RAMALLAH: A Palestinian child aged 12 was killed by Israeli soldiers who fired rubber-coated bullets near Jerusalem on Tuesday, said the Palestinian health ministry.“Mohiyeh al-Tabakhi, 12, was......
ISLAMABAD: Advisor to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz stated on Tuesday that criticism by certain US Congress members against Pakistan is not reflective of the actual US......
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama spoke to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, offering US assistance as Ankara investigates last week's attempted coup but urging the government to show......
ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday warned the incumbent government of a strong reaction if elections in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) are rigged.“We are smelling that they are......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Religious Affairs on Tuesday wrote a letter to the information ministry and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra), asking them to bar TV channels from......
CLEVELAND: Donald Trump faced an embarrassing plagiarism scandal on Tuesday that tarnished his wife Melania's prime-time speech to a Republican National Convention already roiled by an opening day......
ISLAMABAD: A two-day Islamabad Civic Hackathon — an event organised by Code for Pakistan (CfP) and OPEN Islamabad — concluded Sunday with participants working constantly to develop mobile/web......
MONTREAL: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is holding emergency talks Tuesday to decide Russia's status for the Rio Olympics after an investigation found rampant state-run doping at the 2014......
LAHORE: The top officials of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) "graciously" declined the invitation of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) to watch the Rio Olympics hockey event next......
BAMAKO: Suspected militants attacked and seized control of an army base in the central Malian town of Nampala on Tuesday, the deputy mayor of a nearby town said."The army is regrouping in town......
JAKARTA: Indonesia's most wanted miltiant has been killed in a firefight with troops, police said Tuesday, ending a years-long hunt for the militant Islamic State (IS) group supporter.Santoso, the......
RIYADH: Saudi authorities executed two men on Tuesday, bringing to 98 the number of executions carried out in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom so far this year.Saudi citizen Ali Assiri, who was......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday stayed the execution of three militants convicted by military courts and issued notices to the federal government and Defence Ministry to submit......
SYDNEY: Australia's cricket stars will have the chance to play two domestic games with a pink ball to prepare for day-night Tests this summer against South Africa and Pakistan.Cricket Australia on......
SRINAGAR: Indian soldiers fired on a stone-throwing crowd defying a curfew in the Kashmir region, killing three people, police said on Tuesday, as unrest sparked by the death of a separatist militant......
ORLANDO: Co-workers who “ganged up” to tease him about being Muslim prompted the gunman who opened fire at a Florida gay nightclub to pretend he had terrorist ties to get them off his back, according......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Cricket chief David White called Tuesday for Test cricket to continue its pink-ball revolution by slashing the format to four days and introducing two divisions.The longest......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader and former MPA Advocate Shoaib Bukhari passed away here on Tuesday after a long spell of illness.His namaz-i-janaza will be performed in Liaquatabad......
WASHINGTON: Experts say the development of self-driving cars over the coming decade depends on an unreliable assumption by many automakers: that the humans in them will be ready to step in and take......
NEW DELHI: Maoist rebels in India killed 10 police after luring them into a hilly, forested area sewn with booby traps and setting off the bombs, officials said on Tuesday, in what was one of the......
ANKARA: Turkey's state-run news agency says courts have ordered 85 generals and admirals jailed pending trial over their roles in a botched coup attempt. Dozens of others were still being questioned......
In his address to the business community of Hyderabad, American Consul General Brian Heath announced that the US might look into establishing an IT park in Sindh’s second largest urban centre.He was......
SEOUL: North Korea fired three ballistic missiles on Tuesday which flew between 500 and 600 km into the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said, the latest in a series of provocative......
TAIPEI: A Taiwan tour bus carrying tourists from China crashed into a highway railing en route to the airport on Tuesday and burst into flames, killing all 26 on board, Taiwanese authorities said.The......
LONDON: England coach Trevor Bayliss has said it's possible the team could field two specialist spinners at home after Yorkshire leg-break bowler Adil Rashid was called into the squad for the second......
WUERZBURG: Authorities said Tuesday they strongly suspected an Islamist motive in an axe and knife attack carried out on a German train by a 17-year-old Afghan refugee that seriously wounded four......
SRI NAGAR: Indian soldiers fired on a stone-throwing crowd defying a curfew in the Kashmir region, killing three people, police said on Tuesday, as unrest sparked by the death of a separatist......
I trust that by now, every shareef citizen has had their say.You say Qandeel Baloch was a wicked person, but you're still saddened by her death. Well done, it's nice to know that you're anti-murder.......
ISLAMABAD: A special court hearing treason charges against retd. General Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday ordered authorities to freeze the former president's back accounts and confiscate his property.A......
