LONDON: Politically fragile countries including Pakistan and India face breakdown as a result of mounting climate change pressures, and even stable ones may find coming shocks too big to manage......
KABUL: Afghanistan's intelligence service says a Pakistani intelligence officer helped the Taliban carry out an attack on parliament earlier this week.Afghan intelligence services spokesman Hassib......
According to a new PEW survey, Pakistan is the only country polled where a majority (57%) views Iran— the country with the world's largest Shia Muslim population— favourably.The survey comes at a......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani rights campaigners and opposition lawmakers have urged Islamabad to protect the privacy of its citizens after leaked top-secret documents appeared to show British intelligence......
It’s a silent killer that does not make waves like floods and earthquakes. Globally, heatwaves kill thousands but the media and governments often ignore their humongous death toll.The tragic loss of......
KARACHI: Opposition parties in the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday submitted a resolution, condemning the Sindh government and Karachi Electric (KE) for their failure in discharging responsibilities.The......
QUETTA: In Balochistan, 84 per cent children are not immunised and are prone to various preventable and fatal diseases, data from the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) revealed.Out of 100, only 16pc......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has received funding from Indian authorities, claims a startling report published by the BBC on Wednesday.According to the report which quotes an unnamed......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's batting great Kumar Sangakkara is still in talks with selectors to discuss his retirement from Test cricket, captain Angelo Mathews said on Wednesday.Local media had speculated......
ISLAMABAD: A spokesman for the international aid group Save the Children said that the government of Pakistan has allowed it to reopen its office on Wednesday.Saeed Ahmed, the group's spokesman in......
Shan Foods has managed to do it yet again — in their latest television commercial, which is being dubbed the best Pakistani ad ever, the brand has managed to encapsulate the brand values they hold so......
A new batch of documents released by Wikileaks exposes the agreement between Marvel and Sony Pictures on mandatory traits for the Spider-man character, including the requirement for him to be......
KANO: At least 42 people were shot dead by suspected Boko Haram gunmen in attacks on two villages in Biu and Hawul districts of northeast Nigeria's Borno state, a police officer said Wednesday."We......
PARIS: France on Wednesday summoned the US ambassador to explain allegations of what French President Francois Hollande branded “unacceptable” spying by the United States on French officials.Mr......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police have registered 1,516 cases against those holding fake Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs), said police.Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of......
KARACHI: At least 830 people have perished in Sindh since Saturday as the province languishes in the grips of a searing heatwave.The total death toll at Karachi's Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre......
NEW DELHI: Pressure is growing on India's foreign minister and a top member of the ruling party over help they gave to a disgraced cricket tycoon, as the first major scandal to touch Indian Prime......
Not more than a month ago, my colleagues and I were discussing the possibility of us fasting in Ramazan. April was ending and the heat was already fast on the up. We were rather apprehensive about......
I think we can all agree that the very best thing about summer in Pakistan is all the mangoes everywhere.I was never a big mango fan when I was younger (blasphemous, I know!). However, over time,......
RIYADH: For most of his 20s, all Badr al-Enezi could think about was becoming a jihadi fighter. After getting in touch with former Guantanamo Bay prisoners who had returned to militancy, he began......
ISLAMABAD: Newly-appointed Director General Strategic Plans Division (SPD) Lt-Gen Mazhar Jamil called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at Prime Minister House on Wednesday.PM Nawaz and Lt Gen Mazhar......
It appears that two consecutive Eids will see Mahira Khan clashing with the Dabang Khan of Bollywood, Salman Khan. While Mahira's Bin Roye is set to compete with Salman's Bajrangi Bhai Jaan this......
KARACHI: Is Karachi experiencing climate change? Where is all this heat coming from? How can the heat kill people in hundreds? Baffled Karachiites are wondering what is happening to the weather......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Shah on Wednesday lashed out at the federal government for power cuts across the country as the death toll from the heatwave......
