ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is gearing up for victory in Punjab with a total of 1,195 seats while in Sindh, while Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is reportedly ahead with a firm grip......
TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader dismissed Sunday the chances of foreign countries bartering a deal over Syria's future, suggesting they should focus on securing a halt to fighting that allows fresh......
ISLAMABAD: The Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) senators have mutually consented to take back their resignation from the Upper House of the Parliament and are expected to attend the session tomorrow......
QUETTA: The security forces on Sunday claimed to have killed six suspected militants in Balochistan's Kalat district, said a statement issued by Frontier Corps.The militants belonged to a banned......
KARACHI: Four decomposed bodies were found off Superhighway in Gadap area of the metropolis on Sunday, said a police official.Giving details, the official added that the bodies were recovered from an......
Former Indian captain and batting great Sunil Gavaskar believes New Delhi and Islamabad must start a dialogue to pave the way for the revival of regular matches between India and Pakistan.Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Shafqat Mehmood stepped down from the post of party organiser in Lahore for what he called the party's poor performance in the local government......
SHARJAH: Pakistan's head coach Waqar Younis Sunday stressed young players are key to his team's building for the future, with the Champions Trophy 2017 and World 2019 as prime targets.Pakistan are......
DHAKA: Protesters rallied in the Bangladesh capital Sunday over the latest attacks against secular writers and publishers, accusing the government of failing to halt rising deadly violence blamed on......
SHARJAH: James Anderson claimed four wickets as England made an excellent start to the third and final Test in Sharjah by bowling out Pakistan for 234 on Sunday.With England needing a victory to......
For some governments, improving their country’s standing in the World Bank’s Doing Business survey has become a national priority. Yet the results of such efforts sometimes are deceptive.That’s......
QUETTA: At least three people were killed and at least 10 others injured as an improvised explosives device (IED) was detonated near a stretch of railway track in the Dasht area of Balochistan's......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Super League has signed a broadcast production deal with UK-based Sunset+Vine to cover the high-profile league which is scheduled to be played from Feb 4 to 24 in the......
KARACHI: For a player who has been part of a world record partnership in first-class cricket, opening batsman Riffatullah Mohmand dreams of earning Pakistan colours after coming close to an......
ANNA Quindlen’s latest novel is an unlikely love story of a 60-year-old woman who rediscovers herself when she leaves the city (and her past life) to live a secluded life in a small town. Beautifully......
DIYA Sethi spent most of her childhood within “a cocoon” created by the love and care of her parents and her elder brother, the same cocoon that eventually sheltered her and became her “life support......
LALINE Paull is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Her first novel is The Bees, the story of a worker bee who finds that she has turned out to be more than her hive bargained for. The narrative......
ANY impressive penman who sets out to produce a lasting piece of fiction, needless to say, aims to be as creative as possible to ensure that he makes a profound impact on readers; Chetan Bhagat......
By Adeel HussainIT is impossible to confront the 19th century directly. We can attempt to make sense and ascribe meaning to it only through carefully selected detours. These detours can take us, for......
BEFORE they began to be available as mechanically printed texts from the late 19th and early 20th century, the dastans were essentially a source of oral entertainment for the Muslim royalty and......
ASK anyone in Pakistan or elsewhere the process of how he/she was named, and there is a little bit of a history attached; often times simple, sometimes a bit complicated but mostly quite interesting.......
A Mirrored Life has been the surprise of the season for me. Glancing at the name on the spine of the book, unknown to me, it was nothing but curiosity which made me pick up the novel from a stack of......
NEW DELHI: India’s dashing opener Virender Sehwag who has recently called time on his glorious international cricket career, says the sadness of being “deprived of a farewell game shall always......
Let’s give him credit for at least one thing: he does like to push boundaries. Rap singer Fakhre Alam has tried his hand at a few things in his career (singing, hosting showbiz programmes, holding an......
Amidst all the nonsense about stopping Pakistani artists from working in India, there comes a report that Bollywood A-lister Kareena Kapoor is thinking of taking part in a Pakistani film. She’s......
