ISLAMABAD: Senate on Monday, paying tribute to the legendary philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, suggested the government to declare July 8 as ‘National Edhi Day.’“This house recommends that July 8,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has demanded UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to take strong measures to stop the killing of political activists in India-held......
BATON ROUGE: The black former Marine and Iraq war veteran who shot dead three police officers in the southern US city of Baton Rouge at the weekend specifically targeted the cops, officials said......
LONDON: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan says his country's stunning victory over England in the Lord's Test has restored the team's tarnished reputation.Yasir Shah was Pakistan's......
LAHORE: Politicians belonging to the ruling and opposition parties have strongly condemned Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief's statement regarding the people of Pakistan people welcoming a......
ANKARA: Former Turkish air force chief Akin Ozturk has confessed to prosecutors his role in plotting the coup that attempted to topple the government over the weekend, state-run Anadolu Agency said......
LONDON: After a 75-run defeat against Pakistan in the first of the four-Test match series, England on Monday added premier pace bowler James Anderson, all-rounder Ben Stokes and leg-spinner Adil......
MONTREAL: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) called for Russia to be completely banned from the Rio Olympics and other international sport after an investigation found rampant state-run doping at......
PESHAWAR: At least seven people were killed on Monday in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Sheringal area of Upper Dir."A vehicle carrying seven persons was on route to Sheringal from......
BEIRUT: Air strikes by the US-led coalition killed at least 21 civilians in and around a stronghold of the militant Islamic State group (IS) in northern Syria on Monday, a monitor said.At least 15......
PARIS: Cristiano Ronaldo and his Real Madrid team-mate Gareth Bale headlined a 10-man shortlist announced on Monday for the UEFA Best Player in Europe Award.Ronaldo struck the winning spot-kick as......
ISTANBUL: An unknown assailant shot the deputy mayor of Istanbul's Sisli district in the head on Monday and he was in a critical condition, Turkish broadcaster NTV reported.It was not immediately......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday issued arrest warrants for Kamran Kayani, brother of former Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani, who is wanted in Defence......
DHAKA: A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced three militia members to death for carrying out killings and other serious crimes in the country during the 1971 war between India and......
Because I never had a chance to meet Edhi sahib in life, I thought I would meet him in death.The night he succumbed to his longtime illness, I decided I would go to his funeral.But my resolve to......
NEW DELHI: India's top court has barred ministers and bureaucrats from holding posts in the country's cricket board (BCCI) as part of administrative reforms in the world's richest national cricket......
A Pakistani hacker has been ranked the third most accomplished bug hunter in the world by Dark Reading, a cyber security news site.A Multan native, Shahmir Amir has also been dubbed the 11th most......
PESHAWAR: Former MPA Haji Shoaib Khan of Awami National Party (ANP) was shot dead on Sunday by unknown attackers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's town of Yar Hussain in Swabi district.District Police Office......
DUBAI: Saudi authorities have detained the Turkish military attache to Kuwait for his suspected involvement in a foiled coup against the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, local media reported......
LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's return to Islamabad has been delayed due to fever and infection, a PM House spokesman said Monday.The premier, who is currently in Lahore, "was due to travel to......
NEW DELHI: An Indian student was recovering in hospital after being gang-raped by a group of men including some charged with sexually assaulting her three years earlier, an officer said Monday.Police......
TEHRAN: Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency says a closed trial has begun for 21 suspects in the storming of Saudi diplomatic missions earlier this year. Monday's report did not provide further......
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration on Friday released a legislative proposal intended to provide foreign governments with a streamlined process for asking US tech companies to share email data and......
DUBAI: Saudi Binladin Group has asked for an extension on a 817 million riyal ($217.8 million) Islamic loan that matured last week and which was being used to fund construction work on the kingdom's......
Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah, on Monday, moved up to the top position in the International Cricket Council's Test bowler rankings. He replaced injured England pacer James Anderson to conquer the......
