QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly has failed to make any noteworthy legislation during its second parliamentary year, while assembly sessions also witnessed a decrease as compared to last year,......
KARACHI: New Town police on Wednesday night registered a case against unknown suspects on terror charges for Tuesday's brutal attack on Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) MNA Rashid Godil.Read: MQM's......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Russia on Wednesday signed a landmark defence deal that includes the sale of four Mi-35 ‘Hind E’ attack helicopters to Pakistan.“The agreement was signed by top defence......
NEW YORK: A 42-year-old American was arrested in Texas on Wednesday and charged with making a hoax bomb threat at the Statue of Liberty that forced the evacuation of 3,230 people, officials......
ISTANBUL: Gunmen opened fire on Turkish police outside an Istanbul palace and eight soldiers were killed in a bomb attack in the southeast on Wednesday, heightening a sense of crisis as the country's......
SANAA: Emirati tanks heave across southern Yemen's stony wastes and Apache helicopters from a Saudi-led coalition, dubbed “black genies” by local media, rule its skies, helping fighters loyal to the......
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan's Ambassador to Pakistan Janan Mosazai was called in by Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Wednesday to convey Pakistan’s concerns over the recent spate of allegations......
KARACHI: Pakistan's freefall in the international squash rankings continued with the game's former masters failing to register a spot in the Professional Squash Association (PSA) top 50 list released......
QAMISHLI: A suicide bomber on Wednesday killed at least 16 people in an attack on Kurdish security forces in northeastern Syria claimed by the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, a monitor said.The......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan summoned the Indian Deputy High Commissioner on Wednesday to lodge a strong protest against the recent ‘unprovoked ceasefire violations’ by Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) in......
KARACHI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday confirmed that Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt would be eligible to play international cricket when their bans expire in September this......
Tesla Motors believes it has a solution for our energy needs that requires thinking outside the grid.The California-based company recently announced a new line of commercial and residential batteries......
PESHAWAR: The federal government on Wednesday announced the establishment of civilian courts in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata).Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad......
The fortified walls of the sprawling Adiala Jail — famed for housing some of Pakistan's most notorious convicts — has a particularly menacing air today.As I walk into the main building, I think of......
PESHAWAR: At least 25 suspected militants were killed on Wednesday when the military carried out air strikes in the Shawal Tehsil of North Waziristan, military sources said.Air force jets targeted......
GHOTKI: Two cases of child sexual abuse and subsequent video blackmailing have emerged in Ghotki district's Ghotki Taluka, forcing the families of the victims to flee their homes.Ghotki SSP Saqib......
CAPE TOWN: The papers outlining secret tactics were meant to be slipped under South African cricketer Dale Steyn's hotel room door on the eve of a game against New Zealand.Instead, they went to the......
QUETTA: The army has assured the Emergency Operation Center (EOC) Balochistan that the coverage of polio vaccines to children at the Pak-Afghan border, particularly near Friendship Gate in Chaman,......
In a press release circulating on Twitter, Reham Khan has announced the full cast and crew of her first film, Janaan.Also read: Reham Khan to launch film production career with Jaanan?The romantic......
Sachin Tendulkar may have been the ultimate prize for bowlers around the world but for former Pakistan speedster, Shoaib Akhtar, it was the Little Master's compatriot Rahul Dravid who was the......
After the success of his latest blockbuster Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Salman Khan fans have a new reason to rejoice.Contrary to earlier rumours, the actor will return to the Bigg Boss stage after all.At the......
LUCKNOW: Two brothers in northern India beheaded their teenage sister and carried her head through their village for having an affair with a cousin, Indian police said.Officer Rajesh Singh says that......
After her well-received song in Haider, Tabu is set to croon again in her upcoming film Missing.Also starring Manoj Bajpayee, Missing is a psychological thriller directed by little known director......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday upheld a petition seeking a ban on the issuance of permits and licences for the hunting of endangered birds and also ordered the cancellation of all......
DHAKA: Bangladesh has arrested three Supreme Court lawyers for allegedly passing thousands of dollars to a new Islamic militant group in the port city of Chittagong, police said Wednesday.The three......
