ISLAMABAD: The Senate's Standing Committee on Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony was informed on Friday that the designated branches of scheduled banks were expected to start receiving Haj......
KOLKATA: Rescue officials said on Friday there are no more survivors trapped under the rubble of a flyover that collapsed killing at least 25 people, as Indian police detained five construction......
LONDON: A Pakistani man was handed a two year jail sentence Friday after becoming the first in England to be convicted of keeping his wife “in domestic servitude”.In what the Crown Prosecution......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama told a global nuclear security summit on Friday that more cooperation was needed to prevent “madmen” from groups like the Islamic State from acquiring a nuke or......
KARACHI: A jirga of notables in Ghulam Nabi Shah area of Umerkot district allegedly settled a gang rape case for a compensation of 30 maunds of wheat, the victim’s father claimed.A case was......
ISTANBUL: Amnesty International accused Turkey on Friday of illegally forcing groups of Syrians to return to their conflict-torn country, saying the alleged expulsions showed the “fatal flaws" in a......
This article was originally published on April 1st, 2016.In a press conference last week, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) head Lt Gen Asim Bajwa and Federal Information Minister Pervez Rashid......
LAHORE: The Pakistan cricket chief Shaharyar Khan says he has no intentions of resigning in the aftermath of the team's disastrous World Twenty20 campaign.In a hurriedly convened media briefing on......
QUETTA: Security forces in Balochistan have killed 92 militants, including a key commander, and have conducted 417 targetted operation in the province during the last four months, said Balochistan......
Pakistan team manager Intikhab Alam has termed Shahid Afridi a ‘clueless’ captain in the wake of the team’s early exit from the ICC World Twent20.In his tour report published by Cricinfo, Alam laid......
Former captain Wasim Akram threw his weight behind one-time pace partner Waqar Younis over controversy surrounding a leaked report presented to the national board by the Pakistan head coach.Waqar......
Words ought to fail us. But we can't afford the luxury of that failure anymore than we can afford the luxury of all the other potential failures staring us in the face as this phase of the 21st......
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in its 'State of Human Rights in 2015 report' found that anti-state violence in Pakistan over the past year fell below 2008 levels, while there was a 40 per......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Washington Thursday, the White House said, amid tensions over press freedom and the war in Syria.Having......
KARACHI: One of the biggest television channels of Pakistan, Geo television temporarily went off air across Pakistan after moving to Paksat’s newly commissioned satellite service.According to the Geo......
VIENNA: There were small signs that her son was changing: He prayed more and swapped jeans for traditional long tunics."But I wasn't worried. Not for one second did Syria enter my mind," Fatima......
MUMBAI: West Indies captain Darren Sammy said he hopes to help Caribbean fans smile again by completing a unique hat-trick at the World Twenty20 after stunning India to reach the final.An emotional......
NEW DELHI: China on Thursday blocked India's call to ban Jaish-i-Muhammad chief Masood Azhar at the United Nations (UN), Times of India reported.Hours before the deadline, China requested the UN’s......
Over one in eight adults are now obese -- a ratio that has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five by 2025, a major survey reported Friday.Of about five billion adults alive in......
NEW DELHI: As the full toss left Andre Russell's blade and settled deep into the stands, dropping a deathly silence across the Wankhede Stadium, Virat Kohli stood dazed, gazing at the trajectory of......
MUMBAI: Aggressive opening batsman Chris Gayle usually hogs the headlines but West Indies' advance to the World Twenty20 final against England has shown they are by no means a one-man band, according......
LAKKI MARWAT: A tribal jirga of North Waziristan Agency has asked the government to accelerate the return of displaced tribesmen to their homes and rehabilitation of damaged infrastructure, houses......
PESHAWAR: The district government, Peshawar, has decided to conduct anti-dengue spray this week to protect citizens from the mosquito-borne disease across the provincial metropolis.The decision was......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a function termed new collection of Pashto poetry titled ‘Maraam’ (target) as spirit of the time and voice of Pakhtuns.Pohantoon Adabi Stori (PAS), a literary organisation......
KHAR: The cellular phone services have been suspended in Bajaur Agency for the last over three weeks stressing out the local residents.The people complained to Dawn that they’re struggling to get in......
SHANGLA: The residents of Gumrash area of Chakesar tehsil say that they are vulnerable to water-borne diseases as they use rainwater from a pond for drinking purpose.“Provision of potable water to......
ISLAMABAD: Lok Virsa will be live streaming its annual folk festival titled ‘Lok Mela’ so that people across the country and overseas Pakistanis have an opportunity to know more about their cultural......
RAWALPINDI: Those who had attacked singer-turned-evangelist Junaid Jamshed at Benazir Bhutto International Airport on Saturday have been identified. The police have sought the verification of their......
RAWALPINDI: To accommodate students at overcrowded government primary schools, the Punjab government is considering starting a second shift of classes at schools.The provincial government asked seven......
