ANKARA: A female suicide bomber wounded at least 13 people when she blew herself up near the main mosque in the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa on Wednesday, officials said, the fifth suicide......
ISLAMABAD: Council of Islamic Ideology Chairman Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani said that indirect taxes are contradictory to the teachings of Islam and prohibited in Sharia.“Taxes can be imposed only......
KATHMANDU: Two European climbers have plunged to their deaths in China's Himalayas while two Asian trekkers have died of suspected altitude sickness in Nepal's Everest region in separate incidents, a......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has started conducting dope tests of cricketers who have been showing consistent performances in the ongoing Pakistan Cup, APP reported Wednesday.According......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government banned Ashir Azeem's film Maalik nationwide in a notification issued Wednesday.The Ministry of Information, Broadcasting, and National Heritage issued a notification......
ISLAMABAD: Hazara University in Mansehra District has been closed for two days ahead of the prime minister’s visit to the area on April 28, it has been learnt.A notification to this regard was issued......
VIENNA: UN chief Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday for the US, China and other nuclear-armed states to end the "madness" of atomic testing by finally ratifying the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty,......
KARACHI: Two amendments to the Sindh Local Government Act were passed by the Sindh Assembly on Wednesday despite protests and heavy sloganeering by opposition leaders.An amendment to the act calls......
He let out a loud roar as he ran past the masterful Virat Kohli. The Indian superstar was finally dismissed after smacking a fluent hundred and a lesser known Pakistani paceman had picked up his......
SAN FRANCISCO: Internet traffic to Wikipedia pages summarising knowledge about terror groups and their tools plunged nearly 30 per cent after revelations of widespread web monitoring by the US......
ISLAMABAD: A Buddha sculpture that was smuggled from Swat to the United States in the 1980s will be returned to Pakistan on Thursday.According to some estimates, the rare sculpture is worth more than......
One of India's most senior lawyers has been ordered to study condom and other contraceptive packets to determine if their pictures are too racy and should be banned, according to reports......
CAMBRIDGE: Pakistan's relationship with China is strategic, historic, trouble-free and pivotal to the country's foreign policy, Ambassador to the United Nations Dr Maleeha Lodhi said during a talk at......
NEW DELHI: Cricketing great Jacques Kallis has said he is “embarrassed” to be South African after the government banned four sports federations from bidding for international tournaments for failing......
It is not easy these days for an Indian to say good things about Pakistan and, most likely, vice versa. Whenever I write something good about Pakistan on social media, I get a barrage of brickbats......
SRINAGAR: Indian authorities have imposed a curfew and other restrictions in India-held Kashmir's Srinagar in order to prevent people offering funeral prayers in absentia for deceased Jammu Kashmir......
LONDON: Thousands of sympathisers were expected to pay an emotional tribute to the Hillsborough disaster victims on Wednesday after a landmark inquest found that 96 Liverpool football fans were......
TEHRAN: Tehran resident Sousan Heidari has stopped letting her headscarf slip casually down over her neck and shoulders while driving in the Iranian capital. These days, the 22-year-old with a taste......
MANCHESTER: Champions League top-scorer Cristiano Ronaldo was a frustrated spectator as his Real Madrid side played out a slow-burning 0-0 draw at Manchester City in Tuesday's semi-final first......
DHAKA: A court has jailed two teachers in southern Bangladesh for making derogatory comments about Islam and Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).Magistrate Anwar Parvez told The Associated Press the......
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple on Tuesday reported its first-ever drop in iPhone sales since launching the smartphone in 2007 as the tech giant's long streak of rising revenue ended.Apple said iPhone sales......
PHILADELPHIA: In a front-runner's rout, Republican Donald Trump roared to victory Tuesday in five contests across the Northeast and confidently declared himself the GOP's “presumptive......
WARRINGTON: The 96 Liverpool fans who died in the Hillsborough football stadium disaster were unlawfully killed, a jury concluded on Tuesday, finding that Britain’s worst sporting tragedy was partly......
