ANKARA: Turkish fighter jets have carried out their first airstrikes as part of the U.S.-led coalition against the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, Turkey announced on Saturday.A......
KARACHI: The provincial government of Sindh on Saturday decided to refer eight terrorism cases to the military courts, in line with actions taken under the National Action Plan (NAP).Under NAP, 18......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday directed the National Highway Authority (NHA) to complete all projects by December 2017, other than those which are scheduled for earlier......
NEW YORK: World number ones Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic will launch their bids for the US Open title on Monday's first day of competition, tournament organizers announced Friday.In a Twitter......
QUETTA: The provincial education department of Balochistan on Saturday terminated more than 400 ghost teachers across the province as part of an ongoing scrutiny regarding ghost employees.The ghost......
LONDON: Arsenal clinched their second Premier League win of the season at Newcastle while West Ham handed Liverpool a 3-0 drubbing in Saturday's big matches.After Monday's goalless draw with......
COLOMBO: Cheteshwar Pujara marked his recall with an unbeaten century after Sri Lanka's Dhammika Prasad ripped through India's batting in the decisive third and final Test in Colombo on Saturday.The......
KARACHI: The director general of Sindh Rangers, Major General Bilal Akbar, said the paramilitary force would set up a task force to provide protection to lawyers.He stated this on Saturday while......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan announced on Saturday to hold a sit-in in front of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in Islamabad if its members do not tender their......
Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar has advised disgraced fast bowler Mohammad Amir to ‘hire a shrink’ as he charts his return to international cricket after a five-year ban for spot-fixing.Akhtar,......
ISLAMABAD: At least 14 suspected militants were killed and their sanctuaries destroyed as military planes bombed the Shawal area of North Waziristan tribal region, the military’s media wing stated on......
Pakistan’s embattled off-spinner Saeed Ajmal may have seen his stint with Worcestershire come to an end but he has not given up hopes of comeback to the national team.The 37-year-old has struggled to......
KARACHI: A three-member observer team of the United Nations (UN) visited the Working Boundary at Kundanpur village in Sialkot on Saturday to review damages caused by firing at the border, said a......
CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced three Al-Jazeera English journalists to three years in prison, the last twist in a long-running trial criticised worldwide by press freedom advocates......
This last Eid, as I was walking through the dusty old alleys of Nazimabad 5-C – paying visits to age-old community members and families from the time of my grandfather’s era – I couldn’t help but......
KUALA LUMPUR: Defying authorities, tens of thousands of Malaysians wearing yellow T-shirts and blowing horns gathered Saturday in Kuala Lumpur for a major rally to demand the resignation of embattled......
ISLAMABAD: US national security adviser Susan E. Rice is scheduled to arrive in Pakistan on Sunday on a day long official visit, it has been learnt.According to details, Rice is expected to meet......
Who doesn't want to know their favourite actor's deepest, darkest desires?And who wouldn't want to voyeur into the mind of the likes of Shah Rukh Khan?The Bollywood actor shared his bucket list of......
Fawad Khan will return to his musical roots in his Bollywood next, Kapoor & Sons.While he plays a writer in the film, in which he co-stars with Siddharth Malhotra (who plays his brother) and Alia......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers informed an anti-terrorism court on Saturday that the Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Managing Director of the Sui Southern Gas Company's (SSGC) Shoaib Warsi and two......
BEIRUT: A brief truce between Syrian regime forces and rebel groups in three key towns ended early Saturday as the warring parties resumed clashes and shelling, a monitoring group said.Pro-regime......
Curious to know more about Mehreen Jabbar's next feature film, Dobara Phir Se?The shoot of Dobara Phir Se, which is set in New York, moved to Westport, Connecticut for a scene, where director Jabbar......
DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh announced on Saturday that they have made additional arrests in the killings of secular bloggers by suspected Islamist radicals that have raised concerns about the......
WE see a lot of new stuff in almost all fields these days. Everyone tries to impress others with their unique abilities and skills either in arts, technology, fashion, graphics, architecture, web and......
Freaky helmets!THESE hyper-realistic human head helmets are digitally designed by Dubai-based artist Jyo John Mullor. He explains on his website: “All my life I have always been a passionate......