Yes, Hamza Ali Abbasi is right when he says we should highlight the brighter side of Pakistan and underplay the bleak one. There are a great many things in Pakistan’s showbiz industry which can be......
The last article I wrote on PNS Ghazi was in December 2000, published in Dawn and Pak Defence Military Consortium website, http://pakdef.org/a- forgotten- heroic- feat/. While writing that piece, I......
Dear Auntie I am a 17-year-old girl who has just done her O’ levels. I belong to a separated family and there are issues around me just because I live with a single parent. I live in my grandmother’s......
The recent brutal lynching of Mohammed Akhlaq in Uttar Pradesh, India by a mob who suspected their victim of eating beef reminds us how charged the issue of cow slaughter is among conservative......
Contemporary miniature provides one of the most compelling contradictions in our art, as its practitioners continue to innovate and explore the boundaries of form and content against the backdrop of......
Anyone watching the media regularly would realise that the world is rapidly transforming into a Darwinian milieu where survival is only meant for those who have the strength to endure the onslaught......
Depicting Lahore in images is an old practice and its early patterns could be found in the miniature paintings of the Mughal era. During the 19th century, the British colonial painters such as James......
José María Velasco Gómez (1840 — 1912) was a Mexican artist of the early 19th century whose style was steeped in scientific and humanist traditions; he used Mexican geography as a symbol of national......
This piece comes, to distort a quotation from the bard, “more in anger and even more in sorrow”, at the affairs of Pakistan cricket.The entire situation has been messed up by some inept and......
The manner in which Nescafe Basement has captured the attention of music lovers in recent times is unequalled. There’s a reason why this under-discussed programme is now in its Season 4, and despite......
Here’s some semblance of sanity from India. After last week’s terrible events in which Hindu extremists forced Pakistani artists and cricketers to return to Pakistan, it is heartening to see a......
Ibne Insha was a nifty character. Poet, diplomat, author and a Marxist. However, he was mostly known for his poems that he regularly published in compilations and literary magazines.There is one poem......
In December this year, a very important conference in Paris will decide the future of civilisation as we know it. At the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in......
Conversation is an art which develops and becomes refined with the process of civilisation and achieves perfection in the society which in turn produces creative literature, art and politics.......
For an actor who had earlier lip-synched to Akhlaque Ahmed’s songs in Sangeeta’s Nikaah (1999), Bollywood veteran Udit Narayan (under the pseudonym Faisal Bobby) for Iqbal Kashmiri’s Ghar Kab Aao Gay......
Jami’s Moor continues to make waves outside of Pakistan. After a successful showing at a South Korean festival, the film is now going to be shown at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in......
Another shiny feather in Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s cap! The Oscar-winning Pakistani documentary filmmaker’s latest effort, A Girl in the River — The Price of Forgiveness, has been shortlisted for......
Every year come September the media tamasha begins with the media blaming the selection committee for getting it wrong — sending a flawed or a unremarkable film, as the official entry to the biggest......
At the defeat of Hitler in 1945, the world found itself in a fragile state of recovery. Only a pair of superpowers stood tall, casting their shadows over much of the world: the USA and the USSR. For......
“All the members of our band met at the Canary Islands and the legendary, mythical name of San Borondon Island inspired us to choose this name for our group. According to legend, San Borondon Island......
Green buildings, also known as sustainable, energy efficient and smart buildings, are built with the aim to minimise environmental impacts, emitting none or very little amount of greenhouse gases......
Making contactBy Ismail KhanThe first jolt was a distraction. I was checking and responding to emails when the quake careened and swayed the office building from side to side. At first, I thought......
A number of cosmetics, especially skin care products, claim to contain aloe vera as an ingredient. It may have gained importance lately but it is not a new invention and has been in use for hundreds......
Some flaunt gold jewellery as a mark of status; others will never take off their wedding bands as a sign of the bond they share with their spouse. Many wear lockets and chains to reflect religious......
