QUETTA: The Pashto Academy Quetta's three-day international conference titled ‘Pashto Language and Globalisation, Challenges and Possibilities,’ began Saturday at a hotel in Quetta where writers,......
JHELUM: At least 66 female students lost consciousness while 38 of them were hospitalised in serious condition as a result of anti-dengue fumigation carried out in Government Girls Higher Secondary......
KARACHI: Adviser to Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, on Saturday said India’s role in promoting terrorism in Pakistan is not a secret anymore, DawnNews......
At the 2012 World Twenty20, Umar Gul turned an unlikely hero with the bat as Pakistan survived a middle-order collapse to beat South Africa by two wickets in the Super Eights.Gul, who is currently......
QUETTA: Two Levies personnel were killed in a suspected targeted killing incident in Balochistan’s Awaran district on Saturday.Muhammad Jan, a Levies official, told Dawn.com via telephone that......
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Saturday granted citizenship to US boxer Roy Jones Jr after the American asked for a passport over tea in Moscow-annexed Crimea.The Kremlin on Saturday released a......
LIVERPOOL: Everton substitute Steven Naismith's hat-trick secured a 3-1 win against Chelsea on Saturday as the stuttering Premier League champions suffered their third defeat of the season.Naismith,......
LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Saturday criticised the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) government, saying that the people of Punjab were being......
LAS VEGAS: Huge underdog Andre Berto said Friday that he is taking inspiration from Serena Williams' shock defeat at the US Open tennis as he plots his own career-defining upset.Berto has lost three......
FIFA president Sepp Blatter sold off television rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups to disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner at a knockdown price, Swiss media have claimed.Swiss......
KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Saturday slashed the benchmark interest rates by 50 basis points to 6 per cent from 6.5 pc as lower fuel prices eased inflationary pressures.Inflation......
Many of you must be aware by now, a protest movement has begun in Punjab against the recent fee hikes in private schools. These schools, among the country's most prestigious, have suddenly increased......
KARACHI: An accountability court on Saturday indicted senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim and 10 others in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) corruption......
High temperature and heavy rain created havoc in the remote Chitral Valley in the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalayas mountain ranges this July. At least three lakes that had formed at the end of glaciers......
Pakistan allrounder Mohammad Hafeez on Saturday took to social media to dismiss reports that he had been bowling in the National T20 Cup without remedying his action.In a tweet that he posted, Hafeez......
Wesley Snipes, famous for playing the human-vampire Blade in the cult 1998 film, has his eye on some Bollywood A-listers for his next film.The actor, who's also moved into production after the......
PESHAWAR: Three people were killed and at least five others were injured in a gunfight in Peshawar late Friday, police said.The clashes erupted when unknown gunmen fired at a police van patrolling......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama led the United States (US) Friday in remembrance of 9/11, urging Americans to remain vigilant of "terrorist' threats on the 14th anniversary of the attacks.Although......
NEW YORK: A surveillance video released by New York police shows former tennis star James Blake being slammed to the ground and handcuffed by an undercover officer.Blake appears to have been caught......
SYDNEY: Australian aircraft have completed their first operation in Syria, defence officials said Saturday, just days after Canberra extended the mission from Iraq to better fight the self-styled......
IGUALA INDEPENDENCIA: Buses rumble out of Iguala's central station in southern Mexico packed with passengers and, sometimes, drugs hidden inside egg cartons, which may have been the motive behind......
It's that time of the week, folks: Coke Studio is releasing the fifth batch of its singles today, and the return of Ali Azmat to the platform gives us enough reason to celebrate.Rockers have united......
LONDON: Barcelona start the Champions League campaign aiming to become the first club since AC Milan in 1990 to win successive titles, a feat they could achieve at the Italian club's San Siro stadium......
ISLAMABAD: At least 47 Pakistanis were injured in the crane accident in Makkah's Grand Mosque, which resulted in the deaths of at least 107 pilgrims on Friday.Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Qazi......
BEIRUT: Eleven people were killed in evening rebel rocket fire on the Syrian capital Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday.The Britain-based monitor said the deaths were......
OSLO: "I looked at the map and I decided to give it a go": Ahmad Taleb is one of a number of crafty refugees who have reached Europe by cycling across the border into Arctic Norway.Norwegian police......
