The tainted duo of Mohammed Asif and Salman Butt will be sharing the dressing room once again after signing with Wapda for domestic competitions.Former Pakistan captain Butt, and fast bowler Asif......
Disarray within the Taliban leadership could delay peace talks with the Afghan government for a few months, but up to 70 per cent of the militant group may ultimately be reconciled with Kabul, the......
PESHAWAR: Security officials reportedly recovered a large cache of Indian and Russian-made heavy arms and ammunition from the Bara Tehsil area of Khyber Agency on Wednesday.Operational Commander of......
ABU DHABI: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq on Thursday expressed his delight over Shoaib Malik's return to the Test squad and warned England of Pakistan's strength in the spin department after the......
KARACHI: Sindh government has declared 1,229 religious gatherings and 572 processions as most sensitive across the province, hence ordering a three layer security cordons for all such events......
MADRID: Defending champions Spain can seal their place at next year's European Championships in France when they host minnows Luxembourg in Logrono on Friday.However, Vicente del Bosque's men are......
Borussia Dortmund captain Mats Hummels has backed Juergen Klopp to succeed at Liverpool, hailing his former manager as a “fantastic coach” who “eats, lives, breathes and thinks football”.Two-times......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for religious unity on Thursday after days of growing tensions over a Muslim man's murder by a mob for supposedly eating beef in Hindu-majority......
ISLAMABAD: It was decided during a meeting at PM House on Thursday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will take up the matter of Indian ceasefire violations alongside the Line of Control (LoC) and......
RIO DE JANEIRO: The Brazilians' dribbling is mesmerizing, the passing laser-like, and the final shot on goal ruthless. Pity then these players aren't the 11 of the national team but a bunch of kids......
DUBAI: A crush and stampede last month outside of Saudi Arabia's holy city of Makkah killed at least 1,264 people during the annual hajj pilgrimage to the kingdom, an Associated Press count showed......
SRINAGAR: Suspected rebels gunned down a police officer known for his successful counterinsurgency operations in India-held Kashmir, Indian police said Thursday.Indian regional police chief K.......
Arsenal's Theo Walcott is hoping to lead the line for England if Wayne Rooney does not recover from an ankle injury in time to face Estonia at Wembley on Friday.The Manchester United and England......
“Look, there is some truth in these cases of love jihad around here… There is someone or some organisation behind it. For instance, in the beginning, boys would roam around on motorcycles in front of......
NEW DELHI: Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali has been invited to the Indian capital by a leader of New Delhi's ruling party, Aam Aadmi Party, a day after Ali's Mumbai concert was cancelled over......
KATMANDU: Five months after the devastating Nepal earthquake, agriculture-dependent communities in the region, sandwiched between destruction and the need to earn a livelihood, have yet to emerge......
“Pakistan have got a habit of coming back in the last session. Everybody bowled well, we fielded well - everything was perfect,” Waqar Younis said after the match.It was a comeback typical of the......
MUMBAI: The franchise-based Champions Tennis League, which will begin its second season next month, will help end India's search for quality singles players, its promoter and former Davis Cupper......
NYON: UEFA leader Michel Platini hit out Thursday at “insidious” leaks claiming he faces a 90-day suspension from world football's governing body FIFA.Platini, who submitted his papers to stand for......
SRINAGAR: Lawmakers from India's ruling Hindu nationalist party in India-held Kashmir have kicked and punched an independent member of the state assembly for hosting a party where he served beef.......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said Thursday that it seeks cooperation of the international community including the United States on civil nuclear energy, hence there should be a non-discriminatory approach on......
Many of his concerts usually fell apart and turned into drunken brawls. Aziz Mian would purposely work up the audience towards a state in which many in the crowd ended up losing all sense of order......
DHAKA: Bangladesh has crowned a new national champion rat killer after his team eradicated more than 160,000 rodents in the past 12 months, officials said Thursday.Farmer Abdul Khaleq Mirbohor won......
ISLAMABAD: Seeking explanation over suspension of prime minister's farmer relief package by October 13, the Islamabad High Court issued a notice to Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday......
LAHORE: The Delhi-bound Samjhota Express, carrying both Indian and Pakistani passengers, was called back from the Wagah border to the Lahore Railway Station after Indian authorities cautioned their......
KATHMANDU: Struggling with a fuel shortage after Indian shipments went on hold, Nepal is asking suppliers to bring gasoline and kerosene by airplane before the Himalayan country begins celebrating......
JERUSALEM: New violence rocked Israel and the West Bank Wednesday, with three stabbings and an Arab shot dead by police, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israelis to be on maximum alert......
TOKYO: Toyota Thursday said it was willing to help the United States (US) probe how the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group has managed to get hold of so many of its notoriously tough trucks.The......
