KARACHI: At least 12 suspected militants were shot dead in two separate encounters in the metropolis on Monday evening, police claimed.Malir SSP Rao Anwar claimed that eight suspected militants were......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday announced the inclusion of Sharjeel Khan and Mohammad Sami in the national squad for the upcoming Asia Cup and World T20 tournaments, while Khalid Latif......
QUETTA: Despite the tall claims by the provincial government regarding eradication of polio, majority of children in Balochistan remain deprived of basic immunisation facilities, as 300 out of the......
NEW DELHI: Indian skipper MS Dhoni suffered a back spasm Monday during a practice session in a major blow to his team just ahead of the upcoming Asia Cup Twenty20, the national cricket body......
SRINAGAR: Troops and police on Monday killed three armed attackers holed up in a government building in Indian Kashmir, ending a three-day gunbattle in which five soldiers and a civilian also died,......
ISLAMABAD: The government has authorised the import of an expensive Hepatitis-C drug from the United States to improve treatment for the estimated eight million people carrying the blood infection,......
Opener Sharjeel Khan is on the verge of making a last minute entry into the Pakistan squad for the upcoming Asia Cup and World T20 after smashing a blistering 117 off 62 balls for Islamabad United in......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Monday that Islam entitles men and women with equal rights, while praising the initiative taken by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary against honour......
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court ruled Monday that national cricketer Shahadat Hossain and his wife should face trial for assaulting an 11-year-old girl they employed as a maid.The 29-year-old pacer and......
LONDON: In Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar, Arsenal faces the most potent strike force in the game - and a team that will probably be more than halfway to the Champions League quarterfinals......
I don't have much recollection of the 1992 World Cup. I was giving my grade 7 exams at the time, and most of the matches I watched were in between the gaps offered during breaks.Still, the final was......
LONDON: Chelsea exploited Manchester City's decision to field a weakened team by romping to a 5-1 win in the FA Cup fifth round on Sunday as they joined London rivals West Ham United and Crystal......
NEW YORK: Lionel Messi and Argentina were given a chance for revenge on Sunday after being drawn against reigning Copa America champions Chile in the group stage for this summer's special centenary......
KABUL: At least 13 people, including nine civilians, were killed on Monday in a suicide bombing targeting Afghan police which was claimed by Taliban insurgents in a remote area northwest of Kabul,......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has put 32 people on trial, including 30 members of its own Shia Muslim minority, accused of spying for Iran, several local newspapers and television channels reported on......
BEIJING: Pakistan was the tenth largest arms importer in the world in 2015, down one spot from number nine the previous year, a military think tank database reveals, while Saudi Arabia was the......
CHRISTCHURCH: Brendon McCullum drew the curtain on his illustrious batting career as a typically pugnacious but short-lived innings Monday was unable to loosen Australia's firm grip on the second......
NEW DELHI: Indian defence minister Manohar Parrikar has said on Sunday that registration of a First Information Report (FIR) in the Pathankot attack by Pakistan is not enough,while calling for a......
“Who goes up north in the winter?” my friends remarked, looking at me as if I had gone completely mad.Yes, no one goes to the Northern areas in the winter, but when ace mountaineer and brother of the......
SONIPAT: The death toll from caste riots in northern India has risen to 19, a state government official told AFP on Monday, adding that the protests had eased overnight.Authorities said some......
WASHINGTON: The United States (US) said Sunday it received a North Korean proposal to discuss a peace treaty for the Korean peninsula but rejected it when Pyongyang refused to consider reducing its......
PESHAWAR: An indefinite dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed across Mohmand Agency on Monday as security forces stepped up operations in the restive region.At around 2am on Monday morning, security forces......
PESHAWAR: A drone strike, targeting suspected militant hideouts in the Shahidano Dhand area of Lower Kurram Agency near the shared border with Afghanistan and wounding one suspected militant, was......
NEW DELHI: A state-run Indian firm is poised to seal a contract to build a $1.6 billion power plant in Bangladesh, beating out a Chinese competitor in the latest commercial tussle between the......
SAYYIDA ZAINAB: A string of suicide bombings near a Shia shrine outside Syria's capital and in Homs claimed by the militant Islamic State (IS) group killed more than 150 people Sunday, as Washington......
Pakistan is at war with multiple militant groups. We have terrorists attacking schools. We have kidnappings in our cities, robberies, fires, road accidents…can a mobile app help us navigate this mess......
IDEALLY, the 1973 Constitution provides national vision and direction. It requires a population census to get accurate data for futuristic planning and the National Finance Commission to determine......
THE Shahbaz Sharif government will try to persuade the centre to cut down the cash surplus target for Punjab for the current fiscal year to allow the province spike public investment on large energy......
