COLOMBO: Umar Akmal smashed 46 off 24 balls and Sohail Tanvir grabbed three wickets as Pakistan beat top-ranked Sri Lanka by 29 runs in the first Twenty20 international in Colombo on......
PESHAWAR: Security forces arrested five suspected members of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Khyber Agency on Thursday.According to security sources, the arrested militants were wanted......
KABUL: The Taliban on Thursday confirmed the death of their leader Mullah Omar but did not say when or where he died. The statement says “his [Mullah Omar's] health condition deteriorated in the last......
PESHAWAR: The Afghan Taliban appointed Mullah Akhtar Mansoor as the new supreme leader after the announced death of Mullah Omar, sources told DawnNews on Thursday.The latest development and......
It's been a while since we've seen Shah Rukh Khan romance Kajol on screen, so the hero obliged us with a grainy reminder of what they look like together.Shot against the sun setting on the Black Sea,......
ISLAMABAD A day after the announced death of Afghan Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar, rapid developments indicate that the ongoing peace talks between the Afghan Taliban and Afghan......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday announced Rs500 million to help rehabilitate flood-affectees in Gilgit-Baltistan.The premier reviewed ongoing relief activities in flood-hit areas......
NEW DELHI: Indian police said Thursday they have arrested two Air India employees after uncovering a people smuggling operation at New Delhi airport that apparently targeted Nepalese quake victims.A......
The prospect of a Pakistan-India series seems highly unlikely under the prevailing tensions between the two countries, but current and former players and officials believe cricket should not suffer......
Social media has been afloat with images of the Punjab Food Authority making surprise visits at various restaurants and bakeries in Lahore, imposing heavy fines and suspending business licenses......
ISLAMABAD: A clash broke out in Islamabad's Sector I-11 between slum-dwellers and Capital Development Authority (CDA) officials on Thursday as authorities backed by some 1,200 police personnel and......
KABUL: An Afghan official says two separate drone strikes in an eastern province bordering Pakistan have killed 20 suspected militants affiliated with Daesh or the self-styled Islamic State......
ADEN: An attack by an unmanned aircraft on a car in southern Yemen overnight killed four suspected Al Qaeda militants, residents and local officials said on Thursday.Those killed in the strike by a......
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ISLAMABAD: Angry opposition parties rivaling the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) are making a fresh attempt to bar the party from the National Assembly, after a judicial commission ruled against Imran......
ISLAMABAD: As India blamed Pakistan for the Gurdaspur attack that killed at least seven people this week, the Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday termed accusations "unfortunate" and said countering......
The scenes have become all too familiar: submerged crops; army helicopters dropping food rations; volunteers and soldiers wading through knee-deep water carrying the old and the frail; embankments......
It's been one copyright issue after another these days. Following the Bhar Do Jholi Meri furore, actor-singer Khaled Anam has taken to social media to voice his objection to the cover of his song......
SRINAGAR: A soldier who was injured in an exchange of fire between Pakistani and Indian troops along the Line of Control on Wednesday evening succumbed to his injuries, the Indian military said......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Ministry Chaudhry Nisar in a detailed briefing to the National Assembly (NA) on Thursday said that the ongoing operation in Karachi against crime and terrorism has......
LASHKAR GAH: Afghanistan's Taliban have captured a district in the southern province of Helmand that foreign troops struggled to secure for years, in the latest setback for Afghan government forces......
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PESHAWAR: Three suspected militants and two security personnel were killed in an exchange of fire Thursday in Bannu's Daryaba area.Security sources say suspected militants attacked the Khadim......
It's finally happening: popular photo blog 'Humans of New York' (HONY), which documents the stories and experiences of ordinary people in its street portrait series, is coming to Pakistan in......
WASHINGTON: Air safety investigators have a "high degree of confidence" that aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia......
PESHAWAR: Re-polling in the local government elections ended peacefully under heavy security on Thursday.Earlier, re-polling in the local government elections was under way in over 350 polling......
MUMBAI: India on Thursday executed convicted bomb plotter Yakub Memon for his role in a series of co-ordinated attacks that killed hundreds of people in Mumbai in 1993, television stations......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s wheat exports halved to 10,441 tonnes (fetching $3 million) in 2014-15 from 20,037 tonnes ($7m) in the preceding fiscal year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on......
WASHINGTON: International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde says the world economy is recovering but fragile and “faces some downside risks.”In an online press conference on Wednesday,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s oil import bill declined by 21.30 per cent to $11.695 billion in 2014-15 from $14.860bn in the preceding year, suggested Pakistan Bureau of Statistics data on Wednesday.The......
LAHORE: Textile mills announced on Wednesday to observe a countrywide strike on Aug 7 against what they called ‘unjustified’ surcharges worth Rs200 billion on electricity and gas bills and the......
