ADEN: The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemeni rebels since March declared a five-day truce on Saturday so aid can reach a country the UN says is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster.Announcing the......
QUETTA: Balochistan Levies personnel found three bullet riddled bodies in Balochistan's Turbat area on Saturday.“Three mutilated dead bodies were found in Turbat’s Kuddan union council area,” said......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed the provincial irrigation department, commissioners and all concerned authorities to take emergency measures to cope with heavy rainfall......
Pakistan romped to a series triumph after their convincing victory over Sri Lanka in the 4th ODI but a drop in intensity is unlikely when Azhar Ali's side takes on Sri Lanka in Hambantota for the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan said that it is not him but Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who should apologise over the judicial commission's report, as all political parties......
KARACHI: Pakistan's cricket board said Saturday that paceman Wahab Riaz had ruled himself out of the team's two-match Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka due to an ongoing hand injury.The 30-year-old......
NEW DELHI: A New Delhi court on Saturday cleared Test fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two other players of spot-fixing during the Indian Premier League, a lawyer and media reports......
RAWALPINDI: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday said that Rangers in Karachi have been given special powers within the limits of the Constitution and the law of Pakistan.“All......
KARACHI: An Imambargah trustee was shot dead in Karachi's PIB Colony on Saturday in a suspected sectarian attack while he was on his way to Central Prison to attend a court hearing, police said.Syed......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Raheel Sharif made it clear on Saturday that the Pakistan Army is "acutely aware" of the campaign by "rivals" against the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor......
KARACHI: The Karachi Bureau Chief of Geo TV Fahim Siddiqui was kidnapped from Karachi's North Nazimabad area on Saturday and was tortured before being dumped in Manghopir, according to police and the......
Bollywood's golden couple, Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, are set to make their return as a couple on the silver screen.In R. Balki's untitled next film, the Bachchans will star as themselves in a cameo......
LONDON: The next managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is likely to come from outside Europe when current leader Christine Lagarde eventually leaves, the deputy head of the......
PATNA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took his political campaign to the impoverished state of Bihar, promising billions of dollars for infrastructure projects as he seeks to win......
KARACHI: Governor State Bank of Pakistan Mahmood Ashraf Wathra on Saturday announced the country's monetary policy for the upcoming fiscal year. The SBP has maintained discount rate at 6.5pc.The SBP......
Wasim Akram will join the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in a country-wide talent hunt campaign for fast bowlers.“The PCB, together with LG, announces the start of the Super Speed Star Campaign, a......
Images of warfare take centre-stage in the Saya-e-Khuda-e-Zuljalal trailer, but producers insist that the film is not just another war movie.The film, they say, focuses on the heroes who fought in......
The ongoing flooding in Pakistan's rivers took me back five years, when, in the last week of July 2010, Swat was hit by floods of the worst nature since the first century AD.Forest experts say that......
ST. PETERSBURG: The FIFA corruption crisis is hurting its search for new World Cup sponsors.Targeting almost $6 billion in revenue from the 2018 tournament, FIFA has not signed any new sponsors since......
ST PETERSBURG: Zenit St Petersburg striker Hulk has pulled out of Saturday's World Cup qualifying draw, only days after complaining of “gross and ugly” racism in Russian football.The Brazil forward......
ST. PETERSBURG: Russia insists fans will not face problems following their teams around Russia for the 2018 World Cup, even as FIFA's schedule gave some competitors lengthy travel distances in the......
SANAA: A Saudi-led airstrike on Yemen's Taiz killed at least 55 people and left ten injured, Houthi-controlled news agency Saba said on Saturday.A coalition of Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia, has......
ISLAMABAD: At least three people were killed when a 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck Abbottabad early Saturday, officials said.The United States Geological Survey said the tremor struck at a......
KATHMANDU: As dark clouds loomed overhead, Rabi Baral hurriedly secured his tent to the ground at a camp for victims of Nepal's earthquake, three months after the disaster upended his life.Read More:......
In recent months, Kareena Kapoor has been raising eyebrows with her career choices. The actress, who is notorious for rejecting roles such as the female leads in Ram-Leela and Chennai Express, has......