NEW DELHI: Indian police have arrested a bootlegger accused of supplying the toxic liquor that killed 100 people from a slum in the financial capital Mumbai, a senior officer has said.Mansur Latif......
"Do not read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly," said Mary Schmich.Chicago Tribune columnist and cartoonist Mary Schmich wrote these words as part of general life advice which was......
BEIJING: At least 18 people are dead after ethnic Uighurs attacked police with knives and bombs at a traffic checkpoint in China's western Xinjiang region, Radio Free Asia reported on Wednesday.The......
PARIS: US National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropped on the last three French presidents, releasing material which appeared to capture officials in Paris talking candidly about Greece's economy,......
In the lead up to the first Test between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, all the talk revolved around how Misbah-ul-Haq's men would counter the threat of their arch-nemesis Rangana Herath.But as the two......
MANCHESTER: England set themselves up for the Ashes by ensuring New Zealand's tour ended in a comprehensive defeat as they thrashed the Black Caps by 56 runs in the lone Twenty20 international at Old......
RECENTLY, during my visit to Abbottabad, I noticed a row of decades’ old chopped trees on Pakistan Army’s land. Upon inquiry, I was told that the army has recently awarded a contract to construct a......
Ramazan started on June 19. The weather in Karachi became extremely hot a day earlier and continues to remain so. Owing to the extreme heat and inclement weather, more than 350 people have died to......
This concerns the series of advertisements by the government of Australia appearing in many newspapers of the country. The advertisements warn asylum seekers: No Way — You Will Not Make Australia......
IT is a matter of great satisfaction that the Rangers chief in Sindh has spoken about the ground realities that are the cause of terrorism in Karachi.However, for Karachiites, there is nothing new in......
THIS is apropos the news story ‘Govt to streamline working of international NGOs’ (June 16). It is a welcome move. Apart from other benefits like checks and balances on the smooth and unhindered......
THE population of Hub city has increased fourfold in almost two decades. This has given rise to problems, the primary one being traffic.There is only one main road in Hub. This thoroughfare is also......
Digital weighing machines as a general practise have two-sided displays, that can be seen by the shopkeeper and the customer.In our country, such machines are common in bakeries and shops selling......
THE import of gas-powered generators is allowed but running them on gas is banned because of a shortage of the commodity. Similarly petrol generators are imported in the thousands but acquiring fuel......
THIS refers to private school teachers’ woes. On an average, teachers in private schools are paid a minimum wage of Rs4,000 through which they can hardly make their ends meet.Even though their......
THE ANP government during its tenure launched two water filtration plants: one in the Union Council Shahbaz Garhi, Mardan, and the other in the Union Council Balagarhi.The plant in Balagarhi is......
SWABI: Gadoon Amazai Indusial Estate (GAIE) entrepreneurs have expressed concern over the nine-hour power loadshedding instead of the scheduled six hours daily as promised by the government, saying......
LANDI KOTAL: Four persons were killed and one was injured critically when a trailer skidded off the road and fell into a deep ditch in Jamrud on Tuesday.Khasadar officials said that the incident took......
KARAK: The district administration on Tuesday sent seven traders to lock-up for overcharging customers.District food inspector Adil Khan checked the prices of daily-use commodities in Karak city and......
MANSEHRA: Almost all poultry shops in Mansehra city and its adjoining areas remained without chicken on Tuesday after its price was reduced by Rs40 per kilogram in the retailer market.The shortage of......
PESHAWAR: Masjid Qasim Ali Khan is though a historic mosque in Peshawar city like Masjid Mahabat Khan yet it comes to limelight only during moon sighting before the start and end of Ramazan leading......
PESHAWAR: Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions Lt-Gen (r) Abdul Qadir Baloch has said a new plan is being made to ensure repatriation of registered Afghan refugees by mid-2016.“I am not......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday denied bail to the director of a private company allegedly involved in deceiving more than 100 pilgrims on the pretext of sending them for Haj.A bench......
