ISLAMABAD: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in a candid talk with a private television channel late Sunday evening deplored Imran Khan’s statement in which he said PTI’s allegations against the......
QUETTA: Armed militants killed a policeman in Balochistan's Pishin district Sunday night, said District Police Officer (DPO) Abdul Hayee Amir, while talking to Dawn.com.Amir said armed assailants......
HAMBANTOTA: Kusal Perera led Sri Lanka's strong batting display to give the hosts a comprehensive, but academic, 165-run win over Pakistan in the fifth and final one-dayer in Hambantota on Sunday.The......
CHITRAL: Massive rescue and relief efforts are under way for those marooned in the raging waves of flash floods that have affected swaths of land in Chitral over the last ten days, killing 31 people......
Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq has revealed he will hang up his boots after taking on traditional rivals India for one last time.The 41-year-old Misbah, who retired from ODIs after the 2015 World Cup,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party Vice President Sherry Rehman on Sunday expressed deep concern over the Sui Southern Gas Company's (SSGC) announcement of unilaterally halting all gas input to......
NEW DELHI: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan urged India's top court Sunday to spare the life of a convicted bomb plotter due to be hanged this week, declaring him innocent and sparking a political......
MUZAFFARABAD: A civilian who was injured in “unprovoked firing” by Indian troops in the disputed Kashmir region died on Sunday, said a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations......
ISLAMABAD: Police say gunmen have killed a local employee of the US Embassy in Islamabad, though a motive for the attack is still unclear.The motive for the shooting was unclear. Police said the......
KABUL: The Taliban took control of a large police base in remote northeast Afghanistan after some 100 police and border officers joined the insurgents following three days of fighting, security......
GUJRANWALA: PML-N's Rana Akhtar Ali Khan convincingly won the by-poll conducted for provincial assembly constituency PP-100 in Gujranwala on Sunday, securing a total of 49,991 votes, according to......
PESHAWAR: At least five suspected militants were reportedly killed in a United States drone strike in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province near the Pak-Afghan border in Khyber tribal region on......
The French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne was acknowledged for bridging the gap between 19th century Impressionism and 20th century Cubism. He painted a series of oil paintings tilted ‘The......
Immersed in the ancient visual culture of the Indus Valley, art in Pakistan evolved with modern and postmodern ideologies under the colonial and post-colonial inspirations. The British Raj period is......
Of all the venues Lord’s is the most revered cricket ground in the world. It is considered the home of cricket.In 1814, a Yorkshire cricketer by the name of Thomas Lord, who had moved south to London......
Despite her not-so-successful foray into Bollywood, the sassy gal Humaima Malick seems to be progressing in her career without looking back and caring two hoots about the past.The actress’s latest......
One of Pakistan’s foremost film buffs, Guddu holds the honour of maintaining the largest personal collection of Pakistani movie posters, pictures, books, postcards, CDs and audio cassettes......
After a successful and long stint in the field of acting, Aijazz Aslam has decided to go behind the camera. No, not as a director, but as a producer!The actor, for the first time in his career, is......
For over two decades, Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan had a spot-boy named Subhash who served him with great diligence, earning the actor’s implicit trust.Some months back it was discovered that......
The voluptuous Sonakshi Sinha, who was once paired (off-screen) with Shahid Kapoor, made herself conspicuous by not attending Shahid K’s glitzy wedding reception held on July 12.For the uninitiated......
The dimpled doll Deepika Padukone has now established herself as one of the top-notch film actresses in India. This is the reason that these days all seemingly ‘difficult’ roles come her way.The......
The man with the Govindasque sartorial sense Ranveer Singh can be really mean without sounding so. He has worked with India’s heartthrob Deepika Padukone and the sultry siren Priyanka Chopra in quite......
This is interesting. Actress-turned-producer Pooja Bhatt, who a couple of months back ended her one decade-old marriage with VJ Munish Makhija, is apparently in a relationship … again.With whom?......
Lahore-based band Inteha comprising Naukhez Javed (vocals) and Nausher Javed (guitars) has been keeping busy with multifarious activities. These include the promotional tour of their album......
Let us begin with the key points of this INR250 crore (nearly US$40 million) two-part film: it took 1,000 workers and 200 days at Ramoji Film City Studio at Hyderabad in South India to build the set......
