QUETTA: Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai said only parliament had the mandate to frame foreign policy and termed supremacy of parliament "integral for strengthening......
DHAKA: The lawyer representing the head of Bangladesh's Jamaat-i-Islami party appealed on Wednesday to the country's Supreme Court to commute his death penalty for war crimes to life in prison.The......
MITHI: An inspection team sent by Sindh government to inspect Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants in various areas of Tharparkar district reportedly found sizeable number of the plants out of order, out of......
KARACHI: The adviser to chief minister on information, Maula Bux Chandio, while briefing the media after the provincial apex committee meeting, said that the Sindh government has allowed......
KARACHI: Sindh minister and prominent PPP leader Sharjeel Inam Memon has been dismissed from the post of Minister for Works, Services and Archives on Wednesday.A notification in this regard has been......
KOLKATA: Umar Akmal’s employers in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) treated him like a VIP on the eve of his debut in the league on Monday only to see him fail miserably.According to Bangladeshi......
DOMENI: Macedonian police fired tear gas at hundreds of mostly Pakistani migrants who tried to storm into the Balkan country from Greece on Wednesday demanding passage to wealthier northern......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will let divorced women and widows manage family affairs without approval from a man or a court order, a state-aligned newspaper said on Wednesday, a major step to lift some of......
MUMBAI: Prison officers in western India have come up with a novel way for convicts to secure early release — master some yoga poses and pass an exam, an official said Wednesday.Inmates at Yerwada......
They say cricket is our religion. Not just in India but also across the border. We give our teams the same do-or-die pressure, we burn effigies if they don’t win and sometimes, lose the plot and......
SYDNEY: Australia's weather bureau has been hit by a major cyber attack blamed on China by officials who estimated the possible repair bill at hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a report......
WELLINGTON: The acquittal of former New Zealand captain Chris Cairns on match-fixing-linked perjury charges is a serious blow for efforts to stamp out corruption within the game, commentators said......
LOS ANGELES: Former world number one Tiger Woods said Tuesday he had no timetable for his return as he struggles to regain fitness after back surgery, admitting that any other tournament victories in......
CHENNAI: India on Wednesday deployed troops to Tamil Nadu and closed the main airport after heavy rains exacerbated weeks of flooding that have killed nearly 200 people in the southern coastal......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain said on Tuesday that Pakistan is producing state of the art defence products, which have also been exported to friendly countries, according to a report on Radio......
KARACHI: At least two suspected terrorists were killed in a shootout with Rangers personnel in Karachi's Mai Gari Northern Bypass area, said a press release issued by the paramilitary force......
KUNDUZ: Two months after the Taliban rampaged through the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, residents are still sifting through the rubble, wondering how they will ever rebuild and worrying that the......
Paraplegic artist Muniba Mazari and schoolgirl Ayesha Ishtiaque have been featured on the BBC 100 Women list for 2015.The BBC 100 Women list focuses on sharing the stories of women who are often......
After months of tedious preparation, I finally landed in Paris this past weekend to attend the UN Climate Change Conference 2015 (or COP21 since this is the 21st meeting of the Conference of the......
The Paris Conference on Climate Change is a big deal. If successful, it will result in a global deal on combating climate change that may actually make a difference; resulting in real commitments to......
The ICC on Wednesday announced its Test and ODI Teams of the Year, as chosen by a specially appointed selection panel chaired by the ICC’s Cricket Committee chairman and former India captain Anil......
ADEN: Al Qaeda have retaken the two major southern Yemeni towns of Zinjibar and Jaar that had fallen briefly to militants four years ago, residents and local fighters said on Wednesday.Residents said......
SAN FRANCISCO: The board of Yahoo Inc is weighing a sale of its core Internet business when it meets this week, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.The board's meeting comes amid a broader......
NEW DELHI: India's federal government says it will restore funding to the country's HIV-AIDS program months after it cut its contribution and asked regional governments to fill in the gaps.Health......
CHICAGO: Chicago's police chief was ousted Tuesday after days of protest over a white officer's shooting of a black teenager 16 times and the department's refusal to release a video of the killing......
QUETTA: Three coal miners were killed and two others were injured as result of a blast in a coal mine in the Dukki area of Balochistan on Wednesday.The miners were engaged in the mine to extract coal......
WASHINGTON: The stench of clogged toilets fills the air at the United States (US) capital's wastewater treatment facility. And for good reason — it's one of the world's largest projects to transform......
ISLAMABAD: Four terrorists involved in the Army Public School attack last year were hanged at a civil jail in Kohat on Wednesday.The hangings were the first executions of civilians convicted by......
WASHINGTON: The United States (US) military will deploy a new special operations force to Iraq to step up the fight against the militant Islamic State (IS) group unleashing violence in Iraq and Syria......
