KARACHI: Several porters working at Cantt Station have been admitted to Jinnah Hospital where they are recovering from injuries after a clash with the railway contractor and his men on Wednesday.At......
QUETTA: Security forces on Wednesday claimed to have killed 15 suspected militants in Balochistan’s Kalat district.“Security forces conducted a raid against miscreants of a banned militant......
RAWALPINDI/LAHORE: Security forces, with assistance from Pakistan Army, are conducting an operation against terrorists and hardcore criminals in areas of southern Punjab."Coordinated operations are......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said Tuesday that destroying the militant Islamic State (IS) group remains his “top priority" at a time when the militant group continues to lose ground in Iraq......
Mohammad Hafeez termed Pakistan’s disastrous exit from the recently concluded World Twenty20 a ‘collective failure’ of the team and vowed to support the newly-appointed T20 skipper Sarfraz......
JERUSALEM: Israeli security agencies are on alert over the potential for cyber-attacks by Anonymous on Thursday, after the hacker group previously targeted the Jewish state each April 7.The attacks......
SYDNEY: Australia on Wednesday announced their first Test tour of Sri Lanka in five years, with the world's number one team embarking on a two-month series from July.Steve Smith's side will play......
KARACHI: Former Karachi mayor and leader of Pak Sarzameen Party, Mustafa Kamal, announced the joining of another Sindh Assembly member, Bilquis Mukhtar, to his newly formed political party.Since his......
PARIS: Jurgen Klopp makes his eagerly anticipated return to Borussia Dortmund on Thursday when his Liverpool side visit the German giants in the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final......
‘Come, let’s have some fun,’ said captain Dhoni.'Captain Cool' was fed up of being asked about his retirement plans yet again and it was time to turn the tables on the pesky journalists. So he pulled......
LAHORE: Six suspected militants belonging to a splinter group of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed in an ‘encounter’ here early Wednesday morning, police said.A Counter......
MIANWALI: At least 18 people were killed and fourteen others injured when a speeding bus collided with a trailer in Punjab's Mianwali district on Wednesday.The passenger bus was going to Islamabad......
PESHAWAR: The city administration has killed almost 1,100 giant rats in the past six days, ever since the start of an 'operation' to rid the city of the mammal that has caused grave problems for......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan has assailed the double standards practiced by some states, which preach nuclear disarmament but fail to take necessary steps themselves.Speaking in a session of the UN......
BARCELONA: Luis Suarez scored two second-half goals to lead Barcelona to a 2-1 comeback victory over 10-man Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday.Fernando......
Manchester City centre back Martin Demichelis has accepted a Football Association charge that he broke betting rules, British media reported.The 35-year-old was accused last month of committing 12......
QUETTA: An agent working for the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) – Afghanistan's premier spy agency – was arrested from Chaman district in Balochistan Wednesday morning, officials......
SYDNEY: Australia's elite female cricketers were handed a significant pay rise on Wednesday to make them the top earners of any women's team sport in the country.Cricket Australia said the maximum......
I sometimes imagine what it would be like to belong to another religion in Pakistan. Would I own it, would I prefer it?I was ecstatic when news of a public holiday on Holi in Sindh broke. However......
ISLAMABAD: Politicians belonging to opposition parties severely criticised Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to form a judicial commission to clear his children of allegations that resurfaced......
NEW YORK: Amnesty International reports that there was a dramatic 54 per cent increase in executions globally in 2015, with Pakistan carrying out 326 executions last year – the highest ever recorded......
KARACHI: You may now also catch a train, not to travel anywhere, but to fulfil your gastronomical needs, as a few railroad cars or coaches at Karachi city and cantonment railway stations have been......
MINGORA: Widespread protests erupted across Swat on Tuesday against the extension of the Customs Act 1969 to Malakand division.After marching on roads, political activists, traders, lawyers,......
PESHAWAR: In a city terrorised by target killers and extortionists, no wonder doctors top the list of membership at the country’s first private shooting club located in Peshawar.Located on the busy......
ISLAMABAD: Pharmaceutical companies have blamed the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) for the current shortage of certain medicines in the country.Their representative body, the Pharma......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday issued notices to Federal Minister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid, ex-prime minister Shaukat Aziz and former chief justice of Pakistan Abdul......
RAWALPINDI: As the Auqaf department has failed to entertain more than 100 applications from four districts of Rawalpindi Division, the dowry fund is likely to remain unspent this fiscal year.A senior......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry on Tuesday said in the absence of long overdue census the government did not have complete data......
MULTAN: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) could not complete an inquiry into an ATM cash withdrawal case lodged by a complainant who died one and a half years back.As per details, Muhammad......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Five children, two brothers among them, were buried alive while eight others were injured when the roofs of a double-storey building of a seminary on Dera-Multan Road caved in during......
LAHORE: The fifth Dawn Food and Agri Expo and conference began at the Expo Centre on Tuesday. Thousands of farmers, exhibitors, academia, scientists and representatives of private and government......