Another change of guard at FDEThe frequent change of guard at the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) has badly affected the performance of educational institutions in the capital.“There are......
ISLAMABAD: Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason and Thomas Stimmel captured the hearts and imaginations of their audience on Thursday night when they performed at the Liederabend – or German song recital –......
ISLAMABAD: If Ahmed Raza Kasuri – close aide and legal counsel to former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf – is to be believed, the general left the country thanks to a “mutual understanding”......
ISLAMABAD: The administration of Adiala jail in Rawalpindi refused to take hundreds of people arrested during the sit-in due to a lack of space.The arrested people were produced before area......
ISLAMABAD: Former president Pervez Musharraf’s prolonged stay abroad may cost ex-director general Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Rashid Qureshi his house in the capital city.Retired Maj Gen......
After Sunday’s gruesome terrorist attack in Lahore, the army moved against the militant elements in the Punjab so fast and in such a fashion that it made the political authorities of the Punjab......
LAHORE: Keeping in view the security flaws at Gulshan-i-Iqbal, the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has decided to outsource security at main entry gates of all public parks it operates in the......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A selfie-fond student drowned in a canal when he had to jump into it to save himself from the fast approaching train near Shorkot Cantonment on Thursday.Police said second year......
On Thursday, a constellation of stars took over the Last Word as the Pakistan Women’s Cricket Team sat down for a meet & greet session with Zeb Bangash and Sanayah Malik from Girls at Dhabas. The......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday expressed grave concern over the inefficiency of provincial authorities to check price and quality of food items and directed the provincial government to......
KARACHI: The Maritime Security Agency (MSA) on Thursday arrested 59 more Indian fishermen for fishing in Pakistani waters, an official said.“The Indian fishermen were arrested by the MSA while they......
KARACHI: The head of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Sindh, rejected on Thursday media reports about inquiries being pending against Karachi University (KU).Speaking at a programme on......
KARACHI: Illegal construction work is going on in Governor House, protected under the Sindh Cultural Heritage Protection Act, which restricts such activities at such sites, it emerged on......
KARACHI: In his remarkable essay ‘Traditional and Individual Talent’, eminent poet and critic T.S. Eliot claims that art never improves but the material of art is never quite the same. Explaining his......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court sentenced on Thursday a man to a collective sentence of 21 years in jail in explosives and illicit weapons cases.Zafar, alias Supari, said to be a political worker,......
LARKANA: Provincial Oversight Task Force for Polio (POTFP) chairperson and MNA Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho said on Thursday that detection of two polio cases in the Larkana division had put a challenge to......
HERE are some of the confirmed candidates:Antunio GuterresThe most high-profile candidate to date, Guterres was Portugal’s prime minister from 1995 to 2002 and then UN high commissioner for refugees......
BEIRUT: Its slogan was “the voice of the voiceless”, but after four decades the prestigious Lebanese daily As-Safir is in danger of falling silent, illustrating the unprecedented crisis rocking the......
ANKARA: Five days before Turkey is due to begin taking back illegal migrants from Greece under a deal with the European Union, neither side is fully ready, with officials scrambling to be able to......
WASHINGTON: The United States pledged on Thursday to deepen cooperation with allies South Korea and Japan on deterring the North Korean nuclear threat, working to ramp up pressure following worrying......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations on Thursday announced 108 new alleged victims of sexual abuse, the vast majority of them minors, by peacekeepers in Central African Republic, and it called......
ATHENS: Migrant returns from Greece to Turkey will begin on Monday under the terms of an EU deal that has dismayed aid groups, officials said on Thursday as Athens struggled to manage the overload on......
MANILA: More than $4.5 million of tens of millions recently stolen from Bangladesh and funnelled into Philippine casinos was recovered on Thursday, as a lawmaker in Manila said almost half the haul......
ROME: An Italian nurse has been arrested on suspicion of killing 13 patients by administering fatal doses of a blood-thinning drug while they were in intensive care, authorities announced on......
NEW DELHI: New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson said his team were 20 to 25 runs short when they slipped to a seven-wicket defeat in Wednesday’s semi-final against England.The Kiwis went into the......
KEY BISCAYNE: Top-ranked defending champion Novak Djokovic withstood back spasms throughout the second set on Wednesday to defeat Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-3 and reach the ATP and WTA Miami Open......
MANAMA: Fernando Alonso will not take part in this weekend’s Grand Prix in Bahrain for medical reasons following his dramatic, death-defying crash at the Australian GP.“Following a decision by the......
LONDON: Gold rose 1 per cent on Thursday as the dollar and stock markets retreated, keeping the metal on course for its biggest quarterly gain in nearly 30 years as expectations of US interest rate......
LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron held crisis talks on Thursday to salvage Britain’s steel industry after Indian giant Tata Steel said it was putting its troubled British business up for sale,......
KARACHI: The country’s overall macroeconomic outlook appears stable despite challenging global economic conditions, the State bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Thursday.“Growth is likely to pick up......
