ISLAMABAD: The government announced on Friday to reduce the prices of petroleum products up to Rs 4.92 per litre with effect from August 1 (Saturday).Addressing a press conference, Minister for......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif made it clear on Friday that any attempt to obstruct or impede the progress of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will be thwarted at all......
ISLAMABAD/QUETTA: Jamaatud Dawa (JuD), a self-proclaimed charity working in Pakistan, announced holding vicarious funeral prayers for the deceased Taliban chief tomorrow afternoon in an Islamabad......
DUMA: A Palestinian toddler was burned to death and four family members wounded in an arson attack by Jewish settlers on two homes in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday.Israel's Prime Minister......
BIRMINGHAM: Ian Bell guided England to an eight-wicket victory over Australia in the third Test at Edgbaston on Friday to put the hosts 2-1 up in the series with two matches to play.Bell (65 not out)......
PESHAWAR: Chief of the Haqqani militant network and father of Sirajuddin Haqqani, Jaluluddin Haqqani, died almost a year ago of natural causes and was buried in Afghan province of Khost, according to......
Master blaster and former Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya on Friday visited the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar to pay his respects to the victims of a terrorist attack on December 16,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday held a meeting with the party's election tribunal head Justice (r) Wajihuddin Ahmad and senior party member Hamid Khan to......
BIRMINGHAM: England paceman James Anderson has been ruled out of the remainder of the third Ashes Test against Australia at Edgbaston and next week's fourth Test at Trent Bridge, it was announced......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has submitted a letter to United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, claiming excesses committed by the para-military Rangers in their ongoing security......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif has directed all concerned authorities to continue rescue and relief efforts in flood-affected areas of the country 'leaving no stone......
Eid-ul-Azha was expected to be just as much a cinematic feast as Eid-ul-Fitr, but one major treat has pulled out of the box office race.Asim Raza's Ho Mann Jahaan was widely believed to be a......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) during an Executive Board Meeting (EBM) on Friday decided to file a corruption reference against former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf in a case......
NEW DELHI: Four Indian nationals have been detained in the Libyan coastal city of Sirte, an Indian government spokesman said on Friday, an area which is under the control of Daesh or self-styled......
With the grave insufficiency of star power, DJs and political party flags fluttering in the wind, the desperate slum-dwellers of I-11 Islamabad may be embroiled in one of the least popular struggles......
ISLAMABAD: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on his way back from Indonesia, will be stopping over at Islamabad on Saturday, according to a statement by Foreign Office spokesman Syed......
LAHORE/RAWALPINDI: Five death row prisoners were executed on Friday morning in Lahore Kot Lakhpat and Rawalpindi's and Adiala Jail.Three death row prisoners were executed in Kot Lakhpat Jail,......
KABUL: The Taliban named Mullah Akhtar Mansour as their new leader on Friday, a historic power transition that raises hopes the relative moderate's leadership will pave the way for an end to......
LAHORE: A Lahore sessions court on Friday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for film actor Meera.Judicial Magistrate Wajid Minhas ordered that Meera should be arrested and presented in court on......
In a world where fair is usually associated with lovely, fairness products rake in a lot of business, especially when superstars endorse them. But the times are changing — celebrities like Anushka......
Pakistan came into being in August 1947 on the back of what its founders called the ‘Two Nation Theory.’The Theory was culled from the 19th Century writings of modernist Muslim reformers in India......
WASHINGTON: After billions of dollars spent and more than 10,000 extremist fighters killed, Daesh or the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group is fundamentally no weaker than it was when the United......
ISLAMABAD: Senior Advisor to Prime Minister on National Security Sartaj Aziz said on Friday that the government is considering to highlight the issue of Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing's......
Another copyright infringement issue has arisen — and this time it is no one but the singer from one of the oldest musical families in South Asia, Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan of the Patiala household. It......
Roadtrip films often turn out to be thrillers. With films like Zibah Khana or Texas Chainsaw Massacre where the trip takes a Wrong Turn and ends up on a Highway to Hell, Wajahat Rauf’s Karachi Se......
PESHAWAR: No incident of mismanagement or violence was reported as re-polling for local governments took place at 360 polling stations in 14 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday amid tight......
PESHAWAR: The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) Tribunal on Thursday once again sought record of the Dr Shakil Afridi conviction case from the Khyber Agency political agent.The tribunal......
