KARACHI: Three unknown gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire at a Geo TV Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) vehicle Tuesday night in the Bahadurabad area of Karachi, killing a Geo News employee......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Tuesday announced head money for the eight absconders in the Safoora Goth carnage case.The chief minister has set Rs2.5 million as head money for......
German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel on Tuesday said his country is capable of accommodating at least 500,000 refugees a year for several years and it expected more than 800,000 asylum-seekers this......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to follow case proceedings of the NA-122 case in the Supreme Court following a plea filed by Sardar Ayaz Sadiq challenging the verdict of the......
MANCHESTER: FIFA's medical commission will this week discuss Jose Mourinho's battle with Chelsea club doctor Eva Carneiro amid growing pressure for a settlement by the English Premier League......
Salman Danish, chief executive officer of TV ratings company, Medialogic Pakistan, on Tuesday claimed that the Express Media Group – a private media organisation – is involved in ‘malpractices’ to......
GENEVA: The United Nations' top official in charge of migration said on Tuesday the crisis rocking Europe needs a “global response”, insisting that countries worldwide must be asked to do their......
CAPE TOWN: Kevin Pietersen is returning to his former team in South Africa.The Durban-based Dolphins, where Pietersen first played before leaving for England, announced the batsman as their new......
KARACHI: Pakistan cricket selectors Tuesday included young spinning allrounder Imad Wasim in the central contract list, confessing a typo almost deprived him of a handsome monthly salary and win......
PARIS: Thomas Mueller and Kyle Lafferty's careers are worlds apart in terms of achievement but on Monday both players scored vital goals that took Germany and Northern Ireland respectively to within......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed federal and provincial governments to adopt Urdu as official language in the country.Announcing the verdict on petition filed by Advocate Kokab Iqbal,......
Some 400,000 solar panels, spread over 200 hectares of flat desert, glare defiantly at the sun at what is known as the Quaid-e-Azam Solar Power Park (QASP) in Cholistan Desert, Punjab, named after......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday chaired a meeting of Corps Commanders at the General Headquarters (GHQ), reviewing the internal and external security situation......
MANCHESTER: Qatar has invested in English football for the first time — in the unlikeliest of clubs.The recipient of Qatari cash is not a globally-recognised Premier League power but a tiny club......
SANAA: The Yemen war is entering a new and potentially decisive phase as Gulf nations build up ground forces to battle rebels in the country's north and rebel-held capital, analysts say.After five......
Mohammad Ali Bogra was serving as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States when Governor-General Ghulam Mohammad nominated him Prime Minister. He succeeded Khawaja Nazimuddin, who had already been......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday ordered the Interior Ministry to remove the names of Baloch rights activists Farzana Majeed and Mama Qadeer from the Exit Control List (ECL), a report......
PESHAWAR: Two new polio cases were been reported in Khyber Agency on Tuesday, taking the total number of registered polio cases in Pakistan this year to 32.According to the Chief Minister's Polio......
NEW DELHI: Indian police said Tuesday they had arrested six men after a teenager alleged she was gang-raped after being lured to a hotel on the promise of a job.The 17-year-old girl told police she......
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday issued directives for audit of Defence Housing Authority (DHA) Lahore.A three-member bench of the apex court headed Chief Justice Jawad S. Khawaja......
In a surprising first, the Sindh Censor Board has spoken against the running of a film not for objectionable content, but for its poor production quality. The film in question is Swaarangi, and its......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called bankers and billionaires to his residence on Tuesday to brainstorm on how India can manage global economic turbulence, including opportunities......
ANKARA: Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish jets have carried out air strikes against a group of Kurdish rebels as well as the militants' camps in northern Iraq killing at least 40 rebels......
MANCHESTER: India will bid to hold a future under-20 World Cup to build on the success of its new Super League and staging the under-17 World Cup in two years' time, a top official said.All India......
DES MOINES: The parents of a girl who reported being inappropriately touched by a man, later identified as a Pakistani citizen, while flying alone from New York to Iowa have sued the man and American......
This year's crop of films have played their part in putting Pakistani cinema on the map. As our films prepare to hit the festival circuit and some gear for international release, their directors and......