ISLAMABAD: A civilian was injured when Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) personnel resorted to firing at the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir's Chirikot sector on Saturday."Due to......
ANKARA: Turkish jets flying from a base in Turkey's southeast struck self-styled Islamic State group targets across the border in Syria for the second straight night, the government said Saturday.The......
LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has suspended the party's Karachi Rabita Committee (Coordination Committee) for what he called its members inability to fulfill their......
CHITRAL: At least 19 people were killed in flooding and torrential rains in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Chitral district late on Friday, KP’s Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) said.The PDMA......
KARACHI: A rain emergency was declared in the metropolis on Friday following the forecast of ‘urban flooding” due to heavy rain and the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation set up 36 emergency centres......
KARACHI: The Rangers on Friday claimed to have arrested a suspect during a raid carried out on Thursday night on a Clifton restaurant owned by a Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmaker.The paramilitary......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday restrained the provincial authorities from allotting over 21,000 acres of forest land in Sujawal and other districts for industrial purposes and from......
KARACHI: The recent death of Praful Bidwai, noted Indian columnist, peace activist and vocal opposer of nuclear power, is a huge loss for social activists in India and Pakistan and to commemorate his......
ISLAMABAD: The National Testing Service (NTS) is a non-profit organisation and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), though it does not have shareholders.The......
ISLAMABAD: After initial reluctance, the federal government on Friday agreed with the tobacco industry that the size of pictorial warning on cigarette packets should be increased incrementally and......
ISLAMABAD: The inspector general of the Islamabad police ‘misled’ the Supreme Court about the registration of a criminal case against a private housing society for alleged encroachment on a forest......
WHEN it rains in Karachi, the roads and streets become impassable, turning into ponds and lakes.The city’s water and sewerage departments have staff numbering in the thousands, and a provincial......
LIKE previous years, 2015 is no different. The country is witnessing massive floods, devastating Layyah, Muzaffargarh, Dera Ghazi Khan, Rahim Yar Khan and many other cities and villages of southern......
THE water stored in dams and barrages comes from the melting of glaciers in the northern regions of Pakistan and India.How many people know that the US has dams with a capacity to store water for up......
IT is just the start of the monsoon season, and medium to high floods have been reported in rivers Chenab and Indus. According to the Punjab irrigation department, more than 250,000 cusecs water is......
PAKISTANIS are the only people in the world who first die of dehydration and then suffer flooding the same year. People are dying and facing loss of infrastructure because the authorities have failed......
THE ‘State Bank feeder’ of K-Electric, supplying power to more than 400 consumers in Block A of North Nazimabad, has been tripping almost three to four times a day for 15 to 60 minutes for the last......
APROPOS the news report “Delay in registration of biological drugs depriving patients of treatment” (July 23). The registration of biological drugs is a complex and sensitive subject. The......
AS was anticipated by political gurus, the judicial inquiry commission has dashed to the ground the allegations levelled by the PTI with respect to massive systematic rigging in the 2013 elections.......
THIS refers to the letter ‘Pakistanis in Saudi jails’ (July 21). I endorse the writer’s view. There are 900 prisoners, including women and children in Saudi jails.The Pakistan government needs to......
KOHAT: In two consecutive cases in as many days the families have lodged reports with the city police station about death of their babies due to the alleged negligence of doctors of the Women and......
PESHAWAR: The US Consular General in Peshawar Jon F Danilowicz has expressed concern over the loss of lives and properties in flashfloods in Chitral and other areas, and offered cooperation in the......
PESHAWAR: The Higher Education Department (HED) transferred 261 assistant professors and professors on Friday in an attempt to rationalise the teacher-student ratio in government colleges in Khyber......
GHALANAI: Activists of Jamaat-i-Islami and local residents staged a protest demonstration at Lakaro bazaar of Safi tehsil here the other day against delay in completion of Ghalanai-Mamad Gat road......
MARDAN: Awami National Party provincial president Ameer Haider Hoti has asked Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan to bring maturity in his politics after the report of Judicial Commission......
SWABI: Three young brothers and their cousin on Friday went missing in the mountainous area close to the Indus River here under mysterious circumstances.Trader Shah Zaman, who lives in Right Bank......
