BAGHDAD: Two car bombs in the southern Iraqi city of Samawah on Sunday killed 31 people and wounded dozens, the latest in a series of large attacks claimed by the Islamic State group as the country......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan addressed a political gathering on Lahore’s Mall Road as part of the party’s recently launched anti-corruption drive across the country.The PTI chief......
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders on Sunday claimed that PakistanTehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is running away from the formation of the judicial commission after its own leaders are found owning......
DHAKA: Bangladesh police detained three people on Sunday over the gruesome murder of a Hindu tailor one day earlier, the latest deadly attack on minorities claimed by the militant Islamic State (IS)......
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday announced an increase in monthly salaries of labourers by Rs1,000 starting July 1, Radio Pakistan reported.Every labourer will now receive at......
LAHORE: A family of four in Multan district's Shujabad suffered minor injuries in an acid attack on Saturday night.Mumtaz Mai and her three children were attacked by an unknown assailant in the Chak......
DUBAI: The militant group Al Qaeda has survived the death of its founder Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011 and bolstered its notoriety with attacks in Africa, Europe and Yemen despite suffering a series......
DOHA: An Indian steelworker taken ill at a Qatar World Cup site has died, organisers of the 2022 tournament announced in a statement on Saturday.Jaleshwar Prasad, 48, died of a cardiac arrest after......
BAGHDAD: Two car bombs claimed by the militant Islamic State (IS) group killed at least 14 people and wounded 37 others in the centre of the southern Iraqi city of Samawa on Sunday, police said.The......
MADRID: Barcelona remain on top of La Liga with two games remaining as goals from Ivan Rakitic and Luis Suarez earned a 2-0 win over 10-man Real Betis on Saturday.On a day of high tension when all......
TEHRAN: Iran's new parliament will have more women than clerics when its members are sworn in this month, a first in the Islamic republic and a sign of the country's evolving politics.Official......
Pakistan attacker Kaleemullah Khan, on Saturday, netted his first United Soccer League (USL) goal, but still could not help his team, Tulsa Roughnecks, avoid a 3-1 defeat against San Antonio......
NEW DELHI: An Indian teenager accidentally shot himself in the head with his father's gun while trying to take a “selfie “photograph, police said Sunday, the latest in a series of such accidents.The......
LONDON: The favourites to become London's new mayor on Thursday are two completely contrasting candidates: Zac Goldsmith, the son of a tycoon financier and Jemima Khan's brother, and Sadiq Khan, the......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Saturday took aim at Democrats and Republicans alike in his final appearance headlining the star-studded White House correspondents' dinner, but saved his......
TIKAMGARH: As young boys plunge into a murky dam to escape the blistering afternoon sun, guards armed with guns stand vigil at one of the few remaining water bodies in a state hit hard by India's......
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Dear Auntie, I am about to graduate in the coming few months, and am in a relationship with a guy from my university for the past three years. The problem is that I am sure my family would start......
Born in Figueres, Spain, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) displayed his artistic genius from an early age, and eventually joined an art academy in Madrid. In the ’20s, he went to Paris and began interacting......
Ever since the legendary Lata Mangeshkar’s positive message for Karachi’s singing rickshaw driver Master Aslam went viral, the talented vocalist has been in the news almost on a daily basis. Nearly......
Now that’s what you call a break! Indian actors and actresses have always looked up to Hollywood to give a boost to their (international) career, but if the wagging tongues are to be believed then......
Nothing is more advantageous than experience. Director Syed Noor knows the difference between a movie and a TV serial. Therefore when he claims, as he has done in a chit chat with a journalist, that......
Our very own Mahira Khan has been working in a Bollywood film Raees which is set in the Indian state of Gujarat. Obviously, being there and doing a Gujarati character, she must have learned the......
Admirers of arguably the greatest actor the subcontinent has produced, Dilip Kumar, were saddened and worried by the news that he was admitted to a hospital last week and was in a critical......
