KABUL: An Afghan official says a car bombing near a foreign guest house in central Kabul has wounded one person.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the massive explosion that shook buildings in......
KABUL: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday shrugged off criticism from the country's intelligence chief who resigned over his diplomatic outreach to Pakistan aimed at reviving peace talks with......
MUMBAI: Virat Kohli played down India's status Friday as favourites for cricket's World Twenty20, saying their rivals' experience of playing in the IPL had robbed the tournament's hosts of home......
MUMBAI: The sleepy hill station of Dharamsala will host arch-rivals India and Pakistan at next year's cricket World Twenty20, while the final will be staged at the historic Eden Gardens in Kolkata,......
KARACHI: The Ministry of Interior has approved the transfer and trial of 18 cases, including the Safoora Goth massacre and the murder of Sabeen Mahmud, to military courts.Sources told Dawn the......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister's Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz told the National Assembly on Thursday that foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India will meet soon to discuss modalities......
TEGUCIGALPA: Gunmen killed Honduras international and former Rangers star Arnold Peralta in a drive-by shooting in a shopping mall car park, police said on Thursday.The 26-year-old was assassinated......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah on Friday said corruption in Pakistan is not a new phenomenon but today the problem had been “blown out of proportion,” especially in Sindh, because of......
NEW DELHI: Spaniard Rafa Nadal remains fiercely loyal to his uncle and coach Toni despite saying he does not know when, or even if, he will win another grand slam title.Former world number one Nadal......
MILAN: The mood in Italy was despondent after the Azzurri crashed out of the World Cup in Brazil last year, leading to the resignation of coach Cesare Prandelli and the president of the Italian......
PARIS: Ahead of Saturday's draw for Euro 2016 in France, here's a look at all 24 qualified nations:ALBANIA World ranking: 38 Coach: Gianni De BiasiAlbania qualified for their first major tournament......
ISLAMABAD: As reports of hate crimes against Muslims fuel tensions in the United States, a video released on Facebook by the US Embassy in Pakistan shows US Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale visiting......
TOKYO: Suspended FIFA president Sepp Blatter insisted that a $100 million bribery case in which he is reportedly implicated “is over”, and pleaded ignorance over alleged corruption by top officials......
LAUSANNE: The Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) on Friday backed a 90-day FIFA ban against Michel Platini, in a new blow to the Frenchman's hopes of entering the FIFA presidential race.Platini,......
NEW DELHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi Friday evening, where he invited Modi to visit Pakistan, the India Ministry of......
DUNEDIN: A low-flying seagull was blamed for interfering with the speed gun on Friday when New Zealand's Neil Wagner bowled a ball clocked at 160 kilometres (99.4 miles) per hour -- one of the......
BEIRUT: At least 22 people were killed by three truck bombs in a Kurdish-controlled town in northeastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday. It said the death toll from......
From the makers of the I-11 human rights catastrophe that left thousands homeless, comes a reinvigorated drive to not only keep Islamabad beautiful, but also dependably and homogeneously Muslim.In a......
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkish troops deployed in Iraq for training purposes in the fight against the militant Islamic State (IS) group were not on combat mission and......
BELGRADE: One of the guns linked to militants in the Paris attacks that killed 130 people was exported to the United States (US) in 2013, the head of a Serbian arms factory said Thursday.Milojko......
DHAKA: A popular satirical writer was arrested for posting articles poking fun at the government, an official said Friday, hours after Bangladesh's three-week ban on Facebook for security reasons was......
LAHORE: A hateful poster targeting a minority group was taken down from outside a mobile shop in Hafeez Center after a photo of the pamphlet ignited a social media storm on Thursday.Police said the......
ISLAMABAD: Cellphone services were temporarily suspended in parts of Islamabad for three hours during Friday prayer timings.There was no mobile phone service in parts of the twin cities from 11am to......
The fate of the bilateral series remains uncertain but Pakistan and India will cross swords in a high-octane 2016 World Twenty20 clash on March 19 after the International Cricket Council (ICC)......
