BIRMINGHAM: England are giving serious thought to playing two spinners in the fourth Test against Pakistan at The Oval by handing a home debut to leg-break bowler Adil Rashid.The hosts went 2-1 up......
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo on Monday launched a website for watching Hulu television shows in the United States.The alliance appeared to be part of a move by Hulu to shut its free streaming television......
Facebook is in early stages of testing its Express Wi-Fi service in India, BBC reported on Monday.Express Wi-Fi is being launched in collaboration with local internet service providers (ISPs). It......
MADRID: Just like countless other countries, Spain has been hit so hard by the Pokemon Go craze that travel agencies are seeking to cash in on the global phenomenon with specialised tours.Such is the......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information on Monday informed the National Assembly that publishing Quranic verses and translation of the same in newspapers is a violation of law and an offense related......
SHAH SADDARUDDIN: In this Punjab village where a family's worth is tallied in the number of males it can produce, Muhammed Azeem was different.He valued his daughters as much as his sons. He raised......
DUBAI: Iran said on Monday that $1.7 billion that the United States sent it in January was cash owned since before the 1979 revolution, confirming the White House's assertion that it was not related......
KARACHI: Despite trailing 1-2 to England following a 141-run loss at Edgbaston, Pakistan still have an outside chance to emerge as the top ranked Test side, the International Cricket Council (ICC)......
BERLIN: Bayern Munich's injured star signing Renato Sanches will miss the next four weeks, including the start of the new Bundesliga season and Sunday's German Super Cup final, the club confirmed......
Telenor has launched 4G service in Pakistan's six major cities — Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, Multan, Peshawar, and Swat — techjuice.pk reported on Monday.The Norwegian telecom giant's prepaid and......
PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain strengthened their attacking options on Monday with the signing of Spanish forward Jese Rodriguez from Real Madrid on a five-year deal, the French champions confirmed.Jese......
LONDON: With Paul Pogba poised to complete his record-breaking return to Manchester United, manager Jose Mourinho must figure out how best to fit the France midfielder into his star-studded starting......
MOSCOW: The head of the Russian Paralympic Committee said on Monday a decision to bar Russian athletes from taking part in next month's Rio Paralympics over doping allegations was a grave human......
RIO: Juan Martin del Potro stunned a tearful Novak Djokovic in an emotional Olympics triumph on Sunday as Venus Williams pondered the end of her four-gold Games odyssey.Del Potro, the 2009 US Open......
CAPE TOWN: Former South Africa Test player Thami Tsolekile is among four players banned from cricket on Monday for his part in a match-fixing scandal in the local Twenty20 competition.Tsolekile was......
ISLAMABAD: At least 70 people were killed Monday in a bomb attack on mourners outside a hospital in Quetta.Here is a list of major attacks against civilians by militant groups in the country since......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif chaired a high-level security meeting, following the bombing at Quetta Civil Hospital, and ordered the intelligence agencies to initiate special......
BIRMINGHAM: England coach Trevor Bayliss believes Steven Finn is returning to form after the fast bowler was back among the wickets in the third Test win over Pakistan.The Middlesex quick struck for......
KARACHI: A worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement Syed Asif Ali has been sentenced to death by Anti-terrorism Court - IX (ATC) for the murder of party activist Waqas Shah.Asif was also slammed with a......
QUETTA: A DawnNews cameraman tragically became the victim of a suicide bombing targeting a Quetta hospital as he performed his duty on Monday. The blast left 70 people dead and several others......
Checkpoint Software Technologies and its team of researchers have discovered a set of four vulnerabilities that could potentially give attacker access to a phone's data in tens of millions of Android......
SRINAGAR: Two border guards and a suspected rebel were killed on Monday in a gun battle in India-held Kashmir, the Indian army said.The shootout took place near the de facto border with Pakistan,......
SYDNEY: Australian Test spinner Stephen O'Keefe has been fined under Cricket Australia's code of behaviour after he was involved in an incident at a Sydney hotel over the weekend, CA said......
KARACHI: Pakistan's cricket great Hanif Mohammad was on Monday shifted to a ventilator after he faced respiratory complications during his ongoing treatment at the Aga Khan Hospital here, his son......
Qaim Ali Shah's resignation as Sindh chief minister led to a series of hagiographic articles focusing on his personal habits and idiosyncrasies.Presumably written to cast him in a humane light, the......
Authorities in Iran have banned the Pokemon Go app citing ‘security concerns’ which currently are unspecified, the BBC reported on Friday.The High Council of Virtual Spaces, an official body......
