QUETTA: Levies personnel recovered three bullet-riddled bodies from Balochistan's Kech district on Sunday.Levies sources told DawnNews that the bodies were found in the Gorkop area of the Kech......
KABUL: A rocket landed near the Italian embassy in Kabul on Sunday, a police official said, a day before a meeting of Afghan and international officials aimed at laying the groundwork for possible......
TEHRAN: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that the official implementation of the landmark deal reached between Tehran and six world powers has satisfied all parties except radical......
TEHRAN: It is the hard-fought central pillar of his presidency, an election pledge delivered, but Hassan Rouhani may yet find it difficult to capitalise on Iran's nuclear deal with world powers.The......
MELBOURNE: Glenn Maxwell blasted 96 from just 83 deliveries to lead Australia to a thrilling three-wicket win over India in the third one-day international Sunday and a series victory.After......
QUETTA: Security forces on Sunday foiled a major terror bid in Balochistan's Dera Bugti district, defusing an improvised explosive device (IED) weighing around 17 kilogram, officials said."Militants......
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Sunday that Israel would not allow it to obtain nuclear weapons, after sanctions were lifted under Tehran's historic nuclear deal......
BEIRUT: The militant Islamic State (IS) group abducted at least 400 civilians including women and children after seizing territory in a deadly assault on Syria's eastern city of Deir Ezzor, a monitor......
MELBOURNE: The top five men's contenders for the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the tennis season, which starts in Melbourne on Monday:Ranking: 1Grand Slam titles: 10The supreme......
HAMILTON: Skipper Kane Williamson and fellow opener Martin Guptill forged the highest partnership in Twenty20 Internationals to secure New Zealand a series-levelling 10-wicket victory against......
JALALABAD: At least 13 people were killed and 14 others wounded when a suicide bomber struck the home of a prominent politician in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Sunday, authorities said.The......
LAHORE: Salman Ahmed was alone in the crowd when he became the first Pakistani to win the Musclemania world bodybuilding title in Las Vegas last year, unable to afford an entourage of managers,......
VIENNA: Iran emerged from years of economic isolation on Saturday when world powers lifted crippling sanctions against the Islamic Republic in return for Tehran complying with a deal to curb its......
Indian actor Denzil Smith will play the role of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in a film titled Viceroy’s House directed by Gurinder Chadha (Bend it like Beckham). Denzil S was born to Anglo-Indian......
Well done, Mahira Khan, because you did what you thought was the right thing to do. According to an Indian newspaper, Mahira K was supposed to do a scene in her upcoming Indian film Raees with......
Credit must be given where it’s due. It came as a pleasant surprise to all those who watch television programmes with regularity that the woman who was lately in the news for the not-so-right reasons......
Yes, folks. Rumour mills in Bollywood are churning like crazy. The cute lil’ gal Alia Bhatt and the new kid on the block Sidharth Malhotra are seeing each other.This came to the notice of journos......
It’s remarkable how Farhan Akhtar holds his own against veteran Amitabh Bachchan in Wazir (he wasn’t even born when his father Javed Akhtar along with Salim Khan scripted the story of the angry young......
While going through some of the literary fragments left behind by my father (after he passed away in 2009), I stumbled upon two books.The books were both authored by Sheikh Mohammad Rashid, one of......
One particular message in my old email box pops up. The writer has promised to pass on some ‘sensitive’ information when we meet next. We never meet. Years pass. I forget about him, until one day, I......
Film-maker Udayan Prasad has a point when he showers praise on Om Puri in these words, “He’s always surprising you — you think you know how exactly he’s going to play a scene and then he does......
Trust HSY to launch into a new city in a grand way. HSY the designer — Shero, the celebrity — has always been larger-than-life, easily flitting from his many avatars of rockstar designer, ace......
The Revenant is the most savagely violent, bleak, and harrowing films to hit the silver screen in years, yet it is also poetically beautiful; the cinematic equivalent of a soul-cleansing trek through......
In a recent interview, Shah Rukh Khan was quoted: “To sustain things in the film industry one needs commerce ….”Sustain? SRK has been named as the highest grosser of the year by Forbes for 2015 by......
A major event in the tourism calendar of Rajasthan and therefore held every year in December during the peak tourist season is the Jaipur Jewellery Show (JJS). Since Jaipur is one of the world’s......
