QUETTA: The Balochistan assembly on Friday was made aware of the fact that despite an educational emergency imposed in the province, 1,509 government-run primary schools are still shelter-less.The......
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad has thrown his weight behind Saeed Ajmal after the embattled spinner accused the International Cricket Council (ICC) of 'double standards' when......
TORONTO: In the trendiest part of downtown Toronto, hundreds of young entrepreneurs are to gather over a weekend in November to find solutions to Pakistan’s development challenges. They will be there......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday said Pakistan has suspended readmission agreements with western countries, except the United Kingdom, because of "blatant......
MOHALI: Offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin finished with a five-for as India took control of the first test against South Africa on the second day Friday.Ashwin's 5-51 included a couple of crucial......
PARIS: A long season took its toll on Roger Federer on Thursday as the Swiss was knocked out of the Paris Masters following a 7-6(3) 3-6 7-6(5) third-round defeat by big serving John Isner.The......
ATTOCK: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Friday said Pakistan Army is the most battle-hardened army in the world and its achievements against terrorism are acknowledged......
DUBAI: England's head coach Trevor Bayliss admitted his team wasn't good enough following their 2-0 series defeat against Pakistan, saying all three matches could have been won had chances been......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said that issues faced by the country cannot be resolved till free and fair elections are conducted in the country.“The only time......
KALAT: Frontier Corps (FC) claimed to have killed at least three suspected militants during an exchange of fire in Balochistan's Kalat district on Friday.According to FC spokesman, FC along with......
BANGALORE: A bus driver allegedly raped a 19-year-old nursing assistant in his vehicle on the outskirts of India's southern technology hub Bangalore before dumping her on a roadside, police said......
RAWALPINDI: The special court of customs, excise and taxation in Rawalpindi dismissed the acquittal plea of supermodel Ayyan Ali on Friday.Judge Rana Aftab Ahmed's court rejected the supermodel's......
When trimmed down from a universal right to a privilege enjoyed by the favoured class of people, ‘freedom of expression’ becomes a corrupted item in the toolbox of imperialists.As a writer, there are......
KABUL: Medical aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday it was hard to believe a United States (US) airstrike on an Afghan hospital last month was a mistake, as it had reports of......
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday announced the schedule for by-polls in NA-154, Lodhran constituency of National Assembly.According to the notification issued today, the......
MALI: Police in the Maldives on Friday raided a private television station in connection with a YouTube video that allegedly threatened President Abdulla Yameen, the network's managing director......
MADRID: Real Madrid are expected to be without striker Karim Benzema for their tricky trip to Sevilla on Sunday after he was charged in an extortion case in his homeland involving a sex tape......
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new top media adviser came under fire Thursday for controversial past comments, including some accusing Unites States (US) President Barack......
LODHRAN: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in Punjab's Lodhran district on Friday to distribute cheques among farmers as a part of Kissan package and also announced a Rs2.5 billion development......
Pakistan’s ace right-arm off spinner Saeed Ajmal is facing disciplinary action after criticising the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) “attitude towards illegal bowling actions”, ESPNcricinfo......
ISLAMABAD: Chinese Special Envoy on Afghanistan Ambassador Deng Xijun arrived here on Friday to meet top military and political leadership over changing situation in Afghanistan and possibility of......
NEW DELHI: A Frenchwoman wanted in Chile over the assassination of a key supporter of General Pinochet's military regime will on Friday ask India's top court to release her after she was arrested and......
LUXEMBOURG: Pakistan has expressed readiness to accept its citizens who illegally arrived in the European Union (EU), EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Thursday, Russian news agency......
SANTIAGO: While boys from around the world chase the ball on the pitch at the under-17 World Cup, the stands are packed with talent scouts seeking the next Lionel Messi.Agents from big European clubs......
A recently published study shows that many divorced couples in Pakistan haven’t discussed their own divorces as much as they have discussed Imran Khan and Reham’s break up.Parveen Shahkeen, the lead......
WASHINGTON: Former president George H.W. Bush has slammed Dick Cheney as an "iron ass" and Donald Rumsfeld as an "arrogant fellow," in a new book in which he vents publicly for the first time about......
LAHORE: Rescue crews continued digging through the rubble of a horrifying factory collapse in Sunder Estate, with the death toll rising to 41 as rescuers pulled out more bodies from the debris on......
