KANO: Several female suicide bombers blew themselves up amid panicked villagers fleeing a Boko Haram attack in a northeast Nigeria killing scores, the army and witnesses said Saturday.The latest......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has directed concerned authorities to complete Quaid-i-Azam Solar Power Park (QASP) by April 2016 to enable the country to meet its energy needs at the......
LAHORE: Eminent Urdu novelist Abdullah Hussain passed away here on Saturday after protracted illness. He was 84.Abdullah Hussain was renowned for his Urdu novel Udas Naslein, which is considered a......
VIENNA: After months of intense negotiations, global powers and Iran launched into a key weekend of talks Saturday amid signs they may be within sight of a historic nuclear deal to end a 13-year......
KARACHI: Criticising the ongoing targeted operation in Karachi, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Saturday alleged that the Rangers had turned Sindh into what he called an......
With bad news filling our television screens and social media feeds to the brim, eventually spilling into our lives, it’s hard for the average Pakistani to have a positive outlook.Everyone has days......
ZINDER: Mourdja's nose has been eaten away, like one lip and part of her upper gum, leaving the 13-year-old girl atrociously disfigured by noma, a disease that thrives on malnutrition.“It was better......
Nazia and Zoheb Hassan fans have anxiously been waiting for Zoheb's musical comeback, and it seems the wait is almost over!Zoheb Hassan let his fans decide which of two possible album covers for his......
LONDON: Australia fast bowler Ryan Harris has retired from all forms of cricket after being ruled out of the Ashes series against England with a knee injury.The 35-year-old Harris, who underwent......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is also patron-in-chief of Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), has expressed concern over the embarrassing performance of the national team in World Hockey......
Drowning in busloads of unwashed masses from Islamabad’s unfanciful twin in the south, the Centaurus Mall has introduced an entrance fee for crowd control. The kind of people exempted from the fee,......
TOKYO: A fatal fire on Japan's bullet train, started by a man who self-immolated this week, has revealed blind spots in a system renowned for its speed, punctuality and safety record.Riding the......
FRANKFURT: With aid negotiations off and ATMs running out of money, it's not speculation any more.Greece could leave the euro. And soon. What would that mean for the Greek people and for the European......
KARACHI: Reham Khan, wife of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, said Saturday that the approach of the Sindh government towards heatwave victims was apathetic.Speaking to media......
PESHAWAR: Peshawar police on Saturday announced the arrest of an 18-year-old youth in the provincial capital's Bahana Mari area over the sexual abuse of a six-year-old girl.The youth came under......
LONDON: Alastair Cook faces his biggest ever challenge as England captain when he leads his young team into this year's home Ashes series against Australia.His country's highest Test run-scorer, back......
Centaurus Mall is one of Islamabad's hottest attractions. Yet the mall's management caused a roar on social media when it announced on Thursday that the mall would enforce an entry fee of Rs. 100.........
CHICAGO: Gay marriage may now be legal across the United States, but that doesn't mean people won't get fired if their boss sees the wedding photos.A week after celebrating a landmark Supreme Court......
NEW DELHI: European aerospace giant Airbus and India's Mahindra group have inked a deal to jointly build helicopters as the Indian government moves to upgrade the country's ageing military hardware,......
GENEVA: The United States on Friday opposed a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution calling for those responsible for war crimes during last summer's Gaza conflict to be brought to......
On July 2, Bollywood actress and politician Hema Malini was in a car accident, which killed a four-year-old girl.The incident was heavily covered by the press, but many believe that undue coverage......
In a startling admission, former chief of India's premier intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) Amarjit Singh Dulat said Indian intelligence agencies over the years often paid......
VANCOUVER: Suspended FIFA vice-president and CONCACAF president Jeffrey Webb, already facing charges in football's global bribery scandal, has now been charged in a healthcare fraud case in his......
PALLEKELE: Pakistan's brittle top-order undid the good work by leg-spinner Yasir Shah as Sri Lanka seized control of the series-deciding third and final Test in Pallekele on Saturday.Having been......
BEIRUT: An explosion in a mosque in northern Syria killed 25 members of Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, including one of its leaders, as they attended evening prayers, a monitoring group said......
LONDON: Serena Williams has called on fans to support her sister Venus when the two five-time Wimbledon champions meet in an emotional fourth round clash on Monday.The sisters, who have 27 Grand Slam......
