ISLAMABAD: Iran will help Pakistan in developing energy and infrastructure sectors, said member of Iranian Foreign Policy Committee Muhammad Hassan Asafari on Monday while talking to Senate Standing......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan on Monday lashed out at Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain for his "derogatory speech from a day ago," saying that no......
KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Memon on Monday came out hard against K-Electric, Karachi’s sole power distribution company, for sheer incompetence and for not being able to carry out......
BRUSSELS: Euro zone leaders made Greece surrender much of its sovereignty to outside supervision on Monday in return for agreeing to talks on an 86 billion euros bailout to keep the near-bankrupt......
ISLAMABAD: After being the subject of speculative media reports which linked her to former president and PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, Tanvir Zamani on Monday clarified that rumours of her......
“The next time you face unscheduled power cuts, the Delhi government will ensure you are adequately compensated,” an excerpt from the Times of India’s June 18, 2015 story reads.But wait, that's not......
PESHAWAR: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has raided the residence of famous Afghan girl Sharbat Bibi in Nauthia Qadeem area of Peshawar, sources at agency said.The raid was conducted at the......
The whole Centaurus mall entry fee saga and the ensuing debate on the internet was a pleasant surprise for me. If memory serves me right, the mall in question made a similar move over a year ago,......
NEW DELHI: India's top court on Monday granted an Italian marine detained over the 2012 killing of two fishermen off the coast of Kerala another six months at home to recover from a medical......
Dubsmash is the hub of outrageous performances, so it comes as no surprise that eccentric Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh would jump at the opportunity to express his crazy side.However, who would have......
LONDON: Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton missed Novak Djokovic's Wimbledon final triumph after being barred from the Royal Box after a dress code row.Hamilton was due to join celebrities......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to PM on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz said Monday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had told his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi during their meeting in Ufa,......
Who’d have thought that Hamza Ali Abbasi, who first shot to fame as ‘Pyaray Afzal’, never wanted to act in that TV drama in the first place? That he doesn't plan to take his good looks across the......
BENGHAZI: At least five people, all elderly men, were killed and 17 wounded in shelling that struck a residential neighbourhood in Libya's restive city of Benghazi, a hospital said Monday.Al-Jalaa......
MADRID: After carving a superstar reputation for club and country and earning the moniker 'Saint' for his exploits, Iker Casillas suffered an unhappy end to his long Real Madrid career, whistled by......
PARIS: Gunmen were holed up inside a Primark store near Paris Monday with about 10 people inside after what appears to be an attempt to rob the shop, police said.Special forces had been dispatched to......
WASHINGTON: The United States is holding discussions with countries in North Africa about locating drones at a base there to heighten monitoring of Daesh or the self-styled Islamic State in Libya,......
LONDON: England left Cardiff on Sunday in a state of surprised euphoria after producing a near-perfect performance to crush Australia in the first Ashes Test.The touring side's shell-shocked captain......
BRUSSELS: Greece reached a desperately-needed bailout deal with the eurozone on Monday after marathon overnight talks, in a historic agreement to prevent the country crashing out of the European......
KABUL: Talks last week between Afghan and Taliban negotiators were hailed by officials as a major breakthrough, but insurgent commanders on the ground have responded far more sceptically,......
MUMBAI: The Indian cricket board suspended Mumbai batsman Hiken Shah with immediate effect on Monday for offering money to a player to influence a game in this year's Indian Premier League......
VIENNA: Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program entered their 17th and possibly last day in Vienna on Monday as diplomats continued to haggle over details ahead of the expiration of an interim......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday submitted before the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) a modified report on 150 mega corruption cases, DawnNews reported.Earlier on July 7,......
MADRID: Departing Real Madrid captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas was forced out by club president Florentino Perez and is too good to play for a “third-tier” side like Porto, his parents were......
BEIJING: A Tibetan monk who was one of China's most prominent political prisoners has died in prison, a relative and human rights activists said on Monday, raising the prospect of an increase in......
MUMBAI: Mumbai chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Ashish Shelar has adviced Shiv Sena to change its perception about Pakistan and to consider the local problems while discussing national......