THERE is always something new and exciting offered by internet giant Google and this time it’s for kids. Camp Google is a site that offers children aged seven to ten, a time full of fun and learning......
By Istaara AmjadI WOKE UP to the sound of birds chirping in the tree by my window. I lay there for a moment. It was my birthday today! Finally, I would be 12! Hopefully, I would get what I had been......
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Friday stopped the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission from re-arresting a PTI MPA’s father and former chief coordinating officer of Kohat district council,......
KOHAT: The government degree college, Gumbat, completed at a cost of Rs140 million a year ago is still without water and electricity, which has been adversely affecting the students.“We are now......
MANSEHRA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Pakistan Peoples Party on Friday agreed to form a coalition government in Mansehra district after the latter accepted the office of naib nazim in the future......
PESHAWAR: The pen-down strike by the Workers Welfare Board Employees Union for service regularisation, reinstatement of sacked workers and removal of certain officials entered 10th day on Friday.The......
KHAR: Scores of people staged a protest demonstration against the lack of treatment facilities for female patients in the agency headquarters hospital in Bajaur Agency here the other day.The......
PESHAWAR: Microsoft, an international IT company, is considering the establishment of Microsoft Innovation Centre in Peshawar in collaboration with the provincial Information Technology......
SWABI: After fielding Sohail Yousafzai as candidate for the office of Topi tehsil nazim, the PTI is struggling to name his deputy, naib nazim.Imran Khan’s party has a very good chance of forming the......
ISLAMABAD: Despite strong concerns from religious quarters, the clean-up operation against madressahs not only continues in Punjab, but has even been expanded into the federal capital.Senior......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has become the first country in the region to adopt DNA barcoding to control the illegal wildlife trade.The DNA barcoding is a taxonomic method that uses a short genetic marker in......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police on Friday arrested 28 outlaws from across the city, and recovered vehicles, narcotics, alcohol, and weapons from their possession.Khanna police officials arrested two......
UPPER DIR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Upper Dir, announced on Friday to withdraw its candidate in favour of Jamaat-i-Islami candidate in PK-93, Wari Upper Dir-III.The announcement was made during a......
UPPER DIR: Students of several government schools in Upper Dir are forced to sit in the courtyard, as the authorities have turned their classrooms into warehouses for storing books, which are......
PESHAWAR: In a historic development, over 40,000 elected representatives will take oath for the new three-tier local government system across the province today (Saturday).According to the respective......
NOWSHERA/KARAK: Hundreds of lady health workers on Friday blocked GT Road for hours to press the authorities for regularisation of their services and payment of withheld salary.They warned they would......
MARDAN: Independent councillors-elect of the tehsil and district councils, who belonged to Imran (Shaheed) group, on Friday announced to join the tripartite alliance for formation of the local......
PESHAWAR: The students of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sharingal, Upper Dir, on Friday expressed concern over the delay in affiliation of the pharmacy department with the Pharmacy Council and......
As the government has been working on the National Action Plan (NAP) to combat terrorism, critics say one of its provisions related to the temporarily residents does not serve the purpose of......
RAWALPINDI: Following the Attock bombing, the Special Branch of the Punjab police has written letters to members of the national and provincial assemblies, senators and other political figures,......
ISLAMABAD: Three years after its decision to verify the academic degrees held by its officers, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has yet to get the job done.The authority’s board announced in......
MUZAFFARABAD: A public sector financial institution here on Friday donated 20 sophisticated wheelchairs to Muzaffarabad Physical Rehabilitation Centre (MPRC), serving physically challenged persons......
ISLAMABAD: After the Haj season, chances of spreading of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV)increases. Commonly known as ‘Mers’, it is a viral respiratory illness in which a......
“I have seven siblings; my father earns his living as a driver while mother watches the children at home. We moved here from Sargodha in the search for better oppurtunities.I used to wash cars, but......
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has asked the contractors of the metro bus project to complete the construction of work on the command and control centre, Moti Mahal bridge and......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police are in a fix after the Ministry of Interior directed them to reduce the cost of a project concept by 50 per cent for the establishment of a special force under the......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) has decided to expand its pathology department.A new block will be constructed on a 8,000 square-foot land at Pims to facilitate around......
MULTAN: The provincial government has approved a Walled City Authority for Multan to rehabilitate dilapidated buildings in the walled city, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Zahid Saleem Gondal......
