KARACHI: The International Boxing Association (amateur) or AIBA has allowed professional boxers to represent their county in Olympics, thus making it a possibility that boxer Amir Khan can represent......
GHAZNI: Taliban suicide bombers wearing police uniforms raided a courthouse in the eastern Afghan city of Ghazni Wednesday, killing six people in what they said was revenge for last month's execution......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan on Wednesday made operational the border management system deployed at Torkham on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.Afghan nationals will now have to produce valid travel documents......
The strange, slithery creatures inside Slovenia's Postojna cave were once considered living proof that dragons existed, prompting locals to give it a wide berth.Now, large crowds from all over the......
MUZAFFARGARH: A Muslim school teacher in Mehmoodkot was accused of blasphemy by parents of his students, sparking anger from school officials and activists who said the law is being abused to carry......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to return to Pakistan, following his open-heart surgery in London, before the end of Ramazan, said Maryam Nawaz while talking exclusively to......
ISLAMABAD: Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan has written a letter to Indian Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj for the repatriation of a seven-year-old missing Pakistani......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's One-Day International (ODI) captain Azhar Ali told that his side will look to qualify directly for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 after putting a strong performance in the ICC......
Sitting on her haunches, Rubina Bibi, mother of five skillfully brings the two ends of the glass bangles to flame and lets them fall one by one.A home-based worker (HBW) in Hyderabad, putting in......
LONDON: Rafael Nadal's hopes of winning a third Wimbledon title are in doubt after he withdrew from the key warm-up event Queen's on Wednesday due to the wrist injury that brought to a halt his......
ISLAMABAD: A 19-year-old school teacher from Murree, who was tortured and set on fire after refusing a marriage proposal, succumbed to her injuries in Islamabad's Pakistan Institute of Medical......
PARIS: Novak Djokovic recovered from a mediocre start to reach the quarter-finals of the French Open on Wednesday with a 3-6 6-4 6-1 7-5 rain-delayed victory against plucky Spaniard Roberto Bautista......
BASTAD: Keeping everyone guessing about his next move, Zlatan Ibrahimovic brushed aside rumors linking him to Manchester United or hometown club Malmo on Wednesday.Speculation about his next move has......
Pakistan will take on the traditional rivals, India, next year on June 4 in their first group-stage game of the ICC Champions Trophy set to be held in England.International Cricket Council (ICC)......
KARACHI: Four people were reportedly booked on Wednesday for violating copyright and intellectual property laws after allegations of plagiarising source code for a financial information startup......
MADRID: France's top scorer Karim Benzema on Wednesday accused coach Didier Deschamps of bowing to pressure from a “racist” political party by not choosing him for the country's Euro 2016 squad.The......
SEOUL: North Korea has backed presumptive US Republican nominee Donald Trump, with a propaganda website praising him as “a prescient presidential candidate” who can liberate Americans living under......
HARARE: The merry-go-round in Zimbabwe's cricket structures completed another cycle on Tuesday as the board approved a raft of changes less than two weeks before India arrive for a short tour.Coach......
If you are a conscientious Pakistani, or if you don’t live under a rock, it is hard to ever forget or ignore the kind of infuriating discrimination and shameful persecution that members of the......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain while addressing a joint session of parliament on Wednesday said Pakistan's democracy has been strengthened to the extent that it can now withstand various......
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan pace bowler Nuwan Kulasekara quit Test cricket on Wednesday in order to focus his attention on the sport's shorter formats, in which he is considered a greater threat with the......
BERLIN: German police have arrested three Pakistani suspects as 18 women have reported becoming victims of sexual assaults at a music festival, authorities said Tuesday.The mostly young women said......
LOS ANGELES: Lionel Messi and Argentina will be targeting the country's 23-year title drought when the Copa America Centenario kicks off on Friday after a troubled build-up marred by corruption......
WASHINGTON: The United States (US) military judge overseeing the trial of the accused mastermind of the Sept 11 attacks should step down and the case should be scrapped because he effectively......
LAHORE: Pakistan's one-day captain Azhar Ali threw his support behind Mohammad Amir on Tuesday for the team's forthcoming tour of England, saying the spot-fixing episode is behind the pacer.Amir, 24,......
ON June 1, 1966, the People’s Daily, the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party, published an editorial titled ‘Sweep away all monsters and demons!’ which called upon citizens to expose all......
AS a child growing-up in New York City, I recall vividly how my brothers and I would help teach my mother how to read, often using a local newspaper. My parents were raised in a time and place when......
