LAHORE: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab police apprehended six suspected activists of the banned sectarian outfit Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LeJ) from Lahore on Thursday.The CTD spokesman......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday toured the Parliament House in the federal capital, where he met parliamentarians and did not hesitate to take......
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday described US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump as "talented" and "outstanding," welcoming his stance on Russia."He is a very......
KARACHI: Legendary playwright, intellectual and actor, Kamal Ahmad Rizvi breathed his last in Lahore on Thursday. He was 85.Rizvi, who rose to fame with the popular television series, Alif Noon,......
YOKOHAMA: Barcelona's Luis Suarez got a hat-trick, including an exquisite second goal, as they strolled into the Club World Cup final with a 3-0 win over Asian champions Guangzhou Evergrande on......
LONDON: Jose Mourinho was sacked as manager of Premier League champions Chelsea on Thursday after a calamitous run of results left the London club one point above the relegation zone.“Chelsea......
KARACHI: Pakistan's Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi on Thursday said he hoped a tough World Twenty20 draw would motivate his team to win the title for the first time in seven years and beat arch-rival......
BADIN: Hundreds of angry protesters took to the streets in Luari Sharif town of Badin District, following the killing of a school teacher and set more than 50 shops and some houses on fire in the......
Head coach of the England Lions and former Zimbabwe captain Andy Flower on Thursday confirmed his participation in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), saying that he was “looking forward to doing......
QUETTA: Political parties staged a sit-in near Governor House and Balochistan chief minister's official residence in Quetta to protest against the unannounced and prolonged gas loadshedding in the......
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter was “a very respected person” who deserved to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.World soccer's governing......
LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday ruled out banning Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood but said the group had a “highly ambiguous relationship with violent extremism” and was “opaque”......
KARACHI: Newly appointed chief of the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), Zubair Habib, on Thursday dispelled the impression that the CPLC lacked coordination with the Rangers’ Task Force......
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) was established with the creation of the country in 1947, and was immediately made responsible for the defence of the country’s airspace. Since then, it has formed an......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan forward Kaleemullah Khan has signed up with United Soccer League (USL) side Tulsa Roughnecks according to the Oklahoma based club’s official website.Kaleemullah played last season......
Former Pakistan Twenty20 captains Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq have voiced their concerns over being excluded from Pakistan Super League’s (PSL) list of iconic players and may skip the tournament if......
In the wake of the spate of global terror attacks, including the recent San Bernardino shooting in California, hateful rhetoric toward Muslim populations — residents, immigrants and refugees alike —......
HMEIMIM AIRBASE: A fully armed Sukhoi-24 bomber roared deafeningly down the runway at Russia's Hmeimim base in Syria and took off into the sky over the war-torn country.Within a few minutes another......
CHICAGO: A professor at a suburban Chicago Christian college who was been placed on administrative leave after donning a hijab to demonstrate solidarity with Muslims said Wednesday that her actions......
PESHAWAR: A total of 6.1 million children under the age of five will be administered polio drops in the last immunisation campaign of the year in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and the Federally......
NEW DELHI: In a tiny flat in a rundown alley in New Delhi, Rakesh Kumar Misra is working against the odds to bring India's ancient Sanskrit language to the country's millions.The 4,000-year-old......
KARACHI: An accountability court on Thursday granted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) a seven-day extension in the remand of Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP) leader and close Zardari aide Dr......
HAMILTON: New Zealand will keep their winning combination for the second Test against Sri Lanka, batsman Kane Williamson said Thursday after an inspection of the pitch showed another green-top......
RIO JANEIRO: Pele and Zico have signed an open letter calling for change at the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), starting with the departure of its president, who is facing corruption charges......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali, speaking on the floor of the National Assembly (NA), on Thursday said the interior ministry had prepared a performance report on Sindh Rangers for the......
WASHINGTON: The United States (US) ramped up pressure Wednesday on Turkey to pull unauthorised troops from Iraq, aiming to defuse a dispute that has rankled relations between two countries central to......
