Israel opened a major crossing point between Israel and Gaza on Wednesday to allow the transfer of vehicles carrying goods for the first time in nine years, officials said.An AFP photographer saw......
LUXEMBOURG: The EU's top court faced a dilemma Wednesday after a top legal officer said it was discriminatory for a firm to tell an employee to remove a Muslim headscarf, contradicting an earlier......
LONDON: Mohammad Amir may be the centre of attention in the build-up to the first Test against England at Lord's, but Thursday's match is also a milestone for Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq.Selection......
KARACHI: The grandson of late philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, Ahmed Edhi, was allegedly beaten up by police officials in the Sir Syed town locality of the metropolis on Wednesday.Edhi's grandson......
ISLAMABAD: Referring to the recent discussion in US Congress regarding whether to categorise Pakistan as a "friend or foe", Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said its only a......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali has taken suo moto notice over the lack of performance by Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).The chief justice on Wednesday issued a notice to Attorney......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Wednesday, in a letter, urged the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to take action against the TV channels conducting a 'defamatory media......
TEHRAN: A senior Iranian health official warned on Wednesday that sexual transmission of HIV/AIDS was on the rise, in part because of taboos about discussing sex.Iran's deputy health minister Ali......
LIVERPOOL: Fiery Italian striker Mario Balotelli's unhappy spell at English Premier League side Liverpool is over with manager Jurgen Klopp saying Wednesday he should find a new team.Balotelli, 25,......
Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar is anticipating 'something special' from Pakistan quick Mohammad Amir ahead of Pakistan's first Test against England on Thursday.Amir, who was found guilty of......
WASHINGTON: Google said Wednesday its efforts to fight online piracy have yielded $2 billion paid out to copyright holders whose content is shown on its YouTube platform.The US online giant, updating......
DHAKA: Families and rights groups Wednesday expressed fears for two survivors of a deadly siege at a Bangladesh cafe who are missing after being grilled by police over the attack.Amnesty......
LONDON: England captain Alastair Cook hopes the Test series against Pakistan will be more remembered for cricket rather than controversy as Mohammad Amir returns on Thursday at Lord's.The 24-year-old......
BRUSSELS: Asking a Muslim employee to remove her headscarf when dealing with clients amounts to unlawful direct discrimination, a legal adviser to the European Union's top court said in a written......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office on Wednesday apprised the European Union and the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) to raise voice against human rights violations by security forces in India-held......
PARIS: France international defender Lucas Digne has joined Barcelona on a five-year deal from Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint Germain, the Spanish club said on Wednesday.The 22-year-old left back......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday condemned, following days of unrest in Indian-held Kashmir, the brutal killing of Kashmiri youth by Indian authorities during the......
LONDON: Left-arm fast bowler Mohammad Amir has been named in the 12-man Pakistan line-up for the first Test against England at Lord's, Mickey Arthur announced on Wednesday.In an unprecedented move,......
NEW DELHI: Welsh football legend Ryan Giggs will return to the pitch as a player in the inaugural Premier Futsal starting in India this week, the organisers announced Wednesday.Brazilian star......
LONDON: Sam Allardyce looks to be in pole position to become the next England manager after his club Sunderland revealed Wednesday they granted at his request permission to speak to the Football......
SRINAGAR: When Indian forces announced last week that they had killed top Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, they called it a major victory in the fight against militants in India-held Kashmir......
LONDON: Cricket pitches need to be more bowler-friendly if the rising imbalance between bat and ball is to be addressed, Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar has said.The Marylebone Cricket Club......
KARACHI: When Pakistani left-arm quick Mohammad Amir takes to the field at Lord's on Thursday, the bowler can expect overwhelming support from his homeland as he faces a potentially prickly reception......
RIYADH: Technical hitches limited the death tolls in three suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia but the apparent coordination of the blasts suggests militants have the tools to sustain their bombing......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will issue a special coin in honour of celebrated humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi who passed away last week.The denomination, shape and other details......
