KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in a press statement released on Thursday claimed that nine of the party’s office bearers and activists were arrested from different areas of......
ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced his resignation on Thursday and called for early elections in the crisis-hit country, as he tackles a rebellion by hardliners within his......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Thursday told Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a high-end law and order meeting that federal agencies have become "unnecessarily aggressive" in......
KARACHI: Police on Thursday detained three members of Liaquat National Hospital's (LNH) security staff for their involvement in 'injuring' media persons.The media persons were present outside the......
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army on Thursday said it had initiated ground operations to flush out terrorists from Shawal Valley, North Waziristan, according to a tweet from Major General Asim Bajwa – chief......
LAHORE: The Zain murder case took yet another turn on Thursday when the police registered a case against the complainant Sohail Afzal for retracting from his earlier statements recorded with the......
LAHORE: A lawyer for Hafiz Mohammed Saeed said on Thursday that a court has banned an upcoming Bollywood movie that ‘imagines’ his client being assassinated.Saeed, who has a $10 million bounty on his......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday formally launched an injectable polio vaccine, an important step to accelerate its polio eradication campaign as the authorities vowed to wipe out the disease by......
LONDON: Spain forward Pedro has agreed to join English Premier League champions Chelsea from Barcelona, the clubs said on Thursday.Chelsea will pay 30 million euros ($33.54 million) for the player,......
LONDON: Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside The Oval ahead of the start of the fifth Ashes Test between England and Australia on Thursday in protest against the way in which world cricket is now......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar on Thursday said his party was disappointed by the prime minister's visit to Karachi, saying Nawaz Sharif had left Karachi without......
Early on Tuesday, anxiety gripped the town of Faizabad as word spread about a prominent mosque being set afire by unidentified miscreants the previous night.A part of the Madani Masjid, located in......
BEIJING: Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt has been saddened by the focus on doping in the run-up to the world championships but says even he cannot save the sport by himself.The governing......
LAHORE: Disgraced Pakistan paceman Mohammad Asif said on Thursday he was ready to face fans' abuse when he returns to cricket after a five-year ban for spot-fixing, vowing to change their minds with......
LAHORE: Gunmen on motorcycles shot dead a 37-year-old pharmacy owner from the Ahmadi community in central Pakistan, police said on Thursday. It is the latest attack on one of the country's most......
LAHORE: Police have arrested three Christian men under terrorism laws for using the word “prophet” to describe a dead pastor on a poster, officials said Thursday.The men were arrested in the town of......
We knew that it's only time before Ayyan Ali would make a public appearance, but who could have guessed that it would take place at Karachi's largest university?The former model-turned-singer, who......
ISLAMABAD: At least 43 suspected militants were killed in precise aerial strikes in North Waziristan on Thursday, military's media wing said.According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR),......
Former Pakistan captain and match-fixing whistle-blower Rashid Latif has criticised former players and experts for backing the tainted trio of Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt after the......
WASHINGTON: After embarrassing false starts, Barack Obama is making a final push to close Guantanamo prison, but to fulfill that glaringly incomplete campaign promise he faces unpalatable compromises......
ISLAMABAD: The 44th death anniversary of Pakistan's national hero, Rashid Minhas Shaheed was marked across the country on Thursday with tributes paid to his services.Rashid, who was born on February......
GAZA CITY: Gunmen in Egypt boarded a bus carrying Palestinians from Cairo to Gaza and seized four of the passengers before letting the others continue, Hamas officials in the strip said early......
UNITED NATIONS: Israel's ambassador is urging the UN's internal watchdog to investigate the head of a UN agency for misconduct, accusing her of “modern day anti-Semitism”.Last year, he tried......
ATHENS: Greece is set to receive the first instalment of its third multi-billion-euro bailout Thursday, just as a key repayment to the European Central Bank falls due.A source close to the matter......
Have you heard of the ‘Dabangg lady’?That's what the Punjab Food Authority's now-very-popular Director of Operations, Ayesha Mumtaz, is being called on social media.In case you hadn't noticed, the......
