RIO: Nita Ambani, an Indian businesswoman and owner of the Mumbai Indians cricket team franchise, was among eight new members elected to the International Olympic Committee on Thursday on the eve of......
RIYADH: The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen acknowledged Thursday “shortcomings” in two out of eight cases it has investigated of UN-condemned air strikes on civilian targets in the country.A......
PESHAWAR: Afghan refugees, residing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for decades, have appealed to the government for an extension in their stay in Pakistan.The refugees, citing difficulty in wrapping up their......
MIAMI: Three different experimental Zika vaccines being developed in the United States have worked well in monkey studies, paving the way for human trials in the coming months, researchers said......
GALLE: Half centuries from the in-form Kusal Mendis and skipper Angelo Mathews gave Sri Lanka the edge over Australia on the opening day of the second Test Thursday despite a five-wicket haul from......
WASHINGTON: In a birthday editorial Thursday, US President Barack Obama described himself as a feminist and urged renewed effort to break down gender stereotypes.The father of two girls, who was......
After Sohail Khan’s five-for on day one of the third Edgbaston Test, a Pakistani reporter during the post-innings press conference asked the fast bowler why he doesn’t learn English to communicate......
ISLAMABAD: A Punjab government Mi-17 helicopter crash landed on Thursday in Afghanistan’s Logar province where Taliban insurgents took the crew hostage before setting the helicopter on fire.DawnNews......
CHITRAL: The district administration on Wednesday sealed the private school in Drosh town after its principal was found involved in subjecting students to physical torture and was sent to jail on......
RIO: Serena Williams insisted Wednesday that retirement is not on her agenda as the 34-year-old American superstar targets a sixth Olympic gold medal.World number one Williams arrives in Rio with a......
ISLAMABAD: Former off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq feels that Pakistan batsmen will have to show patience to put reasonable scores against England during the ongoing third Test in Birmingham.Talking in a......
CHENNAI: The death of a schoolgirl three days after she was set on fire by a stalker in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has sparked outrage from activists who said the law was failing victims......
KARACHI: Police have arrested a woman for allegedly torching her husband with the aid of her father, brother and another relative, officials said on Thursday.Thirty-six year old Sohail Ali on......
NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Thursday sentenced Bollywood director Mahmood Farooqui to seven years in jail for raping an American research scholar last year, The Hindu reported.The court found him......
RIO: Russian Olympians turned out in force to see their flag raised over the athletes' village in Rio on Wednesday in an impressive show of defiance.Numerous Russian sports stars, including their......
DUBAI: Amateur video taken inside a crashed Emirates Boeing 777 shows chaos as passengers try to grab their luggage from overhead compartments while one woman, apparently a flight attendant, shouts......
NEW DELHI: Indian business leaders on Thursday hailed the passage of a landmark tax reform bill that paves the way for a new national sales tax and the creation of a common market across the country......
GALLE: Australia's pace spearhead Mitchell Starc on Thursday bagged his 100th Test wicket during his team's second match against Sri Lanka in Galle.Starc dismissed the in-form Sri Lankan batsman......
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministers of both Pakistan and India made critical remarks apparently aimed at each other’s governments on the second day of a Saarc conference here on Thursday, as tensions......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing a meeting of his party's parliamentary committee on Thursday, said Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to Islamabad last year said......
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) cleared payment to Pakistan of a final $102 million tranche in a $6.4 billion three-year programme on Thursday, and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif echoed......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has welcomed a United States decision to place Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), splinter group of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), on a list of specially designated global......
BIRMINGHAM: Azhar Ali's century helped keep England at bay before he was out to the final ball of the second day of the third Test at Edgbaston on Thursday.Azhar's more than six-hour 139 ended when......
LONDON: London's mayor appealed for vigilance and calm Thursday after a stabbing spree in the heart of the city that left one woman dead and five injured.Police arrested a 19-year-old suspect and......
HERAT: Suspected Taliban militants attacked foreign tourists escorted by an Afghan army convoy in the western province of Herat on Thursday, officials said, with a military spokesman saying at least......
England's Ben Stokes has been ruled out of the fourth and final Test against Pakistan at The Oval due to a calf injury but the all-rounder refused to write off his chances of playing in the......
China conducted a first test run of an innovative, road-straddling, 22 metre long bus this week.The blue, tunnel-like Transit Elevated Bus (TEB-1) can carry up to 300 passengers in one carriage, over......
PASADENA: Ahmed Zewail, a science adviser to President Barack Obama who won the 1999 Nobel Prize for his work on the study of chemical reactions over immensely short time scales, has died at age......
LOS ANGELES: Oscar scored a second half brace as Chelsea cruised past AC Milan 3-1 in the final game of their globetrotting exhibition tour, which took them to Australia, China, England, Scotland and......
KINGSTON: Roston Chase made history with a maiden Test century to lead a magnificent rearguard by the West Indies and salvage a draw at 388 for six in their second innings on the final day of the......
TEHRAN: Iran has executed a group of 20 “terrorist” Sunni prisoners for committing several murders and undermining national security, state media reported on Thursday.“These people had committed......
