PESHAWAR: At least three security personnel were killed when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off on Wednesday in Sandana area of Khyber Agency's Tirah Valley.According to a security......
KABUL: Taliban insurgents dressed in police uniforms and driving in a police car attacked a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan's restive Helmand province on Wednesday, killing 14 police officers, an......
HYDERABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Hyderabad issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain in a sedition case, after police submitted a final......
PESHAWAR: A recent spike in attacks in Kabul was designed to prove the Afghan Taliban's new leader was firmly in charge, the group said, but Mullah Akhtar Mansoor's position remains precarious as......
Embattled Australian chief selector Rodney Marsh panned critics for suggesting wives and girlfriends be banned from touring with players after Michael Clarke's men were hammered by England in the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar said today that permitting proscribed outfits operating in the country under different names undermines the state’s credibility in......
KABUL: Afghanistan's intelligence agency claims Pakistan was involved in last week's attacks on Kabul that killed more than 50 people and wounded hundreds.Hassib Sediqi, the spokesman for the......
LONDON: After only one weekend of the English Premier League season, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho is in familiar territory: Embroiled in an irrational dispute and his conduct being denounced.The......
Following the resignation of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmakers from both houses of parliament, party chief Altaf Hussain said that the MQM Rabita (Coordination) Committee will decide the......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday visited the front lines in Waziristan, where he directed operation commanders to ensure that terrorists remain cut off from......
PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday claimed the arrest of ex-director general (DG) of Fata Disaster Management Authority (FDMA), Arshad Khan, and Irfanullah Khan,......
GALLE: Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin grabbed six wickets as India bowled out Sri Lanka for 183 but then stumbled briefly in reply in a rousing start to the first Test on Wednesday.Twelve wickets......
Syed Shamsuddin, a friend of mine, often gets irritated when people fail to show up on time for meetings; some of them are late by a day. For quite some time now, he has been asking the latecomers to......
SYDNEY: Usain Bolt's showdown with Justin Gatlin was always going to be the most highly anticipated clash of the world athletics championships in Beijing, but with track and field rocked by recent......
MOGADISHU: Africa has marked one year since the last case of recorded polio, with the United Nations (UN) celebrating Wednesday a key step towards eradicating the disease.The last recorded case on......
Cooking is not about exact measurements or exact techniques, instead it is an ‘art with heart’ of somewhat following a recipe, going with approximates and tweaking if required.If tomatoes are not......
ISLAMABAD: During a special committee meeting of the Senate on Wednesday, serious questions were raised pertaining to the implementation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project's......
KABUL: The Taliban have condemned a "horrific" video that appears to show fighters from the Islamic State group blowing up bound and blindfolded Afghan prisoners with explosives, spotlighting the......
KARACHI/LAHORE: PPP MPA Sharmila Farooqi on Wednesday submitted a resolution in the Sindh Assembly condemning the Kasur child abuse scandal.The resolution was unanimously passed in the assembly with......
ISLAMABAD: PPP MNA Alizeh Iqbal Haider submitted on Wednesday her resignation from the National Assembly, citing "personal reasons".Haider, who is the daughter of the late PPP leader and human rights......
India's high flyers have proudly welcomed the appointment as Google's new chief executive of Sundar Pichai, the latest home-grown engineer to rise to the top of the US corporate world.Pichai, named......
It was 10 minutes past five at the Sachal Hall at Ibrahim Hyderi. Sakina anxiously waited for her husband’s arrival. She will see his face today after a long 22 years.Hussain Walarhi Mallah left on a......
LONDON: The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) plans on hosting its Twenty20 league in the United Arab Emirates or Qatar will have a damaging effect on cricket in Pakistan, according to former......
KARACHI: At least four policeman were killed on Wednesday when unidentified armed persons opened fire on a police mobile van in the Zaman Town locality of Karachi's Korangi area, DawnNews......
Gao, Suno, Badlo, the joint musical-social project of Aawaaz and Mishermayl, concluded its six-month series of songs on National Minorities Day with ‘Aao Karain Sab Ko Salaam,’ which salutes......