QUETTA: Members of the Christian community took out a procession here on Monday to condemn Indian security forces’ atrocities in held Kashmir. They demanded that the United Nations and other......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: A man died on Monday after five attackers chopped off his arms, lips and nose, taking away his severed limbs with them.The brutal crime was committed against Allah Ditta, a resident......
MUZAFFARABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Monday reiterated that Pakistan faced no threat from the army, but it faced a threat from the “monarchy of Nawaz Sharif”.However,......
PESHAWAR: Around 2,400 families from North Waziristan Agency, which had sought refuge in Afghanistan in the wake of the Zarb-i-Azb operation, have returned to Bannu, according to an official.He said......
ISLAMABAD: In the backdrop of the security situation created by the kidnapping of Barrister Awais Ali Shah, the son of the Sindh High Court chief justice, a high-level security meeting at the Supreme......
GILGIT/ISLAMABAD: A judicial crisis erupted in Gilgit-Baltistan after all lawyers’ organisations and subordinate judges held sit-ins and rallies across the region and boycotted court proceedings in......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Monday unanimously passed a resolution condemning the recent killings of Kashmiris by the Indian army in held Kashmir.The resolution urged the international community,......
LAHORE: The All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union took out a procession on Monday to demand revision of pay scales of employees performing duty under hazardous circumstances.After marching......
ISLAMABAD: The country’s premier tourism development organisation — Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) — has been functioning without its head for over the past seven months and efforts......
BANGKOK: More than 4,000 people have been arrested worldwide and more than $13 million seized across Asia in operations targeting illegal gambling during the Euro 2016 football tournament, Interpol......
CHITRAL: Flash floods triggered by torrential rain washed away eight heavy vehicles of a construction firm in Ziarat area, on the Chitral portion of the Lowari tunnel in the early hours of Monday,......
SHANGLA: Panic gripped the residents of Shangla as water level increased in Indus River after the recent monsoon rains in the region.The people living along the bank of the Indus River have vacated......
MANSEHRA: The Jamaat-i-Islami has announced it will hold a multi-party conference in Islamabad next week to evolve a joint strategy on the killing of innocent people by Indian forces in the occupied......
GHALANAI: The authorities have suspended all privileges of Dadokhel tribesmen besides confiscating their national identity cards and domicile certificates.“Dadokhel tribesmen have totally failed to......
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) High Court on Monday declared AJK Legislative Assembly speaker and candidate of the ruling PPP from LA-18, Sudhnoti-II, Sardar Ghulam Sadiq disqualified......
ISLAMABAD: Despite being a developing economy, Pakistan hosts 1.56 million refugees – fourth highest number in the world. On the other hand, six wealthiest nations accommodate less than 9pc of the......
ISLAMABAD: A large number of people on Monday gathered in front of the National Press Club (NPC) to protest social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch’s murder, who was killed for ‘honour’ by her brother......
ISLAMABAD: Students received registration forms and prospectus from colleges run under the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) on the first day of the issuance of forms on Monday.The students can......
KARACHI: Within a few months of their launch, mobile app-based car-hailing services Careem and Uber have become the preferred mode of intracity travel for thousands of urban Pakistanis, especially......
KARACHI: Unequivocally expressing his anguish at the persistent reports vis-a-vis poor sanitation conditions in the provincial capital, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah on Monday gave three......
HYDERABAD: The legal fraternity across Sindh observed a boycott of court proceedings on Monday in response to a call given by the Sindh Bar Council against failure of the law-enforcement agencies in......
ANKARA: At the height of the attempt to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the rebel pilots of two F-16 fighter jets had Erdogan’s plane in their sights. And yet he was able to fly......
IN the previous Star Trek instalment, Spock cried. In the latest, Star Trek Beyond, he laughs. And not just a little snicker, either, but a belly-full one. What bold explorations into the farthest......
CLEVELAND: Thousands of delegates descended on a tightly secured Cleveland arena Monday for the opening of the Republican National Convention, with Donald Trump’s wife playing character witness as......
SYDNEY: Riches from the Palace of Versailles including a harp belonging to Marie Antoinette will travel to Australia, the country’s national gallery said on Monday, as part of a display never seen......
NICE: France fell silent on Monday for the victims of the Nice truck attack, but the mourning was overshadowed by politicians tearing into each other over the massacre.A sea of people thronged the......
ALMATY: Security forces in Kazakhstan arrested two men suspected of gunning down five people in attacks on a police station and a security building on Monday in the country’s largest city......
DHAKA: A court in Bangladesh formally charged 38 people with murder on Monday in connection with the 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building which killed 1,135 people in the country’s worst......
AN Afghan father was on a quest for justice on Monday after saying that his pregnant 14-year-old daughter was burned to death by her in-laws, the latest reported case of violence against women in the......
ANKARA: A year after Iran’s nuclear deal with the West, hardliners are gaining authority in a backlash against pragmatic President Hasan Rouhani that his allies say could leave him sidelined or push......