NEW DELHI: At least 104 people died when a cooking gas cylinder exploded in a packed restaurant in India's central Madhya Pradesh state on Saturday morning, police said, with the blast shattering......
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Saturday claimed arresting 10 target killers in operations carried out in various areas of Karachi during the last 24 hours.According to a Rangers press release,......
KARACHI: Situation in most parts of Karachi remained normal and business and educational institutions opened as per schedule Saturday morning despite an announcement by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement......
Since their wedding in early July, Shahid Kapoor and his wife Mira Rajput have been spotted by the paps doing regular couple things, like hitting the gym and going on movie dates. But rumour has it......
NEW YORK: Five-times champion Roger Federer reached his first US Open final in six years as he flew by fellow Swiss Stan Wawrinka 6-4 6-3 6-1 in the semi-finals on Friday.The second-seeded Federer,......
I REFER to a news report (Sept 6) wherein the Chief Justice of Pakistan has made a remark: “the gap between ruler and ruled is deepening.” I am saddened to say that not only the gap between ruler and......
A COURT in Islamabad questioned a lieutenant-colonel if his mother had named him so at birth. The lieutenant-colonel had so introduced himself. The court probably had Kargil hero Capt Karnal Sher......
SEVEN political parties have made an alliance to contest the local government election against the PML-N. This refers to your report on the front page (July 7). And they would make or agree on seats......
CHEMICAL engineering focuses on the design, operation, control and optimisation of chemical, physical and biological processes. Thus it encompasses a vast range of industries such as chemical,......
TWO state-of-the-art tunnel boring machines were procured from Germany at a cost of about Rs19.5bn for excavating two tunnels for the strategically important, 969 MW Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project......
WHY should ordinary citizens be subjected to the withholding tax? I wonder sometimes whether this levy is even constitutional or moral. Why should people pay it, keep a record and later claim......
RECENTLY, I came across a half-page advertisement about a reputed local bank.The ironic thing which shocked me was that the picture in the ad showed a man with a toddler sitting in his lap in the......
THIS refers to my article ‘Unity, faith and discipline’ (Dawn Independence Day 2015 supplement, Aug 14). There were some mistakes toward the end owing to an oversight.The last two sentences in the......
PESHAWAR: Unidentified assailants gunned down an ice cream vendor in Jangi Mohallah area of the city on Friday, while another person sustained injuries in the attack.A police official at the Khan......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa higher education department has decided to relax the recently-framed criteria for the appointment of vice chancellors to public sector universities in the province......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Friday dismissed bail petition of a suspected terrorist arrested on the charge of facilitating the suicide bombing of Madrassa Arif Hussain Al-Hussaini, Peshawar,......
PESHAWAR: Much different from the famous American and Indian Idol TV talent hunt shows, the auditions for the rabab competition in Peshawar turned out to be quite entertaining for the artists as well......
PESHAWAR: The Counter Terrorism Department on Friday claimed to have arrested a terrorist involved in the firing on a PIA plane in 2014 from Ring Road here.A statement issued here said that the......
PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party provincial chief Sikandar Khan Sherpao on Friday demanded the status of official language for Pashto in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa like Urdu.The demand was made in the wake of the......
LANDI KOTAL: Office-bearers of four leading political parties in Fata have announced their full support to the 22nd Constitutional amendment Bill presented in the National Assembly by Fata......
KOHAT: A woman was killed and her sister seriously injured after they jumped from a running pickup van due to fear of being kidnapped in Razgir Banda on Rawalpindi road here on Friday.Iqbal Khan,......
PESHAWAR: An informal meeting of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet here on Friday condemned the statement of incarcerated former mining minister Ziaullah Afridi against Chief Minister Pervez Khattak.Mr......
MANSEHRA: Federal Minister for Hajj and Religious Affairs Sardar Mohammad Yousaf has said the PML-N-led district government in Mansehra would give top priority to the promotion of education......
SWABI: There is a long delay in the start of classes at the newly-built Government Girls’ Degree College, Yar Hussain, due to the failure of the Peshawar Electric Supply Company to provide the......
PESHAWAR: In order to ensure good governance, the district administration has begun a campaign to check the sale of fake food items and spurious medicines and control profiteering in Peshawar by......
UPPER DIR: A tough contest is expected between the Jamaat-i-Islami and Pakistan Peoples Party candidates in the by-election for provincial assembly seat PK-93, Wari, Upper Dir-III, for which polling......
