JOHANNESBURG: AB de Villiers plundered 71 runs off 29 balls to lead South Africa to a nine-wicket victory over England and wrap up a 2-0 series win in the second Twenty20 International at the......
BEIRUT: Bomb attacks in Syria's central city of Homs and near a shrine outside Damascus killed at least 87 people on Sunday, as Washington pursued efforts for a ceasefire.United States (US) Secretary......
DUBAI: Opener Sharjeel Khan scored a blistering 117 and spinner Imran Khalid returned figures 3-0-20-4 as Islamabad United comprehensively beat Peshawar Zalmi by 50 runs at the Dubai International......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday said the federal government is neither afraid of, nor annoyed with, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) and is not planning to clip......
The inaugural edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) has already grabbed attention with some nail-biting finishes and capacity crowds in the United Arab Emirates.Expectations with the league were......
GENEVA: The Sepp Blatter era at FIFA is set to finally end Friday when football's scandal-scarred world body picks a new president after nine months of crisis.An election meeting designed to give......
KALAMAZOO: A gunman who authorities believe chose victims at random shot people in the parking lots of a western Michigan apartment complex, car dealership and restaurant, killing at least seven......
PESHAWAR: A moderate 5.9-magnitude earthquake shook parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Sunday, with tremors felt in different cities, but officials said there were no immediate reports of damage or......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) on Sunday suspended the Dosti Bus Service that runs between Lahore and Delhi after caste violence in the Indian state of Haryana has......
KABUL: An unmanned American aircraft crashed at an airfield in southern Afghanistan less than three months after an identical drone went down in November, a United States (US) Air Force spokesman......
Arsene Wenger accepted his Arsenal side must be more ruthless against Barcelona than they were against Hull when the Champions League holders arrive at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday.ahead of the......
NEW DELHI: Ten people have died in caste protests which triggered widespread arson and looting in a north Indian state, police said Sunday, as New Delhi faced a water crisis after mobs shut down a......
MADRID: Barcelona moved nine points clear at the top of La Liga thanks to first-half goals from Luis Suarez and Neymar despite an unconvincing display in a 2-1 win at Las Palmas on Saturday.Suarez......
SRINAGAR: The death toll from a militant attack in India's disputed Kashmir region rose to seven on Sunday, as security forces fought to flush attackers out of a building they had stormed.The......
BEIRUT: At least 46 people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday in a double car bomb attack in the central Syrian city of Homs, a monitor said.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human......
DHAKA: Suspected Islamist militants stabbed and killed a Hindu priest at a temple in Bangladesh on Sunday, and shot and injured a devotee who went to his aid, police said.Bangladesh has suffered a......
West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell expressed his willingness to visit Pakistan, but will be ‘scared’ if the Pakistan Super League (PSL) were to be staged in it’s host country next year.Russell,......
CHICAGO/KALAMAZOO: At least six people have been shot and killed in Kalamazoo County, in the northern American state of Michigan, local media reported late Saturday citing police.Kalamazoo County......
This article was originally published in Dawn on February 21, 2016.While the discourse about child safety in recent times has focused on threats to educational institutes and rightly so, what is......
The relevance of Charles Dickens’ dystopian England to the present day world is quite mystifying. If one is literature-savvy, the Dickensian world is a source of perpetual fascination where his......
URLs or web-links form the backbone of the world wide web, which is being indexed and shared among billions of users on a daily basis. We indulge in the practice of sharing URL’s of articles, YouTube......
While the discourse about child safety in recent times has focused on threats to educational institutes and rightly so, what is often passed over is the risk to children from the people around them......
A mention of the matha patti may, for the less fashionable, bring to mind memories of when you had fever and your mother placed cold compresses on your forehead to bring the temperature down. But......
A brother between two sisters, one less than two years senior and the other less than three years junior, is not exactly an easy situation to live with for the brother. I should know, I grew up in......
While the provincial government in Punjab is recklessly cutting trees in order to expand roads and build other infrastructure, the Khyber Pakhtunkwa provincial government is single-mindedly planting......
Alamgir Khan Mehsud of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has been running his #FixIt campaign in Karachi to perform municipal jobs on a volunteer basis. Described as “a non-political platform to......
Shehzad Roy is back and this time he isn’t making political wisecracks or shouting slogans. Rather, he’s stepped into his avatar of yore, of the love struck hero romancing a glamorous leading lady.......
