KARACHI: The family of the young man who was killed in a deadly 'encounter' on Saturday in Karachi's Gizri area demanded a judicial probe into the incident on Sunday, as police insisted the encounter......
MAZAR-I-SHARIF: The Indian consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif came under attack on Sunday with an unknown number of gunmen attempting to enter the compound after twin explosions......
ISLAMABAD: Thousands of Shias protested in Pakistan and Indian-held Kashmir on Sunday to condemn Saudi Arabia's execution of a leading Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, as fury over the killing spread.The......
KABUL: An Afghan Mi-17 military helicopter crashed on Sunday after a technical failure during a training exercise, killing three air crew and wounding another in Logar province, south of the capital......
KARACHI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has extended the deadline for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to prepare a detailed report in the Yasir Shah dope case.The extension will facilitate......
KARAK: At least 12 passengers including four women were killed and six others injured when a gas cylinder explosion occurred inside a van on Indus Highway in Karak district on Sunday, DawnNews......
BEIRUT: Arab and Kurdish forces have killed at least 16 fighters from the Islamic State group during fierce clashes north of the militants' stronghold of Raqa, a monitor said Sunday.The militants......
LONDON: Sussex fast bowler Matthew Hobden has died at the age of 22, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Sunday.Hobden made his first-class debut for Sussex in 2014 and represented......
CAPE TOWN: Ben Stokes scored the second fastest double century in Tests and led a run feast on the second day of the second Test against South Africa by battering the home attack to take England to......
BARCELONA: Barcelona was held to 0-0 at Espanyol to cede the provisional lead of the Spanish league to Atletico Madrid on Saturday, after Diego Simeone's side got some late heroics from substitute......
Celebrity breakups aren’t pretty. By and large, they have never been and they never will be. They make for gossip-filled headlines and details that should best remain at home.But that isn’t the case......
JERUSALEM: Israel on Sunday indicted two Jewish extremists suspected in a July arson attack on a Palestinian home that killed a toddler and his parents – a case that has been unsolved for months and......
PESHAWAR: A mild 2.6 magnitude earthquake was felt in parts of Pakistan's northern areas on Sunday, the Pakistan Meteorological Department confirmed.Tremors were felt in Shangla, Malakand, Swat and......
THE toughest are the races that put you against your own. And the saying goes that it is the in-house victories that are most exhilarating since you always know that you are more capable and......
ISLAMABAD: Saudi Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir's visit to Islamabad, scheduled for today, has been postponed to Thursday, Jan 7, 2016, said the Foreign Office in a statement.Earlier today......
There’s less love and more loathing here in the US and elsewhere. Fear, hate and xenophobia against Islam will suck out most of the oxygen in forthcoming presidential debates, TV talk shows and op-ed......
PESHAWAR: A soldier was injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast near a security forces vehicle on the Islamabad-Peshawar Motorway toll plaza on Sunday, the Inter-Services Public......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum says tainted bowler Mohammad Amir should be given “the benefit of the doubt” and allowed to play for Pakistan in limited-overs matches in New Zealand......
HANOI: Vietnam formally accused China of violating its sovereignty and a recent confidence-building pact on Saturday by landing a plane on an airstrip Beijing has built on an artificial island in a......
THE year witnessed a significant de-escalation in terrorist and sectarian attacks in south Punjab as militant violence mostly shifted elsewhere, mainly to the northern cities, in the province.Apart......
PATHANKOT: The number of troops killed in an attack on an Indian air force base rose to seven on Sunday, after four soldiers succumbed to injuries sustained in the hourslong gunbattle near the border......
DUBAI/RIYADH: Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran early on Sunday morning as the country reacted with fury to Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shia cleric.Demonstrators who......
ALONG main University Road a moderate number of old and young men are gathered on the pedestrian island. It is a cold, sunny evening when I spot them outside Masjid-i-Baitul Mukarram, standing......
It is difficult to envisage what it would feel like to live in Kasur, Sialkot or Muzaffarabad if Ferozepur, Jammu or Uri were just like other towns a short ride away. And in the prevailing narrative......