ISLAMABAD: Sinosteel Corporation, China’s second largest importer of iron ore, has expressed interest in the revamping and expansion of existing plants and operations of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM).In......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif said on Wednesday that ongoing Operation Zarb-i-Azb would ensure peace in Pakistan and beyond, and terrorists would not be allowed to......
LONDON: A Sudanese man died on Wednesday as migrants desperate to enter Britain from France stormed the Channel Tunnel entrance, prompting governments in both countries to promise to beef up......
CHITRAL: Flash flood hit three more villages on Wednesday, rendering hundreds of people homeless in Mori Bala, Werkup and Shagrom areas of Terich valley.In Mori Bala village in Koh union council,......
KARACHI: Police claimed to have killed five militants and two gangsters in three encounters in the city on Wednesday.The suspected militants were killed in Orangi Town.According to Karachi-West SSP......
NEW DELHI: The self-styled Islamic State (IS) is preparing to trigger a war in India to provoke an “Armageddon-like end of the world” according to a recruitment document of the terrorist group that......
NEW DELHI: The Gurdaspur terrorist attack near India’s border with Pakistan prompted the chief ministers of Haryana and Punjab to cancel meetings in Chandigarh with Pakistan’s High Commissioner Abdul......
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned American lawmakers that Iran has already ‘mastered’ the technology to make fissile material and only a deal could stop it from making......
KABUL: Taliban supremo Mullah Omar died in Pakistan two years ago, the Afghan government said on Wednesday, after unnamed official and militant sources reported the death of the reclusive leader.The......
ISLAMABAD: Like generals of a victorious army, the heads of parliamentary parties who had stood by the government against Imran Khan’s 126-day sit-in deliberated on Wednesday on the way the lawmakers......
KARACHI: Nine of 12 friends, among them four said to be workers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement, who had gone ‘missing’ near Hyderabad, reached their Karachi homes late on Wednesday night, according to......
LAHORE: Malik Ishaq, leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), one of the country’s deadliest militant outfits, was killed in a gunfight that ensued after his supporters allegedly attacked a......
ISLAMABAD: In a bid to curb terror financing, the Punjab government has booked a number of banned organisations for illegally collecting funds from the public.The cases have been registered against......
QUETTA: The Inspector General of Police, Mohammad Amlish Khan, has said that law and order situation in the province is not purely a home-grown problem because criminal elements from Iran,......
QUETTA: Police arrested Haji Rafiq Mengal, provincial leader of a faction of the banned Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), along with 16 other activists when he was leading a demonstration organised here......
ISLAMABAD: On the recommendation of the prime minister, President Mamnoon Hussain has approved the Nishan-i-Imtiaz award for Dr Ishrat Husain, former governor of the SBP, in recognition of his......
ISLAMABAD: In a new twist to the relationship between federal government and the Karachi Electric, the former said on Wednesday it wanted to continue supplying 650MW electricity from national grid to......
ISLAMABAD: After much ado in both legal and legislative forums, a government bill finally got through parliament on Wednesday to provide for party-based elections for local government in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has urged the Supreme Court to allow it to delay holding of local government elections in Punjab and Sindh for at least 30 days.On Tuesday, the......
GILGIT: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Gilgit-Baltistan issued non-bailable warrants for Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain’s arrest on Wednesday on charges of using derogatory......
WASHINGTON: Afghanistan and Pakistan can take joint action against the Taliban groups who refuse to participate in the reconciliation process, says prime minister’s Special assistant for foreign......
QUETTA: Several suspected militants were killed or injured during a search operation in Mashkay area of Awaran district on Wednesday.Official sources said that Frontier Corps troops along with......
NEW YORK: The Israeli army indiscriminately and deliberately targeted civilians during a brutal 2014 assault known as “Black Friday”, according to a new report released here on Wednesday.The joint......
MUMBAI: Seven people died when a three-storey building collapsed in heavy rains in western India, an official said on Wednesday, the latest deadly accident to highlight shoddy construction standards......
ANKARA: Turkish warplanes on Wednesday pounded targets of Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq in a new wave of strikes in its campaign against militant groups.Turkey is simultaneously fighting jihadists......
AHMEDABAD: Flash floods triggered by torrential monsoon rain have killed at least 26 people in a west Indian state in the past 48 hours, authorities said on Wednesday.The rain and high winds have......
BOGOTA: A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 rocked northern Colombia near its border with Panama on Tuesday, authorities said, though there were no immediate reports of injuries or......
NEW YORK: An eight-year-old American has become the world’s youngest recipient of a transplant of both hands, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia announced on Tuesday.Surgeons operated for 10 hours......
