NEW YORK: There is no evidence the married couple who killed 14 people in California this month were part of a terrorist cell, the head of the FBI said on Wednesday, echoing investigators' views that......
ISLAMABAD: The state council of the People's Republic of China granted approval for an investment of $1.2 billion in the surface mining of Thar coal and the establishment of 660 MW power projects, as......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Wednesday welcomed the formation of the 34-Nation alliance to counter terrorism but said Islamabad is awaiting further details in this regard to to decide the extent......
BERLIN: Bayern Munich's flagging stars admit they are relishing the chance to rest during the forthcoming winter break when they discover whether Pep Guardiola will stay or go at the end of the......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday rejected the resignation of Shujaat Azeem, the special assistant to premier on aviation.A statement released by the PM Office said "the premier......
COLOMO: Sri Lanka's sports minister defended Wednesday wicketkeeper Kusal Perera who was suspended from the ongoing New Zealand tour after failing a drugs test, hinting at a conspiracy against the......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution asking for checks and conditions on Rangers’ special powers to raid and arrest suspects.Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Sial presented......
Javier Hernandez left Manchester United because manager Louis van Gaal told him he had a “one percent chance” of playing as a striker if he stayed at the club, the Mexican has said.Hernandez joined......
PESHAWAR: The last time Seema Bibi talked to her husband, she had asked him, “Why is my child not here?”It was the Qul of her only son, Fahid Ahmed, who lost his life in the Army Public School (APS)......
An International Olympic Committee (IOC) plan to hand over all drug testing to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) will have the support of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC), chairman Larry......
QALANDIYA: Clashes erupted Wednesday after Israeli soldiers raided a refugee camp near Ramallah and shot dead two Palestinians who allegedly sought to ram their cars into troops.The Israeli military......
Pakistan versus India? Or 2015 World Cup champions Australia against runners up New Zealand? Among the 35 matches in the 2016 World Twenty20 Championship in India, there are a few which will carry a......
KABUL: Afghan security forces have seized and destroyed two tonnes of ammonium nitrate, an ingredient used in improvised explosives, foiling dozens of potential bomb attacks, the intelligence agency......
SYDNEY: China is on track to return to the top of the medals table at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics next year ahead of the United States and Russia, according to a benchmark study released by the......
Months before the attack, 16-year-old Taimoor Malik participated in a skit which illustrated a terrorist attack at the school. Playing the role of an army major, he was killed fighting militants.The......
The hill station of Dharamsala has been given the green signal to host the firecracker India-Pakistan clash at the World Twenty20 next year after a team of International Cricket Council (ICC) visited......
Dear IT Minister Anusha Rahman,I just heard the news about the award, congratulations.It's inspiring to learn that the UN believes in working for open affordable access for young Pakistani girls.......
BERLIN: A lacklustre Bayern Munich needed a long-range goal from Spaniard Xabi Alonso to secure a 1-0 victory over Darmstadt 98 on Tuesday that put them into the quarter-finals of the German Cup.The......
CAIRO/ADEN: Yemen's dominant Houthi group and President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government have accused each other of violating a ceasefire aimed at facilitating United Nations (UN)-sponsored peace......
MINNEAPOLIS: Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the American people “cannot give into fear” in the aftermath of attacks in Paris and California, laying out a......
MELBOURNE: Out-of-favour all-rounder Dwayne Bravo on Wednesday lamented the sorry state of West Indian cricket and said those running the game needed to take a long hard look at themselves.Bravo was......
BEIJING: President Mamnoon Hussain, speaking at the second annual World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, on Wednesday, said Pakistan is pursuing a vision of accelerated digitisation in order to......
NEW DELHI: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will recalibrate budget priorities in 2016 to focus on social initiatives, such as the country's first major crop insurance scheme, while capping......
It’s the smell that hits you first — a mixture of blood and metal, burnt flesh and gunpowder.Something I’ve never experienced before as a journalist mostly working in the UK, and something I will......
PESHAWAR: As the nation marks the first anniversary of Peshawar's Army Public School (APS) massacre on Wednesday, the country's top civil and military leadership honoured those who lost their lives......
BIRMINGHAM: Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai condemned Donald Trump's views on Muslims on Tuesday, at a sombre ceremony to remember the children killed in the Dec 16 Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan......
One year. Even for a country that has witnessed a tableau of horrors over the past several years, Dec 16, 2014 set a new, terrible milestone.On that day, we learnt that what had gone before could yet......
IT is certainly a complicated date in the history of the subcontinent. Pakistan and Bangladesh, having achieved independence as a single entity, were broken apart on Dec 16, 1971. Known in......
THE spinning sector is once again warning that it is on the verge of a shutdown. Its representative, the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association, says that the spinning sector is prepared to shut down......
