ECKWERSHEIM: A train undergoing a trial on a new high-speed line from Paris to Strasbourg derailed on Saturday near the German border, killing 10 people, the local prefecture said.Another 32 people......
KARACHI: In an impressive display of naval fire power, the front line combat units of Pakistan Navy Fleet successfully test fired anti-ship guided missiles in North Arabian Sea on Saturday.The Chief......
SWAT: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited Tehsil Barikot on Saturday and expressed satisfaction over the pace of relief and compensation efforts in the earthquake affected areas of Swat.Nawaz went to......
KARACHI: Pakistan T20 skipper Shahid Afridi has appealed to the PCB to include middle-order batsman Umar Akmal in the squad for the upcoming T20 series against England, a reliable source has......
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ABU DHABI: England opener Alex Hales said Saturday he hoped his century in the second match would spur his team to a series win over Pakistan, saying it was a special feeling to contribute to the......
KARACHI: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Anwar Zaheer Jamali on Saturday said that terrorism is a grave challenge facing the nation, and Pakistan is confronted by both internal and external......
KARACHI: One policeman was killed while another was seriously injured on Saturday as unidentified assailants opened fire on a police check-post in the Super Highway area of Karachi.According to......
PESHAWAR: At least 22 suspected militants were killed as Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jets destroyed a number of militant hideouts and other related targets in North Waziristan's Shawal region, said a......
LOS ANGELES: Oscar De La Hoya has reignited his age-old feud with Floyd Mayweather in a scathing open letter, saying boxing will be better off now the undefeated welterweight world champion has......
BERLIN: Germany's football team spent the night at the Stade de France in north Paris after a friendly match against France rather than take the risk of driving through the French capital to their......
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan says he will not compromise on the safety of Pakistani players after BCCI chief Shashank Manohar put forth an informal proposal to host a limited......
England's Test cricketers will not be allowed to skip the longer format to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL), says director of England cricket Andrew Strauss, retracting from his statement on......
MOSCOW: Russia's suspension from international athletics will be resolved in two to three months, Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said on Saturday as officials moved to play down the ban.The......
It started as a celebration of football, a glamour friendly between France and world champions Germany in front of 80,000 fans at Paris's showpiece Stade de France.Then they heard the explosions.“I......
PARIS: The world watched in horror as a series of attacks targeting young concert-goers, soccer fans and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed at least 120 people in the......
PERTH: Australia's cricket chief has defended the postponement of a Test tour of Bangladesh in the wake of the decision by the country's football team to play a World Cup qualifier in the South Asian......
Again, horror in Paris. Bodies are counted, lying on streets. Friends and families make frantic calls, panic spreads. A nation is in trauma. A year that started with the Charlie Hebdo tragedy ends......
PARIS: Simultaneous attacks on multiple targets by gunmen and suicide bombers working in unison: a nightmare scenario that France's anti-terror agencies had dreaded for months came true in Paris on......
VIENNA: Some 20 countries and international bodies meet in Vienna again Saturday groping for a way out of Syria's horrific civil war, with deep divisions over President Bashar al-Assad's future and......
PARIS: It should have been a Friday night like any other in central Paris, with locals and visitors alike watching a show, enjoying a meal or shrugging off the cares of the week over a drink.But for......
TOKYO: A powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the southwestern coast of Japan early Saturday, authorities said, with a small tsunami observed on one island but no major damage reported.The US......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif will visit the US from Sunday, a trip analysts say will underscore security issues facing Islamabad and Washington in the region as well as the......
PARIS: Multiple attacks which claimed at least 120 lives in Paris on Friday night are the latest in a string of incidents in France this year with suspected links to radical Islam.Know more: More......
PARIS: More than a hundred people were gunned down at the Bataclan theatre in Paris late Friday during a concert by the US band Eagles of Death Metal.The 1,500 capacity venue, which was sold-out, is......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) approved on Friday around 217 per cent increase in the Net Hydel Profit (NHP) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and increased the sale price of......
YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi’s party secured a landslide election victory in Myanmar on Friday, propelling the pro-democracy movement to power after a 25-year struggle against authoritarian rule.It......
HAVING gone through a reasonable extent of astronomy, and a little of the history of science, we must move on.Cells: All self-replicating forms of life, indeed all forms of life, are composed of......
THE cat dodged Farhan, when he angrily tossed his school backpack in the corner, slammed the door and plopped into a chair.He was in very bad mood. If only his math teacher hadn’t caught him......
Incredible sculptures of dino-strawsARTISTS can go at any length to create something outstanding. Just like Amy Goda who used leftover rice straws and weaved around wooden frames to create huge......
By Hafsa Tariq Javed“God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.”(Kelly Clarkson)The students of today face far more stress than ever before and that is most due to the......