I turned my head away for merely a second and that was enough for a woman to sneak in front of me at the Immigration Counter at the Islamabad Airport. "Welcome to Pakistan," I whispered.Her brazen......
SANAA: At least 13 people were killed and 38 others wounded in the bombing of a wedding in a rebel-held Yemeni town, a medical source said Thursday, as witnesses accused the Saudi-led coalition of......
By: Tariq NaqashIn the Bandi Mir Samdani neighbourhood of Muzaffarabad, which skirts the Neelum Valley road and marks the end of the town’s municipal limits, it is hard to stop staring at the......
KARACHI: Rangers personnel arrested Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Rabita Committee member Kamal Malik during a raid on his house early Thursday, the party said in a statement on its website.The MQM......
LONDON: Pakistani activist Liaquat Ali Hazara had his application for asylum in Britain turned down two years ago. He has been stuck in limbo since, afraid of being killed if he is sent back.The......
MANSEHRA: The counter-terrorism department of police in Hazara division claimed on Wednesday to have arrested the mastermind of the terrorist attack on American charity World Vision on Oct 8,......
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani has set Nov 15 as the deadline for the government to frame laws and rules to govern the Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee, which has been functioning for almost......
WASHINGTON: The United States is exploring an option that could pave the way for a civil nuclear deal with Pakistan like the one concluded with India in 2005, says a report published in The......
ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Watch has urged the government to immediately withdraw new regulations that will severely restrict operations by international non-governmental organisations in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has lost up to 90 per cent cases in the appellate tribunal due to poor legal representation.According to figures presented by the audit office before the......
DHAKA: Bangladesh announced on Wednesday it would host Zimbabwe for a two-Test cricket series in November after Australia postponed a planned visit this month due to security concerns.Bangladesh......
KOLKATA: India need to set the team composition right as they look to restore pride and prevent South Africa from recording a clean sweep when the two teams clash in the third and final Twenty20......
MUMBAI: The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has sought a report from its state unit on the crowd trouble during Monday’s Twenty20 International against South Africa which has prompted calls for a ban on......
Najumul Saqib Iqbal was searching for a job after earning a bachelor’s degree from the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) in 2005. The ambitious 20-year old wanted to work with foreigners,......
ISLAMABAD: The government and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) are launching a three-year programme today (Thursday) aimed at increasing enrolment and......
KARACHI: The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) were upgraded to the top of Pakistan domestic cricket on Wednesday when they qualified to play at first-class level for the first time in their......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has again expressed serious concern over what it says the government’s attempt to bypass parliament and enforce an LNG pricing formula through a statutory......
Miguel Loureiro is an academic who worked extensively with aid workers and researchers from the Research & Information Systems for Earthquakes in Pakistan (Risepak) project at LUMS. Dawn asked Mr......
In the Bandi Mir Samdani neighbourhood of Muzaffarabad, which skirts the Neelum Valley road and marks the end of the town’s municipal limits, it is hard to stop staring at the mountain in the......
Abid Bashir is an 8th grade student in a state-run boys’ high school in Batangi village, some 58 kilometres south of Muzaffarabad in district Hattian Bala. Since he can remember, he has been studying......
It was a Saturday and that too of Ramazan and my weekly day off from the BBC, Islamabad. I was jolted out of my bed by a strong quake at 8:50am. Soon after, news began flashing on TV screens about......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate witnessed a verbal clash between members of the ruling PML-N and opposition PPP for the second consecutive day on Wednesday during a debate on an adjournment motion on the issue......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: IG (prisons) of Balochistan Ms Mumtaz Baloch has taken notice of substandard construction of a new building for Jaffarabad district jail and ordered an inquiry into the......
LAHORE: Minority communities held a protest demonstration in front of the Punjab Assembly building here on Wednesday to demand withdrawal of “anti-minorities” Punjab Local Government Ordinance.Led by......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) candidate for NA-122 Abdul Aleem Khan has challenged the prime minister and the Punjab chief minister to also visit the constituency to see masses’ reaction......
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Wednesday passed much trumpeted amendment to the Local Government Bill, paving the way for addition of five indirectly elected members in the House of eight elected......
LAHORE: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto has asked the Punjab chapter of the party to enthusiastically carry out election campaign in NA-122 despite difficult conditions.Talking to Punjab President......
OKARA: Continuing to criticise the rival political parties in his characteristic style, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan announced on Tuesday launch of the Movement for Restoration and......
LAHORE: Corporals in the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) have been given a promotion ladder which is harder to climb than fighting terrorism, also denying them the top two positions in the service......
PESHAWAR: As a decade of the devastating earthquake, which had left several areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in ruins, will complete today (Thursday), the federal and provincial governments have yet to......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has increased the allocation for Insaf Food Security Programme (IFSP) from Rs190 million to Rs1.2 billion for the current (first) year of its three-year......
