MINGORA: At least six persons were killed and 15 others injured in different accidents in Swat on Saturday, local authorities reported.According to Charbagh police officials, four passengers died on......
NEW DELHI: A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of people in eastern India left two women dead Saturday, police said, the second deadly stampede at an Indian Hindu......
RIYADH: Saudi authorities announced on Saturday that they have broken up an organisation linked to the Islamic State group and have so far arrested 431 of its members, mostly Saudis.Authorities have......
TEHRAN: Iran's top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said a historic nuclear deal with world powers reached this week won't change Iran's policy towards the “arrogant” government of the United......
PARIS: French Formula One driver Jules Bianchi died Friday night from head injuries he suffered in a crash at last season's Japanese Grand Prix, after spending nine months in a coma.Bianchi, 25, had......
Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq has just one wish before he walks away from the game: play a Test in Pakistan.The 41-year-old Misbah, who has only played five of his 58 Tests for Pakistan at home, was......
Celebs from all over the globe took to social media networks to spread some love on the auspicious occasion of Eil-ul-Fitr this year.Local celebs tweeted happy thoughts and prayers.Bilal Lashari sent......
ISLAMABAD: Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) resorted to firing along with the Line of Control (LoC) at Jammu and Kashmir sector on Saturday morning, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR)......
KHAN SAAD: Rescuers in the Iraqi town of Khan Bani Saad were searching collapsed buildings for bodies Saturday after a car bomb ripped through a busy market, killing at least 90 people.The suicide......
KABUL: A roadside bomb killed six policemen in western Afghanistan on Saturday, as they were patrolling on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eidul Fitr, officials said.The bomb tore through a......
Pakistan and India border guards will not exchange customary greetings and sweets on the occasion of Eidul Fitr, said a report published on Hindustan Times.Indian Border Security Force (BSF) Deputy......
Mahira Khan and Humayun Khan's film Bin Roye is a dramatic romance, but how many of us know about all the drama that happened off screen?It's not wrong to say that a separate film could be made on......
The trailer of Pakistan's mega budget film, Yalghaar, which is scheduled to come out later this year, has been released.The film revolves around the lives of valiant soldiers who have sacrificed......
This article was originally published on July 18, 2015.Akhtar Balouch, also known as the Kiranchi Wala, ventures out to bring back to Dawn.com’s readers the long forgotten heritage of Karachi. Stay......
Eid is the time of year to go all out. Eat, drink, and be merry. Every household has their own traditions and must-have items on the dining table. When it comes to dessert, savaiyaan are a standard......
LOS ANGELES: Lionel Messi and Neymar have been left out of Barcelona's squad for the Spanish giants' three-match tour of the United States, the club confirmed Friday.Argentinian superstar Messi and......
My memories associated with Ramazan and meethi Eid are of wonderful times with family, friends; food, laughter, joy and of course, saviyaan.My mother made the most delicious saviyaan come Eid every......
SYDNEY: Australian police Saturday said a suspicious item, believed to be a crude improvised explosive device, found near the Sydney home of cricketer Brad Haddin appeared to have been left there......
PESHAWAR: A Superintendent of Police (SP) Elite Force Bannu Hairul Haseeb was killed on Saturday in Saleem Khan area of Swabi district.According to District Police Officer Swabi Sajjad Khan, Hairul......
THE growing ethnic consciousness and insecurity among various ethnic groups in Northeast India on the eve of independence led to various demands for autonomy. These movements did not start as a......
IN the early 18th century, the Ottoman Empire was on relatively peaceful terms with Europe but there was an increasing class divide that resulted in a janissary revolt. Referred to as the Tulip Era......
HAD he been a painter, Mustansar Hussain Tarar would have surely specialised in painting murals. He loves to paint big and in his own world of words, the tendency is expressed in the shape of novels.......
ONE of the earliest reviews of Mirza Ruswa’s Umrao Jan Ada appeared in Mi’yar (Lucknow) in 1899. It began: “Taken as a whole this tale is written on the same model that Mr Reynolds used to write his......
IT is only out of good fortune that one stumbles upon a book like Blueprint for revolution by Srdja Popovic. The full title, Blueprint for Revolution: How to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other......
