KUALA LUMPUR: Experts have confirmed that the debris found on Reunion Island last week was that of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 that went missing last year, Malaysia's prime minister said......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah in a statement released Wednesday said only an “insane person can think to approach any foreign country, particularly India,” to intervene in Karachi,......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday approved Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's advice to appoint Justice Jawwad S Khawaja as the Chief Justice of Pakistan with effect from August 17,......
RAWALPINDI: Two retired army generals and a civilian officer of the National Logistics Cell (NLC) were sentenced by an army court for violating NLC rules and regulations that caused financial losses......
Pakistan's head coach Waqar Younis has rubbished reports claiming that the exclusion of Sarfraz Ahmed from the two Twenty20s against Sri Lanka was part of a ‘conspiracy’ to sideline the 28-year-old......
MIRPUR: Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) on Wednesday exchanged fire with Pakistani forces across the working boundary between the two countries in Buttel area of Kotli sector.Pakistani forces......
MUZAFFARABAD: Shafqat Hussain, hanged yesterday at Karachi Central Jail for the kidnapping and involuntary murder of a seven-year-old boy in 2004, was buried Wednesday at his hometown in Kashmir amid......
A Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) delegation may visit Pakistan next week to assess the security situation for a proposed series between the women's teams of both the countries later this year.Talking......
Trusting for-profit schools with improving literacy seems like a risky enterprise. Yet many, including The Economist magazine, argue for the same. The recent experience in Pakistan, however, suggests......
KARACHI: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Karachi issued a non-bail able arrest warrant for Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Wednesday.The arrest warrant was issued for Altaf......
Kicking off yesterday on a breezy evening, the I Am Karachi Music Festival saw thin attendance at the Music Dialogues.These are two-day discussions that deal with copyright and recording issues as......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan cricket captain Wasim Akram escaped unhurt when bullets fired near his car grazed the vehicle following a traffic accident on Wednesday.“A car crashed into my vehicle and......
AMONG the more bizarre artefacts of the atomic age is a 1950s song titled Fujiyama Mama by Wanda Jackson, which begins: "I've been to Nagasaki, Hiroshima too, the same I did to them baby I can do to......
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday suspended the basic party membership of retired Justice Wajihuddin Ahmad, according to a statement issued by Shireen Mazari,......
QUETTA: A recent surge in ibex hunting in Balochistan has caused an outrage amongst environmentalists and activists involved in conservation efforts. Heartrending pictures of hunters posing with......
MUMBAI: A special court in India issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday for exiled former cricket boss Lalit Modi over allegations of money laundering linked to a lucrative television deal, an......
RAWALPINDI: Unknown men on Wednesday killed an additional district and sessions judge in Rawalpindi's Sadiqabad Town area.Three unknown gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on the vehicle of the judge......
Matteela Films release an unseen snippet from Zinda Bhaag, one of several deleted scenes available to watch on the DVD. Directors Meenu Gaur and Farjad Nabi share their thoughts about the DVD......
I couldn’t sleep last night. We’ve become immune to horror stories on a regular basis in Pakistan, but the death of a six-day old infant in the I-11 sector slums in Islamabad during a government......
Earlier this year, we saw Bollywood making its mark as Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan appeared on Forbes' ‘Celebrity 100: The World's Top-Paid Entertainers 2015'. Well, the duo has done it yet......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday while addressing the National Assembly session said that the Supreme Court's decision regarding the establishment of military courts has......
WASHINGTON: A majority of blacks in the United States ? more than three out of five ? say they or a family member have personal experience with being treated unfairly by the police, and their race is......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reaffirmed on Wednesday its commitment to the Afghan peace process emphasising the need for continuous regional and international engagement with the neighbouring country in......
Pakistani cinema is having a more prolific period than usual of late, as films jostle for space in the coveted holiday season. As we wait for Dekh Magar Pyaar Se, Moor and Shah to hit the big......
GUJRANWALA/MIANWALI: Four death row prisoners were hanged in Gujranwala and Mianwali on Wednesday morning.Condemned prisoner, Waqar, was hanged in Central Jail Gujranwala. He was convicted for the......