PESHAWAR: Rejecting amendments made to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Right to Information (RTI) Act 2013, the civil society’s Coalition on RTI has demanded restoration of the status of information......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to contract the Frontier Works Organisation to rebuild Chitral’s three major roads washed away by the recent flash floods.After signing a......
PESHAWAR: Peshawar district and sessions judge Shahid Khan on Friday dismissed pre-arrest bail petitions of 15 persons including former councillors accused of verifying documents of Afghan nationals......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Inspector General of Police, Nasir Khan Durrani, has decided to observe August 4 as ‘Youm-i-Shuhada’ every year.According to a statement issued here on Friday, AIG......
PESHAWAR: The capital city police claimed on Friday to have arrested four persons of a family, including a young girl, for murdering a college student earlier during the day.The murder took place in......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan has said oil and gas exploration activities in Fata would help bring real change in the lives of tribal people.He expressed these views......
LANDI KOTAL: Two labourers were killed and another was injured when they inhaled poisonous gas while digging a well in Jamrud on Friday.Khasadar officials said Shahid, Khan Wazir and Mohammad Khan......
PESHAWAR: Two archaeologists, who began excavation at the historic site of Rehman Dheri in Dera Ismail Khan after a break of 20 years, have found burnt grains of wheat and barley dating back to more......
MANSEHRA: The price of chicken has jumped to Rs223 per kg in the local markets after Eid holidays.“Price of chicken has shot up to record high after Eidul Fitr as prior to Eid the prices were in the......
KHAR: Entry of non-custom paid (NCP) vehicles into the bordering Lower Dir district from Bajaur Agency has been banned, local transporters told Dawn here on Friday.They complained police officials at......
CHARSADDA: An Eid gala at the famous Sardaryab picnic spot here attracted a large number of visitors from across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Fata who enjoyed boating in the Kabul River, horse-riding and......
LAKKI MARWAT: The district health officer warned on Friday the derelict doctors and paramedics to improve performance or face stern action.“The district health department has no room for negligent......
PESHAWAR: Former provincial forest secretary and former vice chancellor of the University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Yar Mohammad Khan died here on Friday.He was laid to rest at his ancestral......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Medical and Dental College (FMDC) management finally started classes for the 100 medical students on Friday, but without an NOC from the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council......
ISLAMABAD: Capital police arrested 13 outlaws from different areas of the city and recovered vehicles, liquor, weapons and valuables from them, police said here on Friday.The Anti-Car Lifting Cell......
RAWALPINDI: Investigators probing the cracker’s attack on Jinnah Public Park on Friday suspected that it was a ‘bottle bomb’ which was hurled on the main gate of the park on Wednesday.Pieces of glass......
ISLAMABAD: Nigeria, which has security issues similar to Pakistan, completed one year without reporting a single polio case.Now Pakistan and Afghanistan are only countries on the globe which are......
TAXILA: The water-borne diseases like gastroenteritis, dysentery and diarrhea on the rise in Taxila and adjoining areas as district health authorities have failed to chlorinate water wells. With the......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Friday informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that it had started an operation against illegal slums established on the greenbelts of Sector......
ISLAMABAD: Girls managed to grab the maximum top positions in the matric exam held by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Rawalpindi.All three positions in the general group and......
RAWALPINDI: Though the leadership claims that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) stands united in the garrison city ahead of the forthcoming local government elections, ground realities seem to......
ISLAMABAD: Though the country has seen devastating floods during the last a few years, the construction of new water reservoirs has been ignored by successive governments.Members of the National......
TAXILA: A police razakar was arrested on charges of robbing a man in Wah Saddar Police area on Friday.Police sources said Hakmat Yar was going to Faisal Town when a police razkar stopped him for......
FAISALABAD: The Tax Bar Association has decided to file a contempt of court case against officials of the Federal Board of Revenue, Faisalabad, for sealing the barroom despite a stay order granted by......
MUZAFFARGARH: A dacoit was killed in an encounter with police in Alipur on Friday.Reports said that Asif Gabol and his accomplices snatched a motorcycle from a man who immediately informed DPO Awais......
