MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he was instructing his armed forces to start pulling out of Syria, over five months after he ordered the launch of a military operation that......
RIYADH: A senior Saudi royal has criticised President Barack Obama for comments accusing the longtime US ally of feeding Middle East conflicts.Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, has long......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Monday emphasised the “need to consolidate long-term gains” as the military moves towards the conclusion of a large-scale kinetic operation in......
NAGPUR: New Zealand is wary of the threat Indian spinners could pose for its batsmen in the World Twenty20 Super 10 opener, captain Kane Williamson said on Monday.The World T20 qualifying games saw......
ANKARA: Turkish warplanes pounded Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq Monday, the day after a suicide car bomb tore through downtown Ankara killing at least 36 people, the third attack on the......
We have been reassured that not all Taliban are the same, which is true. One endangers our children, and the other threatens someone else’s.One fully expects Mr Hamza Ali Abbasi’s social and......
KARACHI: Former Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal managed to rope Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) heavyweight Raza Haroon into his yet-unnamed party on Monday."We are focused on the work we intend to do.......
ZANGIABAD: A captured Taliban rifle dangling at his side, commander Sultan Mohammed swaggers through a bomb-cratered district that was once a hornet's nest of insurgents, symbolising a rare Afghan......
DHARAMSALA: Tamim Iqbal's maiden Twenty20 century helped Bangladesh storm into the World T20 Super 10s with a resounding 54-run win against Oman via the Duckworth/Lewis method in the last qualifier......
DHAKA: Thousands of Bangladeshi villagers clashed on Monday with members of a religious group, leaving two dead people and scores injured, an official said.Villagers rallied in the southern coastal......
KARACHI: Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday directed the police to register a First Information Report (FIR) against unknown Rangers personnel in case related to a missing Muttahida Qaumi Movement......
After enabling live traffic updates last year, Google has introduced voice-guided navigation for major cities of Pakistan, reported ProPakistani.pk....
WELLINGTON: Iran's foreign minister has defended the nation's right to use ballistic missiles following a test last week, but offered no explanation for anti-Israeli messages reportedly written on......
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump's gladiator-style politics may have finally caught up with him, as the Republican's rivals accuse him of turning the White House race into a violent circus and analysts warn......
MUZAFFARABAD: A teenage girl was gang-raped and later poisoned by a group of men in a village here, police said Monday."Six men kidnapped the 18-year-old survivor and took her to a deserted area in......
Pakistan ranks as the third most dangerous country for women to live in.Why?Consider this:Every day in Punjab, at least six women are murdered or face a murder attempt; at least eight women are......
NAGPUR: Virat Kohli initially tried tinkering with his approach to shot-making for T20, thinking he needed to be more innovative to score runs in the shortest format in cricket.It turns out, what......
NAGPUR: Tournament favourites India face an awkward first assignment in their World T20 campaign in Nagpur Tuesday against a big-hitting New Zealand team who are determined to show there is life......
The best news coming out of Pakistan last week was about the recovery on Tuesday of Shahbaz Taseer, the abducted son of slain Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer. The businessman, in his early 30s, had......
NEW DELHI: An Indian student from the lowest Dalit caste was hacked to death and his wife critically injured in southern India in a suspected “honour killing” by relatives angered by their marriage,......
DUBAI: A United Arab Emirates fighter plane taking part in Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen is missing, the UAE armed forces said in a statement on state news agency WAM on Monday without giving......
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told an audience in Washington that he has more Sikhs in his Cabinet than Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Hindustan Times reported on Monday.Trudeau, made......
PESHAWAR: Seven people were killed and at least 39 others injured in rain-related incidents in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tribal areas as heavy rain continued to its take toll on properties on......
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami will table a resolution in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly for the release of Dr Afia Siddiqui from an American prison. She is jailed for trying to murder US soldiers in......
