BANGKOK: Thai police have broken up a major fake passport ring led by an Iranian known as "The Doctor" which sent hundreds of passports to Middle Eastern customers trying to enter Europe, authorities......
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa on Wednesday named fast bowler Dale Steyn in their 15-man squad for the World T20 tournament in India next month.Steyn's inclusion is subject to fitness as he has not......
Shahid Afridi may be a polarising figure in Pakistan but Peshawar Zalmi assistant coach Andy Flower says the flamboyant all-rounder is 'misunderstood'.Afridi, 35, was recently involved in an on-air......
SHARJAH: Openers Sharjeel Khan and Shane Watson scored impressive half-centuries as Islamabad United down Lahore Qalandars by eight wickets at Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.In pursuit of......
KARACHI: Renowned Urdu novelist and playwright Fatima Surayya Bajia passed away on Wednesday in Karachi after prolonged illness, DawnNews reported.Talking to media after his sister's death, Anwar......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Qatar signed a long term liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement on Wednesday in Doha as a part of Prime Minister's two day visit to the Middle Eastern country.The......
DUBAI: The grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of Iran's Islamic Republic, will not be allowed to stand in this month's election in Iran, the clerical vetting body said on Wednesday, in......
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Anurag Thakur has assured all teams of the 'highest' security amid reports that Pakistan has proposed to play its World Twenty20 matches at a......
SEOUL: North Korea has executed its army chief of staff, Ri Yong Gil, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday, which, if true, would be the latest in a series of executions, purges and......
DOHA: Every year the houbara bustard, a rare desert bird whose meat is prized by Arab sheikhs as an aphrodisiac, migrates from Central Asia to the far reaches of Pakistan and Iraq in search of a mild......
The World Twenty20 dream is over for Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Gul as Pakistan named its 15-man squad after a lengthy meeting which split the selection committee.Shehzad, who scored a match-winning 71......
KINGSTON: West Indies players will be thrown off the squad for the World Twenty20 if they do not agree to financial terms by Sunday's deadline, the head of the region's cricket board said on......
PESHAWAR: Once the capital of smuggled goods, Khyber Agency’s militancy-hit Bara Bazaar reopened this month after seven years for business.Cheerfully tapping a beat on his silver pot, Sehar Gull, a......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has announced a reduction in its fares on domestic and major international flights, including Umra fares, with immediate effect to stabilise......
The author served his tenure at Siachen with the men who were trapped under an avalanche in 2012. This letter is one of several that he wrote to his wife during his time at the glacier.Dear A,"We,......
RAWALPINDI: Students at Viqar-Un-Nisa School and College for Girls were evacuated as fear and panic gripped the area following an incident of firing near the institute.Parents and students across the......
PESHAWAR: One police official was killed and another injured during a raid in the Sajan area of Mardan district on Wednesday morning, District Police Officer Faisal Shahzad said.Police were......
It is that time of the year. Universities in Pakistan are aggressively promoting higher-ed opportunities. Full-page advertisements in the newspapers are alerting potential applicants to the looming......
LAHORE: At least 10 people including six children died when a fireball erupted as a car collided with a tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) near Nankana Sahib on Wednesday, engulfing......
MANCHESTER: Bernie Sanders won a commanding victory over Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary Tuesday, and Donald Trump also scored a big win in a triumph of two candidates who have seized on......
KARACHI: The Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) has urged the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to exempt those tax cases from audit who agree to pay 10 per cent more income tax than declared tax for......
PARIS: Oil prices may have rebounded off 12-year lows struck last month, but any hope for a broader recovery in the market would be misplaced, the IEA said on Tuesday, noting Opec is responsible for......
KARACHI: The cotton market turned easy on Tuesday in line with global trend where New York cotton finished below benchmark rate of 60 US cents per lb. The undertone remained easy and outlook......
KUWAIT CITY: Public debt of the oil-rich Gulf states is expected to double and assets decline by a third by 2020 as they seek to finance budget deficits due to sliding prices, a report said on......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has asked Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak to register a case against PML-N leader Amir Muqam for instigating doctors at......
