ISLAMABAD: Around 2,000 people protesting the execution of Mumtaz Qadri — a former Punjab police commando hanged last month for assassinating Punjab governor Salman Taseer — are staging a sit-in at......
LAHORE: At least 72 people were killed in a suicide blast that took place in Lahore's crowded Gulshan-i-Iqbal park on Sunday evening, police confirmed on Monday. At least 300 others were......
NAGPUR: Afghanistan skipper Asghar Stanikzai hailed his underdog side after their historic six-run victory over the powerful West Indies at the World Twenty20 match in Nagpur on Sunday.Afghanistan......
Former Pakistan cricket great and chief of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Imran Khan, on Sunday blamed “political pressure” and “cronyism” for the international team’s consistent poor performances.In an......
WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders easily won nominating contests in Alaska and Washington on Saturday, chipping away at front-runner Hillary Clinton's commanding lead in......
The Indian cricket board won't leave anything to chance when it comes to controlling ‘cricketing elements’ so the host team qualifies for the World T20 semi-finals, a Hindustan Times report said on......
QUETTA: Interrogation of the arrested Indian intelligence operative Kulbhushan Yadav revealed he had been imparting Naval fighting training to Baloch separatists in an attempt to target Pakistani......
LONDON: A day after a man believed to be an Ahmadi shopkeeper was killed in Glasgow, police arrested a Muslim man in connection with the murder.Asad Shah, 40, was killed on Thursday night after he......
RIYADH: Saudi authorities executed a Pakistani convicted of killing a Bangladeshi woman on Sunday, raising to 79 the number of death sentences they have carried out this year.Elias Ismail was found......
There's something magical about seeing the ground below from a great height.For our #DawnWeeklyProject, we asked photographers on Instagram to send us aerial shots from all over Pakistan.Here's a......
ISLAMABAD: A five-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the Pathankot air base attack arrived in New Delhi on Sunday, Radio Pakistan reported.The team earlier departed from the Wagah Border,......
BEIRUT: Government forces backed by Russian airstrikes drove Islamic State fighters from Palmyra on Sunday, state media and an opposition monitoring group said, ending the group's reign of terror......
LAHORE: A retired military intelligence official was found dead at his residence in the Ghaziabad area on Saturday night, police said.Barkat Ali was found dead by family members after what appeared......
BARCELONA: It was Johan Cruyff who “made us champions”, wept long-time Barcelona fan Jose Gilabert Cortina, a retired printer who joined the thousands of fans who came to the Camp Nou on Saturday to......
BERLIN: Germany's head coach Joachim Loew admitted he was annoyed to see the world champions squander a two-goal lead in their 3-2 defeat at home to England in Berlin.Toni Kroos and Mario Gomez had......
MOHALI: Never before have two seemingly routine group matches in the Women’s World T20 meant so much to cricket fans back home in Pakistan.The Pakistan’s women team play England in Chennai on Sunday,......
Keeping a record of all those reminders, checklists can be cumbersome especially if they are maintained in diaries or notepads on our work desks. Thanks to advances in modern technologies, our iOS......
The easiest way to dull the interior of your home is to use a single style of décor throughout. Similar style exudes monotony, kills inspiration and doesn’t let the house breathe at all. Instead of......
Imagine a house where trash is spilling out from bins, flies hovering over leftover food on the countertop and a thick, yellow stain lining the sides of your bathrooms and kitchen sink, how would you......
They exist all over the world in a variety that is almost inexhaustible. Garbanzo beans or chickpeas (channa), fava beans (found inside saim ki phali), yellow split peas and green split peas (channa......
Dear Auntie, My problem is my short temper. I am 22 and grew up seeing elders with short tempers. Parents have usually dealt with tender situations, such as our harmless mistakes, with anger that......
Q. Please suggest some kind of flowery creeper to climb over my boundary wall in Clifton, Karachi. I already have Bougainvillea and Tecoma grandiflora and want something really attractive to add on......
