ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday announced that the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the co-financers on the project have agreed to continue funding of the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission will even act against Imran Khan if he is found guilty of corruption, says the director general of the provincial accountability body – lieutenant......
CAIRO: Actor Omar Sharif, best known for his title role as Doctor Zhivago in the Oscar-winning film, has died, Egyptian state television said. He was 83.The BBC also reported his death, citing his......
LONDON: Clinical top seed Novak Djokovic crushed Frenchman Richard Gasquet's hopes of a first grand slam final with a 7-6(2) 6-4 6-4 victory in their Wimbledon semi-final on Friday.Gasquet offered......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government told the Supreme Court on Friday that the prime minister had issued directives to grant official status to Urdu language, after which the president, the prime......
QUETTA: Nine people were killed in two separate incidents in Balochistan's Turbat area Friday.A Levies official told Dawn.com via telephone that armed men opened fire on a vehicle in Nasirabad area......
LAHORE: A prayer meet for the slain parents of Dawn Islamabad’s News Editor, Hassan Belal Zaidi, will be held today.Prayer meet will be held in the evening at 23/II Block C, Model Town at 5pm.Garden......
That the estranged leaders of Pakistan and India made an attempt to revive a stalled dialogue process in Russia on Friday is an encouraging step towards a cessation in recent bitter......
Can one imagine a modern-day Football World Cup in which there is no Brazil, Argentina or Germany? It’s almost unthinkable, in fact absurd.The same way it once was to imagine a Hockey World Cup......
It's not novel for Pakistani films to get screened at international film festivals but it's not everyday that our films make it to festivals hosted by India. Indian Film Festival Melbourne has chosen......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Friday rejected all petitions seeking fresh local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunhkwa, deeming the petitions non-maintainable.The court also asked......
DENPASAR: An erupting Indonesian volcano forced the closure of five airports Friday, including on the holiday island of Bali, causing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and stranding hordes of......
KARACHI: Five eye-witnesses on Friday identified suspects Saad Aziz and Tahir Hussain for their involvement in the Safoora Goth carnage in which at least 43 people were killed when armed men opened......
MANILA: Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao prayed with a Filipino woman on death row in Indonesia and promised to appeal for clemency in the latest bid from her country to save her.Pacquiao and his wife,......
Admirers of Bollywood's favourite leading man, Shah Rukh Khan were overjoyed when the actor revealed the first teaser trailer for his upcoming movie, Fan in a surprise post on Twitter.The actor......
UFA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Friday that Pakistan attached great importance to its ties with the Russian Federation and was keen to enhance bilateral relations.“We want a......
While many were talking about Adnan Sami Khan's comeback in Bajrangi Bhaijaan in the not-so-liked rendition of 'Bhar Do Jholi', it turned out that the singer, filmmakers, distributors as well as......
BEIJING: A Chinese state-run newspaper is accusing Turkey of helping the illegal migration of ethnic Muslim Uighurs by giving them Turkish documentation.The nationalist newspaper Global Times said......
BEIJING: A Chinese journalist who helped cover the Hong Kong democracy protests for a German publication was freed without charge Thursday following nine months in detention.Zhang Miao and three......
PESHAWAR: An accountability court on Friday remanded Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's former mineral minister Mehmood Zeb and nine others, who were arrested over the illegal allotment of government reservoirs of......
Shoes, crafted from leather by hand, are being produced in Okara and picked up all around the world.This remarkable export activity is the result of the hard work of two young entrepreneurs, Sidra......
Worcestershire's bowling coach Matt Mason issued a warning to batsmen around the world, proclaiming that spin wizard Saeed Ajmal was back to his best with a remodelled action.Ajmal returned figures......
DAMBULLA: With the Test series in the bag, Pakistan will now focus on the one-dayers against Sri Lanka from Saturday that could determine their qualification for the Champions Trophy in......
ISLAMABAD: Former president of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and veteran politician Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan passed away in the federal capitay city on Friday.He was considered as one of the founders of the......
BANGKOK: Sales of maternity trousers that allow Muslim women in Malaysia to cover up while giving birth have surged, despite triggering fierce criticism and fears of putting the lives of women at......
HERAT: Former Soviet soldier Bakhretdin Khakimov came to Afghanistan to fight the mujahideen more than three decades ago. Today he has a new life as caretaker of a museum celebrating the jihadists'......
