A year-long worldwide media investigation into a trove of 11.5 million documents, leaked from a Panama-based law firm with offices in 35 countries, exposed a tangle of offshore financial dealings by......
LARKANA: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, while addressing a public gathering to mark the death anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, said that the incumbent PML-N......
NEW DELHI: India's biometric database notched up one billion members on Monday, as the government sought to allay concerns about privacy breaches in the world's biggest such scheme.The database was......
GENEVA: Some male Muslim students in Switzerland will no longer need to shake hands with their female teachers, following a ruling that has caused an uproar and consternation in the country.Education......
Peshawar Zalmi franchise owner Javed Afridi, on Monday announced a reward of $20,000 for West Indies T20 skipper Darren Sammy after the all-rounder lead the Caribbean side to World T20 glory.“I here......
ISLAMABAD: Sarfaraz Merchant, who claimed that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was receiving funding from Indian intelligence sources, has recorded his statement with the Federal Investigation......
Pakistan's head coach Waqar Younis resigned on Monday weeks after his team's humiliating exit from the World Twenty20 in the group stages.“I am resigning from my post today with a heavy heart,” a......
LONDON: Italy coach Antonio Conte was named as Chelsea's new manager on Monday after the reigning Premier League champions announced he had signed a three-year contract that will start following Euro......
Pakistan's out-of-favour leg-spinner Danish Kaneria on Monday sought Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s intervention against what he called an “unjust life ban” enforced by the English and Wales Cricket......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Monday demanded that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) initiate a thorough investigation into the financial holdings of Prime......
DHAKA: Bangladesh police said Monday they had seized a large quantity of explosives from a suspected militant hideout where two people were killed making grenades.Police recovered 20 grenades and a......
SYDNEY/LONDON/STOCKHOLM/PARIS: Tax authorities in Australia and New Zealand are probing local clients of a Panama-based law firm which is at the centre of a massive data leak for possible tax......
KARACHI: Former Karachi mayor and leader of Pak Sarzameen Party Mustafa Kamal on Monday announced the induction of ex-Senator and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) dissident Mohammad Ali Brohi into the......
LEICESTER: Asked whether, having watched his Leicester City team move seven points clear at the Premier League summit, he was worried they might choke, manager Claudio Ranieri responded:“What is......
PARIS: Holders Barcelona will seek to overcome their defeat in El Clasico when they host Atletico Madrid on Tuesday in an all-Spanish Champions League quarter-final, first leg at the Camp Nou.On a......
PESHAWAR: Rescuers were battling Monday to reach thousands of people stranded by floods and landslides in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), officials said, as the death toll......
NEW DELHI: Bollywood's Amitabh Bachchan and martial arts movie star Jackie Chan are among celebrities who feature in a massive leak of documents, some of which reveal hidden offshore assets.The......
TOKYO: An investigation published by an international coalition of more than 100 media outlets, based on 11.5 million records of offshore holdings, details how politicians, celebrities and other......
Lahore is my native city — it has always been the dearest sense of love I have felt.It was the beautiful gardens and my most favourite majestic Old Lahore. It was the mouthwatering hareesa at......
KOLKATA: Man of the match Marlon Samuels taunted Australia spin legend Shane Warne after his unbeaten 85 set the West Indies up for a sensational World Twenty20 title triumph on Sunday.The......
BEIJING: The families of some of China's top communist brass ? including President Xi Jinping ? used offshore tax havens to conceal their fortunes, a treasure trove of leaked documents has......
JAMMU: Mehbooba Mufti was sworn in on Monday as India-held Kashmir's (IHK) first woman leader, taking over from her father nearly three months after he died in office.India's only Muslim-majority......
The Panama Papers, a global investigation into the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world’s rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies in......
KOLKATA: Carlos Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes in a last-over thriller Sunday as the West Indies became the first team to win the World Twenty20 Championship twice.But the victory over England......
KOLKATA: For a format that encourages big hitting and provides a stage for younger cricketers to shine, it was perhaps fitting that the World Twenty20 culminated with a 27-year-old Barbadian blasting......
ISLAMABAD: After the Sharif family was named in the Panama Papers ? one of the biggest leaks in history ? Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's son, Hussain Nawaz Sharif, told Geo that his family had done......
