NEW YORK: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Pakistan had served as a generous host to millions of Afghan refugees for the past four decades — the largest protracted refugee situation in the......
DAMASCUS: Syria's armed forces said on Monday that a week-long ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia was over, blaming rebels for the failure of the truce.US Secretary of State John......
QUETTA: The Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief and veteran Pashtoon nationalist leader, Mahmood Khan Achakzai, termed supremacy of parliament and equal rights to all nationalities as the......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday wrote to heads of state of permanent UN member countries (P5), urging them to call on the Indian government to immediately cease bloodshed in......
LAHORE: Pakistan on Monday announced Azhar Ali will lead the one-day team in their forthcoming series against the West Indies, despite calls for his removal following a 4-1 ODI defeat against England......
RAWALPINDI: Taking notice of a "hostile narrative being propagated by India", Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Raheel Sharif during a corps commander’s conference on Monday said the Pakistan Army is......
ISLAMABAD: Human Rights Watch urged Pakistan on Monday to halt the imminent hanging of a prisoner declared insane by government doctors, saying the execution would violate its international legal......
BERLIN: When 15-year-old Rayouf Alhumedhi scrolled through the extensive Emoji library on her smartphone keyboard, she could not decide on one which would best represent her or others like her who......
MOSCOW: Russia's ruling United Russia party has cruised to an easy victory in parliamentary polls that could pave the way for President Vladimir Putin to glide to a fourth term in 2018 elections,......
We all play the cards we’re dealt, and some of us just have better cards than others.Imagine driving on a highway in your Civic or Corolla and getting flagged by a police officer. Parked on the side......
JERUSALEM: A Palestinian stabbed and wounded two Israeli police officers in east Jerusalem near the Old City on Monday before being shot by forces at the scene, police said.Medics said a policewoman......
WELLINGTON: All-rounder Corey Anderson has been recalled to the New Zealand cricket team for its one-day matches against India next month.Anderson hasn't played for New Zealand since February because......
SINGAPORE: New chairman Chase Carey said Formula One cannot continue as a “dictatorship”, as speculation grows over the role of long-term supremo Bernie Ecclestone under the sport's incoming American......
SYDNEY: Australian captain Steve Smith Monday backed fast bowler Mitchell Starc to recover from a “gruesome” leg wound and be fit for the first Test against South Africa in early November.Starc had......
KOLKATA: In April, a bunch of pre-teens from Bangalore flew across India to play a few football matches with kids their age in Kolkata, the unusualness of the event reflecting the country’s growing......
ISLAMABAD: The condition of the Islamabad zoo and its inmates is lagging behind that of Jungle World, the zoo in Rawalpindi’s Ayub Park.Jungle World is run by a team of 25 officials, and is now......
ISLAMABAD: The Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) has decided to outsource the garbage collection system and expand it to all the 50 union councils of the capital.Currently, the MCI has engaged......
RAWALPINDI: With most people taking to cooking and barbequing meat themselves and making a family affair out of it during Eidul Azha, most restaurants across the city remain closed for business......
KARACHI: A newborn baby was kidnapped in the gynaecological ward of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) by a burqa-clad woman, police said on Sunday.The Nazimabad police said that Noor Begum, a......
KARACHI: A somewhat ‘forget and forgive’ statement given by jailed Karachi mayor Waseem Akhtar following his court appearance on Saturday was apparently not taken well by the Sindh Rangers as the......
KARACHI: Dozens of freshwater turtles were found dead on Saturday along a lake in Sukkur where they were released a week ago, it emerged on Sunday.According to sources, scores of turtle remains were......
BADIN: A group of villagers and local history buffs discovered the ruins of what seems to be an ancient settlement and named it the “mound of Nidhori” near Tarai town at a distance of about 31......
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Senator Nehal Hashmi on Friday criticised Pakistan Awami Tehreek chief Allama Tahirul Qadri and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan......
FESTSCHRIFT is a German word borrowed by English. It means “celebratory writing”. A festschrift is, says Concise Oxford English Dictionary, “a collection of writings published in honour of a......
KARACHI: Mohammad Sharif, apparently in his mid-60s, is building a thatched hut on the bank of a storm-water drain flowing close to the Institute of Business Management and the Aman Foundation head......
MILAN: Arkadiusz Milik is ensuring Napoli fans quickly forget about Gonzalo Higuain.Milik came off the bench and scored twice to help Napoli beat Bologna 3-1 and move provisionally to the top of......
KARACHI: Three-year-old chestnut filly Touch N Go presented the pair of owners with maiden win when she lowered the colours of favourite filly English Vinglish in The Eid-ul-Azha Cup at the Karachi......
LONDON: Former England batsman Jonathan Trott scored an unbeaten 82 off 100 balls as Warwickshire crushed Surrey by eight wickets in the Royal London One-day Cup final at Lord’s on Saturday.Set just......
