KARACHI: The chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam – F (JUI-F), Maulana Fazlur Rehman, reached Karachi Monday evening where he is scheduled to hold talks with the disgruntled Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan summoned the Indian Deputy High Commissioner on Monday to lodge a strong protest against the recent ‘unprovoked ceasefire violations’ by Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) in......
QUETTA: Four commanders of a proscribed organisation laid down their weapons and surrendered to authorities in Quetta today.The surrender took place in the presence of Home Minister Balochistan Mir......
MADRID: Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos insisted he wasn't motivated by money after ending speculation surrounding his future by signing a new five-year deal with the club on Monday.Ramos had been......
ROME: An Indian and a Pakistani have confessed to killing the elderly owners of a Brescia pizzeria in a mafia-style slaying that shocked Italy and threatens to inflame racial tensions in the northern......
BANGKOK: A bomb exploded at a popular shrine in central Bangkok during evening rush hour on Monday, killing at least 18 people, injuring more than 100 and leaving body parts strewn across the streets......
COLOMBO: Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan was on Monday ruled out of the rest of the Sri Lanka series with a hairline fracture on his right hand, in a major blow to the tourists.Dhawan, 29, sustained the......
RIYADH: The Saudi military says two soldiers have been killed along the border by a missile fired from inside Yemen.The statement released Tuesday says the soldiers were killed in the Saudi border......
BANNU: At least 65 militants were killed and their ammunition dump destroyed Monday in air strikes on hideouts in the country's tribal belt near the Afghan border, the military said.The strikes......
DHAKA: A Bangladesh court sentenced six senior employees of a drug company to jail Monday for making toxic paracetamol syrup that doctors say killed hundreds of children in the 1990s, a prosecutor......
TEHRAN: The fate of Iran's nuclear deal with world powers is still not decided but it will not leave the country vulnerable to US influence, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on......
PARIS: Pete Sampras believes it would be foolish to write off Roger Federer's chances of winning an 18th major at the US Open despite the Swiss having just turned 34.Federer's last Grand Slam crown......
JERUSALEM: Israeli security forces shot dead a Palestinian who tried to stab a border police officer in the West Bank on Monday, authorities said.This was the fourth time such incident took place in......
ADEN: Heavy fighting between government loyalists and rebels for Yemen's third city Taez has left more than 80 people dead in the past 24 hours, military sources said on Monday.The dead bodies of 50......
MADRID: An 18-year-old man has died after being gored by a bull in the abdomen was the fourth person killed during a string of deadly weekend bull runs in Spain, authorities said on Monday.The young......
COLOMBO: A bullish Mahinda Rajapakse said he was confident of staging a shock return to power as Sri Lanka's prime minister in elections Monday held just months after he was toppled as......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Minister Balochistan, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch held a meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad today.The meeting held at Prime Minister House, and attended by Minister for......
PRETORIA: In one of the wealthiest suburbs of South Africa's capital Pretoria stands a three-storey mansion, where Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius will be taken on his release from prison......
If you have drudged through the recent string of inarticulate mazes that are modern movie plots featuring meaningless song and dance, then perhaps your faith in the revival of this industry runs the......
KABUL: An Afghan official says a German woman was kidnapped in Kabul by armed assailants. Gul Agha Rouhani, Kabul's deputy police chief, says the woman was taken by two gunmen who stopped her car......
VEDARANYAM: On a sun-scorched wasteland near India's southern tip, an unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and spindly greens is growing, seemingly against all odds.The plants are living on......
DHAKA: Bangladesh police have charged 13 men with murder over the brutal lynching of a 13-year-old boy that provoked national outrage after video footage of the attack went viral, a detective said......
The back of a taxi cab is like your shower cubicle; it's where you daydream about what your wedding will look like, where you indulge in some deep-thinking and self-reflection, where you plan out the......
PESHAWAR: The 10-year-old son of PPP Central Executive Committee member Syed Akhunzada Chattan was kidnapped early Monday morning by unidentified persons as he was leaving for school in Bajaur tribal......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday accepted Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan's resignation, according to a statement issued by PM Office.Mushahidullah......