LAKKI MARWAT: A Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s defeated candidate of district council on Tuesday urged the Election Commission of Pakistan to stop notifying successful candidates and order re-polling at......
PESHAWAR: North Waziristan tribesmen on Tuesday demonstrated here against the security forces for allegedly killing two youngsters at the Bakhakhel IDP camp in FR Bannu.“The killing of innocent youth......
PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau has frozen more properties worth millions of rupees of an accused in a multi-billion scam.The NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Director General Shahzad Saleem......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Tuesday approved the Rs26.39 billion supplementary budget being used by government departments during the current fiscal year.A total of 53 demands for......
MINGORA: A woman died in the Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital here after she was allegedly given a wrong injection by a nurse late on Monday evening.Saleem Khan, the victim’s husband, said the nurse......
ISLAMABAD: No law exists for the local government in Islamabad, yet the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced on Tuesday a schedule for holding the first-ever local government election in......
ISLAMABAD: Single-member bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) will take up on Wednesday the petition challenging load shedding during Itar, Sehri and Traveeh timings.The petitioner Tariq Asad......
RAWALPINDI: Former Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) member and ex-MPA Agha Riazul Islam passed away on Monday night with his funeral prayers held at Liaquat Road, outside his office in Rabia Manzil on......
ISLAMABAD: The driver of a deputy superintendent of police (DSP) was put behind bars on the charge of stealing fuel in connivance with a filling station staff on Tuesday.Police said DSP Bashir Noon......
ISLAMABAD: Despite orders from the Islamabad High Court (IHC), the capital city’s administration seems reluctant to proceed against a seminary that was illegally constructed on private property in......
ISLAMABAD: Nearly a year and half after one of the most audacious and brazen terrorist attacks in the capital’s history, investigators are no closer to finding the perpetrators behind the assault on......
The recent heatwave that has swept across the southern parts of Pakistan has already killed hundreds of people in Karachi in a matter of days. The abnormally high death toll has also left many......
ISLAMABAD: Indian belligerence has already damaged the prospects of normalisation of relations with Pakistan and analysts fear that New Delhi would continue with its aggressive approach.Indian Prime......
ISLAMABAD: The holy month of Ramazan has increased the effect of weather on the citizens because they spend 16 hours without drinking any liquid. People should take 12 to 15 glass of water between......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s parliamentary task force on sustainable development goals on Tuesday learnt that Pakistan had failed to achieve its targets to improve the quality of education,......
ISLAMABAD: Senior police officers of capital police will listen to public complaints on every Wednesday from 3pm to 4pm at FM Radio 92.4.According to police spokesman, Inspector General of Police......
ISLAMABAD: Two police constables were injured in Sihala on Tuesday while attempting to stop a gang of robbers who were running off with looted valuables.Police officials told Dawn that three armed......
ISLAMABAD: A petition was filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the interior ministry’s order to three Filipino missionaries, including principals of Islamabad’s two convent schools, to......
ISLAMABAD: MNA Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Tuesday opposed indirect elections on reserved seats in the Punjab local government elections.NGOs have already......
ISLAMABAD: Expressing dissatisfaction over performance of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) and the delay in the expansion of Polyclinic, a Senate committee directed the Capital......
ISLAMABAD: SSP Asmatullh Junejo was reinstated through an executive order but appointed in the federal ministry for information as minister’s coordinator, Dawn has learnt from the ministry and......
SIALKOT: The family of a woman on Tuesday staged a demonstration at a congested chowk of Muradpur to protest her killing allegedly by her in-laws.They threw traffic out of gear for an hour and......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday directed the Election Commission of Pakistan to submit record about intra-party elections of three political parties including PML-N, PPP and JUI-F.Earlier,......
LAHORE: A meeting on fake medicines that was presided over by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday expressed its serious concern over the varied reports of convictions by drugs courts in Punjab,......
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly’s Standing Committee on Education Chairman Qamarul Islam Raja has said a bill will be introduced in the next session of the legislature to regulate private educational......
