NEW DELHI: The Indian government on Tuesday announced plans for a sweeping liberalisation of its foreign direct investment (FDI) regime, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to counter accusations......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Shareef on Tuesday underlined the need for "matching and complimenting governance initiatives" for long-term gains of internal operations and......
"If there is one person who can serve and serve the world refugee agency objectively, I have little doubt in my mind, of all the four candidates, she is the most suited," said Riaz Khokhar, former......
BADIN: Pakistan Rangers Sindh personnel on Tuesday arrested two Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders hours after rival local leader Zulfiqar Mirza’s caravan was allegedly attacked in Tando Bago town......
MOSCOW: A Moscow laboratory used for doping tests has stopped operating after its accreditation was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency,......
Pakistan middle-order batsman Younis Khan has dropped to the eighth position and skipper Misbah-Ul-Haq has maintained the 10th position in the latest ICC Test player rankings released on......
The federal government, struggling to fulfil election promises to end daily power cuts, is shifting from big generation projects to less splashy reforms including new transmission systems,......
ABU DHABI: Pakistan and England will be aiming to build one-day sides for the future as they enter a four-match series in Abu Dhabi starting on Wednesday.Pakistan, who won the preceding three-match......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) stalwart, Syed Khursheed Shah, during his speech in National Assembly on Tuesday urged the government to......
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday ordered reinvestigation of the Musharraf treason case and nullified the special court's earlier decision which had directed the federal government to......
This article was originally published on November 10, 2015.-Heinz GuderianArmoured units are the primary force multipliers utilised by ground forces for offensive actions conducted using the......
ISLAMABAD: The witnesses in Lahore's Zain murder case retracted their statements after receiving money from the accused, Additional Advocate General (AAG) Punjab Razzaq A Mirza told the Supreme Court......
LONDON: The most important date of the year for Cristiano Ronaldo has nothing to do with Real Madrid's big “clasico” games against Barcelona. Or crucial Champions League matches. Or representing......
SYDNEY: A surfer suffered serious injuries to his leg Tuesday after reportedly being mauled by a shark in the latest attack off Australia's east coast this year.The 20-year-old man was surfing off......
Higher education has seen a remarkable progress in Pakistan recently with an increasing number of students enrolling for Masters’ and Doctoral degrees.However, research culture in the country is......
PESHAWAR: A report detailing implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) reveals authorities have made over 10,000 arrests, detained over 22,000 people and conducted......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Belarus on Tuesday agreed on a road map for economic cooperation to increase their bilateral trade up to US one billion dollars, with a focus on industrial cooperation,......
DUBAI: The air campaign against the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group has made progress in degrading the organisation but will not be enough without local boots on the ground, the United States......
BEIJING: China's adoption of a two-child policy is expected to boost the country's economic growth rate by about 0.5 of a percentage point, stemming from a rise in the size of its work force, a......
DUBAI: Authorities in Dubai are holding a Yemeni member of the emirate's police force on suspicion of murder after he shot and killed another officer inside a police station.Dubai police confirmed......
YANGON: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party, which appears headed for a massive election victory, accused the government election panel Tuesday of intentionally delaying results,......
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday proposed a limited-over series with Pakistan, comprising five one-day and two Twenty20 internationals, but reiterated that the Indian team......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's interior ministry says armed men shot at a security patrol in the country's predominantly Shia eastern region, wounding a policeman and two Indian nationals passing by.Interior......
ZURICH: LVMH's Tag Heuer became on Monday the first Swiss watchmaker to offer a "smartwatch" to customers that combines Swiss design with American technology, seeking to tap a growing market for......
DAKAR: Senegal's President Macky Sall on Monday called for African countries to promote a "tolerant Islam" and share intelligence to combat jihadist groups across the continent.Also read: Suicide......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Monday congratulated his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on recent elections that extended the Turkish president's term in office.Days before traveling to......
The rejection by voters of the BJP’s communal-baiting and incendiary campaign in the Bihar state elections is a victory for right-thinking people everywhere — though perhaps it is too early to know......
‘INTERIOR’ Sindh, referring to anything beyond Karachi and Hyderabad, is a caricature in the urban imaginary: the hinterland where landlords cruelly rule over their static dominions and kick their......
BY winning the recent Punjab LG polls, the Sharifs have re-demonstrated their political hold in the province and by extension in Pakistan. Counting tenures as chief executives federally or......
