NEW DELHI: Amnesty International India has temporarily closed its offices and postponed events aimed at raising awareness of rights abuses over safety concerns for its staff after the charity was......
KARACHI: Two employees of DawnNews were injured in a shooting incident by unidentified gunmen in the Landhi 89 area of the metropolis on Wednesday night.The injured employees have been shifted to the......
KARACHI: Pakistan won the 2016 World Team Junior Squash Championships after beating defending champions Egypt in the final by 2-1 on Wednesday.The tournament was held from August 7-16 in......
RIYADH: Six months after Saudi Arabia said its war in Yemen was winding down, air strikes are again pounding rebels and rockets flying across the border, with no end to the conflict in sight.Facing......
QUETTA: An officer of the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) was killed while defusing a landmine in Balochistan's troubled Naseerabad district on Wednesday evening.Police said Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI)......
PARIS: Ten Muslim women wearing burkinis to the beach have been apprehended by police in the southern French city of Cannes in the three weeks since it imposed a temporary ban on the full body......
BERLIN: Lukas Podolski believes Germany wasted their chance to lift the Euro 2016 title and admits he was sad to see Portugal win the final of the European championships.The 31-year-old Galatasaray......
QUETTA: Balochistan government on Wednesday formed a high-level Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe into the August 8 suicide bombing in Quetta Civil Hospital which killed 70 people and left......
Saudi Arabia is sending signals that it could boost its crude oil supplies in August to a new record level, overtaking Russia, the world's top oil producer, as it gets ready for tough talks next......
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MALAHIDE: Pakistan launch their quest to make sure of an automatic qualifying spot at the 2019 World Cup in England when they face Ireland in two one-day internationals at Malahide, near Dublin, on......
BERLIN: Bayern Munich's Kingsley Coman had to be carried out of Wednesday's training session on a stretcher after suffering an ankle injury, leaving the German champions sweating about the extent of......
ISLAMABAD: The record of 70 million Pakistanis is not available with government agencies, the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Revenue was informed on Wednesday.“Out of Pakistan’s population......
COLOMBO: Skipper Angelo Mathews hailed Rangana Herath as Sri Lanka's one-legged hero Wednesday after the veteran spinner played through the pain barrier to once again demolish Australia's batting......
ROME: Italy will not follow France by allowing burkini bans on public beaches but is planning tighter regulation of imams and mosques, the country's interior minister said in comments published......
GENEVA: FIFA ethics committee investigators have called for a six-year ban against the former head of the South African Football Association (SAFA) Kirsten Nematandani over his alleged role in 2010......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday directed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and members of his family to issue a response to allegations made by members of the opposition......
ISLAMABAD: Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale on Wednesday submitted Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar's reply to an earlier Pakistan invitation for dialogue, expressing his country's......
COLOMBO: Pakistan on Wednesday leapfrogged Australia to secure the second position in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings after Sri Lanka completed a 3-0 whitewash over Steven......
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) on Wednesday morning sealed a private school as classes were underway, confining faculty, administration and students to school premises.The move caused......
SRINAGAR: When news spread in early July that Indian troops had killed a charismatic commander of India-held Kashmir's (IHK) biggest militant group, the Hizbul Mujahideen, the public response was......
COLOMBO:Sri Lanka clinched their first series whitewash over a major cricketing nation Wednesday as they won the third and final Test against Australia by 163 runs, with spinner Rangana Herath taking......
BEIJING: Chinese police have this year uncovered $30 billion worth of illegal banking activity, involving 158 cases of underground banks and money laundering, the official Xinhua news agency reported......
It was his life’s race against time. Lahori resident Aslam needed an urgent liver transplant for his 18-year-old daughter Saima. He knew he had no choice but to look outside his resources, and get......
SAINT PETERSBURG: With the 2018 World Cup less than two years away, Russia is scrambling to resume construction at one of the tournament's flagship stadiums where labour disputes have threatened to......
