WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama telephoned the head of Medecins San Frontieres (MSF) and apologised for a deadly air strike on the aid group's hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, the White House......
SANAA: Yemen's Houthi group and the party of the former president have on Wednesday accepted a peace plan brokered by the United Nations in talks in Oman, paving the way for resuming negotiations to......
QUETTA: Congo Crimean Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) on Wednesday claimed another victim in Quetta, the third case in the span of a week in the provincial capital.The victim was diagnosed with Congo fever......
Former England captain Alec Stewart has thrown his weight behind the tainted trio of Mohammed Amir, Mohammed Asif and Salman Butt, saying the players should be allowed to play international cricket......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s nuclear policy is shaped by evolving security dynamics of South Asia, thus taking all necessary measures to maintain a full spectrum deterrence capability in order to safeguard......
QUETTA: Security forces on Wednesday killed three suspected militants in Awaran district of Balochistan.“Security forces launched an operation in Awaran’s Maskhay and other areas,” said an official......
KARACHI: Sindh Rangers spokesman said on Wednesday that the paramilitary force “has every right to adopt legal course against the elements involved in tarnishing its image among masses”.Taking strong......
The return of women’s international cricket to Pakistan was marked by Sana Mir's side comprehensively whitewashing Bangladesh in the T20 and ODI series held in Karachi.Pakistan’s success was built......
SHARJAH: England assistant coach Paul Farbrace vowed Wednesday that England has laid to rest the memories of their rout at Pakistan's hands in 2012 ahead of a Test series starting later this......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Air Lines Pilots Association (Palpa) on Wednesday announced a two-day suspension of its strike against the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) administration.Palpa Chairman......
KABUL: Afghan troops have regained control of the main square in Kunduz, a strategic northern city briefly seized by Taliban insurgents last week that has been the scene of intense fighting,......
CHISINAU: In the backwaters of Eastern Europe, authorities working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have interrupted four attempts in the past five years by gangs with suspected Russian......
DAMATURU: Two women suicide bombers killed 15 people, including themselves, early Wednesday in northeast Nigeria at a mosque in the compound of a government workers' housing estate and at another......
MUMBAI: India's far right political party Shiv Sena has called for the cancellation of Pakistan's popular ghazal singer Ghulam Ali's concert in Mumbai, according to a report on India's NDTV......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) judicial lockup facilities and central and district jails are overcrowded, housing over 1.5 times as many prisoners as the approved prisoner strength.A KP Home......
This article was originally published on October 7, 2015.As a TV anchor, I'll readily admit that our electronic media neglects covering Pak-Afghan relations. Why? Because it will not bring in......
JERUSALEM: Israel lifted restrictions on worship at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound Wednesday in an apparent bid, swiftly welcomed by Washington, to ease tensions after three weeks of......
During an interview with LK Advani during the Bharatiya Janata Party’s first full term in power, Prannoy Roy asked him about growing extremism in the party, and how moderates like the Indian deputy......
With two million people gathered in one small city for Haj, some discomfort was to be expected. And putting up with it was, I initially thought, an opportunity to exercise the patience so very valued......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday maintained the conviction of Mumtaz Qadri — the killer of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer — by an Anti Terrorism Court.The Islamabad High......
KATHMANDU: A Japanese climber with only one finger due to frostbite, who last month failed to reach the top of Mount Everest, will make his final push for the summit late Wednesday, organisers......
NEW DELHI: India's government has turned down its military's request to expand the acquisition of 36 fighter planes from Dassault Aviation SA to plug vital gaps, officials said, nudging it to accept......
SYDNEY: Australian Shane Warne and India's Sachin Tendulkar will captain two All-Star sides in a three-match Twenty20 series in the United States in a bid to spark interest in a sport alien to most......
A supporter of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) militants has issued a threat against Fox News contributor Rob O'Neill, the former United States (US) Navy SEAL who says he fired the shot that......
GENEVA: All international aid organisations have left the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz following a United States (US) air strike on a hospital run by medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)......
MUZAFFARABAD: The morning the Pakistan earthquake struck ten years ago, Nazish Naz had been reluctant to go to school, telling her elder sister the day felt cursed. Less than an hour after the......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa advocate general to submit a detailed explanation on behalf of provincial government that under what law the security......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly through a unanimously adopted resolution on Tuesday opposed changes in the original plan of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), saying it would create......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday summoned the secretary of the provincial culture and archeology department for today (Wednesday) to clarify the government’s position on the declaration......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has been treating suspected dengue fever cases symptomatically after their tests show positivity on the local kits instead of sending samples to the......
THE aftermath of two events has underscored the dire need for more transparency in the power sector.One is the noise created around the Nandipur project, and the second is the annual report of Nepra,......
