ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on his official visit to Belarus signed 18 Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, on Monday.The MoUs cover the......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Monday unanimously passed a resolution vehemently condemning the child sex abuse scandal in Hussain Khanwala village in Kasur disctrict that has sparked widespread......
NEW DELHI: India must do more to tackle the practice of witch-branding among tribal communities, activists said on Monday following the murder of five women accused of sorcery.The victims, aged 35......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly today adopted a unanimous resolution condemning Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain for delivering hate speeches against the state and its armed......
HUSSAIN KHANWALA: Police arrested five more people Monday over a major child sex abuse scandal after a lawyer for the victims accused them of protecting culprits, while activists said the case was......
BEIRUT: Al Qaeda's branch in Syria, the Al-Nusra Front says it has quit frontline positions against the self-styled Islamic State (IS) north of Aleppo and ceded them to other rebels, leaving an area......
KARACHI: Rangers conducted a surgical action in Ranchore Line area on Monday and arrested six alleged target killers having reported ties with Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), said Rangers......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Monday during his address in the National Assembly asked Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to “control their chief Altaf Hussain,” and told MQM......
QUETTA: Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan chief, Major General Sher Afgan, on Monday said Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies were involved in the prevailing unrest in the restive province.He said......
QUETTA: At least 12 people were killed and more than a dozen injured in a traffic accident in Balochistan's Kalat district on Monday.Levies sources told DawnNews that the brake of a trailer failed as......
ISLAMABAD: Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif will visit Pakistan on August 13 for a day long visit, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday.“Yes, it is confirmed that the Iranian......
KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani lambasted Pakistan on Monday over a recent wave of insurgent attacks in the capital Kabul that killed at least 56 people.“The last few days have shown that......
KARACHI: A sessions court in Karachi on Monday granted pre-arrest bail to Major (retd) Amirul Rehman, the prime suspect in the shooting incident involving former captain of Pakistan cricket team,......
TOKYO: A power plant operator said it will restart a reactor in southern Japan on Tuesday, the first restart under new safety requirements following the Fukushima disaster and a milestone for the......
The onset of summer promises many new looks, but how many people can say that they switched up their style for a cause?More than a few, actually. Yesterday, at the KMC Sports Complex, around 30 young......
HUSSAINWALA: Parents at the centre of a growing child abuse scandal in the country accused police on Monday of failing to do enough to break up a paedophile ring in Punjab.Accounts of abuse in the......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia beheaded one of its citizens on Monday after he was convicted of murdering a relative, the interior ministry said, adding to a sharp increase in executions this year.Saleh......
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has been in consultation with the state government of Maharashtra to keep Pakistan away from playing in Mumbai and Nagpur during the 2016 ICC World......
ISLAMABAD: Panic gripped citizens when an earthquake — measuring 5.9 on Richter scale by US Geological Survey — jolted northern parts of the country including Islamabad on Monday afternoon.No......
KASUR: The wife of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, Reham Khan, said Monday that the victims of the child abuse scandal — the children and their parents — are looking towards the......
On December 16, 2012, a 23-year-old medical student got onto a bus in Delhi, where a group of men brutally assaulted and gang-raped her. She was then thrown off the moving bus and left to die on the......
Ali Zafar, artist-turned-actor/singer/songwriter and now a film producer/screenwriter, wears these many hats because he believes in hard work. During an interview on The Reham Khan Show, he tried to......
In a recent interview with BBC Urdu, actress Humaima Malick flaunted her spunky, assertive side and endeared herself to our hearts forever.Chatting about her work ethic, personal life and upcoming......
KABUL: At least five people were killed and 16 wounded by a suicide car bomb at a busy roundabout near the entrance to Kabul's international airport on Monday, police said."Our initial information......
PESHAWAR: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Razman Shah and eleven other 'TTP' men surrendered to security forces in the Kalaya area of Orakzai Agency on Monday.Razman Shah is believed to be......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) workers on Monday protested in the Sindh Assembly against the killing of party activist Muhammad Hashim.Over a dozen MQM lawmakers stood before Sindh Assembly......
PESHAWAR: Militants torched a school and abducted ten labourers in Kurram Agency on Sunday.The incident took place in the Sarkai area of Central Kurram Agency.According to security and administrative......
ISTANBUL: Two assailants opened fire at the United States (US) Consulate building in Istanbul on Monday, touching off a gunfight with police before fleeing the scene, Turkish media reports said.The......