IF all the world’s a stage, it could coherently be argued that William Shakespeare’s stature at its centre owes a great deal to the cultural imperialism inculcated by the British empire.After all,......
OF all the Muslim leaders in India and Pakistan, it was Abdullah Haroon who enjoyed the status of a role model when it came to philanthropy. A pivotal figure in the freedom movement, the......
IF you’re female, you have experienced this. It’s an afternoon meeting, or a conference panel or a dinner in honour of someone. A man, usually the boss or the bureaucrat or the businessman, begins......
It is quite evident that Nawaz Sharif is not willing to give in to the opposition pressure. He has already addressed the nation twice since the Panama Papers leak. To many, it is reminiscent of his......
PESHAWAR: Peshawar customs collector Qurban Ali Khan inaugurated a passenger facilitation centre at Torkham on Tuesday.At the centre, the people traveling to and from Afghanistan will produce valid......
PESHAWAR: Already hit hard by militancy, around one million students of government schools in Fata continue to suffer as teachers have boycotted classes and locked schools.The teachers have been on......
PESHAWAR: When the team of internationally recognised and twice Oscar Award winner Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy screened the award winning documentary “The Girl in the River” at Rose Capell Hall of Islamia......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra on Tuesday asked farmers to shift their focus from traditional ways to modern means of agriculture to increase production and exports.He also......
PESHAWAR: Efforts have been focused on strengthening vaccination in the regional epidemiological block comprising areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan to eradicate poliovirus from the remaining endemic......
SWABI: Japanese envoy Takashi Kurai has said that his country will continue to provide financial assistance to Pakistan to impart quality education to youngsters, especially girls.He visited Shewa......
ISLAMABAD: The Al-Rashid Trust (ART), a Pakistani non-governmental organisation known to have provided support to jihadist activities in the region, has approached the Islamabad High Court (IHC)......
ISLAMABAD: The rifts within one of the main opposition parties in the country came to the fore on Monday, when two of PTI’s top leaders from Punjab got embroiled a shouting match.A heated argument......
ISLAMABAD: According to a recent study, nearly 90pc of teenage or adolescent girls in Islamabad and Rawalpindi are deprived of sunlight, exposing them to diseases which affects their growth.The study......
TAXILA: Though the Punjab government has introduced the Khidmat Card Programme for the financial assistance of special persons and the poor, students of Government Special Education Centre Taxila......
LAYYAH: Police raided a pesticide packing unit in connection with 26 deaths and recovered a huge quantity of banned selfonyl urea with the brand name of Drown in Chowk Azam on Tuesday.Karor DSP......
LAHORE: Punjab government’s technical employees belonging to various departments held a demonstration outside the Civil Secretariat on Tuesday to press for upgrade of their scales.Around 250......
LAHORE: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani has said a new body should be formed at the federal level for across the board accountability of all.“The new body should hold accountability of all, including......
LAHORE: For the first time in 76-year history of the Jamaat-i-Islami, women members of the Shoora attended a meeting of the consultative body whose sitting started here on Tuesday and will continue......
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Tuesday told the Lahore High Court that Koh-i-Noor was shifted to the United Kingdom following an agreement between Raja Ranjit Singh and the East India Company in......
LAHORE: Besides handling the Panama Papers issue through its legal brains, the ruling PML-N has also decided to mobilise its party cadre for politically fighting it with opponents.Federal Finance......
LAHORE: Hundreds of tenants of the Okara military farms on Tuesday converged on Lahore to protest against what they said “state oppression”.Their camp outside the Lahore Press Club was an animated......
KARACHI: The provincial assembly on Tuesday carried an amendment to the Sindh Local Government Act, 2013, increasing the local government seats reserved for women from 22 per cent to 33 per......
