ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party suffered another blow in Punjab on Wednesday after former minister of state Sumsam Bokhari along with a group of senior party members from Okara shifted their......
LAHORE: The nephew of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and his friend were arrested in Lahore's Race Course area on Wednesday when they allegedly hurled abuses at a traffic warden......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the United States and Cuba will re-establish full diplomatic relations, severed 54 years ago in the angry heat of the Cold War.The US......
LAHORE: The head of Al Qaeda in Pakistan was among the four militants killed in Monday's police raid in Sheikhupura district's Kala Shah Kaku area, a provincial official said on Wednesday.Punjab......
Pakistan's hopes of qualifying for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games were hit hard after Great Britain handed them a 2-1 defeat in the quarter-final of the Hockey World League (HWL) in Antwerp, Belgium, on......
QUETTA: Two assailants on a motorcycle Wednesday shot dead three welders at a shop in Quetta, in what police said was an ethnically motivated attack.“Unknown gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead three......
KARACHI: Militants involved in the deadly Safoora Goth massacre and the murder of prominent social activist Sabeen Mahmud were inspired by the self-styled Islamic State, said a top counter-terrorism......
ISLAMABAD: Saudi authorities have denied a request by the Pakistan embassy for consulor access to Zaid Hamid, a self-proclaimed security analyst jailed in Saudi Arabia.In Medina, a team from Counsel......
Music producer Ziyad Habib, or Noahs Heark as he's popularly known to fans, will be the fourth electronic musician to represent Pakistan at Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA).Each year, a limited number......
ADEN: Rebel fire on a residential district of Yemen's battleground second city Aden killed at least 20 civilians and wounded 41 early Wednesday, medical sources said.The Houthi rebels and their......
Pakistanis have been wondering if Salman Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan will be coming to cinemas in the country when it releases on Eid. Well, add another question to ponder about to the list: Is Khan......
NEW DEHLI: India is reinvigorating an $18 billion campaign to provide fast internet connections for all, with a “digital week” aimed at popularising Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign promise to......
KOLKATA: Landslides triggered by heavy rain killed at least 21 people across India's famed tea-growing region of Darjeeling, with more feared trapped under mounds of mud and debris, police said......
GENEVA: The United Nations (UN) urged countries Wednesday to create preparedness systems to counter the health risks of heatwaves as they become ever more frequent, intense and dangerous due to......
LAHORE: At a militant training camp, a new recruit asks his instructor why his comrades are attacking churches and mosques rather than enemy bases. “This world is full of sin. It needs to be bathed......
ISMAILIA: The self-styled Islamic State (IS) insurgents attacked several military checkpoints in Egypt's North Sinai on Wednesday in a co-ordinated assault that killed more than 100 people — one of......
It's (soon-to-be) official, folks: Shahid Kapoor, the man with the puppy dog eyes and killer dimples, is set to be a married man. He's tying the knot with a Mira Rajput, who's become a minor......
PESHAWAR: At least two security personnel were injured in a gun and rocket attack from Afghan security forces in South Waziristan tribal agency on Wednesday, said a statement by the Inter-Services......
MUMBAI: Ajinkya Rahane admits he was stunned to be named India captain for their upcoming Zimbabwe series, after being dropped just a week earlier, and while he plans to draw inspiration from past......
Pakistan's bid to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games enters its climax today as the Greenshirts take on a solid Great Britain side in the Hockey World League (HWL) quarter-final in Antwerp,......
Last week, Shahrukh Khan celebrated his 23 years in Bollywood and finally released his video of gratitude to his fans as promised on Twitter.The near-two-minute video features Khan dressed casually......
Chana chaat, a sub-continental favourite, transcends borders, ethnicities, religion, caste and colour. Come Ramazan, tea time, dinners, and even at breakfast, the chana chaat is ever present.One of......
KARACHI: The promised Green Line Rapid Transit System was the focal subject during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s meeting with the Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah on Wednesday.Water projects and......
LOS ANGELES: FIFA President Sepp Blatter will not attend the final of the Women's World Cup in Canada, his US lawyer confirmed Tuesday, the first time since his election in 1998 that he has missed......