PESHAWAR: One of the two alleged target killers who had escaped from police custody here on Wednesday was killed in a police encounter early on Thursday, while the other one was arrested.The suspect......
PESHAWAR: Officers of the Provincial Management Services (PMS) on Thursday announced to observe a token strike on Friday (today) and Monday to voice their concern against what they described as DMG......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has declared the imposition of conservancy fee by Peshawar Cantonment Board since 2011 as illegal and directed the board to refund the amount to the petitioners......
PESHAWAR: Most of the basic health units in the province, especially in Kohistan, Torghar and southern districts, lack essential medicines and suffer from absenteeism of staff, according to a report......
MINGORA: The six-party alliance is set to form local governments in five of the seven tehsils in Swat, while the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf would be able to form its governments in two tehsils......
KHAR: The political administration has announced to launch a welfare scheme from next month for the families of Levies force personnel who laid down their lives in the line of duty in Bajaur......
PESHAWAR: The Sarhad Awami Forestry Ittehad has called upon the provincial government to lift the five-year long ban on the transportation and harvesting of windfall and dry standing trees in......
MANSEHRA: The traders in Hazara division would observe complete shutter down strike on August 1 against the imposition of withholding tax on bank transactions.“The traders bodies in Hazara have......
PESHAWAR: Federal finance minister Ishaq Dar has said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will continue getting one percent of the federal divisible pool net proceeds as compensation for its losses in the war against......
KOHAT: The students of Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST) have resumed their strike on the first day of classes after summer vacations, vowing that they would not back out of their......
MAIDUGURI: Nigerian soldiers rescued 71 people, almost all girls and women, in firefights that killed many Boko Haram militants in villages near the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the military said......
KATHMANDU: Landslides triggered by heavy rains in quake-hit Nepal killed at least 29 people on Thursday, sweeping away homes and leaving more than a dozen missing.Rescuers are still searching through......
THE signs filtering through the Indian news media suggest that yet another attempt is being made for a separate Khalistan state. This demand is reappearing in east Punjab, the state dominated by......
TWO days ago, India lost an eminent scientist APJ Abdul Kalam, our ‘Missile Man’! A devout Muslim by birth, he knew the whole Hindu holy book, Bhagawat Geeta, by heart, he died on a day of a holy......
I AM on vacation from Oman College in Muscat. Recently, I visited the passport office in Karachi to renew my children’s passports. As I did not find any information on the website of the directorate......
THE Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) was launched to help those who need financial help. But the National Accountability Bureau’s inquiry reveals that, like other departments, there is also......
LIKE other parts of the country, Turbat also suffers from power failures. When the Balochistan chief minister visited Turbat a few days ago, there was no loadsheeding for a single minute. But as soon......
APROPOS Sarah Awan’s ‘Books over bullets’ (July 27) which were echoed in the Oslo Summit on education for development by the youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner’ Malala.Citing from her publication she......
I CANNOT understand why Karachi’s city government doesn’t advertise its email address so that citizens can send their complaints. The city is rotting; heaps of rubbish can be seen everywhere;......
THE Chaklala Cantonment Board (CCB), Rawalpindi, has replaced the open garbage dump with an aesthetic mobile garbage container in Chaklala Scheme III commercial market. I hope this idea is......
ISLAMABAD: The Katchi-Abaadi of Sector I-11 became a battleground on Thursday, as residents threw rocks at the Capital Development Authority (CDA) officials attempting to bulldoze their homes and......
RAWALPINDI: Five people, including a couple, were murdered in three separate incidents in the city on Thursday, police said.One of the victims was stabbed to death, while the four others were shot......
RAWALPINDI: Traders in the city remain divided over a shutter-down strike against the imposition of 0.6 per cent withholding tax on bank transactions.The PML-N supported traders led by Shahid Ghafoor......
ISLAMABAD: Over the years, the authorities had remained vary of removing the settlement in Sector I-11 out of fear of resistance by the residents.Several senior CDA and police officials expressed......
ISLAMABAD: The state’s ability to successfully prosecute criminals and terrorists was dealt another blow when 150 prosecutors from Punjab quit their jobs to become part of the lower judiciary.During......
No doubt the report of the Inquiry Commission on the veracity of the 2013 general elections has put the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in a tight spot, more so its chairman Imran Khan. ‘What next?’ looks......
