QUETTA: Security officials recovered mutilated bodies of three young boys from Balochistan's Killa Saifullah district on Thursday.Levies sources told DawnNews that mutilated bodies of three mean were......
LONDON: A knife attacker slashed a man at an east London metro station, reportedly screaming "this is for Syria", in what police described as a terrorist incident, prompting a senior minister to urge......
PARIS: Star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic set another Paris Saint-Germain record Friday, scoring twice in a 3-0 win at Nice to become the club's outright all-time leading league scorer.The 34-year-old......
NEW DELHI: South Africa fought on Sunday to try to save the fourth and final Test after Ajinkya Rahane scored his second century of the match to give India control on the second-last day.Chasing a......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday referring to the recent shooting in California said that the act of an individual does not represent a country or religion and added......
KARACHI: “It is better to be blind than to suffer from obstetrical fistula,” says Razia, as she recalls the stigma and struggle of living with the condition for over a decade.She is talking about the......
Pakistan batsman Mohammad Hafeez has signed for the 2015 Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) and will play with the Dhaka Dynamites for the remainder of tournament, according to a report published on the......
MADRID: Real Madrid ended a turbulent week off the pitch on a high when Karim Benzema struck twice in a 4-1 victory over Getafe in La Liga on Saturday before leaders Barcelona were held to a 1-1 draw......
ISLAMABAD: Pursuant to the recently-held meeting between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Paris climate summit, the National Security......
ADEN: The governor of Aden was killed in a car bomb attack on Sunday claimed by Islamic State in Yemen's southern port city, where President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has returned to oversee a war......
GENEVA: The International Committee of the Red Cross has said it is trying to establish relations with the militant Islamic State group in hopes of delivering aid to the 10 million people living......
BEIJING: China's campaign of island building in the South China Sea might soon quadruple the number of airstrips available to the People's Liberation Army in the highly contested and strategically......
ANKARA: Turkey on Sunday said it was “astonished “by Iranian accusations that Ankara is supporting the militant Islamic State group and involved in oil dealing with the jihadists in Iraq and......
KAROR ESAN: The estranged relatives of Tashfeen Malik, a Pakistani woman accused of shooting dead 14 people in California, say she and her father seem to have abandoned the family's moderate Islam......
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI: Wang Shijie, 11, is a rising star among the nearly 3,000 students at Guangzhou Evergrande's huge football academy in south China. He wants to join the national team and help......
MANCHESTER: Louis van Gaal insists he still has the support of Manchester United's frustrated fans despite claiming he can't understand their plea for more attacking football during a dour 0-0 draw......
SANAA: Yemeni security officials say a huge explosion has killed the governor of Aden and six of his bodyguards.The officials say Governor Gaafar Mohamed Saad was travelling to his office in a convoy......
To tackle the massive crisis of energy in Pakistan, the current government made several promises which included two power projects – Nandipur Power Plant and Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park (QASP) project in......
LONDON: Not long ago Chelsea losing to Bournemouth in the Premier League would have been inconceivable. Actually impossible.For much of the 21st century Chelsea has been collecting every major trophy......
WELLINGTON: Former New Zealand cricket star Chris Cairns, cleared of perjury charges over match-fixing, demanded answers Sunday for why current captain Brendon McCullum testified against him.Cairns......
As unofficial results pour in, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) appear to have emerged victorious in the third and final phase of local government (LG) polls......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will push for Unesco to include another eight sites, that are of universal value, in its lost of world heritage sites.“These sites are of national and cultural universal......
KABUL: The Afghan Taliban released an audio message Saturday it said was from leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, vehemently rejecting reports of his death in a firefight with his own commanders as......
A story worth tellingby Naziha Syed AliIn the ‘80s, when Nafisa Hoodbhoy would arrive at crime scenes in Karachi, notepad in hand and questions at the ready, it created quite a stir. One day, she......
Great fashion, in essence, needs to be more than just a race to the top. It needs to scintillate, inspire and grow. It is true that the business of fashion can only be viable if it generates revenue......
