DAMASCUS: Syria’s foreign minister warned Saturday that Saudi or other foreign troops entering his country would “return home in wooden coffins” and asserted that recent military advances put his......
Pakistan’s out of favour off-spinner once again knocked on the doors of the selectors with an impressive bowling display for his Pakistan Super League (PSL) side Islamabad United against a......
ISLAMABAD: Direct peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban are “expected to take place” by the end of the month, representatives from four countries involved in pre-cursor roadmap negotiations said......
Embattled Pakistan opener Ahmed Shehzad finally found some form, smacking 71 off 46 balls to help Quetta Gladiators defeat Karachi Kings by eight wicket in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) on......
Pakistan on Saturday opened its medal count by grabbing two bronze in women's cycling (30km) and men's weightlifting (56kg) events on the first day of the 12th South Asian Games in Guwahati,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said as many Taliban groups as possible must be persuaded to join any upcoming peace discussions with the Afghan government, as a third round of four-country talks aimed at......
QUETTA: A suicide attack targeted a security forces' vehicle near the premises of the heavily guarded Quetta district courts on Saturday.At least eight people, including two Frontier Corps (FC)......
DUBAI: The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard said on Saturday Saudi Arabia lacked the courage to go through with a plan to send ground troops to Syria, and warned they would be wiped out if......
LONDON: Victory at Chelsea on Sunday would put Manchester United back in Premier League title contention, manager Louis van Gaal said on Friday as the former champions were again linked with Jose......
BANGALORE: Australian all-rounder Shane Watson received the highest bid of $1.4 million while banished England star Kevin Pietersen was sold to a new franchise at a glitzy Indian Premier League......
WELLINGTON: Australia, propped up by 98 from David Warner, held their nerve for four wickets in the second ODI in Wellington on Saturday to send the series to a decider.After Warner's dismissal,......
UNITED NATIONS: Thirty-four militant groups from around the world had reportedly pledged allegiance to the militant Islamic State (IS) group as of mid-December - and that number will only grow in......
WASHINGTON: Twitter said Friday it suspended more than 125,000 accounts, most of them linked to the militant Islamic State (IS) group, as part of increased efforts to eradicate “terrorist content” on......
When my mother first announced that we would be going to the mosque for taraweeh, I was scandalised, to say the least. I must have been around 12 or 13 years old. It was Ramazan and there was a......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Air Lines Pilots Association (Palpa) announced its withdrawal from the strike against government's proposed plan to privatise the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) on......
TAINAN: Rescuers were searching late Saturday for more than 100 people still missing after a powerful, shallow earthquake struck southern Taiwan before dawn, causing a high-rise residential building......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) asserted on Friday that there was no other way of holding elections on reserved seats in local governments of Sindh except through show of hands.Speaking at a......
PARIS: World media executives are urging governments to stop looking at journalists as the enemy, and to better protect reporters covering wars, crime and corruption.Describing growing impunity for......
A monkey in southern India seems to have a serious case of ‘puppy love’ and has ‘adopted’ a homeless puppy.Both monkey and the puppy are so close and their bond so unbreakable, that they go......
The ultimate holiday photo!This is called taking holiday photography to new heights, as a teenage thrill-seeker risked his life and imprisonment on a trip to Egypt by scaling the Great Pyramid of......
In my long years as an astronomer, I have built my own astronomical lexicon (dictionary) with a great deal of effort that went into compiling it; and often wondered whether it was worth the effort......
New Year was just around the corner. Haris, like every other child in his class, was busy thinking about making a New Year resolution. In fact, making a New Year resolution was their “task of the......
Ben Stiller defends Justin BieberBen Stiller took a stand for Hollywood bad boy Justin Bieber — who has a minor role in the new film — Zoolander 2 as he walked the red carpet at a fan screening in......
Norm of the North is, in simple words, a movie about a polar bear on a mission to save the Arctic. But there is much more to this computer-animated fur-filled family-friendly comedy that turns this......
