ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) called on broadcasters to refrain from covering banned groups, including Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and its offshoot Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation,......
ASTANA: United States Secretary of State John Kerry reaffirmed US interests in Kazakhstan on Monday in talks with Kazakhstan's veteran leader Nursultan Nazarbayev who has lured huge Western......
Former South Africa fast bowler Fanie De Villiers says India have shot themselves in the foot by allowing foreign players to get acclimatised to its conditions through the Indian Premier League (IPL)......
KARACHI: Sindh Education Minister Nisar Khuhro took notice of the mistreatment of journalists covering a protest at Karachi University on Monday, at the hands of campus security guards, and ordered......
MEXICO CITY: Ferrari ended a 20-race scoring run on Sunday in a Mexican Grand Prix that had promised much but ended with their first double retirement of the Formula One season.“Over the course of......
KUWAIT CITY: A lower court in Kuwait on Monday sentenced five men to 10 years in jail each for raising funds for the self-styled Islamic State (IS) jihadist group.Three of those convicted were......
DOEL: An explosion hit the Doel nuclear power station in northern Belgium on Sunday, Els De Clercq, a representative of Electrabel energy corporation that operates the plant was quoted by Sputnik......
LONDON: The Scotland Yard has put in place a "policing plan" to deal with protests scheduled by several groups during the forthcoming visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Britain — his......
BUENOS AIRES: Carlos Tevez captained his boyhood club Boca Juniors to the Argentine Primera Division title on Sunday, the eighth league crown of the former Juventus and Pemier League striker's......
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Judicial Council on Monday dismissed a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) petition against Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) officials over their alleged negligence and inability......
Pakistan now has its own version of the Indian Premier League. To be fair, it was only a matter of time. After India, if there is one country that can match the cricketing devotion of its fervent......
Pakistan-born South African cricketer Imran Tahir has been confined to his team hotel in Mumbai, Wisden India reported.Tahir’s Pakistan connection has reportedly forced the South African team......
KARACHI: Police resorted to baton-charge on Monday as scores of applicants desperate to apply for or renew driving licences thronged Motor Vehicle Inspection and Driving Licence branches in Clifton......
MADRID: Spain's La Liga is fighting back against the commercial domination of England's Premier League and is embarking on an aggressive international drive to introduce it's top stars and......
MADRID: Real Madrid goalkeeper Keylor Navas believes defeating Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday will be a significant step towards lifting the Champions League for the 10-time winners.Madrid could seal......
ISLAMABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) here on Monday ordered the arrest of 17 accused who were absent from the hearing of Pakistan Television (PTV) headquarters attack case.At least 103 people......
SHARJAH: James Taylor hit a maiden half-century in his comeback match to bolster England to 222-4 at stumps on the second day of the second Test against Pakistan in Sharjah on Monday.The 25-year-old,......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has vowed to ensure fast track payment of compensation to the quake affected people to mitigate their sufferings.Addressing the quake affected people in......
DAMASCUS: A major Syrian rebel group is using dozens of captives in metal cages as "human shields" in the largest opposition stronghold on the outskirts of Damascus, a monitor said Sunday.Jaish......
KUALA LUMPUR: A UN body has determined that former Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has been jailed illegally and called for his immediate release, according to a copy of the opinion......
BEIJING: China must continue to enforce its one-child policy until new rules allowing all couples to have two children go into effect, the top family planning body said.The ruling Communist Party......
BRISBANE: After several false dawns the stage is set for Usman Khawaja to stake his long-term claim for an Australian Test spot, coach Darren Lehmann said Monday.Pakistan-born Khawaja has another......
MEXICO CITY: Mercedes and Nico Rosberg were the race winners on Sunday but Mexico provided the magic on an unforgettable return to the Formula One stage.The first Mexican Grand Prix since 1992......
PARIS: Novak Djokovic carries a ten-match winning streak into the Paris Masters, that begins on Monday for the final event of the ATP season, with the world number one riding a wave of form which has......
PESHAWAR: Three mortar shells fired from Afghanistan landed in Pakistan's Kurram agency early Monday morning.According to security sources, the shells were fired from Afghanistan's Paktika province......