ISLAMABAD: “In the Faisalabad District alone, more than 3,000 reported cases of police torture and fake encounters have come to light during the last ten years,” said Dr Khurram Sohail Raja, the head......
SeminarJinnah Institute is organising a seminar on ‘Pakistan: Democratic and Economic Challenges post-2015’ on Friday, July 31 at Serena Hotel at 11:45pm.ExhibitionNomad Gallery is hosting the......
RAWALPINDI: Two murder convicts were executed in the Central Jail Adiala on Thursday while the hanging of three others, including two brothers, was stayed. Six condemned prisoners have so far been......
RAWALPINDI: On the instructions of Punjab government, the Anti-Dengue Day was observed at Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi (PMAS-AAUR) on Thursday.A walk and seminar were......
ISLAMABAD: A 12-year-old boy drowned in a nullah while his two friends were rescued on Thursday.Police said the three boys had gone to the nullah near F-9 Park and slipped into it.After getting......
ISLAMABAD: Another 10-year plan for the eradication of the tuberculosis (TB) from the country has been prepared, which would also involve the private health sector in the aim of reducing TB cases by......
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday directed the ministry of communications to recover Rs59 million paid to a construction firm that could not complete a bridge between Larkana......
TAXILA: The Hassanabdal police on Thursday claimed to have recovered huge quantity of arms and ammunition and arrested two persons.Sub-divisional Police officer Raja Taifour Akhter told newsmen that......
LAHORE: A meeting presided over by the chief minister on Thursday decided to expand the Punjab Food Authority operations phase wise, initially to eight cities, besides giving approval to the proposed......
LAHORE: First round of negotiations between Lahore High Court Chief Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik and leaders of the bar on the issue of a female judge’s ‘misbehaviour’ with the bar president ended......
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri has said the judicial commission report on election rigging has weakened democracy and it has served the interest of those who had rigged......
LAHORE: Another group of 100 girls from disadvantaged areas of the country will get Scottish scholarships from next year to pursue higher education.“At present, 215 girls are getting scholarships......
LAHORE: The entrance test for admission to public and private sector medical and dental institutions of Punjab will be held on Aug 30 in 13 cities.Entrance test kits containing an application form,......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A goods train on Thursday escaped possible derailment when its driver stopped it just ahead of “one-foot displaced track”.Witnesses said as Karachi-bound goods train reached Toba from......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The powerloom workers who were on a strike for a nine per cent increase in their wages, ended their protest on Thursday after their employers accepted their demand.The workers staged......
LAHORE: The city witnessed a number of rallies, walks, seminars and gatherings to observe anti-dengue day on Thursday, disseminating key messages among the public to adopt precautionary measures to......
LAHORE: Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has launched E-register programme for its partner schools attached under Education Voucher Scheme (EVS).The pilot project has been launched from Lahore and......
GUJRAT: Police have registered a case against seven people including two deceased members of an outlawed sectarian outfit for attacking the Gotriala police check post in Kharian.The attack led to an......
FAISALABAD: The district administration sealed over 100 shops rented by a private hospital on Gulberg Road here on Thursday and appointed the EDO (Health) as custodian of the hospital.Assistant......
OKARA: Members of Deepalpur’s Tehsil Bar Association have filed three writ petitions against a police team for ‘manhandling’ lawyers.Additional District and Sessions Judge Irfan Saeed issued a notice......
BAHAWALPUR: Six hundred army personnel were dispatched to various places across the division to carry out the rescue activities in case of flood.According to the Inter-Services Public Relations......
VEHARI: Three members of a family were killed in a road accident on Thursday on Burewala-Vehari Road near 37-Phatak Stop, some 20km from here.Reports said 70-year-old Ramzan along with his daughter......
SIALKOT: The city authorities have declared 19 buildings in Sambrial dangerous and the Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) has demolished four of these buildings and sealed four others.The TMA has ......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: At least 18 people, three of them policemen, were allegedly injured on Thursday in a clash over administration’s bid to breach a flood protection embankment built by locals on a......
LAHORE: More trade and industrial associations have announced their support for separate shutdown and wheel-jam strike calls given by two groups of All Pakistan Anjuman-i-Tajiran (APAT) for Aug 1 and......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has challenged the PML-N to de-seat his party MNAs and vowed to return to the House in the subsequent bye-election.“If the PML-N wants to......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: The markets and bazaars of the city remained close on second day after killing of banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi chief Malik Ishaq and his sons here on Thursday.Malik Ishaq was killed along......