All caught up on the local cinema front? Think again.Drama film Swaarangi, which marks Resham's comeback to cinema after seven years, is set to hit the screens on August 28.**Based on a true story,......
VIENNA: Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms, operating under a secret agreement with the United Nations agency......
When the word ‘multiculturalism’ began echoing in the West after the collapse of communism in the late 1980s, many on the left sides of the ideological divide suspected it to be yet another......
Karan Johar is bringing together his old and new favourites – Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt – in an upcoming project, reported Hindustan Times.We wonder whether the young Alia will play Shah Rukh's......
INDIAN Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the UAE, and the joint communiqué issued afterwards, should be nothing less than a wake-up call for Pakistan.Both countries have agreed to enhance their economic......
A PENSIONER’S lot in Pakistan can be pitiable because systems have often not evolved sufficiently to take the age-related limitations of this particular demographic into account.Newspapers frequently......
PAKISTANIS love to eat out and though the experience may be enjoyable, the lack of proper hygiene where food preparation and handling is concerned at many eateries can result in food poisoning or......
THE latest report submitted by the government of Pakistan to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is a poor apology for not doing enough for the country’s children.The government is......
IT has become a theme now that may yet come to define this government’s economic story. Global voices such as those of the multilateral lenders and credit rating agencies, along with international......
Bollywood's highest earning actress not only beats the bigwigs to bagging top dollar in Bollywood, but also wants more!The title goes to Queen star, Kangana Ranaut, who takes home a heftier paycheck......
KARACHI: Doctors will try to wean hospitalised Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Rashid Godil off his ventilator completely today, a hospital official said Thursday.Liaquat National Hospital......
KARACHI: Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) president Akhtar Rasool stepped down from his post on Thursday, days after rejecting reports in the media that he was removed from office by the government......
NEW DELHI: Three Kashmiri separatist leaders who were placed under house arrest earlier today (Thursday) have now been freed, indicating confusion on the issue, said a report published on NDTV.The......
KARACHI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday inaugurated the K-2 power project at the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (Kanupp) during his one-day visit to Karachi.K-2 power plant, the largest in the......
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a petition seeking a ban on the issuance of permits and licenses for the hunting of endangered birds and also ordered the cancellation of all existing permits in......
BANGKOK: Thailand said Thursday it would seek Interpol help in hunting a foreign man believed to have carried out a devastating Bangkok shrine bombing, with police unsure if he had fled the......
THE security advisers-level dialogue between Pakistan and India is scheduled for August 23-24 in New Delhi on the invitation of the Indian government.Mr Sartaj Aziz seems to be overzealous in......
PAKISTAN marked its 69th Independence Day on Aug 14. Rather than crowing about independence, the nation must realise that it is gravely dependent today in economic terms.The debt-to-GDP ratio......
TWO eminent persons, Dr Yaqoob Bhatti and Engineer Khurshid Anwer, have written in your columns about the advantage of Kalabagh dam.A few individuals like Mr Mohammad Khan Sial (Aug 12) have rejected......
APROPOS your editorial ‘Needless firestorm” (Aug 16). I beg to differ with your views. “The PTI and Tahirul Qadri tried to use street power to oust a legitimately elected government on the flimsiest......
APROPOS Irfan Husain article “Skip the salad” (Aug 16).During the nineties, while I was undergoing a course at Karachi, I contracted jaundice. It was really a nightmare for me! I spent three weeks......
THIS is about a Christian ghetto in Islamabadand. Federal Ministers, provincial ministers, the rich and the affluent, all pass by this ghetto, possibly every day in their limousines, escorted by......
THE people of Gumbat are rightly protesting against the change of name of the Gumbat Institute of Medical Sciences to Pir Abdul Qadir Shah Gillani.The institute was started in two rooms by Dr Rahim......
WILL the government or the Rangers take notice of the Lawyer’s Club wedding hall situated at Clifton Block 2? It has made residents’ lives miserable. Daily at night time music is blasting out at full......
MANSEHRA: The heaps of garbage, scattered everywhere in the city and its suburbs, are causing foul smell as tehsil municipal committee has failed to dispose of the waste during the last one week,......
