LAHORE: At least five suspected terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda’s Afzal Group were killed in an encounter with security forces in Nawab Town area late on Tuesday night.A police team of Crime......
DUBAI: Travellers flying out of Dubai's airports will pay a new fee to cover improvements at the long-haul hub, the city-state's crown prince announced on Wednesday, as Gulf countries grapple with......
ISLAMABAD: US President Barack Obama telephoned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday and expressed grief over the loss of precious human lives in Lahore blast earlier this week, Radio Pakistan......
BARCELONA: Dutch football great Johan Cruyff “belongs to the whole world”, his son Jordi Cruyff said Tuesday as he visited a memorial in honour of the former Barcelona player and manager at Camp......
MIAMI: Australian Nick Kyrgios unleashed a tirade on tennis as a “biased” and “ruined” sport Tuesday during his fourth-round triumph at the ATP and WTA Miami Open.The 20-year-old from Canberra......
CAIRO: World Footballer of the Year Lionel Messi found himself the unlikely figure of controversy in Egypt after a local politician and a football official reacted angrily when he donated a pair of......
DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Khaleda Zia over a fire-bomb attack on a bus that killed two people and injured dozens last year, a prosecutor......
A group of Muslim students in the Indian capital New Delhi were beaten up for not chanting the nationalist slogan 'Jai Mata Ki', IndiaToday reported.The victim, Mohammad Dilkash, along with friends......
Head coach Waqar Younis fired a stinging volley at the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) after details of a confidential report from Tuesday's meeting in Lahore was leaked to the media.In a press......
NEW DELHI: Opener Jason Roy smashed a quick-fire 78 as England beat New Zealand by seven wickets on Wednesday to reach the final of the World Twenty20.Roy clobbered 11 fours and two sixes off 44......
MUMBAI:India's top order batsmen have not performed well enough at the World Twenty20, with the exception of Virat Kohli, and must improve against a dangerous West Indies side in Thursday's......
WISCONSIN: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Tuesday said that amongst all the presidential hopefuls only he can solve the problem of "radical Islamic terrorism".During an......
MUMBAI: World Twenty20 hosts India have replaced injured all-rounder Yuvraj Singh with middle order batsman Manish Pandey, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Wednesday.Yuvraj, who played......
The Russia-based Dinamo Field Hockey Club has pulled out of their tour to Pakistan which was scheduled to kick off on April 2 in Lahore.According to a press release by the Pakistan Hockey Federation......
Indian great Sachin Tendulkar remains the gold standard of batting in the post-Bradman era but Virat Kohli's latest masterclass in Sunday's World Twenty20 shootout against Australia has prompted......
Pakistan batsman is talking to his friends, family and Imran Khan about quitting Twenty20 but admirers of Afridiocy will hope he keeps going for broke, writes Andy Bull in the Guardian.Read full......
LARNACA: A Cyprus court on Wednesday ordered the detention for eight days of an Egyptian man who admitted to hijacking a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverting it to the east Mediterranean island......
AHMEDABAD: Top Indian intelligence officials suspect Kulbushan Jadhav’s phone had been under surveillance by Pakistani intelligence and believe Jadhav’s complacency led to his capture, revealed the......
The phone snaps to life, the ring tone strident, the caller’s name lighting up the screen: Ammi Jaan.But no one answers this frantic mother.The phone keeps ringing; who has the courage to take the......
PESHAWAR: Two 'terrorists' convicted by military courts for involvement in attacks on security officials and civilians were executed at a jail in Kohat Wednesday, a military sourced confirmed.The......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday evening announced the end of the sit-in at Islamabad's D-Chowk by pro-Mumtaz Qadri protesters, following successful negotiations......
MUMBAI: Chris Gayle is determined to grab the World T20 limelight back from in-form Virat Kohli when the West Indies and India clash in a mouthwatering semi-final in Mumbai on Thursday.The......
UNITED NATIONS: The United States and three allies called for a Security Council meeting to respond to Iran's recent ballistic missile tests which they say were carried out in defiance of a UN......
NEW DELHI: From poor pay to lack of training grounds and media coverage, and even sexual harassment, women cricketers have long faced inequality in a multi-billion dollar sport dominated by......
MONTREAL: Former Canadian Cabinet minister Jean Lapierre died on Tuesday in a plane crash that also killed his wife and three of his siblings on the way to his father's funeral in eastern Quebec.The......
KARACHI: After the Pakistani cricket team’s disappointing dismissal from the World T20 in India, skipper Shahid Afridi took to Facebook to ask forgiveness from cricketing fans all over the country......