MEDAN: The death toll from the crash of an Indonesian air force plane packed with military personnel and their families rose to 142 Wednesday, as witnesses described people fleeing the disaster zone......
MELBOURNE: Australia paceman Mitchell Starc has expressed concerns about the pink ball to be used in the first day-night Test, saying it behaved “very differently” to the usual red ball and crowds......
LOS ANGELES: Hollywood A-list couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner on Tuesday announced plans to divorce, a day after their 10th wedding anniversary."After much thought and careful consideration,......
LONDON: Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams target quickfire second round wins at Wimbledon on Wednesday to escape the brutal heat expected to send temperatures soaring to a tournament record of 35......
CONCEPCION: Lionel Messi produced a scintillating individual performance as Argentina destroyed Paraguay 6-1 to reach the final of the Copa America here Tuesday.The Barcelona superstar tormented......
PALLEKELE: Sri Lanka will get a glimpse of a future without their batting greats when the decisive third and final Test against Pakistan begins in Pallekele on Friday.For the first time in 15 years......
AN escalating quarrel between the government and K-Electric, the country’s only privately owned power distribution company, carries grave risks for everybody. What is making the whole spat even more......
IN what appears to have been another so-called intelligence-based operation, a raid on the outskirts of Lahore this week resulted in the death of at least four militants linked, according to security......
THE MQM is under tremendous pressure, both in Pakistan and the UK, as allegations of the party’s alleged links to RAW have surfaced over the past few weeks, along with developments in the Imran......
APROPOS ‘Sindh’s institutional decay’ (June 26). It is an open secret that the institutional decay is pervasive in Pakistan in general and Sindh in particular. Fareed Zakaria’s definition of......
APROPOS ‘Weather change: a conspiracy?’ by Pervez Hoodbhoy (June 27). An excellent article indeed detailing that a price has to be paid if humans mess with Mother Nature and the environment.Coming to......
THE rise in temperature in several places on earth has been linked to human activity and the drastic effects of ‘global warming’ are mounting day by day.Scientists deem two major actions being the......
DURING the last days of President Ayub Khan, it was proposed that another nuclear power plant be constructed after the successful working of KANUPP to produce electricity.It was decided that the new......
REFERENCE the news story ‘Khan of Kalat being persuaded to return home’ (June 29). The current rumours that there are plans afoot to replace the current Khan, Mir Suleman Dawood Jan by the powers......
THE Prime Minister’s Fees Reimbursement Scheme was announced in the budget speech for financial year 2013-14 by the finance minister for less-developed regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan,......
BOOK reading among the young is fading fast nowadays. Today, the young are more attracted towards social networking sites, video games, cell-phones, etc.What youths don’t realize is that reading......
POVERTY means the lack of basic human needs, such as clean water, clothes, shelter and education.When the supply of money increases and value of money decreases, the prices of goods rise up; it is......
HOSPITALS overflowed with the victims of heatstroke and the mortuaries had no room as the death toll spiralled. Heatwaves are not unusual in summer, but last week was exceptionally hot in Karachi......
“DEFAULT, dear Alexis, is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings,” a character called, let’s say, Varoufakis might have said in a latter-day Shakespearean play.It’s not hard to......
The stars above us, govern our conditions.— ShakespeareAZAM Khan, an 18-year-old, works in a boutique in Karachi for 10 hours as an errand boy and earns Rs12,000 a month. Shy and soft-spoken, he......
NEARLY every woman in Pakistan has been witness or victim to it. A woman, an aunt, a sister, becomes pregnant. If she has daughters or even if she does not, the hope is for a boy. In the prayers old......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday restrained the Dera Ismail Khan district and sessions judge from further proceedings over a criminal complaint filed by the Election Commission of......
PESHAWAR: A plan of the government to facilitate checkup of women patients in public sector hospitals, especially in rural areas, has proved an exercise in futility owing to violation of merit in......
LANDI KOTAL: A group of educated youths in Landi Kotal has formed the Landi Kotal Education Society to spread public awareness of education and check cheating in examinations.Members of the society......