Themes on dictatorship, propaganda and the politics of war, streamlined for the young adult crowd, made for delicious fare during the first two excellent installments in the series, but fail to......
Known for hit films like Devdas, Guzaarish, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and others, film-maker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, whose Bajirao Mastani is poised for release this month, admitted in a recent......
On August 15, 1947, I was on Rhodesia Pitch along with other 16-year-old boys of St Peters High School, Panchgani, a hill station tucked away in the verdant wilderness of the Western Ghats, 64 miles......
It all started when the administration of Liaquat Medical College (LMC) Jamshoro was planning events related to their Golden Jubilee celebrations to be held in 2001. Some “pragmatic” professors came......
Anyone entering Balochistan province from any direction is sure to be caught by the eye-catching and magnetic natural beauty, as the entire area looks like a holiday resort with unique natural......
Smartphones come equipped with the best sensors especially flagships available from Apple, Samsung, LG, Sony etc. All these high end smartphones whether using iOS or Android are more than capable......
You’re in a bank when it gets robbed. Are you supposed to drop to the floor? Challenge the robber? Try to escape? Raise the alarm? Or try and capture a picture of the robber?Every situation is......
Some carry it for support while walking and some carry it for style or to wield authority or even for defensive reasons. Around the 17th or 18th century, a stout rigid stick took over from the sword......
Eating healthy isn’t always as simple as, in reality, it should be: especially when it comes to such things like a hasty breakfast — devoured on the run — a midmorning ‘snack’ to maintain energy and......
Salam Auntie, I am a 15-year-old girl currently doing her O’ levels. When I was in grade three it was as if my mother abandoned me. She stopped worrying about me and wouldn’t care for me. I could......
The months tend, if you are a dedicated gardener, to slide into one another as the years cycle through seasonal planting routines with, it is hoped, a few interesting experiments — the kind which......
This year’s Venice Biennale had the very first Indo-Pak joint pavilion “My East is Your West” that offered a strong contrast between the softly reflexive works of Shilpa Gupta from Bombay and the......
“The Third of May, 1808” (El Tres de Mayo, 1808), oil on canvas, 106 inches × 137 inches) was painted by Francisco de Goya in 1814 depicting a rebellion by Madrid citizens against the French rule and......
Art of Pakistan has continued to emerge significantly on the international scene ever since the traditional miniature painting transformed into the contemporary format during the early ’80s. Under......
One was saddened to learn of the passing of a true and gallant artist, Zubeida Javed, whose health problems prevented her from painting in recent years, though her work has stood the test of time.......
Mine must be the lone voice crying in the wilderness for the last few years pleading for some sort of action to bring international cricket back to Pakistan. Some half-hearted attempts have been made......
My question is: why? Why did Imran Abbas have to say, as reported by a section of the press, that he has no competition with Fawad Khan? Obviously, the statement is with reference to the fact that......
His film Shah may not have been a big box office success, but it did introduce a passionate film-maker to Pakistani audiences.Adnan Sarwar has announced that he’s going to make another movie, to be......
Three years back, Hollywood beauty Anne Hathaway got married to actor Adam Shulman, and ever since she has been openly expressing the desire of becoming a mum. Guess what, her wish has finally been......
Shahrukh Khan and Kajol starrer Dilwale is one of the most eagerly awaited films of 2015. It will have its international release on Dec 18, including on our side of the Wagah border.In Pakistan, the......
Now that is something to look forward to! The super-smart (let’s not call her gorgeous because she will mind it for objectifying her, though she is gorgeous) actress-turned-director Nandita Das is......
You could say that veteran film actor Mustafa Qureshi is going a little overboard when it comes to criticism of Indian films, but you should also realise that his anger stems from his love for......
A Pakistani documentary based on the lives of vertically challenged people (called dwarfs by the film’s makers) titled Athanni will be screened at this year’s Delhi International Film Festival to be......
The partition of India in 1947 is largely understood as a division between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority of the region; and how two mainstream political parties played a direct role in......