LAHORE: Engineers belonging to a joint venture -- China Railways (CR) and China North Industries Corporation (Norinco International) -- have almost completed various technical surveys before......
GUJRANWALA: A minor girl fell 40 feet from an overhead pedestrian bridge on Tuesday on GT Road in Ghakkar Town and died later from her injuries.As the bridge has no fence on either side,......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has decided to bifurcate its party offices from political ones as a measure to avert manipulation in intra-party polls like in the past.PTI central organiser......
LAHORE: A fawn has been added to the fallow deer family in the Lahore Zoo, taking their number up to eight.Before the birth a couple of days ago, there were two male and five female deer in the......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought arguments on maintainability of petitions filed by 43 civil judges of Punjab against their disqualification to sit exams for the posts of additional......
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has welcomed the suspension of executions in Ramazan and called for an unbiased assessment of a general resumption of hangings.In a statement......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau, Lahore, has arrested an alleged land grabber on charges of preparing bogus documents of several plots in connivance with some officials of the Lahore......
LAHORE: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Health Khwaja Salman Rafique says the Punjab government has started construction of Asia’s biggest children’s hospital in Faisalabad.“The under-construction......
Astriking fiction writer and keen researcher Pervaiz Anjum was born in Faisalabad in 1959 to a businessman running a film distribution company in UK.He was not into politics but the company of......
FAISALABAD: A murder case has been registered against four policemen, including the People’s Colony station house officer (SHO), on charges of killing a schoolboy and injuring another on Monday on......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Gojra Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) staffers sealed on Tuesday more than two dozen rundown buildings declared dangerous.The sealed buildings included a power loom factory, a......
SHEIKHUPURA: More than 300 Sikh pilgrims visited the Sacha Sauda Temple near Farooqabad, some 18km away from here, to perform their spiritual rites on Tuesday.Evacuee Trust Property Board Deputy......
LAHORE: A woman and a teenaged boy were electrocuted in different areas of the city on Tuesday in rain-related incidents.According to police, Lubna, 28, a mother of two, of Baghbanpura, was washing......
GUJRANWALA: The Federal Investigation Agency ( FIA) registered a case against Fazal Shah, the owner of a CNG filling station, for gas theft on Tuesday.A joint team of FIA and Sui Northern Gas......
BAHAWALPUR: District Coordination Officer (DCO) Imran Sikandar Baloch has come forward to explain why the city’s main Circular Road and Bund Road are inundated with sewage, saying old sewerage lines......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: A man shot dead his daughter over her refusal to contract marriage in exchange for marriage of her father here on Tuesday in Choti area.Reports said Khizar Abbas wanted to marry off......
SIALKOT: The family of a woman on Tuesday staged a demonstration at a congested chowk of Muradpur to protest her killing allegedly by her in-laws.They threw traffic out of gear for an hour and......
MUZAFFARGARH: The Alipur Saddar police on Tuesday registered a case against five people and arrested three of them for unleashing dogs on a farmer.Raheem Bakhsh was mauled to death by dogs on Monday......
LAHORE: Sarfaraz Ahmed, a resident of Lahore, is a car enthusiast interested in collecting vintage cars. His hobby has had him collect a couple of classic cars but now when he wants any advice on the......
LAHORE: Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada on Tuesday disclosed to the members of the Punjab Assembly that Indian intelligence agency RAW sent a text message to the manger of Zimbabwean cricket team......
LAHORE: Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said involving the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in the matter of the ‘missing’ necklace donated by the Turkish First Lady showed the......
LAHORE: A woman was killed while 11 other people were injured as rain that was heavy in eastern parts lashed Lahore on Tuesday, providing immediate relief against harsh weather conditions prevailing......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday restrained the departmental promotion board (DPB) of the Pakistan Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (PCSIR) from making a final decision on the......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said he will take up the matter of loadshedding with K-Electric and action will be taken against it if considered appropriate, as the general......
