LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Gujranwala on Tuesday sentenced three convicts to death — including two Christians and a Muslim — over charges of blasphemy.ATC Gujranwala Judge Bushra Zaman......
WASHINGTON: Republican lawmakers on Tuesday released a report on the deadly 2012 assault on the US mission in Benghazi, accusing then secretary of state Hillary Clinton of underestimating and then......
VATICAN CITY: Former pope Benedict made one of his rare public appearances on Tuesday to be feted by his successor Pope Francis, two days after Francis denied reports that Benedict was still......
QUETTA: Suspected militants on Tuesday killed four police officials in the provincial capital’s Kechi Baig and Hazar Ganji area.In the first attack, a police vehicle was shot in Kechi Baig area on......
RAWALPINDI: Brigadier (retd) Ali Khan was released from Adiala jail after completing five years of rigorous imprisonment awarded by a military court for having links with a banned outfit Hizbut......
KARACHI: Inspector General of Police AD Khwaja has said the kidnappers of Awais Shah, son of SHC CJ, are trying to misguide the law enforcement agencies and the police believes he is kept in......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday annulled the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority’s (Pemra) notification in which the regulatory body had earlier banned Aamir Liaquat’s Inam......
KARACHI: The metropolis received moderate rainfall on Tuesday evening with reports of lightning and light thunderstorm in some parts of the city.As a result of the downpour, 180 electric feeders......
DUBAI: Police in Bahrain say they have made a series of arrests over people “misusing social media” amid an intensifying crackdown on dissent in the tiny island kingdom.An Interior Ministry statement......
ISLAMABAD: Holding the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) responsible for the rise in incidents of violence against women, members of the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Tuesday......
LONDON: England's football journalists left their readers with no illusions on Tuesday after their side's Euro 2016 hopes were crushed by Iceland, describing the 2-1 loss as the worst in their......
LAHORE: Pakistan tennis star Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi is gearing up to represent Pakistan in the ongoing Wimbledon Tennis Championship in London.This will be right-handed tennis player's 11th appearance......
LONDON: London mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday called for the city to be given more autonomy to allow it to ride out the economic uncertainty unleashed by Britain's vote to leave the European Union.While......
PESHAWAR: In a crackdown launched against illegal settlers, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police have arrested over 2,000 Afghan refugees in Peshawar.The KP provincial government had set June 30 as a......
BENGALURU: Veerath Bharati, who made headlines as one of India's first female cab drivers, was found dead in her rented home in northern Bengaluru on Monday, reported The Hindustan Times.Bharati was......
ANKARA: Turkey is ready "if necessary" to pay compensation to Russia after it shot down one of Moscow's military jets over Syria in November, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has said."We have said......
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry on Tuesday announced a four-day holiday on the occasion of Eidul Fitr for government organisations, semi-government organisations, banks and educational......
The eldest two of my four ‘tayajis’ (father’s brothers) were born in what is now Pakistan, and were brought over to India by their parents during the migration along with their four siblings — one of......
BEUNOS AIRES: Argentine football legend Diego Maradona and the country's President Mauricio Macri urged Lionel Messi on Monday not to leave the national team despite his vow to quit after a......
KUALA LUMPUR: A grenade attack on a bar in Malaysia wounded eight people, including a Chinese national, police said on Tuesday, ruling out terrorism as a motive.The attack on the Movida bar in......
I looked on as dusk took over and the lights flickered on at Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Maracana Stadium on the eve of the 2014 FIFA World Cup opener against Bosnia, Argentina was taking to the......
WASHINGTON: The United States (US) looks unlikely to follow through on a threat to relegate Britain to second-class trade status once its ally leaves the European Union, as it weighs the potential......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on whether secret military tribunals set up in early 2015 to try civilians accused of terrorism have violated the constitutional rights of 12......
SOUTHAMPTON: Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur has arrived back in England saying that while he may have learnt from his time in charge of Australia it will not alter his fundamental approach to the......
LAHORE: Ali Haider Gilani, son of ex-premier Yousuf Raza Gilani, broke his silence about his kidnapping ordeal on Tuesday, saying he was abducted by Al Qaeda, which wanted the release of some women......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak is understood to have ordered the Rs300 million allocation for Darul Uloom Haqqania, a Nowshera seminary, in the budget of the next fiscal......
ISLAMABAD: A six-member delegation from the Technical Advisory Group (TAG), a body which advises Pakistan on polio eradication, reached Pakistan on Monday in order to seek a report about the......
ISLAMABAD: Facebook celebrity Qandeel Baloch has written to the interior minister, the director general of the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) and the senior superintendent of Islamabad asking......
ISLAMABAD: A performance assessment of 102 senators by the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (Pildat) shows that MQM Senator retired Col Tahir Hussein Mashhadi has......
ISLAMABAD: The severe water shortage in the federal capital overshadowed proceedings at the first meeting of the Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) on Monday.In his opening remarks, Mayor......
