KARACHI: A letter issued from the office of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Wednesday accused Pakistan Rangers Sindh of acting beyond its mandate and termed the paramilitary force's......
This article was originally published on June 17, 2015.As Pakistanis prepare for the holy month, filling their refrigerators with Seher and Iftar essentials, and go lengths to ensure that their Eid......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Wednesday ordered a standing committee to conduct detailed probe of a recent statement by former interior minister Senator Rehman Malik, where he claimed some foreign......
KARACHI: The month of Ramazan will commence Friday, said central Ruet-i-Hilal Chairman Mufti Muneebur Rehman in a press conference on Wednesday night, adding that no moon sightings had been reported......
LA SERENA: Sergio Aguero got Argentina's Copa America campaign back on track Tuesday, scoring the only goal as the tournament favourites battled to a 1-0 victory over historic rivals Uruguay.Aguero......
For a man who played 46 Tests and 265 ODIs for his country, Abdul Razzaq never fulfilled his extraordinary promise as Pakistan's next 'big' all-rounder. By his own admission he could have achieved......
SANTIAGO: Chilean star Arturo Vidal crashed his Ferrari and was arrested for drunk-driving casting a shadow of controversy over the Copa America tournament his country is hosting.Chilean media said......
KUALA LUMPUR: Asian Football Conference general secretary Alex Soosay has resigned, the regional body announced Wednesday, amid allegations he was involved in a cover-up during the reign of......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Wednesday adopted 92 recommendations regarding the Finance Bill 2015-16 for its incorporation in the budget for fiscal year 2015-16.Earlier, PPP Senator Saleem H. Mandviwala,......
SRINAGAR: Stores, businesses and schools slammed shut across India-held Kashmir on Wednesday after separatists called a strike to protest a series of assassination-style killings over the past......
It's the picture that had so many of us go 'awww' this week.The Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge couple are set to reprise their chemistry in the upcoming Dilwale, for which the cast and crew are......
Ramazan, rain, summer vacation and pakoray, these are a few of my favourite things.Yes, pakoray and Ramazan go hand in hand, as does rain and pakoray, and since this year Ramzan coincides with the......
QUETTA: The adviser to Balochistan chief minister on finance, Mir Khalid Langove, presented a deficit budget for fiscal year 2015-16 in Balochistan Assembly, with an estimated total outlay of Rs243......
MUZAFFARNAGAR: Last December, Dilshad Chaudhry travelled with about 100 of his fellow villagers by bus to a local Indian medical school hospital. They'd been told that foreign doctors were coming to......
ISLAMABAD: After the anti-military remarks made by Asif Ali Zardari yesterday, the prime minister was left with no option but to call off today’s meeting the PPP co-chairman, said Federal Information......
Cricketer Ahmed Shehzad knows how to keep us hooked... or unable to look away, at least.Recently, he switched up his attention-seeking game, replacing his standard selfies with his first attempt at......
NEW DELHI: Going out for dinner and not sure which area would be safer at night for a woman travelling on her own? Want to track your daughter to ensure she gets back from college safely?A map-based......
SACRAMENTO: In California's capital city of Sacramento this month, stark black billboards loomed over highways and faded commercial strips, offering solace to the troubled: “Looking for the answers......
PESHAWAR: A boys primary school in Bajaur Agency was targeted in a blast early Wednesday morning.Unknown miscreants planted explosives in the Tangi Gharyal school situated in the Mamund tehsil of......
NEW DELHI: India hit a new low with their “humiliating” loss to tiny Guam in World Cup qualifying, the country's media said Wednesday.India, once hailed the sleeping giants of football by FIFA......
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of PML-N Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) office called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at Prime Minister House today.The Prime Minister congratulated Gilgit-Baltistan Governor Chaudhry......
GALLE: Bad weather washed out the opening day's play without a ball being bowled in the first Test between Sri Lanka and Pakistan in Galle on Wednesday.The umpires abandoned play at 2.00 pm (0830......
RAWALPINDI: Seven people including five children were killed in a fire at a two-storey house on Wednesday morning in Rawalpindi's Chaklala Scheme 3 area. Two women were also injured in the......
PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Tuesday demanded re-election of local governments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under a caretaker setup and asked for resignation of......
