DUBAI: An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to a prison term, the state news agency said on Sunday, quoting the judiciary spokesman, a case that is a sensitive issue......
STOCKHOLM: A young Iraqi man detained in Sweden this week on suspicion of plotting a terror attack was released without charge Sunday, but intelligence officials warned of an ongoing threat.Mutar......
ACHIN: His days begin as an office worker, but most afternoons he ends up leading troops on one of Afghanistan's most dangerous frontlines.Haji Ghalib Mujahid, 58, is the civilian district governor......
PARIS: There were multiple chances to stop the men who attacked Paris.In January, Turkish authorities detained one of the suicide bombers at Turkey's border and deported him to Belgium. Brahim......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar on Sunday said Jamaat-i-Islami and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) wish to delay the local body elections out of fear of an imminent......
DUBAI: The president of cricket's governing body Sunday hailed the concept of day-night Test matches, days before Australia play New Zealand in the first-ever such match.Zaheer Abbas, president of......
JERUSALEM: Israel's prime minister is accusing a German department store of a “boycott” after it removed products made in Israeli settlements under new European Union labeling guidelines.Benjamin......
DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson said Sunday he was “not too suspicious” over the one-day match between Pakistan and England in Sharjah, despite press......
KATHMANDU: Nepalese police shot and killed two protesters after fresh clashes erupted in the country's southern plains as a crisis over a new constitution deepens, a senior local officer said......
NEW DELHI: Bangladesh's Mohona TV station says one of its reporters was shot and wounded while covering the funeral of one of two opposition leaders executed earlier Sunday.Rajib Sen was covering the......
JHELUM: Punjab Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Rana Sanaullah on Sunday said that all angles regarding the incidents of arson of a factory and an Ahmadi place of worship in Jhelum will be......
KUALA LUMPUR: China said on Sunday that the United States (US) was making political provocations with its patrols in the disputed South China Sea, as tensions around the strategic waterways......
MUMBAI: Hundreds of layoffs at several Indian start-ups have sparked fears the bubble is starting to burst for the country's e-commerce companies, amid claims by analysts that many of them are......
NEW DELHI: Organisers of an art fair in western India say right-wing Hindu activists have taken down an exhibit of a Styrofoam cow that was suspended in midair using a balloon.R.B. Gauttam, an......
PESHAWAR: Unidentified gunmen on Sunday killed a TV journalist, police said, the second such murder this month in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.Attackers riding a motorcycle fired on 42-year-old Hafeez......
KUALA LUMPUR: President Barack Obama vowed Sunday that the United States and its international partners “will not relent” in the fight against the militant Islamic State group, insisting the world......
KARACHI: Lions, ostriches and llamas were among the attractions at the Karachi pet show hosted by the Defence Authority Creek Club and Rude Planet Kennel Saturday night.An organiser told DawnNews......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is deeply disturbed by the executions this morning of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general who were both charged with 1971 war crimes, the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Maleeha Lodhi warned the international community at the UN that denial of asylum to Muslim refugees by some countries was legally,......
The DNA of Geeta, a hearing and speech impaired Indian woman, has not matched the Mahato family from Bihar which had claimed the 23-year-old as their own.“A family from Bihar, the Mahatos, had......
PESHAWAR: One soldier was killed and two others injured in a bomb blast in South Waziristan's Sarokai area.A convoy of the security forces on routine patrol in the area was hit by a remote-controlled......
You may be travelling for business or on vacation; but there are chances that you may commit a mistake or just not give serious thought to something and get into trouble.Here are some pointers that......
HALIFAX: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it is investigating a bomb threat that caused a Turkish Airlines flight from New York City to Turkey to divert and land in Canada.Halifax Stanfield......
NEW DELHI: Bangladesh executed two influential opposition leaders on charges of war crimes during the country's 1971 independence war, a senior jail official said Sunday, despite concerns that the......
Educated people becoming cold-blooded terrorists. Apparently ‘decent’ men turning into vicious killers. Self-claimed scholars of faith harbouring fantasies of mass murder. And equally decent......
Sirens screaming, lights flashing, cops jumping out of their cars … what’s going on, we ask each other as we assemble outside our homes one lovely spring morning. Fumes of gasoline cover the......