A multidisciplinary show, The ’70s: Pakistan’s Radioactive Decade, a brainchild of curators Niilofur Farrukh and Amin Gulgee, at the Amin Gulgee Gallery, Karachi, was a rare opportunity for 44......
The first weekend of March proved to be a tempestuous weekend for the French art world, attracting to the Fontainebleau Auction Hall not only local professionals but also enthusiasts from the world......
Psychology is a massive factor in any life domain, and sports, cricket included, is no exception though its significance is often overlooked by even the pundits in certain situations. There are often......
“With his light eyes, tall stature and broad shoulders, he could have been mistaken for a leading man and that may be the reason why he became the first sports model of the newly-created nation.”......
This is the time to do it. On March 18, some big names representing the Pakistan film industry (actors, producers, directors etc) gathered to discuss the possibilities of forming a guild or academy......
Kareena Kapoor has spoken. She is not working in the next Shoaib Mansoor film, contrary to what had been speculated for the past one month.She cleared the air in Dubai during an award function. If......
Check this out. Singer Zoe Viccaji is of the view that it is difficult for women in Pakistan to pursue a career in music. She said this in Karachi as one of the panelists at a programme on the topic......
Friendship is better than enmity in any given situation. Indian and Pakistani film-makers have taken part in a video in which they are seen reciting a poem by Kausar Munir, the gist of whose message......
Who says professional rivalry exists only among the subcontinent’s showbiz stars? Hollywood is no different. Actor and musician Jack Black is not happy with the fact that Leonardo Di Caprio has won......
Yes, he did not seem to remember the words correctly. However, we shouldn’t be so unforgiving towards Shafqat Amanat Ali for a couple of fumbles while singing the national anthem during the......
Ever since Farhan Akhtar has ended his 15-year marriage, he is in the news for all those reasons that are not surprising at all. He has been linked, romantically, with actress Aditi Rao Hyderi and......
Tauqeer, an old college friend of mine from the 1980s, emailed me the other day, and titled it ‘The Pakistani right in a flux.’Tauqeer is an established chartered accountant in the United States and......
In medieval India, history was written by court historians employed by the rulers with the specific objective of recording the events and happenings of their reign. This historiography would contain......
On Father’s Day, Christina and Tariq Afridi get a phone call at 1:20pm saying they should come to PIMS hospital in Islamabad. Their son Karim is not well.They get another call saying they should now......
Fawad Khan is a superstar, there is no doubt about it; a cross-border, true blue, hysteria-inducing one-of-a-kind phenomenon. The female screams recently echoing through Karachi’s Nueplex cinema were......
The movie comes wrapped in quintessential Karan Johar-esque candy foil and one wouldn’t want it otherwise, for the producer has such a knack for creating gorgeous visuals. As expected, there is a......
“This is to announce that we, Adhuna and Farhan, have mutually and amicably decided to separate …” announced the Akhtars after 15-years of marriage and two children.“Sussanne has decided to separate......
Giant pandas are certainly unbearably adorable creatures. Characterised by large blotches of black fur over their ears, eyes, and body, these Chinese bears are big, beautiful, seemingly clumsy, lazy,......
Imran Khan’s one-day sojourns to Peshawar always bring relief to the monotonous lives of its denizens, and his announcement of opening a 29-acre zoo in the city was no different. In his speech, Khan......
The thirst of Thar’s most-vulnerable is yet to be quenched: while there are exceptions, Tharis still struggle to access clean water despite the government’s ambitious Rs7 billion Reverse-Osmosis......
KARACHI: The Sindh census monitoring committee comprising various political parties on Saturday called for a province-wide strike on March 31 in protest over the postponement of the population census......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday declared around 20 Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders, including its chief, as proclaimed offenders in around 15 cases related to an alleged hate speech......
KARACHI: I’ve always received love and affection from Pakistanis. It’s not surprising to me. Even when I hadn’t been to Pakistan I had been meeting Pakistanis abroad and getting their affection. This......