KARAK: Local mine workers took out a rally in Bahaderkhel area on Friday to demand better wages, free treatment and inflation control.Addressing the rally, worker leader Malik Naveed Khattak said......
ISLAMABAD: The anti-terrorism court issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of former president retired General Pervez Musharraf in the judges’ detention case on Friday.During the last a couple......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has retrieved official vehicles from all its law officers except the attorney general (AG) and the additional attorneys general (AAGs).The government had offered......
RAWALPINDI: Fumigation of a girl school in Jand tehsil of Attock District supposed to protect its students against dengue fever instead brought 36 schoolgirls suffocated by the spray fumes to......
ISLAMABAD: The drive against food outlets reached its third day on Friday, with teams of assistant commissioners (AC) and magistrates inspecting prestigious eateries that did not meet their......
ISLAMABAD: To create acceptance and respect for Pakistan’s cultural diversity, Lok Virsa brought together children and ‘truck art’ artisans in a week-long engagement titled ‘Truck Art: Engagement......
ExhibitionAn exhibition of works by Komail Aijazuddin titled ‘Grace in hand’ will be held on Tuesday, September 15 at Khaas Gallery at 5pm.ConcertPakistan-US Alumni Network (PUAN), Black Box Sounds......
RAWALPINDI: As many as seven people were injured when two rival religious groups had a free-for-all on Friday over the issue of leading the prayers.Police said the injured were shifted to hospital......
ISLAMABAD: A gang of robbers looted cash and valuables worth over Rs7 million from the house of a retired army officer here on Friday, the police said.The robbers entered the house of retired Brig......
ISLAMABAD: The 70th anniversary celebrations of the United Nations (UN) started in the federal capital on Friday.During the celebrations, ‘UN Walls’ will be placed or used in different parts of the......
TAXILA: The local administration on Friday sealed indefinitely the stone crushing plant where falling debris during blasting on Wednesday killed three as the third body was retrieved on Thursday......
RAWALPINDI: A two-member fact-finding committee of the Punjab government on Friday failed to trace any poisonous chemical in the anti-dengue spray due to which more than 700 students fell unconscious......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is extremely vulnerable to climate change, and within a decade and a half, the impact on weather, water resources, temperature and crop production could be detrimental.This was......
RAWALPINDI: Four police officials, including two Elite Force personnel, were arrested on the charge of gambling on the premises of the Police Lines Headquarters on Friday night.Police sources said a......
RAWALPINDI: A national consensus guideline meeting that reviewed the ‘Challenges of Undergraduate Medical Education 2015 and Beyond’ took place on Friday at the new teaching block of Rawalpindi......
RAWALPINDI: Police have unearthed a bogus office of the city traffic police which allegedly issued driving licences. The police said Nek Mohammad, a former police official, was operating the bogus......
LAHORE: A joint venture of the China Railways (CR) and Norinko has informed the Lahore Development Authority that it will monitor the construction work (structure) to ensure international quality......
KASUR: The Ganda Singh police, on the orders of the Lahore High Court, registered a child abuse case on Friday against four people, who are also complainants in such cases.According to the first......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court allowed petitions of five cooperative housing societies and set aside acquisition of their land by the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) for its own housing scheme, LDA......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif appears to be overly touchy about the cost and production capacity of the Quaid-i-Azam Solar Park (QASP) project in Bahawalpur.In a second press conference in......
LAHORE: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Lahore, on Friday announced the names of position holders of intermediate annual examination 2015.Two out of three overall top......
LAHORE: A 40-member team of actors and technicians from Ajoka Theatre will cross the Wagah border on Saturday (today) to participate in the first Pakistani theatre festival in India.The ‘Humsaya......
LAHORE: The deadline for filing of nomination papers for the first phase of local body elections in Punjab expired on Friday.Scrutiny of nomination papers will begin from Saturday (today) and will......
LAHORE: A spokesman for the Punjab government has said that due to the recent threats by Taliban militants, the security of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leaders has been increased.The leaders......
LAHORE: The livestock department seized on Friday 450 kilo unhealthy meat and got arrested four butchers.A team seized 100kg meat at Babu Sabu interchange being transported to Lahore from Sargodha......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf lawmakers have moved an adjournment motion against alleged substandard construction of Metro bridges which are falling off at some points.Opposition Leader in the......
