UNITED NATIONS: A Microsoft executive told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that “there is no silver bullet that will stop terrorist use of the internet.”Steven A. Crown, vice president and......
The renowned West Indian cricket writer, commentator and journalist Tony Cozier died on Wednesday in his home country Barbados at the age of 75 after an illness, ESPN Cricinfo reported.Cozier was......
PESHAWAR: At least three people were killed and 11 others injured, including five Levies personnel, during an alleged exchange of fire between security officials and protesters in in Parachinar area......
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Wednesday termed the relationship between Pakistan and United States as imbalanced and expressed concern at US’ tilt towards India."Bilateral relationship......
LONDON: West Ham United on Wednesday vowed to ban for life any fans found to have taken part in an attack on the Manchester United team bus before their key Premier League game.The attacked marred......
French prosecutors launched an investigation Wednesday after a 19-year-old woman committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a suburban train in Paris and streamed the act live on Periscope.The......
LONDON: Long-serving England women's captain Charlotte Edwards announced her retirement on Wednesday after a sparkling and pioneering 20-year career.The 36-year-old led her country to glory in the......
ATHENS: Six migrants who were fed up with being stuck on the Greek Island of Chios tried to make their way back to Turkey -- by swimming, Greek harbour police said on Wednesday.Two groups of swimmers......
Clashes erupted in Bangladesh on Wednesday after the execution of a top political leader, heightening tension in a country reeling from a string of killings of secular and liberal activists.Motiur......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Wednesday said it was deeply saddened over the hanging of the Jamat-i-Islami (JI) Bangladesh chief Motiur Rahman Nizami after a decision by a controversial war crimes......
FAISALABAD: Three women were found dead inside their house in Faisalabad on Wednesday, police said.According to police, Zahara, Farzana and her step mother Nasreen — residents of Chak 92 Rb in......
NEW DELHI: Donald Trump may find it tough to get Republican leaders behind his campaign, but he's got some faraway fans trying to get the gods on his side.Around a dozen members of a right-wing......
LONDON: Manchester United's hopes of Champions League football took a hit on Tuesday in a 3-2 defeat at West Ham that followed an attack on the visiting team's bus as it arrived for the match.Objects......
MEXICO: FIFA unveiled the timetable of its delayed bidding process for the 2026 World Cup on Tuesday, with president Gianni Infantino's plans for a 40-team tournament to be decided upon by October......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition on Friday released a list of seven points of disclosure for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ahead of his planned attendance in the National Assembly this Friday.The......
NEW DELHI: Shashank Manohar said his conscience forced him to resign as India's cricket board chief after he walked away from the embattled organisation in a dispute over introducing wide-ranging......
NEW DELHI: Batting great Sourav Ganguly has called for Mahendra Singh Dhoni to be ditched as India's limited overs captain unless selectors are convinced he can lead the team into the 2019 World......
BAGHDAD: Three car bombs in Baghdad, including a huge blast at a market in a Shia area, killed at least 94 people on Wednesday, the bloodiest day in the Iraqi capital this year.The attacks, the......
ISLAMABAD: A special court hearing treason charges against former president General Pervez Musharraf declared him an absconder in the ongoing treason case on Wednesday.The three-member bench of the......
BERLIN: Bayern Munich's dual signings of Renato Sanches and Mats Hummels on Tuesday managed to simultaneously strengthen their Champions League challenge while potentially weakening Borussia Dortmund......
Sadiq Khan’s election as Mayor of London has sent Pakistanis into a celebratory mode but amidst the bonhomie, some questions have emerged.Many on social media have pointed out the rarity of such an......
MELBOURNE: Australia's cricket board will make it compulsory for players to wear helmets when facing fast and medium-paced bowling in line with recommendations from a review into the death of test......
STRASBOURG: The EU on Wednesday said granting market economy status for China at the World Trade Organisation was “untenable” due to the loss of jobs it would cost Europe in key industries such as......
NEW DELHI: India is a global IT powerhouse but a huge majority of the population remains locked out of the benefits brought by the digital economy, the World Bank said on Tuesday.India’s vibrant......
KARACHI: The cotton market witnessed renewed buying interest on Tuesday which helped prices consolidate and recover overnight losses. The undertone was firm but outlook remained uncertain.The......
LONDON: Gold fell to a near two-week low on Tuesday, after its steepest loss since March in the prior session, as a firm dollar and higher equities curbed appetite for the precious metal.Bullion has......
KARACHI: The stock market managed to close in the black for the sixth consecutive session on Tuesday, recovering from a steep intraday dip of nearly 200 points.As confidence returned later in the......
LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) has urged the government to grant special incentives to the cottage industry in the federal budget 2016-17 and announce the establishment of......
KARACHI: The Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO) decided 70 per cent cases in favour of taxpayers last year (2015), providing relief in the form of refunds worth a cumulative Rs735 million to aggrieved......
