KHANEWAL: At least 15 people were killed when a bus carrying pilgrims to Haq Baho from Pakpattan overturned on Vehari road on Thursday, DawnNews reported.Details reveal that the bus was carrying......
CHENNAI: India's bowlers backed up a long-awaited century from Virat Kohli as the hosts defeated South Africa by 35 runs on Thursday to level the five-match one-day series 2-2.Kohli smashed 138 off......
Pakistan's ace fast bowler Wahab Riaz has been signed up by Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) side Rangpur Riders on the first day of draft for the T20 league’s third season.The left-arm pacer joins......
WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif apprised the US President Barack Obama about Pakistan’s resolve to take effective action against United Nations-designated terrorist individuals and entities,......
PESHAWAR: Multiple suspected militants were killed by a drone strike carried out by the indigenously produced 'Burraq' drone on Thursday, said a statement released by the Inter-Services Public......
As Shoaib Akhtar started his marathon run-up on a misty Karachi morning in 2006, the crowd roared behind him. The fiery chorus was only broken each time Akhtar let go of his thunderbolt.This happened......
DUBAI: Pakistan's head coach Waqar Younis praised Misbah-ul-Haq who struck a brilliant hundred in the second Test against England in Dubai on Thursday, saying age is no barrier for him.The......
QUETTA: A suicide attacker blew himself outside an imambargah in Bolan’s Goth Chalghari area on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and injuring many others, DawnNews reported.“At least 10 people......
ISLAMABAD: Police in Indian-held Kashmir on Thursday arrested senior Hurriyat Conference leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, when he tried to visit the bereaved family of Zahid Rasool Butt in Islamabad in......
JERUSALEM: A Jewish man was shot and killed in a scuffle with Israeli soldiers who suspected he was a Palestinian attacker, police said Thursday, in a reflection of the jittery mood that has gripped......
Indian cricket administrator Rajeev Shukla rubbished claims that PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan was deliberately given the cold shoulder by the BCCI on his recent visit to Mumbai and insisted that talks......
GUJRANWALA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during his meeting with US President Barack Obama on Thursday will present commemorative photos of Obama's mother's stay in Pakistan during the 1980s.Official......
PESHAWAR: At least 21 terrorists were killed in air strikes in the Rajgal and Kukikhel areas of Khyber Agency's Tirah Valley close to the Pak-Afghan border late Wednesday night, an Inter-Services......
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. But, will it smell as sweet with another spelling?Spelling matters in writing, and even more so in record-keeping. But not in Pakistan, where......
ISLAMABAD: The Indian High Commission's spokesperson in Islamabad, Balbir Singh, on Thursday stated that the Indian embassy in Islamabad is issuing visas to Pakistani citizens as per routine.“There......
LAHORE: A local court on Thursday ordered police to release of the underage son a police officer on bail in a case pertaining to killing of a media personnel, Rana Bilal, in a car accident on......
DUBAI: The CEO and founder of the messaging application Telegram says that the service has been blocked in Iran after his company refused to allow authorities to spy on users.In a message on Twitter......
DOBOVA: More than 1,000 asylum seekers have streamed out of a crowded Austrian collection point on the border with Slovenia after Austrian police removed barriers to prevent possible violence.Police......
NEW DELHI: Japan has offered to finance India's first bullet train, estimated to cost $15 billion, at an interest rate of less than 1 per cent, officials said, stealing a march on China, which is......
WASHINGTON: The United States would be the most relevant third party that could intervene to help resolve outstanding issues including Kashmir between India and Pakistan, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif......
KARACHI: Advocate Farooq H. Naek on Thursday, acting counsel to former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani claimed the PPP leader was a target of political victimisation.Naek said that there are now 21......
KABUL: In Khawaja Ghar, a village in Deh Sabz district on the dusty outskirts of Kabul, there is little noticeable government presence, and Afghan soldiers and police are a rare sight.In fact, you......
BEIJING: Chinese media Thursday trumpeted President Xi Jinping's visit to Britain, running triumphant coverage of the trip at odds with Western accusations that London has sold out to the Asian......
