The secretary Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Anurag Thakur, said on Saturday there is not much possibility of the India-Pakistan series, given the short window ahead of India's tour of......
KARACHI: The Middle East is currently undergoing a tumultuous phase but we will not let enemies take advantage of this situation, said Commander Royal Saudi Naval Forces Vice Admiral Abdullah......
NEW DELHI: Veterans Yuvraj Singh and Ashish Nehra Saturday returned to India's Twenty20 side for next month's limited-overs tour of Australia, where it will play five one-day internationals and three......
“I have no personal issues with Amir, it's my personal opinion that I can't share the dressing room with someone who hurt my country's integrity.”- Pakistan batsman Mohammad Hafeez refusing to play......
QUETTA: At least eight passengers were killed and 11 injured in a road accident in Balochistan's Khuzdar district on Saturday.Levies officials told DawnNews that a Karachi bound passenger coach......
HYDERABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah ruled out the possibility of the imposition of governor rule in Sindh and cautioned against its imposition, while talking to journalists in Jamshoro......
RAWALPINDI: Nearly 40 per cent of the internally displaced persons have so far returned to their homes, Army Chief Genral Raheel Sharif was apprised during his visit to the North Waziristan Agency on......
Former Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar defended Pakistan’s civilian leadership and her government’s role in the country’s disrupted democratic process, saying that the US government’s preference......
Unsung cricketers from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) region will not only get a look-in by Peshawar Zalmi, the franchise will also help them find a toehold in the English county league, team owner......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's former envoy to China, Masood Khan, on Friday said India while accepting ground realities has shown seriousness towards the dialogue process with Pakistan.“This is our moral......
ISTANBUL: Eighteen people died and 14 were rescued late on Friday after a boat carrying migrants trying to sail to Greece sank off the southern Turkish town of Bodrum, Dogan News Agency......
NEW DELHI: The Indian Army went without specialised parachutes that can be crucial to success in certain missions for over a decade, India's top auditor has said in a report presented before the......
BERLIN: Germany's football association promised a package worth millions of euros to secure a crucial vote from disgraced official Jack Warner for its bid to host the 2006 World Cup, Der Spiegel said......
BOGOTA: The United Arab Emirates has secretly sent some 300 Colombian mercenaries to fight for it in Yemen, paying handsomely to recruit a private army of well-trained, battle-hardened South American......
The debate regarding the powers of the Rangers in relation to the Karachi operation is clearly partisan. On the one hand, the Sindh government alleges that the Rangers are acting in excess of their......
HASHTAGS such as #NeverForget dominated social media on Dec 16 as Pakistan marked the second of two grave national tragedies, the mind-numbing terrorist massacre of nearly 150 schoolchildren and......
ANY thaw in relations between India and Pakistan is always warmly welcomed in Indian Kashmir. The people know that they suffer when differences between the governments of the two countries get out of......
THE recent exchange of artillery salvos between Islamabad and Karachi over the Rangers’ operation in Sindh exposes the tension between the federal and provincial governments.As the PPP government in......
A REPORT released by the World Bank uses an innovative new tool to map South Asian cities and their growth along economic and demographic lines.Pakistan’s urbanisation is featured in the report, and......
WITH the passing on Thursday of veteran satirist and actor Kamal Ahmed Rizvi, yet another link has been lost to what many consider the glory days of Pakistani drama.Having migrated to the newly......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a resolution endorsing an international road map for a Syria peace process, a rare show of unity among major powers......
Twenty-three years after the Earth Summit of 1992, it took just a few minutes for the Paris climate agreement to be adopted on December 12th at COP21. I watched it happen live on a video screen put......
BEIJING: China on Saturday accused the United States (US) of committing a “serious military provocation” by flying an Air Force B-52 strategic bomber over a Chinese-controlled man-made island in the......
SAN BERNARDINO/LOS ANGELES: President Barack Obama met with the families of most of the San Bernardino shooting victims on Friday for nearly three hours, and said he was moved by their emphasis on......
YOKOHAMA: Barcelona could welcome Neymar back from injury for this weekend’s Club World Cup final against River Plate after the Brazilian striker stepped up his training in Yokohama on Friday.The......