``LONDON: New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum smashed the second-highest Twenty20 score of all time when he hit a typically belligerent 158 not out in 64 balls for Birmingham against Derbyshire on......
LONDON: England team director of cricket Andrew Strauss has backed Alastair Cook as the right man to lead the national team this summer and to adapt his captaincy to the style of cricket played......
LONDON: Australia all-rounder James Faulkner accepted on Friday he had made an “error of judgement” after being charged with drink-driving by Greater Manchester Police while playing for English......
VANCOUVER: England and Germany wipe away the tears as they play for pride and third place at the Women’s World Cup in Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday.It was not the final game either had......
BRASMLIA: The Olympic torch was unveiled in the Brazilian capital Friday ahead of a marathon journey through the giant Latin America country next year, ending in Rio de Janeiro for the planet’s......
KARACHI: Garden Club, City Sports and Friends Club beat their respective rivals on Friday at the Abdul Razzak Arain Ramzan Night Rocball Tournament 2015 which is being played at the Mini Sports......
SILVERSTONE: Nico Rosberg stamped his authority on Friday’s preparations for this weekend’s British Grand Prix by clocking the fastest time in both free practice sessions while Mercedes team-mate......
The inevitable has happened. In what could easily be termed as the darkest hour in the country’s hockey history, the three-time former champions Pakistan for the first ever time since 1948 have......
PARIS: Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell, pole vault king Renaud Lavillenie and Ethiopian middle distance star Genzebe Dibaba are set to light up Paris’ Diamond League meet on Saturday in the absence of......
KARACHI: Seasoned first-class cricketer Misbah Khan excelled with a fine all-round performance in a thrilling one-run triumph for holders Omar CC in the third Naya Nazimabad Ramazan Cricket......
LAHORE: India, the host of the upcoming South Asian Games, has given just five days to the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA) to get Indian visa and reach New Delhi to attend the participating member......
KARACHI: Opener Naved Malik played a sterling knock of 91 as Rivo Mobile whipped Mohammad Hussain CC by eight wickets in the 28th Aga Khan Gymkhana Ramazan Cricket Tournament for the State Life......
KARACHI: A sparkling century by all-rounder Imtiaz Leghari propelled Brothers CC Dadu into the knockout stage of the 30th Karachi Gymkhana Omar Associates Ramazan Cricket Festival with a crushing......
KARACHI: Zahid Mansoor produced a superb all-round show as Raivo Mobile beat Mohammad Hussain Cricket Club by seven wickets in Dollar East Dr M.A. Shah Night Trophy at the Asghar Ali Shah Stadium......
ISLAMABAD: The Shahnaz Sheikh Hockey Stadium at the Muslim School Ground, Rawalpindi will be completed by the end of this year and the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) will be granting a domestic......
ANTWERP: Pakistan men’s hockey team slumped to a new low as it failed to qualify for next year’s Rio Olympics after suffering a shocking 0-1 defeat to Ireland in a play-off match of the World League......
LAHORE: Former Olympians, who have seen national flag fly high on numerous occasions in world hockey in the past, lashed out at the PHF after Pakistan failed to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics......
LAHORE: Giant pacer Mohammad Irfan staged comeback to international cricket after a three-month lay off due to fitness problem while off-spinning all-rounder Bilal Asif’s consistent show in domestic......
PALLEKELE: Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunaratne hit a century amid another rich haul by Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah as the decisive third and final Test began on a rousing note here at the Pallekele......
LONDON: Defending champion Novak Djokovic and 2004 winner Maria Sharapova swept into the Wimbledon fourth round on Friday as controversial Australian Nick Kyrgios bolstered his reputation as the next......
SANTIAGO: Not just the Copa America will end when Argentina and Chile meet in the final on Saturday.So will decades of disappointment for the champions at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago.Hosts Chile......
SANTIAGO: The Copa America final between Argentina and hosts Chile could turn upon a showdown between Lionel Messi’s brilliance and the combative Gary Medel, whose ‘Pitbull’ nickname perfectly sums......
I HAD a shocking experience that I would like to share with readers in the hope that my concerns reach the concerned authorities to initiate corrective measures that will save lives.Emergency......
THIS refers to a June 26 letter in which the writer compares Dawn’s front-page picture (June 14) with Guantanamo Bay. The picture may have conveyed some discomfort to the writer. I respect the views......