BEIRUT: The Islamic State group has beheaded the 82-year-old former antiquities director for the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief and a monitor said.Photos purporting to show Khaled......
ISLAMABAD: Maulana Fazlur Rehman called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at Prime Minister House on Wednesday following which the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F (JUI-F) chief said that the government and ......
SEOUL: FIFA presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon said on Wednesday that payments he made to Haiti and Pakistan in 2010 were “charitable donations” and any attempt to use them as part of a reported......
SRINAGAR: Pakistan invited separatists from India-held Kashmir for a meeting in a move that risks further straining efforts to restart a peace dialogue ahead of a rare meeting between top security......
KABUL: Afghanistan has summoned Pakistan's ambassador to explain fighting between the two countries' security forces that killed up to eight Afghan border police, the latest blow in ties that took a......
LONDON: Globally, one third fewer aid workers were killed, wounded or kidnapped in 2014 than the all-time high of 460 in 2013, because fewer were deployed to dangerous regions, according to the group......
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday voiced alarm at the latest upsurge in violence along the disputed border of India and Pakistan in Kashmir and urged restraint......
This is the story of how a debater from Islamabad managed to find himself competing in the World Schools Debating Championships.I got into debating in a pretty normal way. Islamabad has a developed......
MANDI BAHAUDDIN: Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday said that the probe into the Attock blast will take some more time but security agencies are closing in on the suspects.Last......
Be it a jet black sherwani in Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Ghum or a well fitted suit and hat in Great Gatsby, Amitabh Bachchan can pull off any style with class and this has been validated by none other than......
Humaima Malik bursts onto the scene as a flashy, flamboyant bride, decked in blazing red with lips to match, in the stark daylight.Her shaadi jora does all the blushing for her, for her character......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, once a pariah of the West and a sharp critic of Asian neighbours, has confounded expectations with a relentless diplomatic charm offensive designed to......
LONDON: Months of 'brutal' conflict in Yemen have killed or injured more than 1,000 children, and the number of young people recruited or used as fighters has soared, the United Nations children's......
KARACHI: Liaquat National Hospital (LNH) spokesman Anjum Rizvi said Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Rashid Godil was responsive to doctors after being weaned off the ventilator and sedatives,......
I FELICITATE all Pakistanis who celebrated Independence Day and pray that the nation always has peace, prosperity and progress. Pakistan deserves the best that life has to offer.Pakistanis have the......
I AM writing this to bring under discussion the issue of bonded labour which till now has been ignored by the government and the public alike. I only became aware of the issue through the work of......
APROPOS the editorial ‘NLC and beyond’ (Aug 3).Contrary to the general perception that the army avoids the accountability of its rank and file involved in corruption, the cases of two senior officers......
IN the last few years, thousands of citizens have lost their lives in brutal incidents of terrorism. Our economy has sustained billions of dollars’ worth of loss. The armed forces have successfully......
ONCE the sanctions on Iran are lifted and the huge amount of over $100 billion is made available, there is bound to be increased economic activity, not only in Iran but in the whole region.Pakistan......
FLOODS come almost every year with monsoon rains. Thousands of acres are destroyed and millions get displaced. First it is the duty of the district administration and several other departments to......
ON Aug 14 I was travelling from Islamabad to Lahore on motorway No. 2 and was shocked to see people crossing the motorway on foot. Some were also carrying their belongings with them.You can well......
APROPOS the article ‘Education and Careers’ by Mr Faisal Bari (Aug 14). I can relate to the issue highlighted by Mr Faisal Bari as I was also told by my father to pursue a bachelors degree in......
Zaid Hamid was arrested by the Saudi authorities. He is alleged to have spoken in public against the Saudi government. The government should intervene in this matter and make sure that he is given a......
KARACHI: India has unilaterally called off the Indo-Pakistan Ministers’ meeting on the Rann of Kutch dispute which was scheduled to be held in New Delhi on August 20, and has asked Pakistan to......
PESHAWAR: The Provincial Development Working Party on Tuesday approved 35 development projects valuing Rs71.264 billion.The approval to these project was accorded during a meeting chaired by the......