ISLAMABAD: Two members of the small Pakistani contingent participating at the Rio Olympics have the military to thank for much of their training.Ghulam Mustafa Bashir, a 29-year-old Navy Marine, and......
BIRMINGHAM: Pakistan's Sohail Khan said watching videos of England great James Anderson had helped him end five years of Test exile with a maiden five-wicket haul at Edgbaston on Wednesday.The......
SEOUL: South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd expects sales for its new Galaxy Note 7 smartphone to exceed those of the previous version launched last year, the head of the company's......
THE nation remembers and acknowledges its heroes on their feats whenever the Olympic Games are held after every four years. Pakistan has reached the zenith at the Olympics thrice – at Rome in 1960,......
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon will not pay Pakistan $300 million in military reimbursements after US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter decided not to tell Congress that Pakistan was taking adequate action......
SWABI: The closure of the Girls Degree College, Topi, has worried the poor students and their parents.The college was established by the Frontier Education Foundation during the term of Muttahida......
MANSEHRA: The Balakot tehsil administration, wildlife department and civil society members have started a campaign for ensuring cleanliness at the Saiful Muluk Lake and its surroundings.“We have......
ISLAMABAD: The Pak-Turk school network approached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday in order to avoid adverse action against their 28 branches in 10 cities across Pakistan.This comes after......
ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) on Wednesday rejected the government’s proposal to include teachings of Quran in schools syllabus.The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional......
Marc-André Franche has served as country director of UNDP for four years. Before this, he was deployed in Columbia, Bolivia, Central America and Haiti. He sees a lot of similarities between those......
LAHORE: Ajoka Theatre’s 45-member team of actors and technical staff returned from a nine-day tour of Chandigarh and Amritsar, India where they performed at the Humsaya Theatre for Peace Festival, a......
LAHORE: The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) has taken four more employees of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) into custody in connection with a failed bid to smuggle heroin to Dubai from......
LAHORE: Opposition leaders have criticised the Punjab government for its failure to check the kidnapping of children from the province, which run in hundreds in the last six months.The Pakistan......
KARACHI: As thousands of Karachi University (KU) students lost an academic day on account of protests by teaching and non-teaching staff over non-payment of salaries on Wednesday, it emerged during......
KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has formed a three-member fact-finding mission to find out details about the alleged abduction of publisher and social worker Abdul Wahid......
KARACHI: Heavy spells of rain followed by intermittent showers lashed most parts of Sindh on Wednesday causing flooding in both the urban and rural areas and playing havoc with the road communication......
THATTA: The world heritage committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in its recently concluded conference in Istanbul expressed serious concern over......
MITHI: A large number of villagers living in Thar coal field continued their protest against the mining companies’ alleged discrimination in jobs, their indifferent attitude towards the locals,......
KARACHI: Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) A.D. Khowaja on Wednesday gave a cash reward of Rs50,000 and an appreciation certificate to a citizen who killed two suspected robbers in Nazimabad......
KARACHI: The fact that electronic media need to learn a great deal in terms of journalistic ethics was reinforced on Wednesday evening during a condolence reference for the distinguished political......
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia took steps on Wednesday to help some 2,500 Indian workers stranded without money in the kingdom after a plunge in oil prices sparked construction layoffs.India’s minister of......
JAKARTA: Ten drug convicts, including a Pakistani man, whose executions were delayed during a chaotic process in Indonesia last week were officially informed of the temporary reprieve hours after......
WASHINGTON: For US Republicans, the taboo of voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election has been lifted, as party dignitaries reject Donald Trump amid one of the deepest......
ANKARA: The head of a top European rights watchdog on Wednesday backed a “cleaning up” of Turkish state institutions after a failed coup blamed on supporters of US-based preacher Fethullah......
SYDNEY: Australia is deliberately failing to combat the abuse of asylum-seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru to deter others from arriving by boat, two global human rights groups said on......
TIANJIN: A Chinese human rights activist was convicted of subverting state power and jailed for seven and a half years on Wednesday, official media reported, the latest step in a sweeping crackdown......
RIOT police in Zimbabwe used water cannon and batons on Wednesday to break up a protest by several hundred demonstrators gathered in Harare in a fresh sign of opposition to President Robert Mugabe.......
BAGHDAD: Sheets of flame and smoke engulfed the street and buildings around Sami Aziz’s Baghdad shop, burning people alive in scenes he likened to “the day of judgement”.Aziz and others are now......
HTA NI: By the standards of her village in Myanmar’s swampy Ayeyarwady Delta, Than Shin was a prosperous woman. She had 20 acres of farmland on which her family grew rice.But her fortunes changed in......
BRIGHTON: The world’s tallest moving observation tower, the i360, opens to the public on Thursday (today), a futuristic landmark that has transformed the historic seafront in the English tourist......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Wednesday presented a cheque of Rs1 million to legendary batsman and ex-national captain Hanif Mohammad who is hospitalised these days with respiratory......
KINGSTON: A fighting display from West Indies’ middle order batsmen saw the hosts reach 215-5 at lunch and raise hopes of earning an unlikely draw against India on the final day of the second Test......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Playing at home, with their biggest star onboard and an unexpected last-minute change at the helm, Brazil are looking to win their first Olympic men’s football gold medal in Rio de......
