DINANAGAR: Three gunmen who fought a 12-hour battle on Monday near the Pakistan border were Muslim, the Punjab police chief said on Tuesday, contradicting speculation that the attack may have been......
KABUL: Taliban fighters have gained ground in two provinces in northern Afghanistan, overrunning a district centre in Sar-e-Pol and seizing villages in Kunduz, local officials there said on......
KARACHI: Pakistan on Tuesday received some $336 million from the United States for its ongoing role in combating a Taliban insurgency in neighbouring Afghanistan.The injection of cash, which comes as......
BRUSSELS: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) vowed strong support for Turkey's fight against “terrorism” at an emergency meeting on Tuesday called to discuss Ankara's strikes against the......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of Opposition in National Assembly and Pakistan Peoples Party stalwart Khursheed Shah on Tuesday reciprocated Imran Khan’s demand that officials of the Election Commission of......
LAHORE: After clinching the five-matches limited over series 3-2, ODI captain Azhar Ali is hopeful Pakistan will repeat the dose in the Twenty20 series against Sri Lanka, earning the team an......
PARIS: A group of top tech leaders, including British scientist Stephen Hawking and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, on Tuesday issued a stern warning against the development of so-called killer......
Ten years ago, Dr Charles H. Kennedy, renowned expert on Pakistani politics, wrote the essay A User’s Guide to Guided Democracy, in which he sarcastically outlined ten ‘steps’ that could help any new......
And now for a bout between anti-cheating regulations and freedom of religious expression. In the controversy around the dress code imposed by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for......
NEW DELHI: Pakistan's High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit has cancelled his official two-day visit to the Indian city of Chandigarh due to security reasons.The two day official trip was to......
Rescue and relief operations by civil administration and army contingents are under way in flood-hit areas across Pakistan, said a report published on Radio Pakistan on Tuesday.Yesterday, The......
It's not the first time that a Bollywood star have shown interest in visiting Pakistan, but this time it's not some old generation actor but a young one, who's expressed the desire.Sidharth Malhotra,......
DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh have arrested eight suspected militants, including the chief of the outlawed Jamaat-ul Mujahideen, as authorities step up a crackdown on hardline Islamists.Bangladesh, a......
DUBAI: A bomb blast killed two Bahrain policemen and wounded six others Tuesday in an area often shaken by clashes between security forces and Shia Muslim protesters, the interior ministry......
MINGORA: In the village of Islampur, Swat, Ghani Rahman toils over a leased handloom machine, deftly weaving yarn into a colourful woolen shawl that will sell in the market for up to Rs5,000. While......
PARIS: European Union nations have until August 20 to suspend the sale of some 700 generic drugs made in India, the EU's executive confirmed on Monday.The European Commission took the action after an......
KARACHI: Provincial health authorities on Tuesday confirmed the 11th death of the current year caused by the lethal Naegleria fowleri, also called ‘brain-eating amoeba’, in the province.A 22-year-old......
CAPE TOWN: South Africa's first captain of the post-isolation era Clive Rice died on Tuesday after battling a brain tumour, local media reported.The 66-year-old had appeared to be in remission after......
Is it ever okay to endorse a fairness cream?Probably not.But one Indian TVC came close to overturning the 'gora is good' perception that plagues the subcontinent. Except that it inexplicably veered......
TRIPOLI: A Libyan court sentenced slain dictator Muammar Qadhafi's son Saif al-Islam and eight other defendants to death on Tuesday for crimes during the 2011 uprising.Former intelligence chief......
In the steamy Baghdad night, sweat poured down the faces of the Iraqi teens as they marched around a school courtyard, training for battle against Daesh or the self-styled Islamic State group.This is......
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly (NA) Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Tuesday deferred voting by one week on a resolution,submitted by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F), to......
Even though director Kabir Khan's Salman Khan starrer Bajrangi Bhaijaan was an optimistic take on India-Pakistan relations, it still managed to ruffle a few feathers what with its music controversy......
BAMIYAN: Carved into dun-coloured cliffs, hundreds of man-made caves situated next to empty niches that once sheltered giant Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban are home to Bamiyan's......
MULTAN/ATTOCK: Two convicted death row prisoners were sent to the gallows early morning on Tuesday in Multan and Attock jails — as the federal government’s month-long moratorium on executions......
At Eid prayers in a rainswept Aberdeen this month, the imam gave thanks to Allah Almighty for the blessings of life in Britain. We had successfully completed a month of fasting, while Muslims in......
