JERUSALEM: Israel has extended the detention without trial of Palestinian clown Mohammad Abu Sakha for another six months, his circus school said on Monday.Abu Sakha, 24, was arrested on December 14......
WASHINGTON: The presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton warned against demonising an entire religion, saying doing so would play into the hands of the Islamic State group. However, while......
KUALA LUMPUR: Rayani Air, Malaysia's first Islamic-compliant airline, has been shut down, regulators said Monday, months after it was suspended from flying for breaching aviation regulations.The......
US authorities on Monday were investigating whether a gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando and declared his allegiance to Islamic State militants had received any help in......
WASHINGTON: Microsoft said Monday it was buying the professional social network LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash, a move that would help refocus the US tech giant around cloud computing and......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday condemned Danish Kaneria's 'anti PCB statement' in India, reminding him that the ban on him was imposed by England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).The......
PRETORIA: Oscar Pistorius is a “broken” man who should not be jailed for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a psychologist told a court in South Africa on Monday, while a prosecutor said......
TORKHAM: Pakistani and Afghan security forces continued intermittent clashes overnight at Torkham border crossing resulting in injuries to 16 Pakistani citizens, including six border security......
LAHORE: Punjab Finance Minister Dr. Ayesha Ghous Pasha on Monday presented the provincial budget having total outlay of Rs1681.41 billion during the Punjab Assembly session chaired by Speaker Rana......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has not handed over the Angoor Adda checkpost to Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry said on Monday, snubbing earlier claims made by the army. The army had earlier......
England captain Wayne Rooney and manager Roy Hodgson on Monday pleaded with the country's fans to avoid further violence to head off a UEFA threat to disqualify the team from Euro 2016.“I'm appealing......
Pakistan's star all-rounder and former Twenty20 International (T20I) captain Shahid Afridi hinted at his differences with the Peshawar Zalmi owner, Javed Afridi.In an interview with Cricket......
QUETTA: A police officer serving with Balochistan's counter-terrorism department (CTD) was gunned down on Sariab Road here on Monday, officials said.Official sources said gunmen riding motorcycles......
BANGKOK: Thailand's health authorities have urged football fans to avoid getting overly excited while watching Euro 2016 lest those heart-stopping moments literally prove fatal.The Public Health......
WASHINGTON: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gave an aggressive response to the deadliest mass shooting in US history, quickly claiming the attack was the work of an Islamist militant......
ISLAMABAD: Despite efforts made by rights activist Marvi Sirmed and criticism by politicians and people on social media, a first information report (FIR) was not registered on Sunday against Jamiat......
India's cricket board has received 57 applications for the position of head cricket coach, with speculation rife about the possible candidates including Australia's Stuart Law and Dav Whatmore.The......
I recently had the pleasure of feeling my ovaries constrict when reading a news item: the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to think it is quite dandy to warn Muslims against family......
ISLAMABAD: Anticipating a deadlock in talks over the proposed Panama Papers inquiry commission, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has begun overseeing preparations to mobilise party......
Bastian Schweinsteiger had time for three touches of the ball and scored with one as world champions Germany started their European Championship campaign with a 2-0 win over Ukraine.The 31-year-old......
WASHINGTON: The head of a prominent US Muslim advocacy group Sunday strongly condemned the nightclub massacre in Florida, calling members of the militant Islamic State (IS) group an "aberration" amid......
Substitute Raul Riudiaz's hotly disputed goal earned Peru a shock 1-0 win over Brazil in Foxborough, Massachusetts on Sunday, the defeat knocking the five-times world champions out the Copa America......
LONDON: Sri Lanka coach Graham Ford called for all no-ball decisions to be taken by the third umpire as his side reacted to an incorrect call in the third Test against England with an extraordinary......
FORT PIERCE: The gunman who killed 50 people at an Orlando, Florida, nightclub in the deadliest mass shooting in US history was emotionally and mentally disturbed with a violent temper, yet aspired......
ORLANDO: A man armed with an assault rifle and pledging loyalty to the militant Islamic State (IS) killed 50 people during a gay pride celebration at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early on Sunday......
ORLANDO: Mina Justice was sound asleep when she received the first text from her son, Eddie Justice, who was in the gay nightclub when a gunman opened fire, leaving 50 dead and more than 50......