NEW DELHI: Two teams from the Indian Premier League (IPL) could be banned from the glitzy Twenty20 tournament when a Supreme Court-appointed panel hands down its sentence Tuesday on a corruption......
Last week’s teaser of Dekh Magar Pyaar Se left us with a lovelorn looking Sikander Rizvi but the full trailer has revealed that our 25-year-old rickshaw driver, Sikander Badshah Khan aka Sicky is......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Monday named a new housing minister and replaced the head of the royal court in his latest government shuffle.A decree named Minister of State Khalid bin......
Bangladesh beat South Africa by seven wickets in Mirpur on Sunday to level the three-match ODI series at 1-1 and secure qualification to the 2017 Champions Trophy.The result in Bangladesh now means......
RIYADH: The United Arab Emirates executed a UAE woman early on Monday for the militant-inspired killing of an American kindergarten teacher in December 2014, the state news agency WAM reported.Ala'a......
LONDON: Roger Federer warned his rivals not to write him off yet after a Wimbledon final defeat that left the Swiss star without a major title for three years.Federer's bid for a first Grand Slam......
KABUL: The self-styled Islamic State or Daesh on Monday released an audio tape it said was of the movement's leader for Afghanistan, contradicting reports that he was killed in a US drone strike.The......
LONDON: Britain's defence forces should spend more of their budget on spy planes, drones and covert forces to fight extremist militants, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday.The government......
LAHORE: The Punjab government’s tax receipts from five provincial revenue collection departments have witnessed a 30 per cent decline during financial year 2014-15 as the government revised downwards......
KASUR: Two officials of Sarai Mughal police station had to do some “extra duty” and that too for a gang of armed robbers who were looting commuters on a road on Sunday.According to the police,......
LAHORE: A number of city markets witnessed a huge rush of people on Sunday ahead of Eidul Fitr.Similarly, all 27 Ramazan bazaars established by the city district government were also reported to be......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has ordered setting up of a sub-committee with regard to Knowledge Park.The sub-committee will submit its report after reviewing all matters regarding the......
SAHIWAL: Pakpattan water management district officer himself turns out to be the mastermind of the “blast” in his own office, according to police and some department insiders.District Police Officer......
SIALKOT: Breaches at 10 different places on the left side of the Nullah Dek led to flooding of 10 villages in Pasrur tehsil after a peak 33,000 cusecs passed through the stormwater channel on......
LAHORE: PML-Q senior leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has asked Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to give priority to health sector as the people are suffering a lot because of inadequate facilities at......
LAHORE: Along one of the major city arteries, Canal Road, picking and sale of jaman (Eugenia jambolana) peaks at this time of the season (monsoon), and those involved in the activity take it......
LAHORE: Police claimed on Sunday to have busted a robbers’ gang and arrested its 10 members, recovering cash, motorcycles, cars and other valuables all worth Rs7m from them.A police team, led by CIA......
LAHORE: Popular actress and model Humaima Malick has been featured in the August edition of an international fashion magazine, according to a press release.The release says the photograph of Humaima......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital (SKMCH) in Peshawar will be opened in December this year.He said the hospitals in Lahore and......
LAHORE: The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) has asked police to stop harassing residents of Youhanabad in the wake of lynching of two men.“The police are still harassing the innocent......
LAHORE: The Lahore Arts Council (LAC) has decided to record music evenings by prominent singers to put them on sale in the shape of DVDs and CDs at subsidized rates.The council has started working on......
LAHORE: The operations police chief on Sunday expressed his resentment over the poor performance of Model Town and Iqbal Town police divisions and reprimanded the divisional superintendents of police......
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Secretary Khizar Hayyat Gondal has said availability of quality eatables at fixed price be ensured in open market like Ramazan bazaars .He issued this direction during his......
CHICAGO: Reactions in the United States to the escape from Mexican prison of a reputed drug lord ranged from disbelief to outrage, with some observers saying it dramatically illustrated the need for......
