ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday warned the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to disassociate itself from its chief Altaf Hussain or suffer the consequences.Talking in DawnNews’ show Doosra Rukh,......
KARACHI: Police on Friday arrested three women workers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement over charges of their alleged involvement in arson attacks on private media houses located in Zainab Market on......
QUETTA: Advocate Ali Ahmed Kurd, a former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, believes that the loss suffered by Balochistan due to the killing of a large number of lawyers and other......
QUETTA: Even as smoke and blood dominated the site of the suicide blast that hit Quetta’s Sandeman Civil Hospital on Aug 8, the tragic reality was obvious that scores of families in this small city......
ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday inaugurated the third bridge over the Bosphorus Strait between Europe and Asia in Istanbul, a spectacular project at the heart of his drive to......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Friday approached the National Assembly Secretariat to withhold the salaries of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and members of his cabinet until the employees......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Friday briefed the ambassadors of permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the European Union......
QUETTA: At least one security personnel was killed and three others injured on Friday evening during an exchange of fire with suspected militants in Sariab Road area of the city.One of the suspected......
PARIS: France's highest administrative court on Friday suspended a ban on the Islamic burkini swimsuit brought by a French Riviera town after it was challenged by rights groups.In a judgement......
Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq said in his blog for cricket.com.au that he was offered captaincy in a clerk’s office at the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) headquarters in Lahore.In the aftermath of the......
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Faisal Vawda's vehicle came under fire on Friday in the Delhi Colony area of the city, local media reported."Unknown assailants opened fire on my car......
LONDON: Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has implored spectators at Lord's to stop firing champagne corks onto the field of play during matches.Lord's is the only international cricket ground where......
Accept this for a fact – all big ticket defence purchases involving billions of dollars will be controversial. But no deal has been as controversial as the purchase of six Scorpene-class submarines......
ISLAMABAD: India is set to introduce another non-lethal weapon in India-held Kashmir to quell ongoing protests in the territory.Although a final decision is yet to be taken, Indian Home Minister......
SRINAGAR: His apples are ripe for plucking but Abdul Shakoor is resigned to this year's crop becoming another victim of a 50-day explosion of violence in India-held Kashmir that shows no sign of......
MONACO: The top four leagues in Europe will be guaranteed four places in the group stage of the Champions League from the 2018/19 season, UEFA confirmed on Friday.The changes affect the top four......
CENTURION: South Africa and New Zealand go into a one-match shootout for series honours when they meet in the second and final Test starting at SuperSport Park in Centurion Saturday.The Proteas can......
KATHMANDU: A packed passenger bus plunged into a river early Friday in central Nepal, killing 21 people, a senior local official said.Rescuers struggled to recover bodies and help the injured to......
SAN FRANCISCO: Chinese powerhouse Didi Chuxing's acquisition of Uber Technologies Inc's China operations marked the biggest move yet toward consolidation in an industry that many investors and......
LONDON: Jurgen Klopp returns to the scene of his first game as Liverpool manager at Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League on Saturday, still searching for an effective winning formula.Liverpool won......
SYDNEY: Australia coach Darren Lehmann has backed the decision to rest skipper Steve Smith for the remaining one-day international series against Sri Lanka after criticism from ex-captain Michael......
NEW YORK: Serena Williams once again arrives at Flushing Meadows poised to rewrite the tennis record books – if her own troublesome right shoulder and increasingly emboldened rivals allow.The......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's heavy reliance on its spin bowlers threatens to undermine their chances at the next cricket World Cup on the faster pitches of England, according to former skipper Arjuna......
CALIFORNIA: Girls make Games is an all-girl led collective headquartered in San Jose, California, that aims to educate, inspire and teach a new generation of girls on how to make a place for......
PESHAWAR: In an unusual occurrence, surgeons in Peshawar recovered 22 pieces of metal from the stomach of a young patient on Thursday.The 22-year-old woman, a resident of Kurram Agency's Parachinar......
ANKARA: Nine people were killed and 64 people were wounded in a car bomb attack at a police headquarters in the town of Cizre in southeast Turkey on Friday, hospital sources said.State-run Anadolu......
SHANGLA: The PPP provincial leaders have demanded that the government and security agencies take strict action against the MQM leader over anti-Pakistan diatribe.The demand was made during a worker......
BATKHELA: Senior Pashto singer Sardar Yousafzai has appealed to federal and provincial governments to provide him with financial support to get his son treated abroad.Talking to Dawn here on......
PESHAWAR: Minister of state for water and power Abid Sher Ali on Thursday accused the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government of not cooperating with the federal government in the successful execution of power......
BATKHELA/SWABI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan said on Thursday that they would launch a protest movement against corruption of rulers on September 3 in Lahore.Addressing a public......
PESHAWAR: The employees of Peshawar Electric Supply Company on Thursday boycotted their duty and observed a sit-in outside Pesco headquarters here for acceptance of their demands, including elevation......