ISTANBUL: Turkey issued two decrees under emergency rule on Wednesday in which it dismissed more than 2,000 police officers and hundreds of members of the military and the BTK communication......
TULSA: An Oklahoma man suspected of fatally shooting a male neighbor was accused of harassing and shouting anti-Muslim slurs at the man's family, who are actually Christians from Lebanon, and of......
MALAHIDE: It's all change for Pakistan as they return to white-ball cricket for two one-day internationals against Ireland in Malahide near Dublin, starting on Thursday, ahead of their five-match......
BEIJING: Apple Inc will boost its investment in China, one of its most important but increasingly difficult markets, and build its first Asia-Pacific research and development centre in the country,......
NEW YORK: It's getting rarer for phone launches to generate excitement these days — especially in the Android world, where all models use the same underlying Google software. Every year, phones get......
Cisco Systems is laying off about 14,000 employees, representing nearly 20 per cent of the network equipment maker's global workforce, technology news site CRN reported, citing sources close to the......
SRINAGAR: Suspected militants killed two soldiers and one police officer in an ambush on a convoy overnight in India-held Kashmir (IHK), an official in the troubled region said Wednesday.An unknown......
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief and Senator Sirajul Haq has said his party will take the battle against corruption to the Supreme Court by filing a writ petition on August 22.Addressing a news......
PESHAWAR: Saqib Arbab, chief engineer SNGPL, has been promoted by Sui Northern Gas Pipeline (SNGPL) board of directors as general manager Peshawar on the basis of his three-year outstanding......
MINGORA: Several congested localities of Mingora have been facing acute water shortage for last many years due to apathy of the relevant authorities.The affected areas are Malookabad, Rang Mohallah,......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights on Tuesday suggested that measures need to be adopted to prevent the misuse of the blasphemy law.At the start of the meeting, the committee......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police have approached the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to locate an individual who allegedly murdered the nephew of a former senator on Monday.Officers close to the......
ISLAMABAD: If they worked together for promoting peace and harmony and towards improving their economies, Asian countries have great potential to lead the world, said a member of the Indian Lok Sabha......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) has announced the second phase of “Qisas and National Solidarity Movement” will begin on Aug 20 and continue till Aug 30.The PAT’s central core committee......
LAHORE: It was an evening of glitz and glow at Alhamra Art Centre, The Mall, on Tuesday where young performers from Alhamra Performing Arts Academy won many a heart through some lovely dances,......
SIALKOT: The Sialkot education department declared a holiday for students of the Govt Girls High School, Bhoth, after three to four-foot high floodwater that inundated it after recent flash floods......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A team of local officials on Tuesday visited villages around Shorkot Cantonment that have been hit by waterlogging and mosquito infestation.The team comprising Shorkot AC Amer......
HYDERABAD: The premises of the hockey stadium, commonly known as Board Stadium (only because it is owned by the Hyderabad Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE)) was got vacated after......
LARKANA: Sardar Mumtaz Ali Bhutto has decided to part ways with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and revive his own party Sindh National Front(SNF).SNF chairman Mumtaz Bhutto said in a......
KARACHI: Tributes were paid to scholar and linguist Baba-i-Urdu Maulvi Abdul Haq on the occasion of his 55th death anniversary at a ceremony held at the Federal Urdu University on Tuesday.Speaking on......
KARACHI: “I was shattered when the doctor disclosed that my newborn son had defective eyes and would never be able to see. He didn’t even offer me false hope that could give me the strength to bear......
KARACHI: Revere him or repudiate his ideas, it has to be said that no other thinker or philosopher has generated more debate on the machinations of power in the latter half of the 20th century than......
KARACHI: Just days after a raid on the Manzoor Colony fire station, the law enforcement agencies targeted residential blocks of the Sohrab Goth fire station and picked up five employees of the fire......
ISTANBUL: Turkish police searched the offices of a nationwide retail chain and a healthcare and technology company on Tuesday, arresting dozens of people in some of the biggest raids on private......