RAWALPINDI: Speakers at a seminar on Friday urged parents to get their children’s eyes tested to prevent visual disorders as at present 1.5 million children were blind.The seminar titled ‘Child Eye......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) Director General (DG) Shahnaz Riaz submitted a response to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday, after a show cause notice was issued to her for......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan announced on Friday that local government elections in the federal capital will be held on Nov 30.The schedule for local government polls in Islamabad......
ISLAMABAD: Thundershowers are expected at isolated locations in Malakand, Hazara, Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu, Mardan, Rawalpindi, Sargodha, Zhob divisions, Fata and Kashmir on Sunday, while hot and......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has become the first country in the region to adopt DNA barcoding to control the illegal wildlife trade.The DNA barcoding is a taxonomic method that uses a short genetic marker in......
LAHORE: The sixth Annual Status of Education Survey (ASER) for 2015 has formally been kicked off in 114 rural district and 21 urban administrative areas across the country to assess the status of......
SAHIWAL: The supply of fake, spurious and adulterated milk to Lahore from Okara, Sahiwal and Kasur districts has been reduced because of a campaign by the Punjab Food Authority (PFA).Provincial Food......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Alleged terrorist Habibur Rehman who was killed in a ‘suicide grenade’ explosion when a team of law-enforcement agencies raided his house in Pirmahal on Thursday was buried in......
SAHIWAL: The district administration claimed on Friday to have confiscated a huge quantity of ‘desi ghee’ being prepared with a mix of butter oil and chemicals.District Coordination Officer Javed......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has stopped the Punjab Food Authority (PFA) in Lahore and district coordination officers of 35 other districts from checking the quality of raw and retail milk till......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court adjourned on Friday the hearing of a plea for vacating reinstatement orders of Dr Agha Ghazanfar as principal of the Aitchison College till September 30.The court......
LAHORE: Security concerns have forced Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to cancel Imran Khan’s public address in Lahore on Saturday (today).Earlier, the party kept changing the venue of its chief’s......
LAHORE: All students of 15 colleges got through while none of another 14 institutes could pass the BA, BSc annual examinations 2015, according to the results notification issued by the Punjab......
LAHORE: The Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) on Friday sealed seven banquet halls in different parts of the provincial capital for non-compliance of sales tax.An official said that enforcement teams......
LAHORE: The representatives of major trade bodies and associations of the country who gathered to discuss the future protest mode against withholding tax on all bank transactions, once again showed......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Lahore, has arrested a police inspector for accumulation of assets beyond his known source of income.A complaint was lodged in NAB against Inspector......
LAHORE: A woman was denied custody of her five children by the Lahore High Court on Friday.The woman burst into tears and almost fell unconscious after Justice Sardar Ahmad Naeem dismissed her......
LAHORE: The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to a defunct outfit member as the prosecution failed to establish charges against him.A two-judge bench observed that the prosecution should make its......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Friday sealed several restaurants and food outlets besides imposing fine on others over poor cleanliness and hygiene.According to a PFA spokesperson, a......
LAHORE: The process of hiring of faculty and other staff at the Shaikh Zayed Hospital is in limbo despite urgency to have many seats filled.More than 11,000 people including 400 doctors had already......
LAHORE: A parliamentary secretary had to bear the brunt of failure of his department in submitting timely replies to written queries of the Punjab Assembly members here on Friday.Deputy Speaker......
FAISALABAD: Powerloom owners of Sidhar have agreed to reopen their factories on Saturday (today) and Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM) office-bearers also ended their six-day long sit-in outside the DCO......
BAHAWALPUR: The Punjab Irrigation Department has finalised a scheme to upgrade about a century-old Panjnad Headworks near Uch Sharif, about 70kms from here.It is learnt that the scheme aimed at......
MULTAN: National Accountability Bureau’s Multan chapter has decided to file a reference against four income tax officers for causing a Rs140 million loss by issuing bogus tax refund orders.A NAB......
SARGODHA: The University of Sargodha (UoS) announced results of BA, BSc annual examination 2015 here on Friday with girls outshining boys once again.A total of 11,282 boys and 15,096 girls sat the......
