UNITED NATIONS: Libya has asked the United Nations Security Council to blacklist an Indian-flagged ship that is on its way to Malta carrying crude oil shipped by the rival eastern Libya government,......
KARACHI: The Sindh Board of Film Censors (SBFC) on Tuesday revoked the ban on movie “Maalik”, hours after imposing the ban on the recently released film, local media reported.The provincial censor......
ALEPPO: A barrage of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Syria's second city Aleppo and a town to its west have killed at least 19 people, emergency workers said Tuesday.The strikes are the latest in......
LAHORE: A lady traffic warden was allegedly kidnapped while returning from duty on Monday evening, police official said on Tuesday.Police have registered a case on the request of victim’s sister......
QUETTA: Under the political reconciliation scheme launched in Balochistan, 1025 militants, belonging to various proscribed outfits, have surrendered before the provincial government during the past......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), on Tuesday, decided not to allow Younis Khan to return to the on-going Pakistan Cup despite the middle order batsman’s apology after he quit the tournament and left......
LONDON: Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy will miss his side's potential title decider at Manchester United on Sunday after accepting a misconduct charge, England's Football Association announced on......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister's Information Adviser, Mushtaq Ghani, issued a denial after reports circulated on local media that West Indies cricketer Darren Sammy had been offered......
LAUSANNE: An Olympic Games in a country engulfed in political crisis and football's European Championship in a nation that fears a terrorist outrage. It is almost a perfect storm in a major sporting......
DUDLEY: On the site of a long-idle dairy farm, leaders of a local mosque hope to build a final resting place for about 500 Muslim families ? to the dismay of many residents of this quaint town in......
MAZAR SHARIF: "Four children is enough," says the young Afghan woman as she examines a box of contraceptive pills.Dressed in a burqa and with her husband's permission, she has ventured out to learn......
ISLAMABAD: The mother of paraplegic inmate Abdul Basit who is on death row urged President Mamnoon Hussain on Monday to pardon her son.Nusrat Perveen said that the president had ordered authorities......
MELBOURNE: The cricket boards of all major Test-playing nations have thrown their support behind day-night matches and nearly half intend to host a game under lights in the next 12 months, according......
If there was ever a poll on what the most overused word in Pakistan was, talent would undoubtedly come up trumps. Hands down.The word has been used excessively in the country's cricketing circles and......
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: An alleged facilitator of a commander of the militant Islamic State (IS) group in Afghanistan was arrested from Regi Lalma area here, police said Tuesday.The suspect, Musa, has......
Recently, I attended a reunion of old friends. We all sat together and discussed where we were in our personal and professional lives, whether we had found partners, or become parents. We shared our......
RIYADH: Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday unveiled a bold economic overhaul of the kingdom under the Saudi Arabia Vision 2030 programme aimed at weaning the country off its......
As summer rolls around again, Karachi is set to experience yet another heatwave this year, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department. Here's a brief look back at what happened, and what you......
NEW DELHI: Kashmir remains a core issue that requires a “just solution under United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and wishes of the people of the valley”, Pakistan Foreign Secretary......
NEW DELHI: A massive fire Tuesday gutted the National Museum of Natural History in India's capital, one of the country's top museums, an official said.Firefighters took more than four hours to douse......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office said on Tuesday that Pakistan is making serious efforts for peace in Afghanistan but the country alone is not responsible to bring the Afghan Taliban on the table for......
An Afghan Taliban delegation based in Qatar is in Karachi for direct talks with the Afghan government, BBC Urdu reported, citing diplomatic sources in Islamabad.The Foreign Office has denied......
PESHAWAR: Unidentified persons shot dead Sabir Hussain Imdad, a local poet, and his daughter-in-law Zainab Zeeshan in an apparent incident of targeted killing in the limits of Gulbahar police station......
BUNER: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan visited Pacha Kallay on Monday to condole the death of his party lawmaker Sardar Soran Singh, who was shot dead by unidentified persons few days......
ABBOTTABAD: A schoolboy was injured after a snow leopard attacked him near Nathiagali here on Monday.Siddiqur Rehman, a fourth grader, suffered neck and face injuries in the attack, which occurred......
LAHORE/FAISALABAD: Young doctors ‘forcibly’ closed down the Out Patient Departments (OPDs) of public sector hospitals across Punjab on Monday to protest the alleged manhandling of doctors at the......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Monday directed the Punjab government to submit all PC-I (project charters) and complete record of the land acquired for the Orange Line Metro......
LAHORE: Punjab Food Authority (PFA) teams continued sealing on Monday bottled water plants, beverage factories and eateries for hygiene issues.According to a spokesperson, a special PFA team sealed......
ISLAMABAD: Admitting that the follies of politicians made it very difficult to defend them, human rights activist and senior counsel Asma Jahangir warned that the accountability drive that was being......