TAXILA: Sri Lankan authorities have returned four Buddha relics to the officials of Taxila Museum after exhibiting them in their country.Sri Lankan Minister of Internal and Cultural Affairs S.B.......
ISLAMABAD: The recent scandal of Mufti Qavi and Qandeel Baloch echoed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) when the defence counsel in the Haj corruption case asked the court for concession for the......
FAISALABAD: Overcrowded buses and trains on Eids suggest the festivals are the marked occasion of a formal reunion for the families and individuals residing in the places away from their native......
OKARA/Rahim Yar Khan: A senior surgeon with three others, including his minor son, was killed in a road crash on Monday in Rahim Yar Khan district.Family sources said Dr Abdullah Khalid, senior......
GUJRAT: Five hunters were fined Rs0.5 million on Monday for shooting urials in the forests of Pind Dadan Khan, Jhelum.On a tip-off, the District Wildlife Department had arrested them red-handed from......
GUJRAT: The Sohawa Tehsil (Jhelum) assistant commissioner has sought registration of a criminal case against ruling PML-N MPA Raja Awais Khalid for allegedly trying to physically attack her and......
LAHORE: In its ninth consecutive budget, the PML-N government in Punjab has again decreased budget allocations for education.“In 2013-14, the Punjab education budget was 26 per cent of the total......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court allowed on Monday Muttahida Qaumi Movement mayoral candidate Waseem Akhtar to go abroad for 20 days.Mr Akhtar is among a number of MQM and PPP leaders who face......
KARACHI: Apparently taking cue from the meeting presided over by the army chief at Corps V a day earlier, where it was decided that action would be intensified against the ‘militant wings’ of......
HYDERABAD: All processions taken out across the province on Monday to mark the martyrdomday of the third rightly-guided caliph Hazrat Ali (RA) concluded peacefully amid strict security......
In the death of Jamal Faqir, Sindh’s music culture has lost a great exponent of the Soung school of music.Among music lovers and mystics he was an exponent of peace, love and brotherhood as reflected......
KARACHI: As the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is continuing to investigate malpractices at Karachi University, its administration is struggling to regularise the several political appointments......
BEIRUT: A group of suicide bombers detonated their explosives in a northeastern Lebanese village near the border with Syria on Monday, killing five people and wounding at least 15, a Lebanese......
ADEN: A wave of suicide bombings targeting Yemeni troops killed at least 19 people on Monday in the southeastern city of Mukalla, which Al Qaeda was driven out of in April, an official said.Three......
KAKATA: First lady Michelle Obama visited a leadership camp for girls in Liberia to launch her latest Africa visit on Monday in a country still recovering from the recent Ebola epidemic that left......
WASHINGTON: The United States has resumed its air strikes on Taliban positions in Afghanistan, as part of a strategy to force the insurgents to negotiate with the Afghan government.Defence experts in......
MOSCOW: The Kremlin said on Monday that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had apologised to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over Ankara’s downing of one of Moscow’s military jets in......
STOCKHOLM: Each year about 6.5 million deaths worldwide are linked to air pollution, a number that could grow in coming decades unless the energy sector steps up its efforts to slash emissions, the......
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Texas law placing a raft of restrictions on abortion clinics, handing a major victory to the “pro-choice” camp in the country’s most important......
LONDON: Polish and Muslim leaders in Britain expressed concern on Monday after a spate of racially motivated hate crimes following last week’s vote to leave the European Union in which immigration......
NATO on Monday appointed Rose Gottemoeller as deputy head of the US-led alliance, the first woman to hold the post, a statement said.Gottemoeller is a career US diplomat whose nomination to the Nato......
KUALA LUMPUR: Giant video screens lining Malaysia’s ruling-party headquarters flash towering, 40-storey images of a smiling Prime Minister Najib Razak across a corner of the capital, a glaring......
OTTAWA: Canada, Mexico and the United States will look to dovetail their climate and other policies into a continental strategy when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosts Barack Obama and Enrique Pena......
BERLIN: Is it possible to regret becoming a mother? The question first posed by an Israeli researcher has stirred a debate in Germany like in no other country, shattering a long-held taboo.“In......
LAHORE: The head of Pakistan Cricket Board’s bio-mechanics laboratory, Prof Awais says that the facility meets all the required international standards to get accreditation with the International......
KARACHI: Eaton CC warmed up for their quarter-final fixture in the Omar Associates Trophy 31st Karachi Gymkhana Ramazan Cricket Festival with an eight-wicket win over Sojhula CC here on Monday.In the......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Rio de Janeiro’s mayor handed a still not entirely finished cycling arena to the organisers on Sunday, inaugurating the last major installation in the Olympic Park just over a month......
KARACHI: Young Usman Qadir guided National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) into the quarter-finals of fourth Naya Nazimabad Ramazan Cup with a six-wicket defeat of Atiq Estates at the Lawai Cricket Stadium......
EAST RUTHERFORD: Lionel Messi put his penalty kick over the crossbar, grabbed his shirt, clenched his teeth and covered his face with both hands.A few minutes later a crestfallen Messi walked off the......
