A Hindu man shot dead in Karachi
KARACHI: A 25 year-old Hindu man was shot dead by unknown armed men in the Lyari area of metropolis on late Sunday evening."The man was shot at and wounded in the Marwari area near Lyari General......
KARACHI: A 25 year-old Hindu man was shot dead by unknown armed men in the Lyari area of metropolis on late Sunday evening."The man was shot at and wounded in the Marwari area near Lyari General......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) Jahangir Tareen on Sunday said the party will not be going to Raiwind for vandalism or riots, rather the purpose is to protest in front of the premier’s......
PESHAWAR: Three security personnel were killed in two separate incidents on Sunday in Peshawar and Mohmand agency.In the first incident, a police official was killed when a police van was attacked.......
ANKARA: Ankara stepped up its fight against militants in Turkey and northern Syria with air strikes on Kurdish rebel positions in the restive southeast and IS extremists in northern Syria, security......
HANGZHOU: Leaders of the world's biggest powers met Sunday to try to revive the sluggish world economy, with their host Chinese President Xi Jinping urging them to avoid “empty talk”.Xi welcomed each......
SRINAGAR: Police say around 100 people have been injured as Indian government forces fired tear gas and shotgun pellets to quell thousands of protesters who pelted rocks and burned a government......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is "deeply saddened" over Bangladesh's execution of wealthy tycoon and top Jamaat-e-Islami financier Mir Quasem Ali for "alleged crimes committed before December 1971 through a......
SINGAPORE: The problems that sank South Korea's Hanjin Shipping this week could be just the tip of the iceberg, analysts say, with the long-running global economic downturn having left the industry......
CARDIFF: Pakistan beat England by four wickets to secure a consolation victory in the fifth and final one-day international in Cardiff on Sunday.England still won the series 4-1 but Pakistan's......
HANGZHOU: The United States is committed to bringing the perpetrators of the attempted coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to justice, President Barack Obama said Sunday.Ankara......
NEW DELHI: The former women's minister of the Indian capital, who was sacked over a “sex tape”, has now been arrested following a claim by a woman shown in the tape that he raped her, an investigator......
VATICAN CITY: Mother Teresa, the nun whose work with the dying and destitute of Kolkata made her a global icon of Christian charity, was made a saint on Sunday.Her elevation to Roman Catholicism's......
ISLAMABAD: A First Information Report (FIR) was registered against five Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials for suspected involvement in human trafficking on Saturday.The FIA Anti-Human......
WASHINGTON: US forces have hit the militant Islamic State (IS) group targets along Syria's border with Turkey using a “newly deployed” mobile rocket system, American officials said Saturday.A US Army......
KANDAHAR: At least 35 people were killed Sunday when a passenger bus collided with a fuel tanker and burst into flames in southern Afghanistan, in the latest road accident in the war-torn......
The general perception that the army is involved in most internal and regional matters is not misplaced in Pakistan. If the dominant narrative of a security-oriented state is to be understood in this......
“If New Delhi continues to turn to Washington, Moscow may get closer to China, and Pakistan.” — Christophe JaffrelotWith interest in the political economy of South-Asia, French political scientist,......
What a summer to reread Fanon and to devour for the first time David Macey’s Frantz Fanon: A Life! The world appears to be descending into what Fanon in 1952 called “Manichean delirium”. Repeated......
In spite of the fact that Persian had been our literary, official, religious and cultural language for centuries, the status and importance of this language in the subcontinent in the days gone by......
Article 26 (1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNO, 1948: 5) states that ‘Education shall be free at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. ... Technical and professional......
There’s no denying that most readers are obsessed with fairy tales. Whether it’s because they represent a simpler world of black and white morality that is easier to comprehend or they offer the......
Cases of kidnapping and disappearance of children have been widely discussed over the past few weeks often based on fictitious evidence. Many concerned parents and guardians shared tips on what to do......
If you are stressed at work or you generally have an achy back due to bad posture, here is a yoga posture for you to do. Known as the cobra pose or the bhujangasana, this energising backbend......
Dear Auntie Agni, I am a student and have recently passed my Intermediate. I am in love with a girl. She was my classmate two years ago. This love is one-sided. A few days ago I expressed my feelings......
Severe water shortages over the last few months will, it is hoped, have encouraged at least some lawn lovers to give serious consideration to the sensibility of retaining what are, to put it bluntly,......
The series ‘Look at the city from here’ on the 10th anniversary of the Gandhara Art-Space concludes with Farida Batool’s solo show ‘By the high wall and the closed gates’. Following the same pattern......