NEW DELHI: Conservationists say at least 41 tigers have died in the first seven months of this year despite awareness campaigns across India to save the big cats.India's National Tiger Conservation......
HAMBURG: Pakistani importers are negotiating over the purchase of about 66,000 tonnes of soybeans to be sourced from the United States (US) or Brazil, European traders said on Wednesday.The soybeans......
KABUL: Unknown gunmen kidnapped 12 ethnic minority Hazaras from a car in Ghazni province of Afghanistan on Wednesday while four corpses were also recovered in the same province, officials......
Pakistani dramas have a reputation for following typical storylines with the same old run-of-the-mill characters. Right?Well, not always. While watching Bin Roye, something dawned on me: although it......
KARACHI: Security forces busted a foreign-sponsored gang, in intelligence based operations conducted in Karachi and Hyderabad, according to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations......
ISLAMABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmakers simultaneously submitted their resignations in the National Assembly, Senate and the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday, citing reservations over the......
QUETTA: A tribal elder, Ali Muhammad Hassani, was killed along with his son and two other colleagues in Balochistan's Kalat district on Wednesday. Three persons were also injured in the attack.Levies......
It isn't award season until there's some hue and cry about the nominees (and non-nominees!) — and one of the biggest contentions this year was in the Lux Style Awards' TV category.One of the......
KABUL: Under a soldier's watchful gaze, a group of artists paint a blast wall outside Kabul's presidential palace with a huge pair of eyes in bright, almost psychedelic colours.Alongside the eyes, a......
BEIJING: Around 40 people were missing in China Wednesday after a landslide buried the living quarters of a mining company under one million cubic metres of earth, local authorities and state media......
APROPOS the article ‘The Supreme Court verdict’(Aug10). The author focuses on one aspect of the verdict — the judicial powers to review a constitutional amendment and the decisions of the military......
ALL political parties in Pakistan are registered under the Political Parties Act. One stipulation of the act confines their activities within law and ensures that members holding elected offices and......
THE main RCD highway connects Balochistan with other provinces and major cities like Karachi, Hub and Quetta.Hub city is a centre for commercial and industrial activities. This city has become home......
MY parents speak fondly of a time when the Karachi airport’s departure and arrival lounges did not have black tinted glass. Passengers could see their loved ones for a longer duration. They would......
LITERATURE is a noble art. It strives to bring an understanding and give expression to human experience. Sadly, it is neglected in Pakistan, is not receiving the dedication and investment that it......
THIS is apropos the letters on Kalabagh dam (July 26 and Aug 10). Three out of four provincial assemblies have already passed almost 10 resolutions against the proposed controversial Kalabagh dam......
VITAMIN D deficiency has become a worldwide problem. It is estimated that about one billion people have inadequate levels of vitamin D in their blood.All age groups are vulnerable to vitamin D......
I WISH to congratulate Mr Ahmar on his thought-provoking article ‘The miracle of Singapore’ in the Sunday Magazine section of Dawn on August 9.He has well summed up the factors that have worked for......
MARDAN: Awami National Party central president Asfandyar Wali Khan said that Karachi operation is achieving its targets accurately.Addressing a party meeting here on Tuesday, he said that personnel......
LANDI KOTAL: The political administration of Khyber Agency has asked the Sipah tribe of Bara to hand over 118 wanted tribesmen to it and pay Rs120 million fine for attacking a security convoy in......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief Nasir Khan Durrani on Tuesday dismissed Lakki Marwat’s acting Superintendent of Police (investigation) from service following a departmental probe found him......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government plans to hand over 17 more rest houses to the Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Galyat area of Abbottabad district in the second phase, said an......
MANSEHRA: Around 60 shops were gutted when a huge fire engulfed two markets in Oghi late on Monday.No damage to public life was reported as markets were closed.Traders said the fire began at a closed......
CHITRAL: The people stranded in Mulkhow area for 10 days crossed the local river by a cable car in Muzhgol on Monday.The area’s truckable bridge over the river was washed away by the recent flash......
PESHAWAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan on Tuesday announced that for the first time in the country’s history, it would use biometric machines on trial basis in the NA-19 Haripur by-elections......
PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Tuesday arrested Syed Masoom Shah, the then special assistant to former chief minister Ameer Haider Hoti on charges of corruption......
PESHAWAR: A large number of internally displaced students from the conflict-stricken North Waziristan Agency will lose chance to continue their education as the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government did not......
GHALANAI: Three children, including two brothers, drowned in a pond outside their house in Safi tehsil of Mohmand Agency on Tuesday.APA Ghalanai Zeeshan Abdullah told Dawn that the incident occurred......
MINGORA: A protest march was staged by students, their fathers and civil society members on Tuesday against the KP government’s decision to close down all the 93 maktab schools in Swat district.NGOs......
KOHAT: Police launched a crackdown on arms shops here on Tuesday and arrested nine dealers for keeping unlicenced weapons.The arrested arm dealers were identified as Shahid Iqbal, Fain Shah, Khan......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday restrained the National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, from arresting and summoning five serving and former senior police officers in a high......
SWABI: The Awami National Party is likely to form local governments in the district and three of its four tehsils.According to party leaders, the ANP, which didn’t have single elected representative......
GILGIT: A couple was shot dead for marrying of their own free will in Ghizer district here the other day.Police suspected relatives of the girl to be involved in the murder, which took place in......
GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly on Tuesday adopted a unanimous resolution demanding of the federal government to declare GB as the constitutional province of Pakistan.The resolution was......
PESHAWAR: A new Pashto book ‘Atalaan’ (heroes), showcasing brief biographies of important Pakhtun personalities, was launched here on Tuesday.The book is a collection of 20 short biographies of......
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the garrison city will remain a divided house on the occasion of the independence day as its two groups will celebrate the day separately.While one group......
ISLAMABAD: Employees of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Tuesday held a protest, demanding that Pims, which had been placed under Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University,......
RAWALPINDI: The City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) on Tuesday sealed Tehzeeb Bakers, Sainjee Murgh Palao, Bamboo Fast Food on Murree Road and Shahanshah and Al-Sheikh Tikka houses in......
ISLAMABAD: After several failed attempts to stop theft of its water supply by local PPP leader Raja Imran Ashraf at his H-9 farmhouse, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Monday issued a......
TAXILA: The district health authorities on Tuesday sealed a hospital’s godowns for keeping drugs in poor and unhygienic condition and selling them without a licence.Besides, they fined seven drugs......
ISLAMABAD: For the thousands of patients and relatives who visit the outpatient departments (OPDs) at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) there was good news on Tuesday, as the number of......
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: At an event in the federal capital on Tuesday, community leaders of various faiths lashed out against officials for supporting extremist elements in the country and called upon......
ExhibitionA crafts exhibition will be held on Wednesday, August 12 at the Bazar Court, Serena Hotel, from 10am to 6pm.Youth DayA discussion on ‘International Youth Day: Youth Civic Engagement’ will......
ISLAMABAD: Ambassador of Japan Hiroshi Inomata highlighted the importance of educating Pakistan’s large youth population.“Failure to do so would make this opportunity, a drawback,” he said.The......
ISLAMABAD: Motivational speeches and inspirational songs marked the first day of Young Leaders Conference (YLC) 2015 on Tuesday.With the theme ‘regeneration’, referring to a re-assessment of......
RAWALPINDI: A senior official of Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) on Tuesday received a threatening letter in which the sender has demanded Rs5 million for the safety of his life.There......
ISLAMABAD: Various types of professional and personal challenges come in the way of journalists attempting to write a book. This was the main crux of a roundtable discussion of journalists, gathered......
RAWALPINDI: In an effort to find clues guiding to the killers of a senior judge, police investigators and senior officials of the Special Branch visited the scene of the murder and reconstructed the......