THE government raised Rs186.457bn from the auction of treasury bills of various tenors on Feb 17, lower than its target of Rs250bn. The central bank had received bids worth a much higher......
THE rupee showed mixed sentiments against the dollar and euro in the local currency market last week. While it continued to weaken against the dollar owing to slight pressure, largely the trading......
Over a recent 10-year period, a small number of physicians with distinctive characteristics accounted for a disproportionately large number of malpractice claims, according to an analysis led by......
ENGRO Corporation Limited took the market by surprise last Thursday when it announced appointment of advisors for the potential sale of up to 24pc shareholding in Engro Fertilisers Limited by way of......
ABASIN Kohistan comprising the Lower Kohistan and the Upper Kohistan has enormous hydropower resources and potential which remain unexploited.If its hydropower sites are tapped, not only will it......
IN the United Kingdom, the gas consumption of domestic consumers has a seasonal ‘swing’ of 1 to 9. The winter consumption of residential consumers is nine times that of summer consumption.In Pakistan......
THE Punjab government moves, yet again, to deal with the perennial problem of irrigation water theft and improve its income from the water sale. It has amended Canal and Drainage Act in second week......
COMMERCE Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan must be having a feeling of being conned by sugar mill owners who, despite having received a subsidy on exports, increased the sugar price in the domestic......
CONSIDERING the date palm growth potential in Khairpur, the Sindh government in partnership with a private company is setting up a state-of-the-art dehydration plant for sorting, grading and washing......
PAKISTAN is sitting on a stockpile of surplus in three major commodities thanks to years of tilted agricultural and export policies and lower international prices but struggling to offload......
Holding cynical beliefs about human nature can be detrimental to your income, suggests a study by Olga Stavrova and Daniel Ehlebracht at the University of Cologne. In three longitudinal studies that......
People who grew up near a lot of startups are more likely to become entrepreneurs as adults, according to a study led by Luigi Guiso at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance. Using the......
When you’re negotiating to buy a car, a house or even a company, don’t make an initial bid with a round number like $10,000 or $1m or $15 per share. A study of mergers and acquisitions by Petri......
Contrary to theories emphasising the importance of asset ownership for helping the rural poor out of poverty, a study by A. Nilesh Fernando at Harvard shows that in India, inheriting agricultural......
EXPORTS of sugar from India, the world’s second-largest producer after Brazil, have slowed down as international prices have started tumbling. The price of the sweetener fell last week from $425 a......
The European Central Bank is on course for more aggressive monetary easing to boost flagging growth and weak inflation, amid fresh warnings about the outlook for the global economy.Mario Draghi, the......
PESHAWAR: Polling was held in 23 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the local government by-elections, mostly on the vacant seats in the lower tier, amid tight security on Sunday.The polling......
PESHAWAR: Only Pakhtun nationalist political parties observed the International Mother Language Day in the province while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government seemed unaware of the importance of the day.The......
MINGORA: Speakers at a conference have demanded of the provincial government to include Pashto in curriculum for the students of nursery to grade 12 as a compulsory subject and launch a Pashto......
TEHRAN: Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Sunday started a previously unannounced visit to Tehran with the conflict in Syria high on his agenda, Iranian state media reported.Shoigu met......
LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II has written about her religious faith in a foreword to a new book. In the comments released on Sunday she said she is grateful to the British public for praying on her......
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.US Secretary of State John......
WASHINGTON: Republican front-runner Donald Trump predicted on Sunday that he would face his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton on Nov 6, when Americans elect their 44th president.The prediction follows......
SYDNEY: Australia on Sunday was set to allow an asylum-seeker’s baby to remain in the country instead of being deported back to a remote Pacific detention camp, in what refugee advocates claimed as a......
BAHADURGARH: India deployed thousands of troops in a northern state on Sunday to quell protests that have severely hit water supplies to Delhi, forced factories to close and killed 10 people.Rioting......
TOKYO: Thousands of protesters formed a human chain around Japan’s parliament on Sunday in protest at the planned construction of a new US base on the southern island of Okinawa.Some 28,000 people,......
BERLIN: Onlookers celebrated as a suspected arson fire damaged a former hotel that was being converted into a refugee home in eastern Germany, police said Sunday, raising new concerns about violence......
LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron has cleared some key hurdles as he takes his first steps in what promises to be a bitter campaign ahead of an EU membership referendum in June, experts......
LOOKING across Syria’s killing fields, it’s impossible to say who the good guys are anymore. When the anti-Assad protests broke out in 2011, we all cheered the pro-democracy demonstrators, specially......