It was around midday when we entered the colony, just in time to catch Ustad Misri Jogi’s class in the courtyard outside his small temple. The ustad is conspicuous by his orange turban, a long orange......
In early 1984, based on some reports the Pakistani authorities got convinced that India, in collusion with Israel, had planned to tear down Pakistan’s nascent nuclear research facility in Kahuta. The......
We often do not realise or take care of some basic things while renting a property or hiring domestic help and later run into problems which could have been avoided with little consideration. This......
Browsing is slow even though you’ve checked your computer for viruses; speed tests say your network is fast enough but streaming a video takes forever; and your data plan keeps running out even......
Moving house is not an experience I would recommend. My life has been turned upside down these last several weeks, first with the turmoil of packing, and now unpacking the hundreds of cartons that......
Dear Khala jee, Hope you are fine, because I am not! I am a 16-year-old boy, and I just don’t know where to start from. There are just too many problems in my life. After my father married my mother......
Q. When I bought rose plants from a nursery they were big and nice but now the flowers are very small. I sprayed them but to no effect. What shall I do?A. Sprayed them with what I wonder! Reaching......
With Bin Roye currently gracing the screen and as Bilal Ashraf’s love interest in Hassan Waqas Rana’s under post-production film Yalghaar which is also due to come later this year, a couple of on-air......
There’s no doubt that Mahira Khan leads a glamorous life. Lights, cameras, fabulous designer-wear and fans follow her wherever she goes.She’s innately stylish, very popular and currently making waves......
The Momina Duraid-Shehzad Kashmiri flick had been in the works for quite some time and now the effort shows all of the hard work that has been put into it. Bin Roye shows the world that a romantic......
They are yellow. They are tiny. They are cute. They are the adorable and nearly unintelligible servants of the super villain Gru from the Despicable Me films. They are the Minions, and now they have......
Bin Roye has been directed by Shehzad Qureshi and Momina Duraid, and while the former was busy in finalizing the product, Images on Sunday got hold of the latter who as producer/co-director had a lot......
With its extreme heat and drought-like conditions, Karachi has begun to raise an alarm: this is what global warming looks like and it now knocks on our doorstep.“Karachi has been recognised as a......
Young mother Samina had to take another day off from work, once again because her daughter was suffering from diarrhoea. This was the third bout of the disease in as many months and the child was not......
All sorts of ironies are often pointed out about what happened to Pakistan after the early demise of its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah.Shamim Ahmed in his article, “A Leaf from Jinnah’s Life” (DAWN,......
It seems that the federal government has learnt no lessons from the recent heat wave in Karachi that claimed the lives of over 1,300 citizens. The Capital Development Authority (CDA) in Islamabad has......
Generally, it is believed that individuals are ambitious for power and authority in order to be able to distinguish themselves from others. Power changes character, behaviour, attitude, the way of......
WITH the brouhaha surrounding Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, one would think this is the first time something like this has happened but as it stands, she is in good company. When Hemingway’s......
EDUCATION in Pakistan has become an international political issue. Since at least the 1980s, involvement in schooling and curricula in Pakistan has formed part of a strategy of governments (and not......
UPROOTED is the classic story of a dragon who takes a maiden from the village every decade. Except it’s not. This dragon is the Dragon, a wizard who protects the village from the wildness in the Wood......
WITH a hardback edition that is almost 700 pages long and weighs more than a kilogramme, Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century possesses a daunting physical presence that can perhaps......
A FEW days ago, when I went to my shelves to retrieve my copies of Abdullah Hussein’s two novels in English, I also found a bound typescript of his novel The Immigrants. I can’t remember who gave it......
THERE is an age-old adage that advises artists to always leave their audience wanting more. This maxim was clearly taken to heart by author Harper Lee, who seemed to adhere to this philosophy for......
RECENTLY, the press reported two incidents which highlight the apathy of our rulers who talk about the welfare and convenience of the common man.On Eid day, a large numbers of worshippers were......
CHILDREN’S fascination with toy guns in Pakistan has increased significantly. On the first day of Eid, I was shocked to see children playing with toy guns in the streets.I fear whether they could......
THIS refers to Nadeem F. Paracha’s article (June 21). The first three paragraphs required more research and evaluation. Allama Iqbal gave the idea of an independent Muslim state in 1930, and in 1934......
