COLOMBO: Shahid Afridi and Anwar Ali played key roles as Pakistan ended a successful tour of Sri Lanka with a thrilling one-wicket victory in the second Twenty20 international in Colombo on......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) Arif Alvi has adopted a Pakistan Railways (PR) school in Karachi in cooperation with Citizens Foundation on Saturday.The Pakistan Railways signed an agreement......
ISLAMABAD: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met in Islamabad Saturday and agreed to enhance counter-terrorism cooperation aimed at fighting the possible threat......
QUETTA: The provincial government of Balochistan has decided to approach the 'Grand Baloch Jirga' in order to try and convince Khan of Kalat Mir Suleman Dawood to return to the country.Chief Minister......
Pace legend Wasim Akram said Saturday he was confident Pakistan's pool of young fast bowling talent would secure their future as he prepared to train a group of budding bowlers.“Pakistan has enormous......
THE lights dimmed to shadowed flickers, only my footsteps could be heard as I walked towards the exit. Placing my hands on the release bar, the door clicked but did not open. I tried again, the door......
BIRMINGHAM: England have added pace bowlers Liam Plunkett and Mark Footitt to a 14-man squad announced Saturday for next week's fourth Ashes Test against Australia at Trent Bridge.Yorkshire quick......
PESHAWAR: A new spate of flash floods caused by torrential rains on Saturday wreaked havoc in most parts of the already damaged district of Chitral, including Kalash valley, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,......
In popular culture, the inability to sleep is associated with a psychological condition known as love. Urdu literature is teeming with men and women afflicted by this malady. The sufferers are......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Athletes have been dismissing the dangers of swimming in Rio de Janeiro's dirty waters, saying the risks are not great enough to alter their Olympic plans.Despite a warning from a......
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday accepted the charge sheet submitted by Sindh Police against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain.In the charge sheet submitted today,......
It was only time before Asrar was picked up on the Bollywood radar.The young musician created a sensation upon his Coke Studio debut last year; his now Lux Style Award-nominated single 'Sub Aakho Ali......
BIRMINGHAM: England beat Australia by eight wickets in the third Test at Edgbaston on Friday to take a 2-1 lead in the Ashes series.Here's story so far:July 08-11 1st Test, Cardiff England won by 169......
BIRMINGHAM: Overlooking Australia vice-captain Brad Haddin for the third Ashes Test was the “hardest decision I have had to make as coach”, Darren Lehmann said.The 37-year-old Haddin asked to be......
ISLAMABAD: United States Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Dan Feldman on Saturday lauded Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif for his role in bringing together all......
KABUL: New Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor called for unity in the movement in his first audio message released Saturday amid reports of rifts in their ranks following the announcement of the......
I sat in the January cold of Michigan craving biryani, the painful realisation that my migration from Pakistan had taken me away from most desi delights.Dejected, head bent I walked to the mailbox,......
Though Rani Mukerji hasn't been in the news of late, she still knows how to create a stir.The Indian actress appeared on the cover of Vogue India's August "Age(less)" issue looking......
LONDON: A private jet crashed in southern England on Friday, killing four people on board, a spokesman for Britain's Hampshire police service said, while Saudi and British media said the passengers......
Ruksana Bibi, a resident of Chitral's Broz village, remembers July 17 as the bleakest day in her life — the day when she lost her precious livestock to nature's wrath.The 40-year-old woman naively......
It's hard to keep track of Fawad Khan's travel itinerary (although that is something only hardcore fans would do).But after attending a product launch in New York next week, he'll soon be jetting off......
KABUL: The Taliban Saturday denied reports of the death of the founder of Haqqani network, its allied militant group blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan.Some Pakistani media......
The green abandoned villageMAN is used to developing the natural world into settlements — but here’s what happens when nature decides to take it back.There is a fishing village on Gouqi Island, part......
ALL of you who are reading this are the privileged minority who have the good fortune of being able to read because you go to school. Remember there are countless children across Pakistan and the......
Candy anyone?DENTISTS have said that it’s okay for parents to let their kids eat up as much candy as they want at one time. There are a few reasons for this: if you eat five candy bars at one time,......
AT any time of the night, in any season, when the sky is free from pollution, mist droplets or city lights — or glow of any other kind (even the lunar) one can see around three thousand stars of......
