SIRINAGAR: A young commander of the Kashmiri Hizbul Mujahideen, Burhan Muzaffar Wani has invited the people of Kashmir, specially the youth, to join them and take up arms against India in a message......
QUETTA: Eight militants, including a commander of a proscribed organisation were killed in Balochistan’s Dera Bugti district on Wednesday according to a statement issued by the Frontier Corps......
ISLAMABAD: US Ambassador to Pakistan, Richard G. Olson paid a farewell visit to Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday.The finance minister on the occasion lauded the services of the......
ISLAMABAD: Three Pakistan cricketers will have to undergo a six-month rehabilitation program before they can return to international cricket after their five-year ban ends on September 1.The Pakistan......
KARACHI: British boxer Amir Khan on Wednesday vowed to help Pakistan produce champion pugilists with a network of academies in his family's country of origin.The former two-time world champion is......
LAHORE: The twice-postponed Pakistan Super League (PSL) will finally be ready for take off in Doha, Qatar, next year, former chairman Najam Sethi announced on Wednesday.The event is scheduled for......
MONETA: A television reporter and cameraman were shot to death on the air during a live broadcast on Wednesday morning from a shopping centre in Virginia.Jeffrey A. Marks, general manager of WDBJ-TV,......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Wednesday assisted a group of 550 registered Afghan refugees in returning to Afghanistan’s Herat.The repatriation took place......
GENEVA: The Champions League season takes shape Thursday when UEFA draws 32 elite teams into groups in Monaco.The most coveted prize in club football promises the world's best players performing at......
AHMADABAD: At least six people have died in the worst violence to hit Narendra Modi's home state in more than a decade, police said, as the Indian prime minister appealed for calm.Fresh communal......
KARACHI: Shares in the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) ended down in a volatile session on Wednesday as investors become more risk-averse amid foreign outflows worth $20 million in the previous session,......
SANAA: Yemeni army units allied to the Houthi militia fired a ballistic missile toward southern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the group's TV channel said, as combat between the kingdom and the rebel......
It’s a breezy Sunday morning when I am warmly greeted into Asha Jadeja’s home located in Palo Alto, California. The prospect of meeting a leading venture capitalist from Silicon Valley who has......
KARACHI: The joint investigation team (JIT) formed to probe the Baldia Town factory inferno case has been granted permission to travel to London carry out further investigations in the case, DawnNews......
NEW YORK: Former world number one Rafa Nadal is feeling confident about his chances of competing for a third US Open title when the tournament starts in New York next week.“I hope to be ready for it.......
With Kapil Sharma taking a break from Comedy Nights With Kapil, it seems that it's resignation season on popular TV these days. Karan Johar has also decided to leave his late-night gig, the popular......
MULTAN: Punjab election tribunal's commission on Wednesday announced its verdict in favour of Jahangir Tareen over a petition filed by the former secretary general of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday announced the schedule for the first phase of local body elections in Punjab and Sindh, the process of which will commence in......
Pakistan’s former captain Aamir Sohail has posed a set of questions for those running the affairs at the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).In his recent blog for pakpassion.net, Sohail writes: “The......
ASTANA: Pakistan and Kazakhstan held delegations level talks in Astana on Wednesday to discuss the means to enhance cooperation between the two countries in various fields.The Pakistani delegation......
KARACHI: Former federal minister and chairman of the provincial Higher Education Commission (HEC) Dr Asim Hussain was reportedly detained by plain-clothed men allegedly belonging to an intelligence......
“The United States is behind the increase in divorce rates in Pakistan.”If you live in Pakistan, you must be used to hearing – and perhaps making – such and even more outrageous statements. But not......
RAWALPINDI: General Lloyd J. Austin Commander United States Central Command (Centcom) on Wednesday called on Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi,......
DUBAI: The main suspect in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers residence at a US military base in Saudi Arabia has been captured after nearly 20 years on the run, a Saudi-owned newspaper reported......