World leaders, stars of the pitch and screen and dozens of billionaires were among those named and shamed in what looks to be the biggest ever leak of inside information in history.The leaked data,......
KOLKATA: Carlos Brathwaite hit four consecutive sixes in the last over as the West Indies stunned England to lift the World Twenty20 title in Kolkata on Sunday.The West Indies went into the last......
KOLKATA: Fifties from Hayley Matthews and Stafanie Taylor powered West Indies to their first women’s World Twenty20 title on Sunday, their eight-wicket win at Eden Gardens ending three-time defending......
LONDON: Premier League leaders Leicester City went seven points clear at the top of the table after skipper Wes Morgan scored in a 1-0 win at home to Southampton on Sunday as Manchester United beat......
BARCELONA: Cristiano Ronaldo scored late for 10-man Real Madrid to snatch a 2-1 comeback win at Barcelona in the ‘El Clasico’ and revive their slim hopes for the La Liga title on Saturday.Real ended......
MANAMA: Germany’s Nico Rosberg romped to his fifth win in a row for Mercedes on Sunday and ended Formula One champion team-mate Lewis Hamilton’s hopes of a third successive Bahrain Grand Prix......
MILAN: Napoli’s title hopes are all but over after losing 3-1 at Udinese to leave them six points behind Serie A leaders Juventus with only seven rounds remaining.To add to Napoli’s misery on Sunday,......
BERLIN: Thorgan Hazard scored twice as Borussia Moenchengladbach routed Hertha Berlin 5-0 in the Bundesliga on Sunday to boost their chances of Champions League football next season.Hazard opened......
PARIS: Zlatan Ibrahimovic bagged a hat-trick as Paris St Germain geared up for their midweek Champions League clash against Manchester City with a convincing 4-1 Ligue 1 win over Nice at the Parc des......
KARACHI: Rider Wasim was on song by piloting home a brace of winners as favourites swept a four-race card of the Gymkhana race meeting at the Karachi Racecourse on Sunday.After failing to appear on......
THE Land Record Management Information System has recently computerised Punjab’s entire record of 55m-acre, while making the database current. The system will significantly improve the security of......
GILGIT Baltistan’s horticulture presents a huge export potential but the region lacks the wherewithal to switch from subsistence to commercial farming for lack of required support. About 90pc of its......
A HEATED controversy is raging over whether or not the government has given a go-ahead to some multinationals to make commercial sale of GM corn seeds at a time when the Seed (Amendment) Bill, which......
IT is a familiar clash between growers of a commodity and the end-users. And just as commodity prices are cyclical, so too are the fortunes of producers and users. India’s rubber sector, which has......
CRÉDIT Mutuel is not the kind of bank the world pays much attention to, but the profit and loss account of France’s fifth-biggest lender is instructive. Last year it made a net 2.5bn euros, 4pc more......
THE long delayed Strategic Trade Policy Framework for 2015-18 was finally announced last week. It aims to enhance exports to $35bn by 2018, which would require a miracle.Exports have been falling in......
LACKLUSTRE trading activity was witnessed in the local currency market owing to expected external inflows approved by the IMF last week. Inflows in the market offset the repayment pressure against......
THE State Bank of Pakistan has allowed banks to keep unrealised export proceeds in a special account for three days and purchase the same automatically at the market rates if exporters don’t sell on......
TAKAFUL being an Islamic alternative to conventional insurance is well known now. Having progressed from late 1970s following the rise of Islamic banking and finance, it has established quite well in......
THE government raised Rs46.811bn from the auction of treasury bills of various tenors on March 30, despite receiving bids of a much higher Rs158.604bn. The amount raised was also lower against the......
Attock Refinery was incorporated on Nov 8, 1978 and came to be listed on the stock exchanges on June 26, 1979. The company is a subsidiary of Attock Oil Company Limited, UK and its ultimate parent is......
ALMOST 83pc of Rs1,033.72bn in direct taxes collected by the Federal Board of Revenue in 2014-15 came from three cities — Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad — counted among the country’s most developed......
Many businessmen agree that there have been incremental improvements on both the economic and security fronts in the last couple of years. Interest rates are at their historic low, inflation remains......
NORMALLY, surplus production of vegetables results in marked decline in their wholesale and retail prices. The abundant supply of onion, potato, tomato etc this season has created a glut in the......
