SAO PAULO: Brazilian police arrested the vice president of Facebook for Latin America on Tuesday after the social media giant refused access to data the authorities said was important to a criminal......
NEW DELHI: Indian police said Tuesday they had charged the former head of the UN climate change panel Rajendra Pachauri with sexual harassment, following a complaint by an ex-colleague at an......
QALANDIA: Two Israeli soldiers using a traffic app to find their way mistakenly entered a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank overnight, sparking clashes that killed one Palestinian and wounded 15......
NEW DELHI: India's cricket board on Tuesday criticised authorities in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh after they refused to provide security for an upcoming India-Pakistan World T20 tie,......
DHAKA: Virat Kohli smashed an unbeaten 56 as India reached the final of the Asia Cup with a five-wicket win over Sri Lanka on Tuesday.India eased past its victory target with a total of 142-5 in 19.2......
NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has backed tainted compatriots Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt, saying they should be given a second chance after serving stints in jail for spot......
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Tuesday blocked a resolution tabled before the Upper House to pay tribute to Oscar-winning Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and said that winning an Oscar is not......
JOHANNESBURG: South African left-arm spinner Aaron Phangiso's bowling action has been found illegal, putting in doubt his chances of playing in the World Twenty20 tournament in India later this......
QUETTA: A resident of Quetta, Jan Mohammad, who has fathered 33 children from three wives says he is living a happy life with his large family. "The bigger the family, the better," says 43-year-old......
QUETTA: Balochistan government on Tuesday formed a judicial commission to probe into the case of Saqiba Kakar's death, a teenage student who committed suicide after her college's principal allegedly......
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NEW DELHI: As uncertainty looms over the probe on the Pathankot air base attack that killed seven Indian soldiers in January, India on Tuesday alleged that the Pakistan government is linked to the......
LONDON: Amir Khan says he didn't want to demand a rehydration clause for his forthcoming fight with Saul Alvarez because he wants to make the biggest possible statement in his first bout above......
While Pakistani agriculturalists have traditionally relied on one of the largest continuous irrigation systems in the world to water their crops, the country has turned to groundwater to keep up with......
KABUL: Human Rights Watch (HRW) has slammed “virginity exams” conducted on Afghan women and girls accused of so-called moral crimes, saying the invasive tests by government doctors were tantamount to......
PESHAWAR: As Pakistani entrepreneurs hop around incubators and release one app after another, it feels like the field of science is missing from the innovative action. Dr Faisal Khan at the......
PESHAWAR: Two USAID officials were killed and two others, including a tehsildar, sustained injures when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in Ambar tehsil of Mohmand Agency on Tuesday,......
LAHORE: A woman filed a First-Information Report (FIR) against her husband in the Green Town police station on Monday. It is reportedly the first FIR filed under Punjab's Protection of Women against......
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WASHINGTON: The US State Department on Monday made public the final batch of emails taken from a private server which former secretary of state Hillary Clinton controversially used during her time in......
KARACHI: Abdul Qadeer gave up trying to build a block of flats in Karachi four years ago, when gangsters demanding $20,000 in protection money shot him in the legs because he refused to pay.Now he is......
LAHORE: A teenage girl was allegedly abducted and raped by two unidentified men in a car in Factory Area on Monday.Police said 13-year-old (M), a house maid, was going to market in P-Block of the......
LAHORE: Governor Rafiq Rajwana signed on Monday the Protection of Women against Violence Bill to make it a formal law.The bill had been unanimously passed by the Punjab Assembly on February 24.The......
PESHAWAR: The provincial capital on Monday saw severe traffic gridlock for hours as a mob protesting the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, blocked the major......
CHARSADDA: The chehlum of the victims of Bacha Khan University (BKU) attack was observed amid tight security on the campus of the university here on Tuesday.On the occasion, Quran Khawani was held......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has launched Integrated Disease Surveillance System to ascertain information about health indicators and take desired measures to prevent outbreak of......
TIMERGARA: The Lower Dir administration and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority (KPHA) on Monday closed the Khazana by-pass bridge on the Panjkora River here to all kinds of vehicular traffic after......
KARAK: Adviser to the chief minister on prison affairs Malik Qasim Khan Khattak on Monday said his constituency, Karak, had 54 ghost schools, which questioned the performance of the education......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday directed the federal government to arrange a meeting of family members with Aafia Siddiqui, undergoing 86 years imprisonment in the US for......
ISLAMABAD: In an almost unprecedented development, the electronic media on Monday gave limited coverage to the news of Mumtaz Qadri’s execution and its aftermath.Despite being bitterly criticised for......
ISLAMABAD: Most private schools in the urban areas of the city will remain closed on Tuesday.Talking to Dawn, Private Schools Association president Zofran Elahi said the schools that would be closed......
RAWALPINDI: Right up until Sunday night, only a select few officers knew of the plans to execute Mumtaz Qadri. Those who did, however, did not let on either. Expecting trouble, senior officers from......
FAISALABAD: A book fair arranged at the main library of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad attracted a large number of book lovers on Monday.The fair that will continue till March 5 is a part......
