COLOMBO: Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena Friday ordered the immediate dismissal of parliament, clearing the way for a snap election 10 months ahead of schedule.President Maithripala Sirisena......
In the most exciting match of the Hockey World League semi-finals, Pakistan and India shared the spoils with a 2-2 finish in Antwerp on Friday.Pakistan captain Mohammad Imran scored twice and India's......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) confirmed on Friday that the Government of Pakistan is in touch with British authorities with a view to seek information and facts of the BBC report that claimed......
KARACHI: The Edhi Foundation on Friday held a mass funeral for 50 victims of Karachi's worst heatwave in decades, whose bodies had gone unclaimed.More than 1,000 people have died as a result of days......
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the country, in a culmination of two decades of litigation over marriage, and gay rights......
KARACHI: Additional Inspector General Sindh Police Ghulam Qadir Thebo has ordered all zonal DIGs to initiate a crackdown against professional beggars in the metropolis during Ramazan, asking them to......
QUETTA: The government of Balochistan on Friday announced general amnesty for youths laying down their weapons and abandoning violence in the province.Know more: Two militant leaders, 47 aides lay......
TUNIS: At least 27 people, including foreigners, were killed Friday in a mass shooting at a Tunisian beach resort packed with holidaymakers, in the North African country's worst attack in recent......
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly passed a unanimous resolution demanding of the federal government to try MQM supremo Altaf Hussain and his accomplices under Article 6 if the claims levelled against the......
KUWAIT CITY: A suicide bomber blew himself up during Friday prayers at a Shia mosque in the Kuwaiti capital, killing at least 13 people in an unprecedented attack claimed by the Islamic State......
BEIRUT: At least 120 civilians have been killed by the Islamic State group since it entered the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane just over 24 hours ago, a monitoring group said Friday."According to......
Mohit Suri's Hamari Adhuri Kahani may not have done well at the box office, but that hasn't deterred actor/director Happy Ranajit from picking up its script to adapt for the stage.The play, which is......
KARACHI: Two prisoners have died due to heatstroke at the Landhi Jail on Friday.According to jail administration, two inmates Naeem Raza and Ameen succumbed to the searing heat as power supply had......
KABUL: He is called a superhero and feted with financial rewards from Afghan politicians, but the lionisation of the soldier who single handedly killed six attackers in parliament belies bubbling......
NEW DELHI: India's Satnam Singh Bhamara is hoping his historic selection in the NBA will kickstart a basketball boom in his cricket-obsessed home country.The 19-year-old centre admitted he was......
LONDON: When anthropologist Kameel Ahmady began investigating female genital mutilation (FGM) in his native Iran he had no idea his own mother and sister had been cut ? a reflection of just how......
SAINT FALLAVIER: A suspected Islamist attacker pinned a decapitated head covered with Arabic writing to the gates of a gas factory in eastern France on Friday before being arrested, police......
VIENNA: Opium cultivation and production in Afghanistan have reached record levels, triggering “a large increase” in cheaper heroin supply in the United States, the United Nations said on......
Nadia Nazeer, from Punjab’s Sahiwal, holds the distinction of winning five bronze medals in international 400 metre sprints. A mother of one, Nadia continues to chase her dream of becoming an......
ROME: A Pakistani suspected of involvement in the Peshawar market bombing — one of the country's bloodiest attacks — has been arrested in Rome, Italian police said on Friday.The man, who has been......
For an actor who is now romancing a third generation of heroines, the word 'ageless' comes to mind. But the truth is that Shah Rukh Khan has been in the business of wooing lovely ladies, saving the......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday accepted the plea of public prosecutor Farhat Nawaz Lodhi seeking more time to present substantial evidence against supermodel Ayyan Ali.During the......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday reserved its verdict in a case pertaining to petitions challenging the 18th and 21st constitutional amendments.Earlier this month, the apex court was told......
NEW DELHI: Heavy early monsoon rains have killed at least 81 people in India's western Gujarat state, bringing misery to thousands of people uprooted from their flooded homes, an official said......