This is the fourth article in a five-part series on the untold story of Pakistan’s blasphemy law. It is recommended that the previous parts be read in order to understand the context of this......
KABUL: A Kabul official says authorities will take back all Afghan citizens being deported from Germany, which is struggling to accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants who......
COLOMBO: Tillakaratne Dilshan smashed 59 off 32 balls as Sri Lanka edged past the West Indies by one wicket in the rain-curtailed first one-day international in Colombo on Sunday.Set a......
KATHMANDU: Nepalese police removed protesters from a key border point Monday to allow more than 200 vehicles stranded for the past 40 days to cross into India, officials said.Police official Hobindra......
KARACHI: Terrorists suspected of involvement in attacks on personnel of law enforcement agencies (LEA) will be apprehended in the next phase of Karachi operation, said a press release issued by......
CAIRO/ST PETERSBURG: A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula broke up in mid-air, an official of a Moscow-based aviation agency said on Sunday after visiting the disaster site, but......
SHANGHAI: China's first big passenger plane rolled off the assembly line on Monday as the Asian giant seeks to develop its own aviation sector and challenge foreign industry giants for prestige and......
THE trend that emerged after the end of polling for LG elections in 12 districts of Punjab and eight of Sindh on Saturday took root on Sunday with the ruling parties in both the provinces achieving......
AFTER injecting a relatively smaller amount of Rs50bn into the banking system on October 20, the central bank pumped in a much higher Rs1.28tr into financial institutions in an open market operation......
YET to complete half of its constitutional term in office, the PML-N government’s business-friendly credentials have been marred following the release of a latest World Bank survey that ranked 189......
THOUSANDS of cotton producers in south Punjab are battling for survival as their crop has shrivelled this season to a fraction of their average harvest in recent years because of “changing climate......
AS the new rice crop starts arriving, local prices are dropping and are already down 30pc from this time last year. And the farmers are hardly enthused as they know they will be paid peanuts for the......
WHEN a farmer himself throws away milk or burns corn, it is an indication that things are going from bad to worse for him.Seen in this context, the prime minister’s kissan package is a good start......
DELAYS in the completion of projects — whether executed by the federal or provincial governments — are routine affairs in Sindh owing to bureaucratic hassles and a lack of administrative capacity,......
THE federal government has proposed that the provincial governments consider giving farmers a support price for pulses, particularly masoor and maash, whose local production is declining and their......
THE Federal Committee on Agriculture does not appear to be innovative in setting crop targets and encouraging crop diversification.It has fixed the same wheat target yet again despite a completely......
In online labour markets that connect freelancers with companies offering work, women have an advantage over men in being hired for gender-neutral jobs, say Jason Chan of the University of Minnesota......
THE rupee embarked upon its second major depreciation spree in the past few months as it almost touched the 106-mark against the dollar last week.While some currency dealers said the drop was owing......
Research participants who had undergone a 15-minute ‘mindfulness’ exercise, focusing on breathing and judgment-free thoughts, were subsequently nearly twice as likely as others to inaccurately recall......
When more than 160 people were asked to watch, listen to or read a transcript of a hiring pitch, those who experienced audio or video versions judged job candidates to have greater intellect — around......
In a study, supervisors tended to judge female executives as less innovative than their male counterparts, even though the executives’ direct reports made no such distinction and considered the women......
HABIB Bank Ltd reported higher earnings across the board when it recently announced its third quarter results.The unconsolidated pre-tax earnings of the country’s largest bank — which has almost......
DEMAND for poultry products is rising in India following the sharp spurt in the price of pulses. Deficient rainfall over the past two monsoons has hit dal production in the country, leading to an......
THE Nepal Rastra Bank has extended the loan repayment deadline for borrowers by one year and relaxed loan loss provisioning levels for banks considering the difficult situation created by a......
AMRELI Steels Limited seems to have chosen the right moment to enter the capital market to mobilise funds for its expansion.The company perhaps watched the investors’ response to the initial public......
FACING tax leakages and slow revenue growth, the federal government is thinking of replacing the current value-added general sales tax with a single-stage GST.Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has asked the......