KOHAT: Three members of a family were killed and two injured in a car-oil tanker collision on Rawalpindi road here on Tuesday.Police said the ill-fated car number (LOY-885) was coming to Kohat from......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa finance minister Muzaffar Said on Tuesday said the one-step upgradation of BPS 1-15 government posts, increase in salary and pension, and other similar incentives......
PESHAWAR: A troupe of eight artists comprising three singers and five instrumentalists from Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad enthralled Peshawarites on Monday night.The Urdu ghazal night was......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a meeting on Tuesday demanded establishment of minority rights commission to highlight issues faced by minorities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and immediate approval of the Minority......
LAKKI MARWAT: The local police on Tuesday foiled a terrorist plan by defusing a bomb placed in the fields near Abakhel village.A police official said a farmer was busy digging land when he spotted a......
LANDI KOTAL: Over 6,000 of the total 10,000 displaced Shalobar families have returned home in Bara as part of ongoing repatriation programme. The relevant officials told Dawn on Tuesday that the......
SWABI: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan said on Tuesday that the secret of success in the highly competitive 21st century lied in acquiring, accumulating, sharing and implementing......
MINGORA: The teachers and students of private schools took to streets on Tuesday against the administration of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Swat for what they called declaring......
UPPER DIR: The losing candidates from Sundal and Nehag union councils have accused the district returning officer (DRO), district election commissioner (DEC), returning officer of Wari and polling......
KARAK: The members of local Christian community claimed here on Tuesday to have foiled a bid to sell the land of a church situated in Karak city.Faryad Masih, a representative of local Christians,......
LAHORE: Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday recused himself from a petition filed by 12 judicial officers of Punjab challenging their forced retirement ordered by the......
LAHORE: Eminent essayist, author and academic Dr A H Khayal passed away in Lahore on Tuesday afternoon. He was 88.Funeral prayers for the late scholar will be offered on Wednesday (today) after Asr......
LAHORE: The Lahore Transport Company (LTC) has been assigned the task to enforce, plan and regulate the public transport system in the provincial metropolis with a view to provide safe, affordable,......
BAHAWALPUR: City’s sewerage system, which collapsed a fortnight ago, has inundated several city parts, especially Circular Road. The situation aggravated after 26 millimeter rain on Sunday and Monday......
FAISALABAD: The Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the All Pakistan Textile Processing Mills Association have threatened to go on strike if the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) continues......
SIALKOT: Around 20 basic health units (BHUs) out of the total 28 in Pasrur tehsil have no medical officers for long due to which getting treatment has become an ordeal for people from rural......
SHEIKHUPURA: A large number of All Pakistan Irrigation Labour Federation members staged a sit-in here on Tuesday at Canal Office for acceptance of their charter of demands, including 50 per cent......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) held a protest demonstration here on Tuesday to commemorate the Model Town tragedy on completion of its one year.The participants were addressed by PAT......
LAHORE: Leaders of various religio-political parties and intellectuals here on Tuesday announced a joint plan for launching a movement for the sake of “national security” and “reviving the ideology......
LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party has decided to challenge the Election Commission’s “illegal step” in the court to start delimitation in Islamabad without getting the Islamabad Capital Territory......
LAHORE: Absence of elected and autonomous local government and centralisation of decision-making powers at the provincial level are the major causes of the problems Lahore is facing at present, says......
LONDON: Craig and Jamie Overton moved a step closer to becoming the first set of twins to play international cricket for England after they both received call-ups into the one-day squad for the......
ZURICH: FIFA reacted with bitterness on Tuesday over the Nobel Peace Center’s plan to end cooperation over the Handshake for Peace initiative, saying the decision was “not fair play” and obstructed......
NOTTINGHAM: New Zealand coach Mike Hesson believes his side are now facing a far more “scary” England team compared to the one the Blackcaps thrashed at the World Cup.In February, New Zealand......
SYDNEY: The manufacturer of cricket’s new pink ball has declared it is “Test match ready” — if the inaugural day-night Test goes ahead in Australia in November.Cricket Australia (CA) hopes to stage......
FAISALABAD: Six death row prisoners were hanged in different cities of Punjab on Tuesday.Allah Ditta, of Chak 225-RB, Malkhanwala, had killed Zainab in 1999 over a dispute while Younas, of Chak......
LAHORE: The Young Doctors Association Punjab which had emerged as a “formidable” body struggling for medics’ better career prospects, has developed serious internal differences creating......
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly members demanded standing committees’ role in the preparation of the budget, which remained under discussion for the second consecutive day in the House here on Tuesday.The......