KARACHI: Despite the deadly attack on the seven policemen guarding polio workers last week, volunteers succeeded to vaccinate 95 per cent of the targeted children against the virus during the drive,......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Tuesday released a list of 60 suspects under its detention for 90 days and allowed their families to meet them under the jail manual guidelines in a move that......
KARACHI: The Government Degree Science and Commerce College, Orangi Town, situated near Banaras Chowk in Manghopir, which was burnt down allegedly by the ‘land mafia’ in September 2015, is undergoing......
KARACHI: We tend to see each other [Indians and Pakistanis] as an amorphous mass. There are elements in every country which are bad. I don’t see my film Phantom as a criticism of a country. Bajrangi......
BADIN: Two young suspects arrested on Monday after recovery of an eight-year-old girl’s body from their custody were booked for alleged rape and murder of five young girls case on Tuesday.They were......
KHAIRPUR: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has criticised his Punjab counterpart Shahbaz Sharif for spending billions on mega projects relating to road communication like Metro bus etc......
LYON: A French court on Tuesday sentenced a Dutch dentist to eight years in jail for deliberately mangling his patients’ mouths in a case which saw him dubbed “the dentist of horror”. Jacobus van......
BAGHDAD: A dozen lawmakers disrupted the Iraqi parliament’s session on Tuesday, clapping, slamming their hands on desks and chanting slogans, forcing nearly two hundred other deputies to leave the......
COLOMBO: While Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), has adopted a resolution in the Northern Provincial Council, seeking a federal solution to the issue of autonomy, hopes......
SYDNEY: Australia’s detention of asylum-seekers on Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) Manus Island is unconstitutional and illegal, a court ruled on Tuesday, prompting refugee advocates to call for the camp to......
CHERNOBYL/VIENNA: Ukrainians held candlelit vigils on Tuesday to mark 30 years since the world’s worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl spewed radiation across Europe and left several thousand people......
WASHINGTON: The New York Times announced cutbacks on Tuesday to its longtime European hub in Paris, with plans to close its editing and prepress print production operations in the French......
MADRID: Spain inched closer to fresh elections on Tuesday as a deadline to form a government loomed, despite a surprise, eleventh-hour coalition proposal that provided voters with a brief glimmer of......
LIFE high in the mountains was never easy for guest house worker Suppa Lama, but he and his fellow villagers always knew they were lucky to live in a breathtakingly beautiful valley sought out by......
LONDON: Winners of the men’s and women’s singles titles at this year’s Wimbledon will each receive £2 million ($2.9 million), the All England Lawn Tennis Club said on Tuesday.Overall prize money for......
MADRID: Bayern Munich destroyed Atletico Madrid’s dreams of winning the European Cup in 1974 and are out to wreck their hopes of reaching a second Champions League final in three years when they......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Test opener Kaushal Silva has been discharged from hospital and told he’s fully healthy two days after he was struck on the head by a cricket ball.Sri Lanka Cricket said on Tuesday......
LONDON: Fed up of being accused of doping, Rafael Nadal has written to the president of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and asked for all of his drug-test results and blood profile records......
LONDON: Leicester City are one victory from becoming one of the unlikeliest champions in English football history — a year after nearly being relegated from the Premier League.The path to the trophy......
MILAN: Juventus have no intention of selling their top players and are determined to assert themselves as a major force in Europe next season after wrapping a fifth successive Serie A title.Despite......
ISLAMABAD: Punjab pressing on with their domination on the medals table clinched on Tuesday the first edition of the Quaid-i-Azam Inter-Provincial Games here at the Pakistan Sport Complex.Punjab......
KARACHI: Punjab ended their losing streak in the Cool & Cool presents Haier Pakistan Cup one-day tournament when they sealed a much-needed victory against Islamabad in Faisalabad on Monday night.A......
RAWALPINDI: Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) thrashed State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) by eight wickets in the summit clash of the 11th Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah Women’s Championship at the Pindi Stadium......