Blame the traffic mess just outside the venue or whatever, the 4th Edition of the Servis Hum Awards held at the Expo Center in Karachi last week started way off the mark (a delay of more than......
The first category to be presented, Popular (Viewer’s Choice Awards) in Fashion saw Sunita Marshall and Shehzad Noor win best female and male model, respectively.In the music category (Popular), the......
A nyone using an iOS device, in years gone by, would have had the experience of using iTunes. In normal circumstances, exporting photographs to any iOS device was a cumbersome experience as it......
“The number of adults with diabetes has quadrupled worldwide in less than four decades,” a recent World Health Organisation study says. Presently, 442 million people worldwide are suffering from the......
The other night while my father and I were in the middle of a serious discussion at the dining table, my phone, as usual, kept beeping. Tweets were flowing in, Facebook tagging was in full action and......
Comedy is serious business, for Ahmed Ali Butt. His steely determination may not be easy to discern when he’s on stage dressed as a Baby Angel a la Tahir Shah. Or when he’s doling out fake awards,......
When Duchess Kate Middleton walked down the grassy Mumbai’s Oval Maidan to play a charity game of cricket with some of the under-privileged children, www.anitadongre.com was hit for a sixer and the......
Fashion’s spiraling fast, breakneck almost, propelled by the wheels of social media. The immediacy of ‘see now, buy now’ is in vogue, having been adopted by international heavyweights like Tom Ford......
Released in 2012 at the height of the fairytale film fad, the gorgeous-looking Snow White and the Huntsman was a fairly serviceable action/adventure film starring Charlize Theron as Snow White’s evil......
The fame of smaller cities almost always rests on one or two places of historical importance. Think of Agra and your mind at once races to the Taj Mahal. Likewise if someone mentions Amritsar, you......
Ever since the rise of Imran Khan’s PTI in 2011, much has been alluded to about how the PTI has evolved into becoming the ‘new PPP.’An observer is advised not to jump to any knee-jerk conclusions in......
Each year, on April 22, Earth Day is dedicated to honouring the planet and across the world, people have been celebrating this day since the 1970s. This year, Kuch Khaas, a non-profit social......
Rayna was only eight years old when it happened. As the car stopped outside the tuition centre, she noticed the family driver didn’t leave to fetch her siblings. After waiting for five minutes, she......
In Sindh, many monuments are decorated with wall paintings but the tomb of Kalhora ruler Mian Noor Muhammad Shah Kalhoro stands out for its gorgeous artwork and historical significance.In 1718AD,......
With his book on the accession and integration of princely states in Pakistan, Yaqoob Khan Bangash has made a valuable contribution to Pakistani and South Asian historiography. Given its ambitious......
Writing a biography of someone you are closely related to is like tightrope walking, because even if you have the fairest of intentions you can be accused of concealing the weaknesses of the person......
To say that water is the essence of life would be clichéd, but nonetheless true. Even during prehistoric days, excavations tell us, civilisations existed near a source of water. And in present times......
PAKISTAN and American F-16s have a long and complicated political history. A symbol of both Pakistani national-security pride and resentment, the F-16 looks set to reprise its role as a symbol of......
MACHIAVELLI’S dictum, ‘Power corrupts; and absolute power corrupts absolutely’, has been validated by history and current events.Corrupt entities collapse eventually. Great empires have been......
THE overt stuff is easy enough to explain. Nawaz wants to rule. Imran wants to be PM. The boys want to protect their institutional predominance.And Panama was never about Panama.Panama is about......
The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. — Antonio GramsciTHE old world of the labour movement started unravelling in the 1990s when finance and production went global, kicked......
WHAT can we expect from a ‘forensic audit’ and how much exactly does Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have to worry about? We have known for a very long time how heads of state, politicians and oligarchs......
KHAR: The students of various government educational institutions in Bajaur Agency on Saturday complained about not being provided textbooks by the local education department despite start of the new......