Balmy days are upon us once more and how better to spend them than out there in ‘garden-land’ where there are flowers to fuss over, vegetables and herbs to eat, yet more seeds to sow, climbers and......
There will be a lot at stake here in the decisive third and final Test starting today at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium.Pakistan already having won the cliff-hanger at Dubai would be looking forward to......
SAN FRANCISCO: We’re in an unusual period of détente in technology giants’ spending wars. Just don’t expect the calm to last.Google, Microsoft, Amazon — three of the world’s biggest operators of......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Saturday strongly criticised Standard and Poor’s agency for downgrading the kingdom’s credit rating over the oil price slump, saying it was not backed by facts.“The......
KARACHI: For attaining higher growth rate and boosting economy, the government will have to go for mass-scale privatisation despite opposition, said Federal Minister and Chairman, Privatisation......
TOKYO: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will play a key role in helping the Japanese government to boost economic growth, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan under its Vision 2020 aims to meet challenges of global economy and develop a financial system for the country’s growing financial industry.In its Annual......
KARACHI: Industrialisation has taken a back seat in Sindh as the provincial government prioritises development of agriculture.For the last 12 years, no land has been sanctioned to set up small......
RIYADH: Oil majors are faced with strong headwinds. Unhealthy third quarter earning results and billions of dollars in asset writedowns are indicative of malaise in the industry.Saudi Arabia, the......
People often like to groan about how their job is “killing” them. Tragically, for some groups of people in the US, that statement appears to be true.A new study by researchers at Harvard and Stanford......
KARACHI: Cotton prices slightly moved lower on Saturday on reports that spinners are resorting to heavy imports to meet their demand.Floor brokers said that recent surge in cotton prices have......
WASHINGTON: It probably goes without saying, but the financial services sector has placed a tremendous amount of trust in its computers. They’re trusted to execute automated investment strategies,......
FRANKFURT: Four major Greek banks must find up to 14.4 billion euros ($15.8bn) to survive potential economic shocks, the European Central Bank said on Saturday after they underwent an in-depth......
KARACHI: Low turnout due to the security situation in upper Sindh and mismanagement marred the polling process during the first phase of the three-phased local government elections in eight districts......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday indicted three suspects for the murder of a teenager in a Defence locality.The teenager, Hamza Ahmed, was allegedly gunned down by the guard of Muhammad......
KARACHI: “The people of India thrived in a pluralistic society from the time of Ashoka until the British arrived there and started their divide and rule policy,” said historian Dr Mubarak Ali on......
KARACHI: International music artists are adding on to the city’s cultural vibrancy and the Friday evening performance of German artists blended with eastern classical music at Habib University was......
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Saturday granted bail to a police volunteer caught on camera slapping a woman in public.Ali Akbar, associated with the Police Qaumi Razakar, was arrested on Oct 28......
SUKKUR: Sindh Rangers Director General Major General Bilal Akbar during his visit to Jacobabad on Friday night received a briefing on the Oct 23 suicide bomb attack on the 9th Muharram procession in......
SHARJAH: Pakistan’s third and final Test against England from Sunday could be a fitting farewell for Misbah-ul-Haq, the country’s most successful captain who is mulling his Test future.The......
MUMBAI: AB de Villiers continued his fine form in India with another century as South Africa and an Indian Board President’s XI drew their warm-up game on Saturday.The South African batsman scored......
LONDON: Jose Mourinho’s future as Chelsea manager was in doubt on Saturday after Philippe Coutinho scored twice in Liverpool’s 3-1 Premier League win at Stamford Bridge, putting a miserable season......
FRANKFURT: Leaders Bayern Munich’s express start to the season finally ran out of steam on Friday with a goalless draw at Eintracht Frankfurt, following 10 wins out of their 10 previous Bundesliga......
MADRID: Atletico Madrid squandered a chance to provisionally go top of La Liga when a Jose Maria Gimenez howler gifted Deportivo La Coruna an equaliser in a 1-1 draw at the Riazor on Friday.The......