LAHORE: Authorities in Punjab do not foresee any serious implications of the killing of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi leadership on Wednesday but fear that anyone else can exploit the situation and unleash......
LAHORE: The election tribunal heard on Thursday a case of alleged rigging in NA-122 and turned down a request for a long adjournment put up by lawyers of National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq......
KARACHI: Corps Commander Lieutenant General Naveed Mukhtar on Thursday called on Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah at CM House where they expressed their satisfaction over the flood situation......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday directed the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board to chalk out a comprehensive policy for uninterrupted water supply to the city within four weeks and......
KARACHI: The whereabouts of four ‘missing’ men, including two workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, were still unknown while the party alleged on Thursday that they were in the custody of the......
KARACHI: A young resident of the city’s Mauripur neighbourhood became the newest victim of Naegleria fowleri, also known as ‘brain-eating’ amoeba, bringing the death toll of victims to 12 in Sindh so......
KARACHI: Following the decision taken on Thursday by the Sindh Education Department to extend summer vacation in the province till Aug 11, several private school associations have shared their......
KARACHI: There is a looming food security crisis in Pakistan which the state is apparently unequipped to handle efficiently, and allowing genetically modified (GM) seeds to placate the crisis is not......
KARACHI: Nine girls bagged all the top positions in science, general and special groups as the results of the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) announced the Secondary School Certificate......
KARACHI: A sessions court sentenced on Thursday two accused to 15 years imprisonment in as many robbery cases.The court found Mohammad Ali Hajano, known for targeting the Defence Housing Authority......
KARACHI: Sindh Local Government Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said 2015 is the election year for the local governments in Sindh.The elections earlier scheduled for Sept 20 were postponed for......
KARACHI: Sindh Food Minister Manzoor Wasan on Thursday suspended 12 food officials after he received reports about missing of 400,000 and 16,000 wheat bags from the government stocks.Those suspended......
KARACHI: The customs staff seized a container and recovered 6,312 bottles of assorted liquor / whiskey, 2,904 bottles of wine and 6,720 cans of beer having street value of nearly Rs25 million being......
KARACHI: A sessions court on Thursday fined three guarantors of an accused hit man in six cases for failing to produce him in the court.Rizwan Qureshi with his absconding accomplices has been charged......
KARACHI: Legal proceedings remained suspended on Thursday at the subordinate judiciary as lawyers observed a boycott.The Sindh Bar Council had given a province-wide boycott call in protest against......
KARACHI: A report outlining reasons behind cultivation of a culture of intolerance in madressahs and phenomenal rise in their numbers, especially since Gen Ziaul Haq’s military dictatorship, was......
HYDERABAD: Former home minister Dr Zulfikar Ali Mirza, who along with his close aides supporters had launched an aggressive campaign against former president Asif Ali Zardari and had to face police......
DADU: A large number of journalists coming from various towns of the interior of Sindh held a demonstration at SSP Chowk along with their colleagues in Dadu on Thursday to demand immediate arrest of......
HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad circuit bench of the Sindh High Court has directed Hyderabad Commissioner Syed Asif Hyder Shah to conduct a thorough probe into utilisation of funds by the Civil Hospital......
HYDERABAD: Lawyers boycotted court proceedings on Thursday in response to the Sindh Bar Council’s call for protest against ignoring lawyers in appointment of judges.They turned up in courts but did......
BADIN: Ali Hassan Hingorjo, special assistant to the chief minister for relief and rehabilitation, on Thursday expressed concern over flooding in Badin district due to failed drainage......
BEIJING: China and Russia will hold joint military drills in the waters and airspace of the Sea of Japan, Beijing said on Thursday, the latest defence cooperation between the countries.The exercises......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations says none of the $274 million that Saudi Arabia pledged months ago to fund an emergency aid appeal for Yemen has arrived, while aid groups begin to warn that......
PARIS: Astronomers said on Thursday they had found a planetary system with three super-earths orbiting a bright, dwarf star — one of them likely a volcanic world of molten rock.The four-planet system......
BAGHDAD: It’s a 15-minute walk through a lush palm grove from Baghdad’s al-Takia refugee camp to the nearest well, but as temperatures hovered around 52 degrees Celsius (126 F) on Thursday, Zakiyah......