ISLAMABAD: What guarantee is there that the required number of army personnel would be available to conduct a census next March, the Supreme Court asked the government on Thursday.“The government has......
ISLAMABAD: The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for Polio has increased a number of targets for Pakistan to eliminate the crippling disease by the end of the year.These included an enhancement in......
ISLAMABAD: Controversial comments by PML-N Senator Sardar Mohammad Yaqoob Khan Nasar during a meeting of the Senate Functional Committee on Devolution on Thursday, when he said the poor are born to......
ISLAMABAD: An exhibition titled ‘Structural intricacies’, featuring contemporary miniature paintings by four emerging artists, opened at the My Art World gallery on Thursday.Illuminated by warm......
Thousands of students who graduated two years ago from various Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) run colleges which are affiliated with the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) are still waiting to be......
MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) cabinet on Thursday decided to hold an ‘education package’ approved by the previous PPP government in abeyance for the purpose of review.The decision......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has regularised 52,000 workers, including LHWs, lady health supervisors (LHSs), account supervisors, drivers, etc, of the National Programme for Family Planning (Lady......
LAHORE: The monsoon low over Indian Rajasthan generated heavy rain in Lahore and several other cities in Punjab on Thursday, claiming three lives, causing urban flooding and disrupting power supply......
LAHORE: Punjab Advocate General (AG) Shakilur Rehman Khan on Thursday denied before the Supreme Court the factor of vital body organs sale behind the incidence of child abduction in the province.The......
LAHORE: Police on Thursday arrested a man for allegedly killing his five-year-old son from his first wife and faked it as kidnapping.According to police officials, Ahmad Asadullah of Shalimar was......
LAHORE: Inspector General of Punjab Police Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera has said the combing operation across Punjab is going on while 60,497 search operations had been conducted during the last two......
LAHORE: The corrupt forces in the country have joined hands and are now working against the very existence of Pakistan, said Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Chief Tahirul Qadri while addressing a......
KARACHI: Mukka Chowk with the symbolic golden fist attributed to the first prime minister of Pakistan Liaquat Ali Khan’s furious gesture towards India, and which over the years people saw as......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has summoned the Sindh chief secretary and inspector general of police (IGP) on Aug 30 to explain the reasons behind the poor security......
KARACHI: Despite an eleventh-hour switch by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf to vote for the candidate of the rival Muttahida Qaumi Movement on DMC-West chairman’s seat instead of its own ally, the......
KARACHI: Taking a policy decision to solve the longstanding problem of traffic congestion in the city, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Thursday ordered the Karachi administration to open......
LONDON: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube should hire more people to monitor hate speech and material inciting violence as well as putting staff in police operation centres to remove offending posts......
HAVANA: Colombia’s government and its biggest rebel group announced a deal on Wednesday evening for ending their country’s half-century guerrilla war, one of the world’s longest-running armed......
PARIS: France’s highest administrative court will decide on Friday whether to overturn the ban on wearing the burkini which has sparked controversy at home and abroad.The State Council began hearing......
WELLINGTON: A New Zealand pizza chain aims to become the world’s first company to offer a commercial drone delivery service, a milestone in the once-unthinkable quest to save time and money with an......
HOW the West would love to believe that Turkey’s army in Syria — all 10 tanks of it — are striking at last at everyone’s enemy, the blood-soaked cult of the militant Islamic State group. But few in......
LIKE the warm summer day it chronicles, Southside With You possesses a mellow, languorous vibe, an infectious easygoing charm that insinuates itself gently, then seductively, as the couple at its......
NICOSIA: As Turkish troops approached his village on Aug 14, 1974, Georgios Kantoni packed a simple meal of bread, cheese and watermelon for his family and sent them to hide in the wheat......
SINGAPORE: The first driverless taxi began work on Thursday in a limited public trial on the streets of Singapore.Developer nuTonomy invited a select group of people to download their app and ride......
JEDDAH: US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday announced a fresh international peace initiative for Yemen aimed at forming a unity government to resolve its 17-month-old conflict.“This war......
BEIJING: China’s military will provide training for Syrian armed forces, a spokesman for Beijing’s defence ministry said on Thursday, adding it would take place on Chinese soil.Beijing is a......
PARIS: France and India on Thursday played down the security risk posed by leaked data on French-designed submarines that a source told Reuters was probably stolen by a French former employee and......
MONACO: Pep Guardiola will return to the Nou Camp in the Champions League group stage after his new club Manchester City were drawn against his former team Barcelona in Thursday’s group stage draw in......
COLOMBO : Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan will quit international cricket after the ongoing limited overs series against Australia, the swashbuckling opener announced on Thursday.“I have decided to......
SOUTHAMPTON: Jason Roy overcame a dizzy spell to lead England’s charge to a 44-run win under the Duckworth/Lewis method in a rain-marred first One-day International against Pakistan in Southampton......
