WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama endorsed fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton for president on Thursday, saying he did not think there had ever been a nominee so qualified for the White House.“I'm with......
LOUISVILLE: The world begins two final days of mourning for Muhammad Ali on Thursday when the boxing great was honored with a Muslim funeral a day before receiving a final goodbye with an interfaith......
KARACHI: Former prime minister Shaukat Aziz claimed that former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto did not want Nawaz Sharif to return to Pakistan before 2008 general......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Metrological Department (PMD) has predicted a likelihood of 10 to 20 per cent above average rainfall across the country. Above average rainfall is expected over Punjab, KP,......
BAGHDAD: The militant Islamic State (IS) has posted a video showing a 3,000-year-old temple being blown up at the Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq, in their latest assault on some of the......
KARACHI: Pakistan fast-bowler Mohammad Amir has been granted visa by the British authorities for the upcoming tour of England, a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official told DawnNews on Thursday.The......
BERLIN: A quarrel over meal times during the Muslim holy month of Ramazan likely sparked an arson attack that destroyed a German refugee shelter, said a report Thursday quoting prosecutors.The huge......
PARIS: Bar and restaurants owners won't be allowed to set up TV screens outside their businesses during the European soccer championship.The controversial move is aimed at improving security during......
VIENNA: China is leading opposition to a push by the United States (US) and other major powers for India to join the main club of countries controlling access to sensitive nuclear technology,......
NEW DELHI: Often accused of not taking cricket's longest format seriously, India unveiled six new Test venues on Thursday and announced a busy 2016-17 home season when they will play 13 Tests against......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has expressed its concern over growing strategic ties between India and the United States (US), a day after the two countries signed a number of agreements for security......
BAGHDAD: More than 22 people were killed and 70 wounded in two separate bombings on Thursday in Baghdad, one targeting a commercial street and the other an army checkpoint, Iraqi police said.The......
JERUSALEM: Israel on Thursday suspended most special permits for Palestinians to visit Israel during Ramazan and beefed up police patrols in Tel Aviv after two Palestinians carried out a shooting in......
MOSCOW: A Russian Sukhoi Su-27 fighter jet crashed outside Moscow on Thursday killing its pilot, the RIA news agency quoted the Defence Ministry as saying.The plane was returning to its base at the......
It doesn't matter that I am not an Insaafian — one doesn't have to be a PTI supporter to call out the appalling attitude towards women in our National Assembly. What does matter, however, is which......
LAHORE: An 18-year-old girl murdered by her mother for marrying the man of her choice was discreetly buried before dawn Thursday by her in-laws, as activists and politicians condemned Pakistan's......
Cricket Australia (CA) will push for up to two day-night Tests at next year's Ashes series despite the misgivings of captain Steven Smith and his England counterpart Alastair Cook.Both skippers said......
SYDNEY: The Australian cricketers' players union on Thursday urged the sport's national governing body to ensure conditions for this year's two pink ball Tests are upgraded to produce high quality......
ISLAMABAD: PPP Senator Aitzaz Ahsan claimed Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s inappropriate language against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief whip Shireen Mazari in the National Assembly (NA) on......
TEL AVIV: Two Palestinians opened fire at a popular Tel Aviv nightspot near Israel's military headquarters on Wednesday, killing four people in one of the worst attacks in a months-long wave of......
LONDON: England captain Alastair Cook insisted India batting great Sachin Tendulkar's all-time record for Test runs had yet to come into his sights even though he had surpassed one mark set by the......
NEW DELHI: India has stepped up efforts to sell an advanced cruise missile system to Vietnam and has at least 15 more markets in its sights, a push experts say reflects concerns in New Delhi about......
MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto backed India's bid to join a nuclear trade group as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Latin American nation on Wednesday.Pena Nieto said......
Sometimes it is really tiring to explain the difference between good Taliban (GT) and bad Taliban (BT). It is actually self-explanatory and not so hard to decipher, yet, there are many out there who......
PESHAWAR: A senior leader of the deadly Haqqani network was killed in a United States drone strike in Afghanistan's Paktika province, reports in the Afghan media said on Thursday.The leader killed in......
ORLANDO: Philippe Coutinho struck a spectacular hat-trick and Renato Augusto scored twice as Brazil crushed Haiti 7-1 in their Copa America Centenario Group B match at the Citrus Bowl on......
PARIS: A tortuous build-up dominated by off-field controversy and untimely injuries comes to an end for hosts France when they finally get Euro 2016 underway against Romania in Group A at the Stade......
LONDON: Gold rose more than one per cent to a near three-week high on Wednesday, bolstered by a weaker dollar on declining expectations that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates any time......
PESHAWAR: Prolonged power suspensions and low voltage in parts of Peshawar, Charsadda and Nowshera irked consumers who blocked various roads in protest, causing serious problems for commuters in the......
PESHAWAR: Just two years after Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister punctured a pressure group of the members of provincial assembly using his special political manoeuvring skills, another such group is......