PESHAWAR: The provincial government has failed to purchase land for a dumping site to scientifically dispose of over 800 tonnes garbage, daily collected from urban areas of the provincial......
After prominent filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy won another Oscar award on Feb 28 for her documentary “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness”, the issue of honour-related violences is once......
PESHAWAR: Scores of highly qualified specialists from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, working abroad, are likely to join Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar within a month, according to officials.“More than 50......
MINGORA: A number of civil society activists in Swat on Sunday marked the death anniversary of the renowned social worker, Parveen Rehman, who was murdered near her office in Orangi Town, Karachi, on......
GHALANAI: Mohmand Agency Political Agent Mehmood Aslam Wazir has said every effort will be made to administer polio vaccine to each child in the region during the anti-polio campaign starting today......
In a move that is bound to demoralise the highly professional police command, the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has asked the federal interior minister to provide Rangers for Peshawar’s......
CONSTRUCTION for the Punjab government’s Orange Line metro train project continues relatively unhindered. A recent report in the news states nearly 70pc of the land needed for its route stands......
Heads of state do not typically flock to oversee military exercises in which their country’s troops are participating. But war games in Saudi Arabia are clearly an exception.Our prime minister and......
BEHIND the scenes, an issue has been building up amongst the cadres of the Lady Health Workers, a programme instituted many years ago to cater to the hitherto unmet health needs of rural populations......
ISLAMABAD: Ahmed Khan, 30, is a daily-wager who turns up to Raja Bazaar every morning to look for work. But Sunday was the third consecutive day that he couldn’t find anything.Ahmed works at......
RAWALPINDI: No matter which kind of doughnuts you like, Rawalpindi has them all. The soft, fluffy, fried dough confectionery makes for an interesting addition to the breakfast table and is a good......
GUJAR KHAN: A woman and her two children died when the roof of her house collapsed on Saturday night while another member of the family was injured.According to locals, an iron girder on the roof of......
ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Indian political and social activists have emphasised the need to promote peace and development through public diplomacy, dialogue and mutual understanding.“We require......
ISLAMABAD: As the meteorological fallout from El Nino continues to affect the region, experts have warned that the coming summer could bring even more freak weather phenomenon, such as extreme......
ISLAMABAD: An exhibition celebrating spring and the Basant festival disarmed visitors by the artist’s use of colour. The exhibition was held this Saturday at the Nomad Gallery.It featured two dozen......
MURREE: Influential people are continuing illegal construction activities along the Islamabad-Murree dual carriageway in violation of the National Highway Authority (NHA) rules allegedly in......
LAHORE: High street fashion, prêt and voile shows marked the last two days of the four-day PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2016 which concluded on Sunday.The afternoon show on Day Three was......
While Karachi remains beset with political turmoil courtesy the return of the prodigal son – at least in an adoptive sense: in Lahore the provincial government faces it own demons. The recently......
Painter, town planner and art curator Muhammad Javed has a prominent place in the art scene of Lahore.Painting for more than three decades, he encouraged and groomed young artists and provided them......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: The Jashan-i-Baharan (spring festival) concluded in Sheikh Khalifa Sports Complex near Abu Dhabi Palace here on Sunday.The results for the flower show contest were announced on the......
SIALKOT: Students of the Government Aysha Girls High School, Pasrur, have to walk through the mud to reach their school which is surrounded by stinking sewage and stagnant rainwater.More than 1,600......
LAHORE: The National Action Plan (NAP) has brought about a little bit relief to the nation as the country has witnessed overall decline in heinous offences, particularly the crime against persons,......
LAHORE: A newborn girl, who was taken away from Jinnah Hospital about a fortnight ago, was left outside the labour room of the infirmary by the kidnapper woman on Sunday.An unidentified woman had......
LAHORE: Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif must have prepared his successors to ensure continuity of his policies after his retirement on due date, says S.M. Zafar.“Martial laws were the result of......