Cull of the caninesby Ahmed YusufAll it takes is 10 minutes for a stray dog to die — poisoned, asphyxiated, twisting, turning and dying a slow and painful death. Municipal administration officials in......
For the ruling classes, history writing is important because they can control and monopolise it and use it to their advantage. In this way they can be remembered by future generations as benefactors......
Banana is the fruit which has come to my rescue time and again. I vote it’s the perfect fruit for today’s efficacious lifestyle. Need a chipperenergy-rush on the run? Turn to the banana. Need to whip......
Winter brings its personal sense of fashion. Bright shades inevitably sail into our wardrobes to elevate our spirits in the otherwise cold and dry season. Long coats, leather jackets, over-sized......
After conquering the hearts and minds of television viewers for nearly a decade (the suspicious hubby of Mora Piya, the angry young man of Jackson Heights or mature performances......
In India, a lot of films have been made relating to independence and Partition in both mainstream Hindi as well as regional languages. Where Bollywood films Garam Hawa, Tamas and mainstream ones like......
Who knew? Having a few nuts around can actually be good for you. The kind that grow on trees that is; the edible variety which one loves to consume on cold winter nights. Peanuts are an all-time......
Dear Aani, I am a vegan and I need friends in Pakistan. I want the world to know how it’s becoming so important day by day for the planet and for all of us too. I am a student so I can’t start a......
Q. I have tried to grow lavender many times, both in Lahore and Multan, but it dies in summer. Please let me know if you or anyone you know has managed to grow it from seed to flowering stage. Please......
An invitation to participate in the first edition of the Kumaon Literary Festival (KLF) is exciting in more ways than one. The name of the lit fest takes me back to the late ’50s when I read (and......
A young girl is pumping water as another is filling pots while other children are waiting for their turn at the hand pump installed in the centre of village Wala Akram Jan Bakhta, north of Zhob city.......
Everything has a purpose, or so goes the modernist dictum. This applies not only to the natural laws that govern the universe, but go on so far as to trace the reason behind every wall that an......
“Welcome to Lahooti Music Ashram,” beamed Saif Samejo to the audience gathered in the hall that is reserved in his home for music related activities and events called Lahooti Live Sessions. Samejo, a......
Jacques-Louis David painted ‘La Mort de Socrate’ (The Death of Socrates) 1787, oil on canvas, (51.0 inches × 77.2 inches) which was exhibited in Paris Saloon and astounded the viewers and established......
Contemporary Art is what the artists living today produce; it stems from Post-modern Art which itself descends from the early 20th century Modern Art. Current artists question the styles and......
Abstract Expressionism is an art form akin to classical music or music without lyrics; it evokes an immediate response without your having to associate it with something overtly recognisable. In......
It is not that unusual to see older players adorning their national colours. They are not playing for any veterans’ team, mind you. They are active players, doing pretty well in mainstream cricket,......
These days, actress and model Gia Ali doesn’t do many television or film projects. But she’s acutely aware of what’s happening in the fraternity she’s a part of.Last week, when someone asked her......
Now this is a surprise, and I don’t know whether it is a pleasant one or otherwise! The woman with great singing chops, Adele, has been offered to act in a film directed by Xavier Dolan.The movie is......
After his successful appearances on the silver screen, Humayun Saeed has returned to the medium which initially catapulted him to fame: television.The actor, whose last performance in the film Jawani......
Amidst the high-pitched voices that are these days coming from India, especially when it comes to matters related to Pakistani artists working in that country, there comes Fawad Khan’s statement......
Nadia Khan’s rant about Meera’s antics on her chat show last week was way over the top. Everybody knows what Meera is capable of. If the actress did not turn up on her programme and manhandled (no......
I’m not saying this. It is Bollywood big shot Ranbir Kapoor who himself is trying to be introspective before his much-anticipated release Tamasha. The reason for the humble submission is that three......
If you grew up with Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts, either by reading the comic strips or watching the cartoons, then there is little need to be worried by Director Steve Martino’s The Peanuts......
THE blurb for A Robot in the Garden, the debut novel by Deborah Install, compares the book to the Paddington Bear books. If there ever was a warning to be heeded, that was it. Paddington is an......