ONE year on, the horror of the Army Public School tragedy in Peshawar continues to haunt our conscience. Terror atrocities have killed thousands of people in this country and yet it remains......
ON Dec 16 last year almost 150 people, mostly schoolchildren, were brutally murdered in Peshawar. In its wake the country decided that business as usual could not carry on and so was formulated the......
ONE thing is known about Tashfeen Malik: she is a murderer who, along with her husband Syed Rizwan Farook, shot and killed 14 people in San Bernadino, California. In a United States riven with......
THE legacy of Hugo Chavez suffered a monumental setback in Venezuela last week, with parliamentary elections resulting not only in a victory for the conservative opposition, in keeping with the......
PESHAWAR: After one year of the horrific attack on the Army Public School (APS), Peshawar, many surviving students find it hard to concentrate on their coursework as the gory incident keeps flashing......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar police on Tuesday claimed to have foiled a plan to bomb a school on the first anniversary of the Army Public School (APS) massacre by arresting five suspected terrorists and......
PESHAWAR: One year after the Army Public School and College Peshawar carnage, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has no plan to conduct judicial inquiry into the gory incident.“Many sensitive......
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak here on Tuesday launched a health insurance scheme under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa “Sehat Sahulat Programme” for the deserving and poor patients in the......
PESHAWAR: The German Ambassador to Pakistan, Ms Ina Lepel, inaugurated the newly-upgraded radiology department at the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) here on Tuesday.The facility will benefit around......
PESHAWAR: Except a few, most of the survivors of the Army Public School’s massacre last year, have recovered from the injuries and are able to live like normal people.However, a few of them, who......
MANSEHRA: The waters of a mountain stream in Mansehra are popular among local population for ‘treating’ diseases. Every day, the Koh-i-Bara,the dull mountain, draws large crowds of people wanting to......
ISLAMABAD: Starting on Wednesday, the National Assembly will open its daily session with a Naat recitation. Prior to this, only verses from the Holy Quran were recited to begin proceedings of the......
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is going to take up the matter of the recovery of Rs8.9 billion from a Lahore based contractor who was assigned a significant chunk of the Prime......
ISLAMABAD: Firebrand Maulana Abdul Aziz on Tuesday widened his legal battle for the enforcement of Sharia in the country by asking the Supreme Court to ensure that the families of those killed in the......
ISLAMABAD: Accepting the failure of the government to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Minister of State for Federal Education and Professional Training Balighur Rehman on Tuesday......
ISLAMABAD: A domestic employee and her husband were recovered from a house where they were shackled by their employers for demanding salary.On a tip-off, the Golra police raided a house located in......
CHAKWAL: Citizens and local politicians on Tuesday vowed to thwart the district administration’s plan to build offices of the education department on a public school land.The proposed education......
ISLAMABAD: The children of Pakistan Sweet Homes (PSH) gathered in front of the National Press Club on the eve of the first anniversary of the Army Public School (APS) attack to pay tribute to the......
ISLAMABAD: To highlight the shortcomings in the tax system, about 200 students contributed their documentaries for a film festival describing it (tax system) as anti-poor.Graduate and postgraduate......
TAXILA: The Federal Department of Archaeology has discovered coins and arrowheads dating back to the 1st century AD at the site of a Buddhist stupa that dates back to somewhere between 200 to 500 AD......
RAWALPINDI: A young student was killed after being hit by a passenger train near Mareer Railway Bridge on Tuesday, police said.According to Rescue 1122,Jamshaid Khan, 23, son of a railway employee,......
OKARA: The Okara Saddar police after a four-month delay registered a case against 12 police officials, including the then station house officer (SHO) of City B Division police station, on the......
FAISALABAD: A 26-year-old suspect died in mysterious circumstances at the Batala Colony police lockup on Monday night.Police said Ahsan of Chiniot committed suicide by hanging himself but his family......
LAHORE: “Hello Ammi Jee. How are you and my sisters... we are fine. I just wanted to tell you that I will return home by Dec 19 evening as the school administration has announced winter vacation...”......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Tuesday reserved verdict on maintainability of Punjab government’s appeal against acquittal of former state minister Siddique Kanju’s son Mustafa Kanju......
LAHORE: Singer Saira Arshad, sister of famous singer Humera Arshad, launched a video to pay a tribute to the martyrs of the Army Public School, Peshawar, at the Lahore Press Club on Tuesday.The video......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency has arrested 20 grey traffickers who were using some 1,300 GSM active SIMs, showing that Biometric Verification System (BVS) could not help much in its......
MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said the people of Sindh are demanding rightly that the accountability should be done across the board and action should be taken against the......
LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) on Tuesday signed a Rs572 million agreement with China Railway First Group (CRFG) for construction of resettlement sites and Shatial museum –......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Tuesday dismissed bail petitions of seven suspects involved in lynching of a Christian couple and ransacking in Kot Radha Kishan.Suspects Arshad Mistri,......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab organiser Chaudhary Sarwar says the rulers are responsible for the closure of textile mills due to a gas supply cut and costly electricity.He told reporters at......
LAHORE: A group of 30 to 40 peace activists has been commemorating the tragedy of the Army Public School, Peshawar, on every 16th at Liberty Roundabout for the last one year.On Wednesday (today),......
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the president to stay the execution of Syed Saqi Shah who is scheduled to be hanged on Wednesday (today).In a statement issued......
KARACHI: Hundreds of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees suspended their regular work for more than two hours and staged a protest demonstration at Karachi airport against proposed......
KARACHI: While the security establishment has issued a terror threat warning for educational institutions in the city on the first anniversary of the Army Public School attack in Peshawar, the......
KARACHI: Ten days after its landslide victory in the city’s local government election, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement announced on Tuesday senior politician Waseem Akhtar and member of the provincial......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of an application of Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Amir Khan seeking permission for a two-week visit to Dubai after the Rangers......
HYDERABAD: Rallies, seminars and other programmes were held in almost all cities and towns in the interior of Sindh on the eve of the first anniversary of Peshawar’s Army Public School tragedy in......
Harvard political scientist Graham Allison, who was in Singapore recently discusses in this interview the likelihood of war between the United States and China and what that means for Singapore. He......
VETERAN journalist Subhatra Bhumiprabhas has been fascinated by Myanmar for as long as she can remember so her decision to translate into Thai two books covering Burmese history came as no surprise......
ANKARA: The US-based Turkish-American scientist who won the 2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize said education, in particular for women, was the top priority for Turkey as he made a rare visit home to meet......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama launched a full throated defense of open immigration policies Tuesday, hailing them as America’s “oldest tradition” amid a fierce election-fueled argument over the......
GENEVA: The UN human rights chief on Tuesday warned that Burundi could be sliding back towards civil war, days after scores of bodies were found on the streets following attacks on three military......
WASHINGTON: All schools in Los Angeles were closed on Tuesday due to an unspecified threat.A special notice posted on the All Los Angeles Unified School District’s website said that the schools were......
VIENNA: The UN nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation board decided on Tuesday to close its investigation into whether Iran once had a nuclear weapons programme, opting to support Tehran’s deal with major......
NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday accused his arch-rival Narendra Modi of waging a political vendetta, branding the Indian premier a “psychopath” after federal investigators......
TEHRAN: Iran has impounded tens of thousands of cars since March because women inside the vehicles had not properly covered their hair with a headscarf, Tehran’s traffic police said on Tuesday.“Over......
MOSCOW: US Secretary of State John Kerry met Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Tuesday to seek agreement on how best to push forward efforts to halt Syria’s brutal civil war.Russia......
NEW DELHI: India’s top court on Tuesday said it was considering banning new diesel-guzzling SUVs and luxury cars from the streets of New Delhi in a bid to improve the capital’s notoriously toxic......
MOSCOW: A Russian spacecraft carrying three astronauts from the United States, Britain and Russia has docked successfully at the International Space Station.Nasa’s live broadcast from the Russian......
KARACHI: Four local pugilists two each of Sindh Greens and Whites, three apiece of Rangers, Navy and Sindh Police hogged limelight by making their way into quarter-finals of the all-Pakistan Amir......
LAHORE: HBL joined hands with the Pakistan Super League (PSL) as title sponsor, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Tuesday during a news conference held in connection with the unveiling of......
YOKOHAMA: Lionel Messi believes the current Barcelona side has more weapons than Pep Guardiola’s 2009 world-beaters and wants to prove it by winning a record third Club World Cup.The Spanish giants,......
LAHORE: Giles Clarke has received a similar reply to the one that was given to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).The former England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman, who is playing the role of a......
MELBOURNE: Former West Indies captain Chris Gayle is hopeful he can return to Test cricket next year but said he was simply not fit enough to take part in the ongoing series against Australia.The......
ZURICH: Suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter again proclaimed his innocence in a corruption scandal gripping the world football body as he prepares to testify this week before the group’s ethics......
LEICESTER: English football’s most lethal double act propelled Leicester City to a 2-1 win over stumbling champions Chelsea in the Premier League on Monday, with sublime goals by Jamie Vardy and......
ROME: Lazio’s winless Serie A run continued after a bizarre sequence of goalkeeping mishaps allowed Sampdoria to snatch a stoppage time equaliser in a 1-1 draw at the Stadio Olimpico on Monday.Lazio......
BEIJING: China promised again on Tuesday to take steps to reduce air pollution in the run-up to the 2022 Winter Olympics, to be held in Beijing and a nearby city, after a choking pall of smog......
