ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Observer Research Foundation Mumbai, Sudheendra Kulkarni, who organised a book launch in Mumbai for former Pakistan foreign minister Khurshid Kasuri – for which he faced......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice (retd) Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan on Tuesday wrote a letter to army chief General Raheel Sharif to thank the military for its assistance in the......
PESHAWAR: Aid programmes for some of the 2.5 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan are being slashed amid the worst funding shortfall for a generation, as the European and Syrian migrant crisis uses up......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captains Javed Miandad and Inzamam-ul-Haq praised hard-working and committed Younis Khan who became the country's leading Test run scorer on Tuesday.Younis, 37, overtook......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition members in the Upper House of the Parliament staged a token walkout to protest against the “unsatisfactory answer” given by Federal Minister of Religious Affairs Sardar......
ABU DHABI: Shoaib Malik hit a fighting hundred to cap an impressive return to Test cricket after five years as he led Pakistan's charge in the first Test against England in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.Malik......
MULTAN: At least eight convicted men were hanged on Tuesday for murder, officials said, bringing the total number of people executed since the moratorium was lifted on death penalty to more than 230......
PESHAWAR: A First Information Report (FIR) was lodged in Peshawar's Sharqi police station after a juvenile prisoner claimed that he and other juvenile inmates have been sexually abused inside the......
GHAZNI: Explosions and sporadic gunfire rocked the outskirts of Ghazni on Tuesday after the Taliban attempted to storm the southeastern city, as the insurgents tighten their grip across Afghanistan......
QUETTA: Police on Tuesday claimed to have killed 3 suspected militants in Balochistan’s Mastung district.“Police launched a search operation against militants in Mastung’s Kanak area,” said a police......
Younis Khan surpassed Javed Miandad as Pakistan’s highest run-getter in Test cricket, bringing up the landmark with a huge six off Moeen Ali in the first Test against England on Tueday.The......
KOLKATA: An ascendant Hindu nationalist group wants minority Muslims and Christians to accept that India is a nation of Hindus, and is pushing some of them to convert.An election in the volatile......
BEIJING: The United States (US) and Russia must not allow the conflict in Syria to develop into a full-blown proxy war, China's ruling Communist Party said Tuesday, chiding both Moscow and Washington......
DHAKA: A Japanese farmer shot dead by suspected Islamist militants in Bangladesh was buried in a Muslim graveyard on Tuesday after a cleric testified that he had converted to Islam, officials......
TEHRAN: Iran's parliament voted on Tuesday to support implementing the nuclear deal it struck with world powers, sending the measure to a council of senior clerics who will review the accord before......
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia allowed women to contest elections but the candidates participating in December 12 polls won't be able to address prospective voters directly, meet any male voters in public and......
MUMBAI: As tensions between India and Pakistan run high and leaders from either side lock horns over a range of political differences, a rare act of kindness from across the border might have changed......
Field hand, brick kiln worker, dishwasher and now member of Parliament in Punjab. Sitting across from me in his Lahore office, Punjab Human Rights Minister Khalil Tahir Sindhu is warm and open to......
LONDON: Britain said on Tuesday it was seeking the release of an elderly British man facing 350 lashes after he was caught with homemade wine in Saudi Arabia, a sentence which his family said could......
VIENNA: Austrian oil and gas company OMV has found gas at the Latif exploration block in Sindh, according to a press release issued by the company on Monday.The Latif South-1 well had a gas......
MUZAFFARGARH: An alleged rape victim committed suicide in front of a police station in Muzaffargarh district of Punjab early Tuesday morning.The woman, who was severely injured in the self immolation......
NEW DELHI: Indian police said Tuesday they have arrested the main suspect in a horrific attack on a four-year-old girl who was raped and slashed with a blade before being abandoned by a railway......
From an impartial election researcher's point of view, ?NA-122? was always going to be a close contest between the PML-N and the PTI – pretty much a dead heat – however, PML-N did not win it as much......
