ACCUMOLI: At least 120 people have died after a powerful earthquake struck a remote area of central Italy Wednesday, said Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, warning that the figure could still rise.Some......
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a suspect, affiliated with Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), for the alleged killing of a member of Jamaat Ahmedia.The suspect,......
KARACHI: The imprisoned politician and newly elected mayor of Karachi Waseem Akhtar will run the teeming metropolis via “video link” from his prison cell, his lawyer said on Wednesday.Waseem Akhtar,......
KABUL: Twelve people, including seven students, were killed in an attack on the American University in Kabul that sent hundreds of students fleeing in panic, police said early on Thursday, before the......
SAN FRANCISCO: Tesla on Tuesday unveiled speedy new model electric cars capable of traveling more than 300 miles (482 kilometers) before needing to be recharged.A Model S P100D with “Ludicrous mode”......
BUENOS AIRES: New Argentina head coach Edgardo Bauza said on Tuesday that he wants to see his side rely less on Lionel Messi, after the Barcelona forward's brief retirement from international......
KARACHI: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar on Wednesday said Karachi will not be held hostage anymore and congratulated the people and the security forces deployed in the metropolis for foiling the......
RIYADH: A stoning ritual which led to the deaths of about 2,300 people during last year's Haj will be more tightly controlled during next month's pilgrimage, Saudi newspapers reported on......
KARACHI: A district and sessions court acquitted Axact Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shoaib Shaikh in a money laundering case here on Wednesday.Shaikh’s counsel, Shaukat Hayat, had moved an......
England on Wednesday beat Pakistan by 44 runs on Duckworth–Lewis method after rain stopped play twice in three balls during the 34th over in England's pursuit of 261-run target in the first of the......
On the evening of August 16, I drove to Lal Chowk, some ten kilometres from home, to print out a ticket for a flight to Delhi the next morning. It was my last option. Mobile internet had been......
FRANCE: A woman was forced to remove a part of her clothing on a beach in Nice by armed police officers after a ban on the 'burkini' swimsuit was enforced, a series of photos that emerged online......
SWAT: A 27-year-old man was stoned to death and a married woman injured by her relatives in the name of 'honour' after the two were found in an 'objectionable position' in her family's home in the......
SYDNEY/PARIS: India is investigating the extent to which secrets about French Scorpene submarines being built in the country have been compromised, its defence ministry said on Wednesday, after a......
BANGKOK: One Thai person was killed and 30 wounded when two bombs exploded late on Tuesday near a hotel in the southern Thai coastal town of Pattani, police said, less than two weeks after a wave of......
GENEVA: Sepp Blatter will mount his final challenge against his six-year FIFA ban on Thursday, following more than a year of scandal that saw him thrown out of football in disgrace.The former FIFA......
SEOUL: North Korea fired a submarine-launched missile on Wednesday that flew about 500 km towards Japan, a show of improving technological capability for the isolated country that has conducted a......
LONDON: England will not force any player to tour Bangladesh, limited-overs captain Eoin Morgan said, in the wake of the July 1 attack on a Dhaka cafe in which 22 people were killed.England's one-day......
Online media outlet BuzzFeed will split itself into two new departments that will focus on news and entertainment, CEO Jonah Peretti wrote in a memo sent to employees.The move to create two......
Writing is fun, but writing video games is a new high. Ideas flow at the click of a button, and creativity breeds more creativity. I send a character write-up to an artist, and he/she will then......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) Waseem Akhtar has been elected Karachi's mayor on Wednesday."Let bygones be bygones," said Akhtar while addressing media persons after the elections......
SYDNEY: World number five Rafael Nadal will play in the Brisbane International next year, organisers said on Wednesday, the first time the Spaniard has kicked off his season in Australia.The......
LESBOS: Standing on a pebbled beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, Mehdi Salehi searches for a good spot to set his drone loose.Far from being a hobby flight, this is a project to save the lives of......
SEOUL: Better-than-expected demand for Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's new Galaxy Note 7 is causing supply constraints globally, the South Korean tech giant said on Wednesday, suggesting strong initial......
LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain in a statement on Wednesday said he has handed over party affairs to the Coordination Committee, a day after senior party leaders had......
DUBAI: Saudi security forces have foiled a planned suicide attack on a mosque in the Qatif region in eastern Saudi Arabia, where many Shia Muslims live, Al-Arabiya news channel and other Saudi media......
ROME: At least 38 people died in a powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake that hit central Italy early on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the civil protection department said.The quake struck towns and......
WASHINGTON: The New York Times said on Tuesday its Moscow bureau was targeted by a cyber attack this month but that there was no evidence the hackers, believed to be Russian, were successful."We are......
CHITRAL: A girl from Jughoor village of Chitral has demanded of the government and higher judiciary to bring to book the people who abducted and sold her to a person in Azad Kashmir for Rs600,000.She......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has launched Rs1 billion olive plantation project in the province.Officials said that the initiative would help in generating billions of rupees revenue......
PESHAWAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday notified Baldev Kumar, the alleged killer of MPA Sardar Soran Singh, as returned candidate on the seat reserved for non-Muslims in the......