Chris Urmson, who was instrumental in building Google's self-driving car project, said on Friday he is leaving the team after seven and a half years.Alphabet Inc's Google had named Urmson chief......
LONDON: Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said his club should feel “proud” about signing Paul Pogba as the France midfielder moved closer to rejoining his former team in a world-record......
KABUL: An American and an Australian were kidnapped at gunpoint in the heart of Kabul, officials said Monday, the latest in a series of abductions of foreigners in the conflict-torn country.The two......
BIRMINGHAM: Pakistan skipper Misbah-ul-Haq believed the 141-run defeat at Edgbaston in the third Test against England was due to the host pacers' reverse-swing, which left his batsmen clueless after......
ISLAMABAD: With radio-like antennae meant to swivel and point at vehicles carrying bombs, "magic wand" explosive detectors proliferated throughout conflict zones in the 2000s until they were exposed......
RIO DE JANEIRO: At his fifth, and supposedly last Olympics, Michael Phelps finally let his guard down, sobbing along with his team mates after collecting his 19th gold medal by helping the United......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil face another embarrassing exit from a tournament on home soil after Neymar slumbered through a second 0-0 draw of Rio 2016 against Iraq.The Olympic hosts need to beat group......
QUETTA: A suicide bomber targeted the emergency services ward at Quetta’s Civil Hospital Monday, killing at least 70 people and leaving scores injured.Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) splinter group,......
Newly launched Android game ‘Pak Truck Driver’ is arguably the most exciting driving game to have come out of Pakistan. By putting you behind the wheel of a beautifully decorated truck, it takes you......
KASUR: A man allegedly strangled his newborn daughter and buried her in the courtyard of his house at Herjoki village on Sunday.Police arrested the suspect on the complaint of his wife and exhumed......
PESHAWAR: The commuters travelling on the Grand Trunk Road suffered in sweltering heat for hours after young workers of PTI occupied both lanes of the road to take part in the ‘accountability march’......
GHALANAI: The local gun manufacturers and shopkeepers said that their business was affected badly owing to militancy in the tribal region.Mohammad Shah, a shopkeeper at Ekkaghund Bazaar, said that he......
PESHAWAR: Noted poets, writers, intellectuals and researchers have pledged to promote a culture of dialogue and tolerance through their writings to achieve the goal of permanent peace in the......
ISLAMABAD: As the Prevention of Electronic Crimes bill (PECB) is laid before the National Assembly on Monday, many of the bill’s failings will need to be addressed through separate legislation. One......
RAWALPINDI: The district administration may have been lenient towards the ruling PML-N with regards to the party’s violation of a ban on posters - advertising a public meeting on August 13 - on the......
ISLAMABAD: After a successful summit of the Trango Towers, the Swiss and Czech climbers who made the 6,000 meter trek said the mountains were farther,taller and harder than they looked.“It is a 6,000......
CHAKWAL: A 16-year-old girl from a gypsy family in Thaneel Fatohi has obtained 1,004 marks in her matriculation exams, the results of which were announced recently.Nargis Gul lives in a two room......
RAWALPINDI/ ISLAMABAD: When the call for Fajr prayer sounds in the streets, most of the garrison city is still in bed and there is hardly a soul on the roads that are chock-full all day long.......
LAHORE: The Punjab government intends to have the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1898, amended so as to change the procedure of registration of criminal cases and submission of challans in courts......
LAHORE: The government’s pilot project of establishing a ‘Rehri Bazaar’ (pushcart market) along canal road near Lal Pul couldn’t be successful as it failed to attract customers, forcing the pushcart......
SIALKOT: Flood waters on Sunday inundated as many as 30 villages in Pasrur tehsil and 22 in Zafarwal-Sialkot, wreaking havoc on paddy, fodder and other seasonal crops.The villages hit by the swollen......
LAHORE: The PPP Punjab will have a new leadership next month as its five-member organising committee is going to submit its recommendations by Aug 30 to Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.In April,......
KARACHI: The Sindh cabinet on Sunday bulged with 37 members from its earlier size of 17 with induction of 20 new members — nine of them ministers — whose names had been finalised by PPP chairman......
KARACHI: The city received very little rain — around 2 millimetres — on Sunday yet two people died in rain-related incidents. One of them drowned while the other got electrocuted, taking the total......
KARACHI: More than 25 shops were burnt in a huge fire that broke out in a multi-storey market, Gul Plaza, on main M. A. Jinnah Road in Saddar Town on Sunday morning, Nabi Bux police station and fire......