PESHAWAR: A police official sustained injuries while his private driver was killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in Yaseenabad area of the city late on Tuesday night, police......
PESHAWAR: The Fata Development Authority (FDA), which was declared redundant by a high-level committee, is being rejuvenated through absorption of several regular directorates of the Civil......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan on Wednesday said the post of additional political agent (judicial) would be created in every Fata agency soon to facilitate people in......
NOWSHERA: Unknown assailants shot dead a young female CD film actress at Shobra Chowk here on Wednesday.Eyewitnesses and police said that Musarat Shaheen (23), daughter of Safdar Hussain of Nowshera......
PESHAWAR: The Galiyat Development Authority (GDA) is launching a weeklong cleanliness campaign from Friday to provide neat and clean environment to the tourists in the scenic Galiyat region, said an......
PESHAWAR: The formation of three-tier local bodies system in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa entered its final stage as Election Commission of Pakistan on Wednesday fixed August 30 for the elections of nazims and......
PESHAWAR: An accountability court here on Wednesday sent four suspects, including provincial minister Makhdoom Syed Mureed Kazim, to prison on judicial remand in an illegal land transfer case.Judge......
PESHAWAR: The government has been taking all measures to eradicate poliovirus from the country by 2016, said State Minister for National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Saira Afzal......
PESHAWAR: Employees of the Workers Welfare Board, Peshawar, on Wednesday began a pen-down strike to press the government for regularisation of the services of contractual employees, cancelation of......
PESHAWAR: Representatives of different civil society organisations (CSOs) have termed the proposed Prevention of Electronic Crime Bill 2015 against civil liberties, freedom of expression and right to......
ISLAMABAD: The government of Gilgit-Baltistan will hold three-day festival at Deosai plains in a bid to promote tourism in the Northern Areas of the country.For the first time, the festival will be......
KOHAT: About 60 per cent of construction work has been completed on the solid waste recycling plant that will dispose of 100 tonnes of garbage produced in Kohat daily and turn it into urea, officials......
SWABI: Meat sellers have been openly violating the official price list and charging additional money from customers in different areas of Swabi district.People visiting the bazaars have criticised......
MINGORA: The excessive loadshedding has caused severe water shortage in parts of Mingora forcing people to fetch water from springs and rivers in distant areas.Among such areas are Malookabad, Rang......
KHAR: The local health department on Wednesday announced the launch of anti-measles campaign in Bajaur Agency today (Thursday) after a long break.“The last mass measles immunisation campaign was......
MURREE: Pakistan’s largest chairlift and cable car service was inactive for more than two hours on Wednesday, leaving dozens of tourists frightened and suspended thousands of metres in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court decreed on Wednesday that a code of conduct for the electronic media, which was agreed upon on June 18, 2015, shall be considered to be in force until it has been......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Mohammad Anwar Khan Kasi dismissed a petition on Wednesday which sought de-seating of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) legislators from the......
ISLAMABAD: Preliminary investigations into the terrorist attack which claimed the life of Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada and 18 others on August 16 have revealed that serious security lapses......
ISLAMABAD: Administrators belonging to various religious seminaries have expressed reservations over the collection of details of students and staff by police for verification.Police officials have......
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) has completed the refurbishment of the Emergency and Accident department of the Rawalpindi Cantonment General Hospital (RCGH). The refurbishment......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police on Wednesday decided to make a sub-sector of a police station in urban area a beat and appoint an SI as its in-charge, sources in the police department said, adding in......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is going to start internal audit aimed at exposing the officials who allowed thousands of illegal billboards, advertising pylons and banners at......
ISLAMABAD: More rains are coming, beginning Friday night, warns the Pakistan Meteorological Department.But its more worrisome prediction is that they may cause flash floods and water-logging in upper......
MUZAFFARABAD: Sadaf Shaikh, a member of the AJK Assembly, elected against one of the five reserved seats for women, was sworn in as minister for sports, youth and culture on Wednesday.She was......
