DUBAI: Iran and China agreed to expand bilateral ties and increase trade to $600 billion in the next 10 years, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday during a visit to Tehran by Chinese President......
KASUR: At least 13 passengers, including four women and a child, drowned when a passenger van plunged into a canal near Changa Manga on Saturday.According to details shared by police, the van was......
QUETTA: The government of Balochistan, in an attempt to improve female literacy rate, declared on Saturday that all primary schools across the province will now function without any gender......
TAJIKISTAN: As part of an "anti-radicalisation campaign", police in the Khatlon region reportedly shaved the beards of 13,000 men and shut down 160 shops selling the hijab, reported BBC earlier this......
SYDNEY: Manish Pandey held his nerve for an unbeaten century as India beat Australia by six wickets in their series-ending one-day international to deny the home side a clean sweep on......
Pakistan's Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and mixed doubles partner Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan marched into the Australian Open second round after a convincing 6-4, 7-6 win over local pair of Luke......
PESHAWAR: The 'facilitators' behind Bacha Khan University attack were revealed before reporters on Saturday, following a press conference held by Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations......
West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has officially retired from international cricket, seven months after selectors opted to discard the veteran and push for a youth-oriented......
Ice-cool waters, lush green plains, overcast skies: New Zealand is serenity's darling, isn't it?To attribute the same calmness to its cricket side, would be naivety at its undiluted best, given the......
RIYADH: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday hoping for an easing of tensions between the Sunni power and its predominantly Shia rival Iran.Kerry was to attend a joint......
NEW DELHI: An Indian passenger plane was forced to make an emergency landing in the country's western city of Nagpur on Saturday after a hoax bomb threat, GoAir airline said.The GoAir plane, carrying......
DUESSELDORF: Even 73-year-old retiree Edris says he has not been spared suspicious questions from Germans after a rash of sex assaults in Cologne blamed on North Africans.“If there is a criminal......
In the year following the barbaric Peshawar army-run school massacre that left 132 children dead, Pakistan endeavored to make some important strides.The government began to enforce hate speech......
WELLINGTON: The head of the International Cricket Council's Anti-Corruption Unit has described as “absolutely preposterous nonsense” claims it did a deal to shield New Zealand captain Brendon......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum hopes to return to international cricket after an extended layoff because of a back injury in the last match of a three-match limited-overs......
TOKYO: Japan accepted only 27 refugees last year and rejected almost all applications, officials said Saturday, as rights groups urged the government to allow more people in.The country has long been......
MOSCOW: The Russian Army's Commander-in-Chief Oleg Salyukov on Friday announced that Russian ground forces will hold its first ever military exercises with Pakistan in the coming year, according to......
CHITRAL: Earthquake tremors were felt in different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa early Saturday morning, a few weeks after a severe earthquake hit northern Afghanistan and Pakistan.The jolts were felt......
LAHORE: All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) has asked the prime minister to get his announced Rs3 per unit cut in industrial electricity tariff implemented immediately, saying the water......
LONDON: International banks are preparing to re-establish links with their Iranian counterparts using the SWIFT transactions system, the head of Iran’s Middle East Bank told Reuters on Friday.But it......
LONDON: Oil surged above $30 on Friday after the European Central Bank signalled more stimulus, and after key crude producer Saudi Arabia labelled current ultra-low price levels as......
SINGAPORE: Credit evaluator Moody’s said on Friday it has placed the ratings of 120 oil and gas firms worldwide under review for possible downgrade due to plunging crude prices.“These reviews reflect......
LONDON: Gold fell on Friday as hints of more monetary stimulus from the European Central Bank weighed on the euro and pushed European shares 3 per cent higher, denting appetite for alternative......
PARIS: Christine Lagarde launched her campaign for a second term as managing director of the International Monetary Fund on Friday with ringing endorsements from a host of major economies that looked......
KARACHI: Stocks staged partial recovery on Friday as the KSE-100 index recouped 197.23 points (0.64 per cent) and closed at 30,949.03.Market opened on a positive note. Major support came from a......
KARACHI: Prices of flats and houses are going through the roof despite declining cost of construction for builders, who are getting good discounts from cement makers besides enjoying cut in steel bar......