BAHAWALPUR: Police claimed on Tuesday to have solved the case of attempt on city Tehsil Municipal Officer Rana Zahid Javed’s life and arrested two persons.District Police Officer Sarfraz Ahmed......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: District police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested nine suspects during a swoop on seminaries and Imambargahs of the district.Sources told Dawn that police registered three cases......
MUZAFFARABAD: A man and his teenage son were killed and another person was wounded after the vehicle they were travelling in plunged into a ditch near here on Tuesday.Mohammad Farid and his......
LAHORE: A young man died and 11 others suffered multiple burns when a huge fire erupted in a plaza at Ichhra on Tuesday.The youth identified as Shahzad was a sweeper who jumped from the fourth floor......
LAHORE: A lack of trust between Pakistan and India is the major hurdle in resolving core issues such as Kashmir and maintaining lasting peace.However, the successful continuation of the Indus Water......
LAHORE: Ms Tehmina Durrani, wife of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, is apparently taking a line different from the government’s on Kasur children sexual abuse scam by demanding that the case be......
LAHORE: In a rare move, the Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) sealed on Tuesday 14 operation theatres of three hospitals in Lahore due to the alarming ratio of infections there.PHC teams......
LAHORE: The health department has sent an “amended draft of the Punjab Blood Transfusion Safety Act 2015” to the chief minister to remove deficiencies which have made the Punjab Blood Transfusion......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has converted 76 seats for Foreign Self-Finance Scheme in public sector medical and dental colleges into open merit for the children of overseas Pakistanis and......
LAHORE: The National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) has demanded the government take a strict action against the perpetrators of children sex abuse at Husain Khanwala, Kasur.According to a......
LAHORE: The number of post-graduate students has been on the rise since 2010-11 in the Punjab University (PU).Up to 747 students were enrolled in MPhil and 382 in PhD programmes for the 2010-11......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Tuesday continued its campaign to check hygiene and food safety at eateries, restaurants and production units, taking action against those found flouting......
LAHORE: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the Punjab Assembly has expressed concern at non-utilisation of Punjab Teachers Foundation funds for the last five years.A PAC meeting held here on......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau Lahore has arrested ‘principal accused’ in Rs80 million fraud case of a brokerage house.A NAB team on Tuesday arrested Ali Usman Chaudhry, chief executive......
LAHORE: Shahzad, who fell from the fourth floor of the Goldmine plaza in Ichchra and died of multiple injuries, kept crying for several minutes for help from a window when the building caught fire on......
LAHORE: Police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested four people for allegedly raping and then killing a minor boy.A police spokesperson said a team of Civil Lines division was constituted to arrest......
LAHORE: Following recommendations of the Lahore High Court Chief Justice, the federal government has established four new banking courts under Section 5 of the Financial Institution (Recovery of......
LAHORE: Child abuse cases are taking alarming proportions and adversely affecting the individuals, families as well as the whole society but there is a dearth of laws and bodies to check such......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The elder son turned out to be the murderer of his father, former MPA Rao Muhammad Iqbal, and younger brother Rao Athar Iqbal at Chak 670/11-GB on Tuesday.Both the father and the son......
GUJRAT: The unauthorized meddling in the tendering process of development schemes of government departments by some ruling party lawmakers from Gujrat is not only causing an inordinate delay in the......
BAHAWALPUR: Police claimed on Tuesday to have solved the case of attempt on city Tehsil Municipal Officer Rana Zahid Javed’s life and arrested two persons.District Police Officer Sarfraz Ahmed......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has advised the Punjab government to resolve the Kasur issue in accordance with the law, instead of making it an ‘ego problem’.“No government, including that of......
GUJRAT: The Jhelum district government has decided to make a documentary on Rohtas Fort to attract tourists and inform young people about the monument.There is a plan to approach local historians for......
SHEIKHUPURA: A man and his grandson drowned in the Ravi near village Mehrpur in Nankana district on Tuesday.Dost Muhammad, 60, and his 13-year-old grandson jumped into the river to herd their......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court chief justice on Tuesday summoned the advocate general, prosecutor general, home secretary and others on a petition seeking trial of Kasur child abuse suspects by the......