Directed by Irish film, TV, and theater director John Crowley, Brooklyn is a historical period film based on the novel of the same name by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín. Like the novel, the film has......
“I have lots of willpower and a loving family to support me. I have lived a wonderful life so I am always ready for anything that God ordains for me.” So said Fatima Surraiya Bajiya in an interview......
“Right,” I said, after disconnecting from my long-suffering travel agent. “We are stopping over in Melbourne for four nights on our way to Karachi.”Five pairs of eyes lit up around my kitchen bench.......
As we step inside a mud-walled house in a slum in Umerkot, we hear a Thari song being sung especially to welcome guests. Beating the decorated dhol herself while singing was Mai Dhai — a symbol of......
Desi cholay:Ingredients:Boiled white gram 1- 1/2 cupBoiled tomatoes 2 piecesGreen chilli 4-6 piecesOil 1/4 cupGaram masala powder 1tspTurmeric 1tspAchar powder ......
Dear Khalajaani, My issue is my parents. They believe in a severe form of indoctrination. I won’t say that they discriminate between my brother and me, but they tend to restrict me from doing certain......
Growing root vegetables is an integral part of ‘Kitchen Gardening’ as, not only are they packed with varied nutrition but they also have the in-built ability to be stored, for reasonable periods of......
Artist Lubna Agha was young, talented and prolific in the ’70s. Holding her own among the early modernists she garnered considerable acclaim as an abstractionist, yet today remains relatively unknown......
French artist Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is considered as the leading artist of the 20th century who has inspired generations of modern artists. Generally regarded as a Post Impressionist, he had a......
At the recently-held Karachi Literary Festival, a panel discussion titled, the ‘Art of writing’ raised interesting observations on the ‘form’ of writing on art. Among the many issues that relate to......
Hero worship is not just restricted to movies; there have been many sportsmen with Disney princes’ looks who have captured the imagination of the opposite gender. They might not be as smart as the......
Will the Pakistan Super League matches be of any benefit for cricket in Pakistan? And what of the cricketers playing in the league right now? Would they be aspiring to join the future editions if......
Falak travels a lot. And, of course, travelling brings in new experiences like meeting new people and audiences at different venues etc. But, his most interesting updates have to do with his......
It has to be said that the Pakistan Super League (PSL) has taken a lot of people by a pleasant surprise. The cricket tournament not only has the right kind of cricketing action in it — in terms of......
Thoughtful is the word that comes to mind. Last week, our very own Oscar-winning film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (who has been nominated for a second time for an Academy award for her documentary A......
Finally, it has happened. Someone has spoken. Someone had to, because producers and directors working for television channels have been doing this for quite some time. They promise a certain payment......
Pakistan is on the international music map, make no mistake. A recent example of it is the country’s first music project in which the 360-degree video technology has been used. Who’s done it? Answer:......
It is getting weirder by the day in India. Check this out. Someone has filed a report against Bollywood big guns Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan for hurting Hindus’ religious feelings by wearing shoes......
Now that’s what you call the real boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. How many men, affluent men I mean, can fly out from one continent to another to see their GFs on Valentine’s Day? Not many. But......
An understatement: Hollywood heartthrob Jennifer Lawrence is drop-dead gorgeous and a fantastic actress. But that’s not all to her personality. The uber-talented star has a heart of gold as well.Last......
Laced with big numbers, the PM’s National Health Programme provided health insurance to the poor at secondary health level. Although a government intervention was needed, the question of universal......
RECEIVING a Man Booker Prize nomination is an impressive achievement; getting it for a debut novel is all the more remarkable. The most recent person to achieve this feat is Chigozie Obioma, a......
SEARCH for Huntington’s Disease on YouTube and you’ll find montages of devastation and despair, elegies for those who succumbed to this vicious disease, composed by blood relations who carry the......
EVERY year, tens of thousands of people throng the Lahore International Book Fair (LIBF) looking for all sorts of reading material: books for children and adults, in English and Urdu, old and new,......
THE lifestyles of the rich and famous in the West have been extensively portrayed in Hollywood films, literature and on television. But contemporary East Asia is largely under-represented in popular......
FLOOD of Fire, the final installment in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy, is a meticulously researched fictional account of the events leading to the first Opium War (1839-42) and the British acquisition......