LAHORE: A group of lawyers on Tuesday locked a woman additional district & sessions judge in her courtroom allegedly for not rendering a favourable decision.AD&SJ Najaf Shahzadi and her staff......
LAHORE: Fundamental changes in the state structure and its guiding assumptions alone can save the fast deterioration in governance.This is the conclusion of a preliminary report on a new social......
KARACHI: Railway authorities have been asked to abolish the contract system for porter service and cut out the middleman so that porters are not exploited.The demand was made at a protest......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Coast Guards on Tuesday claimed to have arrested more than 70 illegal immigrants, including Afghan nationals, at Gwadar while they were attempting to enter Iran through......
KARACHI: Litigation over the fate of 189 Pakistani prisoners reportedly languishing in Indian penitentiaries took a new turn on Tuesday when a human rights activist submitted in the Sindh High Court......
KARACHI: Armed robbers stormed into a private bank branch in Korangi on Tuesday and walked off with more than Rs8 million in the fifth bank heist this year, officials said.They said that five armed......
KARACHI: The owners of air-conditioned buses on Tuesday threatened to wind up their businesses if their long-standing demand for an intercity bus terminal for the metropolis was not met.“No civil or......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court sentenced on Tuesday an alleged gangster to a collective 33 years in prison in cases pertaining to attempted murder and possession of explosives and illicit......
SUKKUR: Senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and former federal information minister Qamar Zaman Kaira, endorsing a call for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation over the global offshore......
NAUDERO: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari decided on Monday to reorganise the party.The decision was taken at the PPP central executive committee (CEC) held at Naudero......
THAT Murshidabad was the capital city of Bengal in the 18th century, and that it was the era when its splendour and grandeur reached its zenith has almost faded away from public memory. Perhaps that......
The Shani Shingnapur temple in Ahmednagar is said to be one of the many places of worship across the country barred to women.Two emotive facets are inherent here — the practice of a vigorous faith......
NEW DELHI: Three low-caste teenagers were stripped, beaten and forced to march naked in public after they were accused of stealing a motorcycle in western India, video footage showed on Tuesday.Angry......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday called for international tax reforms to prevent tax evasion like those reported in the Panama Papers.“There is no doubt that the problem of global tax......
DHAKA: Former prime minister Khaleda Zia secured bail in a sedition case and four graft cases after she appeared in five separate courts in Bangladesh’s capital.Zia and the opposition Bangladesh......
PARIS: France’s national army museum has recreated the home where Napoleon lived his final years, bringing furniture and belongings from the remote Atlantic Island of St. Helena to Paris for the......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday elevated wicket-keeper/batsman and T20 vice-captain Sarfraz Ahmed as national T20 skipper in place of Shahid Afridi who stepped down after his......
KARACHI: Newly-installed Pakistan T20 captain Sarfraz Ahmed has termed his elevation as huge challenge in the wake of disappointing results during the recent Asia Cup and the ICC World Twenty20.The......
LONDON: It is time to deliver for Paris St Germain and Manchester City as the two mega-rich teams prepare to lock horns in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final on Wednesday while......
ST JOHN’S: How can any West Indies cricket achievement beat the period of dominance in which the Clive Lloyd-led teams won two World Cups (in 1975 and 1979) and were beaten in a Test series only once......
AUGUSTA: Rory McIlroy didn’t let the Masters field finish Monday’s opening practice day before sending the message that he will contend to complete a career Grand Slam this week at Augusta......
TOKYO: Japan swim king Kosuke Kitajima was furious at himself on Tuesday after failing in his bid to qualify for this summer’s Rio Olympics in the men’s 100-metre breaststroke.The 33-year-old, who......
SALVO (North Carolina): Sprinter Justin Gatlin’s trainer will remain as US relay coach for the Rio Olympics after officials decided to delay implementing a new policy for the job, USA Track & Field......
LONDON: World heavyweight title contender Anthony Joshua on Tuesday accused British compatriot Tyson Fury, the WBA and WBO champion, of being jealous of his “beach body”.Joshua, 26, faces American......
KARACHI: Wajid Alam struck a fine half century while inspiring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to a tense three-wicket victory over Balochistan in the final of the Shama Disabled T20 Pentangular Cup at the......
MARDAN: Abdul Wali University Mardan (AWKUM) clinched first position in the archery tournament held here on Tuesday.University of Swabi came second while Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Shereengal,......
ISLAMABAD: Cricketer-turned politician Imran Khan on Tuesday selected five fast bowlers out of 18 who were given an opportunity to show their talent before the chief of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf......
MOSCOW: Olympic hammer throw champion Tatyana Beloborodova of Russia has been suspended in a doping case, the IAAF said on Tuesday, potentially increasing pressure on the country’s track and field......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) collection rose 22 per cent to Rs718 billion during the three months to March from Rs588bn a year ago.In March alone, the board collected Rs297bn......
KARACHI: Cement despatches soared to record 3.584 million tonnes in March 2016 as compared to 3m tonnes in the same month last year, thanks to a healthy growth in domestic consumption and turnaround......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Banks Association claimed on Tuesday that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), in violation of the constitutional provisions and article 8 of the 7th NFC award, is issuing......
