MITHI: Sindh Health Minister Mehtab Dahar said “the situation in Thar wasn’t as bad as portrayed by the media”, while two more children died in the drought-hit Thar on Sunday, raising the death toll......
DUBAI: Spin wizard Saeed Ajmal was the man of the moment as Islamabad United secured their first win of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in a thrilling encounter over Karachi Kings on Sunday.Karachi......
DUBAI: Former Zimbabwe captain and ex England coach Andy Flower Sunday says the Pakistan Twenty20 league can benefit the country's budding players in the same way Indians have benefited from their......
KARACHI: At least 11 members of a fisherman's family were killed when a fire broke out at an island near coastline of Thatta, Dawn News reported.Several huts were gutted in the fire which started......
QUETTA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan, during his visit to Balochistan on Sunday, threatened to launch a country-wide protest if the government failed to address his party’s five......
Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah has been banned for three months by the International Cricket Council (ICC) after testing positive for a banned substance in December.The 29-year-old will be available......
SEOUL: North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday carrying what it called a satellite, but its neighbours and the United States (US) denounced the launch as a missile test, conducted in......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Army has sought additional funds from the finance ministry to raise a new security division and an additional 28 security battalions, it emerged on Sunday.A statement released by......
Quetta Gladiators comprehensively defeated Karachi Kings by eight wickets in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) on Saturday.There was plenty to take away from the match:Is this the first litmus test for......
QUETTA: Frontier Corps and Police personnel arrested 35 suspects and killed two suspected militants during an exchange of fire on Sunday. The law enforcement agencies (LEAs) were conducting raids in......
KARACHI: Eight Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flights departed from and landed at Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) after five days of stalled operations at all major......
“EACH of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.” So writes Thomas Cirignano in his memoir The Constant Outsider. Nothing could be more aptly......
“IN the beginning there was the word. But which word? Which language? Which script?” That’s the essence of the question an audience member seems to be asking Irving Finkel, author and curator of the......
CONTINUING our discussion of the dastan fiction in Urdu, I would like to comment on how female characters in these nawabi tales of war and conquest, killing and plunder, magic and deception are......
INTIZAR Husain’s fears were for the most part misplaced, as it turned out. Sitting in his Lahore house a decade or so ago, he said his greatest fear was his family history of people living......
Set aside the brutal response of the state to protesting PIA workers in Karachi. Set aside the notion of whether privatisation is needed or not in PIA. Set aside too the shameless cooption of workers......
Khadijah Shah follows a madcap, hectic routine any day, every day. There’s no other way that she can manage her thriving business for bridal wear, luxury pret and lawn at her label Elan alongside......
Mawra Hocane is the second TV actress from this side of the Wagah border in over two decades (after Zeba Bakhtiar in Henna) to make her film debut in India rather than Pakistan, and while many might......
Here’s something to look forward to. Rumour mills are churning that the spiritually-inclined singer Asrar intends to do a song/project with none other than the legendary Abida Parveen. To be honest,......
Boy o by, talk about being vain or wasteful (depending on which side of the fence you are). To impart her role a touch of reality in the film Fitoor, Ms gorgeousness personified Katrina Kaif needed......
Remember the tall, fair Indian actress by the name of Pooja Batra, who suddenly vanished into nothingness because her career didn’t take off the way she wanted it to. In case you don’t know, she did......
News is that veteran Pakistani film director Saeed Rizvi has recently been to the US where he met people involved in creating hi-tech software for films. Apparently the director wants to learn how......
Call it professional jealousy or rivalry, the fact is that ever since Zayn Malik has left the pop band One Direction, things between him and his former band mates have been getting sourer by the......
There was a time, not too long ago, when parents, educated of course, and teachers used to lament that while imported story books for children were available aplenty there was a dearth of locally......
While the Karachi Operation has tackled terrorism, street crime still prowls the streets of the City of Lights. Can the monster be caged?by Ahmed YusufDespite the police chiefs carrying out a purge......
As global warming intensifies climate change, the Arctic ice is melting rapidly giving rise to opportunities for navigation in all types of weather and exploitation of natural resources, particularly......
April 10, 1988, would be remembered as a day of mass mourning; it was the day when in the early morning the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi received a dreadful shock. It all began with a......
It is a routine practice for parents to hand over their iPhones or iPad’s to their kids for playing games, viewing videos and browsing on the web. Unfortunately, many parents are not aware that their......
In recent days the media has been broadcasting images of various safety and security drills conducted by the law enforcement agencies and educational institutes. You can be certain that there will be......
“Give her freshly squeezed orange juice. The vitamin C is good for her,” the doctor recommends time and again when my daughter falls prey to a persistent cold which accompanies the mercurial weather......
‘Absolutely stunning’ is the only way to describe some of the magnificent home gardens lining — or tucked away as the case may be — the highways and byways of chaotic Karachi right now. These......
