SANAA: The Saudi-led coalition launched new airstrikes in at least two Yemeni provinces on Monday, piercing a humanitarian pause that started at midnight Sunday, security officials and witnesses......
SHILLONG: Former president of India, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam died on Monday after collapsing collapsing while delivering a lecture in Shillong, northeastern India.Kalam, 83, collapsed while addressing......
ISLAMABAD: Data retrieved from a spy drone shot down earlier this month near the Line of Control (LOC) by Pakistani forces provides irrefutable evidence that it was flown by the Indian Army, the......
BIRMINGHAM: Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc weighed into the ongoing row over the state of pitches for the Ashes series on Monday by accusing England of not knowing what they want.Following the......
PARIS: This year's Tour de France had been advertised as an exciting battle royale between four great riders yet it panned out as an underwhelming contest as Chris Froome's rivals failed to live up......
Pakistan has moved into eighth position in the ICC ODI Team Rankings after its 3-2 series victory in Sri Lanka in the five-match series which concluded in Hambantota on Sunday.Azhar Ali’s men have......
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary, Anurag Thakur, has said a series between Pakistan and India was unlikely until relations between the two countries normalised.Thakur's......
QUETTA: Two policemen and a woman were killed when unknown gunmen attacked a senior police officer's convoy in Quetta's Sariab road area on Monday.One attacker was also killed in retaliatory fire,......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday chaired a high-level meeting with cabinet members and political leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League —Nawaz (PML-N) to expedite electoral reforms......
LONDON: Pakistan won the ODI series in Sri Lanka but the team’s fall in the rankings is down to its inability to move with changing trends and the lack of young talent in the squad, according to......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Qamar Mansoor, who was earlier sent on a 90-day preventive detention in Rangers custody, has been granted permission by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) to......
On July 21, I arrived at the Karachi Press Club to find over a dozen people crowding around a 'celebrity'. This celebrity was Chaand Nawab of Bajrangi Bhaijan fame, and thronging him were journalists......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has issued directions to complete infrastructure projects planned as part of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) by the end of 2017.The premier made the......
Legendary batsman and president of the International Cricket Council (ICC), Zaheer Abbas, has vowed to keep cricket ‘alive’ in Pakistan by using his position to convince member countries to tour the......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday directed political parties and lawmakers to submit statements of accounts to the ECP by August 29 and September 30 respectively.Members......
I did not want to watch Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Why? How about drunk actor drives over four people sleeping on a pavement one night and allegedly pays his driver to take the blame? When he gets convicted......
LAHORE: A three-member bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) was constituted Monday to assess the maintainability of a case against Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain for his earlier remarks......
It's no secret that Jal lead singer Farhan Saeed and Na Maloom Afraad starlet Urwa Hocane are in love in real life. Therefore, it was only a matter of time until the two worked together as well; in......
South Africa will play four Test matches in India for the first time as part of their longest ever tour to the sub-continent later this year, the country's cricket board announced on Monday.The......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday issued a fresh black warrant for the execution of condemned prisoner Shafqat Hussain and directed jail authorities to send him to the gallows on August 4 at......
ISLAMABAD: When Pakistan resumed executions after the massacre of 134 pupils at Peshawar’s Army Public School last December, the government promised hangings would help deter Islamist militants.A......
ADEN: Yemen's Houthi rebels pounded an area in the southern province of Taez shortly after the start early Monday of a humanitarian truce declared by the Saudi-led coalition bombing the Iran-backed......
There aren’t many writers of the thriller or crime-noir genre in Pakistani English fiction, and that’s what makes author Omar Shahid Hamid stand out amongst his contemporaries.Hamid’s debut novel,......
ANKARA: Turkey on Sunday called for a meeting of its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) allies to discuss threats to its security and its airstrikes targeting self-styled Islamic State......
KABUL: A shootout at a wedding party in northern Afghanistan has left 21 people dead and another 10 wounded, an official said Monday.Jaweed Basharat, the governor of Baghlan province, said a gunfight......
