WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday invited a Muslim schoolboy to the White House after he was arrested and dragged off in handcuffs for bringing a homemade clock to class.Obama......
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KARACHI: The counter-terrorism department (CTD) on Wednesday claimed to have arrested the alleged 'key financier' involved in the Safoora bus carnage, the incident in which more than 40 people......
ADEN: Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah returned to the southern port of Aden on Wednesday in a step towards restoring a government on home soil after months of working from exile with Gulf Arab......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the prime minister, the opposition leader in National Assembly and the NA speaker during the hearing of a petition seeking acceptance of......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday visited South Waziristan and inaugurated multiple development projects as part of a comprehensive rehabilitation plan after......
PARIS: The winner of this year's Ballon d'Or will be announced at a ceremony in Zurich on January 11, 2016, FIFA announced on Wednesday.Real Madrid and Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo won the......
England's premier fast bowler Stuart Broad has said he won't be too 'bothered' about playing against the tainted Mohammad Amir should the two players cross swords again on the cricket field.Broad,......
LONDON: Football fans in England were wincing over their breakfast on Wednesday as horrific pictures of Luke Shaw's broken leg were splashed across the nation's newspapers.The Manchester United left......
MANILA: Philippine boxing hero Manny Pacquiao expressed renewed anger on Wednesday over allegations that his American rival Floyd Mayweather had violated anti-doping rules in the build-up to their......
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Shaharyar Khan has backed Shahid Afridi to lead the side at next year's World Twenty despite poor performances by the star all-rounder in the National T20 Cup which......
MADRID: Real Madrid coach Rafael Benitez fears Welsh star Gareth Bale could be set for a significant spell on the sidelines due to a calf muscle injury.Bale was forced off after just half an hour of......
Liverpool attacking midfielder Philippe Coutinho has called for calm ahead of his club's visit to France to take on Bordeaux in the Europa League on Thursday after suffering back-to-back defeats in......
KARACHI: A dead body of an unidentified woman was found in pieces from two separate areas of Karachi’s Malir Town Wednesday.The body is apparently of a young woman, who was murdered brutally and then......
LONDON: India has one of the highest rates of acid violence in the world, yet a backlog of criminal cases means it can take up to a decade for courts to reach a judgment and most victims receive no......
This Sunday, as I scanned through the morning papers, I was struck by this large pictorial feature on the Karachi section of Express Tribune. The headline screamed, “Megabats take over fruit trees in......
QUETTA: The Home Secretary of Balochistan, Akbar Hussain Durrani, on Wednesday stated that provincial law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 8,000 suspected militants after the......
Arsenal's drive to win the Champions League is “immense” after their painful early exits in the past few seasons, manager Arsene Wenger has said.The Premier League club are one of the most successful......
DHAKA: Bangladesh plans to revive a lucrative Twenty20 tournament in November, two years after it was halted in the wake of match-fixing scandals, cricket officials said Wednesday.The Bangladesh......
IRVING: A Muslim Sudanese teenager in Texas was arrested Monday for bringing a home-made clock to school amid suspicions that he had created a 'hoax bomb', the Dallas Morning News reported.Ahmed......
ISLAMABAD: On the fifth anniversary of the murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) convener Dr Imran Farooq, London's Metropolitan police has reaffirmed its commitment for the investigation of the......
SRINAGAR: The mysterious killing of three young men in conflict-wracked India-held Kashmir has prompted protesters to call a general strike in the region.Indian government forces patrolled deserted......
KARACHI: Pakistan got a lucky draw at the SAFF Suzuki Cup draw in New Delhi on Wednesday when they were pitted against arch-rivals and hosts India, Nepal and Sri Lanka in Group ‘A’ of South Asia’s......
Only nine months into his captaincy tenure, Virat Kohli has had his hands full. If being the nation’s “next Sachin Tendulkar” and dating a Bollywood actor was not enough, taking on the toughest job......
Every day I take a stroll on my way to work. From Tehran’s bustling Vanak Square, buzzing with traffic and commuters, to Jordan Street, a popular two-way avenue parallel to Valiasr, Tehran’s main......
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday announced a toughening of the penalties for stone throwers following a third day of clashes in and around Jerusalem's flashpoint......
