Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) executive committee head Najam Sethi on Tuesday predicted the upcoming Pakistan Super League (PSL) to become the “biggest thing that has hit Pakistan cricket” in the......
Inter Milan midfielder Felipe Melo has been banned for three matches for aiming a kung-fu kick at Lazio's Lucas Biglia at the weekend, Serie A said on Tuesday.The Brazil international received a......
As the Pakistan Super League (PSL) drafting process came to an end on Tuesday, the Pakistan cricket team continued their training camp at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for the upcoming away series......
ISLAMABAD: After much deliberation, the interior ministry gave a 60-day extension in the special policing powers of Rangers in Sindh, after a meeting at the ministry chaired by Interior Minister......
LONDON: Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic were named the women's and men's players of the year by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) on Tuesday.Both won three of the four Grand Slams in 2015......
NAIROBI: Muslims helped dress non-Muslims passengers in Islamic garb, to prevent extremists from identifying them for slaughter on a bus in northern Kenya, witnesses said.Two people died in the......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has pledged its full support to Afghanistan in improving the deteriorating security situation there, but urges that Afghanistan must “put their house in order”, a senior......
Brazil midfielder Philippe Coutinho says he has a great chance of celebrating his third year at Liverpool in 2016 by landing his first major trophy with the club.The five-times European champions are......
PESHAWAR: A lady health worker, who also took part in a number of anti-polio campaigns, claimed on Tuesday that four men had barged into her house and gang raped her allegedly for administering......
PARIS: Michel Platini called FIFA's eight-year ban a “kick in the teeth” but vowed in an interview with AFP on Tuesday to fight on for the presidency of world football's governing body.The FIFA vice......
LONDON: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger heralded Mesut Ozil after the German playmaker rose from his sickbed to inspire his team to victory over Premier League title rivals Manchester City.Ozil teed up......
QUETTA: Three suspected militants were killed during an exchange of fire with security forces in Balochistan's Turbat area on Tuesday.The security forces conducted a search operation in Darchako area......
TEHRAN: Russia will start the construction of two nuclear reactors in Iran from next week, the spokesman for the Iranian atomic agency said on Tuesday.It comes a year after Tehran signed a contract......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly on Tuesday elected Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) Dr Mehar Taj Roghani as the new deputy speaker — the first ever woman to take up the post.Dr Roghani......
LONDON: Just days after Jose Mourinho's abrupt departure from Chelsea, Louis van Gaal is teetering on the brink of becoming the next high-profile victim of the Premier League sack race.The pressure......
WELLINGTON: Blockbusting New Zealand batsman Brendon McCullum announced Tuesday he will bow out of international cricket after the Test series against Australia in February, saying “all good things......
An alarm you set on your mobile phone wakes you up on Monday morning. With eyes only half open, you hold Screen#1 in your hand and scroll through the stacked-up notifications from Sunday night,......
KABUL: British troops are being sent to south Afghanistan's Helmand province where Afghan forces are battling the Taliban for control of a strategic district, stated Britain's Ministry of Defense......
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party leader and close aide of former president Asif Ali Zardari, Dr Asim Hussain, was produced in an antiterrorism court (ATC-II) Tuesday where he was sent on a judicial......
BEIJING: China may further restrict the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, state media reported on Tuesday.The move comes in the form of a tough new law that could be passed......
NEW DELHI: The son of an Indian murder victim has confessed to stabbing his father's killer to death and chopping his body into 12 pieces, one for every year since his father was slain, media......
It was a year that promised so much for Pakistan, yet it ended with little to show for on the football pitch.There was more action in the courts with a protracted case being fought out between the......
WASHINGTON: A coalition of human rights groups on Monday urged the United States to offer emergency sanctuary to secular writers from Bangladeshi writers after a series of bloody attacks by......
KARACHI: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) here issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of 25 senior leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), including party chief Altaf Hussain, in around 10......
It was a conversation I will never forget.I knew Mariyam for a year before I learnt how she had once almost given up on life. A caring and loving person, I doubt I would have believed a word of her......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday formally indicted Sindh Police Inspector General (IGP) Ghulam Hyder Jamali and other senior police officers in a contempt of court case.The contempt......
QUETTA: At least one passenger was killed and six others were injured when unidentified men opened fire at a passenger van in Balochistan's Loralai district on Tuesday.Levies sources told DawnNews......
NEW DELHI: All 10 people on board an Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) aircraft which crashed near Delhi airport Tuesday morning are dead, Minister of State Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said.Sharma......
ISLAMABAD: Former Test skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq believes that Mohammad Amir’s inclusion in the national camp is good for Pakistan cricket.“He did well in the Bangladesh Premier League and if he can......