An exhibition of watercolour paintings shown at the Artscene gallery marked the finale of the ‘1st Travelling International Watercolour Biennale’ that began at the Centre of Excellence in Art and......
Claude Monet, a French artist, was a major player in the Impressionist movement that changed French art in the late 19th century. All the way through his illustrious career, he constantly depicted......
If there was ever a time that this Australian would want to visit Pakistan, it would be now.Forget the imposing mountain passes, the gracious ancient markets, or the traditional tribal villages.......
Iman Ali is a good-looking gal with oodles of talent. Over the years she’s done a couple of meaty roles in Pakistani films. Since she’s very selective in choosing projects to act in, you would expect......
Love is a strange, strange thing. It can make people do things against their grain. The latest victim of the love bug is none other than the songstress with a devil-may-care attitude, Miley Cyrus.......
Spare a thought for the svelte and saucy Nargis Fakhri. Everyone thought that she flew out of India in haste just when her film Housefull 3 was about to release because her relationship with Uday......
It was an auditory delight listening to rock star Ali Azmat and the young singer with powerful vocal chops Umair Jaswal in a competition of sorts – call it a sing-off – at The Red Bull SoundClash on......
They ask, what’s in a name? Trust me, a lot. And if you don’t believe me, ask the dimpled doll Deepika Padukone. The actress has recently featured among the Forbes Top 10 highest paid actresses of......
West Indian all-rounder Dwayne Bravo endeared himself to the entire world last year by singing the song Champions in his quirky Caribbean style. It made him, apart from being a popular cricketer, an......
Good news for all you Shahid Kapoor fans. The actor on Aug 26 became the father of a baby girl. He and his wife Mira were super-excited about the arrival of their first child into this world, as they......
Lollywood film actresses of the ’90s and their grouse about contemporary Pakistani films not having a ‘story’ is getting a bit too much.First it was Resham who cribbed that nowadays the films being......
The arrival of James Dean and Marlon Brando in the 1950s in films such as Rebel Without a Cause and The Wild One heralded a new kind of cinematic idol. He was the ‘angry young man’ a brooding type......
Deep inside the dense Himalayan forests of Ayubia National Park, which is located at just a two-hour scenic drive from Islamabad, stands a special tree species called the Taxus wallichiana. This is......
The US administration had kept a vigilant eye on political developments in Pakistan for quite some time but the country’s attempts to acquire nuclear capability were on the top of the US......
Everyone’s interested in Reham Khan’s business, which might be why the former TV host has tread carefully these past few months. The result? Reham’s regular presence on billboards promoting her talk......
In 1959, starring Charlton Heston and directed by William Wyler, the historical epic drama Ben-Hur was nothing short of a phenomenon. It had a massive budget for its time, unheard of back then. In......
It’s official: superstar Hirthik Roshan’s Mohenjo Daro has flopped in the domestic market! With a whopping alleged budget of Rs1 billion out of which Rs160 million was spent on production, it has......
On a warm March afternoon outside Umerkot Press Club, one could hear the faint sound of Sindhi music getting louder as a navy blue truck, loaded with two huge speakers, four large megaphones and blue......
Once the most ubiquitous part of Karachi’s heritage, Irani ‘hotels’ are fast disappearing from the urban landscape...by Asif NooraniSometime in the 1920s, Rustom Aspandiar Bahmani, a Zoroastrian,......
PESHAWAR: The Fata Disaster Management Authority (FDMA) has sought 25,000 tents from the federal government for the returning internally displaced vulnerable families of Fata, who require immediate......
The tripartite alliance of Awami National Party, Pakistan Peoples Party and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has failed to survive and vanished even before the next general......
Family members and neighbours began to wail as the body of a woman, who died of childbirth complications, reached her house in Ismail Bandi village of Shergar union council in Oghi tehsil.“The......
As the Federally Administered Tribal Areas don’t have proper slaughterhouses, there are fears that the local residents may be consuming meat, which is injurious to their health.Fata is divided into......
RAWALPINDI: Fearing a repeat of what happened when supporters of Mumtaz Qadri overran the twin cities earlier this year, the administrations of the twin cities took stringent measures to ensure that......
ISLAMABAD: Ajoon Khan Advocate, the father of a student who was killed in the Army Public School (APS) Peshawar attack, is again planning to visit Islamabad along with other parents seeking justice......
94th Turkish Victory Day celebratedTurkish Ambassador Sadik Babür Girgin hosted a reception at the Serena Hotel to mark the 94th anniversary of Turkish Victory Day. Among the guests were military and......