Thinking fast and slow is what Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Laureate in Economics, thinks humans do. Planning fast and moving slow is what Pakistan Railways does.With cumulative liabilities reaching 74......
MEERUT: An Indian army soldier was beaten to death in Uttar Pradesh's city of Meerut after he tried to rescue a girl from harassment, said a report published on NDTV.35-year-old Vedmitra Chaudhury,......
SAN DIEGO: Two small planes collided midair while approaching an airport in San Diego County on Sunday, killing at least four people and sparking brush fires in a remote field where the wreckage......
REUTERS: Teenager Wut Yee was devastated when her mother, a sex worker, told her that she had just agreed to sell her daughter's virginity to a businessman for $3,000.Wut Yee, then 14, had quit......
Mahira Khan's slight frame doesn't betray the burden she's carried in the past few months.While in India for the shoot of her Bollywood debut film Raees, the actress not only had jitters working......
TIANJIN: Rescue personnel battled to clean up hundreds of tonnes of cyanide at the site of huge explosions in northern China on Monday, as state-run media lambasted officials over their response to......
RAWALPINDI: The Station House Officer (SHO) of Rangoo police station on Monday filed a First-Information Report (FIR) on behalf of the state against unidentified attackers of slain Punjab home......
KARACHI: Police on Monday informed the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) II in Karachi that suspect Sami-uz-Zaman has been released for lack of concrete evidence in the murder case of Karachi University......
ISLAMABAD: Justice Jawwad S Khawaja took oath as the 23rd Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) on Monday, succeeding Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk.President Mamnoon Hussain swore Justice Khawaja as the new......
KHAR: Speakers at a conference said here on Sunday that the local government system and giving constitutional rights to the people were necessary for ensuring good governance in the Federally......
PESHAWAR: Suspected militants killed a madman on suspicion of spying in Sheikhan area in the limits of Badabher police station early on Sunday, sources said.They said the incident took place near the......
PESHAWAR: Former chief minister and provincial president of Awami National Party Ameer Haider Khan Hoti has expressed serious reservations about the functioning of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab......
PESHAWAR: Seven contractors were arrested in different areas of Fata on charges of getting fake advance payments worth millions of rupees, said an official statement issued here on Sunday.It said......
PESHAWAR: The Chitral police have distributed food packages bought from their own money in worst hit areas of the district to help lift suffering of the marooned population.The food packages included......
CHARSADDA: A man and his son were killed, while his wife and another son were injured when their rivals opened fire on a moving car in Majooki area here on Sunday.The police registered the case on......
KOHAT: MPA Ziaullah Bangash and administration of the government girls degree college, KDA, here have filed complaints with police against each other following altercation and alleged manhandling.KDA......
PESHAWAR: The provincial chapter of Pakistan People’s Party is in a state of confusion about supporting the tripartite alliance of opposition parties as its provincial president Senator Khanzada Khan......
SWABI: The district police have recovered an abducted woman from a village in Mardan.District police officer Sajjad Khan told reporters here on Sunday that the cousin of the abducted woman was also......
LAKKI MARWAT: Poets at a literary function held in connection with the Independence Day in Lakki city on Sunday recited verses highlighting the valiant sacrifices rendered for creation of Pakistan.A......
MARDAN: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Jamaat-i-Islami and Pakistan People’s Party have joined hands to form district and tehsil governments in Mardan district.Addressing a press conference at the......
MANSEHRA: The election commission has deployed army personnel to assist local police in maintaining law and order and curb possible rigging during the re-polling today (Monday) at a women polling......
PESHAWAR: The parents of wounded students of the Army Public School, Peshawar, have presented a charter of demands for medical treatment, education and financial support of their children and asked......
MINGORA: Alizai Bilal Khan, a graduate in gems and jewellery design from Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design Lahore, is determined to introduce the nifty art in the craving of Gandhara......
JAKARTA: An aircraft with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia’s remote and mountainous region of Papua on Sunday, a government official said, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the......