“Dunya Mai’n Dil Jo Matlab Pooro Thyoo Ta Ch Thyoo” (It’s irrelevant if the wishes of your heart were fulfilled) crooned Dadi Leelawati, punctuating the conversation, every now and again. Age may......
by Hilda SaeedIn many households across Pakistan, women and girls often get smaller food portions ... but at what cost?A crisis has been hiding in plain sight for many decades: Pakistani women suffer......
Mine was the last name on the merit list. After appearing in the FSC examination for the second time, I was able to get the first division but being at the bottom of the ladder, I still could not get......
Our country is mired in numerous problems, making the lives of the people difficult. In this situation, any positive gesture is always welcomed as a ray of hope. The steps taken by the present......
Dressing is an art. Your sense of fashion and personal style is a measurement of how much interest you take in your well-being as well as your attitude towards life and those around you. What you......
Stuck glasses: Stuck with stuck glasses! No need to worry. Fill the top glass with ice water; the cold will make the glass molecules contract. Add salt to the ice water to chill it faster. With the......
There is nothing worse than having a runny nose, a ratty cough and a stuffy head when winter comes around. Whether it is a virus attack, weather changing too fast or one catching cold, we all know......
An assortment of pineapple, shrimp, colourful vegetables and tangy, spicy chicken are spun around oriental flavours by Chef Zakir, while the entire menu gets a Hawaiian twist when spicy, grilled......
Hi Auntie, I am a 16-year-old girl currently doing my O’ levels. I hate gender discrimination in our society. I don’t understand why there are different standards for men and women? From the......
Having a few olive trees in your garden is rapidly becoming the ‘in thing’ to do, but, unfortunately, few people are doing their homework before rushing off to invest in saplings. This week,......
Unlike the norm of holding artist-centric exhibitions in commercial galleries, the (current) Chawkandi Art Gallery, Karachi, show “Journey of Passion” was collector specific. Extracted from......
Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the most eminent post-impressionist artist. He was an extremely emotional person who lacked self-assurance and struggled with his identify and direction in life.......
Art history has seen numerous bizarre variations of the human figure by painters based on their visual perception, personal interpretation and subjective understanding. A trace of abstraction and......
Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side, Become the sky. Die, and be quiet. The speechless full moon comes out now.” — Jelaluddin RumiSome artistic narratives, as if seeking the......
They are so many ... exercising on blue yoga mats … shoulder stands, the cobra, forward bends, spinal twists, other poses and asana … is there any exercise, which they can’t do?The gentlemen gather......
It is definitely a good sign. Veteran Indian actor Om Puri will be seen in a Pakistani film titled Actor in Law, to be made by the director/producer duo of Nabeel Qureshi and Fizza Ali Meerza who......
The glam rock star who inspired so many musicians with his unique brand of music, lyric writing and flamboyant sartorial style, it was sad to hear news of David Bowie’s death on Jan 10 at the age of......
Bollywood’s actor of the millennium Amitabh Bachchan is 73 years old, and yet his resilience in terms of health is nothing less than remarkable. Recently, while shooting for a film TE3N in Kolkatta,......
Reviewed by Tara KashifTHE Satanist is an engaging read for anyone interested in the social dynamics of multicultural societies as it elucidates the hierarchical divide of the races in modern-day......
UNLESS one is an unusually astute and perceptive reader, one should read the first book in James Frey’s Endgame series, The Calling, before embarking on perusing this particular volume — Sky Key.......
WHETHER you’re a dedicated fan or an observer, there’s no escaping the fact that Haruki Murakami is everywhere. It seems every six months a new book or story of his appears and then that’s all that......
RANDALL Munroe has been busy amusing the geeks of the world with his terrific webcomic xkcd for a decade. Intelligent and witty, his nerdy, stick-figure creations merge science humour with......
THE latest addition to the prestigious international series of Penguin Modern Classics is the novel Girti Deewarain by Upendranath Ashk, translated from the Hindi and described on the back of the......
ALWAYS a stormy petrel, Rashid Jahan had become first ‘Doctor Rashid Jahan’, in itself a novelty for the daughter of a respectable Muslim family, and after the publication of Angarey and the furore......