NEW DELHI: India has partially revoked an order to block hundreds of pornographic websites following an uproar on social media, but the government ordered Internet service providers to shut down......
Karachi does chicken tikka like no other city in the world. Hence growing up in the wonderful metropolis, I have had the luxury of tasting the best barbecue chicken tikka available to humanity, may......
SRINAGAR: Two Indian paramilitary soldiers and one suspected rebel were killed in India-held Kashmir Wednesday after a convoy of paramilitary troops was ambushed in the troubled region, police......
BEIJING: China has appealed for United States support in fighting Islamist militants in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang, saying they are also a threat to the US.Chinese officials say the......
KABUL: The United Nations said on Wednesday that an increasing number of women and children were getting hurt or killed in Afghanistan's war against the Taliban and other insurgents.Total number of......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday in a majority ruling upheld the establishment of military courts in Pakistan.Petitions challenging the 21st amendment were dismissed in a majority 11-6......
NEW DELHI: Twenty seven people have been killed after two packed trains derailed while crossing a bridge hit by floods in central India overnight Wednesday, authorities said, highlighting again......
CAIRO: Egypt is to inaugurate an expansion of the Suez Canal on Thursday, which it is touting as a boost to world trade.Here are some facts about the project to increase the capacity of the key......
KUALA LUMPUR: Southeast Asian nations want China to stop land reclamation in the disputed South China Sea, a regional official said on Tuesday, but China insisted it has a right to continue the......
KOLKATA: Floods from days of torrential rain have claimed at least 180 lives in India with one million people sheltering in relief camps after fleeing surging waters, officials said on Tuesday.Rivers......
GENEVA: More than 2,000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe this year, data showed on Tuesday, bearing testimony to the migrants’ increasingly desperate attempts to reach the......
LOS ANGELES: More than 9,000 firefighters are battling to contain nearly two dozen wildfires in California that have forced thousands to flee their homes and burned large swathes of land.The crews......
CANADA heads to the polls on Oct 19 to elect members to the 42nd Canadian parliament.At 78 days, it will be the longest campaign since 1872. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attempt to......
PARIS: President Barack Obama’s plan to slash electricity-generated CO2 emissions was welcomed on Tuesday as a courageous step towards a lower-carbon future, but not yet enough to brake dangerous......
THE Balochistan government is legally bound to reimburse the medical expenses of its employees. I am a Senior Secondary School (SST) teacher at Government High School Adampur, located in Sohbatpur.I......
IN Pakistan, 300,000 (35pc) patients of chronic liver disease and liver cancer need liver transplantation, according to a study published in Journal of Liaquat University of Medical and Health......
RECENTLY the list of successful candidates for the MPA scholarship programme has been made public in Lasbela district.A number of candidates, including me, have become victims of nepotism. We have......
ON the interior minister’s directive, Nadra has taken steps to issue CNICs online. This decision should be implemented soon. Many people will benefit from this initiative.This will be helpful for......
THIS is an appeal to the federal government, the minister of interior, the CDA chairman and the Supreme Court of Pakistan to intervene on behalf of unfortunate allottees of the CDA balloting held in......
THIS is apropos the recent eviction of slum dwellers in Islamabad and the response of our intelligentsia to this news. It is heartening to see that our intelligentsia is finally waking up from its......
ALONG the coast of the Arabian Sea there exists a village called Lakho Pir which consists of almost a 100 households. It is about 40 km from the district headquarters of Badin. No district government......
THIS is with reference to Yvonne Khan’s article ‘Travel travails’ (July26).In order to avert misuse of the POC facility, Nadra introduced enhanced security measures in the processing of the POC. This......
ON July 24 we had three bits of good news. The Supreme Court gave a historic judgment on election rigging, Imran Khan accepted the decision, and the prime minister in his address to the nation did......
LAKKI MARWAT: A team of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority visited the district on Tuesday to assess the damages caused by flash floods triggered by the monsoon rains.The team members met......
SWABI: A Chinese company has stopped work on the intake section of the Tarbela Dam Fourth Extension Project due to alarming rise in the water level at the reservoir, Dawn learnt on Tuesday.As a......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has announced 300 posts of constables for the sons and brothers of those police personnel, who were killed in line of duty.He was addressing......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is yet to announce health policy and set forth its goals and objectives in line with its manifesto and national and international commitments, experts......