UNITED NATIONS: A coalition of human rights groups on Wednesday criticised Britain for weapons transfers to Saudi Arabia, saying arms sales to Riyadh would violate a global treaty regulating trade in......
WASHINGTON: United States (US) authorities in Pakistan could have sought ? but did not ? a full background security investigation of San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik before granting her a visa......
SYDNEY: Australia's spy chief has told politicians from the ruling conservative party to tone down their criticism of Islam as it could pose a national security risk, according to reports.Debate over......
LOS ANGELES: A 23-year-old man suspected of setting a fire at a Southern California mosque in a hate attack pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, officials said.Carl James Dial pleaded not guilty to......
ISLAMABAD: Acting president and Chairman Senate Raza Rabbani on Wednesday conferred Nishan-i-Imtiaz (military) on Commander Royal Saudi Naval Forces Vice Admiral Abdullah S. Al-Sultan, Radio Pakistan......
RAWALPINDI: The Rangers deployed at sensitive buildings and other places in Punjab following the massacre of schoolchildren in Peshawar a year ago are being withdrawn and prison facilities will now......
VIENNA: Austrian authorities are investigating two men arrested days ago for possible links to last month’s attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, officials said on Wednesday.State Prosecutor......
QUETTA: Educational institutions remained closed across the Balochistan province on Wednesday to pay homage to martyrs of last year’s terrorist attack on the Army Public School, Peshawar.Headquarters......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has allowed those doctors of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) who could not cast their ballots on Dec 5 to vote on Dec 19.The......
ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has ordered that party elections for office-bearers should be begun from five districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The elections will be held under a new......
THE India-Pakistan accord on the resumption of talks between them has led to considerable relief among the peace activists in both countries. But once again they are not being allowed to sustain......
THE annual report produced by the State Bank of Pakistan has cast valuable light on a number of vexing economic issues that have been the subject of debate for a while now. There is too much in the......
“WOULD God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!” wailed the stricken patriarch King David. A year ago yesterday, on Dec 16, 132 sets of parents in Peshawar had cause to repeat that lament,......
THE revival of the Ministry of Human Rights by the federal government and the appointment of chairperson of the Pakistan National Human Rights Commission augur well for the people. Both these......
WHILE Foreign Office officials claimed they were ‘surprised’ by Pakistan’s inclusion in the 34-nation alliance announced by Saudi Arabia it now appears that Riyadh had received assurances of......
THE prime minister chose the occasion of the 14th meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation heads of government in Henan, China, to reiterate his government’s commitment to greater regional......
WHERE Pakistan is in general characterised by either the shortage of meaningful initiatives or disinterestedness in following through on them, the problems often seem to multiply......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan on Wednesday inaugurated the work on a monument to the victims of the Army Public School Peshawar attacks amid protest by parents of the deceased......
PESHAWAR: Health experts have feared the surfacing of back-to-back polio cases from Pakhtun-populated slum areas in Karachi during the last one month may jeopardise the progress made by Khyber......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar here on Wednesday urged the government to make public the investigation report regarding attack on Army Public School, Peshawar.The seminar was held at Peshawar Press......
ISLAMABAD: Civil society representatives were picked up by police from Lal Masjid, where they were staging a protest, and shifted to a police station to avoid a standoff situation with the mosque’s......
In a quest to show the world Pakistan’s greatness, Moin Khan is travelling across the globe on a motorcycle to express his love for his country. So far, Mr Khan has travelled to 34 countries and is......
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: Parliamentarians did not participate in the vigils and events held in the federal capital to observe the first anniversary of the attack on Army Public School (APS), Peshawar,......
LAHORE: Rallies, seminars and prayer (dua) ceremonies marked the first anniversary of the APS Peshawar tragedy here on Wednesday.Sirens were played at 75 city points and all vehicles were halted at......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Punjab government, planning and development commission, departments of environment and archeology and Nespak on a writ petition of......
GUJRAT: A Rs5 million academic block at the Government High School, Chakri Rajgan, was inaugurated on Wednesday by Maj Gen Mohammad Chiragh Haider.The block was built in the memory of Mehr Ali Azam,......