CHARSADDA: The district administration on Tuesday raided the town’s bazaars and arrested 20 shopkeepers for overpricing and selling expired food items.Additional deputy commissioner Charsadda Mir......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Tuesday decided it would request the Election Commission of Pakistan to seek the army’s assistance for ensuring security for the re-polling to be held......
UPPER DIR: Although Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has declared ‘education emergency’ in the province, yet the authorities seem least bothered to improve situation of educational institutions in Nehag......
MANSEHRA: Fruit and vegetable vendors continue to charge prices of their own as the district administration has failed to get the official pricelist implemented in local markets.Prices of fruit and......
ISLAMABAD: Five health officials have been rotting in jail for two months because the inquiries by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) into their......
PESHAWAR: A special anti-corruption court on Tuesday remanded five suspects, including four senior government officials, in the custody of the anti-corruption establishment for two days in a......
MINGORA: More than 70 women and their children are staying in the lone shelter home (Darul Aman) of Malakand division which has accommodation capacity for 40 women only.The inmates say that they face......
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Minister for Education Rana Mashood on Tuesday said four cricket stadiums had been constructed in educational institutions of the garrison city at a cost of Rs1.20 billion.The......
LAKKI MARWAT: A prolonged power breakdown has caused acute water shortage in Zangikhel and Mela Mandrakhel villages, adding to people’s misery.Elders of both the villages told journalists in Lakki......
PESHAWAR: Four days after removing chairman Board of Directors of Bank of Khyber, the PTI-led government on Tuesday issued another notification rescinding its previous order and reinstated Hamad......
MANSEHRA: A cleric and his brother were gunned down allegedly over a land dispute in Punjool locality of Shinkiari here on Tuesday.Qari Mohammad Zarin, his son Mohammad Ibrar and his brother Mian......
PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party has expressed concern about the ‘diversion’ of funds by Save the Children, an international NGO, from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to Punjab and said the move was unjust and......
KARAK: Adviser to the chief minister on prisons Malik Qasim Khan Khattak has claimed that oil refinery would be established in Karak as the district produced 75 per cent of oil and gas in the Kohat......
KHAR: Several people were injured when a clash broke out between shopkeepers and consumers over ice price in Barang area on Tuesday, officials and local residents said.They said the clash erupted......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday sought comments from the University of Peshawar’s vice chancellor and other respondents in an amended petition filed by PTI MNA Murad Saeed against......
ISLAMABAD: Five health officials have been rotting in jail for two months because the inquiries by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) into their......
MURREE: The residents of Kashmiri Bazaar and adjoining localities blocked the Bhurban road for about three hours in protest against power breakdown on Tuesday.Due to a fault in the generator, power......
RAWALPINDI: The Holy Family Hospital (HFH) will get a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine within three months.Dr Mohammad Aslam, the chairman of the Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC) board of......
ISLAMABAD: “Pakistan is one of the three countries which have a trade surplus with Germany. The EU’s Generalized Scheme of Preferences (GSP) Plus has provided more opportunities to increase export,”......
RAWALPINDI: The Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) has requested the Punjab government to increase its subsidy from Rs200 million to Rs500 million or allow the agency to increase the water tariffs......
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab home department has directed the inspector general of police (IGP) to launch a crackdown on the illegal sale of mobile phone SIMs (subscriber identity modules).The direction......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday summoned Inspector General Islamabad Police and an official of the defence ministry in a kidnapping case.A single member bench comprising Justice......
TOBA TEK SINGH: After the completion of the proposed delimitation of union councils and wards, the process of filing appeals ahead of the local government elections is in progress.District Election......
ISLAMABAD: Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of Islamabad police has arrested four people involved in several cases of robberies and recovered cash, electronic items and valuables from them, police......
RAWALPINDI: A woman suspected of suffering from Congo virus was admitted to the Holy Family Hospital (HFH) on Tuesday.The Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) patient was brought from Kallar Kahar......