BEIJING: China launched the world’s first quantum satellite on Tuesday, state media reported, in an effort to harness the power of particle physics to build an unbreakable system of encrypted......
KANDAHAR: A breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan has appointed a new leader for the group, the nephew of the faction’s longtime leader who was killed in fighting with rivals last year.The......
LONDON: British cleric Anjem Choudary, who has long been accused of radicalising young Muslims, was facing jail on Tuesday after being convicted of encouraging support for the militant Islamic State......
MOSCOW: Russia said on Tuesday its warplanes flew out of an Iranian airbase for the first time to bomb militant groups in Syria, as fighting raged for control of the ravaged city of Aleppo.The......
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in the headlines the other day for asking those that attack Dalits to target him instead, but reports on Tuesday said several Dalit protesters were......
BERLIN: The pilot of an ultralight aircraft in Germany spent more than 12 hours stuck up a tree after rescuers were unable to reach him overnight.Police in the southwestern state of......
IT would be interesting to watch what results the political overture that BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia made on Aug 15 will yield.For the first time since 1995-96, she refrained from observing her......
EVEN as President Rodrigo Duterte continues to defend his decision to grant hero’s burial to deceased dictator Ferdinand Marcos, more sectors continue to dismiss this move as mere payback to a......
IT is imperative to reflect on the emperor’s thoughts sincerely and use this occasion to discuss widely the role of the emperor as the symbol of the state.The emperor, who has indicated his desire to......
COLOMBO: A gritty century from Kaushal Silva gave Sri Lanka a commanding 288-run second innings lead Tuesday, dimming Australia’s hopes of a consolation win in the third and final Test in Colombo.Sri......
KARACHI: Former Indian Test skipper Mohammad Azharuddin on Tuesday said that he didn’t like it when people were slighting Younis Khan for his failure with the bat in the recent England series and was......
LONDON: England dropped struggling batsman James Vince for their One-day International series against Pakistan, it was announced on Tuesday.But they have recalled fit-again Durham duo Ben Stokes and......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Joao Havelange, who as president of FIFA for two decades transformed football’s governing body into a multibillion-dollar business and a hotbed for subsequent corruption that damaged......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Usain Bolt took another step in his quest for an unprecedented sprint “triple triple” when he safely negotiated the first round of the 200m on Tuesday.Bolt won a third successive 100m......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Christian Taylor of the United States retained his Olympic men’s triple jump title on Tuesday, recording the longest jump of the year to claim the podium top spot.Taylor, the......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Croatia’s Sandra Perkovic flirted with disaster before snatching gold in women’s discus on Tuesday, successfully defending her London Games title despite fouling five of her six......
RIO DE JANEIRO: It was a Dutch sweep at Copacabana. Their first Olympic gold in open water swimming was never in doubt. The second one took a few minutes to sort out.Ferry Weertman of the Netherlands......
RIO DE JANEIRO: David Rudisha sealed a historic Olympic 800m double as Shaunae Miller’s audacious dive and Thiago Braz’s pole vault gold for Brazil lit up a wet Monday night in Rio.Kenya’s Rudisha......
LONDON: Diego Costa thrust himself back into the headlines with a last-gasp winner as animated Chelsea manager Antonio Conte launched his English Premier League career with a battling 2-1 victory......
BARCELONA: Barcelona coach Luis Enrique has confirmed that more new faces will arrive at the Nou Camp this transfer window while some squad members will be sold.The Spanish champions have recruited......
KARACHI: After Sharjeel Mehmood and Asif Toba’s heroics the other day, it was prodigy Haris Tahir’s turn to steal the limelight on the second day of the eighth National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) Ranking......
KARACHI: Institute of Business Administration celebrated the Independence Day with a night cricket match recently in which IBA Students team beat the Staff XI by 37 runs.Electing to bat first after......