DUBAI: Flexing her muscles in defiance of the Gulf's conservative cultural stereotypes, bodybuilder Haifa Musawi has lost all hope of pumping iron for Bahrain so now is looking elsewhere for......
LONDON: Fear of falling prices in a debt-laden world has returned to unnerve investors and central banks alike, as the slide on oil and commodity markets that set off a deflation scare last year has......
QUETTA: At least two people were killed when armed men opened fire at a vehicle, in what is termed by police as an incident of target killing on Quetta's Sabzal Road on Tuesday.The victims, who have......
BIRMINGHAM: Joe Root is confident England's latest collapse against an Australia pace attack led by Mitchell Johnson won't still haunt them come the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston starting on......
Is Pakistani cinema confused about genre?In Wrong No, aspiring actor Sallu (Danish Taimoor) locks horn with his father, Haji Abba (Javed Sheikh), who thinks he's a good-for-nothing loafer. Haji Abba......
BAHAWALPUR: As the sun sets and darkness falls over a village outside Bahawalpur, Shama Bibi switches on her solar lantern and starts sewing clothes for an upcoming family wedding.Not long ago,......
ADDIS ABABA: President Barack Obama launched a personal push for peace in South Sudan on Monday, convening African leaders for urgent talks in neighbouring Ethiopia aimed at keeping the world’s......
JAKARTA: Indonesia and Britain agreed on Monday to step up joint efforts to fight terrorism and the self-styled Islamic State group (IS). British Prime Minister David Cameron said after meeting with......
LONDON: A British vicar who went on the run after pocketing more than 33,700 euros in fees for weddings and funerals handed himself in to police on Monday following appeals from senior clergy.Simon......
BARCELONA: A wildfire raging in Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia on Monday destroyed over 3,000 acres of land and forced the evacuation of some 800 people, local officials said.The fire,......
BEIJING: China on Monday unveiled its official logo for the forthcoming commemorations of victory over Japan 70 years ago, invoking both peace in the form of doves and robust nationalism with......
DHAKA: Bangladesh has only about 100 tigers living in the world’s largest mangrove forest, far fewer of the endangered animals than previously thought, following a recent survey, a top forestry......
LONDON: A British politician on Monday said he would go on an unpaid leave of absence from the House of Lords pending an investigation after he was filmed allegedly snorting drugs off a prostitute’s......
BEIJING: A woman was killed after she plunged through flooring over an escalator in a Chinese department store, reports said on Monday, thrusting her toddler to safety as she fell to her death.Xiang......
PARIS: French farmers angry over low prices turned back hundreds of trucks at the German border on Monday, looking for cargos of foreign meat and milk products.A photographer at the German frontier......
KUNDUZ: At least 22 people were killed when a gunfight broke out at a wedding party in northern Afghanistan, officials said on Monday, highlighting the fragile security situation in the war-torn......
BRUSSELS: For just the fifth time in its 66-year history, Nato ambassadors will meet in emergency session on Tuesday to gauge the threat the self-styled Islamic State poses to Turkey, and the debated......
RIYADH: EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini held talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday to explain the agreement she helped broker on Iran’s nuclear programme, and to push for an end to Yemen’s......
ADEN: Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen hit positions of pro-government forces by mistake on Monday despite a humanitarian truce, killing a dozen people, military......
ISLAMABAD: An enforcement team of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) along with a large number of police personnel on Monday failed to launch an operation to remove the I-11 slum after a......
ISLAMABAD: Supermodel Ayyan Ali’s indictment in currency smuggling case was deferred again due to unavailability of the special judge customs, excise and taxation court of Rawalpindi.As the judge was......
ISLAMABAD: The promotions of over 300 ‘influential’ bureaucrats, including chairman CDA Maroof Afzal, home secretary Punjab Azam Suleman and acting Pemra chief Kamaluddin Tipu, in grade 20 and 21......
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over the killing of a victim of enforced disappearance in Sindh, stating that the murder represented growing intolerance......
THE end of the PTI’s long, distressing saga to dispute the overall result of the May 2013 general and knock the PML-N out of power has brought to the fore the next question, and this one centres on......
FOR a number of years now, the same water drain in Peshawar has overflowed every time rain hits the city, and causes widespread urban floods and loss of life as well.Last year too, the same drain —......
THE government is doing the right thing to hold out against continuing pressure from some groups against the withholding tax imposed on banking transactions of non-filers of income tax.The tax itself......