KARACHI: An accountability court on Saturday provided copies of documentary evidence to former petroleum minister Dr Asim Hussain in two corruption references and fixed April 7 for his indictment.Dr......
KARACHI: The one thing that bothers architect and urban planner Arif Hasan is when people go on about how good, law-abiding and peaceful Pakistan used to be.“The Pakistan I remember was not like......
KARACHI: An academic and cultural cooperation agreement was signed by the rector of the Institute of Business Management (IoBM) and the consul general of Italy on Saturday morning.The agreement was......
HYDERABAD: Tribute was paid to Pakistan Peoples Party founder chairman and executed prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto at a seminar held in the local press club under the auspices of the Peoples Hari......
KARACHI: A full moon, a discerning crowd and a cosy atmosphere provided a perfect setting for the top-notch mehfil-i-mushaira held at the Aga Khan University’s CIME courtyard on Friday night.It was a......
KARACHI: They say that children carry the burden of their parent’s fame. And they are either expected to live up to that fame or even surpass it. Perhaps such thoughts were racing through people’s......
KARACHI: Sylvia, Sandra, Mona and Harriet adjusted their headphones before starting to sing. They were recording hymns in their angelic voices for a special Easter show to be aired on the recently......
ISLAMABAD: Corporate culture needs to be developed to attract foreign investment and improve Pakistan’s ranking in the ‘ease of doing business index’, but this needs structural support, Finance......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) intends to launch the index-based ‘options contract’ during the second-quarter of this calendar year (2016).The bourse has invited all eligible TREC......
KARACHI: The Pakistan stock exchange (PSX) snapped four-week win streak as the KSE-100 index pulled back by 204 points (0.62 per cent) to close at 32,877.Several overseas markets remained downcast,......
KARACHI: The local industry has termed the Automotive Development Policy (ADP) 2016-21 “balanced”, and hopes it will help kick-start growth and provide more choices to consumers.However, they say the......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies are moving ahead with output freeze agreement, irrespective of the fact whether Iran joins them or not.“There is agreement from many countries to go along......
Healdsburg: Microsoft Corp executives are in early talks with potential Yahoo Inc investors about contributing to financing to buy the troubled Internet company, a person familiar with the situation......
NEW YORK: Here is a math problem for the Federal Reserve: What is 3.25 minus 5? The answer, despite what you might think, isn’t -1.75. It’s that it doesn’t matter what it is as long as it’s much less......
MOHALI: Australia all-rounder Shane Watson is excited at the prospect of taking on India in what amounts to a knockout game to decide which team reaches the semi-finals.Both teams have two wins from......
KOLKATA: New Zealand kept their unbeaten record intact at the World Twenty20 when they thumped Bangladesh by 75 runs in their last Group 2 match on a tricky wicket on Saturday.Bangladesh were......
NEW DELHI: Jos Buttler’s blistering unbeaten 66 powered former champions England to a strong 171-4 against Sri Lanka in the crucial World Twenty20 Group One match at the Feroz Shah Kotla on......
RECIFE: Luis Suarez scored a second-half equaliser in his first game back from a nine-match international ban as Uruguay rallied to grab a 2-2 draw with Brazil in an enthralling World Cup qualifying......
LONDON: France captain Blaise Matuidi struck late to snatch a 3-2 win over the Netherlands in a thriller as fans and players paid tribute to Johan Cruyff’s memory with a minute’s applause in Friday’s......
LOS ANGELES: Guatemala scored a major upset on Friday with a 2-0 home win over the United States in 2018 World Cup qualifying.First-half goals by defender Rafael Morales and striker Carlos Ruiz gave......
JOHANNESBURG: Holders Ivory Coast claimed their first victory in 2017 African Nations Cup qualifying by beating Sudan 1-0 on Friday while record winners Egypt salvaged a last-gasp 1-1 draw in......
KEY BISCAYNE (Florida): Novak Djokovic barely got out of first gear but had more than enough in the tank to beat Briton Kyle Edmund 6-3, 6-3 in the second round of the Miami Open on Friday.The top......