KARACHI: With the next hearing in the Parveen Rehman murder case set for March 16 in the Supreme Court, advocate in the case Faisal Siddiqi has said “criminal negligence of the Sindh government” in......
THOUGH he had penned over 50 books, Ehsan Danish had to work as a labourer, ink-man (at a printing press), cook, peon, mason, watchman, gardener, carpet-weaver and helper at a bookshop. In later......
KARACHI: Hindu temples near rivers or the sea have a special religious significance attached to them. So does the Varun Dev temple at Manora, which is said to look out for the safety of fishermen at......
HYDERABAD: Growers from lower parts of Sindh have expressed grave concern over deteriorating condition of the agriculture sector which is on the brink of destruction due to inattention of the federal......
LARKANA: The ‘Sixth Larkano History Conference’ was held under the aegis of the Larkano District Historical Society (LDHS) at the Govt Girls Higher Secondary School here on Sunday.It was presided......
SUKKUR: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said the over 12,000 files taken away by investigating agencies personnel in raids on the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and revenue......
KARACHI: Two Rangers checkpoints in Essa Nagri and Gulshan-i-Iqbal were attacked with improvised explosive devices lobbed by motorcyclists on Sunday morning, prompting the Rangers to blame the......
KARACHI: Three Muttahida Qaumi Movement dissidents, including former Karachi nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal, met a senior official of the Federal Investigation Agency on Sunday and sought time to consider......
KARACHI: In the corridors of power, countries and their leaders aim to strengthen ties with multi-faceted objectives which include economic, social and cultural growth. Though their influence does......
BEIRUT: The Syrian conflict has had outsized impact on global politics. Five ways the world has changed:1. Rise of ISIt was in the vacuum of the deteriorating Syria conflict that a little-known......
FOR years, when I wanted to follow current events in Turkey, I went to the Today Zaman website. This is the English-language sister publication of Zaman, the country’s most popular daily that was......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia goes to notorious lengths to prevent unsanctioned romance. So citizens of this conservative kingdom are increasingly turning to social media networks to pursue relationships and......
RABAT: Tens of thousands of Moroccans marched though the capital Rabat on Sunday to protest against UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s position on the Western Sahara dispute and rally support for the......
GRAND BASSAM: At least five people were killed on Sunday when heavily-armed gunmen opened fire in the Ivory Coast resort town of Grand-Bassam, leaving bodies strewn on the beach.“At the moment there......
PARIS: US Secretary of State John Kerry has called for the resumption of Syria peace talks on Monday in Geneva following a meeting with France’s new foreign minister and other senior European......
It is a critical moment for the airline industry. Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer, has warned that 558,000 commercial pilots will be needed globally by 2034 to meet a surge in demand for air......
PAKISTAN has achieved an average growth rate of over 5pc since its inception. After peaking at 8pc, the economic expansion rate has dipped to below 3pc in recent years.There are many socio-economic......
SINDH seems determined to pursue a regressive provincial taxation policy with 91.9pc of its tax revenues collected through indirect taxes. Bulk of it — Rs61bn — comes from sales tax on services.An......
SINDH was once known as the graveyard of lingering rural development projects spread all over the countryside. These ill-conceived and badly-funded schemes were kept alive year after year in oxygen......
Fodder production and marketing in Punjab is heading towards a deep crisis. Farmers and researchers, who gathered last week in the provincial capital, stated that fodder acreage is being lost to......
SOME new varieties of onion have been developed and introduced in remote parts of northern areas with the support of a foreign development agency under a project aimed at making local farmers......
Female coders are ‘more competent’ than males, according to a new study of 1.4m computer programmers on GitHub led by Josh Terrell at California Polytechnic State University. An analysis of users’......
Winning a competition makes people more likely to later behave dishonestly, according to a study by Amos Schurr at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Ilana Ritov at the Hebrew University of......
An analysis from Project: Time Off found that going on vacation might actually pay off for workers. According to research from the US-based initiative, American workers who use all of their allotted......