ISLAMABAD: Religious leaders on Monday condemned the killing of KP assembly member Sardar Soran Singh and asked the government to announce ‘Tamgha-i-Imtiaz’ for the slain lawmaker.The speakers......
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Islamabad is likely to charge sheet three former officers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for alleged ‘misuse of authority’ on May 6.Ex-directors......
RAWALPINDI: The hanging of a mass murderer in Adiala Jail on Tuesday was deferred for the second time on Monday, a senior jail official told Dawn.He said the execution of retired Capt Zafar Iqbal was......
BADIN: Two youths travelling in a bus were arrested when the hand-carry ‘luggage’, wrapped in a cloth sheet, they possessed turned out to be the body of an eight-year-old girl.The suspects, Shahid......
DADU: Sindh United Party chairman Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah has said that corruption has pervaded through and through all sections the Sindh government, from top to bottom, with the result that the......
SUKKUR: The railway police of Jacobabad on Monday claimed to have seized illegal sophisticated arms and ammunition in a raid on the Akbar Bugti Express and arrested one suspect.Speaking at a press......
KARACHI: A day after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement called off its sit-in against “enforced disappearance and illegal arrest” of workers, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah received an MQM......
KARACHI: Police’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday arrested three alleged hit-men belonging to a political party and seized hug quantity of arms and ammunition from their custody in North......
KARACHI: Senior Minister for Finance, Planning & Development Syed Murad Ali Shah told the Sindh Assembly on Monday that the Sindh government was faced with a shortfall of Rs70 billion — Rs10 billion......
KARACHI: Illegal wildlife trade continues unabated in the city as the wildlife department seems to lack the ‘muscles’ needed to take action against such activities, it emerged on Monday.The trade......
KARACHI: I’m thrilled that WOW Karachi is happening. It was always a dream when the festival started six years ago that one of the places we’d be doing it in would be Pakistan.This was said by Jude......
KARACHI: A latest study says climate change induced disasters and left negative impacts on psychology and behaviour of people, in particular women, who bore the major brunt of various disasters that......
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Monday rusticated Umar Khalid and two other students for varying durations and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on students union president Kanhaiya......
DAMASCUS: Violence in Syria continued for the fourth straight day to chip away at what remains from a ceasefire that has effectively collapsed, leaving at least 28 people dead on Monday in reciprocal......
BELGRADE: Serbia’s pro-EU Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic won a landslide victory in the country’s general election, the electoral commission confirmed on Monday after nearly all the ballots were......
WASHINGTON: Lawmakers have moved a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives, expressing serious reservations over US arms sales to Saudi Arabia and support for the Saudi operation in Yemen.The......
ADEN: Yemeni government forces and their Emirati allies took back control of the country’s largest oil export terminal from Al Qaeda on Monday, security officials said, a day after routing the......
ANKARA: Hasnain Kazim, German news weekly Der Spiegel’s resident correspondent in Turkey, last year applied to renew his Turkish press card — usually a mere formality.But when he had no reply, he......
EL FASHER: Tucked between palm trees and verdant lawns in the centre of Darfur’s El Fasher, the palace of the restive Sudanese region’s last sultan has become a rare focus of pride, 100 years after......
BRUSSELS: The Brussels metro station hit by a suicide attack last month that killed 16 people reopened on Monday amid tight security, with a memorial board for passengers to write messages for the......
ROME: Nato is ten weeks away from launching a naval mission off Libya as part of a controversial US-backed plan to close the Western Mediterranean migrant route to Europe, officials said on......
NEW YORK: In a desperate move to deny Donald Trump the nomination of Republican Party for the presidency, candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich have joined forces to defeat him.The plan unfolded on......
VILLERS BRETONNEUX: Some 3,000 Australians marked Anzac Day on Monday with a sombre dawn service in northern France to honour their forebears who fought in the Battle of the Somme a century......
ISLAMABAD: Seven Asian teams including India will participate in the third edition of Asian Kabaddi Cup, slated to be held here at POF Wah Cantt from May 2-6.Speaking at unveiling ceremony of trophy......
DUBAI: The ICC said that certain comments and actions by some of the West Indies players after clinching the World T20 were “inappropriate, disrespectful and brought the event into disrepute”.After......
LAHORE: KPK’s stand-in skipper and temperamental opener Ahmed Shahzad was involved in a needless controversy here when he broke the dressing room glass by hurling his bat in a fit on anger over his......
MADRID: Manchester United’s Spanish international midfielder Juan Mata has admitted in an interview that he and other professional footballers earn “obscene” amounts of money and “live in a......
LONDON: Yorkshire head coach Jason Gillespie insisted on Monday he was committed to the reigning English county champions after being linked with a role as Australia’s bowling coach.The former......
KUALA LUMPUR: World number one Laura Massaro from England overcame an early scare to defeat Mexico’s Samantha Teran in the first round of the PSA Women’s World Championships in Kuala Lumpur on......
