RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's top cleric said Iranians are “not Muslims”, after Iran's supreme leader launched a fresh tirade over the kingdom's handling of the Haj pilgrimage, a newspaper reported on......
PALLEKELE: Opener Glenn Maxwell's blistering century in Australia's world record 263 powered the visitors to a comprehensive 85-run win over Sri Lanka in the first Twenty20 international in Pallekele......
KARACHI/LONDON: Former T20 captain Shahid Afridi on Tuesday wished Sarfraz Ahmed luck to lead the national side prior to the only T20 match against England.“My prayers are with Sarfraz,” said Afridi,......
KARACHI: With Pakistan just two days away from observing Defence Day and marking the 50th anniversary of the 1965 war, historian and political economist Dr S. Akbar Zaidi dispelled ‘the victory......
RAWALPINDI: Army Chief General Raheel Sharif on Tuesday reiterated the military's resolve to not let the "sacrifices of martyrs go to waste" and asserted that "the defence of Pakistan is......
WASHINGTON: The race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump for the White House has tightened with two months to go before Election Day, as a series of new polls Tuesday shows them essentially in a......
Their tenures are quarter of a century apart, yet their prognosis of what ails Pakistan is the same.Marc-André Franche, who until last month was the chief of the UNDP in Pakistan, and Hans Von......
LONDON: Radical cleric Anjem Choudary was jailed Tuesday for five-and-a-half years after being convicted of encouraging support for Islamic State (IS) jihadists.A supporter of the 49-year-old and his......
SRINAGAR: A protester died from pellet gun injuries during fresh clashes with security forces on Tuesday in India-held Kashmir, a hospital official said, a day after the government said it would......
KABUL: Militants attacked an international charity in Kabul Tuesday during an hours-long assault labelled a “war crime” by Amnesty, as the capital reeled from a wave of violence that killed at least......
QUETTA: Three policemen, including a station house officer (SHO) and a constable, were killed during an altercation near Quetta's Eastern Bypass area on Tuesday.According to initial police reports,......
NEW YORK: Serena Williams broke through another barrier on Monday, her 308th Grand Slam match win taking her past Roger Federer for the most in major tournaments and into the quarter-finals of the US......
Pakistan’s teenage Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday called on the United Nations (UN), the international community and Pakistan and India to work together to halt "the inhumanity and......
LONDON: Former England captain Kevin Pietersen has told current limited-overs skipper Eoin Morgan he will be putting his international future in jeopardy if he opts out of the upcoming tour of......
NEW YORK: United States conglomerate General Electric (GE) announced Tuesday it intends to buy two European companies that specialise in 3D printing ? Arcam AB of Sweden and SLM Solutions Group of......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani troops and Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) exchanged fire across the Line of Control (LoC) on Defence Day, Inter-Services Public Relations said.ISPR said Indian troops......
CARDIFF: Wales manager Chris Coleman backed Gareth Bale to break Ian Rush's national goal-scoring record after his brace inspired the Euro 2016 semi-finalists to a 4-0 defeat of Moldova.Bale scored......
JOHANNESBURG: Three new caps were named by Cricket South Africa on Tuesday in squads to play One-Day Internationals (ODI) against Ireland and Australia.Test batsman Temba Bavuma is set to earn his......
LONDON: British Black Lives Matter protesters on Tuesday chained themselves together on the runway of London's City Airport, forcing all flights in and out of the business travel hub to be......
NEW DELHI: India's apex court has made it clear that sedition or defamation cases cannot be slapped on anyone just for criticising the government, The Hindu reported on Tuesday.“Someone making a......
There was a deathly sound in the ward, of lungs struggling, and wheezing. Most of the patients were children, with a variety of winter respiratory diseases, including but not limited to......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand selectors kept faith with out-of form opener Martin Guptill Tuesday, naming him in a 15-man squad for a three-Test tour of India.Guptill failed with the bat in two Tests......
NEW YORK: Second seed and 2012 champion Andy Murray crushed Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 to reach a sixth US Open quarter-final Monday, clocking up a personal fast serve record in the......
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is expected to unveil a new iPhone and maybe even a second-generation smartwatch at a special event in San Francisco on Wednesday.The rumor mill has been grinding away with talk......
THE recently promulgated Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police Ordinance, 2016 (KPPO) is a landmark achievement of the KP government, its IGP Nasir Durrani and his team. It builds on Police Order, 2002 (PO......
A CONFESSION: I’m tired of hearing about women’s empowerment in Pakistan when the government is breaking all its promises made to Pakistani women on the topic of safety and security from gender-based......
AMERICANS choose their team according to the match. Today, Pakistan needs to sit it out in the pavilion for their captain’s Pacific Ocean contest with China. The new ancillary perspective is......
THE US has recently decided to cut both military and economic aid to Pakistan sharply, which is a welcome move for both countries. The US has domestic political imperatives and its foreign policy......