LAHORE: In a surprise move, former Test all-rounder Mudassar Nazar accepted the role as ‘Icon’ of Pakistan Super League (PSL) side Lahore Qalandars which also appointed former Test pacer Aaqib Javed......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) directed the Power distribution company of ex-Wapda on Tuesday to refund 35 per cent of fuel costs overcharged to consumers in......
KARACHI: Minister of State for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali has said that the National Electric and Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) will take up the issue of the Rs3 cut in power tariff with the......
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has imposed a cumulative fine of Rs30 million on the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) for restricting competition in the market for......
ISLAMABAD: As the April 30 deadline for the Voluntary Tax Compliance Scheme (VTCS) nears, only 6,214 traders have filed their returns in the past three months.A sum of Rs575 million has been......
BEIJING: Despite a global economic slowdown, trade volume between Pakistan and China increased by 18.2 per cent in fiscal year 2014-15 reflecting mutual benefits the two countries shared through......
KARACHI: Positivity prevailed at the stock market for all of the day on Tuesday with the KSE-100 index making an intra-day high by 200 points in early trade.The index managed to fuel its momentum and......
KARACHI: Demand for cotton remained strong for the seventh consecutive session on Tuesday as spinners seemed to be in panic amid dwindling stocks.Factors such as global rising trend in cotton prices......
ISLAMABAD: The recently launched auto policy offers nothing to consumers, the Senate Standing Committee on Industries and Production said on Tuesday, describing the plan as tilted in favour of......
KARACHI: The Islamic financing and related assets previously classified under ‘Other Assets’ have been reclassified under credit and advances in all statistical statements of advances and monetary......
LONDON: Gold rebounded on Tuesday as weaker-than-expected US durable goods data knocked the dollar to a session low against the euro, but prices remained hemmed into a narrow range ahead of a......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has issued the draft Valuers Registration and Governance Regulations 2016 to regulate the work of professional valuers, a......
ISLAMABAD: The overall distressing and poor condition of the health sector has once again come to the attention of the Supreme Court when it expressed the desire to revamp completely the entire......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday that the PML-N government had invested billions of rupees in energy projects which by the end of its tenure would help in reducing loadshedding......
KARACHI: The appeals of Ahmed Omer Sheikh and other convicts in the US journalist Daniel Pearl’s abduction and murder case were referred on Tuesday to the chief justice of Sindh High Court for fixing......
ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) have called for investigating the award of a quota for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) covering a period when the party was not......
QUETTA: The Balochistan government claimed on Tuesday that 95 per cent work on 2,250 uplift projects being executed under the provincial Annual Development Plan (2015-16) and 140 under the federal......
ISLAMABAD: The government has finally initiated the process for appointment of new members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in place of the current four, who are set to retire in......
ISLAMABAD: Against the backdrop of a popular demand for a thorough probe into the Panama Papers leaks, the Supreme Court may reactivate an old case related to writing off of non-performing loans......
QUETTA: A divisional bench of the Balochistan High Court (BHC) has stopped the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) from continuing with the practice of making 25 per cent cut in the money recovered......
LAHORE: With the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) deciding in principle to file a reference in the Rs16 billion DHA City (Lahore) scam against prime accused Hammad Arshad, who is relative of a......
WASHINGTON: “More than ever,” says legendary US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh when asked if he still believes Pakistan helped the United States get Osama bin Laden (OBL).When the Pulitzer......
LONDON: Junior doctors in England staged their first all-out strike on Tuesday in a bitter, deadlocked row with Prime Minister David Cameron’s government over pay and conditions.The strike forced......
ISLAMABAD: As the government and opposition continue to trade barbs over the investigation of the allegations contained in the Panama Papers leaks, the ruling party’s strategists have advised the......
LONDON: The Metropolitan Police’s National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit has submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) containing evidence of suspected money laundering......
ANKARA: Turkish police on Tuesday fired tear gas to break up protests over a call for the country to adopt a religious constitution that has sparked concerns of creeping Islamisation in the......