BEIJING: The president-elect of China’s new international development bank said he expects the institution to lend $10 billion-$15bn a year for the first five or six years, and sought to allay......
VIENNA: The outcome of this week’s Opec meeting remains to be decided, Saudi Arabia’s oil minister said Tuesday amid widespread expectations that the cartel will keep production levels unchanged.“We......
PESHAWAR: Journalists boycotted covering the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly’s sitting on Tuesday over the alleged derogatory remarks of a Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F lawmaker against them.“The journalists......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan here on Tuesday expressed doubts about the ability of the incumbent government to complete its tenure.“I don’t know whether our government......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak launched the web television of the province here on Tuesday.Named as ‘Badloon’ which in Pashto stands for change, the TV inauguration took......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday acquitted six people by setting aside their conviction by an anti-terrorism court in a case of kidnapping for ransom.A bench consisting of Justice Waqar......
PESHAWAR: Educationists have advised the students to take part in sports activities so they could gain physical fitness and perform well academically.“Sports activities are extremely important for......
ISLAMABAD: There has long been a perception that the residents of the federal capital are so aloof that they don’t even know who their next-door neighbours are.Ahead of the Islamabad local government......
ISLAMABAD: Nayyar Bibi has had Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (Aids) for 10 years and has been taking medicines to reduce her symptoms. She said she has seen an improvement in her condition every......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Study Group (ASG) hosted a screening of Latcho Drom, a 1993 film by Tony Gatlif who is a French and Spanish speaking Roma born in Algeria.The film traces music and cultural......
TAXILA: A man shot his sister dead on Tuesday in New Gulistan Colony I, under the limits of Wah Cantonment Police Station, allegedly because she voted in the local bodies elections.According to the......
ISLAMABAD: Against its own expectations, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has emerged as the second largest party in Monday’s local government elections, claiming the chairman’s slot in at least 16 of......
ISLAMABAD: The Vintage and Classic Car Club of Pakistan (VCCCP) on Tuesday organised a show of cars participating in the Karachi to Khyber vintage car rally at the Serena Hotel.The annual rally sees......
LAHORE: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a Punjab government appeal against the bail granted to three Afghan refugees in a case of illegal stay in Pakistan.A deputy prosecutor told a......
LAHORE: The Punjab Excise and Taxation department may face delay in the computerisation of property tax challans in remaining 30 districts of the province as the provincial government is reportedly......
FAISALABAD: The Anti-Terrorism Court handed down six-year imprisonment each to two members of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) on charges of distributing hate material at a stall in Chenab......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) says the government has purportedly stated that the recent “mini-budget” had to be imposed to meet the cost of the operation against militants and for the......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday restrained the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) from notifying results of two union councils of Sargodha’s Lalyani tehsil, where women were allegedly not......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Around 200 candidates for local polls are among 1,500 citizens who have ‘deposited’ their licensed arms with the local police stations to ensure law and order during election.In a......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has accused the Hafizabad returning officer (RO) of using illegal and coercive ways to ensure the win of federal minister Saira Afzal Tarar’s father in the......
LAHORE: The 972nd three-day Urs of Hazrat Data Ganj Bakhsh began here on Tuesday after Punjab Minister for Auqaf and Religious Affairs Ata Muhammad Maneka and Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar laid......
LAHORE: Following resistance shown against the route of Orange Line Metro Train by the residents of various localities, mainly the Jain Mandir, Kapoorthala House and Katchi Abadi (slum area) of......
SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has criticised the federal government for imposing Rs40 billion taxes on people in a mini budget announced on......
NAWABSHAH: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-i-Azam president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and secretary general Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed arrived at the Nawabshah airport by a chartered flight from......
LARKANA: First-year students of the Chandka Medical College (CMC) became disruptive on Tuesday for allegedly preventing them from using unfair means in their anatomy examination.After completing the......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Tuesday announced a ban on pillion-riding across the province from Wednesday night to Thursday in line with the Chehlum security arrangement.An official said that the......
KARACHI: A contingency plan devised by the relevant authorities in South district for the local government elections has warned the officials concerned that there are chances of violence on Dec 5,......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday once again rejected the apologies of the provincial police chief and 13 other police officers, including three DIGs, in the contempt of court case and......
KARACHI: Teachers, colleagues and students of Margery Rehman, who passed away on Tuesday after a brief illness, paid rich tributes to the Scottish woman from Glasgow, who came to Pakistan to make it......
KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Tuesday threatened to stage a sit-in outside the offices of the Election Commission of Pakistan if their demand for the deployment of army......
KARACHI: The provincial apex committee will meet on Wednesday to finalise security arrangements for Chehlum of Imam Hussain and local government polls, and discuss cases in military courts and the......