WASHINGTON: Dozens of emails that traversed Hillary Clinton’s private, unsecure home server contain national security information are now deemed too sensitive to make public, according to the latest......
THE Judicial Commission Report findings state that the commission found no evidence of massive or systematic and organised rigging in the 2013 election.Now, it is exigent that all political parties......
WORK was started by the last PPP government to provide electricity from Hoshaab to Dandhaar Town of Kech district.The project was completed a year ago, but Dandhaar is still without electricity while......
APROPOS “Watering the Maritime Desert” (July 26). The report covers only Karachi whereas the dire need is to cater to all of Pakistan.The aftermath of floods and heavy rain are the contributory......
PAKISTAN is going through a critical phase of flooding and a water crisis at the same time. Thus, it would be wishful thinking to believe that everything will become all right without resorting to......
PIA is in the process of acquiring five Boeing 747-8 aircraft. These are technologically one of the most advanced aircraft in the world. They are capable of non-stop flights from Pakistan to most of......
THE severe water shortage in Karachi, particularly in DHA, has necessitated the recycling of water and I have done this in my home. A lot of fresh water is wasted in flushing toilets, gardening,......
THE comment in the op-ed page (July 27), ‘Books over bullets’ was a touching one. The references given according to the context were agreeable. The statement by Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai......
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his paediatrician wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a baby.The co-founder of the world’s largest social network used a Facebook post on Friday to......
DAHALA-KHAGRABARI: Chapala Barman is heartbroken as she contemplates leaving the home she has known all her life ahead of a historic land swap between Bangladesh and India that will divide her......
PESHAWAR: The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has won majority of the seats during the re-polling in 11 wards of Peshawar for the district council.The re-polling was held at 29 polling stations in 11......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmed Khan on Friday asked the provincial accountant general to introduce accountability offices in Fata to keep a check on ghost employees and......
PESHAWAR: DIG Mubarak Zeb took over as the new chief of the Peshawar police on Friday.A notification issued from the establishment department said Mr Zeb, a BPS-19 officer, who was serving as DIG......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa secretary sports and tourism Mohammad Azam Khan, a BPS-21 officer, has been given additional charge of the director general of Galiyat Development Authority (GDA).A......
PESHAWAR: As the administration has launched drive against eateries in Peshawar for violating established standard of hygiene and quality of foodstuff, it is blind to the awful conditions at meat and......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa tourism, culture and archaeology department is set to start implementing an ambitious agenda to restore the past legacy of the historic ‘Walled City Peshawar’ as well......
PESHAWAR: The provincial cabinet on Friday approved several proposed laws, including the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Whistleblowers Protection and Vigilance Bill 2015.Chief Minister Pervez Khattak chaired the......
PESHAWAR: The representatives of various organisations of farmers have expressed concern over the Capital Development Authority’s plan to build a housing society on the land of National Agricultural......
PESHAWAR: Officers of the Provincial Management Services (PMS) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa started their two-day token strike on Friday against the proposed in-service training for provincial officers,......
MANSEHRA: The people of Battagram have formed a committee to take up the issue of unscheduled loadshedding in the district with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister and the federal minister for......
KHAR: PML-N MNA from Bajaur Agency Shahabuddin Khan has said that he would spend major part of his development funds on provision of basic facilities to the people of backward areas.He was addressing......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority’s demolition of the ‘katchi abadi’ in Sector I-11 and the violent resistance to it echoed loud in the National Assembly on Friday, with the government......
RAWALPINDI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday detained Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) local leader Qari Imran Hazarvi and shifted him to the Adiala jail for 90 days.On the other hand,......
ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) handed over 66 slum dwellers to the police on physical remand for ‘obstructing the anti-encroachment operation’ in Sector I-11.ATC Judge Sohail Ikram remanded......
ISLAMABAD: The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the capital police on Friday arrested a man on the charge of trying to extort money from a businessman after disguising himself as a member of the......
ISLAMABAD: Mohammad Salman, 18, and his brothers spent Thursday night at a greenbelt of Sector I-11 looking after their household items which they had managed to save from being bulldozed by the CDA......
ISLAMABAD: Though the government has hired two senior lawyers as the special prosecutors in the Mumbai attack case, it seems ‘unable’ to compensate them.Both the Lahore-based lawyers, Misbahul Hassan......