BOOK-loving purists, nursing their nostalgia for cloth-bound editions of books that for a lifetime have had them entranced in the imagination’s magical world, understandably disdain e-books; there’s......
Margaret Atwood is the writer of over a dozen novels, and multiple books of poetry and short fiction and non-fiction. Considered one of the 20th century’s most important novelists, she won the......
BY the end of 2016, when Ban Ki-moon’s second term ends, the UN General Assembly will appoint the next secretary general “upon the recommendation of the Security Council”.The UN Charter describes the......
FIRST, the good news: at least no one lost their minds. There’s been no crisis. No mutants crawling out of the woodwork. Nobody thinks the government is about to fall.Basically, a win for......
ONE of the recent additions to the Karachi Literature Festival has been the Art Now! Pakistan section, a series of panels discussing South Asian art history, contemporary Pakistani art, and its......
NEARLY three months after the terrorist assault that left 14 dead in San Bernardino, California, the FBI is still attempting to answer some questions concerning shooters Syed Rizwan Farook and his......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak seems to have lost the way to the provincial assembly as he has attended its few sittings during the ongoing parliamentary year.The......
PESHAWAR: The filling of over 3,000 vacant seats reserved for non-Muslims in the village and neighbourhood councils in areas where they have no presence has become a constant headache for the......
LANDI KOTAL: The Bara Press Club reopened on Saturday after remaining closed for almost seven years due to law and order situation in the region and threats from militant outfits.Built with a cost of......
MINGORA: Residents of Imam Dherai in Kabal tehsil here have criticised the education department for not starting classes in the government-run girls primary school constructed in 2014.Talking to......
The easy availability of various kinds of drugs and their growing abuse over the past many years has so far failed to move the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to draft a new drug control policy in the......
Though inconvenient, teachers Gulab Din and Yar Mohammad live in a classroom at their Government Middle School, Mastak, in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency after duty hours due to unavailability of......
ISLAMABAD: Although the inquiry report on irregularities in the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) that was commissioned by the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD)......
ISLAMABAD: A constable who was injured in an attack in I-9/1 died on Saturday.Constable Zahid Akbar was admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) of an Islamabad hospital on February 12. Police and......
ISLAMABAD: An additional district and sessions judge on Saturday issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf for his ‘deliberate’ absence from the......
ISLAMABAD: On the directions of the additional sessions judge, the capital police on Saturday booked a PML-N MNA on charges of killing a man in a road accident, police said.Kohsar police registered......
Uzbek ambassador Furqat Sidiqov hosted a cultural programme at the Uzbek embassy marking the birth anniversary of the country’s national poet Nizomiddin Mir Alisher Navoi, who was born in February......
ISLAMABAD: “It seems Pakistan, a land of various colourful languages, has got married to a foreigner and has been asked to speak the foreign language whereas Urdu, wearing beautiful attire, has been......
Babur Kamal, an art connoisseur from Islamabad, welcomed Ambassador Rodolfo Martin Saravia and the staff of the Argentine embassy to a high tea at Serena Hotel to bid the outgoing envoy farewell.Mr......
Housed in the colonial-era barracks of the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters (GHQ), the Pakistan Army Museum is a must-see for weaponry and war history enthusiasts.The museum holds within it arms......
Harbouring great expectations with regard to China as panacea for all its ills would do no good to Pakistan as the former’s own role in the emerging scenario would matter a lot in the upcoming great......
George Orwell needs no introduction, but Eric Arthur Blair does, said moderator Navid Shahzad while kicking off the session titled ‘Life with my father, George Orwell’ at the fourth edition of the......
Nayyar Ali Dada sees layers of history and heritage being buried underneath the route of the Orange Line Metro train in Lahore.“You’ve encroached and demolished Lakshmi Chowk for the train project,......
Apanel of experts at a session of the Lahore Literary Festival entitled ‘From Mazar to Madressah’ explored the role of the two very important institutions based on religion — Mazar (shrine) and......
A session held on Urdu Nazm Ki Riwayat in the LLF was more on ghazal form of poetry than on poem as Kishwar Nahid among the three speakers was left high and dry to defend poem.The moderator, Syed......
Witty one-liners by writer Dr Arfa Syeda Zehra taking subtle digs at the provincial government dominated an enchanting discussion on qawali, titled ‘Festivity of Soul: the Tradition of Qawali’, at......
