Pakistan suffered their fourth straight defeat at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup as hosts Malaysia edged off to a 1-0 win over Mohammad Imran’s side on Wednesday.Malaysia skipper Mohammad Razie Rahim......
ISLAMABAD: Indian intelligence agency RAW has established a special cell at its Head Quarters in New Delhi to sabotage China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project and the plan is executed via......
LONDON: New Zealand's Brendon McCullum and Kane Williamson, as well as Australia captain Steven Smith, have been chosen among the Wisden Almanack's Five Cricketers of the Year announced Wednesday.The......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday said the government had contacted senior former judges of the apex court, including former chief justices, to head the inquiry......
Ninety-seven years ago, one of the bloodiest actions of British rule was the calculated massacre of close to 2,000 innocent Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims at the Jallianwala Bagh. The firing was ordered......
ISLAMABAD: The controversial Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill 2015 was approved in the National Assembly (NA) on Wednesday.The bill must also be approved by Senate before it can be signed into......
Cristiano Ronaldo inspired Real Madrid to a record sixth successive Champions League semi-final with a hat-trick as the Spanish giants overturned a 2-0 first leg deficit, beating Wolfsburg 3-0 on......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif left for London from Lahore's Allama Iqbal Airport on Wednesday for a 'personal and medical visit'. The PM's plane made a brief stop in Moscow for unknown......
SRINAGAR: Angry residents clashed with police in India-held Kashmir Wednesday, one day after three civilians were killed when soldiers fired on protesters incensed by the alleged molestation of a......
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is encouraged that Pakistan will convert cash-strapped Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) into a limited company but said on Wednesday it will see......
NEW DELHI: United States (US) Defence Secretary Ashton Carter on Tuesday, while agreeing "in principle" to share military logistics with India, said at a joint press conference alongside Indian......
In the wake of yet another massive hit by Pakistani pop and Internet sensation, Taher Shah, we requested him to write a blog for us.The idea emerged when Shah published a truly insightful piece on......
PANAMA CITY: Panama's attorney general late on Tuesday raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm to search for any evidence of illegal activities, authorities said in a statement.The......
MULTAN: At least 19 people including two children were killed in a collision between a passenger bus and a truck in Pakistan early on Wednesday, officials said.The accident took place near......
CHANGSHA: A judge has ruled against a gay couple in China's first same-sex marriage case.The court in the city of Changsha on Wednesday threw out the suit against the local civil affairs bureau that......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC), upholding an earlier Sindh High Court ruling, directed the Interior Ministry to strike supermodel Ayyan Ali's name off the Exit Control List (ECL) on......
ISLAMABAD: The war of words between the government and the opposition in the wake of the Panama leaks took an ugly turn on Tuesday when the leader of the opposition lashed out at the interior......
ISLAMABAD: After an extended weekend in Lahore, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will head to London on Wednesday for a three-day visit to undergo a pending medical check-up, the Prime Minister’s Office......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali said on Tuesday that the responsibility for conducting investigations rests with the executive and not the judiciary. His words are being perceived by......
LANDI KOTAL: An Afghan woman and a young girl died while 12 others fainted on Tuesday because of mayhem at Torkham border crossing after the authorities refused to let in thousands of Afghans and......
LAHORE: Security forces carrying out a joint operation in the riverine area of Rajanpur got a final nod on Tuesday for air strikes to hit the gangsters hiding in a 10km-long piece of tract surrounded......
ISLAMABAD: A joint investigation team (JIT) has been formed to investigate money laundering charges against Muttahida Qaumi Movement Chief Altaf Hussain.The team, headed by FIA Islamabad’s Director......
BERLIN: Secret agents from several countries, including intermediaries of the US Central Intelligence Agency, have used the services of Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca in order to “conceal” their......
ALLAMA Imdad Ali Imam Ali Kazi, an eminent philosopher and scholar and Vice Chancellor of Sindh University, died in 1968.He was born on April 19, 1886 in Hyderabad. After completing primary education......
PESHAWAR: The tribal elders of Kurram Agency and their Afghan cousins holding lands on both sides of the border have started negotiations to continue to force militants of Daesh and its affiliates......
GHALANAI: At least 12 displaced families returned to border areas in Khwezai tehsil, Mohmand Agency, here the other day, said officials of the political administration.The tribesmen were displaced......