SINGAPORE: Agnieszka Radwanska rallied past an exhausted Garbine Muguruza to book a maiden appearance in the WTA Finals title match with a 6-7 (5-7), 6-3, 7-5 victory over the Spaniard in a classic......
PARIS: Angel Di Maria volleyed in with 15 minutes left to give Paris Saint-Germain a 1-0 win at Stade Rennes on Friday and extend their lead at the top of the Ligue 1 table to 10 points.The Argentina......
LONDON: South African winger Bryan Habana and flyhalf Handre Pollard fell just short in their bids for individual records despite helping the Springboks to a 24-13 win over Argentina in the bronze......
KARACHI: The national junior girls netball training camp is in full swing at the Pakistan Sports Board Coaching Center here with 18 girls participating in it.The camp, which commenced on Oct 1 and......
FAISALABAD: Brazen display of weapons and scuffles left several people injured in violence-plagued local elections in many parts of Punjab on Saturday.Reports of mismanagement and squabbles over......
LAHORE: There were reports of skirmishes at few places in Lahore but the elections remained largely peaceful, with the supporters of parties and independents coming out in hordes to make it a festive......
LAHORE: Senior citizens and persons with disabilities had to face difficulties in casting their votes in the first phase of local government elections held in the city on Saturday.Shafi Butt, a......
LAHORE: From 12pm to 2pm, the number of voters, especially women, swelled up at different polling booths in Model Town.“Many of us are housewives and do household chores in the morning and get free......
LAHORE: The Christian-dominated area of Youhannabad with its two union councils on Saturday preferred casting vote for the independent candidates or to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), rejecting......
LAHORE: Local body elections in the provincial capital on Saturday remained largely peaceful as no major untoward incident took place despite extensive election activities and security threats.Some......
MANAMA: Moscow’s intervention in the Syrian conflict will have the unintended consequences of drawing Russia into a quagmire and alienating Muslims across the region, US Deputy Secretary of State......
MIAMI: A massive space rock that will shave by Earth on Halloween (Oct 31) looks like a dead comet with a skull face, Nasa said after gaining a closer look at the spooky space junk.Astronomers......
HEBRON: Violence broke out on Saturday in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron as Palestinians buried five teenagers killed in a wave of attacks and clashes with Israeli forces.The funerals came......
NEW DELHI: First writers then artists, followed by film-makers, historians and scientists. The chorus of Indian intellectuals protesting religious bigotry and communal violence grows louder by the......
WASHINGTON: Even as President Barack Obama sent US troops back to Iraq and ordered the military to stay in Afghanistan, he insisted Syria would remain off limits for American ground forces. Now the......
HALLOWEEN is definitely not a French tradition. As a matter of fact until only a few years back people here would have given you blank stares had you mentioned the word to them. But today, the world......
BUCHAREST: At least 27 people were killed and more than 160 injured after a fire ripped through a nightclub in Bucharest late on Friday, in one of the worst accidents to hit the Romanian capital.The......
DAR ES SALAAM: Two bombs exploded minutes apart in the main city on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago on Saturday without causing casualties, police and witnesses said, adding to......
PARIS: Condemning racism and police heavy-handedness, thousands of people attended a “march of dignity” rally in Paris on Saturday to mark a decade since the deaths of two youths sparked nationwide......
BEIJING: A cult leader in southern China accused of selling toxic food, swindling followers and seducing dozens of women with promises of supernatural powers has been convicted of rape and fraud and......
PARIS: French President Francois Hollande has visited the ancient abbey Mont-Saint-Michel to inaugurate the bridge meant to ensure the site’s island status, finalising 10 years of construction.The......
QUETTA: The emir of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl’s Balochistan chapter, Maulana Faiz Mohammad, has said his party will not join the coalition government led by the PML-N which is likely to be formed in......
ISLAMABAD: Around 90 per cent of the complaints filed against the judges of superior judiciary had become outdated because the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) had been inactive for the past few......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate may discuss on the opening day of its winter session on Monday a statement of the Indian prime minister in which he admitted his country’s role in the breakup of Pakistan in......