After playing his last Test six years ago, middle-order batsman Fawad Alam has been called back to the Pakistan's ranks for their upcoming series against England in October.A prolific performer in......
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook, pressed for years by users to add a "dislike" button, announced Tuesday it was working on the feature and will be testing it soon."We've finally heard you," CEO and founder......
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani civilian was injured when Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) resorted to 'unprovoked' firing across the Line of Control (LoC) in Rawalakot's Battal sector on......
SYDNEY: Australian war planes have carried out their first air strike against the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, destroying an armoured personnel carrier (APC), Defence Minister Kevin......
KARACHI: Chief Secretary Sindh Siddique Memon on Wednesday took notice of 'theft' of a rooster-shaped weather vane which used to sit atop Karachi landmark Frere Hall.Chief Secretary spokesman......
As the clock struck 1:30am on Wednesday, Liverpool fans in Pakistan began celebrating on social media. And no, Liverpool hadn’t won a match.Liverpool will not have their ‘great European nights’ this......
RECENTLY I visited a shopping mall in Clifton. As we were approaching the mall, we saw some security guards of the mall dragging a small boy away and beating him mercilessly.The only crime of the boy......
MIAN Arshad, our high commissioner in Delhi, warned our foreign affairs secretary through a coded message that India would attack our international border on Sept 6, 1965.The message was passed on......
BALOCHISTAN is facing a host of problems, including education.Recently, the Balochistan board announced intermediate results which shocked students. Only 7,710 candidates were declared pass out of......
AS traffic jams clog the city centre, thousands of villages on its outskirts have to use camels for transport because the government is yet to build roads or implement a viable public transport......
Apropos your editorial ‘Saving the houbara’ (Aug 21). The beautiful bird is on the verge of extinction owing to relentless shooting by visitors from the Middle East and the local landowners.The......
PAKISTAN’S per capita irrigation storage dropped from 260 to 80 cubic meters between 1976 and 2015 owing to three factors.The sedimentation of irrigation reservoirs depleted their storage capacity at......
PAKISTAN is considered an agriculture country and certainly earns a lot from its textile industries every year. Unfortunately, the textile industry’s output is much less in view of the myriad......
QINGQI was a cheap mode of transportation being used by the people. The ban by the court on qingqis is causing much hardship.Many young graduates used to run qingqi rickshaws to support their......
WITH a lot of victories against terrorism and improvement in economic indicators, let us not give someone a chance to find a chink in our armour.A huge queue of pensioners outside banks every month......
LAHORE: The Punjab Saaf Pani Company (PSPC), which has been working for one-and-a-half years to ‘check’ water contamination and provide ‘clean and safe’ drinking water to peri-urban and rural......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has sought police protection for its candidates and election offices for by-polls being held in the provincial capital on Oct 11.In a letter to Punjab......
LAHORE: Police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested two drug smugglers and seized heroin worth Rs30 million.Superintendent of Police (CIA) Umar Virk after receiving information about the smugglers......
LAHORE: The North Cantonment police on Tuesday registered a cross-version case against the officer of education department who, along with her former driver, was found critically injured under......
LAHORE: Pakistan Sikh Gurdawara Parbandhak Committee has expressed concern over growing incidents of the desecration of Sikhs’ Holy Book Gurugarenth in Sindh and demanded of Chief Minister Syed Qaim......
LAHORE: Prime Minister’s Kissan Package is the direct result of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto who showed solidarity with the farming community and made it clear his party would join their struggle.PPP......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Tuesday dismissed appeals of three men convicted for making suicide jackets and other explosive material.An anti-terrorism court had awarded life......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) on Tuesday sealed several eateries and food outlets in various parts of the city for flouting food handling and hygiene standards and laws.A team in Allama......
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Education Rana Mashhood Ahmed has said that comprising youth a peace volunteer force will be constituted to combat the menace of terrorism.“The members of the force will......
FAISALABAD: Powerloom factories in Sidhar sector have again been closed owing to the tussle between the owners and the workers on the issue of cleanliness and oiling of the looms.Earlier, looms......
SAHIWAL: In at least sixth such incident during the last two weeks, a woman was attacked with a sharp-edged weapon while she was alone on the street.The latest incident occurred on Monday evening......
