BEIRUT: At least 37 people were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday in two suicide bomb blasts in a crowded district in Beirut's southern suburbs, a stronghold of the Hezbollah militant group,......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly on Thursday demanded of the federal government to allocate funds for the development of western route of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).The provincial......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said on Thursday that his government would have "no objection" if army is deployed at sensitive polling stations for the forthcoming local bodies......
Decorated veteran of the Pakistan Army, Lt Col (retd) Zafar Abbasi passed away this week at Combined Medical Hospital (CMH) Rawalpindi, said a statement issued here.Zafar Abbasi was a courageous army......
QUETTA: Security forces on Thursday claimed to have foiled a terror bid in Balochsitan’s Zhob district.“Terrorists had dumped the weapons, and we raided the spot after receiving credible......
SYDNEY: World number five Rafael Nadal will headline a Fast4 exhibition in Sydney in January, joining Gael Monfils and Australian stars Lleyton Hewitt and Nick Kyrgios in the short-form format,......
KARACHI: Six suspected militants were killed in an ‘encounter’ with police in the outskirts of Karachi Thursday evening, officials said.Police conducted an intelligence-based raid on an alleged......
ISLAMABAD: India’s former foreign minister and key Congress leader, Salman Khurshid, criticised the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for adopting a tough stand towards Pakistan and said “when......
LONDON: Hundreds of people protested outside Downing Street in London on Thursday against the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of talks with David Cameron.His visit comes at a time......
Veteran all-rounder Shahid Afridi believes Pakistan can go to India and play a series but only after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) gets written assurance of revenue sharing from its Indian......
MITHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday celebrated the Hindu festival of Diwali with the Hindu community in Mithi, while Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is looking forward to accept Cricket Australia's invitation to play a day-night Test, when the two teams face-off in December 2016, but wants to take the players into......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to review its ban against hunting a rare desert bird whose meat is prized among Arab sheikhs as an aphrodisiac, saying controlled hunting......
LONDON: Former Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has declared that he would have “no problem” returning to Stamford Bridge, but he does not believe that the club will sack Jose Mourinho.Mourinho is......
ABU DHABI: Captain Eoin Morgan praised rookie paceman Reece Topley but said England needed to take a serious look at their batting after they were thumped by Pakistan to go 1-0 down in the four-match......
DUBAI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday announced a 15-member squad for the three Twenty20 Internationals to be played between November 26-30 against England.Pakistan's flamboyant and......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan desires an early implementation of CASA-1000 power project — a project of regional energy cooperation among Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan — Prime Minister Nawaz......
ISLAMABAD/NEW YORK: Pakistan on Thursday was re-elected to the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco)."The Unesco vote is a firm endorsement......
WASHINGTON: Immediately after the US killed at least 30 people in a devastating airstrike on a charity hospital, Afghanistan's national security adviser told a European diplomat that his country......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has agreed to extend his contract as Afghanistan cricket team's head coach for one year, he said on Wednesday.The swashbuckling batsman, who played 120......
GENEVA: An exceptionally large blue diamond sold Wednesday for 48.6 million Swiss francs ($48.5 million) a record price for any jewel at auction, Sotheby's said, culminating two Geneva auctions in......
ISLAMABAD: Vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission General Fan Changlong held separate meetings with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Army Chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday and......
LONDON: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Queen Elizabeth II and address a huge rally at London's Wembley Stadium during a three-day visit to Britain focused on trade and investment......
LAHORE: Supermodel Ayyan Ali on Thursday filed an acquittal plea in Lahore High Court (LHC) a week after the special customs court hearing the money laundering case against her had rejected a similar......
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday announced the appointment of Italian diplomat Filippo Grandi as the new UN refugee chief, tasked with handling the world's worst refugee......
YANGON: Myanmar said Thursday President Barack Obama had congratulated the nation on holding "free and fair" election, as the government and army chief promised a smooth transition of power with Aung......