TEHRAN: France sought to revive its relations with Iran on Wednesday, inviting President Hassan Rouhani to visit Paris in November, in a gesture that swiftly follows this month’s historic nuclear......
HOW many times do you have to kill a man before he dies? Not for the first time Mullah Mohammad Omar, Emir of the Faithful, friend and protector of Osama bin Laden, creator of the Taliban, destroyer......
UNITED NATIONS: Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Wednesday that sought to set up a special tribunal to try those responsible for shooting down flight MH17 over......
GUJRAT: Two alleged militants were killed and as many policemen sustained injuries in an encounter as a group of militants attacked a police picket in Gotriala in Kharian tehsil late on Wednesday......
FAISALABAD: Police have taken into custody 223 suspects during a search operation in the district.According to a police spokesman, the search was conducted in the wake of the Tuesday’s incident in......
LAHORE: Members of the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Wednesday went on strike to protest alleged misbehavior of a judge with their president.The bar leaders wanted Justice Erum Sajjad......
FAISALABAD: The University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) has decided to start O-Level and FA programmes through the Laboratory School and College System.The decision was taken at a meeting chaired......
GUJRAT: The University of Gujrat (UoG) administration has planned to shift four science disciplines from its city campuses to the main Hafiz Hayat campus due to lack of facilities in......
SAHIWAL: A gunman shot dead a woman on Wednesday in her home in Farid Town over resistance.Rescue 1122 officials said Saleema Bibi, believed to be in her 60s, was shot in the head by the gunman. The......
BAHAWALPUR: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has served notice on DJ Butt for the recovery of Rs17 million tax on the basis of his claim he had made in a suit filed against the Pakistan......
GUJRANWALA: Three gunmen killed a trader on Wednesday for resistance during a robbery in People’s Colony.The gunmen riding a motorcycle snatched cash, a mobile phone and valuables from Saeed and shot......
SIALKOT: A widow was found murdered under mysterious circumstances at her home here on Wednesday at Panwaana-Badiana, Pasrur tehsil.Police said suspect(s) slit throat of Sharifaan Bibi (60) and cut......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: After torrential rains in Sulaiman Range and Balochistan, several mountainous drains in Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur are inundated and the level of flood in the Indus further......
LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) chairman on Wednesday asked officers concerned to closely monitor timeline of the Tarbela 4th extension acceleration programme, besides......
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Wednesday appointed Dr Uzma Qureshi the caretaker vice chancellor (VC) of the Lahore College for Women University (LCWU).Dr Qureshi, the only permanent dean of the......
LAHORE: The PPP will raise voice in the Punjab Assembly against any move to delay local body elections on the pretext of floods.“Floods may provide a justification for the postponement of local body ......
LAHORE: An old woman was strangled allegedly by her son-in-law over a property dispute in Sanda on Wednesday.Police said Nusrat Bibi, 60, wife of Nawaz Husain, was living in the house of her......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) teams on Wednesday sealed four food outlets and imposed fine on another four for lack of cleanliness.According to officials, PFA Director Ayesha Mumtaz led a......
LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday established a flood relief fund with an initial amount of Rs5 million for flood victims.LCCI President Ijaz A Mumtaz said the aim of......
LAHORE: World Tiger Day was celebrated at Lahore Zoo on Wednesday.International Tiger Day, also known as Global Tiger Day, is an annual celebration to raise awareness among the people about tiger......
LAHORE: A three-day workshop on polio eradication organised by the Federal Ministry of National Health Services at a local hotel concluded on Wednesday.During the three-day sessions of the workshop,......
LAHORE: Punjab Rangers Director General Maj Gen Umar Farooq Burki met the troops deployed at forward locations in Desert Sector on Wednesday.According to a news release, the DG Rangers attended a......
LAHORE: A two-day conference on ‘Subjective similarities between Pakistan and China literature’ concluded at a local hotel on Wednesday.The conference was organised by the Pakistan Academy of Letters......
LAHORE: Opposition Leader in Punjab Assembly Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed has said the rulers cannot cow down the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf by hurling threats of de-seating its parliamentarians.Speaking to......
LAHORE: Qila Gujjar Singh police captured on Wednesday two dogs who attacked two police officials during a raid at a house in the Victoria Park locality.A police team, led by Station House Officer......
LAHORE: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has asked the Punjab government not to start classes at the Fatima Jinnah Medical University until the varsity meets specified requirements and......
LAHORE: A nine-year-old prodigy remained the focus of attention of visitors to the second Robotics Expo arranged by the Information Technology University (ITU) at Arfa Software Technology Park on......
LAHORE: The Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat is unlikely to react to the killing of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi founder Malik Ishaq along with his two sons in a mysterious police encounter for the party is not ready to......