DHAKA: A stampede during a charity handout in Bangladesh left at least 23 people dead on Friday early morning as hundreds of desperately poor people tried to get their hands on free clothing, police......
UFA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi held a on Friday meeting during which the Indian premier accepted PM Nawaz's invitation to Pakistan for the South Asian......
ISLAMABAD: On the tennis courts of a posh Islamabad country club, veteran coach Mahboob Khan drills his charges, but they aren't dreaming of the pristine lawns of Wimbledon.For these young......
CARDIFF: Moeen Ali reckoned England were in “pole position” after impressing with both bat and ball on the second day of the first Ashes Test against Australia at Sophia Gardens on Thursday.Batting......
LONDON: Novak Djokovic finds himself in the role of warm-up man Friday when he takes on Richard Gasquet for a place in the Wimbledon final before ceding the spotlight to Roger Federer and Andy......
LONDON: If Serena Williams wanted to sound like someone who did not really care whether she won another Wimbledon or not, telling the world she just wanted to have fun, nobody was fooled on......
MELBOURNE: Injury-prone Australia paceman James Pattinson is a step closer to a national recall after being drafted in to the 'A' squad for their tour of India.Once among the first picked in......
PESHAWAR: Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong has said that it is the responsibility of the government of Pakistan to complete work on the Western part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor......
MINGORA: The protest against prolonged power outages continued across the district as enraged protesters in Barikot, Kabal, Mingora, Khawazakhela and Matta areas took to the streets on Thursday.The......
PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau on Thursday arrested 10 people, including former PPP provincial minister Nawabzada Mehmood Zeb, over the illegal allotment of government reservoirs of......
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf did better than other political parties in the May 30 local government elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by winning 256 of the total of 978 district council......
LANDI KOTAL: Militants blew up a government primary school in Nala-Malakdinkhel area of Bara in the wee hours of Thursday.Confirming the incident, Agency education officer Ateequr Rehman told Dawn......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has said that Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Hospital is the only hospital in the world which treats 75 per cent of the......
PESHAWAR: United House Officers Association, a union of house job doctors, has rejected a decision of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) that the house job doctors will appear in an......
PESHAWAR: The Ehtesab (Accountability) Commission, set up by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has started showing its teeth but the committee set up to ensure discipline......
LANDI KOTAL: Over 2,500 displaced families of Bar Qambarkhel tribe of Bara returned to their homes during the third phase of Bara Temporarily Displaced Families repatriation plan, which was started......
MANSEHRA: The anti-corruption establishment has begun probe into the alleged embezzlement of Rs160 million development funds.The contractor got advance payment for the construction of Saiful Muluk......
UPPER DIR: Over 100 gastroenteritis patients are hospitalised daily in Upper Dir, mainly due to consumption of contaminated water.Upper Dir district headquarters hospital’s medical superintendent, Dr......
SWABI: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf -led government has done a remarkable job by removing encroachments in Anbar and other areas during the ongoing drive in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but it seems the local......
PESHAWAR: Shama cinema, rocked by militants with grenade attacks last year, has been reopened for screening Pashto flicks on Eidul Fitr.Pashto films industry -- Pollywood -- is releasing seven new......
RAWALPINDI: Private rescuers on Thursday recovered the body of Atif Hanif 25, who was swept away in the floods following the heavy rainfall, while efforts were underway to recover the body of Arshad......
ISLAMABAD: In a move that is set to delay the local government elections in Islamabad for months, the Senate on Thursday passed the Islamabad Capital Territory Local Government Bill providing for......
ISLAMABAD : The Met Office predicted rainfall in the last week of Ramazan and during Eid.Dr Mohammad Hanif told Dawn that there are three spells of rain in a month and the first one is likely to......
ISLAMABAD: The Kohsar police arrested four members of a gang allegedly involved in robbing foreigners, including diplomats and their relatives.The police said the gang snatched valuables from the......
RAWALPINDI: Station Commander Brigadier Rana Zahid, on Thursday, administered oath to the 12 elected members of the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB).Following the oath taking ceremony, the board......
Gen. Pervez Musharraf, like all his predecessors with dictatorial powers, also took it upon himself to cleanse the country of its “corrupt politicians”. Soon after the military seized power in......
