DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested and charged a publisher after demonstrators warned of violent protests over one of his books which they deemed offensive, an officer said Tuesday.Police also......
LASHKAR GAH: Dozens of Afghan soldiers and policemen have been killed in the southern province of Helmand since Sunday as the Taliban presses an in one of its heartlands, officials said.Three local......
CAIRO: Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat who helped negotiate his country's landmark peace deal with Israel but then clashed with the United States when he served a single term as UN......
DUBAI: Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi scored a quickfire 30 off 12 balls to help his side Quetta Gladiators chase down a mammoth 201 posted by Lahore Qalandars at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday, in an implicit response to Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) lawmakers’ criticism of his ‘inaction’ against Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Aziz,......
ISLAMABAD: Left-arm pacer Wahab Riaz has urged the youth not to get any inspiration from what happened between him and opening batsman Ahmed Shehzad during a Pakistan Super League (PSL) match on......
SAU PAULO: Brazilian authorities have blocked assets of Barcelona star Neymar, including a yacht, a jet and several properties worth almost $50 million.A Sao Paulo federal court rejected an appeal......
MADRID: Lionel Messi attracted global attention with the trick penalty kick he pulled off with Barcelona teammate Luis Suarez in the latest round of the Spanish league.Messi took the spot-kick on......
Remember the Beygairat Brigade?The Lahore-based rock band was accused of 'corrupting the minds' of young Pakistanis and served a media blackout by the authorities in charge of the country in......
BERLIN: Liverpool have won their struggle to sign giant Cameroon central defender Joel Matip from Schalke 04 on a free transfer at the end of the season, the Bundesliga outfit confirmed on Monday.The......
MILAN: The Euro 2016 selection hopes of Mario Balotelli have suffered another potential blow after the AC Milan striker infuriated his club coach Sinisa Mihajlovic by failing to heed his......
NEW DELHI: Students, journalists and teachers protested in the Indian capital Tuesday after a student union leader's arrest and subsequent violence by Hindu nationalists.The uproar has once again......
Mohammad Nawaz and Mohammad Asghar may be household names now but only two weeks ago both were categorised as anonymous 'emerging cricketers'.The Pakistan Super League (PSL) and a series of......
A Pakistani electrical engineer based in the United States has developed a device that helps in detecting cancer early, which is one of the biggest factors in successfully fighting the fatal......
KARACHI: A session court (South Karachi) sentenced on Tuesday two men, belonging to a political party, to a collective 14-years imprisonment each on the charges of keeping illicit weapons and......
Pakistan’s Gwadar port is facing acute drinking water shortages after a three-year drought in the arid province of Balochistan. Officials hope the port city will become an international business hub......
NEW DELHI: Apple is slated to build its first technology development centre outside the United States in India's Hyderabad city in Telangana state in the latter half of this year, Times of India......
Pakistani entrepreneur Fiza Farhan, co-founder of the Buksh Foundation, has been appointed a Member of the first ever High-Level Panel of the UN Secretary-General on Women’s Economic Empowerment,......
BEIRUT: Hopes for a ceasefire in Syria were fading on Tuesday, after dozens were killed in air strikes on hospitals that France branded war crimes and Syria's president said implementing a truce......
TEHRAN: The first train to connect China and Iran arrived in Tehran on Monday loaded with Chinese goods, reviving the ancient Silk Road, the Iranian railway company said.The train, carrying 32......
CHARLESTON: George Walker Bush never mentioned Donald Trump. But with his folksy touch, the former president unleashed a tough takedown Monday of the billionaire businessman who has upended a......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has congratulated Pakistani-born American astrophysicist Professor Nergis Mavalvala for her role in the detection of gravitational waves, Radio Pakistan......
CHARSADDA: The Bacha Khan University reopened on Monday after the 26 days closure prompted by a terrorist attack, which killed 18 students and staff members, including a professor.Vice-Chancellor Dr......
PESHAWAR: All Fata Political Alliance, a union of different parties, has affirmed the resolve to continue struggle for abolishment of Frontier Crimes Regulation, merger of Fata with Khyber......
PESHAWAR: The conservationists have opposed establishment of zoo in Peshawar and suggested to look for alternative plans instead of putting wild animals in cages.In a statement issued here on Monday,......
PESHAWAR: The dust raised after the resignation of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission’s Director General over the issue of amendments in the relevant law is yet to settle. A war of words is still......
