DHAKA: Bangladesh beat India for only the fourth time in 30 one-day internationals (ODIs) and took a big step on Thursday to qualifying for the 2017 Champions Trophy.Left-arm pacer Mustafizur Rahman......
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is criticising Israel for the death and suffering of many Palestinian children during last summer's conflict in Gaza and is urging the Israeli government......
KARACHI: Authorities on Thursday released 150 Indian fishermen, who left for their home country from Karachi’s Cantonment Station by Karakoram Express this evening.The train, with two bogies housing......
Former West Indies fast bowling great Michael Holding said it was time the cricket fraternity reconciled with tainted pace prodigy Mohammad Amir, reminding critics that the Pakistan international......
WASHINGTON: The US will put the image of a woman on an American banknote for the first time in over a century, breaking the lock that white male political heroes have on the greenback.The US Treasury......
KARACHI: Corps Commander Karachi Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar on Thursday paid a visit to the Pakistan Rangers Headquarters, where Director General (DG) Rangers Major General Bilal Akbar briefed him about......
QUETTA: Two men said to be linked to the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) convener Dr. Imran Farooq were held near the Pak-Afghan border in Chaman, it was confirmed on Thursday.The accused—......
LONDON: The England and Wales Cricket Board has made its biggest ever investment in the women's game by bankrolling a new six-team Super League to the tune of three million pounds, it was announced......
SANAA: War-torn Yemen began marking the Muslim fasting month of Ramazan Thursday after a wave of Islamic State group bombings, with little hope of a ceasefire and a worsening humanitarian......
Thousands of female voters of PK-95, a constituency for the KP provincial assembly in Lower Dir, were left disappointed after the Peshawar High Court stayed the Election Commission’s order for......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties on Thursday staged a walkout from the Lower House of the Parliament to protest the remarks made by PML-N legislator Talal Chaudhry while National Assembly Speaker Ayaz......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari will host an Iftar and dinner for opposition leaders of all political parties at Zardari House in Islamabad on Friday, a source......
REUTERS: A little under two weeks ago Neymar netted the goal that wrapped up Barcelona's Champions League triumph against Juventus but his needless sending off at the Copa America on Wednesday means......
News of Mawra Hocane's Bollywood debut made a big splash, but how much do we know about her leading man?The little-known Telugu actor Harshvardhan Rane is also a new entrant in Hindi cinema, with......
We know them as migrant workers; they live and earn in foreign lands to sustain livelihoods back home. They are essentially incarnations of Jackson Height’s Bhatti sahab.Due to the funds remitted by......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday welcomed all efforts to normalise relations between Pakistan and India, saying that peace between the two countries is key to security and development in the......
A primary school in East London has sent out letters to their Muslim pupils’ parents, informing them that their children would not be allowed to fast on school grounds. Although it is tempting to......
KUALA CANGKOI: Muhammad Yunus came ashore in Indonesia by accident after a harrowing boat journey ? but he and hundreds of other Rohingya migrants are delighted to be spending Islam's holiest month......
Zimbabwe's batting mainstay Sikandar Raza took a shot at the media for dampening the significance of his team's tour to Pakistan by insinuating that the visitors had been ‘paid out’.Zimbabwe became......
NEW YORK: United Nations (UN) associate spokesman Farhan Haq at a briefing in New York urged Pakistan and India to take steps to ease tensions, reported Radio Pakistan.Haq said the UN continues to......
KANDAHAR: Afghan officials say that at least 11 members of the security forces have been killed in a Taliban assault on government buildings in an unstable district in southern Helmand province.The......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday chaired the 15th meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Energy at Prime Minister House during which it was decided that a committee will be formed to......
This year's August is turning out to be a very filmi month. The Independence Day opening of Moor, Dekh Magar Pyaar Say and Shah will soon be followed by Halla Gulla's release on August 20.Layari King......
MOSCOW: A draft contract for the delivery of four Mi-35M 'Hind E' combat helicopters has been sent to Pakistan from Russia, a source in the Russian military and technical cooperation said on......