ISLAMABAD: Insisting that his party had presented enough evidence before the inquiry commission to prove their claim that the 2013 general elections were rigging in the favour of the ruling PML-N,......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel on Tuesday recommended party-based elections in the federal capital.A meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior, held with former interior minister Rehman Malik......
ISLAMABAD: A senior union office-bearer of the Printing Corporation of Pakistan (PCP) was killed in the city on Tuesday.Police identified the victim as Rana Shafique, 50, the general secretary of the......
ISLAMABAD: It was not the ‘violation’ of the visa category but some other concerns that led the federal government to expel three Filipino missionary workers.According to a letter the interior......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif launched a Rs21.8 billion project to widen the Islamabad Highway on Tuesday and announced plans to link its Rawat terminal point with M2 motorway.Construction......
ISLAMABAD: “The state is responsible for bad governance which is contributing to social inequality and ever worsening social indicators,” Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Secretary General......
LAHORE: Punjab is formally introducing the injectable Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) in routine immunisation from July 1 (today) in all 36 districts across the province.The IPV has been made part of......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has started the process of selecting companies having expertise in preparing personalised (alphanumeric) and specialty (vanity) number plates for vehicles which it......
LAHORE: Stakeholders raised concerns over the proposed acquisition of their land for the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project on Tuesday at a public hearing over project’s Environment Impact......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday indicted Mustafa Kanju, son of former foreign affairs minister Siddique Khan Kanju, and six others in Zain murder case.Police produced seven suspects......
LAHORE: Alarmed by departure of Ashraf Sohna, the PPP leadership has approached two other former federal ministers, following reports they too have plans to say goodbye to the party for different......
LAHORE: The Punjab government is considering a plan to declare each union council a single constituency for local government polls, and introduce indirect election for reserved seats.Under the Local......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has formed a 14-member Policy Council to provide “policy input to the party leadership”.Headed by party’s central leader Asad Umar, it comprises......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Tuesday dismissed bail petitions of four suspects allegedly involved in lynching of a Christian couple over alleged blasphemy at Kot Radha Kishan.The......
LAHORE: Eight new biogas plants will be installed in rural union councils of the city besides a hospital waste treatment and disposal plant, construction and demolition waste treatment and recycling......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered an indiscriminate crackdown on those producing and selling substandard and harmful oil, ghee and other edibles.Addressing a meeting on the Ramazan......
LAHORE: The National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) says the Punjab Protection of Women against Violence Bill should be reviewed to criminalise all forms of violence against women in order......
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Tuesday appointed Lahore Development Authority Director General Ahad Khan Cheema chief executive officer of Quaid-i-Azam Thermal Power (Private) Limited, a company......
LAHORE: Over 50 drone cameras have been distributed among the district police officers of the province in order to equip the Punjab police with the latest technology.The drone cameras would......
LAHORE: The common leopard’s conflict with local communities in Pakistan is a serious issue and the primary reason for this is loss of its habitat, which has caused the loss of natural prey of the......
GUJRAT: Additional Superintendent of Police Kamran Mumtaz dismissed around 12 policemen from service for being absent from duty for long.Mumtaz issued the dismissal orders following an inquiry......
FAISALABAD: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ordered an inquiry into the alleged negligence by the doctors of the DHQ and Social Security hospitals in the treatment of the boy who was killed by police......
OKARA: Gogera police registered a case against 47 suspects, including a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MPA, for barging into the house of a woman and firing in the air at her farms in Fatehpur......
SAHIWAL: Renowned stage actress Khushboo was injured, while her brother Javed died in a road accident on Tuesday morning.A witness said a van carrying eight people, including Sobia alias Khushboo,......
SHEIKHUPURA: Two proclaimed offenders were killed by the firing of their accomplices here on Tuesday near Kot Pindi Daas, police said.The Factory Area police had arrested offenders Wali Muhammad and......
SIALKOT: The Punjab government has provided a Rs5 million house to the family of slain lawyer Muhammad Irfan Chohan of Daska.Assistant Commissioner Rao Suhail Akhtar gave the ownership documents of......
LAHORE: The Punjab Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act 2015 has been passed but still has many weaknesses, says Advocate Ahmer.He was speaking at a Roundtable Consultation on the issue of child......