LAHORE: Punjab Finance Minister Dr Ayesha Ghaus reviewed the quarterly revenue progress of the Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) in a meeting here on Friday.The PRA chairperson, in a presentation to the......
LAHORE: The driver of a former deputy district education officer (DDEO) died due to knife injuries allegedly inflicted by his boss during a clash between the two in North Cantonment on Friday. The......
LAHORE: A group of 90 students and teachers of the National College of Arts (NCA) spent a day out with Pakistan Army at Lahore Garrison on Friday.The programme was specifically organised to brief the......
LAHORE: A joint team of police and the Child Welfare and Protection Bureau (CWPB) recovered on Friday two minors, including a girl, the victims of alleged torture and illegal detention, after a raid......
LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Amin Wains on Friday issued a letter to all divisional SPs of the city to take special measures for the implementation of the National Action Plan......
SAHIWAL: Around 200 parents and members of the local civil society walked from Five Ways Chowk to the DCO Office in protest against an abrupt fee increase by the Divisional and District Public School......
GUJRANWALA: A senior lawyer filed on Friday a petition in the sessions court for an inquiry into ‘mega corruption’ in the Nandipur power plant and pleaded for registration of a case against Prime......
SIALKOT: Unavailability of anti-snakebite shot at Pasrur THQ Civil Hospital and Govt Allama Iqbal Memorial DHQ Teaching Hospital, Sialkot, has resulted in the death of a 15-year-old seminary student......
MUZAFFARGARH: Succumbing to public protest, the district coordination officer has written a letter to the energy department additional chief secretary, Dera Ghazi Khan commissioner, power development......
FAISALABAD: The National Commission on Human Rights, Pakistan, has decided to take up the issue of police torture of MSc (hons) degree holder Sheraz Nawaz.Punjab Medical College Associate Professor......
BAHAWALPUR: The Bahawalpur Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) on Friday announced results of the annual intermediate examination 2015.The overall top position was secured by Iraj......
SIALKOT: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on Friday registered a fraud case against 10 officials of the Sialkot Irrigation Department, including its former executive engineer, for an......
KARACHI: The city administration on Friday seized 4,000 kilograms of ‘unhygienic’ meat from Empress Market and arrested three meat sellers.Officials called it the biggest ‘catch’ during the ongoing......
KARACHI: A monument be erected at the place where the burnt-out facade of the Baldia garments factory stands and the culprits behind the country’s deadliest fire that claimed 259 lives on September......
KARACHI: The top brass of the Pakistan Peoples Party, including the Sindh chief minister, visited the Karachi central prison on Friday to meet their colleague Syed Ali Nawaz Shah who was recently......
KARACHI: Doctors at the Liaquat National Hospital on Friday discharged the Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmaker Rashid Godil 25 days after he was seriously wounded in an armed attack that left him on a......
KARACHI: Four suspects allegedly associated with the Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) were given in police custody for further interrogation and investigation for another week by an......
KARACHI: A new generation is seeking to revive the partying traditions — albeit behind closed doors — of the metropolis that was home to several nightclubs before the country was fundamentally......
SEMINARA seminar on ‘Child sexual abuse’ organised by the Habib University at its Tariq Rafi Lecture Theatre, at 2pm.TALKA talk on “Violence against women a global reality: can we control it” by Dr......
KARACHI: The Sindh Rural Partners Organisation (SRPO) held a consultation on minority rights here on Friday with several minority group representatives, human rights activists and political party......
KARACHI: The audience on the penultimate day of the Japanese Film Festival 2015 were taken on a journey of self-discovery with an unlikely trio, thrust together by happenstance, with the screening of......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has demanded deployment of Rangers and non-local polling staff in polling stations to ensure free, fair and transparent local bodies elections.This demand was......
KARACHI: Police on Friday claimed to have seized weapons and ammunition disinterred from a place near a Rangers headquarters and Islamia College.They seized one light machine gun, one repeater, one......
KARACHI: Fishermen operating off the coast of Balochistan have recently released two endangered sharks back into the sea after they got entangled in their fishing nets, the World Wide Fund for......
MIRPURKHAS: Dozens of Hindus belonging to the Kolhi community on Friday held a demonstration at the Degan Rasti area of Kot Ghulam Mohammad taluka to protest burning and destruction of their huts......
SUKKUR: Jacobabad police on Friday claimed to have arrested a woman who had allegedly kidnapped a man and was demanding Rs3 million for his release.DSP Khuda Bukhsh Panhwar told journalists at his......