A UNHCR report released at the end of 2014 places the estimate of the total number of displaced people around the world at 60 million — the highest ever recorded, more so than following WWII. In late......
Twenty years ago, a friend of mine had a great success with her third or fourth novel, and found that one of the results of sudden fame was to be invited frequently to festivals all over the world.......
As a retired civil service officer of good repute, Syed Munir Husain has written an engaging book. Surviving the Wreck is, by turn, circumspect and forthright, solemn and revealing; it is about a......
The late Rajesh Khanna remains one of Hindi cinema’s most enigmatic stars, and led a life worthy of being the subject of a novel, if not a film. No wonder then, following his death in 2012, several......
Making ‘best of the year’ lists is always an uphill task, not because there are few choices but because there are so many. When making this list, we’ve focused on writers and books that we think our......
Have you ever been so overwhelmed by a new dish that you are unable to say anything? Words like “delicious”, “scrumptious” and “delectable” struggle to come out but your sensory abilities are too......
While the past few years have mostly been about long, straight locks, with Kate Middleton chopping off her signature long curls, the year 2016 is expected to see more of textured fringes and lobs......
Dear Auntie, I have been married for almost a decade now, and blessed with three children. One of the wedding gifts I received was my husband’s ex-girlfriend, who has been around and between us ever......
‘You only get out what you put in’ are words that all gardeners should have engraved on their hearts, on the back of their hands, on gardening tools and — preferably in foot high letters — inscribed......
It is not unusual for artists crossing the urban / rural divide to get mired in metropolitan woes. Encountering discrimination, alienation, workplace politics, hypocrisy and economic constraints in......
American artist Jackson Pollock (1912–1956), who spent his childhood travelling in southern California and Arizona, moved to New York to study art at the Arts Students League, where he met Thomas......
“There are only two styles of portrait painting, the serious and the smirk.” — Charles DickensA miniature painting should invite and stand up to close inspection in addition to holding its own from a......
In the titular essay of his book Air Guitar, Dave Hickey discusses the morality of traditional art criticism by the cognoscenti in a complex, ephemeral, commodity-dominated era. Imran Hunzai’s solo......
There is a whole piece of British history involved behind the 19th century nursery rhyme of ‘Humpty Dumpty’ … “Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall / Humpty Dumpty had a great fall / all the King’s horses and......
Here’s a prediction: unlike some of her predecessors, our very own Mawra Hocane will not prove to be a one-film gal or one-hit wonder in Bollywood. She will soon get more offers.I say this based on......
Yes, we here at IoS are totally in love with Fawad and can’t seem to keep him out of our pages even for a single week! So while it is, without a shadow of doubt, nice of the Indian film fraternity to......
She, for sure, has come of age. The dusky damsel-not-in-distress Priyanka Chopra was not known for speaking her mind, at least for the most part of her career. But these days, the woman oozes with......
He bamboozled the music world with his language and hairdo-defying music video Eye to Eye not too long ago. And now he’s back with the claim that another similar ‘masterpiece’ is on its way.Taher......
Seasoned music composer Arshad Mahmud, who is also a key decision-maker at the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa), has come up with a new project. He has launched a record lable called......
Not many know that the iconic Indian film actress and the heartthrob of the 1960s and ’70s Sadhana who passed away on Dec 25 at the age of 74 was born in Karachi in 1941.Sadhana’s family migrated to......
He was the man who helped Pakistan’s electronic media stand on its feet at a time when not many people in the country even knew about it. Yes, the reference is to the eminent scholar,......
Big actor, big ego. Understandable. And Amitabh Bachchan is, for sure, a giant in his field. So, when the makers of one of his upcoming films Wazir did not give him enough attention during the......
When you have Ranveer Singh as the alpha male, Deepika as his mistress and Priyanka Chopra as his wife, to hell with factual details.In Bajirao Mastani, we see the 17th century 30-something Marathi......
