KARACHI: The city received its first winter showers on Monday night as winds lashed the metropolis and are expected to remain here till Tuesday morning.There was no word from the Met office about the......
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday he was “frustrated and angry” at an Iranian video showing 10 detained US Navy sailors, as the American military described how the nine men and......
LONDON: Muslim women who fail to learn English to a high enough standard could face deportation from Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron announced Monday.He also suggested that poor English skills......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and senior provincial minister Inayatullah jointly inaugurated the Bab-i-Peshawar flyover on Monday. The ceremony was attended by PTI......
ISLAMABAD: A video game based on the Peshawar Taliban school massacre of more than 150 people, mostly children, was removed Monday after triggering a social media uproar, with critics blasting it as......
KARACHI: A young man riding a motorcycle was shot dead by police firing here Sunday night, after he allegedly did not stop at a police check post in the area, officials said.Shaharyar was accompanied......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, on Monday said United States (US) policies were responsible for instability in South Asia, urging the Obama administration to......
After an impressive win in the first T20 on Friday, Pakistan cricket fans received a jolt of reality when New Zealand openers Martin Guptill and Kane Williamson frustrated Shahid Afridi and company......
JOHANNESBURG: Specialist opening batsman Stephen Cook has been added to the South African squad for the fourth and final Test against England starting in Centurion on Friday.England, meanwhile, will......
MELBOURNE: World number one Novak Djokovic said a member of his staff was approached about fixing a match early in his career, and he questioned whether betting companies should be allowed to sponsor......
KABUL: Afghanistan will hold postponed parliamentary elections in October, the top election official said on Monday, after last June's deadline to choose a new assembly was missed because of......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology on Monday issued a directive to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to restore YouTube service within 48 hours.The Ministry of Information......
DHAKA: A Bangladesh court Monday sentenced five Islamist militants to 10 years in prison for carrying out explosions in 2005 as part of a deadly nationwide bombing campaign that shook the nation.A......
LIVERPOOL: Manchester United's smash-and-grab 1-0 victory at Liverpool will strengthen conviction that they can yet end a difficult season as Premier League champions, according to manager Louis van......
KANDAHAR: The Taliban have demanded a hefty new “protection tax” from Afghan mobile phone companies, industry and militant sources told AFP, as the resurgent group tightens its stranglehold on a rare......
QUETTA: At least five security personnel were killed and two others wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Quetta's Margut area on Monday.A security officer who declined to be named......
KABUL: Representatives from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States gathered in Kabul on Monday called on the Taliban to resume peace talks with the Afghan government.Senior officials from......
And so, another day dawns with the crow of the rooster and the sigh of the moderate Muslim. Get up, and turn on your computer. You know the drill:We are a peaceful people. Our values are progressive.......
MELBOURNE: A bombshell report alleging widespread match-fixing in tennis rocked the Australian Open as the season's first Grand Slam tournament began under a cloud on Monday.The BBC and BuzzFeed......
QUETTA: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Quetta on Monday acquitted former president General Pervez Musharraf in a case pertaining to the alleged murder of former Baloch nationalist leader Nawab......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his meeting with Saudi royals on Monday urged the Kingdom to resolve its differences with rival Iran peacefully, Radio Pakistan reported.The premier said......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange opened Monday with a fall as the KSE-100 index plunged by over 1,200 points in early trading.Just over an hour after the start of the session, the benchmark......
SINGAPORE: Oil prices hit their lowest since 2003 on Monday, as the market braced for a jump in Iranian exports after the lifting of sanctions against the country over the weekend.The United Nations......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand have weighed up the impact of their record win over Pakistan in Sunday's T20 and concluded the benefits far outweigh the downside.Martin Guptill and Kane Williamson's unbroken......
LONDON: The wealthiest 62 people now own as much as half the world's population, some 3.5 billion people, as the super-rich have grown richer and the poor poorer, an international charity said on......
LONDON: When Smita Sharma began photographing survivors of rape in India in December 2014, the experience was so intense that she developed post traumatic stress disorder.The condition worsened when......
In an attempt to honour the valour of Pakistan Army soldiers, the Punjab IT Board last month released an Android game themed on the Peshawar Army Public School attack in December 2014.This......
LONG having relegated itself to the sidelines of diplomacy, the country appears to be making something of a comeback on the international stage.Led by the unlikely combination of Prime Minister Nawaz......
THE shutter-down strike observed in Gilgit-Baltistan on Thursday, followed by continuing protests against tax measures imposed on the residents of the area are entirely justified.The inhabitants of......
