PARIS: Lassana Bathily was an undocumented migrant from Mali until he became an unlikely hero by saving shoppers' lives during the attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris a year ago.The 25-year-old......
KABUL: One US service member was killed and two wounded in an operation near Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province, a Nato defence official said Tuesday.“We are deeply saddened by this loss,” said......
LONDON: Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has been voted England's Player of the Year for the fourth time after breaking his country's scoring record, the Football Association announced on......
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez appears to have unwittingly taken a leaf out of the book of his club's arch-rivals Barcelona by appointing Zinedine Zidane as coach.Barcelona enjoyed huge......
TEHRAN: Iran unveiled a new underground missile depot on Tuesday with state television showing Emad precision-guided missiles in store which the United States says can take a nuclear warhead and......
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan has slammed Cricket Australia (CA) for withdrawing the Australian Under-19 side from the upcoming U-19 World Cup to be staged in......
ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities on Tuesday found the dead bodies of at least 36 migrants, including several children, washed up on beaches and floating in the sea off its western coast after their......
MUMBAI: Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is glad India will play three Twenty20 matches in Australia and hopes it will help the team identify the right combination before the World T20 at home in March.A......
Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola is looking for a new challenge and wants to work in the Premier League, he said on Tuesday.The 44-year-old Spaniard is leaving the German champions at the end of......
TEHRAN: Saudi Arabia should not respond to criticism of its regime by beheading people, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday, referring to Riyadh's recent execution for "terrorism" of Nimr......
LAS VEGAS: The mystery electric car startup Faraday Future, which seeks to "redefine mobility," unveiled its first prototype vehicle on Monday while offering few details on its ownership and......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Tuesday to take “firm and immediate action” against those behind an attack on an Indian Air Force base that left seven......
CAPE TOWN: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has commissioned one of the world's leading technology institutes in an effort to achieve a uniform decision review system.ICC chief executive David......
This article was originally published on January 5, 2016.Yet another year has passed with no success in the sport which Pakistan once dominated for nearly fifty years: squash.How many teenagers are......
FAISALABAD: Police arrested three men on Monday for kidnapping and abducting a cat belonging to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) activist Imtiaz Asif.Asif lodged a First Information Report against......
TEHRAN: Kuwait says it has recalled its ambassador to Iran over attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in the Islamic Republic.Kuwait's announcement, which was carried on the state-run Kuwait News......
MUMBAI: A Mumbai teenager has become the first batsman to score 1000 runs in an officially recognized innings.Pranav Dhanawade, a 15-year-old opening batsman, scored 1009 not out playing for K.C.......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is concerned over recent tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran that spiralled after the execution of Shia scholar Sheikh Nimr al Nimr, the Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign......
For decades, Iraq’s landscape was dotted with heroic portraits of Saddam Hussein: he appeared as a Bedouin riding a white horse, a revolutionary in a black beret, or a devout Muslim with his head......
KARACHI: An accountability court allowed the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to keep custody of former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain for 14 more days during a hearing on Tuesday.NAB......
QUETTA: Pakistan Navy has increased all-round security and surveillance at Gwadar Port with the commencement of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, reported Radio Pakistan."A special......
Hailing from one of the world’s biggest metropolitan cities, I have always been fascinated by the rural lifestyle and topographical features of Pakistan's northern areas.The strong cultural values......
SYDNEY: Australia have withdrawn from the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh later this month because of concerns over the “safety and security” of the squad, Cricket Australia said in statement on......
MOUNT MAUNGANUI: New Zealand sealed the one-day series against Sri Lanka on Tuesday with Martin Guptill's century spearheading a 36-run victory in the fifth and final one-dayer at Mount......
COLOMBO: Pakistan and Sri Lanka on Tuesday inked eight memoranda of understanding (MoU) on the sidelines of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit to Sri Lanka.The MoUs and agreements for cooperation in......
NEW DELHI: The hijacking of an Indian police officer's car by gunmen disguised in uniform should have set off alarm bells and helped prevent a deadly weekend attack on a military air base, officials......