FAISALABAD: An orphan boy is losing his eyesight as he is unable to pay for his treatment.The problem in his right eye began after he underwent a surgery following an accident.Wajid, a resident of......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A World Bank delegation checked on Tuesday the implementation and analysis impact of an early childhood education project, launched by the district government with the Punjab......
LAHORE: In the absence of a vibrant parallel theatre scene in Punjab, Azad Theatre Group is a welcome addition to objective and message-oriented theatrical efforts amidst the rough commercial......
BAHAWALPUR: The Lahore High Court Bar Association (Bahawalpur) president, Khair Muhammad Bhadera, has demanded a judicial inquiry into a row between the district administration and lawyers resulting......
RAWALPINDI: Many Indian Generals in the war against Pakistan have lost battles, tanks and men. Maj.-Gen. Niranjan Prasad, GOC, 25th Indian Infantry Division, has lost something else too — his war......
PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday arrested four educationists, including noted archeologist and Vice-Chancellor of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan Professor......
PESHAWAR: The Elementary and Secondary Education Department has decided to establish the much-awaited private schools regulatory authority.Provincial Minister for E&SE Mohammad Atif said this on......
PESHAWAR: The Pakhtunkhwa Energy Development Organisation (Pedo) has entered into collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to develop and implement power projects across the province.A......
PESHAWAR: The provincial executive council of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl served notices on its 22 councillors for violating the party policy in the elections of district and tehsil nazims in Khyber......
PESHAWAR: The Directorate of Culture, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for the first time is launching a project to revive, preserve and promote the cultural heritage in 75 tehsil councils of the......
PESHAWAR: Members of the Peshawar district council on Tuesday criticised the Water and Sanitation Services Peshawar (WSSP) for its poor performance though it was established a year ago by the......
PESHAWAR: An imprisoned provincial minister of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, facing corruption charges and expelled from the party, feels wronged and has said that the party’s core committee should hear......
LANDI KOTAL: The elders of Malagori tribe in Jamrud tehsil have decided to abide by the ceasefire agreement, inked among 140 families of the area for one year.The decision was made at a jirga held......
PESHAWAR: Former special assistant to the former chief minister, Syed Masoom Shah, arrested on the charge of corruption, on Tuesday expressed willingness before an accountability court to return......
KHAR: Sale of meat has been banned in Bajaur Agency for the last several days following the outbreak of diseases among cattle in various parts of the region, officials told Dawn here on......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court Bar Association on Tuesday extended support to a constitutional amendment bill recently submitted to parliament for changing the status of the Federally Administered......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Economic Zones Development and Management Company (KPEZDMC) announced on Tuesday that it had planned to launch four industrial estates across the province in few......
SWABI: Treasury and opposition members exchanged barbs over controversial appointments to Gajju Khan Medical College Swabi during the second day of the district council’s maiden session here on......
GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Hafiz Hafeezur Rehman has said that Karakoram Highway Protection Force will be deployed between Gilgit and Mannshera to provide security to the passengers......
ISLAMABAD: Berated by the superior judiciary for years for its mismanagement, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has requested the Supreme Court to approve for implementation its plan to rectify......
ISLAMABAD: Following protests in major cities over the exorbitant fees charged by private schools, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif finally took notice of the campaign by affected parents and ordered that......
RAWALPINDI: The special court of customs, excise and taxation on Tuesday adjourned the indictment of model Ayyan Ali in a currency smuggling case until after the Eid holidays.Ayyan appeared before......
RAWALPINDI: The Civil Defence Department on Tuesday issued notices to seven petrol filling stations on Sadiqabad and Kuri roads for not installing fire safety equipment.The team led by Sanjeeda......
The Sindh government and the MQM have been criticising law enforcement action against their leadership and have demanded that the administrative control of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB),......
ISLAMABAD: The anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Tuesday issued notice to the prosecution on an application filed by former president Pervez Musharraf against the issuance of non-bailable arrest......
ISLAMABAD: Consumers in Mardan will get increased power supply as two new autotransformers were inaugurated at the Rawat grid station on Tuesday.The US Agency for International Development (USAID)......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has failed to properly run its sacrificial animal market set up in Sector 1-12 as most animal sellers are still using the old site in I-11.The civic......