PESHAWAR: The retired army doctors have outclassed their counterparts from civil hospitals in interviews held for the positions of hospital directors at Peshawar’s two major healthcare facilities,......
The new Japanese ambassador to Pakistan, Takashi Kurai, was welcomed a dinner for senior diplomats, civil servants and private sector and civil society representatives at the Serena Hotel in......
It has become something of a tradition for the Polish embassy to host fusion concerts with Polish and Pakistani musicians in the spring. Since 2012, a number of concerts have been held in......
MURREE: The Islamabad-Murree dual carriageway, which was constructed at a cost of about Rs16 billion, is damaged at various points.A portion of the road slipped down at Samli Barmal about five years......
Irina Felten launcher her latest book, about the time she spent with her husband Peter Felten in Portugal. Mr Pelten is currently the deputy head of mission at the German embassy in Islamabad.“My......
Once a large, fortified defensive structure around the city, the famed Purana Qila is now lost among the high-rise buildings that make up Rawalpindi’s commercial hub. Other than a few old gates, few......
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has focused all its attention on the ‘billion tree tsunami campaign’ which will cost a huge amount of funds to carry it to its logical end. No doubt, tree plantation......
ISLAMABAD: Another film that was to be screened at the Foundation for Arts, Culture and Education (Face) Film Festival 2016 was banned by the censor board for being ‘anti-state’.The festival was not......
LAHORE: Buckling under the pressure of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, the administration has agreed to provide security cover to Imran Khan’s much-trumpeted May 1 public meeting at the “banned venue”......
FAISALABAD: Three shopkeepers were hacked to death when they were asleep outside their shops in Eden Garden area on Canal Road on the night between Friday and Saturday.Police said Mushtaq, 47, an......
LAHORE: Perplexed by a mysterious ‘disease’ that was not even mentioned in the available medical literature world over, a board of senior medical experts on Saturday examined the three affected......
LAHORE: The working class all over the world will commemorate the Labour Day on Sunday (today) by taking out rallies and holding meetings to pay homage to Chicago martyrs while workers in Pakistan......
KARACHI: The birth of three puma cubs saved the day for zoo officials who remained in the media spotlight after the recent death of a Bengal tiger, it emerged during a visit to the zoo on......
KARACHI: A suspected militant belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, who was allegedly involved in a bomb attack on a Muttahida Qaumi Movement election office, was killed in an encounter......
KARACHI: Little straw grass stools, low chokhi, charpoys, horse carts without the animal, tilted upwards and parked against pillars, matka or clay water carriers and oil lanterns ... that’s Punjabi......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court heard on Saturday arguments on an application of Rangers seeking action against the investigating officer over alleged misappropriation of evidence in a case......
KARACHI: According to a Sufi poet, love is the dancing cry of the soul. Even if one does not go with this thought, the art of dance does transport you in a world where love assumes prime significance......
MOSCOW: Russia rejected on Saturday a new claim that one of its jets had intercepted a US reconnaissance plane over the Baltic in an “unsafe” manner, and accused Washington of sending “spy-planes”......
STUTTGART: German riot police on Saturday arrested some 400 protesters as clashes erupted outside a meeting of the right-wing populist AfD party, which is set to adopt an anti-Islamic manifesto amid......
TEHRAN: Reformist and moderate Iranian politicians allied with President Hassan Rouhani won a big victory in second round parliamentary elections and capped a remarkable comeback on Saturday after......
ALEPPO: Terrified residents fled a new wave of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Syria’s divided city of Aleppo on Saturday, as key regime backer Russia rejected calls to rein in its ally.Aleppo was......
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s sole passenger train resumed a regular weekend service on Saturday after being suspended for years, with Prime Minister Hun Sen climbing aboard to inaugurate the first......
A COMBINATION of air strikes on the militant Islamic State group-controlled oilfields, recapture of IS-held territory and destruction of the its cash storage sites containing up to $800 million may......
