KARACHI: Two policemen were shot dead by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday when they were conducting snap checking in the North Nazimabad area of Karachi, a police spokesperson said.The police officials......
KABUL: Afghan authorities rushed 150 “dangerous” inmates from a prison in the restive southern province of Helmand to the capital Kabul during the weekend, officials said, part of a drive to secure......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia executed a convicted Pakistani heroin smuggler on Tuesday, bringing the number of people put to death in the kingdom this year to 138.Nimat Allah Mola Baksh had been found guilty......
WASHINGTON: The phrase “agree to disagree” best describes the outcome of four days of extensive engagements between the United States and Pakistan last week.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in......
QATIF: When the gunshots rang out, Ali, a 26-year-old Saudi Arabian Shia Muslim, thought they were fireworks.But when he saw people running, he knew militant Sunnis were attacking his minority......
ISLAMABAD: Two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officials arrived on Tuesday on an eight-day visit to exchange knowledge with Pakistani law enforcement officials.The visit has been funded by......
LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court in Lahore granted bail to the prime suspect in Zain murder case, Mustafa Kanju, and four others on Tuesday after all the 20 witnesses failed to identify Kanju as the......
MINGORA: “The earth was strangely shaking so we held each other tight and imitated other children by reciting, Bismillah, Bismillah, Ya Allah, Ya Allah but when it became too rapid, we closed our......
KABUL: The Afghan Taliban on Tuesday urged charity organisations not to hold back in delivering aid to Afghan victims of a devastating earthquake, saying militants in the affected areas were ordered......
Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah has risen up to the second spot in the ICC Test Rankings released on Tuesday morning.Yasir, who has achieved the number-two ranking for the first time in his career,......
NEW DELHI: Rising tensions over eating beef in Hindu-majority India are starting to hit the multi-billion dollar buffalo meat trade, with exports falling in the last six months as traders run short......
LOS ANGELES: A man in the United States who had been watching the hit TV series "The Walking Dead" killed a friend because he thought the man was "turning into a zombie," police said Monday.Damon......
BEIRUT: The self-styled Islamic State (IS) group killed three of its captives in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra by tying them to Roman-era columns at the site, then blowing the structures up with......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia says one of its citizens carried out the suicide bombing at a mosque in the country's south on October 26 — an attack for which the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group claimed......
KARACHI: Celebrated humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi on Tuesday declined the offer of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to donate 10 million Indian rupees to his charity."Abdul Sattar Edhi has......
MUMBAI: India leg-spinner Amit Mishra was arrested by police and then released on bail in Bengaluru on Tuesday in connection with a complaint of assault filed by a woman.The 32-year-old featured in......
WASHINGTON: The day before a group of Army Green Berets called in an air strike on an internationally-run trauma centre in Afghanistan, a senior officer in the unit mentioned the hospital in a daily......
It had been a month of great gains.The Prime Minister and his family went to the United States, they gathered millions of dollars in aid disbursements and they were bestowed with more fighter jets.......
PESHAWAR/DUBAI: Pakistan cricket legend Shahid Afridi paid a visit to the victims who survived yesterday's deadly earthquake at Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital Tuesday.The cricket superstar talked......
DUBAI: A Yemeni hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was hit by a Saudi-led air strike, the group said on Tuesday, another bombing of a civilian target in the seven-month......
NEW DELHI: A complaint about "beef curry" being served at the official state guest house of Kerala in Delhi sent a large team of policemen to the place on Monday evening, reported NDTV.The police......
TEHRAN: An Iranian official says the Revolutionary Guard has sent more military advisers to Syria to help President Bashar al-Assad in the fight against insurgents.General Hossein Salami, the Guard's......
ANKARA: Turkish police detained around 30 self-styled Islamic State (IS) suspects in a dawn raid on Tuesday, a day after a deadly shootout with a group of the militants, local media reported.Police......
MELBOURNE: Australia opening batsman David Warner will test out his thumb in the domestic Sheffield Shield competition this week ahead of the opening Test against New Zealand.Warner broke his thumb......
LOS ANGELES: Three United States (US) women claim a Saudi prince assaulted them and held them captive during three days of sex-and drug-fuelled partying at a Beverly Hills mansion.The unidentified......
LONDON: Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney will have a testimonial next season after a campaign by supporters to honour the England striker's long service to the club.Rooney will play in a......
MELBOURNE: Retiring two-time grand slam champion Lleyton Hewitt has been confirmed as Australia's Davis Cup captain.Hewitt, who helped Australia break into this year's Davis Cup semi-finals for the......
LONDON: With Monday's deadline reached, here are the profiles of the eight officially declared candidates for the FIFA presidency:The 39-year-old brother of Jordan's King Abdullah was a member of his......