NOTTINGHAM: England captain Eoin Morgan said a “carefree attitude” was behind his side's remarkable one-day revival after leading them to a thrilling seven-wicket win over New Zealand at Trent Bridge......
When I watched Jurassic Park as a child, I was equal parts fascinated and terrified — I could hardly go to bed without thinking about the dinosaurs and being scared out of mind. It's still one of my......
ESKI MOSUL: Inside the Islamic State's realm, the paper testifying that you have “repented” from your heretical past must be carried at all times. Many people laminate it just to be safe. It can mean......
DHARBHANGA: When Palak was found barely breathing buried under a mound of soil in an impoverished village in eastern India, doctors who treated the abandoned new-born girl knew that nursing her back......
GALLE: Sri Lanka's opener Kaushal Silva frustrated Pakistan with an unbeaten 80 when the rain-hit first Test finally got underway on the scheduled second day in Galle on Thursday.Veteran Kumar......
CHARLESTON: US police on Thursday reportedly captured a 21-year-old white gunman who killed nine people at a prayer meeting in one of the nation's oldest black churches in Charleston, an attack being......
Dr Musstanser Tinauli is a social entrepreneur with an unusual qualification; a PhD in the field of design. He has been a motivational speaker and has conducted several innovation camps. His work is......
ISLAMABAD: “In every family, there is a girl who stands up against the so-called rules and laws of the family and is labelled a ‘bad woman’. But she paves the way for other girls to live their lives......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad police have devised a security plan for the mosques during Ramazan.The plan was chalked out at a meeting presided over by Inspector General of Police Islamabad Tahir Alam......
ISLAMABAD: On the occasion of the European Climate Diplomacy Day, the embassies of France and Germany hosted a photography exhibition and film screening by Yann Arthus-Bertand at the Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Following attempts to shut down an international non-governmental organisation (INGO), the federal government has ordered three Filipino missionary workers, including the principals of the......
ISLAMABAD: A grade-20 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service (PAS) on Wednesday filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) challenging the allotment of government accommodation to......
TAXILA: Two shops were robbed at gun point in Wah Saddar police area while a man was crushed to death in Hassanabdal on Wednesday.Six armed men riding on two motorcycles stormed a spare parts shop on......
ISLAMABAD: Despite directives issued by the CADD minister asking officials to return vehicles they are not entitled to, a number of officials continue to use the division’s cars.On May 28, Minister......
ISLAMABAD: In the wake of the latest war of words taking place between India and Pakistan, an author has accused India of manipulating the weather system of the sub-continent in 2010 and causing......
ISLAMABAD: A man was attempting to kill himself by jumping down from an electricity pole here on Wednesday but police and rescue workers managed to bring him down.According to the police, the man was......
GUJRAT: The Pakistan Medical Association, Gujrat chapter, has expressed concern over the allocation of job quota for the ruling party lawmakers in recruitment against low scale vacancies in the......
RAWALPINDI: City police have called forensic experts and mobile laboratory from Lahore to help determine the cause of a devastating fire which killed an entire family of seven on the upper storey of......
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Ex-servicemen Association (PESA) on Wednesday condemned former president Asif Ali Zardari’s outburst against the army and its leadership.Public threats to start countrywide......
ISLAMABAD: A man and his son were killed in I-10 sector on Wednesday, police said.Two armed men riding a motorcycle appeared on Chambeli Road in I-10 and opened fire on a fruit vendor and his father,......
ISLAMABAD: Flagrant violation of Islamabad’s Master Plan and laws over the years has irreversibly degraded its verdant environment; a commission looking into the decay of the once green city was told......
LAKKI MARWAT: Hazrat Bilal, a student of Faiz Model High School, Lakki Marwat, topped the matriculation examination results which were announced by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education......
UPPER DIR: District Police Officer Syed Israruddin on Tuesday awarded cash prizes to the policemen who apprehended thieves and recovered stolen goods from them. A ceremony to this effect was held at......