ISLAMABAD: Former National Assembly (NA) Speaker, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Friday was sworn in as an MNA following his triumph during the October by-polls in Lahore's NA-122 constituency. Acting Speaker......
KABUL: Afghanistan was once a magnet for foreign aid workers but surging violence has left NGOs struggling to recruit staff and restricted their ability to deliver crucial aid to the country's......
ALEPPO: Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used in a Syrian town where the self-styled Islamic State (IS) insurgents were battling another rebel group, according to a......
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police questioned on Friday former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who is under investigation after calling on the current prime minister to step down over a......
RIO DE JANEIRO: A dam burst at an iron ore mine in southeastern Brazil, flooding a small town nearby and submerging homes and vehicles.At least one body has been recovered and authorities said an......
TOKYO: Japan's move to expand the role of its armed forces has left both veterans and fighting families uneasy in a pacifist country unsure whether a military that has never fired a bullet in anger......
KABUL: Afghanistan is poised to acquire four attack helicopters from India to help it fight a growing Taliban insurgency, a small but significant deal marking a shift in Kabul's search for......
MUMBAI: The Indian gangster known as Chhota Rajan rose from a small-time seller of black market cinema tickets to one of India's most wanted men, accused in a string of gruesome crimes.Rajan, whose......
SITTWE: In a refugee camp outside Myanmar's provincial capital Sittwe, Soe Hlaing was holding a pink card, the most coveted of the rainbow of documents indicating citizenship status, which gives him......
NEW DELHI: Childless couples from around the world have been left in limbo after the Indian government revealed plans to ban them from the country's booming multi-million dollar surrogacy......
LONDON: Activists set a police car alight and scuffled with riot police in central London as thousands took part in a “Million Mask March” anti-capitalist demonstration on Thursday night.Many......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan has said the future of Fata would be decided with the consent of tribesmen.Addressing a ceremony organised by Wana Welfare Association......
PESHAWAR: National Disaster Management Authority chairman Major-General Asghar Nawaz on Thursday said 90 per cent of the damage assessment survey had been completed in the Oct 26 earthquake-hit areas......
MANSEHRA: The district administration has banned entry of tourists in Kaghan valley to avoid any mishap as the area has received one of the heaviest snowfalls during the last few days.“We have......
CHARSADDA: Awami National Party president Asfandyar Wali Khan has said that the people of Sindh and Punjab have rejected Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in the local government elections and expressed their......
ISLAMABAD: While most of the aspirants are still undecided about the slots they want to contest elections for, PML-N stalwart Zafar Ali Shah openly claims that his target is to become the first mayor......
ISLAMABAD: Less than a week after the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) announced that references pending before the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) would be addressed, an Islamabad-based lawyer has......
After sweeping the first phase of the local elections in their strongholds of Punjab and Sindh, the PML-N and the PPP will be more optimistic when contesting the second and third phases of the polls.......
RAWALPINDI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have arrested a suspected terrorist with links to a militant group and recovered explosive material and three detonators from his......
Launching ceremonyUnicorn Black is organising the official launch of Burka Avenger Exclusive Merchandise on Saturday, November 7 at Centaurus Mall at 6pm.CRSS eventCRSS is launching a......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for National Health Services Saira Afzal Tarar informed the Senate that the government did not release any amount for the tuberculosis (TB) control programme in 2013-14.The......
ISLAMABAD: Following an inquiry by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) against the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for licencing hundreds of kiosks illegally, the CDA on Thursday took action......
The federal government, which has been taking various steps to improve the public sector schools in Islamabad, recently surprised educationists when it appointed a junior officer of Pakistan Customs......
In a two-day conference that concluded on Thursday, researchers and academics underlined the need for theoretical development in social sciences and pledged to work out a viable alternative solution......
SIALKOT: District Coordination Officer Dr Asif Tufail has ordered a probe into the bad state of greenbelts where plants have either been eaten up by animals or destroyed due to negligence of tehsil......
LAHORE: Blatant violations of building and labour laws had allegedly been going on in the factory that collapsed at Sundar on Wednesday, which were ‘overlooked’ by both the Punjab Industrial Estate......
LAHORE: Civil society activists staged on Thursday a demonstration at the GPO intersection demanding the issuance of a notification that none of the historical buildings or city heritage sites......