SHEIKHUPURA: District Coordination Officer Kiran Khursheed on Friday suspended a doctor from service after an inquiry report declared him guilty of rape.A heart patient visited a doctor who admitted......
OKARA: Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) central leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi says although the party does not acquiesce to the judicial commission report, however, the 40 points which it had emphasised had been......
KARACHI: A banker who had been kidnapped two weeks ago was safely recovered on Friday morning while two suspected kidnappers were shot dead in an operation jointly carried out by the Citizens-Police......
KARACHI: In a second deadly attack on a member of the legal fraternity within a month in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on University Road, an advocate of the Sindh High Court and former joint secretary of the......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers informed on Friday an antiterrorism court about the 90-day preventive detention of a central leader of Pasban for questioning.The personnel of the paramilitary force......
KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain arrived here on Friday and met key politicians and leaders of opposition parties in a move to form a grand alliance......
KARACHI: “Who would have thought that the double bass and sitar could go so well together,” said Saim Saeed, an audience member at Sangat, a programme held at the National Academy of Performing Arts......
EXHIBITIONAn exhibition of paintings by Iqbal Durrani opens at the Creative gallery at 5pm. The show will continue till Sept 3, daily from 11am to 9pm.DANCE SHOWA two-day Indonesian Arts and Cultural......
KARACHI: The projection of women in the media has garnered much criticism due to its ability to mutate into stereotypes beyond recognition. To understand this phenomenon, independent organisations......
KARACHI: Lamenting that the homes of certain literary giants have been disposed of, writer Imdad Hussaini stressed on Friday evening the need to preserve such places for posterity.The noted Sindhi......
KARACHI: A book on the history of Sindhi films, Sindh Talkies, by Dr Mehmood Mughal was launched at the Arts Council on Friday evening.The programme began with a fascinating documentary on Sindhi......
KARACHI: The city traffic police on Friday asked the Sindh High Court to ban the plying of six- and nine-seat CNG rickshaws on roads because these vehicles do not fulfil the specification of the......
HYDERABAD: A 12-year-old boy who was seriously wounded in crossfire between police and alleged criminals and their supporters in Gujrati Para on Thursday night died early on Friday morning at a......
SUKKUR: Divers and volunteers rescued 10 schoolchildren and were continuing their efforts into the night to search for the remaining one after a boat carrying them capsized in the Khirthar canal near......
MIRPURKHAS: Four members of a family were killed and three others injured when two cars collided head-on on Mirpurkhas-Mirwah Gorchani Road on Friday.The deceased victims were identified as Shafique......
HYDERABAD: Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) sleuths raided different offices on Friday, arrested district registrar among four officials of Hyderabad revenue department on charges of financial......
HYDERABAD: Activists of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) staged protests in several Sindh towns on Friday against ‘disappearance’ of the party’s president of Mirpurkhas division Hafiz Attaullah......
THIS refers to the letter ‘VVIPs lifestyle’ (Aug 22). I endorse the views of Wg-Cdr Mushtaq Ahmed and would like to add the luxurious lifestyle of our ruling elite is also a violation of the......
I INSTALLED my PTCL landline and Broadband services on July 31 from Landhi 89 Exchange, it worked well and smoothly initially, but from Aug 2, till now I have been facing a Broadband connectivity......
THIS is apropos letters published in support of qingqis in Karachi. I disagree with the writers. The Sindh High Court has rightly banned such a hazardous mode of transportation.Qingqis are a......
SOIL erosion in Gilgit-Baltisitan has become a major problem. It needs to be tackled as an emergency by the federal and provincial governments.A survey shows that the area is totally at the mercy of......
THREE years ago, when I was looking for a school for my son, I visited several schools. On these visits when I was found speaking our mother tongue to my son, school personnel dared to ask me why I......
THERE is little doubt that Pakistan is besieged by ‘religious’ political and land mafias, which have joined hands to form an evil nexus in the country.Today, terrorism and corruption go hand-in-hand,......
HAVING gallstone, also called cholelithiasis, is a common problem, but it is most common among women, people over 40 years of age, and those who are obese.Over the past few years the tendency to have......
I AGREE with the editorial ‘Modi in UAE’ (Aug 20) that Pakistan revised its foreign policy.“The game is no longer about pushing a single-agenda item, but the meticulous placement of pieces on an......
