LONDON: Prominent cleric and head of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Tahirul Qadri launched a “counter-terrorism” curriculum in London on Tuesday, to rebut the message of militant groups such as the......
KARACHI: The government of Pakistan has been considering the option of ‘artificial rain’ to provide Karachi’s citizens some respite from the searing heatwave that has devastated the metropolis,......
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Tuesday released details of accused criminals detained during a raid at the Sunni Tehreek headquarters.The Rangers’ spokesperson issued the names of accused ST......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan while speaking to media representatives on Tuesday said the accused said to be linked to the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) convener Dr......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that the federal government can invoke treason charges under Article 6 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) relating to terrorism against the state instead of......
UNITED NATIONS: China blocked India's move in the United Nations calling for action against Pakistan over the release of alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, said a......
FAISALABAD: A schoolboy who was shot at and injured by police in Faisalabad Monday for taking selfies with a toy pistol died of excessive bleeding.On Monday, police had opened fire and injured two......
KOLKATA: Indian prosecutors said Tuesday they have formally charged eight men over the rape of an elderly Catholic nun that shocked the country earlier this year.The nun, who is in her 70s, needed......
A long, long time ago, when the world was young and so were some of us, all bookstores were independent, family-owned and family run. And if you were a regular reader, chances were that your local......
KARACHI: In his first speech addressing the heatwave that has claimed over 770 lives in his province, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah made a surprising decision directing schools, colleges......
PESHAWAR: In a joint press conference with Minister for States and Frontier Regions (Safron) Abdul Qadir Baloch in Peshawar on Wednesday, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Chief......
TEHRAN: Iran's parliament passed a bill on Tuesday obliging the government to safeguard the country's “nuclear rights and achievements,” despite talks with global powers on curbing the Islamic......
Although Asad-ul-Haq's directorial debut, Dekh Magar Pyaar Say (DMPS) wrapped up shooting late last month in Lahore, it appears the cast is in London now to shoot a bonus sequence for the......
With sheer frustration and utter disappointment, I, being a Pakistani Hindu, am fed up with the unending list of unaddressed complaints regarding discrimination, marginalisation and hatred spewed......
NEW DELHI: India has placed the Catholic charity Caritas on a government watch list, an official and news reports said Tuesday, in a growing crackdown on foreign organisations operating in the......
The Burka Avenger really is quite tireless.The school teacher-turned-masked avenger returns for a third season, in which she will battle the baddies of Halwapur (where the popular children's TV show......
According to his wife Shaniera Akram, Wasim Akram is more than just the 'Sultan of Swing' or an an impeccable cricket commentator. He might have led the Pakistan cricket team to victory many times,......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday said the operation against criminals and terrorists will continue unhindered across the country to utilise the environment created due to the "phenomenal......
COLOMBO: A confident Pakistan will aim to clinch a first Test series win in Sri Lanka for nine years when the second match starts at the P. Sara Oval in Colombo on Thursday.Misbah-ul-Haq's tourists......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties in the National Assembly on Tuesday announced to observe Friday as a day of mourning over the 400 deaths caused by the devastating heatwave in Karachi and other parts of......
UNITED NATIONS: Reaffirming its commitment to eliminate all terrorists “without distinction,” top Pakistani diplomat Maleeha Lodhi warned of a forceful response to any attempt to destabilise parts of......
UNITED NATIONS: A new offensive against the Afghan government and people is being compounded by “an unprecedented convergence” of Taliban insurgents, more than 7,000 foreign fighters, and violent......
BEIRUT: The Islamic State group (IS) on Monday made two youths hang from a beam by their wrists after accusing them of eating during daylight hours in Ramazan, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights......
HARARE: Zimbabwe cricket officials say they will meet with their Indian counterparts at the ICC's annual conference this week in Barbados in an attempt to save next month's limited-overs series.India......
SANTIAGO: If Brazil are to win their fifth Copa America in seven editions, they are going to have to do it the hard way.The South American super-power decided Monday not to appeal a four-game ban......