ISLAMABAD: Despite recent optimism surrounding Pakistan's economy, the country is facing an “existential crisis” stemming from its woeful tax collection rates and inability to finance itself, a......
AHMEDABAD: Clashes erupted overnight between police and members of a landowning community demanding government benefits in western India.Authorities sent paramilitary forces to help restore order......
KABUL: The fate of two brothers from Kabul, one grievously wounded, the other killed fighting in Syria, spotlights Iran's covert but active recruitment of Afghan refugees to buttress President Bashar......
ISLAMABAD: Top Commanders of Pakistan Rangers and Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) are scheduled to meet in New Delhi from September 9 to 13, sources in Pakistan's paramilitary force told......
While the nation was preoccupied in discussing the possible return of spot-fixing tainted Mohammad Amir, it went largely unnoticed that another spearhead, Umar Gul, has been working hard in the gym......
Fawad Khan's been keeping a low profile these days, preferring to let his onscreen appearances do the talking for him.Is he recovering from time spent on the sets of Kapoor & Sons, or is he just......
NEW DELHI: India's Hindus have dropped below 80 per cent of the population for the first time since independence and media had speculated the previous government deliberately delayed the release of......
Rishi Kapoor fans will have to keep their eyes peeled at their next visit to the book store.The Bollywood actor-director-producer's memoir is near completion, and only a final selection of family......
NAKYAL SECTOR: India and Pakistan aborted rare talks on their festering conflict in Kashmir this weekend under a cloud of recriminations, while on the front line, villagers cowering from artillery in......
KABUL: Gunmen wearing Afghan military uniforms shot dead two Nato soldiers on a base in the country's south on Wednesday, the coalition said, in the latest insider attack on foreign troops.So-called......
SOME one has rightly commented that under Daesh (the so-called Islamic State) history is now becoming history. Is the world community so helpless that it cannot prevent a mad crowd from looting,......
IT is becoming exceedingly obvious that India has a well-thought-out foreign policy, the prime objective of which is to inflict more grief on Pakistan.It has built a highway through Myanmar to......
THE report by Khaleeq Kiani of a meeting of the Senate Stating Committee on Finance and Revenue (Aug 20), on the alleged misuse of the term “politically exposed persons” (PEPs) by the banks, throws......
APROPOS Ashaar Rehman’s article ‘A new food guide to Lahore’, it is correct that unhygienic and substandard readymade food is spoiling the health of the masses.This act of food adulteration by the......
CAPT Waseemuddin Razi, the hero of Tirah, presents one of the shining examples of courage, strength and sacrifice. Born and grown up in Karachi, he got the training in Kakul and joined the SSG in......
THE education system of Punjab is much better than Balochistan. I, a Baloch, appeared for my FSc (pre-engineering) two months back from Multan and I am awaiting my results.Punjab holds a combined......
IT will be almost four years since the service road in Sector 11B, North Karachi, was dug up so as to make a new one. But up to now nothing has been done except making a footpath.As a result, we are......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday stayed the execution of an alleged juvenile convict and suspended death sentence awarded to him by a military court few months ago over conviction of......
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has ordered shifting of commercial entities, offices and educational institutions from the University Town, Peshawar without inflicting any harm on students......
PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has arrested a former executive engineer of Pak PWD (Public Works Department), Pervez Khan, on the charges of possessing assets......
LANDI KOTAL: The bomb disposal squad defused an explosive device planted outside the house of a central leader of Jamaat-i-Islami, Fata, here on Tuesday.Officials said that the security forces......
MANSEHRA: The Mansehra district jail is overcrowded and therefore, surplus inmates should be shifted to other prisons in the province.This was stated by Shahjehan Khan Swati, special visitor to......
PESHAWAR: An Ehtesab court sent provincial minister Ziaullah Afridi to prison on judicial remand on Tuesday, a day after the Peshawar High Court granted him bail in a case of misuse of authority and......
SWABI: Active participation in sports and extra-curricular activities can keep the youth away from social evils and it is the responsibility of the entire society to provide a friendly environment to......
