KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Karachi police on Wednesday registered a case against former petroleum minister and PPP leader Dr. Asim Hussain under terror charges.The development comes a day before the end of a......
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif inaugurated on Wednesday Pakistan's first sightseeing double-decker bus service for tourists in the provincial capital.The double-decker bus service,......
DUBAI: Pakistan's T20 skipper Shahid Afridi on Wednesday fully endorsed any resumption of cricket ties with India, saying wherever and whenever a series is played the show must go on, irrespective of......
PESHAWAR/KABUL: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's (KP) top political leadership will leave for Afghanistan on Thursday to meet the neighbouring country's leadership on a two-day visit in an attempt to promote......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to invite global online payment giants PayPal and Alibaba to offer their services in the country, the IT ministry has said, after easing its e-commerce rules.The move......
DUBAI/TEHRAN: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Iran would support the Palestinian uprising against Israel “in any way we can”, and rejected US accusations that a......
TEHRAN: The body of a senior Iranian diplomat missing since the Haj stampede in Saudi Arabia in September has been identified, Iranian media said on Wednesday, quashing speculation he was......
Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has advised the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to keep tainted pacer Mohammad Amir away from the national team.Amir has made a significant impact in the first......
QUETTA: Security forces on Wednesday claimed to have foiled a major terror bid and seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition from Balochistan’s Chagai district.“The weapons were dumped to carry......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said that Pakistan is ready to extend every possible support for the collective benefit of the Muslim World, Radio Pakistan reported.During a......
NAGPUR: Morne Morkel and Simon Harmer bamboozled India with pace and spin on a tricky wicket but South Africa also suffered early blows in the third Test in Nagpur on Wednesday.Off-spinner Harmer......
DUBAI: Female umpires will officiate for the first time in the women's World Twenty20 qualifiers, cricket's governing body announced on Wednesday.In a move designed to further the development of the......
MOSCOW: Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday said the downing of its fighter jet by Turkey appeared to be a “planned provocation" but said the countries would not go to war over the incident.“We......
DUBAI: Former champions Pakistan will face England in a three-match T20 series in Dubai from Thursday as they begin to settle their squads for next year's World T20.Pakistan finished runners-up in......
BRASILIA: The Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday was awarded Brazil's coveted 'Order of Merit' award in a ceremony held in the South American country.General Raheel Sharif is also......
KIEV: Ukraine on Wednesday banned all Russian airlines from crossing its airspace in the latest escalation between the two neighbours 19 months into the separatist war in the east of the former......
DHAKA: Police have detained two members of Bangladesh's biggest religion-based party on suspicion they were involved in Islamic State propaganda, including one who called himself "Jihadi John", a......
DUBAI: Firefighters say they've extinguished a blaze at a 32-story office and retail building in Dubai.Dubai civil defense officials say the fire at the Regal Tower in Dubai's Business Bay......
He has come within minutes of his death before. Once, the rain delayed the execution. He waited for hours under a tin roof for the rain to stop. Eventually, the authorities postponed the execution as......
LAHORE: An election tribunal dismissed a petition filed by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) Hamid Zaman, which had alleged rigging during the 2013 general elections in Lahore's NA-118 constituency,......
RAWALPINDI: The special court of customs, excise and taxation here on Wednesday approved model Ayyan Ali's application to return her passport which was confiscated upon her arrest in March in a......
JERUSALEM: Israel's highest court has rejected an ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman's petition against her transgender daughter's wish to be cremated after she had committed suicide.The supreme court......
BEIJING: President Xi Jinping will speak at a key climate change conference in Paris later this month, before making state visits to South Africa and Zimbabwe, officials announced Wednesday.Xi will......
BEIJING: Officials from China's ruling Communist Party have supported violent attacks in restive Xinjiang, a top regional official said in remarks highlighting internal opposition to tough local......
KARACHI: One man died and four other people were injured as a remote-controlled blast detonated near a bus terminal in the Lea Market area on Wednesday, Senior Superintendent Police-City Fida Hussain......