The session titled “Old Urdu journals: A disappearing heritage, Urdu Akhbar Aur Rasail, Ek Ghum Hota Virsa” was an illustrated talk by scholar Choudhri Mohammad Naim. He read history of press from......
LAHORE: The first day of the fourth Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) kicked off at the Avari Hotel with a keynote address, titled Safar -- veteran film actor Sharmila Tagore in a conversation with......
LAHORE: Claiming that agriculture is facing a disastrous situation, the Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI) has convened an ‘all-party conference’ on Wednesday in Islamabad for asking the government to......
LAHORE: The Punjab University administration has filed an application with the cyber crime wing of the Federal Investigation Agency requesting it to trace those behind the fake Facebook accounts of......
We have gathered here not to mourn the demise of Intizar Hussain but to celebrate his works as if he is still among us. This was stated by writer and journalist Masood Ashar in a session “The World......
KARACHI: Not very often does one come across such fine young talent in the field of art as visitors to the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) saw on Saturday on the occasion of the......
HYDERABAD: Supreme Court Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali has said that the state is not able to cater to the health requirements of 78.71 per cent of its population, according to a safe analysis,......
MIRPURKHAS: Mirpurkhas police saved five underage girls from being married off by their parents in a Digri taluka village on Saturday.The girls, one of them nine years of age, belonged to the Kohli......
KARACHI: Trash flies freely in the air as do the swarms of flies. This place with heaps of garbage is their haven. Several stray dogs also roam about without the fear of anyone flinging a stick or......
KARACHI: Finally, someone in Pakistan remembered the services of the great music composer from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) Robin Ghosh. The tribute to Ghosh, who passed away on Feb 13 in Dhaka,......
KARACHI: Sindh will evolve a common stance on the upcoming census to ensure that the gigantic exercise does not convert its permanent residents into a minority, said provincial adviser to the chief......
KARACHI: There is a new political party in town. And its posters are a testament to its presence in Karachi, especially if one takes the arterial Sharea Faisal. The ‘Move on Pakistan’ party calls for......
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Saturday handed over the custody of a senior officer of the State Bank of Pakistan to police for five days after he confessed to killing his mother.Ghulam Rabbani, a......
KARACHI: The Maritime Security Agency (MSA) on Saturday arrested 88 Indian fishermen for fishing in Pakistani waters, an official said.“The Indian fishermen were arrested by the MSA while they were......
LONDON: Britain will vote on its membership of the European Union on June 23, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Saturday as he began the daunting challenge of persuading the country to stay in.He......
MOSCOW: Western powers on Friday turned down a Russian draft resolution calling for an immediate end to cross-border shellings and plans — supported by Turkey — for foreign ground intervention in......
NEW DELHI: Indian authorities issued shoot-on-sight orders and deployed thousands of troops in a northern state neighbouring New Delhi on Saturday, after escalating caste protests left five people......
ST. FRANCISVILLE: The last of three black inmates who spent decades in solitary confinement in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison was released on Friday after pleading no contest to manslaughter in......
MILAN: Umberto Eco, the Italian author and academic who intrigued, puzzled and delighted readers worldwide with his best-selling medieval thriller, “The Name of the Rose,” died at his home in Milan......
SHARM SHEIKH: African leaders and bankers vowed at an economic summit in Egypt on Saturday to push for trade and investments on the continent despite growing security concerns in the region.More than......
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations officials warned the Security Council on Friday of escalating inter-communal violence and rampant human rights violations in South Sudan by all sides.The officials......
KABUL: Afghan officials said on Saturday they hope to fully restore electricity to the capital now that security forces have cleared insurgents from an area in the northern Baghlan province where......
CHARLESTON: The race to the White House entered its third round on Saturday as Republicans began voting in a South Carolina primary and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders faced off for the Democrats......
CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum hit the fastest-ever century in Test history, from 54 balls, in his last international match as the home side put on a display of power hitting on......
DUBAI: Aizaz Cheema held his nerve and brilliantly defended eight runs of the final over as Quetta Gladiators edged Peshawar Zalmi by one run in a pulsating first play-off contest on Friday to......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Former world number one Rafael Nadal reached the Rio Open semi-finals without even hitting a ball Friday as Aleksandr Dolgopolov withdrew injured from their last-eight tie.Nadal is......