ISLAMABAD: Based on legal and constitutional issues raised by Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has expressed its inability to approve import and pricing of......
KARACHI: With huge reserves of coal and plenty of wind to produce electricity, Sindh holds solution to the energy problems of Pakistan in the long run, said provincial finance minister Murad Ali Shah......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China on Friday signed a letter of exchange for the feasibility study of Gwadar Port City Master Plan Project costing Rs410 million under a government-to-government......
KARACHI: Falling crude prices on the international market helped Pakistan cut its oil import bill by 43 per cent, or a saving of $3.24 billion, in the first half (July to December) of this fiscal......
KARACHI: Cotton trading failed to pick up on Friday as buyers generally remained to the sidelines. However, some leading spinners entered in big deals to meet their demand.Floor brokers said that......
LAHORE: Former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf has demanded sacking of the entire support staff of the national team besides dissolving the national selection committee and PCB......
CENTURION: Debutant Stephen Cook and Hashim Amla shared a double century partnership for South Africa before England fought back on the first day of the fourth and final Test here at SuperSport Park......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand sent a warning to their rivals ahead of the World Twenty20 when they outclassed Pakistan by 95 runs to clinch the three-match series 2-1 here at the Westpac Stadium on......
LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Shaharyar M Khan has categorically stated that he will not take any notice of Pakistan’s poor performance in the T20 series against New Zealand which......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captains Aamir Sohail, Wasim Akram, Ramiz Raja, Rashid Latif and Mohammad Yousuf have expressed disappointment and shock at Pakistan’s back to back thrashing in the Twenty20......
MELBOURNE: Novak Djokovic underlined his supremacy in men’s tennis on Friday as he marched unstoppably into the Australian Open fourth round – along with Serena Williams, who raced through in just 44......
BERLIN: Germany’s World Cup-winning captain Philipp Lahm has dropped the first hint that he may retire before his Bayern Munich contract expires in 2018.The 32-year-old stepped down as Germany’s......
VALENCIA: Gary Neville’s difficult start to life as Valencia coach continued as Los Che could only manage a 1-1 draw at home to Las Palmas in the first leg of their Copa del Rey quarter-final on......
KHULNA: A record-breaking innings by Hamilton Masakadza led Zimbabwe to an 18-run victory over Bangladesh as the tourists clinched a series draw in the fourth and final Twenty20 International here at......
KOCHI: Pakistan blind cricket team remained unbeaten in the league matches by recording their fourth straight win over Bangladesh by seven wickets in the Asia Cup T20 Cricket Tournament for Blind......
KARACHI: A strike called by the Young Doctors Association (YDA) of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) kept thousands of patients unattended to at the outpatient departments on Friday, said......
KARACHI: Exactly 24 hours before the Karachi Eat Food Festival was to officially open for the public, the Frere Hall lawns were witnessing a flurry of activity hardly ever seen within its......
KARACHI: Condemning the attack on Bacha Khan University, the Sindh Assembly on Friday termed it an attack on the youth and coming generation of Pakistan and sought countrywide implementation of the......
KARACHI: All plans to bring motorcycle-rickshaws, better known as Qingqi rickshaws, back on the roads by this week remained beyond the realms of possibility, with the provincial transport authority......
KARACHI: As residents of the West Avenue returned home in Defence Housing Authority Phase 1, they noticed that the yellow poinciana trees which normally greeted them as they drove into their......
KARACHI: A book titled Lyari Ki Adhuri Kahani by Ramzan Baloch was launched at the Karachi Press Club on Friday evening.The unassuming author in his address to the attendees, which included a big......
CONFERENCEThe Sindh Development Conference organised by the Sindhi Association of North America (SANA) at Hotel Mövenpick at 9:30am.GET-TOGETHERA sitting with poets Surwat Zohra and Sabiha Saba from......
NAWABSHAH: Consul General of France in Karachi Francois Dall’Orso on Friday visited Chahun Jo Daro — a site where traces of a 4,500-year-old civilisation similar to Moenjodaro were discovered in 1930......
UMERKOT: Scores of men and women of the Kolhi community blocked the Umerkot-Samaro road in front of Bodar Farm police station on Friday for 12 hours in protest against abduction of two minor girls of......
