ISTANBUL: Five people were injured when a pipe bomb exploded on an overpass near an Istanbul metro station on Tuesday, the district mayor said, halting some train operations and heightening security......
BERLIN: A German court Tuesday sentenced a Pakistan-born couple to life in jail for the "honour killing" of their 19-year-old daughter, who had had sex before marriage.The 52-year-old father was......
NEW YORK: Human Rights Watch called on the Obama administration on Tuesday to investigate 21 former US officials, including former President George W. Bush, for potential criminal misconduct for......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Cricket have promised to support Brendon McCullum after former Test all-rounder Chris Cairns was acquitted of perjury in London despite evidence given against him by the Black......
ZURICH: Five years ago on Wednesday, FIFA's executive committee chose Russia to host the 2018 World Cup and Qatar for 2022 in one of the most controversial votes in sporting history.Sixteen of the 24......
LAHORE: Unidentified attackers hurled a hand grenade on the Lahore office of a local television channel DIN News on Tuesday evening, injuring four people.According to initial reports, two policemen......
FAISALABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court in Faisalabad sentenced two activists of banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) to six years imprisonment along with a Rs0.1 million fine each for possessing and......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan said the federal government has decided to lodge an FIR in Dr. Imran Farooq murder case in Pakistan.Addressing a news conference in Islamabad on......
The news of BlackBerry Ltd. moving out of Pakistan comes as no surprise. The story made headlines after the Canadian company received aggressive demands from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority......
JAKARTA: Chronic problems with a faulty rudder system and the way pilots tried to respond were among a string of factors contributing to the crash of an Indonesian AirAsia jet last year that killed......
BEIRUT: Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Al-Nusra, on Tuesday freed 16 Lebanese soldiers and police it had held for more than a year in exchange for the release of prisoners and delivery of aid.The......
NEW DELHI: The wicket at Delhi's Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium filled the beleaguered South African team with optimism on Tuesday that the fourth and final Test against India will buck the trend and last......
ISLAMABAD: The special court of customs, excise and taxation on Tuesday granted a request from Ayyan Ali for the return of her passport, after the submission of surety bonds.The court returned the......
KARACHI: Two Military Police (MP) official were killed on Tuesday after their vehicle was fired upon by unidentified gunmen near Tibet Centre on MA Jinnah road.Senior medico-legal officer (MLO) Dr......
KABUL: An Afghan police official says that an explosion has struck a group of children who were playing on the outskirts of a provincial capital in the country's north, killing three boys and......
Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi has made some valuable gains in the latest ICC T20 Player Rankings, following his side’s 3-0 series defeat to England, which concluded in Sharjah on Monday night.The......
LAHORE: In a one-of-a-kind judgment on Tuesday, the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered the post mortem of a pet cat in a case filed by a woman who claimed her vet had "murdered her cat."Moon, a male......
SHARJAH: Pakistan head coach Waqar Younis described defeat in the Twenty20 series against England as a “huge eye opener” for his team whose “poor and ordinary” performance needed proper......
BERLIN: The German cabinet on Tuesday approved a mandate offering military assistance to back the fight against the militant Islamic State (IS) group, sources said.The package, which still requires......
The feeling of empowerment is the beauty of democracy. For someone like me, who, by the grace of God, belongs to a privileged background, the feeling of empowerment cannot even begin to compare to......
SHARJAH: England Twenty20 captain Eoin Morgan Tuesday described his team's progress in the shortest form of the game as “pretty exciting” but refused to get carried away despite sweeping Pakistan......
WASHINGTON: After militant attacks in Europe, the United States (US) will tighten security procedures for its visa waiver program for visitors from friendly countries, officials said Monday.The US......
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said he would be ready to quit office if allegations by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that Turkey traded oil with the militant Islamic......