GANGS of pretend vampires and werewolves roam the streets of Delhi as three cops find themselves pursuing a series of cases in Avtar Singh’s Necropolis, a crime drama that interweaves a supernatural......
NOT everyone can be the “Chosen One”. Not everyone wants to be, either. Two-time Carnegie Medal-winning writer Patrick Ness’s new book The Rest of Us Just Live Here focuses on those teenagers who......
GREG Proops’s current podcast series, The Smartest Man in the World, is the impetus behind the publication of his noteworthy book, The Smartest Book in the World. The author, a witty member of the......
DUE to a diversity of narratives resulting from ideological, religious and cultural differences, our understanding of history is filled with dialectics. From within this soup of confusing narratives,......
IN Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee’s haunting novel about colonisation, corporeality, and betrayal, the ‘civilised’ protagonist thinks about a ‘barbarian’ ex-lover. “The body of the other......
IT is always telling when the sole supportive blurb on the cover of a book fails to actually praise, or indeed mention, the content of the book in question. Jeremy Scahill, author of Dirty Wars: The......
KARAK: Four people, including two clerics, were arrested and sent to jail for refusing to get polio vaccine administered to their children in Takht-i-Nusrati and Karak tehsils here on......
ABBOTTABAD: The Chief of Army Staff Overall Champions Trophy was awarded to Sher Khan Shaheed House at the parents day and prize distribution ceremony of the Army Burns Hall College for Boys here on......
RAWALPINDI: A 24-year-old girl was found dead on Saturday after falling from the third storey of a building in Rawat police precincts. The woman’s family claim that she was raped before being thrown......
ISLAMABAD: Naila Farhat, 25, became the victim of an acid attack in 2003. Since then, she has been suffering from severe psychological trauma. One of her eyes was burnt in the attack, and the other......
RAWALPINDI: Traders are divided over the provincial government’s plan to shift the wholesale markets from Raja Bazaar to outside the city.The Punjab government has planned to relocate the over......
ISLAMABAD: The capital administration on Saturday asked Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan to substantiate his allegations against the administration and the police that they were......
MURREE: Due to internal rifts, PTI only nominated three candidates for chairman and vice-chairman seats in the whole of Murree Town, which consists of 15 union councils (UC).On the other hand, the......
TAXILA: Over 2,500 Sikhs have travelled to the Gurdwara Punja Sahib in Hassanabdal from India, arriving early on Saturday morning aboard special trains via the Wagah border.Around 500 pilgrims from......
As night falls over Deosai, moonlight illuminates the snow-capped mountains and the glacial, turquoise blue waters of the Bara Pani river turn an inky black.At one of the camps along the stream,......
GUJRANWALA: Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 Judge Chaudhry Imtiaz Ahmad ordered on Saturday the police to delete terror clauses from the first information report (FIR) lodged against MNA Rana Shamim......
Haider Ali Jan is one of rare visual artistes of Pakistan who employ animated videos as a primary medium of their expression.He was born into a Kashmiri family, living in Mohalla Shian Kashmirian,......
LAHORE: The Sundar police on Saturday registered a case against two architects, chief engineer and the owner of the ill-fated factory under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and murder......
LAHORE: Federal Information Minister Pervaiz Rasheed has said the terror attack on Rangers vividly explains that the criminals are greatly afraid of the operation in Karachi.Speaking at a Meet the......
BAHAWALPUR: Estranged Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader retired Justice Wajihuddin has said the PTI’s defeat in the second phase of local government election across the country was due to the......
KARACHI: History is being re-written on both sides of the border and there are fewer books to counter the narrative which is largely biased and communal in its references, said Shahid A. Amin, former......
KARACHI: Holding the provincial government responsible for committing ‘massive rigging’ in the recent local bodies polls in Sindh, various opposition groups on Saturday demanded that local government......
KARACHI: In what appeared to be a renewed crackdown on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement when local government elections in Karachi are just a fortnight away, Rangers troops carried out targeted raids in......
KARACHI: The early winter sun gave vintage and classic cars an extra gleam, as they were lined up at a petrol pump near Karsaz on Sharea Faisal on Saturday afternoon to take part in the sixth annual......
