VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis is to meet the grand imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar at the Vatican on Monday in an unprecedented encounter between the leader of the world's Catholics and the highest authority......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Thursday informed Senate that Pakistan is considering to move a resolution in United Nations, urging it to declare the Indian......
CHENNAI: There is quite a celebration in the two-room tenement where Shalini Munnuswamy lives with her parents. Rescued from bonded labour when she was 11, Shalini has just graduated from high school......
MADRID: Authorities in the Spanish region of Castilla y Leon on Thursday announced a ban on the killing of bulls during traditional festivals, in a partial victory for animal rights activists.The......
NEW DELHI: Apple said Thursday it will open a development office in Hyderabad, as its chief executive Tim Cook continued his India charm offensive with an investment boon to one of the country's top......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) is all set to make history this year by hosting 10 international championships in the country.According to a PTF spokesperson, Pakistan will hold four......
ISLAMABAD: Interior ministry is planning to issue biometric passports from 2017 to halt thousands of people who are being trafficked overseas, largely to European and Gulf nations, officials......
ISLAMABAD: Parliamentarians on Thursday proposed an exponential increase in salaries and perks 'commensurate with their status', bringing their wages to par with those of BS-22 officers, with a......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi lashed out at the senior team management saying "it was disappointing that people lied and tried to drag my name in the mud”.Afridi said hopes to force......
QUETTA: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan is considering to invite Afghanistan to play in Quetta, capital of Balochistan, in the wake of improved law and order situation in the......
ISTANBUL: Turkey's ruling party named a loyal ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the new prime minister on Thursday, as the strongman seeks to tighten his grip on power.The ruling......
ISLAMABAD: Senators and members of the National Assembly (MNAs) have demanded a pay raise to the tune of Rs164,000 ? not including other perks and allowances.In a set of recommendations presented by......
KABUL: Eight Afghan policemen were killed by a colleague who turned his gun on them at a checkpoint in the volatile southern Zabul province, an official said on Thursday.The perpetrator escaped the......
WASHINGTON: The professional social network LinkedIn told members Wednesday that data from some 100 million users stolen in a 2012 hack had been leaked online, and recommended a change in......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party declared victory on Thursday in the northeastern state of Assam, an election boost that will help his right-wing nationalist government......
LONDON: The concept of day-night Test found a new taker in England with board chairman Colin Graves confirming the country will host a twilight Test.Australia and New Zealand played the first......
WASHINGTON: Earth's heat is stuck on high. Thanks to a combination of global warming and an El Nino, the planet shattered monthly heat records for an unprecedented 12th straight month, as April......
BASEL: Sevilla right-back Coke broke Liverpool hearts with a second-half brace in a controversy-filled 3-1 victory that secured a record third consecutive Europa League title on Wednesday.Liverpool......
Big-hitting Kieron Pollard was recalled to the West Indies squad announced on Wednesday for next month's triangular one-day series against Australia and South Africa.The squad also includes five......
UNITED NATIONS: Major Western nations are protesting a move to block gay and transgender groups from attending a high-level United Nations conference on AIDS.A letter from Egypt on behalf of 51......
GILGIT: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday performed the groundbreaking of the Pakistan-China Optical Fibre Cable project which is part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Radio......
QUETTA: An improvised explosive device (IED) killed one policeman and wounded seven others in a roadside attack in the eastern Bypass area of Quetta Thursday morning, police said.The injured have......
CAIRO: Egypt's aviation minister said that a terrorist attack was more likely to have taken down the missing EgyptAir aircraft early Thursday morning than a technical failure.There were no known......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar on Wednesday urged the government to make a law without delay on preventing early age marriages of girls in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and suggested the law should be drafted......
MANSEHRA: The jirga of Harban tribe of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Thor tribe of Gilgit-Baltistan has settled the boundary dispute between the two sides as the process of demarcation will be started next......
PESHAWAR: Following the two weeks long token and pen-down strike to push for their demands, hundreds of Provincial Civil Service (PCS) officers on Wednesday staged a sit-in on the Civil Secretariat......
MANSEHRA: Colorful species of Australian parrots have occupied bird markets here with more than 80 per cent of the market’s share going to them.The main bird market is located on Badra Road, where......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and police have informed the Peshawar High Court that after receiving the terror alert from the federal government in Aug 2014 about the possible militant......
CHARSADDA: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra has said that the entire nation backs security forces in the war against terrorism to protect motherland from internal and external......
ISLAMABAD: The custody of a senior director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was handed to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on a 12-day physical remand by an accountability court in......