THE encroachment on forest land by three large housing societies in Rawalpindi highlights the weak capacity of the state to protect the public interest, as well as its casual disregard for vital......
‘INCENTIVES’ are hardly the way to solve Karachi’s transport problem: burgeoning, endemic, forgotten, bungled — many negative adjectives are applicable here. One brazen example need be noted: earlier......
SHUJA Khanzada is dead and the state has found refuge in a familiar set of responses. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered that the architects of the attack be found and punished, as has army......
Was there really an ISI plot to overthrow the government or was it just another conspiracy theory and a figment of the imagination? How were Mushahidullah Khan’s remarks different from those made by......
ON Aug 16, Punjab home minister Shuja Khanzada was killed when, according to preliminary reports, two suicide bombers attacked his political office in the village of Shadi Khan in Attock district. At......
SINCE its engagement in the proxy war in Afghanistan, Pakistan has virtually been in a state of siege. In the process, the national discourse has been riveted by multifaceted external and internal......
LAST week’s parliamentary endorsement of the Greek bailout deal prompted sighs of relief in some quarters, but on the streets of Greece the popular mood was predominantly disconsolate, and......
MANSEHRA: The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund and Sungi Development Foundation on Tuesday jointly gave away Rs4 million cheques to people in Karnool and Gari Habibullah union councils for......
PESHAWAR: NGOs here have demanded of the provincial government to hold consultations with the stakeholders before tabling legislations in the provincial assembly.The call was made on Tuesday at a......
PESHAWAR: An Ehtesab court on Tuesday remanded the owner of a mining firm in the custody of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission for 14 days in an illegal excavation and phosphate transportation......
PESHAWAR: The district administration has initiated work to fix prices of dishes being served in the local hotels, restaurants and eateries to stop them from fleecing the consumers.“It is for the......
KARAK: The Association of Retired Professors of Karak district has demanded of the government to establish girls high schools in all the backward areas of the district and launch classes in the......
LANDI KOTAL: The Directorate of Health Services, Fata, in collaboration with Unicef will launch ‘continued community polio vaccination’ campaign in Bara and Jamrud tehsils of Khyber Agency to check......
PESHAWAR: Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan, who is also the chancellor of public sector universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has asked the administration of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University (SBBU),......
SWABI: The elected local government representatives from various political parties have decried the delay in the transfer of power to the people’s representatives, saying this is causing unrest among......
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party central general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain has said that terrorists outfits might have been dismantled in Waziristan but Taliban are still organised in......
LAKKI MARWAT: The wildlife department officials released a pangolin in the natural habitat near Kurrum River here the other day.According to reports, a pangolin had entered the house of one Azeem......
KOHAT: The people of Shakardarra where oil and gas was discovered in 1997 are still without drinking water though an agreement in this regard was signed in 2003 between the Oil and Gas Development......
PESHAWAR: The government is starting the newly-built Nowshera Medical College (NMC) under the Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms Act, 2015 to implement its health reforms programme smoothly.On......
KHAR: The kidnapped son of former MNA and Pakistan People’s Party leader Syed Akhunzada Chattan was recovered here on Tuesday.Officials said that Hussain Shah, son of Mr Chattan, who was kidnapped on......
ISLAMABAD: Even as hundreds of aspiring candidates flock to the institution for the annual entrance test on Wednesday, the National College of Arts’ (NCA) Rawalpindi campus faces the possibility of......
ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan makes edges towards the eradication of polio by moving from the oral polio vaccine (OPV) to the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), the number of families that refuse to vaccinate......
ISLAMABAD: Justice Noorul Haq N. Quershi of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday admitted a petition filed by the former chairman of Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra)......
ISLAMABAD: The success of the Murree talks between the government of President Ashraf Ghani and the Afghan Taliban depends on the latter’s ability to prove that they are, in fact, the ones directing......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Tuesday expressed its inability to retrieve 45 non-customs paid luxury vehicles that entered Pakistan from Afghanistan during and after the Taliban......