LONDON: Rory McIlroy has been voted the European Tour’s player of the year for the third time in four seasons despite missing key tournaments through injury.The Northern Irishman was unable to defend......
KARACHI: Renewed buying interest at lower level helped prices move higher marginally on the cotton market on Tuesday. However, underlying sentiments remained easy and outlook uncertain.Floor brokers......
SYDNEY: Slumping commodity prices and lower tax receipts will see Australia’s budget deficit balloon to Aus$37.4 billion ($27.2bn) this year, Treasurer Scott Morrison said on Tuesday as he downgraded......
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s economy took a $16-billion hit this year from forest fires that cloaked Southeast Asia in haze, more than double the sum spent on rebuilding Aceh after the 2004 tsunami, the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will not support any policy decision on agriculture that will go against the farmers of developing countries, Commerce Minister Khurram Dastagir Khan said on Tuesday on the......
NAIROBI: Global trade talks opened on Tuesday with host Kenya highlighting their role in combating poverty, and urging African nations to diversify their economies.War-torn Afghanistan and......
KARACHI: Around 125,000-150,000 new jobs (direct and indirect) were created by 1,600 auto vending units during the last one year after opening of jobs at local auto assembling plants of cars, light......
ISLAMABAD: A joint venture between two companies from China and the United Arab Emirates will make an investment of $5 billion in Pakistan’s energy sector for setting up three coal-fired power......
KARACHI: Kinno export target has been trimmed to 200,000 tonnes from 350,000 tonnes last year in view of sharp production losses due to unfavourable weather conditions to 1.65 million tonnes of the......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) on Tuesday announced a gas discovery at its exploration well in District Matiari of Sindh.In a statement after regulatory approval from the federal......
KARACHI: Stock market went deeper into depression on Tuesday as the KSE-100 index lost another 290.78 points (0.89 per cent) to close at 32,467.04.The local bourse followed the global market where......
KARACHI: ‘Access to Finance’ is part of the National Financial Inclusion vision as it will serve dual purpose of gauging the impact of our financial inclusion initiatives since 2008 and provide......
WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve begins meeting Tuesday to weigh a landmark interest rate increase that will signal the end of more than seven years of crisis-era, easy-money monetary policy.With the......
KARACHI: The customer base of branchless banking would become larger than the conventional banks in the next five years as 50 million mobile accounts are expected to be operational by 2020, said......
PESHAWAR: For Shaheen Afridi, a weekly visit to the city’s Nothia graveyard has become a compulsive ritual since December 16, 2014.A year after his brutal murder, the mother of Mobin Shah Afridi......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday laid the controversial ordinance converting PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) into a company in the Senate, but the issue led to mudslinging between the......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate committee of the whole, a special arrangement in which entire upper house is turned into a panel, has recommended an increase in the number of Supreme Court (SC) judges from 17......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Tuesday that Turkmenistan would invest around $25 billion to deliver around 3.2 billion cubic feet per day......
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly was informed on Tuesday that the National Logistics Cell (NLC) had not got its accounts audited since 2009.The auditor......
ISLAMABAD: The UNHCR’s Goodwill Ambassador in China Yao Chen arrived here on Tuesday on a four-day visit to meet Afghan refugees and garner support for the education of their children.She is an......
FOR Aftab Alam and his younger brother Shahab Alam, running a shop in Bangla Bazaar of Orangi Town is more than a business. When I used to pass it as a child, I’d always wonder at the billboard:......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) moved on Tuesday the Sindh High Court against the release of PPP leader Dr Asim Hussain by police in a criminal case pertaining to “treatment and harbouring of......
KARACHI: The Tuesday sitting of the Sindh Assembly, which saw two walkouts by opposition parties, was adjourned till Wednesday without lawmakers taking up a government resolution on extension of......
ZHENGZHOU (China): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has urged members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to join forces and develop comprehensive strategies to collectively confront the......
ISLAMABAD: Paying homage to the victims of the last year’s Taliban attack on the Army Public School Peshawar, the Pakistan People’s Party and Muttahida Qaumi Movement criticised the federal and......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan found itself in the crosshairs of Middle Eastern politics on Tuesday as Saudi Arabia named it as part of its newly formed 34-nation military alliance of Muslim countries meant to......
Every Saturday five and a half years old Hibbah draws something on a piece of paper to show it to her mother, buried not far from home. “It’s just a five minute walk from here, Hibbah’s father,......
KARACHI: All educational institutions across Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will remain closed on Wednesday, December 16, to mark the first anniversary of the Army Public School (APS) Peshawar......
LOS ANGELES: The US city of Los Angeles ordered all public schools to remain closed on Tuesday due to an unspecified electronic threat targeting the school system and its 640,000 students, officials......