GUJRAT: Jhelum Sadar police have booked 14 workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), including a woman, in the case of killing a dog at an outhouse.Fawad Chaudhry, who was the PTI’s candidate in......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) supporters know how to put up a massive political show in the Lahore city.For that reason, thousands of workers and supporters turned out on roads on Saturday......
LAHORE: Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid has alleged Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan wants dictatorship in the country to grab power through backdoor.“Imran Khan hates democracy. He......
GUJRAT: The British national of Pakistani origin, Samia Shahid, who became the victim of honour killing, was raped by her former husband before being killed.The forensic report of the sample of her......
His first exposure to the art of Western masters was through old books which he would love collecting from shops and footpaths on Sunday. He was doing foundation course at the National College of......
MULTAN: Former prime minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has said ex-chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry disqualified him unconstitutionally.Addressing a lawyers’ convention organised by the People’s Lawyer......
LAYYAH: Continuous erosion of the river Indus has spread to thousands of acres of land and displaced a large number of families.The river erosion has been going on for the last six years and......
In a world where superheroes are famously identified as fictional characters with supernatural powers in red capes, spider suits and bat masks among others, comic series ‘Zindan: The Last Ansaars’......
KARACHI: The city’s skyline has something blue other than the sky. It is those blue fibreglass water tanks on every other rooftop or terrace.Water is one of the biggest problem faced by Karachiites......
TILL the 1970s, Karachi was famous for its coffeehouses, its libraries and its bookshops — both new and old. While new bookstores kept popping up over the years, the number of old ones has lessened......
KARACHI: With a message of planting more trees and taking responsibility for one’s environment, Horticulture Society of Pakistan organised a talk on Karachi’s waste management problems and solutions......
ANKARA: Turkey on Saturday sent more tanks into the northern Syrian village of al-Rai to fight extremists of the militant Islamic State group, opening a new front after its intervention last month......
DHAKA: Bangladesh hanged a wealthy tycoon and top financial backer of its largest Islamist party late on Saturday for war crimes, dealing a massive blow to the group’s ambitions in the......
BEIJING: The world’s longest glass bridge, over a scenic canyon in China, has been closed less than two weeks after it opened after being overwhelmed by a swarm of visitors. More than 10,000 visitors......
ALMATY: Islam Karimov, president of Uzbekistan for the past quarter of a century, was buried in his home city of Samarkand on Saturday, leaving behind a power vacuum in a nation that serves as a......
NEW DELHI: Several political parties said on Saturday they want the government to hold talks with all stakeholders in Jammu and Kashmir, including the pro-Azadi Hurriyat Conference, to calm the......
HANGZHOU: The United States and China on Saturday formally joined the Paris climate change agreement, with President Barack Obama hailing the accord as the “moment we finally decided to save our......
ROME: A golden retriever called Romeo has been pulled from the rubble of Italy’s earthquake, more than nine days after he was given up for dead after the collapse of his owners’ house.Touching......
AFTER more than six weeks of on-again, off-again talks, American and Russian negotiators remain huddled in Geneva, trying to hammer out an agreement on a ceasefire in Syria, and potentially, on......
LONDON: A giant replica of 17th-century London will be set ablaze in the city this weekend to mark the 350th anniversary of the devastating Great Fire of London.The 1666 inferno destroyed most of the......
THOUGH it is the ridiculous burkini scandal that has caught the attention of the foreign media, a much more violent controversy over a murder is currently at the centre of a public debate here in......
KINGSTOWN: Borussia Dortmund teenager Christian Pulisic scored twice as the United States thrashed Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 6-0 on Friday to edge closer to a place in the final round of......
SILVERSTONE: British rider Cal Crutchlow followed up his Czech Grand Prix victory with pole position in a wet qualifying for his home MotoGP race at Silverstone on Saturday.The first Briton in 35......
MONZA: Lewis Hamilton took the all-important pole position for the Italian Grand Prix on Saturday, beating Mercedes team mate and title rival Nico Rosberg’s time by nearly half a second in a......
NEW YORK: Novak Djokovic reached the US Open last 16 in just 32 minutes on Friday when Mikhail Youzhny retired injured before fellow two-time winner Rafael Nadal also made the fourth round for the......
KARACHI: Defending champions Wapda and last edition runners-up Higher Education Commission (HEC) set a repeat final while registering straight victories over their respective opponents in the two......
CARDIFF: Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Irfan has been ruled out of the remainder of the tour of England, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced on Saturday.The giant 7ft 1in (2.1 metres) Irfan, who was......