KARACHI: Punjab cashed in on an abject surrender from Sindh to book their place in the final of the Cool & Cool presents Haier Pakistan Cup one-day cricket tournament with a five-wicket victory at......
LONDON: The Premier League trophy arrived in Leicester on Friday for a promotional tour. It will surely be back next month with Leicester City etched into the solid silver for the first time.The......
BERLIN: Bayern Munich were forced to wait at least another week for their fourth successive Bundesliga title after they were held 1-1 at home by Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday as Borussia......
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan on Saturday said that the name of head coach of the national team would be announced after getting approval from the Board of Governors......
ROTORUA (New Zealand): New Zealand fast bowler Trent Boult has welcomed the prospect of a day-night Test against India, saying there needs to be more pink-ball Tests.Boult has been on an extended......
MADRID: Gareth Bale’s thunderous header 10 minutes from time moved an under-strength Real Madrid provisionally to the top of La Liga with a hard-fought 1-0 win at Real Sociedad on Saturday.In the......
WUHAN (China): World number one Chen Long of China eased past compatriot Tian Houwei at the semi-finals of the Asian Badminton Championship on Saturday, setting up a meet with Malaysian rival Lee......
SOCHI: Formula One championship leader Nico Rosberg secured pole position for the Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix after Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton suffered more misfortune in Saturday’s......
DES MOINES: Kirani James let the rest of the world know that he’s still the man to beat in the 400 metres.The defending Olympic champion broke the Drake Relays record with a world-leading time of......
KARACHI: The recent clampdown on the smuggling of US dollars to Iran has caused the greenback to lose against the local currency, leaving it in a surplus of around 80pc in the currency market,......
KARACHI: Labour day is being observed in the country, and around the world, on Sunday to remind workers serving in all sectors of the economy that they are still the most powerful segment of society......
KARACHI: The country’s consumption of commercial airline fuel (JP-1) stood at 381,492 tonnes during July-December 2015-16, with almost three quarters of it used by Sindh alone.Punjab’s consumption,......
LAHORE: Federal Petroleum and Natural Resources Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Saturday that his ministry has already moved a summary to the federal cabinet to lift the ban on new gas......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) carried forward the strong momentum built over the earlier week as several positive factors helped boost investor confidence. The benchmark KSE-100 index......
TORONTO: Oil markets are in the midst of a rally, heading for the biggest monthly rise in seven years on Friday. Weak dollar, speculation and falling US production have all chipped in.US output is......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has finalised proposals for the FY17 budget to rationalise customs tariff under an ongoing programme of tariff reforms.The reforms include reducing the......
KARACHI: Cotton trading was brisk on Saturday amid sustained demand from spinners. However, prices slightly came under pressure owing to intervention of the state-owned Trading Corporation of......
KARACHI: Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) profit-after-tax jumped 29.78 per cent to Rs1.364 billion during the first nine months (July-March) of 2015-16 from Rs1.051bn in the same......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani officials claim that a United Nations panel grossly exaggerated the number of visits by two North Korean ‘diplomats’ to Pakistan, which internationally raised concerns about the......
SUKKUR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi has called for an across-the-board accountability of corrupt people in the country.Addressing the District Bar Association in......
ABBOTTABAD: The potato, onion and garlic fields are green and well tended, and the streets feel sleepy under the early summer sun. It’s hard to believe that this is the place that dominated world......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Saturday called upon parliamentary parties to reach a consensus on the government proposed terms of reference (ToR) for investigation into the Panama......
KOTLI: Coming out strongly against the government, PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Saturday called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down, until an inquiry into the money laundering......
LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said it was up to the chief justice of Pakistan to change or amend the terms of reference (ToRs) for a probe into the Panama Papers leaks as he......
WASHINGTON: A day after Congress suspended US funding for the F-16s deal, the State Department acknowledged that Pakistan needs those aircraft for its antiterrorism activities.“We believe they’re the......