LONDON: Queen Elizabeth, who rallied support for the monarchy despite presiding over what was once known as the world’s most famous dysfunctional family, next month becomes Britain’s longest-reigning......
QUETTA: In a gun battle which ensued after an attack on a checkpost near the Afghan border in Chagai district on Sunday, at least three soldiers and two assailants were killed.A soldier was seriously......
BAGHDAD: An Iraqi parliamentary investigation found ex-premier Nuri al-Maliki and other officials responsible for militants overrunning second city Mosul, in a report being sent for possible legal......
ISLAMABAD: On the third anniversary of the terrorist attack at Kamra air base, which is located in Attock district, the terrorists carried out another attack in the district – though this time around......
MUZAFFARABAD: Three friends belonging to three different towns of Punjab drowned in Neelum Valley of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.An official of Lawat police station, in the upper belt of Neelum......
RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) staff has launched fumigation in various areas to avert spread of dengue virus.According to RCB spokesman, this year, an aggressive approach has been......
RAWALPINDI: “I was standing under the roof when it collapsed with a big bang after the suicide attack and a heavy concrete beam fell on me,” Sajid Khan, the gunman of DSP Shaukat Ali Shah, told Dawn......
ISLAMABAD: Lack of coordination between Pims and the local administration resulted in the hospital being put on high alert despite not receiving any official directive after the attack in Attock on......
ISLAMABAD: Every day 20-year-old Raja Rehan travels almost 18 kilometres from Merabagwal in rural Islamabad to a college in Rawalpindi where he is doing a course in telecommunications.He could have......
MURREE: The recent heavy monsoon rains caused damages to roads and houses in different parts of Murree.The Islamabad-Murree Dual Carriageway, commonly known as Murree Expressway, is damaged at......
ISLAMABAD: Anti-car Lifting Cell (ACLC) of Islamabad police has busted a gang of car lifters and recovered two stolen vehicles from them, a police spokesman said on Sunday.Superintendent of Police......
ISLAMABAD: Over 50 teams of aspiring women entrepreneurs participated in a two-day startup workshop at the WeCreate Centre, a part of the WeCreate Challenge.The WeCreate Challenge is Pakistan’s......
RAWALPINDI: Former head of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) retired Lt-Gen Hameed Gul was laid to rest at the army graveyard here on Sunday evening.He died of a brain hemorrhage at the Combined......
Posh traditional and continental food outlets may beckon you across the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad, but it is the simple Daal Chawal that attracts the hungry most - at least in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) confirmed the second successful summit attempt on Broad Peak by Argentinean mountaineer Mariano Galvan.It took Mariano Galvan twice the time to climb from......
RAWALPINDI: Before the forthcoming local government elections, the PML-N Punjab government doled out funds to improve the civic amenities in the city areas through its candidates who were defeated in......
SAHIWAL: Magistrate Adeel Tauseef of Chichawatni has summoned on Tuesday (tomorrow) Saddar police SHO Akhtar Khan who is accused of releasing a man who along with his two friends ‘raped’ a boy at......
WHILE major crops have generally benefited from the monsoon season, the date crop has reportedly been hit by rains in Khairpur.According to some estimates by market dealers and growers, 60-75pc of......
PAKISTAN has achieved some success in increasing apple production and per-hectare yield. This is keeping local markets well-supplied with the fruit. But export potentials are yet to be exploited......
Job reorganisations undertaken by companies as a result of the Great Recession are associated with lower employee trust, which in turn is associated with lower workplace financial performance and......
Interviews with workers in the US and Europe reveal that even top performers spend 70pc of their time on desk work and ‘managing across’ (read: going to meetings), and that these activities provide......
Professional golfers are 1pc less likely to sink a putt worth around $50,000 than one worth zero, a finding that underscores the negative effect of psychological pressure on performance, say Daniel......
A study of health data shows that as the per capita number of farmers’ markets rises in a given US state, so does the per capita incidence of food-borne illnesses, says a team led by Marc F.......