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Thursday dismissed petition for pre-arrest bail extension filed by juvenile son of a police officer involved in the killing of a young man in a......
LAHORE: The emergency and rescue teams seem to be ill-equipped to remove debris of the four-storey factory that collapsed at Sunder industrial estate on Thursday.An urban expert and planner is of the......
LAHORE: MNA-elect from Okara Riazul Haq Juj met Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif here on Thursday and announced joining the PML-N ‘unconditionally.’He expressed confidence in the leadership of Prime......
MIANWALI: Hundreds of residents of Thameywali will have to travel seven kilometres to cast their vote in the upcoming local government elections if the new polling schemes is to be viewed.Local......
LAHORE: A policeman committed suicide allegedly by shooting himself in his chin in Gulberg here on Thursday.Police said trainee ASI Zubair Khalid, 30, father of two, had been serving in the police......
KARACHI: Delegations of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Jamaat-i-Islami called on the Rangers director general on Thursday and discussed issues relating to the Karachi operation and the upcoming......
KARACHI: A noticeable presence of Rangers personnel on the premises of Radio Pakistan just a few years after the bulk of the operations undertaken in the stone-built structure were shifted to......
KARACHI: India’s interference in Nepal’s domestic politics and its alleged fuel and economic blockade of the country probably stemmed from the Modi government’s failed attempts to steer the Nepalese......
KARACHI: In the late 1990s, a group of researchers and academics decided to look at the state of social sciences in Pakistan, at a time when the internet was not considered the bane of many......
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Thursday issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of two men allegedly involved in a case pertaining to the kidnapping of three underage Baloch girls in......
CONFERENCEThe Third Annual Karachi Conference opens at Arts Council at 10:30am. A film on social issues of Karachi is to be screened at 4pm.Published in Dawn, November 6th, 2015On a mobile phone? Get......
KARACHI: An old woman and two children sustained minor burns when a fire broke out in huts in Mehmoodabad that destroyed over 100 makeshift homes belonging to the Hindu community, police and fire......
KARACHI: An FIR was registered against unidentified persons on Thursday after three kilos of heroin concealed in the toilets of a Pakistan International Airline aircraft was seized at the airport.The......
KARACHI: Despite the Sindh chief minister’s clear orders for polio vaccination in Karachi’s Gulberg area that produced the year’s sole case of the crippling disease in the city and in other districts......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday dismissed a contempt application of Dr Asim Hussain’s wife against Rangers for flouting the court order about the medical facilities to her husband after the......
None of about half a dozen Sindhi nationalist parties and groups who took part in the first phase of the local government elections recently held in Sukkur and Larkana divisions succeeded in getting......
HYDERABAD: Describing the judicial system of the country as technically flawed, Pakistan Peoples Party-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB) chairperson Ghinwa Bhutto has said victims of any ‘fake’ police......
KARACHI: Senior Information Minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that the Rangers will be posted at sensitive and extremely sensitive polling stations in the second phase of local government......
HYDERABAD: Activists of the All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union took out rallies and held demonstrations across the province on Thursday after having boycotted work and put locks on......
WARSAW: Polish construction workers have dug up a marble bust of Adolf Hitler by one of the Third Reich’s official sculptors during work at a museum in the northern city of Gdansk, officials said on......
DOHA: Qatar is hoping big investment and trade deals with Washington will help restore its position as a Middle East power broker after charges of World Cup graft, labour abuse and links to militants......
TORONTO: Justin Trudeau’s new cabinet ministers vowed after their first meeting to honour campaign pledges to settle 25,000 refugees by the end of the year and to not buy F-35 fighter jets from the......
SINCE the advent of modern-day action heroes Jason Bourne and Ethan Hunt, James Bond’s most challenging assignment has been to stay relevant. Spectre, the 24th film in the 53-year-old franchise,......
OVER 40 established and emerging couturiers, jewellery and accessory designers from the Middle East and South Asia showcased bespoke pieces in Dubai at the Swarovski Sparkling Couture Exhibition late......
BALI: Indonesian authorities deported on Thursday an alleged Indian crime boss who has been on Interpol’s most-wanted list for two decades.Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, known in India as “Chotta Rajan,”......
NEW DELHI: In a rare move against a traditionally close neighbour, India has reported its concerns to the UN about violence in Nepal, Indian Express said on Thursday.“Taking a stand against Nepal for......