GUJRANWALA: The Gujranwala Electric Power Company (GEPCO) chief executive Zahoor Ahmad Chohan suspended on Tuesday six executive engineers and 22 sub-divisional officers (SDOs) of the region from......
KARACHI: At least four of the protesting lady health workers on Tuesday fainted while demanding payment of salaries to the LHWs during a demonstration near Arts Council on a road leading to the Sindh......
KARACHI: It was back to routine as both government and private schools in Sindh reopened on Tuesday after an extended holiday of two months and 10 days.According to the decision of the Steering......
KARACHI: In an ongoing process, the Sindh police with the help of the country’s three intelligence agencies have identified some 1,000 policemen, including some senior officers, allegedly involved in......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Tuesday, which was a private members’ day, emerged serious in carrying out business in a dignified manner contrary to the expectations of fireworks in the house......
KARACHI: It was once again a day of extreme highs and lows. A solemn atmosphere of anticipation and fear shared among thousands of students waiting for their Cambridge O- and A- level exams results,......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers informed on Tuesday an antiterrorism court about 90-day preventive detention of six suspects for questioning.The personnel of paramilitary force along with their legal......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court issued on Tuesday a warrant for the arrest of a former chief of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Karachi Tanzeemi Committee, Hammad Siddiqui, and others in a case......
KARACHI: Comedian Khalid Saleem Mota on Tuesday lamented the changing times that left senior artists, himself included, with no cash and future when the ailing artist needed it the most.He did not......
KARACHI: The keel-laying ceremony of Fast Attack Craft (Missile) being built for Pakistan Navy at the Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works (KSEW) was held on Tuesday.Vice Admiral Hasham Bin Siddique,......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that he will perform the ground-breaking of at least one mass transit project for Karachi within this month in order to mitigate sufferings of......
MIRPURKHAS: Political parties should do away with their minorities wing and non-Muslims should stop calling themselves [religious] minorities because all citizens have equal rights in Pakistan under......
LARKANA: The recently-formed Larkana Awami Ittehad (LAI) on Tuesday announced the holding of its first public rally in Larkana on Aug 24 “to expose inept functionaries of the provincial government”......
SUKKUR: Four suspects were shot dead in what police described as encounters in the SITE and Salehpat areas of Sukkur district on Tuesday.Three of the suspects were indentified as Shahid Mirani, Waqar......
LONDON: London’s Underground staff are to hold two further 24-hour strikes later this month, threatening more chaos for commuters already hit by strikers protesting plans for night services.The Rail,......
MOSCOW: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Tuesday poured cold water on Russian calls to join forces with the Syrian authorities against the self-styled Islamic State, insisting it would never work......
PARIS: France’s scramble to confirm the reported killing in Syria of a key self-styled Islamic State recruiter shows the headache authorities face in pinning down evidence of jihadists’ deaths, which......
NEW DELHI: Bollywood films, with their colourful sets and hyper-coordinated song-and-dance numbers, have catapulted five Indians into the ranks of the world’s highest paid male actors.Three of those......
ANKARA: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday postponed a scheduled visit to Turkey, officials said, with mystery surrounding the reason for the last-minute cancellation.The visit......
UNITED NATIONS: A United Nations expert has expressed concern over “deliberate starvation of civilians” in Yemen amid a decisive turn in the fighting between Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition.“As......
KANO: At least 47 people were killed and dozens wounded in a bomb blast on Tuesday in a part of northeast Nigeria frequently targeted by Boko Haram militants, a medical source and witnesses said.The......
STOCKHOLM: Swedish police said on Tuesday that it had taken two Eritrean asylum seekers into custody after the knife attack at an Ikea store left two dead the previous day.The motive for the midday......
IN government-controlled Syria, you respect President Bashar al Assad. But you do not mess with the army.The murder of a senior air defence officer at the hands of a member of the Assad clan near the......
LONDON: WikiLeaks on Tuesday launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise a 100,000 euro ($110,000) reward for anyone leaking insider information on a proposed free-trade deal between the United States......