BangladeshBANGLADESH is one of the world’s most densely populated countries. Though wracked by political turmoil, structural constraints, and global volatility, the Bangladeshi economy is maintaining......
THE BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government had set ambitious targets for exports, to be achieved this fiscal and by fiscal 2020, but in reality exports have been declining consistently since......
NOBODY is quite ready to celebrate, and the deal Greece appears to have struck with its creditors last Tuesday morning is not the stuff to induce a party mood anyway.There is little to surprise those......
TWO phrases stand out amid the tumult generated by the People’s Bank of China’s renminbi devaluation.One comes from the central bank itself. The near 2pc fall in the official guidance rate for the......
MAKE in India. Even the term sounds slightly defective. For better or worse, that is the slogan with which Narendra Modi, India’s made-in-Gujarat prime minister, has branded his effort to transform......
THE approval of the divestment of the government’s 88pc shares in the National Power Construction Company by the Cabinet Committee on Privatisation last week can be read to signal the initiation of......
AFTER joint urgings by three multilateral lenders, the government is working on legislation to ensure the automatic implementation of power tariffs as a standard practice, unhampered by......
THE rupee traded in a narrow band against the dollar in both the interbank and open markets last week.However, the greenback again breached the Rs103-mark in the open market, despite continued dollar......
A STRONG performance by the non-core business segment somewhat compensated for MCB Bank’s bloated tax expenses for the first half of the year.The blowing up of the tax bill was expected following the......
THE life insurance industry has picked up pace since banks started bancassurance a decade ago.The bancassurance distribution channel has been a success given the lucrative market, hefty commission......
THE central bank had pumped in a huge Rs1.09tr into the banking system in a single open market operation on August 6. The injection was made at 6.52pc in a 10-day contract.According to the weekly......
THE fertiliser industry occupies a prominent place in Pakistan as agriculture has a 21pc share in GDP, with major crops accounting for 5.4pc of GDP.Total fertiliser production in the country during......
REVENUE collection in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has not gone much beyond Rs20bn, mainly because of the provincial government’s weak fiscal governance, with the maximum contribution coming from the general......
A NATIONAL Food Safety Animal and Plant Health Authority has been proposed to tackle new plant diseases surfacing in other parts of the world that have the potential to hit Pakistan’s food crops.The......
GIVEN the current global financial woes and past Pakistani experiences, both the IMF and Islamabad seem to have arrived at a better understanding of the country’s ground realities. With reservations......
ALARM bells have been ringing in Punjab over the fast declining livestock population. The province has taken drastic measures in the past one week to address the situation after claiming an almost......
WASHINGTON: Julian Bond, a US civil rights activist and the former board chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, has died. He was 75.Bond died late on Saturday in......
VIENNA: Iran has submitted documents linked to its past nuclear activity, the UN’s atomic watchdog has confirmed, a key condition of a probe into suspected efforts to create nuclear arms.The......
WASHINGTON: Daesh (self-styled Islamic state) militants are attacking Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, particularly in the areas close to Pakistan, says a senior US military official.At a news......
HAVANA: The number of Cubans traveling abroad surged by 23.7 percent last year, according to official statistics published Sunday, an increase prompted by the Communist island’s easing of travel......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka deployed thousands of police on Sunday in stepped up security on the eve of a general election after the campaign was hit by sporadic violence that claimed four lives.Police......
NEW YORK: Republican front-runner Donald Trump says it will be a ‘miracle’ if Hillary Clinton is able to continue her run for president in the wake of the on going email controversy,— but if she......
DIYARBAKIR: A Turkish soldier and three Kurdish militants were killed in a clash in eastern Turkey on Sunday, security sources said.The fighting between Turkish special forces and the outlawed......
BEIRUT: Syrian government warplanes bombed a market in a rebel-held town outside Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 82 people in one of the bloodiest regime attacks in the country’s war.The series......
ADDIS ABABA: South Sudanese President Salva Kiir arrived in Ethiopia on Sunday for peace talks aimed at brokering an end to civil war, reversing an earlier decision as international threats of......