PESHAWAR: Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa arrested 567 militants during 876 targeted operations that it conducted in various parts of the province in last ten 10 months, a......
QUETTA: Around 22 bus passengers, travelling from Karachi to Gwadar, were abducted and looted in Pasni tehsil of Balochistan's Gwadar district on Wednesday.The passengers were held hostage and......
A sedition case was filed against Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan in Kanpur on Tuesday for his "intolerant" and "anti-national" statement from a day ago, reported Indian news agency ANI.The hearing......
Aamir Khan and his wife, Kiran Rao are not the only ones to have despaired and wondered, if they should leave the country because they feel vulnerable and worried for their child’s future, because of......
KABUL; Afghan security forces have launched an operation on Wednesday to rescue 18 people who Taliban insurgents captured after their helicopter made an emergency landing in territory under militant......
DHAKA: The execution of two Bangladeshi opposition leaders for war crimes appears to have cowed rivals of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, but critics said her success comes at the cost of free......
MELBOURNE: Cricket has changed in Australia in the 12 months since Phillip Hughes was felled by a rising delivery that ultimately led to his death.Hughes, who played 26 tests for Australia, died......
QUETTA: At least three policemen were injured in a bomb blast targeting a police vehicle in Qambrani Road area here on Wednesday.Miscreants targeted a police mobile vehicle which was on routine......
PARIS: Holders Barcelona celebrated qualifying for the last 16 of the Champions League with another stunning display on Tuesday, Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi both scoring twice in a 6-1 win against......
UNITED NATIONS: A terrorism expert says three-quarters of those who become foreign fighters for the self-styled Islamic State (IS) extremist group are recruited through friends and about 20 per cent......
PARIS: French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday urged the European Union to limit the number of migrants it allows into the bloc, following heightened security concerns after the Paris......
Senior Shiv Sena leader and Maharashtra Environment Minister Ramdas Kadam on Tuesday slammed Bollywood actor Aamir Khan's "alarm" over extremism in India, saying he should "go to Pakistan" if "he......
SRINAGAR: Indian army commandos killed three militants holed up in an officers' mess and another person was shot dead during a six-hour gunbattle at an army base in India-held Kashmir on Wednesday, a......
ANKARA: Turkey's Nato allies on Wednesday called for a rapid de-escalation in tensions between Ankara and Moscow while China has also called for more coordination in the fight against terrorism after......
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Food, Minerals and Mineral Development Manzoor Hussain Wassan on Tuesday gave directives to Secretary and Director Food to take strict legal action against traders selling......
KARACHI: Revival of buying interest pushed cotton prices higher on Tuesday as many spinners rushed to get hold of quality lint amid fears of short crop.Floor brokers said that the start of third......
ISLAMABAD: Beijing and Islamabad will work together to make China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and other bilateral development projects transparent and free of corruption, the assistant minister......
KARACHI: Stocks on Tuesday continued the losing spell for the fifth day with the KSE-100 index down by 161.32 points (0.48 per cent) to settle at 33,571.59. The index closed at six-week......
KOHAT: The police beefed up security around the district jail here after a terrorist threat, and arrested 33 suspected persons from the prison’s vicinity on Tuesday.The arrested persons also included......
LAKKI MARWAT: The political administration of Frontier Region (FR), Lakki Marwat, has asked the Bittani tribal elders to expel miscreants from their area and extend cooperation for maintenance of......
RAWALPINDI: If the number of their candidates is anything to go by, the space for religious political parties is fast shrinking in the run up to the December 5 local government elections.A cursory......
ISLAMABAD: Although the Senate Standing Committee on National Health Services (NHS) on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill titled ‘The Islamabad Mandatory Vaccination Bill’, the name of the bill was......
ISLAMABAD: Faith based prejudices have existed in Pakistan since the birth of the country and only deepened during Gen Ziaul Haq’s missionary rule, and after the 9/11 attacks on America, reveals a......