BRISBANE: Defending champion and tournament drawcard Maria Sharapova has withdrawn from the season-opening Brisbane International with a left forearm injury, organisers said Tuesday.World number four......
SYDNEY: West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has been fined A$10,000 (USD 7,197) by the Melbourne Renegades Twenty20 team for asking an Australian TV reporter out on a date and directing personal comments......
MADRID: Real Madrid legend Zinedine Zidane promised to put his “heart and soul” into managing the Spanish giants after he was sensationally named as coach following Rafael Benitez's unceremonious......
KARACHI: The KSE-100 Index dropped nearly 500 points shortly after trading for the day began on Tuesday morning.The plummet in the index comes a day after the Federal Investigation Agency arrested......
KARACHI: A group of activists here have opted for a rather unorthodox way of drawing the attention of authorities towards civil issues that hinder the everyday life of Karachiites.As part of the Fix......
PATHANKOT: Indian forces have killed the last of the six militants who attacked an air force base near the Pakistan border over the weekend, the defense minister said Tuesday, though soldiers were......
LONDON: Gold rallied 2 per cent on Monday, buoyed by rising tensions in the Middle East and a sharp drop in stocks following weak Chinese data that fuelled concerns over global growth.Palladium,......
LONDON: Fresh evidence of China’s economic slowdown sent world stock markets tumbling on Monday, with Europe and the United States following Asia sharply lower in a gloomy start to 2016.Shanghai......
THE purpose of the Council of Islamic Ideology was to assist the Pakistani people to live their lives in accordance with the instructions of the Quran and the Sunnah. Regrettably, this objective is......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s Drinking Water Policy 2015 plans to ensure the access of the province’s entire population to adequate supply of potable water at affordable cost through......
LAKKI MARWAT: Over 400 children under the age of five years could not be immunised against polio due to refusal by their parents during the anti-polio campaign held last month, a source said on......
KHAR: The security forces have set up dozens of new posts along the Pakistan Afghanistan border to stop cross-border attacks and infiltration of militants from the neighbouring country.Briefing......
MINGORA: The weather turned chilly after fresh snowfall and rain in Malakand division, including the Swat valley on Monday.The snowfall on hilly areas like Malam Jabba, Miandam, Bahrain, Mankyal......
LANDI KOTAL: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Sardar Mahtab Ahmad on Monday announced the much awaited return of Sipah tribe of Bara alongside revival of business activities in the historic Bara......
CHARSADDA: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday said there’re reservations about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and therefore, his party had planned to hold an......
MINGORA: Haji Jalander Khan, the oldest living man of the district, says that the former Swat State was a social welfare state.“It was the golden era of the region,” says Haji Jalander Khan, 135, who......
ISLAMABAD: A candlelight vigil was held on Monday in memory of the late Punjab governor, Salman Taseer, on his fifth death anniversary in Kohsar Market, where he was gunned down by his body......
MUZAFFARABAD: A man who killed his own mother to frame his rival was arrested from the southern Bagh district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), the police said on Monday.Mohammad Imtiaz, 40, axed his......
RAWALPINDI: Security agencies are said to be tracking two brothers allegedly recruiting on behalf of the self-styled Islamic State (IS) terrorist organisation in the twin cities.Despite the interior......
ISLAMABAD: A seven-day block printing workshop started on Monday at Shakarparian as part of Lok Virsa’s ongoing series, ‘Craft of the Month’.Some 50 children from various schools working under the......
RAWALPINDI: Over 450 prisoners convicted in terrorism cases have been shifted from different jails of Punjab to the first ever high security prison established in Sahiwal.A senior official in the......
RAWALPINDI: Three separate events are being organised to observe the birth anniversary of former prime minister and PPP founding chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on Tuesday.Former PPP MNA and Chairman......
ISLAMABAD: The importance of securing internet data is becoming increasingly important as countries, organisations and even banned outfits and criminals now know more about getting and manipulating......
TAXILA: The Government Primary School Dhoke Durab has no boundary wall, no toilets or water supply and has cracks in its walls. The school, established in 1999, does not have chairs for students of......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to declare Islamabad as the sister city of Minsk, the capital of and largest city of Belarus.The Capital Development Authority (CDA), through the Capital......