EGYPT has built a new Suez canal, 72 kilometers in length alongside the existing canal. The new canal is much wider and deeper to accommodate very large vessels. It will reduce waiting time for......
APROPOS the news report (July 24) stating that Nigeria completed a year without a single case of polio starting from July 2014.Nigeria was one of the polio endemic countries along with Pakistan.......
LOOKING at recent press publications, the improvement in the thinking of ulema indicates a progressive attitude. Although a large amount of published material is available, only references in Dawn......
THIS is apropos the textbook and monograph writing scheme of the Higher Education Commission (HEC). The commission has announced a scheme — ‘broadening the authorship cadre’.Under this scheme, PhD......
PAKISTANI politics has changed dramatically recently. In 2014, the conservatives were badly fractured, with Pakistan’s three biggest conflicts raging among social, political and economic......
YOU would have thought that a living Yakub Memon would worry Pakistan if he dodges the hangman’s noose in Nagpur. Why is the Indian government looking over-eager to snuff out his life this week, on......
IF the political credibility of Imran Khan has been permanently damaged by the judicial inquiry commission’s report, it is not good news for Pakistan. He remains a financially honest person, which......
PESHAWAR: An official of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Kohat, has alleged massive irregularities in the purchase of stationery and construction works in the board, and demanded probe......
LAKKI MARWAT: The local police claimed to have arrested four dreaded outlaws during a search and strike operation in different parts of the district on Monday.A police official said the operation was......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) on Monday filed a reference with an ehtesab court against provincial minister for mines and mineral development Ziaullah Afridi and three......
NOWSHERA: The labour leaders have alleged the secretary of the Workers Welfare Board has appointed hundreds of his blue-eyed people illegally despite the KP government ban on fresh appointments.They......
TIMERGARA: A man, who went missing when he was four years old, has been reunited with his family after 22 years in Samar Bagh area here.The family of Khan Zarin of Sara Dherai village was overjoyed......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has put to rest the rumours about privatisation of healthcare institutions in the province as Professor Nausherwan Burki, architect of the Medical Teaching......
KOHAT: The authorities have banned display of firearms in Kohat and Hangu as safety measures for re-polling for local governments.According to official notification, retired Capt Kamran Ahmed Afridi......
PESHAWAR: Police high-ups on Monday reviewed security plan for the re-polling on 365 polling stations across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa scheduled for July 30.A statement issued here said the meeting took......
ABBOTTABAD: Staff members of the Ayub Teaching Hospital (ATH) Abbottabad will boycott duty today (Tuesday) against the newly promulgated Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Medical Institution Reforms Act 2015.Except......
KARAK: The traders of Teri Bazaar took to streets on Monday to lodge their protest against tehsil municipal administration of Banda Daud Shah for its failure to keep the city clean.The protesting......
PESHAWAR: The district administration on Monday sealed two restaurants in Peshawar cantonment and arrested their managers for selling substandard and expired food items.A raiding team headed by......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission on Monday arrested four persons, including three officials of provincial social welfare department, on charges of misappropriation of funds in......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Monday said structures, including residential quarters, constructed along the banks of Budhni Nullah in Peshawar would be removed to......
PESHAWAR: The stage is set for the formation of district and tehsil councils and subsequent implementation of the three-tier local government system, however, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is yet......
CHITRAL: The people in the flood-affected upper parts of Chitral and Lot Koh and Bumburate valleys have complained about acute shortage of food and clean drinking water.Flood victims told Dawn over......
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan People’s Party has announced a relief fund of Rs50 million for the flood-hit people of Chitral district.Talking to media persons here on Monday, PPP Khyber Pakhtunkhwa......
ISLAMABAD: Three children were burnt alive while their parents along with a sibling injured when a fire broke out in their house early on Monday, police said.The incident took place in the house of......
RAWALPINDI: All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) on Monday said Pakistan should upgrade its infrastructure so that it could sustain Iranian gas pressure.Iran has completed its part of the pipeline......
RAWALPINDI: A woman confessed to murdering her four-and-a-half year old nephew by drowning him in a bucket of water in the Ratta Amral area.On July 12, Haider Ali who had gone missing from his......
MUZAFFARABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Tuesday on a brief visit to offer condolences to the family of late Kashmiri leader Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan......
TAXILA: Different political parties, including the ruling PML-N, have started flexing their muscles to win the forthcoming local government elections.The local chapters of the political parties and......
