MANCHESTER: Jose Mourinho said the Manchester United job had come at just the right time in his life and he would be targeting legend Alex Ferguson's two Champions League trophies.The 53-year-old......
PESHAWAR: Relief operation on Tuesday was in full swing in the rain and flood affected areas of Drosh in Chitral district.According to Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Khyber......
LAHORE: Chairman Ruet-i-Hilal Committee Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman announced the sighting of moon for the month of Shawwal on Tuesday and said that Eidul Fitr will be celebrated on Wednesday, July 6.The......
GENEVA: Nearly 30,000 “foreign terrorist fighters” are currently in Syria and Iraq, a high-ranking UN official said Tuesday, warning that the risk of attacks in their home countries was growing.“The......
TAUNTON: Mohammad Amir’s return to first-class cricket was all heroic. He grabbed 3-36 in 11 overs that rocked Somerset’s batting line-up, making their opening batsman Marcus Trescothick worry for......
KARACHI: The Executive Board of DHA in a meeting chaired by its President Commander 5 Corps Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar decided to rename Beach Avenue on Seaview in DHA Phase VIII as Abdul Sattar Edhi......
RIYADH: Outrage spread on Tuesday after a deadly suicide bombing at Islam's second-holiest site in the Saudi city of Medina, one of three attacks in the kingdom on a single day.Religious and......
TAUNTON: Yasir Shah took four wickets and Azhar Ali made a century but Pakistan were denied victory as their England tour opener against Somerset ended in a draw.Leg-spinner Shah took four for 107 in......
In a landmark case, seven-year-old Rabab Ali has sued the government for violating her rights, and the rights of her generation, to a healthy life."I want the government to give me and my friends a......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani Embassy secured the release of 82 Pakistani prisoners in Bahrain on the occasion of Eidul Fitr under a Royal Pardon granted by His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, the......
LONDON: England have major concerns about the planned tour to Bangladesh later this year, the team's limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan has said in the wake of Friday's attack by gunmen at an upmarket......
PESHAWAR: A man named Usman, who was booked for attempting to burn down the house of a transgender, was released on bail in the city's Kotwali area, police said on Sunday.Usman was booked under......
MARDAN: Eleven people, including a police officer, were injured when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonated in Mardan's Khawaja Gani Bazaar on Tuesday.A bomb containing 800 grams of explosive......
MANILA: The Philippines Bureau of Immigration arrested over the weekend a Pakistani wanted for various crimes in his country, including terrorism, rioting and murder.New Immigration Commissioner......
MONTPELLIER: He boasts a Germanic name, Portuguese roots and learned his football in Spain, but France are counting on Antoine Griezmann's loyalty to take them to a Euro 2016 triumph.Going into......
WASHINGTON: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton blasted Donald Trump on Monday after her Republican rival posted a "blatantly anti-Semitic" tweet.Clinton's criticism came......
NEW YORK CITY: Two Muslim teenagers were beaten outside a New York City mosque by an attacker who shouted slurs at them, a rights group said on Monday, calling for police to investigate the incident......
TEHRAN: Iran on Tuesday condemned three suicide bombings that rocked its regional rival Saudi Arabia, one of them targeting Masjid-i-Nabvi (PBUH), Islam's second holiest place, in Madinah."There are......
BEIJING: Flooding in China's Yangtze river basin has left 112 people dead or missing in recent days, media said Tuesday, with more damage feared from a typhoon expected to land within days.Some 16......
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi politician has spoken of his shock on discovering his son was one of the suspected gunmen who murdered foreign hostages, and said many young men from wealthy, educated families......
Let’s begin with hard facts. There are reasons, simple reasons why the Indian tech industry, as of now, is far ahead of the Pakistani tech industry.The number and quality of education in engineering......
TAUNTON: Marcus Trescothick warned England's batsmen to expect a tough time in the middle facing Mohammad Amir after he became the Pakistani's maiden first-class wicket-taker on English soil in six......
TEHRAN: Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, whose 1997 film “Taste of Cherry” won the prestigious Palme d'Or and who kept working despite government resistance, died Monday. He was 76.Iran's official......
LONDON: Ryan Giggs did the right thing leaving Manchester United, the club he served so loyally for nearly 30 years, his mentor Alex Ferguson said on Monday.Ferguson, 74, and who guided Giggs and......
RIYADH: A suicide bomber who blew himself up near the United States consulate in Jeddah early Monday has been identified as a Pakistani citizen, the Saudi interior ministry said on Tuesday.The......
JAKARTA: A suicide bomber riding a motorbike attacked a police station in the Indonesian city of Solo on Tuesday, leaving one officer injured, an official said.The attacker forced his way into the......
ISTANBUL: The tourists are so scarce you can hear their footsteps clattering down the empty shopping street. Nearly a week after the deadly airport bombings, it is eerily quiet in Istanbul.The magic......