WE have witnessed dozens of re-elections on different provincial and national seats in the last two years after the winners were declared ineligible for having fake degrees, hiding assets, having a......
EVEN though the heatwave has subsided, I wonder if this Ramazan is only for the elite. After all, only the educated, high-earners can afford to drive an air-conditioned car to an air-conditioned......
IT is indeed a welcome move on the part of the Balochistan government to announce a general amnesty for all estranged Baloch youth.Though this decision is late, it is still a right move. The......
IT has been observed during Ramazan that traffic flows smoothly on roads and streets without being congested anywhere.The main reason behind this smooth flow of traffic is the working hours’ time......
A DICTUM goes that a reading nation is a leading, but this very vital trend has declined in Paksitan sharply as evident from the low attendance in public and private libraries in Pakistan.In......
IT seems surprising that neither PTI nor JUI-F ever lays stress on building Kalabagh dam, which could be the only source for supplying a full share of the 14pc promised in the Water Accords of 1991......
APROPOS the news item “SC reprimands NAB for not investigating major scandals” (July 02). The apex court expressed its annoyance with NAB for not taking up mega corruption cases pending with the......
KARACHI: The government plans to borrow Rs1.35 trillion through the banking system in the first quarter (July-Sept) of this fiscal year, continuing the trend it followed during the previous year.The......
SHANGHAI: Chinese stocks tumbled again on Friday, taking the week’s losses to more than 10 per cent, as the securities regulator said it was investigating suspected market manipulation and announced......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan must stop tax dodging through better policy implementation to move forward on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), says Penny Lawrence, Deputy Chief Executive, Oxfam GB.She......
LAHORE: All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) has said that textile producers have started closing down their units or are operating just two shifts because they are unable to sell their......
KARACHI: Stocks galloped ahead on Friday with the KSE-100 index recording a gain of 269.79 points (0.77 per cent) to close at a new peak of 35,456.35.Volume declined to 355 million shares valued at......
ISLAMABAD: Commerce Minister Khurram Dastagir Khan said on Friday that the government was taking every measure to ensure that consumers were able to get sugar at an affordable price.Chairing a......
LONDON: On his 10-year trip home, the Greek hero Odysseus at one point had to steer his ship and crew down a narrow stretch of water menaced on opposite sides by two sea monsters, Scylla and......
SAN FRANCISCO: In a nod to its humble beginning in the garage of a Silicon Valley house, Google is building “campuses” around the world intended as fertile ground where entrepreneurs can flourish.A......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil hit a one-week peak on Friday, tracking rival vegetable oils higher with support from a weak ringgit, but eased in light afternoon trade to levels nearer Thursday’s......
LONDON: Gold prices firmed on Friday, rebounding from a 3-1/2 month low as the dollar softened, while investors remained cautious ahead of Greece’s referendum on an international bailout......
NEW DELHI: The main breadwinner in three-quarters of households in rural India makes less than $80 a month while barely one in 10 homes has a refrigerator, a survey showed on Friday.While living......
COPENHAGEN: Cash rich Danish companies in an era of negative interest rates may be paying more tax than they owe to take advantage of the better rates paid by the taxman on overpayments.Danish......
ZURICH: Switzerland’s central bank is fighting to keep the value of the franc down as Greece enters a new period of uncertainty and political turmoil that may spur safe-haven inflows into the......
NAIROBI: President Barack Obama’s Kenyan grandmother, known as Mama Sarah, vowed on Friday to cook a traditional meal for her grandson when he visits the East African nation, the birthplace of his......
HAVANA: The number of Cubans heading to the US has surged in the months since the historic thaw in bilateral relations — a swell experts attribute to uncertainty over the future of US policy that......
KANO: Boko Haram carried out a fresh wave of massacres in northeastern Nigeria on Friday, locals said, killing nearly 200 people in 48 hours of violence President Muhammadu Buhari blasted as ......
BEIJING: A shallow 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck China’s far western region of Xinjiang on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, with three people killed according to Chinese officials.The......
GENEVA: At 62 years of age, Swiss Solar Impulse 2 pilot Andre Borschberg has made aviation history with a record breaking solo flight across the Pacific that he has called “an interior......
WASHINGTON: The head of Vietnam’s Communist Party will make a first-ever visit to the White House next week, meeting President Barack Obama on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war between the......
NOT a poster. Not a flag. Given its 25 per cent unemployment, its ring roads of empty factories – marble steps overgrown with grass, courtyards piled with garbage – this ancient Ottoman city should......