YANGON: Myanmar has returned 159 Bangladeshi migrants rescued from boats stranded off its coast in May, officials said on Tuesday, the latest group to be repatriated after a migration crisis that......
ISTANBUL: Turkish warplanes on Tuesday carried out a new wave of air strikes against Kurdish militants in the southeast of the country in retaliation for a day of bloody attacks that left six members......
NEW DELHI: An Indian official says the government is seeking damages from Nestle India, accusing it of unfair trade practices and false labeling after several states found its popular brand of......
MOSCOW: A week after angering many in Russia by burning illegally imported Western food, authorities have started feeding Dutch flowers to the flames.Officials say blooms from the Netherlands, which......
KARACHI: Bilal Khalid and Alhan Wasim produced fine performances to help Bob Woolmer Memorial CC trounce Zaheer Rabbani Memorial CC by 55 runs in the KCCA Zone-III ‘B’ Division Cricket League at......
LAHORE: Lahore Region Cricket Association’s (LRCA) three players –Test discard Kamran Akmal, international opener Nasir Jamshed and young spinner Zafar Gohar—have decided not to play for their native......
KARACHI: Indian celebrity Pankaj Advani successfully retained world men’s 6-Reds snooker crown, overall 13th world title of his career in cue sports, when he ruthlessly beat reigning world champion......
GALLE: Sri Lanka’s batting great Kumar Sangakkara has no regrets about his impending retirement, telling reporters on Tuesday that he felt like a “dinosaur” in the dressing room.Sangakkara, who......
KARACHI: After the World 6-Reds snooker title yet again eluded the hosts in the third attempt since its inception, Pakistan now look ahead to the men’s and masters team events which get into action......
RIO DE JANEIRO: There is no evidence that abnormal levels of viruses or bacteria in the water caused rowers competing in Rio de Janeiro at the weekend to fall ill, US and international sailing......
LONDON: Essex have decided against recalling England Test captain Alastair Cook into their side for the domestic Twenty20 quarter-final away to Warwickshire on Thursday.Essex have decided to keep......
LONDON: England may have regained the Ashes but the memory of their humiliating exit from the World Cup is still all too vivid for assistant coach Paul Farbrace.An innings and 78-run victory in the......
MELBOURNE: Faced with the task of rebuilding an Australian team laid low by Ashes failure, Steven Smith’s short apprenticeship under the captaincy of Michael Clarke comes to an end with the fifth and......
WEST BROMWICH: Yaya Toure’s first-half double provided a timely reminder of his enduring class as Manchester City began their Premier League campaign with a slick 3-0 victory at West Bromwich Albion......
PARIS: FIFA on Tuesday appointed former International Olympic Committee director general Francois Carrard to lead the world football governing body’s 2016 Reform Committee.Swiss lawyer Carrard, 77,......
JAKARTA: Five-time champion Lin Dan of China and his Malaysian arch-rival Lee Chong Wei eased their way to the second round of the badminton world championships following straight-sets victories on......
ISLAMABAD: Test opener Ahmed Shehzad said he was not impressed with the batting of Indian batsman Virat Kohli and had always tried to improve his own batting by overcoming his shortcomings.“Neither......
LAHORE: Responding to a move initiated by the National Assembly, the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) said it is grateful to the Inter-Provincial Coordination Ministry and the National Assembly for......
LONDON: Home advantage has always counted for something in Test cricket but, after England wrapped up the Ashes series with a match to spare, is it now counting for too much?England’s innings and......
THIMPU: Habib-ur-Rehman proved an inspired substitution, scoring late on to secure an entertaining 3-3 draw for K-Electric against Druk United in their opening Group ‘A’ match of the playoff......
ISLAMABAD: The PCB on Tuesday said Test wicket-keeper Sarfraz Ahmed is likely to lead the Pakistan ‘A’ squad in the series against England Lions to be staged in the UAE this December.“If Sarfraz does......
LAHORE: With the game of hockey touching its lowest ebb in Pakistan and the fate of other sports not so different, another disaster-like situation is in the making as sports authorities are yet to......
