QUITO: The death toll from Ecuador's devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake last week has risen to 646 people, President Rafael Correa said during a TV broadcast on Saturday.Last Saturday's quake, the......
KARACHI: Former Karachi mayor and leader of Pak Sarzameen Party Mustafa Kamal on Saturday roped in two former leaders of Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM), Saif Yar Khan and Attaullah Kurd, into his......
Pakistan's new T20 captain reveals how Pakistan Cricket Club helped him develop as a cricketer and attempts to solve the 'Karachi-wicketkeepers' mystery....
SYDNEY: Big-hitting batsman Chris Gayle could return to Australia's T20 league, with Cricket Australia saying the West Indian had not been blacklisted over a sexism scandal, reports said......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan criticised the terms of reference of judicial commission announced by the prime minister to probe the allegations levelled by Panama Papers.While......
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa captain Younis Khan has quit the ongoing Pakistan Cup in protest of ‘substandard umpiring’ in the tournament.Khyber Pakhtunkhwa manager Mukhtiar Hussain confirmed the development......
NEW DELHI: A university professor on his way to work in northwestern Bangladesh was hacked to death on Saturday in an attack similar to other killings by suspected Muslim militants, police......
ISLAMABAD: Decision on a request made by the PML-N government for the formation of a judicial commission to probe the Panama Papers leaks will be taken after Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Anwar......
PIKETON: Authorities urged residents to be cautious in this part of rural southern Ohio heading into the weekend as the search continued for whoever fatally shot eight members of a family at four......
ISLAMABAD: The government is all set to notify first interim tariff for re-gasified natural gas (RLNG) based power project in Punjab at Rs6.36 (6.06 cents) per unit.This is down almost 58 per cent......
Most kids these days are way too interested in making and creating a video, a vine, a collage by taking lots of pictures of themselves or their friends, sometimes in order to make special photo......
Words are very powerful — so become empowered by enhancing your vocabulary! Check out this week’s word ‘Masstige’, a new entrant to the Oxford DictionaryMasstigeNounDefinition: Used to refer to......
Offering a blend of live-action and photo-realistic computer-generated effects, this action-packed 3-D adventure is for film lovers of all ages. The story of Mowgli — the orphaned “man cub” raised as......
King Louie’s not an orangutanOne of the most impressive characters in this new version of The Jungle Book is King Louie, a giant ape voiced by a giant of the big screen: Christopher Walken.An......
Charlize Theron joins Fast and Furious 8For high-speed chase lovers, there is some good news, first there will be Theron joining in the Fast & Furious. And secondly, there will also be Fast 9 and......
Once there was a young boy named Mehraj, who used to beg on the streets and fooled everyone by pretending to be blind. People considered him blind so they took pity on the young blind boy and gave......
Right now the academic calendars in schools are at very different points — one set of schools has finished with the final exams, students have got their report cards and moved into new classes, while......
THE asset declarations submitted by our political leadership can only be described as a joke. Consider the example of Nawaz Sharif. In the half decade between 2010 and 2015, his declared assets went......
AT various stages of Pakistan’s history, something or the other (perhaps an institution) has been identified as the solution to all Pakistan’s chief ills. Over the last couple of years, a new......
THE fewer facts there are in the public domain the more people rely on speculation, even gossip; this not different for the matter concerning the removal from service of several officers whether for......
It is important to correctly judge the nuances of the agreement reached between the United States and India during US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter’s visit to New Delhi on April 10-12. It was his......
AFTER seven cops were killed in Karachi the other day, the usual condolences and prayers were offered, and we have already moved on.A week or so ago, another six were killed by gangsters in the......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Friday expressed his government’s inability to provide resources for the federal government’s Kissan Package saying the province’s......
PESHAWAR: It is not a new concept, but in a place like Peshawar when a woman becomes first to open up ‘dhaba’ style open-air café called ‘Naan Sense’, it is talk of the town.The small café called......
CHITRAL: The residents of flood-hit Reshun village in upper Chitral have complained that the contractor is not properly dredging a local stream, leaving behind the big boulders brought by the recent......
ISLAMABAD: The recent dismissal of senior army officers including two generals, dominated the headlines and the general chatter in Islamabad on Thursday with many people questioning why such a big......
ISLAMABAD: Representatives of private school network along with scores of students staged a protest against National Book Foundation (NBF) for its failure to provide textbooks to the students on......
ISLAMABAD: The second day of the Music Mela 2016 saw some schedule changes: Noori and Sounds of Kolachi were not able to perform due to the inclement weather on day one and took their place on the......
RAWALPINDI: Due to divisions among the local leaders, the Rawalpindi chapter of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is unlikely to pull crowds for the party’s founding day celebrations in Fatima Jinnah......
ISLAMABAD: An application initiated from Muzaffarabad making a number of allegations against the management, administration and functioning of the Safe Blood Transfusion Programme (SBTP) has......
Given that Pakistan has already had women in key public positions, such as prime minister and speaker of the National Assembly, the absence of women judges from the benches of the Supreme Court......
“We are a small publishing house based in Islamabad, but we print books by authors from all over the country. The books we have published include biographies, anthologies, children’s books, as well......