KOHAT: Work on Darmalak small dam, which was suspended in 2008 due to bad law and order situation in the area, has been resumed and the project would now be completed in June 2016.According to......
MARDAN: Differences surfaced in Pakistan Peoples Party here on Tuesday after its councillors-elect split into two groups over the issue of making coalition with other political parties for the......
PESHAWAR: The mother of former chief secretary Khalid Aziz breathed her last here on Tuesday.Her Nimze Janaza will be offered at her ancestral graveyard in University Town today (Wednesday) at......
MINGORA: Sumbal Rehman is a teenage local dancer but the performing art is not her passion. She performs in functions to earn livelihood for her family and buy medicines for her ailing father,......
KHAR: The political administration of Bajaur Agency has expressed concern over the poor performance of Utmankhel tribesmen in fulfilling their collective responsibility against militant activities in......
NOWSHERA: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission was fully free and independent to put hand on any corrupt politician or bureaucrat without any influence, said MNA Imran Khattak.Addressing a press......
KARAK: The local elders and literati have demanded of the district administration to renovate Town Hall, the only place for holding cultural, political and official functions in Karak.Talking to......
ISLAMABAD: After surrendering at the I-11 katchi abadi, which was demolished by the Capital Development Authority (CDA) last month, slum dwellers have been reorganising themselves to resist against......
ISLAMABAD: The testimony of the US lobbyist, Mark Seigel, the star witness against fromer president retired General Pervez Musharraf in the Benazir Bhutto murder case, has been delayed until......
RAWALPINDI: In an effort to improve the security cover provided to VIPs, the Punjab government has decided to change the security codes, or ‘call signs’ designated for federal and provincial......
ISLAMABAD: Tuesday might be a ‘bad day’ for the director general of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) Shahnaz A. Riaz as she was not only briefly detained at the Islamabad High Court (IHC)......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Secretary for Aviation Mohammad Ali Gardezi on Tuesday assured the National Assembly Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat that the New Islamabad Airport would be ready by......
SeminarA seminar ‘Education for All’ will be held on Wednesday, August 26 at Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Services, F-5, at 10am.CeremonyPARWAAN E9 National Centre of Excellence for Early......
RAWALPINDI, Aug 25: University Institute of Information Technology (UIIT) of Pir Mehr Ali Shah-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi (PMAS-AAUR) organized its 8th annual Open House on Tuesday.The......
RAWALPINDI: Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has paid Rs5.7 million to Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) to get possession of the building at the historical Liaquat Bagh which it would use as......
RAWALPINDI: The Metro Bus Authority (MBA)’s plan to launch a shuttle service in Rawalpindi has hit snags after the city district government expressed its inability to arrange 35 kanals of land for......
RAWALPINDI: The manager of a local hotel was arrested for not intimating the police about the arrival of two Indian nationals in his hotel.Babar Mumtaz, deputy superintendent of police DSP City......
ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has only 1,600 staff members to counter over 40 per cent drug trafficking of the world via Pakistan.This was disclosed during a briefing to the Public......
ISLAMABAD: After banks, the capital police also served notices on a number of filling stations to enhance their security to avoid robberies.Police officials told Dawn that the notices were served on......
MUZAFFARABAD: An official body in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) has decided to establish three new and upgrade and extend two existing national parks to promote and proliferate eco-tourism and......
TAXILA: Due to the apathy, bureaucratic and indifferent attitude of the officials of the Punjab department of archaeology, a gallery constructed to display newly- discovered antiquities in the Taxila......
ISLAMABAD: The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the capital police claimed to have busted four gangs of robbers and recovered two vehicles, three bikes, fake currency notes and weapons from their......
RAWALPINDI: Government hospitals in the city received over 26 dengue patients from different areas within a week.Despite spending millions of rupees on the anti-dengue measures, the disease is......
ISLAMABAD: The health experts at a workshop on Tuesday had a consensus that malnutrition among children was one of the biggest issues of the country and needed immediate attention.The workshop: Pak......
MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly members held a rally here on Tuesday to condemn ‘unprovoked’ ceasefire violations by Indian troops from across the Line of Control......
FAISALABAD: After having two rounds of talks, the powerloom owners and Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM) office-bearers could not reach any conclusion to open factories in Sidhar closed since Aug 8.The LQM......
FAISALABAD: International Kabaddi player Saba Sultana, who was allegedly shot at and injured, was booked in a murder case along with her father, two brothers on Tuesday when her “attacker” Imran......
SARGODHA: The protest of the revenue department against the PML-N MPA entered eighth day on Tuesday with the entire department of the district locked and the main sit-in being held on the road in......
SAHIWAL: Police arrested a man on Tuesday for killing the minor son of his farm labourer in village 12/11-L late on Monday.Chichawatni Saddar police arrested Shahbaz Gujjar who confessed that he had......
LAHORE: Law Minister Rana Sanaullah heard both MPA Tahir Sindhu and AC Asif Shah whom he (the MPA) had allegedly manhandled.The provincial administration and the PMS officers are also angry over it......
SARGODHA: The only main road linking Sargodha and Salem Motorway Exchange has become dangerous and there have been several accidents as light and heavy traffic as well as donkey carts and motorbikes......
SAHIWAL: Two police officials, including a deputy superintendent of police (DSP), allegedly committed suicide during the last 24 hours in the city.Ayub Khan Baloch, assistant sub-inspector at the......
SIALKOT: The Punjab Rangers launched a ‘Rangers Environment Protection and Improvement Drive’ (REPAID) in Sialkot on Tuesday by planting a sapling at the Head Marala.The students of the Rangers......
MULTAN: Scores of visually challenged persons took to the street here on Tuesday to protest against the district coordination officer for not following the job quota for special persons.The......
LAHORE: A campaign for enrollment of the children of brick kiln workers into nearby schools was inaugurated by Punjab Labour and Human Resource Minister Raja Ashfaq Sarwar in Nankana Sahib on......
LAHORE: Law-enforcement agencies (LEAs) on Tuesday reportedly arrested a “secret agent of Indian agency RAW”.According to some private TV channels, the intelligence agencies arrested Ilyas, a former......
LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department, in association with the intelligence agencies, arrested as many as 182 members of various banned outfits, including 39 from Lahore, during search......
MULTAN: The election tribunal will announce its verdict on the petition of former secretary general of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Jahangir Tareen on Wednesday (today) against alleged rigging in......
LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan admits there have been 20 seminaries in the province whose students or faculty had the history of being involved in terrorism or just being......
FAISALABAD: Employees and owners of a soft drink manufacturing unit on Tuesday held hostage the city assistant commissioner (city) and his team during a raid in Sindhpura locality and subjected them......
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) will not consult Pakistan Railways (PR) in implementing the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train project. It says the PR has no expertise in laying such rail......
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid president Chaudhry Shujaat Husain and former deputy prime minister Pervaiz Elahi called on ex-caretaker premier Mir Balakh Sher Mazari and Sardar Maqsood Leghari......
LAHORE: The city government teams on Tuesday raided different spots in the city and seized a huge quantity of dead animals’ meat, including that of donkeys and horses.According to officials, a team......
LAHORE: A sessions court dismissed on Tuesday the bail application of a factory owner involved in Rs 730 million gas theft case.Additional District and Sessions Judge Syed Muhammad Umar heard the......
LAHORE: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition against physical remand of five accused in the Kasur child abuse scandal.The counsel for Akhtar Ali Sherazi’s wife......
LAHORE: Up to 45,000 children aged 4-9 years are still out of school in Lahore and the education department is trying to enroll them and sustain their retention in classrooms.Executive District......
LAHORE: It was an awesome music evening at the Punjab Café of the Punjab Institute of Language, Art and Culture (PILAC) on Tuesday.The evening was a tribute to the late film and ghazal singer, Pervez......
