QUETTA: Amid tight security, a three-day anti-polio drive would be launched in Quetta and other 31 districts of Balochistan on Monday (tomorrow), while a ban on pillion riding has been imposed in......
KARACHI: Police on Sunday detained four suspects allegedly involved in the killing of former TV journalist Aftab Alam and other recent murders in Central District.A senior police official who wished......
MULTAN: At least 10 people died when an explosion occurred near a packed rickshaw stand in Multan Sunday evening, DawnNews reported.Rescue 1122 official Dr Kaleem confirmed that 10 people have died......
ISLAMABAD: Clashes broke out in Indian-held Kashmir on Sunday when Kashmiri students chanted pro-Pakistan and pro-freedom slogans at the venue of a marathon in Srinagar.Footage showed the university......
MANCHESTER: England cricket captain Eoin Morgan retired hurt after being hit on the head by a bouncer from Australia's Mitchell Starc in the fifth and final one-day international at Old Trafford on......
DHAKA: The Bangladesh Cricket Board suspended fast bowler Shahadat Hossain on Sunday for allegedly torturing an 11-year-old housemaid.BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury says Hossain is suspended “from all......
QUETTA: Organisers of the World Pashto Conference decided during the three-day event to celebrate 'Pashtoon Culture Day' every year on September 23.Balochistan Chief Minister Dr. Abdul Malik Baloch,......
SILICON VALLEY: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley on September 27, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced on Sunday."I'm excited to......
NEW YORK: Flavia Pennetta won her first grand slam singles title over Roberta Vinci in an improbable all-Italian US Open final on Saturday then added one more shock to a stunning fortnight by......
NEW DELHI: With a three-year government rescue package coming to a close, the highly indebted northern Indian state of Rajasthan is getting tough ? it's demanding farmers start paying for their......
LAS VEGAS: Floyd Mayweather Jr. cemented his place among the pantheon of boxing greats with a unanimous decision over fellow American Andre Berto on Saturday in what he has repeatedly said would be......
QUETTA: Three bullet-riddled bodies were found in Pasni area of Balochistan's Gwadar district on Sunday morning.Police sources told DawnNews that locals had spotted three bodies in Pasni area of......
KARACHI: The city’s West Zone police arrested a suspect allegedly involved in the killing of four religious scholars of Deobandi school of thought including Mufti Shamzai, Karachi-West DIG Feroze......
NEW DELHI: Police were hunting Sunday for a suspect who illegally stored explosives in a restaurant building in central India that sparked a deadly blast, killing 88 people and injuring nearly......
After a smooth start on Friday, the three-day cultural event Shaan-e-Pakistan – heralded as a harbinger of harmony between Pakistan and India – is in full swing.Held in New Delhi, the event is a mix......
JERUSALEM: Palestinians clashed with Israeli police at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday just hours before the start of the Jewish New Year, police and witnesses said.The......
ISLAMABAD: At least 11 Pakistanis have been confirmed dead in the crane accident in Makkah's Grand Mosque on Friday, which had resulted in the deaths of at least 107 pilgrims, the Foreign Office (FO)......
PESHAWAR: A US drone strike killed four suspected terrorists, including a key militant commander, in the Lalpura area of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.Security sources say the drone targeted a......
We are all photographers, or at least that’s what our smartphones want us to become.With powerful camera lens technology packed into smartphones, the need to carry dedicated digital camera has......
Trust these social media users! To be honest, some people try and make technological developments look and sound like the demonic Frankenstein.Recently Indian film star Sonakshi Sinha faced an......
Renowned Indian music composer Aadesh Shrivastava passed away on Sept 5. He was 51. The musician had cancer, and was battling the disease for five years. In the last couple of weeks, he had stopped......
Three months back Hollywood A-lister Jennifer Aniston got married to Justin Theroux (not an A-lister). And yet, the rumour mills are churning out reports which can hardly label their marriage a happy......
Actress Pooja Bhatt is known for speaking her mind (a tad too much though). Her latest grouse is against rapper Yo Yo Honey Singh who has done a new version of the ’90s hit song Dheere dheere se meri......
All you Kangana Ranaut admirers go look somewhere else! The actress with the cutest lisp in the business has made it very clear that although she is single, she is not ready to get into a......
With his fresh, young looks, Yasir Shoro started his career as a VJ on a regional TV channel and migrated to mainstream acting a few years later. With successful TV serials like Zard Mausam,......