TOKYO: Nintendo said Monday that its chief executive Satoru Iwata has died of cancer at the age of 55, in an upheaval for the Japanese videogame giant just months after he abandoned a consoles-only......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Sheikh Zayed Medical College Principal Dr Ghulam Mustafa Arian claims that the Punjab government is authorised to make any decision on new admissions and Pakistan Medical and Dental......
SAHIWAL: How political loyalties have a negative impact at mohalla level and what uninvited sufferings they ?bring? ?in implementation ?of a development project worth just Rs1 million, only the......
BAHAWALPUR: Civil Lines police on Sunday claimed to have arrested five policemen, including an assistant sub-inspector (ASI), for allegedly trespassing on the house of an army officer here.The......
SIALKOT: Former National Assembly speaker Chaudhry Ameer Hussain has announced contesting the next general elections from his native constituency NA-111, Bajwat-Sialkot II, on the platform of......
GUJRAT: Three people were killed and another injured when a speeding jeep plunged into a roadside drain on Sunday evening along G.T. Road near Lalamusa.A vehicle was going to Mirpur, Azad Jammu and......
CHINIOT: The Chenab chairlift project has been hanging in the balance since 2009.When Chiniot was upgraded to district in 2009, first district coordination officer Rana Tahir Khan approved the......
ISLAMABAD: More than six months after the National Action Plan (NAP) was finalised, the Islamabad Police is still struggling to get the green signal for the special anti- terror force for the federal......
YOUR editorial ‘Report on corruption’ (July 9) is a timely reminder to the National Accountability Bureau on its poor performance. It has rightly raised many questions, especially the absence of the......
ON June 19 at 9.30pm our family was robbed at gun point on the main road near Samama Shopping Complex in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Karachi.We had stopped to pick up one of our family members when a man......
THIS is apropos ‘Storm clouds again’ (July 9) by Khurram Husain. The article fails to describe how the Pakistan economy is directly or indirectly contingent on the Greece crisis notwithstanding our......
APROPOS the editorial ‘Neglecting History’ (July 7). One is saddened by the appalling conditions in which the relics belonging to Moenjodaro, Mehrgarh and other areas are ‘preserved’. Besides......
ALTHOUGH the missing necklace, which cost us our national honour, finally stands retrieved, the very act which allowed it to happen should be thoroughly investigated and the culprits given......
THERE is no healthcare facility in Mubarak village, Karachi. A maternity home and a dispensary building were constructed by the government. Despite persistent demand by the people, doctors and other......
POLICE stop motorcyclists at intersections and on thoroughfares.The modus operandi of the policemen is to stop a vehicle and ask its driver for documents such as driver’s licence, ID card etc. They......
I LIVE in Bath Island, which used to get flooded whenever it rained heavily.Fortunately, in the last decade, a storm-water drain was built, which stopped the flooding.The storm drain worked perfectly......
THIS is apropos the death recently of a nine-month pregnant woman at a prestigious hospital in Karachi owing to medical negligence.It pains me beyond description when I think about the three innocent......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Peshawar chapter, has formed a 20-member committee to keep liaison with the officials of the federal government departments and help resolve the problems being......
NOWSHERA: Awami National Party provincial president Ameer Haidar Khan Hoti has said PTI chief Imran Khan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak should start accountability from......
MINGORA: Children, civil society activists and youth staged an awareness walk against use of toy weapons here on Sunday.A local organisation Hunar Kor Pakhtunkhwa organised the walk themed ‘say no to......
KHAR: The political administration will give priority to the development of backward areas of Bajaur Agency in the current annual development programme for tribal region, said political agent......
PESHAWAR: Despite growth in population and literacy rate, only a small number of people turn to the few government-run public libraries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The public libraries in Khyber......
After several twists and turns in the much-publicised weapons procurement scam, the accountability court finally indicted former provincial police officer (PPO) Malik Naveed Khan and a budget officer......
PESHAWAR: The Medical Emergency Relief International, UK, is planning to establish an insectary in Lower Dir to carry out research on the prevalence of different types of insects and find out the......