PESHAWAR/KOHAT: The activists of Jamaat-i-Islami’s youth wing, Peshawar chapter, and Peoples’ Students Federation on Tuesday held separate protest demonstrations against the MQM chief Altaf Hussain......
RAWALPINDI: A classic Pakistan Television children’s programme called Ainak Wala Jinn was staged at the Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC) on Tuesday, in connection with the Punjab culture department’s......
ISLAMABAD: The employees of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) on Tuesday postponed their strike on the assurance of Minister of State for Capital Administration and Development......
ISLAMABAD: After significant criticism regarding its performance, the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) has finally taken action against 20 pharmaceutical companies over complaints of poor......
ISLAMABAD: Usman Khan’s dream of owning a house came true last year. But soon after purchasing the house for Rs7 million, the city managers informed him that he was living in an illegal housing......
LAHORE: A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) air hostess was arrested on Tuesday for trying to smuggle 2.5kg gold to the United States.According to an official, airhostess Nuzhat Bokhari was going......
LAHORE: An alleged militant was found shot dead after an exchange of fire with the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel in a Gujrat village on Tuesday.His other accomplices fled, while the......
GUJRAT: Punjab former chief minister Pervaiz Elahi has said that the PML-Q government had planned six-lane Lahore-Sialkot motorway in 2006.Talking to the media here on Tuesday, he said: “Had the......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A public park in Charh Mohallah of Kamalia on more than nine kanals in the middle of the city has been turned into a garbage dumping ground by the tehsil municipal administration......
KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal has warned the federal and provincial governments against neglecting workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement saying his party will stand by......
KARACHI: The corps commander of Karachi, Lt Gen Naveed Mukhtar, spent a busy day on Tuesday and met the Sindh governor, the chief minister and the Rangers chief one by one and came up with the......
KARACHI: Nine-Zero wore the look of a ghost town on Tuesday, a day after Pakistan Rangers sealed the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) headquarters there.Torn-up pamphlets with tattered banners and......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Tuesday apologised for his speech in which he called Pakistan a “cancer” and “epicentre of terrorism for entire world”, and cited......
KARACHI: It was a press conference at which those who organised it outnumbered the journalists. The event was arranged at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday evening to announce an upcoming film,......
KARACHI: While leaders of all political, nationalist and religious parties, as well as social and other organisations, on Tuesday continued to condemn anti-Pakistan slogans raised during Muttahida......
LARKANA: The Naudero police on Tuesday arrested a man for allegedly torturing two boys who he suspected had stolen his nine pigeons.The news went viral when the two boys, aged about eight-nine years,......
SUKKUR: Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Moulana Fazalur Rehman has said the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is the product of dictator Gen Ziaul Haq while it was promoted by Gen Pervez Musharraf and......
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: At least 300 people have died in eastern and central India and more than six million others have been affected by floods that have submerged villages, washed away crops,......
DHAKA: Police have abducted the son of a Bangladeshi war crimes convict, his family said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of forced disappearances of opposition leaders’ children.More than 30......
KABUL: A roadside bomb killed an American soldier on Tuesday near the capital of Afghanistan’s volatile Helmand province, following the first major US deployment to the southern city since foreign......
CHITTAGONG: An explosion at a chemical fertiliser factory left at least 200 people needing medical treatment after toxic gas spread across large parts of Bangladesh’s second city Chittagong,......
LAGOS: Nigeria’s military said on Tuesday it believes an air strike has “fatally wounded” Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, but there was no way to confirm yet another claim of the death of......
PARIS: Islamist attacks have scared off thousands of tourists from Paris and its top attractions, helping rob the French capital of about 750 million euros ($850 million) in revenues, officials said......
THE 324-year-old Anglo-Arabic Senior Secondary School, one of the oldest in New Delhi with scores of eminent personalities among its alumni, is today struggling to keep itself afloat.Woefully short......
BANGKOK: Upper-class ladies during Siam’s Sixth Reign were as primly stylish as their English peers in Edwardian Britain. They were also equally enthralled by women’s suffrage in Britain and among......
SOUTHAMPTON: Pakistan one-day captain Azhar Ali wants to see the team take the form that had made them the world’s number one-ranked Test side into their one-day series against England.Azhar was a......
LONDON: Great Britain’s triumphant Olympic team returned home from the Rio Games in a gold-nosed aircraft on Tuesday, as officials trumpeted their success the “best sporting achievement” in the......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka seam bowler Nuwan Pradeep will miss the remaining One-day Internationals against Australia after aggravating a hamstring injury.Instead of bringing in another seamer, selectors......
KARACHI: Pakistan will return to the Rose Bowl in Southampton after a yawning gap of 10 years when they face England in the opening fixture of the five-match One-day International series on......
GENEVA: The richest clubs and biggest leagues in Europe are set to tighten their grip on the Champions League’s future format and prize money this week.A deal being prepared by UEFA should end......
NEW HAVEN: Caroline Wozniacki entered the Connecticut Open as a wild card, hoping a tournament she has won four times would help her tune up for the US Open.Instead, the former top-ranked player......