ANKARA: A 15-year-old schoolboy has been detained by police in Turkey for allegedly "insulting" Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, local media reports said Thursday.The teenager, identified by......
COLOMBO: West Indies great Garfield Sobers thinks the increasing player preference for lucrative Twenty20 leagues over conventional formats of the game has contributed to the decline of Caribbean......
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Thursday claimed to have arrested at least 17 suspected criminals from different areas of Karachi.According to a statement released by Rangers spokesman, the......
WASHINGTON: K-Electric Limited, Pakistan and United States (US) Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) on Wednesday executed a commitment letter for a $250 million 10-year financing......
UNITED NATIONS: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon offered the Security Council a grim assessment Wednesday of prospects for defusing the latest wave of violence between Israel and the Palestinians,......
LOS ANGELES: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is being sued in the United States (US) over his nation's deadly raid of six Turkish boats trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza in 2010, an......
MELBOURNE: Steve Smith is Australia's best player and should bat at number three in the Test order, former skipper Ricky Ponting said Thursday while praising the new captain's drive and......
BEIJING: Officials working at the grassroots in Tibet must be a "fortress" against separatism and work to ensure the ruling Communist Party's monopoly on information is maintained, China's top......
The UN's cultural body approved a resolution from a group of Arab states on Wednesday criticising Israel for failing to protect heritage sites and rebuild regions destroyed by war.The final version......
NEW DELHI: The world's most polluted capital, New Delhi, has closed a major stretch of road to private cars for a few hours, hoping to give its citizens a brief breath of fresh air by observing a......
WASHINGTON: In April, John Booker was arrested for allegedly planning to carry out a suicide bombing at a military base in Kansas on behalf of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group.It turns out......
LONDON: A major increase in violence by the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group saw over 1,000 attacks and nearly 3,000 deaths worldwide in the past three months, analysis firm IHS Jane's said......
DUBAI: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq made an unbeaten century as the resurgent hosts reached 282-4 at close of the opening day of the second Test against England in Dubai on Thursday.Following a......
India's far-right political party Shiv Sena has been known to make headlines for its rhetoric against Pakistan, but the radical group has now gone above and beyond any anti-Pakistan sentiments that......
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is preparing to sell eight F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan in an attempt to bolster the two countries' relationship despite Washington's reservations about......
KANDAHAR: Panicked residents fled the capital of the opium-rich southern Afghan province of Helmand Wednesday after the Afghan Taliban stormed an outlying neighbourhood, triggering clashes as the......
NEW DELHI: A baby and a toddler were killed in a house fire allegedly set by their family's upper caste neighbours, and hundreds of angry residents placed the children's bodies on a key highway near......
UPPER DIR: Four small hydel power houses were inaugurated here on Wednesday that would generate 195 kilowatt electricity and supply power to over 600 households.Commissioner Malakand Division Usman......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Wednesday decided that it would give five percent ‘concession’ as subsidy on mark-up on new bank loans for setting up industries in province to attract......
LANDI KOTAL: Khyber Agency Political Agent Shahab Ali Shah has asked the elders of Kukikhel tribe to stop suspected terrorists from re-establishing their foothold on their soil as security forces......
MINGORA: Apart from scenic beauty and rich cultural heritage, Swat valley offers another feast to the tourists -- the trout fish of the Swat River.The valley known as the Switzerland of Asia has......
RAWALPINDI: Once considered the cleanest part of the city, the roads of the cantonment areas now stink from piles of garbage, reflecting inefficiency on the part of the Rawalpindi and Chaklala......
Imran Azhar moved back to Pakistan last year after spending almost 20 years abroad, and opened a small company that produces ‘Team Muhafiz’, a comic book series about a group of ethnically and......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan wants to join the nuclear mainstream, but the cost of achieving that status, at least according to what is being suggested by western think tanks, could be prohibitively high in......
ISLAMABAD: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a bridge between China and the Arabia Sea, will help make Pakistan an international interchange.Addressing the public talk titled, ‘The Role of......
ISLAMABAD: A team of enforcement wing and District Municipal Authority (DMA) of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Wednesday demolished five kiosks in sector H/-8.“We have demolished five......