ISLAMABAD: Some 4,000 employees of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) ended their 15-day-old strike on Tuesday on the assurance of Pims’ vice chancellor Dr Javed Akram that he will......
ISLAMABAD: The Standing Committee on Science and Technology has directed the Higher Education Commission (HEC) to recognise the dual degrees of nearly 3,000 students from Comsats Institute of......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police arrested 345 people during the last a fortnight and recovered valuables worth over Rs19.7 million, including stolen vehicles, weapons, liquor and narcotics, from their......
ISLAMABAD: The business community is playing a vital role in promoting local economy and the Islamabad Police will take every possible step to address the traders’ problems.This was said by the SSP......
ISLAMABAD: Though Pakistan is among the most climate risk countries, it seems the authorities concerned have no interest in convening a meeting of the National Disaster Management Commission......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Housing and Works directed the engineering firms working on the Bhara Kahu Housing Scheme to expedite work.In a high-level meeting chaired by Housing Secretary Shah Rukh......
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday feared that internal and external forces were out to sabotage the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) but termed the project a major development in the......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad and Rawalpindi residents are demanding that the concerned authorities construct a by-pass road from Rawat to Tarnol in order to reduce traffic on the Islamabad Expressway and IJP......
ISLAMABAD: Students at a religious seminary contacted the police on Tuesday and told them that they had detained some terrorists at the seminary in Banigala. Upon reaching the scene, the capital......
KASUR: Boycotting the joint investigation team and after collapse of their dialogue with police, the complainants in the child abuse case on Tuesday resorted to calls for a “long march” on Islamabad,......
LAHORE: No replacement of the slain Punjab Home Minister retired Col Shuja Khanzada has been made as yet and sources in the Punjab government say it is hard to find a man having the equal ability......
LAHORE: An accountability court judge on Tuesday extended physical remand of PPP leader Qasim Zia for six days in a reference of stock exchange fraud.The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had......
FAISALABAD: A man shot at and injured an international kabaddi player in Awais Colony, Sargodha Road, on Tuesday.Suspect Imran stormed into the house of kabaddi player Saba Sultana, 20, opened fire......
LAHORE: The King Edward Medical University academic council has recommended major punishment to two young doctors for allegedly humiliating a senior medical teacher for not inducting colleagues......
LAHORE: A session of dramatic readings and story-telling accompanied by music will be held at Faiz Ghar on Wednesday (today).The event to start at 6pm will be a unique fusion of music and literature......
LAHORE: Punjab Food Authority (PFA) teams sealed on Tuesday 18 food outlets for cleanliness and hygiene issues in Lahore.According to a spokesperson, a PFA team in Data Ganj Bakhsh Town sealed Tabaq......
LAHORE: Syed Noor has started shooting of his new film to project a positive image of Punjab Police.“Shan is playing the lead in Bhai Wanted while real police officials will also perform in the......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Tuesday granted pre-arrest bail to a suspect of Kasur child abuse scandal.The bench headed by Justice Muhammad Anwarul Haq allowed the interim bail to......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that there is no room for terrorism and extremism in the country.He was addressing a meeting here on Tuesday which reviewed the law and order situation......
LAHORE: After quite some time the Ajoka Theatre is coming up with a new production ‘Kaun banay ga badshah’ which will be staged at the Alhamra Art Centre, The Mall, on Aug 26 and 27.Featuring some......
OKARA: Renala city police on Tuesday booked 52 Anjuman-i-Maozareen Punjab (AMP) activists, including its secretary general, after a public meeting at 20/1RB village.The public meeting at the village......
FAISALABAD: Several weaving factories in Sidhar have been closed for over a week now against alleged demands of extortion by activists of Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM), an entity representing powerloom......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Traders of Pirmahal observed a complete strike on Tuesday and blocked traffic against non-completion of Faisalabad-Multan Road stretch.The protesters set ablaze tyres and lodged a......
FAISALABAD: Traders of many markets on Tuesday set up a hunger strike camp at Clock Tower as a protest against the withholding tax.The camp was organised by the Anjuman-i-Tajran’s city chapter whose......