RAWALPINDI: At least 2,562 people have been arrested under the National Action Plan (NAP) in the Rawalpindi division though a slow pace of conviction in the terrorism cases has been observed by the......
TAXILA: The water level in Khanpur Dam rose to 1,974.84 feet on Wednesday, following the first spell of monsoon rains.The water reserves are sufficient to meet the needs of the residents of the twin......
ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap), responsible for monitoring the quality of medicines in the country, is not recognised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and......
TAXILA: Rawalpindi Solid Waste Management Company (SWMC) on Thursday, launched a computerised 1139 hotline for residents to register complaints regarding waste disposal in the city.The launching......
TAXILA: The Wah Cantonment Police on Wednesday claimed to have solved 21-year-old double murder case when they arrested a man who killed two brothers over a land dispute in village Pind Bhotti.Police......
ISLAMABAD: An exhibition of applied art pieces was put on display here Thursday highlighting the agony of people during brutal war of Bosnia and Herzegovina that took place between 1992 and 1995.The......
RAWALPINDI: The City District Government Rawalpindi and the cantonment board failed to lift garbage from their respective areas making the residents suffer during the recent rain.Besides, the......
ISLAMABAD: The most significant event of June was the impassioned speech made by the PPP co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari in which he indirectly criticised some steps of the armed......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) latest mega project is in breach of environmental laws, Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) has alleged.The Pak-EPA alleged that......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has disposed of over six thousands cases since January this year.As per statistics, five single member benches and two division benches comprising two judges......
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a corner meeting organised by Awami Workers Party (AWP) in the G-8 Christian Colony, on Wednesday, criticised the government for the indefinite postponement of the Islamabad......
THE Amnesty International has slammed India for lack of accountability for human rights violations in India-occupied Kashmir.The report notes July 5, 2015 marked the completion of 25 years since the......
GOVERNMENT Servants Revised Leave Rules, 1980, are callous in nature. They state that leave cannot be claimed as a matter of right. Thus, it has given exclusive powers to the authority to grant or......
APROPOS Rafia Zakaria’s article ‘Pakistan’s gone girls’ (July 1). I am surprised that more than 100,000 sex selective abortions are performed every year in Pakistan and maybe much more abortions are......
RECENTLY I travelled to Bahawalpur from Taxila. There are a number of canals and link canals located along Jhang and Bahawalpur. As I travelled along, I noticed the state of poor infrastructure.The......
ISLAMABAD is the most modern city of Pakistan. However, it too is facing water shortage like many other Pakistani cities. There are certain areas in Islamabad where living has become difficult due to......
I AM the proud father of Captain (Shaheed) Muhammad Bilal Sunawar who embraced Shahadat on Nov 20, 2009, at Pushziarat, South Waziristan, while fighting foreign terrorists.He was awarded......
Apropos the editorial, ‘Loss of forest land’ (June 24). Trees are considered as the lungs of nature and their protection, preservation, conservation and improvement in their utility should be the......
DOCTORS work hard to make a living. Many even spend sleepless nights to treat patients.Let doctors play their positive role. Let them serve in Pakistan and don’t let them leave the......
APROPOS the news item ‘Legislation on toy guns demanded’ (July 7). On a recent visit to the largest wholesale toys market in the country in Jodia Bazaar in Karachi, I was shocked to see that toy guns......
RECENTLY in Turbat, owing to a storm and heavy rain, four pylons of the main electricity transmission line were knocked down and there was no power for three days.Labourers worked hard even while......
THIS is apropos Javed Jabbar’s ‘Meaning massacred’ (July 7). The writer is right when he says the ‘Islamic State’ is anything but Islamic, for it is far from the spirit of humanity which Islam......
WITH reference to the news report ‘Buddhist monks feed fasting Muslims’ (July 8) in Dhaka, I would like to point out for the benefit of your readers that in Mithi, Tharparkar, there are daily joint......
Apropos a news report (July 7) that there should be screening of students for drug addiction before they can seek admission to an educational institute.I thank Senator Shahi Syed for proposing the......
GUJRANWALA: State Minister for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali on Thursday visited the Nandipur power station and expressed his satisfaction over it operation.Talking to newsmen, he said four turbines......