The latest offering of the Chipmunks franchise, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip, is full of mayhem and madness.In this movie, the musical career of the Chipmunks, Alvin (voiced by Justin......
Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘A fair cow’, a new entrant to the Oxford DictionaryA fair cowDefinition: A particularly......
Sleep well to study wellSleep also plays a role in test performance, but in two unexpected ways. Review the toughest material right before going to bed the night before the test.That approach makes......
Aprofile for classic video game character and Nintendo mascot appeared on business networking site LinkedIn recently.The profile, bearing the name Mario Bros., lists some of Mario’s key skills as......
Chinese cafe charges for clean airChina is renowned for its pollution and it’s got so bad that one restaurant has started charging for an ‘air cleaning fee’!The restaurant, in Zhangjiagang city, in......
Didn’t I tickle your curiosity enough in my previous article to arouse you into loving this oldest of sciences enough to learn more and more about it nearly as soon as possible?Dark matter for......
Ex-band mates don’t speak to Zayn MalikZayn Malik has hit out at his former One Direction band mates, saying they refused to speak to him when he left the band. The singer, 22, spectacularly quit the......
Many of us have a passion for writing and we do write, sometimes in a notebook, sometimes on a word document on a computer. These pieces of writing will someday be the most precious assets which will......
“Why is my heart beating so fast?” I asked myself. It seemed as if something bad was going to happen. Just then my math’s teacher stepped in with a pile of papers in her hand.“Good morning! Now......
Ireached home after school thinking about the pile of math homework I had received from my teacher. I had a strong feeling that the teacher would be absent the next day, but still I could not ignore......
If you have ever stayed up at night to finish a book, or read a book that kept you thinking for weeks or that made you feel like a better person at the end, then you know exactly what Walt Disney......
LAHORE: A sessions court on Friday denied bail to four suspects involved in the gang-rape of a teenager student.The suspects were arrested by the Racecourse police along with other suspects.The......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has changed the procedure for election to reserved seats in local bodies through an ordinance days after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) announced its schedule......
LAHORE: Two experts of the United Nations urged the government on Friday to halt construction work of the Orange Line Metro Train, which, according to them, has threatened a large number of protected......
LAHORE: A two-day festival on the life and works of legendary short story writer Saadat Hassan Manto titled ‘Absolut Manto 2’ kicked off at Alhamra Art Centre on Friday.The festival attracted a large......
LAHORE: The government is likely to offer Rs2 million or so per marla compensation to those residing in scores of properties without ownership documents in Jain Mandir, Kapoorthala House, Maharaja......
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu pledged on Friday to continue to work intensively together to solve Europe’s migrant crisis — not only to stem the......
MUMBAI: Police crackdowns and higher rents are driving Mumbai’s commercial sex industry out of traditional red-light areas and underground, with calls on Friday from social workers to boost efforts......
STOCKHOLM: A Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) plane carrying 72 people from London to Stockholm was diverted to Gothenburg on Friday after a bomb threat and passengers were evacuated, police said.“The 72......
PARIS: With a year to go before presidential elections, French opposition leader Nicolas Sarkozy has outlined where he thinks he went wrong during his time in power, in a new book to be published on......
NEW DELHI: A day after legendary danseuse mother Mrinalini Sarabhai’s death, Mallika Sarabhai, a bitter critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, slammed him on Friday for not expressing even a word on......
WASHINGTON: Iowans head to the polls on Feb 1 to cast the first votes in the process that determines who will represent the Democratic and Republican parties in November’s US presidential......
YANGON: Myanmar began releasing the first of about 100 prisoners on Friday, many of them political detainees, days before a parliament dominated by democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi’s party sits......
TUNIS: Tunisia on Friday declared a nighttime curfew across the country after a wave of protests and clashes that constitute the most serious outbreak of social unrest since its 2011 revolution.Five......
SEOUL: North Korea said on Friday it had arrested a US student who, under orders from Washington, had engaged in an unspecified “hostile act” after entering the country on a tourist visa.The......
SAO PAULO: With the sting of a mosquito bite and a fever, many pregnant women may not know that they caught the Zika virus — until it strikes their unborn child.Now authorities in some Latin American......