WASHINGTON: The United States has called for “an immediate humanitarian pause” in the Yemen war during Ramazan and Eid celebrations.The US State Department also urged all those involved in the Yemen......
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, who heads the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), on Friday reversed his earlier stand and agreed to give a ticket to former president Mahinda......
VIENNA: The United States and Iran were making “a genuine” effort to overcome the toughest hurdles still blocking a deal to curtail the Iranian nuclear programme, top US diplomat John Kerry said on......
TOKYO: Japan is rolling out the red carpet this weekend for the leaders of the “Mekong Five” as it pushes infrastructure exports and courts influence in a region where rival China has an increasing......
DHAKA: Thousands of Islamists protested on Friday in the Bangladeshi capital demanding the death penalty for a former government minister accused of blasphemy for comments perceived to be against......
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan customs on Friday seized its biggest haul of star tortoises and arrested a local man who was trying to smuggle the endangered reptiles to Malaysia, an official said.The batch of......
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday inaugurated a mosque inside his controversial presidential palace and opened it to public in an apparent bid to deflect criticism over his......
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has moved to ward off sectarian tensions following a deadly bombing at a Shia mosque and taken measures to try to prevent another attack by the self-styled Islamic State......
THIS column is not about the Greek Eurozone crisis. How could it be — what more would I or indeed anyone — be able to add to the reams and reams of stuff that has already been written, rewritten,......
“THE only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz and cocktails,” once wrote Federico Garcia Lorca. “And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better......
HYDERABAD: The restoration work of the mausoleum of Mian Ghulam Shah Kalhoro (1757-1772 AD), a famous ruler of the Kalhoro dynasty, which had fallen into decay due to official neglect and vandalism......
KARACHI: Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, youngest daughter of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, on Friday paid a visit to SOS Children’s Village —......
KARACHI: A sessions court on Friday threw out the application of a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader seeking the registration of a case pertaining to deaths from heatstroke against the provincial......
KARACHI: The Sindh police on Friday posted a senior official back to his position as DIG-East following strong criticism from different circles on his transfer that it could affect the investigation......
KARACHI: Rangers on Friday informed an antiterrorism court about 90-day preventive detention of nine workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement for questioning.Rangers personnel along with their legal......
KARACHI: Several civil society organisations and rights activists in a joint petition filed in the Sindh High Court have demanded the constitution of a judicial commission to investigate the exact......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Friday sentenced a man to death in a policeman murder case.Accused Muhammad Nawaz was found guilty of killing sub-inspector Muhammad Ishaq during a bank heist in......
KARACHI: A ‘surplus’ budget was announced for district municipal corporation (DMC) of Karachi’s south district for the year 2015-16, though the income shown in an official document was more than the......
KARACHI: The provincial health authorities said another heatstroke patient died in the city on Friday.The death toll caused by the recent heatwave has now reached 1,272 in the city since June 20 when......
KARACHI: Two suspected robbers were shot dead in as many encounters in Gizri and Shershah areas on Friday evening, officials said.They said that four suspects arrived at a bungalow on......
KARACHI: With an aim to create synergy among various maritime stakeholders for generating collective responses to asymmetric challenges from sea especially the threats to coastal......
SUKKUR: The Sukkur Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education on Friday announced the results of the Secondary School Certificate part-II (class-X) science and general groups annual......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday directed the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau to file within two weeks comments on a constitutional petition challenging the vires of the NAB......
LARKANA: Khalid Iqbal Memon, renowned lawyer of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, died from a brain haemorrhage here on Friday. He was 64.He has left a widow, a daughter, a brother and two sisters.He......
MIRPURKHAS: Around 250 appointment letters issued by the Mirpurkhas district health officer (DHO) a few months back have been cancelled while an inquiry into alleged malpractices in the process is......
MURREE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday directed the provincial authorities to speed up ongoing development projects at the hill station.Chairing a meeting to review development projects in......
ISLAMABAD: Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday summoned the secretary defence in a case related to the alleged abduction of a lawyer along with another man allegedly......
RAWALPINDI: Despite their success in the local government (LG) elections in cantonment areas, Khyber Paktunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan, it appears that the ruling PML-N is taking no chances in the......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday agreed to approach the Supreme Court to seek time for the enactment of a local government law for Islamabad.The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) met here with......