THE seafood sector has a huge export potential. But years of illegal and improper fish hauling, bare minimum processing and a lack of aggressive marketing continue to keep the export growth slower......
WILL the inter-governmental climate conference in Paris in December be a decisive turn in the world’s efforts to curb risks of catastrophic climate change? At present this is highly unlikely but not......
SHARJAH: Paceman James Anderson led England’s efforts to level the series against Pakistan with four wickets on the opening day of the third and final Test in Sharjah on Sunday.After losing the......
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan tailender Ajantha Mendis struck six to seal a dramatic one-wicket victory against West Indies in the rain-hit first One-day International in Colombo on Sunday.After the start of......
SHARJAH: England all-rounder Ben Stokes will only know whether he can take any further part in the third and final Test against Pakistan in Sharjah after scans on Monday on a suspected dislocated......
IF the first day of the third and final Test is any indication of what is to follow in the next few days on this lively pitch where the ball is turning square right from the first ball bowled by a......
LONDON: Ivorian forward Arouna Kone netted a clinical hat-trick as Everton demolished Sunderland 6-2 in the Premier League on Sunday, while Southampton overcame south-coast rivals Bournemouth 2-0 to......
ROME: Inter Milan edged AS Roma 1-0 to replace them atop Serie A thanks to a Gary Medel strike while champions Juventus avoided dropping further into crisis with a last-gasp Juan Cuadrado goal......
SINGAPORE: Agnieszka Radwanska wept tears of joy on Sunday as she claimed her maiden WTA Finals title with a roller-coaster 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Czech Petra Kvitova in an absorbing encounter at......
MADRID: Real Madrid and Barcelona surged three points clear at the top of La Liga on Saturday when Real beat promoted Las Palmas 3-1 at home and the champions won 2-0 at Getafe.The Spanish......
BERLIN: Second-placed Borussia Dortmund cut the gap behind Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich to five points on Saturday as Marco Reus netted twice in their 3-1 win at Werder Bremen.Reus fired in the......
MEXICO: Once again, Nico Rosberg beat Lewis Hamilton for the pole position on a Saturday. Beating his Mercedes team-mate to the checkered flag on Sundays is proving to be far more difficult.Rosberg......
KARACHI: Five cueists, including three outsiders, have confirmed their places in knock out quarter-finals of the third ranking snooker cup at hotel Movenpick on Sunday.The five are top seed Mohammad......
LONDON: New Zealand capped one of the most dominant eras in rugby history by becoming the first team to retain the World Cup, repelling Australia’s second-half resurgence in a 34-17 win sealed by the......
KARACHI: Upcoming rider Mohammad Qais shone in the saddle by piloting home a double as punters suffered heavily when two outsiders and as many second favourites sprinted to victories in the Gymkhana......
SANGHAR: A thick pall of gloom hung over Sanghar, Khairpur, Mirpurkhas, Badin, Umerkot and some other districts as followers of Pir Pagara — the spiritual leader of the Hur Jamaat who also heads the......
KARACHI: A majority of Karachi drivers would face a big challenge while bringing their vehicles on roads as the traffic police could arrest and jail them for up to a month for not having their......
KARACHI: Four bodies decomposed beyond recognition were found in an abandoned building off the Superhighway in Gadap City on Sunday, according to police.The corpses, which had turned into skeletons,......
KARACHI: In the second phase of the three-phase local government elections in Sindh, where elections are scheduled for Nov 19 on 6,315 general seats in 15 districts of three divisions, 1,134......
PHOTO EXPOAn exposition of 60 snaps of Pakistan by Yaminah Nasir at Alliance Française at 2pm.BOOK LAUNCHLaunch of a book on foreign policy titled ‘Neither a hawk nor a dove’, by Mian Khurshid......
DURING the 1965 India-Pakistan war, there were a reasonable number of visitors from the two countries stranded on either side of the border finding it difficult to return to their homelands. It was a......
BERLIN: The East German official who inadvertently announced the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 died on Sunday aged 86, media reported.The former spokesman of the Politburo central committee of East......