SAHIWAL: Stakeholders have failed to settle down differences on the rates of 200 kanals for the construction of Sahiwal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education’s (BISE’s) building in Sahiwal......
KARACHI: A book titled Jahan Se Hum Guzrey — Mashriqi Pakistan Se Bangladesh Tak by the late S.G.M. Badruddin, former editor of Morning News and former editor of the Economic & Business Review (EBR)......
HYDERABAD: The first anniversary of the Army Public School, Peshawar, carnage was observed across Sindh where Quran Khwani, candle-lit vigils, seminars, tableaux, rallies and demonstrations were held......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday directed the federal and provincial governments to file their respective replies on a constitutional petition seeking governor rule or powers to the armed......
KARACHI: Alan Moore, famed graphic novelist of V for Vendetta, said through his main protagonist V, that “ideas are bulletproof”. This motto is very much applicable to the life of Perween Rahman,......
KARACHI: Police on Wednesday claimed to have detained at least one dozen suspected militants in two separate raids on the outskirts of the metropolis.Contingents of police conducted targeted raids in......
SIDI BOUZID: A giant portrait of the Tunisian street vendor who started a revolution watches over the town where he set himself alight in a desperate act of protest. But five years later, pride has......
MOSCOW: On the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre, the dancers were all elegance and grace, leaping through the air and lifting their partners with seemingly little effort.But up close in a rehearsal hall......
TOKYO: Japan’s top court on Wednesday upheld a law that requires married couples to have a common surname, sparking criticism from activists who complain the rule is sexist and outdated.In a separate......
RIO JANEIRO: A Brazilian lawmaker who said Amazon tribal peoples should be left to starve to death and are “a bunch of little gays” has been named Racist of the Year by an NGO.The man who made these......
STRASBOURG: The wife of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi on Wednesday accepted the European Parliament’sprestigious Sakharov human rights prize on his behalf, urging Arab countries to abandon......
OSAKA: South American champions River Plate scraped into the Club World Cup final with a nervous 1-0 win over Sanfrecce Hiroshima thanks largely to goalkeeper Marcelo Barovero on Wednesday.Lucas......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s sports minister defended on Wednesday wicket-keeper Kusal Perera who was suspended from the ongoing New Zealand tour after failing a drugs test, hinting at a conspiracy against......
SYDNEY: Australia have recruited former India player Sridharan Sriram to help their team prepare for the conditions they will face in the World Twenty20 in India early next year, Cricket Australia......
PARIS: Suspended European football chief Michel Platini will not attend Friday’s FIFA ethics committee hearing in protest at what he condemns as a political process designed to prevent him running to......
LONDON: On a busy day of domestic cup action across Europe on Tuesday, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan punched their tickets to the quarter-finals.Bayern, top of the Bundesliga and through to the......
NEW YORK: A sprawling US bribery prosecution that has scandalised football’s governing body took another step forward on Tuesday, with the former president of Honduras and a former FIFA......
KARACHI: It took the one-eliminator to decide the winners of the five-match unofficial T20 series at the ICC Academy in Dubai on Wednesday when England Lions upstaged Pakistan ‘A’ after the deciding......
KARACHI: After three unsuccessful attempts on the opening day, national champions Army stormed back with vigour grabbing five quarter-final berths in the All-Pakistan Amir Khan boxing tournament at......
KARACHI: Discarded Pakistan all-rounder Hammad Azam grabbed a nine-wicket haul as United Bank Limited (UBL) completed a 67-run victory against National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) on the penultimate day......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank says tax regulations in Pakistan are frequently altered, and unpredictable tax rules worsen the business climate and may deter potential investment.The report “Towards a......
ISLAMABAD: Petroleum products were the top revenue spinner of domestic sales tax, contributing around 44 per cent (or Rs233.2 billion) to the total proceeds during 2014-15, according to a Federal......
KARACHI: Despite falling return on government papers, banks are still eager to invest in Pakistan Investment Bonds (PIBs) as they offered Rs144 billion on Wednesday, but the government raised even......
WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve resumed meeting on Wednesday to discuss raising interest rates for the first time since 2006 to end its long crisis stance in monetary policy.The Fed is expected to......
KARACHI: Stocks recovered on Wednesday in concert with the rally in the regional markets. The KSE-100 index regained 247.58 points (0.78 per cent) and closed at 32,714.60.The regional markets seemed......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Wednesday made an amendment in prudential regulations allowing the banks and Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) to form specialised committees to......
KARACHI: When it comes to hotel room booking, Wi-fi is a deal-breaker with 68 per cent of visitors asking for this amenity, followed by 24pc looking for swimming pools and 8pc searching for......
BEIJING: China’s economic growth is expected to slow slightly to 6.8 per cent next year, the central bank said on Wednesday, adding that downward pressures would persist for a while.The figure given......
LONDON: Britain’s unemployment rate fell to the lowest level in almost a decade during October, official data showed on Wednesday.The unemployment rate dipped to 5.2pc in the three months to......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Wednesday cut upfront tariff for new solar power plants by more than 27 per cent, mainly due to declining solar photovoltaic......
ISLAMABAD: The two houses of parliament paid tribute on Wednesday to the martyrs of the Army Public School (APS), Peshawar, on the first anniversary of the school massacre.After suspending their......
ISLAMABAD: China formally approved on Wednesday $1.2 billion investment for mining of 3.8 million tons per annum (MTPA) of coal and the setting up of a 660MW coal-fired power plant in Tharparkar and......
NEW DELHI: “The international community must understand our pain. It hurts us when we see Pakistan being painted by some with closed eyes. No other country has suffered the most from violent......
ISLAMABAD: A former president of the Rawalpindi High Court Bar Association requested the Supreme Court on Wednesday to overrule the Islamabad High Court’s Nov 10 verdict of rejecting his plea seeking......
WASHINGTON: On the first anniversary of the Peshawar school terrorist attack, US Secretary of State John Kerry urged “good and decent” people around the globe to unite against terrorism.“We remember......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate’s Standing Committee on Finance has criticised the government for what it called promoting SRO culture and called for withdrawal of the Rs40 billion “mini-budget”.The chairman......
QUETTA: The body of the wife of the late Nawab Khair Bux Marri, who passed away in London last week, was brought to Quetta via Dubai on a chartered plane.It was received by her son Nawab Jangez Khan......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan called on Tuesday for enhanced cooperation among states and other stakeholders to strengthen security in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), saying......
NEW DELHI: War is not an option and dialogue is the way forward with Pakistan to fight the ‘shadow of terror’, Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj told parliament on Wednesday.According to Press......
WUZHEN (China): Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Wednesday for governments to cooperate in regulating internet use, stepping up efforts to promote controls that activists allege stifle free......
WUZHEN (China): President Mamnoon Hussain and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping reiterated their resolve on Wednesday to further bolster the multi-faceted strategic partnership between Pakistan and......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court issued on Wednesday fresh bailable arrest warrants for Yasmeen Abbasi, Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace, for not appearing......
ISLAMABAD: After initial ambiguity, the Pakistan government confirmed on Wednesday its participation in a Saudi-led military alliance for ‘fighting terrorism’, but said the scope of its participation......
PESHAWAR: Addressing an event held here to commemorate the first anniversary of the Army Public School massacre, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday that the blood of the schoolchildren......
PESHAWAR: Schools remained closed across the country on Wednesday on the anniversary of last year’s Taliban attack that killed nearly 150 people, most of them schoolchildren, at the Army Public......
TEHRAN: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that the UN watchdog's closure of investigations into Iran's past nuclear activities is a political victory for the country, lifting the main......
KARACHI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), on the request of Sindh government, has postponed the local government elections in Sanghar and Badin districts.The polls in the two districts were......
KARACHI: At least seven shops were gutted as fire broke out in a timber market in Landhi area of Karachi on Wednesday evening, according to officials.The fire, which caused a loss of millions of......