A HUSBAND and wife in Pakistan can never be alone again. In between them sit the clerics of Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology (CII). However small the space may be, the mullah in the middle......
OUR foreign policy management has long been without direction and coherence. Yet it has never been so chaotic. The events of the past few months have further highlighted the muddle. This became more......
PESHAWAR: Senior Minister for Local Government Inayatullah Khan on Tuesday said that the provincial government would review the local government system to remove flaws from it.“In its present shape......
PESHAWAR: A lawyer on Tuesday filed a petition with the Peshawar High Court seeking the prime minister’s disqualification over the failure to declare his family’s nine offshore companies in the......
MINGORA: Police arrested a man in Manrrai area of Matta tehsil here on Tuesday for his alleged involvement in terrorist acts.According to Matta police, Behramand, a resident of Manrrai, was wanted by......
LANDI KOTAL: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations in collaboration with political administration have completed distribution of maize seed, poultry and livestock among......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra awarded degrees to 300 students of different disciplines at the second convocation of Abaseen University Peshawar here on Tuesday.The governor......
ISLAMABAD: While the officials in the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and the information ministry are stressing on a more democratic approach for implementing controls on......
ISLAMABAD: If the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is known for anything, it is Internet content management. For around eight years, the PTA has been blocking content on the directives of......
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government has completed 80pc registration of seminaries and mosques in the region, required under the National Action Plan (NAP).This was stated by a......
LAHORE: A property dealer who had been pursuing litigation in the Lahore High Court against a religious organisation’s self-styled ‘Shariat Court’ was briefly kidnapped, intoxicated and threatened by......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought details from the Punjab Censor Board about its May 30 meeting allegedly convened to give legal cover to federal government’s act of banning exhibition......
LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has arrested two alleged ‘facilitators’ of a banned outfit from Lahore but, in a surprise move, booked them and their three accomplices in a......
MULTAN: PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s waving to the crowd (on GT Road) has moved candidate for the Democratic US presidential nomination Hillary Clinton.“I just saw Bilawal Bhutto on TV......
HYDERABAD: Civil society activists on Tuesday held a protest demonstration against the killing of a 16-year-old woman after alleged sexual assault on her in Khipro town of Sanghar district a day......
KARACHI: Screening of the documentary The Halfmoon Files as part of the ‘Digging deep, crossing far — second encounter: Karachi’ exhibition and workshops held at the Arts Council here on Tuesday took......
KARACHI: Around 160 ex-servicemen have been hired as part of the Sindh police’s plan to raise a 2,000-strong commando force for the security of Chinese working in the province on development projects......
KARACHI: Two students and three teachers on Tuesday recorded their statements in a sexual harassment case, which was reported on the Karachi University campus more than a year ago.Sources told Dawn......
KARACHI: A suspect on Tuesday refused to record his confessional statement before a judicial magistrate in a case pertaining to the murder of renowned philanthropist Perween Rahman.Mohammad Raheem......
KARACHI: To spread awareness of constitutional rights and legal provisions, the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (Piler) organised a seminar on ‘Minority rights: challenges in......
BEIRUT: A wave of late night air strikes pummelled the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib, killing at least 23 people, wounding dozens and trapping several under the rubble of their homes, opposition......
ANKARA: A court on Tuesday convicted a former Miss Turkey of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan through social media postings and gave her a 14-month suspended sentence, amid deepening concerns......
BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces faced tough resistance from the militant Islamic State (IS) group on Tuesday as they attempted to enter the centre of Fallujah, where there were mounting fears for thousands of......
ADEN: Renewed clashes between pro-government forces and Iran-backed rebels killed at least 38 people in Yemen during the past 24 hours, loyalist military sources said on Tuesday.The latest fighting......
GAZA CITY: Hamas authorities in the Gaza Strip executed three Palestinian men for murder on Tuesday, the attorney general said, drawing condemnation from the United Nations.The three, who were not......
WARSAW: Poland launched a fresh bid on Tuesday to extradite Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski to the United States to face sentencing over a 1977 case of statutory rape.Justice Minister Zbigniew......
WASHINGTON: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday that while presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is “a phenomenon” and political outsider, he has earned the right......
UKRAINE’S defiant pilot Nadiya Savchenko sang the national anthem on Tuesday in a strident first appearance in the Ukrainian parliament since her release in a prisoner swap with Russia last week.The......
THE election results of Assam and West Bengal generated two distinctive responses in Bangladesh. While the oath-taking ceremony of Sarbananda Sonowal led by the BJP government generated some......