ISLAMABAD: For Madeeha Hasan, a fourth year student at the Federal Medical and Dental College (FMDC), the last four years have been coloured by uncertainty regarding how much longer her college will......
Adil Iqbal is a Scottish-Pakistani textile designer, whose designs have been showcased at fashion weeks in London and New York.Pakistan and its rich textiles were a source of early inspiration for Mr......
RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD: A strike was observed by chemists in the garrison city on Wednesday and a protest demonstration was staged outside the Nation Press Club against the Punjab Drug Ordinance......
FAISALABAD: The Pakistan Medical Association, Faisalabad chapter, has refused to get registered with the Healthcare Commission and announced closing state-run and private hospitals if the commission......
ISLAMABAD: All top positions were clinched by girls’ students of Islamabad model colleges in annual examinations of BA/BSc conducted by the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU).The QAU Vice-Chancellor Dr.......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A fake doctor’s ‘hospital’ was raided in Kamalia’s Chak 54/2-GB, Tukra village, on Wednesday evening where about 70 patients were admitted out of whom 15 were operated upon on the......
KASUR: Two motorcyclists were killed and four others -- two minors and as many women -- suffered injuries in a road accident involving a wrongly-parked tractor-trolley and two motorcycles on......
LAHORE: A large number of pharmacists lodged on Wednesday a strong protest outside the Lahore Press Club against the amendments to the Drugs Act 1976 and warned of intensifying the campaign if the......
LAHORE: A serial child rapist was killed in Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) police custody in Ferozewala on Wednesday.A police spokesman said Haroon, 22, was arrested by the CIA police for abducting......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has given a three-year waiver after the superannuation age for the appointment of medical teachers in order to address acute shortage of senior doctors in medical......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has announced naming of an institution after slain home minister of Punjab retired Col Shuja Khanzada.The announcement came at a Quran Khwani ceremony held for......
LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the Kasur police to ensure protection of the suspects facing trial in the child abuse scandal.The bench passed this order while......
LAHORE: The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has hired the services of 70 people without informing the chief executive of the province about the recommendations of the Chief Minister’s Inspection......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Wednesday granted bail to a suspect involved in attacking participants in a candlelit vigil held on the death anniversary of slain governor Salman Taseer......
LAHORE: An HRCP-AGHS fact-finding mission says it has received credible testimonies indicating large-scale sexual abuse of children over many years in Husain Khanwala village of Kasur district. It is......
LAHORE: Federal Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan on Wednesday ruled out trade with India “unless diplomatic relations” improve between the two neighbouring countries.At a seminar entitled......
LAHORE: The town municipal administrations are likely to get a number of dangerous buildings vacated in near future as their owners/occupants have ignored the notices issued to them from time to......
LAHORE: More than 50 activists of Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) were taken into custody by Iqbal Town police for subjecting a student of Wahdat Road Science College to torture on Wednesday.Ali Tabish, a......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab organiser Chaudhry Sarwar has said the banned organisations’ supporters must be removed from public offices to successfully execute the clean-up......
LAHORE: Opposition Leader in Punjab Assembly Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman’s political adviser Abdul Aleem Khan have demanded that the Punjab government immediately......
MIANWALI: Imran Khan Foundation (IKF) on Wednesday distributed food hampers and tents among the flood-hit people of Namal valley.Namal valley was devastated by hill torrents a few days ago, resulting......
FAISALABAD: The Pakistan Medical Association, Faisalabad chapter, has refused to get registered with the Healthcare Commission and announced closing state-run and private hospitals if the commission......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A fake doctor’s ‘hospital’ was raided in Kamalia’s Chak 54/2-GB, Tukra village, on Wednesday evening where about 70 patients were admitted out of whom 15 were operated upon on the......
SIALKOT: Daska police arrested the alleged murderer of a minor child on Wednesday.Sialkot District Police Officer (DPO) Rai Ejaz Ahmed told reporters the suspect (name withheld) had abducted the......
BAHAWALPUR: On the directive of the Punjab Food Authority (PFA), Assistant Commissioner Rao Tasleem Ahmed on Wednesday penalised some eateries for not maintaining hygiene standards.The AC sealed a......