ANKARA: The United States is withdrawing its Patriot missile system deployed near Turkey’s border with Syria when its mandate expires in October.A joint Turkish and US announcement said on Sunday......
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday condemned a surge in German attacks on refugee shelters and warned that the issue of asylum could become a bigger challenge for the European Union than the......
WHEN Tony Blair attacked Jeremy Corbyn, one of the four candidates for the Labour Party’s leadership, he actually did him a big favour. Given the ex-prime minister’s tainted reputation among the......
JERUSALEM: A nearly two-month hunger strike by a Palestinian detainee now in a coma may test a controversial new Israeli law on force-feeding, with doctors vowing to refuse to carry it out.Mohammed......
MAKUHARI: The queen of Japan’s sugar-coated pop scene, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu has unveiled bold plans to conquer the world — just as soon as she’s done her English homework.Still only 22, Kyary’s rise to......
LAHORE: Shahdara circle police arrested four people on charges of kite flying and two for making kites, confiscating 250 kites and twine from them here on Sunday.Four suspects, identified as Usama,......
LAHORE: At least 100 seats have been added to engineering institutions of Punjab this year for BSc Engineering and BS Technology courses, says University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore,......
LAHORE: The Punjab governor, chief minister, political colleagues and rivals condemned the suicide hit that claimed the life of retired Col Shuja Khanzada and 14 others in Attock on Sunday and......
LAHORE: Off-timings of women educational institutions located on Jail Road will be changed after summer vacation to avoid inconvenience to the students and general public due to the ongoing......
LAHORE: The Punjab police sees the involvement of banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LeJ) in the assassination of Punjab Home Minister retired Col Shuja Khanzada.Know more: Punjab loses minister in terrorist......
LAHORE: Col Shuja Khanzada (retired) was known to maintain his poise in the most trying situations. The quality was amply displayed during his final assignment – fighting terrorism in Punjab,......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) seems reluctant to carry out its inspection against eateries in Lahore and Walton Cantonment boards and the Defence Housing Authority on account of some ‘legal......
LAHORE: The newly elected office-bearers of the Provincial Management Service (PMS) Officers’ Welfare Association took oath of their office on Sunday.Additional Chief Secretary Mubashar Raza......
LAHORE: A spokesman of the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association on Sunday criticised the Ministry of Water and Power for ignoring ground realities and destroying the textile industry - the largest......
LAHORE: The City District Government of Lahore (CDGL) on Sunday postponed all of its planned Independence Day activities following the terrorist attack that claimed lives of many people including......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman’s political adviser Ejaz Chaudhry has said that Indian aggression is continuously increasing in border areas but the rulers are acting apologetically despite......
LAHORE: Tehrik-i-Istiqlal president Rehmat Khan Wardag says the nation carried portraits of General Raheel Sharif along with those of the Quaid-i-Azam on the Independence Day but the rulers could not......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab Organiser Chaudhry Sarwar on Sunday met Ali Hamza, who earned second position in matriculation examination while running his fruit stall in Daska, and......
LAHORE: Police claimed on Sunday to have busted a robbers’ gang and arrested its six members, recovering cash, valuables and arms from them.A police spokesman said Kotwali CIA police carried out a......
LAHORE/KASUR: A relative of main suspect of Kasur incident was found dead under mysterious circumstances on Ferozepur Road near Bank Stop late on Saturday night.Kot Lakhpat Sub-Inspector (SI) Mushtaq......
MUZAFFARGARH: The chief sanitary inspector and seven supervisors who were booked in manhole deaths case ‘disappeared’ on Sunday and didn’t record their statements before the four-member chief......
GUJRANWALA: The Punjab government through a notification on Sunday banned flaying skin of donkeys throughout the province.City Assistant Commissioner Atiqueur Rehman said the administration had......
SHEIKHUPURA: A suspected rapist was killed in an alleged encounter on Lager Road here on Sunday.Reports said the Manawala police had arrested a suspect for his alleged involvement in raping a......