SINGAPORE: Nico Rosberg hung on for the narrowest Formula One victory for six years to win the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday, celebrating his 200th career start in perfect style as he reclaimed the......
LONDON: Misfiring Manchester United crashed to a third consecutive defeat on Sunday as manager Jose Mourinho saw his side deservedly beaten 3-1 at Watford in the Premier League.Marcus Rashford......
PARIS: After two seasons of misery in England’s Premier League, striker Radamel Falcao is proving his worth again in France.Falcao scored on his Ligue 1 return with a towering header as Monaco went......
ZADAR: Marin Cilic sent Croatia into the Davis Cup final for only the second time with a 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 victory against Richard Gasquet on Sunday that gave the hosts a 3-1 win over France.The world......
BARCELONA: Antoine Griezmann and Fernando Torres struck twice as Atletico Madrid moved into fourth in La Liga with their third win of the week in a 5-0 rout of Sporting Gijon on Saturday.Diego......
Fifteen years down the road, people still wonder if Enron Corporation, the seventh largest company in the US in 2001, which sank into a sea of financial crisis, could have been saved had the company......
In recent years, Pakistan’s equity market has outperformed its regional rivals in China and India by a big margin despite poor security conditions at home and worse-than-regional key macro-economic......
The government has decided, in principle, to approach the Supreme Court to reverse its last month ruling that made ratification by the cabinet mandatory for implementation of the Economic......
Trading activity in the local currency market was reduced to two sessions last week as the market remained closed on account of Eid holidays from Sept 12-14.Trading resumed on Sept 15, the market......
A very few small and medium enterprises seen as eligible for credit by banks are regular borrowers of lending institutions.But majority of SMEs still get little or no financing and rely either on......
Derivatives are complex financial instruments that are used by retail and institutional investors for risk management. They derive their value from the ‘underlying’ source, such as financial assets,......
The government raised Rs77.57bn from the auction of Market Treasury Bills of various tenors held last Thursday, missing its target of Rs100.0bn and also falling short of the received amount of......
PAKISTAN has become a member of a global forum on an exchange of tax information of offshore accounts and investments.The need for such an agreement was felt in the wake of revelations in the Panama......
You have some spare cash and don’t know what to do with it. Would you be willing to enter into the following transaction with me — allow me to borrow $100 from you today and I promise to return $95......
FOR the $150bn information technology sector in India, these are among the most challenging days in recent years. An industry that was used to witness record growth levels — 25-35pc annually — is now......
THE textile industry has blamed research institutions for the decline in cotton production and the consequent shrinking of sowing area by failing, in particular, to develop effective varieties of......
AS potato sowing nears in Punjab, farmers’ early hopes are positive for the crops’ production and trade.After two years of financial grilling, they hope, though still cautiously, to be compensated to......
MONSOON rains in July and August have broken the dry spell in Sindh’s hilly areas, filling 33 recharge dams (weirs) where cultivation is done through spate irrigation.Although Darawat Dam has been......
Unconstrained, enterprises curdle into monopoly, innovation into rent-seeking. Today’s swashbuckling ‘disrupters’ set up tomorrow’s cosy cartels. Capitalism works when someone enforces competition;......
ABBOTTABAD: A girl died at Ayub Teaching Hospital here on Sunday morning due to an infection, which was caused to her body after her stepmother inserted 20 sewing needles in her abdomen and arms in......
PESHAWAR: Authorities have asked the non-governmental organisations to inform the directorate of health, Fata, before starting any project for the assistance of tribal population being repatriated to......
PESHAWAR: Traffic congestion in the provincial metropolis is one of the vexing problems being felt by most of the local population and visitors coming from different districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.......
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak claimed on Sunday that the incentives announced by his government had been attracting local and foreign investors to contact the relevant departments in the......
UPPER DIR: The beautiful ‘Sadgai Lake’, surrounded by lush green mountains in picturesque Usheri Dara valley in Upper Dir, can become a great attraction for tourists if government pays attention to......
LAHORE: Immediately realising the backfire potential of the “Danda Force” policy, the Punjab government plans to “softly” handle Imran Khan’s Sept 30 rally at Raiwind, treating it as yet another......
SAHIWAL: Arain vote factor is likely to play a major role in deciding the the by-poll contest to be held in the National Assembly constituency NA-162, Chichawatni, on Monday (today).According to......
One was young when the Berlin Wall fell. In Nov 1989, as the Cold War was winding down, the iron curtain was finally demolished by frenzied crowds from both east and west Germany – a scene to......
MULTAN: Ali Haider Gilani, a son of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, said the nation would have to unite to combat terrorism.Talking to the local media at the spot from where he was abducted......
LAHORE: The Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) will showcase images of ‘sacred trees’ at Gurdwara Janam Asthan Nankana Sahib.“ETBP chairman Siddiqul Farooq has allowed me to establish a permanent......
