The security forces in Balochistan arrested an Afghan Border Force (ABF) personnel from Pishin district of the province on Sunday, it has been learnt.Security sources said that law enforcement......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan and the daughter of prime minister, Maryam Nawaz Sharif, locked horns on social media after Imran accused the government of approving Rs430 million for......
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan said the decision of awarding central contact to Shahid Afridi will be made after observing his performance.The PCB chief, while talking to......
QUETTA: Former secretary finance Balochistan Mushtaq Ahmed Raisani during initial interrogation disclosed the names of political facilitators in connection with a mega-corruption case in the......
RIYADH: A Saudi policeman was killed in a shoot-out Sunday with suspects planning a “terrorist” attack, the interior ministry said, in the latest such incident this week in the kingdom's west.The two......
DOHA: A teenage forward is set to become the first player from Qatar ever to play in La Liga and possibly the Champions League after being signed by Spanish club Villarreal.The transfer of Akram Afif......
GHAZNI: At least 73 people were killed on Sunday when two passenger buses and an oil tanker burst into flames in a head-on collision in eastern Afghanistan, health officials said, in one of the worst......
KARACHI: Mourners protesting the murder of slain civil rights activist Khurram Zaki offered funeral prayers outside Chief Minister House on Sunday.Zaki was gunned down by unknown assailants in North......
Injuries forced former Pakistan captains Mohammad Hafeez and Shahid Afridi to pull out from the team’s fitness camp set to be held the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Lahore from Sunday to......
KABUL: Six Afghan Taliban inmates on death row were hanged on Sunday, government sources said, in the first set of executions endorsed by President Ashraf Ghani since he came to power in 2014.Ghani......
LONDON: London's new Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan accused Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday of using "Donald Trump playbook" tactics to try to divide communities in a bid to prevent his election.The......
LOS ANGELES: Canelo Alvarez defended his World Boxing Council middleweight belt Saturday by knocking out Amir Khan with a vicious right hand late in the sixth round of their Las Vegas title fight.The......
Following his ethnographic study of minority festivals in Pakistan, Haroon Khalid’s In Search of Shiva: A study of Folk Religious Practices in Pakistan turns its attention towards Pakistani shrine......
An Illustrated History of Khyber RiflesBy Major Aamir Cheema (Retd)Essentially a light read or coffee-table book, this illustrated history includes many a fascinating photograph too. The Khyber......
The genre of classic gothic fiction has been largely overlooked in the recent past. The Loney, which has been described by The Guardian as a “masterpiece by which Hurley must enter the Guild of the......
It was so refreshing to see a guitar legend like Carlos Santana teaming up with the genius, the one and only A.R. Rehman for a gig, the clips of which, went viral on social media. The two may seem to......
Wow! She is a one-of-a-kind gal. Kalki Koechlin is beautiful, knows how to act and shoots from the hip. These three qualities are rare to find in a single individual, leave alone a girl. Kalki K is......
For the uber-attractive Jennifer Lopez the saying ‘once bitten twice shy’ doesn’t mean anything. After getting divorced from the musician husband Marc Anthony, J-Lo went solo for a while and then......
After the shouting and shoe-waving incident at the Karachi Airport while he was leaving for his country India, film-maker Kabir Khan (who made one of the biggest blockbusters of 2015 Bajrangi......
The route to Umerkot (or Amarkot) from Karachi is a study in contrasts, the most obvious being the landscape. The arid terrain leading up to Hyderabad transitions into cultivated fields of rice,......
I was born in a hospital in Norbury, in the district of Croydon, not too far from where His Majesty’s government had an aerodrome. This was some years before the outbreak of the Second World War. I......
As the clock in the reception area, where I sat waiting, struck noon, I am invited into the office of Ronilla Singh, Principal of Foundation Public School, Elementary Campus. We are exactly on......
Conversion of one file format to another used to be a very cumbersome exercise. At some point we all have had to convert Word files into PDF and vice versa. There are various apps and online......
Shiny, thick and healthy locks of hair are everyone’s dream. Many people take great care of their skin care but tend to ignore their hair, failing to realise that your expensive outfit and glowing......
Here I am, very near San Francisco at my son Shakir and his wife Sheila’s home, and have just finished cooking a large pot of aloo gosht. Although he spends at least a fortnight in Pakistan every two......
Dear Khala, I am 26 years old and got engaged to a boy of my own choice. We have been in a relationship for four years and are about to get married. My parents did not want me to marry him because he......
His savoir faire remains as enigmatic as his name itself. It is no wonder that Le Douanier Rousseau has continued to intrigue, but at the same time irritate, many art enthusiasts, who have been......
It was disheartening to see a couple of films getting banned by the federal government. First it was Ashir Azeem’s Maalik which had to face the wrath of the authorities for showing politicians in a......
This particular issue is touching alarming proportions. Hindu extremists are hell-bent on creating a scene every time a Pakistani singer performs in India. The latest victim in this regard is Rahat......
The money trail may have gone cold. But here’s the smoking gun: the recent dash of the prime minister to London on the pretext of getting his heart checked; then venturing out to perhaps dump some of......