DAMASCUS: United States (US) forces airdropped small arms ammunition and other supplies to Syrian Arab rebels, barely two weeks after Russia raised the stakes in the long-running civil war by......
ABU DHABI: Opener Mohammad Hafeez missed a hundred by just two runs as Pakistan reached 173-2 on the opening day of the first Test against England in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.Hafeez was trapped......
MUMBAI: Indian police said Tuesday they had arrested six members of far-right political group Shiv Sena over an ink attack on an activist who organised the launch of former Pakistani foreign minister......
KARACHI: At least 13 people, including seven children died as a rockslide hit shanties erected in Karachi's Gulistan-i-Jauhar area early Tuesday, rescue sources said.Rescue teams reached the site of......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has said that Central Asian states want to benefit from the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and they have expressed desire to link themselves with it.Addressing......
ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Finance Saleem Mandviwalla has said that PPP will raise objection in the upper house of parliament over the appointment of Sheikh Imranul......
ISLAMABAD: A day after the PTI lost a close by-election in NA-122 (Lahore), the party told the Supreme Court that restraining its chief from campaigning for his candidates was a violation of the......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali observed on Monday that intrusion or encroachment into the domain of others by any institution not only harmed the cherished concept of democracy but also......
LAHORE: The returning officer announced on Monday official results of NA-122 and PP-147 by-elections.Ayaz Sadiq of the PML-N retained his National Assembly seat by securing 74,525 votes against his......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC), led by Maulana Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi, has issued a code of conduct for maintaining peace and harmony during Muharram.The code suggests formation of peace......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar asked the Federal Board of Revenue on Monday to nominate a focal person for resolving tax-related issues of overseas Pakistanis.The decision was taken during a......
ISLAMABAD: US lobbyist and Benazir Bhutto’s confidant Mark Siegel will be available for cross-examination in the first week of November, an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Rawalpindi was told on......
WASHINGTON: Banning weapons will not end the nuclear race, says a senior US official while pointing out that both India and Pakistan are adding to their atomic arsenals.These remarks by US Assistant......
LANDI KOTAL: Security officials in Bara have warned all militant groups belonging to the Qambar Khel tribe to either surrender their weapons till October 22 or face action.Addressing a jirga of the......
TANK: Authorities on Monday sent over 140 internally displaced families to their native towns in South Waziristan from the Khargi transit camp here, completing the 12th phase of the IDPs return.The......
MANSEHRA: Traders have begun demolishing unmovable encroachments from Shinkiari Road, a highly congested area in the city, after receiving notices from the district administration.“We are voluntarily......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police on Monday declared Peshawar, Hangu, Kohat and Dera Ismail Khan as the most sensitive districts for Muharram.An announcement in this respect was made after......
CHITRAL: The work on widening of Lowari tunnel will be completed within 40 days, according to official sources.A project official told this scribe that only 400 meters out of the 8.5 kilometres were......
LANDI KOTAL: The new strategy of Continuous Community Protected Vaccination (CCPV) in curbing polio disease is bearing fruitful results in high risk areas of Khyber Agency as the number of chronic......
PESHAWAR: A juvenile prisoner of the Peshawar Central Prison has alleged that he and other juvenile inmates have been sexually abused inside the jail and that certain prison officials ‘supply’ them......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and manufactures have agreed to replace non-biodegradable shopping bags with biodegradable ones after three months.“The owners of the factories......
ISLAMABAD: The Marriot Hotel showcased new delicacies added to their menu by Prins Nalawansa, their new pastry chef, at an event in the Lobby Lounge on Monday.Natasha Hussein aka Natty was the guest......
RAWALPINDI: A passerby sustained critical burn injuries after someone threw a burning tyre on him during a protest against a robbery in Sarafa Bazaar on Monday.Abdul Mateen, 37, associated with a......
ISLAMABAD: The minister for planning, Ahsan Iqbal, has said India was wasting the opportunity to develop a regional economic hub in South Asia because of their hostile policies.The minister was......