LAHORE: Three employees of a bank were shot dead while four others were injured by a clerk of a college at Karim Block Market, Iqbal Town, on Thursday.The attacker, identified as Abdullah, 35, a......
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority and its subsidiary Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency will resume construction work on the Rs1.5 billion Signal-Free Corridors Project on......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested three employees of a travel agency for allegedly looting Rs90 million from more than 150 intending Umrah pilgrims.Faisal Tanvir told Dawn......
LAHORE: Police have confiscated 1,200 illegal charity boxes placed at shops and public places by banned organisations in parts of the province.They also arrested 72 people and lodged 63 first......
LAHORE: Owners of units and small factories allegedly involved in preparing unhygienic food and playing with the public health have started shifting their businesses to avoid continuous monitoring,......
LAHORE: Two men were arrested by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Thursday for their alleged involvement in facilitating suicide attack on Wagah Border.Sources said the suspects identified......
LAHORE: The Punjab government is establishing an authority where it would place officials of different departments concerned to run an integrated traffic system initially in Lahore and later all over......
LAHORE: The management of Pakistan Electric Power Company has agreed to the demands of All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union (CBA) seeking several service related benefits for employees of......
LAHORE: Rain in the city’s southern localities and drizzle in the downtown created severe mugginess in the city on Thursday.It remained partly cloudy and sultry throughout the day. Drizzle in the......
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority’s Governing Body approved on Thursday Rs45.513 billion annual budget of the LDA and its subsidiaries -- Wasa and Tepa -- for 2015-16.A major chunk of the......
LAHORE: Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed on Thursday submitted a call attention to the Punjab Assembly about the killing of three people during a bank dacoity.Mr......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday apprised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (in Norway) and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar of traders’ reservations with regard to tax imposed on bank......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Thursday issued a notice to the federal government and Customs authorities on a bail petition of fashion model Ayyan Ali facing charges of money......
LAHORE: Some 500 candidates have bought application forms from Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI’s) Lahore office since Tuesday for party ticket for chairman and vice-chairman seats of local body......
MULTAN: Residents of Muhammadi Mohallah, Hazoori Bagh Road, protested against the entering of sewage water in streets and their homes due to the damage of Wasa pipelines here on Thursday.The......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of farmers hailing from the villages located along the banks of Trimmu-Sidhnai link canal took out a rally in Pirmahal on Thursday to oppose the approval of a project under......
SIALKOT: Traders on Thursday closed a Ramazan bazaar for five hours in Chawinda against what they said the rising political interference in matters of the makeshift market and the alleged torture of......
LAHORE: Federal Ombudsman Salman Faruqui on Thursday inaugurated one-window facilitation desk at the Allama Iqbal International Airport for overseas passengers.Speaking on the occasion, Mr Faruqui......
BAHAWALPUR: Security agencies took into custody on Wednesday alleged militant Belal Moavia, of Nowshehra Jadid, from the Ahmedpur East area.Agencies officials also recovered a hand-grenade and the......
GUJRANWALA: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) suffered a blow in Gujranwala when it’s provincial vice-president and former MPA Chaudhry Tariq Gujjar announced joining Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)......
MULTAN: A lawyer defending a blasphemy accused says he has received threats with a warning to immediately withdraw from the case.Advocate Shahbaz Gurmani, who is representing Khalil Qadri in a......
MULTAN: The funeral prayers for the sister of former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani were offered at Musa Pak Shrine here on Thursday.A large number of people from different walks of life attended the......
LAHORE: Youm-i-Ali (AS), the martyrdom day of Hazrat Ali (AS), was observed peacefully on Thursday amid tight security in the city.The police had made elaborate security arrangements, dividing the......
HYDERABAD: Three young girls drowned in the Indus River near Bachao Bund at Chalgari on late Wednesday evening, officials at the Chalgari police station said on Thursday.They said that a group of......
BADIN : A meeting presided over by Sindh Irrigation and Drainage Authority (Sida) vice chairman MPA Mohammed Nawaz Chandio on Thursday to discuss and resolve the issue of water theft was marred by......
HYDERABAD: Processions were taken out in Hyderabad, Sukkur, Mirpurkhas, Khairpur, Badin and other parts of Sindh in connection with Yaum-i-Ali on Thursday.Police and Rangers made proper security......