KARACHI: The Sindh home department has identified 49 madressahs having alleged links with ‘terrorist organisations’ against whom the ‘relevant authorities’ have been told to take action, it emerged......
KARACHI: A policeman was killed and another wounded in an armed attack in the Saddar area on Tuesday, officials said.They said the two policemen signalled four men on two motorbikes to stop on main......
KARACHI: The Karachi University administration has yet to fix responsibility for security breach by supermodel Ayyan Ali, who last week entered the varsity with her five armed guards and a manager......
KARACHI: A court was informed on Tuesday that 17 senior officials of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, including a former managing director, have been booked for illegally sanctioning a......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday tagged the petitions filed by different political parties and individuals against the demarcation of local government constituencies in different parts of......
TALKA talk on ‘Pakistan-Japan relations — prospects & opportunities’, organised by the University of Karachi in its auditorium, at 11am.SEMINARA public awareness seminar on diabetes, organised by the......
KARACHI: Doctors at the Liaquat National Hospital (LNH) on Tuesday declared that Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmaker Rashid Godil was ‘out of danger’ and as his condition was improving......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court issued a notice on Tuesday to a Rangers’ prosecutor on an application of detained Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Qamar Mansoor seeking treatment and constitution of a......
KARACHI: The Pakistan customs intercepted a bus near the Hub Chowki, seized smuggled goods of over Rs5.9 million worth from it and registered an FIR, a statement said on Tuesday.It added that the bus......
KARACHI: A book on poet Josh Malihabadi’s revolutionary ideas titled Tasavvur-i-Inqilaab aur Josh by Dr Alia Imam was launched at the Arts Council on Tuesday evening.Justice Salahuddin Mirza, who......
LARKANA: Several hundred activists and supporters of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) took part in a rally taken out on Tuesday against what the party described as a deceitful drive launched by......
MIRPURKHAS: A mob stormed a house and set it on fire after severely beating up a woman and her two sons to avenge the murder of a youth, blamed on the family, in Jhuddo town on Tuesday.Police and......
THATTA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Sassui Palijo has warned that the coastal districts of Thatta, Sujawal and Badin may vanish by 2050 — as mentioned in a report recently prepared by the......
SUKKUR: In a second such incident within two days in the same vicinity, a landmine exploded near Khalid Brohi village near Tangwani town of Kandhkhot-Kashmore district on Tuesday leaving two......
HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Sindh High Court Hyderabad circuit on Tuesday granted pre-arrest bail to Liaquat University Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Khalid Qureshi in a sum of Rs500,000,......
KARACHI: Karachi Metropolitan Corporation staffers in the early hours of Tuesday sealed Markaz-i-Ilm-o-Saqafat Hall located near Ayesha Manzil over non-payment of KMC dues and for illegally......
MIAMI: Tropical Storm Erika has formed in the Atlantic and could hit the Bahamas as a hurricane later this week, US forecasters warned on Tuesday.The storm was currently situated some 750 miles east......
HERAT: At least 11 people, most of them children, were killed when a series of explosions at an Afghan gas storage facility triggered a massive inferno in a nearby settlement for displaced people,......
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin played host to the king of Jordan and the crown prince of Abu Dhabi on the first day of Russia’s main aviation and space show on Tuesday.In opening the......
BANGUI: At least 20 people were killed and many others injured in days of sectarian clashes in the Central African Republic, sparked by the death of a young Muslim, police sources said on Tuesday.The......
BERLIN: Germany scrambled on Tuesday to quell a wave of anti-migrant violence, as a suspected arson attack hit a planned refugee shelter just hours after Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced xenophobic......
JOHANNESBURG: A South African court on Tuesday granted bail to one of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela’s grandsons who is facing charges of raping an under-age girl.The 24-year-old is alleged to......
TOKYO: An unmanned cargo ship loaded with emergency supplies — including Japanese whisky — successfully docked at the International Space Station early on Tuesday, officials said.But thirsty......