WHEN faced with crises, proactive governments go into damage-control mode and react with a mix of empathy and spin, projecting an image of concern. However, the PPP-led Sindh government prefers to......
PAKISTAN’S struggle with its black economy continues. Another tax amnesty scheme for traders has been introduced. Parliamentary opposition will oppose the tax amnesty offered by the government as a......
THE conflict over the geographic distribution of projects being implemented under CPEC is neither unexpected nor completely unwarranted. Out of all principle fractures dotting Pakistan’s political......
Another Oscar nod for Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy; another moment of introspection for Pakistan. Four years ago, Chinoy’s award-winning documentary on acid attacks inspired parliamentary and media debate......
THERE’S no dearth in the country of voices lamenting the overtaking of ‘Pakistani culture’ by foreign influences. From as august a platform as the National Assembly, people have at various times......
“I HAVE a Remington Rand typewriter (belonging to my father), 1930 model, in very good working and shining condition.Also, two letters from Mahatma Gandhi written by him to my father in May/June 1934......
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami will launch a nationwide campaign against corruption from March to expose the people involved in the loot and plunder of national wealth so that the nation, especially......
KHAR: Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Chairperson Marvi Memon on Sunday said the federal government was keen to improve living standard of the Fata women by reducing their financial......
PESHAWAR: The political agents in different agencies of the Federally Administered Tribal Area have been flouting the law and order of the governor and Fata Civil Secretariat with impunity to bring......
PESHAWAR: The senior workers of the ruling PML-N fear that uncertainty created about the issue of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project will badly affect the vote bank of the party in Khyber......
A three-year-long struggle of an Indian college teacher, Ms Fauzia Ansari, for tracing her missing son, Hamid Nehal Ansari, finally bore fruit when the Peshawar High Court was informed by the......
ISLAMABAD: Sewage has alarmingly increased in the streams of the capital which can be observed at the bioremediation project launched by the National Agricultural Research Centre at Rose and Jasmine......
ISLAMABAD: The battle for Nanga Parbat’s first winter ascent is making headlines again. This week, a climber survived more than 250 feet fall on the icy wall of the ninth highest peak in the......
ISLAMABAD: The man tipped to become the first mayor of the federal capital has a direct line to the Prime Minister’s Office, strong personal links with nearly all members of the Sharif clan, and......
RAWALPINDI: Hundreds of air passengers saw their travel plans disrupted, after dozens of flights were cancelled because of the thick fog that enveloped Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) at......
RAWALPINDI: Kashmiri cuisine is the go-to food for most residents of the twin cities with the advent of winter. The flavours of the valley are rich, as is the food, which is designed to keep people......
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government seems to be lurching towards a showdown with Islamabad, citing issues that it says have brought it to the end of its tether.Existing tensions......
LAHORE: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto’s direction to the Sindh and Azad Kashmir governments to lift the decades-old ban on student unions in educational institutions may force other provinces to follow......
GUJRAT: The PML-Q has surprisingly nominated Sameera Elahi, the sister of party chief Shujaat Husain, for the slot of Gujrat district council chairperson.This is for the first time in the political......
Zareen Panna, an eminent Pakistani kathak dancer and veteran film artiste has recently started teaching dance at Alhamra Art Center, The Mall.Ms Panna who has some 50 movies to her credit, including......
MUZAFFARGARH: Two brick kilns on Dera Ghazi Khan Road were sealed over child labour and cases were registered against their owners here on Sunday.District Coordination Officer Hafiz Shaukat Ali with......
KARACHI: Rangers took into custody an official of the Fishermen Cooperative Society, who is also the general secretary of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum, said PFF chairman Mohammed Ali Shah on......
KARACHI: Criticising authorities of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation and Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Sunday gave them two-week time to improve the......
KARACHI: A brother of a local leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz was shot dead in Lyari’s Baghdadi area in the early hours of Sunday ahead of a planned ‘peace rally’, officials and family......
KARACHI: On any given day one hears, for the umpteenth time, of a new housing society being launched, with state-of- the-art facilities, a lucrative geographical location, and the very best in......
DADU: A number of programmes were held in Sann, the native town of veteran Sindhi nationalist leader G.M. Syed, to celebrate his 112th birth anniversary on Sunday.Several thousand people arriving in......
PUNCH, or London Charivari, a British weekly, was probably the longest running humour magazine in the history of world humour and satire.The first issue of Punch came out on July 17, 1841. And when......
As member of the Nepalese Constitutent Assembly, Sapana Pradhan Malla was very involved in the drafting of the constitution. And, as Gender Adviser to the office of the prime minister, she was......