WASHINGTON: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged the World Bank and United Nations on Monday to raise the focus of education in their new millennium goals.Malala, who in 2012 survived a......
Misbah-ul-Haq had more than one reason to celebrate as Pakistan won their first Test match in Sri Lanka after nine years on Sunday.With Pakistan's ODI and Test side going through a transition of......
LAHORE: Opposition on Monday walked out of the Punjab Assembly to protest against “worst loadshedding in the country’s history” and demanded registration of cases against those responsible for the......
LAHORE: The Punjab governor has issued a notification of upgrading the Fatima Jinnah Medical College to a full-fledged medical university.The FJMC, one of the premier medical institutions of the......
MULTAN: A local court on Monday directed the Federal Investigation Agency to conduct an inquiry into the missing necklace donated by the Turkish first lady.Javed Iqbal, a resident of Kot Addu,......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday dismissed as non-maintainable a petition seeking trial of former president Asif Ali Zardari and other PPP leaders under treason charges for their alleged......
LAHORE: President Mumnoon Husain has rejected mercy petitions of 65 condemned prisoners, including a woman, since the government lifted moratorium on death sentence following the Peshawar Army School......
UNITED NATIONS: A much-awaited United Nations report has held that both Israelis and the Hamas group committed war crimes during last year’s Israeli action in Gaza Strip.“The commission was able to......
ISTANBUL: Kurdish forces have discovered a 400-metre long tunnel dug by the self-styled Islamic State militants near the Turkish border with Syria, a spokesman for the militia said on Monday.Kurdish......
MIAMI: More than half of current and former smokers who can pass basic lung function tests may suffer from lung diseases that have gone undiagnosed, researchers said on Monday.The study in the......
BEIJING: Restaurateurs in a southern Chinese town held an annual dog meat festival on Monday despite international criticism of the event as cruel and unhygienic.The Yulin government distanced itself......
MAIDUGURI: Two explosions killed at least 10 people at a crowded market in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Monday, witnesses and sources said.The first attack was carried out by a female......
PRAGUE: The international film festival at the Czech spa of Karlovy Vary will honour US actor Richard Gere for his outstanding contribution to world cinema.Gere will present his film “Time out of......
CAIRO: A group of Saudi students caught in a cheating scandal at a Montana college were offered flights home by their kingdom’s diplomats to avoid the possibility of deportation or arrest, according......
ARAB unity has been the most hopeless aspiration of the Middle East. The idea that the Arab world – the Arabic-speaking, largely Muslim land mass between the Atlantic and the borders of Iraq and Iran......
NEW DELHI: Indian police said on Monday they have arrested the Bollywood director Mahmood Farooqui after an American woman accused him of rape.Farooqui, best known for co-directing the 2010 satire......
MADRID: Spanish police on Monday returned 12 artworks, including several 15th-century wood engravings, to Sweden’s embassy in Madrid after they were allegedly stolen by a Spaniard from Swedish......
SANTIAGO: Authorities in Chile’s largest city have declared an environmental emergency because of high levels of air pollution.The declaration has forced the closure on Monday of more than 1,300......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has warned that racial discrimination was still part of the American DNA that’s passed on.In a transcript released on Monday, Mr Obama told WTF podcast in Los......
BUJUMBURA: Four people were killed and some 30 wounded in grenade attacks in Burundi a week ahead of key parliamentary elections, as government and opposition on Monday traded blame for the......
MONTERREY: Authorities found five bodies in Mexico’s northern state of Nuevo Leon on Sunday, adding to three days of violence that left 22 people dead in the region.The half-naked bodies of three......
BUDAPEST: An 87-year-old Hungarian woman aims this weekend to set a world record by beating 1920s Cuban chess grandmaster Jose Raul Capablanca at his own game: simultaneous play.Since the 1950s,......
Saudi Arabia has warned its citizens to ignore thousands of its diplomatic documents leaked by the transparency site WikiLeaks, which give a rare insight into the kingdom’s habit of buying influence......
ISTANBUL: Two weeks after Turkey’s parliamentary elections, experts agree on one thing: no one really knows what’s going to happen next.Turkey’s June 7 election left Turkey’s long-ruling Justice and......