KARACHI: The local private sector can make inroads into the French market with greater ease because of access to bank loans after credit insurance agency Coface resumed its coverage of Pakistan last......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has allowed companies to withhold all future dividends of shareholders who have not provided their CNIC numbers to be written on......
KARACHI: Pakistan launched its first domestic payment scheme on Tuesday, becoming 28th country to have such system.The new payment scheme has been branded as PayPak and will compete in the domestic......
KARACHI: After four days of rising trend that lifted the index close to the 34,000 level, market went in consolidation phase on Tuesday. The KSE-100 index pulled back by 41.93 points (0.12 per cent)......
KARACHI: Trading on the cotton market improved as needy spinners rushed back to replenish their stocks on Tuesday. However, buying pattern was more of short-term covering than building up of......
KARACHI: Japan would cooperate with Pakistan in the energy, automobile and other engineering sectors on priority basis, Japanese Consul General, Atsushi Murata said on Tuesday during a visit to the......
LONDON: Gold rebounded more than 1 per cent on Tuesday, snapping two days of losses as risk appetite evaporated, pushing European stocks down 1.7pc and knocking the dollar to a 17-month low against......
FRANKFURT: Global economic recovery is still “too slow” and “too fragile” in the face of growing risks from a slowdown in China and subdued growth in developing economies, International Monetary Fund......
ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister’s Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said on Tuesday said the all-weather strategic partnership between Pakistan and China was an anchor for regional peace and......
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali observed on Tuesday that the concept of secret ballot is alien to Islam and is rather, derived from the west. “The method of secret ballot......
LAHORE: Former chairman of the Evacuee Trust Property Board Asif Hashmi has been arrested in Dubai for his alleged involvement in a ‘shoddy’ land deal with the DHA, Lahore, causing a loss of over Rs1......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Railways has filed an application with the Supreme Court, requesting it to take early decision in the Royal Palm Golf Club case.Presiding over a meeting of......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) is unlikely to act against top politicians on basis of the disclosures made in the Panama Papers, which contain details of offshore companies......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to initiate investigations against officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for alleged misappropriation in the sale of buildings......
QUETTA: Two passengers of Quetta-bound Jaffar Express were killed and five others injured when a bomb hit at a railway track near Mithri area of Sibi district on Tuesday.Police said the bomb had been......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf decided on Tuesday to raise in the National Assembly the issue of Panama Papers revelations and an adjournment motion would be submitted in the assembly on......
PARIS: Several countries have launched tax evasion investigations after a massive leak of confidential documents lifted the lid on the murky offshore financial dealings of a slew of politicians and......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to revoke its decision to extend the Customs Act 1969 to the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (Pata).Special assistant to the chief......
NEW DELHI: Indian movie actor Amitabh Bachchan, named in what has been dubbed the Panama Papers — a massive leak of tax documents on offshore companies and accounts of the rich and the powerful —......
KABUL: An Afghan leader who lives in hiding has dropped a key condition for ending his war of more than 40 years with Kabul, an associate said on Tuesday.According to Amin Karim, an official of the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s current envoy to Qatar has extensive experience in the international banking and investment sector, something which the Foreign Ministry says makes him a perfect choice for the......
NEW DELHI: India’s opposition parties targeted on Tuesday Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Pakistan media reports that Pathankot attack was “stage-managed” by India and that its joint investigation......
MANSEHRA/GILGIT: Rescuers recovered two bodies and four injured on Tuesday from the houses which were struck by a massive landslide in Thor Nullah Bari area of Kohistan district on Monday morning.A......
LAHORE: Tehmina Durrani, wife of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, has demanded return of the offshore wealth to the nation even if the companies are legal.In one of her tweets, she says that......
REYKJAVIK: Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson became the first major casualty of the Panama Papers revelations, stepping down on Tuesday after leaked files showed his wife owned an......
ISLAMABAD: In an effort to calm the storm whipped up by the revelations contained in the recently leaked Panama Papers, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has announced that a judicial commission would......
AS the Panama Papers ricochet around the world, triggering political crises in countries far and wide and engulfing politicians in scandal, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his PML-N have been unable......
The Panama Papers only confirm what has long been known. The unprecedented leak of confidential documents provides some insight into how the rich and powerful stash away their wealth in secret......
THE stunning performance of Pakistan’s women’s cricket team came to an end on March 27 when they lost the match against England in the World T20 Championship. While the girls may have lost the match......
LIBERALS saw Mumtaz Qadri’s execution as the triumph of reason, while Islamists declared him a martyr. Friday sermons thundered at the injustice of rulers. In such polarised times, is there a middle......
“WE own half the world, oh say can you see/ The name for our profits is democracy/ So, like it or not, you will have to be free/ ‘Cause we are the cops of the world, boys/ We’re the cops of the......
WASHINGTON: The popular messaging service WhatsApp said Tuesday it had implemented “full end-to-end encryption,” a move which steps up privacy but may lead to conflicts with law enforcement......