ISLAMABAD: Hussain Chandio does not just bring with him captivating paintings but takes viewers on a cultural trip to his home town.Having a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Sindh, Hussain......
RAWALPINDI: Over 180 shops in Madina Market will open on Saturday (today) after 18 months despite calls of shutterdown strike by one group of the traders association against imposition of withholding......
RAWALPINDI: District education department has declared 270 educational institutions buildings in Rawalpindi dangerous which would be repaired by the provincial government in phases.This fiscal, the......
RAWALPINDI: A three-member committee, headed by SP Headquarters Ameer Abdullah Khan Niazi has been formed to prepare a list of those police officials who had been staying at a post for long in......
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has finally notified three council members of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) after a delay of three months.Now public sector......
“I have worked as an farmer almost all my life as agriculture is the profession of my family. But 10 years ago the land owner hired new people for his farms and I was left with nothing else to do. I......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman, Imran Khan, on Friday criticised the government for rendering hundreds of people homeless by razing their mud houses in I-11 without relocating......
RAWALPINDI: As part of the government’s efforts to upgrade facilities for airlines and passengers, a new taxiway was inaugurated at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) with the landing of......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has been asked through a writ petition to issue directions to the Punjab government to take action against the authorities concerned for not implementing recommendations......
BAHAWALPUR: The Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab (TDCP) has announced tour packages to historical and recreational places in Bahawalpur division.According to a press release issued here on......
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and its subsidiary, Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency (Tepa), have decided to construct the track of the Orange Line metro train away......
SAHIWAL: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated on Friday work on the 1,320 megawatt coal power plant in Qadirabad, which according to him, will be operational by Dec 25, 2017.The plant is being......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority on Friday sealed Allama Iqbal Medical College cafeteria and imposed a heavy fine on the Jinnah Hospital canteen contractor for poor cleanliness, hygiene and food......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Raging waters have swept away a 300-foot portion of the Indus Highway along with the inter-provincial bridge at Khud Buzdar, 190 kilometres from here near KP’s boundary in Taunsa......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council has granted permission of undergraduate medical admissions to the Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Medical and Dental College, Lahore.The decision......
LAHORE: Law enforcement agencies arrested five suspected terrorists involved in deadly twin suicide blasts at Catholic and Christ churches in Youhanabad this year.Police said that law enforcement......
LAHORE: Three death row prisoners were executed in the Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday morning.Condemned prisoners Nadeem Shahzad of Garhi Shahu and Abdul Samad alias Samar John of Youhanabad were......
LAHORE: The new draft law dealing with child labour in the commercial and industrial sectors of Punjab is all set to become an Act aimed at banning children up to 14 years from all types of......
Citizens, both young and old, gathered a few days ago for a cause: planting trees. The Lahore Conservation Society, with the help of volunteers from all over the city, planted 360 saplings on Jhulke......
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri along with president Raheeq Abbasi is leaving for Europe tonight (Aug 1) for launching his ‘peace curriculum’.Sources told Dawn that Dr......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has been asked through a writ petition to issue directions to the Punjab government to take action against the authorities concerned for not implementing recommendations......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) has hit out at the government for keeping 700 of the 1,200 posts of prosecutors in Punjab vacant, creating hurdles in the way of courts for providing......
LAHORE: Alarmed over the reported presence of dengue larvae at some places in the province, Chief Secretary Khizar Hayyat Gondal on Friday ordered the anti-dengue campaign be stepped up.Presiding......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Friday staged a protest demonstration against the Local Government (Amendment) Ordinance in front of Lahore Press Club on Friday.The protest......
LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Amin Wains on Friday directed administration and beat officers to effectively implement the National Action Plan (NAP) to fight terrorism and also contain......
MULTAN: Two teenagers died while six others were injured in separate roof and wall collapse incident here on Friday.According to Rescue 1122 sources, the incidents occurred due to the recent......
GUJRANWALA: The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) and Civil Lines division police arrested a dozen gangsters involved in murder, robbery and other heinous crimes on Friday and seized Rs130,000, 12......
GUJRAT: The district government has selected 60 kanals in Vence village on GT Road for a 250-bed district headquarters (DHQ) hospital which will cost Rs1.50 billion.Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had......