MADRID: Real Madrid have no intention of replacing coach Rafa Benitez with former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho, club president Florentino Perez said on Friday.In an interview with a Spanish radio......
LAHORE: The authorities of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) has decided that instead of auctioning a player the teams will pay a fixed price for each player, as the player draft is all set to take......
LAHORE: A judge of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday dismissed a petition, seeking termination of Shaharyar M. Khan as Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman for his approach over reviving......
Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Chalkie’, a new entrant to the Oxford DictionaryChalkieNoun......
Ultimate weapon in fight against plastic pollution — worms!As the world vanishes under a mountain of plastic, scientists have found a more popular way of getting rid of the waste than a plastic bag......
Hafeez Jullundhry diesDecember 21, 1982This day marks the death anniversary of Hafeez Jullundhri, the famous poet and writer of Pakistan’s national anthem (the melody of which was composed by Ahmed......
“And my friend, Alfred Bates is back,” Detective Henry Cornwall tells the audience at the police station.“Where have you been all this time?” the detective asks the most-awaited question.“Well I was......
How much do you know about the world you live in —the landmarks, the roads or the various fields? Any guesses? Here is an interesting website that will make you learn the places around the world.......
An extraordinary and astonishingly courageous young survivor of the APS Peshawar terrorist attack, Muhammad Waleed Khan shares his trauma, healing and dreams with us.One of the most critically......
Pen, and consequently the spoken words are far stronger than the sword. Often acting in tandem, they both have defeated the tyrants of the world so many times at so many places that there should now......
MANSEHRA: The army soldiers were deployed at Dubair Khawar powerhouse on Friday as the people of Kohistan continued to protest the denial of jobs in the 130MW hydropower project and supply of......
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will fully support the Fata people’s decision regarding future of their territory.“We must let them choose......
HARIPUR: Special Secretary Higher Education Abdul Ghafoor Baig has said shortage of teaching staff in girls colleges across the province will be reduced step by step. He said this while speaking at......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly’s standing committee will probe into the distribution of Rs1.16 billion compensation among the internally displaced persons (IDPs) as the house on Friday......
PESHAWAR: An elected councillor from Peshawar was sent behind bars on Friday for creating problems for polio teams and declining vaccination of his children.The action against Saleem Khan, who was......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan wants to rid the capital city of illegal madressahs and their students. But for that, he needs across-the-board political support which he sought......
ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Maroof Afzal on Friday clarified before the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat that there was no discriminatory remark against......
ISLAMABAD: A study on ‘Blasphemy in the Digital Age’ has revealed that blasphemy accusations increased by almost 200 times after Gen Ziaul Haq amended the blasphemy law.Presented by the Digital......
“I was hardly 10 years old when Pakistan came into being. I was born in Attock city. I remember Attock was known as Campbellpur at the time – the city was named after some British lord, I think. At......
ISLAMABAD: Policy experts took stock of recent political transformations in the region, beginning with what was described as ‘the tremendous re-set opportunity’ with India attributed to an......
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a workshop titled ‘Education: an advocacy niche for peace’ urged the government to standardise the education system because, they said, it was the best way to promote peace and......
TAXILA: The drowning of two students on Thursday has revealed the poor safety arrangements, life safety measures and first aid facilities at the scenic Khanpur dam.Two women, who were students at a......
MULTAN: Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Friday former president Asif Ali Zardari was not in good health and would return to the country after recovery.He told reporters the tragedy......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif says the Health Department has failed to achieve targets despite having huge budgetary allocations.He was addressing the first convocation of the University of......
LAHORE: Three students were taken into custody for taking selfies with an aeroplane in the background at the Allama Iqbal International Airport on Friday.The Airport Security Force (ASF) on suspicion......
LAHORE: People continue to suffer from the noise and dust pollution created by concrete batching plants in the city, while the environment department maintains silence and is hesitating to take......
LAHORE: Punjab Food Authority’s (PFA’s) drive against unhealthy food and unhygienic premises has not been making headlines for the last one month.An insider claims that the drive has succumbed to......
LAHORE: A delegation of the Golden Bean Group of China will visit Lahore in January to finalise the location of a theme park for which the Punjab Board of Investment and Trade will help the......