BAHAWALPUR: A large number of people from the Yazman area held a demonstration on Tuesday and blocked DIG Chowk for hours in protest against the irrigation officials for not cooperating with them to......
FAISALABAD: Three outlaws were killed when their six accomplices attacked the Factory Area police on Risalewala Road on Tuesday night.Police said they had taken Sohail, alias Shera, Zohaib, alias......
SAHIWAL: Participants at the concluding session of a three-day international conference on Harappa stressed the need for transfering the ownership of cultural and historical heritage to youth and......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Mobilink network is going through an upgrade in Rahim Yar Khan region which will improve the overall customer experience significantly, says an official statement released by the......
THATTA: A woman and her two young children were found strangled under mysterious conditions at the tomb of Shaikh Jiyo — a spiritual leader having his mention in the history of Arghoon and Tarkhan......
LARKANA: Sindh Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) general secretary Rashid Mehmood Soomro has tendered his resignation after expressing his reservations over party chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s visit......
SUKKUR: A student of FFC Government Grammar School, Mirpur Mathelo, district Ghotki has won a bronze medal for PowerPoint 2013 at the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship 2015 which was......
SUKKUR: A deputy director of the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution, Qutubuddin Ansari, was picked up by the lawenforcement agencies personnel in a raid on Tuesday. Shahzada Gulfam, the man......
HYDERABAD: Participants in a three-day workshop held here on Tuesday emphasised the need for ending ethnic and sectarian divide through writings.The workshop on ‘Writers and artists on peace and......
SUKKUR: A group of armed tribesmen stormed a check post and kidnapped two policemen along with their service weapons near Ghouspur town of Kandhkot-Kashmore district on Tuesday.Officials at the......
KARACHI: The head of Al-Qaeda’s Karachi network and his accomplice were shot dead in a densely-populated Gulshan-i-Iqbal neighbourhood in the early hours of Tuesday in a shootout with personnel of......
KARACHI: A sessions court dismissed on Tuesday pre-arrest bail application of six policemen in a staged encounter case.The then station house officer of the Saeedabad police station, Raja Tanveer,......
KARACHI: Armed robbers stormed into a private bank branch in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Tuesday and walked off with more than eight million rupees in the seventh heist of the year, officials said.Since the......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has agreed to regularise six- and nine-seat CNG rickshaws and bring them within a legal framework.A delegation of rickshaw owners association, led by Jamaat-i-Islami......
KARACHI: The United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Tuesday launched a five-month drug prevention campaign in nine districts of Sindh, officials said at a programme held in Governor......
KARACHI: Nahid Raza has proven credentials. She is one of those rare Pakistani artists for whom art is not just a way to express themselves, a form of expression as it were, but a way of life. So......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has decided to constitute a four-member committee to improve investigation and prosecution in terrorism cases so that culprits arrested by......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed extreme displeasure over the absence of top officials of the federal finance and the water and power ministries during suo motu proceedings regarding......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday issued a black warrant for the execution of a condemned prisoner in a double murder case.Shahid Mehmood and his accomplice Mohammad Khan were......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday sentenced an accused to life imprisonment in a kidnapping for ransom case.Mashooq Ali Chandio was found guilty of abducting 72-year-old Fazal Hussain......
KARACHI: “We don’t control, we regulate,” said Kamaluddin Tipu, acting chairman of the Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) while delivering a guest lecture on ‘Media Ethics’, organised by the......
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Tuesday met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to formally acknowledge he cannot form a coalition government, paving the way for new elections just......
MADRID: Spanish police have arrested 20 suspected members of a ring that swindled tens of thousands of euros from drunken tourists on the holiday island of Majorca by stealing their credit card......
THIS week’s 62th anniversary of the coup upending Mohammad Mossadegh comes with interest as strong as ever in Iran’s best-known prime minister. But while historians and journalists see the coup of......
BEIJING: Chinese authorities’ handling of the Tianjin explosions bears many of the hallmarks of their standard approach to the litany of disasters in the country — a clampdown on discussion, official......