ISLAMABAD: Hameeda Bibi, who is in her late 60s, is among the scores of tenants from the Okara military farms who set up a protest camp outside the National Press Club on Friday.Hameeda Bibi told......
RAWALPINDI: Renowned Semi-classical and ghazal singer Munni Begum put on an enthralling performance at a ‘Sham-e-Ghazal’ at the Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC).The RAC auditorium was packed as......
LAHORE: Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) Chairman Siddiqul Farooq says that board owns no commercial property in Balochistan, as its all land in the province had been sold by its two former heads,......
LAHORE: Four more members of the Chotoo gang surrendered to army early on Friday morning, raising the number of surrendered gangsters to 17.The army and police have launched an operation against the......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has ruled that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) cannot ask advocates to furnish them with the record of their ‘taxpayer’ clients.The ruling was given by a division......
LAYYAH: The death toll from the recent incident of mass poisoning after the consumption of alleged toxic sweetmeat rose to 14 in Layyah, Fatehpur police station officials quoting Nishtar Hospital of......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The Sharif Group of Industries has wound up the Chaudhry Sugar Mills located on Toba Tek Singh district’s Gojra-Faisalabad Road.The mill remained functional during the current......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: The Rahim Yar Khan Industrial Estate (RYKIE) has not been completed despite a delay of five years.Even the most suitable location on the national highway and nearest to the main......
KARACHI: Soaring temperatures claimed two lives in the city on Friday amid a forecast of a hotter weather in the next two days, with mercury levels expected to rise up to 40 degrees Celsius.Sharafat......
KARACHI: The provincial government has finally decided to form a well-trained police force exclusively to guard polio volunteers as had been envisaged a couple of years earlier, but the idea was......
HYDERABAD: Environmentalists and academicians warn ‘bio-terrorism’ poses a serious threat to earth today and urge people to plant more and more trees to make cities green and control industrial......
KARACHI: We are living in the age of noise. These days, all we hear around us is the noise coming out of television sets or caused by traffic. In such a situation what satisfies me is the silence of......
KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday informed the Sindh High Court that Dr Asim Hussain, a former petroleum minister and close aide of former president Asif Ali Zardari, caused......
KARACHI: The current status of land encroachments in Sehwan could not be clarified by three government representatives, including two ministers, in the Sindh Assembly on Friday. The issue came up......
KUWAIT CITY: The UN envoy hailed a “constructive” first full day of Yemen peace talks on Friday but called for a halt to air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition and missile fire by Iran-backed......
BRUSSELS: European Union states agreed on Friday to work towards setting up a joint blacklist of tax havens by the end of the summer in the wake of the Panama Papers leaks.Following the leaks, EU tax......
Edward Said, 13 years dead but intellectually unburiable, used to say that there was only one “last taboo” in the United States. You could talk about blacks, gays – pretty much anything you wanted –......
GENEVA: United Nations torture experts called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to stop corporal punishment, including flogging and amputations, practices that the Gulf kingdom considers an integral part of......
WASHINGTON: The US military has acknowledged that its air strikes killed 20 civilians in Iraq and Syria over a five-month period from September to February.The Central Command announced the results......
NEW YORK: The United States said on Friday it would buy heavy water from Iran despite angry claims at home that it has already gone too far in granting Tehran nuclear sanctions relief.Officials said......
CHANHASSEN: The groundswell of grief over Prince’s death kept flowing as fans prayed an autopsy would eventually reveal what killed one of the music world’s most beloved and respected figures.“You......
EARLY April in Beijing and the sky is unusually clear and blue, cherry blossoms are in full bloom and the roads are eerily quiet. It’s “tomb sweeping” day and most of my Chinese friends and......
DHAKA: As they jostle for space on the floor, with the door to their fire escape padlocked, the seamstresses cannot help but recall the carnage when another of Bangladesh’s garment factories......
NEW YORK: Slight, soft-spoken and just 5-foot-2, Prince improbably cut an imposing figure.So it was two years ago, when I waited in his Paisley Park studios for what would be our third and final sit......
ISLAMABAD: Batting coach Grant Flower feels Pakistan batsmen are very inconsistent with their effort in training for maintaining the required fitness level.According to Flower, the Pakistan batsmen......
LONDON: Alexis Sanchez was surrounded by thousands of empty seats inside Emirates Stadium as he scored twice against West Bromwich Albion to ease Arsenal back into third place with a 2-0 win on......
BARCELONA: Second seed Kei Nishikori, the two-time defending champion, advanced to the quarter-finals of Barcelona Open by beating Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-3, 7-5 on Thursday.Nishikori lost serve at......
KARACHI: Sindh, inspired by centuries from Khurram Manzoor and Sami Aslam, opened their campaign in the Cool & Cool presents Haier Pakistan Cup one-day tournament with an emotional 45-run victory......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s campaign in the 32nd Asian Snooker Championship came to an abrupt end when its last aspirant and former world champion Mohammad Asif went down fighting 5-4 to Thailand’s Kritsanut......