ISLAMABAD: “In every family, there is a girl who stands up against the so-called rules and laws of the family and is labelled a ‘bad woman’. But she paves the way for other girls to live their lives......
MANSEHRA: Scores of contract employees of Hazara University took to streets on Wednesday to demand regularisation of their jobs.The protesting employees threatened to launch a series of agitations if......
KOHAT: The counterterrorism department on Wednesday arrested two Afghans affiliated with the banned TTP for extortion and involvement in attacks on army and police personnel in Hangu district.The......
KARAK: The executive engineer of Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) has accused MPA Gul Sahib Khan of attacking his office to restore power supply of union councils Sabirabad and Palosa Sar.The......
PESHAWAR: A two-member bench of Peshawar High Court on Wednesday refused bail to a former director general of Fata Disaster Management Authority (FDMA), accused of misappropriating millions of rupees......
KHAR: A government school was blown up, while a local administration official was slightly injured in an IED blast in separate incidents here on Wednesday.Sources said that an explosive device......
PESHAWAR: The local government and rural development department has framed guidelines for smooth transition and succession of the existing local councils to the three-tier local governments, which......
PESHAWAR: Two women were killed and three others were injured over a land dispute at Swati Phattak area in the limits of Peshtakhara police station here on Wednesday.Local police said that the......
PESHAWAR: Responding to the demand put forward by the tripartite alliance of opposition parties, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Mushtaq Ghani said here on Wednesday that Pakistan......
LANDI KOTAL: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Metab Ahmad Khan on Wednesday reopened the closed industrial units in Bara here.At least 39 small silk power looms had been closed in Alamgudar area......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A trader was killed and 10 others were injured in a clash between two groups of businessmen in the busy Gomal Trade Market in Dera city here on Wednesday.The exchange of hot words......
SWABI: Speakers at a function said here on Wednesday that both federal and provincial governments should take result-oriented steps to save small farmers from financial bankruptcy.The function was......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar on Wednesday called for allocation of sufficient budgets to mitigate the risks of natural disasters to secure lives and properties of people.The seminar titled......
IN Punjab, everybody who is somebody makes tall claims of rule of law, merit and transparency in every talk show on the electronic media. Advertisements regularly appear in newspapers on behalf of......
Myanmar Muslims are suffering genocide and being ejected from the country. To those floating on waters in the sea some Muslim countries are offering refuge.That is a wrong policy. First and immediate......
THE Indian prime minister and several Indian ministers have been making obnoxious statements against Pakistan. It is proof of their frustration for failing to escalate terrorist activities in......
PUNJAB Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the Nandipur power plant machinery of the project is lying at Karachi port owing to which the material has rusted while precious equipment was also......
ABID Sher Ali, federal state minister for Wapda, was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, so he called the electrocuted donkey a worthless animal. Perhaps he did not realise that it was an......
I AM disturbed when I read that our prime minister has given another gift to our nation. I would like to suggest that until the day that these gifts are paid for by his hard-earned money, he should......
RECENTLY, a journalist while discussing on a TV channel the tax evasion problem in the context of the budget 2015 -16, said that only 900,000 are registered taxpayers in the total population of 200......
I WANT to draw the attention of Chief of Pakistan Tehreek Insaf Imran Khan, Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Parvez Khattak and Minister for Health Sharam Khan Tarakai towards the lack of basic......
TRAFFIC chaos is one of the crucial issues of Turbat. The citizens are facing a lot of problems because of it.In addition, some 2,000 illegal Iranian cars are aggravating the traffic problem further.......
APROPOS the letter ‘CBC water affairs’ (June 12), the Cantonment Board, Clifton, would like to say the following:Generalised statements are playing havoc with this nation and it is painful when the......
HEPATITIS-B vaccine is unavailable since the past 25 days at the District Headquarters Hospital Tando Mohammad Khan. In fact, it is unavailable in the whole district.Several infants have died in Thar......
SAHIWAL: Heritage is more than a record of the past. It should become living and an integral part of both rural and urban identity for future generations.This is moving away from simply developing......
GUJRAT: Real estate agents and people in general have hit out at the increase in the official scheduled rate list of property in the district.They say that despite the real estate association’s......