The year is seeing Karachi revert to its former glory in terms of arts, music and public participation.The recently concluded I Am Karachi Music Festival was an effort of the I Am Karachi consortium......
Japan: The bombing of NagasakiIt’s a little known fact of history that Nagasaki was not in fact the original target of the American atomic bomb strikes on Japan. The United States originally wanted......
If you thought that 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four (2015) was going to take the gong for the worst film of the year, then ladies and gentlemen, we already have another strong contender: Hitman:......
Just like Pakistan’s fashion community is torn between the Karachi and Lahore camps, in the fashion fraternity of India there exists an invisible divide among Delhi and Mumbai fashionistas. Each......
In the 19th century, following the success of mounted street patrols in London, the idea spread to the rest of Europe, USA and the British colonies. Our present day mounted police force in Pakistan......
The fourth episode of Coke Studio Season 8 had one redeeming feature: pop band Siege’s wonderful version of the classic folk song Khari neem. It was pleasantly surprising. The marked feature of the......
“But first ... let me take a selfie” seems to have become a slogan for everyone from celebrities to children who are happily striking poses and clicking themselves. It could be in a busy street or a......
In the pre-Facebook era, when social media was limited to Flicker and a couple of other websites, I saw a picture of Gilkey memorial. The composition, the content and the depth of subject was so......
“No one realises how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on the old, familiar pillow,” said Lin Yutang, a Chinese writer, inventor and linguist. What would our lives be......
Ever heard of an inexpensive fruit, (mistaken as a vegetable) which is readily available and works wonders for your body both inside and out?Have it as a salad to accompany a heavy meal or take it......
Q. I managed to obtain some seeds from Canada and grew them in Karachi with mixed results. Tomato germination was good but the plants collapsed due to high temperatures and infection by small, white......
Dear Pyari AuntieI am a 27-year-old woman. My friend and I used to work in the same office and I was the one who helped her get this job. The problem is that my friend had an affair with our boss, a......
If you are short of time and low on cash as well as ideas, then these wonderfully versatile pastries are the magical answer you are looking for and they can come in any shape, size or flavour you are......
An exhilarating experience it always is, no matter how many times you have gone through it before, to visit the picturesque village of Auvers by the River Oise, only a short drive away from......
El Greco, a celebrated painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance painted “The Burial of the Count of Orgaz” (oil on canvas) in 1586, measuring 180 inches × 140 inches, which has been......
Last week local TV channels began reporting that the Habib University in Karachi was under attack. They also claimed that security personnel had entered the university because they believed that some......
Karl Marx’s (d.1883) interpretation of the history of humanity, divides it into different categories and analyses it on the basis of its evolutionary process. The first well known period of history......
The sound exhibited in Aik Tha Badshah is quite radical, is that the approach you’ve taken with the rest of the album?Ali Noor: Not at all; In fact Aik Tha Badshah was like me discovering a new toy......
GHALIB took pride in telling us that his ancestors had for long remained associated with military service:But this was not the prerogative of Ghalib alone. Dr Tahira Sarwar is an Urdu researcher......
A SUCCESSFUL chick lit novel does many things: it infuses the ordinary, and sometimes the downright mundane, with humour and intrigue; it spins a narrative which nudges what is only remotely possible......
ALICE Munro is a prolific writer who got only more experimental in her later works, and this transition in style can be seen in Family Furnishings, a collection of her unique and imaginative short......
RUMANA Husain’s Street Smart is a testament to the diversity and dynamism of public spaces in Karachi. At a time when discussions about public space have become increasingly negative and narrow in......
ANY reservations I’d felt about diving into Kate Bolick’s debut work of non-fiction, Spinster, vanished after I read its first sentence: “Whom to marry, and when will it happen — these two questions......
DURING the past several months, I have tried to study in this column space the historical process of creating a linguistic identity for a significant chunk of the Muslim community residing in the......
KARACHI is a city characterised by contestations over resources by a diverse set of formal and informal actors — land and water being the two sectors where this trend is the most prevalent. As a......
RAWALPINDI: The heavy tank attack launched by India in the Sialkot sector yesterday has been beaten back by the gallant Pakistan forces. This was stated by a spokesman of the Defence Ministry today......
ALL his ideas, wrote The Times London in its obituary note on the Quaid-i-Azam on Sept 13, 1948, “were diamond hard, clear cut and almost tangible. His arguments were directed dagger like to the......