NEW YORK: Andy Murray crashed out of the US Open in the fourth round Monday, his earliest Grand Slam exit in five years, while 17-time major winner Roger Federer advanced to the quarter-finals.South......
The England and Wales Cricket Board's decision to exclude maverick batsman Kevin Pietersen from selection has benefitted the team, director of cricket Andrew Strauss has told BBC.England's record......
BRASMLIA: Brazil will welcome Syrian refugees with "open arms", President Dilma Rousseff said Monday, amid a tidal wave of people fleeing the war-torn country.In a video message marking Brazil's......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday directed the Interior Ministry to submit their reply on the trial and investigation of convict Sabir Shah who was earlier awarded the death sentence by a......
ISLAMABAD: Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Tuesday said Pakistan would raise the issue of 'unprovoked' Indian firing across the Line of Control......
DHARAN/KARACHI: There are no recognisable football fields, no players, and just a rusting goalpost at Pakistan's Hawkesbay training centre, built with a $500,000 FIFA grant on a windswept plot by the......
BERLIN: Germany told its European partners they must take in more refugees on Monday as it struggles to cope with record numbers of asylum seekers and as police in Hungary used pepper spray on......
To kiss or not to kiss is a popular question in Bollywood, and superstar Salman Khan has given his two cents on the matter: for him, kissing scenes are not necessary in a film.The 49-year-old actor,......
MEXICO CITY: Mexico's attorney general's office remained convinced on Monday that many of the 43 students who disappeared in 2014 were killed and incinerated at a garbage dump, one day after an......
QUETTA: Chief of the proscribed Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) Dr Allah Nazar Baloch has been killed in an operation by security forces, according to unverified reports, Balochistan Home Minister......
LAHORE: A year after leading major street protests aimed at toppling the Pakistani government, populist preacher Tahirul Qadri says he has turned back to religion, but remains prepared to re-launch......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak would plead the case of the province on the issue of net hydel profit during the hearing of Nepra, scheduled for Tuesday (today).The......
LANDI KOTAL: The Khyber Agency political administration on Monday set a three-day deadline to the Sipah tribe of Bara to surrender all its wanted members and deposit the fine of Rs120 million.The......
PESHAWAR: Prisons and judicial lockups in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have become overcrowded as the number of prisoners has exceeded the sanctioned capacity.An official reply submitted to the provincial......
PESHAWAR: Tourism Corporation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will sponsor a motorcycle rally at the most scenic tourist destination of the province to promote tourism and sports.A press release issued here on......
MANSEHRA: The disgruntled leaders and workers of PTI Batagram chapter on Monday blocked the Karakoram Highway for over two hours to demand expulsion of Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and Senator Azam......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak said here on Monday that government would provide legal cover to the reforms, initiated in police department.Addressing the inaugural......
KHAR: The local political administration on Sunday night arrested two people after seizing a huge cache of explosives and bomb-making material from a truck in Khar tehsil.An administration official......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Monday dismissed the bail petition of a man suspected of facilitating his nephew to get suicide bombing training and blow himself up at a Hayatabad Township......
UPPER DIR: A small power house of 200 kilowatt capacity was inaugurated in Kohistan valley here the other day.The project was completed by by Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP), a......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rasheed on Monday said completion of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will increase trade between the two countries manifold.He......
ISLAMABAD: Robbers and thieves struck at fi ve different places and made off with cash and valuables, police said here on Monday.In the fi rst incident, two persons riding on a motorcycle intercepted......
ISLAMABAD: Dozens of private schools operators on Tuesday staged a protest to press the government to take step for promotion of education.The protesters, who gathered here in front of the National......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has allowed the Healthcare Commission (HCC) to take action against illegal clinics and hospitals, in collaboration with the district administration, to......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday dismissed the petition of former Gilgit-Baltistan Council Secretariat deputy secretary Ehsanul Haq against the appointment of another civil servant......
CHARSADDA: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq on Monday said the government shouldn’t hold talks with India until Kashmir issue was resolved.“Kashmiris are our brothers, who need our moral......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has initiated a probe against officials from the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) in the matter of 21 ‘missing’......