FRJUS: French far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday vowed to give her country back control over its laws, currency and borders if elected president next year on an anti-EU,......
UNITED NATIONS: Saudi Arabia accused Iran of supplying weapons to Shia rebels in Yemen and urged the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Tehran for violating an arms embargo.Saudi Ambassador......
MOSCOW: The ruling United Russia party obtained 44.5 per cent in Russia’s parliamentary election on Sunday, an exit poll by the state-run VTsIOM pollster showed.United Russia, led by Prime Minister......
PORLAMAR (Venezuela): Venezuela’s embattled President Nicolas Maduro has warned world leaders at a Non-Aligned Summit that his country was being lashed by a US economic war aimed at toppling......
BANGKOK: At least 13 people were killed on Sunday and ten more are missing after a boat carrying Muslim pilgrims sank on Thailand’s Chao Phraya river after hitting a bridge, officials said.The......
BRATISLAVA: The “Brexit cruise” didn’t get very far. EU leaders drifted down the Danube for an hour, said little about Britain over a leisurely shipboard lunch, then circled back to Bratislava to......
KONYA: The face of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is everywhere in Konya, a central Anatolian stronghold of his Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), that has enjoyed ever greater......
PARIS: Around one in four French Muslims supports the wearing of the full-face veil, but the vast majority accept France’s strict secular laws, a study showed on Sunday.The Ifop survey carried out......
NEW YORK: An explosion rocked Manhattan’s Chelsea neighbourhood on Saturday, leaving at least 29 people injured.The blast, which seriously injured at least one person, took place on the West 23rd......
BEIRUT: Syria’s ceasefire was on the brink of collapsing on Sunday, after a US-led coalition strike killed dozens of Syrian soldiers and Aleppo city was hit by its first raids in nearly a week.The......
SRINAGAR: Gunmen hurling grenades killed 17 soldiers in a raid on an army base in India-held Kashmir on Sunday, with New Delhi blaming Pakistan-based militants for the worst such attack in the......
PESHAWAR: Three army personnel lost their lives in a gun attack in Garhi Sohbat Khan on the outskirts of the provincial capital on Sunday morning.Talking to Dawn, SP Rural Shaukat Khan said that the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has declared that his party will hold its march to Raiwind on Sept 30.Addressing a convention of party workers here on Sunday, Mr Khan......
ISLAMABAD: Plans for operationalising the Special Security Division (SSD) for China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have been held up by civil-military wrangling, multiple sources told Dawn.It is......
CHAMAN: Senior officials of the Frontier Corps Balochistan on Sunday held a meeting with notables, tribal elders and local traders in the border town of Chaman and briefed them on the border......
NEW YORK: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in New York on Sunday to attend the 71st UN General Assembly where he plans to highlight gross human rights violations in Indian-held Kashmir.Relations......
ISLAMABAD: Accusing the government of turning a blind eye to last week’s terrorist attack on a mosque in Mohmand Agency, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khurshid Ahmed Shah......
ISLAMABAD: In an effort to show that it was serious in bringing back the country’s stolen money stashed in foreign banks, the government signed the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative......
QUETTA: Parliamentary Secretary for Religious Affairs and Pakistan Muslim League-N MNA Khalil George Bhutto has alleged that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf wants to create unrest and anarchy in the country......
MIRPUR (AJK): AJK Prime Minister, Raja Farooq Haider Khan, has announced that life-saving drugs will be provided to poor patients free of cost in all the public-sector hospitals across Azad Jammu and......
KARACHI: The famous Kokan Ground in the city’s Bahadurabad area being the venue for quite an intriguing cricketing contests saw on Sunday a three-day long event namely Khelo Kricket come to an end.It......
NEW DELHI: India’s cricket board on Sunday opened the tender process for allocating broadcast rights of the cash-rich Indian Premier League in the hope of securing billions of dollars.The Board of......
KARACHI: Wasim Bari, the new Pakistan team manager, pledged on Sunday to develop camaraderie among members of the national side during the upcoming series against the West Indies in the UAE.Speaking......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan T20 captain Shahid Afridi’s dream of being accorded a graceful ‘retirement’ from international cricket during the upcoming three-match series against the West Indies has been......
A DEADLY attack against the Indian army in India-held Kashmir has left at least 17 soldiers dead and, because of the Indian authorities’ immediate accusations against Pakistan, has plunged Pak-India......
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DO PhD programmes at typical Pakistani public universities fit our circumstances? A PhD programme has two essential components: coursework involving classroom teaching, and thesis involving research.......
Many would argue that recent attempts at dispute resolution between India and Pakistan have not been particularly successful. For Pakistan, the settling of its outstanding disputes with India are......
THE Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms which was constituted on July 25, 2014 to submit its report by Oct 24, 2014, seems to have set some kind of a record by overshooting its target date......