UNITED NATIONS: Deputy Spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary General Farhan Haq in a press briefing on Thursday said Ban Ki-moon expressed sympathy for victims of the recent Karachi......
BEIJING: China on Friday slammed the United States for a “terrible human rights record”, denouncing it for police brutality and global surveillance a day after Washington criticised Beijing's own......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka, replying to Pakistan's first innings total of 138, were 304-9 at stumps on the second day of the second Test in Colombo on Friday.Opener Kaushal Silva top-scored with 80 and......
‘Golden period.’ It’s an easy, catch-all turn of phrase.It's also a concise alternate for ‘the good old days of the PTV', a neater way to say 'the Waheed Murad era of cinema’ and a quick......
NEW DELHI: The one-time easy beats of South Asian have just turned a corner, with an impressive series win at home against continental powerhouse India. South Africa, watch out!Almost 30 years since......
TEMUCO: Brazilian-based striker Paolo Guerrero scored a hattrick as Peru swept aside Bolivia 3-1 to set up a Copa America semi-final showdown with fierce rivals Chile on Thursday.Flamengo forward......
Pakistan's ace fast bowler Wahab Riaz was ruled out of the second Test against Sri Lanka after fracturing his left-hand on the first day.Riaz, who played a vital role in Pakistan's thumping win in......
Pakistan's return tour to Zimbabwe is likely to become the battleground for a 2017 Champions Trophy spot after the hosts invited the West Indies for a limited overs tri-series involving the......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum announced he had signed a one-year contract extension with the Black Caps on Friday, ending speculation about his immediate international future.The......
PESHAWAR: Militancy and insecurity have become convenient excuses for the administration in Fata to camouflage the financial irregularities, committed by it in execution of development projects in......
PESHAWAR: The workers of Pakistan Peoples Party, Nowshera, have expressed grave concern over the weakening position of the party which faced a crushing defeat in the May 30 local government elections......
PESHAWAR: A police official was shot dead and two other persons were injured by an armed man inside the well-guarded building of Judicial Complex, Peshawar on Thursday.An official said that head......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal filed by MNA Ghazi Gulab Jamal and upheld decision of an election tribunal of holding re-polling in two polling stations in National......
PESHAWAR: The students of Muslim College of Commerce and Management, Peshawar, have obtained the first three positions in Diploma in Commerce (D.Com) and Diploma in Business Administration annual......
RAWALPINDI: Disparity in Central services and slow progress on the Second Capital at Dacca generated some heat in the otherwise tame proceedings when the National Assembly took up the demands for......
VANCOUVER: Footballing giants Germany and the United States continue their quest for a record third title on Friday when they meet France and China respectively in the Women’s World Cup......
ANTWERP (Belgium): World champions Australia displayed their prowess in a 6-1 drubbing of Pakistan in the preliminary league of the Hockey World League Semi-Final at the KHC Dragons Stadium on......
KARACHI: Brilliant knocks from Shafaat Hussain and Asif Siddiqui powered BankIslami to a rousing five-wicket win over holders Tapal CC in the 28th Aga Khan Gymkhana Ramazan Festival T20 Cricket......
LAHORE: Former Olympian and Pakistan head coach Khwaja Junaid reckons the national hockey team need to play sensibly against India in their crucial match of the Hockey League Semi-finals in Antwerp......
KARACHI: Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) chalked up contrasting victories to reach the semi-finals of the Interloop presents Mezan T20 Ramazan-ul-Mubarak Cup in......
LAHORE: Forty local clubs will take part in the second Amanullah Khan Memorial One-day Cricket Tournament to be held in Lahore from July 22 to Aug 31.All participating teams have been directed to......
COLOMBO: Young Sri Lanka off-spinner Tharindu Kaushal scythed through Pakistan’s batting order to pick up his maiden five-wicket haul as the visitors were bundled out for 138 on the opening day of......
SYDNEY: Incoming England coach Trevor Bayliss refused to be drawn Thursday on whether he wants Kevin Pietersen in his Ashes squad, while saying he was impressed by the team’s recent performances......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Zaheer Abbas was named president of the International Cricket Council for the next year at the annual conference of the sport’s world governing body in Barbados on......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and former Pakistan Test cricketers on Thursday congratulated Younis Khan for playing the 100th Test for the country when he took the field for the second......