LAHORE: Education Youth Ambassadors (EYAs) have collected two million signatures for the #UpForSchool and End Child Marriage petitions by mobilising people from across the country.“Over a series of......
KASUR: Two motorcyclists were killed and four others -- two minors and as many women -- suffered injuries in a road accident involving a wrongly-parked tractor-trolley and two motorcycles on......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Wednesday sought a reply from the Pakistan Standard Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) on an appeal questioning sale of substandard and adulterated milk......
LAHORE: Inspector General (IG) Mushtaq Sukhera held an RPO conference on Wednesday to review the security strategy across Punjab in the wake of the Attock incident.The conference decided to implement......
KARACHI: Police officials investigating the gun attack on Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmaker Abdul Rashid Godil on Wednesday said that the attackers riding a motorbike had chased his car from Baloch......
SUKKUR: Two boys, about 10 years of age, were subjected to sexual assault by a gang who also filmed them during the ordeal in Ali Mahar village in Ghotki, it emerged on Wednesday.Ghulam Sarwar Mahar,......
KARACHI: Twelve students of Dawood University of Engineering and Technology were booked and arrested on terrorism, rioting and other charges on Wednesday after violence erupted during a protest......
KARACHI: Expressing extreme annoyance over the non-compliance of its orders for umpteenth time, the Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday once again directed the city police authorities to ensure......
KARACHI: Adapting a classic Tennessee Williams play is a daunting task. Winning a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948, A Street Car Named Desire incorporates distinct American themes. Adapting it for a......
LARKANA: “Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmaker Rashid Godil had indeed been provided police guards for his personal security, but he transferred their services to someone else without informing the......
KARACHI: Senior Sindh Minister for Information and Education Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that the Sindh government is ready to hold local government elections in the province but its date has to be......
BADIN: A woman was arrested for allegedly killing her 32-year-old adopted son in their house located in Matli town on Wednesday.The victim, Essa Khaskheli, was stabbed to death while he was asleep in......
KARACHI: Iranian Consul General in Karachi Mehdi Subhani called on Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, at Bilawal House on Wednesday and exchanged views on issues of......
KARACHI: The Pasban-i-Pakistan, a civil society organisation, has urged the Sindh government to immediately issue temporary route permits to Qingqi rickshaws in larger public interest and order......
KHAIRPUR: A large number of singers, alghoza instrumentalists, poets, writers and members of civil society attended the soyem of renowned alghoza nawaz Mohammad Urs Bhatti in Pakka Chang on......
SUKKUR: Jeay Sindh Mahaz (JSM) chairman Riaz Chandio has criticised Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman for making efforts to dissuade the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) from......
KARACHI: Though injury and disease have claimed the lives of many zoo animals over the past decade, there has been no effort on the part of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) to hire......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has ordered registration of FIRs and arrest of 64 officials facing serious charges of corruption and financial irregularities and decided to hold open inquiries in 36......
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate remanded on Wednesday a suspect in custody of the Federal Investigation Agency in a money laundering case.The FIA arrested Shabbir Abu Talib, said to be associated with......
KARACHI: Pakistani scientists could benefit from the Horizon 2020 programme under which funds of 300 million to 400m euros are available for research assistance, said acting EU ambassador to Pakistan......
KARACHI: Despite the passage of several weeks to the dissolution of the board of directors of the corruption-ridden Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS), the Sindh government has yet to appoint an......
BANGKOK: Thailand’s national police chief said on Wednesday that a deadly bombing at a central Bangkok shrine was carried out by “a network,” as investigators focused on a man seen in a grainy......
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations officials have called for an immediate freeze on demolitions by Israeli authorities in the West Bank.“A total of 22 structures were demolished in four communities on......
TOKYO: A Japanese rocket blasted off on Wednesday carrying emergency supplies in an unmanned cargo vessel bound for the International Space Station.The H-IIB rocket lifted off from the southern......
VIENNA: Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms, operating under a secret agreement with the UN agency that normally......