KARACHI: Former world amateur snooker champion Mohammad Asif has attributed his semi-final defeat in the world 6-Reds event to ‘bad luck’.“It was Yan Bingtao’s day as he came back from the jaws of......
KARACHI: DMC South is organising a 12-day long sports festival from Friday, Aug 14 to mark the 69th Independence Day of the nation at various ground here in the metropolis.The festival, organised on......
MONTREAL: The French flag flew proudly in Montreal on Monday as Gilles Simon and Gael Monfils advanced to the second round of the Rogers Cup men’s tournament.Both Frenchmen enjoyed straight-sets......
LAHORE: To celebrate the country’s independence day, the Punjab Olympic Association (PbOA) is holding various sports contests across the province during August.The Punjab Olympic Association in......
ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCoP) on Tuesday approved with consensus the divestment of 88 per cent government shares in National Power Construction Company (NPCC).Earlier,......
ISLAMABAD: The report on the 2008 stock market crash was made public by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Tuesday.The report, compiled by the committee headed by Shamim......
LAHORE: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) said on Tuesday that so far it has not received any response from the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to get access to the Customs data for implementing the......
KARACHI: Car assemblers recorded 120 per cent increase in sales to 13,013 units during the first month of this fiscal year compared to 5,911 units in July 2014.The sales of Honda Civic dipped to 610......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Tuesday allowed banks to remit foreign exchange (Saudi riyal) on behalf of the Haj group organisers (HGO) having allocated quota by the Ministry of......
KARACHI: Stocks recovered on Tuesday with the KSE-100 index gaining 121.27 points to close at 36,205.94.Volume was up 23 per cent to 328 million shares while trading value declined by 5pc to Rs11.9......
SHANGHAI: China’s central bank on Tuesday devalued its yuan currency by nearly 2 per cent against the US dollar, as authorities seek to push market reforms and bolster the world’s second-largest......
LAHORE: Iranian Consul-General Mohammad Hossain Bani Asadi has invited Pakistani businessmen to explore opportunities available in various sectors of economy in Iran.Talking to members of the Lahore......
ISLAMABAD: Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that the bidding process of four early harvest energy projects under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has commenced and......
LAHORE: The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) on Tuesday advised the government to either devalue rupee by 15 per cent or withdraw innovative taxes, electricity surcharge and gas......
LAHORE: MCB Bank’s profit before tax rose by 34 per cent to Rs23.7 billion during the first half ending June 30, 2015 from a year earlier.According to the unaudited accounts the after-tax-profit of......
KARACHI: Brisk buying activity witnessed on the cotton market on Tuesday ahead of long closure on account of Independence Day and weekend holidays. The higher arrival of quality phutti also induced......
KARACHI: The Employees Old-Age Benefit Institution (EOBI) has decided to transfer the private sector employees’ pension from Easypaisa to National Bank of Pakistan (NBP).EOBI has advised all the......
ATHENS: Greece on Tuesday announced it had reached the outline of a deal for an international bailout worth 85 billion euros ($94bn) that it hopes will save its economy from financial collapse.The......
MOSCOW: Russia said on Tuesday it planned to add new countries to the list of those from which it has banned food imports in retaliation for Western sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine......
ZURICH: Natural and manmade disasters caused $37.4 billion (34bn euros) in economic losses during the first half of 2015, proving far less costly than in recent years, reinsurance group Swiss Re said......
MINSK: Pakistan and Belarus agreed on Tuesday on fast tracking their relations by preparing a medium- and long-term roadmap to chart out future collaboration and identify new areas of......
LAHORE: India is releasing water from its dams over Sutlej and Beas which is likely to generate low flood at Ganda Singhwala on August 13.The Flood Forecasting Division (FFD) said on Tuesday that the......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate adopted on Tuesday two bills, including one based on the presidential ordinance giving legal cover to arrests made by the army or law-enforcement agencies before setting up of......