MOSCOW: Russia on Friday successfully launched a Proton rocket with a British satellite in the first such launch since an engine failure in May resulted in a Mexican satellite being destroyed.A......
UNITED NATIONS: The ‘true legacy’ of the costliest United States hurricane disaster, known as Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and claimed more than 1,800 lives, was to raise the bar for......
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Defence confirmed on Friday that two Nato troops killed in Afghanistan this week were from the US Air Force.Capt. Matthew D. Roland, 27, of Lexington, Kentucky, and......
ZUWARA: Libyan authorities were collecting the bodies of migrants who drowned off the coastal city of Zuwara, with some 200 feared dead on Friday in the latest disaster involving desperate people......
NICOSIA: Authorities in the United Arab Emirates have tortured a Libyan-Canadian man who has been held for a year on suspicion of having links to the Muslim Brotherhood, Amnesty International said......
TIRANA: Albanian authorities say they have confiscated about half a million cannabis plants this year, arresting 240 suspected growers and drug traffickers.Interior Ministry spokesman Ardi Bita said......
BEIJING: Debris from a rocket carrying a Chinese satellite into orbit crashed into a villager’s home minutes after the launch, local police and media reports said.The parts plummeted to earth with a......
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton reiterated her call for gun safety reforms on Friday, saying this week’s murder of Virginia journalists during an on-air broadcast shows that “something is deeply wrong”......
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama’s key national security aide hinted at tensions that divide their countries on Friday ahead of a state visit to Washington by......
GUWAHATI: Indian security forces on Friday killed at least six suspected armed separatist rebels in the country’s insurgency-hit northeastern state of Nagaland, police said.Police said Indian armed......
WASHINGTON: A tech-savvy US teenager from Virginia was sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison on Friday for conspiring to provide material support to the self-styled Islamic State.Ali......
MELBOURNE: A major operation to spot check people’s visas on the streets of Melbourne as part of a crime crackdown was cancelled on Friday after sparking community outrage that Australia risked......
ROSEAU: Tropical Storm Erika killed at least 12 people as it swept over the small island of Dominica, its prime minister said on Friday, noting his country had been “badly beaten”.Local media,......
BAUCHI: Boko Haram extremists killed 28 people during attacks on remote farming and fishing villages in northeast Nigeria, members of a civilian defence group said on Friday.A total of 24 people were......
TOKYO: Japan on Friday kicked off the “World Assembly for Women” conference, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledging to shake up a corporate culture at home that discriminates against female......
THROUGHOUT the summer, the headlines have reflected the heart-wrenching reality of Europe’s worsening refugee crisis.The messy, incompetent and often cruel response to the influx of embattled men,......
ISTANBUL: Clinging to his brother’s coffin, draped in the red Turkish flag, Lieutenant Colonel Mehmet Alkan’s outburst was a rare public show of defiance from a serving officer as Turkish jets......
HOWEVER depressingly common gun violence has become in the United States, high-profile cases continue to shock us. And the news that a Virginia television crew had been murdered during a live......
LONDON: England batsman Ian Bell is retiring from One-day Internationals to concentrate on prolonging his Test career, the 33-year-old said on Friday.Bell, who has scored an England record 5,416 runs......
THE Congress of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) once again proved on Thursday that it is a dummy body as it elected its new president retired Brig Khalid Sajjad Khokhar. The Congress voted......
PARIS: Marcos Reus scored a hat-trick as Borussia Dortmund cruised into the Europa League group stage on Thursday with Athletic Bilbao and Ajax also advancing alongside Azerbaijani clubs Qarabag and......
THERE are clearly divergent views among the Pakistani fans, the media people and past players on what to do with the three players who were banned for spot-fixing and have now all become available to......
MONACO: Five-time European champions Liverpool face a stern test of their continental experience after drawing former French champions Bordeaux and Russia’s Rubin Kazan in the Europa League group......
SYDNEY: The New South Wales (NSW) state government says it will conduct a coroner’s inquest into the death of Australian Test cricketer Phillip Hughes during a first-class match at the Sydney Cricket......
WINSTON-SALEM: Second seed Kevin Anderson of South Africa beat eighth seed Borna Coric of Croatia 6-2, 7-6 (1) here on Thursday night to advance to the Winston-Salem Open semi-finals.Anderson,......