MINGORA: The four-day Swat tourism and trade festival, which was scheduled to be held on Aug 11, has been postponed in the wake of destruction by floods in Chitral and possible bad weather in Swat......
MANSEHRA: Dr Habib Ahmad (TI) assumed the charge of acting vice-chancellor of Hazara University on Tuesday. He replaced Dr Shahzad Ahmad, who tendered his resignation in June this year after several......
PESHAWAR: The Provincial Management Services (PMS) officers on Tuesday conditionally postponed their pen-down strike till Monday next after holding talks with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary Amjad......
MANSEHRA: The residents of urban union council No.1 have threatened to besiege offices of tehsil municipal administration if water supply to their houses is not restored forthwith.The protesting......
CHITRAL: The flood-hit suspension bridge in Osiak Drosh village was opened to traffic on Tuesday after being repaired by the communication and works department.The bridge connecting Jinjirait,......
PESHAWAR: The UN agencies are gradually ‘phasing out’ relief activities for internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Fata due to inadequate funding and restriction on access of humanitarian......
PESHAWAR: As an Ehtesab court on Tuesday extended remand of provincial mines and mineral development minister Ziaullah Afridi in the custody of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab commission for three days......
PESHAWAR: An accountability court on Tuesday remanded four persons, including former provincial minister Makhdum Murid Kazim, in the custody of the National Accountability Bureau for nine days in a......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Tuesday directed the authorities concerned to prepare an integrated plan for waste collection and disposal to ensure clean environment in......
PESHAWAR: Senior Minister Inayatullah Khan informed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Tuesday that the damage caused to infrastructure by torrential rains and subsequent floods in Chitral had been......
PESHAWAR: Two brothers died when roof of a dilapidated house caved in due to heavy rain in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency in the wee hours of Tuesday.According to political administration officials,......
RAWALPINDI: Fourteen urban union councils have been included in the rural areas of Rawalpindi district, under the recent delimitations carried out by the Election Commission of Pakistan for the......
ISLAMABAD: Expressing his opinions on social media may cost the newly appointed member finance at Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) his job.A petition was filed at the Islamabad High Court......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Mohammad Anwar Khan Kasi on Tuesday granted pre arrest transit bail to Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen leader Amin Shaheedi.A first information......
ISLAMABAD: A man was killed and a minor boy injured during a brawl between two groups at Rawal Lake on Tuesday and in a separate incident, a dead body was recovered from the same lake.According to......
ISLAMABAD: After securing a clean chit from the judicial inquiry commission into rigging in the 2013 elections, the government has released details of the losses it claims Pakistan suffered due to......
ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar of Pakistan Peoples Party on Tuesday warned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that the plan to develop a residential colony on the 1,400 acres of the National......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) Tuesday predicted hot and humid weather in most parts of the country during next 24 hours.The PMD sources said that however, rain-thundershower is......
ISLAMABAD: The governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday said that it was now time to redefine the relationship between the state and the residents of Federally Administered Tribal Areas......
ISLAMABAD: Some 3,000 appearing in the tests being conducted for jobs in the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) are agitated at what they term “questions not conforming to the topics given......
ISLAMABAD: Malnutrition in the country will cost the nation heavily when 44 per cent of today’s children of ages up to five grow up as a stunted and unproductive generation in 10 to 15 years.This......
ISLAMABAD: Five years after it launched C-15 and C-16 as residential sectors, the Capital Development Authority (CDA is yet to develop them for the purpose.Meanwhile the housing problem continues to......
ISLAMABAD: PML-N MNA Danyal Aziz said on Tuesday that the 18th amendment has not been implemented in true letter and spirit by the provinces, which are delaying the transfer of administrative,......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police have found security of 28 media houses unsatisfactory and decided to approach them with suggestions to improve it, sources told Dawn on Tuesday.Letters in this regard......
MIANWALI: Traffic on Mianwali-Bannu Road was restored on Tuesday morning after 48 hours of closure.The hill torrents in Isakhel tehsil washed away the inter-province road at Tarag, Qamar-Mushani and......
