KARACHI. Police on Saturday claimed to have killed four suspected militants belonging to banned outfits during an “encounter” in the outskirts of the metropolis.Malir SSP Rao Anwar said that suspects......
Three runs and two wickets. That is all skipper Shahid Afridi contributed during Pakistan’s disastrous Asia Cup Twenty20 campaign which concluded on Friday.The star all-rounder has come under the......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Saturday that a security team has been constituted and will depart on Monday for India, to ensure that the Pakistani cricket team......
KARACHI: The accountability court on Saturday accepted the filing of a new corruption reference against former federal minister and PPP leader Dr Asim Hussain.The corruption reference filed today by......
DHAKA: Bangladesh are hoping to cause a major upset in the Asia Cup final in Dhaka on Sunday by spoiling favourites India's preparations for the World Twenty20, which starts next week.Top-ranked......
QUETTA: The fisheries department has directed fishermen along the coastal belt of Balochistan not to venture out to sea on March 5 and 6 in view of torrential rains and high winds in the......
DHARAMSALA: An Indian group has threatened to dig up the pitch of the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium in Dharamsala to protest Pakistan’s cricket team participation in the World Twenty20......
Being on a gap year with a university offer and wanting to spend my time working towards improving welfare for animals in Pakistan, I signed up for Ayesha Chundrigar Foundation's (ACF) internship......
LAHORE: Malindo Air, which has started its direct flights to Lahore, plans to expand next to Islamabad and Karachi.CEO Chandran Rama Muthy said the airline would also consider increasing its flights......
Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Distingué’, a new entrant to the Oxford DictionaryDistinguéAdjective (feminine distinguée......
World’s freakiest eater?This man scoffs a plate of gravel and sand every day and says he has never been sick. Hans Raj is addicted to the bizarre snacks and says he has been eaten them for over 25......
To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee diesHarper Lee, whose debut novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, immortalised her name with its story of justice and race in a small Southern town and became a......
Ilay down frightened on my bed; my brain was just focused on what had happened to me the day before. Everyone considered it unbelievable, but it actually did happen with me.One Tuesday morning, I had......
When the first kind of Women’s Day was observed on February 28, 1909, in New York — in remembrance of the 1908 strike of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union — women didn’t have the right......
PESHAWAR: With just four months left to the end of the current fiscal, the local government department is struggling to use the much-trumpeted Rs30 billion funds allocated for the local bodies in the......
TIMERGARA: The Lower Dir administration and anti-corruption department on Friday sealed the district food godown at Tarai here after finding substandard wheat supplied from the Bannu......
MANSEHRA: Religious parties on Friday took out rallies throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjoining tribal areas against the execution of Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer.The......
ISLAMABAD: The first ever mayor of Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) Sheikh Anser Aziz and three deputy mayors took oath of their offices on Friday.In a ceremony held at Jinnah Convention......
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi) on Friday informed health authorities that the monetary support for strengthening the routine immunisation of children......
ISLAMABAD: Contrary to fears and apprehensions of the local authorities, protest rallies organised by religious parties and groups against the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri fizzled out on Friday.To ensure......
ISLAMABAD: More than $1.7 billion from Pakistan’s software exports remain outside the country’s foreign exchange reserves every year, said Secretary Ministry of Information Technology (IT) Azmat Ali......
ISLAMABAD: A portrait painting workshop started off at the National Arts Gallery at the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) on Friday.More than 60 students from across the country were taught......
ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed with Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the use of public money on the publicity of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.A local politician, Fayyazul Hassan Chohan, in his......
“My brother Ahsan and I first started selling samosas eight years ago when our father fell ill and could not work alone anymore.In the beginning, we would just help him out every now and then. I......
RAWALPINDI: The garrison city is going to lose its landmark, the centuries-old fountain at Fawara Chowk, as the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has decided to fill the fountain’s pond with......
FAISALABAD: Once the school is over, the compound of the Government Primary School, Chak 422-GB in Tandlianwala, becomes a den of gamblers, addicts and drug pushers.The recent drive to increase......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Police have rescued a nine-year-old girl from being given as Vani, arresting four members of Panchayat and booking 17 people involved in the case at Chak 182/7-R of tehsil......