LAHORE: ‘Salmaan Taseer is the hero of minorities in Pakistan’ read one of the placards at the Liberty roundabout where a good number of PPP leaders and workers and civil society activists had......
LAHORE: A five kilogramme (kg) bomb with ball bearings and a remote control device was found under the stairs of the Samsani overhead bridge on Canal Road on Monday, sometime after Federal Interior......
LAHORE: The PPP held a demonstration outside the Governor’s House demanding ‘arrest’ of PTI Chairman Imran Khan for his ‘confession’ that terrorists were provided with medical treatment at the......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Punjab, has issued a fact sheet about the law and order situation in Punjab, saying it worsened in the last one year with 5,820 reported murders, of them 341 in......
BAHAWALPUR: Over 10,000 government employees will be engaged in the national census in three districts of the Bahawalpur division.This was stated by Divisional Commissioner Saqib Zafar at a meeting......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has in principle decided to start collecting Zakat according to a decision taken by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, and a letter is being sent to the federal......
KARACHI: The privatisation issue of Pakistan Steel Mills has finally attracted the attention of the Sindh government but it has opted to wait till details of PSM assets and balance sheet arrive,......
KARACHI: Prof Atiya Khalil Arab Ansari, former chairperson of Arabic department, the University of Karachi, passed away at a hospital in Dubai on Monday after a long illness. She was 80, her family......
HYDERABAD: Perturbed at the exceptional growth of madressahs on an identical pattern along major roads in Sindh, Dr Ayesha Siddiqa highlighted the need for building a strong narrative to counter......
THATTA: Some villagers attacked with sticks one of a pair of bottlenose dolphins that got trapped in the shallow waters of the Gharo creek and were about to kill the mammal on Sunday when some social......
ADEN: Yemeni authorities announced a dusk to dawn curfew in Aden starting on Monday following a night of gunbattles between armed men and government forces that killed at least 12 people from both......
NEW YORK: Adele’s record-breaking album “25” has scored another feat — the highest US sales during a single year in a decade.The British singer’s album unsurprisingly was the top-selling album of......
NEW YORK: Republican frontrunner Donald Trump on Monday unveiled his first TV ad of the presidential election campaign, demanding a ban on Muslims entering the United States and vowing to decapitate......
YANGON: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday said bringing peace to the country’s strife-wracked ethnic regions will be a priority for her government when it takes power.The veteran democracy......
IMPHAL: At least nine people were killed and scores injured on Monday when a strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck northeast India, sending panicked residents fleeing into the streets even hundreds......
COPENHAGEN: Denmark imposed temporary identity checks on its border with Germany on Monday following a similar move by Sweden, dealing a double blow to Europe’s fraying passport-free Schengen area......
ADEN: Al Qaeda militants have stoned a woman to death in a southeastern Yemeni city that they control after accusing her of adultery and prostitution, several witnesses said on Monday.The militants......
PARIS: Several members of the Wildenstein art-dealing dynasty went on trial in Paris on Monday charged with stashing hundreds of millions of euros in inheritance money out of the reach of the French......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s execution of four prominent Shias and dozens of Al Qaeda figures appears to have been based on a calculation that the kingdom could crush support for Sunni jihadists without......
President Barack Obama is expected to announce new gun control curbs this week, but he will have to decide whether to take bold action that would likely spark a major legal challenge from opponents......
CHANCES are, you’re already familiar with facial-recognition software, even if you’ve never spent time in an artificial-intelligence lab. The algorithm that Facebook uses for tagging photos, for......
SYDNEY: Shane Watson’s international future looked bleak on Monday after the all-rounder was left out of Australia’s 13-man squad for this month’s one-day series against India on Monday.The......
MOUNT MAUNGANUI: Outgoing New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum was ruled out of the final One-day International against Sri Lanka on Monday as he struggles to recover from a back injury.Tuesday’s......