OKARA: A group of educators has protested interviews for 44 posts of teachers by a five-member panel of the District Education Department despite stay by the Lahore High Court till Aug 5.Muhammad......
SHEIKHUPURA: Police will be complainant in honour killing cases to check release of accused through compromise.District Police Officer Sohail Zafar Chattha made the announcement at a media talk here......
SAHIWAL: A civil society organisation began a three-day training workshop for women workers on the labour and anti-sexual harassment law on Friday.The workshop is being organised by the Insan Dost......
BAHAWALPUR: The Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab (TDCP) has announced tour packages to historical and recreational places in Bahawalpur division.According to a press release issued here on......
LAHORE: The Tourism Development Corporation of Punjab (TDCP) has kicked off Independence Day celebrations.As part of the celebrations, the TDCP organised an Azadi Photo Walk on Thursday at......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Brick kiln workers, including women and children, took out a procession for implementation of minimum wages on Friday.It started from Shahbaz Sharif Chowk and after marching on Rajana......
KARACHI: The body of a minor girl, who was raped before being strangled to death, was found in the Sachal area on Friday, police and doctors said.They said that the body of the seven-year-old girl......
KARACHI: Most private schools in the city have decided to reopen after summer vacation on Monday (Aug 3) despite a notification of extension by a week, to reopen on Aug 11, from the provincial......
KARACHI: Two ministers in Sindh cabinet — Sharjeel Inam Memon and Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani — whose portfolios were changed last week during reshuffling of portfolios of five ministers, on Friday left......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday threw out a second consecutive report submitted by the Sindh police chief on distribution of funds for police and directed the chief secretary to......
KARACHI: The issue of forced conversions and marriages in Pakistan has a historical context. It has its roots in pre-partition British marriage laws, because the British thought of Indian society as......
KARACHI: How women of marginalised communities are suffering at the hands of influential people and the state has turned a blind eye towards their misery came to light at a press conference held on......
KARACHI: A sessions court sentenced on Friday a man to collective 28 years in prison for kidnapping and raping a minor girl.The court found Furqan Ali guilty of sexually assaulting a seven-year-old......
KARACHI: Two senior Karachi Metropolitan Corporation officials — Hafiz Mugheera Rabbani and Saba Sabir — were suspended and a show cause notice was issued to a third on Friday for inflicting loss of......
KARACHI: Authorities of the Sindh police decided on Friday to depute 1,000 commandos for the security of Chinese nationals already working on different projects and those likely to come here in......
KARACHI: With the authorities exercising laws to combat extremism in the city, groups comprising young people huddled together to discuss ideas and come up with practical measures to counter......
MIRPURKHAS: Girls clinched all three top positions in science group in the annual examination, 2015, of SSC Part-II (class -X) held under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE),......
HYDERABAD: Sindh chief minister’s special assistant for relief and rehabilitation Ali Hassan Hingorjo on Friday claimed that 80 per cent people hit or threatened by flooding in the katcha areas of......
MIRPURKHAS: A man was sentenced to death and two co-accused were acquitted by the Mirpurkhas antiterrorism court in a murder case on Friday.According to the prosecution, Wazeer Ali shot dead his......
HYDERABAD: Residents of Gujrati Para, Gulshan-i-Hamid and some other localities held a protest demonstration after Juma prayers against some statements made by the prayer leader of the Jama Masjid......
HYDERABAD: PML-N leader Mumtaz Ali Bhutto gives credit for restoration of peace to Karachi to apex committee and says the PPP government should resign — as the committee’s success is tantamount to......
LONDON: An executive jet crashed onto a car auction centre and burst into flames while trying to land at an airport in southern England on Friday, killing all four people aboard, police said.Acting......
BENGHAZI: Seven Libyan soldiers were killed on Friday when militants of the self-styled Islamic State stormed a checkpoint manned by forces loyal to the official government, military officials......
KUALA LUMPUR: Investigators are “moving close to solving the mystery of MH370,” Malaysia’s deputy transport minister said on Friday, adding that a piece of wreckage found in the Indian Ocean has......
LONDON: The widow of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday that a public inquiry pointed to President Vladimir Putin as being ultimately responsible for her husband’s death, and her......