ISLAMABAD: Since it has not granted environmental approval for mining or stone crushing in the area, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Punjab argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that......
RAWALPINDI: Special markets that have been set up in eight locations in the city to facilitate citizens this Ramazan are selling substandard fruits, vegetables and other items at high rates.Only 20......
ISLAMABAD: Members of Senate Functional Committee on Problems of Less Developed Areas on Wednesday were shocked to know that the schemes, which were under construction on papers but did not exist on......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has blocked both lanes of Faqir Aipee Road for repair work, which has created problems for motorists, who have no alternate route to take.The road......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday allowed a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf lawyer to present details of four Mayfair flats allegedly owned by Maryam Nawaz Sharif, daughter of the prime minister,......
LAHORE: Former PTI Punjab president Ejaz Chaudhry and the party Women’s Wing Punjab president have reprimanded Defence Minister Khwaja Asif for his insulting remarks against PTI’s Shireen Mazari and......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Decades-old demarcation lines between Toba Tek Singh and Jhang districts are very weird in Shortkot.The Shorkot Cantonment is regarded a part of the Jhang district. By the book, only......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s (MQM) call to keep business and transport closed in protest against the seizure of Dr Farooq Sattar’s home by the Pakistan Rangers failed to receive the......
KARACHI: Police on Wednesday registered a case against senior leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and others for rioting and other offences three days after they had staged a demonstration......
KARACHI: Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested the prime suspect in the mysterious murder of a woman whose son was reportedly found near Do Darya before being brought to the Edhi Centre some......
KARACHI: “They have removed the old guards around Gate C, also known as Paan Gate, through which paan is brought into the airport,” said Ali Raza, one of the survivors of the airport attack in 2014,......
KARACHI: The city wardens in their army green slacks and caps and light green T-shirts are back on the roads, in this sweltering heat, assisting the traffic police during Ramazan.“We are trying to......
HYDERABAD: The residents of Peon Colony Hyderabad staged a sit-in on Wednesday outside Shahbaz Building for a couple of hours in protest against power outage since a pole-mounted transformer (PMT)......
HYDERABAD: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) call for a Sindh-wide strike on Wednesday was responded positively in the Hyderabad and Latifabad talukas and parts of Mirpurkhas city but general......
PARIS: The Louvre and the Orsay, the premier museums of Paris, have reopened after an emergency closure last week to move masterpieces to higher ground during the city’s worst flooding in......
BEIRUT: Air strikes on rebel-held districts of Syria’s contested city of Aleppo on Wednesday, including one that struck near a hospital, killed 15 civilians and wounded many others, as fighting in......
PORT MORESBY: Police in Papua New Guinea opened fire on Wednesday on students protesting against the prime minister, injuring almost 40, according to an international rights group which slammed the......
SANTA MONICA: Bernie Sanders refused to concede defeat to Hillary Clinton on late Tuesday, vowing to “continue the fight” for the Democratic nomination despite his rival declaring herself the party’s......
ECONOMIST Pedro Pablo Kuczynski clung to a thin lead over the daughter of a jailed former president early Wednesday as the count from Peru’s presidential election dragged on, straining nerves in a......
AS German Green Party co-chair Cem Ozdemir put it, there is “never a favourable time to speak about something as dreadful as genocide”. True. But there can still be counterproductive times.On June 2,......
WASHINGTON: On June 7, 2008 Hillary Clinton made way for Barack Obama to conquer the White House, conceding defeat after a fractious primary race, and throwing her full weight behind him.Eight years......
LOS ANGELES: Pursued by shadowy security men in plain clothes, New York film-maker Nanfu Wang mounts the staircase of a decrepit, gloomy apartment block in China, gasping for breath as she reaches......
ANKARA: Four people including a pregnant policewoman were killed in a car bombing on Wednesday in Kurdish majority southeastern Turkey, a day after a deadly attack hit mega city Istanbul.Both......
PARIS: A new smartphone app to alert users to possible terror attacks was launched by the French government on Wednesday in time for the start of Euro 2016, amid growing security concerns over the......
“I AM America! I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me—black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own. Get used to me.”In an increasingly......
LONDON: Maria Sharapova was on Wednesday banned for two years after failing a drugs test but insisted she will appeal a decision which could effectively end her career.Russian star Sharapova, 29,......
LAHORE: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday announced an unchanged elite panel of umpires for the 2016-17 season with Pakistan’s lone representative Aleem Dar topping the list.The......
PASADENA: Colombia became the first side to book a spot in the Copa America Centenario quarter-finals on Tuesday after beating Paraguay, while the United States kept their hopes of advancing alive by......
PARIS: Two days before the start of Euro 2016 in France, rubbish piled up in parts of Paris on Wednesday and trains were disrupted as strikes and political turmoil over labour reforms dragged......
MADRID: European champions Spain suffered a shock first defeat since March 2015 losing 1-0 at home to Georgia in their final warm-up friendly before Euro 2016 on Tuesday.Spain dominated from the......