Twelve years later, Emraan Hashmi is still being called the ‘serial kisser’, despite having acted in movies which have meaty stories to their credit, aside from the inevitable lurid scenes. “It’s a......
When it comes to Pakistani cinema, a great many actresses have played the role of the screen mum, both in their young as well as old age, and been a huge success at it. In the 1949 release Pheeray,......
CIVIL servant par excellence, Fazlur Rahman Khan who died on Sunday May 1, 2016, was so meticulous that he kept copies of every single judgment he passed as a magistrate. My 68-year friendship with......
PAKISTAN identifies itself as an Islamic nation; Iqra is the first word revealed in the Quran. But 24 million children are out of school. The Pakistan Standard of Living Measurement survey shows the......
WELL, this is boring. ToR this, ToR that. Duelling press conferences and legalese designed to tear your hair out. Who the hell cares?So, to rebel against the tedium and the week, let’s turn to some......
‘MORALITY’ is a tool often used by undemocratic forces to snub democratic values and promote self-serving alternatives. Particular victims of this lethal weapon are democracies in transition which......
LANDI KOTAL: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra has called upon the Fata youth to play a positive role in establishment of lasting peace in the region as the area has been reclaimed from......
GHALANAI: The Fata Development Authority (FDA) has installed a windmill to run a water supply scheme in Sam Ghakhi area of Mohmand Agency.FDA agency coordination officer Tariq Khan told Dawn the......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has admitted that extortion has become the most serious issue being faced by the province after terrorism.The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Home and Tribal Affairs......
Besakh, or Visakh, which is the second month of the Punjabi calendar, is considered the most important in the province’s agricultural community. Visakh can bring with it either happiness or despair,......
Farewell for Canadian high commissionerThe dean of the diplomatic corps, Kazakh Ambassador Bakhibek Shabarbayev, bid farewell to the outgoing Canadian High Commissioner Heather Cruden. Ms Cruden is......
ISLAMABAD: As World Thalassemia Day rolls around again this year, the national coordinator of the Safe Blood Transfusion Programme (SBTP) told Dawn that a policy draft for a Thalassemia policy is......
It has taken 11 months to complete 35pc of construction work on a long promised hockey stadium in Rawalpindi, when it is supposed to be ready by the middle of May.The site on which the stadium is......
LAYYAH: The death toll from the mass poisoning through the consumption of pesticide-laced laddu in a Layyah’s village has risen to 32 as 12-year-old Aisha Bibi died at the Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, on......
LAHORE: Former Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Punjab president Ejaz Chaudhry has strongly reacted to prime minister Nawaz Sharif calling his political opponents terrorists and termed him the ‘chief......
SAHIWAL: A Pakistan-origin Chinese national and engineer working at Karachi-based coal-fired power plant has gone missing from Pakpattan city.Sources say engineer Muhammad Yousaf’s all mobile numbers......
LAHORE: Two-day 15th Interactive Theatre Festival kicked off at Ali Auditorium on Saturday.The festival has been organised by the Interactive Resource Centre.A number of artistes from various cities......
OKARA: Both groups of the Pakistan Kissan Ittehad (PKI) on Saturday apprised the provincial agriculture secretary and the Sahiwal Division commissioner of their issues.A meeting was held at the DCO......
GUJRANWALA: The main accused involved in the murder of former PML-N MPA Rana Shamshad Khan was killed in an encounter with police here on Saturday.City Police Officer Muhammad Waqas Nazir said that......
KASUR: Illegal doctors called herbalists, claiming to treat diseases through herbs, can be seen treating people in Kasur district without any check.According to a Punjab Healthcare Commission......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Saturday launched a software application for the security of educational institutes, with 15 places selected in the city where the immediate response system......
HYDERABAD: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Information Maula Bux Chandio has said that the opposition does not want the democratic process to get derailed but if the prime minister on the advice of......
KARACHI: After reports of death of dozens of peacocks in Thar apparently because of intense heat Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Saturday asked the authorities concerned to take all possible......
KARACHI: Visiting an ice factory is like touring inside a huge freezer. There you are surrounded by water sprinklers and huge slabs and blocks of ice. There is dry ice fog forming at your feet as you......
LAC LA BICHE: Canadian officials fear a massive wildfire could double in size by the end of Saturday as they continue to evacuate residents of fire-ravaged Fort McMurray from work camps north of......
BANJA LUKA: Thousands of Muslims flocked to the capital of Bosnia’s Serb region on Saturday for the reopening of a historic mosque destroyed during wartime, a ceremony seen as encouraging religious......
PARIS: The most unpopular president in France’s modern history, Francois Hollande, is preparing the ground for a potential re-election bid. His leftist base is in open revolt, protesting youth are......
CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Saturday recommended the death sentence against six people, including two Al Jazeera employees, for allegedly passing documents related to national security to Qatar and......
NEW DELHI: The Nepal government has cancelled the trip of President Bidhya Devi Bhandari to India barely 72 hours before her departure for Delhi, without giving any reason, The Indian Express said on......
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday poured more cold water on hopes for progress with Europe on a deal to curb migration, suggesting Ankara would not change its anti-terrorism laws......