NEW DELHI: India tightened security on the border with Pakistan on Monday after its military said heavily armed men, dressed in army uniforms, stormed a police station in the northern frontier state......
MULTAN: Two death row prisoners convicted of murder were hanged to death in Multan Central Jail on Monday — the latest executions as the federal government’s month-long moratorium on executions......
SIALKOT: A 16-year-old fruit vendor has made his ailing parents proud by obtaining second position in humanities group (boys) in the annual matriculation examination.The boards of intermediate and......
LAHORE: The Lahore Restaurants Association (LRA) announced on Sunday that it would stage a protest demonstration on Tuesday (tomorrow) against the Punjab Food Authority for “targeting and aiming to......
LAHORE: The environment department has approved the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report of the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project on certain conditions.Accordingly, it has asked the......
PESHAWAR/CHITRAL: Fifteen people were killed, hundreds of houses inundated or washed away and standing crops in large areas were destroyed on Sunday as flash floods caused by widespread monsoon rain......
GWADAR: The spiritual leader of the Zikri community, Syed Zafar Noori, was kidnapped by armed men in the coastal town of Pasni on Sunday evening.Mr Zafar Noori is the nephew of Syed Essa Noori, MNA......
DYNAMICS of demography now have changed. At the outset of the 20th Century 10pc people of the world lived in cities. In 2000, this proportion rose to over 50pc and by 2025 it will be over five......
AS is his wont, Imran Khan has once again taken the most inopportune moment to speak on a sensitive topic.Speaking to the media after attending the Army Public School (APS) Shuhada Forum, he......
THE article ‘End of democracy’ (July 18) by A. G. Noorani is thought-provoking and should be heeded to by civil society. It reminds me of what Plato had said: “the punishment for not taking part in......
THE zero point interchange is a cloverleaf interchange built on the intersection of Islamabad highway, Kashmir highway and Khyaban-i-Suhrawardy.The total cost of construction for this huge civil......
THIS refers to Dr Hoodbhoy’s article ‘Math in our madressahs?’ It is tempting to think that the teaching of science, mathematics and English in madressahs would substantially reduce terrorism in the......
KARACHI is being cleansed of terrorists, corrupt people and inept politicians. Some of them have fled the country others are in Rangers custody and some will be soon in the web of law.These absentee......
ANYONE conversant with the electoral process in Pakistan knows well that conducting local bodies elections is a more difficult task than conducting general elections. Chaos will follow when losing......
NATHIAGALI was developed as a hill station by the British before partition. Since that no substantial development has been carried out by the government. Now I have heard through press that the......
THE Lyari Expressway is still incomplete because of encroachment by the land mafia. Even the Muslim League, the PPP and the MQM could not control the land mafia.Last year Engineer Sohail Bhatti, who......
MARDAN: Awami National Party provincial president Ameer Haider Hoti has urged the government to accelerate implementation of the Nation Action Plan (NAP). He said that the direction of NAP was right,......
KOHAT: The Hangu police on Sunday arrested an alleged Afghan terrorist wanted for several years in cases of attacks on the security forces.Giving deteails, a police official said that following a......
RAWALPINDI: Four people were killed in different incidents here on Sunday, police said.Mohammad Irfan, 50, and his nephew Mohammad Imran, 35, were killed when they slipped and plunged into a deep......
MINGORA: The poets, singers and culture activists at an event here on Sunday pledged to strive for promotion of Pashto language and Pakhtun culture.The event, organised by Da Swat Pakhto Adabi......
PESHAWAR: Widespread rain in Peshawar on Sunday caused high flood in Budhni Nullah which inundated several residential colonies along its banks as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is bracing for more monsoon......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has termed the flood situation in Chitral very critical and demanded of the federal government to provide helicopters to it for transportation of relief......
LAKKI MARWAT: Jamaat-i-Islami Fata chapter secretary general Dr Munsif Khan has called upon the federal government to bring the terrorism hit tribal people into the mainstream of development by......
Though the condition of graduation is no longer in place for contesting election to the national and provincial assemblies, it continues to affect lawmakers who had in past either submitted forged......