WASHINGTON: The first drug to treat low sexual desire in women won approval from US health regulators on Tuesday, but with a warning about potentially dangerous low blood pressure and fainting side......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Public mockery of religion could be banned in Rio de Janeiro under a law being considered by state legislators on Wednesday with fines as high as $77,000.The bill, proposed by Rio......
NEW DELHI: Authorities in a south Indian state have ordered temples to perform special prayers for rain after a disappointing monsoon.The Andhra Pradesh government said Indians had been performing......
TUNIS: A Tunisian policeman was shot dead on Wednesday by two assailants on a motorbike in the coastal resort of Sousse where a militant gunman killed 38 tourists in June, a senior security official......
BERLIN: Germany could see as many as 800,000 migrants arriving in 2015, the country’s interior minister said on Wednesday, four times the number last year and 300,000 more than previously......
MANILA: Five communist guerrillas have been killed in a clash with special forces troops in the Philippines, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.The clash broke out Tuesday near the town of......
WASHINGTON: Hackers have released stolen information from some 33 million users of an adult website, Ashley Madison, which facilitates cheating and extra-marital affairs.Experts and technical media......
MOSCOW: A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced an Estonian security service officer to 15 years in prison for spying in a case that Estonian officials dismissed as revenge for the man’s investigation......
NEW YORK: Twenty two human rights organisations and the Human Rights Watch called on the United Nations Human Rights Council on Wednesday to create a commission of inquiry to investigate alleged......
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said here on Wednesday, that a new chapter is being opened for the country with the victory of the United National Front for Good Governance......
LOS ANGELES: Nearly 30,000 firefighters and support staff were battling blazes across a handful of mainly western US states, officials said on Wednesday, after millions of acres and multiple......
CAIRO: Plain-clothes Egyptian state security officers pounced on Suhayb Saad as he left a Cairo restaurant in June. They blindfolded the activist and his two dining companions, a student and a......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s prime minister-elect Ranil Wickremesinghe is a champion of free enterprise who has managed to win economic and political support from both the West and India in his eight months......
LONDON: The London-based Proms are celebrating their 120th year and the world’s biggest classical music festival continues to draw in crowds by mixing top performers with accessible ticket......
GENEVA: FIFA presidential contender Chung Mong-joon has accused football’s governing body of trying to “misrepresent” charitable donations he made to relief donations to Pakistan and Haiti.The South......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has called upon the International Cricket Council (ICC) to launch a Cricket World Cup for disabled cricketers.Speaking at a news conference here at the......
KARACHI: Bright Gymkhan beat KGA Gymkhana by 28 runs in the final to win the Jashn-e-Azadi Cricket Festival at the KGA Gymkhana ground here on Tuesday.Batting first after winning the toss, KGA Gym......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Hockey Federation has received the report on hockey team’s dismal performance at the Rio Olympics qualifying round from its fact finding committee on Wednesday.The green-shirts......
LAHORE The National Refresher Handball Coaches and Referees Course concluded on Wednesday at the Peshawar University Baragali, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The course was organised by the Pakistan Handball......
LAHORE: Ushna Suhail with her Indian partner Rushmi Chakravarthi defeated Valeria Bhunu (Zimbabwe) and Alexandra Walters (Australia) 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 at the ITF Women Pro Tennis Championships in......
ISLAMABAD: The International Kabaddi Coaching Course organised by the Pakistan Kabaddi Federation (PKF) started here on Wednesday at the Pakistan Sports Complex.PKF secretary Rana Mohammad Sarwar and......
LAHORE: The International Cricket Council (ICC) in an important decision on Wednesday allowed banned duo of ex-captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif to return to the game from Sept 2......
CENTURION: Hashim Amla ended the longest lean spell of his international career when he hit a century in the first One-day International against New Zealand at SuperSport Park on Wednesday.Amla (124)......
LONDON: England may have already regained the Ashes but captain Alastair Cook is determined not to let-up when they face Australia in the fifth and final Test at The Oval on Thursday — a match that......
LONDON: England fast bowler James Anderson will miss the fifth and final Ashes Test against Australia as he has failed to recover fully from a side strain, captain Alastair Cook said on......
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......