CALAIS: French police said they had prevented more than 1,000 desperate attempts by migrants to get into Britain via the Channel Tunnel on Friday, as London vowed further measures to tackle the......
PARIS: An Ebola vaccine provided 100-percent protection in a field trial in hard-hit Guinea, researchers and officials said on Friday, mooting “the beginning of the end” of the killer West African......
SAINT LAPOPIE: French President Francois Hollande said that he would have talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday night about the migrant crisis in Calais.Hollande told reporters......
TOKYO: A trio of former executives from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will be indicted over the 2011 accident, a judicial review panel decided on Friday, paving the way for the first criminal......
JAKARTA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Europe on Friday of not doing enough to help refugees fleeing conflict in Syria and Iraq, suggesting it was responsible for people “drowning......
HARARE: The American dentist who killed Cecil the lion was a “foreign poacher” who paid for an illegal hunt and he should be extradited to Zimbabwe to face justice, environment minister Oppah......
THE signal for exporting nations is clear: if you count — or want to count — in the new world order, make sure you join a regional free trade agreement.That’s the message that many global trading......
THE death by hanging of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, the lone death-row convict in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, on the morning of July 30, holds a mirror to Indian democracy, political......
ANKARA: Turkey looks increasingly likely to face an early election as its air strikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq and self-styled Islamic State in Syria stir nationalist sentiment and coalition......
KANO: A female suicide bomber and Boko Haram gunmen killed 16 people in Nigeria as the commander of a new multinational force tasked with fighting the Islamists pledged on Friday to crush the......
DUMA (West Bank): Suspected Jewish attackers torched a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank on Friday, killing an 18-month-old child and seriously injuring his parents and brother.The house in......
ANCHORAGE: Some western Alaska Natives can travel back and forth to a Russian region without a visa under a 1989 agreement that was recently revived.Vera Metcalf, a Native leader who works part time......
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Secretary-General Mr Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned on Friday the murder of a Palestinian child in the West Bank and called for the perpetrators of the terrorist act to be......
BEIRUT: Al Qaeda’s Syria affiliate launched a fierce assault on the headquarters of a US-trained rebel group on Friday, while claiming responsibility for capturing members of the “moderate” force......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio de Janeiro will deploy double the number of security personnel for next year’s Olympic Games than were used in the 2012 London games, officials said on Thursday.Some 85,000......
KARACHI: The Sindh Olympic Association will organise various sports events on Aug 14 as a mark of celebration for the Independence Day. An Executive Committee meeting was held on Friday at the SOA......
ISLAMABAD: Former skipper Rashid Latif has said the silence of wicket-keeper batsman Sarfraz Ahmed is his strength and his approach to remain quiet on management’s decisions is the best strategy.“I......
KARACHI: Promising Mehdi Raza on Friday equalled the feat of Hareem Anwar by annexing double crown in the Young Stars ranking table tennis tournament at the Sindh Sports Board sports complex.Second......
PARIS: West Ham United, who qualified for the Europa League due to their fair play record, had a player sent-off in a 2-2 draw with Astra Giurgiu on Thursday while crowd trouble shamed the......
LAHORE: Five more pacemen, in addition to the 12 already selected, have been picked for the two-week PCB-LG Wasim Akram Bowling coaching camp starting at the National Stadium in Karachi from......
DHAKA: Fast bowler Dale Steyn was delighted after becoming the second South African to reach 400 Test wickets against Bangladesh.“I would’ve been happy if I had taken just one wicket in my......
DHAKA: The entire second day’s play in the second and final test between Bangladesh and South Africa was wiped out on Friday as rain continued to wreak havoc in the series. Heavy downpours washed out......
KUALA LUMPUR: Beijing on Friday narrowly won an IOC vote for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games that secured its place in sporting history.The Chinese capital beat Almaty in Kazakhstan by just 44 votes to......
ISLAMABAD: Former captain and master of swing bowling Wasim Akram believes Pakistan team have managed to form an excellent combination and it looks they are on the right track.Talking to a news......
MURREE: The three-day National Throwball Umpiring Course 2015 concluded at Murree on Friday. As many as 86 participants from different schools, colleges, universities and departments took part in......