MARDAN: More than 550 suspected persons including terrorists and their facilitators were arrested during the week-long operation carried out jointly by army and police in parts of Mardan and Swabi......
MINGORA: The traders backed by political parties observed a shutter down strike across Malakand division against the Customs Act 1969 for the second consecutive day on Tuesday.Also, thousands of......
KHAR: The Fata sports festival aimed at providing an opportunity of entertainment to the conflict-hit people of the region started in Bajaur Agency on Tuesday.The festival was inaugurated by Malakand......
ISLAMABAD: A new bill, calling for at least a quarter of judges in the Supreme Court of Pakistan to be women, was tabled in the National Assembly on Tuesday.Introduced by MQM MNA Saman Sultana Jafri,......
ISLAMABAD: The newly-constructed I-8/1 interchange is proving to be a nightmare for motorists because of a design flaw, which has created at least three points where traffic coming from different......
ISLAMABAD: State Minister Dr Tariq Fazal on Tuesday visited the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, rocked by a rape scandal, and said “it seems that, at least, rape was attempted” in the......
ISLAMABAD: Increased use of antibiotics has led to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which causes 71pc of the infections that newborns in Pakistan suffer from, according to infectious......
TAXILA: Sikh and Hindu pilgrims have started arriving at the Gurdwara Punja Sahib in Hassanabdal to celebrate Besakhi which starts on Wednesday. Besakhi is a Sikh religious festival, also known as......
RAWALPINDI: Two public parks were sealed by the police due to insufficient security measures, the police said on Tuesday.Nawaz Sharif Park in Shamsabad and a children’s park in Satellite Town were......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday incited the masses to come out on roads if the “elite” created hurdles in the completion of the Orange Line Metro Train project.“Promise me that......
LAHORE: The Panama Papers made a surprise resurgence in the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday -- after a relative calm for five days -- when Leader of Opposition Mahmoodur Rasheed stood up to demand taking......
LAHORE: Among the Sikh pilgrims landing in Lahore for a 10-day Besakhi festival on Tuesday is Harjeet Kour.She had to leave her seven-year-old child at home back in Amritsar to travel to......
LAHORE: Punjab’s former governor and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Chaudhry Sarwar has alleged that 245 government officers and 34 politicians in Punjab have links with the banned organisations......
LAHORE: Thaap and Society for Cultural Education held the screening of Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Oscar winning documentary ‘A Girl in the River’.A panel discussion followed the screening where......
SAHIWAL: The health employees working in the 76 basic health units of the district under the Punjab Rural Support Program (PRSP) have strongly protested against the Punjab government’s decision to......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of brick kiln workers demonstrated on Tuesday outside the district labour office and staged a sit-in there demanding implementation of a Punjab government’s notification under......
HYDERABAD: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad circuit, on Tuesday ordered the handing over of the custody of two minor children — Ali and Aleena (whose names in a petition were......
KARACHI: Noted Sindhi fiction writer Agha Khalid Saleem passed away on Tuesday. He had been under treatment for the past two months before he suffered a stroke and died. He was 81.Popularly known as......
KARACHI: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan set up a three-member committee composed of senior educationists on Tuesday to investigate a student’s ‘suicide’, which the family termed a murder.“Even......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday granted protective bail to Anis Qaimkhani, a former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) deputy convener who joined the Mustafa Kamal-led Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP)......
KARACHI: An association for rural development, DevCon, organised a rally on International Street Children’s Day outside the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday afternoon.A few dozen children holding......
KARACHI: The annual convocation of the University of Karachi will be held on April 16 on its campus.An official of the institution said on Tuesday that there would be no public dealing, classes and......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday claimed that within a month more than 100 of its party workers had been arrested by the law enforcement agencies as the state had imposed an......
KARACHI: Man is a bundle of contradictions. Sometimes these contradictions are narrowed down to the coexistence of diametrically opposed thoughts which define his being. An exhibition of Noshina......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday called her Vice President Michel Temer the “head of the conspiracy” that seeks to remove her from office in her most direct......
LONDON: David Gest, the US television personality and ex-husband of actress Liza Minnelli, was found dead in a five-star London hotel on Tuesday in unexplained circumstances, police and a friend......