Abul Ala Maududi (d.1979), is considered to be one of the most influential Islamic scholars of the 20th century. He is praised for being a highly prolific and insightful intellectual and author who......
In 1517, the incident where Martin Luther (d.1546) nailed his 95 thesis to the door of a church, thereby challenging corruption in the church as well as the Pope’s authority, divided the Christianity......
WHAT WE LOVEDRetail’s the keyThe year was happily dotted with designer retail stores opening up. This summer the erstwhile but very talented Feeha Jamshed set up her first store in Karachi’s......
It has been over three decades since Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) concluded the magnificent space opera trilogy built on dazzling special effects and heartfelt mystical storytelling. A......
This was never more felt than at Karachi Fashion Week — Men’s Fashion 2015 held in the lawns of the beautiful Mohatta Palace Museum with grooming by N-Gents, choreography by Imran Kureishi, model......
Despite spending a lifetime in Karachi, I often felt that I don’t know much about my very own province. With each passing year, tales of robberies and kidnapping in Sindh were not exactly......
The humans of nowhereI gaze at the deep blue Aegean Sea off the coast of Lesvos, and wonder how much hope it holds. The innocent souls running away for no fault of their own — from beautiful homes......
“Believe me, I am the luckiest guy in the world to be here right now,” says Wajeeh Safiea, 33. “I am so thankful to God and to Canada for this second chance to live a normal life. Some mornings I......
The new year has already kicked off with Karawood’s Ho Mann Jahaan and Hollywood’s Point Break; the former being director Asim Raza’s big screen debut featuring Mahira Khan, Sheheryar Munawwar, Adeel......
Fitness is of paramount importance in this day and age of high competitiveness, work related stresses and pressures. The significance of leading a healthy life cannot be over stressed though training......
You wake up with a throbbing pain in the front or on one side of your head, sunlight scorching your eyes like lightning flashes, along with nausea and vomiting; the pain worsens with noise and......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Saturday warned his government won’t allow the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to pass through the province if the centre denied the due......
CHARSADDA: Representatives of the All Employees Coordination Council on Saturday took out a rally here to protest against the Thursday’s firing incident on a school in which three teachers were......
PESHAWAR: Scores of former employees of a Swabi-based private tobacco company held a protest demonstration along with their children on Saturday against the company’s management for sacking 141......
UPPER DIR: The Upper Dir district police conducted 1,838 operations and arrested over 2,000 alleged criminals, including terrorists, during 2015.This was stated by district police officer Syed Israr......
Standing on the premises of the land record centre in Chakwal, 70-year-old Iqbal Hussain looks depressed and frustrated. “I have to sell a piece of land but cannot do it. Similarly, the person to......
Amid a steady throng of pedestrians sit hawkers selling cookies and snacks. In one corner, an astrologer proudly displays his fortune-telling parrot, while quacks try to convince people to bring......
Despite being considered one of the world’s well planned cities, water supply problems in the federal capital have been increasing over the last two decades. The city’s residents, who had lost hope......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has directed provincial law-enforcement agencies to continue their action against banned organisations.Presiding over a meeting on law and order under the......
LAHORE: The PPP has demanded that the PML-N government arrest Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan for his confession that terrorists had undergone medical treatment at the Shaukat Khanum......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has authorised a woman magistrate to record the statement of the gang rape victim after she attempted suicide on Saturday over ‘undue interrogation’.“The government has......
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reform Ahsan Iqbal claims that Pakistan will be among top 25 economies of the world by 2025.“Pakistan is a successful emerging state which can......
FAISALABAD: Six witnesses and applicant of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf worker’s killing refused to record their statements before the Anti-Terrorism Court judge on Saturday, saying they have no......
SIALKOT: Senior Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Jehangir Tareen has demanded early re-opening of the alleged rigging case of Khwaja Asif’s constituency NA-110.Speaking to journalists at Jinnah House......
He observes life with a naked, naive and unbiased eye and knits surprisingly beautiful poems and short stories, portraying the real life and imaginations of the common people of rural background.A......