RAWALPINDI: Though it believes the bloody Muharram of 2013 is a thing of the past, the security-conscious local administration has new worries on this year’s Muharram in the city.It blocked roads and......
ISLAMABAD: The district administration sealed off Serena Hotel’s kitchen, bakery and food storage area on Wednesday because of unhygienic conditions.According to ICT administration, the raiding team......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army’s stay in the capital city has been extended for three months, Deputy Commissioner Capt Mushtaq Ahmed told Dawn on Wednesday.Over two companies of 111 Brigade have been......
ISLAMABAD: A high-powered environmental commission has claimed that a number of modern developments in the capital – such as the construction of the Pak-China Friendship Centre near Shakarparian and......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab Organiser Chaudhry Sarwar has urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to organise local government elections under the supervision of the army or......
LAHORE: After a hectic day of door-to-door campaigning, Rubina Shaheen finally gets some time to breathe but not for long as local elections are just around the corner.Rubina is contesting for the......
LAHORE: The second rehabilitation project of the 55-year-old Warsak Hydroelectric Power Station will help regain its reduced generation capacity from 193 megawatt (MW) to 243 MW and achieve another......
FAISALABAD: Both the major political parties -- PML-N and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf -- have preferred the candidates related to established political families for the upcoming local government......
OKARA: A man involved in a murder case was shot dead by an unidentified assailant on the premises of the civil court at the district complex on Wednesday.Police said Abdul Jabbar of Chak 52/3R had an......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: A local girl has been elected as a member of the Canadian parliament.Iqra Khalid of the Liberal Party of Canada defeated a strong candidate of the Conservative Party in......
BADIN: A Hindu woman apparently went missing after leaving home in Tando Bago town to drop her two young children at a private school on Wednesday morning but turned up at the Model police station in......
KARACHI: The row between the Sindh and federal governments over the arrest of Dr Asim Hussain, a close confidante of former president Asif Ali Zardari, took a dramatic turn on Wednesday when the......
KARACHI: Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari, the youngest child of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and co-chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party Asif Ali Zardari, on Wednesday visited the families of party......
KARACHI: As the local government elections in eight districts of Sukkur and Larkana divisions are scheduled for Oct 31, all political parties and stakeholders, including returning officers, have......
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate handed over the three Baloch girls who were kidnapped on Sept 7 in an Azizabad locality to their parents as two of them on Wednesday deposed that they were forcibly......
KARACHI: At least 644 outlaws, including ‘167 active terrorist ringleaders of Al Qaeda and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)’, were killed in police actions in the nine months of the current year, a......
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate remanded on Wednesday an official of the Pakistan State Oil in the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency in a graft case till Oct 25.The FIA arrested senior......
KARACHI: Several groups representing the Shia school of thought have said there will be countrywide protests if the federal and provincial governments continue with the policy of containing mourning......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Wednesday approved the Asian Development Bank funded Sindh Provincial Roads Improvement Project (SPRIP) aimed at extending and improving six......
LARKANA: The arrest of Haji Sardar Jarwar, a Sindh United Party (SUP) candidate for a councillor’s seat in Union Council-7, Shahdadkot, late on Tuesday night triggered protests on Wednesday by......
DADU: An old man found fettered and kept in confinement was rescued in a police raid on the house of his brothers in Chhutto Abro village of Dadu taluka on Wednesday. The raid was carried out on an......
TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday endorsed a landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers, but warned the government to be vigilant, saying the United States cannot be trusted.Ayatollah......
WASHINGTON: US Vice President Joseph Biden announced on Wednesday he would not run for the White House next year, ending his life-long political dream and months of fevered speculation that has split......
RAMALLAH: UN chief Ban Ki-moon urged an end to spiralling violence as he met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday in a bid to calm three weeks of deadly unrest.“We will continue to support......
TOKYO: A Japanese Buddhist monk on Wednesday finished a gruelling nine-day ritual without eating, drinking, or sleeping as he chanted sutras 100,000 times, reports said.The 41-year-old Kogen......
LONDON: Chinese President Xi Jinping has sealed a multi-billion dollar deal to finance nuclear power stations in Britain, crowning a visit that Prime Minister David Cameron hopes will unleash a wave......