MAKING most of the summer and rediscovering the joys of reading I keep on adding to my list of recommendations. It is an ever-expanding list not intended to be strictly followed. It is as wide and......
Judging by the trailer of the film, it seems that Muzaffar Ali’s Jaanisaar is going to blow away many a mind and make a mockery of the fluffiness and drivel associated with modern-day Bollywood.The......
Technology: boon or bane? This is the question that Bollywood heartthrob Salman Khan has been asking lately and has even lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime Cell after someone tampered with his......
The Pakistani-born Hollywood actor Faran Tahir is now a name to be reckoned with. With each passing year, he is signing projects, both film and TV, that are strengthening his portfolio.The latest of......
Spy is wickedly funny when it sticks to the comedy, but is a bit of a snore fest when it goes undercover as an action film. Thankfully, the non-stop barrage of goofy characters, slapstick humour, and......
During a recent trip across Scandinavia, I noticed many locals (especially in Copenhagen, Denmark), being extremely critical of the Russian President Vladimir Putin. My previous trips in these......
The ‘agora’ or the public square in Ancient Athens was a place of knowledge: people of the city would assemble here, discuss social, political and economic affairs of their daily lives, and create a......
When you meet Yasir Nawaz you get a whiff of what his upcoming movie Wrong No. is going to be like. Yasir’s grounded, yo-yoing from discussions on his upcoming movie premiere, stars and starlets to......
Perfect pathooras by the seth of Saithan Wali GaliAn extremely reticent Abid Ali stands in the main Sayd Mitha Bazaar, outside his shop, wearing only a chequered lungi. His eyes are intently fixed......
With the advent of Ramazan, many occupations offer considerable relief to their practitioners, but cookery is not one of them.Ghulam Haider has been associated with cooking from the age of 20 years......
It’s an elaborate affair. Long, almost to the point of being tedious; intricate — only experts tend to get it right; and delicate — one needs to put a bit of heart into it to make it ‘just perfect.’......
Blaring sirens are usually taken as a sign of an emergency — in Karachi’s largely Shia-dominated Ancholi area, perhaps a siren is needed to tell residents, Ancholi Dil Pasand Chaat is open for......
Over the past 20 years or so, yoga and fitness have not only changed her physically, but also the way she perceives and approaches life emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.Silver-haired with warm......
General Ziaul Haq’s singular focus during the early years of his regime remained on grasping the intricacies of civilian administration, and he soon found out that he knew little about foreign......
Can there be anything more annoying than the ‘zzzzzz’ sound of a mosquito in your ear just as you have nodded off? Can there be anything as distressing as finding those telltale, red bites all over......
It’s generally believed that homemade food is safer than food available in the market. Is it really so? Think carefully before you agree.While we now have a greater variety of food available in the......
Whether we accept it or not it’s a fact that the majority of us are addicted to Facebook. From updating our statuses to sharing the latest photographs we take, Facebook has become synonymous with our......
It’s not every day that a country turns 148 years old. And what better way to celebrate a summer birthday than to hold a four-day culinary event in the gardens of a castle located in its largest......
Dear Auntie, I’m married and have two kids. My marriage was arranged. I suppress my feelings so hard I go numb. I can’t cry. The scariest part is that I believe I am going to plant my horrible self......
This week, as promised, we will take a look at the different soil depths required for growing various types of plants — edible and ornamental — in beds and borders with special emphasis on those......
It may be a matter of opinion, even bias, that how ‘truth’ is to be viewed. In the case of a current show of contemporary art titled “And Nothing but the Truth: Parrhesia 11” at Koel Gallery,......
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), the Italian Baroque artist painted ‘Narcissus’ (1597-99), oil on canvas, 43 inches × 36 inches, depicting the story of Narcissus, the son of a Nymph......
The boundaries of what we call ‘visual art’ have not only expanded over time, but continue to overlap with various mediums of self-expression. More specifically, the ‘fine arts’, which earlier on......
‘They came, they saw, they conquered’ is exactly how many professional athletes are described to have done during their heyday. Wherever they went, they were cheered, loved and mobbed by their fans —......