KARACHI: The Friday night ‘encounter’ in Gizri that left a 25-year-old man dead and another wounded became controversial on Saturday when the family of the deceased alleged that he was killed by......
HYDERABAD: Adviser to the Sindh chief minister on information Maula Bux Chandio has criticised what he described as selective accountability and said action must be taken against Pakistan......
KARACHI: Speakers at a programme held on Saturday praised the Pakistan Eye Bank Society (PEBS) for its efforts to support the poor, especially for running an eye and general hospital in North......
KARACHI: It is a myth that the young generation in Canada does not want to learn Urdu when in fact they are quite keen and it is laudable that the Pakistani expatriate community in Canada continues......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court reissued on Saturday arrest warrants for almost the entire leadership of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, including its chief Altaf Hussain, in around 10 cases for......
HYDERABAD: The National Accountability Bureau and Sindh health department are carrying out two separate probes into the allegations of corruption in the Jamshoro and Hyderabad branches of the......
KARACHI: With a conviction rate of 27.7 per cent, district courts of Sindh disposed of 29,609 cases and sentenced accused in 8,201 cases in 2015, it emerged on Saturday.Around 66,850 cases are still......
LARKANA: Efforts will be made to further strengthen the already existing trade ties between Pakistan and Bangladesh, deputy high commissioner of Bangladesh Noor-i-Hilal Saifur Rehman said this while......
KARACHI: They sat in the waiting area, one hand holding their jaw. Well, it is a dental clinic, so no surprises there. Inside there are a row of dental chairs placed side by side just like the chairs......
MOGADISHU: Al Qaeda’s East African affiliate has released a recruitment video targeting American blacks and Muslims that includes a clip of presidential candidate Donald Trump calling for Muslims to......
SHANGHAI: China has unveiled changes to the structure of its military described by President Xi Jinping as “a major policy decision to realise the Chinese dream of a strong army”, state media......
RIYADH: A Saudi-led coalition battling Iran-backed rebels in Yemen announced the end on Saturday of a ceasefire that had been violated on a daily basis since it was declared last month.The “coalition......
HEBRON (West Bank): Thousands of Palestinians gathered on Saturday in Hebron to bury 14 men whose bodies had been held by Israel after being killed carrying out attacks.Israel handed over the bodies......
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican’s first accord with the Palestinians — an agreement that Israel has attacked as counter-productive to the Middle East peace process — has come into force, the Holy See......
CHICAGO: Record flooding from the rain-swollen Mississippi River and its tributaries stressed dams and levees to the breaking point in parts of Illinois, one of several central US states reeling from......
PARIS: The push by France’s Socialist government to revoke the citizenship of convicted terrorists with dual nationality after the Paris attacks has turned into a harsh political dispute, with the......
NATALIE Cole, the Grammy Award-winning singer whose top-selling albums preserved the musical legacy of her father, Nat King Cole, and established her as a powerful musical talent in her own......
LAHORE: Pakistan head coach Waqar Younis has not attached very high expectations with pacer Mohammad Amir, who is staging a comeback to the national team after five-year-long ban, and says losing......
CAPE TOWN: A wicket on the stroke of tea restored the balance for South Africa after England made a solid start on the first day of the second Test at Newlands here on Saturday.England were 167 for......
KARACHI: Rival captains Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan admitted on Saturday that the pink Kookaburra balls will determine future of cricket in Pakistan while observing that the day-night final of the......
LONDON: Andy Carroll and Michail Antonio both scored for a second successive match as West Ham United leapfrogged Liverpool in the Premier League table by beating them 2-0 on Saturday.The pair had......
BRISBANE: Roger Federer said on Saturday he was looking at defending his Brisbane International title as a launch pad to the new season.The 17-time Swiss grand slam champion arrived in Australia on......
NELSON: The fourth ODI between New Zealand and Sri Lanka was abandoned on Saturday after heavy rain allowed only nine overs to be bowled.The start of the match was delayed nearly five hours because......