For a long stretch of time in post-independence Karachi, no locality in the city enjoyed more importance than Elphinstone Street [now Zaibunnisa Street].The reason was simple. Saddar and its......
CALAIS: In the heart of the Calais migrant shantytown in northern France known as the “Jungle”, a cover of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ rings out from the ramshackle headquarters of the camp’s very......
MILAN: The worlds of music, fashion and art continued their long collaboration on the menswear runways of Milan Fashion Week on Sunday. Missoni creative director Angela Missoni says collaborations......
TEHRAN : As Iran emerged from years of economic isolation after ‘world powers’ lifted crippling sanctions against the country in return for it complying with a deal to curb its nuclear ambitions,......
PRAGUE: Czech President Milos Zeman, known for his fiery anti-migrant comments, said on Sunday that it was almost impossible to integrate the Muslim community into European society. “The experience......
SANAA: A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into the police chief’s house in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday, killing seven civilians and security forces in a failed assassination......
UNITED NATIONS: An estimated $40 billion is needed annually to help the rapidly growing number of people needing humanitarian aid as a result of conflicts and natural disasters — and one possibility......
HELSINKI: Norway is celebrating King Harald’s 25th anniversary as monarch of the Scandinavian country with concerts, candlelight processions, children’s winter events and a gala performance at the......
LONDON: Hoping to hold together a party with a small majority in parliament and facing resignations, the British prime minister takes the unusual step of letting members of his cabinet oppose the......
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......
MELBOURNE: Novak Djokovic is in the kind of form that has rivals no less than Rafael Nadal describing it as being close to perfection.Serena Williams has been injured, has hardly played since the US......
JOHANNESBURG: One of South Africa’s great eras in Test cricket is over.The signs were there in a 3-0 series loss in India late last year, only for South Africa’s issues to be disguised by a debate......
MELBOURNE: Glenn Maxwell struck a scintillating 96 in a tricky chase to help world champions Australia beat India by three wickets in the third One-day International on Sunday and take an......
LONDON: Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney kept up his hot streak by scoring a 78th-minute winner with one of the few moments of real class as his side stunned eternal rivals Liverpool with a......
AUSTIN (Texas): Katie Ledecky insisted she wasn’t trying to send a message ahead of the Olympics. Sometimes, however, teenagers just can’t help themselves.The 18-year-old dominated an impressive......
PARIS: Monaco moved up to second place in Ligue 1 after winning 2-0 at Lorient on Sunday, with both goals coming in an improved second-half performance.Promising midfielder Thomas Lemar put Monaco......
MILAN: Paulo Dybala hit a brace and Alex Sandro struck his maiden Juventus goal in a 4-0 rout away to Udinese that closed the gap on Serie A leaders Napoli to two points on Sunday.Napoli, who are......
KARACHI: Maintaining his consistent run, ace golfer and last year runner-up Waheed Baloch won the fifth Rashid D Habib national professional golf tournament at the Karachi Golf Club on Sunday.He......
KHULNA: Sabbir Rahman starred with both bat and ball on Sunday as Bangladesh crushed Zimbabwe by 42 runs in the second Twenty20 International to take a 2-0 lead in the four-match series.Sabbir made......
TWO documents, which record the performance of the economy, are the economic survey issued by the finance ministry and the annual report of State Bank of Pakistan.Economic Survey released each year......
KEY financials of all scheduled banks for the year 2015 show that total assets have grown by Rs1.911tr from Rs11.462tr on January 2, 2015 to Rs13.373tr by Jan 1, 2016, deposits and other accounts by......
INDIAN yarn maker Damodar Industries Ltd aims to export 2,000 tonnes of yarn to Bangladesh a year in three years from its annual shipment of 500 tonnes now.“Increasing the shipment to 2,000 tonnes......
PAK Elektron Limited will raise Rs995.36m in equity through a fresh issue of 25pc right shares during 2016, a company announcement said early this month.This will be the third such issue since 2013......
ISLAMABAD has failed to enact a Geographical Indications law for protecting ownership rights of commodities that have a Pakistan-specific geographical origin and are distinguishable by their quality,......
TO ease the immense population pressure on the economy and the 6pc high rate of unemployment, engaging and supporting a potential mass of 95m plus youth in entrepreneurial activities may be the only......
PRIVATE sector investment has been declining at an alarming rate from an annual average of 13pc of GDP for 2001-09 to less than 10pc since 2009.Given its importance for generating employment,......
THE amount of subsidy given to sugar tycoons on their 2012 exports, whose ‘justification’ has been challenged by the National Assembly’s standing committee on industries and got its payment stalled,......