“A live performance connects the performer with the audience brilliantly and is experiential. If the audience is bored they react instantly and the performer registers it,” says Sunidhi Chauhan, the......
Aik Tha BadshahAN: “Noori’s new video Aik Tha Badshah is directed by Mandana Zaidi. We had been working on it for quite a sometime. Actually, the video was supposed to be for another song but when......
Meanwhile, the year 2015 has been pretty good for Karachi as far as live performances are concerned. Thanks to BodyBeat’s 3rd edition of Unplugged, the atmosphere was charged by Ali Noor and Ali......
KARACHI: Eidul Fitr is being celebrated throughout the country with religious fervour and zeal today.Eid congregations were held at open places‚ mosques and Eidgahs in all major cities of the......
First car madeJuly 23, 1886ON this day, Gottlieb Daimler gets into his new invention. It looks like a horse-drawn buggy, but it was a one cylinder 1.1 HP engine mounted in the back seat. The first......
A plot on Sun, anyone?IT seems that property business is really going out of this world as Spanish woman Maria Angeles Duran who, back in 2010, declared that she owned the Sun and intended to bill......
“I WON’T go to school! I won’t!” I screamed at mum.“You have to, your papers are starting next week!” she replied.“I’m not going, you never make him go!” I snarled, pointing at my older brother.“He......
TRRRING, trrring…. I woke up instantly. Hopping out of bed, I hit snooze on my alarm clock, and almost tripped in my hurry to reach my wardrobe. Pushing it open, I smiled as I took in the pleasing......
HARARE: A superb spell of bowling on debut from young left-arm spinner Axar Patel helped India cruise to a 54-run victory over Zimbabwe in the first Twenty20 International here at the Harare Sports......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s record-breaking middle-order batsman Younis Khan on Friday said that while the Almighty Allah has been very kind to him during his achievements in the game, reaching the great......
TOKYO: Japan scrapped the design of the Olympic stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Games because of soaring costs on Friday and said it will reopen bidding for a new plan, in a stunning reversal that leaves......
PARIS: Robin van Persie’s new team Fenerbahce have a tough date with Shakhtar Donetsk while last season’s quarter-finalists Monaco must overcome Swiss outfit Young Boys Berne to reach the Champions......
NEWPORT: Rajeev Ram continued his upset run at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships ATP grass court tournament here on Thursday, saving two match points against French fifth seed Adrian Mannarino to......
MOSCOW: Russian race walkers are unlikely to take part in next month’s world athletics championships in Beijing, acting president of the Russian Athletics Federation (VFLA) Vadim Zelichenok said on......
SEOUL: South Korea’s Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan maintains he was not told about the contents of an injection that led to him to failing a doping test and says a doctor currently on trial......
ST ANDREWS: Danny Willett took up the challenge of giving England a first Open champion in 23 years at St Andrews on Friday shooting a three-under 69 in the second round.The 27-year-old from......
SYDNEY: Troubled Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic has admitted he made a mistake after being arrested in Miami for refusing to turn down the music at a hotel penthouse party.The fiery......
LAHORE: A competitive card of six events will be decided when the Lahore Summer Meeting races get under way at the Racecourse here on Monday (July 20).Races scheduled to be held on Sunday have been......
ZURICH: Swiss authorities extradited to the United States the first of seven current and former FIFA officials arrested in a corruption investigation while world football’s governing body hired a New......
KARACHI: Riding on a crest wave, Dollar East completed a double early Friday morning by lifting the Dr M. A. Shah Night Ramazan Trophy with a thumping six-wicket victory over Omar Associates in an......
KARACHI: Pakistan discarded duo Sharjeel Khan and Khurram Manzoor plundered quickfire half-centuries as Touchme CC upstaged Dollar East by six wickets to lift the 28th Aga Khan Gymkhana Ramazan......
KARACHI: Former champion and chairman selection committee Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) Khwaja Saeed Hai on Friday congratulated the Pakistan tennis team for winning their Davis Cup semifinal......