THE work Artisans, Sufis, Shrines by Hussain Ahmad Khan is a study of cultural ethos and the various means and strategies employed for its propagation. Taking the historical process as his can-vas,......
PESHAWAR: Parents spent a restless Saturday as rumours of possible terrorist attacks on schools circulated in the provincial capital’s rural and urban areas and thus, forcing most headmasters to......
PESHAWAR: The birthplace of Bollywood legend Raj Kapoor was partially demolished by its owner here on Saturday.Officials of the archeology directorate said they made an eleventh-hour attempt to save......
MINGORA: The Qaumi Kohistan Jirga, a local community council, on Saturday threatened agitation against the Forest Ordinance 2002 insisting the presidential order is meant to grab the forests, meadows......
PESHAWAR: Families continued visiting the three-day Hunar Mela organised by the Tourism Corporation Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (TCKP) in Hayatabad, here on Saturday.The visitors, including women and......
KOHAT: The police on Saturday arrested a principal of a private school for hiding a case of molestation of a minor boy.The Saddar police said that an eight-year-old student of a private school at......
ISLAMABAD: As the government sets up a joint investigation team (JIT) to probe any possible Pakistani link in the recent attack on India’s Pathankot airbase, attention is also focused on the Mumbai......
“Russians certainly take their mid-winter celebrations seriously. I spent three years in Moscow a few years ago and I recall that for more than 10 days after New Year, working life slowed down......
The dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Argentine Ambassador Rodolfo Martin Saravia, hosted a reception for two envoys that are going back this week, the Bangladeshi high commissioner and the Afghan......
ISLAMABAD: Scores of citizens on Saturday gathered in front of Marghazar Zoo and demanded that the elephant, ‘Kaavan’, be unchained and sent to a sanctuary.Animal lovers all over the world have......
This winter has found the residents of Chitral unsettled, after the unlucky vale was ravaged by not one but two natural calamities in 2015; floods and earthquakes.The damage could have been far......
It will be four years in April since Saheli died in Islamabad’s Marghazar Zoo. She died young for an elephant, whose lifespan is typically around 70 years.Saheli was just 22 when one April day in......
Ali Khan, 26, was shocked to discover that the 25 bed integrated hospital in Bhara Kahu did not have the facilities to treat his father.“The only doctor available at the hospital after initial......
At a glance, the Salt Range makes for a serene scene. The mountainous area is dotted with natural springs, trees and vegetation.The army draws considerable strength from the area, which has produced......
LAHORE: The central passport authorities seem reluctant in taking action against five ‘corrupt’ officials having links with the agent mafia operating outside passport offices as recommendations for......
LAHORE: Child Welfare Protection Bureau (CWPB) and Data Darbar police in an operation on Saturday busted a gang of three suspects who would assault street children and later sell them to prostitution......
LAHORE: The Punjab government’s ‘Pakkiyan Sarkaan, Saukhay Painday’ programme will be completed by 2018, says Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.Presiding over a meeting to review the pace of second phase......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Smartphones uploaded with curriculum will be delivered to the faculty and students on their admission to the university.This was stated by newly-appointed Vice Chancellor of Ghazi......
SIALKOT: Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) judge Chaudhry Imtiaz Ahmed granted on Saturday a three-day physical remand of three activists of banned Jaish-i-Muhammad (JeM) in the case of recovery of jehadi......
SIALKOT: District coordination officers (DCOs) of Sialkot and Chiniot raided brick kilns and took action against owners for employing children as labourers.Sialkot DCO Dr Asif Tufail sealed two brick......
Last week my piece on the gypsies of the world and how they all tie in with those living on the banks of the River Ravi and other Punjab rivers, resulted in scores of emails from all over the world......
Following an enthralling opening day on Thursday, BioEthika, a three-day Asian parliamentary debating championship, continued in full swing on Friday and Saturday at the Forman Christian College......
KARACHI: The director general of Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, Maj Gen Bilal Akbar, on Saturday urged a Pakhtun Jirga led by an Awami National Party senator to keep an eye on ‘illegal immigrants’ in their......
KARACHI: Nine people including seven children were injured in a grenade attack near a clinic in Chakiwara on Saturday.Police believed that the attack could be a ‘reaction’ to the recent killing of......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah defended on Saturday the passage of a key amendment bill in the provincial assembly that empowered it to “withdraw from the prosecution” of any......