LAGOS: Claims that Nigeria’s Boko Haram has been “decapitated” have been spectacularly rebuffed by the jihadists’ leader, yet his first broadcast in months may not see off an impending mutiny, say......
NAYPYITAW: Myanmar’s parliament voted on Tuesday to again extend martial law for three months in a restive area along the country’s border with China, where there have been clashes between the......
BERLIN: Half a million ants were enlisted at a German zoo on Tuesday by ecologists from the conservation group WWF to call for the protection of the Amazon rainforest, ahead of a trip by Germany’s......
KANO: Up to 150 people drowned in a river or were shot dead fleeing Boko Haram gunmen who raided a remote village in Nigeria’s northeastern Yobe state, local residents said on Tuesday.Dozens of......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council on Monday supported a fresh push for peace talks in Syria in a statement adopted by 14 out of the 15 members.According to diplomats, it was the......
NEW DELHI: A landslide struck a popular Sikh temple complex in northern India on Tuesday, killing at least seven people and wounding nine others, police said.Rescue workers equipped with cutting......
NEW DELHI: A police driver and a suspected Maoist rebel commander were killed and a top police officer injured in a gun battle with left-wing guerrillas in central India’s Jharkhand state, officials......
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin burnished his action man image on Tuesday by diving down in a mini-submarine to explore a shipwreck off the coast of the Crimea peninsula that Moscow seized......
BANGKOK: Authorities in Thailand have put forward several theories on the motive behind Monday’s deadly bomb blast at Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong tourist area in which 20 people were killed and more than......
CAIRO: Leading Muslim clerics meeting in Cairo on Tuesday called for moderation in issuing religious edicts, in an attempt to counter extremist fatwas that sanction jihadist atrocities.The muftis —......
RAMALLAH: The Palestinian Authority on Tuesday accused Hamas of holding secret talks with Israel that would endorse the separation of Palestinian territories.Arab and Turkish media have carried......
NEW YORK: In the latest sign of China’s pulling power in America, an exhibition exploring Chinese influence on Western fashion has become a summer smash-hit, attracting more than 670,000......
PARIS: France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve and his British counterpart Theresa May will sign a deal this week to try and alleviate the migrant crisis in Calais, the government said on......
LIVERPOOL: Christian Benteke scored his first Premier League goal for Liverpool on Monday to give his new team a 1-0 win over promoted Bournemouth in a game that was marked by two disputed refereeing......
BEIJING: Sergey Bubka and Sebastian Coe were pressing the flesh among International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Congress delegates on Tuesday in a final push for votes ahead of......
ZURICH: An official overseeing reform efforts at FIFA has produced a radical blueprint for reform of soccer’s scandal-hit governing body, including the abolition of its powerful executive committee,......
MADRID: Croatian international midfielder Mateo Kovacic has joined Real Madrid from Inter Milan, the Spanish giants confirmed on Tuesday.“Real Madrid and Inter Milan have agreed the transfer of Mateo......
BARCELONA: Athletic Bilbao claimed their first silverware in more than three decades as they drew 1-1 with 10-man Barcelona on Monday to win the Spanish Super Cup with a 5-1 aggregate victory over......
BEIJING: Renaud Lavillenie may be pole vault royalty with his world record and Olympic gold medal but there is one link missing in his illustrious career.The Frenchman has never won an world......
LAHORE: Taking note of an alarming situation which sees no cricketer in its Board of Governors (BoG), the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has allowed chairman Shaharyar Khan to appoint two eminent......
LONDON: Mark Wood has prepared himself for the prospect of being sidelined for the fifth and final Test against Australia despite taking the wicket that clinched the Ashes.When Durham fast bowler......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s cricket chief has expressed hope that next week’s diplomatic talks between his country and India will help the revival of cricket between the two rivals after a seven-year hiatus.A......
LONDON: Chris Rogers is retiring from international cricket after this week’s Ashes finale against England, the Australia opener announced on Tuesday.The 37-year-old joins his captain Michael Clarke......
LONDON: England football manager Roy Hodgson dropped in here at The Oval on Tuesday ahead of the fifth and final Ashes Test.Hodgson, accompanied by assistant Ray Lewington, chatted to players from......