CHARSADDA: A hoax about a militant attack on a school here on Tuesday panicked people and prompted security guards of the school to allegedly fire shots at a student who was reportedly scaling a rear......
PESHAWAR: The government informed the Peshawar High Court on Tuesday that it had amended the rules on the meetings of dangerous prisoners with relatives once in two months and that, too, after the......
PESHAWAR: Haji Mohammad Haleem Jan, a senior trader leader of the provincial capital, was shot dead in his shop at Qissa Khawni Bazaar here on Tuesday.Police and eyewitnesses told this scribe that......
KOHAT: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rashid said on Tuesday that the PML-N government had been vigorously pursuing a development agenda to ensure equal benefits to all the......
ISLAMABAD: Legendary fiction writer Intizar Hussain was remembered at a reference at Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) on Tuesday.Born on December 7, 1923, at Dibai, India, Intizar Hussain died in......
ISLAMABAD: The chairman of ‘Move on Pakistan’, the political party which has been seeking extension in Gen Raheel Shareef’s tenure, made his first public appearance at a press conference on......
ISLAMABAD: Making it difficult for the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to decide the fate of a bulletproof car currently under the use of former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry,......
RAWALPINDI: When PK 777 – the first Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight to take off since Feb 2 – flew to Jeddah from Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) on Sunday, it opened the......
FAISALABAD: Frequent malfunctioning of the sole Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine at the Allied Hospital is creating problems for the patients as well as the administration.Except Allied none......
LAHORE: The civil society has strongly protested against the government for using police force and state machinery to drive residents of Parachute Colony out of their houses within the next couple of......
LAHORE: Pakistan Railways (PR) has asked the Chinese firm to provide new and redesigned underframes of all the locomotives supplied to it over a year ago.At a marathon consultative meeting at the New......
LAHORE: A large number of students visited the annual 13th Dawn Education Expo 2016 at Faletti’s Hotel here on Tuesday.The visiting undergraduates and postgraduates sought information about their......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has nominated Dr Tahir Shamsi, professor of Haematology/Oncology and Internal Medicine, National Institute of Blood Disease NIBD), Karachi, as convener to the bone......
KARACHI: Hundreds of students of the Jinnah University for Women on Tuesday attended Sindh police’s hostile environment awareness training on their campus which saw them screaming when the commandos......
KARACHI: After spending around five and a half months in the custody of different law enforcement agencies, an accountability court sent former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain to prison on judicial......
KARACHI: Manu Bheel, a poor peasant belonging to the scheduled caste, whose 11 family members have been missing for the past 18 years, once again shared details of his unusual case with members of......
HYDERABAD: A member of the Grand Democratic Alliance formed against the Sindh government has expressed serious reservations over the proposed census.Hussain Abdullah Haroon also warned that Sindh......
HYDERABAD: Adviser to the Sindh chief minister on information Maula Bux Chandio has said that Sindh is the victim of double standards be it delegation of powers to Rangers or judicial action against......
KARACHI: Rafique Shaheed Road in Bizerta Lines, Cantt, better known as the road on which major hospitals like the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), the National Institute of......
KARACHI: In the question hour session after Austrian Ambassador to Pakistan Dr Brigitta Blaha had spoken about her country’s foreign policy, the thread of the conversation repeatedly returned to the......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Post will issue on Wednesday a commemorative postage stamp of Rs50 denomination on the completion of 50 years of ‘Safe operation of 1st nuclear research reactor in Pakistan’,......
KARACHI: It was a moving experience for book lovers to hear the way writers Masood Ashar, Prof Shamim Hanafi, Asghar Nadim Syed, Anwer Sen Roy and Asif Farrukhi expressed their thoughts on eminent......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday sought comments from a federal law officer on a petition of former Sindh information minister and Pakistan Peoples Party leader Sharjeel Inam Memon requesting......