PERSECUTION can be overt at times, subtle and insidious at others; and most people would likely agree that it is an ugly, despicable thing. However, there is one minority community in Pakistan — the......
PESHAWAR: There is a controversy over the recent appearance of cracks in the Civil Secretariat Block-III as technical experts of the planning and development (P&D) department’s monitoring and......
GILGIT: The body of a four-year-old boy, who was found murdered a few days ago in Diamer district, was exhumed on Tuesday for postmortem.A case was also registered in the Chilas city police station.A......
ISLAMABAD: The Cabinet Division and the National Assembly Secretariat have locked horns over the ownership of a painting gifted by the Chinese president.The painting was presented by Chinese......
ISLAMABAD: A man was found chained in a factory during a raid conducted by a magistrate and police on Tuesday.Five factory workers were also arrested and shifted to Industrial Area police station for......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC), on Tuesday, sent home Chaudhry Rashid Ahmed, paving the way for the government to appoint a new head of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition lawmakers disowned the Pakistan Electronic Crime Bill (PEC 2015), the cybercrime bill that a Senate committee adopted, and forwarded to the National Assembly, last month.They......
ISLAMABAD: The money laundering case against supermodel Ayyan Ali on Tuesday echoed in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) during the discussion of an audit para related to a foreign currency seizure......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) has asked the government to encourage commercial banks to increase financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).“Reduced lending......
ISLAMABAD: Gallery 6, in an exhibition titled ‘9 narratives’ brought together the works of nine painters in a beautiful combination of both realism and surrealism at once.The exhibition opened to the......
LAHORE: Candidates for NA-122 by-elections Sardar Ayaz Sadiq of the PML-N and Aleem Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) denied on Tuesday before the returning officer (RO) the charges of......
LAHORE: An enforcement team of the Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) sealed on Tuesday five restaurants for showing non-compliance in paying sales tax and issued warning letters to two others for not......
LAHORE: The annual All Pakistan Music Conference kicked off at Open Air Theatre, Bagh-i-Jinnah, on Tuesday.A large crowd of music fanciers, including conference loyalists, gathered on Tuesday evening......
LAHORE: PTI leaders Mahmoodur Rashid and Chaudhry Sarwar have alleged that the body of a party candidate for councillor from UC-84 bearing torture marks was recovered from the canal on Monday,......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday restrained the Punjab government from taking coercive measures against private schools with regard to their fee structure and directed it to submit a reply on......
KARACHI: Police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested an engineering and business graduate, who has allegedly been working for a banned organisation in Karachi’s south district, in the Boat Basin area......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday restrained the management of a private educational institute from taking any coercive action against dozens of students for the recovery of exorbitant tuition......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Tuesday directed the agriculture department to work out a sugar cane price acceptable to growers and millers, because the government will no longer......
KARACHI: All is not well at the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK), it was evident on Tuesday after several staffers, teachers and lecturers there came out holding placards and chanting......
KARACHI: The demolition this past summer of Islamabad’s Afghan Basti triggered a heated debate on the rights of the poor, access to housing and the development of cities. But how to accommodate,......
KARACHI: The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Pakistan, in collaboration with the Pakistan Medical Association Karachi, conducted an interactive session on Tuesday at the PMA House, where......
KARACHI: While a joint investigation team claimed that the Baldia factory fire was a case of sabotage, a labour rights organisation has said it still holds the owners of the ill-fated factory......
KARACHI: Unlike a group of thinkers who believe personal identity is to do with psychological continuity, artist Akram Dost Baloch’s work speaks of, and lives in, a different domain altogether. What......
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court on Tuesday acquitted a prominent female journalist of charges of “targeting a public servant” over a tweet suggesting a cover-up in a corruption scandal that shook the......
NEW DELHI: India said on Tuesday it plans to set up laboratories at ports to test for illegal cow meat exports, as controversy rages over the murder of a Muslim man accused of eating beef.Although,......
WASHINGTON: The commander of US forces in Afghanistan acknowledged on Sunday that an airstrike on a hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz was a mistake.In a testimony before the Senate Armed......
WASHINGTON: Russia’s entry into the crowded and sometimes uncoordinated air wars in Syria is making the US increasingly nervous, reflecting concern at the Pentagon and in Europe about the risk of......
BRUSSELS: The EU’s highest court struck down a deal that allows thousands of companies to easily transfer personal data from Europe to the United States, in a landmark ruling on Tuesday that follows......
JERUSALEM: Israel on Tuesday demolished the homes of two Palestinians behind attacks last year after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged an iron fist against mounting unrest.The demolitions......
UNITED NATIONS: Federal authorities in the US are investigating a scheme in which officials at the United Nations, including a former president of UN General Assembly, John Ashe, were allegedly......
COLUMBIA: South Carolina residents on Tuesday reeled under the effects of weekend flooding that killed at least 11 people and left tens of thousands without power or drinking water.President Barack......