MACAU: China’s “Ik” Yang Lian Hui weighed in successfully on Friday for his world title fight against Argentina’s Cesar Cuenca and then declared that he was in the best shape of his life.Undefeated......
LAHORE: Pakistan cricket team’s hopes of qualifying for the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 suffered a major blow as the International Cricket Council has banned all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez from bowling......
LONDON: Steven Smith’s maiden Test double century ensured Australia maintained their grip on the second Test against England at Lord’s here on Friday.Smith’s 215, the seventh highest individual Test......
LONDON: As Australia resumed play in the second Test on Friday morning at 337 for one having had very little trouble from England’s bowlers on the opening day the dead pitch was a hot topic of......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s export of services grew by 7.95 per cent to $5.367 billion during the first 11 months (July-May) of 2014-15 from $4.972bn a year ago, suggested Pakistan Bureau of Statistics......
KARACHI: EngroElengy Terminal received its first shipment of 130,000 cubic metre of liquefied natural gas (LNG) on Friday.“A vessel carrying the LNG shipment was successfully berthed at Port Qasim......
LONDON: The World Bank has completed its auction of UN-backed carbon credits from projects designed to cut methane emissions, with winners securing a guaranteed price more than five times higher than......
KARACHI: The chances of Pakistan switching over to Iranian crude oil from the existing sources appear slim in the near future due to refineries configuration and freight economics.Nevertheless, the......
LAHORE: As the mango season comes to an end, the earlier losses caused by the climate change, are becoming evident, hitting domestic prices and exports.Pakistan’s mango exports may not hit the......
WASHINGTON: Demand from the world’s biggest economy is already propping up exports in the number two. Meantime, consumption in China contributed 60 per cent to gross domestic product growth in the......
LAHORE: Almost half of the processing capacity of domestic solvent extraction companies remains unused because of unavailability of locally grown oilseeds and low prices of imported palm olein used......
NEW YORK: A former top US military intelligence official has made a scathing attack on the White House’s counter-terrorism strategy, including the US military’s drone war and the administration’s......
JERUSALEM: Hamas says its leader shook hands with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman after Eid prayers, signaling an easing of tensions over the Palestinian group’s ties with Saudi regional rival Iran.There......
CHATTANOOGA: Investigators trying to determine why a 24-year-old Kuwait-born Tennessee man gunned down four Marines are looking at his travel to Jordan last year to see whether he was in contact with......
TOKYO: Powerful Typhoon Nangka lashed Japan on Friday, killing at least two people and triggering floods as authorities urged more than 230,000 residents to evacuate.Packing gusts up to 126......
ANURADHAPURA: Sri Lanka’s former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa formally launched his political comeback bid on Friday from the historic Buddhist pilgrim town of Anuradhapura with a call for ethnic......
CAIRO: At least six people were killed on Friday in clashes between pro-Islamist protesters and Egyptian police in Cairo, the health ministry said.Supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed......
KANO: Three girls staged suicide bombings in the Nigerian city of Damaturu on Friday, killing at least 13 people as residents prepared for the Eid festival, police said.The attacks, in a......
ATHENS: Greece appealed for EU assistance on Friday to battle wildfires raging on the outskirts of Athens and in the southern Peloponnese region that forced the evacuation of several villages.Prime......
MUMBAI: India’s most expensive film ever, “Baahubali”, is close to quickly recouping its massive $40 million-dollar budget after a record-breaking week at the box office, an industry analyst said on......
BANGKOK: Suspected militants have shot dead two Thai soldiers and burned their bodies, police said on Friday, in the latest outbreak of violence in the kingdom’s insurgency-battered deep south.The......
NEW YORK: New York’s first men’s fashion week wrapped up on Thursday, with designers hailing the new four-day showcase as an effective platform to reach clients in a quickly growing market.John......
SUDDENLY last week, after weeks of acrimony, arguments and threats, the dark clouds over the European Union appeared to clear slightly.EU leaders fought off fears of a Greek exit from the Eurozone by......
KONYE URGENCH: The towering minaret and mausoleums of Konye-Urgench in isolated Turkmenistan cut striking forms against the desert sky, yet few foreign visitors make it to a site once at the centre......