MINGORA: The local police have arrested a key member of a gang allegedly involved in a child sex and pornography case.The unearthing of the case has fueled public outcry with civil society groups and......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has planned to install solar power units for maintenance of cold chain for safety of vaccine and functioning of laboratories, X-ray plants and......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a ceremony here on Tuesday urged the government to focus on reforms in police to make the force more people-friendly and remove the trust deficit between people and law......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has decided to hold public meetings in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in collaboration with Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl to show its strength and counter the Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Following the opposition walkout on Tuesday, proceedings of the National Assembly should’ve ground to a halt. Indeed, when PTI’s Lal Chand Malhi popped back into the house to point out......
ISLAMABAD: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) came under fire from the government on Tuesday as the PML-N adopted a more aggressive stance against allegations levelled......
ISLAMABAD: At a workshop on climate change, Dr Patrick Shea said that Pakistan needs to categorise its water resources on an emergency basis.He said continued extraction of underground water could......
ISLAMABAD: Work on the New Islamabad International Airport (NIIA) and its access roads will be completed by the end of the current year. However, making the airport operational will take another six......
ISLAMABAD: Ayesha Imran, a 12-year-old student in the seventh grade, is one of over 200 students victim of negligence on the part of the public school system. Along with her classmates, she has been......
RAWALPINDI: Traders in the cantonment areas and the Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) are at loggerheads over the collection of taxes on services.The Punjab government had imposed taxes on services such......
LAHORE: Exhibition of calligraphy pieces by retired Lt Gen Humayun Khan Bangash started at the Defence Services Officers Mess on Tuesday.Bangash, a former corps commander of Lahore and ex-ambassador......
MUZAFFARGARH: A PML-N union council chairman was shot dead by unidentified attackers on Monday night. Police said Malik Fiaz Hussain Kapahi, 50, a resident of Mochi Wala and chairman of Ganga UC, was......
LAHORE: Police got freed 49 brick kiln workers from the brick kiln No 7 in Jea Bagga, Raiwind, on Tuesday.Of them, 42 are now in the protection of the Bonded Labour Liberation Front (BLLF),......
KARACHI: The police informed the administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts on Tuesday that they had also released a fourth suspect out of the five allegedly detained for spying for India......
HYDERABAD: Activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) took to the streets of Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas on Tuesday against a crackdown on their party colleagues, institution of “false” cases......
KARACHI: Senior Sindh Minister Nisar Khuhro has expressed his dismay over a delay in the announcement of the 9th National Finance Commission Award and said that the provincial government will never......
YANGON: Myanmar and the United States appeared to agree to disagree on Tuesday on what to call the Southeast Asian nation’s beleaguered Muslim minority that Washington and most of the world know as......
CHARLESTON: The Citadel military school in South Carolina has denied a request by a newly admitted student to wear a traditional Muslim headscarf.The Citadel said last month it was considering the......
DIYARBAKIR: Three people were killed on Tuesday and 42 others wounded when a car bomb attack blamed on Kurdish militants struck a police vehicle in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, officials......
LONDON: Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens warned on Tuesday about the threats facing the world’s plant kingdom in the first global report of its kind aimed at drawing attention to often-overlooked......
Almost unnoticed in the general hurly burly, senior commanders of India and China have had a meeting on the border with the aim of reinforcing the structure of peace and tranquility, and......
HALLYU (the term is used to refer to the growing popularity of Korean entertainment and culture) continues to forge ahead around the globe, with Korean pop music (K-pop) powerhouses unrelenting in......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima later this month, while he’s in Japan for the G-7 summit, the White House announced on Tuesday.The trip will mark the first visit by a US......
OKLAHOMA CITY: Tornadoes destroyed homes, overturned vehicles and stripped the bark from trees as they churned across Oklahoma, part of a strong series of storms that hit the Plains.At least two......
DHAKA: Bangladesh hanged Jamaat-i-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami on Wednesday for alleged war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence, the law minister said, in a move that could draw......
BARI: Italian police arrested on Tuesday three people as part of an investigation into a militant cell suspected of planning attacks in Rome and London, authorities said.The cell had been established......
LONDON: London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump’s “ignorant” view of Islam, after the Republican presidential contender suggested Khan could be exempted from a proposed temporary ban......
LAHORE: Former woman hockey player Neelma Hussain has served a legal notice on the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) for levelling allegations of human smuggling on herself and her husband as the......
NEW DELHI: Shashank Manohar resigned as the president of the Indian cricket board on Tuesday, as the embattled organisation comes under growing pressure from the country’s top court to introduce......
DHAKA: Bangladesh lifted a ban on disgraced fast bowler Shahadat Hossain on Tuesday, allowing him to play domestic matches weeks after he apologised for torturing an 11-year-old girl he employed as a......
KARACHI: Former Test fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has given national team’s new head coach South African Mickey Arthur around eight months to either reshape Pakistan cricket or step down from his......
ROME: Nick Kyrgios has hit back amid threats his behaviour and on-court demeanour could cost him a place in the Australian squad for the Rio Olympics.The 20-year-old, who has been put on probation by......