TEHRAN: Iran and Italy signed a agreements during a visit by Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to Tehran on Monday, signalling both countries’ desire to restore ties following this year’s......
SIDON: A car bomb exploded on Tuesday in Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon, killing at least one person identified as a Palestinian official, a security source said.The source said the blast......
BEIRUT: Syria’s landmark ceasefire was threatening to fall apart on Tuesday amid a surge of fighting, especially in northern Aleppo province, just as peace talks were set to resume in Geneva.Fresh......
NEW YORK: The recorded music industry has enjoyed its first significant growth since the dawn of the Internet age, as streaming led digital to overtake physical sales, a global trade body said on......
KUALA LUMPUR: A quarter-tonne snake that was found nestling on a building site could be the longest ever captured in Malaysia, officials said on Tuesday.The reticulated python was a whopping 7.5......
THE BJP is hoping that after a tough political 2015, with humiliating defeats in the Delhi and Bihar Assembly polls and inroads made by the Congress in Gujarat and Chhattisgarh municipal polls, the......
ONE hears of Sinophobia much more in Delhi than in Kathmandu. Chinese influence on Nepal is a question many Indians ask — whether they are the supposed intelligentsia, the hotel managers or the......
A FUTURISTIC building shaped like a giant ladle is how Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna’s culinary museum is set to look like in a few years from now.For at least 15 years, the Amritsar-born chef......
SHONA Patel’s debut novel, Teatime for the Firefly, can be read as a gripping love story or it could be considered as a diaspora novel in which the author introduces a new world to people who have......
KARACHI: It all seemed doom and gloom for Pakistan’s national football team when it crashed out in the first round of the marathon joint-qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2019 AFC Asian......
SINGAPORE: Badminton can do more to become a global sport by allowing tournaments to be played outside the sport’s traditional Asian bastions, two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan said on......
MONTE CARLO: Roger Federer made a flawless comeback after two and a half months away, as the Swiss advanced over Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3, 6-4 to power into the third round of the Monte Carlo......
LAHORE: Tainted player Salman Butt on Tuesday was among the players picked in the Pakistan Cup one-day tournament player-draft ceremony here while tainted pacer Mohammad Asif remained unpicked as all......
KARACHI: Second seed Yasir Khan survived a scare against third seed Mohammad Abid Mushtaq in a gruelling men’s singles semi-final of the second Modern Club Founder Members Tennis Championship here on......
ISLAMABAD: Defending champions in the men’s and women’s categories, Pakistan Army and Sindh respectively outclassed their opponents on the opening day of the 15th National Netball Championship here......
KARACHI: His immediate aim is to impress during his time at his new club B.G. Sports Club and said he will only look forward after his first season.“I want to give my best here before looking ahead,”......
IPOH: Forward S.V. Sunil scored two crucial goals as a dominant India registered their biggest victory over arch-rivals Pakistan in six years when they coasted to a 5-1 win in a round-robin league......
LONDON: Barcelona can redress their stuttering domestic form by sealing their passage to the Champions League semi-finals when they visit Atletico Madrid on Wednesday while Bayern Munich are aiming......
LONDON: England batsman James Taylor has been forced to retire from cricket at the age of 26 due to a serious heart condition, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Tuesday.Taylor, who......
WELLINGTON: Ex-West Indies Test pacer Franklyn Rose was deported from New Zealand on Tuesday after being held in prison five weeks for overstaying a work visa.Rose had lived in New Zealand since......
WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that the global economy faces wide-ranging threats from weak growth and rising protectionism, warning of possible “severe” damage should......
LONDON: Oil rallied Tuesday on a report that Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world’s two biggest producers, have reached a crude output freeze agreement ahead of key Doha talks this weekend.At about......
KARACHI: Chinese companies on Tuesday showed interest in investing in wind energy projects.A 14-member delegation led by Vice Mayor of Ghangyi City Tao Jianxing met Sindh Board of Investment (SBI)......
KARACHI: The cotton market on Tuesday remained firm amid moderate business activity. However, spinners could not get hold of lots of their choice because ginners were reluctant to sell their stocks......
LONDON: Gold rose to three-week highs on Tuesday as the dollar sank back to a near 8-month low, weighed down by expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep US interest rates lower for longer.The......