PESHAWAR: The dispute about the purported ancestral house of acting legend Dilip Kumar took a new turn on Wednesday as the provincial government informed the Peshawar High Court that it had dropped......
PESHAWAR: The business community and officials of Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority (Smeda) have agreed on several points, including a proposal to establish a revolving fund for......
KOHAT: The Kohat police have finalised the security plan and banned display of weapons, provocative speeches, wall-chalking and publication and distribution of hate literature to ensure complete......
TIMERGARA: Hundreds of Jandol residents on Wednesday staged a rally to demand that the government remove a refugee camp set up on their 300 kanal of land.The protesters marched on the road and......
UPPER DIR: Biometric system was installed at the District Headquarters Hospital, Upper Dir, to ensure presence of doctors, paramedics and other staff members on duty.The installation of biometric......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Petroleum Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and the Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Mohammad Asif criticised regulatory bodies and a fellow government department – the Planning......
Nisar Malik is a documentary filmmaker who has worked with National Geographic, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel and UK’s Channel 4. His recent documentary, ‘Deosai: The Last Sanctuary’, about the......
ISLAMABAD: An exhibition of photographs featuring Pakistan was held to mark the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that occurred on October 8, 2005.Over 30 missions in Islamabad contributed images......
ISLAMABAD: Voicing concern over the future of around 3,000 students enrolled under the Comsats-Lancaster dual degree programme, student representatives on Wednesday demanded award of dual-degrees as......
ISLAMABAD: Satrang Gallery hosted an exhibition titled ‘Private Mythologies’ which brought together the works of Pakistan’s 10 most respected artists.The show was curated by well known art critic......
ISLAMABAD: The lack of drinkable water has forced many citizens to turn to bottled water, causing a mushroom growth of the bottled water industry over the last few years. However, the Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: The city managers had been good at selling state land to raise money for the Capital Development Authority (CDA) but certainly not at recovering the price in full.This emerged from a......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Wednesday challenged the suspension of a Rs341 billion relief package for farmers.The implementation of portions of the National Kissan Relief Package was......
CHAKWAL: Fazal Hussein thought that no pain could compare to the anguish of losing a daughter. The 59-year-old is a retired soldier from the village of Dhoda who, two weeks ago, rushed his......
LAHORE: Workers of power distribution companies staged protests on Wednesday in big cities at the proposed privatisation of Wapda, especially the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco).A major......
MULTAN: More than 250 contestants from around 50 schools participated in the Multan round of the 11th DAWN In Education Spelling Bee Competition 2015 held at the Multan Arts Council auditorium on......
FAISALABAD: The PML-N has not fielded any candidate for PP-70, a constituency of Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, due to his differences with Abid Sher Ali.PML-N workers are in the run for the......
KARACHI: A report prepared by the Sindh Bureau of Statistics and to be launched soon gives disturbing figures about the children’s mortality rates in the province, which have increased since 2012......
KARACHI: As the Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Wednesday termed the recent advertisement about ‘missing’ persons published in some newspapers ‘a conspiracy against peace and a move to damage their......
KARACHI: Several prominent leaders of various political parties on Wednesday filed their nomination papers for the upcoming local government elections in the city, parties and officials said.The......
KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department of police on Wednesday informed an antiterrorism court about 90-day preventive detention of a suspected militant for questioning.The CTD claimed to have......
KARACHI: The cost of the Greater Karachi Sewage Treatment Project, better known as the S-III project, which is funded by the federal and provincial governments, has increased from Rs8 billion to Rs39......
TEHRAN: Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers has bolstered its central role in efforts to end the spiralling Syrian civil war, bringing Tehran back to the world stage, analysts say.Though the......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will take into account the recommendations of a top general who has urged him not to withdraw most of his troops from Afghanistan by 2016, says the White......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has apologised to Doctors Without Borders for the US air attack that hit the group’s medical clinic in Afghanistan.Obama spoke to the group’s international......
LONDON: A British court on Wednesday jailed a former bishop with links to the royal family for 32 months after he pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting teenagers in a case that has prompted......
NEW DELHI: Former Indian army chief General Sunith Francis Rodrigues has dismissed allegations made by Lt General (retired) P N Hoon in his book that the army was involved in a plot to overthrow the......
WARSAW: A Chinese Navy destroyer, a Chinese frigate and a Chinese supply vessel sailed into Poland’s navy port of Gdynia on Wednesday on the first such visit ever, marking 66 years of diplomatic ties......
BEIRUT: Russia dramatically escalated its air war in Syria on Wednesday, unleashing heavy bombardments and cruise missile strikes from the Caspian Sea as cover for a major Syrian army ground......
MANILA: The son of late strongman Ferdinand Marcos said Wednesday that Filipinos are no longer concerned about human rights abuses committed under his father’s rule, angering activists who said he......