KARACHI: For the fifth day in a row, citizens of Karachi could not find any solution to their electricity woes while several areas in the city, where people had not experienced extended outages until......
KARACHI: Animals at the city zoo and Safari Park have been suffering since Saturday due to the intense heatwave that claimed four more lives at the zoo on Tuesday.According to sources, the death toll......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed the K-Electric authorities to take emergent and drastic measures to provide smooth power supply to the city. “Though the on-going......
KARACHI: Police submitted on Tuesday a charge-sheet in an antiterrorism court against Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Aamir Khan in a case of instigating terrorism and harbouring criminals.The......
KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau has arrested the chairman of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Housing Cell for allegedly embezzling funds worth millions of rupees in a low-cost housing......
KARACHI: A year ago the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) passed a judgement for the protection of rights of religious minorities and to review its progress and implementation, the Pakistan Institute of......
HYDERABAD: The army has set up two heatstroke centres in Hyderabad and one each in Jamshoro, Badin, Chhore and Sehwan Sharif to provide treatment to the victims of the harsh heatwave that has killed......
KARACHI: Senior Finance and Energy Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has held Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Federal Water and Power Minister Khawaja Asif and Minister of State Abid Sher Ali and the federal......
HYDERABAD: Leaders of milk retailers have threatened to go on strike if they are forced to implement a new notification for prices of milk and yogurt.Speaking at a press conference held at the local......
MITHI: Nagarparkar Civil Judge Maula Bukhsh Solangi has ordered the local revenue official to remove all encroachments raised on the Hindu community’s graveyard in Nagarparkar.The judge himself......
BADIN: President of the Sindh chapter of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Ismail Rahu on Tuesday alleged that the Sindh Bank had been established and operated to plunder the national......
KARACHI: Even before the two buses carrying the 88 Pakistani fishermen recently released from Indian jails had reached the Edhi Foundation centre at Tower late on Monday night, their relatives and......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Tuesday came up with a set of measures to conserve energy including the closure of business centres and shops by 9pm that was rejected by traders who vowed to resist......
KARACHI: The unprecedented loss of life caused by the current heatwave that the city has experienced over the past few days could have been avoided to a great extent if the people had been made aware......
ANKARA: Turkey’s parliament convened on Tuesday for the first time since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party lost its overall majority in legislative elections, with political factions seeking to......
LOS ANGELES: James Horner, the celebrated composer of musical scores for several smash-hit movies, including “Titanic “and “Avatar,” died on Monday in a plane crash at the age of 61, colleagues......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has urged anti-Islam demonstrators in the United States to “stop yelling and start listening”, telling them that they would find Muslims peaceful and welcoming......
WASHINGTON: The rise of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) has generated strong concerns in nations around the world, and a new survey by the Pew Research Center finds broad global support for......
COLOMBO: A hardline group representing Sri Lanka’s Buddhist clergy has kicked up a storm over the central bank’s decision to allow private banks to offer financial services based on Islamic......
JERUSALEM: Activists aboard a flotilla of boats are to set sail soon for Gaza in a fresh bid to break Israel’s blockade of the territory, five years after a similar attempt ended in a deadly raid.The......
CALAIS: Hundreds of protesting French sailors on Tuesday forced the suspension of Eurotunnel services between France and Britain in both directions after torching tyres on the tracks, causing traffic......
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has apologised to the country’s Muslim vice president after comments by a senior member of the Bharatiya Janata Party triggered allegations that sectarianism had......
KOLKATA: Sister Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Mother Teresa as head of her Missionaries of Charity in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, died on Tuesday at the age of 81, church officials said.Joshi......
TALLINN: The United States will pre-position heavy weapons in central and eastern Europe for the first time, Washington said on Tuesday, in the midst of the worst standoff between Russia and the West......
NEW YORK: The global community will fail millions of children if it does not focus on the most disadvantaged in its new 15-year development roadmap, Unicef warned in a statement released on......