PARIS: Libya’s foreign minister on Tuesday renewed a call for the lifting of an arms embargo and for international air strikes to help tackle the self-styled Islamic State which threatens to create a......
ANKARA: Turkey’s foreign minister says Turkish and US officials have concluded “technical talks” on operations against the Islamic State group (IS).Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters on Tuesday that......
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Tuesday piled pressure on South Sudan’s president, warning it was ready to “act immediately” if he does not sign a deal to end the 20-month war ripping......
WASHINGTON: The United States imposed on Tuesday sanctions on a brother of the leader of the Haqqani Network, adding him to its terrorist blacklist.Abdul Aziz Haqqani, a brother of the network’s......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is working on an independent domestic mechanism to investigate charges of war crimes, the country’s Foreign Minister told US representatives on Tuesday.Foreign Minister Mangala......
UNITED NATIONS: A United Nations expert has asked the European Union to establish a human rights-based, coherent and comprehensive migration policy which makes mobility its central asset.“This is the......
ROSTOV-ON-DON: A Russian military court convicted a prominent Ukrainian filmmaker on Tuesday of conspiring to commit terror attacks and sentenced him to 20 years in prison in what critics called a......
IT has been fascinating to watch the development of the media in the post-communist regimes of eastern Europe.In several instances, steps forward towards the foundation of press freedom have been......
ENTOTO: High above the crowded streets of Addis Ababa, among fields where farmers lead oxen dragging wooden ploughs, sits Ethiopia’s space programme.Perched on the top of the 3,200-metre high Mount......
LONDON: One of the charms of Test cricket is that a match scheduled to last five days allows for the possibility of a fightback, even if a team falls behind early on.It was a charm, however,......
DURBAN: The book on Kane Williamson requires constant rewrites, but if he can get his fresh-faced team over the line in Durban on Wednesday it could be one of the more compelling chapters yet.After......
BEIJING: David Rudisha strained every sinew to win gold, Genzebe Dibaba dominated in the way the Kenyan once did and Usain Bolt’s second sprint showdown with Justin Gatlin moved a step closer at the......
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan rebuffed suggestions from newly-appointed ICC president Zaheer Abbas that Pakistan should show flexibility and even consider going to......
SYDNEY: Michael Clarke had announced his retirement from ODI cricket after leading Australia to the fifth World Cup title earlier this year. Now he has announced his retirement from Tests as well......
LONDON: England have rested Ashes-winning star batsman Joe Root from their squads for both the upcoming lone Twenty20 International and five One-day Internationals against Australia.Root, the Ashes......
LONDON: England are to play four home Tests against Pakistan and three against Sri Lanka next year.“Pakistan and Sri Lanka will attract strong support from their own communities in this country,”......
DOHA: Football World Cup 2022 host Qatar is poised to move into the lucrative international Twenty20 cricket market as the venue for the inaugural Pakistan Super League, officials said on Tuesday.The......
TOKYO: Japanese is unable to guarantee it will meet an International Olympic Committee (IOC) deadline to complete work on the new National Stadium in time for the 2020 Games.IOC vice-president John......
LONDON: After Petr Cech’s opening-day blunders proved so costly for Arsenal, the veteran goalkeeper demonstrated against Liverpool on Monday why he will be an asset rather than a liability for his......
LONDON: Manchester City is top of the first Associated Press Global Football 10 of the new season and Pedro Rodriguez is the leading player after scoring on his Chelsea debut.Manuel Pellegrini’s City......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Floating trash in Rio de Janeiro’s picturesque but polluted Guanabara Bay has forced the organisers to switch venues for an Olympic sailing test event.The men and women’s events in......
MADRID: Spaniard Alejandro Valverde denied Peter Sagan a second straight triumph when he outsprinted the Slovakian to win the fourth stage of the Tour of Spain on Tuesday, narrowing the gap to leader......
LAHORE: Pakistan Independence Day Women’s Powerlifting and Powersports Gala will be held at the National Weightlifting Club here on Aug 29.Published in Dawn, August 26th, 2015On a mobile phone? Get......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Independence Day Inter-club Gymnastics Championship was organised by the Punjab Gymnastics Association here on Tuesday.The events held in the one-day event included floor......