SWABI: An Afghan woman and her two daughters were killed while her sister was injured when roof of a mud house caved in at Gandaf refugee camp here on Monday.Police said that the incident occurred at......
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz are in one-to-one competition for the office of the deputy speaker of the provincial assembly taking place today (Tuesday).The......
PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Monday filed a reference against 10 people, including former provincial minister Nawabzada Mehmood Zeb, accusing them of......
ISLAMABAD: The global community has 10 to 20 years left to find a solution to the carbon emission issue. Otherwise it will become difficult to continue life on the planet.This was stated by founding......
ISLAMABAD: Ayesha Siddiqa, a seventh grader from Islamabad Model College for Girls G-6/1, visited Lok Virsa on Monday as part of a one week course on ‘Weaving: Engagement with Artisans’.The course is......
ISLAMABAD: The members-elect of the Islamabad capital territory local government will take oath at Convention Centre on Tuesday.As many as 636 candidates, including 50 chairmen of union councils,......
TAXILA: Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif has said Pakistan’s efforts over the last year and a half years have been more successful in curbing terrorism compared to those of the coalition forces......
LAHORE: A Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) police team’s raid on a train minutes before its departure created panic at the Lahore Railway Station on Monday.The raid was conducted on the disclosure......
LAHORE/FAISALABAD: Two more children died of diphtheria at the Children’s Hospital, raising the death toll at the facility to 19 during the last two months or so.Reports said eight-year-old Nimra and......
LAHORE: Constable Ambreen Akhtar has been working at the Lohari police station as naib moharrar for the one month and sits in a room that is old, decrepit and with paint peeling off.It appears to be......
LAHORE: Bringing foreign companies working on construction projects for the first time within the ambit of Sales Tax on Services Act 2012, the Punjab Revenue Authority has received Rs250 million......
MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said on Monday that if any of his party leaders, including Jahangir Tareen, were involved in corruption the PML-N government should arrest......
SIALKOT: It is a sight to see: flocks of wintering birds are landing and flying in and around the lush green fields and riverside areas of the bordering villages of Sialkot along the Working......
LAHORE: The 15th MA ( Hons) Visual Art Degree Show opened at National College of Arts on Monday.The show was inaugurated by Punjab IG Mushtaq Ahmed Sukehra. A large number of art fanciers, family......
LAHORE: An agreement was signed between the federal government and Exim Bank of China here on Monday for provision of funds for the Orange Line Metro Train project.Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was......
KARACHI: Uncertainty loomed over the results of the annual elections for the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi’s office-bearers and governing body members on Sunday night.The polling time on Sunday......
KARACHI: Just a day after Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah signed a summary extending special powers of Pakistan Rangers for only 60 days, the chief of the paramilitary force on Monday vowed......
KARACHI: The Maritime Security Agency on Monday arrested 66 Indian fishermen for fishing illegally in Pakistani territorial waters.“The Indian fishermen were arrested by the MSA in the early hours of......
KARACHI: Across generations and across borders, Dr Ruth Pfau remains a symbol of selflessness and devotion to leprosy patients. At a ceremony held on Monday to celebrate her services to some of the......
KARACHI: “Before I took my ailing father to a private hospital, he had been treated by two doctors at separate health facilities for two weeks. None of them, however, tested him for dengue,”......
TRIPOLI: Two migrants trying to reach Europe by boat drowned off Libya on Monday, another 10 were missing and more than 100 were rescued, the coastguard said.“We saved 108 people but two drowned and......
ATHENS: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says his national authority proposes to change its name on passports it issues to State of Palestine.Abbas says this will happen in about a year at the......
BAMBERG: Faced with an unprecedented influx of refugees and growing anxiety among voters, German authorities have stepped up the deportation of failed asylum-seekers.New figures show that the number......
NEW DELHI: An Indian court sentenced seven men to death on Monday after they were convicted of the rape and murder of a Nepalese woman suffering from mental illness, reports said.The 28-year-old......
Imagine the English principal of a famous college on the North West Frontier, a place built by the British and founded by Christians. Inject a few nightmares – Taliban bombs, suicide attacks, the......
LAS VEGAS: Miss Colombia was wrongly named Miss Universe in a dramatic mix-up in front of a global television audience of millions on Sunday, before the rightful winner Miss Philippines was finally......
DUBAI: A Saudi reformist writer who called his fellow intellectuals “cowards” and his country racist has been handed a four-year prison sentence and banned from writing, his lawyer and son said on......
BRUSSELS: The EU extended damaging economic sanctions against Russia on Monday amid sharp differences over relations with Moscow which struck back with a furious tirade and its own import ban against......