KARACHI: Parveen Shakir’s poetry is exceptional because it has wisdom (daanish) in it which is unique to the poetess herself. At the same time being a student of linguistics and a reader of world......
KARACHI: The city’s health authorities on Saturday said they had received reports of five patients who were tested positive for swine flu symptoms during the first half of the current month.“Five......
AMMAN: Jordan’s Queen Rania has hit back at a cartoon in French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo depicting drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi as a grown-up committing sexual harassment in Germany.The......
LONDON: Some 600 Britons have been stopped from going to Syria to try to join the militant Islamic State (IS) group and other militant groups, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in comments......
OUAGADOUGOU: Security forces in Burkina Faso retook a hotel in the capital on Saturday from Al Qaeda fighters who had seized it in an assault that killed 27 people from at least 18 countries.The......
MIAMI: The United States warned pregnant women on Friday to avoid travel to 14 countries and territories in the Caribbean and Latin America due to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, linked to birth......
LOS ANGELES: A $180 million satellite to study the world’s oceans in a changing climate will blast off on Sunday atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which SpaceX will try to land on a floating platform after......
RENNES: French authorities launched three investigations on Saturday at a research laboratory in Rennes after a drug trial conducted there left one person brain-dead and three others facing......
JAKARTA: Indonesian police on Saturday named the five men they suspect launched this week’s gun and bomb attack in Jakarta, which was claimed by the militant Islamic State (IS) group, and said they......
MALI: The Maldives’ opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed, who is serving a 13-year jail term following a controversial trial, has been given permission to travel to Britain for surgery, the government......
TAIK KYI: Pushed from their forest home by encroaching farm land, wild elephants are driving fearful villagers in a Myanmar township to seek refuge in tree houses while the animals storm their rice......
WROCLAW: Long a symbol of Polish-German reconciliation, Poland’s western city of Wroclaw will become a European culture capital this year highlighting its history at the crossroads of political......
KEENE: Bill Clinton promised voters in 1992 that they’d be getting “two for the price of one” if they elected him to the White House — a presidential duo of the young Arkansas governor and his Yale......
I KNEW Mustang was a great movie when I first saw it at the Cannes Film Festival in May, without benefit of English subtitles. Although the film, about five adolescent sisters coming of age in a......
JOHANNESBURG: Stuart Broad produced a sensational display of fast bowling as England swept to a series-clinching victory over South Africa on the third day of the third Test at the Wanderers Stadium......
LONDON: Christian Eriksen’s double helped earn Tottenham Hotspur a comfortable 4-1 win over Sunderland to reignite their Premier League title challenge and plunge their visitors into deeper trouble......
AUSTIN (Texas): Olympic superstar Michael Phelps won the 100m freestyle at the Pro Swim meeting on Friday, sharing the opening day spotlight with Sarah Sjostrom and Katie Ledecky.Phelps, out of......
SYDNEY: Viktor Troicki will go into the Australian Open with his confidence sky high after retaining his title at the Sydney International with a thrilling 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 (9-7) victory over Grigor......
MOSCOW: Russia’s new athletics head said his priority was to ensure Russian sportsmen and women compete at the 2016 Olympics as the sport tries to tackle rampant doping.“This is not an easy time for......
NICE: Winger Hatem Ben Arfa scored two late penalties as Nice beat second-placed Angers 2-1 to move provisionally up to third place in Ligue 1 on Friday.Angers had appeared to be on course to......
KARACHI: It was a tale of two individuals, both ironically having first name of Rameez, who hogged the limelight at the UBL Sports Complex where Habib Bank Limited (HBL) kept their Cool & Cool......
LAHORE: Veteran wrestler Bashir Bhola Bhala Pehlwan of Lahore wasted no time in flattening Arif Pehlwan of Bhakkar in the title fight of Rustam-e-Zaman Gama Pehlwan Dangal here at Punjab Stadium on......
DUBAI: Oil majors Total and Shell have sent executives to Tehran ahead of the expected lifting of international sanctions, Iran’s Mehr news agency said on Saturday.They will meet officials from the......