Rain on a presidential election day decreases voter turnout not only in the current election but also during future elections, suggesting that voting today is associated with voting in the future,......
In a survey of nearly 3,500 employees in the US, the UK, Canada, Germany and India, a majority said that innovation is everybody’s responsibility. However, not everyone receives the resources they......
FranceFRANCE’S economy is the fifth largest in the world and the second largest in the eurozone. Its services sector contributes over 70pc of GDP. The country is also one of the global leaders in the......
IN recent months, global investors have been wooed furiously by top government leaders, both at the centre and in the state, urging them to set up manufacturing facilities or other businesses.State......
WHEN Ross Johnson was chief executive of RJR Nabisco, the tobacco-to-biscuits conglomerate, in the 1980s, he sent Rocco, his pet dog, on a 2,000-mile flight aboard the company jet.According to the......
At 6pc, Pakistan’s key policy interest rate is the lowest in recent memory. In the case of subdued inflation, the policy rate represents large transfer of wealth from the country’s largest borrower —......
The power tariff’s monthly fuel price adjustment regime introduced in 2009 to pass through the impact of variation in generation mix and international oil prices to consumers is turning out to be a......
MANY oil companies in Pakistan are looking at cost-cutting options to maintain their health without scaling down oil and gas exploration operations, expecting high returns that a growing economy......
The rupee traded firm against the dollar in the local currency market, moving in narrow band last week. Though demand for dollar existed, sustained selling of dollars by banks and exporters in view......
THE varying levels of economic development across the country, skewed income distribution, and lack of enough banks’ focus on inclusive finance has led to an uneven geographical pattern of credit......
NEPAL plans to ask China to provide duty-free access to around 400 new products with export potential during Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli’s visit to Beijing scheduled to start on March 20.Nepali......
The State Bank of Pakistan in its open market operation on March 10 mopped up Rs61.550bn in a one-day contract. The amount was accepted at a rate of return of 5.84pc.The amount offered was......
Helped by fast-increasing public investment in large energy, transport and road infrastructure projects, and growing private construction activity across Punjab, Mughal Iron and Steel Industries......
KOLKATA: Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi on Sunday, while brushing off concerns over security for his team at the World T20, said he was looking forward to playing in front of India’s raucous......
NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar says the “sound” that came off skipper M.S. Dhoni’s bat during the recent Asia Cup was a reflection of his positive mindset and it was a good news for already “favourites”......
DHARAMSHALA: Paul van Meekeren bagged four wickets to help Netherlands notch up a consolation 12-run win via Duckworth/Lewis method in their final match of the World T20 in Dharamshala on......
DHARAMSHALA: Opener Tamim Iqbal on Sunday became the first Bangladeshi to score a century in Twenty20 internationals during his side’s World T20 qualifier against Oman in Dharamsala.The left-handed......
KOLKATA: The West Indies defeated Australia by three wickets with just one ball remaining in a thrilling finish to their World Twenty20 warm-up at the Eden Gardens on Sunday.Australia scored 161-9......
The year 2016 will go into the annals of the game as a disgraceful year as far as Pakistan hockey is concerned with the Greenshirts’ absence from two prestigious events — the Champions Trophy and the......
TROYES: Four stunning goals from Zlatan Ibrahimovic spurred Paris St Germain to their fourth successive Ligue 1 title in style, pulverising Troyes 9-0 on Sunday to become champions with a record......
BERLIN: Thomas Mueller and Thiago Alcantara both netted twice as Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich warmed up for their crunch Champions League clash at home to Juventus by blitzing Werder Bremen 5-0......
LONDON: Arsenal’s bid to win the FA Cup for a third successive year ended on Sunday when they lost 2-1 at home to Watford in a pulsating quarter-final tie.The defeat ended the holders’ hopes of......
