VALLETTA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday met French President Francois Hollande in the Maltese capital, Valletta, and expressed his desire to cooperate with France in counter-terrorism and......
An Indian court on Saturday remanded an American citizen in custody for 14 days over allegations he molested a teenaged boy in his hotel room, police said.The 51-year-old US national was produced......
KARACHI: A director of a local bank, recently acquired by Bank Islami Pakistan Ltd (BIPL), was involved in a number of scams including money laundering and misuse of public money, DawnNews reported......
KARACHI: The joint rally by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) in Karachi on Saturday ended before reaching its announced destination of Quaid-i-Azam's mausoleum.The rally......
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and a few senior aides are expected to stop over in Paris on their way back from the Commonwealth Summit in Malta to attend the UN climate summit (COP21), described as the......
DUBAI: Pakistan must dramatically improve their fitness and fielding before they can be considered serious contenders at next year's World Twenty20 Championship in India, captain Shahid Afridi......
CAIRO: Masked gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead four Egyptian policemen south of Cairo on Saturday, the interior ministry said.The gunmen opened fire on a police vehicle, killing those inside, in an......
With health, environmental and economic troubles, there’s never been a better time to plant a few seeds in your own garden Hafeez Khan, 29, an Islamabad resident, decided to turn to home gardening......
QUETTA: Two low intensity blasts hit Quetta's Chashma Achozai area close to the airport Saturday afternoon.Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) planted by unknown miscreants went off in a deserted......
MONACO: Women's world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe was “hounded remorselessly” over doping allegations that proved wrong, world athletics' governing body said Friday.“The circumstances in......
KIDAL: Two UN peacekeepers and a civilian were killed and 14 others were injured in a rocket attack on Saturday on a UN base in the northeastern Malian town of Kidal, UN and local sources said.“Our......
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Friday informed an anti-terrorism court (ATC) about 90-day preventive detention of four workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) arrested earlier this week......
‘Hello, are you OK? Can you hear me, Ma’am?’ a fading voice asked me again as my vision began to blur, a sea of faces was closing in on me as I lay motionless on the floor.My palpitating heart was......
KABUL: A suicide bomber targeted a senior member of Afghanistan's election commission during the morning rush hour in the capital Kabul on Saturday, killing his driver and wounding several passers......
VALLETTA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said climate change poses a serious threat to humans across the globe, reported Radio Pakistan.While addressing the Commonwealth Summit on Climate......
COLORADO: A gunman who opened fire inside a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic was arrested after engaging in gun battles with authorities during an hours-long standoff that killed three......
By Asra Sajid“ALIYA beta, give me a glass of water!” said Aliya’s grandpa.“Yes, I am coming, Dada ji,” replied Aliya politely.Her grandfather was an old humble man. Aliya used to call him Dada ji.......
Rickshaw driver makes world record for ‘side wheelie’A RICKSHAW driver has achieved the world record for the furthest side-wheelie on an automatic tuk tuk. During the day, Jagathish M. operates a......
STANDING by the window in my room, with all lights switched off, I was continuously crying without even realising how long I had been standing there. I heard my mum calling me but I was to grasp what......
HAVE you ever wondered how much bigger a mountain is than an atom? And what is the size of our Earth in the Milky Way? Or how big is the Universe?But mere words just don’t satiate the queries of the......
By Muhammad Yawar ShiraziIT is a hot debate whether students should use mobile phones or not, because there are so many advantages and disadvantages of this gadget. Let’s see how mobile phone can......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar on Friday announced schedule of elections for the deputy speaker’s office lying vacant for over a year.The speaker told the house that......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar district administration has decided to send behind bars the parents who have declined vaccination of their children against polio.The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by......
MARDAN: The police on Friday claimed to have arrested a female professor and a driver in the killing case of director finance of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM).Mohammad Tariq was found......
LANDI KOTAL: The political administration of Khyber Agency has devised new regulations to make the Khasadar force more proactive and assign new responsibilities to them to improve the law and order......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Zahid Hamid on Friday said he would highlight Pakistan’s case of growing vulnerability to disasters caused by global warming at the global climate......
ISLAMABAD: Friday’s order of the special court, which is hearing the high treason case, has asked the JIT (which will be set up to investigate abettors) to report back to it on December 17, but did......
RAWALPINDI: Citing intelligence, the Punjab Home Department has alerted police and other agencies in the province that the self-styled Islamic State (IS) has planned attacks on civil and military......
RAWALPINDI: The city government on Friday rejected PTI’s request for holding a rally in the city on December 1.DCO Sajid Zafar Dall told Dawn that under the directives of ECP, the PTI chairman cannot......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), which once possessed a strong vote bank in Islamabad, is struggling in the first local government elections in the federal capital.The PPP is relying......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Friday dodged the capital administration and police by reaching Tramri Chowk to attend a corner meeting despite several blockades put......
ISLAMABAD: Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Inomata hosted an award ceremony at his residence to confer the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation to the Pakistan Haiku Society (PHS) for their......
ISLAMABAD: Participants of a consultation on the 2014 dharna believe it was part of a conspiracy and that the sit-ins were being orchestrated by other players.At the ‘HRCP Consultation on the 2014......