ISLAMABAD: The third play at the week-long Youth Drama Festival being held at the National Art Gallery was a story girl in the village who wants to be educated and that of her parents, who struggle......
ISLAMABAD: A nuclear expert from Moscow says despite heavy investments in developing anti-ballistic missile systems, India may not be able to fully defend itself in a conflict from strikes by......
ISLAMABAD: On his 42nd visit to Pakistan in 12 years, Indian activist Chanchal Manohar Singh called upon ordinary citizens from both India and Pakistan not to pay heed to propaganda that stops them......
ISLAMABAD: A report on ‘Women’s Economic Participation and Empowerment Status’ suggests that because women lag behind in most fields, including economic empowerment, special attention be given to......
MULTAN: Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s son Ali Haider Gilani, who was released after an operation in Afghanistan last week after three-year captivity, said he was not kidnapped for ransom......
LAHORE: A report by an Islamabad-based think-tank shows weakening of the civilian government’s writ, mainly because of, “activism” and “visibility” of the military leadership in formulating the......
FAISALABAD: Turncoats have almost taken over local chapter of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, replacing the old loyalists who had introduced the party in the district responding to Imran Khan’s slogan......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: On Wednesday when the temperature soared to 47 degrees Celsius, children as young as five to eight years old were found studying under the open sky in Maktab School, Nazirabad village......
LARKANA: Participants in a consultative dialogue on the Hindu Marriage Act-2016 held here on Wednesday called for taking Hindu scholars, holy men and panchayats on board before framing such laws.It......
HYDERABAD: Sindh University’s Institute of Sindhology organised a seminar on Wednesday to mark the International Museums Day.It was presided over by Sindhi writer and intellectual Shaukat Hussain......
KARACHI: The mechanisms leading to violations of human rights were studied closely with the aim of bringing the state and civil society on the same page during a workshop organised by the National......
KARACHI: The administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts allowed the police on Wednesday to interrogate interned chief of the banned Lyari Peoples Aman Committee Uzair Jan Baloch in the Arshad......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday restrained the Election Commission of Pakistan from calculating political parties share in reserved seats for women, youths, labourers/ peasants and......
KARACHI: The Election Commission has announced that the elections of mayor/ deputy mayor and chairman/ vice chairman of district councils, municipal committees, town committees, municipal......
KARACHI: It is more than encouraging to see young artists in Pakistan painting their hearts out and making artworks with complete and delightful abandon. One nice little example of it is a four-day......
NEW YORK: US President Barack Obama on Sunday slammed republican candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the country’s southern border, with Mexico saying the world is becoming ever......
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton has scraped out a narrow victory in Kentucky’s Democratic primary, but rival Bernie Sanders scored a win in Oregon, dragging down her race for the White House.The mixed......
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......
COLOGNE: Humans could set foot on Mars within decades if they wanted to, according to the German astronaut who has been tapped to become his country’s first commander of the International Space......
MIAMI: Last month was the hottest April in modern history, marking the 12th consecutive month that global heat records have been shattered, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said......
GENEVA: Millions of refugees worldwide risk living on the street due to a lack of funds for shelters, the United Nations warned on Wednesday, urging the private sector to help amid surging......
BIRZEIT: The Palestinians have opened a dazzling new museum aimed at telling the tale of their history and culture, but the building is devoid of exhibits.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said at......
BAGHDAD: The militant Islamic State group, on the defensive and under heavy pressure in Iraq, has struck back with bloody attacks in Baghdad, where persistent gaps in security increase the city’s......
BEIJING: US sprinter Justin Gatlin clinched first place in the men’s 100m sprint on Wednesday at the IAAF World Challenge in Beijing, as he accelerates to an Olympic showdown with arch rival Usain......
LEEDS: After winning in South Africa last winter, England’s Test team can show how much progress they have made in the three-match home series against Sri Lanka which starts from Thursday at......
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......
MANCHESTER: Manchester United’s absence from the Champions League for the second time in three years was confirmed on Tuesday after a 3-1 win over Bournemouth in an English Premier League game......
BASEL: UEFA will elect a new president on Sept. 14, with former FIFA candidate Michael van Praag first to declare plans to replace Michel Platini in a contest likely to have several contenders.Van......
VISAKHAPATNAM: Australian batsman George Bailey felt like he was ‘hit on the face with a truck’ when a Nathan Coulter-Nile bouncer knocked his helmet off in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match in......
LONDON: Rio-bound world champion Adam Peaty gave Britain their first swimming gold of the European Aquatics Championships on Tuesday with the fastest time of the year in the 100-metre......
BAKU: Officials from the participating countries in the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games paid a visit to the various venues of the games which are to be held in 2017 here at Baku.According to official......