ISLAMABAD: At least seven Frontier Corps personnel were killed as a checkpost northeast of South Waziristan's Angoor Adda came under fire Tuesday, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said."The......
RIYADH: Even the best groundkeeper's skills would be lost on this grassless pitch in the Saudi capital Riyadh where Asian expats make the most of an improvised version of cricket.“This ground is full......
Canada's prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau has the looks of a movie star and a persona to go with it. That much we have established – he’s going down in history as the ‘PM who was pleasing on......
ISLAMABAD: The government will announce a relief package for earthquake affectees after comprehensive assessment reports are compiled by the concerned authorities, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said......
BEIJING: China's richest man saw his fortune balloon by nearly $17 billion — a sum larger than the Gross Domestic Produce (GDP) of Iceland — in the past year, business magazine Forbes said......
KABUL/ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: In Pakistan, at least 248 people are confirmed dead in the aftermath of a massive 7.5 magnitude earthquake which hit northern Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday.The National......
PESHAWAR: The panic and fright among the people in Peshawar after being jolted by the earthquake on Monday were reminiscent of the devastating earthquake that hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Azad Kashmir......
MINGORA: Malakand division was worst hit by Monday’s devastating earthquake in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as most of the deaths were reported there.In Shangla district, 24 people were killed and over 150......
PESHAWAR: The victims of Monday’s earthquake faced unwanted delay in their treatment at the accident and emergency department of Lady Reading Hospital owing to rush of people and visits by VIPs and......
MANSEHRA: The horrific memories of the Oct 8, 2005, devastating earthquake returned to affright Hazara people, especially those of Balakot town, when strong tremors jolted the region yet again on......
PESHAWAR: The elders of internally displaced persons from North Waziristan Agency here on Monday set up a three-day protest camp to force the government to expedite their rehabilitation process and......
ISLAMABAD: Doxiadis Associates, the Greek firm that developed the master plan for the federal capital, knew in 1961 that Rawalpindi and the area now known as Islamabad was prone to frequent......
RAWALPINDI: There was a big commotion and panic among the residents of Rawalpindi and Islamabad when the powerful earthquake struck on Monday.“I was busy with office work when the multi-storey......
RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD: The powerful earthquake that shook the country on Monday claimed one life and left dozens injured across the twin cities. In Rawalpindi, a woman was killed and 25 people were......
RAWALPINDI: Engineers of Nespak and the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) will carry out a survey to assess damage to the elevated road of metro bus in the aftermath of earthquake.There are......
ISLAMABAD: Last week a survey placed Imran Khan behind the ruling Sharif brothers in popularity – 49 per cent against the latter’s 75 per cent.A new survey this week has found that Imran’s Pakistan......
LAHORE: As the Monday’s earthquake jolted all parts of the provincial capital and made millions of people panicky, the situation at Arfa Karim Tower -- a 17-storey building -- was reported to be the......
The divisional administration’s policy to involve the National College of Arts (NCA), University of Engineering and Technology (UET), the Walled City of Lahore Authority (WCLA), Parks and......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has made a ‘rigging plan’ for local body elections through deputy commissioners, district returning officers and presiding officers, says Punjab PPP President Manzoor......
LAHORE: The family of a pregnant girl, who was allegedly gang-raped, has said they would staged sit-in outside the National Assembly if the culprits were not taken to task."We will also take the girl......
LAHORE: The Punjab chapter of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has postponed its All Opposition Parties Conference for the second time – in solidarity with those killed in the massive earthquake in the......
SAHIWAL: A woman was killed and a man suffered injuries here on Monday after an high-intensity quake jolted the Punjab districts.Reports said Mrs Farooqi of Village 5/11-L was in the bathroom when......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A woman and her five daughters made a self-immolation attempt on Monday in protest against police for patronising the alleged murderers of her husband. However, policemen foiled their......
KARACHI: Eleven shops in Saddar and Boulton Market were found robbed on Monday when traders came to open them as their locks were broken despite being sealed by the police authorities for Muharram......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said Sindh is “under attack and the PPP is being targeted in the name of corruption as if everything was okay elsewhere [in other provinces]”.This he......
ExhibitionsA group show of works by four artists opens at the Canvas gallery at 5pm. The participants are Amjad Ali Talpur, Ghulam Mohammad, Inaam Zafar and Kiran Saleem. The exhibition will remain......
KARACHI: Use of imported coal in a proposed 660-megawatt power generation project raised concern at a public hearing on Monday, as the government was asked to immediately devise a short-term policy......
KARACHI: It is still not clear as to how technical-minded the candidates appearing for the Sindh Board of Technical Education (SBTE) exams are, but many of them did, however, look like masters in the......
KARACHI: A suspect detained a couple of months ago has confessed to his involvement in planning the murder of director of the Orangi Pilot Project Perween Rehman, according to a supplementary......
SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah said on Monday there were nurseries of terrorism in Punjab which were also involved in attacks inside Sindh.He......
HYDERABAD: A political activist disowned by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in recent years was shot dead in what the police described as an encounter with three suspects on Monday.The family of......
KARACHI: Of the 2,703 dengue fever cases in Sindh this year, 2,639 have been reported in Karachi followed by Hyderabad with 24 cases. However owing to timely preventive measures taken by the......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday sent three suspects to prison on judicial remand in the Safoora Goth bus carnage case and directed the investigating officer to submit an investigation......
JERUSALEM: In good years, Vittorio Di Cesare’s tours of Jerusalem’s holy sites for November and December are booked up well in advance. This year, he doesn’t have a single booking.A wave of gun,......
JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered a review of the status of certain Palestinian neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem, an official confirmed on Monday, a decision that could......
JAKARTA: Indonesia has deployed three warships, with more on standby, to deliver face masks, tents and medical supplies to thousands of people affected by acrid haze from forest fires, an official......
KABUL: Al Qaeda has re-established a presence in Afghanistan and the self-styled Islamic State group has become a serious threat, the Afghan national security adviser warned, saying the country was......
KARS: The head of Turkey’s main opposition party indicated he would be open to reviving coalition talks after a snap election on Nov 1, taking another stab at an alliance with the ruling AK Party......
BEIRUT: Oman’s foreign minister and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met in Damascus on Monday and discussed ideas that have been put forward to address the Syrian crisis, the Syrian state news......
PARIS: Eating processed meats like hot dogs, sausages or bacon can lead to bowel cancer in humans and red meat is a likely cause of the disease, World Health Organisation (WHO) experts said.The......
BEIRUT: Four decades ago, Lebanon used to export power to its larger neighbour Syria. Now it barely generates enough electricity to keep street lamps on at night.The situation is so bad that even......
DHAKA: Bangladesh made its first arrests over an Italian aid worker’s murder as authorities insisted on Monday the killing was a plot by government opponents to trigger anarchy and not the work of......
DUBAI: Pakistan’s bowlers wore down tough resistance from England’s tail to win the second Test by an emphatic 178-run margin here on Monday, taking a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.Leg-spinner......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s record-breaking batsman Younis Khan has offered his deepest condolences and support to the families of people who lost their lives and property in the devastating earthquake that......
Pakistan’s domination right from the first day of the second Test finally brought them a sensational and a well-deserved result in the final stages of the game which at one time appeared like......
KARACHI: Former Test cricketer and chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed Sallu on Monday hailed Pakistan’s fighting victory over England in Dubai to go one-up in the three match series.Talking to Dawn,......
AUSTIN: Defending champion Lewis Hamilton secured his third world title in emphatic and dramatic fashion on Sunday when he raced to victory in a roller-coaster, stop-start, wet-and-dry United States......
KARACHI: Despite being declared free men after serving their bans in the spot-fixing saga, former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and seamer Mohammad Asif were prevented on Monday by a top Wapda team......
TWICKENHAM: Adam Ashley-Cooper scored a hat-trick of tries as Australia beat Argentina 29-15 on Sunday to set up a first ever World Cup final against old rivals New Zealand.The Pumas fought hard to......
SINGAPORE: Garbine Muguruza hammered out her WTA Finals threat in no uncertain terms on Monday as she celebrated her rise to world number three with a straight-sets dismissal of Lucie Safarova.The......
IF Jerome Champagne becomes FIFA president, he will distribute more development projects — but they will come with greater and stricter checks.The former deputy secretary general of FIFA is one of......
COLOMBO: Rangana Herath picked up four wickets while spin partner Milinda Siriwardana took three as Sri Lanka defeated West Indies by 72 runs on the fifth day of the second and final Test on Monday......
KARACHI: Eight-year-old wizard Saim Usmani of BVS Parsi School will be accompanying the Pakistan scrabble teams for the World Youth Scrabble Championship (WYSC), to be held from Oct 31 to Nov 2 in......
SYDNEY: Australia opener David Warner will play for New South Wales against South Australia in a Sheffield Shield match from Wednesday as he strives to prove his fitness for the first cricket test......
KARACHI: Repatriation of profits and dividends on investment in Pakistan picked up pace in September as the outflow surged to $220 million during the month — even higher than $208m in the April-June......
KARACHI: The value-added textile sector on Monday slammed the imposition of 10 per cent Regulatory Duty (R/D) on import of cotton yarn and fabric from India on the grounds that a case of anti-dumping......
KARACHI: The market started on a positive note on Monday with the KSE-100 index making initial gains of 145 points, however, at mid-day investors closed their positions on the news of a massive......