KARACHI: A faction of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) is not satisfied with the attitude of the members of the FIFA mission which came to Lahore earlier this month in a bid to resolve the......
BEIJING: Sebastian Coe pipped Sergey Bubka in a tight vote to become the new head of international athletics on Wednesday and vowed “zero tolerance” for drug cheats, who have thrown the sport into......
LONDON: Manchester United may just have found a new star to fill the club’s iconic No 7 shirt.New signing Memphis Depay moved United closer to qualification for the lucrative Champions League group......
LONDON: Australia captain Michael Clarke was in reflective mood on the eve of his final Test.Clarke, 34, announced he would retire at the end of the series immediately after his side lost the fourth......
KARACHI: Metropolitan CC chalked up their second straight victory in the KCCA Zone-VI Daud Khan Memorial Cricket Tournament when they trounced Ravi Gymkhana by 109 runs at the Afza Cricket Ground......
ISLAMABAD: Britain-born Pakistani boxer Amir Khan on Wednesday expressed resolve to establish a boxing academy in Islamabad in the next few months.Speaking briefly to media-persons here at the Sports......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief selector Haroon Rasheed has said Azhar Ali is new to captaincy but he will get mature with the passage of time and he is satisfied with his......
KARACHI: Pakistan Bridge Federation (PBF) president Nawab Mohammad Yousuf Talpur held a reception in honour of the victorious Pakistan women’s bridge team as well as the national seniors for winning......
CINCINNATI: Roger Federer shook off the rust in his first match since Wimbledon as women’s draw-cards Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams withdrew injured from the Western & Southern Open on......
COLOMBO: India and Sri Lanka head into Thursday’s second Test in Colombo with the rival captains determined not to be swayed by the emotions surrounding Kumar Sangakkara’s last match.The 37-year-old......
HONG KONG: Asian lenders are seeing their loan books rapidly deteriorate across the region as China’s slowing economy dampens trade and hurts companies that had borrowed heavily from the banks.Among......
ISLAMABAD: Amid fixing of borrowing limits on provincial governments at Rs112 billion per annum, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Wednesday opposed a demand from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to impose......
KARACHI: Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping Senator Kamran Michael on Wednesday said that the government was aware of the issues confronting shipping, logistics and supply chain industry and......
KARACHI: The US currency crossed Rs104 in the open market on Wednesday, providing a premium of more than Rs2 per dollar to sellers dealing with the banks.Though the Forex Association of Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Textile Industry has recommended the government to fix the minimum intervention price of cotton on both lint and seed at Rs3,000 per 40kg for......
KARACHI: Major global automobile manufacturers are waiting for the new Auto Industry Development Programme (AIDP) before finalising their investment plans for Pakistan.Sources said that potential......
SHANGHAI: China’s central bank has made $17 billion available to more than a dozen financial institutions to help boost the economy, it said Wednesday, a day after injecting nearly $100bn into two......
KARACHI: Stocks tumbled on Wednesday with the KSE-100 index down 84.45 points (0.24 per cent) to close at 35,461.58 points.The index initially shot up by 223 points, but was dragged down to intra-day......
Soneri Bank raises Rs3bnKARACHI: Soneri Bank on Wednesday listed its second term finance certificates (TFCs) on the Karachi Stock Exchange, said a press release. The bank raised Rs3 billion through......
KARACHI: Normal financial interaction with Iran is likely to be restored by February next year in the wake of Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers, said the State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP)......
WASHINGTON: The IMF said on Wednesday that it had extended by nine months the scheduled revision of its elite currencies basket, giving more time for adjustment to the potential inclusion of China’s......
TOKYO: Japan and Iran will start negotiations on an investment accord once sanctions are lifted following last month’s landmark international deal on Tehran’s nuclear programme, the Nikkei reported......
LAHORE: South Korean Ambassador to Pakistan Dr Song Jong Hwan on Wednesday said that Pakistan had all the required ingredients to grow like China which became a global economic giant in the past 35......
KARACHI: Tight phutti (seed cotton) supply kept the cotton market firm on Wednesday as spinners continued to look for quality lint.Floor brokers said that as picking in Punjab for new cotton crop......