THE falling solar energy installation cost is making it competitive to other sources of energy. In the first week of May, a solar developer company bid for Dubai Electricity for as little as 2.99......
THE share of withholding taxes in direct tax revenue surged to 73pc in the first 10 months of the current fiscal year from earlier 65pc, emerging as the leading revenue spinner in this segment for......
THE government raised Rs131.57bn from the auction of Market Treasury Bills held last Thursday, despite having received bids of Rs382.229bn. It however, exceeded the auction target of Rs100bn.It......
In the local currency market, the rupee showed a rising trend versus the dollar and euro last week.Though stocks extended gains kept the bullish sentiments live, maintaining its record high level......
In FY17, interest rates may rise on growing demand for private sector credit and also because banks may try to make up for high tax incidence through more interest income. This is a more likely......
Businesses hate competition because it limits their power to manipulate the market, forces them to invest in quality and cuts into their profits.But Bruno Boris Olierhoek, new managing director of......
ISLAMABAD: The government has initiated the process for appointment of four election commissioners and will soon be sending names of probable candidates to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is......
WASHINGTON: CIA Director John Brennan has said there is no evidence that the Saudi government or senior Saudi officials supported the Sept 11 attacks.Mr Brennan’s remarks, in a weekend interview with......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said on Sunday that Pakistan’s credentials for membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) were stronger than India’s if......
PESHAWAR: Unlike past, the provincial government this time failed to set up sasta bazaars in the provincial metropolis to provide relief to the low income consumers in the holy month of Ramazan and......
MINGORA: A large number of people including women blocked Saidu-Mingora Road to traffic here on Sunday to protest power loadshedding in the holy month of Ramazan.The protesters were holding placards......
SHANGLA: The northern areas of Pakistan are famous for their beautiful waterfalls, mostly located in Kohistan and Shangla districts.About 100 waterfalls are located in Bisham, Shangla and upper......
RAWALPINDI: As many as 26 prisoners, nine of whom have links with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and six of whom were awarded the death sentence by the field general court martial in terrorism......
CHAKWAL: Talagang Road, which branches out from Tehsil Chowk – the main square in Chakwal city – and ends at Talagang city is Chakwal’s answer to Mall Road in Lahore and Murree Road in......
ISLAMABAD: More than a decade after June 12 was declared ‘World Day Against Child Labour’, over 12.5 million children in Pakistan are involved in child labour, according to a statement issued by the......
ISLAMABAD: The suspension of Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT) Pro-Rector Haroon Rashid – whose doctoral thesis was found to be up to 72pc plagiarised – has stirred debate over the......
RAWALPINDI: A Spanish national of Pakistani original, who was blacklisted by the British authorities after being convicted in a drug smuggling case, was offloaded from a flight to Manchester at the......
LAHORE: A leading Chinese company, which has recently expressed its interest in the installation of two out of total seven proposed wastewater treatment plants in Lahore, will charge per unit......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MPA Saadia Suhail Rana and senior leader Abdul Aleem Khan have said the masses in Punjab have pinned no hopes on the Punjab budget after the “anti-people” federal......
KARACHI: Aseefa, younger sister of ruling PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, on Sunday visited the birthplace of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Kharadar after meeting people in Lyari and was......
KARACHI: Sindh Finance Minister Murad Ali Shah said on Sunday that the allocation of Rs225 billion in the head of the annual development programme in the provincial budget 2016-17 was a record and......
KARACHI: A much-needed medical facility that has already been delayed for a decade because of slow-paced construction and repeated changes in design, the trauma centre at the Civil Hospital Karachi......
KARACHI: More than 60 per cent children who work experience child abuse. The gravity of the issue is increasing by the day. The government should think about it. One of the ways to counter it is to......
HYDERABAD: Alarmed by the heavy losses feared to be incurred by each and every grower whose land is fed through the irrigation channels offtaking from the main Rohri canal, various growers’......
BEIRUT: Air strikes on a market in Syria’s Al Qaeda-held city of Idlib killed at least 21 civilians on Sunday, as hundreds fled a besieged IS bastion near the Turkish border.Five children were among......
IT might seem obscene, even grotesque. But the businessmen, construction giants and entrepreneurs of Lebanon are already planning the rebuilding of a physically shattered and broken nation called......
