KARACHI: An eight-year-old girl was raped before being thrown off the roof of her house in Karachi’s Superhighway Industrial Area Saturday, the girl’s post-mortem report revealed.Police and hospital......
PESHAWAR: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested the prime suspect in the murder case of transgender female Alisha, who breathed her last in Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital on Wednesday.SSP......
BEIJING: A Chinese detergent commercial showing a black man stuffed into a washing machine and transformed into a fair-skinned Asian provoked outrage this week, but the company behind the clip says......
One of the largest private school networks in Pakistan, The City Schools group, is planning to list its shares on the Pakistan Stock Exchange, the group’s CEO Farzana Firoz said in an interview with......
Argentina had a scare when Lionel Messi had to be substituted after incurring a back injury during a 1-0 win over rugged Honduras in a Copa America Centenario warm-up friendly on Friday.Messi walked......
ISTANBUL: Thousands of Muslim worshippers descended Saturday on Istanbul's world famous Hagia Sophia, the towering former Byzantine church that is now a museum, to demand the right to pray there,......
ISLAMABAD: Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, said Pakistan had the ability and had planned to conduct a nuclear test in 1984, but General Zia opposed the idea as it would......
This time around the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has produced an exhaustive 163 point ‘model’ bill as its response to the Punjab Women’s Protection Bill passed earlier this year.The Women’s......
PARIS: Andy Murray knew that nine-time French Open champion Rafael Nadal was struggling with a wrist injury when he practised with the Spaniard during the build-up to Roland Garros.“I practised a bit......
WASHINGTON DC: In a first, United States First Lady Michelle Obama visited the Pakistan Embassy in Washington on Friday and Pakistan's Ambassador to US Jalil Abbas Jilani shared pictures of the visit......
Pakistan's legendary off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq has agreed to join English cricket team as a spin-bowling consultant for the second Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford in July.England and Wales......
ISLAMABAD: It is our national responsibility to be prepared to protect the country from internal and external threats, said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in his message on the occasion of......
PESHAWAR: Inspector-General (IG) Police of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Nasir Khan Durrani has expressed concern over the provincial government’s decision to terminate the service of 12,500 police officials,......
ISLAMABAD: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has conveyed his "best wishes" to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif who will undergo an open-heart surgery in London on Tuesday.In a tweet posted on Saturday,......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has directed TV and Radio channels to "immediately stop" airing advertisements marketing contraceptives and family planning......
They say, “Astronomy is the mother of sciences”. The oldest of all sciences it surely is! Although this claim is doubtful in a way; when man left the trees (arboreal) and came to walk on two legs,......
Bizarre new jellyfish species that looks like UFOScientists have discovered a creepy new species of jellyfish that looks just like a UFO. The peculiar creature was spotted for the first time by a......
Katy Perry and Rihanna enter the makeup sceneTwo ladies in the music industry are making their foray into the wide world of cosmetics — Katy Perry and Rihanna — and the hype over their respective......
Gone are the days when I was the only child of my parents. I still remember how their life used to revolve around me. Mum used to spend hours and hours in doing things that would make me happy.......
Yippee! Summer vacation is finally here! Let the fun begin!But wait a minute! Fun in this blazing sun? I doubt it....So what to do when it is too hot for a picnic or sport outing? Well, find a cool......
If the Council of Islamic Ideology’s regular anti-women pronouncements were turned into satirical theatre imagine the shock value, given the body’s peculiar fixation with all things women.The latest......
On this very day, exactly 18 years ago, riotous celebration erupted after Pakistan tested its nuclear weapons. Just 17 days earlier, India had experienced a similar moment. Then, one year later,......
THE results of the recent elections to the five state assemblies of Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry emboldened BJP president Amit Shah to declare that the party is close to......
THE recent attack that removed Mullah Mansour from our midst is yet another reason for Imran Khan to hate drones as media coverage has shifted away from the Panama Papers.But while life might have......
BY now Pakistan must be a strong contender for the Guinness Book of World Records as the nation with the most own goals, the latest being the killing of Afghan Taliban emir Mullah Akhtar Mansour a......
NEW YORK: A group of 125 prominent scientists, doctors and medical ethicists released a letter to the United Nations health body calling for this summer’s Olympic Games to be postponed or moved from......
WASHINGTON: The elevator brings visitors up out of the dull, beige maze of the US State Department’s bureaucratic warren and back in time to a hall lined with period decor recalling the era of the......
YES, it’s time to panic. It’s also time to act. Hillary Clinton may not defeat Donald Trump to become president of the United States. And an election which makes the US into an “indecent democracy”......
ANTALYA: Turkey on Friday accused the United States of hypocrisy after US commandos in Syria were pictured supporting a major ground offensive led by a Kurdish militia branded a terror group by......
BEIJING: The Chinese government suggested on Friday that the atrocities committed by Japan in Nanjing during the World War II were more worthy of remembrance than the atomic bombing of......
