Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling labeled US presidential candidate Donald Trump bigoted after receiving the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award in New York.Rowling, who won the prize for her......
NEW DELHI: Muslim groups on Wednesday slammed a directive from India's Hindu nationalist government for participants in International Yoga Day to chant “Om”, citing religious bias.The mass outdoor......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry on Wednesday hosted the fifth meeting of Quadrilateral Coordination Committee (QCC) aimed at reviving long-stalled direct peace talks between the......
LEEDS: England captain Alastair Cook said players had “nothing to fear” from the introduction of a points system as former skipper Mike Atherton said his reaction to the proposal was one of “profound......
KABUL: Afghanistan signed a draft agreement on Wednesday with the Hizb-i-Islami group in a move the government hopes could lead to a full peace accord with one of the most notorious warlords in the......
ISLAMABAD: Former T20 skipper Shahid Afridi who resigned from captaincy after a poor show in this year's World T20 said on Wednesday that Pakistan is not producing fine cricketers as the team's focus......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government and the opposition on Wednesday agreed to form a 12 member committee in order to draft joint terms of reference (ToR) for an inquiry commission, which would probe......
Australia's George Bailey was struck by a bouncer in the Indian Premier League that sent his helmet flying, an experience he said was like “getting hit in the face by a truck”.Bailey, playing for the......
Pakistan’s newly appointed head coach Mickey Arthur has made his intentions clear to block out any external influences that he would have to face during his new role as coach of the mercurial side.In......
WASHINGTON: Cyber security is the biggest risk facing the financial system, the chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday, in one of the frankest assessments yet of the......
UNITED NATIONS: Indian tactics to depict Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) as part of India cannot change the fundamental fact that the state is 'disputed territory', Pakistan's Ambassador to the United......
NEW DELHI: Interpol on Tuesday issued a red corner notice (RCN) against militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar and his brother for their alleged involvement in the Pathankot air......
COLOMBO: The Maldives has joined its key financial backer Saudi Arabia in cutting diplomatic ties with Iran, accusing it of undermining peace and security in the Gulf region.The Maldives foreign......
MUMBAI: Apple Inc will set up a software laboratory in India to help Indian startups and developers working on the company's iOS platform, Apple said hours after Chief Executive Tim Cook began his......
NEW YORK: Donald Trump appeared to change tack on Tuesday about his future ties with British Prime Minister David Cameron, saying he expects them to have “a good relationship” if he becomes the US......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Khurshid Ahmed Shah said on Wednesday, while addressing a packed lower house, that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had no need to address the assembly......
WASHINGTON: The United States (US) Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that would allow victims of the Sept 11 attacks to file lawsuits seeking damages from Saudi Arabia, setting up a potential......
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton claimed a narrow victory in Kentucky Tuesday as she sought to put away Bernie Sanders, but her resilient rival for the Democratic presidential nomination bounced back to......
PESHAWAR: A constable was killed and 17 other people injured when two remote-controlled bombs detonated one after another in Peshawar's Mithra area Wednesday morning.Senior Superintendent Police......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) has issued a weather advisory about very hot and dry weather during the current week.PDMA has sent a letter to all the deputy......
LAHORE: The provincial government has decided to create the post of a woman DIG and depute women SPs at the Violence against Women Centres (VAWCs) to effectively enforce the Punjab Protection of......
LAHORE: The Exim Bank of China has released the first tranche of US $331.08 million (Rs33 billion) for the Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project.“The Exim Bank of China has released the first......
LAHORE: Punjab police have demanded from the government a chopper, 20 armoured personnel carrier (APCs) and six water cannons, seeking Rs94 billion budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year.It has also......
MULTAN: Former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said some people thought he hid his own son Ali Haider Gilani, while others said he paid Rs750 million as ransom for his release.He said this while......
ISLAMABAD: The cybercrime bill that caused uproar among civil society activists when it was passed by the National Assembly, was presented before the upper house on Tuesday. The draft law – titled......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has temporarily suspended a $0.5 million fine imposed on supermodel Ayyan Ali, who is currently facing charges of currency smuggling.The IHC granted a stay......