MULTAN: An additional district and sessions judge on Wednesday directed the Cantonment SHO to submit a report on a petition seeking registration of a case against former officials of PIA and CAA for......
GUJRAT: The Pakistan Medical Association, Gujrat chapter, has expressed concern over the allocation of job quota for the ruling party lawmakers in recruitment against low scale vacancies in the......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) authorities have been disposing sewage and solid waste in Nowshehra minor canal at different points for the last one year after the sewerage......
SIALKOT: A labourer’s three minor children, injured in a gas cylinder blast one week ago in Rohaila-Begowala village, succumbed to their injuries at Mayo Hospital in Lahore late on......
LAHORE: Hundreds of workers of power distribution companies observed Wednesday as Safety Day to protest rising fatal and non-fatal accidents of the lines staff working on electricity poles.The day......
LAHORE: A multi-party conference held here on Wednesday urged the Muslim countries to set up a ‘brotherhood fund’ to help the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, while foreign ministers of the Organisation......
LAHORE: The health department has notified a comprehensive postgraduate trainee induction policy for doctors serving in public and private sector.A spokesman for the department on Wednesday said this......
LAHORE: Arguments of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan’s counsel were in progress when the election tribunal adjourned hearing of a petition about the alleged rigging in NA-122, the......
LAHORE: A delegation of the Royal College for Defence Studies, UK led by Maj Gen Simon Porter called on Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif here on Wednesday.Talking to the delegation, the chief minister......
LAHORE: Chief Secretary Khizar Hayat Gondal ordered the constitution of a committee on Wednesday to formulate a fresh policy on recruitment in government departments.At a meeting of administrative......
LAHORE: Pakistan Rangers (Punjab) Director General Maj Gen Umer Farooq Burki on Wednesday visited forward locations in Wagah sector.According to a news release issued by Rangers spokesman, Sector......
LAHORE: World Punjabi Congress chairman Fakhar Zaman has alleged that Punjabi bureaucracy, elite and politicians are enemy of their own language and culture, whereas the Sindhi, the Baloch and the......
LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Amin Wains has said that an SHO converting the complaint of the victim injured while resisting a robbery into attempt to murder will not escape departmental......
LAHORE: Booking offices of the Pakistan Railways will be working in a single shift during Ramazan.An official said on Wednesday the booking offices would remain open from 8am to 6pm. On Fridays, the......
LAHORE: Eminent rights activist and former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association Asma Jahangir advised graduates of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (Lums) to work together to......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek staged a protest camp outside the Punjab Assembly here on Wednesday against what it called the government’s failure to do justice in the Model Town tragedy despite......
OKARA: The District Bar Association (DBA) called off its week-long strike on Wednesday after the Lahore High Court (LHC) transferred civil judge Rana Ilyas Basheer Khan.The bar had complained against......
LAHORE: A group of lawyers on Wednesday gave a sound thrashing to a youth for seeking some space to drive his car on Court Street, backside of Aiwan-i-Adl.The youngster was driving the car along with......
LAHORE: The Opposition in the Punjab Assembly rejected on Wednesday 7.5pc increase in the salaries of government employees and sought revision up to 25pc in view of high inflation.The House, which......
LAHORE: Justice Mahmood Maqbool Bajwa of the LHC will take up on Thursday (today) a fresh bail petition filed by fashion model Ayyan Ali facing charges of money laundering.Originally the petition was......
LAHORE: The PML-Q president has demanded that the upcoming local body elections in Punjab should be held under army supervision.Presiding over a party provincial and central leaders’ meeting here on......
LAHORE: A search committee constituted by the Punjab government to fill the top slot of the Postgraduate Medical Institute/Lahore General Hospital, has sent a panel of three junior doctors to the......
KARACHI: Former additional secretary for education and current secretary to the governor Akhtar Ghori has been appointed chairman of the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) by the......