SHARJAH: England assistant coach Paul Farbrace vowed on 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......
MONTEVIDEO: Five of South America’s leading players will be missing when the continent’s 2018 World Cup qualifiers kick off this week.Lionel Messi and Neymar will be absent as Brazil and Argentina......
LONDON: Qualifying for the largest-ever European Championships was supposed to be easy.With only two games left to play, however, the Netherlands are in danger of missing out, and Sweden striker......
BEIJING: Rafael Nadal moved into the quarter-finals of the China Open with a 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 victory over Canada’s Vasek Pospisil on Wednesday.The third-seeded Spaniard picked up his game considerably......
KARACHI: Former Chinese coach Yao Zhen Xu said he was extremely delighted to be in Pakistan again and amongst his pupils.“The city that I saw during my stint as a coach from 1975 to 1977 and again in......
KARACHI: Defending champion Mohammad Sajjad survived a scare before winning group ‘C’ opener in the fully stretched battle as four seeded cueists fell prey in the seventh National Bank of Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will benefit many countries in the region, including India, said Jin Liqun, President-designate of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank......
KARACHI: Businessmen invested Rs1.3 billion in upgradation of pack houses for fruits and vegetables, setting up hot water treatment units, ethylene chambers, vapour heat treatment plants and pulp......
KARACHI: The government raised Rs97.6 billion through Pakistan Investment Bonds (PIBs) on Wednesday, the State Bank said, nearly double the amount of Rs50bn target it had set for the auction.The......
KARACHI: Pakistan and India should not let politics get in the way of business if their economies are to flourish, said a World Bank economist on Wednesday, stressing both countries to aim for direct......
KARACHI: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has raised duty drawback rates on export of hosiery and woven garments. The rates are worked out by the Input-Output Co-efficient Organisation of the......
KARACHI: Stocks remained firm on Wednesday as the KSE-100 index advanced by 173.33 points (0.52 per cent) to settle at 33,376.20.The steady trend was attributed almost entirely to the strong recovery......
PARIS: The economic crisis exacerbated inequalities in some European countries and the effects could be felt for decades as cuts in education spending affecting a whole generation may hamper......
KARACHI: Meezan Bank and Karandaaz Pakistan have signed a Corporate Vendor and Distributor Finance Programme aimed at providing growth capital for small businesses.Through this agreement, up to Rs9......
LIMA: China confronts a monumental and risk-fraught task as it moves toward a more market- and consumption-based economic model, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.As the most......
BERLIN: Volkswagen’s new boss said Wednesday the auto giant would need more than a year to fix all its pollution-cheating cars, as it suspended four employees suspected of being behind the global......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court directed the defunct BOL media network on Wednesday to approach the federal government, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and Federal......
ATHENS: Greek police said on Wednesday they had arrested 12 members of a gang that forged documents for migrants trying to reach central Europe, hailing the swoop as an important blow against a major......
NEW DELHI: Embankments along the India-Pakistan working boundary in Jammu, protested by Pakistan as an illegal wall, have been objected to by the Indian Army as a potential obstruction to its......
NEW DELHI: That the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Mumbai says it will give security to Pakistan’s singing star Ghulam Ali is nothing short of a positive change in the Modi......
WASHINGTON: The United States believes that a strong relationship between Pakistan and India is “absolutely critical” to achieving peace and stability in South Asia.At a daily news briefing, a......
STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich of the United States and Aziz Sancar, a Turkish-American, won the 2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for work on how cells repair damaged DNA.The......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence awarded to Malik Mohammad Mumtaz Qadri — the Elite Force commando who assassinated former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer — by an......
ISLAMABAD: The army has decided to increase the intake of cadets at its premier training institute — Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul — by around one third, which potentially sets the ground for......
ISLAMABAD: Finally, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) approved on Wednesday a provisional price of $8.64 per unit for regassified liquid natural gas (RLNG) delivery in Karachi in ‘larger......
Ten years have elapsed since the Kashmir earthquake of 2005. The temblor jolted this country into the realisation that nature’s wrath knows no boundaries.The death toll almost touched 75,000......
MUMTAZ Qadri is an unrepentant murderer who killed Salmaan Taseer, then governor of Punjab, in cold blood for the vilest of reasons.The Supreme Court has done the right and brave thing by upholding......
IN the eyes of the West, President Putin can do nothing right and Pope Francis can do no wrong.This has less to do with papal infallibility than with the engaging personality of the South-American......
“IF leaders do not listen to their people, they will hear from them — in the streets, the squares, or, as we see far too often, on the battlefield. There is a better way. More participation. More......
REMEMBER the day when we first heard about the earthquake? It was a Saturday morning, and some reports came in saying that Islamabad had been badly shaken. I recall a TV channel playing footage of......