MIAMI: The future is murky for tens of thousands of Cuban immigrants who have been ordered by immigration authorities to leave the country, with the United States and Cuba moving closer to fully......
TEHRAN: Iran’s nuclear deal with major powers will boost “security, stability and regional cooperation,” President Hassan Rouhani told Oman’s Sultan Qaboos, state news agency IRNA reported on......
ISLAMABAD: The government and the opposition appear bent upon amending or replacing the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Ordinance, especially after the bureau exposed before the Supreme Court......
GWADAR: A woman was killed and 45 passengers were injured when a bus carrying members of the Zikri community from Turbat to Gwadar overturned at a bridge on the coastal highway.The Zikris were......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has suspended the party membership of its MPA from Peshawar Ziaullah Afridi who is facing charges of misuse of authority as minister for mines and......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: A man was killed in Goth Nawaz Jat area of Nasirabad district over some matrimonial matter on Friday.Police said unidentified men barged into the house of one Muhammad Gull, 60,......
QUETTA: Security forces picked up 15 suspects belonging to banned organisations during search operations in various parts of the city on Friday.A spokesman for the Frontier Corps, Khan Wasey said......
ISLAMABAD: The voice samples of Ziaur Rehman Lakhvi are in the limelight once again since the Ufa meeting but it’s an issue that the FIA has been following for the past few years, even though the......
ISLAMABAD: In a rather unusual move, the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has objected to criticism by a federal minister and a member of Sindh cabinet.In a July 11 press talk, Minister......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has called for the continuation of Rangers’ targeted operation in Karachi till the law and order situation in the city is back to normal.The demand has been......
ISLAMABAD: The names of 5.3 million people, who have recently obtained computerised national identity cards (CNICs), have been included in the voters’ lists of Punjab and Sindh.The Election......
NEW DELHI: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has asked India to invest in infrastructure projects worth $8 billion, including an expanded role in developing a strategic port that will open up access......
WASHINGTON: In an Eid message released by his office, US President Barack Obama emphasised the importance of respecting peoples of all faiths and beliefs.“As Muslim Americans celebrate Eid across......
BRUSSELS: The EU approved a short-term loan for Greece on Friday, allowing it to make huge payments as early as next week to its international creditors while a new eurozone debt bailout is being......
KARACHI: Rangers raided the Nine Zero headquarters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in the small hours of Friday and took into custody two senior leaders of the party, including the in-charge of its......
ISLAMABAD: The Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee announced on Friday that it had received credible reports about sighting of the Shawwal crescent from Sindh and Balochistan and therefore Eidul Fitr......
ISLAMABAD: Army asked the United Nations Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) on Friday to investigate latest ceasefire violations by India along the Line of Control (LoC) and......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court is likely to take up on July 23 an application accusing the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of misleading the court by presenting an evasive list of 150 mega......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah extended on Friday the deployment of Pakistan Rangers in the province for another year to help the police and civil administration in the maintenance......
ISLAMABAD: An amount of Rs70.76 million collected from all over the country for a flood relief fund set up five years ago by former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani remains unspent.Mr Gilani,......
ISLAMABAD: A joint inquiry committee has concluded that speeding was the main cause of the July 2 railway accident near Gujranwala that left 11 army personnel and six other people dead, and held......
KARACHI: Diagnosed with Down syndrome at the age of five, Asim is the prized swimmer in a team heading to the Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles, the US, with a dream to bring home medals......
KARACHI: Hundreds of thousands of members of the Dawoodi Bohra Jamaat celebrated Eidul Fitr here and in other parts of the country on Friday.A Jamaat spokesman said the main congregation of Eid......
“A GOOD old man, sir; he will be talking, as they say, ‘when the age is in, the wit is out’,” wrote Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing. It shows that the prejudice against the old age is not new......
KARACHI: Happiness is contagious and happy occasions are open for all to celebrate. Eid may be an Islamic festival, celebrated after a month of fasting, but who doesn’t want to join in the......
KARACHI: The pre-Eid hullaballoo about one of India’s nationalist parties Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s (MNA) mindless protest against the screening in Maharashtra of Pakistani film Bin Roye has put......