ISTANBUL: Turkish police arrested a Frenchman suspected of being an self-styled Islamic State (IS) fighter on Wednesday after he had a hair transplant procedure at a beauty salon, local media......
CAMDEN: A Pakistani woman whose two-year search for her missing sons culminated in a reunion in southern New Jersey can fly home to London with the boys.Judge Renee Marie Bumb ordered federal......
I actually did, I exploded four of them. And I don’t care if doing so proves BJP supremo Amit Shah right in warning Bihari voters that if his party lost state assembly elections there, celebratory......
UPPER DIR: The quake-affected people have complained that the relief goods are not reaching them and instead being distributed among the political activists and non-deserving people in Dir town, the......
PESHAWAR: A local anti-terrorism court on Wednesday acquitted seven suspected kidnappers, including a woman.The local police had arrested Noor Agha, Hazratullah, Amerullah, Imtiaz, Shakoor, Musafir......
LANDI KOTAL: Serious difference have surfaced among the Fata parliamentarians as a group of six independent MNAs have requested the speaker of National Assembly to defer the 22nd amendment bill,......
PESHAWAR: The opposition parties have rejected the rules of business for local bodies in the province and announced to launch the ‘Local Government System Bachao Tehreek’.They also announced to......
PESHAWAR: The employees of Peshawar Electric Supply Company on Wednesday boycotted their duties and took out a rally to record their protest against the expected privatisation of Faisalabad Electric......
PESHAWAR: The annoyed PML-N activists on Wednesday announced they would stage a sit-in outside parliament on Nov 20 as part of the ‘Party Bachao’ (save the party) movement if the central leadership......
PESHAWAR: “I could never imagine that people would still like to listen to us,” said Ahmad Gul, a veteran Pashto singer, as he sat in Nishtar Hall in front of a big crowd talking about music.First it......
ISLAMABAD: The accountability court of Islamabad on Wednesday reserved verdict on an application filed by former president Asif Ali Zardari seeking acquittal in SGS-Cotecna reference.The court will......
ISLAMABAD: Oddly, PML-N workers were seen out on the city streets on Wednesday against their local leadership in the run-up to the local government election, when rivals were busy campaigning for......
RAWALPINDI: Admitting that work on the implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) to counter terrorism has been slow, the Punjab government has asked local police and administrations to involve......
ISLAMABAD: Art lovers were met with a kaleidoscope of colours at an exhibition on Wednesday at the Nomad Gallery by French Pakistani painter and sculptor Asadur Rehaman.Mr Rehman put up a show of......
CHAKWAL: The prime minister’s Kissan package has hit snags in Chakwal and other areas of the Potohar region as it has been turned into a ‘fertiliser and seed dealers’ package’ in the area.Under the......
Aaron Haroon Rashid is a musician, filmmaker and the Peabody award-winning creator of one of Pakistan’s first cartoon superheroes, Burka Avenger. Dawn caught up with Mr Rashid at the recent launch of......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told the Senate on Wednesday that there had been cases of haram meat being sold in the city since January this year.The minister told the Senate......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to ensure payment of recovered money to two affectees of country’s biggest financial and parallel banking......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Former district council chairman Mian Sajidur Rehman of PML-N has withdrawn his candidature for union council no 62 (Kamalia) chairman slot after a religious leader extended his......
BAHAWALPUR: Hundreds of people took out a ‘United Arab of Emirates (UAE) Solidarity Rally’ in Yazman, on Wednesday pressing the federal government to allow the rulers of Dubai and other Gulf states......
SAHIWAL: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday distributed cheques worth Rs5,000 among each paddy and cotton grower of Sahiwal district.Under the package, Rs970 million would be given to growers......
LAHORE: The Pakistani border force, Punjab Rangers, on Wednesday offered sweets and exchanged greetings with their Indian counterparts at Wagah borders to mark the Hindu festival of Diwali in......
LAHORE: Unlike in the first phase of the local body polls, the Punjab government has sought deployment of Rangers at polling stations identified as sensitive in the second phase of the vote due on......