KOHAT: A man allegedly killed his sister in the name of honour in Shakardarra here on Tuesday, police said.The father of the deceased told police that his daughter, 15, was sitting in their hujra in......
GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Election Commission on Tuesday issued the results of 23 out of 24 constituencies of Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly.The result of GBLA-17, Diamer, has been withheld......
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia would boost its nuclear arsenal by more than 40 intercontinental missiles this year, in a move slammed as “sabre-rattling” by Nato.The......
WASHINGTON: The Americans are overcoming their war-weariness as the security situations in Iraq and Afghanistan worsen, recent opinion surveys show.A Gallup poll, released this week, shows that a......
SYDNEY: Australia coach Darren Lehmann is delighted to be wrestling with a dilemma over which three of five pace bowlers will start the Ashes series against England in Cardiff next month.The tourists......
LONDON: Rafael Nadal suffered a shock first-round exit from the Wimbledon warm-up event as the Spanish star was beaten 6-3, 6-7 (6-8), 6-4 by unheralded Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov here at Queen’s......
ISLAMABAD: Anti-government slogans filled the air and milk flowed on the Constitution Avenue on Tuesday when farmers feeling hurt by the budgetary proposals protested outside the Parliament House as......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday withdrew for amendments its petition filed with the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking party-based local government (LG) elections in the federal......
ISLAMABAD: Senators have expressed dissatisfaction over the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the interior ministry’s preparations for the upcoming local government elections in Islamabad.......
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: An Extraordinary Congress meeting of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) in Islamabad on Tuesday suspended its president Faisal Saleh Hayat whilst terminating the services of its......
LAHORE: Politics and sports should not be intermingled, insists Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan while referring to the ongoing tension between Pakistan and India which has put......
KARACHI: Pakistan need a drastic change of luck to improve their record at the Galle International Stadium, considered a fortress for Sri Lanka, after losing three successive Tests at the picturesque......
BEIJING: A devastating earthquake that hit Nepal in April moved Mount Everest three centimetres (just over an inch) to the southwest, but did not change its height, according to Chinese research......
WASHINGTON: A US war veteran who climbed over the White House fence and made it into the presidential mansion armed with a knife was sentenced on Tuesday to 17 months in prison and three years’......
RAMALLAH: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas announced on Tuesday that the Ramallah-based government would resign within the next 24 hours, several senior Fatah officials said.“Within 24 hours the......
Pakistan is among the world’s 36 most water-stressed countries in the world. The per capita annual water availability of the country is hovering around 1,000 cubic meters rivals that of drought......
APROPOS your editorial ‘Punjab budget’ (June 14), you said that Punjab had collected 31pc below-the-target revenues and its receipts on tax on agricultural incomes had missed the target by 50pc. You......
THE enemy is trying to intelligently use our people against our country. So, we have to respond intelligently so that our people are not used against our state. We have to guide people so that the......
THE post-graduate doctors working as faculty members in BPS-19, in Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, have not been promoted to the next grade even after more than a decade. Some of the......
I WOULD like to draw the attention of PTCL senior officials and other companies to the security of the phone tower in Balim, Chitral. Since January 2014, the tower has been functioning without any......
I ENDORSE the views of Prof (Dr) Tauseef Quraishi in his letter ‘Pensioners’ woes’’ (June 12).Although I have served for 39 years, as a senior citizen now I totally depend on my pension and profit......
SENIOR PPP leader Syed Khursheed Ali Shah, also the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, has stressed the need for all security institutions to restrict their actions and remain within......
THIS is apropos Tariq Khosa’s column ‘ Not a perfect world’ (June 15).The writer has pertinently highlighted the ‘ culture of sleaze’ in our individual and collective psyches.We have developed a......
ONCE again the deadly virus of galleria mellonella showed its effects in Karachi and claimed three lives. Galleria mellonella was found to be inactivated by temperatures above 38°C. The rate of......
ISLAMABAD: Large photographs of colourful frescos were displayed on the walls at the Satrang Gallery on Tuesday, as guests arrived for the book launch and photography exhibition highlighting the......
ISLAMABAD: The heads of higher education commissions from eight member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) on Tuesday decided to work together to achieve the......
RAWALPINDI: The Peshawar Mor interchange on Kashmir Highway will take another three months to complete as the National Logistic Cell has informed the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) that the......