HIMEJI: A decade after retiring from a life of crime, Satoru Takegaki now spends his days helping other ex-gangsters find regular jobs and adjust to life outside Japan’s notorious yakuza mob. The......
TOKYO: Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis takes movie-goers on a white-knuckle ride to the top of the World Trade Center — and to the edge of sanity — in his new film “The Walk”.Thirty years......
THE world’s most powerful spy, CIA chief John Brennan, was bested on Monday by a self-described “stoner” 13-year-old and an associate, who broke into his America Online (AOL) email account and......
CAIRO: Turnout was so low in the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections that satirist Bassem Youssef derided it as an ingenious strategy to show the world Egypt had rid itself of its......
LONDON: In his five decades seducing cinemagoers, James Bond has foreshadowed social revolutions and the rise of multinational terrorist organisations, turning into a popular culture icon along the......
COLOMBO: The West Indies will look to the legendary Garfield Sobers for inspiration as they bid for an unlikely series-saving victory when they take on fellow strugglers Sri Lanka in the second Test......
DEHRADUN: The second day of the Red Bull Campus Cricket World Finals 2015 was all about consolidation. Sri Lanka secured their second win — this time against Pakistan. So did England, as they beat......
KARACHI: Talented fourteen years old Shiraz Asif, a promising baseball player, aspires to become a professional in the game in the years ahead.An O-Level student of Army Public School, he represented......
DUBAI: Pakistan will be looking to fit-again leg-spinner Yasir Shah to lift their bowling in the second Test against England starting in Dubai from Thursday.Yasir, regarded as a wicket-taking bowler......
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan admitted on Wednesday that Indian cricket authorities violated the ethics of hospitality but said he still hasn’t closed the doors on......
KARACHI: Yawar Saeed, whose last assignment as Pakistan team manager was on the ill-fated tour of England in 2010, passed away in Lahore on Wednesday evening after protracted illness.Yawar, 80,......
DUBAI: Skipper Alastair Cook admitted on Wednesday he wanted England to become the first team to beat Pakistan in a series in their adopted home of United Arab Emirates (UAE), comparing it to beating......
The fiasco at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai which forced the cancellation of a scheduled meeting between the heads of the Pakistan and Indian cricket boards has shocked Pakistanis everywhere.While......
PARIS: Arsenal remain bottom of Group ‘F’ but the Gunners gave their Champions League hopes a shot in the arm with a stirring 2-0 win over Bayern Munich on Tuesday.After losing both opening matches......
CHENNAI: Skipper M.S. Dhoni will face one of the trickiest tests of his international career as he frets on a perfect batting combination when India face South Africa in a must-win fourth ODI here at......
KARACHI: Skipper Misbah-ul-Haq on Wednesday expressed concerns following the recent anti-Pakistan protests in Mumbai, because Pakistan are scheduled to travel to India for the World T20 in March......
After that dramatic drawn Test at Abu Dhabi England seems to have gained a lot more in confidence than they had prior to the start of the series. The focus therefore has now shifted on to a different......
KARACHI: Steady conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Wednesday where activity remained fairly brisk ahead of long closure on account of Ashura.Floor brokers said that many mills were active......
KARACHI: The SBP has issued regulations for security of internet banking, which will be effective April 1, 2016.It has taken this action in view of increasing usage of internet banking, and to......
LONDON: President Xi Jinping on Wednesday responded to accusations that China has pushed down global steel prices during a visit to London that has coincided with a wave of job cuts in the sector in......
ISLAMABAD: The government decided on Wednesday to maintain last year’s wheat production target of 26 million tonnes for the 2015-16 Rabi season in view of surplus stocks and difficulties in export......
LAHORE: The All-Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) on Wednesday urged the federal government to direct the electricity distribution companies to extend the last date of September electricity......
KARACHI: Sugar manufacturers across the country have decided not to start crushing due next month if the government fails to resolve issues faced by the industry.The decision to this effect was taken......
ISLAMABAD: Electronic filing of withholding tax statements plummeted 40 per cent to 65,000 in July-September quarter from 90,000 a year earlier, mainly because of cumbersome web-based software of the......
