DHAKA: Hackers who allegedly infiltrated the Bangladesh central bank were attempting to steal almost $1 billion from an account it held with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, but typos thwarted......
CAIRO: Arab League foreign ministers on Friday declared Lebanon's Shia movement Hezbollah a “terrorist” group, after Gulf monarchies adopted the same stance.Nearly all members of the pan-Arab body......
LONDON: At 12 years old, Shaheen Hashmat left her family home in Scotland to escape the threat of forced marriage to a stranger in Pakistan. At 13, she attempted suicide.Hashmat, who now campaigns......
AHMEDABAD: A reactor at a nuclear plant in western India was shut down on Friday after a water leak was discovered, officials said, stressing that workers had not been exposed to radiation.No......
NEW YORK: Former president and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said former petroleum minister and his close aide, Dr Asim Hussain, who is facing legal action on charges of......
Pakistan came into being in August 1947. It was the result of a movement in British India for the creation of a separate Muslim-majority state.The movement was navigated by lawyer and politician,......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Friday passed a bill that criminalises for the first time sexual assault against minors, child pornography and trafficking.The amendment to the penal code, which will go into......
PARIS: The awarding of France's top honour to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, which sparked a storm of criticism, was done at the royal's request, a French magazine reported this......
PARIS: Rocked by Maria Sharapova's failed drugs test confession and the sun threatening to set on a golden generation, tennis faces huge challenges to maintain its impressive global profile.But......
MUMBAI: Sri Lanka and Pakistan must overcome batting inconsistency if they are to leave India with a second World Twenty20 title, with both sides coming into the tournament on the back of uninspiring......
DHARAMSALA: The Netherlands were knocked out of the World Twenty20 Friday after their match against Oman was abandoned due to rain in Dharamsala.The Dutch, who shared a point with Oman in the......
QUETTA: At least 13 people lost their lives while many others were injured as heavy rains lashed Quetta and other parts of Balochistan province on Friday.Five people, including three minor girls were......
LIVERPOOL: Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal said his team had been simply overwhelmed by Liverpool's high pressing during their one-sided 2-0 Europa League defeat at a raucous Anfield.Daniel......
PESHAWAR: A Lieutenant Colonel of the Pakistan Army was shot dead when unknown assailants targeted him near Ring Road in Peshawar's Hayatabad area on Friday.SP Peshawar Cantt Kashif Zulfiqar told......
KARACHI/LAHORE: After getting a green signal from the government, Pakistan cricket team on Friday night flew to India via United Arab Emirates to take part in the ICC World T20 tournament.Pakistan is......
MIAMI: United States Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump came under fire from his rivals on Thursday for saying Muslims hate the US at a debate where the gut-punching attacks of earlier......
Dear girl from Pakistan, I know it has taken me 69 long years but I hope it is not too late for me to say, Forget about what’s in the news, Tell me, how was your day?Lyrical and intense, Delhi-based......
JALESWAR: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party has vowed to disenfranchise millions of Muslim immigrants in a volatile frontier state, waging a polarising election campaign......
WASHINGTON: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau brought 'Trudeaumania' to America on Thursday and the verdict was a resounding thumbs-up."Breath of fresh air", "impressive" and "very impressive"......
KARACHI: A power breakdown hit more than half the city on Friday morning after light showers were reported in different parts of the metropolis.The fault occurred at 7.05 am due to tripping in an......
PESHAWAR: In a setback to the women’s rights groups, the Peshawar High Court on Thursday set aside a judgment of the Election Commission of Pakistan to cancel the by-elections in a Lower Dir......
PESHAWAR: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Thursday admitted for full hearing a writ petition filed against presence of a large number of rats in the provincial capital and sought......
PESHAWAR: Local traders and politicians on Thursday demanded deployment of Rangers in Peshawar to the public life and property.They warned the people would agitate if the government didn’t check the......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court is expected to take up on Tuesday, March 15 an urgent application by former president retired General Pervez Musharraf, seeking one-time permission to proceed abroad for......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) is considering establishing a cancer hospital in the federal capital.Minister for NHS Saira Afzal Tarar informed the Senate that currently......
ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia announced on Thursday that it will provide $122 million in financial assistance to Pakistan for development projects in various fields.The financing would comprise five grants......
AS Basra Bibi sits in the courtyard of the Edhi Home, tears constantly well up and her eyes are red and swollen — but she is quiet. Pain is evident in her face as she watches her five-year-old son......
QUETTA / LAHORE: Heavy rain, which has been lashing Quetta and other parts of Balochistan for the past several days, paralysed life in the province on Thursday.The link between several district......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) on Thursday held a seminar to highlight the various challenges facing women in creative fields.The event was held in connection with the......
Conference on Islamic CharityThe International Conference on Islamic Charity and Social Development concluded at the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU).The two-day event was organised by the Department of......
ISLAMABAD: The Satrang Gallery inaugurated an exhibition on Thursday, titled ‘Sharing the Same Sky,’ featuring printmakers from three countries who had participated in the Zaira Zaka Residencies......
ISLAMABAD: Scores of students belonging to the National Student Federation on Thursday staged a protest demonstration against what they said hate material in the Sociology of Pakistan book being......
LAHORE: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari reached here from Karachi on Thursday to meet Shahbaz Taseer who was rescued over four years after his abduction in 2011.Bilawal who is also a close friend......
LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau deputy chairman Muhammad Imtiaz Tajwar said on Thursday the anti-corruption watchdog would not betray the trust of the people and continue the process of......
SARGODHA: In a symbolic move, a large mirror has been installed at the main entrance to the sessions court and District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Abdul Nasir described it as a “self-accountability......
LAHORE: The 9th edition of PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2016 organised by the Pakistan Fashion Design Council spearheaded by Sehyr Saigol kicked off at the Expo Centre with emerging and......
FAISALABAD: Dozens of women of powerloom workers forced into the DCO office on Thursday and chanted slogans against the district administration for not forcing the weaving factories in Sidhar to......
MULTAN: Former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani says the security of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is the responsibility of the administration particularly the provincial government where......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Thursday launched a clean-up drive across the city with its senior leaders accusing the government of hindering the opposition party’s initiative in an......
KARACHI: A number of lady health workers (LHW) on Thursday staged a sit-in near CM House against the non-payment of salaries and other dues, causing a traffic jam on Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Road and other......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out an application of the Sindh police chief asking Justice Amir Hani Muslim to recuse himself from continuing to hear the proceedings regarding......
KARACHI: The Sindh health ministry on Thursday confirmed that an 18-month-old girl in Jacobabad was inflicted with the crippling poliovirus a month after this year’s first polio case had been found......
KARACHI: The music fraternity shared its views on distinguished composer Robin Ghosh at a condolence reference held in his honour at the Arts Council on Thursday evening. Ghosh passed away on Feb 13......
HYDERABAD: To save kidneys, experts have advised taking pure water, adopting healthy life style and consuming hygienic food.Around 1.2 million people of the country were suffering from various......
MITHI: Prem Shivani, who served as Dawn’s correspondent for Tharparkar district for more than 15 years, passed away here on Thursday evening after a long illness.He was around 70.Mr Shivani started......
JODHPUR: Bollywood superstar Salman Khan on Thursday pleaded not guilty in a long-standing case that alleges he used unlicensed arms to shoot antelopes in western India, saying he was framed.The......
BOSSIER CITY: A thousand people were forced to leave their homes early on Thursday as a second round of unusually heavy rain hit an already inundated northern Louisiana. The southern part of the......
TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday said Japan “cannot do without” nuclear power, speaking on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the devastating Fukushima disaster.On March 11, 2011, a......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Mr Staffan de Mistura, has said that peace talks on Syria will begin in Geneva on Monday.Talking to reporters on Tuesday, he said that......
WASHINGTON: The United States and Canada agreed joint steps on Thursday to fight climate change, including cutting methane emissions from oil and gas operations and signing last year’s Paris climate......