LONDON: Global oil prices tanked Wednesday to a 6.5-year low as a surprise jump in US crude inventories signalled weak demand in the world’s top economy.US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for......
LONDON: Gold prices rose 1 per cent on Wednesday as concerns over the Chinese economy knocked equities, and ahead of minutes of the Federal Reserve’s last policy meeting, which could give fresh clues......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures eased 1.2 per cent on Wednesday as weak crude and competitive vegetable oils weighed on prices of the tropical oil ahead of export data due out later this......
QUETTA: The Pakistan Army has assured the Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) of its support in carrying out polio eradication campaigns along the border with Afghanistan, particularly at the Friendship......
ISLAMABAD: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Wednesday that commercial banks might be misusing the term ‘politically exposed persons’ (PEPs) to obstruct the process of providing financial......
QUETTA: The Chief Minister of Balochistan, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, urged councillors to convince their political parties to opt for devolution of powers up to the local council level in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate transformed itself into a ‘committee of the entire house’ on Wednesday and discussed proposals for reforms aimed at providing speedy and inexpensive justice to people.In their......
QUETTA: The director general of National Accountability Bureau (NAB), retired Major Tariq Mehmood Malik, handed over a Rs5.214 million cheque to the director general of livestock department on......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has advised newly appointed Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja to avail of VIP protocol and security in the wake of prevailing law and order......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: Three people were killed and another suffered injuries in firing incidents in Nasirabad and Bolan districts on Wednesday.Police said armed men opened fire and killed a woman at......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) summoned the Indian deputy high commissioner on Wednesday to lodge a protest against unprovoked ceasefire violations by Indian security forces in Harpal sector.A......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has told the Security Council that the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in cooperation with the UN was capable of dealing with the longstanding dispute of Kashmir......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court accepted on Wednesday a petition moved to seek cancellation of hunting licences and permits issued to VIPs and Arab royals that threaten the extinction of vulnerable......
ISLAMABAD: The military on Wednesday said that it had finalised a deal to purchase four Mi-35 ‘Hind E’ attack helicopters from Russia.“An agreement was signed between Pakistan and Russia in......
PESHAWAR: At least 10 suspected militants were killed in air strikes in Shawal area of North Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday amid migration of civilians from the affected areas to......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences has formed a team of doctors for treatment of Muttahida Qaumi Movement legislator Rashid Godil, who was critically injured in an attack in......
ISLAMABAD: In a move that has blocked the disbursement of the next tranche of Coalition Support Fund (CSF), the United States has told Pakistan that it would not be certifying to the Congress that......
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......
THE self-styled Islamic State (IS) beheaded Khaled al Assaad, the retired chief archaeologist of Palmyra, an ancient city in Syria, on Tuesday.Mr Assaad’s body had been hung in the city’s ancient......
WASHINGTON: The United States has reminded India and Pakistan that they have enough motivation to resolve their differences peacefully.At a news briefing in Washington, the US State Department......
WASHINGTON: An almost complete version of a tiny human brain has been grown in a US lab in a move that could bring major strides to the treatment of neurological diseases, a scientist says.Rene......
ISLAMABAD: Polling for the first phase of local government elections in Punjab and Sindh will take place on October 12.A meeting held at the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan summoned on Wednesday the Afghan ambassador here to protest over a border clash in which three Frontier Constabulary men were killed earlier this week.Afghanistan’s Ambassador......
NEW DELHI: The August 23-24 meeting between the national security advisers of India and Pakistan appeared to be delicately poised on Wednesday amid reports that Pakistan’s representative would meet......
ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has succeeded in persuading the government and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to hold direct talks on issues which led to the......
CAIRO: The war in Yemen has pushed the country to the brink of famine, with both commercial food imports and aid deliveries held up by the fighting and millions of hungry women and children facing......
ISLAMABAD: Addressing a joint press conference with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Minister Shahram Khan Tarakai, Federal Minister for Health Saira Afzal Tarar on Wednesday said a national vision for the......