ISLAMABAD: The price of petrol is expected to fall by Rs5.45 per litre and of diesel by Rs7.76 for February, according to the calculations of oil marketing companies, but the government has imposed......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has finalised various projects concerning road and rail link for boosting trade with Afghanistan and Central Asian states.Official documents show that a feasibility study will be......
BEIJING: The new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will boost investment in the region while contributing to “fairer” global economic governance, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on......
KARACHI: The board of directors of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) is to meet at an extraordinary meeting on Monday to consider direct involvement of FIA in the affairs of the exchange.A source at......
RIYADH: The oil deluge from Iran is expected any day. Sanctions could be lifted in days. And crude markets are wobbling with its possible impact. Others factors are coming into play too.“China macro......
BEIJING: Just 19 days after the fourth quarter ended, China will tell the world how its economy performed — almost a month before Japan, and two months before tiny New Zealand.Such speed is but one......
NEW DELHI: Indian entrepreneurs will receive generous tax breaks and face dramatically reduced red tape when starting and closing a business, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday, as he......
KARACHI: Lacklustre conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Saturday. However, it maintained a firm outlook.Floor brokers said the size of export orders secured by Pakistani exhibitors at the......
NEW YORK: The collapse in the price of oil is a huge source of anxiety for many financial market participants. I suppose that’s understandable.Investors have been very excited for the past several......
Policymakers need to heed the message from global commodity and stock markets that “risks are substantially tilted to the downside,” former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said on......
ATLANTA: The Chinese authorities’ seemingly capricious decision last week to trigger circuit breakers, then rapidly remove them, added to the chaos in the country’s stock exchanges and intensified......
PESHAWAR: Under the ‘Billion Tree Tsunami’ project, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has so far planted 115 million saplings and sown seeds for 300m at a cost of Rs1,578m.This was said during a......
ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has criticised the government for not implementing the National Action Plan in letter and spirit and called it “criminal negligence”.He deplored Defence......
WASHINGTON: The US has warned India and Pakistan that terrorist groups would continue their attempts to undermine the peace process but they should not allow the militants to achieve their goal.“It......
ISLAMABAD: The government has assured the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that it will privatise 10 public sector enterprises in 2016 and transaction of four entities will be completed by......
SWABI: Four constables suffered shrapnel injuries when suspected militants lobbed a hand-grenade into a police van on the Swabi-Mardan road on Saturday.District Police Officer Javed Iqbal said the......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved technical assistance worth $1.8 million for preparation of a hydro-power development plan for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The plan entails scope for......
THE landscape holds the past captive. A display of lives cut short, of tragedies in progress. Down long paths with ancient crevices and split-levelled stairwells and locked old doors wrapped around......
TAIPEI: Taiwan elected Tsai Ing-wen as its first female president on Saturday, handing her pro-independence party its first majority in the national legislature and rejecting the China-friendly party......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has decided to launch a mediation effort to end the standoff between Iran and Saudi Arabia amid growing international fears that a prolonged confrontation could have serious......
ISLAMABAD: Even though the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) acknowledges that Google has made it possible for the Pakistani government to ask for the removal of objectionable videos from......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has been asked to intervene and take notice of the treatment meted out to a student who disappeared, was believed to have been “killed in an encounter” with security......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly unanimously adopted on Saturday a bill aimed at curbing the harassment women face at workplaces.The bill titled “Harassment Against Balochistan Women at Workplace......
THE interior ministry may intend the numbers to convey a sense of achievement, but they only raise troubling questions. In a parliamentary update on actions taken under the National Action Plan, the......
THE last few weeks have been crucial for Pakistan’s foreign policy. Apparently, the civilian and military leaderships dealt successfully with the challenges thrown up by developments in the region......
INTERVENE! Stay neutral! Mediate! Think pipeline. Think oil. Don’t get involved. We’re already involved. Stay united. They’ve fractured us already.Everyone’s got an opinion on Saudi-Iran. Most think......
HAVE you ever stood at a taxicab rank? Did you notice that taxicabs generally form a queue leading up to the rank and simply take the next passenger waiting? Did you also perhaps wonder why that was?......
THIS month Khadija Arib was elected president of the lower house of parliament in the Netherlands. Arib, a Moroccan-Dutch woman who immigrated to the Netherlands when she was 15, has had an......
