SAINT PETERSBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday pledged to reinvigorate ties after their first meeting since Ankara shot down a Russian......
WASHINGTON: The Rio Olympics are in full swing: Michael Phelps is back to winning races in the pool, Simone Biles is running up the score in the gym and Hillary Clinton is advertising with eyes on......
RIO: Apple Inc is threatening to crash Samsung's expensive Olympics party.Samsung is mobile phone sponsor of the Rio Games and sells its handsets exclusively to hundreds of thousands of visitors......
LONDON: Alex Hales believes England's ongoing series against Pakistan has seen him make progress as an international batsman despite a frustrating wait for a maiden Test hundred.The 27-year-old......
ISLAMABAD: Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai on Tuesday demanded from the prime minister to sack officers from the security and intelligence agencies if they fail to......
LONDON: Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur hopes his side's hard work on and off the field will be rewarded when they face England in the fourth Test at The Oval.The tourists are currently 2-1 down in the......
Alcatel has appointed United Mobile (UM) as the second official distributor of its smartphones in Pakistan. These phones will now be available with UM warranty.Speaking at a press conference, Nauman......
KOLKATA: West Indian teen pacer Alzarri Joseph made a dream debut on Tuesday when he scalped Indian captain Virat Kohli in his third over on the first day of the third Test at Gros Islet.Joseph, a......
HYDERABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) MNA Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui on Tuesday said MQM is being pressurised to withdraw Wasim Akhtar as his party's nominee for Karachi's mayor, but "they will......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff Raheel Sharif on Tuesday has directed corps commanders and intelligence outfits to further intensify combing and targeted operations with the aim to eliminate......
KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has terminated the services of a catering official posted in Lahore for attempted heroin smuggling, its spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday.“During......
KARACHI: Fast-bowler Junaid Khan resented his exclusion from the One-Day International (ODI) squad against Ireland and England, saying he is left with no other option but to consider playing for......
BERLIN: With Germany off to its worst start at an Olympics, there is cause for German concern in Rio de Janeiro where their athletes have yet to medal after three days of competition.Divers Patrick......
KARACHI: Pakistan on Tuesday announced its squad for One-Day International (ODI) contests against Ireland and England during the ongoing tour of the British Isles.Right-arm fast-bowler Umar Gul makes......
Tech giant Google on Tuesday paid tribute to the victims of a deadly blast in Quetta a day earlier, displaying a single burning candle on the localised page of the search engine.Hovering over the......
ANKARA: Turkey warned the United States (US) on Tuesday not to sacrifice bilateral ties over Pennsylvania-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara blames for the July 15 failed coup and wants to......
NEW DELHI: India's prime minister has appealed to residents of India-held Kashmir (IHK) to shun violence as the Himalayan region remained under a security lock down and curfew.Prime Minister Narendra......
NEW DELHI: A day after Balochistan Home Minister accused Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing of masterminding the suicide attack at Quetta Civil Hospital, India summoned Pakistan High......
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday ordered polygraph tests, also known as a lie-detector test, of children recovered in kidnapping cases to verify the veracity of claims that......
MAZAR SHARIF: A bomb in a crowded in market in the north Afghanistan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Tuesday killed at least two people and wounded 15, police officials said.Mazar-i-Sharif, an important......
WASHINGTON: Fifty senior Republican national security officials have issued a stinging rejection of their party's White House nominee Donald Trump, warning if elected he would be "the most reckless......
KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has acquired three Airbus A330 aircraft from SriLankan Airlines on a wet lease, sources in the organisation told DawnNews.The aircraft will be used for......
MAKHMOUR: Two years ago, the US-led coalition dropped the first airstrikes on the militant Islamic State group (IS), ushering in a deeper phase of intervention that dramatically changed the fight......
LONDON: John Stones became the second most expensive defender on Tuesday when Manchester City signed him for £47.5 million from Everton.Earlier, City had named Stones in their squad for a Champions......
LONDON: French star Paul Pogba's move from Juventus to Manchester United for 89 million pounds, a sum confirmed by Juventus, makes him the world's most expensive player. Here are the most expensive......
CAIRO: A Saudi-led military coalition conducted air strikes on the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday for the first time in five months, residents said, after UN-backed peace talks to end the conflict......