SYDNEY: Former Indian Premier League (IPL) chief Lalit Modi admitted Monday his involvement in a plot to overthrow the sport's establishment, aiming to create a new world governing body affiliated......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Monday withdrew its call for a shutter down strike to be observed across Sindh on Monday over what the party referred to as the 'extra-judicial killing'......
PATNA: A stampede at a temple during a Hindu religious festival left at least 10 pilgrims dead and dozens injured on early Monday in eastern India, police said.Thousands of people tried to force......
THIS is apropos your editorial ‘Lessons to learn’ (July 25). One wonders how the judicial commission could conclude that the last elections were fair whereas it itself has identified flaws in the......
THIS refers to the news report ‘Tax-to-GDP ratio rises to 9.45: Dar’ (July 25). The finance minister boasted that the tax-GDP ratio has risen from 8.4pc few years ago to 9.45pc now.The rise has......
ALLOCATIONS made under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the current fiscal year are shockingly revealing. While Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif boasts at the Oslo Global Summit on......
THE Balochistan Public Service Commission (BPSC) is supposed to be the most transparent provincial organisation for conducting tests for civil services and high positions.Unfortunately, it has become......
THIS refers to the news story (July 30) about killing of the LeJ leader and other militants killed in a police encounter. People have started believing that no alleged killer or terrorist will ever......
THIS refers to the letter ‘Building reservoirs’ (July 26). It is indeed regrettable that during flood precious water is wasted and it goes into the sea.Mr Shamsul Mulk, a former Wapda chairman, once......
I GREW up at the naval dockyard in the late ‘60s. My father would take us fishing when he had the time. Taking a boat through the harbour was always fun and exciting for a 13-year-old boy, with the......
DURING the World War II, British Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt visited their soldiers engaged in fighting.Sadly, our prime minister spent his Eid holidays abroad, while Asif......
I SENT an email on [email protected] requesting some information but it returned with a failure notice. Then I tried to forward the same message on [email protected] but that returned too.I request......
ISLAMABAD: Despite a changing global scenario, the Bedari-e-Ummat conference organised by the Majlis Wahdat Muslimeen (MWM) commenced on Sunday with their old slogan ‘down with America’.As if to......
A child sex abuse scandal in Kasur district has taken the entire print and electronic media by storm. Conflicting reports are coming from different media outlets about the scandal.As some of the......
LANDI KOTAL: The Khyber Agency political administration released at least 65 suspected militants, who had surrendered to the security forces during military operation in Bara. Political Agent......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Sunday announced postings and transfers in the senior bureaucracy.The new appointments include appointment of secretary finance, secretary local......
MANSEHRA: Heavy rain played havoc in Safada and Haddo Bandi villages of Mansehra in the early hours on Sunday, destroying at least 10 houses, a poultry shed and a road.“The heavy rain destroyed 10......
PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has hailed recommendations of the Senate special committee on devolution regarding reconstitution of boards of all the regulatory bodies,......
PESHAWAR: The Pesha-war High Court chief justice and other judges hosted a farewell lunch in honour of outgoing Chief Justice of Pak-istan Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk, who is retiring on Aug 16.According......
PESHAWAR: The authorities couldn’t take immediate measures to control and prevent dengue fever in Lower Dir owing to lack of funds, officials said.They said that scientific evidence suggested......
LAKKI MARWAT: Three people were killed in separate firing incidents in Lakki city and Land Ahmadkhel locality of the district on Sunday. “A double murder incident occurred in Land Ahmadkhel village......
KOHAT: After allocation of reserved seats to the winning parties, CM’s adviser Amjid Afridi-led Azeem Bagh group has strengthened the chances of his son for the post of district nazim with 26 seats,......
MINGORA: Varjaley, a traditional rice dish of Swat valley, has been forgotten by most of the people living in urban areas, however, it is still popular in rural parts of the valley.Mixed with chopped......
SWABI: Though the Swabi district is blessed with a number of natural springs and canals, the people’s callousness and authorities’ failure to prevent them from being polluted has ruined this natural......
CHITRAL: The flood-affected people accommodated in a camp in Mori Lusht area on Booni road have been facing various problems, including shortage of drinking water and food.Talking to this......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a workshop on Sunday stressed the need for enhancing the leadership skills and knowledge of youth to enable them to play active role in social change and peace building.Center......