ISLAMABAD: The additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ), Kamran Basharat Mufti, on Monday recused himself from the proceedings of the trial of former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf in......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) put the successive governments’ declarations regarding shelter to the shelterless to test by asking the incumbent federal and provincial governments on Monday to......
RAWALPINDI: The Airport Security Force (ASF) foiled an attempt to smuggle US dollars to China and detained a Chinese national, Jia Cmao, at Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Monday, a security......
LAHORE: Former National Assembly speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Monday challenged the decision of the election tribunal about by-election in his constituency (NA-122) before the Supreme Court.In an......
LAHORE: PML-Q senior leader Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has asked opposition parties to remain firm on their stance of boycotting the local government elections until resignation of the sitting members of......
LAHORE: A member of a proscribed organisation, convicted for sectarian killing by a military court, has challenged his death sentence before the Lahore High Court.The military court had awarded death......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau Lahore on Monday arrested seven officials of the Pakistan Customs for “abuse of power and illicit personal gains” worth Rs185 million.Those arrested......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has said the PML-N is trying to “escape” from by-elections for being afraid of its might and popularity among the masses and announced becoming a party in......
LAHORE: Local government amended bill and the Okara University bill could not be tabled in the Punjab Assembly on Monday because of lack of quorum.As the proceedings began much behind its scheduled......
The ongoing campaign against unhygienic food and meat has prompted people to either avoid eating out or look for some alternative menu such as vegetables and lentils.Restaurants and food outlets in......
LAHORE: Nights have gone far cooler in the deserts of Dera Ghazi Khan indicating that winter is just around the corner, and as winter reaches closer to season calendar poachers of falcons, quails and......
LAHORE: Police arrested on Monday a tenant for allegedly kidnapping two minor sons of his landlord in Millat Park.Iqbal Town Superintendent of Police Muhammad Iqbal told a press conference that......
LAHORE: Various teams of the city district government’s livestock wing on Monday seized 450kg of unhygienic meat and had four butchers arrested in various parts of the city.The teams, according to......
LAHORE: Punjab University’s Institute of Education and Research (IER) Assistant Professor Dr Abida Nasreen has been suspended from service for three months for publication of wrong map of Pakistan on......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Monday granted bail to Shaukatullah Bangash, son of PPP Senator Saifullah Bangash, in a Rs980 million fraud case instituted by the National......
LAHORE: The idea of a movie on Saadat Hasan Manto came during his centenary year celebrations in 2012 and as a tribute to him, said Sarmad Sultan Khoosat who has directed the film and also played the......
LAHORE: Important administrative and operational matters in the Punjab Excise and Taxation department have been pending after the transfer of director general (DG) Ahmad Aziz Tarar on Aug 26.The post......
KARACHI: While the Indian Army’s treacherous thrust on three fronts in West Pakistan has been beaten back by the gallant Pakistan troops, the Pakistan Air Force struck hard blows at the enemy......
ANOTHER year, another September and one’s mind goes back half a century.The peels of sirens giving the air raid warning; roaring fighter planes engaged in deadly dogfights; the crackling of machine......
A LEADING Republican presidential candidate says the US should not use foreign aid to buy friends, noting that such efforts to buy the friendship of Pakistani people have failed (Aug 15). When he was......
THE suicides by teenagers in Karachi should make us give a thought about which direction our society is headed. It is a sign of the deterioration of morals in our society.It is common here for......
THIS refers to the news ‘Khursheed seeks explanation over action against PPP’ (Sept 2). This is a strange statement from a seasoned politician seeking explanation from the prime minister on the......
Independence Day (Aug 14) has passed. It reminded us of the great sacrifices made by our ancestors to get a piece of land where we could freely follow our faith, and live in peace.My late father used......
SINCE the start of the Karachi Operation, targeted killings seemed to have dropped gradually but again the killing spree has started as two traffic constables were shot of whom one died and the other......
A LETTER by Jawed Macknojia, ‘WHT on Housewife’ (Sept 2), compels me to request a clarification from the bureaucrats concerned whether non-filer senior citizens with no income other than their......
THE people of Turbat throw garbage into the Kech river. However, water to Dasht is supplied from the river and the people drink this water which spreads diseases.I request both the provincial......