LAHORE: Newly-appointed sports secretary Humayun Mazhar Sheikh was given a briefing by Punjab Sports Board director general Usman Anwar at the National Hockey Stadium on Friday.The sports secretary......
KARACHI: Hardly 24 hours after adding two new faces in the aftermath of Asian champion Hamza Akbar’s omission besides reshuffling the team, the Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Federation (PBSF)......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Football Association’s General Council, through a no-confidence motion, de-seated its president Dr Fazal-ur-Rehman and replaced him with the body’s vice-president, Mohammad......
KARACHI/LAHORE: A fact-finding mission from the FIFA and AFC is set to arrive in Pakistan on Saturday with a view to resolving the crisis and controversy that has plagued the Pakistan Football......
STOCKHOLM: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce warmed up for the world championships with a dominant win in the women’s 100 metres on a cool evening at the Stockholm Diamond League here on Thursday.David......
BIRMINGHAM: Ian Bell delighted a capacity crowd at his Edgbaston home ground with a sparkling unbeaten fifty as England defeated Australia by eight wickets to win the third Test on Friday.Victory,......
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 on......
LAHORE: Honour of the day was for Special Olympian cyclist Touseeful Hasan, who bagged gold in a 10-kilometre race at the Long Beach in Los Angeles on Friday.According to the information made......
COLOMBO: Pakistan play their final match of their Sri Lanka tour here at the R. Premadasa Stadium on Saturday, when they take on the hosts in the second and final Twenty20.Playing some top-class......
LAHORE: Renowned boxer Amir Khan says Pakistan is rich in boxing talent which can be groomed under a long-term plan.“I can see a lot of talented boxers in Pakistan; they have the necessary potential......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures edged down on Friday, reversing early gains to record their biggest monthly drop since March, but losses were limited by a weaker ringgit and data showing......
KARACHI: Cotton prices remained under pressure on Friday though some needy mills replenished their stocks.Floor brokers said that the China factor continues to hover over cotton trade for second......
LONDON: Gold reversed earlier losses on Friday as the dollar fell after weaker-than-expected US data, but prices remained on course for their biggest monthly decline in more than two years on......
BRUSSELS: Inflation in the 19-nation eurozone was unchanged in July while the jobless rate for June was also flat, suggesting the economy maintained only modest growth, official data showed on......
MOSCOW: Russia’s central bank on Friday made its smallest interest rate cut this year as it juggled attempts to resuscitate the economy with inflation fears after a recent slide in the rouble.The......
KARACHI: Sales of cars, bikes and heavy vehicles are likely to remain brisk in the July-September quarter against the backdrop of rising imports of parts and accessories by assemblers.Assemblers......
LAHORE: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has invited the All-Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) leadership for a meeting in Islamabad on Saturday following a strike call given by the......
TEHRAN: Asian imports of Iranian crude oil rose from a year ago in June, the last month before a landmark agreement that will eventually lead to more exports from the country was reached on Tehran’s......
WASHINGTON: Almost nothing in economics is more important, or mysterious, than productivity. It means the amount of stuff — goods, services, economic value — produced for a given amount of input.It......
LAHAINA: Japan and the United States have been at odds over many things during Pacific free trade talks but they are united in concern over the deal’s potential impact on their domestic sugar......
KARACHI: The stock market closed flat on Friday with the index up by 11.51 points to settle at 35,741.52.The activity was lacklustre as volume slipped to 299 million shares of Rs10.8 billion from......
LONDON: The Chinese slowdown is forcing many Western companies to take a hard look at their businesses there, leading many to reduce investments, costs and product lines and to tackle increasing bad......
Nestle Pakistan donates water to flood victimsLAHORE: Nestlé Pakistan has donated 78,000 litres of water to the provincial disaster management authorities of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for......
NEW DELHI: Planning to inject $11 billion of capital into debt-laden state banks over the next four years, India’s Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday sought parliament’s approval to boost budget......
ISLAMABAD: The government is considering to raise at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) session in September the issue of Indian intelligence agency RAW’s interference in the country.“As for raising this......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia beheaded a convicted Pakistani heroin trafficker on Friday.Shah Faisal Azeem Shah was found guilty of smuggling the drugs hidden in his body, the interior ministry said in a......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau informed the Supreme Court on Friday that in compliance with its directive the bureau had established a special monitoring and evaluation wing to ensure......