KHAR/LANDI KOTAL: A three-day anti-polio drive kicked off in Bajaur and Khyber Agencies on Monday.The drive targets to vaccinate over 227,000 children in Bajaur and 216,000 children in Khyber.Bajaur......
PESHAWAR: The parents of Mohsin, a one-year-old child, have appealed for donations to be able to pay for the expenses of subsequent heart surgery of their son.The child had been operated upon by......
ISLAMABAD: Half of the world’s population (nearly 5 billion) will be short-sighted (myopic) by 2050, and one fifth (1 billion) of them will be at the risk of blindness, thanks to excessive television......
ISLAMABAD: The lack of waste management in the federal capital’s rural areas has forced citizens to dispose of their garbage along the sides of major roads and in open areas.There is no dumping site......
ISLAMABAD: The ruling PML-N, which celebrated the election of the mayor and deputy mayors from their party on Monday at the Jinnah Convention Centre, seems to have disappointed its workers and......
ISLAMABAD: The prosecution in the Benazir Bhutto murder case dropped Senator Rehman Malik, ‘star’ witness against (retired) Gen Pervez Musharraf, on Monday after Mr Malik failed to attend the third......
ISLAMABAD: When Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s choice for Islamabad’s mayor, Sheikh Ansar Aziz, takes charge in the coming days, he will have to walk on a tight rope in dealing with the capital’s......
ISLAMABAD: Trees clean the air but Minister of State Tariq Fazal Chaudhry invited criticism by gracing a tree plantation event in the city on Monday.Since his ministry is devoted to make Islamabad......
BAHAWALPUR: The 11th Cholistan Desert Jeep Rally was a show of sheer mismanagement with a lack of security arrangements, particularly at the jeep rally track on Sunday.This was an observation of the......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has announced the establishment of ‘Punjab Forensic Food and Drug Testing Agency’ to help eliminate substandard and adulterated food besides spurious drugs and......
LAHORE: The federal government on Monday joined the proceedings against the project of the Orange Line Metro Train as the Lahore High Court was told that the private counsel for the Punjab government......
LAHORE: A Karachi-bound flight of a private airline was cancelled on Monday after a couple of rodents were detected in the plane.According to a Lahore airport official, the Air Blue flight 407 was......
LAHORE: The Information Technology University (ITU) has launched a degree programme in engineering without the approval of a relevant body.The varsity in 2013 started a four-year electrical......
LAHORE: Law-enforcement agencies on Monday found what they called a homemade explosive device near a girls school in Kot Lakhpat.Passersby alerted police and security agencies late on Sunday after......
SAHIWAL: The trend-setting ‘wall of kindness’ which first emerged in Iranian city Mashhahd in December last, has also been set up in Sahiwal after Karachi, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Lahore and Quetta.The......
FAISALABAD: Punjabi folk songs, mystics’ poetry and photography exhibition on culture enthralled the audience on Monday, the first day of the first Lyallpur Punjabi Literary Festival being held at......
KARACHI: The Sindh Sales Tax on Services (Amendment) Bill, 2015, on Monday revived the acrimony between the treasury and opposition benches in the Sindh Assembly over levy of services tax on renting......
KARACHI: Five schoolboys detained on Monday for carrying out a ‘cracker attack’ at their school in North Nazimabad were released later in the evening, police said.They added that the students of the......
KHAIRPUR: Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has supported the federal interior minister’s belief that there is no presence of the militant Islamic State group, saying that its name is being used to......
LARKANA: The Technical Consultative Committee (TCC) of the National Fund for Moenjodaro (NFM) met at the site on Monday and after assessing the undertaken dry core drilling process and its pace,......
KARACHI: More than 5,000 police personnel were deployed across Karachi to facilitate a four-day anti-polio campaign that kicked off on Monday.According to health department officials, around 2.2......
KARACHI: With the establishment of a kennel set up exclusively for breeding purposes, the customs drug enforcement cell at the airport recently took a major step to boost its anti-narcotic smuggling......
If anyone wants to understand the shame of Afghanistan — the yearly cull of civilians, the beheadings, the execution by single shots, the kidnapping of women — they have only to read the shocking UN......
PRISTINA: Eight years after ethnic Albanians joyously declared Kosovo’s independence from Serbia, chaotic scenes of MPs releasing tear gas in their parliament hardly gives the impression of a......