TAXILA: The government plans to establish the Gandhara International University in Taxila, in an effort to revive the 3,000-year-old Buddhist university of ancient Taxila and make Pakistan a centre......
ISLAMABAD: The Khaas Gallery inaugurated its first show of the season with Lahore-based artist Komail Aijazuddin’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Titled ‘Grace in Hand’, the new collection of......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate standing committee on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Information Technology to unblock YouTube at the earliest.“Both the Internet users and service providers are at the losing......
RAWALPINDI: In order to prevent public resentment of the anti-dengue drive, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government has nominated 10 workers each in 61 union councils (UC) to assist the......
RAWALPINDI: The district health department has diverted dengue surveillance teams in 15 urban union councils of the Potohar town to the anti-polio campaign.Talking to Dawn, a senior health official......
LAHORE: After Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took notice of the ‘substantial increase’ in the private schools’ fees, the Punjab government has sprung into action and ‘finally’ decided to introduce a......
LAHORE: The continued deadlock over amendments to the drugs act between druggists and the Punjab government has led to one crucial aspect – regulators have so far not implemented the law introduced......
LAHORE: Punjab police has decided to move the provincial authorities to approach the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government with a request to crack down on stolen vehicles racket.The decision was taken at the......
LAHORE: The returning officer for by-poll in NA-122 accepted on Tuesday nomination papers of Ayaz Sadiq of the PML-N and Abdul Aleem Khan of the PTI after rejecting objections raised on their......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has announced that the private schools will withdraw recent fee increase and now they cannot go for hike without its prior approval.At a press conference here on......
LAHORE: The anti-smuggling squad of the Customs’ Lahore Collectorate claim to have seized 395 mobile phone sets worth Rs2.5 million from a suspected smuggler at Sherakot Lorry Adda.Officials told......
BADIN: Former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza has severely criticised Syed Ali Bukhsh aka Pappu Shah for joining the Pakistan Peoples Party, saying that his long-time rival had been in habit of......
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party’s former Sindh council member Ali Mohammad Sahito has demanded that the party leadership take serious notice of the alleged corruption committed by Hyderabad......
KARACHI: The banners and stickers on car bumpers and windshields read ‘No fee till low fee’ and ‘Stop thinking of parents as ATMs’. And the desperate parents gathered outside the Karachi Press Club......
KARACHI: A senior official of the National Accountability Bureau said on Tuesday that the recent conviction of a Pakistan Peoples Party lawmaker was the outcome of a judicial process and it had......
KARACHI: Police authorities sought the assistance of paramilitary Rangers to provide security to traffic police personnel in the metropolis following another armed attack on two traffic policemen in......
KARACHI: The secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan, Babar Yaqub Fateh Muhammad, has said that efforts are being made to ensure that the loopholes of the 2013 general elections be plugged......
KARACHI: The KMC on Tuesday demolished all concrete structures constructed on state property around the Government Saifi College in North Nazimabad.Published in Dawn, September 16th, 2015On a mobile......
KARACHI: Hammad Siddiqui, an expelled leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, and five others were on Tuesday declared proclaimed offenders in a case of attack on a rally in 2012 that had left six......
KARACHI: “At the time of partition in 1971, the newly independent state of Bangladesh was nothing but a land of pain, sorrow and suffering, with 75 million people to feed and 10 million home-coming......
KARACHI: Doctors at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Tuesday ended their protest for an increase in salaries. The agitation lasted for two days, closing outpatient departments and......
KARACHI: Pakistan faces a serious shortage of emergency healthcare professionals and there is a dire need for specialised training for the staff to handle different types of emergencies.This was one......
HYDERABAD: The Sindh government is buying loyalties of returning officers (ROs) and district returning officers (DROs) in Sukkur and Larkana divisions where the first phase of the local government......
SUKKUR: A policeman was shot dead while offering resistance to robbers at a goldsmith’s shop in Daharki, Ghotki district, on Monday night.Two armed dacoits barged into the shop owned by Gopal Das in......
MIRPURKHAS: An inquiry into alleged negligence leading to the death of a patient was started after a number of Bheel community members continued their protest against the civil surgeon and a lady......
