ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's foreign secretary on Tuesday told a United States envoy his country has the “credentials” to join a club of nuclear trading nations, signalling Islamabad may apply alongside......
AL KHOR: As Nami Hader, a 30-year-old gardener from Nepal, approached the entrance to a park outside Qatar's second city Al Khor one day last month, a security guard blocked his way.“No bachelors,”......
QUETTA: An anti-corruption court on Tuesday sentenced 23 government officers to several years in prison over recruitment of 'fake teachers' in Balochistan education department.Announcing decision......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Tuesday put to death a Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling, bringing to 93 the number of executions in the kingdom this year.Mohammed Ishaq Thawab Gul had been found......
The notion of six teams for the second edition of Pakistan Super League (PSL) has been smacked down by the franchise owners.According to sources, despite Sethi's promise of an increase in profit......
BAGHDAD: Attacks including an Islamic State (IS) group suicide bombing killed at least 25 people in Baghdad Tuesday, the latest in a series of deadly blasts to hit Iraq's capital, officials said.The......
TEHRAN: Iran's parliament on Tuesday voted through a law obliging the government to demand damages from the United States for 63 years of “hostile action and crimes”, state television reported.“The......
The torrential rains and landslides during April in northern Pakistan’s resulted in the deaths of more than 140 people and left widespread destruction. It is the second spell of heavy rain this......
England have what it takes to get the better of any opponent but need to be consistent if they are to win their first European Championship in France, captain Wayne Rooney has said.Manager Roy......
England all-rounder Ben Stokes will learn from his dreadful World T20 experience and come back a stronger player, team mate Stuart Broad has said.Stokes was hit for four successive sixes by West......
LAHORE: A group of suspected land grabbers has been behind the Mandi Bahauddin village unrest, claimed a local landlord, Amanullah.“Some five to seven men are spreading baseless rumours against the......
PESHAWAR: A First-Information Report (FIR) was registered against Director General National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Shahzad Saleem and Investigation Officer (IO) Umair Butt on......
WASHINGTON: In-house newsletters from the clandestine National Security Agency (NSA) have been released by an online news site. Part of the mountain of documents has been leaked by former NSA......
LONDON: Leicester City's inspirational manager Claudio Ranieri has picked up another piece of silverware after being elected Manager of the Year by England's League Managers Association (LMA).The......
BOSTON: A 64-year-old cancer patient has received the nation's first penis transplant, a groundbreaking operation that may also help accident victims and some of the many United States veterans......
DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested a suspected militant charged with the murder of a professor amid a surge in deadly attacks against liberal activists and other minorities in the South Asian......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has expressed serious concern to the United Nations (UN) Secretary General and the President of the UN Security Council (UNSC) over efforts to pass into law the controversial......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minster Nawaz Sharif paid personal tax amounting to Rs35.9 million over a period of 23 years, starting from 1993-2016.The details were released by the National Assembly Secretariat......
Red-hot Virat Kohli smashed an unbeaten half-century last night to break Chris Gayle's record for the most runs in a single Indian Premier League season.Kohli, captain of the Royal Challengers......
RECENTLY, during a routine patrol near Bahawalnagar, police officials encountered a few unruly, drunk individuals. When they tried to book them for possession of liquor, they beat up the police......
BJP PRESIDENT Amit Shah flashed a 2013 copy of Outlook magazine to an election crowd in Kerala last week. It had a cover story on malnutrition and infant mortality in the state’s tribal belt, but the......
THE recent closure and subsequent reopening of the Torkham border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan must be seen in the wider of context of the two neighbours’ historical tensions over the......
THERE’S much hustle and bustle these days in the chambers of bureaucrats and officers working for the Sindh Planning and Development Department and in local institutions eg KMC. The core activity is......
ISLAMABAD: As ties between Pakistan and the United States (US) come under stress in the wake of a fallout over funding for F-16 fighter jets, former president and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari on......