HYDERABAD: There seems to be no end in sight to a decline in drought-stricken Thar people’s untold hardship as weather experts warn they must brace themselves again for the fourth drought in a......
HYDERABAD: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Hyderabad announced the results of annual examinations 2015 of secondary school certificate (SSC) part-II (Class-X) science and......
SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has said that the lodging of FIRs against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain will serve no......
KHAIRPUR: Two youths were killed when the motorcycles they were riding collided head on at a turning to Babarloi town on Friday.Area police said that the accident that took place at Babarloi Morr......
KARACHI: As the government issued another order urging people to exercise caution during their visit to beaches, experts on Friday highlighted the need for developing the coast in an eco-friendly......
KARACHI: In a bid to purge the bureaucracy of officials not free from the taint of corruption, Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Friday shook up the administrative machinery by initiating......
KARACHI: A police investigation report submitted to the Sindh home department said that Safoora bus carnage suspects were aware about the ‘hazards’ of mobile phones as they used the voice-over......
ISLAMABAD: After a gap of six months, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) will re-launch the Margalla tourist train services for Eid days.During the three Eid days, the train will be operated......
ISLAMABAD: First the Metro bus project badly damaged the greenbelts and environment of Islamabad, and now the laying of optical fibre cables for making it a ‘safe city’ has held up the work on......
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab Secretary Housing Dr Arshad Mehmood on Friday visited Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) and Leh Nullah to inspect the machinery and the plan to avoid flood like situation in......
ISLAMABAD: Unlike the previous Eids, there is no charm for Summaya Bibi, a schoolteacher, who has been waiting for the release of her salary for months.Ms Summaya is among the 850 daily-wage teaching......
ISLAMABAD: Beggars population increases in our cities during the holy month of Ramazan.And so does the number of small children found selling odd things at busy traffic signals of Islamabad. Some of......
ISLAMABAD: The Buddhist remains at Ban Fakiraan in Islamabad are not as well known as the World Heritage Sites in Taxila even though the two locations are roughly two kilometres apart.But this may be......
Farewell reception for envoysDean of the Diplomatic Corps Rodolfo Martin Saravia hosted a farewell reception for German Ambassador Cyrill Jean Nunn, Polish envoy Andrzej Ananicz and the Ambassador of......
ISLAMABAD: The legality of a housing society located near the New Islamabad International Airport is at stake as the Lahore High Court (LHC)’s Rawalpindi bench dismissed a petition filed by the......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police have finalised a security plan on the eve of Eidul Fitr, especially for public and worship places as well as important buildings, the police said on Thursday.The......
RAWALPINDI: Two people committed suicide in different parts of the city on Friday, police said.The first incident took place in Dhoke Gangal where a class 9 student, Usman Hameed, hanged......
TAXILA: The Wah cantonment police on Friday claimed to have busted a four-member gang of thieves besides unearthing a distillery and arresting four persons for running this illegal business.Police......
Eidul Fitr prayers will be offered at various places in twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad as per following schedule:Islamabad5:50am: Ahl-e-Hadith Eidgah, F-11/G-11 Cricket Ground.6am:......
ISLAMABAD: Taking advantage of the upcoming Eid holidays, the retailers have pushed up prices of fruit and vegetable on the grounds that supply trucks were not reaching the wholesale market.On the......
RAWALPINDI: The transporters overcharged commuters going to their hometown on Friday to celebrate Eidul Fitr as the district administration has turned a blind eye to the people’s miseries.The......
TAXILA: A man falsely claimed that his 15-year-old daughter has illegally been detained by administration of a seminary as she was found from a private girl hostel where she went on her own will......
MUZAFFARABAD: A group of around 40 devoted volunteers has been organising “dastarkhan” (cloth on which food is served), from first of Ramazan, offering Iftar-cum-dinner to as many as 700......
Not long ago technologists and developers had claimed that there would soon be ‘an app’ for everything. Today, with the saturation of the smartphone market and a general preference for handheld......
LAHORE: The Lahore Zoo has made special arrangements for Eidul Fitr, including various activities for children, introduction of pet birds, stuffed animals and jubilant clowns.The zoo here, an 18th......