LAHORE: The president of the Lahore chapter of the PML-N Youth Wing Mohsin Lateef on Friday resigned from his office citing differences on party policies.Secretary-general Sajid Chohan also resigned......
LAHORE: A lawyer affiliated with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has filed a writ petition in the Lahore High Court for cancellation of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s registration with the Election......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly session was prorogued sine die on Friday amid uproar by Muttahida Qaumi Movement legislators over deputy speaker’s rejection of an adjournment motion moved by a colleague......
KARACHI: Although they solved the questions in their answer books in dim classrooms without electricity in hot and humid weather of Karachi, they are still part of some good work expected to lead to......
ANKARA: Changes to Turkey’s constitution envisaged by the ruling AK Party could hand President Tayyip Erdogan new powers to draft legislation directly and pick ministers, senior officials said, moves......
INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Brussels for the EU-India summit on March 30 is good news.The EU and India have much to discuss. There are hopes that Modi will use the long-delayed......
NEW YORK: The United States may have seen an unprecedented anti-Muslim backlash in recent months, but one New York museum has challenged perceptions by teaching children about the wealth and......
LONDON: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch married model Jerry Hall in London on Friday, a family spokesman confirmed, less than two months after they announced their engagement in one of his newspapers, The......
PARIS: World leaders hailed “real progress” in Syria on Friday, but fresh air strikes showed the fragility of the week-old truce and the many obstacles still in the way of peace talks.Warplanes......
LOS ANGELES: Detectives are investigating a knife purportedly found some time ago at the former home of O. J. Simpson, who was acquitted of murder charges in the 1994 stabbings of his ex-wife Nicole......
WASHINGTON: Republican leaders and mainstream voters were watching on Friday for signs that Thursday’s attacks on front-running presidential candidate Donald Trump, one of the most extraordinary days......
MORE people desperately need humanitarian assistance than at any time since the founding of the United Nations. More warring parties are brazenly violating international humanitarian law. More......
BRUSSELS/ISTANBUL: The European Commission set out a timetable on Friday for restoring open borders in Europe by the end of the year as EU leaders cajoled Turkey to act to stop the flow of migrants......
SAO PAULO: Police detained Brazil’s powerful ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for questioning and searched his home on Friday as part of a probe into a huge corruption scheme at state oil......
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced on Friday he has agreed to suspend construction of a controversial US military base on Okinawa, a rare conciliatory step aimed at easing tension......
FUJIMI: Rescue dog Gonta, outfitted with a GPS-enabled backpack but driven by his own innate sense of smell, jumps onto a pile of collapsed rubble to find buried survivors.Though just a drill, the......
DHAKA: Pakistan put their disappointment at not making the Asia Cup final behind them in Dhaka on Friday, with a consolation six-wicket win against Sri Lanka in their final match.Pakistan’s top-order......
MADRID: Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick as Barcelona took another step towards the La Liga title and set a new Spanish football record of 35 games unbeaten in the process with a 5-1 win at nine-man......
BIRMINGHAM: Andy Murray got Great Britain’s Davis Cup defence off to the best possible start with a straight sets win over Japan’s Taro Daniel here on Friday.The world number two put the titleholders......
LAHORE: The local automotive industry continues to play a crucial role in strengthening the national economy and elevating Pakistan’s image as a progressive country with a strong industrial base,......
ISLAMABAD: Germany agreed on Friday to provide €125.7 million ($138.3m) in various sectors including health, energy, and technical and vocational training.A ceremony was held in this regard at the......
KARACHI: Local cement despatches rose 17.49 per cent to 20.89 million tonnes during the first eight months (July-February) of 2015-16 from 17.78m tonnes in the same period last year owing to the......
ISLAMABAD: The Japanese government has provided a grant of $8.9 million to Pakistan through Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) to further strengthen training facilities on power grid......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue on Friday unanimously approved the draft of the Corporate Restructuring Companies Bill 2016.A statement issued by the......
KARACHI: The member states of the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) should enhance productivity and competitiveness, and go for diversification and value-addition of products, said the......
KARACHI: Regardless of the ripples created on the political front, stocks maintained the bullish momentum for the eighth consecutive session, with the KSE-100 index adding 295.16 points on Friday to......
KARACHI: The cotton market on Friday failed to shrug off general lethargy as buyers and sellers stayed away from the trading ring. The undertone remained easy and outlook uncertain.Floor brokers said......