KARACHI: Already into the construction phase in violation of environmental laws, the Malir bund realignment/construction project of the Sindh irrigation department attracted severe criticism at an......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday granted interim pre-arrest bail to a former provincial minister in a corruption inquiry.Former Sindh education minister Pir Mazharul Haq petitioned the SHC......
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, chief Major General Bilal Akbar has assured clerics of all-out efforts to maintain peace in the city during Ramazan and sought their support, urging them to report......
KARACHI: The discussion on the 2015-16 budget in the Sindh Assembly on the second day was a lacklustre business. Two of the 11 speakers — Heer Ismail Soho and Waseemuddin Qureshi of the Muttahida......
KARACHI: Speakers at a workshop on Wednesday called upon the government to develop a broad-based bait fisheries management plan that they said was necessary to protect fish stocks, increase......
KARACHI: Several safety issues linked to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) vehicles were highlighted at a workshop on ‘Safety rules and procedures of CNG transport’, jointly organised by Pakistan......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Wednesday issued a warrant for the arrest of an investigating officer for his prolonged absence in the Arshad Pappu murder case.Shahjehan Baloch, a Pakistan Peoples......
KARACHI: Officials of a non-governmental organisation running a leading ambulance service in the city on Wednesday said their ambulances and other medical services with thousands of interventions had......
HYDERABAD: Writers, columnists, intellectuals and poets said on Wednesday Hassan Mujtaba was a journalist-cum-poet who revolted against the ethnic divide in Hyderabad and the rest of Sindh,......
KARACHI: Former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza, considered the most vocal critic of Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, on Wednesday said that his [Mr Zardari’s] hard-hitting......
HYDERABAD: A family engaged in a land dispute with the Military Estate Office (MEO) has claimed that its head, Peeral Panhwar, went missing after he left for Karachi on Tuesday for a meeting with the......
SUKKUR: Commenting on Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s strong warning to the establishment against what he called ‘maligning political forces’, Sindh organiser of the......
DADU: Two young girls and their 15-year-old cousin drowned while bathing in the Main Nara Valley Drain (MNVD) near Karim Jamali village, some 25 kilometres from here, on Wednesday.The girls,......
KARACHI: The Sindh Emergency Operation Centre for polio with the help of United Arab Emirates-Pakistan Assistance Programme (UAE-PAP) on Wednesday cleared a backlog of dues to polio workers in......
HYDERABAD: Tribute was paid to the late poet Hassan Dars on Wednesday, with speakers declaring him a people’s poet.Speakers said that through his poetry, he always focused on public misery to raise......
HYDERABAD: Law enforcement agencies along with jail police conducted a special and surprise operation against prohibited objects in the Hyderabad central jail, but they did not find any significant......
THATTA: Sindh High Court Chief Justice Faisal Arab has said the newly carved out Sujawal district will have a fully fledged district court in the near future and till then an additional sessions......
SANAA: Car bombs killed or injured at least 50 people near mosques and the headquarters of Yemen’s dominant Houthi group in Sanaa on Wednesday, in coordinated attacks claimed by Islamic State group......
WASHINGTON: Syria tops the list of countries where journalists are forced into exile due to threats to their lives, the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists reported on Wednesday.Pakistan is......
NEW YORK: Two antique books dating back to the 17th century, stolen in Stockholm in the 1990s and sold to Americans by a German auction house, were returned to Sweden on Wednesday.US authorities......
OTTAWA: The Canadian government’s public website for applying for social services and downloading official forms was briefly shut down on Wednesday in a cyberattack, a senior minister said.Several......
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s former president and prime minister Suleyman Demirel, a political giant who survived two military coups and a ban on holding office, died on Wednesday. He was 90.His heyday was......
HONG KONG: Asia has become one of the most expensive regions for people working abroad, according to a new survey, with its major cities accounting for half of the top 10 costliest expat......
MILAN: Britain is to provide staff and other support for an Italian intelligence unit working on moves to resolve Europe’s migration crisis, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday.Speaking......
PRISTINA: Some 1,000 Kosovo Albanians, mostly veterans of the 1990s war with Serbia, protested on Wednesday against the creation of a special court that would handle war crimes allegedly committed by......