AGRA: Two miles down the road from the white marble walls of the fabled Taj Mahal, a heavyset man crouches in the dirt of a cow shed and explains how the future of India belongs to him.Digvijay Nath......
DHAKA: A four-year-old Bangladeshi boy suffering from a mysterious illness that makes him look like an old man has been admitted to hospital for tests, doctors and his family said.Doctors at a top......
If it were up to the Karachi Police, they would have honoured Raymond Davis with a cash prize.Earlier last week, Inspector General of Sindh Police AD Khawaja awarded Rs50,000 to a citizen, who shot......
LONDON: Led by Angela Merkel, Hillary Clinton and Theresa May, there have never been so many experienced and ambitious women in positions of influence, even if they remain heavily outnumbered.Clinton......
MANCHESTER: French superstar Paul Pogba on Tuesday completed a sensational return to Manchester United from Juventus for a reported world record fee.United said Pogba had signed a five-year contract......
ST. JOHN'S: Carlos Brathwaite, the star of the West Indies World Twenty win, was Monday named as the new skipper of the T20 squad, succeeding the sacked Darren Sammy.Brathwaite has been appointed......
HYDERABAD: An assistant sub-inspector was gunned down in Khosa Mohallah of Sehwan, while an unidentified pedestrian was injured in the incident which took place near the Sehwan police station late......
NEW DELHI: Didi Chuxing's acquisition of Uber's China business last week reshapes the landscape in Asia's growing ride-hailing sector, and leaves India's Ola more vulnerable to attack by Uber in its......
PESHAWAR: While condemning the Quetta hospital suicide attack, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly on Monday called for the regular review of the National Action Plan against terrorism to examine its......
PESHAWAR: The representatives of civil society organisations, lawyers, journalists and politicians have strongly condemned Quetta blast and urged government to implement the 20-point National Action......
KOHAT: Major trade centres here have been occupied by the Afghan nationals who deal in almost everything under the sun, thus denting the businesses of the local people.Talking to Dawn on Monday,......
MINGORA: For Zohra Bibi, the most painful moment of her life was the time when her son, Umar Sahib, left the house before being mistakenly killed by security forces in 2008.“After combing hair in......
ISLAMABAD: The tug-of-war between the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) over the control of Marghazar Zoo, Lake View Park and F-9 Park ended on......
RAWALPINDI: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight, PK-451 with 123 passengers and crew members on board and en route to Skardu veered off the runway during landing at the Benazir Bhutto......
On August 9, 1945, the face of the world changed forever. That was the day an atomic bomb was dropped over the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing up to 80,000 people and ruining the lives of million......
MUZAFFARGARH: People from more than three dozen villages will be evacuated in the next two days while 17 relief camps have been set up along the Chenab areas.District Coordination Officer Hafiz......
LAHORE: Scattered rain on Monday turned the weather pleasant in the Punjab capital, and the meteorological department has forecast partly cloudy with chances of rain during the next 24 hours.It......
VEHARI: The alleged killer of his two sisters sits remorseless in the Mitro police lock-up.When asked why he killed them, Nasir Husain says he killed his sisters to protect the family honour for they......
FAISALABAD: Scores of residents of Jhumra blocked the railway track for over three hours after the killing of a man by his rivals on Monday.Reports said Khalid along with his two police gunmen --......
KARACHI: Mohammad Tanveer, 26, has recently returned home from Jeddah after spending about four months in the Samishi camp, about 30 kilometres from Makkah.A resident of Liaquatabad No 10, Tanveer......
KARACHI: The two forgotten classic cars belonging to Miss Fatima Jinnah, which had been gathering rust for years, have finally been handed over to experts for restoration by the government at the......
KARACHI: Legal proceedings in courts across the city came to a grinding halt on Monday as the legal fraternity stayed away from work in protest against the Quetta blast and killing.The City Court......
KARACHI: A Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA) team raided a ghee and oil factory in Korangi on Monday, seized a large quantity of products prepared there by using substandard......
THATTA: As rain continued to lash Thar swollen storm drains wrecked havoc on human settlements, inundating hundreds of villages in Thatta and Dadu, while residents of flooding-hit localities......
KARACHI: Ali Muhammad Rind, better known as Ali Baba, one of the finest Sindh language fiction writers died after suffering cardiac arrest on Monday. He was 76.His relatives said he was at home in......