RAWALPINDI: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has extended the deadline for the submission of applications for party tickets for the upcoming local government polls until the......
RAWALPINDI: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has extended the deadline for the submission of applications for party tickets for the upcoming local government polls until the......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police have devised a procedure to select police officials for Haj duty, sources told Dawn on Sunday.The procedure was aimed at giving a chance to every person working in the......
TAXILA: A man drowned in Khanpur dam when he went into deep water while bathing to cool himself from hot and humid weather on Sunday.Dam authorities said Aabid Ansari, a trader by profession, came......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council’s (PMDC) recently publicised decision to abolish the subject of Forensic Medicine and replace it with Forensic Pathology has drawn widespread......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Sunday identified high risk areas where dengue virus can be active after recent rains, while in Rawalpindi first dengue patient of the season......
In Pakistan, the general perception is that police action or inaction depends on “order from above” or the status and connections of the accused or the suspect. But a recent case in Islamabad......
ISLAMABAD: French toast has come a long way from its soggy homemade variant, associated with school recess and lunch boxes.Part dessert, part brunch and breakfast indulgence, this simple combination......
When the Chargé d’Affaires of the Swiss Embassy Roger Kull and his wife Liudmila Lopez Dominiguez welcomed a large number of guests at the Embassy in Islamabad’s Diplomatic Enclave last weekend, it......
Maldives High Commissioner Ahmed Saleem hosted a large reception to celebrate his country’s Independence Day. The country gained independence from UK on 26 July 1965, 50 years ago this year. Chief......
ISLAMABAD: The health issues of the country cannot be resolved unless the government announced a proper health policy, which should be relevant to the country’s health issues.This was said by the......
ISLAMABAD: A few dozen political activists, students and residents of slums staged a sit-in outside the National Press Club for six hours on Sunday in the hope it would boost sympathetic......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Dacoits robbed PML-N MNA from Kamalia Chaudhry Asadur Rehman near Chak 664/5 GB on Pirmahal-Kamalia road in the early hours on Sunday.Rehman told reporters that nine dacoits stopped......
MUZAFFARGARH: A 12-year-old girl was killed after being raped by an accused on Sunday in Shehr Sultan, some 50 kilometres from here.DPO Awais Ahmad said that suspect kidnapped the girl and took her......
LAHORE: An aircraft of a private Pakistani airlines carrying around 300 passengers escaped an accident after one of its engines caught fire soon after take-off from the Lahore airport on Sunday.A......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore on Sunday arrested the son of PPP Senator Saifullah Bangash for selling a marriage hall illegally.The NAB said Shaukatullah Bangash was wanted......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Seven people, including four children, were killed and 32 suffered injuries in a road accident on Sunday near Qamber Bridge, some 70-km from here on Indus Highway.Reports said a......
LAHORE: Indian singer Sukhbir Singh missed his flight for Dubai after learning that he could not take along the foreign currency more than the permissible limit.Sources at the Allama Iqbal......
LAHORE: The Factory Area police sealed on Sunday a private hospital in Chungi Amar Sidhu and arrested five doctors, including a lady doctor, for their alleged involvement in illegal transplantation......
LAHORE: In a major development, a summary has been moved to the chief minister to divide the health department into two sections.In the newly proposed set-up, two health secretaries have been......
LAHORE: Lovers of Punjabi language were exhorted on Sunday to be ready for a fight against the anti-Punjabi elite and bureaucracy for winning the rightful status for their mother tongue.The call was......
LAHORE: The city police claimed on Sunday to have arrested 192 members of 83 robbery gangs during July and recovered cash and looted goods worth Rs1.8 million from them.According to a news release,......
LAHORE: Former PPPP deputy secretary-general and former AJK minister Ghulam Mohiuddin Dewan has announced joining the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, saying People’s Party has lost its charm, vision and......
LAHORE: Vaccination of pilgrims intending to perform Haj under the government scheme will start on Monday (today) at the seven Haji camps set up all over the country.“It is mandatory for the......
LAHORE: Residents of Dhalla stop, LDA flats, staged a protest demonstration on Sunday against Water and Sanitation Agency for not cleaning sewerage in the area.The protesters gathered on the Model......
LAHORE: Robbers and thieves struck several times in the city on Sunday and made off with cash, jewellery and valuables worth Rs4.2 million.Two armed men broke into the house of Ashraf in Lower Mall......