PROVIDENCE: South Africa roared back into contention in the tri-nation ODI series with a 47-run victory over Australia in the third match of the tournament at the Providence Stadium here on......
MINGORA: Three young emerging badminton players from Swat left for Kuala Lampur on Wednesday to undergo month-long professional training there, with the hope that the tour will enable them to polish......
LAHORE: Diana Baig shifts restlessly in her seat, checking her watch every few seconds at an awards ceremony after leading her cricket team to victory. Soon she has to play a football match at......
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan has issued a policy note to the Punjab Revenue Authority and the Sindh Revenue Board recommending them to withdraw the exemptions granted to the......
ISLAMABAD: A Lahore-based manufacturer of fibre optic patch cords and pigtails has approached the National Tariff Commission (NTC) seeking reduction in import duties of raw material.Fibre Electronics......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) collected Rs2.643 trillion in taxes in the first 11 months (July-May) of this fiscal year, a growth of nearly 20 per cent as compared to a collection of......
KARACHI: Stocks remained range-bound on Wednesday as profit-taking restricted KSE-100 index to a gain of 34 points to close at 37,426.Volumes increased two per cent to 143 million shares while......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) initiated 29 show-cause proceedings against insurance companies for non-compliance with the Insurance Ordinance, 2000.The......
MULTAN: Cotton buying picked up on Wednesday amid reports of strong demand for the commodity in international markets.Brokers said that there was strong demand for lint in the markets of China, India......
ISLAMABAD: Reform delays in Pakistan, such as entrenched political obstacles to privatisation, would compromise future productivity and dampen growth prospects, and may also increase fiscal pressures......
PESHAWAR: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has urged the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to devise policies for export promotion, especially for fruits and vegetable......
DUBAI: The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday welcomed austerity measures by Middle Eastern oil exporters but warned that greater efforts were needed to plug budget deficits resulting from......
ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Wednesday cleared 14 development projects, mostly in the energy sector, including a Gwadar-Nawabshah pipeline for Liquefied National Gas and......
KARACHI: Engro Corporation Ltd has sold off 295 million shares of its subsidiary -- Engro Fertilisers Ltd -- to local and foreign institutional investors and high net worth individuals (HNWI) by way......
KARACHI: High inflows of dollars in the open market forced the greenback below Rs105 on Wednesday, barely a month after the currency touched the height of Rs106 in the last week of April.Currency......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain approved on Wednesday the 22nd Constitution Amendment after which bureaucrats, government officers and technocrats have become eligible for appointment as the......
ISLAMABAD: Electricity shortfall closed at around 5,000MW on Wednesday as rising temperatures pushed demand beyond 21,200MW against the maximum generation of 16,548MW.The ministry of water and power......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to come up with a justification for the missing election record of 29 polling stations in the National......
QUETTA: The Quetta Accountability Court remanded on Wednesday Mir Khalid Khan Langove, former adviser to the Balochistan chief minister on finance, in NAB’s custody for another 14 days in a mega......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Wednesday tried to justify its budget figures in the National Assembly, while the opposition continued to allege that the numbers had been fudged.In the main government......
ISLAMABAD: The interior minister has warned officials of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) against displaying slackness in the verification campaign of the Computerised......
ISLAMABAD: Former federal minister for religious affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi has challenged in the Islamabad High Court his conviction in the Haj corruption case, saying that he was implicated in it......
LAHORE: With rising temperatures, the water supplies in the country have also gone up by around 44 per cent in comparison to the last year’s river flows, with the Indus and Kabul registering main......
ISLAMABAD: Two former presidents of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Asma Jahangir and Kamran Murtaza, will probe the murder of 18-year-old schoolteacher Maria Sadaqat who was burnt alive......
ISLAMABAD: Senior White House officials Dr Peter Lavoy and Ambassador Richard Olson would visit Pakistan on Friday amid fresh strains in bilateral ties.There was no official announcement of the trip,......
WASHINGTON: An American company will build six nuclear reactors in India under an agreement announced after a White House meeting between Indian and US leaders on Tuesday.The United States also......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has formally asked the US administration and Congress to support its application for joining the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama formally......
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani warned the government on Wednesday against what he called its growing tendency of “bypassing” parliament on key issues, saying it seemed that “the......
LAHORE: A mother burnt alive her 18-year-old daughter on Wednesday for marrying a man of her own choice in an area near General Hospital on Ferozepur Road.Parveen Rafiq, who confessed to having......
THE issues raised by the Maulana Sheerani-led Council of Islamic Ideology’s keenness to ensure that wife-beating does not end in Pakistan will be solved neither by protests by women activists nor by......
THERE is more than one way to cry foul in Pakistan, and in economic affairs, the path of least resistance is to allege that the numbers have been tampered with. Most recently, the allegation of......
THE Council of Islamic Ideology has recently drawn enormous attention for its reactionary statements on everything from women’s rights to the Panama Papers. If you had to guess when Pakistan was......
THE story of the killing of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike in Balochistan last month remained on the media’s radar for barely more than a week. Pakistan......