TOKYO: Emperor Akihito said on Monday his advancing age and weakening health mean he may no longer be able to carry out his duties, setting the stage for Japan to prepare for an historic......
BERLIN: Saudi Arabia confirmed on Monday it was helping German investigators track militants of the Islamic State group behind attacks in Germany and said one had been in contact with someone using a......
KANSAS CITY: Investigators were treating the death of a 10-year-old boy on the world’s tallest waterslide as a “civil matter” rather than a criminal incident, a police spokesman said on Monday, as......
BEIRUT: Syrian regime forces and rebel factions sent hundreds of reinforcements to Aleppo on Monday as both sides braced for a crucial battle to control the country’s second city.Fighting for Syria’s......
DUBLIN: Bishop Edward Daly, who was pictured waving a white handkerchief in the defining photograph of Northern Ireland’s 1972 “Bloody Sunday” killings, died on Monday aged 82, the Catholic church......
DHAKA: Bangladesh police have raided the office of a news website and detained three journalists over a report on rumours the prime minister’s son had died, an official said on Monday, days after the......
N’DJAMENA: Chad’s President Idriss Deby took the oath of office on Monday for a fifth term in power, facing dogged resistance from an opposition that alleges his re-election was a “political......
BAGHDAD: As Iraq faces jihadists, financial woes and endemic corruption, parliament — supposedly the heart of its government — has been mired in turmoil and failed to address the country’s......
Facebook has stepped up its two-year-old anti-clickbait campaign, changing its news feed algorithm to weed out manipulative or deceptive headlines. The company says this is being done by popular......
BANGKOK: For those who believe in democratic governments and self-rule, it would seem to be the political equivalent of shooting yourself in the foot.How else would you explain the result of Sunday’s......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Italian Niccolo Campriani, silver medallist in London 2012, went one better here on Monday when claiming gold in the men’s 10m air rifle at the Rio Olympics.Campriani got the better......
RIO DE JANEIRO: South Korea’s world number one Kim Woo-jin suffered a stunning defeat by unheralded Indonesian Riau Ega Agatha in the second round of the men’s individual archery event at the Rio......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Indian men’s hockey team’s perennial habit of conceding late goals continued to haunt them as reigning double Olympic champions Germany scored seconds from the final hooter to steal a......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil face another embarrassing exit from a tournament on home soil after Neymar and company stumbled through a second 0-0 draw of Rio 2016 against Iraq.The Olympic hosts need to......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Michael Phelps picked up his 19th gold medal on a second night of world records in the Olympic pool on Sunday, with Katie Ledecky cruising to women’s 400-metre freestyle victory and......
GOTHENBURG: Arsenal overcame Manchester City 3-2 in a pre-season friendly in Sweden but face an anxious wait over the fitness of Gabriel after the defender was stretchered off.Sergio Aguero gave City......
GALLE: Beleaguered Australia spinner Nathan Lyon has conceded his side have been totally outplayed in their series defeat to Sri Lanka and must learn fast to secure a consolation win.Despite the......
BASSETERRE: Chris Gayle smashed his 78th half-century in Twenty20 cricket as the Jamaica Tallawahs beat the Amazon Warriors by nine wickets in the final of the Caribbean Premier League.The Warriors......
LAHORE: The national selection committee has delayed the announcement of the Pakistan squad for the upcoming ODI series against Ireland and England after rain thwarted bid to ascertain the match......
BULAWAYO: Craig Ervine’s maiden Test century allowed Zimbabwe to enjoy their best period of a difficult series, as they held New Zealand’s bowlers at bay for much of the third day of the second Test......
KARACHI: Banks disbursed Rs598.3 billion in agricultural credit almost meeting the target of Rs600bn set during 2015-16. The amount is 16 per cent higher when compared with Rs515.9bn farm loans......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif has expressed concern over the inability of the Ministry of Commerce in achieving progress on developing a national e-commerce policy despite working on it......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) notified the Listed Companies (Buy-Back of Shares) Regulations, 2016 on Monday.The regulations relate to the repurchasing of......
KARACHI: The customs authorities have launched a drive to rationalise the prices of around 500 imported items to bring them close to the market value, official sources said on Monday.The goods are......