SHEIKHUPURA: Gunmen took away a car and valuables, altogether worth a million, from a family on Tuesday on Sharqpur Road near Marh Bahangwan, police said.Gulfam with other family members was......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has reportedly released Rs7 billion for development schemes to be identified by MPAs in order to what sources say earn goodwill for the local elections.The federal......
KASUR: A pitched battle between police and protesters left 25 people, including two DSPs, injured near Dolaywala village along Deepalpur Road on Tuesday.Hundreds of people hailing from Husain......
LAHORE: Traders and transport owners are observing a strike on Wednesday (today) to protest the imposition of withholding tax on all banking transactions exceeding Rs50,000 a day.The traders will......
GUJRAT: A delegation of the UK High Commission, Islamabad, visited the office of the Jhelum district coordination officer (DCO) on Tuesday and stressed the need for joint efforts against forced......
LAHORE: Police are going to intensify province-wide crackdown on the hardened criminals, terrorists and their facilitators.This was decided in a conference of the regional police officers (RPOs)......
LAHORE: The Punjab University has announced conducting MD/MS exams of the Federal Postgraduate Medical Institute after its legal experts declared that the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council has not......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Tuesday continued to seal eateries/restaurants besides imposing heavy fine on them for poor hygiene and other issues.A team led by Director (Operations) Ms......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency has sent statements of 50 victims to authorities in the UK in the case of a visa consultancy firm.Asim Malik and his wife Zobia Rubab – owners of Future......
LAHORE: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the pre-arrest bail of a prayer leader for delivering hate speech and inciting his followers to attack a police team in Shahdara.Police had booked......
LAHORE: A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed execution of a murder convict till further order and sought assistance from the Punjab prosecutor general on a point whether a......
MULTAN: Twins died allegedly due to the negligence of doctors and paramedics of the Nishtar Hospital on Tuesday, sparking a protest demonstration by their family against hospital administration.Shan......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) regional campus has been shifted from Pirmahal town to Toba district headquarters.The university had established a campus in Pirmahal on Aug......
GUJRAT: The arch rivals in the Gujrat Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GTCCI), the ruling Shaheen Group and the Founders Group, have joined hands to counter the emerging Friends Group that has also......
FAISALABAD: A teenaged maid was found dead in mysterious circumstances at the residence of her employer, a female assistant professor, at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad on Tuesday.Reports......
CHINIOT: Three members of a family died while another was injured when the roof of their two-room house collapsed in Mohallah Garha as rain continued for the fourth day here on Tuesday.Sarfraz Ahmad,......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, have approached Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Farooq Sattar to get the custody of more than 180 suspects of targeted killings allegedly associated......
KARACHI: In a move to check some common road traffic violations, the Karachi traffic police authorities on Tuesday announced imprisonment up to two years for those breaking the rules regarding......
SONMIANI: A large number of flamingo babies born in the remote sand dunes of Miani Hor have died over the past few weeks when people in the surrounding fishing settlements took them home in an......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday directed the provincial authorities, including Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA), to file their respective comments on a petition seeking to......
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad has suggested the management of the cattle market, which every year sets up a big cattle market on the Superhighway for Eid-ul-Azha, to introduce online......
KARACHI: A sessions court on Tuesday handed down a collective sentence of 45 years to two men in three robbery cases.The court found Mohammad Ali Hajano guilty for targeting the Defence Housing......
KARACHI: The Anti-Corruption Establishment on Tuesday arrested three government officials — two in Karachi and one in Umerkot — for their alleged involvement in corruption cases.The ACE arrested......
HYDERABAD: Sarmad Ali Abro, the son of former union council nazim Mehboob Abro, has accused the police of implicating his father in another fake case because he is a close associate of Dr Zulfikar......
SUKKUR: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has agreed to consider a mega project aimed at strengthening the around 1,600-kilometre-long Indus embankments starting from Guddu barrage in order to avoid......
HYDERABAD: The All Tajir Ittehad Action Committee Hyderabad chapter has supported the strike call given by the All Karachi Tajir Ittehad for Wednesday (today) against the imposition of withholding......