LANDI KOTAL: The industrialists and tribal elders hailing from Bara sub-division of Khyber Agency have welcomed the Rs1.5 billion package for the revival of closed industrial units and restoration of......
PESHAWAR: The poor patients will receive free healthcare services in the morning and those paying for the services will be seen in afternoon by the doctors under the institution-based practice (IBP),......
SWABI: Students seeking admission in engineering universities have expressed concern over delay in announcement of FSc results by education boards.They told Dawn here on Sunday that some students had......
KARAK: Poll candidates in Isak Chountra union council here will make arrangements for women to cast their votes during the re-polling on July 30.It is to mention here that the women of the union......
MINGORA: The last chief justice (Qaziul Qazza) of former Swat state firmly believes strong judicial system and speedy dispensation of justice to the people was the secret behind durable peace and......
ISLAMABAD: A 40-year-old Pakistani citizen working with the United States (US) embassy was shot dead in the capital city early on Sunday.According to the police, Iqbal Baig, who worked with the drug......
RAWALPINDI: The executions of condemned prisoners will begin once again on Thursday, with six being hanged in Central Jail Adiala for non-terrorism related offenses.Executions of convicted prisoners......
ISLAMABAD: An audit team of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria (GFFATM) has raised serious objections over the functioning and the use of funds by the National TB Control......
Chapli Kebab takes its name from the Pashto word Chaprikh, meaning flat. Minced beef or lamb meat is marinated with green chillies, tomatoes, pomegranate seeds, fresh herbs such as coriander and mint......
ISLAMABAD: As many as 12 high-risk polio districts have been identified across the country to put them under special focus during the low-transmission season starting from September.Special meetings......
RAWALPINDI: The local chapter of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Sunday celebrated birthday of former president and co-chairman of the party, Asif Ali Zardari, at a ceremony held at the party office......
LAYYAH: The erosion of Shahwala spur has attracted the attention of the provincial government as it has announced Rs100 million for rehabilitation and Rs1.5 for flood-fighting measures.The riverine......
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) will get the lapsed funds amounting to Rs6 billion from the Punjab government on Monday to pay to the contractors of the metro bus project.The......
ISLAMABAD: Polish mountaineer Olek Ostrowski, 27, went missing on the Gasherbrum II on Saturday. He was part of the polish team who intended to summit the Gasherbrum II, the world’s 13th highest......
RAWALPINDI: Four people were killed in different incidents here on Sunday, police said.Mohammad Irfan, 50, and his nephew Mohammad Imran, 35, were killed when they slipped and plunged into a deep......
RAWALPINDI: The Rawal Town Municipal Administration’s (RTMA) enforcement cell on Sunday razed illegal construction adjacent to 6th Road bus station of metro bus service.After receiving the......
TAXILA: A security guard died of electric shock while a teenage girl was abducted in Taxila police area on Sunday.Mohammad Akram came into contact with live electric wire while switching on heater......
TAXILA: The spillways of Khanpur dam were kept open for hours on Sunday to accommodate a massive inflow of water. Flash floods were witnessed in many parts of the dam’s traditional catchment area and......
RAWALPINDI: Despite the dengue threat, two of the three government hospitals in the city are still without infectious disease departments.After receiving more than 1,700 dengue patients at the Holy......
RAWALPINDI: A rebellion awaits Imran Khan and his Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) next month at a convention of disgruntled party leaders and workers in Punjab to be held in Lahore, it seems.A dissenter......
LAHORE: Three men were killed and two others injured when a speeding truck collided with an autorickshaw in Defence C police precincts on Sunday.Five men were travelling in an autorickshaw when a......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided in principle to impose 19.5pc tax on Internet use by mobile phone consumers. Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will remain exempted.The decision has elicited......
LAHORE: Opposition Leader in Punjab Assembly Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed has demanded that the Election Commission of Pakistan should extend the date for registration of voters, verification and......