LAHORE: PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain has condemned Indian aggression along the working boundary in the Sialkot sector and along the control line on the eve of Eidul Fitr and has expressed......
LAHORE: The Punjab cotton crop is under substantial pest pressure as the changing character and pests are making its management harder, say farmers from the central and southern part of the......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI’s) Punjab and Lahore leaders in their Eid messages have stressed that people should include have-nots in their Eid celebrations and remember the families of......
LAHORE: The City District Government of Lahore (CDGL), the Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) and the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) have completed arrangements to maintain cleanliness,......
Every time I visit the now decaying Lahore Fort, the one structure that continues to fascinate me of the 21 monuments in the fort now listed in the World Heritage Monuments list, is the Naulakha......
FAISALABAD: The century old bungalow which has been residence and office of additional deputy commissioners of the past has been preserved and named as the Lyallpur bungalow.The building was restored......
VEHARI: Account holders of various banks are frustrated due to out-of-order automated teller machines (ATMs) ahead of Eidul Fitr when everyone requires money to meet his urgent needs.“The bank has......
FAISALABAD: Brick kiln workers staged a sit-in outside the office of the district coordination officer (DCO) on Friday against the non-payment of wages fixed the government.Carrying placard and......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The city police on Friday registered a case against a Saddar police sub-inspector and his accomplice for lethal torture of a 23-year-old lad in custody.Complainant Arif Husain said in......
KASUR: A man died while another suffered serious injuries after falling from a moving train near the Kasur Railway Station on Friday.They were going to their homes to celebrate Eid in the packed......
MULTAN: Scores of residents of Mohallah Shah Islam, Railway Road and Saddu Saam staged demonstrations on Friday to protest against the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) for not solving the issue......
SAHIWAL: A duty doctor at the DHQ hospital emergency ward allegedly beat up a junior colleague “for not prescribing medicines of a certain pharmaceutical company to patients.”Dr Umair and his two......
LAHORE: Although eateries and restaurants are already passing through a strict food inspection mechanism, the roadside vendors doing food-related business will also be sensitized, checked and bound......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said protection of life and property of citizens is the prime responsibility of police and they should take all-out measures for the purpose.He said......
LAHORE: The city markets witnessed rush on ‘Chand Raat’ and there were many stalls, especially of henna for girls and women, in major shopping areas.Besides outlets of garments and eateries, many......
LAHORE: Heavy rain that lashed the city on Thursday night and on Friday morning ahead of the forecast of similar spell during Eid days was a real relief for the people against the extremely sultry......
LAHORE: Police found bodies of three unidentified persons on Friday and shifted them to the morgue.Police were alerted when some people spotted bodies in Tibbi City and Lower Mall areas. The bodies......
PESHAWAR: The people in some parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Federally Administered Tribal Areas celebrated Eidul Fitr on Friday though the festival will be marked in most parts of the country today......
PESHAWAR: Police recovered bodies of two women who were shot dead in the limits of Tehkal police station.An official of Tehkal police station told Dawn that the bodies were recovered from Palosai......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Prohibition of Usurious Loans Bill 2014 aimed at abolishing private money lending in the province could not be passed even more than a year after it was introduced in......
PESHAWAR: Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan while extending his felicitation to the countrymen in general and people of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata in particular on the occasion of Eidul Fitr has......
MANSEHRA: Jamaat-i-Islami candidate for the office of Oghi tehsil nazim Raja Bashir survived a gun attack in Nikkapani area here on Thursday night.However, his driver suffered bullet injuries in the......
PESHAWAR: What a metaphor! A newspaper exhibits a photo of “replica of a cactus plant” installed along GT Road to “beautify” the city. Amazing!Note the words “cactus plant” and “beautify”. Certainly......
CHITRAL: Flash floods caused by torrential rains have claimed another life in Chitral and destroyed more than 20 houses, three suspension bridges, many roads, and drinking water and irrigation......
PESHAWAR: The Penguin Young Readers Group has recently brought out an interesting series of mini-biographies. The booklets contain basic information about great playwrights, artists, scientists,......