TAXILA: The news of a population department official being caught selling donated birth control medicines to private clinics and hospitals in Taxila,threw officials into action and investigation......
ISLAMABAD: The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of Islamabad police on Tuesday busted a gang which had robbed local and foreign residents, including a diplomat over the last few weeks.According to......
ISLAMABAD: Rahib Nawabi, 31, an Afghan refugee, says he can never forget the hospitality which he and other refugees received during their stay in Pakistan.“We wish we can go back to our country but......
ISLAMABAD: A magnificent collection of paintings by Shafique Farooqi went on display at the AQS Centre of Arts, Culture, Dialogue, Education and Research, where he launched his beautiful coffee table......
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a conference on Tuesday lamented that while Article 35 of the Constitution protects the rights of all children in Pakistan, only those born in wealthy families are given......
ISLAMABAD: Burglars and thieves struck at five different places and made off with cash, gold and valuables, police said on Tuesday.Some burglars broke into the house of Mohammad Sawat Sehgol in......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly which started a general discussion on the provincial budget for the year 2015-16 on Tuesday witnessed no fireworks that were feared to take place amid the opposition......
SHIKARPUR: Eight passengers were injured when six coaches of the Karachi-bound Bolan Mail were derailed and three of them overturned near the Madeji railway station on Tuesday morning.Initial......
KARACHI: Officials of the provincial dengue control and prevention programme confirmed on Tuesday the death of two more people due to dengue fever in the city, taking this year’s death toll from the......
KARACHI: “The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has fallen apart,” said economist Prof Dr Hafeez Pasha while speaking at a seminar on the provincial budgets of Pakistan on Tuesday. Held at the Applied......
KARACHI: A multi-party conference (MPC) convened by the Sindh chapter of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz on Tuesday called for holding the local bodies elections across the province on one......
KARACHI: There are many tools which can help readers understand the meaning of meaning of texts, but for that readers have to be familiar with those tools along with cultures and traditions that are......
KARACHI: ‘Are your rights being protected or violated?’ This was the main question raised during a dialogue on the implementation of the Cybercrime Bill organised by Public Interest Law Association......
KARACHI: Pakistan hosts as many as 1.5 million refugees, which is the second largest number in the world after Turkey, which is home to 1.59 million Syrian refugees, according to the United Nations......
KARACHI: An accountability court remanded on Tuesday five officers of the Lines Area Redevelopment Project in National Accountability Bureau custody.NAB produced LARP director Waseem Iqbal, deputy......
KARACHI: The Rangers’ visit to the Sindh Building Control Authority on Monday remains shrouded in mystery as the official reason being put forward for the visit does not match the way the personnel......
KARACHI: A six-year-old girl drowned and her 10-year-old brother went missing in the sea off Hawkesbay, where she had gone for a picnic with her family on Tuesday, police said.They said the family of......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court granted on Tuesday interim pre-arrest bail to a provincial minister in a corruption inquiry and put the respondents on notice for July 3.Sindh Minister for Population......
KARACHI: The inauguration ceremony of a newly renovated federal boys hostel, University of Karachi, will be held on Wednesday.Vice Chancellor of KU Prof Dr Muhammad Qaiser will be the chief guest on......
LOS ANGELES: Six Irish nationals died in the early hours of Tuesday when an apartment balcony collapsed in the California university town of Berkeley, authorities said.At least seven people were......
CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Tuesday confirmed the death sentence of ousted President Mohamed Morsi over the mass 2011 prison break that eventually brought him to power, making him the first leader in......
UNITED NATIONS: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) approved on Monday a Pakistani proposal to bring into greater focus the plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims with the aim to restore......
SULTAN KUDARAT: The largest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines handed over dozens of assault weapons on Tuesday in a symbolic gesture to reinforce a peace pact stalled by a public outcry over the......
DUBAI: The deputy leader of Al Qaeda, Nasser al-Wahishi, has been killed in a US bombing in Yemen, the group and the White House said on Tuesday, removing the director of a string of attacks against......
WASHINGTON: The US National Security Council confirmed on Tuesday that Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s deputy, Nasir al-Wahishi, has been killed in Yemen.Wahishi was leading Al Qaeda in the......
UNITED NATIONS: Expressing deep concern over the death sentences affirmed in Egypt for some 100 defendants, including former President Mohamed Morsi, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asked the......