LAHORE: Tibbi city police recovered a newborn a few hours after his abduction from the Lady Willingdon Hospital here on Sunday.According to the police, Sajid’s wife gave birth to a baby boy three......
LAHORE: The All Pakistan Exchange Companies Association in a meeting with the federal finance minister at 90-Shahra-i-Quaid-i-Azam on Saturday took up the matters of 0.3 per cent advance withholding......
GUJRAT: The law enforcement agencies (LEAs) as well as the competent authorities who would recommend and notify the inclusion of the names into the list of the fourth schedule of the Anti-Terrorism......
OKARA: About 200 students of the Govt Taleemul Islam Primary School have been waiting for the new building for five months after the old building was demolished.The Buildings Department had granted......
BAHAWALPUR: The gulf between PML-N lawmakers and workers, being led by a former parliamentary secretary of the party, has widened after the election for the vice-president of Cantonment Board held......
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid senior leader and former deputy prime minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said if funds meant for protective embankments and spurs’ repair and rehabilitation had......
LAHORE: Railways minister Khawaja Saad Rafique has advised the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf to focus on its performance instead of repeating its “baseless” allegations.In a statement issued here on......
GUJRAT: The Gujrat Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) has decided to shift the slaughterhouse along Shah Jahangir Road to a recently selected piece of land along the Gujrat-Jalalpur Jattan bypass......
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami Emir Sirajul Haq has called for strict accountability of the government functionaries responsible for irregularities in the 2013 general elections in the light of the Judicial......
LAHORE: The Punjab Rangers set up on Sunday relief camps in different cities of the province to collect food items and medicines for the flood-hit people.According to a news release, the Rangers......
LAHORE: The Punjab Emergency Service Rescue 1122 evacuated 17, 647 people from flood-hit districts of Punjab on Sunday.According to a news release, 7,385 people were evacuated from Rahim Yar Khan and......
LAHORE: A spokesman of Punjab Education Foundation (PEF), while commenting on ‘PEF gets audit done by third party against CM’s orders’ which published in Dawn on July 21, has said that all rules and......
LAHORE: A delegation of the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) will visit China shortly to have discussions on joint programmes.This was stated by UVAS Vice Chancellor Talat Naseer......
LAHORE: Residents of Katchi Kothi on Raiwind Road await some relief since the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) dug the main road for laying sewerage pipelines some six months ago, leaving the......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif says feasibility reports of three 3,600 megawatt gas-fired power projects have been prepared.Presiding over a meeting which discussed progress on gas-fired power......
KARACHI: Ittehad Town police on Sunday arrested two suspected militants belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan after a targeted raid in Abidabad. Police arrested Zubair and Jamal Danish......
HYDERABAD: Widespread rains with thunder lashed almost the entire Sindh on Sunday turning weather across the province pleasant but causing collapse of drainage system, considerable damage to......
HYDERABAD: Sindh Senior Minister for Information and Irrigation Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that the PPP had objections to the water resolution of 1991 in the past and the party objects it even......
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Local Government Syed Nasir Hussain Shah and Jamat-i-Islami Karachi chapter chief Hafiz Naeemur Rahman on Sunday pledged to rise above their political differences and......
KARACHI: Commissioner Shoaib Siddiqui on Sunday cancelled all the leases (ownership rights) obtained by people within the banks of 30 major nullahs (storm-water drains) and declared all the......
KARACHI: Various cities and towns of Sindh, including the metropolis, received intermittent rains on Sunday. The Met Office forecast more rains across the province on Monday.The city weatherman said......
KARACHI: Police on Sunday detained former husband of a woman who along with her eight-year-old daughter, her tenant and her minor son was found dead in their apartment off Abul Hasan Ispahani Road on......
KARACHI: The three-day training of the final batch of returning officers (ROs) got under way in Karachi, Hyderabad, Shaheed Benazirabad and Larkana as per schedule to get them prepared for conducting......
In the 1960s, some poets and critics of Urdu from Lahore decided that it was just about time to try to revolutionise Urdu literature and see if it worked. Work it did, albeit briefly, as it found......
