RIYADH: Saudi-led air strikes killed 41 civilians and wounded 75 on Tuesday in Yemen's northwestern province of Haja, a senior provincial health official said, a region largely controlled by the......
Skipper Shahid Afridi drew stinging attacks by fans and the local cricketing fraternity for his statement in a recent press conference at the World Twenty20 where he declared his side received was......
ISLAMABAD: Most Pakistanis are becoming resistant to antibiotics by their therapeutic misuse or consuming meat from livestock and poultry raised with the routine use of antibiotics meant to treat......
MUMBAI: With one day to go before his team faces England at the World Twenty20, West Indies captain Darren Sammy is ready to overcome a difficult build-up which has served up doping and selection......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Raheel Sharif on Tuesday confirmed death sentences, awarded by military courts, of another 13 'hardcore terrorists,' said the military's media wing in......
LAHORE: An all-parties conference convened by Jamaat-i-Islami and attended by powerful religious groups asked the government on Tuesday to retract an “un-Islamic” law that gives unprecedented......
NAGPUR: New Zealand’s spinners became unlikely heroes on Tuesday, leading their side to a stunning 47-run victory over favourites India in the World Twenty20 opening group match in Nagpur.The Kiwis......
ISLAMABAD: The Indian government barred five Pakistani diplomats and two of their family members from travelling to Kolkata to watch the upcoming World T20 match between the two neighbouring......
KOLKATA: Pakistan coach Waqar Younis has thrown his weight under-fire skipper Shahid Afridi after 'Boom Boom' said his side received more love in India than back home.“There was a bit of a......
DUSHANBE: Russia and fragile ex-Soviet ally Tajikistan have begun large-scale military drills close to the Central Asian state's restless border with Afghanistan, a Tajik military official confirmed......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution to take steps to declare Holi, Diwali and Easter as holidays for minorities.The resolution was moved by Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani......
WASHINGTON: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said that Indian students can stay in the United States as they are 'smart people' and the US needs them, reported Hindustan Times on......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar while responding to accusations made against the party by dissident Raza Haroon a day earlier said all allegations were made without......
On March 11, news came out that there has been a leak at the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station in Indian state of Gujarat.A press statement put out by the plant operator, the Nuclear Power Corporation of......
KOLKATA: Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar believes Shahid Afridi’s recent statement may turn out to be a stroke of genius that will ensure less hostility towards the Pakistan team when they play......
I was sitting in a coffee shop with a few close friends recently and the lighthearted banter suddenly turned serious when talk turned to the topic of child abuse.I’m not really sure how we ended up......
BERLIN: The founder of Germany's xenophobic and anti-Islam group PEGIDA has been summoned to court on hate speech charges for describing refugees as "cattle" and "scum", a court in Dresden said......
MUMBAI: Controversial batsman Chris Gayle will be looking to ensure the West Indies' troubled build-up to the World T20 becomes a distant memory when they open their campaign against England in......
Brandon Stanton, the man behind the popular photo blog 'Humans of New York' (HONY) Monday wrote an open letter to Republican front-runner Donald Trump, accusing him of encouraging prejudice and......
NAGPUR: Hosts and hot favourites India begin their quest Tuesday to become the first team to win cricket's World T20 twice as they get the group stages under way against bogey team New Zealand.While......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday accepted a writ petition seeking judicial inquiry into the Dec 2014 Army Public School (APS) attack submitted by parents of APS victims.The writ......
DHAKA: Bangladesh's central bank chief resigned on Tuesday, the finance minister said, after hackers stole $81 million from the nation's foreign reserves in an audacious cyber-heist that has hugely......
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered an upcoming nuclear warhead test and multiple ballistic missile launches, escalating Pyongyang's face-off with the international community just days......
Syeda Ghulam Fatima, head of the Bonded Labour Liberation Front (BLLF), is among four finalists nominated for the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, the New York Times reported.The prize, which was......
“They keep asking me the wrong question,” said former president of Ryerson University Sheldon Levy.“Instead of asking how many students got a job six months post-graduation, the government should ask......
PESHAWAR: At least 14 people, women and children among them, were killed and several others were injured in rain-related incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjoining tribal areas on Monday.Six......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra on Monday said the return of the internally displaced persons to Fata was likely to be completed by October this year.“According to the plan,......
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Monday stopped the administration of the Bacha Khan University Charsadda from taking adverse action against the university’s security head, who was recently......
LAHORE: Trained human resource and health infrastructure in Punjab is at its worst, while the government is largely focusing on expanding a ‘network of admin officials’ instead of ensuring healthcare......
LAHORE: Intelligence agencies on Monday released a student of the Punjab University after his links with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) could not be established.Attique Afridi, a student......
LAHORE: A judicial magistrate has declared Mustafa Kanju, son of former state minister Siddique Kanju, a proclaimed offender as he failed to respond to summons in a case of possessing illegal......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Chaudhry Sarwar says his party can never be a part of any alliance between the PML-N and PPP because they are pursuing anti-people policies.Responding to......