LONDON: A decades-long battle to expand Britain’s overcrowded airports is set for a crunch decision in the coming weeks, as the world’s fifth-largest economy seeks to resolve a row that has......
THIS refers to the letter ‘Galleria mellonella’ (June 17). Galleria mellonella is not a virus. Rather it is the biological name of wax moth or honey comb moth.It never infects human beings, let alone......
AS my usual morning practice, I picked up Dawn of June 17 and read the news ‘Troops cross border, rescue Afghan soldier’. I can’t express the pride and warmth I felt reading that story.As each of my......
PRIME Minister Nawaz Sharif said that loadshedding would be minimised during the month of Ramazan. However, it seems just the opposite as loadshedding has outstretched from 10 to 12 hours.During the......
Working as a healthcare professional in one of the most developed countries reminds me how healthcare has flourished in the last few decades to save human life and help increase average age in the......
Apropos the editorial ‘New job for Bilawal?’ (June20). Your analysis is valid in assessing that the Zardari-led PPP is desperate to revive its lost glory, particularly among the youth.Mr Zardari......
Apropos the editorial (June 19) emphasising the point that the army is not a sacred cow and should come under the knife of criticism in a democratic dispensation is fine.Nevertheless one should trace......
Whenever the fire heats the pot, the kettle and the skillet, hysterically throw accusations of greater blackness at each other, all claiming whiteness beyond compare. Ours is a nation of sacred cows......
Prime Minister Modi’s statement declaring Pakistan as a ‘nuisance’ and an ‘unfortunate’ nation encapsulates India’s foreign policy towards Pakistan.The remarks rendered are an impulsive reaction not......
Such a beautiful gesture by the lady, and what a disgusting response. Yet again, caught with his hand in the till, the person who has the heirloom offers a response that not only exposes him, but......
MANSEHRA: A committee formed by the provincial government to probe mismanagement and alleged rigging in May 30 local body elections on Monday interviewed presiding officers and losing candidates.The......
LAKKI MARWAT: The local chapter of All Primary Teachers Association (Apta) has rejected the provincial and federal budgets, saying that both central and provincial governments have failed to announce......
MINGORA: Although trade activities have been affected badly in Swat during the holy month of Ramazan owing to prolonged power outages, yet fruit orchards have become a source of income for thousands......
UPPER DIR: Tourists from within Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as well as other parts of the country have thronged the hilly Upper Dir district along with families for spending the summer season, especially......
KOHAT: The project of clean drinking water for all, which was initiated in 2005-06 and was to be completed in 2015, has been shelved after facing many delays, Dawn has learnt.The PC-1 of the project......
SWABI: Prices of kitchen items, especially vegetables and fruits, have been increased manifold in Ramazan, and the consumers have demanded action against the profiteers.Tomato, which is produced......
PESHAWAR: Soon after the May 30 local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, almost all the political parties have started internal evaluation of their strength, ratio of vote bank, number of......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Monday threatened the torching of the Peshawar Electric Supply Company headquarters in Peshawar over the excessive loadshedding in the......
PESHAWAR: Mohmand Agency tribesmen have alleged officials of their region’s political administration is helping Afghan nationals make fake computerised national identity cards.They demanded strict......
PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party president Asfandyar Wali Khan on Monday condemned the suicide attack on Afghan parliament and sympathised with those who got injured in the incident.In a statement......
PESHAWAR: An elder of Jamrud area of Khyber Agency has accused the political administration of failing to recover his abducted nephew despite ‘knowing’ the identity and location of the......
PESHAWAR: The Mutahidda Labour Federation (MLF) Pakistan has threatened to observe strike and stage a sit-in in Peshawar soon after Eidul Fitr against the devolution of Workers Welfare Board......
PESHAWAR: The arrest of Dr Jan Baz Afridi, a former polio officer, by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission on charges of corruption has sent chill down the spines of those who held important......
PESHAWAR: On the call of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council, lawyers on Monday boycotted courts in the province over a controversy surrounding the screening test held for recruitment of additional......