KARACHI: Religious scholars and experts on Tuesday agreed that the former could play a vital role in reining in the growing challenges of HIV/Aids in the country by creating awareness among people......
KARACHI: Friends, colleagues and admirers paid glowing tributes to the life and works of eminent poet Jamiluddin Aali at a condolence and literary reference held in his honour at the Arts Council on......
KARACHI: Scores of former students and teachers of St Bonaventure’s high school, Hyderabad, gathered here on Monday night to celebrate the 94th birthday of Father J. B. Todd, who was the school......
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has issued invitations to 65 Syrian opposition figures to attend a conference in Riyadh to try to unify their positions ahead of proposed Syrian peace talks, Saudi newspapers......
LONDON: European countries must stop locking up stateless people like criminals, human rights campaigners said, describing their detention as “a preventable tragedy” that risks being worsened by the......
WASHINGTON: Former president George W. Bush and a raft of senior US officials from his administration should be investigated for conspiracy to torture and for other crimes, Human Rights Watch said on......
JERUSALEM: The man considered the Soviet Union’s most successful spy in Israel before being unmasked more than 30 years ago has died in Paris at the age of 97, his daughter said on Tuesday.Marcus......
NEW YORK: Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday that he never witnessed Muslim Americans revelling over the 9/11 terrorist attacks.“I was, as you know, deeply involved in it,” he......
JERUSALEM: Israel’s national broadcaster on Tuesday said Palestinian authorities had prevented a bomb attack on Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank, a report suggesting the strength of security......
BOGOTA: Data from 17 countries and territories across the Americas, including the United States, Canada and Chile, show they may have eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the......
MOSCOW: Russia has begun building two modern military compounds on the far eastern Kuril islands, defence minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday, heightening long-running tensions with Japan over the......
PARIS: US President Barack Obama urged Turkey on Tuesday to reduce tensions with Moscow after the downing of a Russian warplane and to seal its border with Syria to choke off the supply of money and......
OLONGAPO CITY: A Philippine court on Tuesday convicted a US Marine of killing a Filipina transgender woman in a red light district, in a case that reignited long-simmering anti-American sentiment in......
BEIJING: The Chinese scientist behind the world’s biggest cloning factory has technology advanced enough to replicate humans, he said, and is only holding off for fear of the public reaction.Boyalife......
OF the many countries that Rabindranath Tagore visited in his lifetime, his sojourn in Italy for two weeks in 1925, and the controversial trip from May 30 to June 22, 1926 especially at the......
THIS has been a year of crisis compounded upon crisis. Only four months into the year a major earthquake struck, and since then the country has become mired into myriad calamities. And the political......
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......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan coach Mohsin Khan was a disappointed man here on Tuesday after Pakistan’s stunning 0-3 loss to England in the T20 series in the UAE and said that a below par showing on part......
NEW DELHI: Indian cricket authorities face a fine of up to $15,000 after the pitch used for the spin-dominated third Test between India and South Africa in Nagpur was rated as “poor” by match referee......
ADELAIDE: Cricket Australia (CA) said on Tuesday they will schedule more day-night Test matches following the overwhelming success of the recent trial against New Zealand staged under lights in......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Cricket (NZC) 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......
MILAN: Displaying a form at the San Paolo stadium not witnessed since Diego Maradona’s exploits, Gonzalo Higuain struck in either half to put Napoli top of Serie A with an extraordinary 2-1 win over......
LONDON: England’s women cricket team will play three one-dayers and three T20 games against Pakistan next year, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Tuesday.The three ODIs will form......
BRISBANE: Former captain Richie Richardson on Tuesday urged the maligned West Indian tourists to back themselves and take on Australia in the coming three-Test series.The West Indies are a pale......
KARACHI: A huge contingent of approximately 450 to 500 athletes, including women and officials, will compete at the 12th South Asian Games being held in the Indian cities of Guwahati and Shillong......
KARACHI: Long forgotten Pakistan batsman Khalid Latif stroked a sensational century to single-handedly inspire a stunning fightback for Port Qasim Authority (PQA) against United Bank Limited in their......
KARACHI: The US dollar continued to rise despite ample supply and traded as high as Rs107.70 in the open market on Tuesday, bringing into question the strategy adopted by the State Bank of Pakistan......
MUMBAI: Pakistan is buying more cotton than expected from India after floods cut its own crop to the smallest in over a decade, opening an opportunity for the world’s biggest producer to offload its......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday called for speeding up the pace of work on projects and initiatives launched under the Vision-2025.All projects should conform......
ISLAMABAD: Annual inflation edged up to 2.7 per cent in November 2015, a sharp rise compared to 1.6pc in the preceding month, on the back of increase in prices of perishable products.The Consumer......