UNITED NATIONS: A top United Nations official warned on Wednesday “the stark conditions afflicting millions of displaced Palestinians across the Middle East risk destabilising the region and......
BAUCHI: A large sack of home-made bombs discovered at an abandoned Boko Haram camp exploded, killing 63 people, witnesses said on Wednesday of a toll many times higher than in any recent attack in......
COLOMBO: The Lankan government has decided to set up a commission to look into war-time accountability issues, the ministry of external affairs said on Wednesday.Sri Lanka had promised to the US and......
SHANGHAI: Chinese authorities on Wednesday deported a British investigator and his wife linked to a corruption case involving pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), after releasing them from......
LAGOS: About 70 people have died in Nigeria’s oil-rich south after consuming home-brewed gin that was found to contain large amounts of methanol, senior health officials said on Wednesday.Somiari......
MILAN: Michelle Obama took her campaign for healthy eating overseas on Wednesday, but let it slip that she still has work to do at home.The US first lady prepared a lentil, barley and rice salad with......
HAVANA: Six months ago on Wednesday, Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro stunned the world by announcing an end to their nations’ half-century of official hostility.US travellers, politicians and......
BEIRUT: A year after declaring his caliphate, it is clear that the secret of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s success is the army and state he has built from the remnants of Saddam Hussein’s military, and the......
JAKARTA: A popular motorbike-hailing app is putting a new, two-wheeled spin on smartphone taxi services in the Indonesian capital, with thousands of motorcyclists in distinctive green jackets and......
KARACHI: A 10-day annual summer basketball coaching camp for youth concluded here at the Arambagh floodlit court the other day.Around thirty under-14 beginners who reside in adjoining areas went......
KARACHI: Retired Brig M. H. Atif XI won the camp trainees under-16 hockey tournament registering 4-0 victory over Anwar Ahmed Khan XI in the final played at Olympian Iftikhar Syed Sports Academy......
DHAKA: Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s Indian side expect a close contest when they clash with fast-improving Bangladesh in a three-match one-day series starting in Dhaka on Thursday.Bangladesh may have......
NOTTINGHAM: Kane Williamson took a toll of England’s attack for the second match in a row as New Zealand scored 349 for seven in the fourth One-day International here at Trent Bridge on......
GALLE: Heavy rain washed out the entire opening day’s play in Sri Lanka’s first Test against Pakistan at Galle on Wednesday.Umpires Richard Illingworth of England and Australia’s Paul Reiffel......
SYDNEY: Australian athletics on Wednesday mourned the loss of champion distance runner Ron Clarke at the age of 78.Largely self-coached, Clarke never won an Olympic gold medal despite officially......
ZURICH: The chief ethics investigator of FIFA said on Wednesday he is conducting several proceedings against unnamed football officials based on initial findings from an investigation into the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan cricket is at crossroads today mainly due to the involvement of unprofessional people in Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) affairs that include two journalists and some others......
LAHORE: The crisis within Pakistan football snowballed into a major row on Wednesday as the war of words and blame-game reached fever pitch with the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) seemingly split......
BERNE: Swiss prosecutors investigating corruption at global football body FIFA have identified 53 suspicious bank transactions, the attorney general said on Wednesday, stressing that a complex......
SANTIAGO: Sergio Aguero reignited Argentina’s Copa America campaign with the only goal in a 1-0 victory over historic rivals Uruguay, as the tournament was rocked by the arrest of Chile star Arturo......
KARACHI: Bridge has been included in the 2018 Asian Games to be staged in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, World Bridge Federation announced on Wednesday.According to communication received by WBF......
KARACHI: Twenty-eight special athletes from Sindh, representing nine sports disciplines, will assemble at the KPT Sports Complex here to demonstrate their skills at 10am on Thursday.These players......
In a communication to Dawn, Lt. Col (r) Ahmad Yar Khan Lodhi, General Secretary of the Pakistan Football Federation, has denied contents of a story, titled “Was PFF involved in ‘Qatar-gate’......