KARACHI: With a conviction rate of nearly 33 per cent, the antiterrorism courts (ATCs) in Sindh have disposed of 677 cases during the first half of the year while over 3,300 cases are still pending......
JERUSALEM: Israeli police on Sunday entered Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, and clashed with Palestinians.Palestinians threw stones and fireworks while police fired stun......
KATHMANDU: Police have arrested 11 villagers on charges of murdering a 10-year-old boy in southwestern Nepal, an official said on Sunday, in what villagers described as a case of human......
BEIJING: A man who tried to set fire to the cabin of a plane with more than 100 people aboard as it was landing in southern China early on Sunday was overpowered by fellow passengers and crew,......
TOKYO: A small plane crashed into a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo on Sunday, killing the pilot, a passenger and a woman on the ground, while three people were pulled alive from the wreckage, officials......
When the agreement over the Iranian nuclear deal was announced in Vienna on July 14, I sent out a tweet: “#Iran deal was the best birthday present I could have asked for.”For the last couple of......
MANILA: Philippine President Benigno Aquino addresses parliament for the last time on Monday (today), racing to secure fragile legacies of peace in the war-torn south and a stronger economy.Aquino......
LOS ANGELES: Jake Gyllenhaal is getting what Hollywood calls Oscar buzz for his performance in Southpaw. Wang Jianlin is getting some too, because Wanda Pictures financed the movie — a first for the......
DAMASCUS: Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad acknowledged the shrinking ranks of his government’s army in a rare public speech on Sunday, but insisted the force was still capable of beating rebel......
Hitler set a bad example. He was evil. His regime was evil. His Reich was destroyed, the Nazis vanquished, the Führer dying by his own hand in the ashes of the European nightmare. Bad guys lose.......
WASHINGTON: The support for a US ground offensive against the self-styled Islamic State is increasing gradually, although most Americans still oppose leading their country to yet another war, says a......
ISTANBUL: Turkish protesters battled security forces on Sunday in intense clashes in a flashpoint Istanbul district where a leftist activist was killed during police raids earlier this week, a......
SANTIAGO CUBA: Cuba marked the anniversary of Fidel Castro’s first armed uprising 62 years ago on Sunday with calls for an end to the US embargo and the return of the US naval base at Guantanamo.The......
HAMBURG: Rafael Nadal heads back to the comfort of clay next week as the struggling Spaniard attempts to resolve the crisis that has gripped his game.The 29-year-old is top seed at the Hamburg Open......
TORONTO: The head of the Canadian Olympic Committee says Toronto will bid for the 2024 Olympics, joining a crowded field that already includes five cities.Marcel Aubut, president of the COC, told the......
NEW DELHI: Well aware that he has reached the business end of his international cricket career, veteran Pakistan Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq is planning to call time if the much-awaited series against......
LONDON: England will continue to bowl bouncers at Australian batsman Chris Rogers if the opener is passed fit for this week’s third Ashes Test at Edgbaston after suffering from dizziness, seamer Mark......
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-day International in Hambantota......
LOS ANGELES: Michelle Obama welcomed thousands of athletes with intellectual disabilities to the Special Olympic World Games here on Saturday during a festive opening ceremony filled with cheers,......
HAMBANTOTA: Tillakaratne Dilshan on Sunday became the 11th batsman and the fourth Sri Lankan to compile 10,000 runs in one-day cricket, achieving the feat against Pakistan.The flamboyant 38-year-old......
DERBY: Australia captain Michael Clarke’s run of modest scores is not being exacerbated by his longstanding physical problems, according to team batting coach Michael di Venuto.The 34-year-old Clarke......
ST PETERSBURG: England will renew one of the oldest rivalries in football against Scotland in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia after they were paired together at a lavish ceremony here on......
SANTA CLARA: Wayne Rooney got on the scoresheet as Manchester United scored a morale-boosting 3-1 friendly victory over European champions Barcelona in the International Champions Cup here on......
