REYKJAVIK: Iceland's prime minister resigned Tuesday, becoming the first political victim of a mushrooming worldwide scandal over hidden offshore financial dealings exposed in the so-called Panama......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in an address to the nation Tuesday evening said a high-level judicial commission will be formed to probe his family for wrongdoing, after the 'Panama Papers'......
ISLAMABAD: The famous revolving door of Pakistan cricket will continue to swing if the structure of the game is not overhauled, former captain Imran Khan warned on TuesdayT20 skipper Shahid Afridi......
LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron came under pressure to explain his family's financial affairs on Tuesday after the so-called Panama Papers revealed his late father ran an offshore fund which......
ROME: An Italian court on Tuesday called for new Chelsea manager Antonio Conte to receive a six-month suspended prison sentence over match-fixing allegations.The current Italy manager, who will take......
Both start-ups were the result of stressful wedding planning; in the case of one, the bride lost her initial wedding mirth, in the other, the brother ended up pulling his hair out in frustration. The......
ISLAMABAD: India's heavy military spending and acquisition of weapons threatens Pakistan and its efforts for regional peace, said National Security Adviser Lieutenant General (retd) Nasir Khan Janjua......
STOCKHOLM: Despite being the tenth largest arms importer in the world last year, Pakistan did not make it to a list of 15 countries with the highest military expenditure in 2015, compiled by a......
LUCKNOW: A special court in India has sentenced 47 policemen to life in prison for killing a group of Sikh pilgrims in 1991 whom they had claimed were militants, a prosecutor said Tuesday.The......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has banned Iran's Mahan Air from flying into the Kingdom as tensions between the two middle eastern powers remain high.The Kingdom's General Authority of Civil Aviation issued......
ISLAMABAD: Wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed has replaced Shahid Afridi as captain of Pakistan's Twenty20 team.Afridi quit as captain after Pakistan lost three of its four group matches at the World......
HONG KONG: Authorities across the globe have opened investigations into the activities of the world's rich and powerful after a cache of leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm showed possible......
AMMAN: Militant Islamic State (IS) group fighters attacked Syrian army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian military airport in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor that borders......
QUETTA: At least one passenger was killed and several others injured as a remote-controlled bomb hit the Quetta-bound Jaffar Express in Balochistan's Sibi district on Tuesday.The passenger train......
WASHINGTON: The United States (US) Navy awarded a $170 million contract for the manufacture of nine AH-1Z Viper Attack Helicopters to Bell Helicopter, the US Department of Defense said in a statement......
MARDAN: Several suspected militants and their facilitators were arrested during a joint operation by security forces and police in Mardan, Swabi and surrounding areas.A statement issued by the ISPR......
PESHAWAR: The district council’s hall echoed with slogans and cries when the treasury members criticised its own PTI government over failure to address civic issues in Peshawar.Some of them even wore......
LANDI KOTAL: Protest demonstrations and boycott by activists of various political parties marred the dialogue process, which a five-member Fata Reforms Committee held with various stakeholders in......
PESHAWAR: Women of Peshawar know their family limits and cultural constraints but they also know how to have fun and be creative, the Huner-i-Hawwa Festival has proved it.Whether it was the giggling......
PESHAWAR: While paying tribute to founder of their party Zulfikar Ali Bhutto for working for the welfare of the downtrodden people, the local PPP activists on Monday announced said they would further......
RAWALPINDI: Groupings in the local chapter of the PPP led to rumpus during a function held on the death anniversary of the party’s founding chairman and former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in......
MUZAFFARABAD: Two more people lost lives to rain related incidents in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Monday as heavy rains continued to lash the territory’s northern mountainous districts,......
ISLAMABAD: The Panama Papers may have generated a worldwide controversy over the financial activities of the global elite, but the revelations made thus far do not look to be too troublesome for the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan can achieve food security through sustainable food production, food experts at a lecture titled ‘Food Security and Need for Good Agricultural Practices in Crop Production’ said on......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation mayor, Sheikh Ansar Aziz Monday said the elected corporation was waiting for transfer of powers to start providing basic facilities to the citizen of......
The Panama Papers have caused a global uproar by laying bare the murky world of off-shore companies operated by the world’s elite in the many tax havens around the globe. To get a better......
CHAKWAL: The people of Chakwal on Sunday enjoyed a traditional game which was revived after 40 years in Bhoun, one of the oldest villages of the district.In the game, two camels compete with each......
LAHORE: The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) of police claimed on Monday to have arrested 12 members of a bike snatchers’ gang and recovered Rs2.8558 million cash, stolen motorcycles, two pistols and......
LAHORE: Two days after showing their resolve to launch an anti-government movement on the Women Protection Act issue, religious parties agreed on Monday to shun their protest plan and join an......
LAHORE: The first phase of recruitment of 3,352 security officials for the Specialised Protection Unit (SPU) has been completed.This unit would be responsible for protecting Chinese and other foreign......
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Rana Iqbal on Monday blocked a resolution seeking probe into ‘Panama Leaks’ forcing the opposition to walk out of the house in protest.Opposition leader Mian Mahmoodur......
