LOS ANGELES: Action movie star Jackie Chan is due to receive an honorary Oscar, the Academy said Thursday, to recognise a glittering career that has seen him become a cultural icon.The 62-year-old......
WASHINGTON: The United States announced a long list of fresh sanctions on Thursday aimed at Russia over its continuing support for Ukraine's rebels and the 2014 seizure of Crimea.The new list took......
KARKAMIS: Turkey said Thursday it had made gains against the militant Islamic State on the ninth day of an offensive in neighbouring Syria to clear the border area of IS fighters and a Kurdish......
KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday ignored former captain Shahid Afridi from the 13-member squad for a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) against England at Old Trafford,......
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Farooq Sattar announced that MQM has made the "required" amendments in its constitution to formally dissociate from Altaf Hussain and removed his name as the......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday stayed the execution of two convicted terrorists and suspended the death sentence awarded by a military court.The military court convicted......
GILGIT: Army Chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday warned India’s premier and its spy agency that Pakistan knows its enemies and is fully aware of their nefarious designs.Making a special mention......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday urged the Indian government to listen to the international community and end bloodshed in India-held Kashmir (IHK).The spokesperson for the Foreign Office,......
KARACHI: The leader of Muttahida Qaumi Movement present in London, Wasay Jalil, on Thursday tweeted that the party will not accept any resolution against Altaf Hussain.Jalil brushed aside the......
LONDON: Twice as many British people support a ban on women wearing a burqa than oppose one, with a majority also in favour of outlawing the burkini, according to a poll published Thursday.Some 57......
KOLKATA: Operating conditions in the manufacturing sector of India saw “a solid improvement” during August while those in China “stagnated”, global economy tracker IHS Markit said on Monday.Based on......
England on Thursday beat Pakistan by four wickets to go 4-0 up in the five-match One-Day International (ODI) series at Headingly, Leeds.With just 12 required of the last three overs, Moeen Ali......
LAHORE: Ride-hailing service Uber is celebrating its first six months in Lahore with an announcement that it will slash fares for the provincial capital by 30 per cent in order to "boost demand",......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) should involve ex-cricketers in its administrative affairs, former captain Javed Miandad said on Thursday.“Otherwise, the Pakistan cricket team will keep......
NOTTINGHAM: Alex Hales has accepted he could be risking his England place if he pulls out of the forthcoming tour of Bangladesh.The future of the tour was called into question after an attack on a......
RAWALPINDI: Director-General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Asim Bajwa on Thursday gave an exhaustive rundown of progress made during Operation Zarb-i-Azb.Zarb-i-Azb commenced on June......
DAMBULLA: Australian skipper David Warner criticised preparation of Sri Lanka's pitches following his side's series-clinching one-day international victory against the hosts, saying his batsmen were......
GWADAR: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated several China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects in Gwadar on Thursday.He is also expected to inaugurate Rs4.7 billion Sibi-Kohlu highway......
NEW YORK: Rafael Nadal glided into the third round of the US Open on Wednesday as smoothly as the new roof over Arthur Ashe stadium slid shut for the first time during a match.Two-time champion......
WASHINGTON: White nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathisers located mostly in the United States use Twitter with "relative impunity" and often have far more followers than Islamists, a study......
The world’s most widely used app-based instant-messaging service has made a change that is about to affect its one billion users.WhatsApp, which was bought over by social media giant Facebook for......
MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia will pore over its high performance systems in a 'meaty' review following the 3-0 Test series whitewash to Sri Lanka, chief executive James Sutherland has said.Australia......
LONDON: David Luiz made a surprise return to Chelsea on Wednesday as English Premier League clubs splashed out on the final day of a record-breaking, billion-pound mid-year transfer window.In late......
ISLAMABAD: Renowned journalist, author, scholar, analyst and former bureaucrat Zahid Malik passed away here on Thursday at the age of 78.Zahid Malik was born on October 5, 1937. He was founder,......
QUETTA: Pakistan reopened its border with Afghanistan at Chaman on Thursday, 14 days after it was closed after an Afghan mob burnt a Pakistani flag and attacked the Friendship Gate.Islamabad agreed......
BERLIN: Samsung Electronics unveiled two new smartwatches on Wednesday which boast a range of digital features while also promising up to four days of battery life, seeking to outshine the Apple......
ALMOST 70 years after independence, global benchmarking indexes continue to rank many of Pakistan’s economic development indicators — including competitiveness, education and training, women’s......
THE rapid evolution of the internet has revealed avenues of learning that are challenging the traditional norms of education. Instructional content, previously restricted to the classroom, is now......
A STRING of bad data is casting a cloud over the external sector outlook precisely at the time when Pakistan prepares to exit the Fund programme. The three pillars of the external sector —......