LONDON: World number one Novak Djokovic got his campaign for a third successive Wimbledon title off to a winning start with a 6-0, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 victory over Britain’s James Ward on Monday.The......
KARACHI: Inspired by another Tammy Beaumont century, England women condemned their Pakistan counterparts to a third straight defeat to complete 3-0 whitewash of the One-day International series on......
BRIDGETOWN: Mitchell Marsh emerged as the unlikely bowling hero for Australia as the World Cup-holders defeated the West Indies by 58 runs in the final of the tri-nation One-day International......
TOULOUSE: Belgium’s ‘golden generation’ is finally living up to its billing at European 2016.Expectations have long been heaped on a group of players led by Eden Hazard, Kevin De Bruyne and Romelu......
LILLE: Germany’s first penalty miss at a European Championship for 40 years proved but a footnote on Sunday as the team eased into the quarter-finals with a comprehensive 3-0 defeat of Slovakia.Goals......
KARACHI: Save for the initial positive opening, the Pakistan Sock Exchange’s benchmark 100-share index remained in the red all through the day on Monday. It succumbed to selling pressure emanating......
WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew says that the decision of British voters to leave the European Union is “an additional headwind” for the US and global economies but “there is no sense of......
LONDON: One fifth of British business leaders are considering moving operations abroad after the country’s shock decision to leave the EU, according to a survey from a leading business lobby......
DUBAI: Oil minister Bijan Zanganeh has handed the running of Iran’s national oil company to a trusted ally in a push to agree long-awaited deals with global oil majors, which could be derailed by......
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday instructed Finance Minister Taro Aso to watch currency markets “ever more closely” and take steps if necessary, in the wake of Britain’s historic......
PARIS: UK bond yields hit an all-time low on Monday while rates on German debt pushed further into negative territory as investors sought safe haven following a vote to leave the EU.“Markets are in......
KARACHI: Banks’ financials remained sound but their advance-to-deposit ratio (ADR) plunged to 46.4 per cent by the end of 2015, said State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) Financial Stability Review issued......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has admitted for second review under political pressure a request by a government-owned generation company to enhance the cost of......
KARACHI: The month of Ramazan so far has generated mixed business opportunities for stakeholders but fruit vendors and traders of chana (gramwhole) and besan as well as milk are enjoying tremendous......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports of government services dropped by nearly 20 per cent year-on-year to $1.78 billion during the first 10 months (July to April) of the outgoing fiscal year, the Pakistan......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Monday that all branches of commercial banks would remain open on the 2nd and 9th of July (Saturdays) during the Eid holidays.The SBP said all......
ISLAMABAD: The communications ministry and the National Highway Authority (NHA) failed on Monday to give satisfactory answers to the questions raised by the Senate Standing Committee on......
ISLAMABAD: The case of model Ayyan Ali took a new turn on Monday when the widow of a slain Customs inspector moved the Supreme Court to become a party in the interior ministry’s petition in opposing......
LANDI KOTAL: Pakistani authorities at the Torkham border on Monday deported 56 Afghan nationals arrested from various areas on charges of having entered the country without the required travel......
ISLAMABAD: Members of civil society, media organisations, press clubs from across the country and journalist unions have joined the Reporters Without Borders in its campaign for the release of its......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to join hands with Pakistan to remove poverty, a problem that stalks both countries, but he is not sure who to engage with in Islamabad.Talking to......
WASHINGTON: The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the eleventh review of Pakistan’s economic performance on Monday, enabling the immediate disbursement of $501......
KARACHI: There's little that brings on grief like unfinished business. For the slain qawwal of renown, Amjad Sabri, multitudes know their reason for sorrow; very few mourn.Is it the legacy? Or the......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz is not very hopeful about normalisation of ties with India and progress in the Afghan reconciliation process — the two issues that have a strong bearing......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Monday filed a petition with the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seeking the disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and four members of......
ISLAMABAD: The Army is all set to have a dominant role in the recruitment of 20,000 police personnel who will help make Karachi more secure.Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Interior Minister......
WHAT is going on at the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority? In a manner reminiscent of the judiciary under Iftikhar Chaudhry, Pemra under its incumbent chairman is quickly adopting......
ONE of the world’s oldest parliamentary democracies the UK used an inappropriate electoral system which enabled mere populism to distort the long-term vision of a mature democracy.Even without a......
THERE seems to be a pervasive belief in Pakistan that India is somehow being indulged by the West, chiefly the United States, because of Delhi’s new money power or its ascendant economy. Some......
THE 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, recently approved by the two houses of parliament, is a major step forward towards improving the general management of elections. However, it leaves the real......
IN recent years, polio has taken centre stage on the health landscape in Pakistan. To some extent, given the international dimensions of the issue, that is justifiable.And while it is encouraging......
NICE: England were dealt a humiliating 2-1 defeat by minnows Iceland on Monday as Roy Hodgson's side crashed out of Euro 2016 in one of the most stunning upsets in the history of the game.Ragnar......