LAHORE: Manager of the Pakistan senior team and former Olympian Hanif Khan will decide soon whether or not to remain associated with the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) after developing differences......
LAHORE: Slamming the incumbent Pakistan Cricket Board set-up that has brought one disaster after the other including the World T20 debacle, former PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf has appealed to Prime......
WHEN foreign spies are caught, a slew of questions inevitably follows. However, this much is already clear: India’s initial response to the Pakistani claims has been unsatisfactory and it does appear......
ISN’T President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — with full respect to him — debasing himself by being a complainant in a case that involves one of democracy’s fundamental principles: media freedom? On Friday,......
SHOULD PIA, a state-owned enterprise be privatised? It is poorly run, losing a great deal of money, and a drain on the budget. But what does that have to do with PIA being a SOE? Therein lies the......
THE PPP’s recent agreement to the appointment of a new inspector general of police for Sindh may signify a turning point in the party’s thinking. Mr A.D. Khawaja, the new inspector general of police,......
BRUSSELS is a world away from here. Different reasons, different trajectories. Plus, we’ve already had our Parises and Brussels several times over.But Brussels is important because it confirms what......
THE Brussels terrorist attacks have made it evident that the militant Islamic State group (IS) is transforming into a global terrorist network. The group’s weakening territorial control in Iraq and......
A musical performance by Austria coupled with an exhibition of the images of different music instruments will be a source of joy for all those music fanciers who love fusion at The Mall on Monday......
Urdu literary journal Ijmaal held a survey a few months ago to find out the greatest living poet of Urdu. Eight poets and critics were asked about their opinion and the results declared Abrar Ahmad......
LAHORE: Shalamar police arrested a trader for allegedly raping his teenage housemaid and lodged a case against him.A police official claimed a couple of days ago a three-month pregnant girl informed......
GUJRANWALA: An elderly man was burnt alive allegedly by a fake faith healer in Baghbanpura on Saturday.Abdul Sattar, father of six, was not feeling well, and his family took him to spiritual leader......
SAHIWAL: CIA police arrested late on Friday a man, on the run after a murder for 18 years, and also the activist of banned Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in village Badian, Pakpattan.Police said Nazir Ahmed,......
BRUSSELS: Belgium’s network of nuclear power plants and other major infrastructure face the threat of a cyber-attack over the next five years, the European Union’s counter-terror chief said in an......
TAIPEI: Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang party picked a China-friendly leader on Saturday as it struggles to regain public support after a crushing defeat in national elections.The former ruling KMT......
PYONGYANG: North Korea warned on Saturday that its military is ready to attack Seoul’s presidential palace unless South Korean President Park Geun-hye apologises for “treason” and publicly executes......
MOSCOW: Russian state television has aired the final words of the pilots of the flydubai passenger jet that crashed in Rostov-on-Don last week killing 62 people, suggesting pilot error could be to......
SANAA: Thousands of Yemenis rallied in the rebel-held capital on Saturday to denounce the Saudi-led coalition that launched a military campaign against the country’s insurgents a year ago.The......
ISKANDARIYAH: Iraq on Saturday buried the victims, among them many young boys, of a suicide attack that ripped through a trophy ceremony after a football tournament and killed 32 people.The bomber,......
WASHINGTON: Defence Secretary Ash Carter used his personal email account for government business for nearly a year, until December 2015, when news reports revealed the practice, according to hundreds......
LONDON: Staff at The Independent sent their final edition to the printing presses on Friday before the 30-year-old British newspaper becomes available only in digital format.Journalists posted......
IN the years since Sarah Palin’s sound bites and the “Obama girl” cemented 2008 as America’s first “YouTube election”, the world’s most popular video site has proven even more spellbinding — and......
‘Bonds of Friendship’, a coffee table book on the relations between Argentina and Pakistan from 1951 to 2016, was launched recently, just in time for Argentine Ambassador Rodolfo Martin Saravia to......