SAHIWAL: Sewage, animal dung and garbage have converted the playground of the Government High School at Chak 78/5-R into a filthy pond and a heap of garbage.Sewage has eaten up 50 per cent land of......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to introduce a new land acquisition policy for the development of more sectors.Under the current land acquisition policy, which is being......
ISLAMABAD: An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was told by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to approach the Federal Services Tribunal (FST) to circumvent disciplinary proceedings,......
ISLAMABAD: A petition regarding the retrieval of the body of Chaudhry Rehmat Ali from London was taken up by a justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC), Justice Athar Minallah on Monday.Chaudhry......
ISLAMABAD: I.J. Principal Road caters to daily commuters between Islamabad and Rawalpindi and is used by residents of both cities to get to the fruit and vegetable market in I-11 and to the popular......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Monday informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that since Pakistan had no extradition treaty with the US, it was not possible for the government to bring Aafia......
RAWALPINDI: Leader of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) Aurangzaib Farooqi was released from Adiala jail on Monday night after the anti-terrorism court granted him bail.According to the police, Farooqi......
MURREE: A huge landslide caused by heavy rainfall blocked the Rawalpindi-Murree-Kashmir (RMK) Highway near Lower Dewal on Monday, suspending all kind of traffic on the road.Traffic police in Murree......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama, who completes his final term later this year, assured the world on Monday that the United States would continue to help the countries battling terrorism.In his......
ISLAMABAD: Parliament and democracy owe the women of Pakistan a lot for their struggles against military rule and their sacrifices for strengthening democracy in the country, Senate Chairman Raza......
KARACHI: Three senior officers of the Sindh police on Monday filed a petition in the Supreme Court against newly appointed Inspector General of Police A. D. Khowaja and Additional IG Sanaullah......
KARACHI: Two Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) militants, who were killed on Saturday in an ‘encounter’ in Quaidabad, were planning a suicide attack at Drigh Road railway station to target......
KARACHI: Nearly half a dozen gunmen stormed into a jewellery shop on Tariq Road on Monday afternoon, held inmates hostage at gunpoint and took away gold ornaments, according to the Ferozabad......
KARACHI: When the first Indian astronaut went into space, the then prime minister of India asked him about how India looked from up there. The astronaut replied, ‘Saare jahan se achha Hindustan......
KARACHI: A three-year journey of collaboration between the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) and the Butler School of Music in the University of Texas, Austin, will be celebrated on its......
KARACHI: Two gruesome murder cases in Malir and Metroville — apart from each other by five and a half months to be exact — have perplexed investigators enough to seek help from Urdu- and......
HYDERABAD: The 14-day caravan organised by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) culminated at Jamshoro on Monday after visiting scores of districts of Sindh.A number of fishermen and farmers,......
BAIKONUR: Two robotic spacecraft on Monday began a seven-month journey to Mars as part of a European-Russian unmanned space mission to sniff out leads to life on the Red Planet.Russia’s Proton rocket......
NEW YORK: Rihanna will be honoured at BET’s “Black Girls Rock!” awards.The singer will receive the Rock Star Award at the annual event honouring black women, BET announced on Monday. “Black Girls......
MZUZU: Malawi on Monday burned 2.6 tonnes of ivory smuggled from Tanzania after a cross-border dispute over whether the elephant tusks should be saved as legal evidence against poachers.Tanzania had......
Just before I left Syria last month, a tall and eloquent Franco-Lebanese man walked up to me in a Damascus coffee shop and introduced himself as President Bashar al Assad’s architect. It was his......
BANGKOK: Eight people died and seven were injured when they accidentally triggered a fire extinguisher system inside the vault of a major Thai bank and released a suffocating cloud of chemicals,......
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel stood firm on Monday on her refugee policy, despite a drubbing in regional elections described as a “debacle” in which disgruntled voters turned to the......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka deployed troops on Monday to guard electrical installations as authorities investigated whether sabotage was behind the island’s worst blackout in 20 years.President Maithripala......
BERLIN: The success of the anti-migrant AfD marks a turning point for Germany’s usually stable and consensus-driven politics — the rise of right-wing populists at the expense of old mainstream......
A RECENT San Francisco art show hosted by Google included the typical trappings — a big crowd, striking pieces of art and high prices. But there was one noteworthy distinction of this particular......
INDIAN WELLS: World number one Novak Djokovic survived a stern test from qualifier Bjorn Fratangelo to make the third round of the BNP Paribas Open on Sunday, with Spaniard Rafa Nadal also needing......
KARACHI: Olympian Islahuddin Siddiqui on Monday said that he was really taken aback on hearing Pakistan Hockey Federation’s (PHF) decision of not sending the Pakistan hockey team to England in June......
LONDON: With all their vast wealth and boundless ambition, Manchester City are in the perfect position to at last start punching their weight in Europe this week by reaching the Champions League......
LAHORE: Terming Pakistan Hockey Federation’s decision to skip this year’s Champions Trophy as utterly negative, retired Col Mudassar Asghar insists no country looking to raise a strong team can......
Pakistan walked in with a swagger, played with a swagger, and won their only warm-up game in the World T20 with a swagger at the Eden Gardens on Monday....