BAHAWALPUR: A team of the Punjab health care commission has started conducting a probe into the death of 12 newborns within five days in BVH’s paediatric ward No 1 during Eid holidays.The team......
BAHAWALPUR: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Bahawalpur, announced on Friday the top position holders of the matriculation examination (annual) 2015 showing a pass percentage of......
LAHORE: Girls outclassed boys by grabbing overall top two positions with the third one being shared by two girls and a boy in the Secondary School Certificate (matriculation) Examination 2015 results......
LAHORE: The Concerned Citizens Pakistan (CCP) is deeply distressed at the recent flood devastation in various parts of Pakistan.“It appears that the government and its departments responsible for......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: A medium-level flood in the Indus in Rajanpur district has inundated hundreds of acres of standing crops and displaced hundreds of people residing in district councils on or near the......
LAHORE: The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal of Punjab revenue department seeking cancellation of allotment of 47 acre land in Multan to an evacuee family.The department’s counsel told a......
LAHORE: British Minister of State for International Development Desmond Swayne along with Ali Sarfraz, chief executive officer of the Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF), on Friday visited Kashf......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday sought replies from the federal government, Nepra and Ogra on a petition challenging recovery of fuel surcharges from electricity consumers under the Gas......
LAHORE: PTI chairman’s political advisers Ejaz Chaudhry and Abdul Aleem Khan have said the party has accepted the Judicial Commission’s decision despite the fact that country’s 21 political parties......
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid senior leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has urged that the rulers should construct Kalabagh dam for ensuring permanent safety of the people from flood instead of......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday announced Rs40 million sewerage scheme for Chachran Sharif.The prime minister visited Chachran Sharif, which is along the bank of the Indus about......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) swooped on two five-star hotels in Lahore on Friday as part of its drive to hunt those compromising pure food, cleanliness and hygiene parameters.A team headed......
LAHORE: The Punjab government is currently considering a proposal to transfer a number of senior doctors of the Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore, to far flung districts as a punishment to end......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to ensure free and fair local government polls in Punjab with zero tolerance against any pressure from the......
LAHORE: An application for the combined entrance test for admission to engineering institutions of Punjab for BSc Engineering and BS Technology can be filled online through web link......
LAHORE: Central Punjab PPP president Manzoor Ahmed has reiterated his demand that the Election Commission should appoint returning officers from judiciary as the party will not accept officers of the......
LAHORE: The Pakistan India People’s Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) has condemned the ceasefire violations and firing on the Line of Control (LoC) and the international border or working......
GUJRANWALA: Rangers personnel have been called in Kamoki to ensure security during the PP-100 by-election scheduled to be held on Saturday (today).Gujranwala City Police Officer Waqas Nazir said......
FAISALABAD: Seven associations of doctors and medical teachers have called the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) a body representing interests of the private sector rather than focusing on......
VEHARI: Fateh Shah police on Thursday night recovered a girl from Lahore who was kidnapped after her father and brother were killed about a week ago. Seven suspected kidnappers were also......
GUJRANWALA: A woman and her two minor sons were killed while her two other minor sons suffered serious injuries when the roof of their house collapsed due to heavy rain in Shah Jahan village in Tatly......
SUKKUR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Friday organised a rally in Jacobabad against moves to revive the Kalabagh dam project.The participants started their march from Shaheed Allah Bukhsh Park......
MIRPURKHAS: Two persons were injured when a gas cylinder at a welding shop exploded with a big bang in the Bhansinghabad locality of the city on Friday.Officials at the Satellite Town police station......
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party-Workers (PPP-W) president Dr Safdar Abbasi has said that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is now “a story of the past”, and advised his son......
KARACHI: An worker of the Jamaat-i-Islami was gunned down in Pak Colony on Friday evening, according to police.Abdul Majeed, 45, was attacked by armed men when he was sitting at his shop in Lashari......
HYDERABAD: Activists of PML-N took out rallies in several Sindh towns on Friday to express their delight at the final report of judicial commission which exonerated the ruling party from all charges......
KARACHI: A boy was wounded when an explosion occurred in a parked rickshaw near Sohrab Goth on Friday noon, the Federal B Industrial Area police said.They added that owner of the rickshaw Jamal......