LONDON: Sunderland climbed out of the Premier League relegation zone by coming from behind to beat Chelsea 3-2 on Saturday.The Black Cats were 2-1 down at home to Chelsea, last season’s champions,......
LAHORE: Former T20 captain Shahid Afridi may not appear in the fitness test being held at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) from May 8 to 12.Though all the centrally- contracted players of the......
BERLIN: Bayern Munich secured a record fourth consecutive Bundesliga title with a game to spare on Saturday after a 2-1 victory at Ingolstadt helped them put the disappointment of their midweek......
DOHA: Caster Semenya made herself the early Olympic front-runner by winning the women’s 800m in the Doha Diamond League meet on Friday with a 2016 world best time of 1:58.26.In the first Diamond......
LE MANS (France): Defending MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo of Yamaha claimed his first pole position at Le Mans with the quickest ever lap at the French Grand Prix in Saturday’s......
TAXILA: Emphasising that the game of kabaddi can play an important role in bringing the people, sportspersons in particular, of Pakistan and India closer, president of the International Kabaddi......
KARACHI: Martial Artists of Army started defence of their crown when they swept seven gold medals in the men’s and women’s poomsae that were decided on the opening day of the National Taekwondo......
DELHI: Rising Pune Supergiants clinched a desperately needed third victory in the Indian Premier League when Ajinkya Rahane guided them past Delhi Daredevils by seven wickets at the Feroze Shah Kotla......
KARACHI: Savings on the back of cheaper oil imports and remittances from overseas Pakistanis helped the government net $18.1 billion during the first nine months (July-March) of this fiscal year,......
ISLAMABAD: At a time when each province is bargaining to secure a larger share in the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Director-General Roberto......
KARACHI: The demand for petrol will witness a higher increase than that for high speed diesel (HSD) and furnace oil (FO) in the coming years.Petrol imports already hit 3.47 million tonnes in......
KARACHI: Extending the gaining momentum to another week, the bulls managed to toss the Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) benchmark 100-share index above the coveted 36,000 level.However, individual......
TORONTO: Oil Markets are undergoing massive structural changes and a new world energy order is in the making.In the process, for Riyadh and other major stakeholders, their central strategy of......
WASHINGTON: In the event that the US economy crashed, Donald Trump has floated a recovery plan based on his own experience with corporate bankruptcy: Pay America’s creditors less than full value on......
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia on Saturday announced the ouster of its long-serving oil minister as part of a larger ongoing government shake-up.A royal decree announced that Ali al-Naimi has been replaced by......
LONDON: As one would-be father of bitcoin falls by the wayside, squabbling among the web-based currency’s lead developers is exposing a fundamental flaw: it must evolve to meet growing demand, but......
A new crop of startups are trying to make gas stations obsolete. Tap an app, and they’ll bring the gas to you, filling up your car while you’re at work, eating breakfast or watching Netflix.Filld,......
A low-cost, low-fare carrier such as Spirit Airlines Inc makes its living on passenger fees. That those fees, known as non-ticket revenue, dropped by more than $2 per passenger in the first quarter,......
ISLAMABAD: A woman, whose husband was also killed while in custody, petitioned the Human Rights Cell (HRC) of the Supreme Court on Saturday, asking the court to appoint a commission to investigate......
ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of ‘ghost’ employees are drawing salary from the Levies Force in Kohlu district of Balochistan, an official document reveals.According to a report sent to the Balochistan home......
KARACHI: Former actress and model Veena Malik visited Jamia Binoria in SITE area with her husband and son on Saturday, met its chief Mufti Muhammad Naeem, senior faculty members and students and said......
GILGIT: The federal government has decided to deploy Rangers in Diamer district as a security measure to acquire land for the Diamer-Bhasha Dam project as local residents are reportedly reluctant to......
THINGS have changed drastically, both for better and for worse, for the hapless residents of the Tirah Valley since I last visited the picturesque Khyber Agency region bordering Afghanistan in July......
DUBAI: Several Iranian soldiers were killed near Aleppo, the Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, in what appeared to be one of Iran’s biggest losses in Syria since it deployed forces to support......
LONDON: London’s new mayor Sadiq Khan thanked voters for choosing “unity over division” as he was elected on Saturday, becoming the first Muslim leader of a major Western capital.In a second round......
QUETTA: As Balochistan Finance Secretary Mushtaq Ahmed Raisani was remanded in the custody of the National Accountability Bureau for two weeks, former chief minister Dr Abdul Malik Baloch told the......
ISLAMABAD: Members of the ruling coalition on Saturday assured Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of their complete support and cooperation over the Panama Papers inquiry commission.The prime minister and......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department urged Pakistan to avoid excessive or extrajudicial force in investigations as scores of MQM workers protested outside the White House on Saturday.“We consistently......
KARACHI: Police on Saturday arrested a suspect allegedly involved in the murder of prominent social activist Perween Rahman, who headed an institution involved in regularisation of slum areas and......
KARACHI: Unknown assailants gunned down social media campaigner and civil society activist Khurram Zaki on Saturday night in Karachi.Central District SSP, Muqadas Haider told Dawn.com that four......