THE report of the Committee on Fata Reforms, that has rightly been made public via the website of the Ministry of States and Frontier Regions (Safron), needs to be studied with great care because......
MARDAN: Jamaat-i-Isalmi chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that their party backs merger of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.He was talking to journalists......
PESHAWAR: PTI chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday urged his party’s government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to focus on the provision of social and economic justice to the people in the province and stay away......
GILGIT: Federal Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday said the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor would bring economic prosperity in Gilgit-Baltistan.He was speaking at the......
Islamabad: Additional District and Sessions Judge Pervaizul Qadir Memon on Wednesday granted post arrest bail to Axact Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Shoaib Sheikh and his manager operations Viqas......
Of the 14 highest mountains in the world, Mingma Gyalje Sherpa from Nepal has climbed eight peaks that stand over 8,000 metres tall.He has climbed K2 and summitedEverest five times and on August 4,......
CHAKWAL: A large amount of public money may go to waste after uplift projects worth millions of rupees in the hometown of former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh were abandoned by the Punjab......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader and MNA Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Wednesday demanded that the army should be deployed inside and outside the polling stations during by-elections in PP-7,......
UPPER DIR: The local river has changed course that poses threat to the beautiful forest in Kumrat valley but authorities seem unconcerned about the issue.During a visit to the valley, it was observed......
LAHORE: In order to boost police morale, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved a summary for upgrading low-ranking staff that will benefit approximately 180,000 personnel in the province.The......
LAHORE: The Punjab government will provide 500,000 smartphones to farmers for receiving billion rupee-worth interest-free loans a year and other agriculture services in the first phase of a five-year......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has issued a warning letter to actor Hamza Ali Abbasi for spreading rumours regarding missing children and creating a sense of insecurity in the general public through......
LAHORE: A PPP committee has completed re-organisation process in Punjab and will submit its recommendations for new provincial and district presidents to chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on his return......
SIALKOT: Three unidentified armed motorcyclists gunned down a Jamaat-i-Islami leader and his cousin and injured his another cousin over a political row in Talwaara Mughalaan locality on Wednesday......
HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Development Authority Employees Union (CBA) has announced that it will disrupt sewerage and water supply system on Thursday in the first phase of its plan for a protest......
KARACHI: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has announced that its leaders, activists and supporters will hold a march from the Jail Chowrangi to the CM House on Thursday in protest against the Sindh......
KARACHI: What is utopia but the quest for perfection, an imagined piece of land where life is devoid of troubles! This is what essentially most artists long for through their creative works. It......
KARACHI: The administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts remanded on Wednesday three leaders and around 40 activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in prison in two cases pertaining to......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to take the ongoing targeted operation to its logical conclusion by fully implementing the National Action Plan (NAP) that includes repatriation of illegal......
KARACHI: With the city’s newly-elected mayor being behind bars facing various charges in court, his deputy, Dr Arshad Vohra, began work in his place on Wednesday promising to improve things despite......
BRASILIA: Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office, the culmination of an year-long fight that paralysed Latin America’s largest nation and exposed deep rifts......
LIBREVILLE: Gabon’s president has narrowly won re-election, election officials said on Wednesday, keeping alive a family dynasty in this oil-rich Central African country that reaches back to the......
SRINAGAR: Protests against Indian rule erupted at many places in Kashmir on Wednesday after authorities lifted a curfew throughout the disputed Himalayan region for the first time in 54 days. A young......
NEW DELHI: The Indian government has revived a controversial ordinance to grab land from the heirs of owners who migrated to Pakistan, the main victim being the Raja of Mehmoodabad, whose father went......
MANILA: An activist who campaigned to restore the dignity of India’s low-caste Dalits was among six winners of Asia’s Magsaysay awards on Wednesday.The Manila-based Ramon Magsaysay Award, named after......
BEIRUT: The US air strike believed to have killed Abu Mohammad al-Adnani has deprived the militant Islamic State group of the architect of its attacks on the West, as it faces the loss of swathes of......
MOSCOW: As in life, so in death: Islam Karimov’s regime was one of the world’s most secretive and opaque for a quarter of a century, and now his apparent demise is equally shrouded in......
MADRID: Spain’s Tomatina festival, dubbed “the world’s biggest food fight”, has given the small town of Bunol a huge economic boost — and now other Spanish towns with quirky fiestas are seeking to......
ISLAMABAD: Federal minister for Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC) Riaz Hussain Pirzada on Wednesday expressed his concerns over the state of sporting affairs in the country, particularly the......