IT is sad that floods have once again devastated parts of Pakistan. In this calamity, Chitral was unfortunately the first casualty. After Alipur and Layyah, Sindh is expected to suffer greatly. The......
KWSB consultants have prepared an environmental impact assessment (EIA) report for the Greater Karachi Bulk Water Supply Scheme, K-IV.The project will supply 650mgd of treated water daily. Under the......
ELECTRICITY crises and frequent floods could have been avoided had the issue of new water reservoirs not been politicised. Regional political ‘leaders’ in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have exploited......
THE Punjab government’s power department has invited private investors for setting up coal-fired power plants, offering incentives at various locations identified by the provincial government.The......
THIS is apropos the article ‘Saving Karachi’s oldest Eidgah’ (Dawn.com, July 18) by Akhar Balouch. The photo showing the Quaid-i-Azam praying outside the Eidgah mosque is of Eidul Azha of Oct 25,......
SWABI: The Awami National Party and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) have high stakes in the re-polling scheduled to be held at 17 polling stations in nine union councils on July 30 (Thursday) to......
LAKKI MARWAT: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested four people, including a proclaimed offender, and seized weapons from them during separate raids in villages bordering the frontier tribal......
PESHAWAR: Massive growth in litigation against the health department by its own employees and other people has turned out to be a major hurdle to the government’s steps to ensure speedy and effective......
LANDI KOTAL: The Fata Development Authority distributed on Saturday solar panels to 190 families of the remote Chora area of Khyber Agency.Officials said solar systems were given to heads of families......
KHAR: Bajaur Political Alliance, an umbrella organisation of all political parties, has rejected the recommendations of Fata Reforms Commission (FRC) for changes in the current tribal system and......
PESHAWAR: By launching an effective campaign to check encroachments and the quality and prices of eatables in Peshawar, the district administration has rekindled the hopes of citizens and also......
KARAK: Three persons, including two children, drowned in Karak district on Saturday.Local people said two children, who were cousins, drowned in a rain-fed pond in Noshpa locality of Bahaderkhel.......
KOHAT: The local police on Saturday arrested four suspected killers, including a man and his two sons, booked in a double murder case, from Shahpar area near Tanda Dam here.The suspects Israr Khan,......
KOHAT: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F, which emerged as the leading party in the district and tehsil council elections in Hangu on May 30, has named its candidate for the tehsil nazim slot.Sources said that......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan has said that return process of internally displaced persons to Khyber Agency would be completed by August end.The governor stated this......
PESHAWAR: There is a degree of uncertainty over whether the Qaumi Watan Party will rejoin the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Contrary to all expectations......
ISLAMABAD: It appears that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is losing the cooperation of those witnesses on the basis of whose testimonies it had implicated not only former president Pervez......
ISLAMABAD: At around 2am on Saturday, the residents of the capital were awoken by a 5.5 magnitude earthquake. With the massive loss of life in the 2005 earthquake still fresh in minds, Saturday’s......
ISLAMABAD: A superintendent of the Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) was removed from his post on the charge of provoking the personnel against their senior officers over the distribution of the reward......
TAXILA: A pedestrian overhead bridge on G.T. Road at Nawabad near Wah Cantonment split into two after a trailer carrying a mixture truck hit it. However, no human casualty was reported.Sources in the......
RAWALPINDI: Though the metro bus project worth Rs44.81 billion is still not fully complete, encroachments have started cropping up on the acquired land adjacent to the bus stations.Two shops have......
Aziz Boolani and his wife hosted a dinner for the outgoing Spanish ambassador Javier Carbajosa and the Egyptian smbassador Said Hindam in Islamabad this week.“It couldn’t have been done in more......
“I am your host for the evening,” said Tauqir Sultan Awan, the CEO of the Hajvairy Group, as he graciously welcomed more than a hundred guests at his residence in Islamabad. Antique Rolls Royce and......
SeminarSustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) is organising a seminar on ‘Data Gaps and Evidence-based Policymaking in Pakistan’ on Monday, July 27 at SDPI conference hall from......
RAWALPINDI: Provincial minister for labour Raja Ashfaq Sarwar on Saturday asked the City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) to take measures to avoid landsliding in Murree and tackle possible......