RAWALPINDI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) raided a house over the weekend in Shadi Khan Village in Attock where they believed the suicide bomber who killed Punjab’s home minister, retired......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) on Monday organised an event to mark International Day of the Girl Child.The day is observed every October 11 aimed at recognising girls’......
RAWALPINDI: Following a disastrous showing in the NA-122 by-election in Lahore, it appears that the PPP won’t be taking any chances in the local government elections, set to be held on Dec 3 in the......
ISLAMABAD: A member of the Christian community has filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking Rangers’ protection for more than 20 churches in Islamabad.The petitioner Yousaf Khan......
LAHORE: Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Amin Wains directed all police officers to strictly monitor movements of Fourth Schedulers and activists of banned organisations to ensure a peaceful......
BAHAWALPUR: A team probing into deaths of two infants in Jhandi union council of Khairpur Tamewali tehsil found no evidence of anti-polio vaccine administered to the babies being expired and causing......
FAISALABAD: Ghulam Mohammadabad police registered on Sunday night two cases against a number of activists of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and PML-N on charges of thrashing each other.Police have also......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab Organiser Chaudhry Sarwar on Monday accepted the NA-122 results but with certain reservations – to be officially revealed after gathering proofs.Flanked......
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has urged the political parties who contested Sunday’s by-elections to step back from the ‘rough campaigning’ to ensure that politics returned......
OKARA: Before the NA-144 by-poll schedule was announced, Riazul Haq was not the choice of the PML-N. On October 11, when the young scion of the Nemat family of Okara city posted a very convincing......
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik on Monday asked the bar to play its role in checking a few lawyers who were in a habit of locking courts and misbehaving with......
LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam finds fault with the PML-N candidate that led to defeat of the party in by-polls for a provincial assembly seat from Lahore on Oct 11.N League’s......
LAHORE: PPP Central Punjab President Manzoor Wattoo said on Monday party’s provincial leadership was in favour of boycotting the by-election in NA-122 because of a ‘blatant violation’ of the......
LAHORE: The Punjab Emergency Services (Rescue 1122) will be finalising a plan to set up ‘Urban Search and Rescue Teams’ equipped with heavy machinery and equipment to cope with the situations......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that since Muharram and local government elections are taking place simultaneously, the intelligence and law enforcement agencies will have......
KARACHI: A sessions court on Monday sentenced a man to 12 years in prison for subjecting his teenage daughter to a sexual assault.Saeed Ahmed Khan was found guilty of raping his 17-year-old daughter......
KARACHI: A senior official of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) was shot dead in a suspected targeted attack in PIB Colony on Monday evening, officials said.They added that Arshad Hussain,......
KARACHI: Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari, the youngest daughter of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and co-chairman Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Asif Ali Zardari, on Monday visited Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir......
HYDERABAD: Speakers at a consultative programme here on Monday urged people to understand objectives of food security and issues of climate change that are part of Pakistan Vision 2025.The......
SHIKARPUR: A jirga (tribal court) presided over by community elders Advocate Ali Asghar Pahore and Afzal Mughal has settled a custodial killing case involving three policemen in Shikarpur, it was......
SUKKUR: Dispelling the impression about the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) having been inactive even in an environment of high politics witnessed in the just concluded Punjab by-elections, senior PPP......
KARACHI: Police officers investigating the murder case of Orangi Pilot Project director Perween Rehman told her family that they got hold of a phone conversation in which a man gave orders for......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday remanded an office-bearer of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in police custody in illicit weapons and explosive material cases.The police produced Ruknuddin,......
KARACHI: A man and his two nephews, all belonging to the Ahmadi community, were wounded in a targeted attack in a Gulshan-i-Iqbal locality, police said on Monday.Gulshan SP Hasan Sardar Niazi told......
JERUSALEM: Three new stabbings in Jerusalem and a car attack spread more fear among Israelis on Monday as Palestinian unrest showed little sign of slowing after nearly two weeks of......