CAPE CANAVERAL: Two US astronauts floated outside the International Space Station on Monday in a hastily planned spacewalk to move a stuck rail car before a Russian cargo ship reaches the outpost on......
NEW DELHI: From London and Paris to New Delhi and Sao Paulo, traditional taxi drivers united worldwide against Uber in 2015, a year that saw riots, legal battles and even a kidnapping in protest......
HAMILTON: New Zealand phenomenon Kane Williamson shot to the top of the Test batting rankings on Monday following his match-winning century against Sri Lanka.He also ended the year with an astounding......
BELFAST: Davis Cup hero Andy Murray won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award for 2015 at a star-studded reception here on Sunday.Murray led Great Britain to their first Davis Cup title since......
MILAN: Italy international Antonio Candreva struck twice including a late winner as Lazio stunned leaders Inter Milan 2-1 on Sunday to throw the Serie A title race wide open.Inter welcomed Stefano......
MELBOURNE: Usman Khawaja said on Monday he was confident his recurring hamstring problems were behind him as the batsman works towards a recall to the Australia team for the second Test against the......
KARACHI: Army boxers justified their credentials when they won all-Pakistan Amir Khan boxing tournament which concluded at Ustad Abdullah Baloch Stadium, Peoples Sports Complex, on Monday.The......
ISLAMABAD: Legendary Pakistan batsman Little Master Hanif Mohammad turned 81 on Monday.Born on Dec 21, 1934 in Junagarh, Hanif played 55 Test matches for Pakistan between 1952-53 and 1969-70 and......
MELBOURNE: The West Indies will consider recalling leg spinner Devendra Bishoo for the second Test against Australia starting on Boxing Day, coach Phil Simmons said on Monday.Bishoo claimed two......
ZURICH: FIFA president Sepp Blatter and European football boss Michel Platini were both banned for eight years by the FIFA ethics committee on Monday, leaving the global game leaderless as it......
HAMILTON: Kane Williamson added to an already glittering resume as he led New Zealand to a five-wicket victory here on Monday to wrap up the two-Test series against Sri Lanka.The New Zealand batting......
LAHORE: While Shahid Afridi, Misbah-ul-Haq along with Chris Gayle, Kevin Pietersen and Shane Watson were the big names that were selected at the HBL-Pakistan Super League player draft ceremony on......
PIETERMARITZBURG: Alastair Cook and Joe Root hit centuries on Monday as the touring England team played themselves into a dominant position on the second day of a three-day match against South Africa......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China on Monday signed a formal agreement on about $1.5 billion financing for a 3.8 million tonnes per year coal mining project and a 660-megawatt coal-fired power plant in......
ISLAMABAD: Exports of textile and clothing declined by 8.40 per cent to $5.233 billion in the first five months (July-November) of 2015-16 from $5.713bn in the same period last year, suggested......
LONDON: European benchmark Brent crude slumped to an 11-year low on Monday as oil prices resumed their slide in an oversupplied global market.Brent North Sea crude hit $36.05 a barrel, the lowest......
KARACHI: The province-wise position of bank deposits showed that Punjab is the richest province, followed by Sindh while other provinces and regions are far behind the leading two.The latest......
KARACHI: A host of factors pulled the market further down on Monday with the KSE-100 index closing lower by 118.07 points (0.36 per cent) at 32,658.97.Drop in global crude prices; a short future......
KARACHI: Maple Leaf Cement (MLCF) on Monday announced that its wholly owned subsidiary company, Maple Leaf Power Limited, had signed an agreement with plant supplier, Sinoma Energy Conservation......
KARACHI: The Sindh government will give sufficient resources to local governments under the forthcoming Provincial Finance Commission to meet the targets set in the Sustainable Development Goals......
KARACHI: Cotton prices remained steady on Monday amid lack of buying interest from spinners and rising imports of the commodity.However, short cotton crop and depressed demand for lint from spinners......
LONDON: Gold rose almost 1 per cent on Monday as weaker than expected US data and uncertainty about how fast the Federal Reserve will tighten interest rates next year weighed on the dollar.A renewed......
BEIJING: China is eyeing strict management of local debt and increased housing reform as part of moves to shore up growth in the world’s second largest economy, state media said on Monday, after the......
WASHINGTON: Did you know that the Federal Reserve is paying banks billions of dollars not to lend money out?Well, it is. But it is not actually a scandal. It is just how the Fed is trying to keep......
ISLAMABAD: Secretary of the Election Commission of Pakistan Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad admitted on Monday that the local government elections held recently in Islamabad, Punjab and Sindh were......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz admitted on Monday on the floor of the Senate that Pakistan was still unaware of full details of the Saudi-led coalition against......