KARACHI: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is closely working with USAID and Japan to mobilise resources for youth employment in Pakistan, said Country Director, UNDP Pakistan,......
KARACHI: The stock market remained range -bound on Monday amid thin investor participation. The benchmark KSE-100 share index edged higher by 85.96 points (0.22 per cent) to settle at 39,476.17......
ONCE again, India is in danger of sabotaging its own efforts to raise foreign investment to China-like levels. The latest salvo in this undeclared, self-defeating war is the government’s reported......
MANCHESTER: Donald Trump is focusing his economic message on boosting jobs and making America more competitive globally by cutting business taxes, reducing regulations and increasing domestic energy......
VIENNA: Opec said on Monday it has called an informal meeting of member countries for next month in Algeria to help stabilise the oil market.The Vienna-based Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting......
CAIRO: Three Egyptian dailies said on Monday that Cairo was proposing to IMF delegates an 18-month reform program in return for a $12 billion loan over three years to shore up its economy, but that......
LONDON: Gold steadied after falling to a one-week low on Monday as downward momentum from stronger-than-expected US jobs figures late last week lost steam, with concerns over negative global......
FRANKFURT: A previously unknown hacking group variously dubbed “Strider” or “ProjectSauron” has carried out cyber-espionage attacks against select targets in Russia, China, Iran, Sweden, Belgium and......
NEW YORK: Wal-Mart Stores announced on Monday that it will acquire e-commerce company Jet.com for $3.3 billion as it beefs up its online retail operations in response to Amazon and other......
ISLAMABAD: Journalists in newsrooms across the country mourned the passing away of two colleagues, who were killed in the line of duty while reporting from Quetta’s Civil Hospital on Monday.Shahzad......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly suspended its routine agenda on Monday to condemn the suicide attack in Quetta, with some of its members accusing the government of not effectively implementing the......
ISLAMABAD: US Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale on Monday condemned attacks in Quetta that caused loss of precious human lives.“On behalf of the US Mission to Pakistan, I strongly condemn today’s......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) and the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) announced a week of mourning and a three-day strike from all courts to express solidarity with lawyers,......
ISLAMABAD: With radio-like antennae meant to swivel and point at vehicles carrying bombs, “magic wand” explosive detectors proliferated throughout conflict zones in the last decade until they were......
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has completed the second phase of his cabinet’s expansion by inducting nine ministers and 11 special assistants, raising the strength of the cabinet to......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed police and other agencies to step up security measures in the run-up to Independence Day.The chief minister issued the directive after a......
IT may be trite but cannot be said enough: we celebrate God but let man-made laws kill His children.Late last month, Pakistan lost another young son, Satish Kumar, 18, in Mirpur Mathelo, to......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance Ishaq Dar said on Monday there was no ban on holding Pakistani currency in Afghanistan.The clarification came from Mr Dar after a telephonic conversation with......
QUETTA: At least 70 people were killed and over 100 others wounded in a suicide bombing on Monday at the emergency ward of Quetta’s Civil Hospital, where scores of people had gathered to mourn the......
QUETTA: Top civil and military leadership believed that Monday’s suicide attack at the Civil Hospital was actually an attempt by the “enemies of the country” to sabotage the ongoing China-Pakistan......
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi must act quickly to douse the fires of unrest in Kashmir, where over 50 civilians have died and many have been seriously injured when security forces opened......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is in the process of quizzing blacklisted US national Matthew Craig Barrett, who has claimed that he had come back to Pakistan to explore the......
AN ever-expanding archive of unanswered injustices is attributed to the police. Public discourse, generally, describes the police as a case of a rotten basket or a poisoned tree producing bad apples.......
EVENTS in Quetta yesterday demonstrated that the country remains vulnerable to meticulously planned urban terrorism of particularly grotesque dimensions.It began with the targeted killing in the......
THERE can be no doubt that we are wading through an uncertain era of religious atavism. But let us also not ignore another by-product of this apparent iodine deficiency — cultural cretinism. It is......
ONE of the world’s great achievements of the past decades has been the significant fall in global poverty. Between 1990 and 2012, the proportion of humanity living under $1.90 a day fell from 37 per......
UNTIL 2015, Abid Bhutto and his wife Jannat were living a happy life with their four children and extended family. Jannat would spend her days busy with housework and caring for their two daughters......