SAHIWAL: The district administration of Pakpattan issued a flood warning to surrounding villages and katchi abadis located on both sides of the river Sutlej.The flood warning came in the wake of......
BAHAWALPUR: The Islamia University Bahawalpur (IUB) has announced results of BA and BSc, showing pass percentage of 45.97 and 54.21, respectively.According to a press release on Sunday, out of total......
KARACHI: HeforShe, UN Women’s solidarity campaign for gender equality, has reached Pakistan and the goal is simple — “to bring together one half of humanity in support of the other half of humanity,......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Sunday claimed to have killed four suspected members of the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in an ‘encounter’ on the outskirts of the city.The......
KARACHI: The provincial government is waiting for guidelines from the federal government to launch action against banned organisations, which are working with new names in Sindh, it emerged on......
KARACHI: The new Karachi police chief has termed the measures taken so far by police zone chiefs and senior superintendents of police to remove SHOs with ‘patchy service records’ and initiate......
KARACHI: Four male members of a family drowned on Sunday while trying to rescue an old woman, according to police and rescue sources.The family, residents of Nazimabad No 2, had arranged a picnic......
THE general perception about the armed forces all over the world is that they are a humourless lot. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, humour is a weapon armed forces use when it comes......
IMAGINE this scene: the enigmatic and inarguably Pakistan’s greatest artist Sadequain present at an exhibition of his own artworks and explaining to some guests the genesis of his paintings. It’s......
KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) staff seized over 291 bus shelters and sealed more than 20 tuck shops constructed by contractors because of a breach of agreement as well as......
KARACHI: The ban on Qingqi rickshaws should be reversed in the larger interest of Karachiites on pure humanitarian grounds as millions of commuters of the megacity are suffering as a result.This......
KARACHI: Karachi University on Sunday announced the result of BSc Part-I examination, 2014. A total of 2,161 appeared in the exam and 471 passed.Published in Dawn, August 17th, 2015On a mobile......
KARACHI: The 54th death anniversary of Maulvi Abdul Haq, known as Baba-i-Urdu, was observed on Sunday. A wreath was laid on his grave on behalf of the citizens of Karachi and fateha was offered.On......
Every city evolves and Karachi too has evolved from being the federal capital to a metropolis that controls whatever happens in the country, at least economically. But there is one area in the former......
LARKANA: The Sindh United Party (SUP) took out a rally here on Sunday against the provincial government’s apathy towards flood-hit people, fast-growing inflation and religious extremism and to......
SUKKUR: A couple and their two-year-old son were gunned down allegedly by the woman’s relatives in what was described as ‘honour killing’, in Ladh Munir Khoso village, officials at the B-Section......
MIRPURKHAS: Some villagers and a few members of a joint team of the CIA and Mehran police were slightly injured when residents of Kori village near Mirpurkhas city resisted a house-to-house search......
DADU: Four persons drowned at three different spots as floodwater continued to sweep through various villages in Dadu and Ghotki districts on Sunday.A woman, Moomal Ibrahim Loond, drowned while......
HYDERABAD: Sixteen retired Rangers personnel – who are part of the Rangers Security Guards (Pvt) Limited (RSGL) – were detained by police in Jamshoro district on Saturday amid a controversy over......
SUKKUR: A jirga (tribal court) held in Mohammed Murad Nandwani village near Tangwani town of Kandhkot-Kashmore district on Sunday ordered a man to pay a fine/compensation of Rs700,000 for having an......
CENTURION: A blazing half-century from opener Martin Guptill helped New Zealand beat South Africa by 32 runs at SuperSport Park on Sunday to draw the two-match Twenty20 International series......
LONDON: Chelsea’s poor start to the Premier League season continued with a 3-0 thumping by Manchester City on Sunday to leave Jose Mourinho’s misfiring champions with one point from their opening two......
NORTHAMPTON: Australia suffered another embarrassing collapse on their Ashes tour on Sunday, this time against Northamptonshire in a drawn tour game.Pat Cummins finished 82 not out, his 98-run stand......