DAMBULLA: John Hastings claimed six wickets before Aaron Finch and George Bailey’s attacking half-centuries powered Australia to a series clinching six-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the fourth One-day......
LAHORE: The Pakistan cricket team management is discussing going with a different set of bowlers for the fourth ODI after losing first three matches of the five-match series, an official of the......
NOTTINGHAM: A dejected Azhar Ali had little to smile about, and conceded Pakistan did not help themselves with a shoddy performance in the field as England amassed a world 444-3 in the third One-day......
MONTEVIDEO: Injury-hit Argentina resume their bid for a berth at the 2018 World Cup on Thursday as Brazil head into the latest round of South American qualifiers hoping to build on their Olympic gold......
NEW YORK: Wimbledon champions Andy Murray and Serena Williams powered into the second round of the US Open as the stars came out on Arthur Ashe Stadium court on Tuesday night.World number one Serena......
LONDON: Bank regulators are better prepared to cope with the potential failure of a major bank but more work needs to be done on the finer detail of legal agreements covering bank resolution and......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank signed on Wednesday four loan agreements worth $650 million with Pakistan to support projects in areas of education, health, water and disaster mitigation in all the four......
WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on Wednesday criticized a European ruling that Apple owes more than $14.5 billion in back taxes.But he said the decision may spur Congress to finally......
LONDON: Gold slid to a two-month low on Wednesday after forecast-beating US jobs data stoked speculation that the Federal Reserve would move ahead with plans to raise interest rates, propelling the......
KARACHI: Pakistanis are projected to spend Rs150 billion this Eidul Azha, sacrificing an estimated 2.5 million cows, bulls and buffaloes — with each animal having an average price tag of Rs60,000.The......
KARACHI: The Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) has urged the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to extend the deadline for filing tax returns to Sept 30 as taxpayers are facing difficulties due to......
NEW YORK: SWIFT, the global financial messaging system, on Tuesday disclosed new hacking attacks on its member banks as it pressured them to comply with security procedures instituted after......
KARACHI: DG Khan Cement’s (DGKC) after-tax profit rose 15 per cent to Rs8.79 billion for the year ended June 30, 2016 against Rs7.65bn a year ago.Earnings per share for the latest year worked out at......
KARACHI: The results of the auction of treasury bills on Wednesday reflected the government preference to lean on the central bank more for borrowing needs instead of scheduled banks.The government......
ISLAMABAD: Consumers are buying low-quality meat at high prices, primarily due to lack of regulatory mechanism in this field, the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) said on Wednesday as it......
KARACHI: The stock market went into further correction on Wednesday as Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) benchmark 100-share index stayed down and eventually closed lower by 182 points, or 0.46 per......
QUETTA: Pakistan has agreed to reopen its border with Afghanistan at Chaman from Thursday after Kabul strongly condemned the burning of the Pakistani flag at the Friendship Gate.At the fifth round of......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Navy has inducted its third state-of-the-art Regional Air Transport (ATR) aircraft and Scan Eagle Unmanned Aerial System into its fleet to augment effectiveness and enhance its......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lost to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in by-elections in the National Assembly constituency NA-63 (Jhelum-II) and the Punjab Assembly’s PPP-232......
KARACHI: Thousands of Pakistani labourers working in Saudi Arabia fear arrest and hardship as they continue to work in the country with unpaid salaries and expired work permits.“We rush back to our......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department has said that the Haqqani network and other terrorist groups that operate inside Pakistan and along the Afghan border are a continued security threat to the entire......
ISLAMABAD: With the Pakistani DTH (direct-to-home) service set to be introduced in the coming months, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) announced on Wednesday that it would......
ISLAMABAD: A day after the interior ministry sent a reference against the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)’s beleaguered founder Altaf Hussain to the United Kingdom authorities seeking action against......
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet has decided to adhere to the past practice and authorised the prime minister to continue to be the final decision-making authority on changes to the prices and taxes on......
NEW DELHI: A Faustian bargain in which Indian communists took land from poor peasants for Tata company to make cars, a move that set off the Left Front’s rout in West Bengal, was reversed on......
ISLAMABAD: After months of bickering and failure to agree on the terms of reference (ToR) for an inquiry commission to investigate the Panama Papers scandal, both government and opposition parties......
KARACHI: Expressing resentment over the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) sparing the big fish, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the NAB director general and prosecutor general Sindh to come......
KARACHI: A Joint Investigation Team (JIT) has been formed to question Muttahida Qaumi Movement's jailed Karachi mayor Waseem Akhtar.In a notification released on Wednesday, a copy of which is......
BRASLIA: Brazil's Dilma Rousseff was stripped of the country's presidency Wednesday in a Senate impeachment vote ending 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America's biggest economy.Rousseff, 68, was......