ConsultationHuman Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is organising a consultation on ‘Pakistan performance on implementation of convention on the right of child’ on Tuesday, July 28 at Islamabad......
ISLAMABAD: A woman from Azerbaijan, arrested by police for living in Pakistan illegally, escaped from police custody on Monday, resulting in the suspension of the concerned Station House Officer......
ISLAMABAD: Robber, burglars and thieves struck at four different places in the city and made off with cash and valuables, police said here on Monday.In the first incident, some burglars broke into......
ISLAMABAD: “Governments should make efforts to collect data and share it with the nation, to ensure that evidence based planning becomes possible,” said Dr Vaqar Ahmed, Sustainable Development Policy......
ISLAMABAD: The environment wing of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has started removing wild bushes and grass, which has grown as a result of recent rains.An official of the CDA said here on......
ISLAMABAD: A former lawmaker and a former CDA chairman fought over a high-priced house in the city over the weekend but, strangely, a police offi cer got punished for that.Police sources claim the......
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)’s decision to fi eld new candidates for the upcoming local government elections has caused unrest among those party workers who had submitted their......
LAHORE: Management of a local restaurant in Samanabad reportedly put up resistance on Monday when a team of the Punjab Food Authority arrived there to inspect its food, kitchen, cleanliness and......
LAHORE: The ruling PML-N is allegedly using government development schemes to promote its candidates for the forthcoming local body elections.Not only the potential ticket-holders of the party were......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Monday handed down a collective imprisonment of sixteen and a half years to each of the five accused who attacked a vigil held by civil society to mark 5th death......
LAHORE: The All Pakistan Transport Owners Federation (APTOF) on Monday announced its support to a countrywide shutdown strike call given by the All Pakistan Anjuman-i-Tajiran (Khawaja Shafique group)......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif says an SMS service has been started for giving advance warning regarding flood situation to people living near rivers.He directed the cabinet committee on flood......
LAHORE: A man died on Monday when his nephew allegedly opened fire on him in Nawan Kot.Police said the children of Yaqoob and his nephew Abdul Rauf had a scuffle over some issue. Rauf pulled a gun on......
LAHORE: The PPP has questioned Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s move of preparing feasibility reports for power projects after over two years in power, saying that this shows the PML-N government will......
LAHORE: Inspector General (IG) Mushtaq Ahmed Sukhera has transferred and posted nine senior police officers.According to a notification issued on Monday Shahzada Sultan, awaiting posting, was posted......
MULTAN: A woman attempted self-immolation, foiled by the passersby and police officials, on Monday at Nawan Shaher Chowk, in protest at, what she said, the release of alleged captor of her......
LAHORE: Deputy Inspector General (Operations) Dr Haider Ashraf has awarded punishment to 19 policemen including 10 former SHOs and nine others on charges of misconduct, illegal gratification,......
LAHORE: Clerks halted on Monday dengue and vaccination related activities and staged a protest rally against the Wagah Town DDO (health) for getting payments for petrol and diesel for thermal fogging......
OKARA: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq says the operation in Karachi should continue till the restoration of peace.He was talking to media before leading funeral prayers of Haroon Saleem, son of......
GUJRAT: Two cousins were gunned down on Sunday night by their rivals near Shadiwal in Kunjah police precincts.Reports said Aitzaz Ahsan of Buttar village along with his cousin Fakhar Abbas was on his......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A woman was arrested on Monday for staging drama of her 13-year-old son’s kidnapping and falsely implicating her relatives in the case.City police investigation officer Ali Raza said......
LAHORE: Progressive political workers from southern Pubjab have condoled the death of Malik Aslam, a well-known leader of the Awami Workers Party. Mr Aslam passed away here on Saturday.In a statement......
MULTAN: The PPP will challenge the procedure of local government elections in the court, stating it is in violation of Article 51 of the Constitution.It was announced by the party’s south Punjab......
MUZAFFARGARH: Breaches occurred in the Zamindara dyke on Monday after the flood peak of the Chenab and the Indus headed towards Alipur and Jatoi tehsils, forcing hundreds of families to vacate their......
SAHIWAL: The Punjab government has provided Rs39.64 billion for ongoing schemes and some new projects in Sahiwal division during the current financial year.According to Habib Jillani, director......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: District governments of Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur have issued a red alert to cope with the expected flood in the river Indus while the Rajanpur district government imposed Section......