TORONTO: The three dimensional TORONTO sign in the Canadian city was lit in Pakistan flag colours of green and white on Tuesday in solidarity with the victims of a suicide blast that killed 74 people......
LANDI KOTAL: The fate of over 2,500 Qambarkhel and Kukikhel families of Tirah valley hangs in the balance as they have been awaiting their return despite issuance of Voluntary Return Forms (VRF) and......
PESHAWAR: A respected journalist, reliable friend and adviser for those in newspaper business in his life would be remembered after his death in acknowledgement of his service as Abasin Arts Council......
PESHAWAR/KHAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Paramedical Association on Tuesday went on a strike throughout the province to protest government failure to give them a proper service structure and announce......
ABBOTTABAD: PTI chief Imran Khan on Tuesday said his party’s government had allocated Rs8 billion for the reconstruction of schools damaged by the 2005 earthquake in the province and that 760 of them......
Last week, the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of Islamabad police solved the blind murder of a local US embassy staffer, who was killed in Sector G-9 in 2015. The mystery unravelled after a gang of......
ISLAMABAD: Even as a large contingent of police and security personnel closed in on the participants of the sit-in at D-Chowk on Tuesday evening, the interior minister cooled things down by declaring......
RAWALPINDI: Activists and leaders of the Sunni Tehreek (ST) – including those residing abroad who came to Pakistan to participate in the protest against the execution of Mumtaz Qadri – were among......
RAWALPINDI: After it was announced that the army will be conducting an operation against terrorists in the province, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab has started preparing a list of......
ISLAMABAD: Though mobile phone services have been suspended across the city to hinder communication between the supporters of Mumtaz Qadri, who are staging a sit-in at D-Chowk, the only place in the......
ISLAMABAD: Two restaurants operating in the capital were sealed and action was initiated against two others for providing meals to the protesters at D-Chowk.Addressing a news conference at the Punjab......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Tuesday asked the Punjab Metro Bus Authority (PMBA) to sign an agreement with it for sharing the subsidy on the metro bus service.So far there is......
ISLAMABAD: The Floral Art Society of Pakistan (FASP) presented a stunning floral extravaganza and fashion show to raise funds for the SOS Children’s Village in Peshawar. The national show, titled......
RAWALPINDI: Following the suicide attack on a public park in Lahore, Rawalpindi’s Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) on Tuesday closed all the parks in the city for a week. A senior PHA official......
LAHORE: The joint steering committee of religious parties has called upon the federal government to implement the constitution and enforce Shariah or face a continued countrywide protest.The......
MULTAN: Multan police claimed to have taken into custody 50 suspects during a search operation conducted in the area of Sehwra Chowk and adjoining localities on Tuesday.According to a police handout,......
LAHORE: The death toll of Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park suicide blast rose to 74 on Tuesday after two more injured persons succumbed to their injuries.Anas Ayub, 17, of Hafizabad and Moshin, 18, of Defence......
LAHORE: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited Jinnah Hospital here on Tuesday to inquire after those injured in the Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park blast and promised them his party would join efforts to......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Tuesday turned down request of the federal and Punjab governments to vacate stay against construction work on Orange Line Metro Train project within......
GUJRAT: One of the main leaders of protesters at Islamabad’s D-Chowk has been on the Fourth Schedule of Anti-Terrorism Act for over a year, yet he made his way to the capital unhindered.The......
LAHORE: The City District Government of Lahore (CDGL) distributed on Tuesday compensatory cheques to the heirs of the 27 people from Lahore who had died in the Gulshan Iqbal Park blast on......
SARGODHA: A man convicted of honour killing was executed here on Tuesday in the district jail.Ghazanfar Abbas of Shahpur district had murdered his sister, Parveen, and brother-in-law Fateh Khan in......
LAHORE: Traders on Tuesday demanded that the Punjab government guard bazaars and markets with a special police force on the pattern of Dolphin Squad and install more CCTV cameras.The traders asked......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday was informed by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority that K-Electric would have no option in 2016 but to carry out loadshedding as only 350......
KARACHI: As the Islamabad stand-off between the pro-Qadri protesters and the authorities continued for a third consecutive day with charged crowds in Karachi and some other cities holding sit-ins on......
KARACHI: Placing a ban on student unions deprived students of critical thinking and questioning, with the result that sectarian and ethnic parties infiltrated campuses, said rights activists while......
KARACHI: Novelty may not always pay, but it, for sure, pushes the envelope as far as creative thinking goes. This is the reason why the attempt to bring visual art into theatre space on Monday......
KARACHI: “After going through Hasan Sadiq’s book The End of the Great Game it occurred to me that perhaps a better title would be The End of One Great Game and the Beginning of Another,” said former......