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government on Friday suspended another 94 primary and junior teachers for showing zero per cent result in grade five and eight exams 2014-15 conducted......
ISLAMABAD: The removal of Dr Aliya H. Khan from the post of dean faculty of social sciences has created unrest among the teachers of the Quaid-i-Azam University.A majority of the faculty members......
RAWALPINDI: Environment Protection Agency-Punjab (EPA-Punjab) has sent cases against 30 hospitals of the district to tribunal as they were found guilty of improper waste management.The hospitals are......
RAWALPINDI: Law enforcement personnel have found serious flaws in the security of a three-member Chinese survey team working on an oilfield near Jhelum.In a report sent to the regional police officer......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police have arrested eight outlaws from different areas of the city and recovered liquor, weapons and stolen property, police said here on Friday.the Karachi Company police......
ISLAMABAD: Kaleem Ahsan, a former Dawn staffer who worked with the organisation first in Karachi and then Lahore, passed away in Islamabad after a protracted illness on Friday.He served in the......
TAXILA: Four members of a family were injured when a speeding dumper rammed into a motorcycle on GT road near cadet college Hassanabdal on Friday.Police said Ishaque Khan, his son Saad Khan, 3,......
ISLAMABAD: Burglars and thieves struck at six places and made off with cash, gold and valuables, police said here on Friday.In the first incident, some burglars broke into the house of Kalat Mehmood,......
“As a young girl, I always loved glass bangles; I had them in every colour of the rainbow. I think a girl’s wrist looks empty and incomplete without bright-coloured bangles that clink together. The......
ISLAMABAD: Though the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) and the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) have been at loggerhead over different issues for almost two years, the......
ISLAMABAD: A trade body has written to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that export of medicines from the country has fallen, seeking his help to revive the trade.In its letter, the Pakistan Young......
ISLAMABAD: Member Administration and Estate, Capital Development Authority (CDA), Amer Ali Ahmed has directed weekly bazaar administration to ensure effective monitoring to provide quality food stuff......
LAHORE: Three teenagers were arrested on Friday for allegedly robbing a man with a toy gun in Iqbal Town.Jalal, 15, Faiz, 16, and Waseem, 14, were on their way home late on Thursday night when police......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has directed the cellular mobile companies to provide their Biometric Verified System (BVS) subscriber base of 90 days active (SIMs) on a ......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to take Punjab police to task for allegedly torturing and humiliating party chief Imran Khan’s nephews for alleged traffic violation.In a tweet,......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has appointed Prof Dr Khalid Mahmood principal of the Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI) against a vacant position.The Health Department issued a notification on......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Lahore organiser Shafqat Mahmood has alleged that the PML-N has begun pre-poll rigging and expressed apprehension that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif may even now try......
LAHORE: Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Janan Mosazai called on Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif here on Friday and discussed matters of mutual interest, promotion of Pak-Afghan relations and the regional......
LAHORE: Office-bearers of the United Progressive Group of the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry and All Pakistan Anjuman-i-Tajiran (APAT) on Friday demanded the federal government withdraw 0.6......
LAHORE: The Met Department on Friday forecast monsoon rains in upper Punjab, parts of KP and Kashmir from Sunday night.According to the latest advisory, monsoon rains are expected over Islamabad,......
BAHAWALPUR: Anti-terrorism court judge Khalid Arshad on Friday awarded 10-year and four months jail term to the prayer leader of a mosque at Qaimpur Town near Hasilpur, about 90km from here, for......
MUZAFFARGARH: Police have registered a case against a secondary schoolteacher (SST) who got the grade-16 post on the basis of ‘forged’ documents.Mudassir Hasan was appointed at the Government High......
LAHORE: Trade union representatives and workers in a resolution passed at Bakhtiar Labour Hall on Friday urged the prime minister and chief ministers to check hike in prices of essential commodities......
SHEIKHUPURA: Three gunmen were killed in an alleged encounter with police near Nabipur Virkan on Friday. District Police Officer Sohail Zafar Chatha said the gunmen looted cash and a mobile phone......
KASUR: The Department of Wildlife and Ecology and Wildlife Society of the University of Veterinary and Animals Sciences, Lahore, in collaboration with Pakistan Wildlife Foundation and Kalabagh......
MUZAFFARGARH: A man was allegedly killed by his daughter over property in Chowk Sarwar Shaheed area on Friday.Kot Addu DSP Abdul Rehman Asim told Dawn that Qaisar Ali was a sales officer in an......