NEW DELHI: Indian police said on Thursday they have arrested two Air India employees after uncovering a people smuggling operation at New Delhi airport that apparently targeted Nepalese quake......
CAIRO: Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed a pact in Cairo on Thursday aimed at boosting military and economic ties between the two Arab allies.Relations have warmed since the 2013 ouster of Islamist......
SHANGHAI: Authorities in Wenzhou, known as China’s Jerusalem, have given Christian churches a deadline to remove prominent crosses within weeks, worshippers and an activist group said on Thursday,......
DHAKA: A cyclone set to hit the Bangladesh coast later on Thursday has already killed three people and forced the evacuation of thousands from mainly poor fishing communities, police and other......
CAIRO: The United States began on Thursday delivery of eight F-16 fighter jets to Egypt, according to its embassy in Cairo, the first since Washington fully lifted in March a freeze on arms......
YANGON: Myanmar on Thursday released 155 Chinese nationals, who were last week jailed for illegal logging, as a “goodwill” gesture following intense lobbying from Beijing in a mass amnesty that also......
PYONGYANG: If any hopes have been raised that the progress between the United States and Iran to halt Tehran’s development of nuclear weapons could bring change in Pyongyang, North Korea has gone out......
DAHALA KHAGRABARI: Bangladesh and India will this week finally swap tiny islands of land, ending one of the world’s most difficult border disputes that has kept thousands of people in stateless limbo......
IT’S hard to believe that the raging behemoth seen in Southpaw is the same person as the haunted, nebbishy guy in Nightcrawler.But that’s Hollywood for you. Jake Gyllenhaal is just one of the......
MIAMI: Two white men were captured on surveillance videos placing Confederate flags in a historically black church in Atlanta, Georgia where Martin Luther King Jr once preached, police said on......
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 here on Thursday.Pakistan......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Federation (PBSF) on Thursday heaved a sigh of relief when the Ministry of Interior issued the necessary clearance for the Indian delegation to compete in......
ISLAMABAD: Now that the cat is out of the bag, the probe committee has finally held the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) responsible for the team’s poor performance in the Hockey World League......
BIRMINGHAM: Paceman Steven Finn’s five-wicket haul put England on the brink of a 2-1 Ashes series lead over Australia on Thursday with the tourists facing a desperate battle to avoid a humiliating......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday, brushing aside speculations of pacer Mohammad Amir’s inclusion for the forthcoming series in Zimbabwe, said it had not even considered him to......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s Special Olympians lived up to the tradition of winning significant number of medals at World Games on Thursday as they bagged as many as seven gold and three bronze medals in......
MONTREAL: Roger Federer withdrew from next month’s Rogers Cup ATP Masters event in Montreal on Wednesday as he builds toward the US Open.The 33-year-old world number two’s withdrawal was announced in......
DENVER: Brazilian star Kaka scored one goal and set up another as the Major League Soccer All-Stars edged Tottenham 2-1 on Wednesday in an international friendly featuring the North American league’s......
DHAKA: Dale Steyn claimed his 400th Test scalp as he shared six wickets with J.P. Duminy, giving South Africa the edge on the first day of the second and final Test against Bangladesh here on......
KAZAN: Germany successfully defended their team open water title over five kilometres on Thursday at the world aquatic championships in Kazan.The German trio of Rob Muffels, Christian Reichert and......
SHANGHAI: Real Madrid won the Chinese edition of the International Champions Cup on Thursday after goalkeeper Kiko Casilla scored with his side’s 11th penalty in a shootout, then saved from his......
LAHORE: The Cambodian women hockey team, under the coaching of Pakistani coach Dilawar Bhatti, is all set to take part in the Asian Junior Championships to be held in Bangkok from Aug 6.Dilawar, who......
LAHORE: Khalid Latif, the chairman of Pakistan Football Federation (Faisal Saleh Hayat group) Electoral Committee and Ex-PFF Congress Member, has been appointed as a member of the AFC’s Competitions......
ISLAMABAD: British-Pakistani boxer Amir Khan has said that he is planning to build an Amir Khan Boxing Academy in the emirate and has been in meetings with potential partners.“I love Dubai and the......