ADEN: Fighters loyal to Yemen’s deposed president seized 10 southern villages from Huthi forces on Tuesday, maintaining momentum in their offensive a day after capturing the country’s biggest air......
BOGOTA: Fifteen police were killed on Tuesday in Colombia when a helicopter taking part in an anti-drug trafficking operation crashed in a remote jungle-covered region, the national police force......
NEW YORK: Seven people have died and 86 others infected so far in New York’s largest recorded outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, forcing the city’s administrators on Tuesday toAFP draw up fresh......
WASHINGTON: Forrest Bird, an American aviator who helped save countless lives by inventing the first modern ventilator, has died at the age of 94.Bird passed away at his home in Sagle, Idaho on......
BEIJING: Chinese authorities will impose strict restrictions on cars, factories and other polluters to ensure a huge military parade commemorating victory over Japan in World War II takes place under......
BERLIN: A fire and an explosion in a World War II-era bunker injured at least 27 people early on Tuesday in the northern German port city of Hamburg.Firefighters said they would try to douse the......
ISTANBUL: Europe and the United States on Tuesday urged Turkey to show a “proportionate response” in the face of daily attacks by Kurdish militants amid growing concern over the scale of Ankara’s......
LONDON: The world governing body for athletics (IAAF) on Tuesday dismissed media reports of widespread doping in the sport.The IAAF said the reports by Britain’s Sunday Times newspaper and Germany’s......
JOHANNESBURG: Dale Steyn and A.B. de Villiers have been recalled to South Africa’s One-day International side for the visit of New Zealand later this month, but young wicket-keeper Quinton de Kock......
LONDON: England limited overs captain Eoin Morgan is to be rested by county side Middlesex in a bid to make sure he is fresh for upcoming white-ball duty against Australia, the county announced on......
SYDNEY: Australia captain Michael Clarke’s Test career could be over if he fails with the bat during the fourth Test at Trent Bridge, Australian media said on Tuesday, saying he looks ‘lost’ and......
NYON (Switzerland): UEFA have thrown out a protest by Fenerbahce, who complained that Champions League opponents Shakhtar Donetsk fielded Fred in last week’s tie despite allegations of a doping......
SHANGHAI: Fernando Torres scored with his first touch as Atletico Madrid cruised to a 3-0 exhibition match victory over Sven-Goran Eriksson’s Shanghai International Port Group (SIPG) in China on......
TORONTO: Victor Conte, the man at the centre of what was the biggest doping scandal of the US, believes the latest drug scandal to rock the sports world is all part of a cover-up to protect the......
MOSCOW: Triple Olympic biathlon champion Darya Domracheva says she will miss the entire upcoming season after being struck down by the illness mononu-cleosis.The illness had been due to sideline her......
KARACHI: A post interval fightback enabled South Greens overcome fighting Central Whites 40-38 in an exciting match of the 10th NBP Cup basketball tournament which commenced at the Arambagh floodlit......
KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Executive Committee chairman Najam Sethi expressed his surprise at vice-captain Sarfraz Ahmed being omitted from the playing XI for both Twenty20 Internationals......
DHAKA: Former Australian batsman Stuart Law was on Tuesday appointed an adviser to Bangladesh’s junior team ahead of the next year’s Under-19 World Cup in the South Asian nation.Bangladesh Cricket......
TOKYO: Japan have added 16-year-old sprinter Abdul Hakim Sani Brown to their squad for this month’s World Athletics Championships in Beijing, making him the youngest athlete to represent the country......
NOTTINGHAM: Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has insisted he is relishing the role of being the man English crowds love to hate.Johnson was subjected to prolonged vocal abuse as England won the......
LAHORE: Footballs, worth millions of rupees, have disappeared from the store room of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) headquarters during its change of command in the wake of an Extraordinary......
KAZAN: James Guy of Britain defeated a strong field to win the 200m freestyle at the world swimming championships on Tuesday.The 19-year-old swimmer out-sprinted China’s Sun Yang to the wall,......
KARACHI: The International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) vice-president Maxime Cassis, who is also the President of the European Billiards and Snooker Association (EBSA) said Pakistan is......