SWABI: Public transporters have demanded early repair of a three kilometers stretch of Topi-Tarbela road.They told mediapersons here on Sunday that it was the responsibility of the Chinese company,......
PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has criticised the federal government for what he said carrying out unannounced and unscheduled loadshedding in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which......
KARAK: The residents of Karak city have complained of the acute shortage of drinking water, saying the tehsil municipal administration (TMA) has failed to provide the required quantity of water to......
RAWALPINDI: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) closed the investigation into the suicide bomb attack on the Imambargah in Gracy Lane on December 12, 2013. Like two bomb attacks in the past, the......
KOHAT: A girl and a boy were killed during a robbery attempt in Barh area here on Sunday, police said.They identified the victims as Laiba, 12, and her cousin Aamir Naveed. They said Laiba put up......
GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan administration on Sunday closed Kaghan-Naran road passing through the Babusar Pass to all kinds of traffic over security reasons.A press release issued by Diamer duty......
MANSEHRA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan is due to arrive here on Monday (today) to contact party activists before finalising name of the candidate for district nazim, Mansehra, as......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Sunday directed the officers concerned to take effective measures and ensure availability of edibles and other items in weekly bazaars during the......
ISLAMABAD: The name of Arshad Abbasi was erroneously reported as a participant in a seminar in a story published on July 8 under the headline ‘Natural disasters ignite blame game not serious......
RAWALPINDI: The tradition of eating Kheer on Eid-ul-Fitr in Pakistan is so old, that this first Eid of the Islamic calendar is often commonly called Meethi Eid (sweet eid). This creamy rice based......
ISLAMABAD: Enthusiasm for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project in the official circles apart, the Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) is still reluctant to give......
ISLAMABAD: Around 70 per cent kidney patients use herbs or get treatment from homeopathic doctors and approach urologists only when their disease becomes incurable.At that stage, the urologists have......
ISLAMABAD: Valuables worth over Rs1 million have been stolen from different areas of the city.Complainant Imtiaz Khan informed the Karachi Company police that goods worth of Rs570,000 were stolen......
ISLAMABAD: More than six months after the National Action Plan (NAP) was finalised, the Islamabad Police is still struggling to get the green signal for the special anti- terror force for the federal......
RAWALPINDI: After its defeat in the recent cantonment board elections, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to reorganise itself in all the 20 wards of the cantonments.In this regard, the......
ISLAMABAD: Zain Shah is very worried. The caretaker of an imambargah that has been the target of two suicide attacks, he continues to fear a third.“We have not received any direct threats from......
RAWALPINDI: Dozens of people, affected by the first monsoon showers on Tuesday which left at least 13 people dead, staged a protest in Westridge on Sunday.Of the 13 victims, seven were reported......
ISLAMABAD: The police arrested seven people and found alcohol and drugs from their possession.The Bharakahu Police nabbed a man and recovered 180 liquor bottles from him. The man was taken to a......
RAWALPINDI: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) closed the investigation into the suicide bomb attack on the Imambargah in Gracy Lane on December 12, 2013. Like two bomb attacks in the past, the......
ISLAMABAD: Construction of a new bus stand by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) in I-11/4 is still lingering, much to the inconvenience of both the transporters and passengers.According to the......
ISLAMABAD: The unrest among the faculty members of the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) over the vice chancellor (VC)’s recent move to remove the dean of social sciences has ended on the intervention of......
SHEIKHUPURA: Three outlaws were killed in an alleged encounter with police on Purana Narang Road near Adhian village early on Sunday.The Narang police said that six criminals on two snatched......
SIALKOT: Police temporarily buried the body of an unidentified Indian as a trust near Head Marala on Sunday.According to the senior officials of the Punjab Rangers, the body of the old man had......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A man allegedly axed his sister to death for demanding her share in property at Chak 741-GB, Pirmahal, on Sunday.Police said Razia Bibi had filed a case against her brother, Murtaza......
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday held a meeting with Corps Commander Lt- Gen Naveed Mukhtar and the director general of the Sindh Rangers, where tough......
KARACHI: Even though the weather has improved to some extent, the problem with electricity just doesn’t seem to end as starting from Saturday night the city experienced another massive power......