SAHIWAL: The Pakpattan municipality has begun demolishing shops and houses located on a butte, declared dangerous because of their rundown condition.The 200-foot high butte, located in the city, has......
FAISALABAD: The government has turned a blind eye to a monument built in the memory of Mirza-Sahiban at Chak 585, Sohnywali (Jaranwala).Walayat Kharal, an aged man who is the caretaker of the......
KARACHI: Police on Friday registered a terrorism case against the organisers of a rally staged for the release of Mumtaz Qadri, the self-confessed killer of Punjab governor Salman Taseer.The rally......
KARACHI: Accusing him of partiality, the combined opposition in the Sindh Assembly on Friday filed a censure motion against Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani for what they called running the house on the......
LARKANA: Sindh Senior Minister for Education and Parliamentary Affairs Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, defending the recent resolution on Rangers’ powers adopted by the Sindh Assembly, has argued that the......
HYDERABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist Mohammad Akbar, who was found killed in Nooriabad a few days ago, was buried in Tando Yusuf graveyard on Friday when his family identified......
KARACHI: The Urdu version of Tom Wright’s play Lorelei performed by Sania Saeed at the Arts Council Karachi on Friday night was different from its English counterpart in more ways than one, first of......
KARACHI: Loggerhead turtle, a globally endangered marine species, has recently been found about 166 kilometres south-west of Karachi, officials of the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P)......
MOSCOW: Russia on Friday expelled a Polish correspondent in a tit-for-tat move after a Russian journalist was kicked out by Warsaw.The Russian foreign ministry decided to “revoke the accreditation of......
UNITED NATIONS: The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council were struggling to agree on a draft resolution endorsing an international bid to end the five-year-old civil war in......
CHITTAGONG: Two bombs exploded at a mosque inside a navy base in the Bangladesh port city of Chittagong on Friday, injuring six, police said, adding that two people had been arrested.Police said the......
ADEN: A Yemen ceasefire appeared to have collapsed on Friday as government forces captured two towns from rebels and an allied Arab coalition accused insurgents of escalating the conflict by firing......
CANDABA: Tens of thousands of people struggled on Friday through waist-deep floods in typhoon-battered farmlands near the Philippine capital, as yet another storm threatened to dump more rain.Large......
MOSCOW: In the presence of foreign experts, Russian officials on Friday opened the damaged black box of a warplane shot down by Turkey last month, promising a transparent probe into the......
Donald Trump has violated almost every rule of political and social decorum in recent months. His inflammatory rhetoric now resonates across the world, finding echoes among Hindu supremacists in......
Seventy years ago, the United Nations was created from the ashes of the Second World War. Seven decades later, in Paris, nations have united in the face of another threat — the threat to life as we......
KHOROSHEVO: A bust of Josef Stalin stands on the front lawn of a house-turned-museum in this small village, where the Soviet leader is said to have stayed the night on his only visit to the front......
LAHORE: Fast bowler Mohammad Amir, one of the three tainted cricketers, has taken a giant step in connection with staging his comeback in international cricket after completing a five-year ban in a......
HAMILTON: Trent Boult led a late New Zealand fight-back to leave Sri Lanka on 264-7 when rain ended play early on day one of the second Test here at Seddon Park on Friday.Three wickets in two overs......
BARCELONA: Thomas Partey scored his first goal for Atletico Madrid as they reached the Copa del Rey last 16 with a 1-0 home victory over third-tier Reus on Thursday that secured a 3-1 aggregate......
LAHORE: Mangla lifted the coveted Pakistan Army Athletics Championship trophy by beating Karachi after a gruelling contest at the Ayub Stadium, Lahore Cantonment.Lahore Corps Commander Lieutenant......
KARACHI: National champions Pakistan Army made their mark when their five more pugilists fought their way into the semi-finals of the all-Pakistan Amir Khan boxing tournament at Ustad Abdullah Baloch......
KARACHI: Reacting to a Reuters report on Friday that the US Federal Reserve had barred the Habib Bank Limited from conducting any dollar-clearing transactions or accepting any new accounts for US......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has successfully nullified an Indian move to seek a permanent solution to its agriculture subsidies at the multilateral level.As a result of lobbying with likeminded, the issue of......