By Rahul Karamat BarlaasWE all have seen our teachers using whiteboards and projectors to show us multimedia presentations on the topic of the day. There’s no doubt that all those images, videos and......
CHITRAL: The tents provided by the government to the earthquake-affected people in Charun Oveer village of upper Chitral failed to withstand the first snowfall of the season and collapsed, which......
ISLAMABAD: A three-day conference of the Pakistan Association of Dermatologists was inaugurated on Friday. The conference will cover both aesthetic concerns and skin diseases.Speaking at the......
With counterterrorism weighing most on its mind, the government has been raising new forces and offering them better salaries, training and other facilities. But the traditional police, it seems, are......
ISLAMABAD: Satrang Gallery hosted a solo show of new works by Ghulam Hussein, titled ‘Woven Narratives: Dialogue with Piet Mondrian’.The exhibition was inaugurated by UK High Commissioner Philip......
ISLAMABAD: The burqa brigade of Jamia Hafsa and slogans calling for ‘Jihad’ are back in the capital.Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz came out of the mosque along with his wife, a daughter and......
RAWALPINDI: The administration of Benazir Bhutto International Airport gave a briefing on its campaign to create awareness among residents of nearby areas on how to keep their surroundings clear of......
“I used to work in the Ministry of Law and Justice as a naib qasid before I was posted to the Islamabad High Court in 2011. One of the things that sets me apart from my fellow colleagues is my well......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday sought a reply from the Punjab government on a petition of a Chinese company challenging confiscation of donkey hides from its tannery in Kasur.The company......
LAHORE: Working from his modest home in Sargodha’s Chak 23, Rao Talha Ibrahim is fast making out a name for himself. And money too. With 16 employees working with him, he says, he is earning hundreds......
LAHORE: A colourful traditional dance performance from Malaysian dancers kept the audience glued to their seats at Alhamra Art Center, The Mall on Friday.Around 20 dancers clad in richly coloured......
LARKANA: The technical consultative committee of the National Fund for Moenjodaro (NFM) has expressed satisfaction over the dry core drilling done so far at Moenjodaro city and believed the ‘cultural......
MITHI: Hundreds of supporters and activists of organisations opposed to Pakistan Peoples Party arrived here on Friday from around the district and staged a sit-in for seven hours in protest against......
KARACHI: After a brief hiatus, armed gangsters re-emerged in the violence-prone Lyari area and carried out gun-and-bomb attacks on the local offices of the Pakistan Peoples Party within 24 hours in......
KARACHI: Residents of Moon Garden, who have been spending nights on the pavements in front of the “illegally-constructed” residential plaza for the past two days, heaved a sigh of relief on Friday......
KARACHI: Pretty stone buildings with stained glass windows and wooden jharokhas overlooking clean open pathways with roadside restaurants and fruit, sweets and snack kiosks. No traffic, no pollution,......
KARACHI: General Fan Changlong, vice chairman of the central military commission of People’s Republic of China, accompanied by a 24-member delegation, was welcomed by the commander of Karachi, Vice......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Friday directed the medical superintendent of the Civil Hospital Karachi to constitute a panel of doctors to examine an alleged facilitator in the Safoora Goth bus......
FOR a period of six decades, following its accession to Pakistan after a popular uprising and a bloody struggle by the locals against the repressive Dogra rule, Gilgit-Baltistan was seconded to......
AT a time when all major players in the country’s ever-evolving power structure should be unshakably focusing on terrorism, extremism and intolerance, a silly and almost pointless press release......
THE much-vaunted agreement at Shimla, on July 2, 1972, between India and Pakistan has wide scope as an ‘Agreement on Bilateral Relations Between the Government of India and the Government of......
IMAGINE a world in which there is no foreign aid, and no multinational institutions to prop up faltering economies. The only way to get foreign capital is by borrowing from banks at commercial......
BEIRUT: Lebanon on Friday mourned 44 people killed in a Hezbollah bastion in south Beirut in a twin bombing claimed by the self-styled Islamic State, the bloodiest such attack in years.The Red Cross......
BERLIN: German police said on Friday they had found the bodies of “probably seven” babies in an apartment after being alerted by a woman in the southern state of Bavaria.“Officers found several......
VIENNA: Austria announced on Friday it would erect a 3.7-kilometre metal fence along its border with Slovenia, in a new blow to the EU’s cherished open-border Schengen accord.The barrier, due to be......
GIANYAR: Thousands of men around the world are to be sterilised on Friday in what organisers dubbed a global “vasectomy-athon”, to encourage men to take a bigger role in family planning and combat......
LOS ANGELES: British actor Daniel Radcliffe, who rocketed to fame in the “Harry Potter” films, said on Thursday he was “in awe” as he got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.“A few months ago, I......