KARACHI: Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) and United Bank Limited (UBL) will explore new territory when they take on each other in the much-awaited day-night Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National......
KARACHI: In a tall scoring match of the event, National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) pulverised Police 16-0 including three hat-tricks, to cruise into the quarter-finals of the 62nd National Hockey......
KARACHI: Repatriation of profits on foreign investments rose to $802 million during the first five months (July to November) of this fiscal year, indicating that the half-year repayment will easily......
KARACHI: Except for the first day of the new year when stocks started out with a bang, the rest of the remaining days of 2015 in the week were uneventful and closed in range-bound trading.The......
THE most destructive oil crash in a generation is giving ship owners a billion-dollar windfall.With the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries abandoning output limits in a drive for market......
ISLAMABAD: The government has finalised sites for installation of thermal power plants based on regasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) to produce 600MW electricity.The information was revealed at a......
ISLAMABAD: Shia organisations have strongly reacted to the execution of senior religious scholar Ayatollah al Nimr in Saudi Arabia and termed it ‘murder of justice and Islamic unity’.Activists of the......
ISLAMABAD: The Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) has appealed to the chief justice of the Supreme Court to take suo motu action on what it called the ‘financial NRO’ introduced by the......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has approved financing of $90 million to assist the polio eradication programme in Pakistan during 2016-18.During a meeting at its Jeddah-based......
KARACHI: Activists of the National Party (NP) held a demonstration outside the press club here on Saturday to protest against alleged rigging in by-elections for the PB-50 (Turbat-Kech-III)......
QUETTA: Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri has taken notice of water shortage in Gwadar and told the Balochistan Development Authority to submit a report on why a water desalination plant in the......
MUZAFFARABAD: Rejecting the names proposed by the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government for the office of its chief secretary, the federal government on Saturday transferred and posted Muhammad......
QUETTA: A single-judge bench of the Balochistan High Court (BHC) has suspended appointments against 341 vacancies in the Levies Force till further order. The force made the recruitments in Kalat......
NEW DELHI: The gunmen who attacked an Indian Air Force (IAF) base in Pathankot on Saturday planned it as revenge for the execution of Afzal Guru in February 2013. The surrendered Kashmiri militant......
KABUL: Afghan special forces freed 59 prisoners from a Taliban jail in Helmand, officials said on Saturday, as government troops redoubled their efforts to drive back the militants from large parts......
KARACHI: Saudi Foreign Minister Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir will arrive in Islamabad on Sunday to take Pakistani leadership into confidence over the Middle East situation and the 34-nation military......
MOSCOW: A new Russian appraisal has named the United States as one of the threats to Russia’s national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the West have deteriorated in recent......
ISLAMABAD: With a gap of over 17 years, the government on Saturday gave final touches to arrangements for carrying out population and housing census in March this year. Preliminary results will be......
NEW DELHI: The Indian Air Force (IAF) said it had killed at least four heavily armed gunmen when they attacked its Pathankot base early on Saturday, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi described the......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office renewed on Saturday its offer to India to cooperate against terrorism.“Pakistan remains committed to partner with India as well as other countries in the region to......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shia cleric and a number of Al Qaeda members on Saturday, signalling it would not tolerate attacks by any group and stirring sectarian anger across the......
AT a recent event in Karachi hosted by our business elites, a former army general asserted that Karachi’s residents are ‘suffering from an existential threat’ and security needs to be central to our......
IF there was one achievement of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government this year, it was the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Counter-insurgency, relative macroeconomic stability, and the survival......
IT may or may not get him the results, but at least he’s back in the game. Nawaz. A couple of months ago, Raheel was wiping the floor with him. Now, Nawaz is back. But how?Team Nawaz, predictably,......
THE year gone by was a landmark in the history of Pakistan: militant violence took a steep downward turn. However, the last two weeks of December exposed a new terror fault line — the growing......
DUBAI: A blaze that engulfed a Dubai skyscraper on New Year's Eve — the emirate's third high-rise fire in three years — has raised fresh questions about the safety of materials used on the exteriors......