Dear Auntie, When I begin university, should I opt for business or social sciences? The way I judge myself, I have performed naturally better in the latter field. I’ve faced shortcomings in commerce......
The pre-Harappan cultures took root in the northwest of the subcontinent (now Pakistan) at around 7500 BC, and ushered in the Bronze Age after four millenniums, which lasted until 1300 BC. During......
Willem de Kooning (1904 -1997) was a Dutch artist who immigrated to the United States in 1926. He was considered a leader in the genre of Abstract Expressionism, which was an American movement......
Graced as the capital of the great Mughal Empire by Emperor Akbar, Lahore became the nucleus of royal, creative activities as well as imperial architecture of the time. These grand traditions still......
This year has seen so much cricket that it is feared the common fan’s appetite for the game may have sickened and died. Over the course of 24 hours there is either live or recorded cricket of all......
The wait is over. Those of us who wanted to see Pakistani television drama reach new heights, here’s something to really look forward to. Mor Mahal, one of the biggest Asian projects to hit the TV......
We know that showbiz marriages don’t usually last for long, but the frequency with which couples, especially in Bollywood, are now splitting is mind-boggling.The latest case in point is that of the......
In the early 1930s, three young German academics, Theodore Adorno, Max Horrkheimer and Herbet Marcuse, formed an intellectual clique that came to be known as the Frankfurt School.Based in the German......
“To know the present requires a deep understanding of the past,” explained Prof Timothy Beach from the University of Texas (UT) in Austin on a recent visit to Islamabad. He is a soil......
KARACHI: The hall in the Beach Luxury Hotel where a session on ‘Laughter, the best medicine’ was under way was bursting at the seams. There was a big number of young people who wanted to hear......
KARACHI: Historian F.S. Aijazuddin said on Saturday that the reason why three Muslim brothers, his ancestors, rose to prominence in the kingdom of Maharaja Ranjit Singh was that the one-eyed founder......
KARACHI: A moderator can really make or break a session, is a constant refrain one hears during literature festivals. But what if there is no moderator. Yes, this is what precisely happened at the......
HYDERABAD: Supreme Court Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali has said that the apex court always considers it seriously whether it is exceeding its suo motu jurisdiction. “It’s an irony that bad......
KARACHI: We have to concentrate on increasing the strength of Pakistani institutions and stop playing the blame game, said Dr Ishrat Husain, dean of the Institute of Business Administration and......
KARACHI: A novel titled Risk by German author Steffen Kopetzky was launched in one of the post-lunch sessions at the 7th Karachi Literature Festival on Saturday evening. The launch was conducted by......
WELLINGTON: Mitchell Marsh kept calm after New Zealand got the sniff of an unlikely victory and scored his sixth One-day International half century to guide Australia to a four-wicket win in the......
GUWAHATI: Pakistan’s Lianna Catherine Swan won Pakistan’s first gold of the South Asian Games when she swam to victory in the women’s 200m breaststroke on Saturday.On a day when Pakistan won two......
MANCHESTER: Robert Huth’s double and a Riyad Mahrez goal sent Premier League leaders Leicester City six points clear after a stunning 3-1 victory at shell-shocked title rivals Manchester City on......
PORT ELIZABETH: England opener Alex Hales fell one short of a second One-day International century as his team completed a comfortable five-wicket victory over South Africa on Saturday.The hosts won......
PARIS: Tiemoue Bakayoko struck late to boost 10-man Monaco’s hopes of Champions League football next season with the only goal of their dour 1-0 Riveria derby win against Nice on Saturday.Despite......
PERTH: Two Chinese young guns showed they were ready to make a splash at the Rio Olympics with impressive wins at the Aquatic Super Series on Saturday night.Seventeen-year-olds Li Zhuhao and Wang......
KARACHI: The pharmaceutical industry, beset by suspension of Pakistan International Airlines flights, sees a tough week ahead if operations did not resume, as it relies on raw material imports from......
RIYADH: Three major global agencies, representing their specific stakeholders, all seem to be agreeing on one count – non-Opec output is set to fall.Yet, the timing of the eventuality continues to......
DUBAI: Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Saturday that Iran’s crude oil sales to Europe after the lifting of international sanctions on Tehran had already reached above 300,000 barrels,......
SHENZHEN: Most conversations about the Chinese economy come with a reassuring caveat: With $3.3 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves at their disposal, Chinese leaders can bring almost unlimited......
ISLAMABAD: The government has made no commitments with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to increase gas tariff or to recover power sector’s circular debt from consumers through electricity......
BAB: Russian and Syrian government forces on Saturday intensified an assault on rebel-held areas around the Syrian city of Aleppo that has prompted tens of thousands to flee to the Turkish border to......
MIAMI: US astronaut Edgar Mitchell, one of just 12 people to have walked on the Moon, has died aged 85, his family and Nasa said on Friday, calling him a “pioneer”.Nasa paid glowing tribute to......