AYODHYA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was flying high in June, jetting from Afghanistan to Mexico in a whirlwind of red carpet diplomacy crowned by a speech to the US Congress extolling......
BEIJING: Beijing will close off access to part of the South China Sea for military drills, officials said Monday, after an international tribunal ruled against its sweeping claims in the waters.An......
ISTANBUL/VIENNA: Turkish security forces on Monday carried out new raids against suspected plotters of the botched coup against the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as international concern......
LONDON: Yasir Shah said he was grateful for the wealth of leg-spin knowledge in the Pakistan camp after his maiden 10-wicket Test haul set up victory over England at Lord's.Shah's return of 10 for......
Never in my wildest, most spit-fired dreams had I ever imagined that I would one day be defending Qandeel Baloch.That I would feel a militarised outrage so pure and renegade in concentration that it......
LONDON: Mohammad Amir returned to the hallowed ground of Lord's he defiled six years ago to earn Pakistan one of their most memorable Test triumphs over England on Sunday.The fast bowler, who served......
Pakistan celebrated their victory over England in the first Test at Lord's on Sunday by performing a series of press-ups although defeated skipper Alistair Cook admitted it wasn't pleasant......
OVER a period of nearly three years, Pakistan’s external account had been in surplus. This has come about despite the dismal performance of the export sector, which is the country’s primary source of......
PESHAWAR: A total of 15,691 candidates appeared in the entry test for admission to the public sector engineering universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday.The Educational Testing and Evaluating......
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has announced construction of two flyovers, one in Hayatabad and the other in Peshawar city, to ease traffic at the most congested points in the provincial......
SWABI: Political and civil society activists have threatened that if the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Textbook Board doesn’t remove a controversial lesson about Pakhtun hero Malik Kalu Khan from the ninth......
CHAKWAL: The sudden ban imposed on the installation of swings across the province by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has virtually paralysed routine life in a remote village of Chakwal which has been......
ISLAMABAD: Several mountaineers who have travelled to Pakistan regularly for climbing have been denied entry into Pakistan this summer, according to Alpine Club of Pakistan.Three Nepali Sherpas –......
ISLAMABAD: After the Supreme Court recommended for local laws to be strengthened against tobacco use, the Ministry of Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) has decided to introduce......
ISLAMABAD: At a round table discussion on Saturday, former diplomats said Pakistan will have to improve its international standing for its voice to be heard on the Kashmir issue and that it has to......
ISLAMABAD: The government has set itself an ambitious target of revalidating the family trees of around 25 million households in two months, but progress on this front has been slow, due to a lack of......
ISLAMABAD: With its extensive and reasonably priced menu The Oxygen Lounge, which is located on Jinnah Avenue near Parade Ground, is well suited to students and young professionals.The interior of......
TAXILA: The first e-court in the district of Attock started working in Hassanabdal on Saturday.District and Sessions Judge Sohail Nasir initiated the proceedings at the court complex through a video......
LAHORE: Six people, including three children, lost their lives and eight others sustained injuries in rain-related incidents in different areas of the city on Sunday.Reports said that six children......
LAHORE: As the mainstream parties candidates have intensified canvassing for votes for July 21 election on Lahore seat of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and PPP have accused the......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The only seed germination machine in the Ministry of National Food Security and Research’s seed certification and registration department has been lying out of order for the last two......
LARKANA/HYDERABAD: A tense situation prevails at and around the residence of Home Minister Suhail Anwar Siyal here since Friday, when Rangers personnel made deployment in the neighbourhood and......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah ordered on Sunday creating of a separate force to provide foolproof security to the judiciary in the light of its advice, guidance and......
Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) turned 40 this month.PAL was established in July 1976 as an autonomous body under the federal ministry of education. But its basic objectives and functions were not......
KARACHI: The Sikh community in the city on Sunday paid tribute to the country’s most-loved humanitarian, Abdul Sattar Edhi, at its temple in the compound of Swami Narain Temple.The event was......