Memories, half a century old, set off a stream of consciousness triggered by the sad news of Javed Masood passing away. He was visiting his daughter in Washington and according to a mutual friend was......
Generally, a society is either pluralistic or monistic. In a pluralistic society, people belonging to a different faith, or sect and ethnic group live together in peace and harmony. The majority in......
THE Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell, his second bestseller thus far, tells the story of — as the title suggests — the Fifth Gospel, or the Diatessaron and the controversy surrounding it. Written by an......
IT has been generations since the spaceship Australia was sent into space as a fully-functioning, self-sustaining ecosystem away from a dying earth in a desperate attempt to save lives and in the......
DR Sadaf Fatima’s study of women’s travelogues in the Urdu language is a promising introduction to the genre. Assistant Professor in the Department of Urdu at the Federal Urdu University of Arts,......
SOME years ago, I gave a lecture at the Lahore University of Management Sciences under the same title that appears here. While the then vice-chancellor Adil Najam was presiding, my address was......
KARACHI: Surrounding the metropolis, a festive atmosphere was seen in most Pakhtun neighbourhoods on Saturday. People left their homes as early as 6:30 in the morning to vote. It was evident in......
KARACHI: Please don’t ask me questions about Modi. I’m not here to defend him, and I did not vote for him. This may not sound a funny remark, but the way it was uttered by Indian humourist Sanjay......
KARACHI: Fifteen persons, including an assistant presiding officer and nine political activists, were arrested for casting bogus votes and other violations amid incidents of sporadic violence in......
KARACHI: The streets were deserted and the mood was dull minutes before a street of North Nazimabad block A turned lively with dozens of Jamaat-i-Islami workers escorting their Karachi party chief......
KARACHI: While the Muttahida Qaumi Movement felt confident about an electoral triumph in the city, panic and anger gripped its leaders and workers on Saturday after violence broke out in Landhi where......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party on Saturday seemed prepared to receive some ‘bad news’ from its stronghold, Lyari, despite hoping to grab the most number of seats from Karachi’s South and Malir......
HYDERABAD: Leaders of two active farmers bodies in Sindh have called for making the agriculture sector a federal subject again in the interest of the national economy, and warned that if this was not......
SUKKUR: Leaders of the Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) including the Shuhada Committee chief Allama Maqsood Ali Domki on Saturday expressed their disappointment over a lack of progress in the......
KARACHI: Driving down a road lined with plant nurseries feels like moving along a path strewn with flowers, especially during this time of the year when Karachi is enjoying winter as well as spring......
KABUL: To the west of the Afghan city of Maidan Shahr is a 40-kilometre stretch of the paved highway known as “Death Road”, where drivers say the country’s ethnic Hazara minority are slaughtered by......
MANAGUA: He hasn’t officially started campaigning, but Daniel Ortega, president of Nicaragua, is widely believed to be aiming to extend his near decade in power by yet another term.If that turns out......
ANKARA: Turkey on Saturday said it was seeking alternatives to Russian energy as relations with Moscow plunge over the downing of a warplane, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowing his country......
DAKAR: A Chad security official says a triple suicide bombing at a market on an island in Lake Chad has killed at least 27 people and injured 90 others.Paul Manka, Chad police spokesman, said three......
NEW DELHI: A former Indian soldier who had fought in the Kargil war in 1999 has been arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan in the Rajouri district of held Kashmir, television reports said on......
BAGHDAD: Iraq has called on Turkey to “immediately” withdraw forces, including tanks and artillery, it has deployed in the country’s north without Baghdad’s consent.The premier’s office said on......
REDLANDS: Baby toys, shredded files, a copy of the holy Quran, computer paraphernalia: the home of the California shooters was bizarrely — and controversially — thrown open to media on Friday,......
WASHINGTON: The New York Times has published an editorial on its front page for the first time since 1920, using the rare, prominent placement to urge gun control following the latest mass shooting......
LE BOURGET: Negotiators from 195 nations delivered a blueprint on Saturday for a pact to save mankind from disastrous global warming, raising hopes that decades of arguments will finally end with a......