LAHORE: Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah says he has never accused anyone other than the officials of an agency in his March 2003 torture case complaint.He was responding to a query about the claim......
LAHORE: The Punjab Drugs (Amendment) Ordinance 2005 which had introduced higher punishments for manufacturing and selling spurious drugs has lapsed due to want of an assembly session which could......
LAHORE: The family of an alleged rape victim has sobbed out its ordeal in the face of the Muzaffargarh police’s ‘reluctance’ to arrest the suspect.Reaching the chief minister’s office here on......
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the provincial government to ensure that the many breaches of official responsibility revealed by the collapse of a factory......
KARACHI: The absence of an efficient transport system in Karachi is a grave problem, which is bound to worsen in the coming years in the face of the city’s growing population, and the inhabitants......
KARACHI: The Shri Swaminarayan Mandir this Diwali was missing the usual enthusiasm and fervour. There was no big fireworks display in the skies and on the ground there were just two or three people......
KARACHI: Two prominent Urdu fiction writers Sadat Hasan Manto and Krishan Chander, both affected by the madness surrounding the partition, were discussed by social scientist Raza Naeem at an event......
KARACHI: The occupants of ‘Moon Garden’, an illegally-raised residential plaza in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, have been left with no option but to abandon their abode as the Sindh High Court on Wednesday......
KARACHI: The provincial authorities sought on Wednesday the record and proceedings (R&Ps) and case properties of eight cases notified to be tried in military courts.The provincial home department......
KARACHI: One of the laments the Muslim world regularly indulges in is about the decline of the golden age of Islam, an era that saw scientific developments in the Muslim world in the field of science......
DADU: Like elsewhere in the province, the ruling party faces an exclusively anti-Pakistan Peoples Party alliance in Dadu as well but what makes this alliance of four parties relatively strong is the......
HYDERABAD: All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union (CBA) central president Abdul Latif Nizamani demanded that the federal government do away with the privatisation commission and the ministry......
KARACHI: For Karachi’s 1,520 seats of chairman, vice chairman and councillors, a total of 5,483 candidates are contesting in the third and last phase of the local government election scheduled to be......
KARACHI: The Karachi chapter chiefs of the Jamaat-i-Islami and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and others were booked on Wednesday for holding a rally near the Quaid-i-Azam mausoleum without permission......
WASHINGTON: India has asked the United States for Predator Avenger drones, which would allow it to remotely drop a bomb on any square inch of Pakistan, the US media reported on Tuesday.Bloomberg news......
LONDON: Some 40 students fell ill at a school in northern England on Wednesday, leaving emergency services scrambling to find out what caused the incident.It occurred at Outwood Academy School, in......
BRUSSELS: The European Union published new guidelines on Wednesday for labelling products made in Israeli settlements. Brussels said the move was technical but Israel branded it as......
MILWAUKEE: Two leading Republican US presidential contenders attacked Donald Trump’s plan to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants, accusing him during a debate on Tuesday of making......
GENEVA: A UN conference agreed on Wednesday to dedicate part of the radio spectrum to a global flight tracking system, to avoid a repeat of the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in......
VALLETTA: European and African leaders gathered on Wednesday for talks on joint action on the migration crisis, as Slovenia became the latest EU member to act on its own by barricading its border.EU......
MADRID: Spain’s conservative government filed an appeal on Wednesday with the Constitutional Court to try to invalidate a resolution passed by Catalonia’s parliament that declared the start of a......
PARIS: Church bells tolled and officials laid wreaths across Europe on Armistice Day on Wednesday to pay tribute to the millions of soldiers killed during World War I.Thousands of people lined the......
WRITTEN more than 150 years ago, it was a book that upended the way human beings think about where they came from, challenged millennia of religious dogma and left people wondering whether there......
DIYARBAKIR: Tanks and armoured vehicles patrol the largely deserted streets, snipers are stationed on rooftops of bullet-riddled buildings. Shops are shuttered and food is becoming scarce as a curfew......