IN hindsight, Bihar was a straight fight between India’s native secular instincts and NRI-fuelled Hindutva communalism. Full marks to the rustic winners although they were savvy enough to cite Barack......
THE police seek and preserve public favour not by catering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law. This was the key principle established by Sir......
MINGORA: Rain in the plains and snowfall on the mountains brought the temperatures further down in Swat and Shangla on Monday.Rain coupled with cold winds lashed Mingora, Barikot, Kabal, Matta and......
PESHAWAR: As the elementary and secondary education department is considering changing uniform in government schools, the Jamaat-i-Islami has opposed shirt and trousers for boys terming it......
KOHAT/KHAR: The tribal maliks of Sra Khona area of lower Orakzai Agency on Monday boycotted the anti-polio campaign indefinitely till the political administration addressed their problems.Addressing......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan while speaking at a function in Peshawar last week said the future of Fata would be decided with the ‘consent and wishes’ of tribal......
MANSEHRA: Federal minister for religious affairs and interfaith harmony Sardar Mohammad Yousaf on Sunday said the federal government would soon launch the second phase of Hazara motorway.“Prime......
TIMERGARA: Over 150 earthquake affected families in Lower Dir have been provided with cheques worth Rs200,000 each for rebuilding their damaged houses.The cheques were handed out during separate......
THE Peshawar High Court has sought written explanation from Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan for the second time within around six months for commenting on issues pending before the......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA)’s ongoing drive against business outlets operating in residential areas has still not won over everyone.Many observers are still waiting to see if......
ISLAMABAD: PTI wants access to ECP’s main server to verify its members’ details before the intra-party elections.The party’s chief election commissioner (CEC), Tasneem Noorani, filed a petition with......
CHAKWAL: Some 79 kilometres from Chakwal city, a link road branches out from the main Talagang-Mianwali artery and leads to the Dhurnal village.Stepping into Dhurnal on the day of the local......
RAWALPINDI: Belarus Minister for Industry Vitlay Vovk on Monday said efforts were under way to improve trade between his country and Pakistan.Agreements in this regard will be signed during the visit......
RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD: To celebrate the birth anniversary of the national poet Allama Mohammad Iqbal, Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) organised a seminar on Monday.Speaking on the occasion, Prof......
ISLAMABAD: A Pak-Afghan Track 1.5 dialogue ‘Beyond boundaries’ opened here on Monday with calls for improved relations between the two neighbours that are facing renewed frictions in their ties.The......
LAHORE: As the government sits on a draft law prescribing stricter punishment for human smugglers, the menace of trafficking people thrives, claiming lives of those traveling abroad in search of......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab organiser Chaudhry Sarwar has written to Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for the provision of security in the wake of threats hurled on him by......
LAHORE: Police officers faced the wrath of the Supreme Court once again when they appeared before it on Monday with no progress in the arrest of culprits in the rape of a minor girl of Mughalpura two......
LAHORE: The search and rescue operation at the collapsed Sundar factory that was to be stopped on Monday has been extended “till the recovery of the last victim” after a man claimed his young son......
Serious concerns expressed recently by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) show the Punjab government did not take it on board prior to launching development......
LAHORE: A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on Monday between the Punjab government and two Chinese companies to build an Information Industry Park.The MoU inked by heads of the Punjab IT......
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Emir Sirajul Haq has criticised the government for cancelling the Iqbal Day holiday and “drifting away from Iqbal’s ideology”.Talking to the media after laying a floral......
JHANG: Patwaris of various villages have allegedly taken bribe for including names of ineligible paddy and cotton farmers in the lists of those who suffered heavy losses, making controversial the......
SHEIKHUPURA: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif says the farmers are the backbone of the economy and the government will leave no stone unturned to provide them with all the possible basic facilities so......
SUKKUR: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) in a swift reaction condemned the Sukkur administration after the announcement of a ban on the establishment of seminaries.The announcement was made by......
SUKKUR: The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) head Dr Adibul Hasan Rizvi has warned that Sukkur, the third largest town of the province, has become a ‘red zone’ with regard to......
KARACHI: A proposal is under consideration to hand over all Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) parks to private parties for ‘adoption’, without changing their ownership status, sources told Dawn......
KARACHI: Three persons were injured in a cracker attack on an Imambargah in North Nazimabad just a day after a man towing away Zuljanah with his motorbike was killed in a sectarian attack in......