LONDON: FC Astana did not exist when Manchester United became European champions for the third time in 2008.The two teams have very different pedigrees but are chasing the same goal on Wednesday —......
LONDON: The Formula One community mourned another death in the family on Tuesday after British racer Justin Wilson, a friend to many in the grand prix paddock, succumbed to head injuries suffered in......
KARACHI: Pakistan is likely to send one or two cueists in the IBSF world under-18 snooker championship being held in St Petersburg, Russia, from Oct 3 to 11.Players, who are under 18 years as of Dec......
WINSTON-SALEM (North Carolina): Defending champion Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic opened with a 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) victory on Monday over Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis in the first round of the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Jiu-Jitsu Open, which was scheduled to be held from Sept 3, 2015 here at the Pakistan Sports Complex, has been postponed until March next year.Keeping in view sports......
ISLAMABAD: The PTF Masters Invitation Tennis Championship saw a marathon five-set thriller between Yasir Khan and Mohammad Abid with the former defeating Abid on Tuesday.Both the players kept......
KARACHI: The new domestic cricket season opens with the Inter-Region U-19 One-day Tournament starting at different centres across the country on Sept 1, the PCB announced on Tuesday.Eighteen teams......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Tuesday that the recent developments on the exchange rate regime do not pose any serious challenge to the economy as “this positioning is driven by......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank on Tuesday approved a provisional assistance package of at least $1.2 billion per year on average for Pakistan, covering 2015-19 period focusing on......
ISLAMABAD: A new integrated national bourse, Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE), will soon replace the stock markets of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad, a joint meeting of their demutualisation committees......
ISLAMABAD: Services exports grew by 7.41 per cent to $5.740 billion during the last fiscal year (2014-15) as compared to $5.344bn in the preceding year, suggested data of Pakistan Bureau of......
KARACHI: The local industry has resented import of cement from Iran, and its alleged massive under-invoicing.Industry sources said that the Iranian cement, which was earlier being smuggled, is now......
BEIJING: China’s richest man lost $3.6 billion in a single day after global stock markets tanked and Chinese markets erased all their gains for the year.Wang Jianlin, chairman and founder of property......
KARACHI: Stocks snapped six-day losing streak on Tuesday, as the KSE-100 index recovered 698.46 points (2.11 per cent), or nearly half of the huge loss suffered the previous day.The session was......
LAHORE: The local producers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) have urged the government to bring down the producer’s price in line with the LPG policy.In a statement issued here on Tuesday, LPG......
WASHINGTON: China is exporting something new to the world economy: Fear.Global investors are quaking over the prospect of a devastating slump in the world’s second-biggest economy. And they’re fast......
KARACHI: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Pakistan Ltd on Tuesday announced demerger through scheme of arrangement, whereby its healthcare business would be separated into a legal entity ‘GSK Consumer......
LONDON: European and US shares rebounded on bargain-hunting on Tuesday as China cut rates after fears of a slowdown in the world’s second-biggest economy sparked a “Black Monday” rout across global......
LONDON: Gold fell more than 1 per cent on Tuesday after an interest rate cut from China helped global markets rebound from the previous day’s rout.Spot gold was down 1.1pc at $1,141.56 an ounce at......
KARACHI: Spinners remained in the forefront of buying activity on the cotton market on Tuesday amid falling lint prices.However, there was lack of enthusiasm because of depressing global economic......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures continued their decline for a fifth straight day to hit their lowest in nearly six-and-a-half years on Tuesday, as traders focused more on weakness in......
FRANKFURT: German companies shrugged off concerns about China’s economy and turmoil in Greece, a key survey showed. The result, however, likely did not yet reflect the latest plunges in Chinese and......
DUBAI: Iran will ramp up crude oil production and reclaim its lost share of exports shortly after international sanctions on the Opec member are lifted, Iran’s oil minister Bijan Zanganeh said on......