ISLAMABAD: While finalising a security plan and other arrangements for the upcoming local government elections in Islamabad, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday decided to request......
ISLAMABAD: An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of the capital police was booked for his alleged involvement in the unintentional killing of a citizen.The family of Itefaq Ahmed, 59, a cardiac patient,......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Railways’ second ‘high-profile’ train started running on Tuesday, six months or so after the launch of its flagship Green Line Express with value-added services.“With a capacity......
LAHORE: The chief minister’s compensation package for heirs of workers who died in the Sundar factory collapse has put authorities in a quandary about how to fund the package, which is above and......
MUZAFFARGARH: Jatoi police on Monday night arrested a man who confessed to killing his two daughters to pave way for his second marriage.Police said they received a call from Mushtaq who said someone......
LAHORE: Badami Bagh police claimed on Tuesday to have arrested four owners of a cold storage unit near Lunda Phatak, where ammonia gas leakage affected as many as 171 residents of the area, besides......
LAHORE: The divisional administration says the operation of the Rs32 billion Theme Park/Disneyland will consume approximately 2MW electricity on an average and the Punjab government will be......
LAHORE: Forty-eight terrorists, 17 of them high profile, have been killed by the Counter-Terrorism Department under the National Action Plan (NAP), the provincial home department said on Tuesday.A......
GUJRAT: The violence that erupted in Jhelum, apparently following a “desecration” incident in a factory, might have been planned by perpetrators with ulterior motives.This is an important angle being......
BAHAWALPUR: The Baghdadul Jadid police on Tuesday registered a case against 80 activists, including two candidates of the ruling PML-N, for allegedly violating the election code of conduct and using......
MUZAFFARGARH: Saddar police registered a case against a former PPP MPA on Tuesday under Section 294 of the Pakistan Penal Code for arranging and watching ‘obscene’ dance at his traditional......
KARACHI: Murder, mayhem and intrigue were all part of the offering at the Young Director’s Theatre Festival on Tuesday with the production Here Lies a Noble Man. Organised by the National Academy of......
KARACHI: For many an artist, the common man is an enigma. The most intriguing aspect of this enigma, however, is that it does not require unravelling the way, let’s say, the situations he finds......
KARACHI: Eminent poet and columnist Jamiluddin Aali, who passed away on Nov 23, was laid to rest in the Bizerta Lines graveyard next to Gora Qabristan on Tuesday evening. His Namaz-i-janazah was held......
KARACHI: An additional sales tax imposed on Compressed Natural Gas stations may result in the closure of the CNG industry altogether, said Shabbir Sulemanjee, chairperson of the All Pakistan CNG......
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said the results of the first and second phases of local government elections in Punjab are being changed in the name of recounting......
BADIN: Sindh chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Nadir Akmal Leghari and MNA Dr Arif Alvi called on estranged Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Dr Zulfikar Mirza at his Mourjhar farmhouse......
IT is ironical that the media in Nagaland had to come out with blanked editorials and placards on National Press Day (Nov 16) to protest against what it claimed was an attempt by the Assam Rifles to......
TOKYO: The popularity of vinyl records is slowly but surely recovering.In this digital heyday, the warmth of the sound contained in the analog format is being rediscovered — with young people even......
Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), meeting in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend, restated their intention to build a genuine sense of community in the region, but there is......
KABUL: Taliban insurgents on Tuesday ambushed a military-contracted helicopter that made an emergency landing in northwest Afghanistan, killing three people in a shootout and capturing 16 other......
NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Tuesday rejected a French request to release from prison a Frenchwoman wanted in Chile over the assassination of a key supporter of General Pinochet’s military......
TOKYO: A Japanese rocket lifted off on Tuesday and successfully put the national space programme’s first commercial satellite into orbit, officials said, as Tokyo tries to enter a business dominated......