'First daughter' Maryam Nawaz was busy tweeting photos of an upgraded government school located in the 'rural suburbs' of the federal capital as part of the Prime Minister's education reforms......
ISLAMABAD: A police officer says a mother and her seven children were killed overnight by a fire the family had lit to keep warm in their hut in Sindh's Dadu district.Ashraf Hussain said Friday the......
KARACHI: An accountability court on Friday remanded former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain into the custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for seven days.Earlier police presented the......
NEW YORK: Connecticut announced plans on Thursday to ban sales of weapons to terror suspects, in what would be the first such measure in the United States (US) as it seeks to fight a scourge of gun......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan conducted a successful test launch of the medium-range Shaheen-III surface-to-surface ballistic missile, according to a statement from Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).The......
ANKARA: Iran claimed on Thursday groups linked to militant Islamic State (IS) group were involved in talks on forming a delegation for negotiations on the future of Syria, the semi-official Iranian......
TORONTO: The first Canadian government plane carrying Syrian refugees arrived in Toronto late Thursday where they were greeted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is pushing forward with......
Exactly a year ago, our already battered society suffered from one of the most horrendous acts in our (violent) history. At least 144 people, most of them children (132), were killed when Taliban......
WASHINGTON: A coalition air strike killed militant Islamic State (IS) group's finance chief in Iraq last month, the United States military said Thursday, hailing it as another scalp in its bid to......
MUMBAI: A landmark mosque in Mumbai is facing pressure to overturn a ban on women entering its inner sanctum, a move that could set a precedent on gender restrictions to places of worship in the......
DUBAI: Amnesty International said Friday that a Saudi-led coalition had bombed schools in Yemen, violating international humanitarian law and denying access to education for thousands of children.The......
WASHINGTON: The militant Islamic State (IS) group ignored contact attempts from Tashfeen Malik in the months before she and her husband killed 14 people at a California holiday party, probably......
WASHINGTON: Muslim advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) evacuated its national headquarters on Capitol Hill on Thursday after receiving a letter containing white powder, but......
LONDON: Gold edged lower on Thursday and was vulnerable to further weakness as the dollar rebounded and ahead of a widely anticipated US interest rate rise next week.The US Fed is expected to raise......
ISLAMABAD: The commerce ministry on Thursday finalised a strategy to defend Pakistan’s interests in the 9th World Trade Organisation ministerial, starting next week in Nairobi, Kenya, through......
KARACHI: Stocks continued to head north on Thursday defying the trend of the regional markets. The KSE-100 index gained 191.66 points (0.58 per cent) to close at 33,211.92.Local bourse started off on......
KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $20.451 billion during the week ending December 4 compared to $19.819bn the previous week, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said......
PESHAWAR: The district council of Peshawar has taken serious notice of absence of officials of different departments from the meetings of the council and warned to take stern action against......
CHITRAL: Over 200 passengers were caught in blizzards in the wee hours of Thursday when they were descending to Chitral valley after crossing Lowari Top.However, they were rescued by the personnel of......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan has said that measures have been taken to develop health and education sectors and stressed that it is the pressing need of the hour to......
The success of a large number of independent candidates against those of the established political parties, in the just concluded local elections in Sindh and Punjab, has set some politicians......
ISLAMABAD: An exhibition by artists Saad Ahmed and Agha Jandan titled ‘Jamaa, Zarb, Taqseem’ (‘Gather, Hit, Split’), opened at the Satrang gallery on Thursday. The exhibition pays tribute to the......
TAXILA: Former senator and Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) senior leader Syed Zafar Ali Shah on Thursday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif should learn from history.Talking to the media, the veteran......
ISLAMABAD: Maulana Abdul Aziz, former khateeb of the Lal Masjid, has made no secret of his vision regarding the complete enforcement of Sharia in the country.After failing to whip up a popular......
RAWALPINDI: Five days after the LG elections, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) could still not announce the official results of the polls held in Rawalpindi on December 5.“The ECP is......
RAWALPINDI: The All Pakistan Hindu-Sikh Social Welfare Association on Thursday demanded that the government provide the Hindu community with representation in the local government, so that the......