BIRMINGHAM: Sohail Khan marked his return to Test cricket after a five-year absence with a maiden five-wicket haul as Pakistan dismissed England for 297 on the first day of the third Test at......
BIRMINGHAM: England all-rounder Ben Stokes will miss the remainder of the ongoing Test series against Pakistan, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced on Wednesday.Stokes suffered a calf......
GALLE: Galle has built a reputation as a spinners’ paradise but Australia captain Steve Smith hopes there will be substantial reverse swing at the venue as his top-ranked team bid for a......
ISLAMABAD: After a prolonged dispute, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has surrendered its claim to collect service charges from the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) on account of land......
ISLAMABAD: Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir Khan has urged the Indonesian government to ensure the implementation of an agreement to import one million tonnes of rice from Pakistan.Both sides......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has revised the prudential regulations to promote consumer financing in sustainable and fair manner while ensuring financial stability of the banks/DFIs.A......
NEW DELHI: India’s upper house of parliament on Wednesday passed a landmark tax reform bill that will pave the way for the introduction of a new national sales tax, creating a common market across......
LONDON: The slide of Britain’s pound against the dollar since Britons voted to quit the European Union is not over, according to a Reuters poll on Wednesday that also predicted the currency would......
KARACHI: In line with the global market sell-off, the local stock market also went into profit-taking on Wednesday. Investors exercised caution as the KSE-100 index inched closer to the 40,000 level.......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade share in the global market has increased by 5.48 per cent during the last five years, Minister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid said on Wednesday.He was speaking during......
KARACHI: Steady conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Wednesday on sustained demand for cotton from spinners and some exporters. However, the short supply of phutti (seed cotton) once again......
HONG KONG: HSBC posted Wednesday tumbling second-quarter net profit on volatile markets and China’s slowdown, warning it faced “a period of heightened uncertainty” after Britain voted to leave the......
BEIJING: The number of web users in China — already the world’s largest online population — has risen over 700 million, authorities said on Wednesday as they seek to turn the internet into a new......
LAHORE: The 969MW Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project is set to miss even repeatedly extended deadline of June 2017 and create more troubles for the PML-N government to overcome loadshedding and fulfil......
ISLAMABAD: Mari Petroleum Company Limited (MPCL) assigned corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects worth millions of rupees to a non-governmental organisation that was, until recently, headed......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkmenistan pledged on Wednesday to relax visa regime between the two countries to enhance bilateral cooperation in different fields, including economy, trade,......
ISLAMABAD: In the run-up to the ‘movement for accountability’ the party is to launch on Sunday, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has started building pressure on the state institutions......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has notified new property valuation tables for six more cities in Punjab.In the valuation formula, Sialkot emerges with the lowest value for commercial......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday called for proactively addressing international concerns for ending what is being perceived as isolation.“We will have to align and synchronise our......
WASHINGTON: Pakistani aircraft will fly alongside US, UAE and Israeli fighter jets during a military exercise in Nevada later this month, the US media reported on Wednesday.The Aviationist magazine......
ISLAMABAD: A report submitted to the Supreme Court by the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on Wednesday claimed that 7,892 ballot papers from the 2013 general elections in......
GUJRAT: Samia Shahid — a British citizen of Pakistani origin suspected of being a victim of honour killing — did not die of natural causes, according to a forensic report.Nabeela Ghazanfar, a......
SRINAGAR: Tens of thousands of people rallied in India-held Kashmir on Wednesday in protest against the overnight killing of two civilians by Indian forces amid a nearly month-long security......
WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday placed a splinter group of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its leaders on a list of specially designated global terrorists.Jamaat-ul-Ahrar......
ISLAMABAD: Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh arrived in the capital on Wednesday to take part in the Saarc interior ministers’ conference scheduled to be held on Thursday (today).His arrival marks......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, China, Afghanistan and Tajikistan formally unveiled their quadrilateral counterterrorism alliance on Wednesday.The announcement about the new four-nation mechanism, known as the......
KARACHI: What began as a massive effort to take on the property mafia has ended with a whimper. The ordinance issued on Monday gives the FBR power to determine fair market values of property prices......
THERE is little surprise that, in the twilight of its term in power, the government is moving into panic mode regarding its promise to end loadshedding before 2018.It was easy to make those promises......
THE news coming out of Saudi Arabia of thousands of foreign workers — Pakistanis included — not having been paid for months and reportedly running low on food is reason for concern.As reported, over......
HERE — in alphabetical order — are six countries that have considerable involvement in Pakistan: Afghanistan, India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.I......
MUCH of Pakistan’s foreign policy debate is currently being framed by peripheral concerns or non-issues, such as the question of the lack of a foreign minister. The real issues with the sector are......
NOW here’s something interesting. For many years the power sector has been hobbled with large amounts of debt, whether circular or otherwise. It is one of the largest users of bank liquidity (after......
DESPITE the 50 or so amendments made by the Senate, the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill (PECB), which had earlier been adopted by the National Assembly, remains a very controversial piece of......