BAKWAH: A breakaway faction of Afghan Taliban has appointed its own leader, posing a fresh hurdle to proposed peace talks.Mullah Mohamed Rasool was named the leader of the faction at a gathering of......
NEW DELHI: A month-long five-stage poll in India’s populous state of Bihar ended on Thursday but exit polls were divided about the verdict due on Sunday. However, most exit polls predicted defeat for......
DUBAI: It will soon be possible to watch the sun rise over Dubai from the world’s tallest building.The Burj Khalifa announced on Thursday it is selling tickets on the United Arab Emirates’ weekend of......
MADRID: A Spanish navy frigate rescued more than 500 migrants off the coast of Libya on Thursday as the small wooden fishing boat they were packed into sailed adrift, the defence ministry said.Men,......
TROIA (Portugal): Nato’s secretary-general sounded the alarm on Thursday over the build-up of Russian military forces from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean and called on the US-led alliance to......
MUMBAI: At least 14 people in western India have lost sight in one eye after botched cataract surgeries, doctors and officials said on Thursday, the latest example of poor medical care in the......
VELIKY NOVGOROD: Russia and Egypt on Thursday dismissed suggestions by Britain and the United States that a bomb was likely to have brought down a Metrojet flight packed with Russian vacationers......
LAHORE: Pakistan team after clinching the Test series against England 2-0 on Thursday succeeded in winning guarded praise from renowned leg-spinner Abdul Qadir who said the green-shirts particularly......
MOHALI: Dean Elgar was the unlikely bowling hero for South Africa as the tourists skittled India for 201 on the opening day of the first Test in Mohali on Thursday.The part-time left-arm spinner, who......
BRISBANE: Opener David Warner put New Zealand’s bowlers to the sword with a masterful 163 and Usman Khawaja scored his maiden Test century as Australia dominated the opening day of the first Test at......
KARACHI: Former world champion and top seed Mohammad Asif came from behind to whip former Asian junior number two Mohammad Majid Ali 8-4 in the gruelling final to lift the Langnese ranking snooker......
KARACHI: The FIFA Executive Committee has given its backing to Faisal Saleh Hayat but the Lahore High Court (LHC) doesn’t accept his election as the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) president.And......
PARIS: Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal both made short work of their second-round opponents to reach the last 16 at the Paris Masters on Wednesday.Between them, the two tennis greats have just one win......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: The Eleventh National Inter-provincial Touch Ball Championship began at the Abbasia Sports Complex here on Thursday.Eight teams — Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhawa,......
SHARJAH: Spin trio of Shoaib Malik, Yasir Shah and Zulfiqar Babar shared nine wickets between them to help Pakistan beat England by a big 127-run margin in the third and final Test in Sharjah on......
Pakistan struck when it mattered most to inflict yet another defeat to not only win the third Test against England but also with it the series 2-0. This adds to another feather in Misbah-ul-Haq’s cap......
LAHORE: Amid hype and speculations, seasoned batsman Younis Khan finally staged a comeback to ODI ranks after eight months while middle-order batsman Asad Shafiq was axed, as the national selectors......
KARACHI: Gold continued its downward spiral owing to declining trend in world market which persists for the last one week, thus providing a slight relief to jewellery buyers.On Oct 28, 10-gram and......
ISLAMABAD: The prerequisites for GSP+ include implementation of 27 international human rights conventions and the country must take a cautious approach in this regard, said European Union Ambassador......
KARACHI: High cost of doing business has prompted more than a million spindles to shut down, said All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) Chairman Tariq Saud said on Thursday, and more would......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said that the economy needs to be delinked from politics, and should have a clear economic roadmap.“All political parties should have a joint ownership and......
KARACHI: Investors decided to take profit on Thursday, as the KSE-100 index oscillated widely but settled down by 68.36 points at 34,454.59.Market participants said that MCB (1.43pc), PAEL (4.18pc),......
KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $19.812 billion during the week ending October 30 compared to $19.818bn the previous week, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said......
DUBLIN: Trade between Ireland and the United Kingdom could fall by at least 20 per cent if Britain leaves the European Union, with far-reaching consequences also likely in other sectors, an Irish......
WASHINGTON: The long-awaited text of a landmark US-backed Pacific trade deal was released on Thursday, revealing the details of a pact aimed at freeing up commerce in 40 per cent of the world’s......