YANGON: Five Myanmar men have been fined under a restrictive printing law for publishing a calendar that described the country’s persecuted Muslim Rohingya as a recognised ethnic minority, police......
MANILA: A rare 25-carat, barrel-shaped pink diamond has been found among the jewellery collection of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, Christie’s said on on Tuesday after the government......
LONDON: Tickets to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II’s 90th birthday celebrations sold out within hours on Tuesday as Buckingham Palace promised four days of pageantry “fit for the queen” including......
WASHINGTON: After a meeting with French President Francois Hollande at the White House on Tuesday, US President Barack Obama said he could work with Russia in Syria to combat the militant Islamic......
WASHINGTON: The minuscule but nearly indestructible tardigrade gets a huge chunk of its genome from the DNA of foreign organisms, which scientists say may hold the key to its survival.Also known as......
BEIRUT: The militant Islamic State group has released 10 Assyrian Christians nine months after kidnapping them in northeastern Syria, two monitoring groups said on Tuesday.The Assyrian Monitor for......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department has issued a rare global travel alert for possible travel risks due to “increased terrorist threats.”The alert, issued on Monday evening, does not mention any......
CHICAGO: A white Chicago police officer accused of fatally shooting a black teenager was charged with murder on Tuesday, just a day ahead of a deadline for the city to release a squad-car video of......
ADELAIDE: Australia coach Darren Lehmann says he and captain Steve Smith both wanted Mitchell Johnson to play on, at least in one-dayers, but were unable to convince the fiery fast bowler to......
SYDNEY: Venerable Test cricket, 138 years after its origins, is about to get a glitzy makeover in this week’s first-ever day-night Test match between Australia and New Zealand in Adelaide.While......
LONDON: Manchester United and last season’s runners-up Juventus will be among the sides looking to punch their tickets to the last 16 of the Champions League with victories on Wednesday.United can......
LONDON: Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe cashed in on a horrendous defensive mix-up to score into an open net in the 80th minute and give his struggling side a much-needed 1-0 win at Crystal Palace......
PARIS: French and Russian authorities plan to increase security at fan zones at next year’s European Championship and the 2018 World Cup following the attacks in Paris.French Interior minister......
NAGPUR: Indian captain Virat Kohli on Tuesday welcomed the introduction of day-night Test cricket, saying he hoped the experiment would work and make the traditional five-day game more popular.“It is......
NAGPUR: India will start as favourites to wrap up the series after South Africa’s pace spearhead Dale Steyn was sidelined again for the third Test which starts here on Wednesday.India lead the......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday reviewed new tax measures to achieve the revenue collection target of Rs3.104 trillion set for 2015-16.A high-level meeting, headed by Dar, was held......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Industries and Production on Tuesday recommended that internationally accepted minimum safety features, like airbags and antilock braking system......
KARACHI: The US dollar after the Paris attacks further strengthened against all major currencies including Pakistani rupee which was traded at Rs107 on Tuesday.The currency dealers’ associations did......
KARACHI: Exporters have urged the government to take necessary and corrective measures to help prop up floundering exports, and blamed the delay in incentives package as the major reason behind......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) is facing a monthly loss of Rs2 billion due to zero production on account of low gas pressure, spokesperson Abdul Hafiz Shah said on Tuesday.The employees have......
ISLAMABAD: The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) constituted a Policy Board to offer recommendations on the strategic issues of government auditing, accounting and financial management.The 16-member......
Security hole exists in Dell’s new laptopsNEW YORK: Major US computer company Dell Inc said on Monday a security hole exists in some of its recently shipped laptops that could make it easy for......
PESHAWAR: Registered Afghan nationals are likely to be allowed to stay in Pakistan till December 2017.According to official sources, the Ministry of State and Frontier Region (Safron) put up a......
A RATHER embarrassing state of affairs is developing in the economy as interest rates hit lows they haven’t seen for a decade, but borrowers remain shy and credit offtake refuses to take off. For......