ISLAMABAD: Sitting behind a stall exhibiting products from his marble factory, Mohammad Aftab Qazi expressed his concerns that government policies did not aim to support investors and local......
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a seminar titled ‘Kashmir liberation struggle and India’s institutional and systematic war crimes in Jammu and Kashmir’ said Kashmir is not only a disputed territory but also a......
ISLAMABAD: Ten years after the devastating 2005 earthquake, it appears government authorities still do not have any building laws and regulations that could be enforced.This was revealed on Thursday,......
‘My job is to make people laugh…everything else is a bonus!’ exclaimed an excited Saad Haroon. Saad was all pumped up for his show in Lahore this weekend, when we met at a local coffee shop to......
MULTAN: Educational institutions are on threat alerts and a security strategy has been devised in a meeting with schools’ heads of Multan division and security agencies.Commissioner Asadullah Khan......
LAHORE: “Our smiles are stronger than your guns,” read one of the 50 paintings the students of the Fine Arts Department of the Government College University displayed on Thursday to remember the......
LAHORE: There is no harm in granting visa to the elderly on arrival at Wagah and Attari check posts, especially those desirous of going on a pilgrimage.“At least 45 days are required, under the......
BAHAWALPUR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf candidate Noor Hassan Chawan was declared (unofficially) chairman-elect of Union Council 6 of the Municipal Corporation in vote recount on Thursday.According to......
NAROWAL: An influential figure, who had lost the election of councillor, blocked a street and a sewage drain with bricks in Chak Bhopa village near Shakargarh to take a revenge from villagers for not......
LAHORE: Rights activists have reminded the state of its responsibility to protect the rights of its people and asked it to take steps to promote tolerance in society.Holding a demonstration in......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s top leaders in Punjab are divided over the question of another intra-party election announced by party chairman Imran Khan a few days ago.Those opposing to the......
LARKANA: Speakers at the first death anniversary of comrade Sobho Gianchandani paid tribute to his commitment and called for publishing his work and constructing a memorial.Former ambassador to the......
KARACHI: “A poster, a simple, arresting image combined by a powerful piece of text, can be a force for change,” believes Poster For Tomorrow, a community of artists who came together in 2009 to make......
KARACHI: At least 20 children and a labourer suffered injuries when the roof and a wall of an under-construction seminary in the hilly area of Shahnawaz Bhutto Colony collapsed on Thursday, police......
KARACHI: It would be an understatement to suggest that the session dedicated to the popular humorist and satirist Anwar Masood on the third day of the 8th International Urdu Conference brought the......
KARACHI: The government resolution seeking an extension in the Rangers stay and policing powers in Sindh could not be taken up in Thursday’s session of the Sindh Assembly as the house after offering......
HYDERABAD: Civil society organisations and nationalist parties in parts of Sindh held various programmes to mark the International Human Rights Day on Thursday.In Hyderabad, rights activists took out......
HYDERABAD: An enraged mob went on the rampage at Hilal-i-Ahmer hospital in Latifabad No.6 on Thursday, accusing the paramedics of replacing a baby boy with a baby girl.The baby boy of Saima, wife of......
SUKKUR: A warehouse is being built in the SITE area in collaboration with Japan, Australia, The Netherlands and the United States to store relief goods for use in time of natural disasters in upper......
WASHINGTON: A lawsuit over who owns the copyright to “Happy Birthday to You” has been settled, bringing to an end a two-year legal battle over what is said to be the most widely sung tune in the......
WASHINGTON: Boxing legend Mohammed Ali said on Thursday that militants were using Islam to promote their own agenda and urged Muslims around the globe to rise against them.In a statement first......
BRUSSELS: The European Union is examining a possible “emergency brake” on migration into Britain as an alternative to David Cameron’s unpopular demands for limits to migrant benefits, diplomatic......
GENEVA: Police searched the Swiss city of Geneva on Thursday for several suspected extremists militants believed to have links to the militant Islamic State (IS) group, security sources said.The......
WASHINGTON: Under fire for anti-Muslim remarks, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said on Thursday he was postponing a planned trip to Israel because he didn’t want to put pressure on......