QUETTA / GWADAR: Gwadar will be made a weapon-free city and special measures will be taken for the security of Chinese investors, engineers and experts working on different projects in the port......
THE scene at the Edhi morgue near Sohrab Goth is as it normally is, though many not connected with the facility would find it grim. One after another, dead bodies picked up from all over the......
LONDON: Ruthless New Zealand withstood a rousing fightback from Australia before crushing the Wallabies 34-17 at Twickenham to become rugby world champions for a record third time and the first team......
CAIRO: A Russian charter plane carrying 224 people crashed in a mountainous part of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, killing everyone on board, officials said.The self-styled Islamic State (IS)......
THE Pakistan Muslim League-N and the Pakistan Peoples Party looked set to emerge as the leading groups in Punjab and Sindh respectively after unofficial results for elections to local bodies started......
ISLAMABAD: The diplomatic humiliation of losing in a bid for re-election to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has forced the Foreign Office to do some introspection and look for the......
KARACHI: Eleven people were killed and at least 15 others wounded in a gunbattle between rival political groups during polling for the local government institutions in Daraza Sharif Union Council –......
LAHORE: The first phase of local bodies’ elections in 12 districts of Punjab was held on Saturday in a generally peaceful atmosphere but amid mismanagement on the part of election authorities, with......
ISLAMABAD: The government increased on Saturday price of petrol by Rs2.50 and that of diesel by Rs1.75 for November.But prices of High Octane Blending Component (HOBC), kerosene and light diesel oil......
RAWALPINDI: As many as 51 patients reported to three government-run hospitals in the city on Saturday, despite the significant drop in temperatures.According to data collected from the hospitals, 30......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) decided 29,784 cases since its establishment in January 2011, said Chief Justice Mohammad Anwar Khan Kasi.Addressing the enrollment ceremony of lawyers in......
ISLAMABAD: Fruit and vegetable market traders on Saturday held a protest against the market committee for directing them to get new licences and pay an entry fee on goods at the rate of 50 paisa per......
ISLAMABAD: Anwar Maqsood and Dawar Mehmood’s Siachen opened at the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) on Saturday.The play is based on the projection that tensions between India and Pakistan......
60 years of Austrian sovereigntyThe Austrian ambassador, Dr Brigitta Blaha, held a reception at her residence to celebrate Austria’s 60th anniversary of full sovereignty after the Second World......
ISLAMABAD: Women entrepreneurs from the twin cities, who are involved in online business due to limited resources, welcomed the opportunity provided by Wecreate Pakistan to exhibit their products and......
It is said that the history of dyeing fabric is as old as the history of cloth manufacturing itself. Tie-and-dye, as the technique came to be known in the modern age, dates back to ancient times and......
PESHAWAR/TIMERGARA: Jamaat-i-Islami has questioned the assessment of damage in the quake-hit areas, saying actual losses are much higher than those reported by the Provincial Disaster Management......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has planned to upgrade and expand trauma services in the province to minimise loss of human lives from manmade and natural calamities.The relevant......
MANSEHRA: Emergency relief such as blankets, tents and medicines have not yet reached the affected people of Kunder Hassanzai tehsil of Torghar after the Oct 26 earthquake.“The affected families in......
PERHAPS the most important message conveyed by the prime minister in his speech to the United States Institute of Peace was that today Pakistan is well placed to achieve rapid investment-led economic......
THE only thing you need to know about these elections has nothing to do with these elections. So, let’s play a game.The 18th Amendment was the greatest devolution of power from the centre to the......
I HOPE I am wrong on this one. But early signs indicate that the Pakistani side has already started faltering on the China Pakistan Economic Corridor. This has happened within six months after its......
LAST Tuesday, an anti-terrorism court acquitted Mustafa Kanju, son of former state minister for Foreign Affairs Siddique Kanju, of murder in a case related to the death of a young boy, Zain (aged......
THE possibility of a civil-nuclear deal between the US and Pakistan may have been prematurely leaked to the media, but with the joint statement following Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to the......