KARACHI: For years Karachi’s walls have been spattered with the bloodstains of murder victims and scrawled with graffiti touting everything from sectarian hatred to quack cures for erectile......
KARACHI: The newly-appointed city police chief on Friday hinted at launching a major drive to purge the institution of ‘the black sheep’, disclosing that a number of officers had already faced the......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court is likely to issue a fresh black warrant for the execution of condemned prisoner Shafqat Hussain on Saturday.He was condemned to death by an antiterrorism court in......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court allowed on Friday the police to get the custody of two suspects from prison for questioning in the Safoora Goth bus carnage case.The police contended that Hafiz Nasir,......
HYDERABAD: A youth and his fiancée were found dead under mysterious circumstances in the Hirabad area on Friday evening.Officials at the Market police station said that the bodies of Syed Irtiza......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah expressed deep concerns over the discontinuation of gas supply to Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) to be effective from July 28 and directed the managing......
SUKKUR: The special assistant for relief to Sindh chief minister has said that the situation is normal, protective dykes have been strengthened and there is no danger of flood in Sukkur district.This......
BADIN: A 12-year-old boy and his 10-year-old sister drowned in a pond near their house in Matli on Friday.Adeeb and Khatoon belonging to a Shaikh family were playing near the pond in Jarki village......
LAFAYETTE: A gunman sitting in a packed movie theater in Louisiana stood up about 20 minutes into the showing of a popular comedy and began firing into the crowd, killing two and wounding at least......
ROME: At least seven people died in an explosion at a fireworks factory near Bari, on Italy’s Adriatic coast, on Friday.The ANSA news agency said the explosion destroyed the Bruscella factory in......
NAIROBI: US President Barack Obama arrived in the Kenyan capital Nairobi late on Friday, making his first visit to the country of his father’s birth since his election as president.Obama was greeted......
MANILA: Grammy-winning hip-hop star Chris Brown was cleared to leave the Philippines on Friday, an official said, after he was temporarily barred from leaving the country over a row with a powerful......
BUJUMBURA: Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has won a predicted but controversial third consecutive term in office, according to official election results announced on Friday.Nkurunziza won......
SUSIYA: Residents of this dusty village are bracing for Israeli bulldozers to come and knock down their makeshift homes of tarp, wood and wire any day now.But as they wait for the military order to......
LARNACA: An iron and steel colossus that sank on a summer’s night 35 years ago off Cyprus is now considered one of the world’s best shipwreck dives.Thousands dive down each year to see the Zenobia —......
DUBAI: The tide of Yemen’s messy war has unexpectedly turned, handing a morale boost and possibly decisive military momentum to Gulf Arab-backed forces bent on ending the ascendancy of the Houthis, a......
FORTUNATELY, after a gruelling six months, Europe will soon be on vacation. The half-year of anguished and angry debate over the Greek financial crisis has left the 28-nation European Union bruised......
LONDON: Six men were found guilty on Friday in Britain over the repeated rape of two teenage girls, one of whom was forced to have sex with more than 60 men.The case is the latest in a series of......
LONDON: The world’s most advanced malaria vaccine got the nod from European regulators on Friday, despite mixed trial results, for eventual use in children in African countries plagued by the killer......
WASHINGTON: US troops will begin training regular Ukrainian military forces later this year in an expansion of their current mission, which so far has been limited to instructing Interior Ministry......
MIAMI: A fossil of a four-legged snake uncovered in Brazil has shed new light on the origins of snakes as land burrowers, not sea creatures, a study said on Thursday.This ancestor of modern day......
LOS ANGELES: Actress-turned-director Angelina Jolie is to make a film about Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime seen through the eyes of a war-scarred child for Netflix, the streaming giant said on......
MUMBAI: Children struggling under the weight of an oversized schoolbag is a common sight the world over, but now one Indian state has ordered parents to ensure kids lighten their load.The......
YANGON: The US on Friday said it was “deeply concerned” about escalating conflict in parts of northern Myanmar, raising fears over the fragile peace process as the latest round of ceasefire talks in......