OSLO: Members of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, which helped build democracy in the violence-torn country after the 2011 revolution, collected the Nobel Peace Prize in the Norway’s capital......
RIYADH: Syrian President Bashar Assad has two choices, “either to leave through negotiations” or be forcibly removed from power, the Saudi foreign minister said on Thursday, arguing that the Syrian......
MANILA: A Philippine eagle chick has been hatched in captivity, conservationists said on Thursday, boosting the critically-endangered species’ fight against extinction.The chick, hatched at a......
MOSCOW: A goat sent to a Russian safari park as live prey for a Siberian tiger has instead befriended the big cat and the two have become inseparable in a story that has captivated Russians.Amur the......
WHEN it comes to the birth of American geniuses, 1915 was a very good year. This year marks the centenary of Orson Welles, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow and, on Saturday, the guy who gave eternal life......
RIYADH: One candidate wants more recycling. A rival envisions community centres with day care. How about creating Western-style public libraries? asks another.These are hardly the rallying cries of......
JOHANNESBURG: AB de Villiers will keep wickets in South Africa’s first two Tests against England. He was named on Thursday as the only wicket-keeper in a 13-man squad for the matches starting in......
HOBART: Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh pounded tons in a triple century unbroken stand to crush the dispirited West Indies and put Australia in immediate command of the first Test in Hobart on......
LAHORE: Not losing hope and still awaiting a reply from the BCCI on the bilateral series, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan is convinced that the role of the Indian cricket board......
HOBART: West Indies great Brian Lara on Thursday urged his country’s cricket board to toss out the current generation and start over again with a new team.The West Indies are a shadow of their former......
HOBART: Australia pace spearhead Mitchell Starc will have ankle surgery and is “unlikely” to play in the World Twenty20 tournament in India next year, Cricket Australia said on Thursday.Starc, who......
KARACHI: Anum Salam will lead the Pakistan junior netball girls team in the ninth Asian Junior Girls Netball Championship, scheduled to be held in Hong Kong from Dec 14-20.President of the Pakistan......
LONDON: Olivier Giroud was Arsenal’s hero as the Gunners and Chelsea succeeded on Wednesday where Manchester United failed a day earlier to advance to the draw for the last 16 of the Champions......
DUNEDIN: Martin Guptill smashed 156 on Thursday as he bounced back from a horror series in Australia to put New Zealand in the driving seat on day one of the first Test against Sri Lanka.On a Dunedin......
KARACHI: Country’ top pugilists, who recently featured in the 35th National Boxing Championship in the city recently will be seen in action again when the all-Pakistan Amir Khan boxing tournament......
The lavish extravaganza that is the FIFA World Cup was about to kick off in 19 days. Brazil was gearing up to welcome the world. Fans were arriving from all corners of the globe. The teams were going......
KARACHI: Remittances from overseas Pakistanis grew 7.5 per cent to cross $8 billion in the first five months (July to November) of this fiscal year, the State Bank of Pakistan said on......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Thursday promulgated the Special Economic Zones (Amendment) Ordinance 2015 for rapid industrialisation and enhancing economic activities.The amendment to the......
WASHINGTON: The IMF executive board will meet on Dec 18 to discuss the ninth review under the Extended Fund Facility arrangement with Pakistan and is expected to approve the release of $502 million......
KARACHI: Auto parts manufacturers have asked the government to immediately announce the Auto Policy 2015-25 so that the industry may proceed with its investment plans which have been pending after......
ISLAMABAD: Railway Constructions Pakistan Limited (Railcop), a subsidiary of Pakistan Railways, on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) to......
KARACHI: Renewed buying interest was witnessed on the cotton market on Thursday where spinners indulged in small lot deals to meet their immediate requirement.A recent fall in the US dollar value......
VIENNA: Opec said on Thursday that it expects oil production by countries outside the group to fall in 2016 by more than it previously forecast, in a sign that its audacious strategy may be working......