TAXILA: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNA Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Monday ruled out free and fair local bodies’ election under the present four members of the Election Commission of Pakistan.Talking to......
ISLAMABAD: Living with a disease is hard enough, but living with HIV – in a conservative country like Pakistan – can be even more problematic.According to one health care professional, “Even doctors......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has decided to establish world standard laboratories to detect and check the spread of infectious diseases such as Ebola virus in the......
ISLAMABAD: The spouse of a suspect in the FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) prosecutor murder case on Monday filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the alleged disappearance of......
SIALKOT: After a 15-year-old boy was found murdered at a local seminary on Monday, police arrested three clerics of the religious school for killing the boy after subjecting him to rape.The body of......
FAISALABAD: A report by a medical board of the District Headquarters Hospital says Sheraz Nawaz, held in a theft case on the complaint of ruling MPA Tahir Jamil, was brutally tortured in Mansoorabad......
SIALKOT: Prominent film actor Ali Ejaz has urged affluent local exporters to donate generously for his project to establish old homes.The actor made this appeal while addressing a meeting of the......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: The work remained suspended for about two hours in the new emergency of Shaikh Zayed Medical College Hospital (SZMCH) due to a clash between Employees Welfare Association (EWA)......
GUJRANWALA: The Cantonment police arrested on Monday the factory owner for the death of eight workers in a boiler blast near Ghakkhar on GT Road on Saturday.Maj Altaf Ahmad Cheema retired was at......
BAHAWALPUR: The Baghdadul Jadid police claimed on Monday to have arrested the main suspect involved in the rape case of a school boy.The public relations officer of the DPO said the main suspect was......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Kissan Raj Tehrik central chairman Arsalan Khakwani has announced staging a farmers’ sit-in outside the Kamalia Sugar Mills (KSM) on Sept 14 in protest against non-payment of the......
FAISALABAD: Rescue 1122 personnel on Monday saved a suicidal woman and her four children from drowning after she plunged into a canal along with her kids near Novelty bridge.According to the......
BADIN: A jeep belonging to Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MPA Mahesh Malani was impounded and its driver, Sagram Meghwar, arrested when it hit a motorcycle killing its rider, Abdul Ghafoor Chandio, 26,......
HYDERABAD: National Accountability Court Judge Aijaz Ali Khaskheli on Monday issued a show-cause notice to the director general of NAB asking him as to why contempt of court proceedings should......
KARACHI: An official crackdown on milk sellers on Monday landed many of them behind bars for arbitrarily enhancing milk prices once again by Rs10 per litre, yet most people may have to purchase the......
KARACHI: On the occasion of the 1965 war golden jubilee, Air Force Day was celebrated by unveiling a martyrs’ monument at the PAF Museum and laying of a wreath on the grave of Pilot Officer Rashid......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, two of his cabinet members and senior leader Faryal Talpur left for Dubai on Monday to meet Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari to......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court confirmed on Monday interim pre-arrest bail of former home minister Dr Zulfikar Ali Mirza in two more cases.The disgruntled and disowned leader of the Pakistan Peoples......
EXHIBITIONSAn exhibition of works by Roohi S. Ahmed opens at Koel at 5pm. The show titled ‘Liminal Space’ will remain open till Sept 22.Launch of publication Exhausted Geographies, an experimental......
KARACHI: Senior Sindh Minister Nisar Ahmad Khurho has termed the statement of Senator Rehman Malik that the Pakistan Peoples Party was considering resigning from parliament his “personal......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday directed the provincial authorities to file their respective comments on a constitutional petition challenging an amendment to the Sindh Local Government Act......
KARACHI: American Ambassador Richard Olson has said the world wants to see a strong democracy in Pakistan where people have the freedom to continue their political activities.The US ambassador......
KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has asked the Sindh government to increase its monthly grant by Rs500 million enabling it to pay salaries to its workers and pension to its......
KARACHI: Criticising the alleged mismanagement in the Pakistan International Airlines, a pilots’ body on Monday urged the authorities to appoint qualified and experienced people to run the national......
KARACHI: The Karachi Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has decided to support the strike call given by traders for Sept 9 against withholding tax on bank transactions.JI Karachi Amir Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman......