MANSEHRA: The jirga of Harban and Thor tribes held in Kohistan to settle the boundary dispute between Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa remained inconclusive on the first day.The elders of Thor......
ISLAMABAD: A week long Youth Drama Festival started off on Monday at the National Council of Arts during which various educational institutions will be presenting plays dealing with social......
LAHORE: Only one policeman is guarding 413 citizens in Lahore which is a very high ratio when compared with foreign cosmopolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai and London where the police-citizen ratio......
LAHORE: The City District Government of Lahore (CDGL) has started construction of six new Rescue 1122 stations in various parts of the provincial capital.“Lahore is the city of more than 10 million......
MUZAFFARGARH: The National Accountability Bureau has directed the Federal Investigation Agency to hand it over two suspended officials of the National Bank of Pakistan allegedly involved in the Rs420......
GUJRAT: The local drug supply company that was declared illegal by the chief minister’s inquiry committee had also been supplying medicines to the five remaining districts of Gujranwala division......
KARACHI: In December last year, one of iconic artist Sadequain’s nephews Salman Ahmed, who lives in the US and runs a foundation in the artist’s name, visited the Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu office.......
KARACHI: Towns such as Bahria coming up in the rural areas around the city will change the demographics of Karachi. They are a big game being played in the name of development; they bulldoze the......
KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) has a stake in 31 per cent of the areas in Karachi when it comes to taking action against encroachments. The remaining areas, and the decisions......
COLOMBO: Floods and landslides in Sri Lanka have killed at least eight people, including a 10-month-old baby, and forced tens of thousands more to flee their homes, officials said on Monday.The......
VIENNA: The United States, Italy and Libya’s friends and neighbours agreed on Monday to arm the war-torn country’s fledgling unity government to fight the militant Islamic State (IS) group.US......
MOSCOW: The International Space Station, the space laboratory that showcases cooperation between Russia and the United States, on Monday orbited Earth for the 100,000th time, Russian mission control......
JERUSALEM: A century after Britain and France secretly mapped out a Middle East they would control upon defeating the Ottomans in World War One, its borders have been blurred by sectarian bloodshed —......
BRAZIL’S new president, Michel Temer, is already a figure of profound controversy. Formerly the country’s vice-president, he moved into power after the tumultuous suspension of President Dilma......
MOSCOW: Moscow’s Aragvi restaurant, once the legendary haunt of KGB spies and cosmonauts, has reopened with its Soviet-era grandeur restored.The high-end eatery on the main Tverskaya Street, which......
BEIJING: China on Monday said landlocked Afghanistan has expressed support for Beijing’s stance on the South China Sea dispute, the latest country from outside the region to line up behind China’s......
TOKYO: A strong earthquake shook Tokyo and other cities in eastern Japan on Monday, but officials said there is no danger of a tsunami.The Meteorological Agency said the earthquake had an initial......
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins his third year in office next week with the promise of respite from recent electoral losses in Bihar and Delhi with exit polls on Monday showing his......
ROME: Dubai airport has become a transit point for smugglers bringing high-value narcotics into Europe, the Italian police said on Monday.Two smugglers have been arrested in recent days at Rome’s......
DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested a senior official from the main opposition party and accused him of plotting against the state following his meeting with an Israeli political adviser, an......
LONDON: Angelina Jolie says she is “very disheartened” by the U.S. response to the global migration crisis, and fears countries will adopt increasingly isolationist policies instead of acting......
BOGOTA: Colombian authorities say they’ve made the biggest cocaine seizure in the history of a country long plagued by traffic in the drug.The National Police agency said on Sunday that 50 commandos......
LONDON: Sri Lanka paceman Dhammika Prasad will miss the chance to repeat his Headingley heroics of two years ago after being ruled out of the first Test against England starting on Thursday.Prasad......
KOLKATA: Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli , who has been on a rampage with three centuries in the ongoing ninth edition of IPL feels that he now has more belief in his ability to hit......