KARACHI: As many as 160 suspects have been shot dead in ‘encounters’ in different districts of Sindh in just five months — March to July — according to officials.“During the last five months of this......
KARACHI: Supreme militant commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen Syed Salahuddin urged Pakistan on Sunday to find a peaceful solution to the ongoing violence in India-held Kashmir.If a peaceful solution......
HYDERABAD: Yet another spell of moderate rain that started at 4pm on Sunday aggravated the conditions created by many earlier spells over the past four days in Hyderabad, where people in most......
CAIRO: Nobel prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail was given a state funeral with military honours on Sunday in Cairo attended by Egypt’s president and top officials.Zewail, who served......
ISTANBUL: Hundreds of thousands of people attended a historic pro-democracy rally organised by Turkey’s ruling party on Sunday, bringing to an end three weeks of demonstrations in support of......
THE ripples from Turkey’s failed coup continue to spread as the country’s unprecedented purge brings more and more people into the dragnet. Thus far, 9,000 cops; 21,000 private schoolteachers; 1,700......
NEW YORK: Boarding a flight? Active service members go first. Watching a sports event? Then you’ll stand and applaud a group of veterans at some point during the game.America puts its service members......
KABUL: Thousands of people are fleeing the conflict roiling Afghanistan, but American backpacker John Milton recently made the reverse journey to the war-ravaged country — for a holiday.Armed with......
BANGKOK: Thailand voted on Sunday to approve a junta-scripted constitution, preliminary results showed, in a boost to the army’s political aspirations and a body blow to the country’s stuttering......
SKOPJE: Fierce storms packing strong winds and torrential rains overnight killed at least 20 people in Macedonia’s capital of Skopje, the health minister said on Sunday.The freak weather included......
BIRMINGHAM: Moeen Ali starred with both bat and ball as England beat Pakistan by 141 runs to win the third Test at Edgbaston on Sunday.Victory left England, 103 runs behind on first innings, 2-1 up......
BULAWAYO: Zimbabwe’s top order finally showed some backbone on Sunday but the hosts were nevertheless facing an uphill battle in the second Test after New Zealand posted an enormous total on day two......
FROM the first day to the last the third has been a riveting contest, with balance tilting from one side to the other with opportunity for both the batsmen and the bowlers to compete at equal level.......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Zhang Mengxue got China off the gold medal mark at the Rio Games on Sunday, the Olympic debutant winning the women’s 10m air pistol title.With a score of 199.4 points in 20 shots......
RIO DE JANEIRO: On his maiden Olympic appearance, Pakistan’s Haris Bandey hardly had a performance to remember.The 17-year-old Britain-based swimmer, who is taking part in the Rio Games on a......
RIO DE JANEIRO: High winds gusting across the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon forced organisers to call off the second day of the 2016 Olympic rowing regatta on Sunday.The decision followed a day of......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Record-breaking Australia — inspired by Mack Horton and Cate Campbell — put their stamp on the Rio Olympics on an intense first day of action.Bomb and bullet scares and a horrific......
LONDON: Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored an 83rd-minute winner as Manchester United beat Leicester 2-1 Sunday to capture the Community Shield and earn Jose Mourinho his first trophy as the club’s......
LONDON: Liverpool thrashed Barcelona 4-0 Saturday in the International Champions Cup (ICC) friendly, providing a boost for manager Jurgen Klopp as he focuses on domestic success in his first full......
KARACHI: Lady Luck smiled on Matloob Ahmed who fulfilled his dreams by recapturing the CNS Open crown after a lapse of 12 years at the Karachi Golf Club on Sunday.Overnight leader Matloob had a par......
KLAGENFURT: New signing Hatem Ben Arfa was among the scorers as Paris Saint-Germain romped to a one-sided 4-1 win over Lyon in the Champions Trophy, the traditional French season-opener, on......
Whether it be access to export markets or investments from fast growing regional economies, Pakistan is way behind in reaping the benefits of regional cooperation despite several existing regional......
WEDNESDAY, August 3 was the last day for the submission of public comments to the Pakistan Stock Exchange on proposed amendments in the ‘Code of Corporate Governance’ relating to ‘Access to Insider......
THE agriculture sector, with around 80pc contribution to the national export base, is the mainstay of Pakistan’s exports.Out of nearly $19.2bn export proceeds from agro-based products, 28pc are from......