KANSAS CITY (Missouri): The two uniformed jail guards argued angrily, cursed each other and then erupted into a nasty brawl with punches and furniture and bodies flying. As the fight ended and the......
BEIRUT: Turkey shelled Kurdish fighters in Syria for a third day on Monday and a suspected Russian air strike on a hospital left several dead, as violence shook the country ahead of a hoped-for......
HARARE: Zimbabwean aviation authorities impounded a US-registered cargo jet, a senior official said on Monday, after a body later believed to be a stowaway and millions of South African rand were......
RAMLE: Ehud Olmert, once feted for his peace efforts with the Palestinians, on Monday became Israel’s first former premier to serve jail time as he began a 19-month sentence for bribery and......
SYDNEY: Australian police have seized more than $712 million methamphetamine, or ice, some concealed in inserts for bras in one of the country’s biggest drug busts, authorities said on Monday.Three......
DHAKA: One of Bangladesh’s top newspaper editors faces a spate of defamation suits from government supporters after he admitted that 2007 reports alleging corruption by the woman who is now prime......
WELLINGTON: Australia inflicted a crushing innings defeat on New Zealand with a day to spare in the first Test in Wellington when they dismissed the home side for 327 on Monday.In a Test that will be......
NEW DELHI: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday backed big-hitting batsman Kevin Pietersen for the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL), saying he expects no discipline problems from the......
ISLAMABAD: Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal and now the highest run-getter in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) owes his success to a new mental approach for every match.Talking to Gulf News he said, “I......
ISLAMABAD: Former captain Aamir Sohail on Monday urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to take action against opener Ahmed Shehzad and pacer Wahab Riaz for the ugly spat that took place between the......
SHARJAH: Shahid Afridi sparkled with a stunning five-for as Peshawar Zalmi overcame a spirited lower-order resistance from Grant Elliott and Zulfiqar Babar to beat Quetta Gladiators by eight wickets......
KARACHI: Moazam Siddique’s remarkable final round play saw him win the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Open Golf Championship at the Airmen Golf Course on Sunday.Starting at second place on the final......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s player-coach Rehan Butt hoped the hockey gold at the South Asian Games could help the country revive its former glory in the sport.Talking to reporters here at the National Hockey......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan on Monday withdrew the Vegetable Ghee and Cooking Oil Companies (Cost Accounting Records) Order 1990, and also issued a circular......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange’s benchmark KSE-100 index rebounded on Monday gaining 463.99 points, or 1.47 per cent, to close at 31,928.15 in line with global equity markets.China’s central......
KARACHI: Lacklustre conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Monday as buyers remained away from the trading ring, as dwindling world cotton trade and textiles continues to impact on the domestic......
BRUSSELS: Steel company managers joined thousands of their employees from across the European Union to protest Monday against the import of cheap Chinese products and to warn the 28-nation bloc not......
LONDON: Britain’s biggest bank is staying put. HSBC Holdings plc said it will keep its headquarters in London, ending a 10-month process in which one of the world’s largest financial companies......
LONDON: Gold fell nearly 3 per cent on Monday as a rebound in stock markets pointed to a sharper appetite for risk, pulling prices further from last week’s one-year high.Spot gold was down 2.7pc at......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has started formulation of sales tax and federal excise measures for the budget 2016-17.A circular issued on Monday said the FBR will entertain proposals......
ISLAMABAD: Amid tight expenditure control by three small provinces under an agreement with the centre to meet international commitments, the Punjab government continued with robust spending in first......
KARACHI: As the new wheat harvest nears in both Sindh and Punjab, the country already has over five million tonnes in stocks.Of the total wheat stocks, Punjab holds 3.5m tonnes and the Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: The Compe-tition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) on Monday fined A. Rahim Foods (Private) Limited (Dawn Foods) Rs20 million for copying the product packaging and labelling of K&N’s Foods......
ISLAMABAD: Service exports declined by 5.37 per cent to $2.767 billion during the first half (July-December) of 2015-16 from $2.924bn in the same period last year, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics data......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court asked Attorney General Salman Aslam Butt on Monday to assist it in determining the maintainability of a petition seeking elimination of Riba (usury) from the financial......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court absolved former interior minister Rehman Malik on Monday of contempt charges regarding meddling into judicial affairs during an inquiry about the Pakistan Steel Mills.A......