THATTA: A blanket ban on all kinds of transactions involving land and closure of record of rights of Sujawal district for about five months has created a host of problems for the general public who......
SUKKUR: Sukkur police have been accused of killing three members of a family extra-judicially in a fake encounter and getting them buried through Edhi volunteers three days ago. Another three members......
SUKKUR: An encounter between criminals and a Rangers-police team in Nawab Jagirani village of Kandhkot-Kashmore district left one Rangers man dead and another wounded on Monday.According to ASI Athar......
HYDERABAD: Speakers at a conference on Monday termed Pak-China friendship exemplary, saying that ties between the two countries would strengthen their all-weather strategic cooperative partnership as......
JERUSALEM: Some 13,000 Palestinian structures in the West Bank are currently under Israeli demolition orders, leaving residents and homes “in a state of chronic uncertainty and threat”, the UN said......
BEIJING: A spate of noisy disputes between middle-aged women and nearby residents has prompted China’s communist leaders to step in and regulate dancing in public places, state media said on......
THOMAS Malory gave us Le Morte d’Arthur in the 15th century; TH White gave us The Once and Future King in the 20th. Now the actor and writer Ethan Hawke is due to provide his own take on chivalry in......
BERLIN: Crowds greet trainloads of migrants with applause, candy and toys. A provincial town’s mayor wants to take in more refugees. Top conservative politicians say Germany needs young......
Funny what a weather-vane the Second World War becomes in the hands of politicians and journalists. Europe faces the biggest refugee crisis since the 1939-1945 conflict, we are solemnly told.And......
BERLIN: Britain and France on Monday joined Germany in pledging to accept tens of thousands of refugees as Europe’s record influx of people fleeing war and misery sparked warnings that one Greek......
LONDON: Islamophobic and anti-Semitic hate crimes in London have soared over the last year, official figures released on Monday showed, with global events apparently contributing to the rise.Police......
KANDAHAR: An air attack has killed at least 11 Afghan police personnel in Helmand province, officials said on Monday, in the latest apparent case of “friendly fire”.An interior ministry spokesman......
BOSTON: President Barack Obama on Monday ordered government contractors to offer their workers seven days of paid sick leave a year and, without naming them, knocked Republican presidential......
BANGKOK: One of the two men arrested over last month’s deadly Bangkok bombing has admitted to a charge of possessing explosives, police said on Monday, in the first confession over the unprecedented......
PARIS: Iceland made footballing history on Sunday as they qualified for a major tournament finals for the first time, joining the Czech Republic in securing their berth at Euro 2016.The island......
LONDON: Having matched Bobby Charlton’s England goal-scoring record against San Marino, Wayne Rooney plans to set a new mark in front of a home crowd against Switzerland at Wembley on......
MANCHESTER: England needs to move on from its Ashes obsession and start to focus on new goals like improving its “consistently woeful” record in the one-day game, English cricket chief Andrew Strauss......
LONDON: Ben Stokes has insisted he did not wilfully obstruct the field during the second One-day International at Lord’s on Saturday after he suffered one of cricket’s rarest forms of......
KARACHI: National rider Mohammad Wazir of the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) won the 144km Karachi to Hyderabad Defence Day Cycle Race, the Pakistan Cycling Federation (PCF) announced on......
CAPE TOWN: Holders Ivory Coast were held to a draw in their first match under new management in Sunday’s African Nations Cup qualifiers but former champions Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt and Zambia all......
ISLAMABAD: Mohammad Inam will represent Pakistan at the World Wrestling Championship scheduled to be held in Las Vegas, USA from Sept 7 to 12.Talking to APP, Arshad Sattar, secretary general of the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s weightlifter Talha Talib has clinched a silver medal in the Commonwealth Youth Games underway at Samoa.According to Pakistan Weightlifting Federation (PWLF) vice president M.......
LONDON: Peter Handscomb and John Hastings have been added to Australia’s squad for the remainder of the ongoing One-day International series against England, officials announced on Monday.The third......