SYDNEY: The Congress of the International Netball Federation (INF), being held at the Sydney Olympic Park, took some important decisions regarding the venues and dates of international events here on......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Federation (PBSF) have inducted two more players into the Pakistan team for the world event raising its strength from 24 to 26.The two players who earned......
KARACHI: Former IBSF world amateur snooker champion and veteran cueist Mohammad Yousuf has said that Pakistan team comprised experience and youth and has plenty of potential to win more laurels in......
MOSCOW: World high jump champion Svetlana Shkolina of Russia will be unable to defend her title in Beijing due to an Achilles tendon tear.Shkolina injured herself while competing at the Russian......
WASHINGTON: Andy Murray is back on hard courts for the first time in four months — and back at the Washington Open for the first time in nine years.The two-time major champion is seeded No 1 at the......
LONDON: England will continue targetting Australia’s under-pressure skipper Michael Clarke as they try to secure an Ashes series victory at Trent Bridge this week, according to fast bowler Stuart......
LONDON: Australia captain Michael Clarke has hit out at critics who have questioned his desire in the wake of his poor run of form during the current Ashes series.Clarke, 34, has scored just 94 runs......
HARARE: Openers Martin Guptill and Tom Latham both struck centuries as New Zealand crushed Zimbabwe by 10 wickets in the second One-day International on Tuesday to set up a series decider.Chasing 236......
NOTTINGHAM: England selector Mick Newell has defended the ongoing inclusion of struggling opener Adam Lyth in the Test side facing Australia in the Ashes series.Yorkshire batsman Lyth has failed to......
KARACHI: Malaysia became the first foreign country to arrive here from Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday afternoon to feature in the third Jubilee Insurance World 6-Reds and Team Championships.The team......
ISLAMABAD: International suppliers have walked out of bidding to provide liquefied natural gas to Pakistan State Oil (PSO) because of its overexposure to the new business as the total receivables of......
KARACHI: The government intends to borrow over Rs1.5 trillion between August and October, and most of the money would be borrowed through banking system.The State Bank issued the auction calendar of......
LAHORE: All-Pakistan Textile Mills Association chairman S.M. Tanveer on Tuesday announced to defer the Aug 7 strike for a month following an assurance by the finance minister that the issues......
ISLAMABAD: The mechanism for disbursement of Rs20 billion subsidy on phosphate and potash fertilisers, particularly diammonium phosphate, was discussed in a meeting between the ministries of......
ISLAMABAD: World Bank Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati on Tuesday underlined the importance of deepening Pakistan’s reforms and investments in priority development areas so that the country......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has decided to establish a capital market business hub in Abbottabad in a bid to expand the outreach of the capital......
KARACHI: The KSE-100 index closed higher by 97.15 points (0.27 per cent) on Tuesday, though the stocks struggled to move much in either direction as investors have become uncertain about whether the......
NEW YORK: Standard & Poor’s has changed the outlook for the European Union from stable to negative after the bloc’s support for Greece and following Britain’s decision to vote on leaving the EU, S&P......
BRUSSELS: The EU and Vietnam on Tuesday announced a free trade deal that would remove nearly all tariffs that Brussels called a “milestone” on the way to a region-wide agreement with Southeast......
Shire bids $30bn for rival BaxaltaLONDON: Dublin-based pharmaceutical group Shire on Tuesday said it had bid $30 billion for US rival Baxalta to form a global biotech company focused on rare......
KARACHI: There seems to be no respite in backward drive in cotton prices on Tuesday as phutti (seed-cotton) with higher moisture content continues to arrive into ginneries, coupled with sluggish......
UNITED NATIONS: The price tag for a bold global new anti-poverty agenda comes to between $3.5 and $5 trillion annually over the next 15 years, part of a United Nations’ “to-do list” for the world.The......
LAHORE: The MCB Bank PMI has recorded moderate growth in manufacturing activity at 65.69 for July 2015.According to a press release issued on Tuesday, MCB said the risks to manufacturing sector in......
KARACHI: Foreign investors have acknowledged improvement in security environment after the launch of Karachi operation and ‘Zarb-e-Azb’ initiative.A survey, conducted in June 2015 by the OICCI,......
KARACHI: The leather industry was passing through difficult period on losing foreign markets to regional countries due to high cost of doing business, said Pakistan Tanners Association (PTA) on......