WASHINGTON: The White House said on Friday that President Barack Obama and his entourage would not stay at an iconic New York hotel where US leaders have traditionally stayed while attending the UN......
KIRKUK: Bombs killed 13 members of the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces during an operation against the self-styled Islamic State in the northern province of Kirkuk on Friday, officers said.“The aim......
WASHINGTON: The US Congress failed on Friday to derail the Iran nuclear deal as Republicans could not get a veto-proof majority in either chamber of the bicameral legislature.President Barack Obama......
WASHINGTON: Panicked passengers fled Washington DC’s main train station on Friday after a security officer shot a man who had stabbed a woman, in what police said appeared to be a domestic......
TOKYO: The number of people aged 100 and above has hit 60,000 in Japan this year, as the country faces spiralling social and health expenses to look after its legions of retirees. The population of......
PARIS: If France launches air strikes on self-styled Islamic State targets in Syria, it will follow the United States and Britain in claiming it is acting in self-defence, but experts say such action......
The 28-member bloc is in disarray, beset by crises, member governments are squabbling, people are angry and disenchanted, leaders are mostly querulous and hesitant — and sometimes outrageously......
In the years since Zero Dark Thirty became a box-office success and an Oscar contender, inquiring minds (not to mention the Senate Intelligence Committee) have wondered how close director Kathryn......
BARCELONA: Hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets of Barcelona on Friday to call for Catalonia to break away from Spain, two weeks before a regional election that many see as a......
LONDON: London could get its first Muslim mayor after the main opposition Labour party selected Sadiq Khan, a bus driver’s son and former government minister, as its candidate on Friday.Mr Khan, a......
GEVGELIJA: Around 7,600 migrants entered Macedonia in just 12 hours overnight — a record according to a UN official quoted by Macedonia’s state news agency on Friday.“Around 7,600 migrants, mostly......
PADAMARAN: Indonesia said on Friday it will send more than 10,000 troops to fight fires in southern Sumatra, as smoke makes thousands sick, delays flights and pushes air quality to unhealthy levels......
TOKYO: Japan has ordered beefed-up security at its embassies worldwide, a top official said on Friday, after the self-styled Islamic State highlighted its missions in Indonesia, Malaysia and......
SINGAPORE: The party that has ruled Singapore since it became a country a half-century ago returned to power for five more years after easily winning Friday’s general election.With partial results......
LAHORE: In yet another attempt to get the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) to resume the bilateral series against Pakistan in the UAE during the month of December, the Pakistan Cricket......
NEW YORK: For Serena Williams’ first 26 matches at major tournaments in 2015, no deficit was too daunting, no opponent too troublesome, no victory too far from reach.She was unbeaten and, seemingly,......
SYDNEY: Newly appointed Australian Test vice-captain David Warner has been ruled out of next month’s tour of Bangladesh due to a fractured thumb, Cricket Australia said Friday.Warner suffered the......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand has selected fast-bowling allrounders Jimmy Neesham and Corey Anderson along with four frontline quicks in its 15-man squad to play a three-Test series in Australia in......
LEEDS: England captain Eoin Morgan led his side to a history-making three-wicket win over Australia in the fourth One-day International at Headingley on Friday to tie the five-match series 2-2.Morgan......
LONDON: With impeccable timing, David De Gea could return to the Manchester United team for Saturday’s Premier League clash against arch-rivals Liverpool having been the scourge of the Merseysiders......
SEOUL: South Korean FIFA presidential contender Chung Mong-joon has asked the governing body’s Electoral Committee to reinvestigate his complaint that the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) had sent......
GENERAL SANTOS (Philippines): Philippine boxer Manny Pacquiao called for punishment and a rematch on Friday after his fierce rival Floyd Mayweather was accused of violating anti-doping rules in the......
ASUNCION: South America’s football confederation CONMEBOL are determined to go ahead with next year’s planned centenary Copa America despite the corruption scandal which has embroiled the......
ROME: Emphasising its “incomparable beauty” amid a widening corruption scandal, Rome formally submitted its bid for the 2024 Olympics on Friday to mark a turnaround after a 2020 candidacy was......
BERLIN: The German Football Federation (DFB) has extended a campaign to help refugees for a further three years until 2019, DFB announced on Friday.The programme, christened “1-0 for a welcome”, is......