MONTREAL: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has called for Russia to be completely banned from the Rio Olympics and other international sport after an investigation found rampant state-run doping......
LAHORE: While praising the performance of Pakistan team in the first Test against England, former Test leg-spinner Abdul Qadir has warned the visitors to avoid complacency as the home team could......
LONDON: England added premier pace bowler James Anderson, all-rounder Ben Stokes and leg-spinner Adil Rashid to an expanded 14-man squad announced on Monday for Friday’s second Test against Pakistan......
LONDON: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq said Mohammad Amir could start a ‘new life’ after he completed his return to the scene of his spot-fixing shame by rounding off victory over England in the......
MOSCOW: FIFA has filled the first of 20 sponsor slots for the 2018 World Cup in a new programme that stalled during its corruption crisis.FIFA, which has struggled to find commercial partners since......
KARACHI: Cotton prices rose for the fourth consecutive session on Monday to touch a seasonal high of Rs7,000 per maund (around 38 kilograms) as panic buying from spinners continued.Spinners seem to......
ISLAMABAD: Service exports witnessed a robust growth of over 54.36 per cent in May 2016 to $490.86 million from $317.99m in the corresponding month of last year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Readymade Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (Prgmea) has urged government to take notice of a 25 per cent surge in yarn prices “due to cartelisation of local......
KARACHI: The stock market remained volatile on Monday but the KSE-100 index managed to claw up by 64.78 points (0.17 per cent) to close at 39,253.25.The session started out with the index taking an......
ISLAMABAD: Senate’s Standing Committee on Finance Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla has lambasted the government’s trade policy which destroyed the country’s exports resulting in record trade deficit of......
KARACHI: Exporters have taken strong exception of the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) move to hold back Rs100 billion refunds.Pakistan Bedwear Exporters Association (PBEA) chairman Shabir Ahmed said......
ANKARA: Turkey moved quickly to quell financial market concerns over political instability after the coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, although the putsch created new economic......
ATHENS: The European Union and Greece hope to reach a deal on the crisis-hit country’s debt mountain by the end of the year, EU economic affairs chief Pierre Moscovici said on Monday.“We need to......
LONDON: Gold fell as much as one per cent on Monday as European equities rose and investor jitters calmed following a failed coup attempt in Turkey.Spot gold fell earlier to a session low of......
BRUSSELS: US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that a massive EU-US trade deal could soften any damage caused by Britain’s exit from the European Union following last month’s......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday said that further improvements in energy supply, higher infrastructure investments, and an improved security environment will help push up......
KARACHI: Advances as well as investment by the banking sector grew on a year-on-year basis during the first half of 2016 despite fall in deposits growth. This suggests that they are investing more......
MULTAN: Investigators probing the Qandeel Baloch murder case may also look into the role of Mufti Abdul Qavi as well as an elder brother of the slain model who is currently serving in the army, it......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government’s plan to end, or substantially reduce, loadshedding by 2018 has suffered its first jolt as the project management of the 1,410MW Tarbela extension......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) issued a press release on Monday to defend its decision regarding closure of a corruption case against Finance Minister Ishaq Dar.According to......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri has said that modern technical training centres will be set up in the province to provide better opportunities to the youth.Addressing a......
ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan’s remarks about distribution of sweets in case of a military coup have sparked a heated debate, the Pakistan People’s party (PPP) played......
KARACHI: Along the peripheries of the lawns at Jinnah Hospital, everyone knows where Bindiya Rana resides. Among neighbours who mostly work as domestic helpers at the hospital, Rana has a modest home......
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: While the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) on Monday agreed to form a committee to determine a mechanism for fair valuation of property for the purpose of taxation, the uncertain......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate witnessed an interesting situation on the opening day of its monsoon session on Monday when the government managed to defeat a PPP-sponsored bill seeking to curtail powers of......
BERLIN: A 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielding an axe and a knife attacked passengers on a train in southern Germany on Monday evening, severely wounding four, before he was shot dead by police, the......
HE has done it again. Misreading current events, recent history and the will of the people, Imran Khan has claimed that there would be celebrations in the country if a military coup ousted Prime......
MUCH to President Ashraf Ghani’s relief, Nato has extended its mission in Afghanistan through 2017. The alliance reaffirmed its commitment to the troubled campaign at the Warsaw summit, as mass......
THE search for alternatives to democracy enthrals many Pakistanis. China’s rapid rise has led them to see its novel political system as a panacea. Recently, I got into a conversation with some fans......
Can everyday humiliation by gun-toting soldiers allow for a calm repose to those in Indian Kashmir who are caught in the cross hairs of its unending conflict? Probably not, but if it could, I would......
IN an alarming, though not so surprising move, the government is considering extending the Protection of Pakistan Act. POPA was enacted on July 9, 2014 and was to be operational for two years in......