SYDNEY: A ship carrying 25 tons of radioactive waste arrived back in Australia on Saturday, met by activists who warned against the vast nation becoming a nuclear dumping ground.About a dozen......
LONDON: British bombers made their second round of strikes on targets of the militant Islamic State group in Syria late on Friday, again hitting oil fields, British defence minister Michael Fallon......
NEW DELHI: Unidentified attackers hurled three homemade bombs on the premises of a Hindu temple in northern Bangladesh during a drama performance early on Saturday, injuring 10 people, police......
WASHINGTON: The US space agency has released a series of sharp Pluto snapshots, billing them as the best close-ups of the dwarf planet we may see for decades.On July 14, Nasa’s New Horizons became......
THE other day I came back from Thar after a two-day visit. This was my second trip after a lapse of two-and-a-half years. I can’t help but appreciate what the government of Sindh has done in the......
ISLAMABAD: Dr Zafar Altaf, who passed away in Islamabad on Saturday, was one of the country’s foremost agricultural experts, having been appointed chairman of the Pakistan Agricultural Research......
RAWALPINDI: Compared to their impressive outing in the 2013 general elections, the PTI apparently failed to give the PML-N a tough time, despite expectations that it would fare much better in the......
ISLAMABAD: Legendary poet, columnist and author of Jeevay Jeevay Pakistan, Jamiluddin Aali was remembered in the federal capital this Saturday.A number of intellectuals, politicians and many others......
ISLAMABAD: The Dawn Lifestyles Exhibition began amid much enthusiasm as people from across Islamabad converged to the Jinnah Convention Centre to browse and partake of the wide array of activities......
As the local government elections held in the federal capital bring almost five decades of the Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) municipal responsibility to a close, elected representatives still......
The Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) has been referring three cases a day to the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital because it is running without a neurosurgery department, creating problems for......
Raja Ali Nawaz keeps looking through the telescope to monitor the movement of people in the vast, rugged expanse of land which is densely populated with Phulahi trees.Raja Nawaz, the self-styled and......
MANSEHRA: Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Mohammad Yousuf has said that his ministry is making all out efforts to introduce same prayer timings in the country after doing so in the......
PESHAWAR: Over 100 vintage and classic cars rolled on the roads of provincial capital on Saturday which attracted a large number of people, including women and children.The Tourism Corporation Khyber......
PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has filed three references with the accountability court here against eight persons, including deputy chief engineer of Pakistan......
KARACHI: The Ministry of Finance and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) want to see a cut of Rs2 per dollar in the open market, and have warned the exchange companies to comply or face the......
KARACHI: Trading activity failed to pick up on the cotton market as leading spinners and exporters kept to the sidelines on Saturday.Floor brokers said that spinners faced with financial crunch were......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board, in yet another attempt, conveyed it to the BCCI on Saturday to inform it about its final decision regarding the bilateral series in the next couple of days;......
NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli struck a fluent unbeaten 83 to help India overcome a top order collapse and virtually bat South Africa out of the contest on day three of the fourth and final Test at the Feroz......
STOKE-ON-TRENT: Xherdan Shaqiri inspired Stoke City to a convincing 2-0 victory over Premier League leaders Manchester City in blustery conditions at the Britannia Stadium on Saturday.Stoke tore the......
DR Zafar Altaf, the former cricket administrator who died in Islamabad following a cardiac arrest, was a man of extraordinary virtues. Apart from being a very good first-class cricketer, he was an......
ROME: Argentina striker Paulo Dybala produced a glorious strike and prompted an own goal as resurgent champions Juventus outclassed Lazio 2-0 at the Stadio Olimpico on Friday to extend their winning......
PARIS: Zlatan Ibrahimovic broke Paris St Germain’s league scoring record with two goals as the French champions continued to streak away from their Ligue 1 rivals with a 3-0 win at 10-man Nice on......
BERLIN: Midfielder Johannes Geis scored on his comeback after a five-game suspension as Schalke 04 beat Hanover 96 3-1 on Friday to provisionally go fourth with their first win in six Bundesliga......