BUENOS AIRES: Two Argentine businessmen arrested last week in a sweeping probe of alleged corruption at FIFA were placed under house arrest pending a decision on extraditing them to the United......
Dubai: As preparations intensify ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier 2015, which is set to be staged in Ireland and Scotland from July 9 to 26, the International Cricket Council (ICC) on......
CANTERBURY: Chris Rogers turned attention back to his cricket, rather than his business interests, with an unbeaten fifty on the first morning of Australia’s Ashes tour opener against Kent here on......
SANTIAGO: Chile bundled reigning champions Uruguay out of the Copa America with a 1-0 victory in a fast-paced quarter-final that ended in controversy and kept alive the host nation’s dream of a......
EASTBOURNE: Former champion Agnieszka Radwanska reached the semi-finals of the Eastbourne International on Thursday with a straightforward 6-2, 6-2 defeat of Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova.The 2008......
KARACHI: Opener Sharjeel Khan carried on his rich vein of form with yet another productive effort as Touchme CC trounced Dollar East by nine wickets in the 30th Karachi Gymkhana Omar Associates......
Dubai: Shakib Al Hasan has regained the number one spot in the ICC player rankings for ODI all-rounders after inspiring Bangladesh to their first bi-lateral series victory over India on......
KINGSTON: Usain Bolt is no longer listed to run the 100 metres at Jamaica’s national senior trials on Thursday, sparking concerns about his fitness ahead of defending his sprint titles at this year’s......
MARSEILLE: Marseille have accepted a 15 million euro ($16.7m, £10.6 million) offer from Premiership side West Ham for French international midfielder Dimitri Payet, the club announced on Thursday.But......
PARIS: German sprinter Marcel Kittel will not take part in the Tour de France after failing to fully recover from a virus, his Giant-Alpecin team said on Thursday.“The team decided that Kittel’s......
KARACHI: Fahad Sheikh excelled with a decent all-round game to help BankIslami become the first team to qualify for the knockout stage of the third Naya Nazimabad Ramazan Cricket Tournament with a......
LONDON: Everton have signed winger Gerard Deulofeu from Barcelona on a three-year contract for six million euros ($6.7 million), the Premier League club said on Thursday.The 21-year-old Spaniard......
Now that electricity production has increased, the power infrastructure is failing to support this amount of energy.The transmission of electricity generates heat, which effects the equipment, and in......
The death of more than 800 people in Karachi due to a heat wave aggravated by excessive loadshedding seems to have no impact on our ruling elite which is making propaganda capital from the......
In an unwise move, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly amended its Right to Information (RTI) Act 2013 by passing two bills. One exempts the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from the ambit of the RTI Act......
The Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata) is a part of Pakistan but even 68 years after the independence of Pakistan, it has not been given constitutional status.It is being ruled under a law......
I want to draw the authorities attention, especially the Punjab chief minister to the volatile situation of our village. I reside in Chak No.63/5-LTehsil of district Sahiwal near Qadirabad farm.......
AN application was forwarded to the Sindh Government in 2001 for allocation of 35,521 acres of forest land in Shikarpur district by the Pakistan Army. The chief minister of Sindh recently announced......
THE front page of Dawn (June 14) carried a picture showing security forces in Quetta making a few individuals kneel in an uncomfortable position against a wall.The description under the picture says......
Every year during the holy month, a Ramazan bazaar is organised in almost every city of Punjab. However, this year the relief measure is more of an eyewash.Basic edible commodities like flour,......
UPPER DIR: More than 37 micro hydropower generators are being installed in Upper and Lower Dir by a non- governmental organisation in collaboration with European Union to control electricity crisis......
PESHAWAR: The recently constituted Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) Tribunal on Thursday sought record from the Khyber Agency political agent in a petition filed by Dr Shakil Afridi......
LANDI KOTAL: Fata Disaster Management Authority and Khyber Agency political administration extended the last date for the repatriation of Shalobar displaced families till June 30 owing to slow......