LONDON: Stuart Broad has revealed that England captain Alastair Cook has urged his side to pile on the misery for beleaguered Australia in the final Ashes Test this week.Broad said Cook called every......
JOHANNESBURG: Plans by Cricket South Africa (CSA) to include more black players, who were denied places in the national side during the apartheid era, received a huge boost on Tuesday when it signed......
CENTURION: When it was announced that South Africa and New Zealand would play a One-day International series during the South African winter, the obvious marketing angle was that it would provide a......
KARACHI: Upcoming spinner Alam Khurshid Shah grabbed six wickets to help Metropolitan CC comfortably Late Ismail Jaffer CC by 54 runs in their KCCA Zone-VI Daud Khan Memorial Cricket Tournament......
ISLAMABAD: At long last, the confusion over participation of Pakistani boxers in the upcoming Asian Boxing Championship is put to rest with the Pakistan Sport Board (PSB) deciding on Tuesday to......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) on Tuesday announced to hold a PTF Invitational Masters event from Aug 20 to 28 here on the synthetic courts of the Pakistan Sports Board.According to......
KARACHI: Pakistan disabled team will be participating in the Five-Nation ICRC International Cricket Tournament, being held in Bangladesh from Sept 2.Apart from Pakistan and hosts Bangladesh, disabled......
CINCINNATI: Gael Monfils was accused of “tanking” during his first-round defeat at the Western and Southern Open on Monday when the 14th-seeded Frenchman lost to Poland’s Jerry Janowicz 6-4, 7-5 in......
ISLAMABAD: As the cotton crop is at vegetative-cum-flowering stage in Sindh and Punjab, a thorough review of a US-assisted programme was carried out to contain risk of losses from pests and......
KARACHI: Engro Corporation on Tuesday posted a profit-after-tax at Rs9.6 billion for the first half of 2015 (1HCY15), an increase of 202 per cent from Rs3.2bn earned in the same period last year.Out......
KARACHI: The stock market extended decline for the second day on Tuesday, with the KSE-100 index losing 42.02 points to close at 35,546.03.Traded volume was down by 20 per cent to 278 million shares......
ISLAMABAD: The agriculture of Pakistan is in stress owing to the falling prices of commodities on the international markets. The export of agricultural produce has remained low due to higher cost of......
HONG KONG: Some foreign investors have found a new and simple way to make money from China’s dysfunctional stock markets — by dispensing with market research and playing “follow the leader”......
MUMBAI: India’s private sector banks have seen their loan books deteriorate at a faster pace than state-owned peers over the past three quarters, raising concerns that a slower economic recovery......
LAHORE: Nigerian Ambassador to Pakistan, Dauda Danladi on Tuesday urged Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and business community to make serious efforts for easing the visa process between......
Telenor releases Rs20m for flood affecteesKARACHI: Telenor Pakistan has announced a contribution of over Rs20 million to help flood affectees of Gilgit-Baltistan, a press release said on Tuesday. The......
LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) fears that the export-oriented businesses will suffer if stuck-up income tax/sales tax refund claims are not released immediately by the......
KARACHI: Pakistani oil tanker MT Lahore was released by the authorities of Dubai’s Fujairah port on Sunday against a cash guarantee.The Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) in a press......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures hit their highest level in nearly two weeks on Tuesday as the ringgit continued to weaken near 1998 lows, although declines in competing markets dragged on......
LONDON: Gold fell on Tuesday, as the dollar rebounded following upbeat US housing data that supported views of a looming interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve.Spot gold snapped initial......
KARACHI: Buying spree was witnessed on the cotton market on Tuesday as spinners rushed to replenish their stocks. However, much of trading interest remained around Sindh variety cotton.Floor brokers......
LONDON: Oil prices slipped further Tuesday, as concerns about weakening demand growth in China added to expectations that a global oversupply could last for years.US benchmark West Texas Intermediate......