OAKVILLE: A star-studded group that includes Australian Jason Day and American Bubba Watson will attempt to prevent Canada’s David Hearn from making history at the RBC Canadian Open on Sunday.No......
PHILADELPHIA: Reserve goalkeeper Luis Mejia denied the last three US shooters and suspension-weakened Panama edged the United States 3-2 on penalties Saturday to claim third place in the Gold......
KARACHI: Day two of the three-day Danpak 27th Pakistan Scrabble Championship (masters) being played at the Beach Luxury Hotel here on Saturday turned out to be rather eventful.All the top three......
NEW DELHI: Roelant Oltmans is the new head coach of India’s field hockey team after his Dutch compatriot Paul Van Ass left just a year ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics.“Oltmans has agreed to be the......
KAZAN: Christina Jones and Bill May of the US won the first gold medal in new mixed duet technical synchronised swimming at the FINA world championships.The Americans totalled 88.5108 points for a......
KARACHI: Rider Sohail Ahmed overshadowed his contemporary Wasim’s splendid double as he powered favourite filly Honey Queen to dazzling victory to lift The Eid Milan Cup in the Gymkhana race meeting......
BUDAPEST: Germany’s Sebastian Vettel won an emotional Hungarian Grand Prix for Ferrari and the late Jules Bianchi on Sunday after a crazy race that turned into a rare nightmare for champions......
LONDON: Pole vault world record holder Renaud Lavillenie soared to a stadium record of 6.03m on the second day of the London Diamond League meeting here on Saturday.There were also a clutch of......
TORONTO: Half of the Cuban men’s field hockey team at the Pan American Games in Toronto defected to the United States, a player and sources close to the Cuban delegation said on Saturday.The sources......
AGEING plantations with low-yielding trees, sharply declining production, plunging prices and rising imports have seen the Indian natural rubber industry skidding over the past few years.Natural......
ALEXIS Tsipras should never have hired Yanis Varoufakis as his finance minister. Or he should have listened to him, and kept him on. But instead the Greek prime minister chose the worst of all......
Pakistan claims to be eagerly waiting for tangible progress in, and to benefit from, the process kick-started by the landmark deal in Vienna to lift sanctions and reintegrate Iran into the global......
In a startling disclosure, the Auditor General of Pakistan has unearthed a Rs520bn loss to the national kitty during audit year 2013-14 due to the evasion of duties and taxes in four selective areas......
The rupee remained largely range-bound against the dollar in both the interbank and open markets last week, as trading was reduced to three sessions owing to the Eid break.While some market......
The Takaful business has been struggling over the last seven to eight years since its inception without any tangible progress, despite repeated capital injections by sponsors. Where did these general......
The central bank was able to raise Rs211.804bn from the auction of Treasury bills on July 22, much higher than the targeted amount of Rs125bn.Of the total, six-month T-bills fetched Rs83.866bn at a......
Pakistan's textile industry, especially the large factories, was structured from the very beginning to manufacture commodity textiles for international markets.Built on heavy government subsidies and......
KHYBER Pakhtunkhwa’s development programme has suffered a setback as the province’s net hydropower profit arrears from the electricity generated at the Tarbela Dam have been stuck up for over six......
Four major consecutive power breakdowns in six days in the second week of July in Karachi had made the life of millions of residents miserable in the holy month of Ramazan.The outages subsequently......
LISTED companies have committed to make their boards of directors more proactive by urging them to self-evaluate their contribution towards creating shareholders’ wealth, thus underlying their......
As improved seasonal water flows start flooding river beds and threaten to break banks in certain areas, the farmers in Punjab are holding their breath: more rains in the upper parts of the country,......
THE State Bank of Pakistan has painted a dismal picture of the performance of the crop sector during the just-ended fiscal year, saying farmers must be made aware of best agriculture practices to......
While a fourth consecutive drought may hit Tharparkar’s crop and livestock sectors this year, the draft Sindh Drought Management and Mitigation Policy 2014 has been awaiting the provincial......