GUJRAT: The district council rest house has been upgraded to the level of a circuit house and additional bedrooms and other infrastructure will now be built there for temporary stay of government......
FAISALABAD: Wearing a variety of makeup, the students at a stall titled “Stop violence against women” grabbed the attention of visitors and won the first prize.The stall was set up by the Punjab......
LAHORE: A teenage girl was shot dead allegedly by her father for ‘honour’ in Burki on Monday.Police claimed Komal, 18, of Burki Road had gone out of the house without informing her family. When she......
KARACHI: The next production to be staged at the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) will be Khoya Hua Aadmi written by Kamal Ahmed Rizvi as a tribute to the legendary actor and playwright, it......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Monday paid tribute to Oscar-winning film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy for winning her second Academy Award for a documentary on the menace of killing in the name of......
KARACHI: Rangers were on Monday directed to arrange a meeting of Uzair Baloch, chief of the proscribed Peoples Amn Committee, with his family members as per the jail manual.Headed by Justice Ahmed......
KARACHI: Protests broke out in parts of the city on Monday against the pre-dawn execution of Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, paralysing traffic in different districts of......
SHIKARPUR: Council of Islamic Ideology chairman Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani said on Monday that Mumtaz Qadri’s act — though driven by religious sentiments — was illegal because he had taken the law......
KARACHI: Not a single landlord paid agriculture income tax (AIT) in Sukkur district during 2012-13, Sindh Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Nisar Ahmed Khuhro informed legislators on Monday.He was......
MITHI: A two-member fact-finding team sent to Tharparkar by the federal government has expressed its dissatisfaction over the measures taken so far by the provincial government to ensure proper......
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WASHINGTON: Super Tuesday is the biggest day of competition in American democracy except for Election Day itself. So will it set everything straight in the chaotic presidential race? Maybe. Quite......
COLUMBIA: Hillary Clinton is shifting her focus to Republican front-runner Donald Trump as her party looks for the best ways to challenge the billionaire’s unpredictable nature in a general......
RIYADH: Iran and Saudi Arabia’s rivalry has played out in proxy wars across the region, and escalated further after the two severed diplomatic and trade ties last month. Yet in the Saudi capital,......
LOS ANGELES: Catholic Church abuse movie Spotlight was named best picture, the top award at Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, after a night peppered with pointed punchlines from host Chris Rock about the......
Vice President Joe Biden made a special appearance at the Oscars ceremony on Sunday to advocate for victims of sexual assault and introduced a powerful performance by Lady Gaga that featured......
IDOMENI: Hundreds of refugees on Monday tried to break through a border fence into Macedonia from Greece, where more than 7,000 people are stranded, as anger mounted over barriers to entry imposed on......
TEHRAN: Iranian hardliners suffered another election setback on Monday with two leading conservatives ejected from the top clerical body, handing another victory to moderate President Hassan Rouhani......
ABU DHABI: The supreme court in the United Arab Emirates on Monday jailed an Omani man for three years for “mocking” the Gulf state on WhatsApp messenger, local media reported.Saleh Mohammed Saleh......
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad announced on Monday he was quitting the ruling party, saying it had degenerated into an organisation whose sole purpose was to protect......
DHAKA: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Sri Lankan skipper Lasith Malinga and Pakistan’s head coach Waqar Younis feel that green top pitches in Bangladesh are hardly ideal preparation for the......
LONDON: Manuel Pellegrini will head to pastures new with at least one shiny memento of his final season as Manchester City manager after keeper Willy Caballero’s penalty shootout heroics sealed a......
LONDON: Former World and Olympic champion Lennox Lewis has slammed a proposal to allow professional boxers to compete at the Olympics, saying that it could be dangerous for young amateur boxers.Lewis......
LAHORE: Six teams will feature in the Pakistan’s premier polo event, the Quaid-i-Azam Gold Cup for the National Polo Championships, starting at the Lahore Polo Club here on Tuesday.The matches will......
KARACHI: Rangers Cricket Club, one of the oldest clubs affiliated with the Karachi City Cricket Association (KCCA), honoured its former players to mark the club’s golden jubilee in a reception held......
ISLAMABAD: Incoming bowling coach Azhar Mahmood, who has replaced bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed, believes Pakistan team’s fast bowling attack is best in the world at present.Mushtaq has been rested for......
DHAKA: Shoaib Malik and Umar Akmal both made unbeaten half-centuries as Pakistan overcame early hiccups to score a seven-wicket victory against the United Arab Emirates and revive their Asia Cup......
KARACHI: The trading community’s reaction to the execution of Mumtaz Qadri, an Elite Force personnel who killed Governor Punjab Salman Taseer in 2011, was reflected in the partial closure of several......
ISLAMABAD: The government has extended a tax amnesty scheme which, aimed at attracting one million traders, could only attract 350 by its Feb 29 deadline.The deadline for the Voluntary Tax Compliance......
KARACHI: Hum Network Ltd’s unconsolidated post-tax profit declined by 54.70 per cent to Rs166.3 million (earnings per share Rs0.18) for the half year ended Dec 31, 2015 from Rs367.1m (eps Rs0.39)......