KARACHI: The country witnessed second consecutive current account deficit in November, indicating that massive inflows through remittances and other sources have failed to fill the hole created by......
KARACHI: A shortfall in cotton crop continues to worsen this season, particularly because of a 43-per cent fall in Punjab’s output, with some estimating that the country’s economy is set to take a......
KARACHI: Figures released by the ginners’ body on Friday showing a fall in crop size received only a muted response from the cotton market as buyers faced with financial crunch stayed away.Floor......
LONDON: Gold rose on Friday, recovering from its biggest daily loss in five months as stocks and the dollar retreated, but remained near multi-year lows after the Federal Reserve lifted US interest......
ISLAMABAD: Terming the release of Rs480 billion to the power sector to clear circular debt as ‘irregular’, the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) left the matter at Public Accounts Committee’s (PAC)......
ISLAMABAD: After denying for months presence of the militant Islamic State (IS) group in Pakistan, the government has disclosed that it is among the 61 organisations that have been banned in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will commence from Tuesday hearing a suo motu petition about deaths of children, especially in rural areas, because of pneumonia and diarrhoea, and an alarming increase......
WASHINGTON: During the two-day defence talks with Pakistan this week, the United States discussed “the political and security situation” in the region with the Pakistani delegation, says a joint......
ISLAMABAD: PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari may not attend the main event of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s eighth death anniversary at Garhi Khuda Bakhsh on Dec 27.Mr Zardari lives in Dubai......
GUJRAT: A Norwegian court has convicted the parents and an uncle of a Norwegian woman of Pakistani origin of being involved in the killing of her husband, his brother and father for ‘honour’ in......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former permanent representative at the United Nations in Geneva Zameer Akram has shed light on a longstanding mystery about Pakistan not blocking a country-specific safeguards......
ISLAMABAD: The chairman of Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority, Saeed Ahmed Khan, has been accused by an executive director of having submitted a misleading statement before the Supreme Court in the......
QUETTA: The Chief of Logistics Staff, Lt Gen Ghayyoor Mehmood, has said that the army is playing a pivotal role in defeating the enemies at all fronts by foiling their nefarious designs and tactics......
KARACHI: Stepping up efforts aimed at reversing the low gas supply situation in parts of Balochistan, the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) said on Friday it had been implementing various projects to......
WASHINGTON: The executive board of International Monetary Fund completed on Friday the ninth review of Pakistan’s economic performance under a 36-month programme supported by an Extended Fund......
GWADAR: Six local leaders and workers of the ruling National Party and Balochistan National Party-Awami have been kidnapped from Turbat area of Kech district during the last 24 hours.A younger......
GENEVA: The number of people displaced by war and violence is set to hit a record high this year, the UN said on Friday, warning that one in every 122 people had been forced to flee home.The UN......
NEW DELHI: India’s prime minister is expected to promote deals for Russian nuclear reactors and military helicopters worth billions of dollars on a trip to Moscow next week, attracted by promises to......
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) approved on Friday the country’s $200 million equity participation in the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (Tapi) Pipeline Company and......
ISLAMABAD: In an impassioned speech in the National Assembly on Friday, Minister for Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan held the past policies of the military and political elite responsible for......
ISLAMABAD: Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif will travel to Afghanistan in the last week of the current month for talks with the Afghan government on modalities for resumption of the reconciliation......
KARACHI: Four well-educated people, including one who had studied at two American universities and was running his own educational institution, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama urged Americans to remain vigilant against the potential threat of homegrown Islamic State (IS) militants, on Friday, due to the difficulty of tracking “lone wolf”......
WASHINGTON: United States President Barack Obama on Friday reaffirmed US insistence that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad step down, warning there can be no peace in Syria without a legitimate......
GENEVA: The United Nations refugee chief called on Friday for a “massive resettlement” of Syrian and other refugees within Europe, to distribute many hundreds of thousands of people before the......
The Sharjah Police on Friday arrested a five-member Pakistani gang for alleged burglaries and theft in commercial outlets in Sharjah, read a report published on Khaleej Times.The group comprising......