KOHLER (Wisconsin): Australian Jason Day used a red-hot run around the turn and a solid finish to seize a two-shot lead over Jordan Spieth after a pulsating third round of low scoring at the PGA......
MONTREAL: Second seed Andy Murray breezed to a 6-3, 6-0 semi-final victory over Kei Nishikori on Saturday to set up a final with Novak Djokovic at the ATP Rogers Cup in Montreal.Top seed Djokovic......
JAKARTA: Both defending singles champions kept their titles on Sunday with straight-set victories at the badminton world championships.China’s Chen Long produced a fitting display for a top seed to......
KINGSTON: Six-times Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt will miss Jamaica’s training camp in Japan before the world athletics championships in Beijing later this month, the manager of the Caribbean......
BERLIN: Armenia midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored twice as Borussia Dortmund thrashed Borussia Moenchengladbach 4-0 on Saturday to launch their season with a bang on coach Thomas Tuchel’s......
PARIS: Claudio Beauvue returned to haunt his former club Guingamp as last season’s runners-up Olympique Lyon triumphed 1-0 in Ligue 1 on Saturday.Lyon signed Beauvue in July for a fee of 4.5 million......
BRNO: Spain’s Jorge Lorenzo won the Czech MotoGP on Sunday for his fifth triumph of the season to tighten the championship fight with his Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi after 11 out of 18......
LONDON: The world athletics governing body blocked the publication of a report that showed as many as a third of the world’s top athletes admitted using banned performance-enhancing techniques, The......
ZURICH: European football’s governing body have asked FIFA to investigate the alleged distribution from their headquarters of an anonymous heavily critical ‘dossier’ on UEFA president Michel Platini,......
KARACHI: Defending champion and overnight leader Shabbir Iqbal avenged his 20th CNS Open defeat when he beat challenger Mohammad Munir by three shots to retain the pros title in the 17th Sindh Open......
KARACHI: Saifullah Sherwani will lead a 12-member Karachi team in the divisional national basketball championship B grade which is being held in Sialkot from Aug 18 to 23, Karachi Basket ball......
ISLAMABAD: Secretary of the Pakistan Judo Federation (PJF) on Sunday said that the federation was optimistic about judoka Shah Hussain Shah’s qualification for next year’s Rio Olympics.“Shah has been......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will be keeping a check on pacer Mohammad Amir’s performance in the forthcoming National Twenty20 Cup.The National T20 Cup will be played at the Pindi......
LAHORE: In a superlative performance, Bay colt Show Card, landed the Independence Day Cup run over 1000 metres marking the Independence Day celebrations during the Lahore Winter Meeting at the......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti, acting Speaker of Balochistan Assembly Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo and former speaker Jan Mohammad Jamali have......
ISLAMABAD: Despite being one of its founding members, Pakistan seems to have missed a chance to lead one of the key constituencies of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). This......
HARIPUR: The ruling PML-N won the by-election for a National Assembly seat held here on Sunday.According to unofficial results of 316 polling stations out of the total 513, the PML-N candidate from......
ISLAMABAD: Two committees of the National Assembly and Senate will next week take up the issue of the setting up of a national commission for protection of rights of the children.The Senate......
QUETTA: Three people were killed in different traffic accidents and a man was found murdered on Sunday.Levies officials said a truck driver was burnt to death when his vehicle caught fire after......
KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami secretary general Liaquat Balouch has said that attacks on minorities’ places of worship are being carried out by those elements who want to destabilise Pakistan.He was......
KARACHI: Senior Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has left for Singapore for medical treatment.MQM spokesman Aminul Haq told Dawn that Mr Siddiqui flew to Singapore......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah has condemned the assassination of Punjab Home Minister retired Col Shuja Khanzada and termed it a cowardice act of terrorism.Talking to Punjab Chief......
NEW DELHI: India summoned Pakistan’s High Commissioner Abdul Basit on Sunday to protest alleged ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops along the Line of Control (LoC) but the envoy said his side......