KARACHI: The 6th Culligan Girls Senior & Junior Throwball Tournament 2015 begins at the City School DK Campus at Clifton here on Tuesday and will conclude on Saturday. The event is being organised by......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has taken some major decisions in what is termed as the first phase of right sizing of the staff, abolishing the posts of Directors of International and......
KARACHI: Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) security delegation on Monday inspected the facilities and safety arrangements at the Sunset Club at Defence here ahead of their women cricket team’s proposed......
DHAKA: Pakistan, inspired by spinner Fayyaz Ahmed’s hat-trick, stormed into the final of ICRC international T-20 cricket tournament for people with physical disabilities after defeating India by 43......
LONDON: Former England batsman Vikram Solanki announced his retirement from cricket here on Monday. The 39-year-old played in 51 one-day internationals and three Twenty20 internationals for England......
NEW YORK: Serena Williams, chasing a calendar Grand Slam, advanced to a dramatic US Open quarter-final showdown with sister Venus on Sunday while a concussion forced Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard out of......
RAWALPINDI: The twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad brace for cricketing thrills and spills over the next eight days when the big boys of Pakistan cricket enter the fray at the start of the main......
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan cricket authorities on Monday appointed Jerome Jayaratne as interim coach of the national team for next month’s West Indies tour, replacing Marvan Atapattu who quit last......
KARACHI: Syed Owais excelled with a fine century as Shama Sports defeated Taj Sports by 89 runs to reach the quarter-finals of the KCCA Zone-VI Daud Khan Memorial Cricket Tournament here on......
MELBOURNE: The blazer worn by Australian cricketing great Donald Bradman during his first series as Test captain sold for A$132,000 (US$91,410) on Monday, local media reported.The green jacket with......
KARACHI: Marathon with 64.27 victory points (VPs) annexed the Karachi Bridge Associates’ Swiss Bridge Tournament at the Aslam Bridge Hall here on Sunday evening.Spearheaded by seasoned international......
KARACHI: Farhan Altaf overpowered Sufiyan Shiwani without conceding a single point in a convincing 6-0, 6-0 victory to secure his place in the second round of men’s singles event in the third Indus......
LAHORE: All three golfers from the Garrison Golf Club, Lahore, have made places in the Pakistan junior team which will represent the country in the Nick Faldo Series final to be held at the Mission......
KARACHI: Rawalpindi became the first side to qualify for the Super-Six stage of the PCB Inter-region Under-19 One-day Cricket Tournament when they beat Dera Murad Jamali by 39 runs in Sialkot on......
KARACHI: Stocks tumbled on Monday with the KSE-100 index sinking all the way down by 946.60 points (2.79 per cent) to close at 32,944.48, its lowest level since May 28, 2015.Investors’ spirits......
KARACHI: As arrival of sacrificial animals continues to rise in Karachi with each passing day, the main cattle market on Superhighway is currently drawing more visitors than actual buyers.Around......
KARACHI: Afghanistan has emerged as the third largest importer of Pakistani products, after the United States and China, as its imports from the country stood at $1.69 billion in 2014-15.Despite......
KARACHI: The Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) has drawn the attention of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) towards double taxation on some services on the bases of origin and destination, and......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) has asked the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to release refunds of taxpayers immediately.FTO observed a delay of 38 days in processing of refund claims of the......
KARACHI: SMS verification/serialisation, Quick Response codes, and colour shifting film are good measures available to help combat counterfeiting in the pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan, said......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Monday stressed the importance of translating the global Post-2015 Development Agenda into well-calibrated national......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has accorded his assent to the Countervailing Duties Bill, 2015.The bill seeks to reform and repeal an earlier ordinance in this regard.It was passed by the......
BEIJING: China on Monday lowered last year’s growth figure, already the weakest in a quarter-century, days after worries about slowing expansion in the world’s second-largest economy caused global......
DUBAI: Iran hopes to bring its gas to the European Union by shipping liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Spain, Iran’s oil minister was quoted as saying on Monday at a news conference with his Spanish......
ISLAMABAD: The top civilian and military leadership – in a rare meeting with representatives of religious seminaries – made it abundantly clear on Monday that the government intended to register and......