MANILA: Looking out at bumper-to-bumper on Monday morning traffic crawling along the Philippine capital’s main avenue, taxi driver Ranilo Banez shook his head in frustration.Congestion has gotten so......
LONDON: The significant slowdown in many emerging market economies is a medium-term trend that could persist for years, a senior Moody’s analyst said on Tuesday.Marie Diron, senior vice president of......
LONDON: First it was the regulators, now here come the clients. Several big banks in the United States have settled claims by customers over currency market rigging, raising the question of whether......
ISLAMABAD: The government and courts of Bangladesh were protecting people responsible for Rs18.5 billion bad debts and default to National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) and denying Pakistani officers to......
KARACHI: The issue of withholding tax on banking transactions has taken a new turn as protesting traders have started investing in bonds.Higher demand for prize bonds has pushed up their prices and......
ISLAMABAD: After facing internal criticism due to poor results in the Haripur by-polls, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan has announced that his wife, Reham Khan, will not be playing an......
MUZAFFARABAD / SIALKOT: Two elderly men were killed in “unrelenting and indiscriminate” shelling by Indian troops from across the Line of Control and the Sialkot Working Boundary on Tuesday.Munshi......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate will transform itself into a committee of the whole house on Wednesday (today) to continue discussion on proposals to reform judiciary for dispensing speedy and inexpensive......
ISLAMABAD: At least 600,000 `ghost pensioners’ drew money from the public exchequer for a long time from the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) till the bank discovered the scam during efforts to reform......
KARACHI: Exactly three months after the allegations of running a ‘fake education empire’ were levelled against the parent company of Bol TV, which left its management languishing in prison, the media......
ISLAMABAD: Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday that the government had decided to evaluate performance of ministries in terms of implementation of ‘Vision 2025’. He said......
PESHAWAR: In the second consecutive day on Tuesday eighteen suspected militants died and their sanctuaries were destroyed as air strikes continued on Tuesday in Shawal area of North Waziristan......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly unanimously passed on Tuesday a resolution calling upon the provincial government to establish a new division comprising the districts of Nushki, Chagai, Kharan and......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has said that it stands by its plan to give overseas Pakistanis the right to vote.In a statement issued on Tuesday, the ECP said it was earnestly......
GWADAR: Three security personnel were injured after unidentified armed men ambushed a convoy of the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) in the Dashat area of Kech district on Tuesday.Sources said that......
QUETTA: An anti-corruption court convicted on Tuesday four accused in a case of issuance of a fake national identity card to an Afghan national, awarded them prison terms and imposed fine on them.The......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Karachi arrested an official of the Sindh Highways Department on Tuesday for allegedly embezzling funds and misappropriating Rs16......
KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines has launched an additional weekly flight from Islamabad to Beijing from Tuesday.A PIA statement says that now the national flag carrier operates three weekly......
QUETTA: An attempt to smuggle a huge quantity of Iranian diesel to Quetta has been foiled and four oil tankers seized in Khuzdar district.According to officials, customs and Frontier Corps personnel......
COLOMBO: Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa conceded defeat in Sri Lanka’s parliamentary elections on Tuesday, much before the release of all the results after it became clear that the United......
QUETTA: Personnel of the Levies force busted a gang of kidnappers and got 24 Afghans held captive by them freed on Tuesday, in an operation in mountainous areas of Taftan, near the Pak-Iran......
WASHINGTON: The United States, which seems determined not to allow further deterioration of relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, has once again urged the two neighbouring states to work......
KARACHI: Abdul Rashid Godil, a senior leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and member of the National Assembly, was critically injured in an attack on his car in the city’s Bahadurabad area......
KARACHI: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman visited the ‘Nine Zero’ headquarters of the MQM on Tuesday to persuade the party to withdraw resignations of its legislators, but the mission remained......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday pointed out that army officers lose the protection of the Pakistan Army Act (PAA), 1952 when they are deputed to a department that has nothing to do with......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met his close aides for the second day on Tuesday to discuss issues relating to internal security and foreign policy, but this time in the presence of Army......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court said on Tuesday it wondered why a constitutional body like the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was coming to another constitutional body, the apex court, to seek......