LAHORE: The value-added textile industry on Monday urged the government to implement zero-rated regime at once instead of from July and issue the bonds for exporters without any delay.“Our industry......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will support the government’s strategy to strengthen regional connectivity and provide technical assistance for a project aimed at mapping out potential......
KARACHI: The directionless stock market saw another volatile session on Monday with the KSE-100 index oscillating between the intraday high of 141 and low of 75 points to finally settle at 31,369.51,......
KARACHI: The cotton market on Monday remained dull as the presence of buyers and sellers in the trading ring was very thin. The undertone remained easy and outlook uncertain.Floor brokers said that......
LONDON: Gold rose by nearly 1 per cent on Monday, boosted by lower shares and a softer dollar, leaving the metal well placed to log its best monthly performance in four years as turmoil in wider......
NEW DELHI: India’s government promised billions of dollars to help struggling farmers and boost the rural economy as it unveiled its annual budget on Monday, looking to kick-start growth and bolster......
PARIS: French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said Monday he was confident his country can ride out global growth concerns and hit Paris’ target of a 1.5 per cent rise in 2016.“France is less concerned......
BEIJING: China said on Monday it expects to lay off 1.8 million workers in the coal and steel industries, or about 15 per cent of the workforce, as part of efforts to reduce industrial overcapacity,......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate body rejected on Monday the government’s proposal to convert Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (PIAC) into a limited company.The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: The harvesting of wheat crop is set to begin by mid-March in Balochistan’s two canal irrigated districts of Nasirabad and Jaffarabad but the government has not fixed the official......
QUETTA: Two suspected drug smugglers died while three others were injured in an ‘encounter’ with security personnel in the Mashkel area near the Iranian border on Monday.According to a spokesman for......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee was informed here on Monday that the government was planning to strictly implement laws to discourage ‘dummy newspapers’ and the circulation declared by newspapers would......
QUETTA: Balochistan’s Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Ahmed Bugti survived an armed attack on Monday near Dera Bugti while going to Sui area along with his security guards.“Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti......
WASHINGTON: Amnesty International urged Pakistan on Monday not to use disproportionate force to suppress protests that followed Mumtaz Qadri’s hanging.Noting that protests against the hanging had......
ISLAMABAD: Things went to the government’s way in the Senate on the opening day of its new session on Monday as ruling party senators rendered the opposition PPP members speechless during debates on......
PESHAWAR: Security forces claimed to have killed 12 militants in Shawal area of North Waziristan on Monday as they advanced to capture strategic points in the valley abutting the Afghan......
ISLAMABAD: The Joint Investigating Team (JIT) constituted by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to investigate alleged involvement of a Pakistan-based militant group in the Pathankot airbase attack in India......
ISLAMABAD: After the Supreme Court upheld his conviction and the president turned down his plea for clemency, executing Mumtaz Qadri was the only option the state was left with. However, the swift......
AFTER more than three weeks in the dark power has finally returned to Kabul.The source of the power cuts and blackouts which left the city of more than five million residents without reliable......
WASHINGTON: Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz urged the United States on Monday to show a greater understanding of Pakistan’s security concerns as US Secretary of State John Kerry asked Islamabad......
ISLAMABAD: Mumtaz Qadri, the former Elite Force commando who gunned down his charge — Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer — over his views on the blasphemy law on Jan 4, 2011, was executed at the Adiala......
HOLLYWOOD: A documentary about a Pakistani girl shot in the face by her family won an Oscar on Sunday, after helping persuade the government to commit it would fight “honour killings” in the......
ISLAMABAD: The government reduced on Monday prices of petroleum products and compressed natural gas (CNG) by up to 12 per cent for March to partially pass on to consumers the benefit of cheaper oil......
ISLAMABAD: The Council of Common Interests has decided to postpone the population and housing census.A meeting of the CCI on Monday, presided over by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and attended by the......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to tighten the noose around members of the banned organisations, under-observation suspects and human traffickers by cancelling their passports and blocking......
LAST week, the European Parliament decided to continue Pakistan’s GSP Plus trading status, an instrument of the EU’s trade policy that aims to encourage developing countries to comply with core......
RELIGIOUS extremism, particularly the militant kind, is akin to the Hindu demon Raktabeej. He had a divine boon whereby each drop of his blood that fell on the ground would create another Raktabeej......
A game changer that will make Pakistan an Asian Tiger is how the PML-N sells the CPEC. None of the Tigers rose simply by building corridors with economic giants. So, one must view such claims......
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s record second win at the Oscars for her short documentary A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness is proof that lightning can actually strike twice. Hardly four years......
There should be a reluctance to mention the two names together. One man, Salmaan Taseer, the late governor of Punjab, was a towering champion of human rights and a historic defender of the......
FOR Pakistan, it was a moment to be proud of, and for Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy herself, it was nothing less than a triumph: on Sunday night, after a glittering Los Angeles ceremony, she once again......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan said on Monday at the start of strategic talks with the United States that a contentious sale of F-16 fighter jets would strengthen country's ability to mount counter-terrorist......