KARACHI: An anti-corruption court granted on Monday interim pre-arrest bail to former prime minister and PPP leader Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in 11 new cases pertaining to a trade subsidy scam.The......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement said on Monday that it considered the Lahore High Court order banning the publication/broadcast of speeches and photographs of Altaf Hussain in contrast to the......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to convene a session of the upper house of parliament next week.The Senate session is being convened from Sept 14 and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will attend the......
LAHORE: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced on Monday ending the politics of reconciliation towards the ruling PML-N, saying his party is a “party of resistance, not reconciliation”.The PPP......
QUETTA: Students protested here on Monday against the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Quetta, alleging that they had been deliberately failed in exams.A large number of students......
LANDI KOTAL: The banned Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) killed five peace committee volunteers belonging to the Zakhakhel tribe in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency on Monday.Salahuddin Ayubi, the spokesman for the......
QUETTA: Nine suspected drug smugglers — six Pakistanis and three Iranians — were killed in a gunbattle with Iranian forces in Iran territory close to the border with Pakistan, officials said on......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch said on Monday that Ziarat, which had the world’s second largest juniper forests, could be developed as a popular tourist spot on the......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court directed advocates general of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday to submit reports on steps taken for welfare of minorities and also a plan for their security.A......
NEW DELHI: A wordy duel between India and Pakistan which has been spiralling ahead of the UN assembly visits of their leaders this month, witnessed another flare-up on Monday when the ruling......
ISLAMABAD: A sub-committee of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has directed the managing director of Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) to register FIRs against the declared holders of fake......
ISLAMABAD: The head of legal department of Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB), Barrister Asghar Khan, tendered his resignation on Monday after developing differences over issues relating......
NEW DELHI: Indian army’s Kashmir-based northern command on Monday confirmed the life sentences of six army personnel, including two officers in a 2010 fake encounter case in Machil in the state’s......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that religious seminaries will be allowed to open bank accounts in an effort to guard against illicit funding and ensure transparency of......
KARACHI: A police constable, who worked as driver of slain social activist Sabeen Mahmud and was a witness to her killing in April this year, was shot dead in the city’s Korangi area on......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court ordered the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and the Press Council of Pakistan (PCP) on Monday to ensure a complete blackout of all activities of......
MINGORA: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has said that terrorists will not be allowed to return to the Swat valley from where they have been driven out by committed soldiers of the Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: In compliance with the Lahore High Court order, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has stopped TV channels from covering all activities relating to MQM chief Altaf......
ISLAMABAD: The army claimed on Monday to have used for the first time the indigenously developed armed drone Burraq, killing three suspected terrorists in North Waziristan’s Shawal Valley.“First ever......
In the public discourse, Chief Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, who retires on Sept 9, has been generally understood as being an extension of the judicial thinking of former chief justice Iftikhar......
IN a contested Greek legend, Phryne was publicly disrobed during her trial for alleged impiety. The jurors were outraged by her condition and declared her innocent. In another Greek story, the Trojan......
OVER the last few days, I have met several patients from various villages in upper Sindh. An eight-month-old baby, diagnosed with a congenital heart condition, had difficulty breathing and was......
THE Ittefaq Foundry & Works at Kot Lakhpat near Lahore was nationalised in January 1972 by the first PPP government and renamed Lahore Engineering & Foundry Ltd (Lefo). Soon thereafter, I started my......
OCCASIONALLY, high state functionaries do try and turn the spotlight on the chronic deficiencies of the state.Unhappily, the diagnoses tend to be rooted more in emotion than pragmatism or structural......
A MEGACITY like Karachi does not give up its criminals easily; particularly so when such elements have been allowed to entrench themselves over a long period of time in the very vitals of the......
ON Sunday, seven political parties announced they would ‘cooperate’ with each other to counter the PML-N in the LG elections in Punjab and Sindh.On Monday, a PTI spokesman said his party was not......
BUDAPEST: Hungary's defence minister, Hende Csaba resigned on Monday because the armed forces were being too slow in building a border fence to keep out thousands of refugees and migrants heading......
QUETTA: Hundreds of intermediate students in Quetta, who were declared failed in intermediate examinations, staged a violent protest outside the Balochistan Board of Intermediate and Secondary......