KARACHI: The State Bank has decided to continue waivers on financial transactions executed by the temporarily displaced people of North Waziristan.The Government of Pakistan has sanctioned payments......
KHORGOS: Kazakhstan wants to establish itself as a major trading hub between China and Europe and get a share of a $600 billion market, but it will have to end tough, often time-wasting, regulations......
KARACHI: The Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) on Monday urged the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to extend date of filing income tax returns and statements for the tax year 2015 for a period of one......
KARACHI: Trading was lacklustre on the cotton market on Monday because of slow movement of phutti (seed cotton) and cotton from fields and ginneries. However, sentiment remained firm and outlook......
BEIJING: China’s richest man saw his fortune balloon by nearly $17 billion — a sum larger than the GDP of Iceland — in the past year, business magazine Forbes said Monday.Wang Jianlin, founder of......
KARACHI: The State Bank and Federal Board of Revenue on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to streamline issuance of Form-E that will benefit the stakeholders and reduce the cost of......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has advised all financial institutions, including banks, to take immediate measures for implementing Urdu as per the directions of the prime minister, said a......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s non-textile exports fell by 25.52 per cent to $1.929 billion during the first quarter (July-Sept) of 2015-16 from $2.59bn in the same period last year, Pakistan Bureau of......
KARACHI: An extraordinary general meeting of the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) on Monday approved the resolution to change the name of KSE to Pakistan Stock Exchange.The meeting adopted a Special......
GENEVA: The benefits of a treaty that will cut red tape at borders and standardise customs procedures are much larger than previously thought and could add $3.6 trillion to annual global exports, the......
BEIJING: China’s ruling Communist Party opened a key meeting on Monday that will focus on financial reforms and how to maintain growth of around seven per cent and more broadly map out economic and......
QUETTA: Shockwaves created by the strong earthquake which struck large parts of the country on Monday were felt in Balochistan and forced people in many areas to leave homes in panic and run to open......
ISLAMABAD: A member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has said that the audit report on the release of Rs480 billion to power producers should be......
ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry admitted that the bureau’s work had been adversely affected due to “various reasons” in the last couple of years. He......
ISLAMABAD: The massive earthquake which hit large parts of the country on Monday disrupted the Supreme Court hearing of the election dispute for the NA-154 Lohdran National Assembly seat, but the......
ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has recommended to the government that the western route of the project should be built as a dual carriageway at the......
WASHINGTON: A reverse faulting at immediate depths about 210 km below the Hindu Kush Range in north-eastern Afghanistan caused Monday’s earthquake in the Pak-Afghan region, according to the US......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations on Monday led the international response to the massive Badakhshan earthquake by offering help in providing relief to the victims of the massive earthquake in......
ISLAMABAD: In the wake of the devastating earthquake that struck the country on Monday, the Federal Ministry of National Health Services directed all the health departments to declare high alert to......
SIALKOT: The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) continued shelling villages along the Working Boundary on Monday, causing considerable damage to houses in the area. Senior officials of the Punjab......
MANSEHRA: Over 1,000 tourists stranded in Naran Valley following heavy snowfall left the region on Monday after the district administration with the support of Frontier Works Organisation and......
NEW DELHI: Who is Geeta? Where is her family? When did she cross over to Pakistan from India and why? The questions will continue to be raised until the DNA tests from the blood samples she gave here......
Pakistan had barely ceased commemorating and remembering the 10th anniversary of the 2005 Kashmir earthquake when the earth shook yet again, bringing back painful memories and reopening old wounds.......
ISLAMABAD: A powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake which rocked parts of South Asia killed 63 people in Afghanistan on Monday, including 12 Afghan girls crushed in a stampede as they fled their......
ISLAMABAD: The earthquake that shook Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India on Monday afternoon occurred at 2:09pm Pakistan time and, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, measured......
IT is commonly believed that human rights at one end, and repression and violence at the other are inherently incompatible. This presumed incompatibility has given rise to the ‘protecting liberty......
WHY is it that the widespread rape of young girls is seen as reprehensible, which it is, while the deep-rooted institution of child bride, is not considered deserving of equal attention, and finds......
MANY obituaries have been written about the PPP post-2013 elections but the party defies simplistic epitaphs. The criticisms are valid: corruption, governance failure, lack of internal democracy,......
THE joint statement of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Barack Obama issued last week provides a good overview of the present and future trajectory of bilateral ties between the two......
As if on cue, the earth shook one more time in October, 10 years to the month after the devastating quake of 2005. The great jolt of 2015 may compare with the quake of 2005 on the Richter scale, but......
THE tragedy of this country is not its inability to counter formidable challenges, but its irresponsible behaviour in terms of matters that are fairly easily resolved.Unfortunately, the latter are......