England batting mainstay Joe Root has dismissed “trash talk” by Pakistan paceman Wahab Riaz who claimed he has got the batsman's number going into the first Test at Lord's starting on Thursday.Root......
LONDON: Wahab Riaz has warned any England cricketers who 'sledge' or verbally abuse their Pakistani opponents during the upcoming Test series may get more than they bargained for.Thursday sees......
FOLLOWING an incredibly tumultuous three weeks in British politics, the nation gets a new prime minister today, rather sooner than expected, an event that is likely to trigger the dreaded Brexit......
“Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence.”Paulo Freire YOU are probably one of those employers who find that no matter how many times......
The eleventh day of September 2001 seems a distant memory now. On that day, 19 hijackers unleashed mayhem in the skies over the United States of America. Fifteen of these 19 hijackers, it would later......
Edhi would not have liked it one bit. His coffin being carried in an artillery gun carriage in Victorian tradition would not have made him happy. The pomp and ceremony at his state funeral separated......
TIMERGARA: The participants of a multi-party conference called by the Awami National Party in Chakdara on Tuesday warned they would go to any extent to block the enforcement of the Customs Act in......
LANDI KOTAL: The export of flour from Pakistan to Afghanistan was suspended temporarily on Tuesday after authorities in the neighbouring country increased custom duty on the commodity along with......
SWABI: Tobacco growers and their leaders on Tuesday rejected the new price of Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco as the crop purchase started by the national and multinational companies.Reacting......
MANSEHRA: Eid holidays are over but Mansehra continue to see a large influx of tourists.The traffic police are struggling to manage traffic, especially after landslides hit various parts of Kaghan......
LANDI KOTAL: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra on Tuesday paid surprise visit to Dogra hospital in Bara and Jamrud civil hospital and expressed his dissatisfaction over lack of health......
SWABI: Forests in Gadoon Amazai mountainous areas need urgent steps for their conservation to protect the greenery and environment of the area, which has been badly harmed during the last two......
MURREE: The four accused in the Maria murder case were released on bail by the civil court in Murree on Tuesday.Maria had accused Master Shaukat Abbasi, Rifat Abbasi, Mian Arshad and Haroon for her......
ISLAMABAD: A special court is likely to address on July 19 whether former military dictator retired Gen Pervez Musharraf can be represented by counsel in a high treason case after being declared a......
ISLAMABAD: Balochistan National Party (BNP) chief Akhtar Mengal has called the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) exploitative if it does not equally benefit all the provinces, particularly......
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah on Tuesday directed the Punjab cane commissioner to sale sugar stock of Brothers Sugar Mills, owned by a close relative of the Sharif......
GUJRAT: Three members of the family of a Christian, who is alleged to have committed blasphemy, are in the ‘protective custody’ of police.The Sara-i-Alamgir police dispatched three raiding parties to......
LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri says display of posters inscribed with the messages of requesting army chief Gen Raheel Sharif to take over may be the PML-N-led......
KARACHI: With a fresh warning about a new weather system entering the province, the Sindh government has alerted all the relevant ministries – from relief to local government departments – to be......
KARACHI: The monsoon system of low pressure entering lower Sindh from India is to bring as much rainfall as was experienced during the last couple of weeks in Karachi. The Pakistan Meteorological......
KARACHI: The zoo administration has found a ‘replacement’ to dismiss the news that recently appeared in a section of the press that the facility reporting three puma cub deaths in a short period had......
HYDERABAD: The local chapter of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Tuesday held a protest demonstration against “enforced disappearance” and “extrajudicial killing” of its workers by law......
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE: More than 5,000 residents of around 15 villages marooned after flooding caused by a breach in the dyke of Nusrat canal at Rd-187 on Monday gathered near the site to protest against......
SUKKUR: A large group of growers led by two former Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) lawmakers from Balochistan drove into Sindh riding many vehicles to settle a water dispute with the Sukkur barrage......