KARACHI: Soneri Bank Ltd posted a profit-after-tax of Rs1.175 billion for the half year ended on June 30, 2016, registering an increase of 6.13 per cent over the same period last year, said a press......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday approved the draft ‘Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act 2016’ which aims at punishing people holding ‘benami’ properties......
KARACHI: The country’s first-ever dirty-cargo terminal would come on line by the end of the year which would help innovate handling of cement, clinker and coal, official sources said.Being a......
ISLAMABAD: Prices of certain essential items are higher in government-run utility stores compared to the open market amid rampant corruption in the Utility Stores Corporation (USC), the Senate......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has asked the Ministry of Finance to formalise gold imports as the existing two facilities to import the commodity were being misused.One of the policies......
KARACHI: The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) witnessed a decline of 11 per cent during the first month this fiscal year over the same month last year, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported on......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) received a total of 17 Expression of Interests (EOIs) from local and foreign investors for acquisition of 40 per cent strategic shares in the bourse.The......
KARACHI: A day after attaining the peak at over 40,000 points, the KSE-100 index could add just 19 points (0.1 per cent) on Tuesday to close at 40,050.Although rallying to intra-day high by 181......
KARACHI: Cotton prices recouped part of the recent losses on Tuesday amid revival of buying interest.Brokers said demand from spinners was rising amid restricted arrivals of phutti (seed......
LONDON: Gold cut its gains on Tuesday after mixed US economic data failed to give clarity on the prospects for a US interest rate rise this year.US consumer prices were unchanged in July as the cost......
CAIRO: Egypt hopes a $12-billion financing deal with the IMF will usher in an economic turnaround but real progress hinges on a tough reform package avoided for decades to stave off unrest.The......
ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) on Tuesday informed a parliamentary committee that giving the right of vote to eight million overseas Pakistanis through the......
ISLAMABAD: I knocked on the gate of a guesthouse in the G-6 sector of Islamabad. After what turned into rapping and thumping, the gatekeeper approached leisurely, finally opening the door. “I am here......
QUETTA: The Federal Minister for Planning and Development, Ahsan Iqbal, has said that ignoring Balochistan in matters of development is a national crime and we all are responsible for it.Speaking at......
ISLAMABAD: A full bench of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) retired Justice Sardar Mohammad Raza Khan, will hear identical petitions seeking the......
WASHINGTON: Fifteen Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the largest such release in years, the Pentagon announced on Monday.The latest transfers bring the......
WASHINGTON: The United States continues to view the Kashmir issue as a dispute that needs to be settled by both India and Pakistan, says the US State Department, while distancing itself from India’s......
ISLAMABAD: In a bid to end the stalemate on the Panama Papers leaks, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar met Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khurshid Ahmed Shah, asking him to agree on a......
ISLAMABAD: The newly constituted National Action Plan implementation committee is merely an administrative body and both the interior ministry and the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta)......
ISLAMABAD: The National Finance Commission (NFC) — a key centre-provincial forum on financial matters — has not formally met for about 16 months against a constitutional spirit of biannual sessions......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) and allied parties are ramping up the pressure on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and are pursuing various means to have him disqualified from the National......
LANDI KOTAL: Backed by air strikes and heavy artillery shelling at suspected militant hideouts, army troops have finally penetrated into the deep-forested Rajgal valley in Tirah which was considered......
THE recent ratcheting up of tensions between Russia and Ukraine has been portrayed in the Western media more or less exclusively as a plot by Vladimir Putin, possibly with a view to resuming outright......
STUNTING in Pakistan is a tragedy of epic proportions; a tragedy that we can, and must, overcome. Nearly half of Pakistan’s children — 44pc — suffer from stunted growth (National Nutrition Survey......
BIRTHDAYS come and go and so it was with Pakistan’s 69th year — another 12 months gone by amid the pull and push of political wrangling, the want and need of the flood-ravaged and the......
It took the death of more than 70 people to wake up Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from his deep slumber and make him realise the consequences of his lacklustre approach to combating terrorism. Pushed......