NEW YORK: Results of a global poll show Donald Trump’s candidacy could make terror attacks more likely and wreak havoc on the global economy.The poll released on Thursday night comes at the heels of......
TOKYO: About 300 passengers and crew members were evacuated from a Korean Air Boeing 777 at Tokyo’s Haneda airport in dramatic scenes after one of the engines caught fire, officials said on Friday.TV......
ATLETICO Madrid are far from the underdogs they were two years ago.Diego Simeone has built a sustained model of success at the Vicente Calderon and as they face city rivals Real Madrid once again in......
PARIS: Nine-time champion Rafael Nadal sensationally quit the French Open with a left wrist injury on Friday as Andy Murray cruised into the last-16.Nadal, 29, stunned Roland Garros by calling a news......
REGGIO EMILIA: Lyon claimed their third women’s Champions League title on Thursday with a dramatic penalty shootout victory over Wolfsburg after the final finished 1-1 in Reggio Emilia.Norwegian Ada......
KARACHI: A host of former and current Pakistan cricketers paid glowing tribute to national Test skipper Misbah-ul-Haq who celebrates his 42nd birthday on Saturday.Misbah, preparing to lead Pakistan......
KARACHI: As many as 38 cueists from across the country including the quartet that miserably failed to come up to the mark in the just-concluded fourth Asian team event and fifth 6-Reds snooker......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to give another responsibility to former Test cricketer Mudassar Nazar.This time the post is that of the chairman of the Cricket Committee.The......
LAHORE: Muhammad Ali, 14, had been leading a normal, happy life until the last month when he was diagnosed with blood cancer.His father, a carpenter, took him to the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer......
ISLAMABAD: For the first time in the country’s history, all the environmental samples for polio have tested negative.A total of 40 samples, collected under the supervision of the World Health......
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has started imposing fines on private schools for non-conforming use residential premises.According to members of the Private Schools Association, a number of......
RAWALPINDI: In order to raise awareness about polio, the Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC) put on a stage play titled Umeed on Friday.The play tells the story of a girl with polio who is bullied for her......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Friday unanimously passed a resolution asking US President Barack Obama to apologise to Pakistan for the recent Balochistan drone attack, which killed......
PESHAWAR: The federal planning, development and reform ministry has dropped all 45 projects proposed by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for inclusion in the next Public Sector Development......
ISLAMABAD: The annual Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) released this week says the infrastructure and social service needs of Sindh and Punjab have outpaced the provincial fiscal space......
KARACHI: Rising cotton imports continued to influence prices on the local market where buyers remained away from the trading ring and preferred to mark time.The trading volume also receded owing to......
ISLAMABAD: The Annual Plan Coordination Committee (APCC), amid uncertain budget schedule over Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s availability, has approved a development outlay of Rs1.675 trillion with a......
ISLAMABAD: The much-awaited Tax Reforms Commission (TRC) report is set to become public as Senate Standing Committee on Finance will hold a debate on the report on June 1.However, the Senate......
KARACHI: Stocks continued its upward journey on the last trading day of the week with the benchmark KSE-100 index adding 153.29 points to close at an all-time high of 36,694.26.The rally started with......
LAHORE: The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd (SNGPL) is going into appeal against a decision of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) in favour of three independent power producers which......
DADU: Sughar preserve folk literature, culture and history and keep alive in the nation’s collective memory tales of heroic actions in the face of adversity through their simple and rustic poetry,......
MITHI: Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Friday rejected all claims and reports suggesting that there was a drought-like situation in the Thar region and that inadequate medical facilities at......
KARACHI: Two Urdu books, Nawa-i-Saaz Shikan, a collection of ghazals by the late Shanul Haq Haqqi, and Shaheedan-i-Wafa Ka Khun Baha Kia by Salma Haqqi, were launched at the Arts Council on Friday......
KARACHI: The Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen and Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Friday condemned the targeted killing of two young men, including a government official, near the Nad-i-Ali Imambargah......
KARACHI: A public hearing held on Friday at a local hotel to discuss the environmental impact assessment (EIA) report of a major residential-cum-commercial project coming up in Clifton raised many......
WASHINGTON: The United States offered an olive branch to the new Taliban leader when it asked him to join the Afghan reconciliation process, says the US State Department.“Our olive branch would be......
KARACHI: Religious parties mainly led by Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) held countrywide protests on Friday against the US drone strike that killed Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, calling it a......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan seems to have failed to seal the deal for the purchase of eight F-16 fighter jets from the United States following a row over financing.The Pakistani government was required to......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has concluded its periodic review on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Pakistan, and took a......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s support can help destabilise the Taliban far more rapidly than US military operations alone could, says Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations......
ISLAMABAD / LONDON: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will undergo an open-heart surgery in London on Tuesday, a senior government official disclosed on Friday night.Special assistant and spokesman for the......
TEHRAN: More than 30 students who partied at a graduation ceremony in northern Iran have received 99 lashes each for violating the Islamic republic's morality code, a news agency reported.“Following......