ISLAMABAD: Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Communication boycotted on Monday a meeting in protest against what they called the absence of senior officials of the National......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Finance took up the issue of ‘ghost pensioners’ on Monday and was surprised to learn that a large number of retired officials were receiving pension as......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has regretted that by raising arguments on the merit of the case and the sentence already confirmed, an attempt was made to re-argue the entire case on a review petition......
QUETTA: Customs authorities seized smuggled goods from passenger coaches bringing pilgrims from Iran to Quetta on Monday and arrested five suspects.The smuggled goods were loaded on 47 coaches that......
GWADAR: There is a need for collective efforts to get rid of increasing corruption that is harming society, the University of Turbat’s Vice Chancellor Dr Razzaq Sabir said here on Monday.Speaking at......
KARACHI: A large number of PIA’s employees held a demonstration here on Monday in protest against the government’s plan to privatise the national flag carrier.The demonstration and a sit-in was......
ISLAMABAD: Anchorperson Reham Khan has dismissed as baseless her first former husband Dr Ejazur Rehman’s claim which he made in a legal notice.Through the notice served on Ms Khan, Mr Rehman had......
LAHORE: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has partially completed part-A of the phase-I of the Kachhi Canal Project in Dera Bugti and saved Rs500 million of the exchequer by using......
FRANKFURT: Police arrested a Swiss national at Vienna airport, suspected of money laundering and tax evasion in connection with the trading of carbon emissions certificates, German prosecutors said......
ISLAMABAD: Gender equality has not yet been achieved in Asia, the Pacific and globally, and all women have yet to be empowered, a new United Nations report said on Monday.“To date there have been......
MURIDKE: The streets of Karachi’s Gulshan-i-Iqbal were where Muneeba Ali used to play cricket with her cousins and friends. One morning back in 2011, she heard that the city cricket authorities were......
DUBAI: Iran’s foreign ministry said on Monday that Israeli lobbying was behind a new measure passed by the US Congress that will prevent visa-free travel to the United States for people who have......
WASHINGTON: “We choose faith over fear, unity over extremism,” said a father to his teenage son as hundreds of Jews and Christians gathered outside Washington’s central mosque to show solidarity with......
LAS VEGAS: A woman with a toddler in her car deliberately and repeatedly rammed into pedestrians on the packed Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, killing one person and injuring at least 26 others, police......
DHAKA: A Bangladesh court ordered on Monday the arrest of 24 people and seizure of their assets after they failed to turn up to face murder charges over the collapse of a garment factory that killed......
KARACHI: The decision of the administrative judge of anti-terrorism courts to put former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain on trial in a terrorism case has come as a serious blow to the PPP-led Sindh......
GHALANAI: Three people, among them a security man, were killed and three personnel injured when two roadside improvised explosive devices went off in Baizai, some 25km west of Ghalanai area of......
KABUL: A Taliban suicide bomber killed six US soldiers near Kabul on Monday as the resurgent militant group kept tightening its grip on Afghanistan’s Helmand province, closing in on the strategic......
ISLAMABAD: The National Economic Council has admitted that “one in every three Pakistanis still does not have regular and assured access to sufficient nutritious food”.In its annual report for the......
IT was an embarrassment that could have been averted. Dean Jones, the former Australian cricketer coming for an assignment, was turned back from Islamabad over the weekend.Investigations, it seems,......
TWO months after the fall of Kunduz reverberated around the region and internationally, another Afghan province is in trouble. Parts of Helmand province are virtually under the control of the Afghan......
IN a set of regrettable remarks, the PTI chief Imran Khan has threatened owners of the lands that surround his university project with forcible seizure of their properties if they don’t consent to......
Wonder what Nietzsche — who famously claimed not to believe in a god that could not dance — would have said of Gandhi. The question arose when I went to an old-world type meeting where people were......
PAKISTAN would be an excellent case study for anyone studying topics such as ‘perpetual confrontation and polarisation of all kinds’, ‘blame game’, ‘passing the buck’ and ‘don’t accept......
IT may be difficult to describe a model of an efficient government. Here the discussion is not about kleptocrats and those whose avowed or hidden motive is to enrich themselves through loot and......
ADEN: A ceasefire in Yemen that has been frequently violated was due to be extended on Monday night, as fighting persisted in the north and rebels vowed more missile attacks on Saudi targets.The......
ISLAMABAD: The adviser to prime minister on foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz, told Senate that the exclusion of some Islamic countries from the Saudi-led 34-nation anti-terror alliance will be discussed......