WITH the start of wholesale purchases of cattle ahead of Eid-ul-Azha in Sindh, the prices of sacrificial animals have gone up.According to market reports, compared to last year, this year wholesale......
PAKISTAN’S rice exports have been falling in recent years, mainly due to higher prices, energy crisis, poor quality seeds, low yield and persistently lower commodity prices in global markets.The fall......
LAST week, the Pakistan Poultry Association went on record, yet again, lamenting that chicken is being traded at almost 10pc less than the cost of production, and fearing that half of the businesses......
CRUCIAL reformative legislation, which can have a dramatic impact on the economy, has a tendency of getting bogged down in political controversies that drag on for a decade or even more.The latest......
KEVIN Roberts got it wrong. The chairman of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi was forced to resign last week after he suggested, among other provocative statements, that the debate on gender......
WHEN the UK government forced up the minimum wage for over-25-year-olds this year, it did it with rhetorical gusto. “Let me be clear, Britain deserves a pay rise and Britain is getting a pay rise,”......
JAPAN has launched a fiscal stimulus that it bills at JY28.1tn ($276bn). The package marks a shift back to loose fiscal policy, but the economic impact is likely to be less than the headline would......
PAKISTAN is in constant touch with the Saudi government to resolve issues being faced by retrenched Pakistani workers in the kingdom. It has mobilised its mission there to support distressed......
AFTER 10 attempts since 1988, Pakistan finally passed, for the first time, the psychological barrier of completing an IMF programme, albeit with some grace marks. To be precise, Pakistan was granted......
In the local currency market, the rupee showed a divergent trend versus the dollar and euro last week.Minor changes were witnessed in the rupee/dollar parity on the interbank market where the rupee......
Last week, Cambodia’s tourism ministry has unveiled a policy to promote the use of Chinese yuan in the tourism sector. The Khmer Daily quoted Tith Chantha, a secretary of state at the ministry, as......
THE government raised Rs362.22bn from the auction of Pakistan Market Treasury Bills of various tenors held last Wednesday.Of the total, six month T-bills fetched the highest amount, Rs175.81bn at a......
The government of Balochistan intends to embark upon an ambitious plan of providing water to Quetta from Pat Feeder and Kachhi canals through a 271-km-long pipeline, but the project has already set......
WASHINGTON: The US presidential guidelines for drone strikes, released on Friday night, authorise the head of an agency to order an attack on a terrorist target in a foreign land without the......
NEW DELHI: Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has directed the Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan to seek consular access to an Indian prisoner who was reportedly attacked at least thrice by......
QUETTA: Around 30 picnickers, women and children among them, have been rescued by local people and personnel of security forces in the Zardalo area of Harnai district that has been flooded by hill......
ISLAMABAD: The National University of Modern Languages (NUML) will set up a campus in Gwadar primarily to teach Chinese language to the people of Balochistan and Balochi language to Chinese......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan plans to bring another congressional delegation to North Waziristan to prove its claim that it has eliminated all militant bases and ammunition dumps from the tribal area,......
KANDAHAR: A senior Afghan police official regarded as one of the country’s most powerful men has banned the use of the Pakistani currency in the key southern province of Kandahar.The police chief of......
KABUL: Fighters linked to the militant Islamic State (IS) group have released photos that purport to show weapons and equipment that belonged to American soldiers and were seized by the group in......
ISLAMABAD: Despite the government’s claims of reining in the energy crisis and ensuring the recovery of outstanding dues from the public and private sectors, a staggering amount of Rs253.69 billion......
PESHAWAR/NOWSHERA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan launched an “accountability movement” against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his government from Peshawar on Sunday, pulling the youth......
LAHORE: The mix of a westerly wave and further strengthening monsoon current from the Bay of Bengal on Sunday began causing rain, heavy at places like Hyderabad and Kotli, and the meteorological......
RAWALPINDI: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to prepare a new immigration policy that will ensure that persona non grata cannot sneak into......
ON June 23, 2006, a bench of the Supreme Court headed by then chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry struck down the privatisation of Pakistan Steel Mills by means of a long, rambling judgment. The court’s......
CIRCLE the first, first letter of the alphabet in this line. Now write the word ‘noise’ backwards and place a dot over what would be its second letter should it have been written forward.Done? Now......
EVEN a quick read of the late colonial-era file on legendary South Asian writer Manto’s trial is testament enough to his blunt, and brutally honest spirit — the kind that saw him through several......
IN 1986, Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize. In his acceptance speech, the writer and Holocaust survivor said, “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence......