LONDON: The Bank of England (BoE) has kept interest rates at a half a per cent, it announced on Thursday in the last monetary policy decision of the 2015.The BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government and its agencies sought on Thursday support of the provinces to introduce a proper pricing mechanism for all kinds of water uses as a policy instrument to fill the......
ISLAMABAD: Four men allegedly involved in incidents of target killings in Karachi and robberies in the federal capital have been arrested here, Dawn has learnt through reliable sources.Though the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has expressed the hope that normalisation of relations would reduce tensions between Pakistan and India.Speaking on ways of integrating South......
ISLAMABAD: Threat to vulnerable bird ‘houbara bustard’ from hunters, especially by foreign dignitaries, is serious enough for a larger bench of the Supreme Court to consider.On Thursday a three-judge......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) summoned on Thursday the record of privatisation of the Muslim Commercial Bank (MCB) on an application filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against......
As the final text for the Paris Agreement is pored over by the ministers in the high-level negotiation rooms, the side events are going strong with just two days remaining before the UN Climate......
GWADAR: A partial strike was observed in Panjgur and parts of Gwadar and Turbat on Thursday on the call of Baloch National Front (BNF) against alleged violations of human rights in Balochistan.The......
ISLAMABAD: The president of the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M), Sardar Akhtar Mengal, said here on Thursday that the fate of the ambitious China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project......
KARACHI: Karachi Corps Commander Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar called on Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah at the CM House on Thursday.They first held a one-to-one meeting and later the chief minister......
NEW DELHI: The Bombay High Court acquitted on Thursday actor Salman Khan in a hit-and-run case, overturning a lower court verdict and saying he cannot be convicted on the basis of the evidence......
ATHENS: Nasima, 32, has just finished wrangling with her two daughters and one son, when a foreign journalist comes asking Afghan refugees what they plan to do after reports that the border of......
NEW DELHI: An Indian court has approved giving conditional pardon to David Headley amid reports that he has offered to become approver in the Mumbai terror case in which India has named him along......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif nominated Nawab Sanaullah Zehri as next chief minister of Balochistan on Thursday under an agreement reached by three parties, quieting rumours that he had......
ISLAMABAD: Leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Awami National Party (ANP) have blamed the “forces with vested interests” and the “security establishment” for delaying the implementation......
KARACHI: In what appeared to be a rejection of Pakistan Rangers’ allegations against former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain, police said on Thursday it had found “no terror-related evidence” against......
ISLAMABAD: Notwithstanding the government’s euphoria surrounding the resumption of “comprehensive bilateral dialogue” with India, political parties across the aisle expressed their reservations over......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan-India agreement on resumption of dialogue on bilateral disputes may have provided an opening for a thaw in an otherwise frosty relationship, but an inbuilt caveat and the......
AN enriching discourse at two recent back-to-back conferences (one in Bangkok on Asian countries ‘transformation trap’, and the other the South Asia Economic Summit organised by SDPI in Islamabad)......
UNKIND are the ones who have been compelled by their own ideas of suspects to cast aspersions on the motives of those who thought the Tashfeen Malik identity card could be a fake. The question might......
THIS week the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) is holding an international symposium to celebrate 40 years of its existence.The logo designed for the occasion sums up its......
Notwithstanding the testy exchanges between Kabul and Islamabad in the build-up to the event, the just-concluded Heart of Asia Conference has yielded at least two positive outcomes from Pakistan’s......
It is as unexpected as it is compelling — and official: Pakistan and India are to resume dialogue across a range of agreed subjects under the umbrella of what has now been labelled the Comprehensive......
THE Sindh government seems determined to hold on to its garbage. Only days after the local government election in the province saw the ruling PPP put in a poor showing, the Sindh government is......
THE problems of the child healthcare sector in Pakistan are extensive and, in the main, well known.Apart from the high infant and under-five mortality rates, perhaps the most talked about globally......
LONDON: The militant Islamic State (IS) group has made more than $500 million trading oil with significant volumes sold to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and some finding its way......
CALCUTTA: Three out of the five men accused in the gang rape of Suzette Jordan were found guilty by a sessions court on Thursday, two years after the case was filed and 8 months after the survivor's......