LONDON: Young athletes could be using performance-enhancing drugs as they try to make the breakthrough into elite sport, fears World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman.Howman also......
SHENZHEN: AC Milan manager Sinisa Mihajlovic is under no illusion about the enormity of the task at hand as he plots to turn around the fortunes of the fallen giants of Italian football.“There’s a......
TORONTO: Emiliano Grillo, who began the week not knowing if he would even be able to get into the country, fired an eight-under 64 for a one-shot lead after the first round of the Canadian Open.The......
LONDON: Chelsea signed Partizan Belgrade midfielder Danilo Pantic on Thursday and immediately sent the highly-rated Serbian teenager out on loan, the Premier League champions confirmed.Pantic was......
SAINT PETERSBURG: England and Wales will take their place among the top nine European seeds for Saturday’s World Cup qualifying draw in Saint Petersburg on Saturday.The top seeds are based on the......
BUDAPEST: Three days after the funeral of Jules Bianchi, Formula One experienced another “heart in mouth” moment on Friday morning when Sergio Perez survived a spectacular accident in opening free......
LA TOUSSUIRE: Reigning champion Vincenzo Nibali won the 19th stage of the Tour de France on Friday as Nairo Quintana clawed back time on race leader Chris Froome.Italian Nibali went some way to......
LOS ANGELES: As Pakistan’s special athletes geared up for World Games 2015, which commence here from today (Saturday), with their hectic practice sessions, their coaches expressed optimism about the......
ISLAMABAD: Four Pakistani players will leave for India on Saturday from Lahore to participate in the Pro Kabaddi League.They are national team captain Waseem Sajjad, Nasir Ali, Tariq Dogar and......
KARACHI: Country’s top golfers will assemble in the city early next month to feature in three events in-a-row as the Pakistan Golf Federation (PGF) domestic circuit resumes with the UMA 20th Chief of......
LAHORE: The Punjab Sports Board has decided to organise an Inter-district Youth U-17 (Boys) Hockey Championship from Aug 14 to 25 at the National Hockey Stadium here in a bid to revive the......
ISLAMABAD: Four Pakistani swimmers will participate in FINA World Swimming Championship which is slated to be held in Kazan, Russia from Aug 1-9.This championship is the qualifying round for the......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) will hold a reception in the honour of Pakistan players to acknowledge their outstanding performance in the recently concluded Davis Cup Asia-Oceania......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will participate in the World Judo Championship, to be held at Astana, Kazakhstan from Aug 20 to 31.A press release of the Pakistan Judo Federation (PJF) said four male and two......
ST PETERSBURG: Jerome Valcke expects to leave his job as FIFA secretary general after Sepp Blatter’s successor is elected.Valcke, however, said on Friday it is not because he is responsible for any......
MELBOURNE: Cristiano Ronaldo turned on a show as Real Madrid demolished Manchester City 4-1 before a record crowd in the International Champions Cup at the Melbourne Cricket Ground here on......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) have mutually decided to defer Pakistan team’s tour to Zimbabwe, scheduled for August-September this year, for an indefinite......
DUBLIN: Oman’s fairytale rise as a cricket nation continued on Thursday when they qualified for next year’s World Twenty20 in India.A five-wicket win over Namibia at the ICC qualifying event in......
KARACHI: Pakistan Test paceman Junaid Khan is set to play for English county side Middlesex.The left-arm speedster is expected to play for 2015 Royal London One-Day Cup and feature against Lancashire......
CHITTAGONG: Rain washed out the fourth day’s play in the first Test between Bangladesh and South Africa here on Friday. Match officials at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium called off play at 1:25pm......
KINGSTON: Experienced West Indies opener Chris Gayle is set to miss two to three months of cricket due to an impending back surgery.Following his teams bow out of the Hero Caribbean Premiere League......
LAHORE: Uncapped paceman Zia-ul-Haq has replaced seasoned fast bowler Wahab Riaz for the upcoming two T20 matches against Sri Lanka, starting from July 30, after the latter has failed to clear the......
DERBY: Australia wicket-keeper Peter Nevill was set to retain his Test place after being chosen ahead of Brad Haddin behind the stumps for the tour match with Derbyshire at the County Ground here on......