RIYADH: King Salman on Monday rejected any suggestions that Saudi Arabia should give up its role as the organiser of Haj following last month’s deadly stampede in Mina. “The irresponsible statements......
CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Monday ordered the release of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s two sons who were sentenced to three years in jail for corruption, a judicial official and their lawyer......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama acknowledged on Monday that 13 years of a US-led war could not bring peace to Afghanistan.In an interview to a CBS News talk show “60-Minute,” President Obama......
TEHRAN: Iran’s foreign ministry summoned the United Arab Emirates charge d’affaires in Tehran after nine Iranian teachers were detained over work permit problems in the Gulf nation, state media......
NEW YORK: US President Barack Obama has said that Republican party’s front runner Donald Trump has no chance of becoming the next president of the country.“He knows how to get attention. He is, you......
YOKOHAMA: Nine former American servicemen who were held as prisoners during World War II were in Japan on Monday to revisit some of the places where they were held seven decades ago and recount their......
LONDON: London’s cash-strapped police will no longer keep officers stationed outside the Ecuadorean embassy to catch WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up inside for over three......
TEHRAN: Japan’s foreign minister said on a visit to Tehran Monday he hoped Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers would be swiftly implemented because his country wants to benefit from it.Fumio......
DAMASCUS: Russian jets intensified their airstrikes on Monday in central Syria as government forces battle insurgents in a strategic area near a rebel-held province and a government stronghold.The......
PEDDAKUNTA: For developing India, dangerous and potholed roads have long been a way of life.But one highway running through a village in the southern state of Telangana has gained a dire reputation,......
TOKYO: Tokyo fashion week opened on Monday with a show by a US designer, an arrangement observers say underlines the absence of local labels on the world stage despite Japan’s reputation for the......
CAIRO: The self-styled Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, one of the world’s most wanted men, is counting on veteran jihadis and former Iraqi army officers who form the core of the militant......
HAVANA: Winston Churchill’s 1895 journey to Cuba was far more formative than has been previously understood, a new book purports, saying Cuba is where the 20-year-old junior officer discovered he had......
ABU DHABI: Pakistan’s chances of defeating England in Tuesday’s opening Test match in Abu Dhabi suffered a blow on Monday when key leg-spinner Yasir Shah suffered a back spasm during practice.The......
ABU DHABI: Younis Khan is poised to surpass Javed Miandad as Pakistan’s greatest Test match run scorer, but refuses to be considered the equal of a man he describes as a “legend and an idol”.The......
ABU DHABI: England’s batting consultant Mahela Jayawardene urged his new charges to keep things simple while countering Pakistani spinners and tough conditions.The 38-year-old former Sri Lankan......
ISLAMABAD: Ehsan Mani believes Pakistan, in response to BCCI’s indifferent approach towards reviving the bilateral series, should devise a proper strategy to refuse to play India in group stages of......
KARACHI: Seamer Mohammad Amir continued his wicket-taking form with another bag of five on Monday as Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) strengthened their grip in their penultimate-round fixture of the......
LONDON: Ireland beat France 24-9 in a brutal Cardiff encounter to earn a quarter-final meeting with Argentina, leaving the well-beaten French the daunting prospect of facing New Zealand as the Rugby......
LONDON: Former New Zealand cricketer Lou Vincent told a London courtroom on Monday that he had helped to fix matches under “direct orders” from his captain, Chris Cairns.Speaking at Cairns’ perjury......
KARACHI: Islamabad achieved a tough target of 386 to beat Azad Kashmir by six wickets in the inaugural match of the eighth PBCC Agha Shaukat Ali Blind Cricket Trophy here at the Rashid Latif Cricket......
KARACHI: Zafar Iqbal Awan was elected as chairman while Mudassar Arain was elected as president of the Pakistan Netball Federation (PNF) for the next four years in the federation’s elective general......
LAHORE: Federal Board of Revenue Chairman Tariq Bajwa on Monday made it clear to the protesting traders that the 0.6 per cent withholding tax on banking instruments for non-filers would stay at every......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s finance ministry, seeking to cut waste as state revenues shrink because of low oil prices, is telling government bodies to return unspent money which they were allocated in......