LONDON: Gold held onto the previous session’s 2 per cent gains on Friday as strong underlying investment demand helped prices rebound from a sharp drop in the wake of forecast-beating US payrolls......
BRUSSELS: The European Union is considering making the lowering of trade defences to Chinese imports conditional on China sharply reducing the amount of steel it exports to Europe, an EU official......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) demanded on Friday the formation of a judicial commission to investigate the allegations leveled by former MQM senator and Karachi nazim, Mustafa Kamal,......
ISLAMABAD: Although pain-relief substances and raw materials are produced in enough quantity to cover the global demand, three out of four people in the world have limited or no access to them, the......
ISLAMABAD: Following a month-long controversy, officials of the Ministry of National Health Services finally met on Friday to discuss the around 500 pending applications seeking an increase in drug......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved launching of the ‘Green Pakistan Programme’ whereby over 100 million trees will be planted in the country.The idea, according to a press statement......
PROTEST rallies and sit-ins were held across the country on Friday against the execution of Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, amid scattered attacks on media houses and......
QUETTA: The Balochistan government has claimed that farmers of the province are not being provided agriculture loans by the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) and decided to take up the matter with......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered quick completion of two major hydropower projects that will add about 2,380 megawatts of electricity to the national grid before June next......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) rejected on Friday allegations levelled by former Karachi nazim Mustafa Kamal that former interior minister Rehman Malik used to have secret meetings with......
WASHINGTON: If elected to the White House, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump would keep US troops in Afghanistan to ‘protect’ Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.“I think you have to stay in Afghanistan for......
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad on Friday joined hands with long-standing foes, including the party of the jailed Anwar Ibrahim, to crank up pressure on scandal-plagued Prime......
ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities seized control of a newspaper linked to cleric Fethullah Gulen on Friday, in a widening crackdown against supporters of the US-based foe of President Tayyip......
KARACHI: Three directors of the AKD Securities accused of having been involved in the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution shares’ scam were denied bail on Friday by the Sindh High Court.A......
ADEN (Yemen): Gunmen attacked an old people’s home run by missionaries here on Friday, killing 16 workers including four foreign nuns, officials said.There was no immediate claim of responsibility......
AMSTERDAM: A small chain of Pacific islands will face off against Britain, India and Pakistan in court next week to try and get an international ruling ordering them to start dismantling their......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is scheduled to pay a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia from March 9 for underscoring the importance of the kingdom for Pakistan.The visit has not been officially......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court maintained on Friday a Lahore High Court judgment of sentencing a man to life in prison for killing his daughter in the name of honour in 2005. The man had injured his......
PESHAWAR: Iqbal Zafar Jhagra took oath of the office of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor on Friday at a ceremony marred by sloganeering by rival groups within the PML-N.The ceremony virtually turned into......
While the announcement of a political party by former Karachi nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal surprised Muttahida Qaumi Movement office-bearers, parliamentarians and workers, his outburst against party......
THOSE criticising film-maker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy for ‘damaging Pakistan’s image’ in her Oscar-winning documentary on ‘honour’ killings in Pakistan ought to watch the movie that won the award for......
A relatively dull news day was livened up on Thursday when former Karachi nazim Mustafa Kamal unleashed a salvo of bombastic ‘revelations’ during a news conference upon his return to the city from......
SARTAJ Aziz, adviser to the prime minister on foreign affairs, is no amateur or wide-eyed newcomer to foreign policy. So when Mr Aziz decides to speak frankly to a US think-tank audience about the......
WATCHING the Pakistan team implode is never fun, especially if you are in the company of foreign friends.So when Shahid Afridi’s team was being thrashed by India in the Asia Cup T20 series in......
THREE a.m. starts are always worrying as there is a fear the alarm may not work or you just might end up turning it off without realising and miss your flight.Even though I won’t describe myself as......
For Pakistan’s founders, Urdu was to be the glue cementing together the new country. The pre-partition Muslim League rejected suggestions that English, Hindi, or Hindustani be the official language......
LAHORE: Age old antiques and souvenirs were reported missing from Punjab Assembly's museum after a protest against the provincial government over the execution of Mumtaz Qadri ended on Friday, the......