Once there was a rich man who had an only son named Ali. They lived in a big house in the city. They had everything in their house, all the luxuries one could imagine.Ali studied in one of the famous......
Sometimes you just can’t understand a certain concept in your course but when you discuss it with a friend and he explains it to you, it just becomes so easy that you wonder what made it seem so......
When it comes to writing, many kids find it easy to copy and paste others’ work and name it as their own. This is ethically and morally wrong; one can take ideas from various sources but taking the......
PESHAWAR: There is a likelihood of the cash-strapped Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government cutting the Rs174 billion Annual Development Programme for the current fiscal by Rs77 billion.The reason cited by......
LANDI KOTAL: Business activities resumed and shops reopened in Bara Bazaar here on Friday after seven years of inactivity.Bara Bazaar was closed in Sept 2009 after the security forces launched a......
PESHAWAR: Like other parts of the country the Kashmir Solidarity Day was observed throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tribal areas in a befitting manner here on Friday.The workers and leader of various......
SHANGLA: The 72MW Khan Khwar Hydropower Project has remained closed for the last seven months owing to what the officials claim a major overhauling and some technical faults.Sources said costly......
ISLAMABAD: While most of the activities on the Kashmir Solidarity Day remained almost the same as they had been in the past, the behaviour of participants in the rallies held in the federal capital......
Crimes against women are common and varied in our society but only the most shocking catch critical attention, and that too when committed in urban centres. That fortunate combination certainly saved......
ISLAMABAD: Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has decided to formulate a policy aimed at discouraging the excessive and unnecessary intake of antibiotics because it ultimately weakens......
“My family couldn’t afford to send me to school so I started selling balloons. I’ve been doing this since I was 10; it’s been seven years now. I earn about Rs300 to Rs400 a day, on average, but then......
LAHORE: Kashmir Solidarity Day was observed with zeal in the provincial capital on Friday with participation from all major political and religious parties, labour and civil society organisations,......
LAHORE: Eighteen senior police officers, two DIGs among them, are likely to be demoted after the Supreme Court verdict declaring “out-of-turn” promotions illegal.These officers (mostly SPs) will get......
CHINIOT: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has sought explanation from the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) regarding a Rs190 million sewerage disposal scheme.The scheme aims at......
MITHI: Five children died, three of them in government hospitals, across Thar on Friday, raising the death toll to 167 since Jan 1 when the children’s deaths caused by an outbreak of waterborne......
KARACHI: The hope for India and Pakistan lies in fighting out religious fascism through enlightenment and as long as there are literary festivals in Hyderabad Deccan, Lahore and Karachi, there is......
KARACHI: Army soldiers deployed at one of the entry points of the Malir cantonment killed a motorcyclist on Friday when he entered the fortified garrison area without proving his......
KARACHI: Since the last Karachi Literature Festival (KLF), Jamsheed Marker appears to have aged a lot but the former ambassador still has an amazing memory for a 93-year-old, and he’s not too happy......
KARACHI: The desi stand-up comedy act by Indian comedian Sanjay Rajoura in the main garden of the Beach Luxury Hotel on Friday evening relied more on the satire quotient than humour. Rajoura invited......
KARACHI: With her individualistic body of work, Malika Pukhraj was a hard task master and a perfectionist. If there was something or someone she thought she could learn from, she would go ahead and......
KARACHI: Political and religious parties and civil society orgnisations took out rallies and held demonstrations across Sindh on Friday to express solidarity with people of India-held Kashmir on the......
DUBLIN: Gunmen disguised as police opened fire on Friday on boxing fans at a Dublin hotel, killing one man and wounding two others in an attack that could reflect tensions within Ireland’s criminal......
KATHMANDU: Cargo trucks drove through a Nepal border crossing for the first time in months on Friday, police said, following a blockade that has caused a crippling shortage of fuel and vital supplies......