DHAKA: Bangladesh police have arrested an additional 2,000 suspected criminals including Islamist militants in an ongoing crackdown on extremists following a spate of gruesome murders, an officer......
BERLIN: German lawmakers of Turkish descent have been placed under police protection after receiving death threats over parliament’s decision to recognise the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman......
SOMERSET WEST: Oscar Pistorius is going back to jail. The only question now is for how long? It could be 15 years. The double-amputee Olympic runner’s sentencing hearing opens on Monday (today) after......
SHANGHAI: A man hurled a bottle containing home-made explosives inside the main international airport in China’s commercial hub of Shanghai on Sunday, injuring four people before attempting to kill......
BEIJING: German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the role of an independent judiciary and the need for a level playing field for foreign firms as she begun her ninth trip to China since taking......
JAPANESE protesters demonstrated against the heavy US military presence on the island of Okinawa, as tensions run high after a base employee was arrested following the rape and murder of a local......
NEW YORK: Perhaps the only guarantee in Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s epic fight for the White House is that Americans will get their first New Yorker president since World War II.On a likely......
KARACHI: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has ruled that Faisal Saleh Hayat is no longer the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) president, Dawn can exclusively reveal.The LHC judgement, of which an......
LONDON: Alex Hales again fell agonisingly short of a maiden Test hundred as England got the better of several close calls in the third Test against Sri Lanka at Lord’s on Sunday.At tea on a......
BASSETERRE (St Kitts): Australia showed the stuff of champions and South Africa’s suspect temperament was again exposed as they crashed to a 36-run defeat in the fourth match of the Tri-Nation......
PARIS: England and Russia have been threatened with expulsion from Euro 2016 if there is further violence by their fans.Expressing its “utter disgust” over three days of disorder in Marseille,......
PARIS: Croatia needed a touch of Luka Modric magic to beat Turkey 1-0 in their Group ‘D’ opener on Sunday, gaining a measure of revenge after their bitter quarter-final elimination by the same......
PARIS: Russia captain Vasili Berezutsky inflicted Euro 2016 heartache on England on Saturday after a day in which fan violence brought new shame on football.Fighting fans, tear gas and riot police......
KARACHI: Spinners maintained their rich form at the Lawai Cricket Stadium in the fourth Naya Nazimabad Ramazan Cup as left-armer Muhammad Waheed grabbed four wickets to help State Bank of Pakistan......
THOUGH India is the world’s largest producer of milk, accounting for almost a fifth of global production, the dairy industry in the country is still at a nascent stage.Much of the milk that is......
PROFESSIONAL, active investors have been increasingly attracting unwanted attention for their inability to beat the wider market. What tends to generate less discussion are the consequences this......
PAKISTAN is one of the most water-stressed countries; agriculture uses nearly 70pc of all water; rapid urbanisation and growth of industries are competing with agriculture in the demand for......
ORLANDO: Fifty people died in the worst mass shooting in US history on Sunday when a gunman opened fire at a packed gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.The FBI said they were investigating possible......
ISLAMABAD: Despite a 39 per cent cut in assistance from the United States, the government plans to contract $8 billion foreign loans, including $1.8bn through international commercial bonds and......
PESHAWAR: The Fata Reforms Committee has proposed a set of “parallel and concurrent” political, administrative, judicial and security reforms, as well as a massive reconstruction and rehabilitation......
WASHINGTON: The United States warned against the risk of a nuclear conflict in South Asia, as China on Sunday called for more talks on India’s application seeking membership of an exclusive club of......
YESTERDAY, June 12, was World Day Against Child Labour. The menace of child labour is present in many developing countries. Research by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) indicates that of......
If body language is the essence of pop diplomacy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the unrivalled star of the international circuit. In the two years since he assumed office, the BJP strongman has......
ANDERS Kompass is not as well known as the self-exiled Snowden or the still-incarcerated Manning, but he is a whistleblower of note nevertheless. He was the director of field operations at the UN......
THE image of a lawyer most widely held in the Pakistani imagination is monochromatic. And by this I do not mean that it is as characteristically black and white as a lawyer’s court uniform, but that......
ISLAMABAD: At least 40 Islamic scholars belonging to the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) issued a fatwa (ruling) on Sunday declaring the murder of women or girls in the name of honour as 'un-Islamic' and......