GRACE, warmth, humility, and vision are words that personified Nasra Wazir Ali. Her personality was a role model for me, as for others who had known her. A closer association developed when I became......
MANY customers of K Electric were happy that the bills for the months of June and July 2015 were less than expected. But little did they know that a part of their consumption was being carried......
THE 0.6% withholding tax on bank transactions is something I refuse to pay. However, I couldn’t agree more with the idea that this is an economical solution to tax evasion in a country desperately in......
THE Balochistan education department fills vacancies for teachers through NTS, which is appreciable. But, unfortunately, it has left many flaws and confusion among the candidates regarding its......
THIS is with reference to an article by Zahra Nasir (Aug 30) regarding the watering of plants through irrigation channels as wells drip feed. If we look at the watering of crops through canals/tube......
PESHAWAR: Central president of employees association of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), Mohammad Saleem Sherpao, on Saturday attempted self-immolation in protest against the......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is set to put in place a watchdog for the transplantation of human organs in the province.According to an official in the know, a summary for the purpose......
PESHAWAR: An anti-terrorism court here on Saturday declined to grant pre-arrest bail to a sub-inspector of police, charged in a case of kidnapping a person for ransom last month.The ATC judge,......
SWABI: With the Flue-Cured Virginia buying exercise likely to end this month, majority of growers in the district are distraught over the rejection of a huge stock of tobacco for being of inferior......
KHAR: Welcoming the proposed 22nd Constitutional Amendment Bill presented in the National Assembly by Fata lawmakers, leaders of All Bajaur Political Parties Alliance on Saturday urged their......
MINGORA: More than 2,000 books were distributed among the libraries of government and private schools during a ceremony here on Saturday.The book exhibition and books distribution ceremony titled......
LAKKI MARWAT: The local journalists took out a protest rally in Naurang town on Saturday to condemn attacks on their colleagues in parts of the country.Led by president of local press club Tariq......
PESHAWAR: A policeman and two attackers were killed when a police patrol vehicle came under fire here in Sufaid Dheri area early on Saturday.The police identified an attacker as Saifullah, a resident......
PESHAWAR: A local accountability court on Saturday ordered the distribution among the affected persons of around Rs63.4 million returned to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) by a former......
UPPER DIR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that his party wants a stable and strong democracy in the country and will oppose any move to derail it.He was addressing a public gathering in......
ISLAMABAD: Six people died in separate incidents on Saturday, police said.In the first incident, Amreena Sumbal, a nursing student, committed suicide at her house in G-7/1.She was found hanging by......
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of National Health Services has again sought clerics’ cooperation to ensure success of nine polio campaigns planned during the current low transmission season.The first campaign......
Working from dawn to dusk has become routine for 11-year-old Sidra Khan. Even though she should not be working under law, Sidra has been toiling away at a brick kiln near Islamabad for several years......
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab minister for labour and manpower, Raja Ashfaq Sarwar, on Saturday asked the local administration to not only strengthen their anti-dengue activities but divert them to the......
ISLAMABAD: Action against restaurants and eateries continued in the capital on Saturday as three renowned establishments were sealed and three others were fined.Even though Saturday is a government......
ISLAMABAD: Law enforcement agencies on Saturday recovered 190kg of explosive material during a search operation in the capital’s rural area.The operation was conducted in Dhoke Abbasi, Dhoke Paracha,......
MUZAFFARABAD: Seven people were killed and a woman was injured in a road accident near here on Saturday, police said.A passenger jeep plunged into a ravine while negotiating a sharp bend on the......
ISLAMABAD: Three people accompanying a wedding party were arrested for carrying illegal arms and ammunition at Daman-i-Koh here on Saturday, police said.The party comprising some vehicles was......
According to a notification issued by the ICT administration on September, 7, 2015, there are five laws being utilised to ensure that standards are maintained with regards to the quality of food sold......
Brazil’s Independence Day celebratedBrazil’s new ambassador to Pakistan, Claudio Lins, hosted a reception at his residence to mark his country’s Independence Day, Dia da Pàtria, on September 7. It......
ISLAMABAD: The first Arab woman mountaineer, who conquered Mount Everest, now plans to climb one of the 7,000-metre peaks in Pakistan.Talking to Dawn, Suzanne Al Houby termed Pakistan a fascinating......