KARACHI: Several opposition parties on Monday expressed fears of rigging in the second and third phases of the local government elections in Sindh and alleged that the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party......
KARACHI: A large number of freshwater turtles, found abandoned in the Seaview area and rescued by residents two days ago, were handed over to the wildlife authorities on Monday.The 42 black spotted......
KARACHI: Usually when there is a protest or sit-in due to K-Electric it is because of prolonged outages during summer when the people just can’t take the heat any more and come out of their homes,......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has expressed concern over the exclusion of the provision of buses and their operational charges from the original PC-I of the Green Line Bus project......
AMMAN: A Jordanian police officer opened fire on Monday at a regional police training center in the Jordanian capital, killing two Americans, a South African and a Jordanian before being shot dead,......
RIYADH: The weekend recapture of positions in southern Yemen by Houthi rebels shows they are “not serious” about expected UN-led peace talks, Yemen’s foreign minister said on Monday.“We want to go to......
BRUSSELS: European Union interior ministers faced mounting pressure to deliver on their promises for tackling the migration crisis on Monday as they met to prepare the ground for a summit with......
SHARM EL SHEIKH: Thousands more foreign tourists flew home from Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday after the downing of a Russian airliner claimed by militants, as police killed a top militant in the......
PARIS: Kosovo failed on Monday in its bid to gain membership of the UN cultural body Unesco, coming up three votes short of the two-thirds majority required.Ninety-two Unesco member states voted in......
GENEVA: Concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new high in 2014, the UN said on Monday, warning the resulting climate change was moving the world into......
COPENHAGEN: The Danish editor who commissioned the controversial cartoons that triggered deadly protests a decade ago said on Monday he was leaving the Jyllands-Posten newspaper to focus on his......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday insisted they had not given up on the pursuit of Middle East peace, even as the prospect of an elusive......
BARCELONA: Lawmakers in Catalonia officially kicked off a process to secede from Spain by 2017 despite impassioned pleas against independence, in an unprecedented showdown with Madrid’s central......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama’s decision to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline has exposed an endlessly polarised Washington, and likely hardened its divides.Obama is now being praised to the......
LESS than 10 weeks ago, Europe’s front pages were dominated by the photo of a dead Syrian child who drowned as his family attempted to reach the shores of Greece. Once the tears dried, many of those......
AN appeal for help from a desperate woman has been opened and read more than 300 years after the man it was sent to refused to accept delivery — not surprisingly, since the wealthy merchant in The......
RIYADH: Arab foreign ministers searched on Monday for ways to halt what one called Israel’s “dangerous escalation” of violence against Palestinians.Weeks of knife, gun and car assaults by......
BRISBANE: Australia crushed New Zealand by 208 runs but the Kiwis were left to curse a disputed decision against skipper Brendon McCullum on the final day of the first Test on Monday.The Australians......
ABU DHABI: Pakistan head coach Waqar Younis said here on Monday that the current One-day International series against England was an important one for Pakistan.“We know the importance of this series......
MUMBAI: India’s cricket board toppled its scandal-tainted former supremo Narayanaswami Srinivasan from the helm of the game’s world governing body on Monday as its leadership pledged a new era of......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq said on Monday he had signed a contract with a Bangladesh Twenty20 side, deferring retirement plans after his side’s 2-0 win against England last......
PALLEKELE: Tillakaratne Dilshan scored a half century as Sri Lanka made an impressive 215-3 after being put into bat against the West Indies in their first Twenty20 International here on......
GENEVA: Russian athletics should be suspended from all competition, including the 2016 Olympic Games, a damning report by World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) independent commission into widespread......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan Test openers Mohsin Khan and Sadiq Mohammad on Monday rated Pakistan as favourites for the four-match ODI series against England starting on Wednesday in Abu Dhabi.“This......
LONDON: Arsenal’s hopes of leapfrogging Premier League leaders Manchester City were frustrated when they drew 1-1 with London rivals Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday as Liverpool suffered their first......
DHAKA: Pacemen Mustafizur Rahman and Al-Amin Hossain shared five wickets between them as Bangladesh beat Zimbabwe by 58 runs in the second One-day International to take the three-match series 2-0 in......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top-ranked player Nasir Iqbal came back from a game down to earn a hard-fought 6-11, 11-7, 11-4, 11-9 victory over Egyptian top seed Omar Abdel Meguid on Monday to seal his......
COLOMBO: West Indies off-spinner Sunil Narine has been reported for a suspect bowling action and will need to undergo tests within 14 days, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on......