LAHORE: Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) secretary Shahbaz Ahmed has expressed deep disappointment over declining standard of the game in the country.Talking to reporters at the National Hockey......
RAJKOT: Gujarat Lions’ unbeaten run in the ongoing Indian Premier League came to an end as they were thrashed by 10 wickets by a ruthless Sunrisers Hyderabad side on Thursday.After opting to field......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank says that Pakistan’s economy has failed to achieve its growth potential in spite of benefiting from lower prices of oil which accounts for almost a third of its......
ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Friday approved a coal-conveying system from Pakistan International Bulk Terminal (PIBT) to the railway network at Port......
KARACHI: Petrol imports are likely to touch a record high this month, crossing 400,000 tonnes, as consumers are switching to petrol because of lower prices and scant availability of compressed......
ISLAMABAD: Textile and clothing exports fell 8.15 per cent to $9.363 billion during the first nine months (July-March) of 2015-16 from $10.194bn in the same period last year, Pakistan Bureau of......
ISLAMABAD: The Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB) on Friday issued letter of support (LOS) to China Power Hub Generation Company Limited (CPHGCL) to develop 1,320-megawatt coal-based power......
KARACHI: Stocks snapped a five-day losing streak as the KSE-100 index added 167.41 points (0.50 per cent) to settle at 33,739.54 on Friday.The benchmark index started on a firm note as investors......
KARACHI: Intense buying from spinners kept cotton prices on the higher side on Friday. The undertone remained steady and outlook bullish.There was strong buying from the start of the proceedings as......
KARACHI: Indus Motors Company’s profit rose 38 per cent year-on-year to Rs8.8 billion (earnings per share Rs112.56) for the nine months ended March 31, 2016.The result announcement on Friday was also......
LONDON: Gold slipped on Friday as the dollar advanced versus the yen and the euro, but the metal was still looking to post a weekly gain, while silver was set for its biggest weekly rise in 13......
ISLAMABAD: The State Bank said on Friday that Pakistan Real-time Interbank Settlement Mechanism (PRISM) settled 225,598 transactions worth Rs64.1 trillion during the second quarter of 2015-16,......
LAHORE: Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Mehdi Honardoost said on Friday that lack of trade information was a major reason behind low Pak-Iran trade volumes.He was speaking at the Lahore Chamber of......
ISLAMABAD: Model Ayyan Ali filed in the Supreme Court on Friday another petition accusing the government of defying the court’s April 13 order of removing her name from the exit control list (ECL).In......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate saw government go on the defensive on Friday after the main opposition Pakistan People’s Party objected to a proposed amendment bill and described it as an attempt by the centre......
ISLAMABAD: The International Development Association (IDA) has approved a credit of $50 million for Pakistan for procurement of vaccines for infectious diseases, including polio, for children under......
WASHINGTON: Scores of Pakistani-Americans protested outside the Indian Embassy, demanding an end to Indian intervention in Balochistan.The hour-long protest in the heart of the US capital brought......
QUETTA: The Pakistan Army has distributed free textbooks among 3,000 students of 15 schools in the Kohlu district.According to officials of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), under the......
KHUZDAR: Senate’s Deputy Chairman Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri has said that following the action of Army Chief General Raheel Sharif against corrupt army officers, the government and civilian and......
KARACHI: He created a charitable empire out of nothing, masterminding Pakistan’s largest welfare organisation. Today Abdul Sattar Edhi is revered by many as a national hero.Content with just two sets......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Friday rejected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s proposed mechanism for an investigation into the Panama Papers revelations involving his family.According to......
ISLAMABAD: Like previous years, rich senators have apparently quoted confusing and mismatching figures in their statements of assets submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for the......
ISLAMABAD: PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Friday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had no need to address the nation only to announce a judicial commission on the issue of Panama leaks.Speaking......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday published the asset details of senators. The asset details can be purchased from the ECP on payment of Rs345, said an ECP official.Under......
LAHORE: Political coordination has gained momentum to discuss various investigation options as the Panama leaks issue continues to haunt Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family.The Opposition......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan will receive six new medical evacuation aircraft from the United States, the US Department of Defence has announced.The department issued a $14.9 million, fixed-price contract to......
KARACHI: Blaming cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan for being surrounded by “inexperienced and immature friends”, a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf lawmaker quit his party to join the Mustafa Kamal-led......
UNITED NATIONS: Over 170 world leaders gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday to sign the Paris agreement on climate change — the landmark accord that sets out a global......
BAGHDAD: A suicide attack claimed by the militant Islamic State (IS) group killed at least nine people following Friday prayers at a Shia mosque in Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.A second......
WINDSOR: US President Barack Obama appealed directly to British voters on Friday to remain in the European Union, saying membership had magnified Britain’s place in the world and made the bloc......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in yet another address to the nation on Friday, third within as many weeks, announced that his government had decided to formally ask the Chief Justice of......
ISLAMABAD: Legal experts believe that the acting chief justice, who will take the oath on Saturday in the absence of Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, may not be in a position to take an independent......
BUNER: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) minority lawmaker Sardar Soran Singh was shot dead by assailants in Buner district on Friday evening. The victim was also serving as special assistant to the......