RAWALPINDI: A Rawal Town Municipal Administration (RTMA) official deputed to sell subsidised sugar at a stall in the Committee Chowk Ramazan bazaar was caught trying to steal a 50kg bag of the......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday issued notice to the state on a petition seeking the cancellation of bail to a man allegedly involved in the killing of Federal Investigation......
ISLAMABAD: Young doctors at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) have decided to contact ministers to get their issues resolved.The decision was taken at a meeting of the Young Doctors......
TAXILA: Over 300 Indian Sikh devotees will arrive at Gurdwara Punja Sahib, Hassanabdal, on Wednesday to offer religious rituals in connection with the 176th death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjit......
ISLAMABAD: Civil society organisations and labour unions here on Monday decided to oppose any attempt by the Punjab government to fill seats reserved for marginalised groups through indirect method......
ISLAMABAD: Thirteen officers of the scandals-rocked Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) have been transferred under pressure from a parliamentary committee.A Ministry of National Health......
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of traders called on the newly appointed SSP Operations Sajid Kiani and congratulated him.The SSP thanked the delegation for reposing confidence in him and said Islamabad......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A man kidnapped his two minor grandsons from New Islampura on Monday.According to the city police, complainant Abdul Rehman said Zulfiqar Ali, father-in-law of his daughter Fauzia......
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government on Monday sought help from the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) to determine the main cause of a house fire in which seven members of a family lost their......
GUJRAT: The expatriate Pakistanis have been facing problems in submission of applications for computerised licences of firearms since the computerised system installed at the centres National......
ISLAMABAD: In the absence of a local government law, the election commission appears to be unable to announce a schedule for the polls in the capital, planned for July 25, delaying the electoral......
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) has issued notices to 16 property owners for illegal constructions.According to a spokesman, the building control department teams conducted raids......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday rejected the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) plea seeking voting rights for overseas Pakistanis during the upcoming local bodies’ elections.The......
ISLAMABAD: A father and his son got buried alive under a heap of earth while digging for a well in Dhoke Dali in the rural areas of the capital on Monday.Altaf Din, 55, and his son Nadeem, 25,......
ISLAMABAD: How can the country’s cyber security system produce the desired results when it remains disconnected with the outside world?“These days, the cyber crime wing has neither virtual nor real......
ISLAMABAD: Only eight days are left in the current fiscal year but a significant amount of funds of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) remain utilised and would have to be returned on June......
MURREE: The new demarcation of union councils in Murree has been termed as unjust and illogical by a number of local political leaders.One of the oldest union councils of Murree, UC Nambal, has been......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench issued a notice to the trial court (an anti-terrorism court) for acquitting Hijratullah, an accused of 2009 Manawan Police Training School attack, in a......
LAHORE: The Punjab University Academic Staff Association (PUASA) has appealed to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to order the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) to spare PU housing society land for the......
LAHORE: A man was killed and two passersby were wounded as a result of shooting in Misri Shah on Monday.Police said four unidentified persons opened indiscriminate fire on Shan Rana, 32, of Naulakha......
LAHORE: The chief traffic officer (CTO) has told the Lahore High Court that various steps are being taken to resolve parking problems and ensure unhindered flow of traffic in the city.Appearing......
MULTAN: Scores of residents of Shah Rukn-i-Alam protested on Monday at the alleged highhandedness of Kup police.Protesters, led by Bilal Qureshi, Haidar Qureshi, Shan Qureshi and Baqir Qureshi, told......
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed alarm over the high death toll amid the prevailing heat wave, especially in Karachi, and called for urgent interventions to......
LAHORE: Acting president and Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani has said the nation should support the armed forces and encourage security operations against the terrorists.“All political forces need......
MUZAFFARGARH: A farmer was killed after a landlord unleashed a pack of dogs on him over ‘water theft’ on Monday at Mauza Fatehpur of Alipur tehsil, some 100-km from here.Police quoting the family of......
FAISALABAD: Police shot at and injured two schoolboys who were taking pictures with a toy pistol on the Susan Road on Monday. The condition of one of them is critical.Police alleged that the boys......