THE unthinkable has happened. The worst fears have come true. The nation is shocked by the barbaric acts of a handful of young men. Emotion has engulfed us for the right reasons. Bangladesh has yet......
YOUNG boys spend their school holidays as novice monks in a Lao temple to learn about Buddhism.The chanting of more than 200 voices could be heard at Dongmakkhai forest temple as a group of young......
BHARATIYA Janata Party leader Smriti Zubin Irani could “register” as the first real casualty in Prime Minister Narendra Modi government. True that she retained her cabinet rank in a recent......
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: You’re not going to get paid to train. You’re not going anywhere with all that running.They may be harmless remarks from friends who get annoyed when Maziah Mahusin could not......
BAGHDAD: A suicide car bomb ripped through an outdoor market in a Shia-dominated northeastern district of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people, officials said, as government forces deployed......
VIENNA: Austria’s government moved on Tuesday to seize the house where Adolf Hitler was born to prevent it becoming a site of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis, and the country’s Interior Minister said he......
UNITED NATIONS: Arab nations are calling on the UN Security Council not to endorse a report aimed at reviving the Middle East peace process that the Palestinians see as biased in favour of Israel,......
PORTSMOUTH: After months of bitter campaigning, Bernie Sanders on Tuesday offered his long-awaited endorsement for Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, saying he would work hard to help......
Syria’s Al-Nusra Front rebels are proving themselves tougher and far more tactically minded fighters than the hordes of the militant Islamic State (IS) who swept across Syria and Iraq two years ago......
ROME: At least 20 people were killed on Tuesday in a head-on collision between two passenger trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia, in one of the country’s worst rail accidents in recent......
THE HAGUE: An international tribunal ruled on Tuesday against China’s claims it had “historical rights” in the South China Sea in a bitter dispute that risks further stoking regional tensions.Manila......
BANGKOK: Police in Thailand raided the office of an independent news website on Tuesday to look for leaflets urging a vote against a draft constitution proposed by the country’s military......
LONDON: England should have gambled on seamer James Anderson’s fitness and included him in the squad for the first Test against Pakistan at Lord’s, paceman Stuart Broad has said.Anderson, England’s......
BERLIN: Germany’s Joachim Loew said he would stay on to lead the World Cup winners to their title defence in Russia in 2018 despite an initial hesitation on whether to continue after a disappointing......
DHAKA: Golfer Siddikur Rahman has become Bangladesh’s first athlete to qualify for an Olympics after finishing 56th in the final eligibility rankings for the Rio Games.Bangladesh has been given four......
KARACHI: Pakistan ‘A’ were due to resume their first innings in the final unofficial Test against their Sri Lankan counterparts after rain washed the opening two sessions of the third day at......
REVEL: Australia’s Michael Matthews claimed his first Tour de France stage victory in Revel on Tuesday with Chris Froome holding onto the leader’s yellow jersey.Matthews’s Australian Orica team......
ST. JOHN’S: The West Indies squad for the upcoming four-Test series against India was released on Monday, with Denesh Ramdin a frustrated absentee.Ramdin took to social media to express his......
LONDON: Declaring that the focus of entire Pakistan squad is on winning the Lord’s Test, paceman Wahab Riaz on Tuesday insisted Mohammad Amir has the support of all his team-mates as he prepares to......
ISLAMABAD: In what appeared to be a last blow, the Privatisation Commission has stopped Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) from selling its scrap and product inventory being used to meet day-to-day......
KARACHI: Investment banks have been slowly waning from the financial market as they are unable to compete with the investment strategy of the large commercial banks having a large pool of funds.The......
KARACHI: The government has decided to declare Gwadar a duty-free port, Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo disclosed on Tuesday, saying that incentives in this regard......
KARACHI: Prices of vegetables increased significantly after Eidul Fitr while tomato and chicken rates reverted to their pre-Eid level.Retailers were seen demanding Rs80 per kg for ridge gourd (Tori)......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday said that continuous growth in revenue collection helped in reducing the fiscal deficit to almost half from 8.8 per cent to 4.45pc.He was addressing a......