TEHRAN: Iranian women deputies have decided to sue a conservative legislator after he said in a video that parliament was no place for “donkeys and women”.Nader Ghazipour’s comments during an......
DHAKA: Hardline Islamist groups in Bangladesh on Thursday threatened large-scale protests if a court moves to scrap Islam as the official state religion of the Muslim-majority nation.Bangladesh is......
CAPE TOWN: A South African woman was convicted on Thursday of kidnapping a newborn baby and raising her for 17 years before an astonishing coincidence reunited the girl with her biological......
BRUSSELS: For the second time since Europe’s migration crisis began last year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stunned her European Union partners by staking her political capital on a unilateral......
HE was the tallest, oldest, least famous, most nattily dressed man in a recording studio herding four younger, wilder and more famous men towards greatness and into the realms of legend beyond. But......
INDIAN WELLS: Rafael Nadal on Wednesday defended his training methods and vehemently denied he had ever used a banned substance to get an edge or to speed up recovery from injury.“I have never had......
MIAMI: The United States came from behind to defeat Germany 2-1 and win the inaugural She Believes Cup on Wednesday in a repeat of last year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup semi-final battle.Alex Morgan and......
LAHORE: Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Shaharyar Khan on Thursday while reiterating his demand of security assurance for Pakistan teams before they embark upon the World T20 campaign......
CAPE TOWN: South Africa coach Russell Domingo has vowed his side won’t play ‘fancy’ cricket in their search for an elusive ICC trophy as they depart for the World Twenty20 in India on Thursday in......
NEW DELHI: ICC World Twenty20 tournament organisers said on Wednesday they will carry out random dope tests, following a series of drug scandals that have blighted the sports world including Maria......
CAPE TOWN: Australia gained a confidence boost ahead of the World Twenty20 with an impressive run chase to defeat South Africa by six wickets in the third and final Twenty20 International at Newlands......
NAGPUR: Sean Williams stroked a brisk fifty before the bowlers ensured a second straight win for Zimbabwe after beating Scotland by 11 runs in the World Twenty20 group encounter here on......
CAPE TOWN: In-form Australia batsman Usman Khawaja expects to be squeezed out of the top order in favour of former captain Aaron Finch when they kick off their World Twenty20 campaign against New......
BIRMINGHAM: Lin Dan, twice an Olympic men’s singles gold medallist, pulled the overdrive gear to escape from danger and accelerate into the quarter-finals of the All-England Open championships on......
INDIAN WELLS: Qualifiers Laura Siegemund of Germany and Kurumi Nara of Japan set up matches against the Williams sisters with first-round victories in the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday.On Friday,......
PARIS: Zlatan Ibrahimovic demonstrated his enduring attacking threat on Wednesday when he scored one and created another as Paris St Germain beat Chelsea 2-1 to knock them out of the Champions League......
KARACHI: Remittances from overseas Pakistanis rose six per cent to $12.7 billion from $11.986bn during the first eight months (July-February) of this fiscal year, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has proposed 10 per cent regulatory duty on import of iron and steel products estimating revenue generation of Rs1.7 billion during the remaining few......
KARACHI: Car sales jumped 38 per cent in the first eight months (July-February) of this fiscal year to 121,934 units from 88,538 a year earlier, the Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court dismissed the application of Cargill Holdings Ltd (CHL) and vindicated Privatisation Commission’s decisions in the transaction of Heavy Electrical Complex......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) issued guidelines for non-life insurance companies on methodology for estimation of ‘Incurred But Not Reported’ (IBNR) claims.IBNR......
KARACHI: Minister for Commerce Khurram Dastgir Khan said on Thursday exports of Pakistani readymade garments have increased in the international market.Speaking to the media after inaugurating the......
KARACHI: Investors continued to book profits on Thursday, pulling the KSE-100 index down by 247.42 points (0.75 per cent) to close at 32,710.56.Most market participants thought that nervous investors......