KARACHI: After announcing that they would be carrying out loadshedding in localities marked out as low-loss areas after a shortfall of around 70MW to 80MW of electricity, K-Electric on Tuesday......
KARACHI: Workers and office-bearers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement warmly welcomed senior leader Aamir Khan at the party headquarters, Nine Zero, when he reached there after being released from......
KARACHI: A non-governmental organisation (NGO), currently working for the prevention of HIV/AIDS, has accused a police station of keeping its field worker and three patients — all the four undergoing......
KARACHI: At least 25 more people died of heatstroke in the province on Tuesday with environmentalists saying that the punishing heatwave has not yet fully gone and sea breeze has not yet returned to......
KARACHI: At least 11 vehicles were destroyed when a fire broke out in a pole-mounted transformer outside the Qatar Hospital in Orangi Town on Tuesday and spread to the parking yard of the health......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed K-Electric and other official respondents to file their respective comments on a constitutional petition against the unprecedented loss of life......
KARACHI: “Whatever assignment the government of Sindh has been entrusted under the National Action Plan must be given top priority. It is our commitment and we have to fulfil it,” said Sindh Chief......
KARACHI: Sindh Local Government Minister Sharjeel Memon has terminated the services of 1,841 ghost employees in the education department of the Karachi Municipal Corporation (KMC).The minister also......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court remanded a man in judicial custody in a case pertaining to the murder of a Karachi University professor.Sami-uz-Zaman has been booked for allegedly killing Dr Syed......
KARACHI: Six garbage transfer stations (GTSs) will be constructed in various parts of the city for the storage of solid waste management, said a Karachi Metropolitan Corporation statement on......
KARACHI: A comprehensive plan of action was suggested on Tuesday at a seminar on security of religious minorities to tackle the imbalance of power enjoyed by certain pockets of society.The seminar......
KARACHI: A young man said to be suffering from some mental illness and armed with an assault rifle and a pistol was arrested on Tuesday more than an hour after he kept a road in DHA Phase VI blocked......
KHAIRPUR: The 194th three-day Urs celebrations of renowned poet and saint Sachal Sarmast are to start at his shrine in Daraza Sharif from the 14th of Ramazan (Thursday).Strict security arrangements......
HYDERABAD: Jai Parkash and Nasir Shaikh were declared elected president and general secretary, respectively, of the Hyderabad Press Club, according to unofficial results announced after polling was......
MIRPURKHAS: The Mirpurkhas district administration has failed to take back from influential persons, landlords and political leaders more than 500 dewatering machines about Rs200 million worth to......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday alleged that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was targeting its workers for political victimisation in different cities of Sindh by lodging......
SUKKUR: A private security guard was found shot dead at a flour mill located in the SITE area on Wednesday.The man, Aijaz Mashori, 20, was lying in a pool of blood with his repeater gun found placed......
KARACHI: A sessions court on Tuesday issued a notice to police on an application of a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader seeking registration of a case pertaining to the deaths from heatstroke against......
JUBA: South Sudan’s army personnel raped then torched girls alive inside their homes during a recent campaign marked by “new brutality and intensity”, a UN rights report said on Tuesday.Rights......
PARIS: China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang made a long-awaited pledge to curb carbon emissions during a trip to France on Tuesday where he also signed trade deals worth billions of euros.“China’s......
TOKYO: A man set himself ablaze on board a moving bullet train in Japan on Tuesday, killing himself and a woman, in an unprecedented incident on a network with an enviable safety record.Several other......
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, who heads the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), has rejected a demand by supporters of his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa that he be made the......
VIENNA: Iran has complied with a key condition of ongoing nuclear talks by significantly reducing its stockpile of enriched uranium that could be used for atomic weapons, diplomats said on......
SYDNEY: Hundreds of inmates at a maximum security prison in Melbourne rioted on Tuesday and prison staff were evacuated after, according to media reports, a protest against a smoking ban at the......