ANOTHER day, and another dharna at D-Chowk comes to a somewhat inconclusive end. In recent memory, this is the third such sit-in to take place, the previous two being the culmination of Tahirul......
AMIDST robust campaigning by liberal sections to activate the feminist lobby and strong criticism by clerics defending Islam’s endowment of women’s rights, there is a risk of overlooking the essence......
NATIONALISM is swamping India as never before. It is pouring out of every orifice and crevice, assaulting the senses and deadening the ability to think sanely. Not even in the times of war and very......
THE statement that hunger has reached crisis proportions in Pakistan may come as a surprise to anyone eating at a plush restaurant or walking down the well-stocked aisle of an upscale supermarket.......
KARACHI: After just a day’s rehearsal with the Tarz group, Kathak dancer Farah Yasmeen Shaikh lit up the auditorium at the Pakistan American Cultural Centre (PACC) with a beautiful dance performance......
KARACHI: Many of the people who frequent Sunday Bazaar for other things than just grocery shopping would have gladly skipped their weekend activity, at least this time around, had they known about......
LAST week it was mentioned in these columns that on April 2, 1966 the zoo administrators requested the public not to disturb the giraffes for a few days because the couple were expecting their first......
LARKANA: Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that the alliances emerging against the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have no public support. “Those who have joined hands against our government......
UMERKOT: Pir Sadruddin Shah, chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Functional and head of anti-PPP Grand Democratic Alliance has said that PPP leaders are a pack of looters who have encroached upon lands,......
KARACHI: The eclectic performers at the 13th All Pakistan Music Conference (APMC) saw veterans and upcoming artists in the genre of classical music come together over a three-day event at the Indus......
DAMASCUS: A week after taking back the historic town of Palmyra, Syrian troops and their allies on Sunday captured another town controlled by the militant Islamic State (IS) group in central Syria,......
BRUSSELS: Brussels Airport reopened on Sunday with three “symbolic” flights and strict additional checks for passengers, marking a new high-security era for air travel in Belgium after attacks by......
LESBOS: Greek and EU authorities were putting the final touches to an operation that could send hundreds of migrants back to Turkey on Monday, launching a landmark deal that has been slammed by......
SUBIC ZONE: Two Japanese destroyers and a submarine docked at a Philippine port on Sunday near disputed South China Sea waters, where Beijing’s increasingly assertive behaviour has sparked global......
BOGOTA: Tens of thousands of people protested in more than 20 cities across Colombia on Saturday against President Juan Manuel Santos and his government’s peace process with the FARC guerrillas.The......
TERTER: Clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian forces rumbled on Sunday, despite Baku announcing a ceasefire after the worst outbreak of violence in decades over the disputed Nagorny Karabakh......
NEW YORK: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump again lashed out at President Barrack Obama over the Iran nuclear deal.At a rally in Wisconsin, he said Obama was ‘like a baby’ because he......
HONG KONG: A controversial movie about the future of Hong Kong won the top prize at the city’s film awards on Sunday, after being a local box office hit but antagonising Beijing over its portrayal of......
DAMASCUS: The streets of Damascus are plastered with campaign posters and banners as President Bashar al-Assad’s regime pushesahead with parliamentary elections despite Syria’s nearly five-year-old......
MOSCOW: “For example, there’s clearly too much dirt / Bottles, cans and other litter / They could use our snow to cover it like cotton / And the whiteness would soothe the eyes,” Soviet Ambassador......
A PLEASANTLY cool evening has descended on Taksim Square, one of Istanbul’s main attractions, as I find myself in front of Cumhuriyet Aniti, or the Monument of the Republic. Enthusiastic visitors are......
A SOPHISTICATED spin doctor person will advise his client not to get involved in a dispute over criticism, as this gives the critic lots of free publicity, apart from making people curious about the......
MOSCOW: A fire ripped through a Russian Defence Ministry building in central Moscow on Sunday, sending plumes of smoke over the Russian capital as fire fighters battled to extinguish the blaze.Around......
JOHANNESBURG: The South African parliament will next week discuss an opposition motion to impeach President Jacob Zuma after country’s highest court ruled that he flouted the constitution, an......
RAWALPINDI: A team of the Rawalpindi police will leave for Karachi on Monday to arrest four men suspected of attacking singer-turned fashion designer and evangelist Junaid Jamshed at the Benazir......