THATTA: A team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) raided the Benazir Income Support Programme office in Sujawal, arrested a BISP assistant director and seized hundreds of cards apparently......
KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation administrator has suspended two top land department officials for illegally leasing out government land and cancelled the illegal leases, it emerged on......
KARACHI: The Sindh police used a robot to detect improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and clear the route of a mourning procession for the first time on Thursday as part of comprehensive security......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has cancelled nearly 600,000 arms licences and decided to launch another drive for voluntary surrender of illegal weapons across the province, it emerged on......
KARACHI: As investigations into the Fisheries Cooperative Society (FCS) affairs are under way, all eyes are set on government response to the FCS situation that has developed following the arrests......
KARACHI: The city of lights turned into the city of darkness yet again on Thursday when at around 2am power supply from 12 of the 64 K-Electric grid stations stalled due to tripping of the KDA......
KARACHI: Police submitted on Thursday an interim charge-sheet in a court and left out two nominated policemen in a custodial killing case.Inspector Zafar Iqbal, sub-inspector Zameer Hussain and......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Thursday expressed his anguish over the reports that many areas in the metropolis were being supplied with non-chlorinated water and asked the......
KARACHI: The Anti-Corruption Establishment Sindh, Karachi, has arrested four officials of the defunct Karachi Development Authority (KDA) for their alleged involvement in illegal allotment of plots,......
KARACHI: A young man was found shot dead in Garden East on Thursday, police said.They added that the bullet-riddled body of Arif Baloch, 37, was found on Tharo Lane. The police said the dead man......
KARACHI: Section 144 of the criminal procedure code has been imposed on beaches and coastal areas to ban bathing in the sea during Eidul Fitr, said a statement on Thursday.The restriction was imposed......
MIRPURKHAS: A boycott observed by irrigation employees caused closure of all water channels linked with the Naokot sub-division on Thursday.Employees of the irrigation department’s Nara circle......
KARACHI: The election commission in Sindh has sped up hearing objections to proposed delimitation of constituencies in order to decide the cases by July 20, the last fixed by the Election Commission......
HYDERABAD: One of the four power generation units of the Jamshoro Thermal Power House, the Chinese unit-IV, has been out of order since a system fault paralysed power transmission from Karachi to......
SUKKUR: Most markets, commercial outlets, bazaars and shops in Jacobabad remained closed on Thursday in response to a call given by the Pakistan Peoples Party-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB) against......
LONDON: A judge from New Zealand said on Thursday that one in 20 children in England and Wales may have been sexually abused as she opened a huge inquiry into accusations of institutional paedophilia......
UNITED NATIONS: Burundi’s pro-government militia is keeping up a terror campaign that has sent waves of refugees fleeing across borders and claimed the lives of demonstrators and rights activists,......
MIAMI: Three men and one woman were named on Thursday by NASA as the first four astronauts who will fly aboard spaceships built by private companies Boeing and SpaceX in the coming years.Commercial......
NEW YORK: The United Nations said on Thursday that all parties in the Yemen conflict had accepted a call by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for a pause in fighting to make possible the delivery of......
JERUSALEM: An Israeli court on Thursday jailed a man for 14 months for breaking into computers, stealing new songs by pop star Madonna and selling them.Adi Lederman confessed as part of a plea......
NICOSIA: The Cyprus parliament passed legislation on Thursday paving the way for a first-ever casino resort in the government-held south of the Mediterranean island.There have long been casinos in......
BAGHDAD: Iraqi paramilitaries exchanged fire with police in Baghdad on Thursday, the latest sign of tension between the government and the country’s Shia militias, security sources said.An interior......
MIAMI: Bumblebees are struggling to adapt to global warming and are simply dying rather than migrating northward to cooler climes, said a study on Thursday that raised new concerns about these......
NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Thursday ordered a federal investigation into a cash for jobs scandal after a spate of recent deaths fuelled claims of a mass cover-up by a state government.The......
LONDON: London’s roads, buses and overland trains struggled to cope in Thursday’s morning rush hour as commuters battled into work in the face of London Underground’s first strike shutdown since......
WASHINGTON: Russia presents the greatest threat to US national security and its behavior is “nothing short of alarming,” Marine General Joseph Dunford told lawmakers on Thursday as they weighed his......