DHAKA: Bangladesh is set to lose its competitive edge in global apparel business as trade ministers of 12 Asia Pacific nations signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement on Monday.Economists and......
MYITKYINA: Aung San Suu Kyi’s party is wooing votes from ethnic minorities, and promises to change the constitution that has been defined by the military’s influence.Under the baking mid-morning sun,......
HANOI: Restoring dangerously dilapidated French-style houses in Hanoi isn’t a simple task.Heated discussions are on and concerns expressed on how to preserve French-styled mansions, after one such......
LUCKNOW: Paramilitaries were deployed to the Indian city of Varanasi on Tuesday after nearly 50 people were injured during riots in which a police post was torched and dozens of vehicles damaged.The......
CHICAGO: A simple childish spat over a puppy led an 11-year-old boy to shoot and kill his eight-year-old neighbour in the US state of Tennessee, the girl’s grieving mother said.Latasha Dyer said her......
TOKYO: Toyota on Tuesday unveiled a car that can drive itself along a highway, the latest foray by a major manufacturer into the world of automated vehicles.The car, a modified Lexus GS, uses......
BRUSSELS: The European Union is ready to offer Turkey new incentives to better tackle the Syria refugee crisis, including money, the easing of visa restrictions and better intelligence sharing.The......
KARACHI: Having come very close to a move to England in the summer before seeing it collapse, Mohammad Adil isn’t giving up.The Pakistan winger was offered a two-year contract by Championship side......
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews gave his backing on Tuesday to spin bowler Tharindu Kaushal despite a ban for one of his bowling actions, raising the prospect of him being selected for the......
LONDON: Depression and anxiety issues affect over a third of current professional footballers, according to a study published by world players’ union FIFPro on Tuesday.The research, led by FIFPro’s......
BEIJING: Rafael Nadal stuttered to victory against one of his former ball boys at the China Open on Tuesday as top-ranked Novak Djokovic swept imperiously to his 25th straight win in......
SHARJAH: Off-spinner Moeen Ali grabbed three wickets as England bowlers had to work hard against Pakistan’s A side on a flat wicket under warm conditions in a drawn game in Sharjah on Tuesday.Moeen,......
NEW DELHI: Former Indian captain and batting maestro Sunil Gavaskar led calls on Tuesday for Cuttack to be banned as a cricket venue after crowd trouble twice brought a halt to play in a Twenty20......
SHARJAH: Fast bowler Mark Wood urged his England team-mates on Tuesday to take their chances during the forthcoming Test series against Pakistan, just as they did during the victorious Ashes series......
KARACHI: For the second time in three days Bismah Maroof and Anam Amin combined together to seal Bangladesh’s fate as Pakistan women cricketers completed a 2-0 One-day International clean sweep......
KARACHI: Wahab Riaz and Yasir Shah of Pakistan, and Zimbabwe’s Sean Williams have made impressive gains in the latest ICC ODI player rankings, released at the conclusion of the Zimbabwe-Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Defending champion Omar Abdel Meguid crashed out to his compatriot Mohamed Abouelghar in the thrilling final to win the Serena Hotels-Chief of Air Staff International Squash......
MADRID: Real Madrid centre-back Sergio Ramos has withdrawn from the squad for Spain’s final two Euro 2016 qualifiers against Luxembourg and Ukraine due to a shoulder injury and has been replaced by......
MANCHESTER: Manchester United’s Luke Shaw returned to the club’s training ground for the first time as he steps up his recovery from a double leg break he suffered in the Champions League loss to PSV......
KARACHI: Philip Morris (Pakistan) Ltd on Tuesday proposed to issue preference shares of up to Rs11 billion.It stated in a filing with the stock exchanges that the board had approved an irredeemable,......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday informed the standing committee that exports were falling owing to multiple issues.Secretary Commerce Shahzad Arbab briefed the meeting that in the......
KARACHI: All-Pakistan Textile Mills Association chairman Tariq Saud said on Tuesday that six major sub-sectors of textile industry have closed down owing to energy crisis, high cost of doing business......
KARACHI: The cotton market maintained a bullish streak on Tuesday as lint supply fails to meet strong demand from spinners and some exporters.Floor brokers said phutti (seed cotton) prices also rose......
LUXEMBOURG: EU ministers agreed on Tuesday that national authorities would automatically exchange information on tax deals with multinationals, but critics said failing to make them public means the......
WASHINGTON: The 500 largest American companies hold more than $2.1 trillion in accumulated profits offshore to avoid US taxes and would collectively owe an estimated $620 billion in US taxes if they......
ISLAMABAD: While setting provisional price for regasified liquid natural gas (RLNG) later this week, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) also has to determine if a statutory regulatory order......