ASUNCION: The United States has sent Paraguay an extradition request for Nicols Leoz, the former president of South America’s football confederation, who was arrested on suspicion of racketeering in......
ST PETERSBURG: Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium will host both the opening match and final of the 2018 World Cup after the match schedule was confirmed by FIFA on Friday.Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Sochi,......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar claimed on Friday that the tax-to-GDP ratio went up to 9.45 per cent from 8.4pc in the last couple of years.Revenue collection increased by 33pc during the......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s cement exports may drop with the start of next year as more and more Iranian cement will land in the world market after lifting of sanctions.“I think the drop in Pakistani cement......
KARACHI: Banks disbursed Rs515.90 billion to agriculture sector in 2014-15 against the target of Rs500bn, an increase of 31.81 per cent from Rs391.40bn distributed a year ago, the State Bank of......
GENEVA: Major exporters of information technology on Friday agreed to cut global tariffs on more than 200 products, in the first such deal struck by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in nearly two......
TOKYO: The dollar hit fresh multi-year highs against some emerging market currencies Friday as investors increasingly bet on a US rate hike this year, while the euro lost early gains driven by easing......
KARACHI: The government needs to take a policy decision for broadening of tax net and increasing revenue collection rather than short-term measures like imposition of withholding tax on non-filers of......
KARACHI: Stocks extended decline for the second day with the KSE-100 index losing 119.79 points (0.33 per cent) on Friday to settle at 35,815.20.Analysts said that a bit of fear overpowered......
VIENNA: Iran’s foreign reserves total between $115 billion and $125bn, including assets in its sovereign wealth fund, its industry minister said on Friday in one of the most detailed public......
ATHENS: Greece is formally inviting the International Monetary Fund to join its negotiations with European creditors over a vital third bailout — talks that were delayed Friday by logistics but are......
WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will propose nearly doubling the US capital gains tax (CGT) rate on short-term investments to 39.6 per cent, the Wall Street Journal......
Meezan Bank launches youth business loanKARACHI: Meezan Bank has formally launched a set of financing schemes to provide Shariah-compliant financing under the Prime Minister’s Youth Business Loan......
MOSCOW: Russia’s central bank said Friday it would launch a new credit rating agency by end-2015 in a bid to rival US firms that recently downgraded the country’s sovereign debt.Moscow slammed the......
SINGAPORE: Energy trading house Gunvor is set to supply the bulk of a gasoline tender into Pakistan after placing the lowest offers for 10 out of 12 cargoes, industry sources said.Gunvor placed the......
LONDON: Gold slid more than 1 per cent on Friday to its lowest since early 2010 as fresh strength in the dollar prompted another wave of selling, putting the metal on course for its biggest weekly......
KARACHI: Steady conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Friday where activity declined as arrivals of phutti (seed cotton) slowed down because of heavy rains and floods in major ports of the......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures inched lower on Friday, falling for a third straight session as quiet trading continued following Ramazan holiday period.By Friday’s close, benchmark palm......
LONDON: Falling exports are piling pressure on emerging economies, putting many of them at risk of a multi-year cycle of sluggish trade, economic growth and investment.From Korean cars to Chilean......
MUMBAI: A Supreme Court-appointed special investigations team said Indian regulators need to provide greater oversight of money laundering in stocks as well as “black money” being repatriated to the......
LONDON: Lending by international banks to Greece fell by a third ($22 billion) in the three months of the year as concerns about its economy and eurozone membership mounted, according to cross-border......
CHITRAL: Fresh torrential rains wreaked havoc in Mulkhow union council of upper Chitral on Friday, leaving one person dead and three children missing. Hundreds of houses and shops in Muzhgol,......
LAHORE: With a faction of the All Pakistan Anjuman-i-Tajiran (Khaled Pervez group) already calling for a countrywide strike on Aug 5, the other group led by Khwaja Muhammad Shafique announced on......
ISLAMABAD: After the three-judge poll inquiry commission headed by Chief Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk gave a clean chit to the ruling PML-N, the shell-shocked top leadership of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has called upon the federal government to carry out an investigation to find out the ‘actual source’ of funding of the sit-in held by Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: The government has again asked mobile phone operators to discontinue Blackberry enterprise services (BES) in the country by Nov 30.“Due to serious concerns expressed by security agencies,......
KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines has obtained a Rs10 billion loan from NIB Bank to facilitate its operational requirements, says a PIA statement on Friday.A ceremony for signing the term......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s standing committee on parliamentary affairs recommended on Friday that local government elections in Punjab and Sindh planned for Sept 20 be put off in view of......
MUZAFFARABAD: Hizbul Mujahideen has disowned a splinter faction suspected of a string of killings in India-held Kashmir, with the rebuke followed swiftly on Friday by attacks on telecom facilities......
QUETTA: The district administration of Qila Abdullah has decided to re-check all arms licences and domicile certificates issued between June 14, 1993 and June 2015.Commissioner Naeem Bazai issued a......
WASHINGTON: Pakistani journalists are being forced to flee or go into hiding to escape acts of violence and intimidation that usually go unpunished, says report released here on Friday.Reporters......
WASHINGTON: The United States is expected to release $337 million to Pakistan under the Coalition Support Fund in a next few days, a US official said on Friday.“The April-June 2014 reimbursement of......
QUETTA: The Baloch National Front (BNF) and Baloch Human Rights Organisation (BHRO) have accused security forces of killing and injuring people during the ongoing operation in Awaran district.The......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: Three suspected militants were arrested and a large number of illegal weapons and ammunition was recovered from their possession during a search operation in Jaffarabad district on......
GWADAR: Personnel of the Pakistan Coast Guard seized a huge quantity of hashish during a raid conducted on a house in Niyabad area on Friday.Official sources said the raid was conducted on a tip-off,......
GWADAR: Security forces arrested four suspects, among them two government employees, in the coastal town of Pasni on Friday.Official sources said Frontier Corps personnel raided Pasni Public Welfare......
UNITED NATIONS: Welcoming the historic nuclear accord reached with Iran, Pakistan has expressed the hope that solutions will be found to growing challenges in the Middle East, particularly the issue......
ANKARA: In a major tactical shift, Turkish warplanes hit positions of fighters of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group across the border in Syria on Friday, a day after IS militants fired at a......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmad Shah on Friday warned against adopting a resolution tabled in the house for the acceptance of resignations submitted by......
KARACHI: A joint team of the Rangers and Federal Investigation Agency raided the Civic Centre here on Friday night and seized records of hundreds of acres of government land allegedly allotted to......
ISLAMABAD: The second round of peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban will be held next week to take forward the reconciliation process which began in Murree earlier this month (July......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) issued a show-cause notice to the K-Electric on Friday for “its consistent failure to fulfil service obligations, inability to......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) issued on Friday another severe weather warning, forecasting torrential rain across the country, especially in Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan (upper......
THE PML-N won and the PTI lost — that is rather unhappily the dominant narrative following the release of what is formally titled The Final Report of the General Elections-2013 Inquiry Commission......
MQM chief Altaf Hussain is known to make emotional appeals to his followers in Pakistan over the telephone. But this time, perhaps reflecting the pressure the party is facing from the security......
PAKISTAN’S magnificent series win over Sri Lanka in the five-match ODI series has, indeed, come as a breath of fresh air.While the national cricket team has been performing admirably at the Test......
THE agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme announced in Vienna on July 14 marks a watershed in world politics. Iran made major concessions to secure the deal, agreeing: not to produce highly enriched......
THERE can be no doubt the military’s spin machine is one of the most effective in the country. Even then, what it achieved over the Eid holidays surpassed anything else witnessed in recent years.Most......
“Foreign politics demand scarcely any of those qualities which a democracy possesses; and they require, on the contrary, the perfect use of almost all those faculties in which it is deficient. … A......
AMRA Bone, Britain’s first woman Sharia judge, recently told the Times: “… the British government cannot ask Muslims not to have more than one wife …”Really? Why not? After all, Muslims in the UK......
KARACHI: A joint team of Pakistan Rangers Sindh and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday night conducted a raid on Civic Centre to seize record of official lands, estimated to be hundreds of......