LAHORE: Pakistan will appeal against the decision to suspend Yasir Shah over a failed dope test, authorities said on Monday, as sources said the spin star told a panel last week he had taken......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday dismissed a petition against selling of media rights of Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2016-18 to two channels –– PTV Sports and TEN Sports.As Justice Ayesha A.......
To be in a position of judgment is a thankless and a demanding job. It requires reliability, trust, sanity and integrity of the highest order. Aleem Dar, one of our own who has now reached the......
BRISBANE: Former world number one Victoria Azarenka demolished Russia’s Elena Vesnina at the Brisbane International on Monday to set up a second-round showdown with top seed Simona Halep.Azarenka......
SYDNEY: Carlos Brathwaite provided some fireworks in a lively cameo as rain washed out all but 11.2 overs of the second day of the third Australia-West Indies Test on Monday.The Barbados all-rounder......
LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur drew 1-1 in a Premier League match against Everton at Goodison Park on Sunday.The draw prevented Spurs from re-opening a five-point lead over fifth-place Manchester......
PERTH: World number one Serena Williams suffered an early season injury setback Monday as she withdrew from the United States’ opening Hopman Cup tie with inflammation in her knee.Her withdrawal......
KARACHI: Misbah-ul-Haq utilised his vast experience to put Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) in the ascendency against United Bank Limited (UBL) on the second day of the day-night......
ISLAMABAD: Former Test cricketer Maqsood Ahmed, also known as Merry Max, was remembered on the occasion of his death anniversary in a gathering held here on Monday.Born on March 26, 1925 in Amritsar,......
KARACHI: SOA School Games 2016 will be staged from Feb 9-11 while 17th Sindh Games will be held in six phases during 2016-17, the general council of the SOA decided here in a key meeting held on......
KARACHI: A rejuvenated Pakistan Television (PTV) shocked fancied Pakistan Steel 2-1 to reach their maiden quarter-finals of the 62nd National Hockey Championship at the Hockey Club of Pakistan......
CAPE TOWN: South African captain Hashim Amla defied England’s bowlers and batted throughout the third day of the second Test at Newlands on Monday.Amla made an unbeaten 157 as South Africa reached......
LONDON: Britain’s oil and gas output rose in 2015 for the first time since the turn of the millennium, industry body Oil and Gas UK said on Monday, reversing a declining trend but coming as oil......
FRANKFURT: Insurance claims from natural disasters such as storms and earthquakes fell to $27 billion in 2015 as the overall cost of natural catastrophes dropped to its lowest level since 2009,......
KARACHI: The country has produced 9.279m bales so far this season, a shortfall of 33.5 per cent compared to 13.958m bales during the same period last year, according to official figures released by......
LONDON: An escalation of the diplomatic dispute between Iran and Saudi Arabia looks like a black swan event for the oil market: hard to predict, but potentially huge in its effects. Open conflict......
SHANGHAI: China cut the yuan’s value against the greenback on Monday, making it weaker than 6.5 for the first time in more than four-and-a-half years, with pressure mounting as the world’s number two......
ISLAMABAD: After a long delay the government has selected 51 trade officers, tasked to promote export and foreign direct investment, for posting in 36 countries.Annual cost of these postings is......
NEW YORK: Technology can help America’s banks do a hard reset on costs. Lenders have little to look forward to in 2016, and face pressure from a variety of startups. But the revolution the new......
KARACHI: Stocks went into a tailspin on Monday in line with global markets as several negative developments shook equity investors. The KSE-100 index took a plunge of 219.82 points (0.66 per cent) to......
KARACHI: Cotton trading failed to pick up on Monday as leading spinners kept to the sidelines. There was no buying interest for lint as yarn market continued to perform sluggishly because of slow......
ISLAMABAD: After receiving numerous complaints from companies that maintaining specific information in Urdu language at their websites was a difficult task, the Securities and Exchange Commission of......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties criticised the government in the National Assembly on Monday for not coming up with a clear stance on the situation arising out in the region because of the tension......
KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency arrested on Monday a top notch of capital market giant AKD Securities for causing a loss of more than Rs250 million to the exchequer by allegedly manoeuvring......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties in the National Assembly rejected on Monday the government’s tax amnesty scheme and termed it discriminatory and useless.The decision was taken at a joint meeting of......
ISLAMABAD: President of PPP-Parliamentarians Asif Ali Zardari has said that his party will not allow fanatics, any individual or any institution, to usurp power in the name of religion or on any......
LAHORE: PPP Senator Aitzaz Ahsan said on Monday that the centre had been unnecessarily interfering in the affairs of the provinces.Talking to reporters at the Lahore High Court, Mr Ahsan said the......
ISLAMABAD: Despite a couple of hitches, talks are due to begin in Dubai on Jan 26 for the tenth review of the $6.64 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout package for Pakistan.A senior......
QUETTA: Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) parliamentary leader in the Balochistan Assembly Abdul Raheem Ziaratwal has called upon Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri to hold talks with......
ISLAMABAD: The government has released Rs270 billion for various ongoing and new development projects under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP), out of the total Rs700bn earmarked for the......
ISLAMABAD: Several members of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) will retire after completing their tenure by March this year.According to official sources, the council consists of 20 members......
HUB: Pir Mohammad fidgets constantly as he speaks about his ancestral home back in southern Balochistan’s Mashkay in Awaran district. Trying to hide his worry with humour and failing, he speaks about......
GENEVA: The United Nations investigator for human rights violations in the Palestinian territories resigned on Monday, saying that Israel had reneged on its pledge to grant him access to the West......
KABUL: A 25-hour gun and bomb siege near the Indian consulate in the Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif ended late on Monday after all the attackers were killed.“The clearance operation is over and all......
FAISALABAD: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Monday that about 100 people had gone to Syria and Iraq to join the militant Islamic State (IS) group since its rise in the Middle East. He said......
COLOMBO: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif presented a book, ‘Majestic Pakistan’, to his Sri Lankan counterpart Ranil Wickremesinghe at its launching ceremony here on Monday.A Pakistan-Sri Lanka friendship......
BEIRUT: Militant group Hezbollah said on Monday that it set off a bomb targeting Israeli forces at the Lebanese border in an apparent response to the killing in Syria last month of a prominent......
ISLAMABAD: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to convene a multi-party conference (MPC) to chalk out a strategy against what it terms ‘non-provision of basic infrastructure’ along the......
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia rallied regional allies to its side in a growing diplomatic row with Iran on Monday, deepening a split across the Middle East following the execution of a Shia scholar in......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan disapproved on Monday a mob attack on Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran, which sparked a diplomatic crisis between Iran and Arab countries.“The attack on the Saudi Embassy in......
NEW DELHI: India said on Monday it would take a decision on the next round of talks with Pakistan after the operations at the Pathankot airbase are over, amid reports that Delhi had handed some......
PARLIAMENT in Pakistan posted some noticeable improvements during 2015 including greater transparency in members’ attendance records. National Assembly committees also undertook a detailed preview of......
The unsettling if confounding assault on the Indian Air Force base in Pathankot came a day after Pakistan’s powerful military chief Gen Raheel Sharif set 2016 as the year to wipe out terrorism from......
AROUND the world, technology has taken governance to new levels, but the bureaucracy in Pakistan is constricted to writing on the files doing the rounds in their office.Technology has been introduced......
WE have witnessed an eventful couple of weeks in India-Pakistan ties. Indian Prime Minister Modi surprised everyone with his impromptu stopover in Lahore. But even before one could fully digest this,......
THE assurance given to Austria by Iran and Saudi Arabia that they are not interested in heightening the tension is the only redeeming feature of the crisis touched off by the Saudi execution of 47......
AFTER many months of silence, it looks like the exercise to hold a population census by March may well be on track after all. Some serious delays have been encountered, and there was even talk back......
THE alleged gang rape of a young girl, reported to be a minor, in Lahore in late December has drawn the usual — and for some still the most shocking — reactions.In more recent days, a relative of the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday said it is working on “leads provided by the Indian government to effectively counter and eradicate terrorism” from the region.In a statement, the Foreign Office said......