LAHORE: The Punjab University Academic Staff Association (PUASA) has decided to hold a series of demonstrations to protest against the move of the bureaucracy to reduce the tenure of public sector......
LAHORE: Two women were killed and four people were injured in two accidents in the city on Sunday.Akmal of Shadbagh, his son Mughees, 5, and mother-in-law Razia, 55, were going to Gujjarpura by......
LAHORE: A meeting of representatives of various parties, chaired by Jamaatud Dawa emir Hafiz Saeed, has announced to launch a movement for protection and promotion of Pakistan ideology under the......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: A blast occurring on the railway track between Adam Sahaba and Sadiqabad stations, some 17 kilometres from here, disrupted rail traffic on main Lahore-Karachi track for seven hours on......
GUJRAT: The Punjab government is yet to issue computerised licences to firearm holders who had surrendered their manual licences to respective Nadra centres since the launch of the scheme in January......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Dacoits robbed PML-N MNA from Kamalia Chaudhry Asadur Rehman near Chak 664/5 GB on Pirmahal-Kamalia road in the early hours on Sunday.Rehman told reporters that nine dacoits stopped......
BAHAWALPUR: Bahawalpur Corps personnel have so far shifted over 60,000 flood-affected people through boats and ferries to safer places from Machka, Sadiqabad tehsil, Tarinda Muhammad Panah, Chachran......
SHEIKHUPURA: A woman was shot dead by her two brothers in-law in Rehmania Colony, Nankana Sahib, on Sunday.According to police, Asad and Islam had a property dispute with their sister in-law Shafqat......
SIALKOT: Federal Defence Minister Khwaja Muhammad Asif has asked India to end blame game and come forward with a fresh mind for peace talks.Talking to reporters and party workers at the PML-N House......
SHEIKHUPURA: Dengue larva was detected in five factories, four junkyards and six tyre shops in Kot Abdul Malik in the jurisdiction of Factory Area police station on Sunday.A team constituted by......
MULTAN: A landlord allegedly unleashed dogs on a farmer over a water dispute in Basti Cheran of Khanewal district on Sunday.Nawan Shaher police arrested a suspect, Qaswar alias Kali, after......
MUZAFFARGARH: A 12-year-old girl was killed after being raped by an accused on Sunday in Shehr Sultan, some 50kms from here.DPO Awais Ahmad said that suspect kidnapped the girl and took her to a......
LAHORE: The work on a mega project of laying new sewerage pipelines on Raiwind Road is going at a snail’s pace after Wasa sent a revised estimate of the scheme’s PC-1 to the Planning & Development......
KARACHI: The ongoing flood has so far destroyed standing crops over more than 350,000 acres and over 7,000 houses in the province, particularly in some of its northern districts, says a report......
KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation has cancelled all leases on and along 30 big and small storm-water drains crisscrossing the metropolis as people have constructed structures over them......
KARACHI: The crowd on Sunday, the second day of I Am Karachi Music Festival, was nothing like the first day’s crowd. The people just kept pouring in and Port Grand, where the programme was being......
KARACHI: A newly married youth was shot dead in Korangi Industrial Area on Sunday evening, police and a hospital official said.They added that Imran Ali, 22, was attacked at a restaurant by gunmen in......
KARACHI: The mess created by the government at the Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) could negatively affect the upcoming visit of the acting EU ambassador to the harbour, it emerged on......
KARACHI: A man, 55, was shot dead by suspected robbers in Orangi Town 11½ on Sunday.Two gunmen riding a motorcycle snatched a mobile phone from Sarwar Sultan in Raja Tanveer Colony and shot him dead......
KARACHI: With the spirit of volunteering renewed in the summer vacations, a group of young people got together to register themselves for a worthy cause: hair donations to help cancer patients.The......
KARACHI: A fine of Rs100,000 has been imposed on a repair contractor of the Jam Sadiq bridge and show-cause notices have been issued to the consultant and the chief engineer of the project for not......
BADIN: The Sindh chapter of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and former home minister Zulfikar Ali Mirza on Sunday vowed to launch a joint struggle against corruption across Sindh.Speaking at a......
KARACHI: A poetry book titled Khathuri Khep Kheter Mein by trilingual poet and senior bureaucrat Muzamil Syre was launched at the Karachi Arts Council of Pakistan on Sunday evening.Literary figures......