LAHORE: Faisal Ali Rana is the fifth Okara district police officer who is being given a tough time by local pressure groups, in this case the lawyers, with all his predecessors getting transferred......
KARACHI: Twelve days after naming his party amid much fanfare, former Karachi mayor Syed Mustafa Kamal on Monday brought a former senator, who languished on the bottom rung of the Muttahida Qaumi......
KARACHI: With the handing over of ballot papers and other required material to the district returning officers, the stage has been set for holding by-elections on April 7 in National Assembly......
KARACHI: White is the greenest colour. Painting roofs, walls and pavements white or light-coloured is the cheapest and one of the most effective strategies to reduce energy consumption, make homes......
Yildirim is a Turkish word and it means ‘lightning’. How Syed Sajjad Hyder, son of an upper-middle class family from Nehtaur, a small town in the district of Bijnor, UP, became Yildirim is an......
KARACHI: If it was not a surprise enough to find out that the National Museum of Pakistan was closed on Pakistan Day (March 23), because it fell on a Wednesday and the museum does not open on......
KARACHI: Police claim to have arrested 766 illegal Afghan refugees in districts central and west of Karachi during search operations carried out between Dec 21, 2014 and March 21, 2016.The statistics......
GARHI KHUDA BUKHSH BHUTTO: Pakistan Peoples Party-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB) chairperson Ghinwa Bhutto has urged people, especially the followers of PPP founder chairman Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, to make a......
LARKANA: Sindh Pakistan Peoples Party general secretary Taj Haider, who was in Garhi Khuda Bukhsh Bhutto to attend the public meeting on the 37th death anniversary of the party’s founder chairman......
BRAZZAVILLE: Gunbattles rocked the capital of Congo Republic on Monday, shattering a relative calm that had followed President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s re-election in a disputed poll last month.Former......
NABLUS: Israeli forces demolished the family homes early on Monday of three Palestinians killed after a deadly attack in east Jerusalem in February, Palestinian security sources and the Israeli army......
GAZA CITY: Construction workers in Gaza have discovered ancient ruins that archaeologists say may be part of a Byzantine church dating from around 1,500 years ago, the Palestinian tourism and......
HEAVY fighting between the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Armenia over the weekend has highlighted the unresolved disputes and chronic internal instability that still affect key strategic areas of......
PRINCETON: Kristen Coke and Jameil Brown enrolled at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs at Princeton University not knowing much about the school’s namesake aside......
BEIRUT: Syrian troops and allied militiamen pressed on with an offensive against militants of the Islamic State group in central Syria on Monday, clashing with the extremists around the town of......
ROME: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will travel to Iran next week for a two-day trip that will make him the first major leader to visit since the lifting of international sanctions against......
BAGHDAD: Militants unleashed a wave of suicide attacks across Iraq on Monday, killing at least 29 people and wounding dozens, officials said.The deadliest attack took place in the southern province......
YANGON: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has dropped plans to run two major ministries but will act as spokeswoman for the country’s new president, a ruling party official said on Monday.Banned from......
GENEVA: A Swiss museum is to exhibit works from a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard it inherited two years ago from a German recluse, gallery managers said on Monday.The Museum of Fine Arts in Bern said......
SRINAGAR: The leader of a pro-India party on Monday became the first woman to become the chief minister of Indian-occupied Kashmir following the death of her father, the region’s top elected......
DAKAR: The Pentagon announced on Monday the transfer of two Libyan inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre to Senegal, the latest move under President Barack Obama’s contentious plan to......
KOLKATA: Millions of voters head to the polls on Monday in two Indian states, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party facing a tough fight as it tries to tighten its grip on power nationally.Modi’s......
LAHORE: Dejected by a string of defeats suffered by national limited-overs teams and the recent leak of his confidential report to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), head coach Waqar Younis after......
KOLKATA: Proud skipper Eoin Morgan has backed England to bounce back from the pain of defeat to the West Indies in the final of cricket’s World Twenty20, saying his young side’s potential is......
ZURICH: A member of the ethics committee responsible for rooting out corruption in football’s governing body FIFA has himself been placed under a preliminary investigation, the watchdog said on......
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 deal that will start following Euro......
TERMAS HONDO: Spain’s Marc Marquez won the Argentine Grand Prix for Honda on Sunday to take the overall lead in the MotoGP standings after a shortened race overshadowed by concerns about tyre......
SYDNEY: Olympic sprint hurdles champion Sally Pearson has been named captain of Australia’s athletics team for the Rio Games and said she could make her competitive return from injury next month.The......
LONDON: The Spanish rivalry between Barcelona and Atletico Madrid returns to the Champions League, this time with gritty Atletico filled with confidence and powerful Barca struggling.The teams have......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday approved Rs218 billion for procurement of 7.05 million tonnes of wheat this season and allowed oil refineries to continue enjoying generous financial benefits for......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has proposed a 100 per cent increase in stamp duty rates on bill of entry (goods declaration) from Rs500 to Rs1,000 in the budget 2016-17.The tax proposals submitted by......