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ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday set aside the non-bailable arrest warrants issued for the former president retired General Pervez Musharraf in the murder case of Lal Masjid cleric......
FAISALABAD: All trader associations of Faisalabad Clock Tower bazaars and adjoining areas have set a 72-hour headline for withdrawal of withholding tax otherwise they will observe a shutdown strike......
BAHAWALPUR: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) has served notice on DJ Butt for the recovery of Rs17 million tax on the basis of his claim he had made in a suit filed against the Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: According to the constitution, police is a provincial subject but the federal bureaucracy not only fills 60 per cent of all senior police posts but according to police officials, those not......
ISLAMABAD: Burglars and thieves struck at two different places and made off with valuables, police said here on Wednesday.In the first incident some burglars broke into the house of Arshad Ahsan, in......
RAWALPINDI: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Wednesday opposed the Punjab government’s move to postpone local government elections because of floods.“It’s unreasonable on part of the provincial government to......
RAWALPINDI: The body of a man was found in a sack dumped in a graveyard in Khayaban-i-Sir Syed on Wednesday night, police said.Initial police report suggested that the unidentified man, who seems to......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek chairman, Dr. Tahirul Qadri, on Wednesday introduced a 25-book curriculum for educational institutions.Speaking at the launching ceremony, Mr Qadri said the......
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) suggested that the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) upgrade the mechanism for auditing at the federalism government ministries, so minor irregularities......
RAWALPINDI: The City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) and health department have failed to spray anti-dengue medicines in low lying areas along Leh Nullah where rainwater has accumulated.A......
ISLAMABAD: Fearing resistance from the residents, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) could not move forward on Wednesday, with its planned operation against informal settlements in Sector......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court’s judge, Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, was admitted to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Tuesday night and operated for appendicitis.Media coordinator Dr......
ISLAMABAD: A committee tasked to look into the worrying affairs of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) has suggested wide-ranging changes in running the city’s largest government......
RAWALPINDI: On the call of All Pakistan Traders Association, traders of Rawalpindi city and cantonment will observe a shutterdown strike on Friday against thefederal government for imposing 0.6 per......
ISLAMABAD: Lack of cooperation by certain institutions in sharing information in the probe of the multi-billion National Logistic Cell (NLC) scam was termed by the Supreme Court on Wednesday as a......
PESHAWAR: Nishtar Hall, the provincial capital’s sole hall synonymous with cultural activities, will soon have a new look as its renovation and revival has been planned, officials say.The......
RAWALPINDI: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Wednesday opposed the Punjab government’s move to postpone local government elections.“It’s unreasonable on part of the provincial government to seek postponement......
RAWALPINDI: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on Wednesday opposed the Punjab government’s move to postpone local government elections.“It’s unreasonable on part of the provincial government to seek postponement......
PESHAWAR: Two suspected terrorists escaped from custody under mysterious circumstances at Gulbahar police station on Tuesday night prompting the police high-ups to order an inquiry against the......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday extended a stay order against the inquiry of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission into different administrative matters of the Abdul Wali Khan......
SWABI: Around 15,000 women voters are likely to cast their votes in the local government elections’ re-polling at 17 polling stations of nine union councils in the district today (Thursday),......
KOHAT: Army personnel will be deployed in Kohat, Hangu and Karak districts to ensure smooth and peaceful re-poling in local government elections today (Thursday).The decision was taken at a meeting......
PESHWAR: The capital city police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested three kidnappers and recovered an abducted person from their captivity.Addressing a press conference, Deputy Superintendent of......
PESHAWAR: Teachers of government schools in Kurram Agency have expressed concern for non-payment of salaries since their appointment and demanded of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmed......
MANSEHRA: Speakers at an international conference have called upon the Muslims to follow the teachings of Islam and life of Syed Ahmad Shaheed who had laid down his life while fighting against the......
PESHAWAR: The district administration on Wednesday demolished most of the encroachments on both sides of Budhni nullah that caused flooding in Peshawar suburbs a few days ago.The demolition of 24......
MINGORA: Boys secured top positions in the results of the higher secondary school certificate examinations announced by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Saidu Sharif Swat, here on......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department has asked for immediate assistance from the UN agencies and donor organisations to provide timely treatment to the flood-stricken people in......
PESHAWAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Wednesday announced September 15 as the date for holding the by-election in PK-93, Upper Dir-III.The seat fell vacant after disqualification of Malik......
MANSEHRA: A land dispute claimed lives of a man and a woman in Jabba area here on Wednesday.According for police, members of a group went to the disputed piece of land for cultivating crop, prompting......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has announced it will soon execute the plan to rehabilitate the children affected by disasters both manmade and natural in the province.It will also do a......