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the government to prepare for realising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as these targets correspond to Pakistani......
SAHIWAL: Sixteen station house officers (SHO) and CIA staffers have got training on using biometric machines to track down criminals.The machines linked with Nadra will be used for verification of......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: District police claimed on Friday to have cleared 5km of riverine of the Indus of criminals.Around 500 policemen from Muzaffargarh and Dera Ghazi Khan police took part in the......
GUJRANWALA: Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) officials killed on Friday hardened gunman Zafarullah, alias Zafri Butt, in an encounter while his accomplice escaped.CIA Superintendent of Police Tahir......
News reports of roofs collapsing in schools and existence of dangerous buildings are not new; such incidents have become frequent due to buildings becoming old and lacking repair and maintenance with......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has accorded approval to a revised relief package for the families of the police officials of all ranks, taking the financial and other incentives to a maximum level......
LAHORE: Former Punjab governor and disgruntled PML-N leader Sardar Zulfikar Khosa, former National Assembly speaker Hamid Nasir Chattha and others met at an iftar dinner on Friday. It is learned they......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has dismissed a petition of Hamza Sugar Mills of Rahim Yar Khan and allowed revenue authorities to re-establish their possession of 800 kanal state land encroached upon......
BEIRUT: Syrian government forces carried out heavy air strikes on rebel positions in and around the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, aiming to repel a major Islamist-led offensive on areas......
RAMALLAH: Palestinian security forces arrested dozens of Hamas members in overnight raids in the West Bank, the largest security crackdown since 2007, officials said on Friday.Adnan Al-Dmairi,......
SRINAGAR: India’s army killed three suspected militants on Friday in India-held Kashmir during a gunbattle near the de facto border, police said.Soldiers confronted a group of armed men in a forested......
BEIJING: China’s air force dispatched a drone to the site of an earthquake in the far western region of Xinjiang on Friday to help in monitoring work, in what it said was the first time it had used......
ISLAMABAD: The inquiry commission constituted to inquire into allegations of rigging in the 2013 general elections completed hearing in its 39th sitting, on Friday.The commission, which was......
ISLAMABAD: Brief detention of a Pakistani consulate official by Afghan authorities has dealt a serious blow to hopes of salvaging bilateral relations from the shocks they suffered since the Taliban......
LAHORE/GUJRANWALA: The military’s rescue teams on Friday recovered the bodies of all those who lost their lives in the train disaster near Wazirabad the previous day while Railways teams managed to......
PESHAWAR: The army said on Friday it had successfully completed the preliminary phase of the operation in Shawal and it was now dominating all peaks around the valley in North Waziristan, ahead of......
ISLAMABAD: On the advice of the federal government, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has increased electricity tariff for Karachi’s domestic consumers by 20 to 50 per cent for......
QUETTA: The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) in collaboration with Habib Bank is planning to invest Rs80 billion in a 1,200MW power generation project.Speaking at an Iftar dinner on Thursday, NBP vice......
QUETTA: The Frontier Corps Balochistan conducted intelligence-guided raids in Kech area of Turbat and Quetta on Friday and arrested six suspected militants, official sources said.“Acting on a......
QUETTA: The Frontier Corps raided the Chaman passenger train on Friday and arrested 16 people for allegedly smuggling valuable goods to Quetta and other parts of the country.An FC spokesman said......
GWADAR: Three people were killed and two others injured in incidents of firing in Turbat and Pasni area of Gwadar district on Friday. Police said assailants on a motorbike opened fire......
QUETTA: Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Noor Meskanzai has ordered compulsory retirement of Amanullah Siddiqui, Qazi Dalbandin in the Chagai district, after a departmental inquiry found......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday opened a major corruption case against revenue and other officials of a town in Karachi and arrested five accused in a separate scandal......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power, on Friday, slammed K-Electric and the Sindh government for failing to prevent the deaths caused by a heatwave that hit Karachi......
SIALKOT: Pakistan’s security forces took into custody a drone which had crashed near Sakho Chak village in Shakargarh along the Working Boundary on Friday.Villagers said they heard a loud sound at......
ISLAMABAD: A shareholder of the Government Holdings Private Limited (GHPL) has challenged in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) the appointment of a 68-year-old retired official as managing director of......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department has said that no single effort — even by a superpower — could generate a new trend in India-Pakistan relations.Only a regular engagement between the two South......