DADU: Twenty patients suffered serious burns when a fire broke out at a private hospital, City Medical Centre, after explosion of a gas cylinder, engulfing the entire building within minutes here on......
IT is difficult to imagine the changes that have taken place in the British political scenario in just over three weeks. In fact, if somebody had proposed a film based on recent events, people would......
ANKARA: Forced at gunpoint to read a statement by coup plotters and raided by rebel military forces, Turkey’s media organisations were bruised by the drama of a coup but also played a role in......
PARIS: Love him or loathe him, a few people have changed the world we live in more than Le Corbusier, one of the fathers of modern architecture, whose works were placed on Sunday on Unesco’s......
DOZENS of villagers carried flowers and lit candles on Sunday at the site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine where flight MH17 crashed two years ago, killing all 298 people on board. About 60 people......
BEIRUT: Syria’s army and allied militia fighters seized the only road into the rebel-held part of Aleppo on Sunday, tightening a siege around opposition areas of the northern city, which President......
NICE: The Nice truck attacker staked out the seafront for two days before striking, it emerged on Sunday as investigators pieced together details of the IS-claimed massacre and questioned possible......
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Defence announced on Sunday that Turkey has reopened its air base for military flights, enabling the United States to resume its air strikes against IS targets in......
ALEXANDROUPOLI: Eight Turkish military officers who fled to Greece by helicopter after a failed coup were charged on Sunday by a prosecutor with illegal entry and violating Greek airspace, their......
THE US is awaiting a formal plea to turn over a Pennsylvania-based cleric suspected by Turkey of inspiring a military coup attempt, said US Secretary of State John Kerry, dismissing as......
KARACHI: Hosts Pakistan earned some consolation when promising Faizan Zahoor clinched gold in cadet boys’ singles to deny formidable Sri Lanka a clean sweep as the curtain fell on the four-nation......
KARACHI: Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) feted the participating teams and officials at a civic reception held at a local hotel on Sunday evening.Administrator of the KMC Laeeq Ahmed, who......
LONDON: Yasir Shah marked his first Test outside of Asia and the United Arab Emirates by taking 10 wickets in the match as Pakistan beat England by 75 runs in their series opener at Lord’s on......
FOR Pakistan, it’s a thoroughly-deserved victory. It’s also a fantastic start to the series for the tourists.Watching Misbah-ul-Haq’s side rise and fall to rise again and dent the hosts convincingly......
SEOUL: Pakistan’s only professional boxer Mohammad Waseem made history on Sunday, capturing the World Boxing Council (WBC) silver flyweight title after defeating favourite Jether Oliva of the......
SACHSENRING: Honda’s MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez won in Germany for the seventh year in a row, across all categories, on Sunday after a mid-race tyre gamble paid off.The Spaniard forged......
TROON (Scotland): After an epic duel at the British Open, Henrik Stenson has claimed his first major title.Stenson became the first man from Sweden to win one of golf’s biggest events on Sunday,......
CULOZ: Colombian rider Jarlinson Pantano won the brutal 15th stage of the Tour de France through the Jura mountains after a long breakaway on Sunday.Pantano of IAM Cycling outsprinted Polish rider......
PARIS: Visiting teams Britain, Argentina, and France all won hard-fought doubles matches to take 2-1 leads in the Davis Cup quarter-finals on Saturday.Meanwhile, the United States couldn’t finish off......
MUNICH: Arjen Robben looks set to miss the start of the new season after the Bayern Munich star suffered yet another injury, ruling him out for six weeks.The 32-year-old Dutch forward, who had not......
BASSETERRE (St Kitts): The West Indies Cricket Board President XI’s middle-order stood tall and frustrated the Indian bowlers on the final day to give their side a fighting draw in the three-day......
RIO DE JANEIRO: The head of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics says the world’s top four male golfers have withdrawn from the games because there is no money to be won — not because of the Zika virus.“They......
BARELY a month after the Indian government announced a Rs60bn special package for the textile industry, hoping to boost its sagging fortunes, a new crisis is unfolding that threatens to adversely......