KARACHI: November 7 will go down in the history of city athletics in Karachi as a remarkable day when as many as 400 athletes from 39 schools, colleges and universities enthralled a large crowd at......
KARACHI: Rising demand pushed the dollar to as high as Rs106.50-70 in the open market on Monday creating space for the inter-bank rate to jump, like it happened in the past.Greenback’s demand from......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has initiated process to accommodate redundant employees of Lahore and Islamabad stock exchanges after the merger of all the three......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Monday passed the State Bank of Pakistan (Amendment) Bill, 2015, to further amend the SBP Act of 1956.The purpose of amendments is to bring the existing......
KARACHI: To improve governance and social service delivery, the corporate sector needs to share its human capital and managerial skills with different tiers of the government, said Minister for......
LONDON: Global regulators set out their “final tools” on Monday for ending the phenomenon of “too big to fail” banks, seeking to draw a line under a period of intensive rule making after a financial......
KARACHI: Activity on the stock market remained subdued on Monday as investors stood on the sidelines for lack of triggers. The KSE-100 index after oscillating widely, settled down with a loss of......
PARIS: The OECD cut on Monday its global growth forecasts, sounding the alarm on stagnating trade, which has in the past been the canary in the cage for a global recession.Nevertheless, thanks to......
KARACHI: The Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) has raised objection over the method adopted by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) for selection of cases for audit through random computer ballot.The......
LONDON: Britain can survive outside the European Union, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday as he denied he was planning to campaign for Britain to stay in the EU regardless of the outcome of......
DOHA: Long-term oil market fundamentals remain robust but prolonged low prices could threaten security of supply and pave the way for a price spike, Saudi Arabia’s vice oil minister said on......
BRUSSELS: Eurozone finance ministers told Greece on Monday to deliver overdue reforms in order to unlock two billion euros from its bailout as tensions resurfaced just months after Athens narrowly......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly unanimously adopted on Monday a resolution demanding supply of gas to Harnai and adjoining areas.Adviser to Chief Minister on Education Sardar Raza Mohammad Baraich......
WASHINGTON: Climate change could force an additional 100 million people around the world to live in extreme poverty by 2030, warns a new World Bank report.In Pakistan, climate change can reduce the......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court sought on Monday a report and parawise comments from the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) on the appointment of its chief operating officer (COO).The order was......
HYDERABAD: The Secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan, Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad, has said all district returning officers (DROs) and police authorities want deployment of army in the......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Mohammad Zakaullah and Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman witnessed the ongoing exercise ‘Seaspark’ in the Arabian Sea on Monday.They......
QUETTA: The provincial education department has stopped funds allocated for 650 ‘ghost schools’ and suspended services of around 400 teachers after they were found absent from duty.The action was......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan should be included in the nuclear mainstream on same terms as were offered to other non-NPT states, said Strategic Vision Institute (SVI), a think tank that works on strategic......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch said on Monday that land was being provided to China for the construction of an international airport and setting up of an export processing......
ISLAMABAD: The state-run Oil and Gas Development Company Limited has declined to implement the ‘merit-based recruitment policy’ of the federal government, saying its corporate structure was......
ISLAMABAD: A top official from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) will brief a Senate committee on Tuesday on progress in the investigation into the alleged ‘fake degrees’ scam involving the......
NEW DELHI: The Modi government is worried that the crushing defeat for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Bihar will spur splintered opposition parties to regroup in parliament and that their......
SHARM SHEIKH: Moscow acknowledged for the first time on Monday a terrorist attack could have caused the Oct 31 Russian plane crash in Egypt, as thousands more tourists were evacuated from the......
NAYPYITAW: Myanmar’s ruling party conceded defeat on Monday in a general election as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on course for a landslide victory that could......
ISLAMABAD: The government was reminded on Monday that progress on the National Action Plan (NAP) on counter-terrorism continued to be marred by inadequate effort to implement some of its key......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate dropped on Monday a controversial resolution urging the government to “extend facilities of VIPs” to all former members of parliament, their spouses and children, after three......
ISLAMABAD: If Monday’s election of the house speaker is anything to go by, the PTI has managed to position itself as the main opposition party in parliament.Apart from being the only party offering......
AMMAN: A Jordanian officer shot dead two US government security contractors, a South African trainer and a Jordanian translator at a US-funded police training facility near Amman on Monday before......