KARACHI: More than 50 per cent buses, minibuses and coaches in the city have disappeared from roads with some 200 routes being shrunk to only 80 over the past decade mainly due to ‘increase in fuel......
It was January 2010. The venue was Punjab University Oriental College, Lahore. The occasion was Muhammad Hussain Azad’s 100th death anniversary. Prof Dr Tehseen Firaqi, the then head of Urdu......
KARACHI: A three-person exhibition of artworks titled Celebrating Pakistani rich heritage opened at the Majmua Art Gallery on Thursday evening. The participating artists — Naushad Alam, Sheraz and......
KARACHI: Talk to any theatre artist worth his salt and he will tell you that Karachi has only one auditorium which could be measured against international standards. This means, the arena, the......
BADIN: A large number of farmers and their supporters took out rallies and held demonstrations in several towns of the district on Sunday to voice anger over the fire at a camp of farmers in New......
KARACHI: Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari, Sindh government’s ambassador for polio, visited the Lyari General Hospital on Sunday to review health facilities available to patients in the old city area.She......
HYDERABAD: Opposing calls for reconstitution of the National Accountability Bureau under new legislation, Sindh United Party (SUP) president Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah has warned that this will benefit......
SUKKUR: Members of a Qambrani family have accused Sukkur police of having picked up three of their relatives three days ago without any reason and feared police may kill them in a fake encounter.Ms......
In the Canadian city of Iqaluit, labourers are working long hours to finish the region’s first mosque before winter. And they’re doing so without eating or drinking anything, even water, for almost......
NIAMEY: A soldier and three Boko Haram members died early on Sunday when the militants raided a prison in southeastern Niger in a likely bid to free detained colleagues, humanitarian and government......
BEIRUT: A bomb explosion on Sunday in a tunnel near Aleppo Citadel in Syria damaged a wall of the fortress that is part of the Unesco-listed Old City, state media and a monitor reported.The blast......
NEW DELHI: Ten endangered Asiatic lions, 1670 blue bulls and 87 spotted deer were amongst hundreds of wild animals killed in the recent floods to hit west India’s Gujarat, a government report said on......
ISTANBUL: Turkish security forces have over the last three days detained 45 foreign nationals seeking to cross into Syria to join Islamic State group (IS) jihadists from the southeastern city of......
ISTANBUL: A Kurdish militant group on Sunday threatened to stage guerrilla attacks on hydroelectric dams being built in southeastern Turkey, accusing the government of violating a fragile......
JUBA: A UN diplomat based in South Sudan’s northern Unity state will be expelled from the state in a retaliatory move following the publication of a human rights report last month that accused......
MIAMI: There’s a near-perfect heart shape on Pluto’s rusty red surface. The dwarf planet is dotted with bright points which may be ice caps, and a mysterious dark shape nicknamed “The......
CAIRO: Close friends and family paid respects on Sunday to cinema legend Omar Sharif, who will forever be remembered as the eponymous “Doctor Zhivago”, at a solemn funeral in his native Egypt.Sharif,......
BAGHDAD: Iraq and the World Bank signed a $350 million loan agreement on Sunday to fund emergency reconstruction in towns recaptured from Islamic State group (IS) militants, a deal Baghdad said......
TRIPOLI: The jihadist Islamic State group (IS) acknowledged losing control of the city of Derna in eastern Libya, promising to “avenge” its fighters, in a video posted on Twitter.The 10-minute video......
ALMOLOYA JUAREZ: Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman escaped through a lengthy tunnel under his prison cell’s shower, authorities said on Sunday, marking his second jail break and an......
TEHRAN: Iran has changed a law to make divorce by mutual consent invalid unless couples have first undergone state-run counselling, the country’s latest move to tackle a rise in broken marriages.The......
BAGHDAD: A series of bombings on Sunday across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed at least 14 people and wounded 41, police officials said.The deadliest attack took place at the Aden checkpoint in......