KARACHI: Prodigies Arbaz Anwar and Fatima Khan emerged as the most successful players in the 23rd PSO junior and cadet national table tennis championships which concluded at Islamia Club on......
LAHORE: Under a new format, the Cool & Cool Presents Jazz National T20 Cup begins with the first phase in Rawalpindi from Wednesday, while the second phase of the tournament will be held in Multan......
KARACHI: Pakistan Scrabble Association (PSA) on Tuesday presented and introduced the two all-male teams that are to feature in the World Scrabble Championship (WSC) and World Youth Scrabble......
NEW DELHI: India’s experiment with the pink ball in the Duleep Trophy domestic championship met with major embarrassment after floodlight failure interrupted play for over an hour in the day-night......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday approved an $810 million multi-tranche financing facility to develop Pakistan’s power transmission system aimed at improving the reliability and......
ISLAMABAD: The government has convened an inter-provincial meeting of key stakeholders on Wednesday to try forestalling a strike call by Oil Tankers Contractors Association (OTCA) against a......
ISLAMABAD: Large-scale manufacturing (LSM) grew by 3.2 per cent in the preceding fiscal year, figures issued by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed on Tuesday.With lower-than-expected LSM......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee is scheduled to take up the Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) Bill 2016 on Wednesday, which is a new concept of business as under this law one......
ISLAMABAD: More than half of Pakistanis don’t not know what credit is, according to the findings of a survey released on Tuesday.A nationally representative sample of men and women from across the......
KARACHI: The KSE-100 index pulled back by another 57.76 points to settle at 39,400.19 on Tuesday. Investors ran for cover after the overnight developments on the MQM issue, which caused the market to......
KARACHI: Cotton prices surged up on Tuesday on higher arrivals of phutti (seed cotton) and strong demand from spinners.Spinners rushed to replenish their stocks ahead of Eidul Azha when most of the......
SINGAPORE: Pakistan is taking another step towards becoming a key buyer of liquefied natural gas (LNG), signing a deal to purchase a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) for its second......
KARACHI: While drawing the attention of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif towards the plight of Karachi, industrialists have requested him to announce Rs100 billion special package to rebuild the......
LONDON: Gold edged higher on Tuesday as markets shifted focus from hawkish comments by a Federal Reserve official at the weekend to a meeting of global central bankers this week, awaiting further......
KARACHI: Pakistan is considered to be the main country through which narcotics produced in Afghanistan are transported to the rest of the world and Karachi is a key point on the drug supply routes, a......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday that reforms in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) were significant for the development of the region and an integral part of the......
ISLAMABAD: Eight senior officers of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday approached the Supreme Court to become a party in a suo motu case with the pleading that out-of-turn promotions......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain said on Tuesday that the government was keen on maintaining fraternal relations and peace among followers of all schools of thought and the role of religious......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s oldest red light district was for centuries a hub of traditional erotic dancers, musicians and prostitutes — Pigalle with a Mughal twist, deep in the heart of vibrant Lahore.But as......
QUETTA: The government of Balochistan has demanded that the federal government take action against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain under Article 6 of the Constitution for his......
NEW DELHI: An Indian movie actress who did not agree with Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s description of Pakistan as “hell” and said she was treated well there has been accused of sedition in a......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties’ fears over the lack of transparency in the appointment of members to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) seem to be justified, since it appears that both the......
WASHINGTON: The United States categorically assured Pakistan on Tuesday that it did not support independence for Balochistan.In an earlier statement, the US State Department shared with Dawn its......
SRINAGAR: Government forces in India-held Kashmir fired bullets and shotgun pellets on Tuesday to break up protests demanding an end to Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region, injuring at least......
KARACHI: A day after Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain’s diatribe against the country, the Pakistan-based leadership of the party on Tuesday distanced itself from his comments and decided......
ISLAMABAD: The interior minister reached out to British authorities amidst calls from the country’s main opposition parties to raise the issue of Muttahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain’s......
LONDON: The British police have announced that they are assessing the contents of Altaf Hussain’s speech in which he asked his workers if they were about to move on media houses in Karachi.A......
ISLAMABAD: India has formally conveyed to Pakistan that its Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will not attend the eighth finance ministers’ meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation......
The inevitable moment has finally arrived yet there is a feeling of foreboding. Altaf Hussain’s state of mind was no secret, especially to party insiders, but when Farooq Sattar said openly what his......
LAST week, an Argentine judge launched an investigation into the death of Federico Garcia Lorca. There’s something odd about this picture. Lorca was a poet and playwright of considerable renown and......
ANALYSING everything in its correct perspective is a great gift; the loss of perspective is akin to losing one’s way in a forest. Keeping perspective helps one walk on the straight and narrow path.......
THE numbers should shock and shame Pakistan but they are unlikely to. According to data produced by Sahil, an NGO that monitors child abuse in Pakistan, reported child abuse cases have increased by......
A SUGGESTION to elevate Gen Raheel Sharif to rank of field marshal is rumoured to be under consideration. Some media reports maintain that a decision has already been made. There is, however, no......
HASAKEH: Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters agreed on Tuesday to a truce in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakeh after a week of clashes, a Kurdish official and Syrian state media......