ATHENS: At least 13 migrants, six of them children, drowned as two boats making the hazardous crossing from Turkey capsized in the Aegean Sea off Greece on Sunday, the coastguard said.The first......
TRIPOLI: Saadi Qadhafi, a son of Libya’s slain dictator Moammar Qadhafi, appeared in court on Sunday to face trial on charges of murder and repression during the 2011 revolution.Dressed in......
DOHA: Qatar officially opened the country’s biggest workers’ accommodation camp on Sunday, with enough space to house almost 70,000 labourers.“Labour City” which also contains two police stations,......
SAINT PETERSBURG: Flags flew at half-mast in Russia on Sunday as the country mourned its worst air disaster after a jetliner full of Russian tourists crashed in Egypt, killing all 224 on board.The......
YANGON: Tens of thousands of red-clad supporters gave Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi a rock-star reception, cheering and dancing as she addressed crowds in the country’s largest city......
LONDON: Flight restrictions over the country home of Prince William and his wife Kate came into effect on Sunday, with the authorities citing security considerations.Anmer Hall in Norfolk, eastern......
LONDON: Britain’s government gave the first details on Sunday of contested plans to update Internet spying laws to keep pace with the digital age.The proposed law comes as intelligence agencies and......
DHAKA: Protesters rallied in Bangladesh on Sunday against the latest gruesome attacks on secular writers and publishers, accusing the government of failing to halt rising deadly violence blamed on......
DUBAI: Construction work has begun in Bahrain to build Britain’s first permanent military base in the Middle East since 1971, amid security threats in the region, Bahrain’s state media reported on......
MOGADISHU: At least 12 people were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday after gunmen used a vehicle packed with explosives to blast their way inside a hotel, police said.The Al Qaeda-linked Shebab......
BEIJING: She was born in Beijing and has lived there all her life. But like millions of others conceived in violation of China’s one-child policy, as far as the state is concerned Li Xue does not......
NEW YORK: Concert promoters hoping to bring out legends such as Whitney Houston, Billie Holiday and Elvis Presley used to face an obvious problem — the singers are dead.But with rapid advances in......
FAISALABAD: Several new faces have emerged victorious in the urban and rural area union councils by defeating the scions of the established political families.Only two members of the political......
MULTAN: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has alleged that religious scholars and religious people are being victimised in the name of the National Action Plan.He said this while......
LAHORE: Within four days after taking over control of Business Express, the Pakistan Railways (PR) authorities are finding it hard to generate even half of revenue they were getting from the private......
KASUR: A Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf candidate who had won the slot of vice chairman from a Phoolnagar union council succumbed on Sunday to his injuries allegedly inflicted by his rival candidate of the......
GUJRAT: The candidates belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid have put up a good show in Gujrat tehsil, including its rural areas, despite a relatively low-key campaign by the party’s senior......
FAISALABAD: Scores of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf workers on Sunday staged a protest demonstration and blocked traffic at Korian Wala Bridge, close to the outhouse of Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah,......
LAHORE: The Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project is likely to affect view of two major monuments of the city — Chauburji and Shalamar Gardens.The 27.1km orange line comprises an almost 25km......
LAHORE: Three PML-N workers were shot at and injured allegedly by PTI workers when they were distributing sweets for winning local body polls in Haidery Colony in Chuhng on Sunday.Reports said that......
LAHORE: The local councils in Punjab will merely act as constrained agencies of the provincial government, having limited revenue collection powers and offering only municipal services to people.The......
LAHORE: A high-level meeting with Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in the chair on Sunday decided to impose a ban on taking out post-victory rallies by candidates during the second phase of the local......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is trying to reach out to 30 political parties to fulfil the formalities for holding the local government elections in Islamabad on November......
ISLAMABAD: Six years on, there is still no significant progress on the computerisation of the land record in Islamabad. And out of the total 112 Mozas (revenue estates), the record of only 33 has......
ISLAMABAD: A small cafe nestled in between a restaurant and a gym may sound like the perfect temptation to ruin your healthy-eating routine, but a cosy little hideaway in the F-11 Markaz has tapped......
ISLAMABAD: To end the blame game between the health authorities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi over the rising dengue cases, it has been decided that the twin cities would be declared as one block and......