HONG KONG: Scores of police officers were hurt on Tuesday when a riot erupted in Hong Kong over official attempts to move illegal hawkers, in the most serious violence the city has seen since mass......
KATHMANDU: Former Nepal prime minister Sushil Koirala, a veteran politician once jailed for helping to hijack a plane, died in Kathmandu on Tuesday aged 77 after suffering from pneumonia, his doctor......
BAGHDAD: Iraq has completely retaken Ramadi from the militant Islamic State (IS) group, but now faces the enormous challenges of removing bombs, reestablishing basic services and rebuilding the......
WASHINGTON: Russia is “paranoid” about being challenged by Nato and its efforts to rival American power could push it into a new Cold War, the head of US intelligence said on Tuesday.“They’re greatly......
MANCHESTER: New Hampshire voters headed to polls at the snowy break of day on Tuesday for the crucial first US presidential primary, with Donald Trump chasing victory and Hillary Clinton looking to......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a new cybersecurity “national action plan” calling for an overhaul of aging government networks and a high-level commission to boost security......
COLOMBO: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Prince Zeid bin Ra’ad al Hussein has said that satisfaction of Sri Lanka’s war victims is important and not the form of the judicial mechanism......
COLOMBO: The UN human rights chief said on a visit to Sri Lanka on Tuesday that Britain and Sweden should accept the findings of one of his panels that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had been......
BAD AIBLING: Two commuter trains crashed head-on in southern Germany on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100, in one of the country’s deadliest rail accidents in......
LONDON: A man set himself on fire in the early hours of Tuesday outside Kensington Palace, the central London home of Prince William and his wife Kate, and later died of his injuries, British police......
DILIP Kumar Chakrabarti is a noted Indian archaeologist and professor emeritus of South Asian archaeology at the Cambridge University. He is known for his studies on the early use of iron in India......
GUWAHATI: Bronze was again the order of the day for Pakistan with a little sprinkling of gold as Mohammad Nooh Dastagir Butt won the +105kg weightlifting event at the South Asian Games on......
CENTURION: Joe Root hit an assured century as England went in search of a series-clinching win in the third One-day International against South Africa at the SuperSport Park on Tuesday.England,......
SYDNEY: Australian selectors on Tuesday dumped Aaron Finch as captain in favour of Steve Smith for the World Twenty20 which begins next month in India, while Peter Nevill replaces Matthew Wade as......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand on Tuesday recalled off-spinner Mark Craig to replace injured all-rounder Mitchell Santner in their squad to play first Test of the two-match series against Australia,......
PUNE: Rookie seam bowlers Kasun Rajitha and Dasun Shanaka played havoc on a lively pitch as Sri Lanka scored a five-wicket win over India in the first Twenty20 international to take a 1-0 lead in the......
DUBAI: Umar Akmal blitzed a 40-ball 93 and shared a 94-run stand with Cameron Delport as Lahore Qalandars ended their winless streak in the Pakistan Super League to complete a 63-run rout of leaders......
PARIS: The European Club Association (ECA) insisted on Tuesday that extending the World Cup from 32 to 40 teams would put too much burden on clubs and inflict physical overload on players.“We are......
KARACHI: The final round of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Cup kicked off with a huge upset as Karachi United won 2-0 against Karachi Port Trust (KPT) to put themselves in the driving seat in......
LONDON: Spaniard Rafael Nadal will sharpen his grasscourt game at London’s Queen’s Club ahead of Wimbledon in June, organisers of the Aegon Championships said on Tuesday.The 14-time grand slam......
ISLAMABAD: Amid opposition by the Sindh government on legal and constitutional grounds, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Tuesday reserved its judgement whether or not to......
LAHORE: Pointing to weak performance of the provincial boards of revenue, the Institute of Policy Reforms (IPR) has urged the governments to play their role for improving collection.At present,......
ISLAMABAD: Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday private or public investment could be made available for a coal gasification project in Thar once it was found commercially......