RAWALPINDI: A USAID official chose to leave Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) on Friday and return to his residence in Islamabad, rather than go through a physical security check to board......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has announced a Rs500,000 aid for the heirs of a man who was hit by the machinery of Orange Line Metro Train project.The contractor working on the section will......
LAHORE: The Punjab Information Commission (PIC) has dismissed an objection petition, asking the Punjab Judicial Academy (PJA) to provide information about the recent promotion of its staff as......
GUJRAT: Some unidentified miscreants torched a shrine and a number of copies of the Holy Quran in Bawoli Khurd village of Sara-i-Alamgir Saddar police precincts, some 65km from here, early on Friday......
LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) had arrested nine suspected militants belonging to banned militant outfit Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) from the Farooq-i-Azam Madressah in the Cantonment area......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday issued a notice to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on a petition against exhibition of ‘immoral’ dramas, programmes and movies on......
LAHORE: Sikh pilgrims say they support Aamir Khan’s stand on intolerance in the Indian society, and condemn provocative remarks against him and other Indian film stars, scholars and minority groups......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The four children of a man have been suffering from duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), recessive X-linked form of muscular dystrophy, a disease which cripples the nerves of bodies......
GUJRAT: Vital equipment and machinery including X-ray and ultrasound gadgets and echocardiography system at the Aziz Bhatti Shaheed (ABS) Hospital have been out of order for long.At least 1,800......
KARACHI: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police on Friday claimed to have detained the Karachi chief of the banned organisation Hizbut Tahrir and two other suspects in separate raids.Hisam......
KARACHI: Some senior leaders along with around 2,000 workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement were on Friday booked for holding a rally near the Quaid’s mausoleum without permission, misuse of......
KARACHI: Students and professionals working in the medical field would now have an opportunity to hone their skills in mock operating rooms and on patient manikins that could be programmed according......
KARACHI: Police on Friday registered a terrorism case against a senior leader of the Pasban, Usman Moazzam, after the end of his 90-day preventive detention.Mr Moazzam along with a son was picked up......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has approved a Rs12.6 billion project for the rehabilitation of the Sukkur barrage that he described as the lifeline of the province’s......
KARACHI: The Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on Friday destroyed around 800 shisha or glass hookahs, equipment and tobacco confiscated by their vigilance teams during various raids over the past two......
KARACHI: Police on Friday registered a blasphemy case against unidentified persons for setting fire to the office of a Christian web TV.A fire broke out in the office of the Christian web TV located......
HYDERABAD: The 272nd Urs of Sufi saint Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai kicked off in Bhitshah, about 50 kilometres from here, on Friday. The three-day celebration commenced on 14th Safar, Thursday, with......
KARACHI: In another reshuffle in the Sindh cabinet within the past 15 days, Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Friday reallocated the portfolios of information, food, local government, public......
LARKANA: A coach of a passenger train parked at the Larkana railway station caught fire causing extensive damage on Friday, railway officials said.Firefigthers reached the spot very late to save the......
DR KIRAN SETH is professor-emeritus at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, but is better known as the founder of the Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture......
JOHANNESBURG: The number of adolescents dying from Aids has tripled over the last 15 years, most of them having acquired the disease when they were infants, according to figures released on Friday by......
TEHRAN: Iran said on Friday that it expected medical tests to establish within 48 hours if a high-ranking diplomat died in the stampede in Mina during the Haj, following contrasting accounts about......
MUMBAI: Four pupils from an Indian high school have been detained after a clip showing them gang-raping a younger student was seen by the victim’s aunt after being circulated on WhatsApp, police said......
BUDAPEST: A top European human rights official called on Friday for refugees to be resettled in Europe directly from camps near conflicts zones to prevent them from enduring long and dangerous......
UNITED NATIONS: According to a United Nations Children Fund (Unicef) report released on Thursday at the African Union Girls Summit in Lusaka, Zambia the total number of child brides in Africa will......
PARIS: Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked France to draw up a map of where pro-West groups fighting the militant Islamic State (IS) operate in Syria in order not to bomb them, France’s......
CANBERRA: An Australian set his third Christmas-themed world record in as many years on Friday by illuminating a tree in downtown Canberra with 518,838 twinkling lights.Guinness World Records......
WASHINGTON: A man draped in an American flag jumped over the fence of the White House while President Barack Obama was inside with his family celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday, officials and US......
LIMA: Archaeologists in Peru have found four tombs that are more than 1,000 years old in a pyramid-shaped cemetery that now sits in the middle of a residential neighborhood in Lima, experts said on......
DAKASOYE: At least 21 people were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the crowds at a Shia procession near the northern Nigerian city of Kano, in the latest violence to hit the......
As Brussels began a lockdown last weekend to search for suspected terrorists following the murderous attacks in Paris, I was on my way to Jakarta to attend the second world Forum for Muslim......
DAMASCUS: Turkey’s downing of a Russian jet has played into the hands of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad by bringing Moscow on board with his bitter opposition to Ankara, experts say.On Thursday,......