MIANWALI: A landowner has accused a political party convener of stealing more than 3,000 sacks of wheat.Malik Fateh Khan of Thameywali told a press conference that he purchased 2,675-kanal......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has directed the social welfare department to establish a centre for elderly homeless people to enable them to lead a respectable life without having......
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate recorded on Tuesday the confessional statement of a suspect in a case pertaining to the murder of his teenage sister.Hayat Khan with his father, Inayat Khan, has been......
MITHI: A large number of people from various walks of life gathered at the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Complex in this town on Monday evening to pay homage to the late Muqeem Kumbhar, a renowned civil......
KARACHI: Summer has only just begun and power issues throughout the city and beyond are already ruining the lives of the people. It was only when the people of the Baba and Bhit islands came to......
KARACHI: Three women artists, one must-see exhibition. Yes, the show titled Her very own language that began at the Art Chowk gallery on Thursday takes you by a pleasant surprise not because the......
DADU: Enraged over the death of a fellow tribesman in a road accident, scores of Kalhoros along with members of other communities went on the rampage attacking vehicles with clubs and stones and......
LARKANA: Several parts of Sindh came under the grip of intense heat wave on Tuesday with temperatures soaring up to 51 degrees Celsius in Larkana, followed by 50 degrees in Jacobabad, 49 in Sukkur,......
LARKANA: Larkana police on Tuesday recovered a 12-year-old girl (a student of class-V) who was found chained and detained in a room of her house.The police carried out the raid after receiving......
OUR little boat bobbed about in the choppy waters for what seemed like an age.After several stomach-churning hours, we finally approached our destination. In the distance, you could see the......
A PRISONER in Dhaka central jail has to spend around 30,000 takas (US$384) a month for food and other services which the state is supposed to provide for free.The amount is more than some families......
GENEVA: People smugglers made over $5 billion from the wave of migration into southern Europe last year, a report by international crime-fighting agencies Interpol and Europol said on Tuesday.Nine......
WASHINGTON: Isolating or disparaging Muslims is a betrayal of American values and would alienate America’s most important partners in the war against extremism, argues US President Barack Obama.Mr......
WASHINGTON: Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday won the endorsement of a senior politician his party’s establishment was trying to pitch against him, Speaker Paul......
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......
SEOUL: South Korean author Han Kang won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction on Monday for her novel “The Vegetarian”, a dark, surreal story about a woman who gives up eating meat and seeks......
CAPE TOWN: A brutal fistfight broke out in the South African parliament on Tuesday as security guards ejected opposition lawmakers in an ugly fracas that underlined heightened political tensions over......
BRUSSELS: Striking prison warders burst into the Belgian Justice Ministry building on Tuesday during a demonstration before being forced out by baton-wielding riot police, Belgian media said.Police......
MANILA: Philippine fishing authorities said on Tuesday they had detained 25 Chinese crew of two seized fishing boats on suspicion of poaching, a move that could further strain ties between two......
BEIRUT: At least 50 fighters and two civilians were killed on Tuesday in clashes between rival anti-regime groups east of Syria’s capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.The powerful......
OTTAWA: Wildfires continued their devastating advance on Tuesday, leading authorities to order more evacuations in Canada’s oil sands region surrounding the city of Fort McMurray.In total, about......
KOLKATA: Virat Kohli smashed an unbeaten half-century to break Chris Gayle’s record for the most runs in a single Indian Premier League season on Monday night as Royal Challengers Bangalore kept......
BERLIN: Germany coach Joachim Loew has named four talented youngsters, including three uncapped players, in his preliminary 27-man squad for Euro 2016.Versatile midfielder Joshua Kimmich, striker......
MADRID: Premier League-based trio Diego Costa, Juan Mata and Santi Cazorla were among a list of high-profile absentees for defending champions Spain when coach Vicente Del Bosque named his......
KARACHI: Omar Gladiators Veterans beat Karachi Gymkhana Veterans by 5 wickets here recently to win a three-match series 3-0.Karachi Gymkhana Veterans, batting first were all out for 171 runs in 24.4......
LONDON: Thirty one athletes from six sports could be banned from this year’s Rio Olympics after failing dope tests when 454 samples were reexamined from the 2008 Beijing Games, the International......