NEW DELHI: India, a country notoriously slow to adopt new ideas, has now embraced the concept of day-night Test matches and it will surely not be long before twilight five-day games are a regular......
BERLIN: German champions Bayern Munich on Tuesday splashed out a reported 73 million euros ($83 million) to launch their Champions League campaign for next season by signing Germany defender Mats......
MOHALI: In a contest that was decided off the last ball of the match, Royal Challengers Bangalore held their nerve to deny Kings XI Punjab by a solitary run in the Indian Premier League on Monday......
KARACHI: Fancied Army lived up to their reputation while retaining the overall trophy in the National Taekwondo Championship which concluded at the NED University of Engineering and Technology......
ROME: Three out of four men’s seeds booked second-round spots at the Rome Masters on Monday as Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga pulled the plug on his participation due to a training injury.The sudden......
KARACHI: Sale of locally-assembled cars rose 26 per cent to 152,229 units in the 10 months of the current fiscal year (July-April 2015-2016), as compared to 120,942 units in the corresponding period......
KARACHI: Remittances sent by overseas Pakistanis rose five per cent to $16 billion during the first 10 months (July-April) of this fiscal year, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Tuesday.The......
ISLAMABAD: Amid support for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-like Net Hydropower Profit (NHP) for Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu & Kashmir and the tribal region, a new government policy seeks expeditious development......
ISLAMABAD: Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan said on Tuesday that Pakistan’s exports to India will reach $1 billion mark within a year.“There is a lot of potential for Pakistani textile products in......
One thing the Panama Papers have made very clear is that there is a large system for concealing and moving money into and out of the country, and this system is used more by businesses and high net......
LANDI KOTAL: The border crossing at Torkham was closed again for all types of vehicular and pedestrian traffic on Tuesday after Afghan border guards objected to the laying of barbed wire near the......
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N appears to be following a two-pronged strategy on the Panamagate crisis, where it refuses to concede that it has anything to explain as far as the prime minister is concerned and......
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel approved on Tuesday new eligibility criteria for appointment of chief election commissioner (CEC) and members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and decided......
ISLAMABAD: Lack of education and health facilities have detrimental effect on the health and wellbeing of young people in Pakistan, international health journal Lancet says in a report.The journal......
GWADAR: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri has said the resources of Gwadar belong to the people of this coastal city and nobody can deprive them of their rights.Nawab Zehri made......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside an election tribunal’s decision to disqualify an MNA belonging to the PML-N. The decision by a three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Anwar......
GWADAR: The Chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), Marvi Memon, has said that the government’s main goal is development and it does not want to waste time in the blame......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain approved on Tuesday Rs1.5 billion bailout package for crippling Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) and its employees who have not been receiving......
MANSEHRA / GILGIT: Protesters staged a sit-in on the 10th consecutive day on Tuesday on the Karakoram Highway and urged the federal government to play its role in settling a dispute between Khyber......
AS the scorching midday sun gave way to thunderstorms on Tuesday, a perfect storm seemed to be brewing in the halls of power as well.The tensions simmering between the government and the opposition......
GRAFING: A German man who officials said had psychological problems stabbed to death one person and slashed three more in a bloody dawn attack at a railway station on Tuesday.Police arrested the......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court stayed on Tuesday execution of three convicts handed down death sentences by military courts and ordered office of the Attorney General to respond to allegations......
NEW DELHI: Nearly 2,000 individuals, entities and addresses with links to India figure in the latest edition of Panama Papers giving information on offshore holding of companies in tax havens.A......
ISLAMABAD: Army chief Gen Raheel Sharif on Tuesday weighed in on the government-opposition row over the Panama Papers probe by asking Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resolve the issue at the......
ISLAMABAD: Displaying a readiness to soften its stance over the Panama Papers inquiry, the opposition has asked the government to formally constitute a committee to negotiate with it on the terms of......
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s kidnapped son Ali Haider Gilani was on Tuesday recovered in a joint operation of Afghan and US forces from an Al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan’s......
THE three cold-blooded murders that shook the nation last week had no links with each other. Yet those three separate incidents have something in common. A young schoolgirl killed and her body burnt......
When interviewed by Reuters, Zardad Khan, from the village of Makol to which 16-year-old Ambreen belonged, said, “This barbarity has never happened before.” The teenager was killed, her body put in a......
PAKISTAN is astir with the talk of inquiries. Once again, calls for an inquiry are growing shriller following the naming of the prime minister’s family and others in the Panama leaks. Imran Khan, a......
IN a speech marking Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, the Israeli army’s deputy chief of staff offered his compatriots an uncomfortable reminder.“If there’s something that frightens me about......
JALALABAD: A suicide car bomber detonated outside the home of an anti-Taliban fighter in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Tuesday, killing at least ten people and wounding 23 more, local......
KARACHI: Director General (DG) Rangers Major General Bilal Akbar announced the suspension and arrest of at least five Rangers officers for their alleged involvement in the death of MQM worker Aftab......
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama will become the first US president to visit Hiroshima in Japan later this month, but he will not apologise for the United States' dropping of an atomic bomb on the city at......