ISLAMABAD: Good news came from Gasherbrum I on Friday, where despite excessive snow on the track, an international team managed to summit the mountain.Representatives of the Alpine Club of Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Sabzi Mandi police on Saturday carried out an operation in Fruit and Vegetable Market and nearby areas arresting as many as 45 persons for loitering.The police registered cases against all......
Kaghan valley, which is called a paradise on earth by many people, is gradually losing attraction for tourists owing to lack of infrastructure as authorities seem less bothered to preserve its......
The shrine of 16th century’s most popular Sufi saint Kastir Gul alias Hazrat Kaka Sahib is located in a rugged mountainous area around 12km south of Nowshera district. It is considered as one of the......
The increasing vehicular traffic in Mingora city has multiplied public woes, creating numerous problems for the residents and business community.People in Swat say that the traffic issue remains......
LAHORE: The district and sessions judge on Saturday halted execution of a ‘mentally-ill’ condemned prisoner Khizar Hayat and sought a report from the prisons department by July 30.The judge had......
LAHORE: More than 70 per cent candidates passed the annual Secondary School Certificate Examination 2015 conducted by the Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education.According to the results......
LAHORE: Former governor and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab organiser Chaudhry Sarwar has asserted his party will not seek an apology after the Judicial Commission’s decision as the verdict does not......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) sealed on Saturday two more renowned restaurants in Gulberg, as many on Multan Road and a food production unit in Shalimar Town for flouting pure food......
LAHORE: So far, 158,555 acres have come under varying degrees of flood as water flows have spread across the river beds (commonly known as katcha area) in the province, claimed officials of the......
LAHORE: The University of Health Sciences’ (UHS) Board of Governors (BoG) has approved Rs747.837 million budget for the financial year 2015-16.The 33rd meeting of UHS board was held here on Saturday......
LAHORE: Comrade Malik Aslam, lawyer, former secretary general of All Pakistan Trade Union Federation and a leader of Awami Workers Party, died here on Saturday after remaining in hospital for two......
LAHORE: Sensing that the PPP has paid enough of a price for its policy of reconciliation towards the PML-N, its Punjab chapter for the first time formally requested Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has demanded constitution of a parliamentary commission to probe the PTI/PAT sit-ins in Islamabad, a news channel reported.The chief minister said “dharnas were......
LAHORE: Two children lost their lives while six other family members sustained injures when the roof of their mud house collapsed in Kot Khwaja Saeed area in Gujjarpura due to heavy rains on......
LAHORE: Chronic liver diseases are no more a big problem for the masses as hundreds of successful transplants have become a ray of hope for the patients in South Asia.This was said by renowned Indian......
GUJRAT: The Punjab government will close all the cattle markets across the province where there is low business activity. However, it has released Rs55m for the provision of basic facilities in the......
SARGODHA: Girl students maintained their superiority and clinched most of the top positions in the matriculation examination (annual) 2015 the results of which were announced by the Board of......
MULTAN: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the flood intensity in southern Punjab is lower this year than it was in previous years and it will cause less damage.Speaking to reporters after......
LAHORE: The PML-Q minority wing office-bearers and workers from PP-154 on Saturday announced joining the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.Led by Imran Sindhu and Nadeem Bhutta, they called on PTI Chairman’s......
When the British landed on the Indian sub-continent it contained 23.9 per cent of the known world’s wealth. When they left 200 years later in 1947 only 3.2 per cent of known world’s wealth was left.......
Twenty-three years ago, Sabir Sultan entered the most taxing phase of his life when even his family refused to support what he believed in. Today a puppeteer, in those days Sabir worked in a......
The posh ‘food streets’ of upper class Lahore seem to move eastwards every few years. From the walled city it moved to Gowalmandi to The Mall and on to Jail Road to Gulberg’s main market to M.M.......
After a successful premiere in Karachi, MD Films and HUM Films debut venture Bin Roye is being screened to full houses on foreign territories following a series of premiere shows worldwide.The film’s......
KARACHI: Downstairs the seating arrangement is nice and airy with several entrances to the cafe and a pleasantly smiling old gentleman behind a counter to welcome you near one of them. On one side is......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has issued necessary directives for immediate measures for the removal of all encroachments from stormwater drains in order to cope with the situation......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers on Saturday informed antiterrorism courts about 90-day preventive detention of five suspects the paramilitary force claimed to have arrested after raids on an office in......