DHAKA: Bangladesh has asked Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) to help its police question technicians sent by the global financial network to Dhaka to connect a new......
KARACHI: The government has decided to bring improvement and changes in the laws regarding disclosure of assets held abroad by Pakistanis. This was decided in a meeting chaired by Finance Minister......
KARACHI: A leading tetra milk producer has increased the price by Rs5 to Rs10 ahead of the budget and Ramazan.The company, however, did not give any reason for pushing up the price.The new price of......
TOKYO: Suzuki on Wednesday admitted to finding “discrepancies” in its fuel-economy and emissions testing, but the firm denied deliberately manipulating data to make cars seem more efficient.The......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Committee on National Food Security and Research has asked the government to immediately stop the import of cotton lint from India.Syed Muzaffar Hussain Shah, while chairing the......
KARACHI: As the dust seemed to be settling down on the political front with the opposition parties agreeing to end the boycott of Parliament, investors were emboldened to build fresh positions which......
BEIJING: The United States has employed “unfair methods” during an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese cold-rolled steel products and should rectify its mistakes as soon as possible, China’s......
HELSINKI: Nokia, once the world’s top mobile phone maker, on Wednesday announced its return to the fiercely competitive handsets and tablets market years after being crushed there by Samsung and......
KARACHI: Cotton trading turned slow on Wednesday as only a few deals in second-grade cotton quality were finalised amid non-availability of quality cotton.According to floor brokers, the activity......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court asked the attorney general on Wednesday to assist it in determining legitimacy of the much-trumpeted Kissan package under which supplementary grants were released for......
ISLAMABAD: With slower development spending so far, the government is undeterred to unfold next year’s federal budget on June 3 despite Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s preoccupation with the Panamagate......
KARACHI: The Chinese naval chief visited the Pakistan Navy Fleet Headquarters on Wednesday and met Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah.“Admiral Wu Shengli, Commander, PLA (Navy), China,......
COLOMBO: The government of Pakistan will provide bone relics of the Buddha to Sri Lanka for exposition throughout the country during the Buddhist festival of Vesak.The relics kept at the Taxila......
WASHINGTON: The White House has warned Congress that its effort to restrict US military assistance to Pakistan would hurt bilateral ties.In a policy statement sent to Congress on Tuesday afternoon,......
WASHINGTON: A veteran US diplomat, punished apparently for her affection for Pakistan, has said that an FBI investigation against her was flawed from the beginning.On Nov 7, 2014, several US media......
COLOMBO: At least 37 people were killed and 223,687 rendered homeless by heavy rains and landslides in the central regions of Sri Lanka as thousands of army men joined government officials, police......
WASHINGTON: The United States views its relationships with India and Pakistan individually and not as a “zero-sum game”, says the Pentagon while endorsing Islamabad’s claim that it needs F-16s for......
LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department claimed on Wednesday night to have killed eight members of the outlawed Al Qaeda in an ‘encounter’ in Multan’s Nawabpur area.A CTD spokesman said that a......
ISLAMABAD: The four-nation initiative for reconciliation in Afghanistan is faced with an uncertain future as it failed to make headway amid growing differences among the participating countries over......
ISLAMABAD: In an impassioned speech before the National Assembly, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan again presented himself for accountability alongside Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, saying......
LAHORE: Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan Gautam Bambawale has acknowledged that Pakistan-India talks must be held on all issues, including Kashmir, and said India is ready and will go ahead with......
PESHAWAR: A policeman was killed and 13 police personnel and six civilians were injured after two bomb explosions hit the city on Wednesday.Medics at the Lady Reading Hospital said that a body and 19......
NEW submarines, missile defence and now a missile test — India’s breakneck acquisition and development of nuclear weapons systems and platforms are thoroughly alarming and wholly unwelcome.Already......
ALL over the world, the force of law is recognised as the most essential factor to ensure that there is an acceptable level of performance in occupational health, safety and environment (HSE) in......
THERE is only one way of dealing with corruption. Make it legal. Better still, make it mandatory. Why should the poor be denied opportunities the corrupt enjoy with such insouciant......
LAST week I wrote about a proposal floated by some researchers connected with the World Bank and a few other donor agencies to begin relying more on turnover taxes instead of corporate income taxes......
THE democratic-minded people of Pakistan were again let down by both the treasury and the opposition benches in the National Assembly last Monday.The prime minister decided to underplay the......
UNITED NATIONS: A senior UN official on Wednesday welcomed the freeing of a Nigerian schoolgirl abducted more than two years ago by Boko Haram, but said the militant group still holds thousands more......