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence of a Jamaat-i-Islami leader for war crimes and crimes against humanity during the independence war against Pakistan in 1971.A......
WASHINGTON: A US civil rights activist who resigned from her post at the country’s leading African American advocacy group amid allegations that she has pretended to be black said on Tuesday she......
KABUL: War-torn Afghanistan may soon have a defence minister, nine months after the new government was formed and amid some of the toughest fighting since the Talban’s insurgency began 14 years......
JEB Bush’s speech announcing his presidential campaign confirmed some things we already suspected — like the fact that he’s running — but also revealed a few surprises that suggest the 2016......
PARIS: Question: when is a minute not a minute?The answer: At 2359 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on June 30, when the world will experience a minute that will last 61 seconds.The reason for the weird......
WINNIPEG: Top-ranked Germany and Norway advanced with wins to the last 16 of the Women’s World Cup on Monday as a draw was enough to see hosts Canada and China through.Germany beat Thailand 4-0 to......
SANTIAGO: Mexico snatched a pulsating 3-3 draw with Chile while Bolivia downed Ecuador in a five-goal thriller as the Copa America laid on a feast of attacking football on Monday.A dramatic day of......
MUMBAI: The biggest change made by India captain Virat Kohli since taking over from Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the inclusion of an extra bowler, and while it is too early to judge if the strategy will......
SINGAPORE: Asian heavyweights Japan and Iran kicked-off their World Cup bids with surprise draws against Singapore and Turkmenistan on Tuesday as the region’s minnows continued to justify the......
KARACHI: Munawwar-uz-Zaman XI, Munir Dar XI, retired Brig M. H. Atif XI and Anwar Ahmed Khan XI completed the semi-final quartet in the camp trainees under-16 hockey tournament at Olympian Iftikhar......
KARACHI: The 28th Aga Khan Gymkhana Ramazan T20 Cricket Tournament for the State Life Trophy will start with the advent of the holy month at the AKG Ground.A total of 12 teams will participate in the......
LAHORE: A match-winning half century by Asad Pervez helped Meiji Beaconhouse claim the inaugural Lahore Region Cricket Association (LRCA) Commissioner Cup title as they beat City District Government......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures rose for the first time in three sessions on Tuesday as the tropical oil tracked gains in comparative soy markets, but was weighed down by doubts on the......
BEIJING: China had four million millionaire households in 2014, the second-highest in the world after the United States, as the country’s stock market boom boosted private wealth, an independent......
PARIS: Iran’s transport minister said on Tuesday there was about $80 billion worth of business up for grabs in his sector, including the renewal of the country’s air fleet, but warned France it......
ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday accused international creditors of trying to “humiliate” the country and called on Europe to reconsider its support for harsh IMF reform......
FRANKFURT: The European Court of Justice has delivered a ruling strengthening the European Central Bank’s hand in intervening in financial markets — backing that could come in handy amid fears......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday approved 1,400MW power project to be set up on Thar coal by the Shanghai Electric Group of China.The project is among the “prioritised projects” under the China......
KARACHI: The banking sector’s after-tax profit grew by 58 per cent year-on-year to Rs80 billion during the first quarter of this year, though most of the earnings came on the back of investment in......
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) issued a show-cause notice to Master Paints Industries (Private) Limited for the alleged violation of Section 10 of Competition Act, 2010......
KARACHI: The foreign direct investment (FDI) fell to negative $7 million in May compared to $612m in the same month last year, while the foreign private investments (FPI) were just $35m against $671m......
WASHINGTON: America’s reputation in East Asia risks being undermined if it fails to seal a trade pact encompassing 40 per cent of the world’s economy, Singapore’s foreign minister warned on......
KARACHI: Stocks finished in negative territory on Tuesday with the index snapping a six-day winning streak.After a volatile session that saw trading between intra-day high by 194 points and intra-day......
Co-branded bond market index plannedKARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange and UBL Fund Managers Ltd on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to launch the country’s first co-branded bond market......
LONDON: Deepwater oil projects and complex gas facilities worth around $200 billion have been cancelled or put on hold worldwide in recent months due to the sharp drop in oil prices over the past......
BRUSSELS: When US trade chief Michael Froman opened talks in 2013 on an EU-US free trade deal he said he was confident it could be reached on “one tank of gas.” Two years later, negotiations have all......