HYDERABAD: At a gathering held at the local press club on Sunday to mark the 35th death anniversary of Comrade Nazeer Abbasi, the National Trade Union Federation (NTUF) and the Sindh Agriculture......
KARACHI: Sindh Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) general secretary Senator Taj Haider has said that the Sindh High Court should reconsider its decision of a ban on motorcycle-rickshaws (Qingqis) across......
VIENNA: Over 140 migrants were found stranded this weekend on motorways in Britain and Austria, with at least a dozen children among them, police said on Sunday.Eighty-five squeezed into the back of......
LISBON: Some 500 firefighters as well as eight planes and six helicopters were deployed in Portugal on Sunday to battle four forest fires raging in the north of the country, authorities said.The......
CAIRO:, A prominent leader of a hardline Islamist group that backed ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi has died in jail in Cairo, the interior ministry said on Sunday.It said Essam Derbala, a......
ROISSY AIRPORT: A nine-year-old French boy who survived a desert hike in which his parents appear to have died of thirst, has been flown home from New Mexico, an airport official said.The boy landed......
BENGHAZI: A car bomb exploded in Derna in eastern Libya on Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding 13 others, medics and residents said, as Islamic State group (IS) militants pressed an......
TOKYO: Japan on Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki that claimed more than 74,000 lives, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came under fire for his attempts to expand the......
TEHRAN: The son of Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani began a 10-year prison term for financial and security crimes on Sunday, insisting his conviction was politically motivated.Mehdi......
BRUSSELS: The United States for the first time on Sunday deployed half a dozen F-16 warplanes to Turkey to help operations against the Islamic State group (IS), US officials said.The deployment marks......
DHAKA: Bangladesh police on Sunday shot dead six alleged tiger poachers in the world’s largest mangrove forest as it launched a crackdown following a drastic fall in the number of big cats.Police......
HOUSTON: Eight people — including five children and three adults — were found dead inside a Houston-area home following the arrest of a man who exchanged gunfire with police, Texas authorities said......
WASHINGTON: At least one grizzly bear is thought to have killed and partially eaten a hiker in America’s famed Yellowstone National Park, authorities said.The National Park Service said the man’s......
BEIJING: Typhoon Soudelor killed 14 people in eastern China and four are missing after parts of the country were hit by the heaviest rains in a century, state media reported on Sunday.Twelve of the......
FOR weeks now, images of desperate migrants trying to cross the English Channel from the French port city of Calais have been flashing across British television screens. The reaction has ranged from......
CENTENNIAL: When the Colorado gunman’s defence lawyer rose to make her closing argument and the other families of the murder victims of James Holmes walked out of the courtroom, Scott and Kathleen......
LONDON: Two mistakes by new goalkeeper Petr Cech sent a much-hyped Arsenal side crashing to a 2-0 defeat at home to West Ham United, while Liverpool’s start to the new Premier League season ended......
HARARE: George Worker hit an aggressive half-century on his New Zealand debut as Zimbabwe were severely outclassed in Sunday’s one-off Twenty20 International at Harare Sports Club.The left-handed......
MELBOURNE: A senior Australia’s cricket official has promised a review of the Ashes debacle after the dead rubber test at The Oval and will seek answers to the team’s continued flops on foreign......
LONDON: England paceman James Anderson has been named in the 14-man squad for the final Ashes Test against Australia at the Oval, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Sunday.The......
NOTTINGHAM: Former England star Paul Collingwood has told the current national captain Alastair Cook to carry on in the job rather than step down amid the euphoria of an Ashes triumph.Cook was almost......
NOTTINGHAM: Joe Root has replaced Steven Smith as the world’s number one ranked batsman in Test cricket after playing a key role in England regaining the Ashes.The 24-year-old Yorkshireman struck a......
KARACHI: Eight Pakistan players out of 14 stepped into the last 32-round of the world men’s 6-Reds snooker event at the end of group fixtures at hotel Movenpick on Sunday.The eight cueists include......
LONDON: Seven London Marathon winners in 12 years have recorded blood level results which suggested they may have been doping, the Sunday Times newspaper reported in the latest set of allegations to......
WASHINGTON: Kei Nishikori beating Marin Cilic at the ATP and WTA Washington Open doesn’t offset losing the same matchup in the 2014 US Open final. Regardless, payback was sweet for the Japanese......
INDIANAPOLIS: Marc Marquez once again found his groove at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the reigning MotoGP champion from Spain won his third consecutive pole at the Brickyard on......