KARACHI: More than fifty girls are participating in the week-long softball coaching camp which commenced here on Tuesday at Trinity Methodist Girls Higher Secondary School.The Sindh Softball......
KARACHI: Inspired by Fawad Alam’s magnificent unbeaten double century, National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) were closing in on an emphatic victory over the clueless Karachi Whites in their third-round......
ABU DHABI: After earning a contentious recall to national duty in ODI cricket, seasoned Pakistan batsman Younis Khan in a surprising decision on Wednesday announced his abrupt retirement from the......
ABU DHABI: Led by lanky paceman Mohammad Irfan’s three wickets, Pakistan restricted England to 216 all out in the first One-day International in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.Irfan finished with 3-35 from......
DHAKA: Fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman claimed his third five-for in only his ninth match as Bangladesh swept Zimbabwe in the One-day International series with a 61-run win here on Wednesday.Rahman......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka restricted the West Indies to 162-6 after the tourists won the toss and elected to bat in their second Twenty20 international in Colombo on Wednesday.Left-arm spinner Milinda......
SEOUL: World Cup regulars Iran, Australia and Japan need to bounce back from some mediocre performances if they are to keep pace with Asian rivals South Korea when qualifying for the 2018 World Cup......
BUENOS AIRES: It’s always special when Argentina and Brazil play, even if this time Argentina go into the match without Lionel Messi, Sergio Aguero and Carlos Tevez.No such problem for Brazil. Neymar......
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin cancelled a meeting with the country’s sports leaders on Wednesday because of heavy rain in Sochi.The Russian president had been due to discuss the doping allegations published......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has projected Pakistan to move on growth path in short term but expressed concerns over low foreign investment and domestic savings, increased external risks, slower than......
QUETTA: Gwadar is going to be at the forefront of future development in Pakistan, Balochistan’s Chief Minister Dr Malik Baloch said on Wednesday while speaking at a ceremony to hand over 637 acres of......
ISLAMABAD: Merchandise exports dipped 13.42 per cent to $6.884 billion in the first four months (July-Oct) of 2015-16 from $7.951bn in the same period last year, indicating dampened international......
KARACHI: Sales of cars assembled locally rose 55 per cent to 60,081 units during the four months to October from 38,862 a year ago, according to figures of Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers......
ISLAMABAD: Moody’s Investors Service on Wednesday changed the outlook for the Pakistan banking system to stable from negative, reflecting the improvement in the country’s economic growth......
KARACHI: Pakistan should lobby for the continuation of subsidy on agriculture products in the forthcoming World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial being held in Nairobi next month.This was stated......
KARACHI: Shares moved mostly in the red on Wednesday as the KSE-100 index closed down by 24.08 points at 33,934.04.Just after the opening bell, the index took a steep dip of 270 points as investors......
ISLAMABAD: A high-level Japanese business delegation has urged the government to ensure enhanced safety and security of their investments in Pakistan.“Public safety and security in Pakistan is......
KARACHI: Steady conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Wednesday amid moderate business activity.A fall in rupee’s value against the US dollar helped stabilise cotton prices as import of cotton......
KUWAIT CITY: The head of the International Monetary Fund says Islamic finance offers the possibility of extending banking services to many who are underserved in the Muslim world.Christine Lagarde,......
WASHINGTON: Just a few months into the job, the challenges are already piled high for the International Monetary Fund’s new chief economist Maurice Obstfeld.There’s the Federal Reserve’s plan to......
QUETTA: A group of 32 purported militants, led by four ‘commanders’, announced on Wednesday that they had abandoned their armed struggle against the state and government and handed over their weapons......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan set free another four falcons here on Wednesday.Earlier on Nov 3, he had released 10 falcons worth millions of rupees. The falcons were rescued......
ISLAMABAD: The Wafa-qul Madaris Arabia Pakistan has launched a campaign “to safeguard the sanctity and freedom of seminaries”.Speaking at a meeting of religious scholars and heads and students of......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has begun an investigation into alleged corruption worth billions of rupees at the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU).Several senior officials,......