NEPAL expects India and China to respect its concerns and trust it to resolve its own problems.It is often said that the 21st century is going to be an Asian century. There is some merit in the......
LAHORE: Giving a mixed reaction about the upcoming England tour, Test vice-captain Azhar Ali on Tuesday held out hope that despite all adversities at the challenging England tour the national team......
ASCONA: Winger Marco Reus was left out of Germany’s final Euro 2016 squad on his 27th birthday on Tuesday over injury concerns, missing out on his second consecutive major tournament.Coach Joachim......
GENEVA: UEFA is set to decide in December on changing the Champions League as Europe’s top clubs chase a new format and bigger share of the competition’s billion-dollar annual income.Closed-door......
ZURICH: Former Croatia captain Zvonimir Boban was given a high-ranking role at FIFA on Monday when football’s global ruling body named him as one of its two new deputy secretary generals.Boban, 47,......
CHESTER-LE-STREET: Alastair Cook has the potential to move ahead of Indian great Sachin Tendulkar as the world’s all-time leading Test run-scorer, England head coach Trevor Bayliss has said.Cook......
KARACHI: For the first time in the history of Naya Nazimabad Ramazan T20 Cup, eight departmental outfits will compete in the 16-team competition, the prize-money of which has been increased by 100......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in his budget speech later this week will announce a special relief package for reduction in input costs for agriculture and industrial sectors to boost exports......
KARACHI: Despite historically low interest rate and inflation, the monetary expansion remained less than the previous year at the end of the current fiscal year.The State Bank’s latest report issued......
KARACHI: Engro Corporation plans to expand its power generation business and build a second liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal.The Karachi-based company is looking at the possibility of......
KARACHI: Two more liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals will be set up at the Port Qasim with a cumulative capacity of one billion cubic feet per day (bcfd), the Port Qasim Authority (PQA) said on......
KARACHI: Market opened on a positive note on Tuesday as the index rallied to make an intraday high of 180 points but succumbed to selling pressure during the late hour and fell to momentarily dip......
WASHINGTON: The use of ad-blocking software for mobile devices has nearly doubled in the past year, raising questions about the viability of online media business models, a study showed Tuesday.Some......
KARACHI: Pakistan will be the next digital hotspot over the next couple of years as the country is now among one of the top destinations for the mobile industry and global retail and e-tail giants,......
LAHORE: The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (Aptma) Punjab chapter on Tuesday urged the federal government to maintain exemption of electricity load-shedding to textile industry’s major......
TEHRAN: Iran’s first vice president has asked Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh to amend new petroleum contracts aimed at facilitating foreign investment in the post-sanctions era, a government website......
SHANGHAI: Chinese shares posted their biggest daily gain in three months on Tuesday on growing expectations US market index provider MSCI could add mainland stocks to its emerging market benchmark......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif witnessed a multinational military exercise being held in Turkey.The COAS witnessed the exercise in two sittings, one on Monday night and the......
QUETTA: Law enforcement agencies busted on Tuesday a gang of kidnappers and recovered a kidnapped trader on the outskirts of Chaman.Sources said that personnel of the Frontier Corps, police, Levies......
ISLAMABAD: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s Standing Committee on Science and Technological Cooperation (Comstech) approved on Tuesday a 10-year action plan for scientific development in the......
LANDI KOTAL: Security guards at the Torkham border on Tuesday made announcements on loudspeakers warning Afghan nationals against travelling to Pakistan without valid documents.Local sources said......
LONDON: About 45.8 million people around the world are trapped in modern-day slavery, almost a third more than estimated two years ago, a charity said on Tuesday.The Walk Free Foundation’s Global......
KUNDUZ: The Taliban killed at least 16 people on Tuesday and kidnapped dozens of others after pulling them off buses in northern Afghanistan, officials said.The Taliban claimed they were targeting......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to keep prices of all petroleum products unchanged for June, in order to ensure price stability during Ramazan, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said.“In line with......
FUQING (China): Construction work is expected to start within weeks on the third unit at the Karachi nuclear power plant using a reactor developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC),......
KARACHI: A day after approving budgetary proposals for the next financial year via video link, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif underwent successful open-heart surgery at a London hospital and was moved......
ISLAMABAD: After confirmation of his identity, the body of the slain Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been sent to Afghanistan for burial, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan announced......
ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif may own property worth Rs116 million, which includes holdings in the United Kingdom, Lahore and Murree, but his only vehicle is a 2006 Toyota Land......
THE recent period has seen distinct improvement in business morale, aided by stable current macroeconomic indicators, and incipient recovery in power generation. Whether the stage is now set for......