BERLIN: Bundesliga club Werder Bremen narrowly avoided a fifth successive elimination by a third-tier club in the German Cup on Saturday after scoring twice in extra time to overcome Wuerzburger......
PARIS: Marcelo Bielsa stunned French football on Saturday when he quit as coach of Olympique Marseille just minutes after his team had lost their Ligue 1 season opener 1-0 at home to Caen.The former......
NOTTINGHAM: Just hours after his team surrendered the Ashes in abject fashion, Australia cricket coach Darren Lehmann has come under fire for turning to Twitter in search of tickets to an English......
KAZAN: Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy won the 1,500m freestyle at the world swimming championships on Sunday night in a race that went off without two-time defending champion Sun Yang of China.Sun......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) has chosen Turkey as a neutral venue for holding the Davis Cup tie from Sept 18 to 20 with Pakistan facing Chinese Taipei in the Asia-Oceania Group II......
KARACHI: The quartet comprising formidable South Whites, South Greens, East Whites and Central Greens completed the semi-final line-up in the 10th NBP Cup basketball tournament at the Arambagh......
KARACHI: Overnight leader and former champion Mohammad Munir maintained his ascendency when he won the title by five strokes as curtain fell on the Rs6 million UMA 20th Chief of the Naval Staff Open......
KARACHI: Pakistan cricket stars Sarfraz Ahmed and Anwar Ali were given cash awards of Rs500,000 apiece for outstanding performances in recent months at a reception here at the Lawai Stadium in the......
KARACHI: Indian cueist Dharminder Lilly, who has surprised the pundits of the game by finishing on top in the re-seeding of the world 6-Reds men’s event, has called upon the Pakistan and the Indian......
LAHORE: Punters and turf accountants shared the day’s proceedings evenly when three favourite horses won in a card of six events during the Lahore Summer Meeting at the Racecourse here on Sunday.The......
KARACHI: Rider Wasim stole the limelight by piloting home a splendid double for different owners as favourites swept the four-race card of the Gymkhana race meeting at the Karachi Racecourse on......
PAKISTAN has now qualified for the ninth instalment of the 36-month, $6.2bn Extended Fund Facility of the International Monetary Fund.This will take the total disbursements to $4.55bn from September......
EARLIER this month, the Senate Standing Committee on Finance approved amendments to section 95 A of the Companies Ordinance 1984, which seeks to allow listed companies to purchase their own shares......
CHANCES of new auto players entering the Pakistani market or the old ones expanding and modernising their facilities appear slim until the government’s policy parameters for the industry are clearly......
THE dollar continued to remain strong against the rupee last week despite the heavy influx of the forex currency after the central bank lifted a ban on its direct import by exchange companies.Even......
A HEALTHY growth in core income and lower deposit expenses provided some much-needed relief to Allied Bank Ltd’s bottom line for the half year ending June 30.However, the twin impact of the recent......
THE withholding tax embodies no principles of taxation. For all practical purposes, it is an extractive practice that is devoid of equity and just there to raise so-called tax revenues.However, the......
THE government exceeded its borrowing target from the latest Treasury bill auction last Wednesday when it raised Rs340.68bn against the targeted Rs225bn.Of the total, six-month T bills fetched the......
GUJRAT is known for its electric consumer fan industry. The city remains the largest hub of fan manufacturing in the country despite the expansion of production to the adjoining Gujranwala as well as......
WITH exports and foreign investment stagnating, there is a growing perception that many trade officers posted in foreign missions have failed to deliver on what was expected of them.Critics say the......
PAKISTAN is poised to fast-track the construction of multiple thermal power plants based on regasified liquefied natural gas, as well as the conversion of existing natural gas- and oil-based power......
DESPITE the rapid growth and changing pattern of corporate culture, family ownership and management refuses to go away, even in major business groups engaged in diverse economic activities that......
THE government has, at last, introduced a much-awaited bill in the National Assembly for setting up an authority to regulate trade in food products strictly within what is permissible by Islamic......
FEDERAL agricultural institutions have found tremendous potential for the development of an agro-based industry along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and have identified at least eight......
THE current spell of monsoon rains has remained largely beneficial for kharif crops so far, except for areas where breaches occurred owing to the mismanagement of saline water drains by the......