KARACHI: Shell Pakistan Ltd posted a profit-after-tax of Rs911 million for the year ended Dec 31, 2015 from an after-tax-loss of Rs1.07 billion it suffered in the previous year.The company board on......
FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank on Thursday fired off a new volley of shots in its ongoing battle to avert deflation in the euro area and jumpstart economic recovery in the region.The ECB......
LONDON: Gold rose by one per cent on Thursday as the euro bounced back from a six-week low against the dollar.That sent spot gold to a low of $1,237.06 an ounce, but by 1501 GMT it had jumped back to......
KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $20.522 billion during the week ending March 4 compared to $20.352bn the previous week, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on......
MUMBAI: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) may cut 2016 global growth forecasts again in the coming weeks, according to a senior IMF official who on Thursday called on policymakers to take......
WASHINGTON: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Thursday blasted currency devaluations around the world for hurting the US economy and costing American jobs, and defended his calls for......
ISLAMABAD: The Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, informed the Senate on Thursday that his ministry had sent a summary to the Economic Coordination Committee of the......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) would launch a project this year aimed at strengthening Pakistan’s border security to curb illicit drug trafficking and transnational......
WASHINGTON: Top US generals told a congressional panel on Thursday that restricting military aid to Pakistan could hurt critical US interests.In their statements before the Senate Armed Services......
KARACHI: As Turkey and the European Union reached a 3.3-billion-euro agreement to regulate the ongoing flow of refugees this week, the crisis poses a completely different challenge in Europe. There......
MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) Chief Election Commissioner Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal has announced that Army and Rangers will be deployed to maintain law and order during the......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office welcomed on Thursday the inclusion of Kashmir issue in the Pak-US Strategic Dialogue statement as a major success.“The Jammu and Kashmir dispute is one of the oldest......
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) ordered on Thursday special audit of the accounts of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) from 2008-2016.The committee directed the audit authorities......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has said that the use of veto in the UN Security Council prevented a resolution of the longstanding dispute of Kashmir and hindered implementation of UN resolutions on the......
GENEVA: China strongly rejected US-led criticism of its human rights record at the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday, saying the United States was hypocritical and guilty of crimes including the......
BISHKEK: “There is no need to deploy United Nations peacekeeping forces along the Pak-Afghan border, because the security forces of both countries are doing their job,” a top official from the United......
ANKARA: At least five migrants, including a baby, drowned as they tried to sail from Turkey to Greece, the Dogan news agency reported on Thursday.The raft which was transporting Afghan and Iranian......
NAYPYITAW: Myanmar’s National League for Democracy (NLD) proposed a close friend of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as its presidential candidate on Thursday, ending a four-month wait for the......
HAFAR UL BATIN (Saudi Arabia): Warplanes roared overhead, tanks rumbled across the desert and smoke filled the sky on Thursday for the final day of what Saudi Arabia billed as the region’s......
WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Thursday rejected by two-thirds vote a resolution to block the proposed sale of eight F-16 aircraft to Pakistan.In a house of 100, 71 Senators voted to reject the......
THE Punjab Civilian Victims of Terrorism (Relief and Rehabilitation) Ordinance 2016, which was promulgated on March 7, seeks to evolve a system for providing assistance to civilians hit by......
A NUMBER of residents living on our street in New Garden Town, a part of the city that is under the Lahore Development Authority and not under any private colony, society or authority, have gotten......
HOW the basic questions have ceased to be. There was once a time when any crime involving firearms would be linked to the availability of weapons in the area and their supply line. The severing of......
A RECENTLY passed bill by the Punjab Assembly to curb the prevalent violence against women drew an immediate and venomous response from many religious quarters. A well-known political figure......
THE astonishing ‘return of the prodigal son’ drama that unfolded last week in Karachi when former mayor Mustafa Kamal ‘revealed’ the foreign sponsors of Altaf Hussain and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement......
RIYADH: Warplanes roared overhead, tanks rumbled across the desert and smoke filled the sky Thursday for the final day of what Saudi Arabia billed as the region's biggest-ever military exercises.The......