MUMBAI: Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting backed Rahul Dravid as one of best candidates to coach the Indian cricket team.“It’s not my decision to make and it depends on what BCCI are looking......
KARACHI: On Sunday, officials of the Sindh Football Association (SFA) celebrated the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Grass-roots Football Day — only that the match to mark the occasion wasn’t......
KARACHI: The Abu Dhabi bound four Pakistani cueists have expressed their determination to win laurels at the fourth Asian team event and fifth 6-Reds snooker championships being held there from May......
LAHORE: Wapda’s Sabir was declared the best rider as they won the 62nd National Men’s Cycling Championship with a whopping 264 points when they three-day event came to a close here on Monday.Sui......
BAKU: Around five thousand athletes from Islamic countries will participate in the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games which will be held from May 12-22, 2017 in Azerbaijan.This was announced by Azerbaijan......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday introduced “Regulations for Mobile Banking Interoperability” to facilitate the branchless banking service providers.“The SBP and Pakistan......
KARACHI: Ferozsons Laboratories Limited has obtained the manufacturing licence, along with the requisite production process technology from Gilead Sciences Inc, to manufacture an authorised generic......
KARACHI: Mango exporters will start sending their merchandise abroad from May 20 and hope to export at least 0.1 million tonnes of mangoes this year, in return for $75 million in foreign exchange.......
KARACHI: Pakistan State Oil (PSO) purchased a record 1.54 million tonnes of fuel oil to fill a power supply gap from the country’s hydroelectric plants induced by scarce rains, traders said on......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), which is seeking a strategic foreign investor, has had “serious interest” from Turkey and Qatar exchanges, the Pakistan bourse’s deputy managing director......
KARACHI: Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) benchmark 100-share index closed almost flat on Monday with a gain of just 2.88 points (0.01 per cent) to settle at 36,125.Volatility prevailed throughout......
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia aims to create the world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund, a $2 trillion behemoth that can throw its weight around global markets, but the fund’s growth abroad is likely to be......
KARACHI: The cotton market remained steady on Monday amid slow trading. However, small spinners, who were keen to replenish their stocks, were unable to get hold of big lot deals due to depleting......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Raheel Sharif reached Beijing on Monday on a two-day visit and met his Chinese counterpart Gen Li Zoucheng.According to tweets by Inter-Services Public......
LANDI KOTAL: At least four soldiers were injured in a roadside bomb blast in a remote locality of Khyber Agency on Monday.Sources said that a patrol party of security forces was on a routine patrol......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said on Monday that all hurdles in way of development of Gwadar Port had been removed with the cooperation of the Chinese......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: The District Police Officer of Jaffarabad, Jahanzeb Khan Kakar, reportedly committed suicide on Monday, police said.Mr Kakar was in his office at Dera Allah Yar when guards heard a......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will on Wednesday host a new round of four-nation Afghan peace talks aimed at reviving long-stalled negotiations with the Taliban, a Foreign Office official said.The group......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has completed about 6,300 inquiries over the past 16 years, 56 per cent of which matured into formal investigation and more than 80pc......
ISLAMABAD: Despite government’s opposition, a PPP senator on Monday managed to introduce a private member’s bill seeking representation of women in the top judiciary.Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Defence Khawaja Mohammad Asif said on Monday that Pakistan would explore other options to meet its defence needs if the F-16s deal with the United States did not......
KABUL: Thousands of demonstrators from Afghanistan’s Hazara minority community marched in protest through Kabul on Monday, accusing President Ashraf Ghani’s government of cutting them out of a......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, in his long-awaited speech before the National Assembly on the Panamagate issue on Monday, again spoke about the chequered history of his family businesses,......
ISLAMABAD: The nine-party joint opposition, which rejected the prime minister’s speech in the National Assembly on Monday outright, will meet on Tuesday morning to hammer out a future strategy over......
LONDON: UN special envoy Angelina Jolie says she is "very disheartened" by the US response to the global migration crisis, and fears countries will adopt increasingly isolationist policies instead of......