KARACHI: Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Monday proposed to ask listed firms to maintain their float at 25 per cent within the next three years.The regulation would apply to companies with share......
KARACHI: The Sui Southern Gas Company Ltd (SSGCL) and the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd (SNGPL) on Monday lifted the gas moratorium on high-rise residential buildings on the directives of Federal......
DUBAI: Iran will continue increasing its oil production and exports until it reaches the market position it enjoyed before the imposition of sanctions, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was quoted by the......
KARACHI: The rally at the stock market gained momentum on the fourth consecutive day with the KSE-100 index gaining 358.80 points (1.07 per cent) to close at 33,808.42.Potential re-rating due to the......
KARACHI: Cotton trading was listless on Monday as buyers and sellers generally remained on the sidelines. Ginners have very little quantity of stocks at present, especially of quality......
WASHINGTON: Global market spillovers from China’s economic shocks will only increase in coming years as the country’s financial influence grows and the yuan’s use as a funding currency broadens, the......
LONDON: Gold fell on Monday after strong US economic data boosted investor risk sentiment, while uncertainty continued about the Federal Reserve’s interest rates path.Spot gold eased 0.2 per cent to......
ISLAMABAD: Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Chief Zafar Hijazi has said that he is committed to bringing about reforms in agricultural commodity trading by encouraging traders to......
SINGAPORE: Crude prices extended losses in Asia on Monday after comments by Saudi Arabia cast doubt whether key producers meeting would reach an agreement to freeze output to address a global supply......
KUWAIT CITY: Middle Eastern and North African nations can make a “net benefit” of $750 billion if they achieve their set targets on the use of renewable energy, a senior official said on......
QUETTA: The Communist Party’s Secretary for Xinjiang, Zhang Chunxian, has said that China is interested in making investment in Gwadar and that joint ventures will bring an economic revolution to the......
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration was working with Congress for passing a law that would recognise India as a major partner of equal status, a senior Pentagon official said on Monday.Also on......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution on Monday, calling on the federal government to ensure supply of 725MW of electricity through the Dadu-Khuzdar and D.G. Khan-Loralai......
DIKILI (Turkey): As many as 130 Pakistanis were among 202 migrants piled onto boats from two Greek islands and shipped back to Turkey on Monday as the implementation of a European Union (EU) plan to......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Anwar Zaheer Jamali observed on Monday that militants persecuted people under “their own laws”, but sought justice under the Constitution from the Supreme Court......
ISLAMABAD: The Transparency International has urged the international community to act immediately to adopt transparency laws to outlaw secret companies.The Transparency’s call comes in the wake of......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday accepted for hearing an appeal filed by former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf against the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) orders in the disqualification......
ISLAMABAD: Model Ayyan Ali accused the government on Monday of amending the schedule to Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2010, on April 1, 2015, with mala fide intent to encompass specific provisions of......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif visited a training area near Pabbi on Monday and witnessed the concluding ceremony of Pakistan Army Team Spirit competition.The team spirit matches......
ISLAMABAD: More than 20 cases of alleged corruption in the Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (Fuuast) have been referred to the NAB and FIA for investigation and to bring those......
AFTER crossing the Ravi bridge which offers a depressing sight of a drying river that has partly been reduced to toxic sludge, through a small winding road among several congested ones, past a humble......
LAHORE: In what appeared to be another cosmetic surgery of cricket, the Pakistan Cricket Board has disbanded the national selection committee and removed T20 captain Shahid Afridi and head coach......
LONDON: Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on Monday following a leak of documents from a Panamanian law firm which allegedly......
NEW DELHI: The Indian government on Monday declared that action would be taken against “unlawful” accounts held abroad by Indians and constituted a multi-agency group to continuously monitor......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif on Monday to discuss the civil-military impasse over the authorisation of military-led counter-terrorism operations in......
ISLAMABAD: The revelations contained in the Panama Papers reignited a war of words between PTI and PML-N as Imran Khan claimed the leak had vindicated his stance and asked for a National......
ISLAMABAD: Revelations from the Panama Papers have caused uproar in Pakistan after media reports claimed that several politicians, businessmen and other influential figures were named as owners or......
GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH: People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that he would fight against terrorism even at the cost of his life and would not surrender to terrorists.Addressing a......
MANSEHRA: A massive landslide struck at least seven houses in Kohistan district on Monday morning, burying alive at least 30 people.Kohistan Deputy Commissioner Fazl-i-Khaliq told journalists that......
THE operation against militants in Punjab was long overdue. Both sceptics and believers of state policies had been watching out for it, locked in a ‘will it/won’t it/when will it’ debate. It’s kind......
FAIZ Ahmed Faiz was decorated with the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize. Saudi Arabia’s highest civilian award has been conferred on Narendra Modi. That’s the natural order of things. Of course, I......
THE most difficult thing in Pakistan is to reclaim the space — physical or ideological — that the state has ceded to various mafia. I don’t need to comment or elaborate on how and where the extremist......
DECENNIAL population census is a must in most countries of the world nowadays. Population census is conducted to gather basic information on the total number of people living at a particular point in......