BOLOGNA: Leaders Juventus were denied a 16th successive Serie A win when they were held 0-0 at Bologna on Friday in a game marred when an object, possibly a firecracker, was hurled at their team bus......
CAPE TOWN: Chris Morris again proved the scourge of England’s bowlers after smashing 14 off the final over to power South Africa to a thrilling three-wicket victory in the first Twenty20......
KARACHI: The preliminary rounds of the Peek Freans Gluco Inter-school Tennis Tournament were held at Karachi Gymkhana on Saturday.In the Under-15 age group, an exciting encounter was witnessed......
KARACHI: Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) held their nerve in a shootout to set up a Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Cup title showdown against National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) who prevailed by a......
KAMPALA: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni once said leaders who “overstayed” in power were the root of Africa’s problems, but 30 years later he has been elected for a fifth term.The veteran former......
LONG before the legendary British prime minister Margaret Thatcher could be named Iron Lady, the Eiffel Tower was always affectionately referred to by the French as la Dame de Fer. So, inevitably,......
KARACHI: A flow of money from a slowing Dubai property market to Pakistan has pushed up prices, as much as double in some areas.Property dealers and developers said higher demand, especially in......
ISLAMABAD: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) on Saturday said that lifting of sanctions on Iran would lead to growth of regional trade and economic development.The......
KARACHI: With an ever-increasing appetite for good food and recreation, the city is set to host the second food festival in March, within a span of barely two months.The decision comes as Karachi......
KARACHI: Pakistan Stock Exchange was hammered in the outgoing week by the continued foreign selling, lacklustre corporate results and the nagging regulatory issues, all which forced investors to book......
RIYADH: Overcoming the initial negativity, the Venezuelan initiative to get major stakeholders to agree for some sort of coordinated moves to stabilise the oil markets seems to be forging ahead. The......
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s glitzy campaign this week to showcase India as the world’s next manufacturing hub met with a few unpleasant realities of life in Mumbai: a fire engulfed one......
KARACHI: Lacklustre conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Saturday where buyers kept to the sidelines amid uncertain outlook.Floor brokers said that depressed conditions on the global textile......
TEHRAN: Iran’s economy minister said his country is seeking $45 billion in foreign investment following the implementation of a landmark nuclear deal with world powers last month.Ali Tayebnia told......
HOUSTON: The Saudis may go public, Opec’s in disarray, the US is suddenly a global exporter, and shale drillers are seeking lifelines from investors as banks abandon them.Welcome to oil’s new world......
BERLIN: The United States became the top destination for German exports last year, overtaking France for the first time since 1961 thanks to an upturn in the US economy and a weaker euro, data from......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was asked on Saturday to issue a restraining order against a top official of the Pakistan State Oil (PSO) since, according to the petitioner, he did not fulfil the......
KARACHI: A spokesman for Dr Asim Hussain said on Saturday that the former federal minister had done “nothing wrong” and therefore, he was ready to face the references that the National Accountability......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) is of the opinion that Urdu being the dominant language in the multi-ethnic society through the school system......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan said on Saturday that his party would resist any move to curtail the powers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).Mr Khan also......
GWADAR: The building of the district education office was slightly damaged in a grenade attack here on Saturday. No one was injured in the attack.Police said that unidentified people hurled the hand......
ISLAMABAD: The Privatisation Commission (PC) has rejected a report of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance which claimed that malpractices had been committed in the privatisation of Heavy......
KARACHI: Former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf has said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) cannot be diluted.“Institutions take time to mature and creation of a new institution in its......
NEW YORK: Scores of MQM supporters demonstrated in front of the UN building on Friday afternoon to protest a ban on party leader Altaf Hussain’s speeches and images in the Pakistani media.During the......
SEVERAL bright yellow barricades of the Delhi police divided the students into two neat groups. A few policemen stood around watching the proceedings; some looked bored with all that was happening......
WASHINGTON: The United States has said that it would support any decision to hold a meeting between Pakistani and Indian prime ministers in the US capital next month.“We’re supportive of any......
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Pervaiz Rasheed has said that the government has lodged the FIR in the Pathankot airbase attack after a committee comprising representatives......
KARACHI: A new organisation, Pakistan Airways, has been registered as a ‘premium service subsidiary’ of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).This was announced by a spokesman for the national......
