UNITED NATIONS: Weekly 48-hour humanitarian pauses are urgently needed in Syria's Aleppo city where fighting has left over a quarter of a million people trapped and in desperate need of aid, the UN......
JERUSALEM: The Israeli air force struck a target in Syria Monday in response to stray fire from its war-wracked neighbour that hit the disputed Golan Heights, an army statement said.The army said a......
World number one Novak Djokovic is looking forward to playing on his favoured hardcourt surface at the Rogers Cup in Toronto, but the Serb urged caution as he returns to action for the first time......
LONDON: Four-time Olympic rowing champion Matthew Pinsent led a cacophony of British condemnation of the International Olympic Committee's decision not to ban the whole Russian team from next month's......
ANTANANARIVO: A house fire during a party in Madagascar has killed 38 people including 16 children as the blaze ripped through a thatched roof, police said Monday.The victims — the youngest only six......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Monday said he was not consulted by the leadership of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) regarding the “decision of changing......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's record-breaking spinner Muttiah Muralitharan launched a blistering attack Monday on his former bosses after they complained about his behaviour in his new role as a mentor to......
QUETTA: Four people, including two women, were killed when a truck collided with a rickshaw in the provincial capital’s Brewery Road area on Monday.Six other people were injured in the road......
Prisma, the smartphone application which transforms user's "photos into artworks using the styles of famous artists", is now officially available for Android phones. It was downloaded more than......
ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Monday stated dialogue between India and Pakistan is not possible in the present circumstances due to India’s hostile behaviour towards Kashmir and......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee on Monday recommended moving Kaavan, a 31-year-old male Asian elephant in Islamabad Zoo, to Sri Lanka or any other suitable sanctuary abroad.The Senate Standing......
SAN FRANCISCO: Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.83 billion, marking the end of an era for a company that once defined the internet.It is the second time in as many years that Verizon has snapped up the......
After the Pakistan Peoples Party decided to remove Qaim Ali Shah from his post as Sindh chief minister media reports began circulating about who the octogenarian politician's replacement would......
MANCHESTER: England batsman Joe Root's second-innings score of 71 not out on Monday gave him an aggregate tally for the ongoing second Test against Pakistan of 325 runs, after he made a career-best......
ISLAMABAD: A rights group urged Islamabad Monday to try to halt the execution of a Pakistani drug convict in Indonesia after his family was notified he would soon face a firing squad.Zulfiqar Ali,......
ANKARA: Turkish authorities on Monday issued arrest warrants for over 40 journalists in a new phase of the controversial legal crackdown after the failed coup, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was......
SHANGHAI:The International Boxing Association (AIBA) on Monday denied accusations it is trying to take over the sport, following a controversial decision to let professional boxers fight at the Rio......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday filed a petition with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family for alleged corruption.The......
MANCHESTER: James Anderson marked his return to international duty with three wickets as England beat Pakistan by a massive 330 runs to win the second Test at his Old Trafford home ground on......
LAHORE: A cousin of slain social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch turned himself in to police on Monday for investigation.A senior police officer speaking on condition of anonymity told Dawn.com that......
Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez's bowling action is set to be re-tested. The off-spinner, who was banned by the International Cricket council (ICC), had it lifted on July 17 — making him......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's cricket board lodged a complaint Monday with the visiting Australians after their bowling consultant and local legend Muttiah Muralitharan was involved in a bust-up with his......
With dense clouds hovering over the beautiful Old Trafford ground and the floodlights on, many anticipated England Test captain Alastair Cook would enforce a towering 391-run follow-on on a......
FORT MYERS: Two people have been killed and more than a dozen shot at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida, authorities said.As many as 17 people have been shot in the early Monday shooting at Club......
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary committee during a meeting on Monday finalised four names for appointment as members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).The parliamentary committee formed to......
It has happened to me, and it can happen to anyone.In plain sight of my unsuspecting family, I was radicalised during my teenage years. It did not matter that I lived a privileged life — not all......
BERLIN: A 27-year-old Syrian man denied asylum in Germany a year ago died on Sunday when he set off a bomb outside a crowded music festival in Bavaria, the fourth violent attack in Germany in less......
NORTH SOUND: Ravichandran Ashwin completed a magnificent all-round performance with seven wickets to bowl India to a crushing victory by an innings and 92 runs on the fourth day of the first Test......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is yet to take steps for implementation of Protection of Breastfeeding and Child Nutrition Act, 2015 despite lapse of 18 months.“The law, passed by Khyber......
GHALANAI: Local residents have demanded of the government to construct a bridge over a nullah linking lower and upper Prang Ghar areas of Mohmand Agency.Talking to Dawn on Sunday they said that in......
MANSEHRA: Traders here on Sunday threatened to observe a shutter down strike if the tehsil municipal administration (TMA) did not take measures to remove the heaps of garbage and open manholes on the......