PESHAWAR: ANP central general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain has criticised the provincial government’s move to exclude the provincial assembly from the ambit of Right to Information (RTI) Act.Mr......
PESHAWAR: Former MNA from North Waziristan Agency Mohammad Kamran Khan has expressed concern over the killing of two persons at Bakakhel IDP camp and demanded punishment to the personnel involved in......
LAKKI MARWAT: People here have demanded of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to provide funds for repair of roads in the district.Talking to this correspondent on Thursday, a group of people said......
MANSEHRA: The Jamaat-i-Islami has secured majority in Oghi tehsil council to form the next government in the tehsil.The development came as an independent councilor-elect, who was allegedly confined......
PESHAWAR: The management of Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) has shown deep concern over the speech made by chief minister in the provincial assembly on loadshedding and feared that such......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has defended its exclusion from the ambit of the Right to Information Act 2013.It, however, denied the speaker of the house was behind such move.In a......
KOHAT: The cantonment board and tehsil municipal administration here have doubled the rent of shops occupied by civilians in violation of the agreement, under which only 10 per cent annual increase......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department informed Congress on Thursday that Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims continue to face extrajudicial killings, deaths in police custody, rape, arbitrary detentions,......
WASHINGTON: High-stakes talks to nail down a historic deal with Iran to curtail its nuclear programme may slip past a June 30 deadline, a top US official admitted for the first time on Thursday.“We......
AHMEDABAD: Flash flooding triggered by torrential rains has killed 41 people in India’s western Gujarat state, as the annual monsoon season hits the country, a disaster management official said on......
NEW DELHI: The public prosecutor in right-wing Hindu terror cases, including the Samjhauta Express blasts, has accused the Modi government of asking her to go soft on the accused, the Indian Express......
BUJUMBURA: Burundian students broke into the US embassy to escape police on Thursday as one of the country’s vice presidents announced he had fled to Belgium, escalating a political crisis in the......
NEW YORK: The United Nations Security Council should impose an arms embargo on the Syrian government and targeted sanctions against individuals on all sides responsible for war crimes and crimes......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama urged Beijing to take “concrete steps” to ease tensions over cyber hacking and its wide-ranging maritime claims, as the United States and China ended three days......
BEIRUT: The self-styled Islamic State (IS) group launched a two-pronged offensive in northern Syria on Thursday after several setbacks, re-entering the symbolic battleground town of Kobane and......
LONDON: A British court on Thursday granted bail to Rwandan intelligence chief Karenzi Karake after President Paul Kagame slammed his arrest as “absolute arrogance”.Karake, who was arrested last......
NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s parliament on Thursday dealt a body blow to Aung San Suu Kyi’s hopes of amending a junta-era constitution that barred her from the presidency before landmark elections, voting......
MOSCOW: Larry King’s back on the air, beaming his high-octane brand of talk to households around the world. Where can you catch him? Kremlin-backed TV.Moscow wants you to pay better attention to what......
SHE may have had an acting career that spans almost 60 years, but Dame Judi Dench has confessed she has watched barely any of the dozens of films she has made over her lifetime.Dench was speaking to......
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: Since 9/11, America’s home-grown extremists have killed twice as many people in the United States as the jihadists have, says a report by a Washington think-tank, New America.The......
THE HAGUE: The Palestinian Authority made its first submission of evidence of alleged Israeli war crimes to the International Criminal Court on Thursday, trying to speed up an ICC inquiry into abuses......
KARACHI: With more than 1,000 lives lost to the heatwave that is predicted to increase in frequency due to climate change, experts on Monday called upon the provincial government to develop a......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court issued on Thursday a notice to a prosecutor on a bail application of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Aamir Khan in a case pertaining to instigating terrorism and......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday directed the Federal Investigation Agency and other authorities to file their comments on a petition against the transfer of Axact’s chief Shoaib Shaikh and......
KARACHI: With a normal sea breeze blowing in the city, the killer heatwave seems to be ebbing away and the usual summer weather returning to the metropolis. The sky remained partly cloudy on Thursday......