THE Standing Committee of the National Assembly approved the Plant Breeders’ Rights Act on Jan 6. The story has taken 20 years in telling people that the current Plant Breeders’ Rights Act lies in......
When 2010 superfloods inundated around 2.2m acres of farmland in Sindh, soil conditions suited cultivation of sunflower.The crop was cultivated on around 267,000ha and growers and authorities felt it......
WHILE the Indian government took a series of steps to curb imports of steel from China, Japan and Korea last year, the measures have proved to be futile as imports shot up during the year.India’s......
RussiaTHE year 2015 was crucial for the Russian economy, hit by falling oil prices, as its corporations could not access the Western financial market following the financial sanctions imposed in......
THE General Electric aims to boost productivity at its plants — and its customers — by transforming its engines and locomotives into intelligent devices. But the shift will expose it to stiff......
WHEN Suresh Prabhu became the Indian railways minister just over a year ago, he inherited an empire with 1.3m staff and even more pensioners; tracks that stretch for the equivalent of one and a half......
NO one in his wildest imagination could have fancied a barrel of Brent crude price to tumble from $115 in June 2014 to $29.44 last Friday — a matter of a little over a year and a half. But it has......
AFTER earning huge profits by investing in government debt papers for last few years, banks are now mulling to tap big business financing opportunities.The government’s plans to boost economic growth......
PAKISTANI professionals working in the Middle East are nervous over the murky regional situation as polarisation intensifies, security challenges amplify and the economies of oil exporting countries......
CALM prevailed in the local currency market last week. The rupee/dollar parity traded almost flat amid minor fluctuations. Major currency players also stayed on the sidelines. Both the demand and......
ISLAMABAD: After taking control of official record, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has started investigations into alleged mismanagement and misappropriation of natural gas and liquefied......
ISLAMABAD: The federal ombudsman has asked all the ministries and divisions to set up independent pensioners’ cells and appoint focal persons to deal with problems faced by pensioners. He told them......
LANDI KOTAL: A large number of Khuga Khel tribesmen and activists of various political parties held a demonstration here on Sunday in protest against the federal government’s decision to amend an......
ISLAMABAD: Recalling the Charter of Democracy (CoD), Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Sunday that an imbalance of power between elected representatives and the......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate is set to take up a 50-point agenda, including eight bills aimed at providing “inexpensive and speedy justice”, when it will meet on Monday.The house will also take up two......
QUETTA: President of his own faction of the Balochistan National Party Akhtar Mengal has said the rulers should first get powers from certain quarters before holding talks with Baloch......
ISLAMABAD: A number of top-ranking government officials hold multiple positions in public sector enterprises or state institutions, signalling that the PML-N still prefers to run the affairs of the......
FAISALABAD: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that a joint investigation team has been constituted to investigate the Jan 2 terrorist attack on India’s Pathankot airbase.Before the attack,......
ISLAMABAD: A five-day Pakistan-China Business Friendship Conference will start here on Monday.About 100 Chinese delegates will attend the conference in which prominent Pakistani businesspersons,......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: An attempt to smuggle Iranian diesel to Sindh from Balochistan was foiled on Sunday and three suspects were arrested near Dera Murad Jamali.According to police officials, a CIA......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Sanaullah Zehri has said that government employees, especially doctors, teachers and engineers, if found involved in politics would be dismissed from......
BUCHAREST: Heavy snowfall and strong winds closed Romania’s Black Sea ports, including the main port of Constanta, and shut dozens of roads while snowstorms and torrential rains cut electricity to......
NEW DELHI: India plans to cover more than 40 vulnerable unfenced stretches along the Pakistan border by laser walls soon, with the home ministry giving it a top priority to prevent any infiltration,......
BEIRUT: The militant Islamic State group’s fighters have kidnapped more than 400 Syrians after capturing new ground in a major assault on the city of Deir Ezzor that also left hundreds of people......
WASHINGTON: US federal authorities have arrested an American man for allegedly planning to join the militant Islamic State group in Syria, officials said.A statement, issued on Saturday afternoon,......
ISLAMABAD: As Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Army Chief General Raheel Sharif embark on visits to Saudi Arabia and Iran on Monday, people at home and abroad will be waiting eagerly for the outcome......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama confirmed on Sunday that the United States had lifted certain nuclear-related sanctions from Iran after the Islamic Republic successfully implemented a deal signed......
JALALABAD: At least 14 people were killed on Sunday when a suicide bomber struck a gathering of tribal elders at a prominent politician’s home in Jalalabad, prompting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to......
KARACHI: In a move apparently aimed at improving its ties with the establishment, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement abolished on Sunday its ‘unit and sector system’ in Karachi and introduced a new......