PARIS: Climate change may wipe out the last 50 years’ gains in global health by ramping up heatwaves, flood, drought, hunger and disease, an expert panel said on Tuesday.“Climate change is a medical......
YEREVAN: Nearly 6,000 demonstrators rallied in the Armenian capital on Tuesday after riot police used water cannon to break up an earlier protest against electricity price hikes.Waving national flags......
BUENOS AIRES: Pope Francis’ homeland of Argentina is not on the itinerary for his South American tour in July.The pontiff hasn’t been back since he became pope more than two years ago, and the......
VIENNA: The gruelling diplomatic marathon towards a historic deal putting an Iranian nuclear bomb out of reach entered the final furlong on Tuesday with one week left for Iran and six major powers to......
KARACHI: Half centuries from international Mohammad Rizwan and Khurram Shehzad inspired Dollar East to a 30-run win against Qasmi CC in the 28th Aga Khan Gymkhana Ramazan Festival T20 Cricket......
KARACHI: Upcoming opener Ahmed Hussain played a sterling knock as Soni Associates outgunned Alamgir Gymkhana by six wickets in the third Naya Nazimabad Ramazan Cricket Tournament late on Monday......
KARACHI: Naved Khan starred with a crafty half-century as Tapal CC eased home by 50 runs against Agha Steel in their 30th Omar Associates Karachi Gymkhana Ramazan Cricket Festival match at the......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board Women’s Wing is organizing a training camp for 25 women cricketers from June 25 to July 14 at the Kakul Academy, Abbottabad.The main objective of the camp is to......
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......
LONDON: Peter Moores, sacked twice as coach of the England cricket team, believes his reputation as being obsessed with data analysis is all wrong and based on a misquote.Breaking his silence since......
LAHORE: Head curator of the National Stadium Shakoor Hussain passed away in Karachi on Tuesday.He was associated with the National Stadium Karachi (NSK) for the last 20 years.Pakistan Cricket Board......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s Test batsman Haris Sohail has suffered a shoulder injury in Sri Lanka and could be recalled home.Chief selector Haroon Rasheed, however, told the Press Trust of India that the......
MANCHESTER: England captain Eoin Morgan won the toss and elected to bat against New Zealand in the lone Twenty20 international at Old Trafford on Tuesday.England were unchanged from the side that......
MANCHESTER: England’s Sam Billings is eager to show he is more than just a one-day player by starring for Kent in the first official match of Australia’s tour of England later this week.The......
MANCHESTER: According to the Lord’s-based Marylebone Cricket Club, still the guardian of cricket’s rules, it is against the ‘spirit of the game’ to “direct abusive language towards an opponent”.Ask......
DHAKA: Indian all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin on Tuesday defended under-fire skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who says he is willing to step aside as captain following their first ever one-day series......
KARACHI: Legendary Pakistan paceman Wasim Akram said on Tuesday England’s new coach Trevor Bayliss would help make the Ashes a closer contest despite Australia starting out as hot favourites.The......
LAHORE: Ex-batting icon Javed Miandad on Tuesday said that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) should have drawn on the vast experience of legendary batsman Zaheer Abbas instead of nominating him for......
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 superpower decided on Monday not to appeal a four-game ban......
EDMONTON: The United States capitalised on Colombia goalkeeper Catalina Perez’s dismissal to earn a 2-0 win and set up a women’s World Cup quarter-final against China, while England continue to build......
LONDON: Former England all-rounder Chris Lewis, recently released from prison, said on Tuesday that he hoped his mistakes and experiences could prevent cricketers from falling into similar......
PARIS: Declaring they have learned from their past mistakes and failures, French officials launched a bid Tuesday to bring the Olympics to Paris in 2024 — 100 years after the games were last held in......
NOTTINGHAM: Top-seeded David Ferrer suffered a Wimbledon warm-up headache when he lost to Marcos Baghdatis 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) in the second round at the Nottingham Open on Tuesday.Ferrer, the world No.......