WASHINGTON: The United States has launched a major diplomatic offensive to ensure that recent terrorist attacks in Kabul do not affect relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan.On Monday, US......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court asked the Election Commission of Pakistan and Punjab and Sindh governments on Tuesday to sit together and come up with agreed dates for holding the local bodies’......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) allowed an elder from Balochistan on Tuesday to become a party in a case relating to hunting the endangered houbara bustard. The elder is said to be of the view that......
KARACHI: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Tuesday that vested interests and oppressors were conspiring to divide Pakistanis in the name of religion to achieve their nefarious objectives......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has said that the enemy of minorities was the enemy of Pakistan.Addressing a gathering on the National Minorities’ Day at the Presidency on Tuesday, he said:......
QUETTA: Country Director of ILO Francesco d’Ovidio reaffirmed the organisation’s commitment to promotion of decent work agenda in Pakistan.He said this in a meeting with provincial Secretary Labour......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Children’s Fund has expressed concern over reports of children having been sexually abused in Kasur district over a period of several years.Describing the reports as......
KARACHI: Two suspected militants were killed in an alleged encounter with police in Manghopir on Tuesday evening.Police said that two men riding a motorcycle fired at a police team going to the......
KARACHI: A former member of the National Assembly, Nabil Gabol, on Tuesday approached the Sindh High Court for Rangers’ security apprehending alleged life threats to him by Altaf Hussain, the chief......
NEW DELHI: India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) will not challenge the conditional bail granted to Naba Kumar Sarkar alias Swami Aseemanand by the Punjab and Haryana high court last year in......
ISLAMABAD: The armed forces command said on Tuesday the military was ready to meet all national security challenges.“The forum reaffirmed the resolve of Armed Forces to respond to entire spectrum of......
QUETTA: Bullet-riddled bodies of two men and two women were found in a house here on Tuesday.Sources said that people in Killi Paind Khan, a locality in the outskirts of Quetta, informed police about......
DHAKA: A tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced one man to death and another to life in prison on Tuesday for committing mass killings and other crimes during the 1971 war.The head judge of a three-member......
LAHORE/KASUR: As the demand for punishing the suspects involved in the ghastly child abuse scandal intensified, the Punjab government removed on Tuesday the chief of the provincial intelligence......
ISLAMABAD: The United States has indicated to Pakistan that further extension in the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) beyond 2015 may not be possible.The issue about the future of CSF, according to a......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly adopted a resolution on Tuesday demanding that what is regarded by many as a secular vision of the Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah about the status of religious......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has lodged a protest with India over the latest ceasefire violations on the Line of Control (LoC), in which a woman was killed.The Indian deputy high commissioner was called to......
QUETTA: A policeman was killed and five other people, including two children, were injured in a bomb blast in Gawalmandi area of the city on Tuesday.Police said that an improvised device with about......
THE wave of Taliban attacks across Afghanistan, and especially in Kabul, were always going to elicit strong condemnation from the Afghan government.Rather worryingly though Afghan President Ashraf......
CASES of serious malpractice or negligence by doctors are becoming a routine phenomenon and patients lack a forum where complaints can be registered for sincere follow up.Almost everybody knows......
PRESIDENT Barack Obama is being both candid and audacious — depending upon how you look at his statement that Benjamin Netanyahu is the only head of government to interfere in America’s foreign......
IMAGINE this. A middle-class man finds himself homeless upon being unable to pay his monthly rent. With few options, he decides to carve out a small area of government land, and establishes a......
LAST Friday’s outbreak of violence in Kabul, which claimed dozens of lives, is believed to be linked to a power struggle among the Afghan Taliban in the wake of the earlier disclosure that Mullah......
THE finding of bullet-ridden bodies of suspected terrorists, allegedly in staged ‘encounters’, is now almost a daily occurrence as Karachi limps towards normality. There has been marked decline in......
IT was news of the most grotesque kind. In villages around the city of Kasur in Punjab, a ring of paedophiles was busted upon the complaint of some aggrieved parents. There are reportedly hundreds of......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday remanded five men arrested in connection with the Kasur child abuse case to police custody for 28 days.“Police produced the five men in an......