BAHAWALPUR: The Punjab Inclusive Education Project (PIEP), a department of the provincial government, will soon conduct a survey in five tehsils of the district to identify the children with partial......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Monday appointed a former senior member of the Board of Revenue the inquiry officer on the issue of illegal occupation of land meant for the Larkana’s ladies club, a......
KARACHI: As the city like many other parts of Sindh continued to receive showers on Monday, the Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) declared 288 buildings in the metropolis ‘dangerous’ and......
KARACHI: Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah and the Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Khawaja Izhar-ul-Hassan of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Monday vowed to work for......
KARACHI: Pakistan is all set to open up a ‘medical corridor’ with China and leading medics are busy preparing to launch the first medical congress featuring the two countries next year, the Pakistan......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday issued a black warrant for a condemned prisoner for the fifth time as the moratorium imposed on executions was withdrawn after Ramazan.Judge Saleem Raza......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed the provincial authorities for early implementation of the legislation made by the Sindh government for recoveries of Zakat, Workers......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday allowed detained Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Qamar Mansoor to get medical treatment at a private hospital at his own expenses.Rangers had picked up the......
KARACHI: The government has decided to pursue a multi-pronged strategy to ensure above-board accountability and rid government departments of corrupt officials responsible for bringing a bad name to......
KARACHI: Representatives of teachers and non-teaching staff of public sector universities on Monday issued an ultimatum to the government to withdraw within two weeks an advertisement seeking......
SUKKUR: At least nine persons were killed, scores of others injured and several hundred thatched houses damaged as heavy rains continued to lash most areas of the interior of Sindh on......
HYDERABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed irrigation authorities and district administration to take all possible measures so that flood-related losses, if any, could be......
HYDERABAD: The body of Dahir Dahesar, aka Raja Dahir, an activist of the proscribed Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz, was exhumed in the presence of the civil judge and fourth judicial magistrate at Tando......
HYDERABAD: About 25 to 30 law-enforcers in civvies and wearing balaclavas raided offices of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad, on Monday in search of the board’s security......
ISTANBUL: The folded piece of paper with a photo of a four-month-old baby tells a story that will loom over Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Chinese hosts when he visits Beijing this......
RAMALLAH: Rumblings in Ramallah in recent weeks have raised expectations that Palestinian politics is in play, with 80-year-old President Mahmoud Abbas, in power for more than a decade, facing a......
C-3PO is on the cover of the latest issue of style magazine Love, and, like all the best male models, he is deploying his signature look: wide eyes, square jaw and cheekbones as contoured as a......
KARACHI: Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Federation (PBSF) president Alamgir Shaikh has expressed optimism that the home cueists have the potential to win laurels for the nation in the third Jubilee......
TORONTO: The United States won the inaugural women’s baseball competition at the Pan American Games on Sunday, while Uruguay beat defending champion Mexico in the men’s soccer final on the closing......
PHILADELPHIA: Mexico spoiled Jamaica’s first trip to the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final with a dominant 3-1 triumph on Sunday that gave El Tri a record seventh title.Jamaica had become the first Caribbean......
KARACHI: Waseem Khatri confirmed his supremacy in the scrabble field by winning the Danpak 27th Pakistan Scrabble Championship (masters) here at Beach Luxury Hotel on Sunday.Waseem became the first......
GUANGZHOU: James Rodriguez curled home a superb free kick to cap Real Madrid’s 3-0 win over Inter Milan in the International Champions Cup on Monday.The Colombian midfielder, brought on for just the......
LAHORE: Renowned former Pakistan weightlifter Chaudhry Mohammad Ameen, who died in Gujranwala, laid to rest there on Sunday night.Ameen, 62, represented Pakistan in different weightlifting events......
PARIS: Chris Froome said he felt “incredible” after winning his second Tour de France title following Sunday’s 21st and final stage to Paris.Briton Froome, 30, crossed the line on the Champs Elysees......
KARACHI: The 10th NBP Cup all-Sindh basketball tournament will be played at the Arambagh floodlit court from Aug 3 to 9, says an announcement.Ten districts – six from Karachi and four from upcountry......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s top cueist and reigning national champion Hamza Akbar has been promoted as assistant (contract) and awarded Rs100,000 by his employers National Bank of Pakistan for winning the......
KARACHI: The second Young Stars ranking table tennis tournament begins at the Sindh Sports Board complex on Tuesday.Tuesday’s fixtures:Girls under-15 and under-18 singles at 3pm; boys under-15 and......