LAHORE: Mismanagement by the Utility Stores Corporation (USC) has negated federal government’s claims that essential kitchen items will be available to the masses at economical prices during Ramazan......
VEHARI: An alleged gangster, accused of killing a police constable in May, was killed in an encounter between police and alleged accomplices of the gunman in the jurisdiction of Mitro police late on......
LAHORE: The Lahore Arts Council will hold a calligraphy exhibition at Alhamra Art Centre on The Mall during Ramazan.Lahore Arts Council Executive Director retired Captain Atta Muhammad Khan said that......
GUJRANWALA: Anti-Terrorism Court No 2 Judge Bushra Zaman indicted on Monday former SHO inspector Shahzad Warraich for murder and adjourned the hearing for Wednesday (tomorrow).According to the......
GUJRAT: The expatriate Pakistanis have been facing problems in submission of applications for computerised licences of firearms since the computerised system installed at the centres National......
KARACHI: The wife of a key suspect in the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Dr Imran Farooq, Khalid Shamim, told the Sindh High Court on Monday that she feared her husband, who was recently......
KARACHI: The Sindh police on Monday announced setting up of a ‘Chinese desk’ at its foreign security cell amid growing presence of the neighbouring country’s professionals in the province working on......
KARACHI: “My father had been missing since the first day of Ramazan. On Friday he had gone to his scrap shop but didn’t come back home. Today we found him here,” cried Mohammad Faisal outside the......
KARACHI: Karachiites are smart, nay, street smart. What does that imply? According to one definition, street smartness means the experience and knowledge required to deal with difficulties of life in......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Monday echoed with the demands of lodging an FIR against the power utility, K-Electric, and payment of compensation to the heirs of over 200 people who perished in the......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday remanded a suspect in police custody in an extortion case.The police produced Vinod Kumar, who possesses an MBA degree from a British university, in court......
KARACHI: It’s not just humans falling victim to the searing heatwave that has overwhelmed the entire city for the past few days, animals, especially those kept at government-run facilities, are also......
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers, Sindh has established 10 “heatstroke relief centres” at different locations in the metropolis to provide relief to the people affected by the ongoing heatwave.Doctors and......
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Monday extended the remand of seven suspects, including six officials of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, in a fraud case.The Federal Investigation Agency had......
KARACHI: Some of us harbour the notion that technology has terribly affected the art world, as it has other spheres of life, rendering quite a few ideas outmoded. Not so.These days a visit to the......
SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has said that the Pakistan Peoples Party is no stranger to revengeful activities despite the fact the party does......
SUKKUR: Three armed men riding motorcycles opened fire on a house in Meer Kosh village near Kashmore late on Sunday night and killed a woman.The villagers believed the assailants who attacked the......
SUKKUR: Two minor girls drowned in Rainy Canal when they along with two other girls were taking a bath in shallow waters of the canal near their village Chutto Chachar in Ghotki district on......
HYDERABAD: Residents of scores of localities took to the streets in protest against 20-hour power breakdowns and loadshedding following acute shortage of water for the fourth consecutive day on......
KHAIRPUR: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah is expected to officially inaugurate the 194th Urs celebrations of renowned sufi saint and poet Sachal Sarmast, along with Sufi Abdul Haq, Sajjada......
BADIN: The two managers of Khoski Sugar Mills who were booked a few days ago for allegedly defrauding around 200 growers and misappropriating Rs700-750 million drawn from the local branch of the......
MULTAN: The cotton market was dull on Monday as buyers and sellers remained on the sidelines in the absence of quality of lint.Cotton analysts believe that load-shedding and lack of high-micronaire......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures fell to their lowest in over three weeks on Monday as the ringgit nudged up and lacklustre exports in the first 20 days of the month signalled dwindling......
LONDON: Gold fell more than 1 per cent on Monday as global equities jumped on possible signs of progress in Greek debt talks, which curbed safe-haven demand for the metal.Spot gold fell as much as......