MILAN: AS Roma maintained their bid for a Champions League spot with a 2-1 win at Udinese in Serie A on Sunday but Fiorentina’s hopes were dealt a blow as it was held to a 1-1 draw by bottom club......
BARCELONA: Lionel Messi scored and provided three assists as Barcelona equalled a club record of 12 consecutive La Liga wins by thrashing struggling Getafe 6-0 at the Nou Camp on Saturday.The only......
INDIAN WELLS: Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber dropped out of the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday and two other top-seeded women also exited in the second round at the Indian Wells Tennis......
KARACHI: Three outsiders, including a back-to-back double by rider M. Manzoor, upset the applecart as unknown pedigree horses reigned supreme in the Gymkhana race meeting at the Karachi Racecourse on......
GWADAR: A delegation of the Command and Staff College Quetta comprising under-training army officers visited the port city of Gwadar on Sunday.Members of the delegation, which also included army......
KARACHI: At the launch of journalist Muhammad Ali Siddiqi’s book, From Religion to Fascism: Memoirs of a Journalist, a wide cross-section of society was in attendance, ranging from opinion-builders,......
ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that new global realities have posed new challenges to mankind and are beyond the capacity of any single state or a single political party to......
QUETTA: A deputy director of the Workers Welfare Board has been arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on charges of corruption and misappropriation in scholarship funds.According to a......
LONDON: The Lal Masjid’s Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi has been heavily featured in a documentary that has premiered in London. Filmed over a five-year period in which Aziz and his students gave extended......
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The government of Punjab has ordered an inquiry into the publication of offensive content in a sociology textbook, even after the publisher tendered a public apology on Sunday.The......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Secretary Saifullah Chattah said on Sunday that the government would launch Prime Minister’s National Health Programme in the province later this month.Speaking at a meeting......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: Former finance minister of Balochistan Mir Asim Kurd said on Sunday that the recently completed projects of dams and barrages were helpful in boosting the agriculture sector in......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court will commence hearing 10 appeals instituted against military court convictions of militants from Wednesday.The appeals will be taken up by a five-judge larger bench,......
RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA: Tens of thousands of protestors poured onto the streets of major cities on Sunday to demand the removal of President Dilma Rousseff amid Brazil’s worst political and economic......
ISLAMABAD: Criticism from opposition parties notwithstanding, the government has decided to use its majority in the National Assembly for the passage of a controversial bill, which will turn Pakistan......
LAHORE: With the Punjab University suspending 29 students from various departments for their alleged involvement in violence on its campus last month, the intelligence agencies have taken into......
KUALA LUMPUR: Two Australian journalists were detained briefly and barred from leaving Malaysia after they tried to “aggressively” question Prime Minister Najib Razak about a corruption scandal,......
NEW DELHI: After frequent allegations of incursions in Ladakh area, Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops have been spotted at forward posts along the Line of Control (LoC) on the Pakistani......
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump blamed on Sunday Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of instructing his supporters to disrupt his rallies, and appeared to threaten to respond in kind.Refusing......
KALAYA/SHANGLA: An explosion in a coalmine in Doli area of the Orakzai tribal region on Saturday night claimed eight lives, it emerged on Sunday.Orakzai Political Agent Mohammad Zubair told......
ANKARA: A car bomb ripped through a busy square in central Ankara on Sunday, killing 34 people and wounding 125, officials said, the latest in a spate of attacks to hit Turkey.Ambulances rushed to......
ALLEGATIONS of illegal appointments, misallocations of police funds, a tug of war between the courts and the Sindh government, a new provincial police chief installed by the federal government to......
THE passage of almost three decades has provided ample time for this country to recognise the disservices done to it by the Zia dictatorship.As such, it is unfortunate that even now, in ways big and......
GRAND BASSAM: Heavily-armed gunmen went on a shooting rampage in the Ivory Coast resort of Grand-Bassam on Sunday, killing at 16 people and leaving bodies strewn on the beach in the first attack of......