MUMBAI: Twenty years after Bombay was officially renamed Mumbai, Hindu nationalist politicians in India are stepping up efforts to rid the city of the remnants of its British moniker.The far-right......
ABU DHABI: Swashbuckling opener Alex Hales cracked his maiden century to lift England to 283-5 in the second day-night international against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi on Friday.The right-hander scored......
PERTH: Opener David Warner continued his love affair with New Zealand’s bowling and the WACA Ground by notching a career-best double century as Australia took total control and records tumbled on the......
LAHORE: It seems that player power is on the rise in Pakistan Cricket once again. A series of recent events including the abrupt retirements of Younis Khan and Shoaib Malik as well as a few......
BANGALORE: South Africa suffered a crushing double blow ahead of Saturday’s second Test against India as both pace spearheads Dale Steyn and Vernon Philander were ruled out with injuries.Philander......
QUITO (Ecuador): Ecuador beat Uruguay on Thursday to top the South American World Cup qualifying group after three games but Brazil and Argentina must wait after their much anticipated clash was......
AGADIR: Morocco began their bid for a fifth World Cup finals appearance with a 2-0 home win over Equatorial Guinea on Thursday despite having defender Adil Karrouchy sent off early in the second......
BERNE: FIFA’s ethics committee said on Friday it had fined and warned Spanish football chief and veteran FIFA official Angel Maria Villar over his conduct during its investigation into the contest to......
DHAKA: Bangladesh overcame a belligerent 68 off 31 balls by Malcolm Waller to knock Zimbabwe down by four wickets in the first Twenty20 International here at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on......
PRAGUE: Petra Kvitova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will open the Fed Cup final tie between holders the Czech Republic and Russia in Prague on Saturday, following Friday’s draw.Kvitova, the world......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has once again conveyed its willingness to Tajikistan for early conclusion of a trilateral transit trade agreement which would help exchange of goods with the landlocked country......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s economy is fairly stable now and if structural reforms stay the course, growth will continue to pick up in pace and quality, said IMF Resident Representative Tokhir Mirzoev on......
ISLAMABAD: Agility Pvt Ltd, a Kuwait based Company has withdrawn its claim of $650 million at London Tribunal against Pakistan.The company filed the claim against Pakistan at the International Centre......
KARACHI: Stocks tumbled on Friday with the KSE-100 index down 119.78 points to close at 34,144.78.Trading was characterised by all round selling. Foreigners sold $1.56 million worth stocks,......
KARACHI: The Centre for Excellence in Islamic Finance (CEIF) at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), in collaboration with Meezan Bank, was launched on Friday.The centre aims to bridge the......
KARACHI: The cotton market on Friday remained steady where spinners indulged in small lot deals to meet their near future demand.Floor brokers said that spinners kept their buying activity around......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: President of Pakistan People’s Party, Balochistan, Mir Sadiq Ali Umrani has said that PPP has always struggled for democracy and never compromised over it.Addressing a public......
KARACHI: The PPP has strongly reacted to Imran Khan’s criticism of its leadership and said the PTI chief had become “nervous due to failure of his Sindh visit”.In a statement issued on Friday,......
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State and Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Marvi Memon has said that social protection systems are as important for people living in urban areas as for......
LAHORE: Chief Election Commissioner Sardar Muhammad Raza Khan instructed all district returning officers and returning officers on Friday to exercise their full authority during the second phase of......
ISLAMABAD: The Privatisation Commission (PC) has completed around 70 per cent work for the privatisation of state-owned entities (SOEs), including Pakistan International Airlines (PIA), Pakistan......
WASHINGTON: Ahead of Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif’s visit, a top US think-tank urged the Obama administration on Friday to persuade India to resume talks with Pakistan for reducing tensions in South......
CHARSADDA: The Awami National Party’s chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has said the demand to ‘do more’ initially came from abroad but now the same call was emanating within the country, and every......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has criticised the UN Security Council’s inability to resolve the Palestinian issue and end Israeli atrocities and violence in the region.Participating in a debate on a......
ISLAMABAD: A new polio case has been reported from the Frontier Region of Peshawar, raising the countrywide count for this year to 40.The area is part of a “conveyer belt” for the virus, as......
NEAR SINJAR TOWN: Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by US air strikes seized the Iraqi town of Sinjar from the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group on Friday, an eyewitness said, in one of the most......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday signalled its willingness to ‘meaningfully’ re-engage with Afghanistan after a brief breakdown in ties, but conditioned its help for resumption of Afghan peace......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said in the Senate on Friday that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wanted Pakistan to increase general sales tax (GST) to 18 per cent but he did not let it......
PARIS: In the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II, a wave of coordinated attacks left more than 128 dead in scenes of carnage in Paris Friday. The self-styled Islamic State......