KHUZDAR: A clash was averted between two groups and 10 people were arrested in Zehri tehsil of Khuzdar district on Saturday, official sources said.Armed men from two sub-clans took position against......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has expressed deep sorrow and grief over casualties and devastation caused by torrential rains and flash-floods in Chitral and announced a donation of......
MULTAN: The Pakistan Army, Multan Corps, has rescued 8,946 people from flood-affected areas to safe places.According to an ISPR press release issued on Sunday, medical check-up and free drugs were......
The PTCL has restored communication services in flood-hit Chitral area.A spokesperson for the organisation said, despite heavy rains and challenging weather, PTCL special teams have worked diligently......
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund places Pakistan among the countries that spend 4 to 8 per cent of their GDP on providing energy subsidies.In a report, the IMF estimates that Pakistan......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: A landmine planted at a roadside in Chatter area of the Nasirbad district was defused by the police on Sunday.According to police, suspected militants had planted the landmine at......
GWADAR: Security forces arrested four suspected people during a search operation near Pasni.A spokesman for the Frontier Corps said the suspects had been handed over to the authorities concerned for......
ISLAMABAD: The PPP has alleged that the federal government appears to have decided to bring the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) to a standstill in an effort to privatise it at a throwaway price by the end......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau has arrested two owners of a construction firm in a Rs264 million bank loan default case.A NAB spokesman said Mehr Ahmad Shoaibur Rehman Lakk and......
ISLAMABAD: Report of the inquiry commission constituted to investigate allegations that the last general elections had been rigged has not only dealt a blow to credibility of the Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: As the National Assembly begins a monsoon session on Monday, all eyes will be fixed on the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) as to how it conducts itself after a judicial......
LAHORE / KARACHI: Heavy rains, torrential at times, lashed upper parts of the country on Sunday with the Flood Forecasting Division (FFD) saying the rainwater was likely to generate medium to high......
ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has issued alerts to the government agencies concerned and provincial disaster management authorities (PDMAs) for a possible flood in......
WASHINGTON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement has urged President Barack Obama to use his influence to end what it termed victimisation of its workers in Karachi.At a Saturday evening protest outside the......
QUETTA: Iranian security forces handed over to Pakistani authorities on Sunday 192 Pakistani nationals arrested for illegally crossing into Iranian territory.The Pakistanis were on their way to......
NEW DELHI: Convicted as conspirator in the 1993 Mumbai blasts that killed over 250, former chartered accountant Yakub Memon could dodge the hangman’s noose set for July 30, if a growing campaign by......
GWADAR: A group of men attacked and stormed a checkpost of Levies Force in Nasirabad area of Kech district on Sunday night.The armed men later cordoned the post off and set it on fire.After burning......
LAHORE: The ruling PML-N retained on Sunday its Gujranwala seat by convincingly defeating its rival Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in a by-election which was marred by some incidents of violence and delays......
MUZAFFARABAD: A civilian was killed in unprovoked firing by Indian troops along the Line of Control, Pakistan said on Sunday.The incident took place overnight in Chirikot sector on the LoC,......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has constituted an 11-member ministerial committee to take crucial decisions about the economic policy on behalf of the federal cabinet.Headed by Finance......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee will discuss the issues of missing persons, violence against the Shia Hazara community and discovery of mass graves with officials of the Balochistan government in......
IN the week ahead, hangings are to resume in Pakistan as the federal government’s month-long moratorium on executions has expired with the end of Ramazan.The hangings should not resume and the......
THE State Bank decided to keep interests steady in its latest monetary policy announcement after a year of continuous decreases. The decision reflects prudence in face of a divided outlook on......
ONLY two names now remain on the list: Afghanistan and Pakistan. Nigeria is the latest country to exit the ignominious company of countries where polio is considered endemic.No new polio cases have......
COLOURS have strong associations and tend to be coded in our psyche. They are linked, sometimes inexorably, to our politics, culture and social biases. The way we respond to people, events and......
IN the 19th century a pseudoscience known as phrenology, adherents of which believed that one’s personality could be determined by the shape of one’s skull, became popular. The father of phrenology,......