AFTER losing up to 60,000 soldiers in five years of fighting, the Syrian army has suddenly scored its greatest victory of the war — smashing its way through Jabhat al-Nusra and the other rebel forces......
TAINAN: Rescuers were searching late on Saturday for more than 100 people still missing after a powerful, shallow earthquake struck southern Taiwan before dawn, causing a high-rise residential......
SEOUL: North Korea’s widely-condemned launch of a long-range rocket could happen as early as Sunday, after Pyongyang shortened and brought forward the start of the launch window.An updated......
NEW DELHI: Bhutan’s royal couple on Saturday announced the birth of their first child, a baby prince, delighting the remote Himalayan kingdom where the monarchy is revered.The newest royal, the son......
MANCHESTER: Hillary Clinton told voters in the latest Democratic debate there’s “hardly anything you don’t know about me”.Just minutes later, she got tangled in a question about a part of her resume......
QUESTIONED one evening late last year by a television show host what he would want to be were he given the choice of a second life, Tancrède Melet replied without hesitation: “I’ll absolutely love to......
THE international health landscape is transforming at a dizzying speed, leading to the recalibration of power among different actors. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the changing role of the......
CHAND BIBI has confirmed the rumours of 2009 that the events in the video of her flogging in Swat did not happen so the courts have declared the video to be fake. There were also rumours around then......
WHY PIA? Why privatisation? And why now? Everyone’s got a story, but the basic version goes something like this:The PML-N is a bunch of robber barons, out to sell the national silver. The PPP are a......
HENRY Kissinger’s last book World Order could more aptly have been entitled ‘World Disorder’. As he observes, there has never been a ‘world order’. Today, in a globalised world, as disparate......
GUJRAT: Most of the streets of Lalamusa often remain submerged by the sewerage water due to the apathy of the sanitation branch of the Kharian Tehsil Municipal Administration.Apart from this, an......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday staged a massive protest demonstration in front of the Punjab Assembly to voice its anguish against the government plan to privatise the PIA,......
SAHIWAL: Pakpattan district police late on Friday recovered from Kot Lakhpat, Lahore, two girls who went missing from the Government Girls High School, Pakpattan, on Thursday afternoon.Police claimed......
ISLAMABAD: A large number of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leaders and workers gathered at Aabpara Chowk to protest against the privatisation of PIA on Saturday afternoon. However, they had to......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) employees’ strike and the suspension of flight operations entered its fifth day on Saturday, affecting PIA passengers at home and......
On weekends, the capital’s roads come alive with the sound of growling engines as the motley crew who call themselves the Islamabad Biker Boys take to the streets.By day, this group of half a dozen......
The Pakhtuns on the both sides of the Duran Line share common traditions, social practices, literary and cultural history and never in decades of war there arose rift over any political issue that......
While inaugurating work on the New Balakot city housing project in 2007, the then president, Pervez Musharraf, had proudly claimed the proposed city would be the second most planned and well-equipped......
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Saturday staged a protest demonstration against the federal government for its plan to privatise Pakistan International Airlines and imposing heavy taxes on......
ABBOTTABAD: A woman was killed and 26 others suffered burns when a gas cylinder exploded in a guest house here on Saturday.According to district police officer Sher Akbar, the gas cylinder exploded......
IN one of the three-storey concrete blocks of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), an office is filled with disparate items: in addition to a computer, a projector and the usual office furniture, there are......
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 would only grow this......
QUETTA: At least 10 people, including four security personnel and a girl, lost their lives in a suicide attack on a convoy of Frontier Corps (FC) near the district courts here on Saturday.Some 35......
ISLAMABAD: “I get these reports every morning. They are somewhat painful to read since, as you know, in Pakistan, the media can be particularly outrageous. However, we can’t ignore the fact that......
KARACHI: With flight operations suspended across the country for the fifth consecutive day, talks between protesting workers of the Pakistan International Airlines and the federal government hit a......
ISLAMABAD: The chief of the country’s primary civilian intelligence agency will brief a Senate committee on Feb 9 on counter-measures taken to guard against ‘spy signals’ emanating from the......
ISLAMABAD: The PPP’s leaders, who had so far been reluctant to join the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s protests, believe that the government’s handling of the PIA crisis may lead to a larger cooperation......
KARACHI: While the number of Pakistani nationals seeking asylum in Norway has increased alarmingly, Oslo is finding it difficult to repatriate the asylum seekers because of “tightening of rules” by......
KARACHI: The future of the Indian National Congress was at the centre of two book launches on the second day of the Karachi Literature Festival where Indian journalist Barkha Dutt said she didn’t see......
KARACHI: As the Supreme Court seeks a progress report in the deadly bomb attacks on Benazir Bhutto’s convoy near Karsaz, police investigations have not made any headway despite passage of eight......
The body of this email is attributed to Vali Nasr, a leading expert on the Middle East, who was a senior adviser to Richard Holbrooke when the latter was US Special Representative for Afghanistan and......