NEW DELHI: When a television journalist asked Smriti Irani what qualities Prime Minister Narendra Modi saw in her to give her the education portfolio, she chose not to answer. Instead, she turned to......
LONDON: The head of the UK Independence Party, Nigel Farage, resigned on Monday as party leader, the latest British political chief to tumble amid the political turmoil following the country’s vote......
BAGHDAD: Iraqis on Monday mourned more than 200 people killed in a Baghdad suicide bombing claimed by the militant Islamic State group and accused the government of not doing enough to protect......
SWABI: Sinohydro, the Chinese company executing Tarbela Dam’s fourth extension project here, has stopped construction on the new power house for an indefinite period after six persons, including......
LANDI KOTAL: Despite having meagre resources and fewer opportunities for entertainment, thousands of recently returned families of the militancy-hit Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency are upbeat about......
MINGORA: Where prolonged power outages and sizzling heat have forced the people to flock to the Swat River, it has also created income generating opportunities for others as they sell used swimming......
ISLAMABAD: The apartment of an MNA in the heavily guarded Parliament Lodges was broken into with the burglars making off with cash and valuables, the police said.The incident was reported when PML-N......
RAWALPINDI: A couple, their young daughter and niece were found murdered, with gunshot wounds to their heads, at their house in Dhoke Paharian on Adiala Road on Monday.The couple, 45-year old Sher......
ISLAMABAD: A zebra has died at the Marghazar Zoo, the second in three months in addition to an ostrich which died a month ago, reportedly due to negligence by the zoo staff.Zoo Director Mohammad......
ISLAMABAD: A nine-year-old thalassaemia patient at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), Mohammad Zameer, was told he would receive free transport for getting him to and from the......
RAWALPINDI: On the last working day before Eidul Fitr, bus terminals and the railway station in the city witnessed a huge rush of passengers heading to their hometowns.However, the departments......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday provisionally allowed Royal Palm Golf and Country Club’s management to run golf, sporting facilities and other services without disturbing the possession of......
KARACHI: If the Delhi School of Urdu is proud of Mir Taqi Mir’s poetry, Amroha is proud of the fact that Mushafi gave Urdu its name. This was claimed by Dr Nashir Naqvi Amrohvi while delivering the......
HYDERABAD: Railway traffic on both up and down tracks was suspended briefly on Sunday night when four bogies of Bahauddin Zakriya Express derailed near Karachi Wah. Luckily, no one was reported......
KARACHI: A gas leak in the ammonia tank of an ice factory killed at least six workers and brought down the multi-storey structure in New Karachi Industrial Area on Monday morning.Six bodies were......
KARACHI: Scores of workers of a garment factory, including women, staged a violent protest in Korangi Industrial Area over non-payment of their salaries and a bonus on the occasion of Eid, police......
KARACHI: As only one meeting of the Religious Support Persons (RSPs) was held in Baldia Town during Ramazan for the planned door-to-door polio campaign, the ulema are looking forward to an “intense......
KARACHI: Of course, there were innumerable trips to the shopping centres throughout Ramazan but the last couple of days of the holy month are when Eid shopping reaches its peak.As soon as the......
JERUSALEM: Israel has approved hundreds of new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an official said on Monday, in a move likely to further raise tensions following a series of Palestinian......
TEHRAN: Acclaimed Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami has died at the age of 76 in France following a battle with cancer, Iranian media reported on Monday.Kiarostami, who won the coveted Palme d’Or......
A PROTEST by Zimbabwean taxi drivers against a police crackdown turned violent on Monday when residents joined in and hurled rocks at police, who fired tear gas to disperse the rioters.In the last......
TAUNTON: Pakistan paceman Mohammad Amir marked his return to first-class cricket in England with three wickets as Somerset collapsed at Taunton on Monday.Left-armer Amir took 3-36 in 11 overs, all......
LONDON: Cruising into the quarter-finals without the loss of a set, Roger Federer is making it look easy as he chases a record eighth Wimbledon title.Serena Williams, meanwhile, is picking up......
BANGALORE: India’s new coach Anil Kumble on Monday said he loved Virat Kohli’s aggression, backing his captain to play his natural brand of cricket which has come in forcriticism in the past.Kumble......
PARIS: Forward Olivier Giroud, jeered by France supporters barely a month ago, won them over on Sunday with what he described as his best performance for his country in a major tournament, scoring......
PARIS: The Icelandic thunderclap roar proved no match for the sheer talent of France as the hosts finally showed their title credentials at the European Championship on Sunday.France swept......
PARIS: France’s players immediately turned their minds to a semi-final with world champions Germany on Thursday after putting Iceland to the sword in a 5-2 win in Sunday’s quarter-final.“We had the......
TAUNTON: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq fell for nought in his side’s opening match of their England tour against Somerset at Taunton on Sunday.At tea on the first day of this three-day fixture......