NEW YORK: IBM on Thursday unveiled a powerful new chip which the company says could boost computing power of “everything from smartphones to spacecraft”.The company unveiled the industry’s first......
ISTANBUL: Turkish former air force general Tahsin Sahinkaya, the last surviving leader of the 1980 coup which led to military rule and left lasting scars on the country, died on Thursday. He was......
SARAJEVO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday the western Balkans can only prosper if Bosnia develops well and that despite its problems she believes the country has a future within the......
JAFFNA: When Balasundaram Rasamalar finally got back her home in Sri Lanka’s battle-scarred north after years of military occupation, there was an unexpected problem. The toilet was still in the......
MADKHEDA: Clutching battered metal plates, the children waited patiently in a remote central Indian village for the two small flat pieces of bread and scoop of boiled potato curry that would be their......
WELLINGTON: Batsman Kane Williamson will get another chance to prove his leadership credentials after being named New Zealand captain for limited overs series in Zimbabwe and South Africa next......
CARDIFF: Chris Rogers joined a select group of players with a seventh successive Test fifty as Australia made inroads into England’s first innings total on the second day of the Ashes opener here on......
LONDON: Serena Williams of the United States and Garbine Muguruza of Spain reach the final of Wimbledon after winning their respective semi-finals on Thursday.It will be eight Wimbledon final for......
COLOMBO: Virat Kohli’s India will play three Test matches in Sri Lanka next month, the cricket board said on Thursday, marking the final series for the home team’s batting great Kumar Sangakkara.The......
ZURICH: Chuck Blazer was banned for life by FIFA’s ethics committee on Thursday for widespread corruption, finally ending the career of the long-time most senior American in world football.The......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hockey coach Shahnaz Sheikh and captain Mohammad Imran on Thursday informed the probe committee into the team’s failure to qualify for next year’s Olympics that it was due to......
DHAKA: A fast-improving Bangladesh are confident of upsetting another of world cricket’s powerhouses on home turf when they take on South Africa in a three-match ODI series starting on......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman says the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) will play its role in helping the country regain its squash glory.The Chief of the Air Staff, who is......
KARACHI: Despite brilliant knocks from Shabbir Solangi and Sarang Bhutto, Brothers CC Dadu failed to prevent BankIslami from reaching the quarter-finals of the Aga Khan Gymkhana Ramzan Cricket......
HARARE: India’s fringe players will have the opportunity to showcase their talents when they take on an improving Zimbabwe side in a three-match one-day international series, which starts on......
KARACHI: The three-week Summer Squash League gets into action at the Jahangir Khan Squash Complex, PSB Coaching Centre from Saturday, the Sindh Squash Association (SSA) announced on Thursday.The......
SYDNEY: World champions Australia will host India in five One-day Internationals and three Twenty20 Internationals in January, it was announced on Thursday.Cricket Australia (CA) said it wanted to......
KARACHI: The DC South Ramazan-ul-Mubarik juniors boxing tournament will be held at Ustad Mohammad Sattoo boxing stadium, Lyari Labour Welfare Centre (LLWC) on Saturday after taraveeh prayers.Bouts in......
CARSON (California): Joel McAnuff’s second-half goal earned Jamaica a surprise 2-2 draw with Costa Rica, while Canada and El Salvador finished scoreless in Group ‘B’ of the CONCACAF Gold Cup on......
KARACHI: Kamran Hussain excelled with a calculated innings and captain Abid Qasmi bowled tidily to inspire Qasmi Gymkhana into the semi-finals of the third Naya Nazimabad Ramazan Cricket Tournament......
LAHORE: It was the sideline of the probe committee meeting tasked with finding reasons behind the recent hockey debacle that proved more important than the actual gathering of the probe body which......
QUETTA: Pakistan Canoe and Kayak Federation (PCKF) has awarded its 2013-2014 National Athlete of the Year award to Mohammad Abu-Bakar Durrani of Pakistan Customs, Quetta for his brilliant and......
KARACHI: Mohammad Hussain Cricket Club (MHCC) grabbed the remaining last-eight place in the 30th Karachi Gymkhana Omar Associates Ramazan Cricket Festival here on Thursday when ended Heroes CC......
ZURICH: Lionel Messi’s Argentina on Thursday knocked Germany off top place in the FIFA world rankings despite having lost to their rivals in the World Cup final last year and to Chile in last......