WASHINGTON: The CIA has done a poor job of hiring and promoting minorities and that lack of diversity is undercutting the spy agency’s intelligence mission, according to Director John Brennan.The......
WASHINGTON: The United States and Brazil on Tuesday unveiled ambitious joint renewable energy targets, hoping to present a collective front ahead of crunch global climate talks later this......
OTTAWA: The left-wing leader in striking distance of toppling Canada’s Conservative prime minister was once known as “Angry Tom”, but Thomas Mulcair has been turning on the charm to convince voters......
DOHA: Despite claims of its imminent demise, Qatar’s controversial ‘kafala’ sponsorship system — which critics say is a direct cause of misery and abuse for many foreign workers — clings stubbornly......
CAIRO: For more than a decade, he was the self-styled Indiana Jones of Egypt, presiding over its antiquities and striding through temples and tombs as the star of TV documentaries that made him an......
BENGHAZI: Fighting raged between government forces and Islamists in eastern Libya on Tuesday, with 21 soldiers killed since the clashes broke out at the weekend, a medical official said.The continued......
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the world should be ashamed that three years after major powers approved a blueprint in Geneva to bring peace to Syria the suffering of its people......
BUDAPEST: The European Commission has pledged to send financial aid and experts to Hungary to help it cope with a surge in illegal immigration this year, a senior Brussels official said in Budapest......
WASHINGTON: The United States appointed a new special envoy on Tuesday to lead the Obama administration’s efforts to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Lee Wolosky, a lawyer who was......
LISBON: A mass of hot air moving north from Africa is bringing unusually hot weather to Western Europe, with France the next in line for a scorching day.Forecasters said southern France could see......
LONDON: Alastair Cook believes England and Australia have a “responsibility to the game” to behave during the forthcoming Ashes series.The question of on-field conduct has been a recurring theme in......
SYDNEY: The economies of Australia and New Zealand benefited from A$1.1 billion ($843.59 million) in direct spending as a result of co-hosting the cricket World Cup earlier this year, according to a......
KARACHI: Inspired by another blistering half-century from in-form opener Naved Malik, Rivo Mobile sealed an impressive eight-wicket win against Agha Steel in the 30th Karachi Gymkhana Omar Associates......
KARACHI: Excellent contributions from Test opener Sami Aslam and Ali Sarfraz powered holders Tapal CC to an emphatic seven-wicket victory against Sojhla International in the 28th Aga Khan Gymkhana......
KARACHI: Leg-spinner Usman Qadir starred with a five-wicket haul as Dollar East stormed into the quarter-finals of the third Naya Nazimabad Ramazan Cricket Tournament with a crushing seven-wicket......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will feature in the WSF Men’s World Junior Individual Squash Championship, scheduled to be held at Eindhoven, Netherlands from July 26-30.According to a spokesman of the Pakistan......
SANTIAGO: Chile need Alexis Sanchez to recover his best form as they try to end an almost century-long wait for a first Copa America, according to coach Jorge Sampaoli.Sampaoli’s team reached the......
LONDON: As is so often the case, the weather was the number one topic of conversation at Wimbledon on Tuesday but for once it was not the prospect of rain that brought out the umbrellas but a......
LONDON: Seven-time champion Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, the 2008 and 2010 winner, raced into the Wimbledon second round here on Tuesday as the tournament sweltered in near record-breaking......
LAHORE: Experienced all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez might not able to appear before biomechanics experts in Chennai in connection with his suspect bowling action, since the Indian High Commissioner in......
KARACHI: The crisis and controversy within the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) continues.Despite Lahore High Court (LHC) issuing a stay order on Monday against the disputed PFF elections of its......
SYDNEY: Australia and New Zealand will play the first day/night match in Test cricket’s 138-year history, cricket chiefs announced on Tuesday, in a bid to drive up dwindling spectator numbers for......
CAPE TOWN: South African limited-overs specialist Roelof van der Merwe has made himself available immediately to represent the Netherlands after receiving his Dutch passport.The 30-year-old, a......
LONDON: Mitchell Johnson is relishing the prospect of a few heated exchanges with England firebrand Ben Stokes, but he hopes the home supporters will keep it clean off the pitch.The Australian fast......