KATHMANDU: Child rights groups warned Tuesday that shortages of fuel, medicine and other supplies in Nepal due to a border blockade with India are putting millions of children at the risk of disease......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Monday said Pakistan's nuclear policy rests on the twin pillars of restraint and responsibility and is exclusively geared towards maintaining......
ISLAMABAD: A joint statement from international and domestic civil society organisations on Tuesday expressed serious concerns on the ‘Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015’ – currently awaiting......
JAMSHEDI: Riding on horseback and motorbikes, commander Naeem's fighters combed a fog-enveloped Taliban infiltration route in Afghanistan's northern badlands, as the government expands anti-insurgent......
BEIJING: The Chinese scientist behind the world's biggest cloning factory has technology advanced enough to replicate humans, he told AFP, and is only holding off for fear of the public......
SINGAPORE: Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia is expected to reduce prices for its crude sold to Asia in January from a month ago after the Dubai benchmark weakened, trade sources said on Tuesday.The......
BEIJING: The addition of China's yuan to the select basket of currencies used as a yardstick by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a sign, experts say, that the yuan may one day become as......
PARIS: France and Belgium want to improve intelligence sharing between the nine European nations most concerned with militant threats in the wake of the Paris attacks, a French government source said......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) took the lead in the first local government (LG) polls held in the federal capital since 1979, Radio Pakistan reported.Unofficial election results......
TELEVISION can be a great democratic enabler, but it can also be an electoral impediment — at least if good sense and the rules are ignored. With local government elections across the country......
THE finance minister may have bridged his revenue shortfall — at least for now — on the back of revenue measures he describes as taxes on “luxury items”, but his remarks about oil prices failed to......
ONE of India-held Kashmir’s former chief ministers had the courage to acknowledge the reality when he said the entire Indian army would not be able to defend “us against terrorists and militants” —......
THE prime minister’s recent statement offering an unconditional dialogue with India is a positive political move to decrease the escalating tension between India and Pakistan. However, there is also......
RAISED on a staple of Cecil B. DeMille and Homi Wadia films taken from religious epics, many Indians of my generation became readily knowledgeable of Hindu and Christian legends early in life. Muslim......
PESHAWAR: Conflict may have destroyed homes, businesses and displaced people of tribal areas but the worst that has happened remains unnoticed.Turban, symbolic of honour and leadership, in Pakhtun......
PESHAWAR: A total of 1,816 people have registered themselves with the HIV treatment centres in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.Among them, 1,349 are men, 391 women and 76 children.The statistics were shared by......
MINGORA: The local girl students earned appreciation from the participants of an exhibition by presenting different models on the basis of ‘multiple intelligence’ theory.The exhibition was held at......
ISLAMABAD: Polling agents posted to facilitate voters outside the polling station in Margalla Girls College, Sector F-7, had nothing to do all day as most voters did not bother coming to the......
ISLAMABAD: The rural parts of the federal capital witnessed a lot of excitement and hustle bustle on polling day. Apart from a few isolated incidents of heated exchanges between rival camps, polling......
RAWALPINDI: PTI is a divided house in chairperson Imran Khan’s NA-56 constituency in Rawalpindi. During the local government election, the party faced difficulties in tackling the issue of its......
ISLAMABAD: PTI has alleged that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has once again failed to conduct free and transparent elections.PTI Information Secretary Naeemul Haq claimed that the party......
SWABI: Leaders of the seven parties’ ruling alliance in the district government observed that the culture of bringing party workers to the public meetings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from other cities and......
FAISALABAD: At present allegations of convicted target killer Naveed alias Commando against Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah have not been verified, however, arrest of remaining proclaimed......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday arrested a man involved in printing fake visas.“The FIA arrested Sajjad alias Naumi from Bilal Ganj and recovered fake visa printing machines......
LAHORE: The PPP adopted four resolutions on Monday at its Foundation Day function.A large number of PPP workers and central leaders gathered at Bhatta Chowk to observe the 48th Foundation Day of the......