RAWALPINDI: All the first three positions in the intermediate annual examinations held under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Rawalpindi were clinched by the students of private......
LAHORE: A 10-foot python was killed at the Bagh-i-Jinnah by its staff early on Saturday.Officials of the Punjab Wildlife Department claimed the reptile was killed in self-defence.The department has......
LAHORE: The farmers belonging to Kissan Raj and Kissan Board Pakistan, who held a protest in front of the Punjab Assembly on Saturday, dispersed after an assurance by Agriculture Minister Farrukh......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf suffered a major blow on Saturday as its three candidates for union council chairman and vice-chairman slots `withdrew’ their nomination papers allegedly under......
LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Saturday assured a conference on “Legal Aid in Pakistan-The next steps” of a new legislation for establishment of the legal aid authority.The Pakistan......
LAHORE: Seven countries will invest Rs80 billion in the energy and value-added components of the poultry sector of Pakistan.“Norway, Belgium, France, Korea, China, Brazil, and Germany have shown......
LAHORE: While Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has asked the private educational institutions not to increase fees ‘unjustifiably’, Punjab Education Minister Rana Mashhood on Saturday could neither......
LAHORE: Model Town, one of the posh localities of the city, has been identified as the most vulnerable place to a possible dengue spread and the officials concerned have been asked to keep the area......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Saturday sent two suspects of the Kasur child abuse scandal to jail on judicial remand.Ganda Singhwala police produced Waseem Sindhi and Tanzeelur Rehman, a......
LAHORE: Child Rights Movement (CRM), a coalition of 30 civil society organisations, has urged the Punjab government to establish a provincial commission on the rights of children without delay.“It is......
LAHORE: Punjab Food Authority teams on Saturday sealed many eateries and restaurants for flouting hygiene standards and laws in various parts of the city.A PFA team headed by Director Operations......
SHEIKHUPURA: A team led by District Coordination Officer (DCO) Kiran Khursheed unearthed an illegal slaughterhouse, arrested two butchers and seized 282kg of dead animal meat on Saturday.The DCO......
LAHORE: A labourer was shot dead by two unidentified motorcyclists near the Lahore railway station on Saturday.The victim was identified as Rana Nazim, 33, a resident of Kot Khwaja Saeed.A CCTV......
Exactly 250 years ago, on the 16th of April, 1765, the first Sikh rulers of Lahore rode into the city and took over the Lahore Fort. The great Ranjit Singh was not yet born. The Sikh era had formally......
BAHAWALPUR: The employees of the departments under district government’s administrative control continued their strike for the third day on Saturday, in protest against lawyers.The government......
FAISALABAD: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Faisalabad, announced the results of intermediate examination, annual 2015, on Saturday.Fatima Osama, of the Gojra Jinnah College......
FAISALABAD: Owners of the sizing units in the district on Saturday observed strike and set up a protest camp at Clock Tower intersection against the imposition of section 40-B of the Sales Tax Act by......
SIALKOT: The two-day national “Exhibition For Women by Women” began here on Saturday, displaying products by female entrepreneurs.Federal Minister for Defence, Water and Power Khawaja Muhammad Asif ......
GUJRANWALA: A gunman was killed on Saturday while his accomplice was injured and arrested by police in an encounter on Jinnah Road.Three gunmen were looting valuables from passersby at a picket. When......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A woman and her 10-year-old daughter were found dead in their house in Islampura locality of Kamalia under mysterious circumstances on Saturday.According to police, Naheed Akhtar, 35,......
BAHAWALPUR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam leader and Senate Deputy Chairman Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Hyderi has taken exception to the crackdown on seminaries “on the pretext of 21st amendment”.Addressing a......
LAHORE: A new police facilitation centre will be inaugurated soon in Iqbal Town’s Moon Market.This was announced by Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Amin Wains while visiting the centre on......
KARACHI: A book of photographs titled Crossroads by Arif Mahmood was launched at the Canvas Art Gallery on Saturday evening.Speaking on the occasion artist Nimra Bucha said she had known Mahmood for......
KARACHI: Officials of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Saturday met Rashid Godil, a lawmaker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, at his residence and inquired after his health, said the force spokesperson.On......
KARACHI: Home to wild plants, gravel and garbage, an open sewage in Karachi University that appeared to be useless has been transformed with recycled material into a sitting place where students of......
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Saturday claimed to have arrested 10 suspects who they said belonged to different political parties and religious groups.A Rangers spokesman said that three......