PESHAWAR: The National Junior Squash Championship in two different age groups of under 17 and 19 will be commencing at the PAF Hashim Khan Squash Complex here from Sept 7.This was stated by KP......
ISLAMABAD: The Consul General of the Republic of Paraguay in Pakistan, Kanwar Mohammad Tariq, on Friday hosted a reception in the honour of squash icon Jahangir Khan.The ceremony was attended by......
BELFAST: Steven Smith’s first match as full-time Australia captain ended with a rain-affected 23-run One-day International win over Ireland here at the Stormont ground on Thursday, but it needed the......
BELFAST: Australia captain Steven Smith described his side’s rain-affected victory over Ireland as a “good work-out” ahead of the five-match ODI series against England which starts next week.The......
ISLAMABAD: The much-awaited elections of the Chess Federation of Pakistan will be held here on Sept 2.According to a press release issued by the Pakistan Sports Board on Friday, the elections of the......
EDISON: Bubba Watson fired seven birdies in a five-under par 65 on Thursday, outshining playing partners Jordan Spieth and Jason Day to seize a share of the first-round lead at The Barclays.Two-time......
LONDON: Manchester City winger Jesus Navas has warned the Premier League pace-setters not to get complacent after their blistering start to the season.Manuel Pellegrini’s side have surged to the top......
LONDON: Former Zimbabwe captain Brendan Taylor was discovered asleep in someone else’s car after Nottinghamshire’s victory over Durham in English county cricket’s One-Day Cup on Tuesday.Michael......
KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan believes the chances of the bilateral series against India are very less, looking at the current political turmoil situation between two......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka gave India a scare before bad weather washed out a major part of the opening day’s play in the series-deciding third and final Test here at the at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground......
MUMBAI: Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) working committee meeting, expected to discuss the fate of the two suspended IPL sides Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR)......
BEIJING: Liu Hong won the women’s 20 kilometres walk on Friday to hand China its first gold medal of the Beijing world championships, as defending champion Ashton Eaton took control of the......
KARACHI: It is believed that the government has removed the cap on rupee-dollar exchange rate in the inter-bank market on exporters’ demand. They deemed it crucial to keep Pakistani products......
NEW YORK: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi has invited the American business community to the country, which she said offers “the most investor-friendly policies in the......
ISLAMABAD: The government cut the development budget by about Rs87 billion or 16 per cent during last fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, and yet its budget deficit exceeded the target by 0.4pc of the......
KARACHI: National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Commerce, led by its chairman Siraj Muhammad Khan, visited the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) on Friday.The committee was briefed......
KARACHI: Banks’ year-on-year earnings growth remained flat in the second quarter (April-June) of this year due to the taxation measures announced in the latest budget, said a research report of......
ISLAMABAD: Inflation for the combined income group fell by 0.06 per cent during the week ended Aug 27 compared to the previous week, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Friday.The......
KARACHI: Stocks continued to regain lost ground on Friday, adding 486.18 points (1.43 per cent) to the KSE-100 index which closed at 34,447.47.Analyst Arhum Ghous at JS Global stated that oil sector......
ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Committee on Exports and Production on Friday approved the Strategic Trade Policy Framework (STFP) 2015-18 with a total budget of Rs20 billion to boost exports.The policy......
BoP profit rises by 100pcLAHORE: Bank of Punjab’s (BoP) profit-before-tax rose by 100 per cent to Rs4.2 billion for the half year ended June 30, 2015 from Rs2.1bn in the same period last year.Its......
KARACHI: Cotton prices moved higher on Friday on sustained demand from spinners amid short supply of phutti (seed cotton) from Sindh cotton fields.Floor brokers said that some panic buying was......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil is in recession, official figures showed Friday, adding to the gloom in the world’s seventh largest economy already battered by falling commodity prices, political crisis and a......
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook boasted of a new benchmark Thursday in its seemingly inexorable march to Internet ubiquity: a billion people used the social network in a single day.“We just passed an......
JAKARTA: Malaysian palm oil futures ended higher on Friday, posting their first weekly gain after eight consecutive weekly declines, on the back of other commodity markets and a weaker ringgit. The......