CHRISTCHURCH: Joe Burns and Steve Smith made centuries in a record 289-run third-wicket partnership on the second day of the second Test against New Zealand at the Hagley Oval on Sunday, making......
JOHANNESBURG: A.B. de Villiers smashed 71 off 29 balls to power South Africa to a nine-wicket win over England at the Wanderers in the second Twenty20 International on Sunday and a 2-0 series......
BERLIN: Thomas Mueller scored twice, including a spectacular 71st-minute bicycle kick, on Saturday as Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich came from behind to beat Darmstadt 3-1 in their last match......
GLASGOW: Paralympic champion Markus Rehm leaped 8.10 metres to win the long jump at the Glasgow Grand Prix on Saturday, boosting his profile while he attempts to prove his eligibility for the Olympic......
LONDON: West Ham United eased into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup with a 5-1 romp at second-tier Blackburn Rovers on Sunday.The Londoners were given an early jolt when Ben Marshall’s low shot put......
PARIS: Zlatan Ibrahimovic played chief tormentor when he scored two goals and set up the others in runaway leaders Paris St Germain’s 4-1 home victory over Stade de Reims in Ligue 1 on Saturday.The......
MILAN: Inter Milan’s ambitions for Champions League football next season were boosted when they got back to winning ways in style, beating Sampdoria 3-1 to move to fourth in Serie A on Saturday.A......
MADRID: Goals from the prolific Luis Suarez and Neymar earned Barcelona a 2-1 victory at Las Palmas on Saturday, extending their club record to 32 games without a loss and increasing their overnight......
NEW YORK: Matthew Centrowitz surged to victory with a final-lap burst to repeat as Wanamaker Mile winner, while elite sprinters Allyson Felix and Andre De Grasse powered to wins at the 109th Millrose......
FATULLAH: Mohammad Naveed’s three-wicket haul and Mohammad Shahzad’s 52 helped United Arab Emirates down Hong Kong by six wickets in the Asia Cup qualifying competition at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Rafa Nadal’s below-par season continued with the former world number one dumped from the Rio Open semi-finals with a 6-7 (6-8), 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 defeat by unseeded Uruguayan Pablo......
JHELUM: For the first time, researchers have found a pair of intact fossilised tusks that dates back approximately three million years.“This discovery is a grand prize. We have never found a pair of......
RAWALPINDI: The All Pakistan CNG Association (APCNGA) on Sunday said gas prices would be reduced after the arrival of Qatari liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the first week of next month.The imported......
The word ‘tout’ simply means “to try to persuade people that someone or something is important or valuable by praising them/it,” according to the Oxford Learners’ Dictionary. But it has a sinister......
ISLAMABAD: American jazz and Pakistani classical musicians brought the best of both genres together in a concert held on Sunday.During their third visit to Pakistan, the Ari Roland Quartet blended......
RAWALPINDI: Renowned poet Anwar Masood enthralled his audience on Saturday with a recitation of his work, at an event arranged by the Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC).Former MNA Hanif Abbasi was invited......
ISLAMABAD: Despite having ruled the subcontinent for nearly a century, the British left little mark on the local culinary scene. As a result, even though there are plenty of restaurants offering......
RAWALPINDI: An intelligence agency has reported about a group of individuals allegedly involved in procuring mobile phone subscriber identity modules (SIMs) by exploiting loopholes in the......
ISLAMABAD: Fed up with traffic congestion at both the entry points to the sector, residents and traders from E-11 have decided to hold a protest, calling for the construction of the road mandated by......
SAHIWAL: Around 500 people belonging to Punjabi literary and civil society organisations along with activists of professional associations and political parties jointly organised a cultural rally to......
When asked how many poets were there in Dilli, Mir replied, “Dilli has two and a half poets, I am one, Sauda is another while Mir Dard is a half poet”. Mir called Dard a half poet because he was a......
The audience was taken on a gastronomical journey when London-based chef and cookbook author sat down with 82-year-old Indian award-winning actress, culinary legend and TV personality Madhur Jaffrey......
The session titled “Lurching rightwards: South Asia in the balance” dealt with dissipation of the Left, ascendancy of religion and communal fault lines in the region on the last day of the Lahore......
To the world he is known as the master of an industrial empire, including Packages Limited, and the founder of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). At 89, Syed Babar Ali unveils his......
LAHORE: Out of 26,061 cases pending from 2009 to 2013, some 16,885 have been decided by the district courts of the Punjab judiciary in two months.“Only 9,202 cases are pending in the district courts......
LAHORE: PML-Q leadership has dissolved party organisations in Punjab and constituted three committees for reorganisation.The decision was taken at a meeting presided over by Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi......