KARACHI: The meteorological department has forecast widespread rains in almost all over the province between Monday and Thursday while no recordable rain was reported in the city except for a few......
KARACHI: Journalism in Pakistan is fraught with many dangers and in an attempt to train its future crop of reporters and editors, the US Consulate Karachi, in partnership with the International......
KARACHI: The provincial government’s plan to screen more than 200 private security companies and their guards to curb increasing incidence of security guards’ involvement in criminal acts — robberies......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday remanded two more suspects in police custody for questioning in Safoora Goth bus carnage case.Police produced Hafiz Nasir alias Yasir and Mohammad Azhar......
KARACHI: As many as 16 personnel of the Central Prison Karachi, including an assistant jail superintendent, were on Saturday placed under suspension for corruption. Justice Sajjad Ali Shah of the......
KARACHI: The trustee of an Imambargah was gunned down in what police described as an attack on sectarian grounds in the Martin Quarters area on Saturday.PIB police said that Syed Rais Jaffery, 57,......
KARACHI: A widow was killed by a thief in Shah Faisal Colony early on Saturday morning, according to police.The thief, who police claimed had been identified as the woman’s neighbour, sneaked into......
HYDERABAD: The peak flood passing through the Guddu barrage at the moment is beneficial to the riverine area and Indus delta ecology. The floodwater has improved the situation to a great extent and......
KHAIRPUR/MIRPURKHAS: A man, his son and a nephew were killed when the motorcycle they were riding was hit by a truck near Banaras Colony on Civil Hospital Road late on Friday night, officials at the......
HYDERABAD: Scores of civil society activists, along with Sindh United Party (SUP) chief Jalal Mehmood Shah came together on Saturday at a ceremony to scatter the ashes of noted Indian columnist and......
KABUL: An Afghan official says that an influential tribal elder has been killed by gunmen in eastern Kunar province.Gen. Abdul Habib Sayedkhaili, provincial police chief in Kunar, said on Saturday......
SANAA: Saudi-led coalition forces announced on Saturday that a five-day humanitarian ceasefire would take effect in Yemen starting on Sunday evening at the request of exiled president Abd-Rabbu......
ISTANBUL: The Turkish military on Saturday carried out a second wave of strikes against targets controlled by self-styled Islamic State in Syria and embarked on a new air campaign to bombard camps of......
CAIRO: Egypt is in talks with France to buy two more naval corvettes, a French diplomat said on Saturday, as Paris’s Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian visited Cairo in an African tour.French......
ROME: More than 1,200 migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa and Syria, arrived in Sicily on Saturday, after having been picked up in the Mediterranean, the Italian coastguard said.Most of the......
NAIROBI: US President Barack Obama on Saturday called for gay rights in Africa during his landmark visit to Kenya, comparing homophobia to racial discrimination he had encountered in the United......
TOKYO: A powerful typhoon which lashed Japan last week has killed more than 11,000 farmed bluefin tuna, costing over $10 million in damage, local media said on Saturday.Typhoon Nangka made landfall......
NEW YORK: The Obama administration is preparing to release convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard from prison, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing US officials. Some of them hope the......
MAIDUGURI: At least 25 people were killed in new suspected Boko Haram attacks in northeastern Nigeria, with many villagers also forced to flee their homes, residents said on Saturday.“The terrorists......
BAYREUTH: German Chancellor Angela Merkel was among the illustrious guests who trod the red carpet to the Festspielhaus theatre in Bayreuth on Saturday, at the glittering start to this year’s......
A new law allowing foreigners to own land on the Maldives, the island nation known for luxury tourism, has sharpened regional competition for influence over one of the busiest oceans in the world.On......
WASHINGTON: A new letter by federal intelligence investigators says secret US government information may have been compromised in Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private server, underscoring an inescapable......
NEW YORK: Bald and muscular, dressed in a black T-shirt, black pants and black shoes, Joshua Oppenheimer emerges from the darkness of a movie theatre to stand again before an audience and talk about......
BEIRUT: Iran will not abandon Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement after reaching a nuclear deal with world powers, the Shia group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Saturday.“Did Iran sell its allies down......
TUNIS: Tunisia’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to pass the country’s new anti-terror law after a pair of devastating attacks against tourists, but critics fear the new legislation may endanger the......