KARACHI: Cotton buying picked up pace on Thursday on falling cotton prices and reports of slight improvement in phutti (seed cotton) arrivals.Floor brokers said selling pressure pushed cotton prices......
NEW YORK: International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde called on Thursday for prosecution of individuals in the financial industry for misconduct, saying fines against firms alone were seen......
BRUSSELS: The European Union on Thursday predicted the region’s economy will grow at “a modest pace” next year thanks to cheap energy and central bank stimulus, but remains hampered by low investment......
ISLAMABAD: Senators from Balochistan protested on Thursday against “non-representation” of the people from their province on the boards of various banks and financial institutions.During the question......
ISLAMABAD: For the first time the parliamentarians of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) have decided to field their candidate for the slot of speaker of the National Assembly.Almost all the......
ISLAMABAD: Justice Ijazul Hassan was appointed as Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court by President Mamnoon Hussain on Thursday.Justice Hassan replaced Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik who has been......
ISLAMABAD: After spending over three months away from parliament, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) looks set to return to the National Assembly on Friday.All 24 MQM members of the National Assembly......
WASHINGTON: Taking action against terrorist groups is fundamental to addressing the scourge of terrorism, says the US State Department while commenting on Pakistan’s decision to ban media coverage of......
ISLAMABAD: The dream of introducing the highly secured Smart National Identity Card (SNIC) has not yet come true as the card being issued by the National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) does......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the authority to delimit the number of union councils and wards for local government elections was vested only in the Election Commission of......
ISLAMABAD: Severely criticising the use of “filthy and abusive language” against lawmakers by a journalist during a TV talk show, Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani directed his Secretariat on Thursday to......
MUZAFFARABAD: People in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) capital will take to the streets on Saturday to express their solidarity with people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir and express their anger over......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to permit cellular companies to issue three data-only SIMs, used specifically for Internet browsing, in......
ISLAMABAD: A consignment of Chinese humanitarian assistance consisting of tents, blankets and generators has been handed over to Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid and Chairman of National Disaster......
ISLAMABAD: Mohammad Sadiq, Secretary of the National Security Division, said on Thursday that Indian plots against the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) were part of its broader strategy to......
Shahzad Sarwar points towards the neat black handwriting on the gate of his residence. “OL-38-5”, it says, and while no-one knows what the numbers mean, they all know OL stands for Orange Line. This......
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Defence has said that it’s no longer conducting counter-terrorism operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan because it views the group as an important partner in......
ISLAMABAD: Despite three missed targets, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cleared on Thursday Pakistan’s economic bailout package for disbursement of next instalment of around $502 million by......
QUETTA: Chief of the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) Zafar Mehmood has warned that the situation relating to water availability in the country is getting worse by the day and revealed......
NEW DELHI: Booker Prize-winning novelist Arundhati Roy and at least 20 Bollywood award winners added their voices on Thursday to the artists, scientists and historians who have returned their......
The collapse of a factory in Lahore’s Sunder Industrial Estate, which buried at least 21 workers and wounded many others, has revealed an important reality about the dilapidated state of Pakistan’s......
CHIEF of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif’s trip to Saudi Arabia and meetings with the very apex of the leadership of that country has yielded a set of official details that emphasised the need for......
THE chaos that rules traffic in Karachi is the stuff of legends. At red lights, a stream of vehicles of bewildering variety flows beyond the stop-line with all the discipline of a wave breaking at......
MOHAMMED Khan, who has been working as a chowkidar for the last three decades, mentioned quite casually the other day that a female teacher at his granddaughter’s school had caned the fifth-grader.......
THERE’S a picture that has been doing the rounds on Facebook for some time which shows a young boy sitting on his haunches posing with visible pride against his neat miniature model of expressways of......
WHEN God made humankind, He infused basic morality within man’s nafs (soul), so that he could distinguish between right and wrong (khair and shar) in this world. It is this innate morality which is......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minster Ishaq Dar said negotiations between Pakistan and International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the 9th review of tranche of US$5.5 million loan under the Extended Facility Fund......
QUETTA: The head of southern command, Lt Gen Aamer Riaz, said presently there was no threat of insurgency in Balochistan, adding that "efforts would be made to address any issues that might cause......