WASHINGTON: Despite a change in the Taliban leadership, the United States wants Pakistan to continue its efforts for promoting talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government, says the US State......
ISLAMABAD: The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, has formally conferred its associate membership on Pakistan, following completion of required internal ratification process......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations said on Friday that it had received a letter sent by Muttahida Qaumi Movement as reported in the Pakistani media.The UN deputy spokesman Farhanul Haq said the......
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE/KARACHI: Rejecting the government’s incentive package, one faction of the All Pakistan Anjuman-i-Tajiran (APAT) has announced that traders will observe a countrywide strike on......
QUETTA: The Balochistan government has decided to take all possible measures to make Gwadar a safe city for local and foreign investors.The decision was taken at a meeting presided over by Chief......
ISLAMABAD: The government of Punjab has promulgated an ordinance to amend the law for reducing the number of ballot papers to be printed for the next local government elections in the province.An......
KARACHI: Federal Information Minister Pervez Rashid has said that peace is being restored in Karachi with the result that businesses in the city have started flourishing.Talking to journalists here......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) approved on Friday initiation of a fresh corruption reference against former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, the eighth one to be faced by......
ISLAMABAD: As if worries of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the wake of the rejection of its allegations of rigging in the 2013 general election by the inquiry commission weren’t enough, making......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan on Thursday criticised the international community for not acting decisively on the massive human suffering as a consequence of the “global wave of displacement and forced......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Navy has assumed the command of the multi-national naval maritime security and counter-terrorism coalition named Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150) from the French Navy, said a......
ISLAMABAD: A day after confirmation of the death of Taliban supremo Mullah Omar, conflicting reports have emerged about the death of Haqqani network founder Mullah Jalaluddin Haqqani.Jalaluddin is......
TOKYO: The US spy agency targeted Japanese politicians, its top central banker and major firms for years, WikiLeaks said on Friday, in the latest revelations about Washington’s snooping on allies.The......
RIYADH: Rocket fire from war-wracked Yemen on Friday killed three Saudi soldiers and a member of a paramilitary force, in the deadliest border incidents for several weeks, the interior ministry......
PESHAWAR: Sri Lanka’s former skipper and hard-hitting opening batsman Sanath Jayasuriya visited Army Public School here on Friday and expressed solidarity with the students and staff who went through......
LAHORE: The Indus is likely to be in high or very high flood at Guddu from Saturday onwards and the situation will continue for about a week, according to the Flood Forecasting Division (FFD).It said......
ISLAMABAD: The government slightly reduced on Friday the prices of all petroleum products for the month of August because of decline in their prices in the international market.The reduction approved......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Raheel Sharif reiterated on Friday his firm resolve that any attempt to obstruct or impede the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project would be......
ISLAMABAD: Amidst reports of divisions in Taliban ranks over the choice of their chief, the group’s supreme council notified Mullah Akhtar Mansour as successor to the late Mullah Omar and named his......
THE circumstances of Mullah Omar’s death may be an ongoing mystery, but other events on the Afghan Taliban front are already eclipsing the rather disturbing questions raised by the contradictory news......
THE Capital Development Authority (CDA) just bulldozed its own credibility by destroying a substantial portion of Afghan Basti, a katchi abadi in sector I-11 that is home to more than 8,000 people,......
IT is a staggering prospect. As per a recent UN report, Pakistan is projected to have a population of over 300 million people by 2050.Already, with an estimated population hovering around 190m, the......
IT is said ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ and in this day and age of instantly available images, transmitted in near real-time, one this week said it all: the photograph of one of the most......
DEMOCRACY, though as old as the Greeks, has not passed the age of childbearing. New institutions can yet crop up to strengthen the traditional ones when people feel that they are not effective......
IN the legend, the Pied Piper led the children of Hamelin away to their doom by playing a tune on his magic flute.Imran Khan, our own version of the medieval Piper, has not only misled a large......
THE wanton terrorist attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar on Dec 16, 2014, with its chilling images of a bloodbath perpetrated against innocent, defenceless children, left the nation......
KARACHI: Sindh Government and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) are at loggerheads over the latter’s recent raid on Civic Centre to seize land record pertaining to ‘China-cutting’ in the city,......