LAHORE: Member organisations of the Task Force on Cotton reviewed on Thursday the causes of unprecedented decline in the commodity’s production in 2015-16, and proposed measures to boost output in......
KARACHI: Millers have reduced the prices of various flour varieties by Re1 to Rs2 per kg following the arrival of new wheat crop from Sindh.Majority of the flour millers have suspended lifting last......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Ministry of Water and Power and State Grid Corporation of China are working closely to build an interconnection grid for electricity.The grid “will mutually benefit both the......
KARACHI: Stocks went into bullish fervour on Thursday after several encouraging developments. Political tensions were relieved as sit-in at the capital ended peacefully. That, coupled with news of......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) collected Rs286.798 billion in March 2016 as against Rs229.574bn during the same month last year, an increase of 24.92 per cent.“We are expecting more......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar held a meeting with Punjab Finance Minister Dr Ayesha Ghous Pasha on Thursday to discuss the provincial budget surplus and setting up of a mechanism for settling......
KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $20.424 billion during the week ending March 25 compared to $20.521bn the previous week, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said......
KARACHI: Strong demand for quality cotton from spinners on Thursday resulted in brisk activity amid reports that very little quantity of high-grade lint was left behind with ginners.At the outset......
ISLAMABAD: Soon after getting free from the sit-in at the D-Chowk which kept the government busy over the last few days, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spent a busy day on Thursday at the planning......
ISLAMABAD: The country is likely to witness one of the best water availability this Kharif season in more than a decade, leading to enough power generation, bumper crops and surplus water flows into......
ISLAMABAD: Health representatives from across the country agreed on Thursday to include two doses of rotavirus vaccine in the routine immunisation programme of the country.As consensus has been......
ISLAMABAD: The fruits of the recently conducted local governments are still a distant dream for common citizen since litigation after litigation is coming to the Supreme Court.On Thursday the PML-Q......
WASHINGTON: The US and Saudi Arabia on Thursday sanctioned four individuals and two groups suspected of raising funds for terrorists, including a man who grew up in Scotland and became a Taliban......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to take Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman into confidence over the two pro-women bills to be taken up by the parliament during its joint......
KARACHI: The All-Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) elected Sarmad Ali as its president, Rameeza Majid Nizami as senior vice-president, Mumtaz A. Tahir as vice-president, Umer Mujib Shami as......
QUETTA: The federal government will arrange and bear the expenses for capacity-building training of 2,000 farmers and cattle owners in Islamabad, said Minister for National Food Security and Research......
QUETTA: The European Union’s (EU) Ambassador to Pakistan Jean Francois Cautain has said that peace cannot be achieved without the implementation of international human rights conventions, adding that......
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has decided to hire pilots for ATR planes to meet a shortage and save training cost.The decision to divide the PIA into six divisions and hire the......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has extended the last date of filing of returns under the Voluntary Tax Scheme (VTS) up to April 30, with the hope of bringing in more traders into the tax......
Khizar lies covered from head to toe in a white sheet. His pale hand is being held by his mother, Zubaida. Hit by shrapnel, Khizar’s liver is injured and his leg fractured.“He does not want to talk......
WASHINGTON: As the fourth and final Nuclear Security Summit began in the US capital on Thursday, President Barack Obama trashed rumours that the Pakistani prime minister’s decision to skip the......
HYDERABAD: Members of the newly-instituted Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) faced supporters and sympathisers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) who pelted the former’s convoy with stones in Tando......
THE HAGUE: UN war crimes judges on Thursday acquitted radical Serb leader Vojislav Seselj on all nine charges of committing atrocities in the 1990s Balkans wars, in a surprise judgment which was......
ISLAMABAD: Possibly annoyed over dismal performance of the Pakistan team in international tournaments, the Senate Standing Committee on Finance summoned on Thursday audit reports of the Pakistan......
LAHORE: The Ministry of Water and Power has formed a four-member committee to investigate the Rs289 million Sukuk Bond scam which hit the Water and Power Development Authority in 2009 and to also see......
WASHINGTON: Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhary said on Thursday that Pakistan had never had a nuclear accident or breach of security and, therefore, there was no cause of concern about its nuclear......
ISLAMABAD: The government increased on Thursday prices of petrol and high speed diesel for April to pass partial impact of expensive imports on to consumers.According to a statement issued by the......
IN a recent article on public debt management, the finance minister has made some dangerously wrong assertions. Foremost of these is that the power projects under CPEC are being set up by private......
IN the beginning this appeared to be a scoop. A national identity card was found at the site of the bomb explosion in Gulshan-i-Iqbal in Lahore. It gave details about a young man hailing from......
PAULO Freire, the Brazilian educator and author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, said education should aim at teaching students to think critically. They should work with the teacher in creating......
ON World Autism Awareness Day tomorrow, the focus should be on some interesting developments. First is the groundbreaking book, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by......