LAHORE: A card of six events will be staged during Lahore Summer Meeting on Sunday as the Lahore Race Club (LRC) has decided to revert to day/night races at the Racecourse.The fields are tiny with......
KAZAN: Haley Anderson of the US defended her title in the 5-kilometre open water race to claim the first medal of the FINA World Swimming Championships on Saturday.She surged to the lead in the......
KARACHI: Eid Milan Cup figures prominently in a five-race card of the Gymkhana race meeting which is set to resume after a break of about five weeks at the Karachi Racecourse on Sunday, weather......
KARACHI: The three-day Danpak 27th Pakistan Scrabble Championship (masters), featuring 36 top-ranked players of the country, started at Beach Luxury Hotel here on Friday.At the end of the first day,......
BUDAPEST: Defending world champion and series leader Lewis Hamilton bidding for a record fifth Hungarian Grand Prix victory will start from pole for Sunday’s race after posting the fastest time in......
KARACHI: A fortnight long sixth free summer hockey coaching clinic for youth under the aegis of Islahuddin-Dr M. A. Shah Academy begins at their premises on Monday.Desirous players who are aged......
HAMBANTOTA: Sri Lanka host Pakistan in the fifth and final One-day International, here at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium on Sunday, of what has been a largely one-sided series in......
NEW DELHI: A New Delhi court on Saturday cleared former Test fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and two other players of spot-fixing during the Indian Premier League (IPL), a lawyer and media......
CHITTAGONG: The first cricket Test between Bangladesh and South Africa ended in a draw on Saturday after rain washed out the fifth day’s play in Chittagong.With no chance of a result in the......
With barely eight months to go before the sixth edition of the ICC World Twenty20 starts in India next spring, the main title-contenders are in the process of team-building for the biannual......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s pace bowling legend Wasim Akram has lavished praise on veteran Younis Khan, saying the seasoned batsman deserves place amongst pantheon of greats in Test cricket.Younis became the......
LONDON: Being humiliated by 405 runs in the second Ashes Test by Australia was a setback but England will not dwell on it when the third Test gets underway at Edgbaston on Wednesday, fast bowler......
LONDON: Usain Bolt and Mohamed Farah put recent troubles behind them in the London Diamond League meeting with victories on the track where they won five Olympic golds between them in 2012.Bolt......
PHILADELPHIA: Jamaica’s “Reggae Boyz” have already made history as they enter Sunday’s Gold Cup final against an under-performing Mexico side with much to explain even if they take the trophy.The......
SAINT PETERSBURG: The qualifying draw involving 141 nations from five continents for the 2018 World Cup in Russia got underway in Saint Petersburg on Saturday.The 2,000 guests at the luxurious......
DERBY: Australia were 51 without loss in their second innings at tea on the third and final day of their tour match against Derbyshire at Derby on Saturday.Shaun Marsh was 30 not out and skipper......
ST PETERSBURG: FIFA’s embattled president Sepp Blatter is “a victim” and “a very brave person”, the chief executive of the 2018 Russian World Cup organising committee said on Friday.Blatter was in St......
LONDON: Australia’s Chris Rogers has rejoined the team after suffering from dizziness in the second Ashes Test but the opener remains a doubt for the third match at Edgbaston, Cricket Australia said......
TORONTO: Chad Campbell fired nine birdies in a nine-under par 63 on Friday to grab a two-stroke lead in the US PGA Tour’s Canadian Open.The American, in search of a fifth career title and his first......
KARACHI: The government seemed to have resorted to creative accounting as it kept Habib Bank’s (HBL) privatisation proceeds in the profits of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) under the head of......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government is likely to extend tenure of the Tax Reforms Commission for another one month to finalise tax proposals for submission to the government for approval.Chairperson of......
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund’s net income position for the fiscal year 2015 was lower than projected a year earlier, the Fund announced on Saturday.This week, the IMF executive......
KARACHI: The report on the “stock market crisis of 2008” has finally found its way to the offices of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).Akif Saeed, Commissioner, Securities......
ISLAMABAD: Sardar Karam Khan, a farmer of village Lund in tehsil Fatehjang, Attock district saw his profits rise to Rs1.3 million this year by growing grapes.Harvesting the fruit on his nine acres of......
ATHENS: The next managing director of the IMF is likely to come from outside Europe when current leader Christine Lagarde eventually leaves, the deputy head of the Washington-based fund said in an......