ISLAMABAD: The concluding meeting of the probe committee formed by the prime minister to explore the reasons behind the pathetic show by the national team at the recently held Hockey World League......
LAHORE: Denouncing the current Pakistan cricket regime for what he calls its policy of “pleasing the BCCI” and getting nothing in return, Zaka Ashraf strongly believes the PCB should have appealed......
Just who is this guy Umar Akmal? Oh, he is that son-in-law of great leggie Abdul Qadir. That short, stout guy who did a ‘Fred Astaire’ at brother Adnan Akmal’s wedding? Yeah that’s him, the scourge......
ISLAMABAD: International Cricket Council (ICC) president Zaheer Abbas hopes Sri Lanka will tour Pakistan, citing both the countries are very close to each other.“The time will come when our......
LAHORE: Pakistan rises to eighth position in ODI rankings after winning the five-match ODI series against Sri Lanka 3-2, according to fresh rankings announced by the International Cricket Council......
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......
KARACHI: With each passing day the prospects of the long-awaited bilateral cricket series between Pakistan and India, slated for later this year, is gradually fading away after the Indian board......
LAHORE: Three-year-old filly Tarteeb justified her tag of favourite with an easy success in the feature event during the day/night Lahore Summer Meeting at the Racecourse here on Sunday.Nine runners......
NEW DELHI: South Africa will four Tests for the first time in India when they undertake their longest cricket tour of this country later this year to contest all three formats over a nine-week......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) has requested the International Tennis Federation (ITF) to allow it to host the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group II final in Lahore.Pakistan have the......
KARACHI: Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) director competitions and development Wing Commander Pervaiz Saeed Mir resigned from his post on Monday citing lack of work due to the ongoing crisis that......
LONDON: Struggling England batsman Ian Bell is backing himself to come good at No 3 in this week’s third Ashes Test against Australia at Edgbaston, he said on Monday.The 33-year-old, under pressure......
LAHORE: Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) president Akhtar Rasool on Monday appealed to all former players to unify in order to resurrect the national game instead of criticising each other.“Hockey......
KARACHI: A six-member South Korean delegation has shown keen interest in development of the Karachi Port’s infrastructure particularly its elevated expressway and multi-purpose bulk coal terminal.The......
KARACHI: Trading activity remained sluggish on the cotton market on Monday amid slow arrivals of phutti (seed cotton) because of rains and heavy floods.Though the standing cotton crop is largely......
LONDON: Gold lost ground on Monday, moving closer to last week’s 5-1/2 year lows below $1,100 per ounce, with expectations for a near-term US interest rate hike seen keeping momentum firmly with the......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures declined for a fourth straight session on Monday to their lowest in nearly three weeks as traders sold positions after data showed exports fell this month,......
KARACHI: Amreli Steels Ltd on Monday signed a contract with Primetals Technologies to build a steel bar manufacturing facility with a capacity of 300,000 tonnes per year.The expansion, with an......
BRUSSELS: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned on Monday that the eurozone’s prospects were modest and that more money printing than planned may be needed.Contrasting the IMF’s relative......
ATHENS: The Greek government and its international creditors began work on a mammoth new bailout on Monday overshadowed by revelations that Greece’s ex-finance minister Yanis Varoufakis had been......
WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve is getting close to raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, perhaps in September.When it meets this week, though, don’t expect any timetable for......
LONDON: The jury in the London trial of former trader Tom Hayes, who is charged with eight counts of conspiracy to defraud by manipulating global Libor interest rates, retired on Monday to consider......
SYDNEY: With the end game in sight to what could be the world’s most ambitious trade deal, critics fear a controversial mechanism to protect investors will strengthen the hand of big business while......
KARACHI: After 10 years, the State Bank has once again allowed the exchange companies to bring in US dollars directly in baggage or in their accounts against the sale of foreign currencies......
KARACHI: Jewellery traders reported an increase of 20 per cent in sales since gold rates started falling significantly in the past two weeks.The declining trend in domestic prices, backed by falling......
ISLAMABAD: Talks remained inconclusive between tax officials and business community on Monday to finalise procedures for implementation of a reduced rate of 0.3 per cent withholding tax on banking......
KARACHI: Floods have taken toll in each of the last five years, causing loss of Rs334 billion a year in monetary terms to the country, according to a recent report by the US World Resource......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports of value-added textile products rose 7.5 per cent to $4.517 billion in 2014-15 from $4.202bn a year ago, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.Exports of......