SHANGLA: Residents of Makhozi sub-tehsil on Sunday announced to hold a demonstration at tehsil headquarters Puran to draw attention of the authorities to the lack of health facilities and prolonged......
PESHAWAR/ABBOTTABAD: A large number of motorists and commuters spent Sunday on the University Road in Peshawar bearing the scorching heat owing to mismanagement in conducting entrance test for......
RAWALPINDI: Traders staged a protest on Sunday against the police for not arresting robbers who have been active in the city.The protesters shouted slogans against the police and demanded the chief......
RAWALPINDI: A day after local leaders of the ruling party and government officials held walks and seminars to observe the anti-dengue day, the police booked the chairman and vice-chairman of UC-7 and......
ISLAMABAD: Another animal - fifth in the current year - died at the Marghazar Zoo due to alleged negligence of the zoo staff.The carcass of the male urial has been shifted to a laboratory for an......
RAWALPINDI: Though all cold drinks are popular in the summers, chilled milk with various flavours has remained a favourite in the garrison city this summer season as well.Many shops in the city have......
ISLAMABAD: In letters to various government departments and officials, an environmental expert has said the plantation of the alien conocarpus tree would destroy the ecosystem of the federal capital,......
ISLAMABAD: Despite Sunday’s high temperatures, 11-year-old Habibullah seemed more than willing to tolerate the heat as he took in the rides and activities at the Islamabad Carnival 2016, at the Arts......
ISLAMABAD: The Red Zone was sealed by the police on Sunday, preventing a Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) rally headed towards the Indian embassy to protest killings in Indian-held Kashmir from entering the......
LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) is groping around in the dark for the arrest of the mastermind as well as facilitators of the suicide blast in Gulshan-i-Iqbal park even about four......
SIALKOT: Divers of Rescue 1122 on Sunday recovered the body of allegedly an Indian man from River Chenab near Head Marala.District Coordination Officer (DCO) Dr Asif Tufail said some people spotted a......
KARACHI: Despite facing serious allegations of having misused powers for a long time, also verified by a three-member inquiry committee, the dean of faculty of education at Karachi University (KU),......
URDU literature has had its fair share of eccentric and mercurial personalities. But they were, at the same time, brilliant scholars or authors and committed to the promotion of the Urdu language and......
KARACHI: It may be just a large wooden cable reel for some, but for the creative minds at Karachi Biennale Trust is so much more than that.Surrounded by greenery in the middle of the little lawn at......
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s K.P. Sharma Oli resigned as prime minister on Sunday, minutes before facing a no-confidence motion in parliament he was certain to lose, plunging the impoverished, quake-hit nation......
TEHRAN: Iran destroyed 100,000 satellite dishes and receivers on Sunday as part of a widespread crackdown against the illegal devices that authorities say are morally damaging, a news website......
NEW YORK: Trump said that countries like France are compromised by terrorism may be subjected to the “extreme vetting” he proposes as a deterrent to attacks in the US. When asked if his proposal......
BELGRADE: Some 300 migrants, the largest group in many months to try to march across Serbia into Hungary, were nearing the border on Sunday, the UN refugee agency said.The group of mostly young men......
WASHINGTON: On the subject of women in politics, Hillary Clinton is fond of quoting the words of another illustrious first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, who once said: “You need to grow a skin as thick as......
MUNICH: The teenager who shot dead nine people at a Munich shopping mall spent a year planning the rampage but selected his victims at random, officials said on Sunday.Details are emerging of gunman......
BEIRUT: Air raids have hit four makeshift hospitals in Syria’s battered Aleppo city, doctors said on Sunday, jeopardising medical care for more than 200,000 desperate civilians in rebel-held......
DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh arrested on Sunday four female members of a home-grown militant group blamed for a bloody attack on a cafe in which 22 people were killed, most of them foreigners, an......
BRITISH officials were drafted in to help French border police on Sunday after 15-hour queues built up at the port of Dover due to heightened entry checks. Stationary vehicles could be seen snaking......
SAN DIEGO: It was the largest data leak in United States history, fuelling a firestorm over the issue of mass surveillance that resonated with Americans and ignited around the world.Oliver Stone’s......
MANCHESTER: England captain Alastair Cook decided against enforcing the follow-on against Pakistan despite a mammoth first-innings lead in the second Test at Old Trafford on Sunday.Pakistan were......
NORTH SOUND: India’s push for victory on the fourth day of the first Test against the West Indies has been interrupted by rain with the home side at 76 for two following-on in their second innings, a......
BUDAPEST: Triple Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton produced a trademark triumph of pace and panache to win the Hungarian Grand Prix for a record fifth time on Sunday ahead of his Mercedes......
LONDON: Mo Farah returned to the scene of his 2012 Olympic glory and completed his preparations for the defence of his distance double in Rio with a crushing sub-13-minute victory in the 5,000 metres......