The volume and pace of the infrastructure development popping up in Lahore in the last few years has been ‘huge and fast’. Once closely examined, one can conclude that the damage to the......
LAHORE: The All Pakistan Kite Flying Association has appealed to the chief minister to chalk out fresh rules for kite flying and issue orders for establishment of a ‘Kite City’ away from urban......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has identified the PML-N government’s “25 failures” and demanded it should fulfill all its promises made during the party’s campaign for 2013 general......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif met UK National Security Adviser Sir Mark Lyall-Grant in London on Monday.MNA and former state minister Khusro Bakhtiar, Pakistani High Commissioner in Britain......
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has called for a change in the present set-up through the power of vote.Speaking at a reception here on Monday, he said except death and blood every other......
SIALKOT: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has vowed to give a tough time to the PML-N, PPP and MQM in the third phase of the local body elections in Punjab and Sindh on Dec 5.The......
FAISALABAD: Governor Rafique Rajwana has asked vice chancellors of universities and the Higher Education Commission to impart quality education to students making them most useful for......
FAISALABAD: Climate change is the real challenge playing havoc with lives of the people, livestock and agricultural sector worldwide and tangible efforts are needed to fight it with justifying......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Four suspected terrorists were killed in a shootout with police, while two high profile militants managed to flee in a raid on their hideout near Wadoor village late on Sunday,......
KARACHI: The police remand of former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain was on Monday extended for one week in a case pertaining to providing treatment and harbouring ‘terrorists’ at his hospital.The......
KARACHI: A baby boy kidnapped from outside the National Institute of Child Health over two months ago was finally safely recovered by police in a raid on a hideout of kidnappers in Malir.The police......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday granted pre-arrest bail to Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Rauf Siddiqui in a case registered against former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain.A two-judge bench......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Monday claimed to have foiled a plot to sabotage the upcoming local government elections after seizing a huge cache of arms and ammunition and arresting a......
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday pledged to accomplish the mission of making Pakistan a welfare state and announced that he would resist all moves aimed at......
KARACHI: Day three more than made up for what was lacking on the first two days of Fashion Pakistan Week Winter/Festive ’15 with an impressive display of the works of grand couturiers. Some of the......
HYDERABAD: Participants in a dialogue held on Monday highlighted the difficulties faced by fishermen in earning their livelihood because of non-implementation of certain laws and proposals needed......
NAWABSHAH: Peroz Shahani, a Badin district council member-elect and a close aide to former home minister Dr Zulfikar Mirza, was sent to jail on Monday upon completion of his two-day police remand in......
LARKANA: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) organised ceremonies at district level across the interior of Sindh on Monday to mark its founding day but the occasion was observed with simplicity due to......
HYDERABAD: The two-day painting and photography exhibition held at the Sindh Museum organised by a non-governmental organisation (NGO) concluded on Monday. People, especially students, visited the......
SUKKUR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl information secretary Hafiz Hussain Ahmed has said that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) were the parties that had supported......
BEIJING: Choking smog blanketed Beijing and much of northern China Monday as climate change talks opened in Paris and a new Chinese report raised the alarm about rising sea levels.As the global......
DHAKA: Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia was granted bail on Monday after appearing in court over a nearly two-billion-dollar graft case dating back to 2007 and involving a Canadian......
WASHINGTON: One of America’s 10 top universities cancelled all classes at its main campus on Monday after an online threat of gun violence.The University of Chicago said it ordered the cancellation......
PRISTINA: The opposition in Kosovo said on Monday it would turn to street protests to get the government to cancel deals with Serbia and Montenegro after its lawmakers were barred from Parliament......
BANGUI: Pope Francis said on Monday that Christians and Muslims were “brothers”, urging them to reject hatred and violence while visiting a mosque in the Central African Republic’s capital which has......
NAIROBI: Three Kenyan students were injured on Monday as they fled after hearing gunshots fired during a security drill, thinking it was a real attack, the Red Cross said.Kenya Red Cross spokeswoman......