RIYADH: Markets stand traumatised. From $61.43 a barrel on June 10, WTI is now hovering at $48. The Brent has breached the $55 floor. This is mauling.Continuing glut, expectations of more from Iran......
LONDON: Gold prices hit multi-year low points this week, hit by a stronger dollar and weak Chinese demand.With metals prices generally weak, mining groups Anglo American and Lonmin on Friday......
SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft is aiming to build lasting relationships with Windows 10, to be launched on Wednesday and seen as critical to reviving the fortunes of the once-dominant tech giant.For the......
NEW YORK: Nikkei Inc’s purchase of Pearson’s FT Group raises once more the question of whether Japanese companies pay too much for overseas acquisitions. Since the 1990s, Japanese acquirers have......
WASHINGTON: You’ve heard of Made in China. Get ready for Sold in China.For decades, China has exported cheap goods to the rest of the world even while domestic consumption waned. Now, the country’s......
WASHINGTON: Staff economists at the Federal Reserve expect a quarter-point US interest rate increase this year, according to forecasts the Fed mistakenly published on its website in a gaffe that drew......
QUETTA: Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Noor Meskanzai has ordered transfer and postings of family judges (FJ) in the province.According to a notification on Saturday, Saima Najam, FJ......
ISLAMABAD: Three people were killed when a 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck northern parts of the country in the small hours of Saturday, officials said.The United States Geological Survey said the......
LAHORE: The authorities began making preparations on Saturday to meet any eventuality caused by spells of heavy to very heavy rain forecast by the Met office initially for the upper and later......
ISLAMABAD: With tension between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) running high in the wake of the Judicial Commission’s report, by-election for a provincial......
LAHORE: The chief controller of Pakistan Railways (PR) and his two deputies were among eight employees suspended from service on Saturday for their `direct or indirect’ involvement in the July 2......
KARACHI: Geo TV’s Karachi bureau chief Fahim Siddiqui was kidnapped from North Nazimabad on Saturday and tortured by five men, four of them wearing police uniform, before being left in Manghopir......
KARACHI: For the umpteenth time, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has sent packing the Karachi-based members of his party’s coordination committee and hinted at taking a similar......
It seems to be a structure out of the science-fiction movies made in Hollywood some three or four decades ago. Overlooking the old Islamabad graveyard in sector H-8, this solid mass of concrete with......
WASHINGTON: The lifting of economic sanctions on Iran will open “massive trade” opportunities for Pakistan, says the prime minister’s special assistant for foreign affairs.At a briefing to the media,......
KARACHI: Two women and two children were found dead in an apartment here on Saturday night.According to Sachal police, foul smell coming from a locked flat in Shoppers Plaza off Abul Hasan Ispahani......
CHITRAL: At least 20 bodies were retrieved from water channels on Saturday morning in five villages of Chitral district that had been devastated by flash floods the previous day. Eight of the victims......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan has kept the policy rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent, expecting higher monetary expansion during the current financial year.Announcing the bi-monthly monetary policy......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Saturday that he had accepted the decision of the inquiry commission formed to probe the charges of rigging in the 2013 general......
ISLAMABAD: Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif said on Saturday that army was ready to pay any cost for making China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) a reality.He said this while visiting Panjgur and......
TAXILA: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, were carrying out the operation against criminals in Karachi in accordance with law and the mandate given to them, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said......
ONE more time the monsoon season finds us struggling to cope with widespread inundation, flooding and the attendant destruction of infrastructure and livelihoods. Although the scale of the......
THIS newspaper has argued that to defeat the self-styled Islamic State, regional powers must combine forces in order to dislodge the extremist outfit from the territory it has occupied in Syria and......
WHEN it comes to children, especially their education, our attitudes seem to be incredibly regressive. For example, it is not unusual in Pakistan’s cities and towns — as in many other countries — to......
STATES and societies are struggling to find ways to deal with religion — or religious thought, to be precise. While most states see religion as a challenge, for the common man the attraction of......
THE commission tried to be charitable. It threw in the bit at the end that the “PTI was not entirely unjustified in requesting the establishment” of the commission. It referred to the “suspicion of a......
ON July 15, the Pakistan military announced it had shot down an Indian spy drone in Bhimber, Azad Kashmir. This response seemed to have triggered a series of border skirmishes along the working......