BrazilBRAZIL’S economy virtually crashed last year owing to a collapse in global commodity prices, awidening budget deficit, stubbornly high inflation and the corruption scandal at the......
THE US should increase its minimum wage and do more to counter a growing income polarisation; France needs to deploy public benefits better to reduce inequality; Italy ought to bring more women into......
THE decision by the Bank of England to hold interest rates in July was a pause for breath and a chance to calibrate its next move, rather than a judgment that the economic damage from Brexit has been......
As the Conservative Party’s new leader, Theresa May replaces PM David Cameron after the ‘leave’ campaign, leaders Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson, realising the enormity of the challenge,......
THE susceptibility of VAT/GST to frequent unethical practices is considered a daunting challenge for the Inland Revenue tax administration.Largely, a person commits sales tax fraud if taxable......
THE new cotton crop has started arriving in the market in sizeable quantities, amidst the looming threat of monsoon rains in crop areas, in the lower Sindh region.Cultivation on 640,000ha this season......
THE rupee has been showing a stable trend against the dollar over the past few months after some hefty rises and falls in early 2016.The local currency market resumed trading operation last week......
EVEN though Pakistan has completed 11 out of 12 quarterly reviews of the International Monetary Fund’s $6.64bn Extended Fund Facility, it has had to accept two new structural benchmarks to compensate......
Despite occasional rumours of an impending exit of Abraaj — the foreign controlling stakeholder in the power utility — long ago rubbished by the K-Electric Limited, the company has remained under......
DESPITE a lower than stipulated economic growth last fiscal year, the Federal Board of Revenue collected an all-time high of Rs3,112bn exceeding the target of Rs3,104bn. A few more billions may be......
THE Finance Act 2016 has introduced a 2pc tax rebate for Shariah-compliant listed manufacturing companies. This article tries to look at the motivation for exclusive tax rebate on this category of......
What distinguishes FINCA from other microfinance banks operating in the country is its focus on job-creating, urban, micro and small businesses, and entrepreneurs in need of capital. The rest of the......
QUETTA: Four Pakistanis were among about 30 people killed in a Nato air strike in Afghanistan’s Helmand province two days ago, according to sources.They said Nato planes attacked a convoy of drug......
ISLAMABAD: Amid calls for stern punishment to people involved in the so-called honour killings after the murder of model Qandeel Baloch, a special parliamentary committee is scheduled to meet on......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior through a notification on Sunday assigned the army the duty of security and maintenance of peace during elections for the Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK)......
MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan said on Sunday that democracy faced no threat from the army but from what he called the dictatorship of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and......
MULTAN: The funeral prayers of model and social media star Qandeel Baloch, who was murdered by her younger brother, were offered in her ancestral village Shah Saddardin in Dera Ghazi Khan district on......
FOR four days they fought. Toe to toe. Eye to eye. Neither team willing to concede a blade of grass at a resplendent Lord’s. Four days of attrition boiled down to a single session, the final of the......
ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities pressed on Sunday with a crackdown against suspects in the failed coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with 6,000 people detained as he vowed to stamp out the......
ISLAMABAD: With the controversy surrounding Panamagate and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s extended stay in London following heart surgery dominating headlines, progress on the China-Pakistan Economic......
PRIME MINISTER Nawaz Sharif has always had a well-known soft spot for the Murree hills adjacent to Islamabad. During approximately the mid-1990s, in one of its first couple of stints in power, the......
When the rock band Bumbu Sauce wrote an anthem to Qandeel Baloch, its members probably did not think it would soon be a lament. In a recent interview with the BBC, band frontman Masterjee Bumbu......
WHAT causes a person to drive a truck through local citizens and tourists celebrating a national holiday? What compels someone to open fire on unsuspecting patrons at a nightclub?Closer to home in......
“WE do not have any hard intelligence to support the Islamabad gossip about a test this year. I think we still have some time to wrestle with the problem. Since the problem is as much, if not more an......