TOKYO: A volcano in southern Japan dramatically erupted on Friday, with television footage showing fiery bursts of super hot rock and ash rushing down its slopes, though authorities said it posed no......
NEW YORK: One person died and two others were seriously injured when a crane collapsed on Friday morning in Lower Manhattan, smashing the roofs of parked cars, authorities said.Mayor Bill de Blasio......
WASHINGTON: Both Democratic presidential candidates — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders — would keep US troops in Afghanistan well into the future if they were elected.In a marathon television......
LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Friday urged Britain and Sweden to let him walk free from Ecuador’s embassy in London after a UN panel found that the anti-secrecy campaigner was......
NEW DELHI: Sanjeev Ojha thought his four-year-old daughter would be safe at the neighbourhood preschool.But police say a toy salesman entered the school on at least four occasions, taking the child......
DHAKA: West Indies coach Dwain Gill on Friday defended a controversial run-out at the ICC U-19 World Cup which sparked a furore on social media, saying the “Mankad” was well within the rules.Zimbabwe......
SAO PAULO: A Brazilian judge threw out a tax evasion case against Barcelona forward Neymar on Thursday because Brazil’s inland revenue has yet to finish its own deliberations in the case.The Brazil......
DUBAI: Mohammad Nawaz recorded a four-wicket haul and Wright smashed a belligerent half-century as Quetta Gladiators thrashed Islamabad United by eight wickets in a low-scoring opening encounter of......
KARACHI: Mohammad Saleem Rajput has been elected unanimously as the chairman of the Karachi Softball Association.An announcement by KSA on Friday said that the decision to this effect was taken at......
DHAKA: Hosts Bangladesh defeated valiant Nepal by six wickets after a tense run-chase to storm into their first semi-final of the ICC U-19 World Cup here on Friday.Skipper Mehidy Hasan and Zakir......
Sir Vivian Richards who is in Dubai as a ‘mentor’ of the Quetta Gladiators team which is one of the five PSL outfits, laments the circumstances which do not allow Pakistan to play international......
NEW DELHI: Hosts India on Friday recalled strike bowler Mohammed Shami and named veteran former champions Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh in their squad for the World Twenty20 starting next......
DUBAI: A hat-trick by paceman Mohammad Amir followed by impressive half-centuries from Lendl Simmons and Shakib Al Hasan helped Karachi Kings outplay Lahore Qalandars by seven wickets in the PSL......
LONDON: Claudio Ranieri believes Leicester will pass an acid test of their title credentials with flying colours when the shock Premier League leaders face Manchester City on Saturday.Ranieri’s side......
MOSCOW: Maria Sharapova remained on course for the Rio Olympics as the five-time Grand Slam champion was on Friday named in Russia’s doubles team for their Fed Cup first-round tie against the......
LOS ANGELES: World number four Rickie Fowler bounced back from his missed cut at Torrey Pines, firing a six-under 65 on Thursday to share the Phoenix Open first-round lead with Hideki Matsuyama and......
NEW DELHI: New Delhi could be stripped of its status as one of the hosts for the World Twenty20 unless it receives safety clearances in a matter of days, India’s cricket board said on Friday.The......
KARACHI: Lubricant makers have yet to reduce prices despite a significant drop in global crude oil prices since mid-2014 and a cut in lube base oil (LBO) rates by a local refinery.Dealers said......
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked the Federal Board of Revenue to register maximum number of traders under the Voluntary Tax Compliance Scheme.An official source told Dawn on......
WASHINGTON: The World Bank said on Thursday that 2015 economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa likely came to just 2.6 per cent, falling short of a 2.8pc forecast in October as war,......
NEW YORK: President Barack Obama’s surprise proposal on Thursday to charge a $10 a barrel fee on crude oil, equivalent to one-third the going price, drew a predictably swift response from traders and......
BRUSSELS: Any British decision to leave the European Union, dubbed Brexit, would hurt the pound currency, but would not have an impact on the euro, the head of the euro zone bailout fund Klaus......