NEW DELHI: Overwhelmed Indian officials have cancelled plans to fill a handful of menial government jobs after being flooded with 75,000 applications — some from university graduates.The Chhattisgarh......
MOSCOW: Russia’s Economy Ministry lowered its forecasts for economic growth in 2015 and 2016 on Tuesday, underscoring how global worries and a renewed slide in oil prices are complicating recovery......
ISLAMABAD: The government and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) continued their talks on Tuesday on the formation of “Grievances Redressal Committee (GRC)” and agreed to wait for the return of Prime......
ASTANA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called on Tuesday for further strengthening of ties between Pakistan and Kazakhstan through enhanced cooperation in diverse areas, particularly trade, energy and......
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N set a deadline of two weeks on Tuesday for the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)-led government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) to explain what it termed the illegal utilisation of Rs30......
LAHORE: The Lahore election tribunal judge whose decision in the NA-122 case has deprived National Assembly speaker Ayaz Sadiq of his office accused Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid of hurling......
KARACHI: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has said that the issue of Balochistan is of political nature and it can only be resolved through dialogue and political struggle within the......
ISLAMABAD: The PPP has decided to pursue its alliance with the ANP and the JUI-F in the elections for heads of district governments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to be held on August 30.After a marathon......
QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court ordered on Tuesday that an advertisement be published in newspapers asking Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain to appear before the court.ATC-II Quetta judge......
QUETTA: Traders took out a procession here on Tuesday to protest against seizure of goods smuggled from Iran and Afghanistan during raids conducted by the Frontier Corps on shops in the city.The......
WASHINGTON: Not all disputes between India and Pakistan are linked to terrorism, says the United States while urging the two neighbours to resume their formal dialogue.National security advisers of......
ISLAMABAD: Petroleum Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is doing nothing to stop theft of natural gas in the province, which is causing an annual loss of......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court proposed on Tuesday that a renowned architect be employed to rebuild a Hindu temple in Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as had been done in case of a temple in......
KARACHI: Amid resentment and criticism from certain political circles over the ‘Karachi operation’, the military establishment came up with a clear line on Tuesday that there would be no let-up in......
ISLAMABAD: Amid legal and operational hiccups, the Pakistan State Oil (PSO) officially conceded on Tuesday its inability to ensure smooth supply of 300 million cubic feet of liquefied natural gas......
FOR the past one year at least, a series of economic crises have been roiling the global economy to which we in Pakistan have been little more than spectators. But this week, the sharp volatilities......
There remains a troubling disconnect between what the government claims and the reality on the ground when it comes to the state’s attempts to fight sectarianism.On Monday, Interior Minister Nisar......
WHEN government departments fail to do their jobs, citizens often have few places to turn to other than the judiciary, often the Supreme Court.Two recent examples from Karachi have reaffirmed this as......
Though it may sound incredible given the latest diplomatic debacle, India and Pakistan had come close to an agreement on the most contentious issue of Kashmir a few years ago. It is yet another story......
Amid all the hubbub over talks between India and Pakistan, news emerged last week about a survey done by the Indian Muslim women’s rights organisation Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA). The......
CHIEF Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja commenced what will possibly be the shortest term of any Supreme Court chief justice (23 days, ending Sept 9, 2015) with refreshing independence, eg the short order of......
GERMANY’S far-right parties are planning a show of force this coming weekend in a small town called Goslar.They are irked by the fact that the town’s mayor, Oliver Junk — a member of Angela Merkel’s......
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday slammed Pakistan Muslim League – N for ‘pressurising’ and ‘threatening’ election tribunal judges after the Lahore election......
QUETTA: Four alleged militants were killed on Tuesday night in an exchange of fire with security forces in Quetta.The incident occurred in Quetta’s Mian Ghundai area.“The militants were coming to......
PARIS: The French National Gendarme service says three people have apparently been killed and two police officers wounded, including a child on Tuesday in a shootout at a gypsy camp in northern......