KINGSTON: Jamaica are banking on a mix of youth and experience to continue their dominance in the sprint events at the Aug 22-30 world championships in Beijing event after some strong performances at......
SANTIAGO: Chile took another step towards their dream of winning a first Copa America on home soil with a 2-1 win over fierce rivals Peru on Monday but Eduardo Vargas’ match-winning double was......
NEW YORK: Boxing Hall of Famer and former Olympic champion Oscar De La Hoya, after pondering a return to the ring, said on Monday that he would remain retired.“As a professional athlete and someone......
DHAKA: Bangladesh has criticised the current scheduling system in international cricket as a new tri-series in Zimbabwe threatens their qualification for the 2017 Champions Trophy.Bangladesh stunned......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka have been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during the second Test against Pakistan in Colombo, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Tuesday.ICC match referee Chris......
LONDON: UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) is to join its counterpart in the US by investigating allegations that Mohamed Farah’s coach Alberto Salazar has violated anti-doping rules.Last week, American Salazar......
TOKYO: Tokyo organisers of the 2020 Olympics have been asked to finalise plans for the main stadium by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after it was confirmed that building costs have almost......
KARACHI: The State Bank has tightened rules for resident Pakistanis to meet their individual foreign exchange needs related to medical treatment and studies abroad, and has imposed some conditions on......
PESHAWAR: The district administration of Peshawar on Tuesday banned the export of poultry and cattle to Afghanistan to control skyrocketing meat prices in Ramazan.Peshawar Deputy Commissioner Riaz......
ATHENS: Greece requested a two-year rescue deal with the EU in a race down to the wire before its current bailout expires Tuesday, after admitting it would fail to make an IMF payment.The......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has failed to achieve the outgoing fiscal year’s revenue collection target of Rs2.605 trillion, which was already revised thrice, and collected......
LONDON: World-renowned economists warned EU leaders against “creating bad history” in their bailout standoff with Greece, in a letter published Tuesday in Britain’s Financial Times newspaper.US......
ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission on Tuesday constituted a task force for reforms in the construction industry to focus on private sector-led growth with the onset of a boom expected in the wake of......
LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) on Tuesday urged Finance Minister Ishaq Dar to immediately stop the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) from conducting raids at business......
KARACHI: Stocks conti-nued to climb for the second day on Tuesday, posting strong gains of 305.31 points (0.90 per cent) to close at 34,398.86.Local participants took fresh positions on the last day......
LONDON: Global foreign exchange reserves fell in the first quarter of 2015, extending a trend that started in third quarter of last year, and the euro’s share hit a 13-year low as Asian central banks......
WASHINGTON: US exporters including Boeing and General Electric won’t be able to obtain new financing for overseas deals from the US Export-Import Bank starting Wednesday.The situation may be......
Pacra maintains MCB, NIB Bank’s ratingsKARACHI: The Pakistan Credit Rating Agency (Pacra) has maintained the long-term and short-term entity ratings of NIB Bank Limited (NIB) at “AA-” (Double A......
LONDON: Opec oil supply in June has climbed to a three-year high due to record or near-record output from Iraq and Saudi Arabia, a Reuters survey found, underlining the focus of the group’s top......
LAHORE: The Pak-China Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCJCCI) pledged to spur the pace of technological advancement in Pakistan through Chinese cooperation by setting up a joint technology......
SINGAPORE: Financial markets around the world will open on Wednesday with a tinge of apprehension, not just because of developments in Greece or China, but because of an extra second.A “leap second”......
MULTAN: The cotton market remained firm on Tuesday amid improvement in arrivals. The Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) kept its spot rate unchanged.Floor brokers said that with the opening of two new......
KARACHI: The city government on Tuesday raised chicken prices to Rs152 (live bird) and Rs228 per kg (meat) from Rs150 and Rs225 on June 22. On June 21, it was Rs140 and Rs220 per kg, respectively.......
LONDON: Gold prices fell on Tuesday as the prospect that Greece will default on a repayment to the International Monetary Fund knocked the euro against the dollar, and as investors remained wary......