KARACHI: Prices of chicken and vegetables have gone up ahead of Eidul Fitr with tomato rates hitting a new peak.Tomato, which was selling at Rs50 per kg till Thursday last, reached Rs80 on Friday and......
KARACHI: In a thinly traded pre-Eid session on Monday, the KSE-100 Index closed up 183.22 points (0.48 per cent) at 37,966.76. Intraday moves were choppy due to absences by market......
ISLAMABAD: Revenue collection witnessed a growth of over 20 per cent as it reached an all-time high of Rs3,112 billion in the outgoing fiscal year from Rs2,589.97bn collected over the corresponding......
LONDON: Britain has announced plans to cut corporation tax to less than 15 per cent in an attempt to cushion the shock of the country’s decision to leave the European Union, raising the prospect of......
LONDON: Three former Barclays traders have been found guilty by a London jury of conspiring to fraudulently manipulate global benchmark interest rates in a stark warning to junior bankers and a major......
LONDON: In the merger of National Bank of Abu Dhabi and First Gulf Bank , it’s the former that gets a marginally better deal. But the biggest winner is the oil-rich sheikhdom’s government. By......
MULTAN: Easy conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Monday as both buyers and sellers remained on the sidelines.Cotton brokers said Indian yarn exporters have now formally informed the......
LONDON: Gold rose on Monday as political uncertainty after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union supported prices that had been propelled towards last week’s two-year high by an overnight burst......
SINGAPORE: Singapore is rushing to reinvent itself as Asia’s financial technology, or fintech, hub to fend off a regulatory threat to its wealth management industry and revive a sluggish......
KARACHI: Engro Corporation has finally entered into an agreement with a Netherlands-based dairy cooperative to sell up to 51 per cent shares in its subsidiary Engro Foods at an estimated cost of $448......
KARACHI: The State Bank has finally broken its silence on the momentous changes activated in the world economy following Britain’s historic referendum of June 23rd, saying in an email to Dawn that......
KARACHI: Yellow metal soared to Rs43,671 per 10 grams on Monday, up by Rs386 from Thursday’s level.As a result, one tola rate climbed up to Rs50,950, rising by Rs450 per tola over the weekend. Local......
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali took notice on Monday of the delay in the conduct of population census and fixed the case before a bench headed by him on July 15.The chief......
ISLAMABAD: “Religious fanaticism and privatised Jihad” introduced by a military dictator after overthrowing an elected government in 1977 is still haunting the nation, Pakistan Peoples Party......
ISLAMABAD: The government of Japan has agreed to extend a grant aid for the economic and social development programme worth 200 million Japanese Yen equivalent to around Rs205 million to install face......
RIYADH: Eidul Fitr will be celebrated in most Gulf states and Yemen on Wednesday as the moon was not sighted on Monday night, religious authorities there announced.The official news agencies of Saudi......
PESHAWAR: A day after a US congressional delegation visited Miramshah and praised the Pakistan Army’s efforts for the rehabilitation of the temporarily displaced persons (TDPs), Chief of Army Staff......
FOR the nine-party opposition bloc, the parliamentary committee on Panama papers has hit a dead end unless the government significantly reviews its stance. To put pressure on the government, both PPP......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Monday assured the Supreme Court that a team of experts will soon inspect private television channels to ensure that time......
ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the National Highway Authority (NHA) Shahid Ashraf Tarar has given a new twist to the controversy over the eastern and western routes of the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic......
SOHAIL is not the most talkative person; his words appear to be carefully chosen and punctuated with periods of silence. His wife Hina is more expressive, willing to share her opinion. They are the......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah have agreed to “formally exchange” the proposed names for appointment of four......
RIYADH: Suicide bombers struck three cities across Saudi Arabia on Monday, in an apparently coordinated campaign of attacks as Saudis prepared to break their fast on the penultimate day of......
CHITRAL: A search operation continued for the second day on Monday in the border village of Ursoon where 29 people had died on Sunday night when a flash flood hit the village and swept away more than......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Monday expressed extreme displeasure over the manner in which the Karachi police handled the kidnapping case of Awais Ali Shah, son of the Sindh High Court chief......
KARACHI is a strange city and its inhabitants’ peculiarities are obvious from their conflicting attitudes towards the role of the law-enforcement agencies (ie police, Rangers, intelligence services)......
A well-off Pakistani cousin was putting up at the penthouse of the Montreal hotel where, by a coincidence, her Indian cousin was leading a workers’ strike. As he tiptoed through the maze of flags and......
FOR many, the view is clear. Politicians have ruined Pakistan and will keep doing so. But all is not lost. A Lee-like giant or a set of heroes will soon come and take us quickly to our inevitable......
WHEN Pakistan’s de facto foreign minister Sartaj Aziz gave a rundown of his government’s success stories at a special briefing in Islamabad, a slick pamphlet listing “achievements and challenges” was......