ISLAMABAD: The Sindh government has so far contributed no financing to the Rs25.55 billion Greater Karachi Bulk Water Supply Scheme K-IV against its committed share of Rs12.755bn.Under an agreement......
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government on Tuesday submitted an interim report in the Supreme Court, informing it that it had arrested 133 people and registered 32 cases against different offenders from......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain stopped on Tuesday implementation of the death sentence handed down to a paraplegic convict, Abdul Basit, for two months.He also ordered an inquiry into the......
ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission (JC) may consider the re-appointment of two former members to the Supreme Court as ad hoc judges.According to a reliable source, the commission at its meeting on......
ISLAMABAD: Lawyers have occupied land worth Rs400 million of the Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) adjacent to the commissioner officer in Lahore.During a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) meeting,......
WASHINGTON: A media advocacy group, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has said that journalists in Pakistan are under siege and asked the government to ensure their safety.The statement......
ISLAMABAD: After criticism from various other quarters, the Senate Standing Committee on Interior also expressed its dissatisfaction over the performance of the provinces with regard to the National......
ISLAMABAD: In a significant development on Tuesday, the two main opposition parties — PPP and PTI — decided to sit on opposition benches in the National Assembly and give a tough time to the......
ANKARA: Nato member Turkey shot down a Russian warplane on the Syrian border on Tuesday, an act President Vladimir Putin denounced as a “stab in the back”.Turkey called an extraordinary meeting of......
GENEVA: About 1,000 migrants are stranded at the main border crossing into Macedonia from Greece, denied entry due to their nationalities in contravention of international law, the United Nations has......
ISLAMABAD: Airports across the country will soon be equipped with a four-tier integrated security system to guard against any possible terrorist activity, Shujaat Azeem, the Prime Minister’s Special......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission and Nadra informed a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that voters’ biometric verification, use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and voting by overseas......
ISLAMABAD: A woman fighter pilot of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) died in an air crash during a training mission on Tuesday.According to a PAF statement, Flying Office Marium Mukhtiar was on a......
ISLAMABAD: In the words of one opposition lawmaker, the ruling PML-N has “given up its control of key issues such as the security and well-being of the country”, and in the process has rendered......
GILIGIT: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said efforts to introduce political reforms in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) are under way to redress the grievances of the people of the region and a committee has......
For the nearly nine years that I have been Secretary-General, I have travelled the world to the front-lines of climate change, and I have spoken repeatedly with world leaders, business people and......
Nawaz Sharif is under intense attack by the religious lobby for calling for making Pakistan a ‘liberal’ democratic nation. The chief of the Jamaat-i-Islami wants the prime minister to withdraw his......
IT is not news that the ascent of Narendra Modi has marked a change in India’s outlook on its past. The elevation of Hindu identity as central to being Indian has been accomplished in a variety of......
PUBLIC policy is supposed to forward the public interest. Governments exist to do so. However, this is far from the case in Balochistan, where public policy is engineered in a quirky manner.The......
“I DREAMED I saw Joe Hill last night/ Alive as you or me,” goes the old song. “Says I, ‘But Joe, you’re 10 years dead.’/ ‘I never died,’ says he.” Many of those familiar with these words are likely......
THE latest Joint Economic Commission session between Pakistan and Afghanistan has ended without any breakthrough, and that is regrettable.This was the 10th JEC session, and the first one following......
FOR the first time this year, the State Bank has said that “headline inflation is expected to reverse its declining momentum” in the months to come.On two occasions earlier this year — January and......
AN ending this most certainly is not: Jamiluddin Aali was too multifaceted a person and leaves behind a variety of causes to pursue. He was well known for his patriotism, and his motivational songs......
TUNIS: An explosion struck a bus carrying members of Tunisia's presidential guard in the country's capital Tuesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding more than a dozen others in what the......
PESHAWAR: A new polio case was reported from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) on Tuesday, making it the 14th such case in the tribal area this year — raising the countrywide count in......