RAWALPINDI: An Adil Amin’s pulled six on the penultimate ball of the match earned Peshawar a pulsating win which put Lahore Whites on doors of an early exit from the Cool & Cool presents Haier Mobile......
KARACHI: Reigning Asian snooker champion Hamza Akbar will become the first Pakistani ever to make his mark in the British professional circuit later this month.“I’ve got the visa of UK and hopefully......
KARACHI: Raza Sawani beat Vinod Das to win the men’s singles title while Nouman Aftab clinched the U-16 title by outplaying Zubair Raja on the final day of the prestigious Third Indus Pharma Open......
KARACHI: Haider Khan Lehri and Asif Azeem were elected unopposed as the President and General Secretary of Softball Federation of Pakistan (SFP) for a four-year term during the polls held at the......
KARACHI: Nazir Hussain Young Fighter Gymkhana pulled off a thrilling one-wicket victory over Mujahid Gymkhana in their KCCA Commissioner Karachi Cup fixture at the KCCA Stadium here on......
KARACHI: The exciting quarter-finals played here on Friday in the 6th Culligan Girls Senior & Junior Throwball Tournament saw Haque Academy Red, Convent Jesus of Mary School (Gray) Habib Girls School......
KARACHI; The two-day South Cup Karachi Boxing Championship gets into action at Ustad Ali Mohammad Qambrani stadium, Kakri ground, on Tuesday Sept 15, says an announcement.The competition will be held......
KARACHI: Thirty teams representing seventeen schools have confirmed their participation in the Horlicks Inter-School Tennis Tournament which will commence at Karachi Gymkhana’s tennis courts from......
LAHORE: The sixth edition of the Lahore Inter-school/Inter-college Games will be held from Nov 9 to 13 by the Punjab Olympic Association.Invitations have been sent to all schools and colleges of the......
MANILA: Finance ministers from Asian and Pacific nations said on Friday they are committed to strengthening economic growth and stability in the region and will refrain from competitive currency......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will soon announce a package to boost the country’s exports, Commerce Minister Khurram Dastagir Khan told Dawn on Friday.However, Dastagir did not disclose an......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade deficit in merchandise narrowed by over 8 per cent in the first two months of this fiscal year from a year ago.In absolute terms, the trade deficit shrank to $3.762......
ISTANBUL: Talks between Russia and Turkey on building a new gas pipeline between the two countries are currently frozen amid differences over the price of Russian gas imports, a Turkish official said......
KARACHI: The Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) paid over Rs1.88 billion to registered persons and their spouses towards pension and grant during July 2015.It collected over Rs930 million......
KARACHI: Exchange rate may witness another shock since it is being maintained at the current level artificially, according to currency dealers at the inter-bank market.The inter-bank market witnessed......
KARACHI: Stocks weakened further on Friday as the KSE-100 index declined by 119.65 points (0.35 per cent) to settle at 33,672.72.Strong volatility was again witnessed on the last day of trading,......
TOKYO: A broadly positive mood across Asian markets helped boost higher-risk currencies on Friday, although analysts said traders were on edge ahead of a possible US interest rate hike next week.The......
MONROVIA: IMF chief Christine Lagarde urged African governments to spend responsibly as she visited Liberia on Friday, a week after it was declared free from an Ebola epidemic which has shattered its......
PARIS: Cheap oil prices ushered in by Saudi Arabia’s policy of protecting its market share will end up squeezing high-cost producers like US shale drillers, who next year may face the biggest drop in......
BEIJING: China on Friday loosened the means for calculating the reserve requirement ratios of banks, the state news agency Xinhua reported, effectively increasing the amount of money banks can......
KARACHI: Brisk activity pushed prices higher on the cotton market on Friday amid panic buying from spinners and some exporters.Floor brokers said there was some panic buying on fear of short crop and......
LONDON: Gold fell to a one-month low on Friday, heading for a third successive weekly loss, as uncertainty over the timing of the US Federal Reserve’s first interest rate increase in nearly a decade......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures fell back after reaching a seven-week high on Friday on sustained buying by traders, despite data showing higher production and inventory levels.The benchmark......
NEW YORK: Crude futures fell on Friday after influential Wall Street trader Goldman Sachs cut its oil price outlook, then pared losses after a report showed a drop in the US oil rig count.Goldman......