TAIPEI: Known as “xiao-la-jiao” or “little hot pepper” for her straight-talking style, unlikely presidential hopeful Hung Hsiu-chu encapsulates the crisis facing Taiwan’s ruling Kuomintang (KMT) —......
LONDON: Novak Djokovic got the better of Roger Federer at Wimbledon again.The defending champion displayed his full acrobatic repertoire to win a third Wimbledon title and a ninth Grand Slam crown on......
HARARE: India’s Ajinkya Rahane and Murali Vijay put on a century opening stand to lay the platform for a 62-run victory over Zimbabwe and a series win in the second One-day International at Harare......
CARDIFF: Paceman Mitchell Johnson is still a class act despite a poor first Test with the ball but Australia know he will not get the fast pitches he thrives on in the rest of the Ashes series, coach......
DHAKA: Bangladesh thrashed South Africa by seven wickets in the second One-day International on Sunday to tie the three-match series at 1-1 after an inspired bowling performance saw the Proteas......
HOUSTON: Dustin Corea scored off a free kick in injury time to lift El Salvador to a 1-1 draw with winless Costa Rica in their CONCACAF Gold Cup match on Saturday.Costa Rica had one foot in the......
CARSON (California): Steven Gerrard made a quiet start to his new career with the Los Angeles Galaxy as they beat Mexico’s Club America 2-1 in the opening game of the International Champions Cup game......
MADRID: Iker Casillas had no words of regret or rancour as he put an emotional end to his 25 years as a Real Madrid goalkeeper on Sunday, promising instead to “not let down” his new fans at FC......
ZURICH: Switzerland now has 81 reports of suspicious financial activity linked to FIFA’s decisions to let Russia and Qatar run the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments, the Swiss attorney general’s......
CARDIFF: England on Sunday named an unchanged 13-man squad for the second Ashes Test against Australia which starts at Lord’s on Thursday.Stuart Broad led England to a 169-run victory in the first......
PLUMELEC: Chris Froome stayed firmly on track for the Tour de France title when he retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey after the ninth stage, a 28-kilometre team time trial won by the......
HOHENSTEIN-ERNSTTHAL (Germany): Two-time defending world champion Marc Marquez’ extraordinary record at the Sachsenring continued on Sunday as he won the German MotoGP from pole position for his......
KARACHI: Fifty-five athletes, 21 coaches and two officials along with one doctor, making a 77-member contingent, are all set to leave for Los Angeles (LA), California, in the United States of America......
KARACHI: India is among 16 nations who have confirmed their participation in the Jubilee Insurance IBSF World 6-Reds and Team Championship — men’s, women’s and master’s — which takes place at hotel......
KARACHI: The Karachi Hockey Association (KHA) has voiced their concern on the step-motherly treatment which is meted out to the national game and suggested that Chief of the Army Staff Gen Raheel......
KARACHI: A brilliant all-round performance by skipper Mohammad Sami inspired Dollar East to the semi-finals of the 28th Aga Khan Gymkhana Ramzan Cricket Tournament for the State Life Trophy with a......
KARACHI: Omar CC and Touchme CC booked their places in the semi-finals of the 30th Karachi Gymkhana Omar Associates Ramazan Cricket Festival with convincing quarter-final victories here at the KG......
KARACHI: Upcoming opener Fakhar Zaman excelled with a blazing knock as Dollar East stormed into the final of the third Naya Nazimabad Ramazan Cricket Tournament with a tense three-wicket win over......
LAHORE: Four-year-old colt Moon The Great put up a smashing performance by winning the feature event during the Lahore Winter Meeting at the Racecourse here on Sunday.The 7-23 chance half-bred colt......
THE central bank, by rejecting bids that demanded higher yields during the Treasury bill auction last Wednesday, was able to raise Rs99.8bn from the auction, against its target of Rs150bn.The cut-off......
THE power sector in India has seen remarkable transformation in recent years in the area of generation. However, a major obstacle on the way is the failure of the transmission sector to adapt to the......
SO what should the eurozone do now? Last week I concluded that the Greeks should vote Yes. They decided instead overwhelmingly to reject the terms of a deal that had been withdrawn. What might that......