ISLAMABAD: The establishment division issued on Wednesday a notification about the appointment of senior journalist Absar Alam as chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory......
QUETTA: Quetta wore the look of a flood-hit city as rainwater entered houses and shops in several localities after heavy rain lashed the provincial capital for the third day on Wednesday.Mud houses......
RAWALPINDI: COAS, General Raheel Sharif met the Pakistan Army team which recently returned after participating and winning Gold Medal in “Exercise Cambrian Patrol” held in the UK from October 15 to......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Wednesday gave its assent to an amendment to the Pakistan Army Act (PAA), 1952, providing legal cover to the arrests already made by law-enforcement agencies,......
ISLAMABAD: Amid criticism over its non-seriousness regarding implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP), the government informed the Senate on Wednesday that the National Counter-Terrorism......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will, on Thursday, begin hearing review petitions moved separately by the federal and provincial governments seeking reconsideration of the court’s decree which banned......
ISLAMABAD: Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon arrived here on Wednesday on a two-day visit to Pakistan at the invitation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The Tajik leader was received by Prime......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) bench directed Advocate Asma Jahangir, the counsel for Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s chief Altaf Hussain, on Wednesday to come up with clear instructions from her......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has directed governments of Punjab and Sindh to suspend arms licences two days before polling to be held for the second phase of local government......
BEIJING: The JF-17 fighter, jointly developed by China and Pakistan, notched its first sale at the Dubai Air Show and may receive additional orders in the future, the China Daily said on Wednesday,......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has revived plans to do away with certain properties owned by the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) and is considering leasing them out in a bid to......
KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani appealed for calm after angry protesters from Hazara community tried to force their way into his palace on Wednesday to demand justice for seven members of their......
NEW DELHI: Battle lines hardened within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s critics and his supporters amid calls for strict action against the......
YANGON: Myanmar’s President Thein Sein congratulated democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday, as her party appeared to have trounced the ruling camp in the first free election in 25 years......
NEW DELHI: Outspoken writer Girish Karnad said in Bangalore on Wednesday that Tipu Sultan was not treated with respect at par with other Indian icons because he was not a Hindu. A Jnanpith awardee,......
ISLAMABAD: Senators endorsed on Wednesday the public perception that members of provincial assemblies sold their votes during elections for the upper house of parliament, with some of them proposing......
KARACHI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that all religious communities living in Pakistan enjoy equal rights and vowed to safeguard them.Speaking at a ceremony organised by the minority wing......
ISLAMABAD: Following criticism in the corps commanders’ conference of efforts to implement the National Action Plan, the government on Wednesday offered a subtle yet firm defence of its actions,......
ISLAMABAD: US President Barack Obama’s Adviser Dr Peter Lavoy and acting US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Laurel Miller visited Islamabad in a bid to fix Pakistan’s rocky relationship......
WHILE disposing of a civil petition recently, the Supreme Court opted for a diagnostic approach and incorporated 15 points for the improvement of the criminal justice system.One, taking cognisance of......
THE Bihar electorate’s verdict in favour of the united opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party should not have surprised anyone except for the fact that the setback to the ruling party has come......
The army is right to be concerned about the gaps in Pakistan’s fight against terror because these gaps are real. It is wrong to pin the entire blame only on the civilian leadership, and even more......
THE State Bank has blamed “recent newspaper articles” for sparking speculative sentiments in the money markets that have driven down the value of the rupee in the kerb market.In a press release, it......
WE can all be excused for being left a little confused. A few days ago, the Sindh chief minister accused the federal government of not releasing its share of funds or extending a sovereign guarantee......
A DAY can make a great deal of difference. On Monday, the prime minister and his senior aides, along with senior military officials, met to review progress on the National Action Plan. The meeting......
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan criticised Younis Khan’s decision to announce retirement from one-day internationals, only one match into his come-back to the ODI side.Younis......