PARIS: Briton Chris Froome cemented his status as one of the greatest Tour de France riders when he secured his third title on Sunday after a three-week rocky ride.Germany’s Andre Greipel won the......
KARACHI: Unknown pedigree bay mare Sun Shine stretched her winning run as favourites swept a four-race card of the Gymkhana race meeting at the Karachi Racecourse on Sunday.In a repeat performance,......
IT was a sad sight — dry grass, bare trees, disconnected ACs on the outer wall of make-shift structures of site offices, empty parking sheds, no trace of people and a mammoth modern steel plant of......
The Punjab government is considering a review of its funding strategy for capitalisation of the provincial pension fund created eight years ago for meeting, though only partially, its future pension......
IN THE local currency market the rupee last week traded range-bound against the dollar and euro amid slight fluctuations.Low demand from importers and adequate inflows kept the rupee out of pressure......
INDIAN Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina jointly inaugurated the Petrapole Integrated Check Post last week through video-conferencing.West Bengal Chief Minister......
The government raised Rs404.98bn from the auction of Pakistan Market Treasury Bills of various tenors held last Thursday, surpassing the auction target of Rs200.00bn. However, it fell short of the......
WITH a shrinking domestic market due to a low birth rate and aging population, Japanese companies have increasingly looked overseas for mergers and acquisitions in recent years. The deal announced by......
AFTER disengaging itself from the widespread workers’ protests, the government has embarked on the stalled privatisation process. On July 14th, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar summoned a meeting of the......
The power sector’s chronic circular debt is beginning to rise again — after stabilising for more than half a year — despite higher losses built into the tariff and a set of surcharges imposed on......
The future of inclusive grass-roots development lies in an empowered, functioning local representative government accountable to its constituency.However, the most difficult task for the local......
NAYSAYERS have always argued that clean energy is expensive. The argument, however, is losing its salience due to improved technological efficiencies and market forces.As per the new United Nations......
TEA plantations have shrunk from a peak of 700 acres a few years back, to around 40 acres, owing to government apathy and marketing problems.Meanwhile, the country is heavily dependent on tea......
FIVE years after getting approval for zero rating duty under the generalised system of preferences and investing high hopes in the US market, mangoes are failing to make any impact. Exporters have......
The significant reduction in cost of subsidised urea and DAP fertiliser, coupled with improved seed cotton rate in lower Sindh for the initial one to two pickings, has increased farmers’ demand......
WHILE the prospect of achieving the target of 100,000 tonnes of mango export for this season remains obscure, exporters and officials are confident of attaining the elusive goal this time.The country......
THOUGH most sectors of the Indian economy have been thrown open for foreign direct investment, there are still some segments that do not welcome any foreign investments.One such is the legal......
BRITAIN’S departure from the EU will deprive the eight other countries in the bloc that are not in the euro of a powerful ally, forcing them into difficult policy choices, according to officials and......
THE Republican convention has left Wall Street on edge by embracing a populist proposal to break up big banks, an idea loved by many Democrats, in a new twist to the Donald Trump era.Defying nearly......
‘FOR every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.’ The western world undoubtedly confronts complex problems, notably, the dissatisfaction of so many citizens. Equally,......
ON the edge of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, workers are building a cavernous station that will be the terminus for one of the most expensive high-speed rail links ever constructed. The $11bn fast......
WASHINGTON: MQM chief Altaf Hussain has said that he would visit the United States in October to highlight the alleged human rights violations against political workers in Pakistan.Addressing......
ISLAMABAD: A leading international oil and gas services firm is reportedly winding up its operations in Pakistan, causing a setback to exploration and development companies operating in the country......
ISTANBUL: Tens of thousands of supporters of Turkey’s ruling and main opposition parties, usually bitter foes, rallied together on Sunday in support of democracy following a failed military......
CHENGDU (China): Increasingly frequent terrorist attacks are becoming a growing threat to the global economy, finance chiefs from the world’s leading economies said on Sunday.Earlier this month 84......
ISLAMABAD: A senior leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) alleged on Sunday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had not undergone open-heart surgery in London, as was previously claimed. But this......
KABUL: Members of Afghanistan’s Hazara community began the task of burying more than 80 people killed in Saturday’s suicide attack in Kabul with many blaming political leaders for security failures......
KARACHI: In a surprising move, the top leadership of the Pakistan Peoples Party decided on Sunday to replace the octogenarian Chief Minister of Sindh, Syed Qaim Ali Shah, with a relatively young man......
SOME years ago, Narendra Jadhav whom I interviewed soon after he was appointed to the Planning Commission of India, presented me with a family biography called Untouchables which had become a......
THE recently released Chilcot Report of the Iraq Inquiry has created quite a stir in international law and politics. Crucially, its bruising fallout for the UK and US also offers important takeaways......
MEMBERS of Congress have embarrassed themselves, this time by a joint subcommittee hearing on whether Pakistan is a friend or foe. Framing a congressional hearing in this binary way reflects the sad......