George Osborne’s trademark historical reference in this Budget was an old RAF bunker whose restoration he will fund. The chancellor may need that bolt-hole. Cutting corporation tax to 18pc by 2020......
AS Prime Minister Narendra Modi tries to accelerate India’s transformation from a predominately rural, agrarian society to an industrialised, urbanised economy with smart cities and industrial......
IN an interesting development, the federal government has gotten ‘silent’ approval from all the provinces to move forward with its plans to merge the two energy sector regulators — National Electric......
AS the world watched in nervousness how Greece fared at the negotiating table with its creditors after the referendum that endorsed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s position on austerity, the economic......
Imagine an investor losing $16bn in just 24 minutes. Sounds incredible, but that is exactly what had happened in May, setting the stage for a 33pc meltdown in the Shanghai market in three weeks.It......
The rupee managed to appreciate marginally against the dollar last week, as the reserve currency was said to be in ample supply in both the interbank and open markets.Nonetheless, on the interbank......
Over the past few years, the banking industry has emerged as one of the better performing sectors of the economy. Be it after-tax earnings growth, dividend yields or stock price appreciation, most......
Since the establishment of the Steering Committee for the Development of Islamic Finance in September 2013, various steps have been taken to facilitate the Islamic finance industry.To name a few of......
Eight years ago this month, the investment bank Bear Stearns announced that it would liquidate two of its hedge funds involved in trading mortgage-backed securities. It was one of the first major......
The implementation of the energy and infrastructure projects identified under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is being done on a fast-track basis on both sides to translate the plans into......
REAL estate is among the murkiest and most underdeveloped markets in the country. And yet, residential and commercial property remains the most favoured asset for most Pakistanis to invest in.The......
HAVING failed to achieve the universal Millennium Development Goals, the policymakers are setting their own Sustainable Development Goals in the light of local conditions and experience.The......
TUNNEL farming is finally getting increased attention of the provincial governments and its popularity among growers is set to rise within the next few years.Initially individual farmers had resorted......
PAKISTAN’S horticulture has been badly hit by global warming and extreme weather, and a major casualty this season has been the mango crop in Punjab.Mango output has also been affected in south......
Punjab has started moving quickly to implement its budget strategy, putting extension services under one roof, creating what it calls an agriculture hub that would provide one-window access to......
QUETTA: Iranian authorities arrested 124 Pakistanis after they had crossed into Iran illegally.The Iranian officials informed Pakistani authorities about the arrest of 124 illegal immigrants and......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: One person was killed and another injured in a clash between two groups over a piece of land in Gandawah area Jhal Magsi district on Sunday.Levies officials said armed tribesmen......
WASHINGTON: The United States has welcomed India and Pakistan’s decision to hold bilateral talks on three key issues, security, people-to-people ties and the Mumbai trial.In its second statement on a......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to conduct re-polling in at least 350 polling stations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the local bodies elections on July 30, says a......
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of the Engro Fertilisers called on Finance Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar here on Sunday.The delegation apprised the minister about Engro’s production plan and its contribution......
LAHORE: In what may be called a turning point in the national taxation history, the government and traders are inching towards an agreement on documenting the undocumented parallel economy.In a......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif continues to avoid Pakistani media during his foreign visits, as seen also during his recent visit to Russia where he held an important meeting with his Indian......
LAHORE: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has said that there are no differences between the federal and Sindh governments over the targeted operation being conducted by the law-enforcement......
LAHORE: PPP Senator Aitzaz Ahsan admitted on Sunday that his party had suffered because of its ‘reconciliation’ policy towards the ruling PML-N.Speaking at an Iftar dinner, Mr Ahsan alleged that......
RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) seized over 127 kilograms of narcotics, arrested 15 suspects and impounded four vehicles in 11 operations conducted recently in different parts of the......
ISLAMABAD: After setting up the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR), the government is now preparing to establish a similar body to protect rights of children in accordance with the United......
QUETTA: Two people were killed and two others injured in a clash between two groups in Nadir area of Loralai on Sunday, Levies officials said.They said the gunbattle during which both sides used......