SUKKUR: One of the suspects in the killing of three persons by a joint team of the Shikarpur and Sukkur police earlier this month appeared before the Sindh High Court, Sukkur bench, on Tuesday and......
WASHINGTON: A majority of Republican registered voters want Donald Trump to be their party’s 2016 presidential nominee, according to two national polls from the Washington Post-ABC News and the New......
UNITED NATIONS: As the Israeli security forces reached inside the Al Aqsa mosque amid clashes on Tuesday, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process said he was gravely......
BLANTYRE: A Malawian teacher suspected of attempting to sell an albino schoolgirl for $10,000 was arrested on Tuesday, police said, as the country battles to stop albino killings fuelled by......
CALISTOGA: Winds whipped new life on Monday into northern California wildfires that have killed a woman, hospitalised firefighters, and reduced hundreds of homes to smoldering ruins.“It breaks my......
KUWAIT CITY: A Kuwaiti court sentenced seven men to death on Tuesday, five of them in absentia, for their roles in a deadly mosque bombing claimed by the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group.A total......
SALT LAKE CITY: A wall of water swept away two vehicles carrying women and children in a western town, killing at least eight people and leaving five others missing in a community that served as a......
NEW DELHI: The city government in India’s capital has threatened to cancel the licences of private hospitals over allegations by distraught families that they turned away dying children during a......
MANILA: The adopted daughter of a Philippine film star will on Wednesday announce a run for the presidency, and analysts say she could ride her father’s popularity to a stunning win despite little......
NEW YORK: A black American boxer who has been granted honorary Russian citizenship by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, says he will use his sport to bridge gap between the United States and......
JERUSALEM: Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters on Tuesday in a third straight day of unrest at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site.Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said police entered......
NEW YORK: The FBI has arrested a 15-year-old boy near Philadelphia for allegedly threatening an attack on Pope Francis inspired by the self-styled Islamic State group, which has heightened concern......
SO, is this the “new normal” of Singapore politics? Were voters signalling, through the massive 10-point swing to the People’s Action Party (PAP) in Friday’s polls, that they wanted a return to one......
SHE has no specific idea how Bengali film-maker Satyajit Ray came to know about her. “All I know is that Manikda [Satyajit Ray] placed an advertisement in the papers in search of a teenage girl for......
THE Bihar elections for 243 Assembly seats will be held in five phases between Oct 12 and Nov 5. The timing is crucial and religiously sensitive because the period coincides with several festivals —......
GENOA: Late strikes by Italy internationals Eder and Roberto Soriano secured a precious 2-0 win over depleted Serie A new boys Bologna and pushed Sampdoria up to third place on Monday.The fixture was......
MADRID: Luis Alberto set up one goal before scoring another as Deportivo La Coruna beat Rayo Vallecano 3-1 for their first win of the La Liga season on Monday.Alberto, who arrived on loan from......
LONDON: Former England captains Ian Botham and Michael Vaughan have led the tributes to Brian Close after the hard man of cricket died from lung cancer at the age of 84.Yorkshireman Close was the......
BERLIN: All 36 teams in Germany’s top two leagues will wear “We’re helping! #refugeeswelcome” logos on their shirts in this weekend’s fixtures to encourage fans to help amidst Europe’s immigration......
ROME: Former Argentina superstar Diego Maradona on Tuesday blasted FIFA chief Sepp Blatter and his UEFA counterpart Michel Platini, who is bidding to succeed the Swiss as head of world football, as......
LONDON: Cristiano Ronaldo has topped the player vote in the Associated Press Global Football 10 for the first time this season after scoring five goals in a game for Real Madrid.Ronaldo propelled......
PARIS: Three-time Olympic canoeing champion Tony Estanguet will join Bernard Lapasset as co-president of the Paris bid for the 2024 Olympics, putting a top athlete at the forefront of the......
RAWALPINDI: Inspired by a magnificent unbroken century partnership between Iftikhar Ahmed and Mohammad Rizwan, Peshawar overwhelmed Karachi Blues by seven wickets to retain their Cool & Cool presents......
LAHORE: The new management of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) headed by retired Brig Khalid Sajjad Khokar is yet to come clean on selection issues since an incomplete selection committee will be......