KUALA LUMPUR: Suspended Asian Football Confederation (AFC) general secretary Alex Soosay quit on Wednesday rather than fight to clear his name amid allegations he tried to interfere with a corruption......
AUCKLAND: Ivan Saponjic fired in a header during extra time to give Serbia a 2-1 victory over Mali in their under-20 World Cup semi-final on Wednesday. The Serbs will meet Brazil in the final, Brazil......
KARACHI: After the popularity of the past two tournaments, the third edition of Naya Nazimabad Ramazan Cup will explode into action from Thursday night at the Lawai Stadium with 16 top outfits......
LONDON: Stan Wawrinka became the latest star to suffer a shock exit from Queen’s Club as the French Open champion was beaten 7-6 (7-4), 7-6 (13-11) by South Africa’s Kevin Anderson here on......
VANCOUVER: The United States beat Nigeria 1-0 to secure top place in their group at the Women’s World Cup, while Australia and Cameroon got the results they needed to also reach the knockout stages......
LAHORE: The elections of the Softball Federation of Pakistan (SFP) will be held under the aegis of the Pakstan Olympic Association next month for a four year term of 2015-19, it was announced on......
KARACHI: Zone-II were left celebrating an unexpected double in the KCCA U-15 Inter-zonal Cricket Tournament after being awarded the Division-I final on Tuesday after rivals Zone-IV allegedly fielded......
LONDON: The OECD called on Wednesday for financial sector reforms to combat inequality and lift economic growth in developed nations.The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and......
WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at near zero Wednesday, while describing US economic growth as “moderate” after the winter slowdown.But predictions made by......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures were little changed on Wednesday as investors grew uncertain over the implementation of Indonesian palm levies and whether they could effectively fund......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has notified draft rules for mode and manner of disposal of bonus shares.A notification SRO482 of 2015 issued on Wednesday proposed further amendments in the......
BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) published its first list of international tax havens on Wednesday as part of a crackdown on multinational companies trying to avoid paying tax in the 28-nation......
MANILA: Asia has made huge strides in developing clean energy over the last decade but must boost investment and its use of energy efficiency technology to meet rising demand and cope with climate......
WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew warned Congress on Wednesday that foreign turmoil, such as Greece’s debt crisis, could destabilise the US financial system.“In today’s globally integrated......
QUETTA: Balochistan has allocated Rs54.5 billion for next fiscal year’s Annual Development Programme (ADP), a rise of 7.5 per cent compared to this year’s Rs50.7bn, the budget documents showed on......
KARACHI: The government has decided to phase out all old-designed currency notes till the end of next calendar year, said the State Bank on Wednesday.“As per federal government gazette notification......
KARACHI: The price of gram flour (baisin) has touched new peak of Rs120 from Rs90-93 per kg last month owing to its rising demand ahead of Ramazan.Among other commodities, prices of fruits,......
KARACHI: The country’s current account deficit widened in May pushing the total deficit to $2 billion during the first 11 months of the outgoing fiscal year.The foreign exchange reserves have......
LAHORE: The Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (Smeda) and the Pak-Saudi Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PSJCCI) on Wednesday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to......
KARACHI: Sindh will have long-term implications if it doesn’t increase its development expenditure and improve the social safety net, said Mohammad Sabir, the principal economist of the Social Policy......
KARACHI: The stock market remained range-bound on Wednesday, as the KSE-100 index declined marginally for the second day by 34.30 points (0.10 per cent) to close at 34,482.Investors continued to trim......
CANBERRA: Australia and China signed a landmark trade deal Wednesday after a decade of talks, providing a boon for growth and jobs by abolishing tariffs across a raft of sectors.Trade Minister Andrew......
Nestle chief wants Maggi noodles back in IndiaMILAN: Nestle Chief Paul Bulcke said on Wednesday he wanted to see its hugely popular Maggi brand of instant noodles back on the Indian market as soon as......
ATHENS: The Greek central bank warned for the first time on Wednesday that the country could suffer a “painful” exit from the eurozone and even the EU if it fails to reach a bailout deal with......