KARACHI: The Sindh Inspector General of police has asked officials to prepare a computerised record of absconders and wanted criminals on the basis of their national identity card numbers.Speaking at......
KARACHI: The treasury benches on Thursday formally adopted, without further ado, the Sindh Finance Bill to pass Rs739.30 billion provincial budget 2015-16 after the opposition members staged a......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Thursday claimed to have arrested a suspect in Shahdadpur who was allegedly involved in the killing of Muttahida Qaumi Movement activist Waqas Shah during the......
KARACHI: In violation of clear instructions from the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) to halt the construction, the provincial irrigation department is continuing work on its project......
SUKKUR: Over 200 acres of agricultural land with a standing crop was washed away by flooding following a wide breach that occurred in the dyke of Salehani minor (canal) near Pannu Aqil town late on......
HYDERABAD: Violent street protests continued on Thursday in different parts of the city over failure of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) to ensure normal power supply to many areas amid......
HYDERABAD: A robber carrying the head money of Rs300,000 was gunned down in a police encounter near Shamdas Park in the early hours of Thursday, Sakhi Pir SHO Gulshan Ali Mehar said.His accomplice......
HYDERABAD: The Sindh Taraqqi-pasand Party (STP) has demanded a judicial inquiry into the findings contained in the latest BBC report about the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s funding by India and other......
HYDERABAD: The Sindh Bus Owners Association on Thursday appealed to the Sindh chief minister, chief secretary and corps commander to restrain the Cantonment Board Hyderabad (CBH) from running the......
MIRPURKHAS: A two-year-old boy was subjected to inhuman treatment by his kidnappers, who abandoned him in their hideout before it was raided by police on Thursday to recover him.Mirpurkhas SSP......
ISLAMABAD: The confusion plaguing the government and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) regarding the local government elections in the capital appears to have spread to the ruling PML-N as......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that after cancellation of the FIR against former CIA station chief and his legal adviser, the Islamabad police have......
ISLAMABAD: The fate of the National Agricultural Research Council (NARC)still hangs in the balance as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is yet to take a decision on a summary moved by the Capital......
ISLAMABAD: When it comes to passing witty remarks, federal minister for water and power Khawaja Mohammad Asif carries the distinction to stay ahead of his fellow lawmakers in the National Assembly.In......
ISLAMABAD: Mohammad Javed, 36, was feeling unwell earlier this week so he decided to see a doctor at Polyclinic.The doctor suggested some tests and when Mr Javed received his report from the......
ISLAMABAD: The young leaders’ conference (YLC), which has been an annual feature for the last 13 years, will be held in the federal capital from August 11.The conference is organised with an......
RAWALPINDI: With the start of Ramazan, number of people travelling on metro buses has decreased.The service was launched on June 4 and within two weeks, the number of travellers touched 150,000 per......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police here on Thursday reviewed security arrangements for first ever local government elections in the city.The meeting, chaired by Islamabad IG Tahir Alam Khan, decided to......
MUZAFFARABAD: The post-1990 migrants from Indian-held Kashmir have given a deadline of 20 days to the federal government for an increase in their daily subsistence allowance.“We have resolved that if......
ISLAMABAD: The Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) has accepted the argument of tobacco control advocates that endorsement in an interview of a political figure falls in the category of tobacco......
ISLAMABAD: The revised education policy will be introduced in the country in January 2016.According to a statement issued on Thursday, the National Education Policy (NEP) 2009 Review Committee has......
GUJRANWALA: Anti-Terrorism Court judge Imtiaz Ahmed declared on Thursday six accused of the MPA Rana Shamshad murder case as absconders.The MPA with his son Rana Shehbaz and supporter Shakir was shot......
SIALKOT: The three-day annual festival celebrations of Baba Chaambliyaanwala Sarkar began on Thursday at far-off bordering village Tulsipur-Charwah near Zero Point of Sialkot Working Boundary.A ......
LAHORE: Construction of Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project will cause cutting down of 620 grown-up trees on its 27.1km long route from Dera Gujran to Ali Town.The trees and herbs planned to be......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday directed the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) to submit a record of plots allegedly distributed among blue-eyed persons by Nawaz Sharif during his stint as......