PALLEKELE: Having endured a whitewash in the Test series against Sri Lanka, Australia will look to make amends as they gear up for the fifth and final One-day International in Pallekele on......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Cricket Board, in a historic move on Saturday, launched a girls under-17 cricket academy here for the first time under the aegis of PCB Women’s Wing at the premises of Frontier......
KARACHI: Ahmed Shehzad broke down and decided to return home to Lahore from the ongoing National T20 Cup after learning that he was not in the Pakistan squad announced for the lone T20 match against......
AS Detroit car makers and Silicon Valley tech giants vie to bring driverless cars to US roads, one of the world’s largest tractor makers is looking to do the same down on the farm.Case IH, the......
MADRID: Spain has nominated as its World Bank representative a former industry minister who resigned following allegations of links to offshore dealings which emerged after he was named in the Panama......
WASHINGTON: Technology, media, pharmaceutical and other companies, along with major corporate lobbying groups, filed legal briefs on Friday in support of a Microsoft Corp lawsuit that aims to......
LONDON: Prime Minister Theresa May wants Britain to be a “global leader in free trade” after Brexit, she said Saturday, hailing a “golden era” in ties with China before travelling to a G20 summit.The......
KARACHI: Saudi Arabian companies are offering free work visa to attract Pakistani workers, reflecting a slump in the kingdom’s economy.Meanwhile, local recruiting agents say Pakistanis — mostly......
PESHAWAR: Chinese investors have expressed their interest in business prospects related to trade, steel structure, infrastructure, industrial park and establishment of training institutes in......
KARACHI: The outgoing week remained a cliffhanger for the Pakistan stock market, which came off its high-water mark of 40,000 points.Due to widespread profit-taking in the heavyweight banking,......
ISLAMABAD: The government has given tax neutrality to Islamic bonds (sukuk) by allowing certain tax exemptions that were earlier available only to conventional securitisation issues.The move brings......
TORONTO: Markets reacted positively to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks on an output freeze deal with the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Companies (Opec) and the US labour market......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Business Council (PBC) has asked the finance minister to devise an adjustment mechanism on the sales tax paid in the provinces to be adjusted against the output tax payable to......
HANGZHOU: The world’s central banks are “pretty close” to the limits of their ability to stimulate economies, Angel Gurria, head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),......
KARACHI: Cotton prices continued to fall on Saturday in line with global trend where most of the leading markets closed with fresh losses amid conflicting reports about the production and consumption......
BRUSSELS: Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on Saturday became the latest European politician to voice doubts over the possibility of the EU agreeing a major new trade deal with the United......
ISLAMABAD: The Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) challenged before the Supreme Court on Saturday the act of its registrar to return the party’s petition demanding an inquiry into the Panama Papers leaks......
ISLAMABAD: Possibly after failing to achieve targets, the Chief Executive Officer of the Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project, retired Lt Gen Mohammad Zubair, has resigned.He had been under pressure......
RAWALPINDI: In a late-night address to a rally in the garrison city, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri reminded Gen Raheel Sharif of his promise of securing justice for the victims......
ISLAMABAD: The last-minute change of heart by a member turned a thin majority group of the 22-member Pakistan Bar Council — a supervisory body of lawyers — into a minority on Saturday.Consequently......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has warned that political parties failing to submit their statements of accounts would not be allowed to contest any by-polls.In a notice sent to......
RANJINI, 46, is a one-time Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam commander and a widow. She lives in rural Kilinochchi, once a stronghold of the LTTE, with her 10-year-old daughter and runs a poultry......
LAHORE: The rescheduling of delivery of high efficiency gas turbines by the American electric equipment giant, General Electric (GE), for the two federally-funded Re-gasified LNG-fired combined cycle......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Saturday lambasted the heads of four key state organisations for ‘failing’ to fulfil their duties by allowing the corrupt and the dishonest to......
A badly potholed portion of road separates the Warsak garrison from Christian Colony. A few vehicles are parked at a large open space in front of the colony, belonging to people visiting it to offer......
MUSTAFA is 19 years old, recently ‘released’ from a set-up in the suburbs of Islamabad where he was kept for three months at significant expense. His father cried as he described that, following his......
THINK of it as one of those frothy desserts or fluffy cakes so beloved of Pakistanis. There’s a lot happening on top, a semi-stable middle and then the real meat at the bottom. All held together very......
THE China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is part of the ‘One Road, One Belt’ vision expounded by President Xi Jinping to establish close land and maritime links between 60-plus countries across Asia and......
HANGZHOU: Setting aside their cyber and maritime disputes, United States (US) President Barack Obama and China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday sealed their nations' participation in last year's......