LONDON: Investors pulled a record amount of money out of global equity funds in the week to Aug 26, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch, a measure of the alarm that China’s markets and economy......
SINGAPORE: China’s economy may be slowing but it is “not falling off a cliff”, the chief executive of Southeast Asia’s biggest bank said on Friday.DBS Bank chief executive Piyush Gupta also said he......
ISLAMABAD: The Lahore Bar Association (LBA) has approached the Supreme Court with a petition requesting the apex court to review its majority verdict of upholding the 21st Amendment under which......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday accused the Indian government of trying to sabotage efforts for peace and put the regional security and stability at stake.Talking......
LAHORE: Federal Information Minister Pervez Rashid expressed the hope on Friday that PTI chairman Imran Khan would not repeat the mistake of holding another sit-in.Talking to newsmen here, he said......
ISLAMABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) agreed on Friday on formation of proposed ‘Grievances Redressal Committee’ (GRC) to address its concerns over the ongoing Rangers’ operation against......
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Defence has awarded a $57 million contract to Bell Helicopter to provide Ah-1Z Viper attack helicopters to Pakistan.The deal is part of a larger $581 million......
KHAR: Another pro-government tribal elder was killed in a bomb blast along Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chamarkand tehsil of Bajaur tribal area on Friday.Political administration officials and......
ISLAMABAD: Rejecting the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) demand to remove four members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the PML-N said on Friday that the party would contest the......
ISLAMABAD: The controversial executive council of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), the apex accreditation body for medical professionals in the country, was dissolved through a......
Gwadar: The levies forces have arrested three men allegedly involved in the killing of a man on Thursday night in the Turbat area of district Kech.According to the assistant commissioner Hussain Jan......
WASHINGTON: Speculation about the potential use of nuclear weapons will not help reduce tensions between India and Pakistan, warns the United States.At a news briefing, US State Department spokesman......
QUETTA: Sardar Akhtar Mengal, the Chief of Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal), held a meeting with Balochistan’s former governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi on Friday night.Nawabzada Mir Khalid......
ZUWARA (Libya): Pakistani teenager Shefaz Hamza spent nine hours at sea clinging to the wreckage of a migrant boat that sank off Libya. By the time the coast guard arrived his mother and young......
ADEN: Al Qaeda militants in south-eastern Yemen have publicly flogged 10 men in a new sign of their growing control over the lawless region, witnesses and an official said on Friday.The men were......
ISLAMABAD/SIALKOT: At least eight people were killed on Friday in villages along the Working Boundary in the bloodiest ceasefire violations by India this year.“Eight people have been killed due to......
KARACHI: In an uncharacteristic outburst of anger, Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said on Friday that interference by federal agencies in the provincial government’s affairs amounted to......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) recommended on Friday a reduction by eight to 12 per cent in prices of petroleum products for the month of September.In a summary sent to the......
BRAHMDAGH Bugti, in an interview with Swissinfo in July 2015, said that Pakistan regarded him as “the most dangerous person since Osama bin Laden”. Indeed, in a US embassy cable dated Feb 26, 2010......
THE operation being carried out by the Rangers in Karachi is at serious risk of losing its focus, as the detention of former petroleum minister Asim Hussain on Wednesday has shown.Dr Hussain, an......
ONCE again demonstrating that it will eventually do the right thing — after trying everything else — the PML-N has indicated it will opt for by-elections instead of challenging the unseating of three......
THE Rs5,000 note is the unlikely culprit in a number of high-profile conversations in the country today, and for good reason.The note, issued in 2006, plays a key role in large cash transactions......
“JO beet gayee, so baat gayee” (what happened in the past, is over). When Sushma Swaraj, India’s minister for external affairs made this ominous remark at a news conference on Aug 22, she was......
MANY Pakistanis are thrilled by the news originating from two think tanks in Washington. Although no real evidence has been presented, they claim that the Pakistani nuclear arsenal may become the......
BALOCH leader Brahmdagh Bugti’s statement, expressing readiness for talks, was a welcome development which was greeted by everyone wanting an end to the nearly decade-long bloodshed in the......
GENEVA: Satellite images confirm the destruction of the Baal Shamin temple in Syria's Palmyra, the United Nations said on Friday, after international condemnation of the act claimed by the......