ISLAMABAD: The US Air Force owes Rs38 million to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for using Pakistani airspace during the Afghan war more than a decade ago.Aviation Secretary Mohammad Ali Gardezi......
KARACHI: Punjab PPP’s vice president and former federal information minister Firdaus Ashiq Awan said here on Friday that the problems afflicting the party were of a serious nature and ‘major surgery’......
QUETTA: The Commander of Southern Command, Lt Gen Nasser Khan Janjua, has said that some elements have been carrying out targeted killings and acts of sabotage in the name of freedom struggle and......
QUETTA: While Pakistan Railways has ordered immediate inspection of bridges and tunnels built in 1886, a former federal minister says he had been informed by officials several years ago that old......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has become the single largest party in the country, which has strong presence and support in all the federating units, Fata, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir, said its......
MANSEHRA: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Friday issued notification of 16 successful candidates, including 12 women, on seats reserved for peasants, youth and women in Mansehra......
LANDI KOTAL: In a major crackdown, the Khyber Rifles seized over 70 non-customs paid vehicles in Landi Kotal from Monday to Friday.Officials in the know said the Khyber Rifles neither issued warnings......
MINGORA: The excessive loadshedding has forced the people of Swat district to use mountain ice for domestic purpose.According to the people, vendors bring mountain ice from glaciers in Kalam and......
LAKKI MARWAT: Residents of Haqdadabad locality here on Friday demanded of the municipal committee to ensure cleanliness in the area and threatened to hold a protest demonstration if it did not take......
SWABI: Bitter rivals Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F are likely to enter into an alliance to form local government in Chota Lahor tehsil here, sources in the parties told Dawn on......
UPPER DIR: The first phase of the repair of road from Akhgram to Dir has been completed, while work on the second phase would be started in August.People in Upper Dir expressed jubilation over repair......
PESHAWAR: An explosive device went off near a banquet hall in Nishtar Abad area of the provincial capital on Friday, but there were no casualties, police said.The blast took place around 4.30am near......
PESHAWAR: Suspending a notification of the Election Commission of Pakistan, the Peshawar High Court stayed the local government re-polling at 356 polling stations in 14 districts of Khyber......
PESHAWAR: The doctors of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have rejected the Health Act 2015 and claimed that the current health reform process is against the interests of poor patients and health workers.Speaking......
ABBOTTABAD: The funeral prayers of Lt-Col Amir Jadoon, his wife, a son and a daughter who died in Gujranwala train accident on Thursday, were offered at the FF Centre here on Friday.Corps Commander......
KHAR: The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the killing of Malik Said Agha Jan, a member of the peace committee in Bajaur Agency who was targeted by armed men......
KOHAT: Deputy commissioner, Kohat, Kamran Afridi has turned down recommendations for payment of salaries to employees of the IT park, claiming that the project is yet to be approved.Addressing a......
PESHAWAR: The Directorate of Archaeology and Museums has a big plan to conserve old monuments in the historic walled city of Peshawar.However, experts feel a powerful authority is needed to implement......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission has arrested Nowshera District Council chief coordinating officer Asad Gul over corruption.The suspect was produced before an ehtesab court on......
PAKISTAN ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 2010. One of the most noteworthy human rights achievements since then has been the introduction of Article 10A —......
Karachi has been sizzling. London’s been simmering, with the highest temperature in a decade registering this week. But the heat some Karachi-origin political figures have been facing here appears......
WITH a boom in book publishing, former ministers, diplomats, civil servants and politicians have not been slow to profit from it. The reading public is avid for “disclosures”. Many of them publish......
WHEN a terrorist slaughtered 38 foreigners at the resort town of Sousse, the Tunisian government shut down 80 mosques for preaching extremism.The British home secretary, Teresa May, flew to Tunisia......
ON the first anniversary of the ongoing Operation Zarb-i-Azb on June 15, the military wrapped up Operation Khyber-II in the Tirah region.Launched in March, after the military cleared much of the Bara......
THE collapse of Chanawan bridge near Gujranwala, which resulted in the loss of 17 lives when the engine and three carriages of a train passing over it fell into the canal below, is a tragedy whose......
HAD it not been for timely action by the police, the horror that was Kot Radha Kishan could have been replayed all over again on Tuesday in Makki, another village in Punjab. The circumstances were......