VIENTIANE: United States (US) President Barack Obama on Tuesday pulled out of a bilateral meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after the firebrand leader launched a tirade against him,......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday declared the federal government's controversial ban on film Maalik illegal and cleared it to be screened again.The federal government had put a ban on Maalik......
Bombay (now Mumbai), my native city, had always charmed me because of its cosmopolitanism and also because I have had a number of friends and relatives there.In 1965, a year after I had appeared for......
Retired Air Commodore Imtiaz Bhatti, a recipient of the Sitara-i-Jurat, Sitara-i-Imtiaz and Sitara-i-Basalat, is a decorated Pakistan Air Force (PAF) officer who served with distinction in the 1965......
PESHAWAR: The transgender community on Monday moved the Peshawar High Court against the government for not creating a column in the national census form and computerised national identity card for......
PESHAWAR: Scores of Pakistani women, married to Afghan nationals, have appealed to authorities to award nationality of Pakistan to their spouses.The women belonging to different localities of......
KHAR: The prices of sacrificial animals have witnessed a significant decrease in Bajaur Agency following the local administration’s ban on movement of livestock out of the tribal agency.It was......
RAWALPINDI/ ISLAMABAD: Security measures were enhanced around the Rawalpindi Railway Station after the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) informed railway authorities that a terror group had......
ISLAMABAD: Even as app-based transport services such as Uber changing the face of public transport around the world, a group of fresh graduates from federal capital is offering commuters a novel way......
ISLAMABAD: The National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage, Lok Virsa on Monday launched the second phase of its popular series ‘Craft of the Month’ with the first programme being Truck Art:......
CHAKWAL: Due to the shortage of funds and lethargy by the departments concerned, the pace of work on two road projects worth Rs17 billion is yet to see any considerable progress.In the fiscal year......
ISLAMABAD: National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) has set a target of educating 57 million people, including 24 million out- of-school children, said the NCHD chairperson, Razina Alam......
LAHORE: Sindh hopes that the 9th National Finance Commission Award (NFC) will be finalised by the year end as agreed upon by Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in a meeting with provincial finance......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Another blind Indus dolphin has been found dead near Ghazi Ghat bridge.It is the second incident of alleged killing of Indus dolphin near Ghazi Ghat bridge within the current year.......
LAHORE: The government has been misleading everyone consistently on all components of the Orange Line train project: cost, number of affectees, their economic and social plight and compensation.Civil......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Railways will operate eight special trains to facilitate people on Eidul Azha.Two Eid trains from Karachi and one each from Quetta, Peshawar, Rawalpindi and Lahore will be......
LAHORE: The thesis display of Naqsh School of Arts at Alhamra Art Gallery, The Mall, is quite reflective of what is happening around us and what sort of changes society is going through.The theses of......
KARACHI: Banners inscribed with a threatening slogan against “traitor” to Altaf Hussain were put up outside the highly-guarded Sindh High Court building on Monday, causing a stir in political circles......
KARACHI: Hurdles being put by accountability institutions siding with the oppressors in the way of justice and a peaceful change will only presage a bloody revolution, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief......
KARACHI: After much delay and while still withholding 95 results, the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced the results of Higher Secondary Certificate Part-II science pre-medical,......
KARACHI: The most important step towards preventing obstetric fistula is to increase access to education; it will bring awareness about the care needed by prospective mothers, the risks pregnancy......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Post will issue on Tuesday a commemorative postage stamp of Rs8 denomination on ‘Centenary of the D.G.T.R. House (old Custom House) building’, says a press release.Designed by......
KARACHI: The Karachi District Council (KDC) unanimously adopted a resolution condemning Altaf Hussain for uttering words against Pakistan and demanded that stern action against all traitors be......
KARACHI: The Sindh United Party has appealed to the Urdu-speaking people to establish their natural link with the province and the country they live in instead of paying heed to the vested interests......
KARACHI: An Indus river dolphin that got entangled in a fishing net in Dadu canal was rescued and released into upstream Sukkur barrage by a team of the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan and......
SZIGETVR: The recent discovery of the tomb of Suleiman the Magnificent, considered the greatest Ottoman ruler, has raised hopes of a tourism boom in one of Hungary’s most impoverished areas.From......
HANGZHOU: Leaders from the world’s top economies broadly agreed at a summit in China on Monday to coordinate macroeconomic policies, but few concrete proposals emerged to meet growing challenges to......
ADEN: At least 26 fighters were killed in clashes on Monday between pro-government troops and rebels over control of an oil-rich region east of the Yemeni capital, military sources......
CALAIS: French farmers and truckers launched a joint operation on Monday to block off main routes in and out of Calais to call for the closure of the sprawling “Jungle” migrant camp there.Around 70......
SINGAPORE: The number of cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Singapore reached 258 on Monday, with health authorities warning it is no longer contained in one part of the city-state and likely......
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union suffered an embarrassing drubbing in her own constituency on Sunday, with voters in local parliamentary elections kicking the party into......