LONDON: European investment banks are being bested by their US rivals. The bosses of Societe Generale and Barclays warned on Oct 11 that they were losing the battle for capital markets, trading and......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has confirmed that the circular debt of the power sector went up by Rs33 billion, or 11.78 per cent, from three months to June this year.In a quarterly report......
ISLAMABAD: Deputy Director General of WTO Frederick Yonov Agah on Monday urged Pakistan to ratify and deposit its instrument of acceptance of the trade facilitation agreement (TFA) which is mandatory......
KARACHI: The textile industry has decided to observe a ‘Black Day’ on Wednesday against the delay in announcement of a relief package promised by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif last month.Around 400......
ISLAMABAD: Overseas Pakistani workers sent home nearly $5 billion in the first three months (July to September) of this fiscal year, a growth of 4 per cent over the same quarter of last year, the......
KARACHI: Car assemblers recorded 60.59 per cent increase in sales to 44,372 units during the first quarter (July-Sept) of 2015-16 from 27,630 units in the same period last year, thanks to 58pc rise......
KARACHI: Stocks maintained the rising momentum on Monday, due to rallying global oil prices and the surge in Asian markets. The KSE-100 index made handsome gains of 340.67 points (1.01 per cent) to......
BEIJING: China’s Communist rulers will gather later this month, state media said on Monday, to set a course for the world’s second-largest economy over the next five years, as slowing growth raises......
THE city is awash with election fervour: banners stretch from pole to pole and posters have been pasted on empty spaces. But in Youhanabad even seven months after the horrendous bomb blasts and......
ISLAMABAD: Water and Power Minister Khawaja Asif said here on Monday that subsidised oil supplied to power plants was being sold in the open market and alleged that a ‘powerful oil lobby’ was......
STOCKHOLM: US-British economist Angus Deaton won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for ground-breaking work using household surveys to show how consumers, particularly the poor, decide what to buy......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior was informed on Monday that 14 people allegedly involved in Karachi’s Safoora carnage had been identified and eight of them arrested.Inspector......
NEW DELHI: Former foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri survived dire threats from the rightwing Shiv Sena ahead of his book launch in Mumbai on Monday while his host Sudheendra Kulkarni was......
ANKARA: Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif, who arrived in Turkey on Monday on a three-day official visit, expressed heartfelt condolence over Ankara terrorist blasts.“We understand enormity of......
LAHORE: Eighty-six Indian passengers made their way home by crossing the Wagah border on foot on Monday.According to Pakistan Railways, the Samjhota Express left the Lahore railway station as......
ISLAMABAD: The close contests in the by-election for NA-122 and PP-147 have prompted introspection in both major parties.While the PML-N claims to have cemented its position and put a stop to the......
A COUNTRY which was clocking a growth rate a shade above 5pc per annum for most of its history is now finding that this rate has dropped to below 4pc. It gives the impression that this is the new......
AS droves of intellectuals began returning their state awards to protest the growing culture of intolerance across India, I exulted to Prof Romila Thapar: “You’ve lit a prairie fire.” She messaged......
WE have recently celebrated the peace deal struck between the government in Colombia and the main guerrilla group. The deal reached on justice issues represents the clearest sign yet of a possible......
MY last few writings have focused on exploring options for Pakistan to reorient its approach towards India. I have argued that Pakistani decision-makers need to see regional economic integration,......
The votes have been counted, the results are in — but have the protagonists learned anything?Elevating politics to a gladiatorial contest has many downsides and the extraordinarily intense, often......
SATURDAY’S deadly blast that killed at least 128 people and injured over 200 in Ankara couldn’t have come at a worse time for Turkey.Tensions across the nation are high. Last June’s general election......
WHEN the month of Muharram draws near, the state usually swings into action in order to keep the peace during this sensitive period.The measures adopted by the administration include restricting the......