KARACHI: Multan, inspired by telling contributions from Zubair Saleem and skipper Matloob Qureshi, produced a flawless performance to humble Karachi in the final of the ICRC National Disabled T20......
ISLAMABAD: Aqeel Khan and Sara Mansoor clinched men’s and women’s singles titles respectively of the Subh-e-Nau National Tennis Championship at the PTF Complex on Saturday.Sara Mansoor’s opponent......
RAWALPINDI: Raja Shoaib Iqbal, the nephew of former Punjab law minister Raja Basharat, was gunned down and four others were injured in a clash with supporters of the ruling PML-N during the final......
ISLAMABAD: With the Punjab government developing an economically sustainable industrial city in the proximity of M2 highway, a World Bank report has said that urbanisation provides Pakistan with the......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif chaired on Saturday a meeting on preparation of the two-day Heart of Asia conference being held in Islamabad next week.Issues related to regional and......
QUETTA: The passing-out parade of the sixth batch of Balochistan’s youths who have joined the Pakistan Army, comprising 944 recruits, was held here on Saturday.Balochistan Governor Muhammad Khan......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sardar Mohammad Raza Khan has said that the local government polls whose third and final phase in Punjab and Sindh was held on Saturday could be......
GUJRAT: In spite of “hurdles being created” by PTI Chairman Imran Khan, the PML-N government has put the country on the road to progress, Information Minister Pervez Rasheed said on Saturday.Talking......
WHEN I call an official at the police to find out how many female motorcyclists are registered licensees in Pakistan, he laughs at me. “You’re from the same society, have you ever seen any?” he asks.......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement appeared poised to clinch the office of Karachi mayor when it won the biggest number of union commtittees in the city’s six districts and trounced the electoral......
KARACHI: The tenure of policing powers assigned to Rangers in Karachi, which is sanctioned by the Sindh government after every few months, is due to expire on Sunday.But officials believe that sooner......
LAHORE: The third and final phase of local government elections in 12 districts of southern and central Punjab was held on Saturday in a largely peaceful environment with negligible complaints of......
NAROWAL: The third and final phase of the local elections in Punjab largely remained peaceful though sporadic clashes and untoward incidents were reported on Saturday.During the polling for 98 union......
LAHORE: The Civil Aviation Authority has written to all local and foreign airlines to bring in the pilots who are sufficiently trained in using the latest anti-fog landing system at Lahore......
LAHORE: Both civil society activists and a Punjab government’s core committee members stuck to their guns on Saturday at a meeting on Orange Line Metro’s route and other allied issues.The meeting was......
If you walk along the River Ravi taking a northward direction, you will come across hundreds of small gypsy huts, all crafted with small pieces of cloth picked up from waste thrown away by people......
Humble and humane Naeem Saqib is a mellow voice in the cultural landscape of Faisalabad. He is from the generation that has witnessed the city with a rich literary tradition, turning gradually into a......
THE wounds of last year’s terrorist attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar are still fresh and cause for renewing our resolve to finish the job of securing Pakistan’s future. In just one year,......
TERROR has a logic to it. Especially in the Pak-India context. It did in 2001 and it did again in 2008. It was, in the big picture, perhaps not to trigger war, but to defeat peace.And it worked both......
THE recent spike in attacks on security forces has yet again exposed Karachi’s vulnerable security environment, prompting the provincial government to add more anti-terrorism courts, prosecutors and......
FAILED state, surging economy, most risky place: what really is Pakistan? I tackled this riddle by comparing Pakistan globally and regionally on 25 critical progress measures across four dimensions.I......
MOSCOW: Russia's defence ministry on Saturday accused the United States of turning a blind eye to the trafficking of oil into Turkey from Syrian areas under Islamic State control, after Washington......
QUETTA: Three suspected militants were killed during an exchange of fire with security forces in Quetta's Sariab road area on Saturday night.Security forces conducted a raid in Sariab road area to......