KARACHI: Shares got hammered on Monday as KSE-100 index tanked by 639.71 points (1.79pc), its biggest single-day fall in 17 weeks, to close at 35,175.49.Volume stood at 571m shares of trading value......
UBS profits jump 53pc despite Libor guilty pleaGENEVA: Switzerland’s largest bank UBS on Monday posted a 53 per cent rise in second quarter profits, in its first results since agreeing to plead......
LAHORE: A services sector firm has termed the eight per cent unadjustable withholding tax on revenue of services companies from July 1, 2015 a draconian tax law and said that it will hurt the......
SHANGHAI: Chinese shares slid more than 8 per cent on Monday as an unprecedented government rescue plan to prop up valuations ran out of steam, throwing Beijing’s efforts to stave off a deeper crash......
GENEVA: The World Trade Organisation on Monday formally accepted Kazakhstan’s bid to join the body, ending nearly two decades of negotiations that the WTO has called among the most difficult in its......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif directed on Monday completion of infrastructure projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor by the end of 2017.Presiding over a meeting held to review......
QUETTA: Two policemen, a woman passerby and a gunman were killed and four people injured in encounters between police and a group of armed men in Sariab and Jan Mohammad road areas here on Monday.The......
QUETTA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will arrive here on a brief visit on Wednesday.Official sources said Mr Sharif will inaugurate the newly-constructed overhead flyover linking Zarghoon Road to......
RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Narcotics Force confiscated 126kg narcotics and 250 litres of acetic anhydride – a chemical used in preparation of heroin, and arrested nine people, among them a Nigerian......
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik has constituted a three-judge full bench to hear a petition seeking proceedings against MQM chief Altaf Hussain and other leaders of the......
ISLAMABAD: A National Assembly committee was told on Monday that the Utility Stores Corporation (USC) had not complied with the decision of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) since it had......
GWADAR: Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Whidang said on Monday that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would start a new era of development and prosperity in Asia.He was speaking during......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police on Monday registered a case against two former army officers and a property dealer on a complaint lodged by an employee of Bahria Town for allegedly blackmailing its......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif arrived in Italy on Monday on a three-day official visit.According to ISPR, the COAS met the Italian foreign minister and discussed......
WASHINGTON: The ball spun and went straight to the wickets, although there were no wickets.The batsman, an American high school child, was holding a baseball bat, which was inadequate for the game of......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif discussed with his close aides, including federal ministers and senior PML-N leaders, on Monday the political strategy for dealing with the Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: When the government resumed executions after the massacre of 134 pupils at an army-run school in Peshawar last December, it promised that the hangings would help deter religious......
ISLAMABAD: Surrounded by loyalists and amidst slogans of support former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry demanded a thorough investigation against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran......
ISLAMABAD: The Sindh government formally proposed to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday to hold local government elections for over 17,500 representatives in 29 districts of the......
ISLAMABAD: The finance ministry has withheld a notification of an increase in special additional pension and certain allowances for pensioners announced by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in his budget......
AMIDST a charged atmosphere in the Centerpointe Club in Bluff Creek, young children wearing traditional Bangladeshi dresses get up on stage to perform on old Bangla songs. Their steps are in sync as......
ANKARA: The US and Turkey have agreed to work together to drive fighters of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) from northern Syria, a senior US official said on Monday, as Turkish Prime Minister......
WASHINGTON: The United States removed on Monday Cuba and Malaysia from its list of human trafficking violators, causing critics to claim the list was politically motivated.Pakistan, however, retains......
GURDASPUR: Ten people including three civilians were killed on Monday when gunmen wearing army uniforms stormed a police station in northern India near the border with Pakistan, sparking a shootout......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf told the National Assembly on Monday that it never expected that the government would be wrapped up as a result of the report of poll inquiry commission.It was......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office condemned Monday’s attack in Indian Punjab’s Gurdaspur district that left at least 10 dead, and also offered sympathies and condolences to the government and people of......
ISLAMABAD: Army released on Monday pictures and video-clips retrieved from the spy drone it downed earlier this month near the Line of Control to back up its claim that the remotely piloted aerial......
LAHORE: The Flood Forecasting Division said on Monday that River Indus was in high flood at Chashma and Kalabagh and in medium flood at Taunsa whereas the Met Office forecast heavy but scattered......