ISLAMABAD: The SECP has made filing of share transfer return mandatory for companies within 15 days from the date of such transfer with the registrar, in an effort to prevent corporate disputes.At......
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday trimmed down its global growth forecast for 2015 to 3.3 per cent, citing weaker-than-expected economic activity in North America during......
P&G to spin off beauty brands in $12.5bn dealNEW YORK: Procter & Gamble plans to sell 43 beauty and fragrance brands to Coty in a deal valuing the assets at about $12.5 billion, the companies......
SHANGHAI: Chinese stocks stormed into positive territory in volatile trade Thursday as Beijing unveiled new measures to halt a dramatic sell-off, prompting Asian markets to rebound, but dealers......
ROME: Global food prices fell in June, continuing an almost uninterrupted slide since April 2014, led by falling dairy and sugar prices, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday.The Food and......
ATHENS: Greece was to submit a detailed bailout request to its eurozone partners Thursday in a last-ditch effort to save its collapsing economy and its place in the euro, in an unprecedented test of......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures edged up on Thursday, recovering from the previous session’s six-week low amid expectations of lower June production data and an uptick in Asian......
MULTAN: Trading activity failed to pick up on Thursday on the cotton market as buyers remained on the sidelines. The Karachi Cotton Association (KCA) revised down its spot rate by Rs50, to......
LONDON: Gold rose on Thursday as a recovery in Chinese shares cooled fears of a wider rout in the major bullion consumer, and after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting suggested caution......
PARIS: Putting money on the table for pre-2020 climate adaptation projects in poor countries, may help unlock an ambitious global pact in December, a senior World Bank official said......
LONDON: Investing up to 3.5 per cent of a nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) in science, technology and innovation can be “the game changer” for development, leading experts said on......
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s financial reserves defied a slump in oil prices to hit a record 179.2 billion dinars ($592bn) at the end of the 2014-15 financial year, a report said on Thursday.They grew by......
SYDNEY: Australia’s tax authority has warned large multinational firms it is looking into the use of offshore marketing hubs over concerns such subsidiaries were being utilised to shift profits and......
ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Thursday approved seven development projects relating to energy and communication with a total estimated cost of Rs90......
UFA: The BRICS emerging nations said on Thursday that they were worried about the volatility of global financial markets and oil prices and agreed to coordinate efforts to keep their economies......
WASHINGTON: Governments increasingly are turning to private investors to build infrastructure and deliver public services, but European anti-poverty groups question the benefits of relying on this......
ISLAMABAD: The Australian government has lifted a ban on mango imports from Pakistan it imposed last year after flies and bugs were found in consignments.“Australia has amended its import conditions......
KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $18.714 billion during the week ending July 3 compared to $18.201bn the previous week, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on......
KARACHI: Stocks continued to decline on Thursday, with the KSE-100 index giving up 181.70 points (0.51 per cent) to settle at 35,147.13.Index heavy-weights Lucky Cement, United Bank and Engro Corp......
ISLAMABAD: A recently constituted 69-member advisory council of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf gave a go-ahead on Thursday for reorganisation of the party, notably in Punjab, after the PTI decided to......
ISLAMABAD: Political rivals of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) have decided to raise the issue of de-seating of PTI members ‘vigorously’ in the coming session of the National Assembly which will......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office appears to have decided not to call a Middle Eastern terrorist outfit by its preferred name ‘Islamic State’ and instead refer to it as ‘Daesh’, an acronym the group......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch will meet the self-exiled Baloch leader, Khan of Kalat Mir Suleman Dawood Jan, during his visit to London.This was stated by senior leader of......
LAHORE: The slain parents of Dawn Islamabad’s News Editor, Hassan Belal Zaidi, were laid to rest in Al Firdosia graveyard at Gajumata on Ferozepur Road on Thursday.Former medical superintendent of......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court stopped the government on Thursday from collecting surcharge on electricity bills in one go and directed it to collect it in instalments.A three-member bench headed by......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $218 million loan agreement with Pakistan for the Flood Emergency Reconstruction Resilience Project.The agreement was signed by Mohammad......
ISLAMABAD: The estate office allotted 900 residential accommodations to government employees during the last one year on the basis of seniority, Estate Officer Maqbool Ahmad Khan informed a......