KARACHI: The final day of the Japanese Film Festival 2015 took viewers back to the Edo period (1615-1868) with the screening of Three for the Road, a 2007 production in which the unlikely protagonist......
KARACHI: Lawyers boycotted court proceedings at the City Courts on Saturday in protest over registration of a case under the antiterrorism law against their colleague.Judicial officers remained......
BADIN: While an over three-decade-old controversy over the custodianship of the Luari Sharif shrine continued to cast a shadow on peace in Badin city and other parts of the district, the dominating......
SUKKUR: Security has been beefed up at the Sukkur central prison after transfer to it of 10 dangerous prisoners associated with banned outfits from Karachi, according to Jail Superintendent Shahid......
HYDERABAD: A patient committed suicide by hanging himself with the help of his loin-cloth from the window of a washroom at the Sir Cowasji Jehangir Institute of Psychiatry soon after taking dinner on......
HYDERABAD: An undertrial prisoner (UTP) at Nara Jail died of cardiac arrest while being transported to the Liaquat University Hospital, Hyderabad, early on Saturday morning, said jail superintendent......
HYDERABAD: A partial strike was observed in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas districts while the routine life in other parts of Sindh remained unaffected on Saturday in response to a call for a business and......
KARACHI: Perturbed at a recent decision of an accountability court against his party’s lawmaker Ali Nawaz Shah, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah on Saturday......
KARACHI: The ruling party of Sindh on Saturday condemned ‘illegal acts’ of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in the province and termed such actions......
KARACHI: With only two days left in the September 15 deadline fixed by Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) to come up with details of progress made for proper disposal of waste in their......
KARACHI: Shops in most markets across the city remained open and public transport almost normal on Saturday despite a ‘day of mourning’ call by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement after it alleged that......
CIZRE: Residents of the Turkish southeastern city of Cizre on Saturday emerged to find scenes of destruction and despair after authorities lifted a nine-day curfew imposed for an operation against......
VENICE: Venezuelan film “Desde Alla” (From Afar), a drama that deals with repressed gay love, won the top Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday on a night to remember for Latin......
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday accepted the resignation of the government after it was rocked by a corruption scandal, and tasked the oil minister with forming a new......
SANAA: At least 16 Yemeni civilians, including ten people from a single family, were killed in nationwide air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition on Saturday, medics in three provinces......
KANSAS CITY: A 24-year-old mother is in custody after her dirty, barefoot 4- and 6-year-old children were found living in a wooden shipping crate in an underground cave in Kansas City, Missouri.The......
NEW DELHI: Two trains derailed in India on Saturday, killing at least four passengers, including two British tourists, officials said.Three coaches of a special tourist train went off the tracks near......
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday unveiled his agenda to strengthen United Nations peacekeeping, including setting out three “fundamental” chang es urgently required to......
LONDON: Tens of thousands of Europeans rallied on Saturday urging solidarity with the huge numbers of refugees entering the continent, as Hungary’s populist premier said leaders were “in a dream......
KATHMANDU: Five demonstrators and a police officer died in clashes in southern Nepal as protests intensified against a proposed new constitution, police said on Saturday.As violence escalated on......
BANGKOK: Thai police on Saturday said an arrest warrant had been issued for a “Chinese” man over last month’s deadly Bangkok blast, backtracking after they earlier identified the suspect as a member......
LONDON: Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran left-winger who professes an admiration for Karl Marx, was elected leader of Britain’s opposition Labour party on Saturday, a victory that may make a British EU exit......
NAIROBI: Thousands of Kenyans attended the inauguration on Saturday of a monument that pays tribute to the victims of torture and ill-treatment during the emergency period of British rule.The......
EVERY tourist is likely to go through this mini-adventure sooner or later in Paris. An oddly dressed young woman suddenly stoops down on the sidewalk then straightens up, holding a shiny object......
THE selection of Sadiq Khan, the Tooting MP, as Labour’s candidate to succeed Boris Johnson as London mayor has almost certainly set up an enticing contest to win the keys to City Hall next May. Khan......
MANCHESTER: England captain Eoin Morgan believes his side have the momentum going into the series finale with Australia at Old Trafford on Sunday after their victory in the fourth One-day......
LONDON: Manchester City opened up an 11-point gap over champions Chelsea when they beat Crystal Palace 1-0 with a stoppage-time goal at Selhurst Park on Saturday after Chelsea crashed to a 3-1 defeat......