RAWALPINDI: The women’s park adjacent to Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) and Liaquat Bagh, the one which was destroyed during the metro bus project in March 2014, is now being used as a solid......
ISLAMABAD: As a tribute to the children of Army Public School (APS) Peshawar and those killed in the attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, social documentary photographers from Islamabad,......
ISLAMABAD: The homemade food delivery business in the capital is really coming of age. With stories of restaurants being shut down for unhygienic kitchens and for using substandard ingredients, some......
ISLAMABAD: On the third day of Lok Virsa’s annual folk festival, child singers put on performances of their local, traditional songs at Garden Avenue in Shakarparian.The event was attended by......
PESHAWAR: The three-day celebrations of 355th urs of Rahman Baba concluded at Rahman Baba Complex here on Sunday.Started on April 1, the three-day urs celebrations of the 17th century Sufi poet......
ISLAMABAD: On the third day of Lok Virsa’s annual folk festival, child singers put on performances of their local, traditional songs at Garden Avenue in Shakarparian.The event was attended by......
LAHORE: The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) has decided to close mechanical swings and children playing area in four major public parks in the city at 6pm daily, directing the officials......
LAHORE: As most schools’ new academic session is beginning across Punjab on Monday (today), the textbooks of different subjects are unavailable in the market, causing a lot of problems to the......
OKARA: In a joint operation, conducted by army, Rangers and police, as many as 25 suspected terrorists, including eight proclaimed offenders, were picked from 34/2L (Balochan wali) village and......
RIYADH: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Saudi King Salman on Sunday during his first official visit to the kingdom, home to a large number of Indian workers and a major trade partner that......
NEW DELHI / LUCKNOW: An officer of India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) was shot dead in Bijnor district of western Uttar Pradesh, official sources said on Sunday.Tanzil Ahmed was with his......
TOKYO: Japan is witnessing a record number of compensation claims related to death from overwork, or “karoshi”, a phenomenon that is increasingly afflicting young and female employees.Labour demand,......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has detained 14 foreigners after seizing 110 kilograms of heroin worth $7.5 million from an Iranian fishing trawler in the country’s biggest drug bust for nearly three years,......
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund expects Pakistan to curtail its overall development budget by Rs360 billion (almost 24pc) of allocations to limit the fiscal deficit.According to documents......
MUZAFFARABAD: A landslide struck two houses in Neelum valley of Azad Kashmir, leaving five children and three women dead, an official said on Sunday.The valley’s Deputy Commissioner Abdul Hameed......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that interference in Balochistan by the Indian intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), had been continuing for......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Mini-ster for Planning, Develop-ment and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal said on Sunday that Pakistan attached great importance to its commitments on the Sustainable Development Goals......
QUETTA: The Injectable Polio Vaccine (IPV) campaign will be launched in three high-risk districts of Balochistan on Monday.Provincial Coordinator of Polio Programme Dr Syed Saifur Rehman said on......
ISLAMABAD: Former president and PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has warned the nation against shifting of power from people to “unelected elements”.In a message issued by the party’s media centre on......
FAISALABAD: Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid has said that the government is fighting people involved in conspiracies, sit-ins, agents of the Indian intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing......
QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) has announced that it will hold protest rallies across the province on April 4 against arrest of party workers by security forces.Speaking at a......
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry has pleaded before the Supreme Court that model Ayyan Ali is not entitled to any relief due to the serious nature of her offence and the subsequent suppression of......
QUETTA: Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhel of the Balochistan High Court has said that judges are bound to give verdict according to their conscience based on justice.He was speaking at a ceremony for......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties will be meeting in Karachi on Tuesday to devise a strategy on the controversial PIA bill ahead of the joint sitting of parliament slated for April 11.The meeting will be......
SHANGLA/GILGIT: Torrential rains and flash floods wreaked havoc in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan on Sunday, killing at least 60 men, women and children and injuring 67 others.Landslides......
KOLKATA: West Indies’ Carlos Brathwaite hit England’s Ben Stokes for four successive sixes to snatch a thrilling four-wicket win in Sunday’s World Twenty20 final as the Caribbean side became the......
ISLAMABAD: A massive leak of secret files from a Panamanian law firm that specialises in offshore tax havens has revealed the often-murky financial wheelings and dealings of some of the world’s most......