NEW YORK: Lucas Pouille outlasted 14-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal in a five-set classic on Sunday to lead a trio of French men into the quarter-finals of the US Open.Pouille, 22 and ranked......
KARACHI: Ibrahim Iltifat outplayed Fahad Khan 6-4, 6-1 to win the mens singles title while Hania Naved beat Eraj Batool to lift ladies singles crown in the 4th Indus Pharma Open national ranking......
PALLEKELE: Retiring ‘Dilscoop’ inventor Tillakaratne Dilshan has a last chance to showcase the audacious shot that bears his name when Sri Lanka play Australia in two Twenty20 Internationals this......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s number one tennis player Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi said on Monday he has pulled out of a Davis Cup tie in New Zealand later this week “to take a stand”.The 2010 US Open Doubles......
LAHORE: The final examination of the medical tests Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Shaharyar Khan underwent recently will be conducted by his doctor in London on Wednesday.Shaharyar underwent a......
LONDON: Germany have made a flying start to their mission to become the first country in more than 50 years to defend the World Cup title.With an emphatic win in Norway, the Germans got July’s......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade with Afghanistan and Iran has come to a standstill as a large number of containers pile up at the border stations in Balochistan for want of import form......
KARACHI: Sales of deep freezers and refrigerators have surged sharply ahead of Eidul Azha, with a large number of buyers lifting these appliances for storing sacrificial meat in bulk......
KARACHI: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar announced on Monday a road map for the promotion of Islamic financing.Addressing the World Islamic Finance Forum (WIFF), organised by the Institute of Business......
DUBAI: Bahrain-based Al Baraka Banking Group, one of the Gulf’s top Islamic banks, said its Pakistani unit would merge with Burj Bank to create an institution with assets totalling more than $1.1......
LONDON: Oil rallied by up to five per cent on Monday as top global producers Russia and Saudi Arabia vowed to stabilise the market after meeting at the G20 in China.Saudi Energy Minister Khaled......
KARACHI: Stocks fell for the fifth day on Monday with the Pakistan Stock Exchange’s benchmark KSE-100 index closing down by 187 points, or 0.47 per cent, at 39,278.The index has lost 745 points in......
HANGZHOU: Leaders of BRICS countries on Sunday urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reassign quota and voting rights to ensure that the Funds fairly reflects the status of emerging markets......
KARACHI: Cotton prices continued fall for the second consecutive week under the influence of global trend and some domestic factors.Floor brokers said that revised estimates of higher cotton......
HAMBURG: Pakistani importers have recently purchased about 66,000 tonnes of soybeans to be sourced from the US Gulf, European traders said on Monday.The soybeans are for shipment between November and......
LONDON: Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May sought to drum up trade deals on Monday for a post-Brexit world, as she came under increasing pressure from all sides to define what that would look......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is developing its maritime doctrine in response to ‘disturbing developments’ in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) to protect its maritime interests and respond to conventional and......
KARACHI: When Pakistan arrested Kulbhushan Jadhav on charges of being an Indian spy, India immediately said he was an Indian national and asked for consular access to him, but it was not given, the......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) challenged in the Supreme Court on Monday its registrar’s decision of returning the party’s petition and terming it ‘frivolous’. The party had moved the......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate’s Special Committee on Performance of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was told on Monday that the national flag carrier had missed its revenue target by 21 per cent......
KARACHI: PeaceNiche/The Second Floor (T2F) has been selected for this year’s Prince Claus award.The award will be presented by HRH Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands on Dec 15. The 2016 Principal......
LAHORE: Attorney General for Pakistan Ashtar Ausaf said on Monday that flaws in the existing antiterrorism laws would be removed for effective enforcement of the National Action Plan (NAP).The AGP......
ISLAMABAD: Special Representative of the UK to Afghanistan and Pakistan Owen Jenkins called on Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif at the General Headquarters here on Monday.Matters of regional......
They look like two mounds of dirt, placed side-by-side, unremarkable and bleak.Other than a “1” and a “2” written in black ink on small white signs, there are no markings: no names, no dates and no......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan remains critical to US counterterrorism efforts, nuclear nonproliferation, regional stability, the peace process in Afghanistan, and regional economic integration and......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the National Assembly launched an all-out attack against Speaker Ayaz Sadiq over what they termed his “blatant partisanship” in handling the references seeking the......
KABUL: At least 24 people were killed and 91 wounded on Monday in a Taliban double suicide bombing in central Kabul during late afternoon rush hour, the latest assault in the Afghan capital.The......
ISLAMABAD: Senators sitting on the treasury and opposition benches on Monday linked the last month’s terrorist attack on a Quetta hospital to “failure of intelligence agencies” and called for a......
Opening batsman Kraigg Brathwaite has been called up to West Indies' ODI side for their upcoming series against Pakistan in the UAE.Brathwaite has played 31 Tests since his international debut in......