WASHINGTON: The government will prepare and submit a draft legislation against benami transactions to the National Assembly by the end of January, according to a document submitted to the......
LAHORE: Commerce Minister Khurram Dastagir Khan has blamed the lack of value addition and rising cost of doing business for the falling exports.While addressing the opening ceremony of a four-day......
KARACHI: Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) Chief Executive S.M. Muneer on Tuesday urged the government to immediately release outstanding funds of exporters and help end the liquidity......
ISLAMABAD: The government is facing difficulties in broadening the country’s tax base as only 131,811 people filed their income tax returns until Oct 5 in the tax year 2015, according to a tax......
KARACHI: Bulls took firm control of the market on Tuesday as the KSE-100 index climbed 417.93 points (1.27 per cent) to close at 33,202.87. Index heavyweight stocks like Pakistan Petroleum, OGDCL,......
KARACHI: The presence of counterfeit currency notes is an undeniable fact and primary responsibility to check their influx lies with law enforcement agencies, the State Bank said in a statement on......
LIMA: China’s slowdown and tumbling commodity prices will push global economic growth this year to the lowest level since the recession year 2009, the International Monetary Fund predicted Tuesday.In......
QUETTA: President Mamnoon Hussain has said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will be built along the stipulated route, with Balochistan being the main beneficiary of the project.“It......
LAHORE: Rejecting an allegation levelled by a petitioner that the government is misreporting the death toll of Pakistani pilgrims in the Mina stampede, the Ministry of Religious Affairs urged the......
ISLAMABAD: Audit officials claimed before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday that they had pointed out anomalies of over Rs6 billion in the accounts of the Federal Board of Revenue......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations should be more responsive not only to emerging challenges but also to persistent calls for implementation of all its resolutions, a senior Foreign Office official said......
ISLAMABAD: Although over one year has passed, there is no clear indication when the travel restrictions imposed on Pakistanis on the recommendations of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for......
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Interior Baleeghur Rahman informed the Senate on Tuesday that there were a total of 6,016 death row convicts imprisoned in various jails across the country.During the......
QUETTA: Former speaker of the Balochistan Assembly Mir Jan Mohammad Jamali has said that a new coalition government led by PML-N should be formed in Balochistan under the Murree Accord.Talking to......
KARACHI: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has ordered the chief executive officers of private airlines to submit information about what it called the recent unreasonable increase in air......
NEW DELHI: Indian movie idol and recipient of Pakistan’s highest civilian award Dilip Kumar had intervened with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to help defuse the 1999 Kargil crisis, former foreign......
NEW DELHI: A monkey that sneezes when it rains and a “walking” fish are among more than 200 species discovered in the ecologically fragile eastern Himalayas in recent years, according to conservation......
STOCKHOLM: A Japanese and a Canadian won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for discovering that elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos have mass, opening a new window into the......
KABUL: Taliban fighters on motorbikes have carried out hit-and-run attacks on Afghan forces trying to clear Kunduz city of militants, more than a week after the militant movement briefly seized the......
ISLAMABAD: Contrary to official claims, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday that Pakistan’s power sector losses could not be reduced during the 2014-15 fiscal year, with recoveries having......
ISLAMABAD: China will build in Karachi four of eight submarines that it is selling to Pakistan.Minister for Defence Production Rana Tanveer Hussain told at the inauguration of the Defence Export......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has asked Mumtaz Qadri’s counsel to assist the court by focusing their arguments on the question whether individuals — in contemporary society — can be permitted to......
KARACHI: A row erupted between police and the Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Tuesday when police issued advertisements in local dailies seeking public assistance in tracing of at least six missing......
ISLAMABAD: A debate in the Senate on a report of the special committee on corruption on Tuesday turned into a mudslinging match between the ruling PML-N and the opposition PPP when members of the two......
Mr Sartaj Aziz’s pronouncement on cricketing ties between Pakistan and India tells us that it is not always useful to mix politics with sport.The adviser to the prime minister on foreign affairs and......
THERE is a degree of irony in the fact that an International People’s Tribunal on the profoundly traumatic events that occurred 50 years ago in Indonesia will be convened next month in The Hague, the......
ACCORDING to the Clean Clothes Campaign, an advocacy organisation that works with garment industry workers around the world, Pakistan’s garment and textile industry forms 60pc of the country’s annual......
THE fall of Kunduz seems to have set in motion a domino effect with the Afghan Taliban forces threatening to overrun the other neighbouring northern Afghan provinces. Baghlan could be the next.Fierce......
ADEN: Islamic State suicide bombers killed 22 people in attacks on Yemen's government and its Gulf Arab coalition ally in the port city of Aden and on a Houthi-run mosque in the capital Sanaa on......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Senator Farhatullah Babar said the Senate must send a strong signal that it demands across the board accountability and rejects the notion of sacred cows.Taking......