BASEL: There’s more at stake than just a trophy for Liverpool and Sevilla in the Europa League final.A guaranteed place in the group stage of next season’s Champions League is the bigger reward for......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF), in a highly controversial move, has appointed Shahid Pervaiz Bhindara as the adviser to PHF president after the same official was removed by Punjab......
ISLAMABAD: The much-hyped tax amnesty scheme, aimed at documentation of informal retail businesses, has been rolled back due to the lukewarm response from the traders community.Finance Minister......
ISLAMABAD: The country’s large-scale manufacturing (LSM) sector grew 4.7 per cent during the first three quarters of this fiscal year as compared to the corresponding period last year.The Quantum......
LAHORE: The Punjab government is introducing programmes to improve the standard of living of less-privileged segments of society, and with the provision of loans under the chief minister’s......
KARACHI: Foreign direct investment (FDI) crossed $1 billion during the first 10 months (July-April) of this fiscal year, a rise of more than five per cent compared to $963 million a year earlier, the......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Prof Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday that the country could not achieve economic stability due to political instability and inconsistent policies......
KARACHI: The stock market started off on a firm note on Tuesday as the KSE-100 index galloped to an intra-day high of 265 points. The index, however, succumbed to selling pressure as investors book......
LONDON: World oil prices eased Tuesday after Brent crude had pushed close to $50 a barrel thanks to fading concerns about a long-standing supply glut.Around 1130 GMT, US benchmark West Texas......
RIYADH: The plan to build a financial district from scratch was viewed by Saudi Arabia’s neighbours as among the glossiest excesses of the kingdom’s oil boom profligacy: a white elephant in the......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif paid Rs9.77 million in wealth tax from the year 1993 to the end of his ‘forced exile’ in November 2007, but he has not paid any wealth tax over the past seven......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court granted on Tuesday protective bail to Mir Khalid Langov, former finance adviser to the chief minister and a member of the Balochistan Assembly, in connection with......
DR Mubashir Hassan, the finance minister in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s cabinet from 1971 to 1974, said on Monday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s family did not send money ‘legally’ to start their......
MANSEHRA: A grand jirga having representation of Harban tribe of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Thor tribe of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) has agreed to a permanent ceasefire on the disputed land, while the......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday came under severe criticism in the Senate for allegedly turning the Council of Common Interests (CCI) into a dormant institution by not convening its meetings......
PARIS: French President Francois Hollande vowed on Tuesday to stick to his controversial attempts to reform the labour market, even as a new round of violent protests broke out.Police fired tear gas......
ISLAMABAD: The combined opposition that ended its boycott of parliamentary proceedings on Tuesday was cut down to an eight-party group after the MQM pulled out, citing differences on a number of......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States expressed on Tuesday concerns over the ‘nuclear and missile developments’ in South Asia and called for resolution of outstanding disputes between India and......
ISLAMABAD: A major Chinese firm has bowed out of a Punjab-based 330MW coal-based power project that was scheduled to start electricity production by end-2017.The $590 million mine-mouth project was a......
ISLAMABAD: In the eyes of many within the PTI, Imran Khan should have presented his position on the Panamagate issue after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif defended his family’s business history in the......
LAHORE: Summer started attaining severity in the country on Tuesday as temperatures shot up to intolerable levels, especially in Sindh and south Punjab.Larkana recorded a maximum temperature of 51......
WHEN Venezuela’s president Hugo Chávez was briefly removed from power in 2002, the coup plotters installed in his stead the head of the chamber of commerce. That incongruous image sprang to mind when......
THE atrocities perpetrated by all the sides in East Pakistan in 1971 were reprehensible. For its excesses, Pakistan expressed regret to the people of Bangladesh in 2002, with a desire to bury the......
DISCUSSIONS about promoting a positive image of Pakistan abroad are not new. In their more frequent and familiar iterations, they have involved choreographed presentations by one or another......
NAWAZ Sharif’s much-awaited speech in the National Assembly was as unconvincing as his two previous addresses to the nation. It was the same detail of family business and tale of persecution. There......
LAHORE: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday said that legal action against proscribed organisations like Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) and Jaish-i-Mohammed (JeM) is not possible since "state itself......
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday arrested its own officer in Karachi and a director of foreign ministry in Rawalpindi over suspicion of corruption.Ministry of......