LAHORE: All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) on Wednesday urged the government to ensure zero-rating in all incidentals linking electricity tariff and announce a special tariff for the......
ISLAMABAD: A key meeting of the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) Central Executive Committee (CEC) endorsed on Wednesday Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari’s recent tirade against the military and urged all......
ISLAMABAD: A returning officer who had conducted the elections for a National Assembly seat in Lower Dir in 2013, informed the poll inquiry commission on Wednesday that “it was utter chaos” during......
ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court judge questioned on Wednesday whether any regulation was ever issued by the president to extend the amendment to the Pakistan Army Act 1952 to the Federally Administered......
GWADAR: Security forces arrested three suspected militants, including a leader of a banned militant organisation, in Kech and Loralai on Wednesday.According to official sources, personnel of the......
QUETTA: Opposition parties in the Balochistan Assembly boycotted the first day of its budget session on Wednesday to protest against “discriminatory attitude being meted out to opposition lawmakers......
KARACHI: Rangers picked up several activists of the Sunni Tehreek (ST) in a raid on its headquarters in the old city area on Wednesday, according to sources and the party leaders.A heavy contingent......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has clarified a news item published in Dawn on May 22 under the headline, “Zardari appears in court to face asset reference”.According to NAB......
WASHINGTON: The recent increase in tensions between Pakistan and India should not make “some entities feel empowered”, US Secretary of State John Kerry warned at a news briefing on Tuesday after the......
ISLAMABAD: In an apparent injustice to responsible electricity consumers, the government has decided to give a 30 per cent rebate to thousands of defaulters who agree to clear their outstanding bills......
ISLAMABAD: Former president Asif Ali Zardari’s speech was the main topic of discussion in both houses of parliament on Wednesday. But contrary to the advice of the ruling PML-N or even fellow......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Russia are close to finalising a deal for purchase of Mi-35 ‘Hind E’ attack helicopters, a military source told Dawn after the conclusion of Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif’s......
WASHINGTON: Human activity is leading to the rapid draining of about one-third of the planet’s largest underground water reserves and it is unclear how much fluid remains in them, two new studies......
KARACHI: A day after PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari warned the military leadership that if it did not stop “character assassination of my party” he would expose the ‘misdeeds’ of many generals, the......
ISLAMABAD: The adage, “Politics is the art of the possible”, proved true on Wednesday when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif refused to meet former president and PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.Sources......
QUETTA: Balochistan’s Rs243.5 billion consolidated deficit budget for the next financial year proposes to spike its current revenue expenditure by around 25 per cent to Rs168.5bn and development......
THE tension between the Sindh government and the security forces has been building up for some time, and it was just a matter of time that the situation would blow up. Asif Ali Zardari’s outburst on......
If anything has been clear in the murk of Karachi for weeks now, it is that tensions between the military and the PPP have been on the rise.First, the director general of Rangers in Karachi made an......
GIVEN that pathogens do not recognise man-made borders, a regional approach to tackling pressing health issues is a sensible move.A visiting Iranian delegation comprising health ministry and medical......
SOMETIMES, all it takes is a phone call or a handshake to change — temporarily — the tone and tenor of the dysfunctional India-Pakistan relationship.The last few weeks had been marked by shrill......
AGRICULTURE contributes almost a fifth to our national income annually but its growth has been moribund for years. Last year’s uptick reported in the recent Economic Survey needs to be seen in this......
IT is time for Pakistan and India — two responsible, nuclear-trussed democracies — to make up. It is time for their elected prime ministers Narendra Modi and Mian Nawaz Sharif to wake up. It is time......
Of all the provincial budgets announced thus far, the one from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the boldest and most forward-looking. For Sindh and Punjab, it is business as usual in spite of a change in......
TALKING to a member of a scheduled caste from Sindh means talking to the utterly wretched of the earth, whose tale of woe will fill any conscious Pakistani’s heart with feelings of shame and......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) central executive committee on Wednesday backed its co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari's anti-military outburst from a day before, saying that all institutions......