KARACHI: Four people were killed and five others wounded in an armed attack carried out by rival gangsters on an alleged drug den in Pak Colony on Saturday, police said.They said that masked gunmen......
KARACHI: His parents wanted him to become an engineer. He, too, aspired to be one. But fate had other plans for him. He ended up becoming a journalist and later teaching the theories of his......
HYDERABAD: A mother and childcare week will be observed from Nov 23 to 28 and around 19,149, 645 persons out of the total Sindh population will be covered during the week throughout the province.This......
KARACHI: Readers of Urdu digests cannot disassociate the art that accompanied the stories and essays published in them from the exhilarating reading experience. The delectable illustrations and......
MAIMANA: As the Taliban expand into his old stomping grounds in northern Afghanistan, former warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum — who boasts of having a PhD in killing militants — is galvanising......
THIS new Adele album, it’s a cashmere sweater. It’s warm, and comfy, and sumptuous in a way that disguises how ordinary it is. On a gray afternoon, you might put it on and look out the window for a......
ROME: Hundreds of Muslims rallied in Rome and Milan on Saturday to show solidarity with the victims of militant attacks, condemning violence in the name of religion and chanting “we are not the......
OTTAWA: Canada plans to fly in 900 Syrian refugees a day as of next month, according to media reports, as the defence minister said showing compassion for these people sends a message to the militant......
LOS ANGELES: A California university on Friday joined a growing number of schools in stripping disgraced US comedian Bill Cosby of his honorary degree over the sex scandal engulfing him.“Cosby’s......
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday he will take two months of paternity leave after his daughter’s birth, a strong statement from one of the busiest......
WELLINGTON: Two Australian and four British tourists, along with their pilot, were killed when their helicopter crashed into a heavily crevassed glacier in New Zealand during bad weather on Saturday,......
KUALA LUMPUR: Asia-Pacific leaders meeting in Malaysia on Saturday condemned the string of extremist attacks from Paris to Mali, urging an international effort to fight the scourge.Prime Minister......
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed concern over India’s blocking of essential supplies on the Nepal-India border and the adverse impact on the......
BAMAKO: Mali on Saturday began three days of national mourning and declared a state of emergency after a nine-hour siege by jihadist gunmen at a top hotel in the capital left at least 27 people......
BUDAPEST: A vast and historically valuable trove of Holocaust-era documents, long thought destroyed during World War II, has been found hidden in a wall cavity by a couple renovating their Budapest......
THE skeptics and critics might call it a leap in the dark but I prefer to view the decision to play day-night Test cricket — a concept set to become reality when Australia plays New Zealand in......
GENEVA: FIFA ethics investigators called on Saturday for sanctions against president Sepp Blatter and European football boss Michel Platini, dealing a fresh blow to Platini’s bid to succeed Blatter......
LONDON: Watford captain Troy Deeney experienced the highs and lows of football in quick succession after his stoppage-time own-goal gave Manchester United a 2-1 win at Vicarage Road which moved Louis......
DUBAI: Rory McIlroy carded a seven-under 65 in the third round of the DP World Tour Championships on Saturday and is one stroke adrift of surprise leader Andy Sullivan, who sunk a nerveless late......
PARIS: One week after the terror attacks that killed 130 people in Paris, Ligue 1 resumed on Friday as Nice beat Olympique Lyon 3-0 in a sombre atmosphere.Fans held candles aloft during a minute’s......
LONDON: Stan Wawrinka grabbed the last semi-final spot at the ATP World Tour finals by beating Andy Murray 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 on Friday to wrap up the group stage at the season-ending tournament.Murray......
DUBAI: Jos Buttler hit the fastest one-day hundred by an Englishman to guide England to an 84-run win over Pakistan in the fourth and final day-night international here on Friday for a 3-1 series......
KARACHI: The ceaseless foreign selling; declining crude prices and lack of key triggers kept the stock market in a sombre mood for another week.The benchmark KSE-100 index lost 288 points (0.84 per......
MOSCOW: As the Russian economy moves toward recovery, the enduring pain suffered by the nation’s consumers shows just how arduous that journey will be.While the nation’s recession eased last quarter,......