LAHORE: Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday contradicted the claim of the former chairman of Nadra in a reply to the Federal Investigation Agency’s notice in the controversy of the......
LAHORE: Rejecting an agreement reached between the Punjab government and visually impaired people, the Lahore High Court on Thursday directed the government to fill all vacancies reserved for people......
FAISALABAD: The police high command has directed two senior officers to explain away their failure to prevent registration of an encounter case against two boys who had been brutally shot at by a......
LAHORE: Punjab Finance Minister Dr Ayesha Ghaus-Pasha told the Punjab Assembly on Thursday that the provincial government had to spend 43pc of the supplementary budget of outgoing fiscal year on......
LAHORE: All opposition parties are likely to join a protest against power loadshedding being organised by the Pakistan Awami Tehreek outside the Lahore Press Club on Friday (today) as the PAT has......
LAHORE: A 12-year-old maid was tortured with a hot iron allegedly by her employers at Kahna, police said on Thursday.Shazia alias Robina, daughter of Yaseen of Okara, was employed at the house of......
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Senator Sirajul Haq has expressed deep grief and concern at the large-scale deaths in Karachi due to heat and held the government’s “total incompetence” and......
LAHORE: International Polio Plus Committee chairman Michael K McGovern has said Punjab has made a great advancement in polio eradication and can play a leading role in making the country free of the......
MULTAN: District Coordination Officer Zahid Saleem Gondal said on Thursday that to resolve traffic-related issues in the city, courts would be shifted to the newly-constructed judicial complex after......
GUJRAT: Illegal occupants of a state land in Sant Pura in Kharian tortured members of an official team during an operation to retrieve the land.Police registered a case against the people, including......
SAHIWAL: A tussle among traders, lawyers and the district police took a dramatic turn when the District Bar Association (DBA) gave a strike call and lawyers fully boycotted court proceedings here on......
LAYYAH: A protective dyke constructed by the residents was eroded by the River Indus on Thursday at Bhakhri Ahmad Khan Union Council, inundating crops on hundreds of acres.The Indus is continuously......
LAHORE: The Punjab University Academic Staff Association (PUASA) will hold its general body meeting at Al-Razi Hall on Friday (today) to decide a future course of action to cope with the Lahore......
I WAS reminded of a headline of this very newspaper as I pulled up near Cafe Taskeen during Wednesday’s scorching afternoon with a friend: ‘punishing heatwave’ — it may have been too hot, but it was......
ISLAMABAD: A meeting of the Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party last week was supposed to be a chance for the party to do some soul-searching and pull itself together after......
WASHINGTON: In Pakistan, the military and intelligence services nominally reported to civilian authorities but at times operated without effective civilian oversight, the US State Department......
ISLAMABAD: Outlining the arguments he will be making before the inquiry commission, PTI counsel Abdul Hafeez Pirzada again accused the ruling PML-N of usurping the popular mandate in the 2013 general......
ISLAMABAD: Water and Power Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif, much milder after the previous day’s fireworks, gave a potentially heartening news to the National Assembly on Thursday over meeting power......
KARACHI: Another 105 people died of heatstroke on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 1,116 in Sindh, even though the harsh weather that has overwhelmed the province for a week subsided......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reaffirmed on Thursday its commitment to cooperative relations with Afghanistan despite the criticism in Kabul in the aftermath of a recent attack on the parliament......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will formally write to the United Kingdom and seek ‘access to facts’ revealed in a BBC report accusing the MQM of receiving funds from India, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali......
UPPER DIR: Nine people, women and children among them, were killed as a flash flood swept away a bazaar in the far-flung Biyar area of Upper Dir district on Thursday.Residents said the death toll......
KHUZDAR: Thirteen people were killed and eight others injured when a passenger coach collided head-on with a truck near Mastung area of Kalat district on Thursday.According to Levies officials, the......
KARACHI: Internet service in Pakistan experienced fluctuation on Thursday after undersea optic fibre communication cables were damaged, officials said.Though the main internet service provider, the......