KARACHI; The two-day Karachi Boxing Championship reached the final stage at the Ustad Ali Mohammad Qambrani Stadium, Kakri ground on Tuesday. Pugilists from all the five districts of the city are......
KARACHI: Vital Five CC scored their second win in the KCCA Commissioner Karachi Cup when they defeated Qasmi Gymkhana by a slender margin of two wickets at the TM Ground here on Monday.Qasmi......
KARACHI: Aga Khan School beat The City School North Nazimabad 7-1 while Habib Girls School overcame Nasra School 6-1 in the Karachi Girls Netball Cup 2015 which commenced on Tuesday at the PSB......
KARACHI: The setting up of the national women’s cricket team camp for the upcoming tour of the West Indies and USA at Karachi’s Southend Club is an inexplicable and surprising decision from the......
RAWALPINDI: Peshawar rode on a blazing innings from their old guard Riffatullah Mohmand to outgun Sialkot in the second semi-final of the Cool & Cool presents Haier Mobile T20 Cup by five wickets at......
LONDON: Uncapped Surrey all-rounder Zafar Ansari was named in England’s squad on Tuesday for the forthcoming three-Test series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates.Left-armer Ansari, 23, is......
LAHORE: Hard-hitting opening batsman and a hugely popular figure in cricket’s shortest version, West Indies’ Chris Gayle has expressed his consent to play the inaugural Pakistan Super League (PSL)......
LONDON: Former European champions Liverpool are setting up a full-time coaching programme for schools in the United Arab Emirates, the club announced on Tuesday.“The youth coaching project, which......
GUANGZHOU: Luiz Felipe Scolari guided Guangzhou Evergrande into the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League, with the 2013 winners holding Kashiwa Reysol to 1-1 at home to advance 4-2 on aggregate on......
DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has given its clearance to the three-match T20 series promoted by Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne in the United States.The ICC nod came after talks......
DHAKA: Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim said his side faces its best chance yet of defeating Australia with the visitors fielding a relatively inexperienced side for the Test series next......
LONDON: Newcastle United slumped to the foot of the Premier League table after a 2-0 defeat at West Ham United on Monday left manager Steve McClaren still seeking a first win in charge.Dimitri Payet......
TORONTO: Toronto will not bid for the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, the mayor of Canada’s largest city said on Tuesday while promising to create a panel to advise on bidding for future......
KARACHI: Stocks continued to decline on Tuesday with the KSE-100 index slashing another 193.27 points (0.58 per cent) to close at 33,191.46, recording a cumulative loss of 601 points in the last......
WASHINGTON: Stock markets today move by the microsecond. Fortunes are made and lost in the blink of an eye. Yet public companies are still allowed to wait four business days before announcing a major......
KARACHI: Steady conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Tuesday on active buying from spinners ahead of Eidul Azha holidays.However, a recent surge in cotton prices was no more evident as the......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has extended date of filing of withholding statements to Sept 28 from Sept 15.Published in Dawn, September 16th, 2015On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn......
ICAP gets new presidentKARACHI: The Council the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) has elected Hafiz Mohammad Yousaf as its president for 2015-16, said a press release on......
WASHINGTON: Oil prices will remain low in the next few years due to increased supplies, says a report released on Tuesday by the International Monetary Fund’s global economy forum.“Our view is that......
BRASMLIA: Brazil announced a massive $17 billion austerity package Monday in a bid to boost its ailing economy amid a deepening crisis that already caused a downgrade of the country’s credit......
WASHINGTON: The World Bank warned on Tuesday that monetary policy tightening by the US Federal Reserve could spur a “perfect storm” of threats to growth and financial stability in developing......
TOKYO: Japan’s central bank held fire on expanding its monetary easing programme on Tuesday and its chief said the economy was expanding, but economists warned more stimulus could be needed to boost......
KARACHI: Foreign direct investment (FDI) increased by 7.5 per cent in the first two months of this fiscal year, but it was mainly on account of China. Other countries either invested poorly or......
KARACHI: Shell Pakistan Limited (SPL) is engaged with the government to allow import of differentiated fuels in a deregulated model which would set grounds for opening up the larger market.While......