NEW YORK: At 34, and more than three years removed from his most recent Grand Slam title, Roger Federer arrived at this US Open with some changes in store.There’s his much-discussed ‘SABR’ — Sneak......
NEW YORK: Martina Hingis and Leander Paes once again proved to be a potent partnership as the Swiss-Indo duo captured their third mixed doubles title of the year with victory at the US Open on......
GENEVA: 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......
Trapp nightmare as PSG’s 100 percent record goesPARIS: Paris St Germain goalkeeper Kevin Trapp endured a nightmare evening as the champions dropped their first Ligue 1 points of the season on Friday......
BRUSSELS: World champion Dafne Schippers swept away any doubts she will be a gold medal contender at next year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics, crossing the finishing line at Friday’s season-ending Diamond......
MISANO ADRIATICO: Jorge Lorenzo broke his own lap record to secure pole position for Sunday’s San Marino Grand Prix where the Yamaha rider will be looking for a fourth MotoGP win at the Misano......
FROM telegram, telex and fax to pager, mobile, internet, skype, whatsapp and 3G, communication has made a rapid progress in the 21st century across the world. Today, one has easy access to all sorts......
KARACHI: Mohammad Umar slammed an undefeated 106 to help Fata pull off a shock six-wicket victory against Karachi Whites at the start of the Super Six stage in the PCB Inter-region Under-19 One-day......
RAWALPINDI: Khurram Manzoor’s second half-century in less than 24 hours propelled Karachi Blues into the semi-finals of the Cool & Cool presents Haier Mobile T20 Cup with a clinical seven-wicket......
KARACHI: A mediocre four-race card has been drawn for the Gymkhana race meeting which takes place at the Karachi Racecourse on Sunday.All together 30 horses have entered into the days programme which......
KARACHI: Convent Jesus of Mary School hogged the limelight here on Saturday when its junior (White) and senior teams won the respective throwball titles in style at the 6th Culligan Girls Senior &......
KARACHI: The preliminary rounds of the Horlicks Inter-school tennis tournament kicked off at the Karachi Gymkhana tennis courts on Saturday. The event, to be played on the weekends, is organized by......
KARACHI: A hat-trick by Aga Khan University (AKU) captain Rehan Munir inspired them to a 4-1 victory over Pakistan Navy Engineering College (PNEC) in the final of the 13th Aga Khan University......
LAHORE: Sports Board Punjab Director General Usman Anwar has unveiled plans of constructing grounds and stadia across Punjab during a function held in honour of Taiwan-bound baseball team.The team......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s lone competitor at the Wrestling World Championships in Las Vegas, Mohammad Inam Butt, exited the competition after losing his first-round bout to a Ukrainian rival, according to......
LAHORE: A card of seven events with a major thrust of unknown pedigree horses will be gone through during the second Lahore Winter Meeting at the Racecourse here on Sunday.In all, 72 horses are......
MOHAMMAD Ramzan, a construction worker from a village on the outskirts of Bahawalpur, was 19 when the world adopted the MDGs in the year 2000. Fifteen years later when the world was expected to have......
INTERNATIONAL donor agencies and NGOs dealing with health and education are of the unanimous view that Balochistan has failed miserably in meeting the MDG targets. In fact, the province has the......
AS is the story elsewhere, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa failed to achieve the MDG targets, with government officials linking the failure with thin resources coupled with natural and man-made calamities.Taking......
EVEN a layman can tell that Sindh has missed the 2015 MDG deadline. All one wants to know is the magnitude of the failure. Judging by a 2012 UN report, the province has hardly moved forward from......
A RANDOM survey of parliamentarians across the political spectrum threw up interesting answers suggestive of a lack of focus beyond the staple bread-and-butter diet of rhetoric that keeps the......
SAVE for some of the big local corporates and multinational firms, the entrepreneurs of most companies drew a blank when asked about their contribution to the MDGs; for many, it had to be spelled......
THE questions were simple. Why is it that the MDGs – which focus solely on the social sector – failed so consistently in attracting the attention of electronic media policymakers all these 15 years?......
NON-governmental organisations (NGOs), said to be ‘partners in development’, have been active on many a social front. However, despite an active NGO presence in the country, not much has changed for......