WASHINGTON: The vast majority of companies that received money from the World Bank’s private lending arm last year to finance investment in Africa’s poorest region use tax havens, a campaign group......
KARACHI: The cement industry will invest $700 million to $1 billion for increasing capacity utilisation in the next three years following increase in local demand as multiple public and private......
GWADAR: A multi-million dollar port being developed by China in Pakistan is set to be at “full operation” by the end of the year, a Chinese official said on Tuesday, part of Beijing’s ambitious......
KARACHI: Remittances sent by overseas Pakistanis rose four per cent to $14.2 billion in July-March 2015-16, though the amount of inflows dropped during the last month.The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)......
ISLAMABAD: Merchandise exports declined by 12.92 per cent to $15.606 billion in the first nine months (July-March) of 2015-16 from $17.921bn in the same period last year, Pakistan Bureau of......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) registered 604 new companies during March 2016 bringing the number of firms enrolled during the first three quarters of this......
ISLAMABAD: Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan on Tuesday urged businessmen of Northern Europe and the North Atlantic region (Nordic countries) to make investments in various sectors in Pakistan,......
KARACHI: Sanity returned to the stock market on Tuesday after a heavy sell-off the earlier day. The KSE-100 index managed to recover 50.68 points (0.15 per cent) to close at 33,616.90.Trading was......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s tax-collecting system is on the verge of collapse, experts warned on Tuesday, and asked the government to take urgent measures to build public confidence in the Federal Board of......
STRASBOURG: The EU unveiled plans Tuesday to force the world’s biggest multinationals to faithfully report earnings and pay their fair share of taxes, saying the Panama Papers scandal added to the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkey have reiterated their resolve to wiping out terrorism from the face of the earth.The two sides expressed their desire when the visiting Turkish parliamentary delegation......
QUETTA: Provincial Health Minister Mir Rehmat Saleh Baloch said on Tuesday that 462 patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases were provided stents free of cost by the provincial government and......
ISLAMABAD: Naeemul Haq, chief spokesperson for Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), has called for an investigation into the alleged role of Ashraf Mahmood Wathra, the sitting governor of State Bank of......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday reached out to other opposition parties in its quest to make its call for protest against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif a national cause rather than......
KARACHI: Concerned over reports of an increase in civilian casualties from the Johan area of Kalat and the Isplingi area of Mastung allegedly as a result of an operation by security forces,......
ISLAMABAD: The failure of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) – the four-nation group working for reconciliation in Afghanistan – to initiate direct talks between Kabul and Afghan Taliban has......
KARACHI: Former MNA and city PPP chief Abdul Qadir Patel returned from London on Tuesday night and vowed to cooperate with the Rangers who have summoned him for answering some questions that have......
ISLAMABAD: Amid political controversy over the Panama Papers, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar cancelled his weeklong visit to the United States at the last moment to ‘look after engagements’ of Prime......
ISLAMABAD: Owners of a company who allegedly deprived innocent people of their hard earned money amounting to Rs350 million in the name of ‘investment’ have been sent behind bars by the National......
QUETTA: The second phase of Injectable Polio Vaccine (IPV) campaign will be kicked off in 18 union councils of the high-risk district of Killa Abdullah on Wednesday.Officials of the Emergency......
NEW DELHI: Two youths were killed on Tuesday in firing by the Indian army on protesters after they had gathered against an alleged molestation bid by a soldier in Jammu and Kashmir’s Handwara......
THE Panama leaks have stirred up a political hornet’s nest. Over the past week we have seen the Sharif government operating at a level of panic rarely witnessed in recent years. It has had a tough......
IT is easy to make fun of Taher Shah. In his latest video (which, like his previous one, has gone viral in the subcontinent) he appears clad in purple robes, wearing a tiara. Standing before a tree,......
IN a recent judgement of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Justice Mian Saqib Nisar summed up the importance of adequate reasons for court judgements.It was stated that “without a judgement there is no......
IN 1977, I started working for a fertiliser plant in Daharki, Sindh. The residential colony for employees was at a small distance from the plant, but the main entrance to both was the same. There......
JERUSALEM: Israel received pledges that Egypt's move to give Saudi Arabia strategic Red Sea islands would not affect the freedom of passage of its ships, media quoted Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon as......