LAHORE: With a young and growing population of nearly 200 million people, Pakistan is an interesting market which cannot be ignored in the long-run by multinational companies, said the German......
KARACHI: MCB Bank’s profit-after-tax (pat) increased by 5 per cent year-on-year to Rs25.551 billion (earnings per share Rs22.96) during 2015.However, the consolidated earnings declined by 21.31pc to......
KARACHI: The KSE-100 index snapped a 12-day rally on Tuesday, as the index shed 262.02 points (0.84 per cent) to settle at 32,444.20.Investors decided to book profit after the index continued an......
ISLAMABAD: World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has said that Pakistan is now on the path of increased economic growth and prosperity.He was talking to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Finance Minister......
ISLAMABAD: Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, who is the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, said here on Tuesday that Pakistan had built one of the strongest......
KARACHI: The operation Zarb-i-Azb has eradicated the menace of terrorism to a large extent. However, keeping in mind the porous border with Afghanistan, the border control mechanism needs to be......
ISLAMABAD: Another 19 international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) were given the go-ahead, in principle, to operate in the country under the new procedures laid down by the government.The......
ISLAMABAD: Despite an announcement by PIA employees to end their weeklong strike against the proposed privatisation of the airline, a showdown between the government and opposition is likely in......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly unanimously adopted two separate resolutions condemning the suicide attack on Frontier Corps personnel near the Quetta district courts and the terrorist attack on......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission’s director general has warned the chief minister that the proposed changes in its statute power would result in the closure of 70 per cent of the......
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) will finalise its report next week regarding alleged high charges by two airlines in the country amid a strike by PIA employees.The Senate......
LAHORE: Two sons of a retired senior army officer were kidnapped here on Tuesday — one from his office on Walton Road and the other from outside his home on Sarfaraz Rafiqui Road.The North Cantonment......
ISLAMABAD: A proposal for a consultative forum on the pattern of apex committees is currently under discussion between the civil and military leaderships for trouble-free implementation of the......
ISLAMABAD: The government has avoided informing the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs whether or not it has decided to join the 34-nation coalition led by Saudi Arabia which is reportedly......
PESHAWAR: Following the resignation of Sardar Mahtab Ahmad Khan as governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Defence Secretary retired Lt Gen Mohammad Alam Khan Khattak is likely to be appointed to the......
PESHAWAR: The military expressed concern on Tuesday over delay in release of funds for repatriation and rehabilitation of temporarily displaced persons (TDPs) and lack of progress on reforms in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) is studying a proposal to shift the Bacha Khan University (BKU) in Charsadda, which came under a gruesome terror attack last month, to a safe......
ISLAMABAD: Staying the execution of four military court convicts – including two men accused of involvement in the barbaric attack on Peshawar’s Army Public School in Dec 2014 – the Supreme Court......
THE role of provincial governors may stand diminished since the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, but as the symbolic representatives of the federation, the governors are still influential in their......
THE nuclear-related sanctions against Iran may be gone, but the ambiguities remain. For many years now, American officials have been clear in their response to questions about the Iran-Pakistan gas......
MAULANA Abdul Aziz of the Lal Masjid is seldom away from controversy. In a video message posted on social media last month, the cleric accused a senior ISI official belonging to “the other sect” of......
In the eyes of many, the offices of Pakistan are filled with lecherous bosses. All too often, working women have tales of their perversions: the lesser ones include gaze and glance, the occasional......
I REMEMBER the time when I used to live in a government residence and the house opposite to mine fell vacant on the retirement of the incumbent. He was a thorough gentleman and vacated the house as......
LET us suppose for a moment that, by some miracle, Bernie Sanders makes it into the White House. How much of his broadly commendable agenda would he be able to translate into concrete policies?Among......
Fast bowler Umar Gul is eyeing a spot in the World Twenty20 team as Pakistan prepares to name its 15-man squad for the tournament after a two-day delay.The 31-year-old pacer was selected for the......