KARACHI: PML-Functional chief Pir Sibghatullah Shah Rashdi has cautioned against withdrawal of the Rangers from Karachi or having a confrontation with it.He said the Rangers were called by the......
ARRABA (West Bank): Israel released on Sunday a Palestinian prisoner who staged a 56-day hunger strike which brought him near death in a protest against the controversial procedure allowing detainees......
VIENNA: Talks between world powers and Iran on a historic nuclear deal entered on Sunday what France described as the ‘final phase’, but Washington warned major issues must still be overcome.Hopes......
BRUSSELS: Eurozone leaders set Greece brutal take-it-or-leave-it conditions for a desperately needed bailout deal at a summit on Sunday as an exit from the single currency loomed ever larger.Hawkish......
DHAKA: Police who seized Asia’s largest known shipment of liquid cocaine at a Bangladeshi port late last month say it was headed for India, the latest sign that drug cartels are increasingly plying......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has called upon the army chief to take notice of the alleged violation of army’s code of conduct by the director general of Sindh Rangers and......
BEKAA VALLEY: Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on Sunday by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world......
KARACHI: The Sindh Apex Committee expressed concern on Sunday over low conviction rate of criminals and formed a committee comprising the provincial chief secretary and prosecutor general to seek......
LAHORE: Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid has advised people to pay Zakat and charity to institutions which save lives and not to those producing suicide bombers.Addressing a ceremony held here on......
ISLAMABAD: The government and Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) have agreed on a broad code of conduct for electronic media but differences on at least three critical issues still need to be......
BAGHDAD: A series of bombings Sunday across the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, killed at least 29 people and wounded 81, police officials said.No one immediately claimed responsibility for the......
KARACHI: Several areas of the city plunged into darkness yet again late on Sunday night as there were reports of a technical breakdown in K-Electric's transmission system. This is the fourth such......
SINDH is home to a large youth population that is utterly frustrated, bitter and angry. They are also an incredible social, economic and psychological burden for their struggling families and......
STOP me if you’ve heard this one: what do humans and giant asteroids have in common? Give up? I’ll tell you: they’re both responsible for mass extinctions.Not funny? It’s not meant to be. There have......
IN August 2016, Pakistan will complete the final review of its extended arrangements with the IMF. In the absence of major hiccups, the country would be able to heave a sigh of relief.The crisis......
POLITICIANS have long been wary of accountability because it has so often been used to stunt the democratic process in the past. But there is a line that separates legitimate concerns from the desire......
THE challenge that Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has thrown down for us deserves to be taken seriously. The young and courageous campaigner for education said at a UN-sponsored education summit in......
MAKKAH: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday performed Umrah and met Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz.Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud held a meeting with......
ABDULLAH Hussein is no more with us. He has passed away, leaving behind what was most precious with him. It is now for us to make an assessment of it to the best of our understanding. We should at......
HOW is it possible to craft silence? Perhaps in the same way that a painter crafts light out of pigment, shape out of shadow, perhaps in the manner that saints have spoken of from their hallowed......
IT all began when one eager and bright-eyed young person asked me to recommend some good books for the summer. But then again, young people keep coming up with such demands and I thought no more of......
AN ex-economics professor and a black market thug in Baghdad ‘inherit’ a high-profile ex-torturer from former Iraqi president Saddam Hussain’s now defunct regime. “We should kill him,” says Kinza,......
CLARICE Lispector’s eminence as one of the superior fiction writers of the 20th century is not so widely known, though those familiar with her background and intellectual depth accord her work,......
INSTRUMENTAL music has one big advantage over vocal music, it has no linguistic barriers to surmount, which is why Pandit Ravi Shankar could popularise the ragas played on his sitar the world over......
“WHAT do you breed...Thoroughbreds?” Queen Elizabeth asks her. She replies, “Yes your majesty [...] one sired by your great horse, Aureole”. Queen Noor of Jordan has her as her lady-in-waiting;......
KHOST: At least 18 people were killed and six wounded Sunday in a suicide car bomb attack near a military base in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost, where Afghan and foreign soldiers are......