LONDON: Four-time European champions Ajax missed out on the Champions League group stage after losing 4-1 to Rostov as Manchester City and Borussia Moenchengladbach eased through the playoffs on......
NEW HAVEN: Two-time defending champion Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic advanced to the Connecticut Open quarter-finals, beating Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday night.Kvitova, the......
LONDON: Premier League clubs Burnley and Middlesbrough were eliminated by lower-division sides in the second round of the League Cup on Wednesday, while Leicester City and Chelsea were paired in the......
RAWALPINDI: The Cool & Cool presents Jazz National T20 Cup got off to a rousing start at the Pindi Cricket Stadium on Thursday when Karachi Blues survived a late blitz from Tariq Haroon and Sohail......
NAIROBI: Kenya has disbanded its National Olympics Committee (NOC-K) because of the poor handling of the east African country’s team during the Rio Olympics, sports minister Hassan Wario said on......
MOSCOW: China is facing a one-year ban from weightlifting over repeated doping cases in a move which threatens to stop some of the world’s top athletes from competing internationally.The......
KARACHI: Pakistan paid $5.3 billion in debt servicing during the fiscal year 2015-16, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Thursday, as compared to $5.417bn in the preceding fiscal year.Though......
ISLAMABAD: After the lapse of two months, the government has finally chalked out a formula to provide fertiliser subsidy to end-consumers, reducing the price of urea by Rs390 on a bag and that of......
ISLAMABAD: A shift from the South Asian Free Trade Area (Safta) to South Asian Economic Union (SAEU) was emphasised at the inaugural session of the Eighth Saarc Finance Secretaries Meeting here on......
ISLAMABAD: Local manufacturers on Thursday expressed concerns over cheap imports — mainly from China — rendering many Pakistani industries out of business while anti-dumping cases are not being......
LAHORE: As the issue of double taxation among the federation and provinces gets worse, importers and exporters associated with Sialkot dry port and airport have approached Punjab Chief Minister......
SINGAPORE: Asia’s population is ageing faster than anywhere in the world, a study said Thursday, warning the swelling ranks of the elderly will cost the region $20 trillion in healthcare by......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) staged a broad based rally on Thursday which saw the KSE-100 index climb 285.52 points (0.72 per cent) to close at 39,792.10.Foreign investors booked profit......
KARACHI: The country’s total foreign exchange reserves once again crossed the $23 billion level during the week ended on Aug 19, announced the State Bank of Pakistan on Thursday.An inflow of $467......
ISLAMABAD: Agriculture has been the most protected sector in South Asia, and at the same time is also the ‘least integrated’ in terms of intra-regional trade and investments, results of a joint study......
ISLAMABAD: The Steering Committee on the Development of Integrated Transit Trade Management System (ITTMS) on Thursday reviewed the progress on the decisions taken during the last meeting as well as......
KARACHI: Steady conditions prevailed on the cotton market on Thursday amid fears of slowdown in phutti (seed cotton) arrivals and quality issues.There is a stoppage of picking in Sindh due to a Hindu......
TEHRAN: Iran will take part in an informal meeting of Opec countries in Algeria next month, state media reported on Thursday.“I will take part in this session,” Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh told the......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz unveiled on Thursday recommendations aimed at mainstreaming the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) to end poverty and......
KARACHI: Late in the afternoon, Gaanchi, the community centre in Pir Illahi Bakhsh (PIB) Colony, named after the migrant Gujarati Muslim population, presents a deserted look. Employees of an event......
ISLAMABAD: The government has appointed retired Lt Gen Zamirul Hassan Shah defence secretary in an apparent U-turn after initially opposing his nomination by the military.Gen Shah assumed office on......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan informed the Afghan government on Thursday that no “technical traces” of telephonic contacts between the Kabul university attackers and people on its side of the border could be......
AMATRICE: The death toll from a powerful earthquake in central Italy rose to 250 on Thursday as rescuers continued a grim search for corpses and powerful aftershocks rocked the devastated area.The......
KARACHI: The apology from Altaf Hussain for his “anti-Pakistan remarks and slogans” and subsequent damage-control moves by the local leadership of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement do not seem to be......
MOST of us living outside of Karachi often find it hard to explain the demi-god status accorded to Altaf Hussain by so many of the city’s ordinary Urdu-speaking residents. Yes the ‘Quaid-i-Tehreek’......
BESIDES the Quranic verses laying strong emphasis on acquiring knowledge, the Holy Prophet (PBUH) said, “Acquire knowledge from cradle to grave”. In another hadith, he underlined the importance of......
IN an apparent moment of reckoning, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif recently wondered out loud about how he was being exploited by the system. He asked that if it was he who was required to do......
COMMENTS on a number of my recent articles have stated that I have focused on delineating/diagnosing issues and have not given solutions. This is an attempt at starting that conversation.We have been......
PARIS: A botched attempt to break into the iPhone of an Arab activist using hitherto unknown espionage software has trigged a global upgrade of Apple's mobile operating system, researchers said......