LAHORE: The wife of veteran journalist and Secretary General of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan I.A. Rehman passed away here on Thursday after a cardiac arrest.Mrs Tauseef I.A. Rehman, 75,......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee has sought a report from the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on discriminatory treatment of parliamentarians, media personnel and others by banks and rejected a draft bill......
ISLAMABAD: Mainstream political parties have asked the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to clarify its position over a recent report of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and file a defamation......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly adopted on Thursday two bills and approved names of lawmakers for four standing committees.During the session presided over by acting Speaker Mir Quddus Bizenjo,......
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan asked the Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Thursday to answer the questions raised in a recent foreign media report about its link with India and......
KARACHI: Under pressure from the establishment, government and political parties over its alleged link with India as claimed by the BBC in a recent report, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) vowed on......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures closed lower on Thursday, retreating from a one-week high as investors turned cautious over fading export demand, though a weak ringgit currency limited......
PARIS: The world’s top food and drink companies have promised to halve the food they waste by 2025, seeking to pre-empt government regulation prompted by concern about the environmental, economic and......
Low gas pressure hits PSM productionKARACHI: The Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) has been receiving low gas pressure of 0.95-1 kilogram per square centimetre (kg/cm2) against the approved 4-5 kg/cm2 from......
LONDON: Gold steadied on Thursday after four days of losses as traders took to the sidelines to await further news on Greece’s negotiations with its creditors, with caution over the metal’s......
WASHINGTON: US and Chinese negotiators bridged some differences over economic policy in annual bilateral talks on Wednesday, even as the two countries continue to wrestle with major strategic......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday asked the relevant authorities to monitor the increasing trend in prices of perishable and non-perishable kitchen items and submit reports to arrest......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves hit a four-year high of $18.20 billion on Thursday after the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) received $706 million from the World Bank, said a spokesman for......
KARACHI: Heatwave, coupled with high humidity, in the city for the last seven days has helped restore the lost charm of Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) units, though the spike in their demand is......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar announced a series of incentives for the farming community in his speech in the National Assembly to wind-up the federal budget for 2015-16.The measures......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has issued statutory regulatory order (SRO) to provide legal cover for the collection of sales tax on high speed diesel (HSD).An SRO600 issued on......
KARACHI: Stocks remained under pressure on Thursday, as the KSE-100 index opened in the red and after a volatile trade it closed at 34,077.92, a loss of 254.02 points (0.74 per cent).Investors were......
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has initiated an inquiry into the possible anti-competitive behaviour of two car manufacturers who are putting unreasonable financial burden on......
MULTAN: Revival of buying interest at the lower level helped cotton prices rise on Thursday. The Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) also revised up its spot rate by Rs100. Cotton brokers believe that......
A FEW years ago, in an earlier column, I had described Pakistan’s putative democracy as a system of spoils where the governance framework and rules are rigged so that the “winner takes all”. All the......
THE ongoing operation by the Rangers to cut off the linkages between lawlessness and administrative and political corruption in Sindh is a commendable step but its effects may not last for long.......
MIGRANTS are in the news all over the world. Recently, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) released in Rome a report titled Sending Money Home which focused on the remittances......
THE surge of allegations against the MQM continues, this time the BBC chipping in with claims that have been heard before elsewhere though perhaps not in the detail revealed on Wednesday. Two things......
IT is difficult to comprehend why parents of the APS Peshawar carnage victims were shown video clips of militants’ brutality at Wednesday’s Supreme Court hearing concerning the establishment of......
WHETHER it was a faux pas or stemmed from ignorance, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s statement that Azad Jammu & Kashmir is part of Pakistan should jolt the old hands at the Foreign Office, for it......
PAKISTAN’S blistered soul faces challenges from overlapping factors of ideology, language, ethnicity and multi-denominational belief systems. Within this disparateness, the pulpit is a constant that......
WASHINGTON: The White House said Thursday that efforts to have Israel charged with war crimes at the International Criminal Court were “counterproductive” and would be opposed by Washington.The......
ISLAMABAD: The Government of Pakistan has pledged US $1 million as contribution for utilisation towards the reconstruction and rehabilitation process currently ongoing in Nepal after the devastating......