RAWALPINDI: A cleric banned from entering Rawalpindi district was arrested for violating the ban orders on Saturday. He was later released on bail.Maulana Mohammad Abbas Kami, who belongs to Lahore,......
RAWALPINDI: Repair work on the metro bus elevated road on Committee Chowk and the Chandni Chowk flyover caused a traffic jam on Murree Road from Liaquat Bagh to Chandni Chowk on Sunday.The Rawalpindi......
The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council — the body that accredits medical colleges, doctors and other medical professionals — has recently been in the news for all the wrong reasons.Corruption......
ANKARA: Turkey’s long-dominant Justice and Development Party (AKP) scored a stunning electoral comeback on Sunday, regaining its parliamentary majority in a poll seen as crucial for the future of the......
NEW DELHI: Music unites Indians and Pakistanis more than most other offshoots of their similar cultures, and so it was in order that world famous conductor Zubin Mehta lent his voice on Sunday......
SEOUL: The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea pledged to work towards greater economic integration at their first joint meeting in over three years on Sunday.South Korean President Park......
MINGORA: Afzal Khan Lala, veteran nationalist leader, who refused to leave Swat to Taliban in 2007 after surviving several attacks on his life, was laid to rest in his ancestral village Durushkhela......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakthunkhwa has yet to recover from the devastation of Oct 26 earthquake but international community might also go into shock if it sees the cracks caused by the tremor to the two......
Chitral: “The earthquake has reduced our school to rubble and we don’t know where our classroom was, the assembly court is covered with stones and slabs and the headmaster’s office is nowhere; there......
PESHAWAR: Merlin UK, an international non-governmental organisation, has decided to stop operations at the health facilities in Lower Dir and Buner districts from Monday (today) over nonpayment of......
ISLAMABAD: Within a year of its inception, the federal government has decided to expand the operations of the little-known Strategic Media Communication Cell (SMCC), operating out of the Prime......
KARACHI: A month and a half back, the press club in Khuzdar opened unannounced after being shut for over a year. The press club was shut down in August last year after its president received threats......
QUETTA: Three passengers of a train were killed and 11 others injured in a bomb blast on a railway track near Dasht area, some 30km from here, in Mastung district on Sunday.Those killed and injured......
KARACHI: The federal government has issued a special permit to a Saudi prince to export globally protected and rare falcons in violation of its international commitments and national wildlife......
ISLAMABAD: PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday that the results of the first phase of local government elections in Sindh and Punjab were proof that the party was very much alive and had......
LAHORE / KARACHI: Polling during the first phase of the local government elections in 12 districts of Punjab was relatively peaceful but marked with irregularities and illegalities, suggesting weak......
WASHINGTON: Under Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Pakistan is moving away from terrorism, says a key US senator.Senator Tim Kaine, who is a member of two powerful Senate committees on foreign relations......
QUETTA: The wildlife department has arrested four people on charges of poaching Suleman markhor in Shikarzai Takato area.A team headed by a deputy conservator of the department made the arrest during......
ISLAMABAD: A bill seeking to do away with the powers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to investigate corruption cases in provinces is set to be taken up by the Senate on Monday (today).The......
THE debate on inclusive education is especially important in Pakistan today because while the government is under pressure to legislate on inclusive education as per its international obligations......
LIKE other calamities, the quake that struck the northern parts of Pakistan on Oct 26 has stirred debate within our administrative and professional circles as well as in civil society. Whereas......
CHILDHOOD picnics in the Shalamar Gardens always turned into family history lessons. “Ali Mardan Khan, governor of Lahore requisitioned our ancestor’s land to build the gardens; the family was......
RECENTLY, a member of the Saudi Arabian royal family was arrested in Lebanon for allegedly attempting to smuggle a large quantity of drugs out of that country. The cargo included two tons of an......
AS the brutal Syrian civil war grinds on, one fact seems to have dawned on the movers and shakers of the international community: unless a settlement is found, the collapse of the Syrian state will......
THE review of Pakistan’s GSP Plus status with the EU, scheduled for January, will have to run into the issue of the lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty and the resumption of executions......
