a local leader of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) was attacked with a grenade on Thursday.Police said unidentified men on a motorcycle hurled a hand-grenade into the......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: A woman was killed allegedly by a relative over a matrimonial dispute in Usta Muhammad area of Jaffarabad district on Wednesday.Police said Ali Mardan stabbed the woman to death in......
KHUZDAR: Four members of a family were killed and a man was injured when a car overturned near Khuzdar on Thursday.Levies officials said one Abdul Qadeer Kakar and his family were going to Qila......
MIAMI: A federal judge imposed the maximum possible prison sentences on Thursday on two Pakistan-born brothers who admitted trying to pull off a terrorist bomb attack against New York City landmarks......
QUETTA: Balochistan Governor Mohammad Khan Achakzai has asked graduating students of the Balochistan University to keep themselves abreast of swift changes taking place in the world to be able to......
NEW DELHI: India’s main opposition Congress party on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s senior aides of passing jingoistic comments on the disputed army action in Myanmar and also......
ISLAMABAD: As the war of words between Pakistan and India escalates, both houses of parliament on Thursday condemned “disturbing” and “hostile” statements made recently by key leaders, especially......
ISLAMABAD: The government of Punjab and the United Nations signed here on Thursday a memorandum of understanding to establish partnership for the involvement of Pakistani youths in the UN campaigns......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court decided on Thursday to seek Attorney General Salman Aslam Butt’s assistance in reaching a decision whether it should order National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq to de-seat......
ISLAMABAD: Insufficient budgetary allocations and an inordinate delay in the release of funds for a short-staffed department is an alarming state of affairs and could lead to another passport crisis,......
FOR Delhi University students Dhuv Shah, Anay Trivedi and Megha Sharma, Fridays are sacrosanct. No matter how busy they are with their courses and internships during the week, the three childhood......
LONDON: Accomplished and prolific British actor Christopher Lee, who played the role of Quaid-i-Azam in the film ‘Jinnah’, has died at age 93.Bringing dramatic gravitas and aristocratic bearing to......
KARACHI: The Ministry of Ports and Shipping is studying a proposal to launch a ferry service for pilgrims going from Karachi to Iran and Iraq for ziarat.A meeting, held recently at the PNSC office......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a key foreign policy speech on Thursday said his government would protect national interests in the face of increased Indian bellicosity and that resolution......
ISLAMABAD: True to his grandiose style, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif intervened in the National Assembly’s budget debate on Thursday to inform the house that he envisioned Gwadar as a free port and......
PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber apparently tried to assassinate a senior police officer here on Thursday morning but managed to kill his two police bodyguards instead, sources said.Deputy Commandant of......
THIS should have been the single biggest achievement the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf could have boasted about, but the local bodies elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa turned out to be the ruling party’s......
A WEEK ago, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar presented the federal budget. A day earlier, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf had unveiled its ‘shadow budget’, the first for the party, while the Muttahida Qaumi......
ON Wednesday, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan came up with a rejoinder to an Indian minister’s war threat. In the process, he added to the latest spurt of statements that needed to be a little contained. The......
IN May the World Economic Forum issued the Human Capital Report 2015 that facilitates a comparative assessment of the education systems of various countries. For that purpose the WEF has created an......
TODAY, I would like to tell you the story of 10-year-old Abid Ali who is forced to work as a rag picker to survive. He lives in a small village called Kissan Colony of Bahawalpur district in southern......
IN the debate shaping up around the budget, one of the key themes is its impact on the poor.There are various measures that people look for in a budget to ascertain its direct impact on the people.......
FORCIBLE closure of shops and business establishments as a mode of political protest is a practice that needs to end.It imposes tremendous costs on the economy that are borne by the common man, and......
THOSE who have been writing brilliant chapters about the workings of Pakistani officialdom might in the final lap be edged out by the master craftsman Guy de Maupassant.And yet, the surfacing of the......
ISLAMABAD: Authorities on Thursday ordered the international aid group Save the Children to leave the country saying the charity was “working against the country”, police and government officials......