Media briefingNational Vocational & Technical Training Commission Executive Director Zulfiqar Ahmad Cheema will address a media briefing on Monday, January 25 at Marriott Hotel at......
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani on Friday said he will be starting a campaign to get ramps constructed in buildings for special persons, and that he would initiate it from the Parliament......
“I have been working as a salesman for three years and I have been doing this while going to school full time.I am a student of the ninth grade and came third in my class in the December exams. I......
WASHINGTON: A monstrous snowstorm began pounding the southern and eastern United States on Friday, with five states declaring states of emergency and more than two feet predicted for Washington......
KABUL: The Afghan Taliban will send representatives to a conference organised by an international crisis group that will discuss resolving the war in Afghanistan.Representatives of the Taliban’s......
MOGADISHU: Somalia’s Shebab militants killed around 20 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming a popular seaside restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, police and witnesses said on......
WASHINGTON: Continued Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons development could jeopardise strategic stability between the two countries, warns a congressional report sent to US lawmakers this week.The......
ATHENS: At least 44 people, including 17 children, drowned on Friday in the Aegean Sea as two smuggling boats sunk off different Greek islands. A search-and-rescue operation was underway for others......
DAVOS (Switzerland): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Friday that his government was transforming its human capital into a driver for growth and development by empowering its youth and providing......
ISLAMABAD: The government found itself in a faux pas when it had to put on hold at the last moment a notification for the removal of top two officers of the National Transmission and Dispatch Company......
PESHAWAR: The apex committee of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has asked Peshawar division commissioner to investigate security arrangements on the day of the attack on the Bacha Khan University (BKU) in......
PESHAWAR: The federal government has failed to respond the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s request made for a Rs66.280 billion special security package for the province in March last year.The......
PESHAWAR: Life seems to be back to abnormal in general in Khyber Pakhutnkhwa after a surreal calm but for the bereaved families of Bacha Khan University teacher Hamid Hussain and many students who......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Climate Change Zahid Hamid informed the Senate on Friday that Balochistan’s job quota in federal government’s departments had been increased from 3.5 to 6 per cent.Responding......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Ahmed Shah has called for the removal of Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for not condemning Wednesday’s terrorist......
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants the centre and provinces to consider “rebalancing” the sharing of financial resources under the 7th National Finance Commission (NFC) award as......
DAVOS (Switzerland): Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has invited Swiss and international investors to Pakistan’s energy, telecom, infrastructure, urban development, agro-industry and textiles sectors,......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A leader of a Taliban faction released the video footage on Friday of four militants who, he said, had carried out Wednesday’s assault on a university in Charsadda.The footage......
DAVOS: Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday on his statements against honour killings in Pakistan.“I just want to......
Iran's breakout from its decades-long isolation holds a lesson or two for Pakistan. In brief, the nuclear agreement between Iran and the world shows the difference an honest leadership with a vision......
OTTAWA: Shots rang out at a school in western Canada Friday, leaving four people dead and several others critically injured in the nation's worst such shooting in a quarter of a century.“Obviously,......
The list of shocking and grotesque acts of violence by militants in Pakistan is a desperately long one, but few acts stand out like the Safoora Goth carnage last May.Similarly, among the many......
THE American presidential contest is now at risk of turning into a cartoon. Or the Republican side of it anyway.With the return of Sarah Palin in what one hopes is nothing more than a cameo......
RARELY are Pakistanis allowed to cross their eastern border. We are told that’s so because on the other side is the enemy. Visa restrictions ensure that only the slightest trickle of people flows in......
WHEN one starts writing a weekly column, admittedly the first several months are torture as each week the approaching deadline fills one with self-doubt and a fear of failure. You are confronted with......
THE president of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed, deserves sympathy in her bereavement, on the death of her father chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed.He owed his office to......
THE latest terrorist attack at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda is one more bloody event in a seemingly unending campaign against innocent young Pakistanis.But we have seen so many of these......
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis, who has acknowledged being "a disaster" when it comes to technology, said on Friday that the internet, social networks and text messages were "a gift of God" if used......
QUETTA: Six suspected militants were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Awaran district of Balochistan on Friday, a security personnel also lost his life in the clash.A security......