TOKYO: Tokyo 2020 Olympic organisers on Monday unveiled a new “snake-eye” logo nearly eight months after the original choice was scrapped over a plagiarism scandal.However, they faced an immediate......
LONDON: Ronnie O’Sullivan was edging toward his earliest World Championship exit since 2009 as Barry Hawkins held onto his lead in their gripping second-round clash in Sheffield on Sunday.Leading......
FAISALABAD: Controversial Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal was involved in yet another controversy on late Sunday night when he was caught allegedly scuffling with a stage drama crew in......
ISLAMABAD: While Punjab athletes maintained their supremacy with a tally of 64 medals including 33 gold at the Quaid-i-Azam Inter-provincial Games on Monday, Sindh managed to supersede Balochistan.On......
ISLAMABAD: Exports of non-textile products fell 19.2 per cent to $6.243 billion during the July-March period of this fiscal year from $7.727bn in the corresponding period a year ago, the Pakistan......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that his government has created a conducive investment atmosphere by providing all necessary facilities and protection to local and foreign......
KARACHI: With the political noise getting a bit louder, the trading on the stock market started on a negative note on Tuesday. Investors were further discouraged by the finance minister’s......
LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and British Business Centre on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at expansion of trade and economic ties.LCCI Senior......
LONDON: Gold rose on Monday as a retreat in the dollar helped to tempt back some buyers after the previous session’s 1.3 per cent slide, but moves were muted ahead of a Federal Reserve policy meeting......
KARACHI: Split air conditioner sales have been brisk in April as buyers are fearing intense heatwave this summer.Another reason prompting buyers to lift cooling machines earlier during the current......
KARACHI: Yields on Pakistan Investment Bonds (PIBs) rose by up to 20 basis points on Monday, a situation traders describe as critical for bond holders as profits are depleting fast.A dealer trading......
KARACHI: Habib Bank Limited (HBL) and the China Development Bank (CDB) signed on Monday a $500 million accord, the first such agreement between a Chinese and a Pakistani bank under which medium- and......
ISLAMABAD: The government is likely to disburse seven months’ salaries to employees of the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) over the next few days. The move comes even as the government has failed to make......
QUETTA: Technical Advisory Group (TAG) Chairperson Dr Jean Marc Oliver has said that Balochistan is moving in the right direction for the eradication of polio from the province.“We are close to......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court asked model Ayyan Ali on Monday to approach the Sindh High Court against the government’s decision to place her name again on the exit control list (ECL).A two-judge SC......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court will hear next month a petition challenging the jurisdiction of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to scrutinise accounts of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf......
ISLAMABAD: Prince Sultan Bin Salman, President of Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, has launched the Post-Umrah Programme, an initiative which allows Umrah pilgrims to convert......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau on Monday transferred three of its directors general, said a statement issued by a spokesman for NAB.Brig retired Farooq Naser Awan, Director General of......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India will on Tuesday try to find the way out of the current impasse in bilateral ties when they meet in Delhi on the sidelines of Heart of Asia (HoA)......
LAYYAH: The small, mud house of Umar Hayat in Chak 105-ML, Layyah, has been visited by hundreds of people — first jubilant relatives and now mourners — since Wednesday.As Hayat’s grandson, now named......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif arrived in the Jordanian capital on Monday and met senior members of the royal family and high-ups of Jordanian armed forces, said a statement......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan will meet his British counterpart Theresa May in London on Tuesday to discuss regional security and ways and means to strengthen ties between......
RAHWALI: Matloob Haider, an aspiring bodybuilder, didn’t betray any sign of strain when he returned home late last Tuesday night. As he was prepping for the Gujranwala bodybuilding championship, he......
ISLAMABAD: Focusing on his development agenda — ostensibly aimed at wooing voters for the 2018 elections — rather than getting mired in a confrontation with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf over the......
ISLAMABAD: Rejecting the inquiry commission proposed by the government, leaders from the Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Muttahida Qaumi Movement and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid on......
WHEN I first arrived in Pakistan in 1990, there were 120 million people. The population in urban areas was 33m. When I returned five months ago, there were 70 to 80m more Pakistani citizens, and the......
THE response to the Panama leaks has been expectedly monotonous, mainly covering legal or moral issues. But ancient Sufis wisely said that kids view things narrowly; to grasp a complex issue, adults......
LIKE most Indians Najman Bua also cursed when she was upset. “Taihka haija howaey. Taihka chhinni aawaey.” May you suffer from cholera was the first abuse of choice. The meaning of the second curse......
LEGISLATORS’ statements of assets and liabilities are once again in the news, after the leaked Panama Papers raised serious questions about the financial transparency of political leadership in......
Political rally season is once again upon Pakistan. No one event or grievance appears to have precipitated the season this time, except perhaps for the age-old need of political parties to remain, or......
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism (ATC) court on Monday sentenced Ali Haider Shah aka Ali Kala, activist of Mutahidda Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) militant wing, to 33 years of rigorous imprisonment, said a......