WASHINGTON: The United States and Pakistan will hold the sixth ministerial level strategic dialogue here on Feb 29, official sources told Dawn.Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services has decided to get a stay granted by the Sindh High Court to multinational pharmaceutical companies vacated.Pharmaceutical companies have increased......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court sought on Monday replies from the National Accountability Bureau, Federal Investigation Agency, Federal Board of Revenue, State Bank and the family of business......
HYDERABAD: Police have registered a case against the deceased van driver following Sunday night’s accident in Matiari area involving the van and a train. Seven other people were also killed and four......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Monday, demanding of the centre to empower the provincial government to collect taxes from Oil and Gas Development Corporation,......
QUETTA: As a three-day vaccination campaign against polio in 15 high-risk districts of Balochistan got under way, the toughest task of vaccinators in the province is to deal with parents who refuse......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will establish its own academy to train its investigators on modern lines to carry out prompt and better accountability in white collar crime......
KARACHI: An under-trial prisoner facing a murder and kidnapping case escaped from the Central Prison Karachi on Monday.The prison officials believe that Mohammad Hafeez had managed to flee with the......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: Hundreds of elected members of union councils held a sit-in on a highway here on Monday, suspending traffic on the Quetta-Sukkur section of the road, in protest against failure of......
ISLAMABAD: Turkish Naval Forces’ Commander Admiral Bulent Bostanoglu called on Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah at the Naval Headquarters here on Monday.According to the navy’s......
ISLAMABAD: PTI candidate Hamid Khan, who lost 2013’s general elections in the NA-125 (Lahore) constituency, requested the Supreme Court on Monday to order the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)......
ISLAMABAD: The federal ombudsman has directed government departments to settle all pending cases of pensioners and submit a compliance report to the Wafaqi Mohtasib Secretariat within 30 days.The......
LAHORE: Over a dozen large TV screens are mounted on the walls in a spacious room at the Ghalib Market police station. Half are running live feeds from surveillance cameras installed in different......
PESHAWAR: An Indian national, Hamid Nehal Ansari, who had gone missing from Kohat over three years ago, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for espionage by a court martial.According to......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali regretted on Monday that fear prevented witnesses from giving evidence before trial courts.“We are living in a society where the judiciary cannot overlook......
KIEV: Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday accused Russia of acting as a “terrorist organisation” in Syria and vowed to deliver a robust response.“If Russia continues behaving like a......
NEW DELHI: India’s biggest nationwide student protests in a quarter of a century spread across campuses on Monday after the arrest of a student accused of sedition, in the latest battle with Prime......
LANDI KOTAL: At least nine suspected militants were killed and five injured in air strikes in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on Monday.According to security officials, the attacks carried out by......
MUZAFFARABAD: The ruling PPP observed a ‘black day’ in Azad Kashmir on Monday in protest against the killing of “its activist by the opposition PML-N”, but except for one place its workers could not......
ISLAMABAD: The standoff between AJK chapters of the ruling PPP and the opposition PML-N landed in the National Assembly on Monday, with lawmakers of both parties accusing each other of spurring their......
LAST week, the Supreme Court suspended the death sentences of four men convicted by military courts for terrorism-related offences. The court directed the attorney general to produce their case......
EASTER is as good a time as any to recall Rev Jeremiah Wright’s admonition of the American political class. The noxious attack on Delhi’s premier Jawaharlal Nehru University by Delhi Police and their......
IS Pakistani democracy a barren tree which will never produce the fruit of good governance? Not only sceptics but even previously strong supporters of Pakistani democracy are arguing so. Going by......
THAT Pakistan has thus far managed to steer clear of the fires in the Middle East is no less than a miracle.The Pakistani government dodged the Saudi request for direct involvement in Yemen last......
AZAD Jammu and Kashmir is entering the election season, but unhappily the PPP and PML-N appear determined to ignore the democratic lessons they have learned outside the ostensibly self-governing......
THE government’s move to seek lower power tariffs in renewable and LNG-based power plants is laudable but it also reveals significant weaknesses in crucial areas in our power-sector management.In an......
IT is a man’s world, they say. And sports fits rather neatly into this category if one takes into account the kind of money, publicity and recognition that male athletes receive in comparison to......