A US investigation into a strike on a charity-run Afghan hospital cited mistakes so “reckless” that observers said they left open the unsettling question of whether those involved had ripped up their......
MUMBAI: A furious backlash against two Bollywood stars who complained of rising intolerance in India has highlighted the film industry’s uneasy relationship with politics, in contrast to Hollywood......
AT Emre’s boat shop in central Izmir, one of Turkey’s major ports, you can’t turn around without bumping into a pile of inflatable rubber boats. On this day there are 16 stacked in beige boxes, all......
LE BOURGET: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned at the climate summit on Monday that poor nations had a right to burn carbon to grow their economies, underscoring one of the major obstacles to......
LE BOURGET: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe lashed out at “miserly” developed nations at the UN climate summit on Monday, accusing them of trying to shift the burden for curbing carbon emissions......
PARIS: President Barack Obama said on Monday the United States, as the world’s second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, recognised its role in creating the problem of global warming and embraced......
PARIS: World leaders launched an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back the earth’s rising temperatures, with French President Francois Hollande saying the world was at “breaking point” in the......
JERUSALEM: A Jerusalem court convicted two Israeli minors on Monday of the kidnapping and burning alive of a Palestinian teenager in the run-up to last year’s Gaza war, while a third defendant’s......
PARIS: US President Barack Obama said on Monday that India had to be able to grow and fight poverty, while Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to ensure development would be coupled with......
LAHORE: Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt refrained from commenting on the fate of Pakistan’s T20 captain Shahid Afridi on Monday, saying it was the domain of incumbent chief......
BRISBANE: The West Indies will target perceived weaknesses in Australia’s middle-order batting and aim to play aggressive but smart cricket during their tour of the country, skipper Jason Holder said......
LONDON: A British jury on Monday cleared former New Zealand cricket captain Chris Cairns of perjury charges over match-fixing and he said the trial has been “hell”.After a nine-week trial the jury of......
ADELAIDE: Australia’s pace spearhead Mitchell Starc said Monday it could be up to four weeks before he knows when he can bowl again after another injury setback in the Adelaide day-night Test.Starc......
ADELAIDE: New Zealand are awaiting clarification from the International Cricket Council regarding Nigel Llong’s contentious third umpire decision in the day-night Test against Australia after the......
LONDON: Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will go head-to-head once again for the title of world’s best footballer after being short-listed along with Neymar on Monday for the 2015 FIFA Ballon......
ISLAMABAD: Tax collection by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) rose by 27.22 per cent to Rs229 billion in November 2015 from Rs180bn in the same month last year.The total collection stood at Rs1.044......
WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday approved a proposal to curb its emergency lending powers, a change demanded by Congress after the central bank’s controversial decision to aid AIG,......
KARACHI: The Karachi Stock Exchange’s (KSE) benchmark 100-share index came crashing down by 705 points on Monday, with Rs123 billion wiped off market capitalisation.The index, which tumbled for the......
ISLAMABAD: The government has delayed an amnesty scheme that will let traders whiten their undeclared assets against a nominal tax payment.A well-placed source in the Ministry of Finance told Dawn on......
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Monday approved the merger of three exchanges into Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSE) with the condition that PSE will carry out the divestment......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday directed the Ministry of National Food Security and Research to monitor export of potato to keep its domestic prices stable.He was chairing a meeting......
LAHORE: The communications ministry has asked the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to declare Sost in Gilgit-Baltistan as transit border to enhance trade activities between Pakistan, China, Kazakhstan......
KARACHI: Local assemblers enjoying booming sales have not shared benefit of declining Japanese yen against the US dollar and lower steel prices on world markets with the car buyers.A currency dealer......
SEOUL: South Korea on Monday ratified a free trade agreement (FTA) with China that would remove most tariffs between Asia’s largest and fourth-largest economies.The pact, signed in June, was passed......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) notified amendments in Non-Banking Finance Companies (Establishment and Regulation) Rules, 2003.SECP also introduced amendments in......