KARACHI: The already tense relations between the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and security establishment strained further on Friday when the party accused Rangers of killing its workers in what it......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Defence Committee was informed on Friday that 26 Pakistanis had been killed in over 200 ceasefire violations along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary over the past......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Railways (PR) would upgrade its Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi Cantonment stations to bring facilities there at a par with international standards, Railways Minister Saad Rafiq......
QUETTA: Iranian authorities handed over the bodies of five alleged drug smugglers of Pakistan-origin to Pakistani authorities on Friday.The five along with their three Iranian accomplices were killed......
KARACHI: The politics of strike should come to an end once and for all. This is the desire of the prime minister and the goal of our government. Protesting is a democratic right which every political......
GHALANAI: Two volunteers of a peace committee were killed in a roadside blast in Dwezai area of Mohmand tribal region on Friday.According to officials of the political administration, Nawab Khan and......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has filed two more references against former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, raising the number of such cases to 10.“We have recently filed two......
ISLAMABAD: The PPP has accused the PML-N government of misusing judicial process for what it called ‘political victimisation’ of opponents.In a statement issued from Dubai on Friday, PPP Co-chairman......
KARACHI: Former president and PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has summoned all provincial presidents and central committee’s members of his party to Dubai on Sept 14 to discuss the political......
QUETTA: Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping Kamran Michael has said the government has acquired 2,281 acres of land in Gwadar to be handed over to China for establishing there an export......
ISLAMABAD: Lauding the principled stand taken by Pakistan on national security advisers’ talks with India, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) Chairman Syed Ali Geelani has said that a strong......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways (PR) has announced 10 special trains to facilitate people planning to travel for Eidul Azha. The trains will start on Sept 21. Some 30,000 passengers are expected to......
GWADAR: Jan Ahmed Dashti, a leader of the National Party (NP) and councillor of Gogadan Union Council, was shot dead in Dank area of Turbat on Friday.Police sources said Mr Dashti, who was the......
BEIJING: China’s foreign ministry said on Friday a Chinese national reported as being held hostage by militants of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) appeared to be one of its missing citizens.......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to allow Palestine flag to fly at United Nations headquarters.Of the 193 UN members, 119 voted in favour.The flag will be......
RIYADH: A massive construction crane crashed into Makkah’s Grand Mosque in stormy weather on Friday, killing at least 87 people and injuring 184, Saudi authorities said, less than a fortnight before......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Friday that the ongoing operation against criminals in Karachi would be taken to its logical conclusion.“The miscreants now are carrying out cowardly......
ISLAMABAD: On the express instructions of Rangers, the State Bank of Pakistan has asked all local and international banks and financial institutions operating in the country to provide complete bank......
NEW DELHI: Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh received a high-level delegation of Pakistan Rangers here on Friday and assured them that India would not be the first to breach a future ceasefire......
Imagine a few months from now, a Facebook status ‘glorifying’ a leading politician - who happens to be accused in pending cases under the Anti-Terrorism Act - is published by a young political......
ONE good thing to emerge out of Imran Khan’s fury and fulmination over the 2013 elections is that hopefully, the next ones due in 2018 will not be as flawed.Over the years, we have come to accept our......
PAKISTAN and India have been commemorating the 1965 war. Their governments and intelligentsia would do well to reflect on its baleful consequences on travel, cultural exchange and trade between them.......
“O Motherland!Why are all our tributariesOf love in tumultOur rivers of lifeIn revolt?” — Ejaz RahimI WAS recently in Afghanistan to attend the academic forum meeting in connection with the sixth......
ISN’T free media a guarantor and guardian of truth in society? At least in theory it reports on collective or individual wrongs, highlights institutional failures, transgressions, discusses critical......
FOR the Palestinian people, who have to face the brutality and humiliation meted out to them by the Israeli state on an all too frequent basis, it is a small victory.In a recently held vote, the UN......
FOR women in Pakistan, the law itself is usually the least of their problems.That is, of course, not to say that legal hurdles do not hamper their quest for economic empowerment; the challenges for......
Since its launch the National Action Plan to counter terrorism has scored some impressive gains, but going by the reports emerging from the deliberations of Thursday’s high-level meeting to review......
KIRKUK: Bombs killed 13 members of the Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces during an operation against the Islamic State jihadist group in the northern province of Kirkuk on Friday, officers said.“The aim......