LONDON: An uneasy truce between market watchdogs and central banks, struck during the financial crisis, is showing signs of strain as they look for ways to tackle potentially extreme volatility in......
DUBAI: The UAE property market is set for a soft correction after three years of sharp rises but a crisis is ruled out, Standard & Poor’s ratings agency said on Monday.A report said additional supply......
WASHINGTON: Surging investment by Chinese companies in US research labs is yielding a fast-growing trove of patents, part of a push to mine America for ideas to help China shift from being the......
WASHINGTON: US existing-home sales surged in May to their strongest pace in nearly six years as more first-time buyers entered the market, the National Association of Realtors said on Monday.Sales of......
MONTEVIDEO: They buy 10 Porsches a day and travel the world by private jet, toting their Louis Vuitton bags and leaving behind a faint scent of Chanel.They are Latin America’s super-rich, and they......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s export of non-textile products witnessed a negative growth of 9.62 per cent during the first 11 months of the outgoing fiscal year from a year ago.Export proceeds from these......
KARACHI: The sweltering summer has brought windfalls for electronic retailers as the spike in the demand for split air conditioners and room coolers enabled them to clear inventories and charge “on......
KARACHI: Agriculture credit disbursement by banks increased by 31.40 per cent to Rs439.8 billion during the first 11 months (July-May) of the outgoing fiscal year as compared to Rs334.7bn in the same......
KARACHI: The Board of Revenue (BoR), Sindh, has proposed to revise rates of various land record-related services, including mutation, issuance of certified copies and certificates, demarcation and......
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has issued an order imposing a penalty of Rs1 million on Tara Crop Sciences Private Limited for deceptive marketing practices.The company was......
KARACHI: Stocks tumbled on Monday as the KSE-100 index rolled down by 248.28 points (0.72 per cent) to close at 34,278.42.The end of June closing for companies in several sectors and the market’s......
ASTANA: Kazakhstan’s president on Monday hailed the “new horizons” opening up to his country after the former Soviet state completed nearly two decades of talks on joining the World Trade......
BRUSSELS: Greece’s international lenders raised hopes for a desperately needed bailout agreement this week to save Athens from default and a possible euro exit, despite failing to reach a deal at......
FAISALABAD: Defaulters are apprehensive of the tax collection drive and spreading rumours to undermine the Federal Board of Revenue’s authority, officials said on Monday.The comment came after......
Twitter says it wants full-time CEONEW YORK: Twitter said Monday it would only consider chief executive candidates who can commit full-time to the company, signalling that co-founder and interim head......
MOSCOW: Moscow prepared on Monday to prolong its embargo on Western food imports, expressing disappointment at the extension by the EU of sanctions which it blamed on a “Russophobic lobby.”Prime......
LAHORE: Unscheduled load-shedding in industrial areas is badly dampening economic activity, said Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) President Ijaz A. Mumtaz on Monday.In a statement he......
LONDON: Surging growth in advertising via mobile phones and tablet computers will help Internet advertising overtake television as the dominant medium for global ad spending by 2017, a leading media......
BRENTWOOD: Former world number one Lee Chong Wei won the US Open on Sunday to claim his first title since returning from an eight-month doping ban.The 32-year-old Malaysian, twice an Olympic silver......
VANCOUVER: Canada kept their Women’s World Cup title dream alive with a 1-0 win over Switzerland on Sunday to reach the last eight along with France and Australia as star-studded Brazil were......
KARACHI: Pakistan fast bowler Sohail Khan returned to competitive cricket with a fiery five-wicket haul as Mohammad Hussain CC cruised to a comfortable 111-run victory over Aga Khan Gymkhana in the......
KARACHI: Ali Waqas and Naqqash Ahmed played key part in Mohammad Hussain CC’s crushing 136-run victory over Karachi Gymkhana Whites in the 30th Omar Associates Karachi Gymkhana Ramazan Cricket......
KARACHI: Sharjeel Khan and Khurram Manzoor made invaluable contributions to help Dollar East thrash Heroes CC by eight wickets in the third Naya Nazimabad Ramazan Cup Cricket Tournament at Lawai......