KARACHI: The Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) has lodged a complaint with the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) against the malfunctioning of its modules and systems used for filing of different taxes......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has increased duty drawback rates on export of leather products.An SRO 923 issued on Tuesday stated that the duty drawback rate was revised to 1.06pc of the......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has approved appointment of members for all three Small Dispute Resolution committees.These committees have been constituted in......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif said on Tuesday that Pakistan and China would continue to work towards the total elimination of terrorism.According to an ISPR press release, the......
ISLAMABAD: The United States expressed optimism on Tuesday about the revival of the suspended Afghan reconciliation process, but said that the resumption of dialogue would be the militant group’s......
ISLAMABAD: PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari, in a message on the occasion of International Day of Democracy celebrated on Tuesday, said democracy required institutions to respect limits imposed on......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ordered Inspectors General of Prisons and home secretaries of the four provinces on Tuesday to submit reports on conditions in different jails and suggestions to improve......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain said on Tuesday that the Zarb-i-Azb operation was progressing successfully in its final phase and expressed the hope that the objective of terror-free Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Members of the Senate Standing Committee on Industries and Production on Tuesday criticised various government functionaries for not promoting locally manufactured arms and opting for......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has included Pakistan and India on a list of 22 drug producing or major drug-transit countries that “significantly affect the United States”.Other countries on......
QUETTA: Security forces claimed to have arrested eight suspected militants who were allegedly involved in the last month’s attack on Jiwani airport during a search operation conducted in Gwadar......
KARACHI: The Sindh Committee of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has condemned non-payment of dues amounting to Rs470 million and threatened to suspend publication of Sindh government’s......
KARACHI: Threats in the maritime domain have evolved manifold necessitating innovative and collaborative ways to maintain required order at sea. The evils of piracy, drug trafficking, human smuggling......
QUETTA: The Karachi-based Consul General of Japan, Akira Ouchi, met Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch here on Tuesday and discussed his country’s role in the development of the......
KARACHI: Only a minority of children are growing healthily in Pakistan, which is estimated to have more than half the children under the age of five to be stunted or wasted, says the Global Nutrition......
ISLAMABAD: The Rangers do not have a mandate to carry out “accountability” in any part of the country, including Karachi, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Tuesday.His remarks came a......
ISLAMABAD: Afghan Taliban announced on Tuesday end to their bitter succession dispute as family of their late supremo Mullah Omar pledged allegiance to the group’s new chief, Mullah Akhtar......
ISLAMABAD: As the opposition and government members argued over the perceived tense civil-military relationship, Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani declared on Tuesday that the constitutional safeguards......
UPPER DIR: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) suffered a setback in its stronghold of Upper Dir district on Tuesday when, according to unofficial and preliminary results, its candidate in a by-election for a......
KARACHI: The Sindh apex committee decided on Tuesday that no member of outlawed organisations would be allowed to contest the local government elections whose first phase would be held in eight......
ISLAMABAD: Confirming that there were two major irritants on the part of the government that hampered a long-term supply contract with Qatar for liquefied natural gas (LNG), Petroleum Minister Shahid......
ISLAMABAD: Acknowledging the hardship faced by farmers because of unfavourable weather conditions, falling income and declining trend in prices of agricultural commodities in domestic and......
RAWALPINDI: A Pakistan Army soldier lost his life after Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing along the Line of Control in Battal sector on Tuesday.According to an ISPR press release,......
The good news is that the scale of militant violence has come down significantly because of military operations in the tribal areas; the bad news is that little progress has been made in countering......
THE Pakistani love affair with meat has been a long and enduring one. In decades past, every neighbourhood, rich or poor, featured a butcher shop, whose front prominently featured a fresh carcass......
THE PML-N government once again finds itself amidst a needless controversy; this time over the 100MW project at the Quaid-i-Azam solar park in Bahawalpur. And while this may partly be the consequence......
MANY years ago, when asked what she considered her greatest achievement, Margaret Thatcher responded with two words: New Labour. Last Saturday, that achievement suffered a bit of a setback.Jeremy......
IMRAN Khan’s call for a military-led anti-corruption drive in Punjab and PPP senators lashing out against what they termed the selective focus on corruption in Sindh are likely to build political......