KARACHI: Bulls were in complete command of the stock market on Tuesday, helping the KSE-100 index rise by 663.66 points, or 1.73 per cent, to an all-time high of 39,031.62.The Pakistan Stock......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has notified the draft Share Registrars and Balloters Regulations 2016 to obtain public opinion.The regulations shall be applicable to......
BRUSSELS: The EU threatened Spain and Portugal on Tuesday with huge fines for failing to fix years of high deficits, in the first time Brussels has wielded its disciplinary powers over member......
VIENNA: Opec said Tuesday it expected the global supply glut to ease further this year and next thanks to reductions in oil output from producers outside the cartel, particularly the United States.If......
CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused Citibank of mounting a “financial blockade” on the country after the US bank decided to close the government’s international payments account......
KARACHI: Sustained buying from spinners pushed cotton prices higher on Tuesday. Fear of heavy rains with expected disruption in arrivals of phutti (seed cotton) from fields into ginneries resulted in......
LONDON: Gold fell for a second straight day on Tuesday as global equities rallied on easing political uncertainty in Britain and hopes for more economic stimulus, which in turn curbed demand for......
TEHRAN: As a tailor in Tehran’s fabled Grand Bazaar for over 60 years, Mostafa Javedan has lived through coups, wars, a revolution — and now the ups and downs of international sanctions.His little......
WASHINGTON: The IMF said Tuesday that the Federal Reserve should hold off on raising interest rates if Britain’s vote to break with the European Union results in slower US growth.In its annual report......
AGHA Nasir, who passed away in Islamabad on Tuesday, was a leading light in the world of broadcasting and culture. Those who knew him well are certain to cherish his memory for the rest of their......
DADAAB (Kenya): Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai spent her 19th birthday on Tuesday visiting the world’s largest refugee camp to draw attention to the global refugee crisis, especially as Dadaab camp......
WASHINGTON: The United States has urged all sides to the Kashmir dispute to make efforts for finding a peaceful resolution.“We have seen reports of clashes between protesters and Indian forces in......
ISLAMABAD: Six members of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Tuesday submitted an adjournment motion to the National Assembly secretariat seeking a debate on the killing of people and violation of......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will chair a special cabinet meeting on Friday to take stock of the situation emerging from India-held Kashmir, which has fast turned volatile over the past few......
KARACHI: Philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi’s son, Faisal, fears that the Edhi Foundation may see a decline in donations because some people have been maligning his late father and spreading rumours......
WASHINGTON: The slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden considered Pakistan an enemy and made every effort to harm the country and its people, says Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani.In a letter to a......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked three oil exploration companies from Sindh to deposit a total of Rs100 million — a contribution towards the Workers Welfare Fund (WWF) for the period......
LAHORE: A Christian man alleged on Tuesday that some people had severed both his hands for not converting to Islam.Police, however, doubted his version and claim he had lost his hands in a train......
PARACHINAR: Kurram Agency Pakistan Peoples Party President Hamid Hussain Toori was shot dead by assailants here on Tuesday.The motive behind the target killing is yet to be ascertained as the......
ISLAMABAD: Agha Nasir, one of the pioneers of television in the country, died at a hospital in Islamabad on Tuesday. He was 79.Agha Nasir was a legend in television and radio broadcasting. He......
NEW DELHI: Even as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was closeted with his cabinet colleagues and appealed for calm in the troubled Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference warned of......
LAHORE: The issue of extension in the service of the army chief, the opposition parties’ campaign targeting the personality of the prime minister and the challenges mounted by Imran Khan and others......
ISLAMABAD: A special court seized with the high treason case against retired General Pervez Musharraf issued a show-cause notice on Tuesday to the joint secretary of interior ministry over his......
ISLAMABAD: The main opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has decided to introduce in the Senate a bill seeking the formation of a judicial commission on the Panama Papers leaks.The announcement......