KARACHI: The SBP organised a two-day workshop, entitled ‘Understanding Macroeconomics, Financial Sector and Banking’, for journalists on June 15-16, said a press release on Tuesday.The workshop aimed......
NEW YORK: The US Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday made good on its proposal to effectively ban artificial trans fats from a wide range of processed foods, from microwave popcorn to frozen......
MULTAN: The situation in the domestic cotton market improved on Tuesday as the spinning mills bought 400 bales of new crop and over 3,000 bales of old stock.According to cotton broker Mudabbir Shah,......
LONDON: Gold slipped on Tuesday as the dollar firmed ahead of the US Federal Reserve policy meeting, while a looming Greek crisis failed to trigger sustained demand for safe-haven assets.Spot gold......
QUETTA: The Pakistan Railways (PR) has decided to administer polio vaccine to children twice a day at the Quetta station.According to officials of the Balochistan Emergency Operation Centre (EOC), a......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has stressed the need for good civil-military relationship for restoring peace in the province.Speaking at a prize distribution ceremony on......
KARACHI: Police claimed on Tuesday to have killed four `militants’ in a ‘shootout’ near Safoora Goth.The militants on two motorbikes, according to police, were spotted near Anara Garden, a......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: A man and his wife were gunned down in a village of Sobatpur in Jaffarabad district late on Tuesday night.Police said armed men barged into the house of one Mohammad Yasin and......
A TOP Pakistani official has welcomed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the intelligence agencies of Pakistan and Afghanistan as a positive step towards reconciliation between the......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to give international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) working in the country three months to get themselves re-registered under the new regime of......
ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court judge observed on Tuesday that justice ought not to be terrorised by putting it aside when dealing with the cases of terrorists.The observation was made by Justice Asif......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan expressed regret on Tuesday over criticism of Sindh Rangers in a house of parliament and said the paramilitary force had become a symbol of......
QUETTA: The UNCHR observed the World Refugee Day on Tuesday to express solidarity with Afghan refugees living in Pakistan for the past 30 years.The head of the UNHCR’s sub-office in Quetta, Fabio......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) decided on Tuesday to hold inquiry against three former chairmen of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) for their alleged involvement in corruption......
ISLAMABAD: Iran has proposed that health centres be established on both sides of the border between Pakistan and Iran to stop transfer of diseases from one country to another.Iran has also offered to......
RIYADH: Thursday would be observed in Saudi Arabia as the first day of Ramazan, said the Saudi Supreme Court on Tuesday night.According to website of the Arab News, the Saudi court made the......
ISLAMABAD: Not happy with the state of affairs, the poll inquiry commission summoned on Tuesday the returning officers (ROs) who conducted the 2013 polls in the 11 National Assembly constituencies......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif found himself fending off accusations of equating deaths from violent crimes in Karachi to ‘dying flies’ in the National Assembly on Tuesday, before vowing......
ISLAMABAD: In an uncharacteristically aggressive speech, Pakistan Peoples Party Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday lashed out against what he called “the character assassination of his party”......
ISLAMABAD: The prime ministers of Pakistan and India stressed the need for peaceful and friendly bilateral ties on Tuesday after Narendra Modi called Nawaz Sharif to extend Ramazan greetings.The......
ISLAMABAD: In an unprecedented cross-border ‘rescue’ operation, Pakistani troops crossed into Afghanistan on Tuesday to evacuate an Afghan soldier, who had been critically wounded in an exchange with......
CONSIDER the contrasting events on Constitution Avenue in Islamabad this week.While a rare full bench of the Supreme Court continued to probe away at the constitutionality of military courts, the......
AFTER more than a decade of capital market reforms, the new securities law finally makes certain illegal practices in the financial markets criminal offences.This is a step that ought to have been......
A MINOR drama was acted out in Johannesburg at the weekend, where regional leaders were congregating for an African Union summit, when the prospect was raised of Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan......
ON Thursday, June 11, the head office of the NGO Save the Children received a letter from the Economic Affairs Division of the Pakistan government, ordering it to shut down all its operations in the......
THE battle for North Waziristan may not be over yet, but Zarb-i-Azb has proved the sceptics wrong. It has blown away the myth about the invincibility of territory and the graveyard of the forces.Few......
NEW YORK: Property tycoon Donald Trump, one of America's most flamboyant and outspoken billionaires, threw his hat into the 2016 race Tuesday for the White House, promising to make America great......