HYDERABAD: During the first paper of English, vigilance committees of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education of Hyderabad caught 32 candidates for cheating, one for impersonation and......
KHAIRPUR: Highlighting the significance of women empowerment in all sectors and governance, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah has announced allocation of 50 acres......
TONAWANDA: For Kim Vaillancourt, pregnant while staving off aggressive brain cancer, it comes down to this: “The baby saved me. Now it’s my turn to save him.”Vaillancourt was diagnosed with......
WASHINGTON: Police in Florida arrested Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Tuesday for grabbing a reporter.A police statement, issued in the town of Jupiter, Florida, said they had......
LOS ANGELES: Actress and singer Patty Duke, who won an Oscar at age 16 for her portrayal of deaf-blind political activist Helen Keller in “The Miracle Worker,” died on Tuesday. She was 69.“This......
WASHINGTON: The United States ordered families of US troops and diplomats in Turkey on Tuesday to leave the country.Two separate statements from the State Department and the Pentagon said that the......
BEIRUT: Regime troops were locked in heavy fighting on Tuesday with the militant Islamic State (IS) group in central Syria, where they dealt the fighters a major blow by seizing the ancient city of......
AJMAN: Firefighters extinguished a blaze on Tuesday that burned up the side of several towers in the United Arab Emirates city of Ajman, the latest in a series of skyscraper infernos in the Gulf......
WASHINGTON: The growth of Arctic sea ice this winter peaked at the lowest maximum level on record, thanks to extraordinarily warm temperatures, federal scientists said on Monday.The National Snow and......
Rickshaw art can be introduced into your homes through household décor, accessories, tableware and so on, but it is also an increasingly popular theme in fashion.The style itself incorporates bright......
LAHORE: Pakistan team’s head coach Waqar Younis on Tuesday begged forgiveness from the nation for the disastrous show of the greenshirts in the ongoing World T20 but added that resignation by any......
NEW DELHI: Captain Eoin Morgan is hoping that England’s experience of twice winning in New Delhi will give them an advantage against New Zealand in the first semi-final of the World Twenty20 on......
MUMBAI: Chris Gayle hopes to smash another century when West Indies return at the Wankhede Stadium on Thursday for their semi-final against India.Gayle’s 47-ball century against England gave West......
NEW DELHI: The South African trio of AB de Villiers, Hashim Amla and Dale Steyn exited the World Twenty20 stage on Monday, possibly never to return again, and skipper Faf du Plessis felt a bit more......
SINGAPORE: China, helped by a slip-up from North Korea, scraped through to the final phase of World Cup qualifying in Asia on Tuesday after beating future hosts Qatar 2-0 in a nervy Group ‘C’......
ISLAMABAD: British boxer of Pakistan-origin Amir Khan and his team are devising a ‘perfect’ game plan that they’re planning to use against Mexican boxer Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez on May 7 in Las......
PARIS: Cyclist Daan Myngheer died on Monday after suffering a heart attack during a race, in a second tragedy for Belgian cycling after Antoine Demoitie was killed in an accident a day......
ISLAMABAD: Saad Ali is in pole position to become Pakistan’s first Formula 1 driver, a seemingly impossible target in a country with no race tracks and where all sport sponsorship money is poured......
KEY BISCAYNE: Serena Williams’ bid for a ninth Miami Open title came to a shock end when the world number one was beaten 6-7 (3-7), 6-1, 6-2 in the fourth round by 15th-seeded Russian Svetlana......
So it is clear now. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan is all set to continue in his job and has no intention to quit, at least for now.Pakistan cricket, however, cannot by any......
KARACHI: Stocks opened on a positive note on Tuesday and the KSE-100 index touched 33,000 level before it succumbed to profit-taking and closed down by 24.65 points (0.07 per cent) at 32,879.67 due......
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s money supply shrank in February for the first time in more than a decade, central bank data showed on Tuesday, in a fresh sign the economy of the world’s largest oil exporter is......
RAWALPINDI: There is a need to improve Pakistan agriculture production system on scientific lines to enhance sustainable food production, Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research......
LONDON: Uncertainty surrounding Britain’s looming referendum on European Union membership could send the pound slumping further and boost financing costs, the Bank of England warned Tuesday.The......
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo Inc. has given prospective buyers until April 11 to present preliminary offers for some of its assets, the Wall Street Journal reported late Monday.In letters to potential......
KARACHI: Revival of buying interest witnessed on the cotton market on Tuesday where many spinners moved in to replenish their stocks. The undertone was firm but outlook remained uncertain.Floor......
LONDON: Gold rose on Tuesday as a retreat in the dollar prompted buying ahead of a speech by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, which will be closely watched for clues on US monetary policy.Gold is......
TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday he still plans to raise the consumption tax next year, denying speculation the planned increase would be postponed out of concern that Japan’s economy......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Tuesday directed the power distribution companies of Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) to refund about 60 per cent......
KARACHI: Extremist and terrorists cannot deter our resolve and stop us from moving forward, therefore the four day Texpo 2016 will go ahead as per schedule, said Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir......
KARACHI: Retail prices of chicken and gram pulse continued to be on a higher side despite an investigation ordered by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in a meeting last week of the National Price......
KARACHI: Monetary expansion (broad money) reached Rs543 billion during the first nine months (July-March) of this fiscal year, an increase of Rs73bn over the same period last year, mainly due to low......
This article was originally published on March 30th, 2016.ISLAMABAD: The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) released on Tuesday a confessional video statement of Indian spy agent Kulbhushan Yadav......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly unanimously passed a resolution on Tuesday, condemning the Indian intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), over its involvement in spreading unrest and......
ISLAMABAD: The government and the opposition on Tuesday came closer to an agreement over the controversial bill to turn Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) into a public limited company, after......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain on Tuesday approved enforcement of the Publication of Laws of Pakistan Act, 2016. The law is for regulating publication of law books, materials and their......
SUKKUR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has called for making Pakistan a true Islamic welfare state and introducing the Islamic system in the country.He was addressing the......
UNITED NATIONS: Members of the United Nations Security Council have condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack in Lahore, which resulted in the death of more than 70 people and for which......
WASHINGTON: The United States has backed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s decision to cancel his US visit, noting that the current situation in Pakistan required him to stay at home.The prime minister......
NEW DELHI: As a five-member Pakistani probe team drove to Pathankot from Amritsar in bullet-proof cars their Indian hosts were eyeing reciprocity on Tuesday, including a proposal to seek access to......
This article was originally published on March 30th, 2016.ISLAMABAD: The Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) released on Tuesday a confessional video statement of Indian spy agent Kulbhushan Yadav......
NEW DELHI: India poured scorn on the video confessions of an alleged spy shown by Pakistan on Tuesday, claiming the man was tutored and that he might have been abducted from Iran.“We have seen a......
QUETTA: Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri says that development of the country depends on the development of Balochistan because it has abundant natural resources.Addressing a seminar held by......
LAHORE: The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) constituted by the Punjab government to probe the suicide attack in a park here claimed on Tuesday to have found some clues which suggested that banned......
JAKARTA: Ten Indonesian sailors have been kidnapped in waters of the conflict-wracked southern Philippines by Muslim militants who have demanded a ransom for their release, authorities said on......
LARNACA: An Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir passenger plane and forced it to divert to Cyprus surrendered on Tuesday after a six-hour airport standoff ended peacefully.The hijacker, described......
GENEVA: Wealthy countries have resettled only a fraction of the nearly five million refugees who have fled Syria, Oxfam said on Tuesday, urging them to step up and do their share.The British charity......
TAIPEI: A Taiwanese man suspected of decapitating a four-year-old girl was beaten by an angry mob, as the case sparked fresh debate on Tuesday about the death penalty for child killers.The man......
Moqtada al Sadr, the radical Shia cleric whose Mahdi army once took on the American occupiers, is now setting his sights on the Iraqi government. He has laid down a deadline of Thursday for Prime......
ISLAMABAD: The army has said that the capture of an Indian spy in Balochistan is a proof of India’s interference in Pakistan.“This is no less than the state-sponsored terrorism,” military spokesman......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has rejected a perception that it is engaged in a nuclear race with India as a Pakistani delegation arrives here to participate in a nuclear security summit.“It is disingenuous......
ISLAMABAD: Laying bare their differences over the army’s involvement in a crackdown on extremist and militant organisations in Punjab, the government and military spokesmen, at a joint press......
Yet another bloodbath, yet another day of mourning. It is the Pakistan story so regularly repeated that we have forgotten the count. From the Peshawar school massacre, to the Lahore park explosion,......
A SUNDAY evening in spring at a park in the middle of a crowded city; the squeals of children, laughter, joy and general merriment. It was what terror wishes most to mar with its cruel infliction of......
ONE of the many contradictions of our society is between its loud avowal of its love of the ‘family’ institution and its devaluation of woman, the pivotal figure in the family. Not only do we look......
THERE are times when it is possible to be shocked and horrified without entirely being surprised. Sunday’s atrocity in Lahore falls into that category. The mass murder in a public park, evidently......
THE Lahore park bombing ought to have been a moment of clarity. All institutions of the state — federal, provincial, civilian and military — need to work together, immediately, purposefully and on a......