BASED on both data and evidence, Pakistan has not achieved most MDG targets, and its behind others in the region except Afghanistan. Reasons? Country Director of the United Nations Development......
PROFESSIONALS have lamented the failures of the successive governments in bringing down the poverty rate, which according to them was 42 per cent.Dr Sher Shah Syed, a leader of the Pakistan Medical......
ONE of the reasons successive governments didn’t feel the pressure to meet MDG targets was the absence of active citizenry which allowed the officialdom to go scot-free all these 15 long years.The......
LAHORE: What needs to be probed in Nandipur power plant failure is how a Furnace Oil Treatment Plant (FOTP) of smaller capacity arrived in the presence of Nespak, the engineering consultant of the......
LAHORE: Following in the footsteps of his father Asif Ali Zardari, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has severely criticised the Sharif brothers and alleged that their “style of governance is all......
ISLAMABAD: At least 26 Pakistani pilgrims who were seriously injured in the Makkah crane crash on Friday have been admitted to various local hospitals. The Foreign Office insists that none of them......
KARACHI: Senior PPP leader and former minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim was arraigned by an accountability court here on Saturday along with 10 other people in the National Insurance Company Limited......
ANKARA: Senator Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, secretary general of the ruling PML-N, attended the congress of Justice and Development Party (AKP) here on Saturday.According to a press release, he is visiting......
LAHORE: Leaders of different factions of Muslim League gathered at the residence of former governor of Punjab Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khosa here on Saturday and discussed modalities for launching the......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has started using Urdu in communications, in compliance with a Supreme Court order calling for switching to the national language......
KARACHI: National Party (NP) chief Senator Hasil Bizenjo said on Saturday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would pick a new chief minister of Balochistan in December, as per a deal agreed upon about......
AT the Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) one can observe the difference in the set-up of its office on main Aiwan-i-Saddar Road.Giant LCDs hang on the walls and monitors show digital maps of the city in a......
MAKKAH: Haj would take place despite a crane collapse that killed 107 people at the Grand Mosque here, Saudi authorities said on Saturday as crowds returned to pray a day after the tragedy.Hundreds......
QUETTA: Houses of Balochistan Assembly’s acting Speaker Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo and his 20 relatives were set on fire in Awaran district on Friday.Official sources said on Saturday that over a dozen......
KHUZDAR: Hafiz Abdul Wahid Rakhshani, a leader of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl, was shot dead in Greasha area on Saturday.According to Levies officials, Hafiz Rakhshani, the JUI-F’s general......
GUJAR KHAN: Over 125 students from a school near Jhelum were hospitalised on Saturday after inhaling the fumes of the anti-dengue spray, police said on Saturday.The Punjab chief minister, still......
KARACHI: A steep fall in main inflation, including core inflation, lower global oil prices and a higher probability of downside risks in comparison to the upside risks led the State Bank of Pakistan......
LAHORE: Pakistan Rangers and the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) have agreed to stop shelling along the Working Boundary, check smuggling and ensure expeditious repatriation of people who cross......
By: Afshan SubohiAS Pakistan prepares for the UN summit later this month, domestic focus is said to be on the next set of collective development targets – the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) –......
THE Pakistan army chief’s speech on Sept 6, Defence Day, highlighted the security threats which Pakistan continues to face from India 50 years after the 1965 war. That war lasted 17 days. If, God......
THE good thing about nuclear weapons is that they’re relatively simple to understand. None of that order of battle stuff and how one set of jets stacks up against another set of tanks and what not.I......
LUCK means that factors beyond one’s control supplement one’s efforts and merits to ensure higher achievements. Highlighting heart-warming stories about sacrifices and perseverance, official......
FOR the majority in Pakistan, justice is costly and delayed. Moreover, those responsible within the criminal justice system often try to shift the blame for this state of affairs onto someone else.In......
AFTER the fiasco and farce that was the aborted talks between the Pakistan and Indian national security advisers, the lower-key talks between the directors general of the Indian Border Security Force......
IT is becoming difficult to tell where the State Bank stands on some of the biggest economic issues facing the country today. Inflation may well be coming down, and the bank is clear enough in......
ORGANISING and overseeing Haj is not an easy task with two million pilgrims expected in Saudi Arabia for the annual religious obligation. Over the years, the Saudi authorities have done a fair job of......
LAHORE: Pakistan Rangers and India Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday agreed to stop border violations along the Line of Control (LoC), check smuggling and ensure expeditious repatriation of......