SWABI: Awami Jamhoori Itttehad Pakistan (AJIP) secretary general Biland Iqbal has dispelled the reports about merger of his party with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.AJIP is a coalition partner of PTI......
PESHAWAR: “For the last so many years we spend our Eid crying. No one has ever come to console us,” said daughter of a journalist who was killed by target killers on Dec 31, 2007.“An FIR was......
Visit Chitral and you will find ‘Gior bisi Shanduro te’ written on the back of vehicles and on the walls of hotels and restaurants.It is an invite in local language to youths to visit Shandur, the......
SWAT: Perched in the middle of a circular range of lush green mountains and sheltered by the historic Mount Elum, Amluk Dara stupa offers both its historic majesty and scenic paradise to the......
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench has stayed the recovery of the recently imposed tariff rationalisation surcharge and financial cost surcharge by the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco)......
LONDON: Australia ripped out England's top order to take a vice-like grip on the second Ashes Test after completely dominating the second day at Lord's on Friday.Steve Smith struck a magnificent 215......
In extraordinary times will inevitably come extraordinary measures — but the costs are piling up and perhaps now unacceptably from a civil rights perspective.That an ex-minister belonging to the MQM,......
THE State Bank’s latest report on the health of the economy glitters on the outside, but the caveats buried inside tell the story. The press release begins by talking about “a visible improvement in......
A JOURNALIST’S life in Pakistan is often a perilous one, and never more so than when those in the profession work in small towns or remote areas.On Wednesday, a large number of media-persons held a......
A NEWS report in Dawn Business and Finance (July13) under the heading, ‘Workers react to low-wage new hires’, states as follows: “When a company hires new employees at a lower wage, ... the original......
CHINA is Pakistan’s most favourite country. Recently both countries signed an agreement called the China Pakistan Economic Corridor which will link Kashghar with Gwadar, a link that is about 3,200 km......
RECENTLY, workers from the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) came and dug up the entire water line in my locality, i.e. DB Cooperative Housing Society . On inquiry, they informed us that the......
THIS refers to the leader of opposition in Sindh Assembly recently speaking in the house. There was one speaker, two uninterested listeners and 14 empty seats in view.It did not appear to be a house......
THIS is apropos the news item ‘Floodwater causes 10 breaches in Nullah Dek’(July 13). It mentions the occurrence of breaches at 10 different places on the left side of Nullah Dek due to flooding......
A VISIT to streets No. 80 81 in sector I -8/3 in Islamabad is hazardous. People have encroached upon the streets, outstretched their houses and the 70 foot street road is almost 30 feet in size.......
I AM a consumer of K-Electric (KE) and paying my bills regularly. But KE has been sending me unjustified and disputed amount/arrears (Rs53,412) in my electricity bill (Account No0400006781339) for......
RELIGIOUS differences generate conflicts in society. This is the main dilemma of the Muslim world.Muslim scholars should think about this seriously and sit together to find out solution.We can learn......
WE cannot still say exactly how many people have died of the heatstroke in this recent heatwave in Karachi.However, it is very clear that the current resources such as power, water, emergency......
THIS is apropos Sakib Sherani’s article ‘The right lessons from Greece’ (July 10). There are no parallels between the Greek economy and ours. It takes only 11 million Greeks to produce the same......
AS the United States extricates itself from Afghanistan and is being pulled again into the Middle East, it is easy to forget that it is 40 years since American forces were driven out of Vietnam.A BBC......
THE 40th anniversary of the declaration of an “internal emergency” by prime minister Indira Gandhi on June 26, 1975 sparked off a furious debate as to whether its recurrence is possible now. There......
EVEN though it is approaching seven decades of independence, it seems that Pakistan remains connected with the former colonial power in inseparable ways.Over the years, many of the country’s......
EARLIER this month, Maharashtra’s BJP government voted to derecognise schools that teach religion without also teaching the primary subjects: mathematics, science, and English.Although a few Vedic......
QUETTA: At least two people were killed in a suicide explosion near Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University at Quetta's Brewery road late on Friday.Balochistan Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani......