KARACHI: The Sindh Table Tennis Association (STTA) on Thursday named a 10-member boys and girls team for the 22nd national table tennis championships which is being held at Mansehra from Aug 5 to......
LAHORE: Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) secretary and Olympian Rana Mujahid has been elected chairman of two and secretary of one committee of the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF).While Mujahid heads......
BUENOS AIRES: Argentine football great Diego Maradona said on Wednesday he wants to fight the “mafia” responsible for the corruption scandal that has rocked FIFA, but he stopped short of saying he......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Federation (PBSF) has added two new faces to the national team on Thursday for the World 6-Reds and Team Championship, raising its strength from 21 to 22......
KUALA LUMPUR: Beijing and Almaty made their final bids for the 2022 Winter Olympics with China’s basketball legend Yao Ming countering Kazakhstan’s prime minister in the battle to sway......
KARACHI: Unseeded Farhan Hashim created the biggest upset when he knocked out top seed Atta Abbas in the men’s singles pre quarter-finals of the Young Stars ranking table tennis tournament at the......
CHICAGO: Blaise Matuidi and Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored first-half goals as Paris St Germain claimed the International Champions Cup with a 2-0 victory over Manchester United on Wednesday night.The......
LAHORE: The National Badminton Championships will be held at the Punjab University Gymnasium Hall, New Campus here from Aug 4 to 9.The Punjab Badminton Association on behalf of the Pakistan Badminton......
KARACHI: A whole new breed of ‘gurus’ and ‘investment advisers’ have sprouted on social media — mainly on Facebook and WhatsApp.These so-called ‘gurus’ claiming to have made millions or billions in......
MOSCOW: Opec Secretary-General Abdullah El-Badri said on Thursday the oil producers’ cartel is not planning to cut production despite the fall in crude prices over recent months and concerns about......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan has designed a framework for identification, regulation/supervision of domestic systemically important banks (D-SIBs) in the country, to ensure financial......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has made progress in meeting international regulatory standards, observed the International Organisation of Securities Commissions......
HYDERABAD: A meeting of traders’ organisations held at the Hyderabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI) on Thursday decided to observe a strike on Aug 1 against the imposition of withholding tax......
KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $18.536 billion during the week ending July 24 compared to $18.677bn the previous week, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on......
KARACHI: Stock market saw a volatile session on Thursday but last hour buying tossed the KSE-100 index higher by 53.51 points to close at 35,730.01.It was a roller-coaster ride with the index......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) and All-Pakistan Textile Processing Mills Association (APTPMA) on Thursday announced their support to the strike call given by the......
NEW DELHI: India’s parliament is unlikely to approve a landmark tax shakeup in its current sitting, a new setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reform agenda that makes it harder to meet a......
Pacts signed to promote Islamic financeKARACHI: The State Bank held a signing ceremony on Thursday for Financial Innovation Challenge Fund (FICF) Round 3 on promoting excellence in Islamic finance......
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it would not join a new bailout program for Greece until conditions for debt sustainability, including debt relief and economic reforms, are......
BRASILIA: Brazil’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by half a point Wednesday to 14.25 per cent, seeking to fight inflation during a major slump in the local currency.The bank’s......
ISLAMABAD: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is launching a four-year project “Agriculture Market Development” in Pakistan aimed at transforming targetted product lines......
KARACHI: Fears of more rain and floods triggered some panic buying from spinner on the cotton market Thursday. The underlying sentiment remained firm and steady and outlook uncertain.Reports of......
BERLIN: Confidence in the eurozone economy hit a four-year high in July and the European Central Bank said recovery is picking up, supported by loose monetary policy aimed at countering persistently......
BEIJING: Chinese stocks fell again on Thursday while other major global markets rose after the US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged at a record low.In early trading, Germany’s DAX gained......
LAHAINA: Pacific trading partners are deadlocked over intellectual property protections, including monopoly periods for next-generation drugs, Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari said on......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China agreed on Thursday on consolidating the existing “all-weather Pakistan-China strategic cooperative partnership” in political, economic, strategic and other areas.During......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) recommended on Thursday three to 10 per cent reduction in the prices of petroleum products for August but the government is likely to keep them......
ISLAMABAD: How Afghan Taliban supremo Mullah Mohammad Omar came to Pakistan? How he died in a Karachi hospital two year ago, as claimed by the Afghan government on Wednesday?These questions were......