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) welcomed China’s yuan into its elite reserve currency basket on Monday, recognizing the ascendance of the Asian power in the global economy.The yuan,......
LONDON: Nikkei Inc. will use its $1.3 billion purchase of the Financial Times to build a digital media powerhouse by harnessing the English-language newspaper’s brand and skill in getting subscribers......
ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is expected to visit Pakistan on Dec 9 on the occasion of the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process which is being jointly hosted......
ISLAMABAD: After the 18th constitutional amendment devolved over a dozen departments and ministries to the provinces, the government has created around ten new ministries and divisions at the federal......
LAHORE: Karachi-bound Allama Iqbal Express was the first train to have passed through the Bachoki level crossing on Monday, about 18 hours after rail traffic between Raiwind and Premnagar stations......
ISLAMABAD: The acting high commissioner of Bangladesh was summoned to the Foreign Office here on Monday and a protest was lodged over his government’s recent statements.The Foreign Office said the......
ISLAMABAD: The government has kept the prices of petrol and high speed diesel (HSD) unchanged for the month of December.Addressing a news conference here on Monday, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was informed on Monday that the federal government had credited an amount of Rs67.6 billion to Punjab since 1989 on account of royalty on crude oil and natural gas. Out......
QUETTA: Commander of Southern Command, Lt Gen Aamer Riaz, has said that Pakistan Army wants to see Balochistan emerge as a peaceful and economically thriving province moving on the path of progress......
QUETTA: Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Mohammad Yousuf said on Monday that a modern conference hall was being built at the Haji Camp in Quetta at a cost of Rs40 billion to facilitate......
ISLAMABAD: A committee formed by the PPP last month to look into causes of the party’s poor performance in the recently-held by-elections in Punjab and local government polls in two other provinces......
ISLAMABAD: In the face of security challenges, the Pakistan Air Force’s preparedness and response has to be precise and expeditious, said PAF’s Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman. He......
ISLAMABAD: Journalist Reham Khan’s former husband Dr Ejazur Rehman has sent her a Rs100 million legal notice, demanding a written apology within a fortnight for allegedly damaging his......
KARACHI: Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Mohammad Zakaullah said on Monday that challenges at hand necessitated a constant review of the force’s operational plans through extensive war-gaming and......
NEW DELHI: The lower house of Indian parliament, Lok Sabha, witnessed clashes and repeated adjournments on Monday as it took up a debate on ‘intolerance’ with the opposition criticising the......
THE atmosphere feels charged at the Chiragh Hotel bus stop in Landhi No 4. Entering the neighbourhood, attention is immediately claimed by a banner on a huge signboard depicting Mohajir Qaumi......
BRUSSELS: After winning Nato military alliance’s support for the right to defend itself, Turkey dismissed on Monday any suggestion that it should apologise for downing a Russian warplane in its......
WASHINGTON: The US Department of State warned Americans in Afghanistan on Monday about “credible reports of an imminent attack in Kabul in the next 48 hours”.“The security situation in Afghanistan is......
WHILE some officials called it just a ‘chance meeting’, to others the brief talks between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on Monday on the sidelines of a climate......
ISLAMABAD: The government introduced on Monday a ‘mini-budget’ envisaging additional tax measures of over Rs40 billion by imposing 5-10 per cent regulatory duty on import of 61 items, increasing......
LE BOURGET: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ankara of shooting down a Russian warplane last week to protect supplies of oil from the militant Islamic State group to Turkey.“We have......
SHARJAH: Paceman Chris Woakes starred for a second match in succession as he defended ten runs in the last over to help England win the third and final Twenty20 in a Super Over finish in Sharjah on......
QUETTA: Security forces arrested 10 suspected militants and recovered about 1,000 kilogrammes of explosives during separate raids in Balochistan's Ziarat and Killa Saifullah districts on......