Marking the end of a 40-day fasting period, also known as Lent, Easter Sunday is a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.Prayers to mark the event began last Sunday, also known as Palm......
Philanthropists around the world are respected for their work, but in Pakistan many face challenges in their goal to benefit the country and its citizens. In one such case, a family tried to set up a......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has planned the start of work on the Bus Rapid Transit system in the provincial capital by Jan 2017 and its completion within a year.It has also intended......
PESHAWAR: A juvenile student arrested by the Kurram Agency administration on the charges of carrying a gun a few days ago has lost a precious year of studies as he was not permitted to appear in the......
SHANGLA: The vehicular traffic on Bisham-Swat Road was suspended after a ramshackle, wooden bridge linking Bisham with various areas in the district collapsed on Saturday.The 200-meter-long bridge......
DOZENS and dozens of people converge every Friday on Rawalpindi’s busy Murree Road, beneath the flyover over which the shining red Metro bus glides. They come here to solve their commuting issues by......
WASHINGTON: The deputy managing director of International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mitsuhiro Furusawa, said on Saturday that Pakistan’s economy was gradually gaining strength and its short-term......
BRUSSELS: Belgium charged on Saturday a suspect thought to be the third Brussels airport bomber with terrorist murder, as a peace march was cancelled for security reasons after the attacks in the......
The die for government formation in India-held Jammu and Kashmir was cast on Saturday with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti staking claim to power and the Bharatiya Janata Party......
ISLAMABAD: Iranian President Dr Hassan Rouhani completed his two-day trip and returned home on Saturday after offering energy security to Pakistan, but without any big ticket deals.As the Iranian......
KARACHI: Panic attacks strike Dr Asim Hussain whenever he sees or recalls a person wearing Rangers uniform, according to a report submitted to an accountability court on Saturday by a psychiatrist......
GILGIT: The federal interior ministry has warned the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) government that militants may carry out attacks in Diamer district.The interior ministry suggested that the GB police should......
THE three leading candidates running to be the next mayor of London — one of the highest profile jobs in British politics — all have close links to Pakistan.The grandparents of the favourite,......
ISLAMABAD: A former interior minister has asked the United Nations secretary general to convene an emergency session of the General Assembly to devise a comprehensive strategy to curb the expansion......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has accused the Punjab government of spending the entire budget of the province on one city.He was addressing a public meeting in Jamal Dinwali,......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, claimed on Saturday to have seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition from the residence of a ‘former sector in-charge’ in Korangi and said they had foiled......
ISLAMABAD: The differences between PTI Chairman Imran Khan and the party’s chief election commissioner for the intra-party polls Tasneem Noorani stood finally exposed on Saturday with the latter......
Assessing the Societal Impacts of Research In Violently Divided Societies (VDS)The need for the systematic evaluation of the societal impacts1 of research is pressing and challenging in both......
In the year 1873, Naseer-ed Din Shah Qajar, then King of Persia, published a Safarnama, or travelogue, of his travels in Europe. Of the London portion of his trip, the Persian king wrote thus:......
Log Kya Kahein GeyBy Kamran AhmedThis unusual novel centres on social ills and dilemmas. The storyline revolves around the fact that if society is going towards a decline, people cannot lay the blame......
In my previous column I tried to trace the literary and cultural roots of some of the values still prevalent in parts of our society regarding our women (and those considered others’ women) and bring......
AS a writer of enviable creativity — both in terms of quality and quantity — Qurratulain Hyder created a lot of characters, but none that quite matched herself. She was perhaps way larger than life......
Ernest Cline had remarkable success with his 2011 debut novel Ready Player One, a science fiction romp about an elaborate virtual Easter egg hunt that was fuelled by geek trivia and ’80s pop culture......
ISLAMABAD: A charged crowd at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport assaulted singer-turned-evangelist Junaid Jamshed, it emerged late Saturday night. A disturbing video of the attack made the......