NAGPUR: Star batsman Virat Kohli urged his team-mates on Monday to stay calm amid growing fervour about India’s prospects in the World Twenty20, ahead of the host’s tricky tournament opener against......
ISLAMABAD: The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) on Monday confirmed that they are planning to felicitate eight legendary cricketers from India and Pakistan ahead of the big clash between the......
KARACHI: Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s (FPCCI) President Rauf Alam has announced to hold a single country exhibition in Kathmandu, Nepal this year.In a meeting with......
LONDON: Gold steadied on Monday, paring earlier gains as stock markets and the dollar gained, with moves muted ahead of closely watched policy meetings of US and Japanese central banks......
GENEVA: Around 90 per cent of the world’s 67 million domestic workers have no access to social security protection, with migrants left particularly vulnerable, the International Labour Organisation......
KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan Governor Ashraf Mahmood Wartha called on the business community to accelerate the pace of investment to capitalise on the stability that the country......
ISLAMABAD: Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has raised serious objections against the Oil and Gas Development Company Ltd (OGDCL) and observed a significant decline in its sales and profit.According......
ISLAMABAD: Some 2,497 traders filed returns under the Voluntary Tax Scheme until March 14, 2016, contributing a sum of Rs240 million to the national exchequer since the scheme’s inception one-and-a-......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) invited banks on Monday to discuss the progress made on commercial relations with Iran after the lifting of international sanctions on the country.Recently......
ISLAMABAD: Under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme Pakistan’s economy has achieved its targets for economic stability, a report released by the Institute for Policy Reforms (IPR) said......
KARACHI: Taking lead from global equity markets, the local bourse saw a firm start on Monday as the KSE-100 index soared by 210 points in initial trade. However, late selling mainly by institutions......
KARACHI: With a population of 200 million people, Pakistan is a massive and interesting market, said Pierantonio Cantoni, International Business Development Manager at Associazion Italiana Commercio......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan Air Force needs to retire 190 planes from its current fleet by 2020, senior officials told Dawn while commenting on a report that the country was seeking another batch of 10......
QUETTA: A police head constable and a private security guard were killed during a robbery at a bank in Kuchlak area, around 25 kilometres from Quetta, on Monday. At least three other security guards......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz would travel to Nepal for a meeting of the Saarc Council of Ministers on Thursday where on the sidelines he would deliver invites for the (Saarc)......
AHMEDABAD (Hunza): In her home in the remote Hunza valley, Gul Mehreen smiles as she places a tea kettle on the electric stove in her immaculate kitchen.As she makes tea for guests, the former jokes......
ISLAMABAD: As the Supreme Court commences on Tuesday consideration of an urgent request by former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf for granting him one-time permission to go abroad for medical......
ISLAMABAD: Iqbal Zafar Jhagra has taken charge as the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) without formally resigning from the Senate, creating legal complications for the Senate Secretariat as well......
ISLAMABAD: The recovery rate of interest-free loans disbursed to low-income groups has been 100 per cent, according to officials of the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF).They were speaking at......
ISLAMABAD: The PPP may approach the Supreme Court to challenge a Peshawar High Court (PHC) verdict which overturned a decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) about elections held in......
ISLAMABAD: Schemes such as the Benazir Income Support Programme have not only provided stability to 5.2 million women and their families but have also helped in tackling extremism in the country,......
WHEN I first arrive at Gills Shelter Old Age Home, a non-descript white house with matching white oval windows, most of its residents are either resting in their rooms or lounging in the living room......
GENEVA: Talks to end Syria’s civil war opened in Geneva on Monday, but hopes for a breakthrough remained remote with the sides locked in a bitter dispute over the future of President Bashar al......
ISLAMABAD: For the first time the military top brass suggested publicly on Monday that the army was about to conclude the military offensive in tribal areas and held deliberations on the......
ISLAMABAD: The government was put on the back foot yet again in the National Assembly over the proposed restructuring of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).Supported by a government ally, the......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday to address ‘reservations’ of Sarfaraz Merchant who recently claimed that the Muttahida......
WASHINGTON: The White House said presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin discussed Russia's planned military drawdown in Syria on Monday, hours after a shock announcement that signals a new phase......
Nearly a century after the Legal Practitioners’ Act was amended to remove the legal bar on women from practising law, women lawyers and judges in Pakistan have come a long way. However, significant......
MIR ke deen o mazhab ko kya poochhtey ho tum unney to/Qashqa khaincha, dair mein baitha, kab ka tark Islam kiya. (What do you wish to ask about Mir’s religion and his belief/Ensconced in a temple, a......
DEMOCRACY cannot work properly without political parties. Strong democracies all have parties since they help train politicians together for national governance. If cricketers trained separately......
POLICY puzzles are solved solely in the national interest. So be it! As a first step to regain lost dignity we need to follow a foreign policy that promotes a sustained, determined friendship with......
KOLKATA: Pakistan walked in with a swagger, played with a swagger, and won their only warm-up game in the World T20 in clinical fashion at the Eden Gardens on Monday.Brushing aside their dismal......