FRANKFURT: The world’s top banks and insurers are being forced to review their business models amid rapid inroads by nimble “fintech” start-ups, which are reshaping what consumers and businesses......
NEW DELHI: India has asked refiners that owe about $6.5 billion to Iran for oil imports to build up dollar and euro balances to avoid downward pressure on the rupee if six world powers and Tehran......
BRUSSELS: The European Union said on Tuesday it had struck a deal to abolish mobile phone roaming charges in 2017, ending fees loathed by millions of holidaymakers and business travellers across......
QUETTA: Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti has called upon the federal government to ban the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) by declaring it a terrorist organisation for its alleged links......
KARACHI: The Civil Aviation Authority has suspended the operations of Air Indus from Wednesday owing to continuous safety regulation violations by the airline, it is learnt here on Tuesday.According......
GWADAR: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has said that extremism, sectarianism and negative trends are being spread in society to cause chaos and destruction in the province and to......
QUETTA: Three workers of the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) were injured when a bomb explosion hit their vehicles on a bridge in Kech on Tuesday.According to police, the bomb was detonated by......
ISLAMABAD: Dr Jahanzeb Jamaldini of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) was elected unopposed on Tuesday chairman of the Senate’s functional committee on rules and privileges as a result of......
ISLAMABAD: Following the last-minute postponement of the meeting of National Assembly Standing Committee on National Food Security and Research, the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council has......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights meets here on Wednesday with a heavy agenda which includes three constitution amendment bills.The committee headed by......
MUCH of the politics of Balochistan is shaped by the province’s myriad sardars, with the Bugtis, Marris and Mengals counted among the major tribal players. But for historical reasons, one tribal......
WASHINGTON: Two US senators have urged Pakistan to redouble its efforts to punish those who attempted to assassinate Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai.Senators Marco Rubio and Barbara Boxer expressed......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered an investigation into allegations of induction of more than 65 employees in the state-run Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) in......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has expressed the hope that Pakistan would rid itself of the crippling poliovirus within two years.Talking to International Polio Plus Committee Chairman Michael......
KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) and the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) have thanked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for deciding to clear outstanding bills, amounting to......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has imposed a Rs17.8 million fine on five oil marketing companies for not maintaining sufficient stocks of petroleum products in violation of......
KABUL: Suicide attackers targeted on Tuesday Nato troops in Kabul and a police headquarters in restive southern Afghanistan, killing three people and wounding at least 60 as the Taliban’s bloody......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday that his government’s top priority was to rid the country of chronic loadshedding by 2017.Addressing the ground-breaking ceremony of the 24-km......
ISLAMABAD: Before leaving for Karachi on Wednesday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met Army Chief General Raheel Sharif at the PM office on Tuesday.According to a PM media office statement, they......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday that oil prices would remain unchanged during July.Addressing a ceremony here he said he had rejected a summary of the petroleum ministry for an......
QUETTA: Thirteen militants were killed and several others injured in a clash with security forces in the Mashkey area of Awaran district on Tuesday.One solider of Frontier Corps was also killed and......
ISLAMABAD: Alleging that there was a lack of accountability, monitoring and proper delegation of authority within the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), senior counsel Abdul Hafeez Pirzada said......
KARACHI: A statement attributed to senior Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Tariq Mir allegedly revealing that the MQM had received Indian funding was not a document of London Metropolitan Police,......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Tuesday approved extension of the 7th National Finance Commission (NFC) award to provide due fiscal shares to provinces allocated in the federal budget for......
MEDAN: At least 116 people were killed on Tuesday when an Indonesian air force transport plane crashed into a major city shortly after take-off and exploded in a fireball, officials said.Buildings......
UNITED NATIONS: Saudi-led coalition air strikes on a rebel stronghold in Yemen have destroyed houses, markets and a school, killing dozens of people in what could amount to war crimes, Human Rights......
KARACHI: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Tuesday ordered Air Indus, a small-sized private airline, to halt operations indefinitely from July 1, 2015, owing to "consistent violation of safety......