ISLAMABAD: Condemning Sunday’s attack in Attock in which Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada was killed, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reaffirmed his government’s determination to pursue the......
MUZAFFARABAD: A woman was killed and eight others were wounded on Sunday in the latest shelling by India from across the Line of Control, officials said.The casualties occurred in Nakyal sector after......
KARACHI: Police have ‘neutralised’ more individuals and gangs allegedly involved in heinous offences in the city in the first seven months of the current year than the criminals they had eliminated......
SOCIAL networking sites can actually change and mould people’s perspectives. This was once again proved when famous blogger Brandon Stanton announced he would visit Pakistan. Mr Stanton runs a......
OUR rulers are generally not interested in something that does not project them. This policy is now backfiring. The best thing is if life of a common man is made easy, without mega investment.I have......
THE Kasur case is the largest child-abuse scandal in the history of Pakistan for which only condemnation is not enough. This is not the first time that children are being abused and sexually......
APROPOS the news ‘Wasim agrees to train youngsters twice a year’ (Aug 14).The 13-day LG Super Star Campaign under the supervision of pace legend Wasim Akram sends a positive signal to cricketing......
The Punjab government has recently banned the slaughtering of female animals. The step is taken to increase the production of cattle.What I am concerned about is the timing of this decision. As we......
THIS refers to the news item ‘Interest rate kept unchanged’ (July 26). State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Ashraf Mahmood Wathra stated that, following the declining trend in nearly every month of......
SIBERIAN birds fly thousands of miles to reach different regions of Sindh like Tharparkar, Mithi and Tharimerwah. Arab Sheikhs come every year during the summer and hunt these birds.Forest department......
SENATOR Rehman Malik has claimed in court that his wife and family are foreign citizens, while only he is a Pakistani. Similarly, many other politicians and government employees have claimed that......
IT has been observed that students of private schools secure excellent grades in examinations, but their IQ level and knowledge do not reflect the same result.This is because the private schools are......
IT has been over two years since the authorities installed traffic signals at the Kashmir Road and Shahrah-i-Quaideen intersection. However, these signals are extremely faulty and the authorities......
A MASSIVE opportunity is opening to Pakistan’s west as Iran moves towards seeing sanctions lifted.The visit by Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has underlined this fact, and it is unfortunate......
BUREAUCRATIC lethargy and political disinterest have both contributed to the deterioration and neglect of heritage sites in Pakistan, especially in Sindh and Balochistan.While major sites in Sindh......
YET another set of national awards was announced on Friday to mark the country’s 68th Independence Day.There are always a few surprises in the list, a few shocking inclusions and a few unwanted......
THE demolition of a katchi abadi in sector I-11 of Islamabad coincides with the publication of a new UN report on population that estimates Pakistan’s population to currently be around 190 million......
ONE of the earliest facts to emerge from the horrendous Kasur district child abuse case was the expediency and complicity of local law enforcement in firstly providing protection, and secondly, in......
PAKISTAN’S happiest man dances to songs aired by Radio Pakistan. A man cuts his wife a slice of apricot cake when he sees her walking home. A father waits for his daughter to return from school and......
PRESIDENT Ashraf Ghani’s diatribe against Pakistan over a recent wave of attacks in the heart of Kabul and other major cities amply mirrors the lingering mistrust between the neighbours. With the......
KAMRA: The government of Pakistan Muslim League-N experienced on Sunday its first high-profile loss in the war against militancy.In an attack in Attock district, Punjab Home Minister retired Col......
PESHAWAR: Forty suspected terrorists were killed when military planes bombed militant hideouts in North Waziristan tribal region on Sunday.Inter Services Public Relations, the military’s media wing,......
THE assassination of Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada in a suicide attack in Attock could be an indication of the expansion of the infrastructure and support base of the Punjab-based militant......
RAWALPINDI: The suicide attack in Attock which claimed the lives of Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada and others on Sunday has raised troubling questions about the possible presence of the......