KARACHI: Trading on the stock market remained dull on Wednesday, with the KSE-100 index adding a meagre 33.57 points (0.10 per cent) to close at 33,943.74.The index climbed to intra-day high of 121......
KARACHI: Habib Bank Ltd (HBL) after-tax-profit rose by 26 per cent to record Rs27.5 billion (earnings per share Rs18.19) during the first nine months of 2015, said a press release on Wednesday. The......
DUBAI: Gulf economies need to adjust to the “new reality” of oil prices expected to remain low for some time, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says, recommending spending cuts and income......
STOCKHOLM: Negative interest rates and sluggish corporate loan demand due to an uncertain global economy hit earnings at three of Sweden’s biggest banks, wiping nearly 40 billion Swedish crowns......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has restored the membership of around 58 lawmakers following late submission of their statements of assets and liabilities to the commission.The......
ISLAMABAD: PPP’s vice-president Senator Sherry Rehman has criticised the government for not taking parliament into confidence on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to the United States.“Washington......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has asserted its unlimited powers to scrutinise funding of the political parties at any time.In its detailed judgment on admissibility of a......
ISLAMABAD: A think tank has challenged claims made by the water and power ministry that improvements have been made in power sector by the PML-N government and said the performance of the previous......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has said that nuclear proliferation can only be contained if accompanied by parallel efforts to destroy weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan approved on Wednesday a proposal to change the polling date for the last phase of local government elections in Punjab and Sindh to Dec 5.An ECP......
QUETTA: Around 880 students of Balochistan, divided in 44 batches, will be enrolled in the Oracle Graduation Programme.This was revealed by the provincial secretary for information technology, Dr......
QUETTA: The coordinator of the Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) for Balochistan, Dr Syed Saif-ur-Rehman, has said the EOC will not tolerate any negligence by officials responsible for polio......
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked a huge controversy hours before a visit to Germany by saying that a Muslim religious leader in Jerusalem during the 1940s convinced Adolf......
NEW DELHI: The lynching of a Muslim man in Dadri by a Hindutva mob strongly appeared to be the result of a pre-meditated planning” under which people were incited using a temple, India’s National......
NEW DELHI: Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore has slammed the current climate of deepening intolerance and unbridled violence as bearing resemblance with Indira Gandhi’s 1975-77 Emergency and the 1992......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan handed over on Wednesday three dossiers to US Secretary of State John Kerry on India’s involvement in subversive activities in the country.Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz......
ISLAMABAD: Apart from dealing with important issues affecting Pakistan-US ties during his visit to Washington DC, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is also likely to give the go-ahead for the sale of two......
ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court judge expressed disappointment on Wednesday over the way an election dispute before the court was being projected by political rivals in order to settle old scores.“I am......
ISLAMABAD: The government has declared a public holiday on Oct 23 and 24 on account of Ashura. Preparations are under way to ensure that the Muharram passes incident-free and security plans to ensure......
DAMASCUS: Syria’s embattled President Bashar al-Assad has made a surprise visit to Moscow in his first known trip overseas since his country’s conflict erupted, meeting key ally President Vladimir......
THE decision by two special prosecutors appointed by the Sindh government to go public with their fears and grievances and dissociate themselves from the trials of several accused who are already in......
HAVING held a two-day meeting over Monday and Tuesday in Islamabad, the pronouncements of the Council of Islamic Ideology are in the news once again.Amongst the subjects commented on during this......
A NUMBER of civil society organisations converged on Islamabad over the last 10 days to draw attention to Pakistani women’s diverse concerns and offered the state authorities a bagful of tasks that......
SOON after coming into power, the government has been faced with a stubborn conundrum. Exports have been declining consistently, in spite of Pakistan receiving GSP Plus status from the European......
IN Pakistan policing is primarily a shared domain of the federal and provincial governments. However the recent proactive role of the Rangers, National Accountability Bureau and Federal Investigation......
IF it takes the armies of India and Pakistan as long to cross the border at Attari/Wagah as it does unarmed civilians, neither country need fear an invasion overland. The immigration formalities will......
WASHINGTON: United States Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he would not run for president in 2016, ending months of indecision and removing one of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's......