KARACHI: National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) and Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) recorded contrasting victories in the latest round of matches played in the Interloop presents Mezan Tea T20......
KARACHI: Junior international Saud Shakeel shone with the bat and ball as Eureka Cricket Club defeated Kashmore CC by five wickets in Dr.M.A.Shah Night Trophy at the Asghar Ali Shah Stadium on......
NYON: Celtic, the first British team to win the European Cup, have been paired against Icelandic side Stjarnan in the second qualifying round of the Champions League, after the draw in Nyon,......
LAHORE: Seasoned Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez may be suspended for one year from bowling as he has again been reported with a suspected illegal bowling action during the first Test against......
MANCHESTER: New Zealand opener Martin Guptill believes the team’s tour of England has been a success, regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s concluding Twenty20 international at Old Trafford.The......
PARIS: Diego Maradona will stand for the presidency of scandal-tainted FIFA presidency, a Uruguayan journalist who presents a television show with the Argentine football legend, said Monday.“‘I am......
LONDON: Former captain Andrew Flintoff believes Ben Stokes can become one of England’s greats and rates the all-rounder as a more talented player than he was.Flintoff played a major role in England’s......
LAHORE: Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) secretary Rana Mujahid claimed the team’s morale is high during the Hockey World League semi-finals currently underway in Antwerp, Belgium, but appealed to......
NEW DELHI: Former captain Saurav Ganguly on Monday demanded respect for beleaguered Mahendra Singh Dhoni, saying he has astonishing one-day records as skipper and needs to be given all the time in......
NEW DELHI: Mahendra Singh Dhoni knew what to expect before he walked off the field in Mirpur. He’s captain of the limited-overs team in India, where cricket has no sporting equal. He led the Indian......
MOSCOW: The Russian government ordered 30 billion roubles ($560 million) in cuts in spending on the 2018 World Cup on Monday but said the construction of stadiums would not be affected.Russia has......
SANTIAGO: Brazil shrugged off the absence of suspended captain Neymar to reach the Copa America quarter-finals here Sunday with a 2-1 victory over Venezuela.Goals in each half from Paris......
GOTHENBURG: Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing (Azzam), skippered by Briton Ian Walker, won the 12th edition of the Volvo Ocean Race on Monday.Walker’s crew finished fifth in the ninth and final leg, the fleet......
NYON: West Ham United will kick off their season against Andorran minnows FC Lusitans, five weeks before the start of the English Premier League, following the Europa League qualifying draw made on......
TACOMA: Jordan Spieth won the US Open at Chambers Bay on Sunday, two months after winning the Masters at Augusta National.The 21-year-old Texan closed with a 69 for a five-under total of 275, one......
SANTA CLARA: Olympic great Michael Phelps won the 200m individual medley at the Santa Clara Pro Swim here on Sunday for his second victory in as many nights.The 29-year-old American, whose 18 Olympic......
ISLAMABAD: The Afghan government and Taliban negotiators are expected to meet in a week’s time, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz said on......
ISLAMABAD: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Antonio Guterres called on Adviser to Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz here at the Foreign Office......
ISLAMABAD: Political parties, including the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and PML-N, which will commence legal debate from June 29 to establish whether or not the 2013 general elections were......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday condemned the attack on Afghan parliament and vowed to cooperate with Afghanistan in its fight against terrorism.“We reaffirm our resolve to fight terrorism in close......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee said on Monday that the process adopted by the Central Selection Board (CSB) last month for promotion of senior government officials was “not transparent”.Members of the......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has submitted a report to the special judge, customs, during the proceedings of a money smuggling case against model Ayyan Ali, according to FBR......
ISLAMABAD: The deadly heatwave in southern Pakistan and outcry against unrelenting power cuts proved telling in a well-cooled National Assembly on Monday, provoking an opposition walkout that gave......
ISLAMABAD: The PPP rejected on Monday a claim by the secretary for water and power about improvement in the electricity supply situation and termed his latest statement “a bizarre denial of......
ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has set aside a judgment of the accountability court against two officials of Pakistan Post who had been convicted in a fraud case.A division bench of the LHC’s......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves are expected to touch $18 billion mark on Tuesday after disbursement of $500 million by the World Bank for development and growth.Vice President of the......
QUETTA: The Southern Command, 41 Division, has been running several education programmes in Balochistan and 4,000 local students from Baloch and Pashtun communities are benefiting from it.General......
QUETTA: A trader was kidnapped in the border town of Chaman on Monday.Police said Ateequllah was passing through the college road when armed men intercepted his vehicle and took him away.Soon after......
KARACHI: More than 80 fishermen released by India a couple of days ago arrived here on Monday after being handed over by the neighbouring country’s authorities at Wagah border on Sunday, officials......
QUETTA: Adviser to Chief Minister on Finance Mir Abdul Khaliq Lango has assured the opposition members that their reservation will be addressed and that efforts are under way to resolve people’s......
GWADAR: Two bullet-riddled bodies were found in Doh Kop near Mand area of Kech-Turbat district on Monday.Deputy Commissioner Kech Mamtaz Ali Baloch said the two men, who belonged to Khenak and Kahan......
QUETTA: A vegetable and fruit vendor was injured while resisting a group of robbers at Chohar Mal Road on Monday, police said.The bandits fled the scene after the incident and the injured,......
QUETTA: Police found a body on Raisani road here on Monday.The body was taken to civil hospital. According to doctors, the victim was attacked with a knife.The identity of the deceased could not be......
THROUGHOUT Sindh’s villages and small trading towns, in its chaotic cities and roadside hamlets, the ubiquitous tea shop is a permanent feature. These open-air stalls, or hotels as they’re known......
KARACHI: Former president and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari has urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to use his ‘good offices’ to overcome the power crisis in Sindh, saying the loadshedding of up to......
SRINAGAR: Two suspected militants and a civilian were killed in a gunbattle in India-held Kashmir that lasted more than 15 hours.Police said on Monday the shooting began on Sunday when government......
KARACHI: Another 309 people lost their lives in Sindh on Monday as the punishing heat wave baked the province amid prolonged outages and stacking up of bodies in morgues.Since Saturday evening, 445......
ISLAMABAD: With Karachi being hit by an intense heat wave and the government being criticised for its failure to provide relief to people, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has called......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that NGOs would not be allowed to operate in sensitive areas.Talking to newsmen at the Parliament House on Monday, he said Save the......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government argued before the Supreme Court on Monday that the court had no jurisdiction to entertain a petition challenging the setting up of military courts as long as the......
KABUL: Taliban militants launched a brazen assault on the Afghan parliament on Monday, triggering gunfire and explosions and sending lawmakers scurrying for cover in an attack that killed two......
AS large parts of southern Pakistan endure a heat wave that has killed more than 250 people in the city of Karachi alone — and the figure could be higher if some deaths have gone unreported — many......
WITH a powerful bombing targeting the Afghan parliament in Kabul on Monday, coupled with a Taliban advance on the northern town of Kunduz, the Islamist militia has shown that its offensive......
THE capture by elite interests of a special programme meant to benefit poor farmers in Punjab clearly illustrates where matters are going wrong in the provincial government’s way of doing things. A......
THIS writer has argued in these columns that on the one hand low rates of economic growth in the last decade have resulted in 700,000 to 800,000 youth every year being unable to find productive and......
INDIA’S ageing right-wing ideologue L.K. Advani has warned of a bumpy ride ahead for the country’s democracy. The former ‘iron man’ of Hindu nationalism has reportedly hinted that the future autocrat......
A TROUBLING question has floated to the surface in Pakistan, and is fast growing in salience: what price should parents be willing to pay to educate their children?Before Article 25A made the......
A DRAMATIC turn of events, involving the Afghan Taliban-‘Islamic State’ bickering and Iran’s alleged support to the Afghan insurgents, hogged the headlines last week. The developments are likely to......
KARACHI: The Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah finally took notice of the prolonged loadshedding in the province and has summoned an emergency meeting of concerned authorities and all......