KARACHI: The Karachi Electric (KE) said on Thursday it was wrong to suggest that it had been purchasing electricity at subsidised rates.In a statement aimed at countering what it called wrong claims......
ISLAMABAD: The news report titled “Govt wants to continue supplying 650MW to KE”, published in the Thursday edition of Dawn, incorrectly quoted Water and Power Secretary Muhammad Younas Dagha as......
WASHINGTON: The US administration, while describing reports of Mullah Omar’s death as credible, has urged the Taliban to stay engaged with the Afghan government.“We encourage the Taliban to use this......
ISLAMABAD: Rangers have shared the record of allegedly illegal allotment of land in Sindh with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), a senior official of the bureau told Dawn on Thursday.The NAB......
ISLAMABAD: The government introduced a bill in the National Assembly on Thursday to set up an authority to help Pakistan take a due share in what a minister put at trillions of dollars worth of world......
QUETTA: Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch announced on Thursday setting up of a `Balochistan Skilled Fund’ to encourage professional activities and training programmes in the province aimed at......
QUETTA: The Frontier Corps (FC) has claimed to have killed two militants in an exchange of fire in Wadh area of Khuzdar district on Thursday. A soldier of the paramilitary force was injured.An FC......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has issued an advice to private TV channels, asking them to telecast national anthem daily in the morning to promote......
ISLAMABAD: New projections released by the United Nations say Pakistan is among six of the 10 largest countries in the world whose population has been projected to exceed 300 million by 2050.At......
PESHAWAR: Two soldiers and three suspected militants were killed in a gunfight in Frontier Region Bannu adjacent to the North Waziristan tribal region on Thursday.Officials said that militants......
GWADAR: The vice chairman of the Union Council of Panjgur district was gunned down on Wednesday.Levies officials said Sarfarz Shambayzai was going to Panjgur bazaar when men in a car opened fire on......
GILGIT: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday the flash floods that ravaged parts of Gilgit-Baltistan were primarily caused by rapid melting of glaciers.Speaking to the flood-hit people in......
LANDI KOTAL: Security forces arrested an important leader of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) during a raid in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency on Thursday.Officials said Ababeel alias Breth......
ISLAMABAD: As the JUI-F and MQM refused to demonstrate flexibility and vowed to go ahead with their motions seeking de-seating of PTI legislators, the PPP announced on Thursday that it would vote......
MENTION of a police robot brings to mind the television series and movies about a machine that is supposed to protect the innocent while upholding the law but either develops human feelings and......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office announced on Thursday the postponement of second round of Afghan peace talks following reports about the death of Taliban chief Mullah Omar that could deepen an already......
ISLAMABAD: Putting to rest controversies over the death of their chief Mullah Omar, Taliban formally confirmed on Thursday his death but insisted that he had never gone out of Afghanistan since the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan continued with his attack on officials of the Election Commission and returning officers who he said had failed to discharge their duty before......
NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan were locked in a furious verbal duel on Thursday over Monday’s Gurdaspur attack, which Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh told parliament, was carried out by......
PESHAWAR: Fourteen years after they were driven out of power, the Afghan Taliban are facing their biggest challenge. With its supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, now confirmed dead, the biggest......
IN death, Mullah Omar has proved to be as controversial as he was in life. After overnight speculation on when, where and how the Taliban supreme commander had died, the Afghan Taliban appear to at......
THE humble houbara bustard on one side versus the rapacious Arabs and supine Pakistani governments on the other – it was always a no-contest.Now, however, the Supreme Court, in response to a......
MALIK Ishaq, co-founder and leader of a faction of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi — by most accounts Pakistan’s most active sectarian terrorist group — lived a violent life and met a violent end on the......
BACK in 2005-6, I asked a fellow academic and friend, originally from Argentina, who was visiting Pakistan for an extended period, what some of the differences were in what he saw in Pakistan and in......
THE stage was meticulously set for the grand, generous gesture by the gods of democracy in Pakistan. There was so much praise already for the exemplary restraint that the PML-N government had shown......
HUMAN existence is limited in time and space but it has a lofty purpose. Every religion highlights the purpose with guidance to achieve salvation. The understanding thereof is a must to live life......
THE past few days have seen two ‘operations’ against civilian populations in two very different parts of this country unfold, one in full view of a watching public and the other shrouded in complete......