KUALA LUMPUR: Volatile Malaysian palm oil futures retreated from 11-month lows on Tuesday, finishing higher while tracking crude oil prices and as traders covered short positions.The benchmark palm......
BRUSSELS: The EU hopes that talks on the world’s biggest free trade deal with the United States can be completed next year, a senior official said on Tuesday, as the two sides get down to tackling......
ZURICH: The Swiss property market, moving ahead while the economy shrinks, is in more danger of developing a bubble than at any time since 1991, UBS said in a quarterly study on Tuesday.Negative......
SYDNEY: Australia’s central bank on Tuesday held interest rates at a record low of 2 per cent as it kept the possibility of further easing on the table and dropped calls for a weaker exchange......
QUETTA: The Quetta Metropolitan Corporation (QMC) has joined hands with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for increasing public awareness about corruption by placing anti-corruption......
ISLAMABAD: A sub-committee of the parliamentary committee on electoral reforms will begin the process of clause-by-clause approval of proposed amendments to electoral laws from Wednesday.Briefing......
QUETTA: Two suspected militants were killed in Noshki area in an armed clash with security forces on Monday.Both of them belonged to the banned militant organisation and were involved in attacking......
ISLAMABAD: It had appeared a sure deal to kill a move in the National Assembly to deseat 28 members of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) before apparent intrigues by the party’s political......
ISLAMABAD: The capital is abuzz with speculation about the fate of the 21st Amendment in the Constitution as the 17-judge full court bench of the Supreme Court is set to announce its long-awaited......
ISLAMABAD: President Mammoon Hussain on Tuesday accorded his assent to the Islamabad Capital Territory Local Government Bill, 2015, paving the way for the first ever LG elections in the whole federal......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has accused Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of deliberately prolonging the procedure of voting on resolutions regarding the resignation of his......
KARACHI / SUKKUR: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced on Tuesday a grant of Rs1 billion for the Sindh government to help it in providing relief to flood-affected people in the province.After taking......
SIALKOT: Three people, a minor among them, died in heavy mortar shelling by India in Bajwat Sector of the Sialkot Working Boundary on Tuesday.District Coordination Officer Dr Asif Tufail confirmed......
MUZAFFARABAD/PESHAWAR: Troubles for the Muttahida Qaumi Movement aggravated on Tuesday as the Azad Kashmir prime minister sacked its two ministers and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly adopted a......
KARACHI: Geeta, the Indian girl living at the Edhi Home at Meethadar for over 12 years now, was on Tuesday paid a visit by the Indian High Commissioner Dr T.C.A. Raghavan and Mrs Raghavan who brought......
ISLAMABAD: The army has reviewed its operational plans and is ready to meet any aggression from India.“We are fully prepared to respond to entire spectrum of threat,” Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif......
LAHORE: Punjab Home Minister retired Col Shuja Khanzada claimed on Tuesday that five accused involved in suicide attacks on a building of a sensitive institution in Model Town, Christian worship......
FOR over a decade now, the state has struggled with the issue of madressah reform. The matter gained prominence during the Musharraf era, when Pakistan’s internal militancy problem and the changing......
THE government is facing a growing storm of protest from the traders lobby against the implementation of a new withholding tax on all types of bank transactions by non-filers of tax returns.Given......
IF there is anything that is a recurring motif of day-to-day life in Pakistan, it is the unsightly plastic bag — or ‘shopper’ as we refer to it colloquially.Now the chief minister of Khyber......
ENIGMATIC and reclusive in life, his death is no less mysterious. Since his famous escape on a motorbike from Kandahar after the US invasion in October 2001, very little was heard of Mullah Omar......
LAST week, a news crew was permitted access to a “de-radicalisation” centre in Bara, in the now long embattled northwest of the country. It was a supervised tour, in which officials of the Pakistani......
ISLAM enshrines a love for knowledge probably unmatched by any other belief system. Popular Muslim belief subscribes to a search for knowledge even unto the ends of the earth: just governance is......
KABUL: The family of former Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar agreed on Tuesday to accept the decision of the insurgent group's dispute resolution council on succession issues, a council member......