KARACHI: Heavy commercial vehicle (HCV) assemblers have geared up their investment plans, anticipating a surge in demand in wake of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).“Multiple projects......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Saturday kept its policy rate unchanged at 6 per cent, saying headline inflation is expected to reverse its declining momentum.Average inflation, however,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will facilitate Dutch companies in making investment in various sectors, said Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday.Talking to Dutch Ambassador, Ms Jeanette Seppen, the minister......
ISLAMABAD: The bank accounts of the national flag carrier have been frozen for over a week now as the airline’s row with the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) over tax arrears deepens.Sources told Dawn......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday strongly condemned the terrorist attack and hostage-taking at Radisson-Blu Hotel at Bamako in Mali.At least 22 people were killed during the nine-hour siege of the......
ISLAMABAD: The Milli Yakjehti Council (MYC), an umbrella organisation of religious parties from different schools of thought, has announced that it would oppose all measures taken to ‘liberalise’ the......
PESHAWAR: Bodies of suspected militants killed in a drone strike across the border in Afghanistan were brought to Malakand on Friday, reports reaching here said. It was not immediately clear which......
ISLAMABAD: A paraplegic death-row inmate will be executed in the coming days at the Faisalabad jail, his mother and an international rights group said on Saturday. Abdul Basit, 43, has been paralysed......
MAKHDOOM Amin Fahim, spiritual leader of the Sarwari Jamaat and an eminent leader of the Peoples Party who passed away in the early hours of Saturday, was also a distinguished poet of the Sindhi......
QUETTA: Iranian security guards fired a volley of mortar shells across the border into an area of Panjgur district on Saturday.“Shells fired from the Iranian side exploded in a border village,......
LAHORE: Supermodel Ayyan Ali has approached the Lahore High Court, seeking acquittal in the currency smuggling case against her.In the appeal filed through Advocate Sardar Latif Khosa, she......
BADIN: When the late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto decided to contest for National Assembly seats in 1970 after quitting Gen Ayub’s cabinet, he chose Badin (then NW-121) besides Larkana and Thatta from where......
CAIRO: Egypt’s top cleric said on Saturday that terrorism was a disease that used religion as a front and it was wrong to blame Islam for crimes committed in its name, like the recent Paris......
KANDAHAR: Afghan gunmen kidnapped on Saturday 14 bus passengers believed to be from the Hazara ethnic minority, 10 days after the killing of seven Hazaras by militants sparked one of the biggest......
DUBAI: Six world powers will help Iran redesign its Arak heavy water reactor so that it cannot produce weapons-grade plutonium, according to a document released by the state news agency IRNA.The......
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party Vice Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim died in a private hospital in Karachi on Saturday. He was 76.He was laid to rest near the grave of his father Makhdoom Mohammad......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan left the key lending rate unchanged at 6 per cent as “headline inflation is expected to reverse its declining momentum”, the central bank said in its bimonthly......
MULTAN: The governments which ruled the country from Oct 1999 to May 2013 were responsible for reversing the wheels of progress set in motion by the PML-N during its stints in the 1990s, Prime......
GUJRAT: An enraged mob torched a place of worship of Ahmadi community in Jhelum on Saturday after setting on fire a factory late on Friday over an incident of “desecration of Holy Quran” in the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States have agreed to work together for an early resumption of the stalled Afghan reconciliation process.The understanding was reached during the recently concluded......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council has called upon UN member states to fight “an unprecedented threat to international peace and security” posed by the militant Islamic State (IS)......
AS Pakistan’s militant landscape evolves, we continue to ignore the emerging threats, deeming them insignificant.It seems the security institutions also do not want to shift their focus away from the......
DID the extension just become a little less likely?All week, you could sense something wasn’t quite right. Last year, DC was in love with Raheel. They grabbed his hand, they had their photo taken......
A FEW days ago, on Nov 20, we celebrated Universal Children’s Day. Every year on this anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, we take steps forward and back and reflect on the......
TURKEY, Lebanon, Russian plane and France: is the world losing to militants? Terrorism’s geographical reach today is truly mind-boggling. Militants hold large territories in three major areas: the......
MADRID: Luis Suarez and Neymar continued their sensational goalscoring form as Barcelona moved six points clear of Real Madrid at the top of La Liga with a 4-0 thrashing of their bitter rivals at the......