AGRICULTURAL lending saw a big rise of nearly 32pc in the last fiscal year, continuing a double-digit growth rate for the last four years, thanks to enabling policy measures, robust demand and banks’......
DESPITE gold prices having plunged to five-year lows, demand for the yellow metal continues to remain strong in India, one of the world’s largest consumers. Gold sales usually start picking up......
IT is one of the most powerful definitions in the world and accounts for investment of more than $10tn. But with developing markets overtaking developed ones in some areas the term has become......
KHUZDAR: One devotee was killed and 14 others were injured when their truck returning to Karachi from a shrine in Uthal overturned near Lyari area of the Lasbela district on Sunday.Levies officials......
QUETTA: Commander of Southern Command Lt Gen Mohammad Nasser Khan Janjua visited the National Book Festival in Government Law College on Sunday.The festival has been organised by the National Book......
HARIPUR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan has urged people to rise against the “obsolete, exploitative system which has only added to their suffering in the past 65 years”.Addressing a big......
ISLAMABAD: The payables and receivables of the power sector continue to rise despite a phenomenal surge in electricity costs to consumers because of imposition of various surcharges.According to a......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement called on Sunday night for a strike across Sindh on Monday in protest against what it called ‘extrajudicial killing’ of its worker.Speaking at a press......
KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has said that Pakistan is not merely a piece of land but an ideology and there is no place for traitors in the country.Addressing a ‘Pakistan Zindabad......
SUKKUR: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited Sukkur Barrage and Ulra Jagir flood protective dyke at the Indus in Khairpur on Sunday and asked the authorities concerned to further strengthen......
QUETTA: Yoga expert Wajahat Ali Afridi has said that depression, anxiety and other mental diseases are on the rise in the country because people do not give time to themselves and refrain from......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain removed the vice-chancellor of Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST), Dr Zafar Iqbal, from his post on Sunday.The decision was taken......
ADEN: Forces loyal to exiled Yemeni president recaptured a southern provincial capital from Houthi rebels and their allies on Sunday as well as a coastal town, as they pressed an advance from second......
QUETTA: Security forces claim to have arrested 16 suspected militants, among them three leaders of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in different areas of Balochistan.Security officials......
SRINAGAR: An Indian soldier and two suspected militants were killed in India-held Kashmir in two separate gunbattles, police said on Sunday.The two militants died when a group of suspected militants......
KASUR: There was no confession in the serial child abuse case in Kasur’s Husain Khanwala village but the principal accused gave a strange twist to the happenings by saying that he used to be present......
QUETTA: Security forces claim to have arrested 16 suspected militants, among them three leaders of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in different areas of Balochistan.Security officials......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that law-enforcement agencies have so far placed 30 religious seminaries in the “suspect” category which have been closed.The minister......
ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani telephoned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday.The two leaders discussed matters of mutual and bilateral interest, including the regional situation.During......
MANY Islamist militants and their sympathisers, especially in Afghanistan and Pakistan, are recovering from the shock of Mullah Omar’s death and struggling to spin a new narrative when confronted......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed on Sunday grief and strong resentment over the Kasur incident.The prime minister said the culprits behind the incident would be taken to task with......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has called for a "shutter down" strike to be observed across Sindh on Monday over what the party said was the extra-judicial killing of young worker......
AS national outrage grows and the Punjab government scrambles to try and limit the political damage from the serial child abuse in Kasur district, at the fore once again is the gross disparity......
GIVEN the dismissive manner in which Pakistan regularly treat its millions of poor, it is somewhat encouraging that the issue of resettling and compensating the former residents of Islamabad’s I-11......
IN 2013, ‘Islamist’ groups in Bangladesh circulated the names of 84 ‘atheist’ bloggers in that country who they wanted to be tried for blasphemy.Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy, who was brutally killed......
IT is impossible to overstate the political and constitutional magnitude of the Supreme Court judgement passed on Wednesday. Unfortunately, the 10 separate judicial opinions spread over 902 pages......
CITIES in Pakistan have braved devastating monsoon rains during the previous month. Urban flooding has paralysed many towns, cities, peripheral settlements and neighbourhoods, especially in the north......
SOMETHING rotten has ripened in Israel, breaking the skin of its body politic like a boil. It is a sickness that, far from being treated, has been encouraged to spread in the mistaken belief that it......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will leave on Monday (today) for Belarus on a three-day official visit, the PM House said in a statement on Sunday.During the visit, the premier will have a one......