ISLAMABAD: With the aim to discourage deceptive marketing with the use of similar names, the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) issued a policy note to the federal and provincial governments......
KARACHI: The stock market continued losing spree for the tenth successive session, with the KSE-100 index taking a dip of 545.84 points (1.69 per cent) on Tuesday to close at eight-month low of......
QUETTA: Sardar Akhtar Mengal was elected president of Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) at the party’s 4th National Council Session.This was announced by Rashda Baloch, the chairperson of the......
QUETTA: Chairman of Evacuee Trust Property Board Siddiq al-Farooq said here on Tuesday that the government was preparing a bill aimed at curbing the practice of forced conversion.He said at a press......
QUETTA: Federal Minister for Religious Affairs, Sardar Mohammad Yousuf, has said that terrorism can be defeated and sectarianism can be eliminated on permanent basis if religious scholars belonging......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a bail petition of Ziaullah Afridi, former minister for mines and mineral development of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with a directive to the provincial......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was requested on Tuesday to do away with the practice of splitting its strength into different benches because it was against the command of the constitution.The request......
WASHINGTON: Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammed Asif said on Tuesday that everybody hoped the meeting between the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers would help bring down tensions in South......
ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior, Senator Rehman Malik, has demanded of the United Nations’ Human Rights Commission to set up a high-powered commission to investigate......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties are planning to jointly protest against imposition of new taxes worth Rs40 billion on the dictates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) during the coming National......
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that without eliminating prejudices, intolerance and extremism from society, the country cannot be called Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s......
ISLAMABAD: Objecting to recent high-profile and allegedly political inductions, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has restricted the management of the country’s largest bank from hiring or promoting......
QUETTA: The government is keen on eradicating polio virus from the country and officials responsible for the next round of vaccination should put in extra efforts to make the campaign a success,......
NEW DELHI: The seemingly blow hot blow cold relationship between the Pakistani and Indian prime ministers took a break from the tedium in Kathmandu last year when Nawaz Sharif and Narendra Modi......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan announced on Tuesday that it was making a renewed effort, in collaboration with the United States and China, to revive the stalled Afghan reconciliation process.“Pakistan... would......
BRUSSELS: The Nato allies decided on Tuesday to hold alliance troop levels in Afghanistan steady at about 12,000 next year and launched a campaign to fund the 350,000 Afghan forces it hopes will......
BEIRUT: Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate freed on Tuesday 16 Lebanese soldiers and police it captured more than a year ago, in a prisoner swap that partially ended a long-running hostage crisis.The......
KABUL: Afghanistan is hoping to improve its relations with Pakistan over the next few months as a prelude to a possible revival of peace talks with Taliban militants, President Ashraf Ghani has told......
WASHINGTON: The Iran gas pipeline project remains the best option for Pakistan, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Khaqan Abbasi said on Tuesday.Earlier in the day, Mr Abbasi and Energy......
DOHA: Qatar has done “almost nothing” to end labour abuse in the five years since being awarded football’s 2022 World Cup despite huge global pressure to reform, Amnesty International said on......
KARACHI: Two military personnel were killed in an attack here on Tuesday.Two masked men on a motorbike targeted a military police jeep on M. A. Jinnah Road, one of the city’s busiest roads, at around......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) reduced on Tuesday electricity tariff by Rs1.81 per unit for all distribution companies and Rs1.16 for K-Electric for one month......
LAHORE: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has said that the Rs40 billion taxes imposed or added to the annual budget for the financial year 2015-16 will be spent on rehabilitation of internally displaced......
SAN: Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and his wife said on Tuesday they will give away 99 percent of their Facebook shares, currently worth about $45 billion, to a new charity in......
It was the briefest of accidental meetings — at least according to officials from both sides — but anytime the prime ministers of Pakistan and India meet it is necessarily of great interest in the......
THE disease has so far claimed 34 million lives worldwide and remains a major global health concern. However, aside from being spotlighted to some extent every year on Dec 1, World AIDS Day, HIV/AIDS......
THE Paris summit on climate change has let in a ray of hope for change in the regional political climate too. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s meetings with his Indian counterpart and with the Afghan......
Fashion Pakistan Week (not to be confused with Pakistan Fashion Week) was held recently with the usual fanfare that surrounds such undertakings; there were ‘red carpets’, there were live tweets,......
BY virtue of the 18th Amendment introduced in April 2010, labour laws were omitted from the Concurrent Legislative List in the Constitution and devolved to the provinces. It was stated that the......
THREE quarters of a century ago, it wasn’t just political and racialist motives that lay behind the Nazi conquest of Europe. Adolf Hitler also wanted to ensure that Germans would always be well fed,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) took the lead as Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) received the results of the local government (LG) polls held in Islamabad on Monday, DawnNews......