RAWALPINDI: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar called on Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif at GHQ here on Thursday.According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, issues relating to the early......
LAHORE: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) hopes to fill both Tarbela and Mangla dams by Aug 15 as river flows improve, especially Indus which on Thursday touched almost low-level flood at......
QUETTA: Balochistan health authorities have decided to take departmental action against the district health officer (DHO) of Quetta and the staff of World Health Organisation and COMNet after......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court directed the authorities concerned in federal and provincial governments on Thursday to devise an integrated flood management plan to minimise the risk of loss of life......
QUETTA: The Iranian border authorities handed over the bodies of two Pakistanis at the Pak-Iran border in Taftan on Thursday.Levies officials said the two men had been living in Iran and died two......
ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali has said that stay orders granted by courts have contributed towards delays in completion of electricity projects in the country.Briefing......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department is calling the first-ever official talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban “a step in the right direction.”At news briefing in Washington, a State......
ISLAMABAD: Licences of over 30 per cent of local NGOs registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) have been cancelled over the past three months for their failure to......
BANGKOK: Thailand said on Thursday it had deported around 100 Uighur Muslims detained in the kingdom since last year to China, in a move sparking fears for the safety of the asylum-seekers.The fate......
UNITED NATIONS: The exodus of people from Syria has now become the United Nations refugee agency’s biggest crisis for almost 25 years and risks deteriorating even further as conflict in the country......
SRINAGAR: A Pakistani sniper shot dead an Indian border guard in India-held Kashmir on Thursday, Indian authorities have alleged.The sniper fired three bullets at an Indian border post in Baramulla,......
In the depths of a vast, uneven stretch of coarse land, opposite Petaro Cadet College, is a settlement that speaks fluently of destitution and survival.The Heera Lal community of poor stone crushers......
RIYADH: Former Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal died on Thursday, Saudi Arabian sources and media close to the kingdom’s ruling family reported, two months after he was replaced following......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India look to lowering tensions when their prime ministers meet in the Russian city of Ufa on Friday on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit.At......
UFA (Russia): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif suggested on Thursday a four-pronged approach encompassing people-to- people contact, confidence-building in peace and security, trade and regional......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue and members of the business community reached an agreement on Thursday to reduce withholding tax to 0.3 per cent from 0.6pc on banking transactions for......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) arrested on Thursday provincial Minister for Minerals Development Ziaullah Afridi on charges of misusing authority and allowing illegal......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Thursday that international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) carrying out activities harmful for the country’s security and national......
PESHAWAR: Former chief spokesman of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, who later defected to the self-styled Islamic State, was killed along with a deputy leader and several other militants in a drone......
ISTANBUL: Turkish anti-Chinese demonstrators stormed the Thai consulate in Istanbul in protest at the deportation by Bangkok of dozens of Uighur Muslims to China, as diplomatic tensions flared......
THE renewal of the Sindh Rangers’ mandate to stay in Karachi has rarely made the news.That wasn’t surprising, considering that the paramilitary force — whose mandate can be extended for a maximum of......
AS expected, the government has reached a compromise with the traders’ community on the question of a new withholding tax on all bank transactions by non-filers of tax returns. In a large meeting......
PERHAPS one of the main reasons why militancy continues to thrive in Pakistan is that the government refuses to emerge from its state of denial where certain extremist outfits are concerned. The......
THE implosion of the Greek economy, the rise of Syriza and the implicit blaming of Greece’s creditors for the country’s woes present important lessons that should be drawn upon. The danger is that......
OUT of the millions of stories about food that originate in Lahore, only a few focus on the less flattering aspect: the rules that cooks and confectioners here don’t follow while creating their......
CAN we hope to hear news from Pakistan that brings some light to the end of the tunnel? It is a red-letter day when we do and one such day came recently when I read about a group of creative artists......
POLITICS often makes strange bedfellows, more so in a nascent and messy democracy like Afghanistan, where warlords continue to wield enormous power. The recent alliance between Balkh Governor Atta......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations on Thursday announced an “unconditional humanitarian pause” in the Yemen conflict starting at midnight local time on Friday with the goal of getting all parties to......
KABUL: An article on an Afghan Taliban website highlighted divisions on Thursday over landmark peace talks with Kabul, but an Afghan government minister played down suggestions that the militants'......