One of the first sessions on the second and concluding day of the Lahore Literary Festival was titled ‘Foundering Freedoms’ with noted rights activist I.A. Rehman and Indian lawyer, historian and......
LAHORE: The Punjab government and brick kiln owners are inching towards a showdown as both sides are failing to bridge their differences on the child labour issue.The latest meeting held between......
One of highly informative and interesting sessions on the last day of LLF 2016 on Sunday was about the Partition memories of Pasha Yusuf Haroon.Titled ‘Pasha Haroon: Gilded Memories of Early Pakistan......
LAHORE: A large number of activists staged a demonstration on Sunday in front of Lahore Press Club and took out a rally demanding that the government declare Punjabi language a compulsory subject......
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan ordered on Sunday a detailed working paper for setting up a board of medical experts and philanthropists to ensure provision of better healthcare......
KARACHI: The cars pulling up on Beach Avenue and people, including children, gathering to meet up at one point on a pleasant Sunday morning had not arrived there for a fun picnic. They were there for......
KARACHI: Police on Sunday arrested four policemen among nine people allegedly involved in ‘kidnapping, extortion and robbery’ and a suspected gangster linked with the Lyari gang warfare, who had......
DESPITE the apparent thaw in the Indo-Pak relations, the movement of intellectuals and writers across the border is as restricted as it was: many Pakistani scholars could not get visa to attend the......
KARACHI: Hundreds including special and physically-challenged persons took part in a first of its kind marathon organised by the Special Olympics Pakistan (SOP) at Moin Khan Academy early Sunday......
THESE days the annual flower show in Karachi held in the early spring season attracts a large number of people. But it is not an activity which has caught on in recent times. Karachiites have always......
KARACHI: The multi-party conference (MPC) held here on Sunday under the auspices of the Pakistan Peoples Party demanded that the Council of Common Interests (CCI) in consultation with the federal and......
GWADAR: Federal Minister of State and Chairperson of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) Marvi Memon has said that the government has doubled funds for the BISP to eliminate poverty from the......
RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) celebrated its 20th Raising Day at its headquarters on Sunday.According to a press release, the event, including an annual performance award distribution......
GWADAR: The vice chancellor of the newly established Turbat University, Dr Abdul Razzaq Sabir, has emphasised the need for promoting a research culture in the county’s universities, saying it’s an......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has criticised the federal government for allegedly stopping an American company from investing $100 million in an oil and gas concession block......
ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister’s Youth Business Loan scheme appears to be losing steam, mainly because of hitches at the National Bank of Pakistan — the lead institution assigned to implement the......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq said on Sunday that increasing corruption was the main issue of the country and leaders of both the PML-N and PPP were supporting each other......
ISLAMABAD: The Chairman of the Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) has said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will give a tremendous boost to agriculture in the country.“The......
SRINAGAR: A third soldier was killed on Sunday in an ongoing gunbattle between militants and troops and police in India-held Kashmir, taking the death toll to six, police said.Javaid Gillani,......
CHICAGO: A gunman killed six people and seriously injured two others in the northern US state of Michigan, police said on Sunday, after arresting an armed 45-year-old white man for the crime.The......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: An eight-year-old boy was killed after being sexually abused here on Sunday, police said.They said the boy had been missing since Saturday morning.His body was found in a pond on......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has said that India has agreed to receive Pakistani investigators for probing its allegations about the involvement of some groups or people from......
LAHORE: The operation of the Dosti Bus has been suspended indefinitely at the request of Indian authorities.Retired Col Khalid, the manager of Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation, Lahore, told......
ISLAMABAD: Even though it has been nearly a year since the government obtained approval from the Council of Common Interests (CCI) for a population census, it seems unlikely that the exercise will go......
Nothing intrigues me more than the power of our security establishment. National interest is shorthand for the interests of an institution that reigns supreme. Let us consider the recent news that......
PRIME MINISTER Nawaz Sharif has declared developing Pakistan’s external economy a national priority. He should be applauded for focusing on tackling a major weakness. However, Pakistan’s interest in......
THE China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has become a contentious political issue. Recently, the KP chief minister reproached the centre and Punjab. He said CPEC’s western route traversing KP had been......
ONE of the most dismal numbers to come out of Pakistan is the paltry allocation of budgetary resources to health.The figure stands below 0.7pc of GDP, both provincial and federal combined, and is......
IT is a bad idea to compound the original wrong. A week in which Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif shockingly attacked the National Accountability Bureau ended with the continuing speculation that the......
THOUGH many amongst Pakistan’s religious right prefer interpretations of faith anchored firmly in the past and shun most aspects of modernity as ‘innovations’, they have few qualms about using......