ADELAIDE: New Zealand were skittled for 202 but hit back with the key wicket of David Warner on an eventful opening day in the historic day-night Test here at the Adelaide Oval on Friday.In a ringing......
LONDON: The value of an in-form striker was underlined as Tottenham Hotspur, Liverpool and Athletic Bilbao needed goals from pivotal front men to grab vital wins that booked places in the Europa......
GENT: Kyle Edmund will have a Davis Cup baptism of fire for Britain here on Friday when he leads the way in a final against Belgium that no-one expected at the start of the year.The 20-year-old......
KARACHI: For the first time, a record twelve cities will be battling for supremacy when the fourth edition of National T20 Cricket Championship for people with physical disabilities starts from......
DUBAI: A new-look England beat clumsy Pakistan by 14 runs in the first Twenty20 International to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series here at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Thursday......
KARACHI: Boxers of the armed forces – Army, Navy and Air Force – earned lion’s share when they grabbed 18 slots in the semi-finals of the 35th National Boxing Championship at the KPT Sports Complex......
LAHORE: Nine private power producers have invoked their right to international arbitration for recovering their unpaid capacity payments of Rs11 billion they claim the National Transmission and......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has withdrawn the 19.5 per cent general sales tax (GST) imposed on mobile internet including 3G/4G on May 28, 2015.After facing five and half months ‘battle’ between the......
KARACHI: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Friday that after consolidation, the government was focusing on growth and employment, and highlighted the role of the private sector and banks in......
ISLAMABAD: Weekly inflation for combined income group, measured through the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), declined by 0.36 per cent for the week ended November 26 as compared to the previous week,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s non-textile exports fell by 22.56 per cent to $2.605 billion during the first four months (July-Oct) of 2015-16 from $3.364bn in the same period last year, Pakistan Bureau of......
ISLAMABAD: The government launched on Friday a programme to impart information and communications technology (ICT) education to as many as 5,000 girls through 50 labs.The programme, ICT for Girls,......
KARACHI: The stock market was caught in a tight bear hug as the shares spiralled downwards for the eighth consecutive session on Friday. The KSE-100 index plunged by 119.10 points to close at......
KARACHI: Steady conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Friday where short buying from some needy spinners was evident. However, the underlying sentiment remained firm and outlook......
VALLETTA: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif and his British counterpart David Cameron agreed on Friday to continue close collaboration in different fields, particularly trade, investment and......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmed Khan has said that patriotic tribesmen and security forces have rendered great sacrifices for peace, sovereignty and integrity of the......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court dismissed an appeal of the Cargill Holding Limited (CHL) on Friday against the privatisation of the Heavy Electrical Complex (HEC), thus paving the way for the......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) recommended on Friday a reduction in petrol and kerosene prices and an increase in that of high speed diesel (HSD) for December, but said the......
KARACHI: In the view of the Syrian government, bringing peace to that troubled land hinged on two key factors: an immediate ceasefire followed by a political process “that would leave only Syrians to......
ISLAMABAD: In an apparent attempt to compete with the growing private electronic media, the state-run Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) plans to heavily invest in its infrastructure.“The PTV will......
NEW DELHI: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah has said that Azad Kashmir will remain with Pakistan, while J&K will be with India.“PoK......
MOSCOW: Moscow slapped sanctions on Ankara on Friday as the war of words over a downed Russian warplane escalated, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warning Russia not to “play with......
VALLETTA: Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat unveiled on Friday a new $1 billion Commonwealth Green Finance Facility (CGFF) to support environmental projects within the 53-nation bloc.The CGFF will......
DHAKA: The militant Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility on Friday for a deadly attack on worshippers at a Shia mosque in northern Bangladesh.US-based monitoring organisation SITE reported......
ISLAMABAD: The government informed the National Assembly on Friday that it planned to clear off its debt liabilities by selling public sector enterprises (PSEs).In an otherwise lacklustre session, a......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has asked the government to explain why the health condition of people in general and that of children in particular is deteriorating by the day.Taking suo motu notice of......
LAHORE: Contrary to the official media campaign that the Nandipur power project is ‘actually providing’ a sustained generation of 430MW against its installed capacity of 425MW, the plant remained......
ISLAMABAD: A three-member special court ordered the federal government on Friday to re-investigate former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf, former prime minister Shaukat Aziz, former chief......
The US is the world’s most powerful country. Its pre-eminence remains unchallenged for now. However, it suffers from a curious case of amnesia: it is long on everything but short on historical......
IMRAN Khan was mocking Asif Zardari’s so-called political reconciliation policy and slamming the former president’s avowed philosophy of there being ‘no last (final) word’ in politics.But, in a......
THE people’s deep distrust of politics is comprehensive and dangerous. It extends to representative government as we have known it: the party system, the political process and, not least, its......
A FRIEND said the acronym for the National Action Plan, or NAP, was very apt: those responsible for implementing its non-military aspects seem to be napping.So while many politicians expressed their......
DUBAI: Paceman Chris Woakes held his nerve in the final over to give England a hard-fought three-run win in the second Twenty20 international over Pakistan in Dubai on Friday.Woakes conceded just......