KARACHI: Opener Nauman Anwar underlined his immense potential with a brilliant century as Omar Associates sealed a sensational one-wicket victory over Wapda in the Interloop presents Mezan T20......
MILAN: Serie A champions Juventus boosted their already impressive collection of strikers still further when they signed Croatia forward Mario Mandzukic from Atletico Madrid on Monday.“A fee of 19......
EASTBOURNE: Eugenie Bouchard earned her first win of the grass-court season when the 2014 Wimbledon runner-up beat Alison Riske of the US 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 in the Eastbourne International second round......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Tuesday issued guidelines for opening Asaan accounts with simplified due diligence and minimum of Rs100 initial deposit to enhance the outreach of......
KARACHI: The State Bank on Tuesday announced to issue fresh currency notes to banks from July 2 for general public.The central bank issues fresh currency notes each year to meet their high demand......
LONDON: Top bankers in Britain could have their bonuses clawed back a decade after they were awarded under proposals from regulators on Tuesday that would make industry pay curbs the toughest in the......
KARACHI: Equities fell for the second day, with the Karachi Stock Exchange’s (KSE) benchmark 100-share index retreating by 144.59 points (0.42 per cent) to close at 34,133.83.Volume and trading value......
DUBAI: Construction of the Sharq Crossing, Qatar’s $12 billion bridge and underwater tunnel link across Doha bay, was due to start this year to be ready for the 2022 World Cup, but that deadline has......
BlackBerry cuts losses in first quarterOTTAWA: Blackberry on Tuesday posted a first quarter loss of $28 million, cutting in half the financial deficit the smartphone maker posted during the same......
SINGAPORE: Emerging markets in North Asia such as South Korea and Taiwan will lean on their strong current account surpluses to counter any ill effect of a US interest rate hike on their currencies,......
WASHINGTON: The US Senate pushed bipartisan trade legislation to the brink of final approval Tuesday in a combined effort by President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders to rescue a......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures were little changed Tuesday, shaving off some gains to follow a dip in overseas soy markets, with a lack of clarity over export demand in the coming month......
LONDON: Gold eased on Tuesday as the euro slid sharply against the dollar, and as stock markets rallied on hopes that Greece would reach a deal with its creditors to stave off default.Spot gold was......
WASHINGTON: If the United States does not lift its 40-year ban on crude exports, Iran could soon be competing in global markets that would be mostly shut to US oil companies, a report prepared for......
ANKARA: Turkey’s central bank on Tuesday kept its main interest rates unchanged, in a widely anticipated move two weeks after June 7 elections.The central bank is keeping a careful eye on inflation......
NEW DELHI: India has unveiled plans to cut transaction costs for electronic payments, to spur retailers and consumers to use less cash, as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s drive to pull more......
CANNES: An unprecedented number of blue-chip companies have put their advertising contracts up for review this year, underlining the growing pressure on ad agencies as online marketing threatens......
ISLAMABAD: The government conceded on Tuesday it could not ensure 100 per cent uninterrupted power supply to residential consumers during Sehr, Iftar and Taraveeh due to system constraints and asked......
KARACHI: The ongoing heatwave has caused consumers to throng the generator market in large numbers leading to a stark rise in demand for these products.Dealers said their sales have more than doubled......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has announced the launch of a new ‘Commission on Global Poverty’ to prepare a report by April next year on the best ways to measure and monitor poverty around the world.The......
LAHORE: Accusing the power distribution companies of acting in “connivance with the industry” by carrying out unprecedented loadshedding at the cost of the common man and “causing embarrassment to......
WASHINGTON: Malala Yousafzai spent Tuesday on Capitol Hill, talking to US lawmakers about her global campaign to promote girls’ education.The talks focused on spreading universal secondary education......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan hit out at the federal government on Tuesday for its failure to fulfil promises it had made to the nation for ending the loadshedding,......
RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has busted a gang allegedly involved in smuggling of heroin from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Gulf countries. The gang leader, Aqal Khan, and three of his......
ISLAMABAD: In a rare display of unity, all opposition parties in the parliament on Tuesday agreed to observe Friday as the day of mourning and protest over the deaths caused by heatwave and the......
PESHAWAR: A soldier on patrol party was killed in an explosion on a road in Mirali town of North Waziristan on Tuesday. Six soldiers were injured.Sources said that security forces were patrolling the......
ISLAMABAD: At a time when the federal government is planning to regulate non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the matter caught the attention of the Supreme Court on Tuesday.A three-judge bench......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday emphasised the need to strike a balance between the rights of citizens and the defence of the country, saying that unbridled powers could not be vested upon......
QUETTA: Member of the Missing Person Inquiry Commission retired Justice Dr Ghaus Muhammad briefed Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch on the commission’s report about the recovery of people.Justice......
KARACHI: Ten suspected militants were killed in two separate shootouts with Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, late on Tuesday in different areas that also left three personnel of paramilitary force injured,......
QUETTA: The local Met Office said on Tuesday that there were chances of rain and flash flood in storm water streams and hill torrents in Balochistan over the next two to four days. According to it, a......
QUETTA: Nawabzada Brahamdagh Bugti, the separatist leader of the outlawed Baloch Republican Party (BRP), has criticised the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and Gwadar port projects and......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar emphatically said in the National Assembly on Tuesday that Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) were part of Pakistan and not disputed......
KABUL: Afghan government forces regained control of a key district near the northern city of Kunduz on Tuesday, after Taliban fighters had threatened to capture a provincial capital for the first......
KARACHI: While prolonged power cuts and the harsh heatwave persisted across Sindh, another 337 people — 311 in Karachi alone — died in public and private sector hospitals of the province on Tuesday,......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reaffirmed on Tuesday his support for military-led “actions against criminals” and gave his assent for taking the fight against terrorists to urban......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Tuesday that a two-member team of London Metropolitan Police will arrive in a few days to interrogate a key character in the Dr Imran......
ISLAMABAD: The new federal budget of more than Rs4 trillion was rushed through the National Assembly on Tuesday after the opposition parties boycotted the process over alleged disregard shown to them......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Tuesday announced a holiday across the province for Wednesday amid the punishing heatwave and power crisis that have so far claimed more than 780 lives as the chief......
ISLAMABAD: Digital rights activists and lawmakers appear equally concerned by recent claims that Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) gained access to Pakistan’s Internet Exchange......
EVERYBODY wants to blame someone else — nobody wants to take any responsibility. The chief minister of Sindh showed up in the provincial assembly yesterday only to demonstrate that he was totally......
EVEN though there is no shortage of examples, the casual attitude with which matters of long-term importance are decided by those at the helm of administration in Pakistan comes as a shock every......
IT was known for long that both Israel and Hamas had committed crimes against humanity during the Israeli blitz on Gaza last year, but, according to the UN human rights body, some of the actions fell......
IN Charleston, South Carolina, last Wednesday, Dylann Roof spent an hour in a Bible study class with a dozen or so parishioners before declaring, “You rape our women and you’re taking over our......
THE recent killing of two brothers by policemen deployed at a nakabandi (road block or barricade) point in Rawalpindi once again puts a question mark over the efficacy of our inhuman, colonial and......
THIS past Monday was World Refugee Day. As happens on the days earmarked for these international commemorations, a few meetings were held, a few articles written and an international moment of lament......
AN all-time low level of grovelling has been set as PPP leaders try to control the damage from the fallout of Asif Ali Zardari’s burst of bravado. It is quite amusing to listen to party spokespersons......
KARACHI: At least 10 suspected terrorists were killed late on Tuesday when Sindh Rangers conducted an intelligence-based operation in Karachi's Manghopir area and Super Highway near Kathor, an......