SHANGHAI: The China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), viewed by some as a rival to the World Bank, on Friday announced executive appointments including a treasury minister from......
BRUSSELS: EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem has urged China to scale back rampant overproduction in its steel industry that is punishing European companies through low prices, a letter seen by......
TOKYO: Iran and Japan signed an investment agreement on Friday following the lifting of sanctions on Tehran last month, aimed at encouraging investment in the Iranian economy from Japanese companies......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan have reported the first cases of polio for the year 2016.In Pakistan, the case has been confirmed by Polio Virology Laboratory at the National Institute of......
ISLAMABAD: Kashmir Solidarity Day was observed on Friday throughout Pakistan and Azad Kashmir to draw attention of the world community towards the plight of Kashmiris and to support their right to......
GWADAR: Provision of water to Gwadar through Pakistan Navy tankers continued as another tanker, PNS Nasr, arrived at the port here on Friday with 1,000 tons of fresh drinking water.Gwadar is facing......
ISLAMABAD: Embassy of Pakistan in Jakarta organised a seminar to mark the Kashmir Solidarity Day on Friday.The seminar, organised in collaboration with the Kashmir Solidarity Forum Indonesia (KSFI),......
ISLAMABAD: The executive committee of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) – the apex regulatory body of lawyers – has criticised a proposed legislation calling for increasing the strength of Supreme Court......
UNITED NATIONS: Decrying the rise of Islamophobia worldwide, Pakistan called on Thursday for action to combat the forces of xenophobia and warned that if timely steps were not taken to check this......
MUZAFFARABAD: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Emir Senator Sirajul Haq on Friday called upon the international community to help Kashmiris in their struggle for freedom from Indian occupation.“International......
BEIRUT: Tens of thousands of Syrians fled an intensifying Russian assault around Aleppo on Friday, and aid workers said they feared the major city could soon fall under a full government siege.Iran......
BAMAKO: Malian troops backed by UN helicopters stormed a UN police base in the city of Timbuktu and recaptured it from suspected Islamist militants who had seized it hours earlier on Friday, the......
SRINAGAR: Hundreds of Kashmiris protesting against Indian rule in occupied Kashmir clashed with government forces shortly after Friday prayers.Holding aloft Pakistani flags, they chanted slogans like......
MUZAFFARABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has described the Kashmir issue as a litmus test of the political foresight of Indian and Pakistani leadership and expressed the hope that dialogue would be......
ISLAMABAD: The Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) on Afghan peace and reconciliation is expected to adopt a roadmap for peace talks when it meets today (Saturday). However, the formal start of......
MUZAFFARABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif came down heavily on elements “practising the politics of opportunism and opposing efforts to improve PIA services, include new planes in its fleet, scrap......
KARACHI/RAWALPINDI: As suspension of the Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA) flight operations entered the fourth day on Friday because of strike by employees against the airline’s proposed......
The strike by the PIA workers has proved crippling. Further escalation carries grave risks of turning the affair into a larger trade union issue, as other unions voice support for the disgruntled......
THE demolition of the Babri Masjid was “an act of absolute perfidy, which should make all Indians hang their heads in shame,” writes Indian President Pranab Mukherjee in his memoirs.The senseless,......
OVER the years the National Students Federation (NSF) stood up against dictatorship, religious orthodoxy, espoused egalitarianism and produced leaders such as Meraj Mohammad Khan, Dr Rasheed Hasan......
THE president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Mehbooba Mufti finds herself in a pitiable condition today. She was opposed to her father Mufti Mohammed Sayeed’s decision to form a coalition with......
THE family of sunbirds left a few days ago, and their abandoned nest resembles a derelict house in the neighbourhood. Swimming lazily on my back these last few days, I had been watching the parents......
KARACHI: Members of the Joint Action Committee of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees, led by Sohail Baloch, called on Privatisation Minister Mohammad Zubair late Friday evening, DawnNews......
