NEW YORK: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing the United Nations General Assembly session on Wednesday, said Pakistan wants peace with India but maintained it is "not possible without......
NEW DELHI: An Indian cabinet commitee gave its approval Wednesday to a long-delayed deal for the purchase of 36 fighter jets from France's Dassault, as the country looks to counter China's growing......
KARACHI: Former Pakistan cricket coach Waqar Younis on Wednesday said clinching the number one position in Test ranking and receiving ICC Test championship mace from International Cricket Council......
ISLAMABAD: India on Wednesday demanded from Pakistan to live up to its public commitment to refrain from supporting and sponsoring terrorism.The strongly worded demand comes after the attack on an......
LAHORE: Pakistan and India are yet to come face to face in a Test series during the current decade as the Mumbai attacks in November 2008 soured diplomatic ties between the two neighbours.The last......
KANPUR: Skipper Virat Kohli conceded Wednesday that India must bat better against spin, as the favourites prepare to take on a dangerous New Zealand in the first Test in Kanpur.Kohli pointed to......
WASHINGTON: The United States (US) Senate will vote on Wednesday on a measure to block the sale of tanks and other military equipment worth $1.15 billion to Saudi Arabia, but the measure is not......
RAWALPINDI: Dashing Australia batsman Dean Jones has tipped Pakistan's resurgence in Twenty20 cricket following the success of its new domestic league, saying fierce hitter Sharjeel Khan can revive......
NEW YORK: He bought bomb ingredients on eBay and recorded a mirthful video of himself igniting a blast in a backyard. In a handwritten journal, he warned that bombs would resound in the streets and......
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has launched a profanity-filled tirade against the European Union (EU), in his latest riposte to international criticism of the rising death toll in his......
PESHAWAR: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested suspected members of the militant Islamic State (IS) group from Peshawar's Qazi Kaley area on Wednesday, less than a month after......
MADRID: Atletico Madrid boss Diego Simeone believes Barcelona remain the benchmark, ahead of Wednesday's first blockbuster clash of the La Liga season between his Champions League finalists and the......
WASHINGTON: Two United States lawmakers moved a bill in Congress seeking designation of Pakistan as a 'state sponsor of terrorism' on Wednesday.The bill titled the Pakistan State Sponsor of Terrorism......
KARACHI: Sindh Assembly lawmakers on Wednesday unanimously accepted a resolution against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain which calls for action under treason laws against those who......
UNITED NATIONS: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged countries to “welcome the stranger in our midst” at a summit that drew pledges from 50 countries to take in 360,000 refugees.Speaking at a......
NEW YORK: Google wants to add a middleman to your mobile chats, a personal virtual assistant who's not shy about interjecting itself into the conversation.The new Allo app promises to be "smart," ?......
CAMBRIDGE: What if your computer or smartphone could tell if you're happy or sad?A new device developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology aims to detect emotions by sending......
LAS VEGAS:Finally, the computer hackers of the world have a TV show they can call their own."Mr. Robot," a mind-bending drama in which a morphine-using computer-security drone gets enmeshed in a......
LAHORE: Misbah-ul-Haq on Wednesday received the ICC Test Championship mace for inspiring Pakistan to the top of the Test team rankings.ICC Chief Executive David Richardson presented the mace to......
Karen doesn’t even have the strength to walk properly. She tells me anxiously that it feels like pins and needles in her left leg.She is hoping that I would offer some explanation about her recurrent......
PESHAWAR: Scores of employees, including women, of Workers Welfare Board on Tuesday held a protest demonstration against the government for not releasing their pending salaries and regularising their......
PESHAWAR: The Awami National Party has demanded the overhaul of the country’s ‘failed internal and external policies’ and called for the resolution of the country’s disputes with neighbours through......
PESHAWAR: Adviser to Chief Minister Mushtaq Ghani has termed PTI’s march on Raiwind a symbolic peaceful protest against the rampant corruption in the country than merely a protest in front of the......
PESHAWAR: The by-elections for 35 vacant seats of the members of district, tehsil/town, village and neighbourhood councils were held in seven districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday.In Swabi, Niaz......
ISLAMABAD: Although the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) is still counting on support from likeminded parties for their march on Raiwind, the party’s own lack of clarity on the modalities of the......
ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday directed SSP Islamabad to take PTI chairman Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri into custody and produce them before......
Q: What books are you currently reading?A: Currently, I am reading two books: Andrew Small’s ‘The China-Pakistan Axis’ and Nelson Mandela’s ‘Conversations with Myself’, which is the private story of......
ISLAMABAD: This summer’s climbing season came to a close with relatively few successful attempts, none of which took place on K2, the world’s second highest peak.According to the Alpine Club of......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has rejected the design and route of the Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) proposal for a chairlift, from the foothills of the Margallas up to Pir Sohawa......
LAHORE: Most people with dementia have yet to get a diagnosis, let alone comprehensive and continuing healthcare, said Alzheimer’s Pakistan office-bearers at a news conference here on Tuesday.“In......
LAHORE: To address an increase in air pollution, the Lahore Conservation Society/Lahore Bachao Tehreek (LCS) has arranged various tree plantation drives in the past. However, this year, the LCS added......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Engine of a goods train carrying crushed stone from Chiniot to Sukkur derailed at Gojra railway station on Tuesday.A railway team from Faisalabad arrived at the spot to lift and......
SIALKOT: Free and instant justice to all and a corruption-free society; this is what Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq pledged on Tuesday during a visit to Sialkot to offer condolence to the......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency on Tuesday registered first case under new cyber crime law — the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA).FIA cyber crimes deputy director Syed Shahid Hasan......
LAHORE: The second day of the All Pakistan Music Conference had a large audience on Tuesday as music fanciers, relatives of young voices and students who were performing and artistes, singers and......
KARACHI: Sindh on Tuesday declined to support the proposed deep-sea fishing policy of the federal government by pointing out that after the 18th Amendment of the Constitution the fisheries sector......
KARACHI: Two seminary students were crushed to death and three others sustained serious injuries when the roof of a mosque in Malir caved in on them on Tuesday evening, police and rescue workers......
KARACHI: When the Sindh Assembly meets on Wednesday for the first time after the August 22 incendiary speech of Altaf Hussain, it will take up three resolutions demanding trial of the MQM supremo and......
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party-Shaheed Bhutto (PPP-SB) chairperson Ghinwa Bhutto, drawing resemblance between the ruling party and its opponents holding marches in the country, said on Tuesday that......
KARACHI: This year’s annual Youth Festival organised by the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi will be held from Sept 24 to Oct 1, announced the council’s Ahmed Shah at a press conference on Tuesday......
KINSHASA: Several people died in a second day of violence in DR Congo Tuesday, with three opposition HQ buildings torched in fresh clashes between police and opponents of President Joseph Kabila.The......
CALAIS: Building work began on Tuesday on a wall in the northern French city of Calais to clamp down on repeated attempts by migrants to stow away on trucks heading for Britain.The British-funded......
WASHINGTON: Former president George H.W. Bush plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in November, the niece of president John F. Kennedy wrote in a Facebook posting.“The President told me he’s voting for......
MANILA: A pilot of a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight accidentally pressed a hijack alarm and triggered a major security response at Manila airport on Tuesday, authorities said.Police isolated and......
LONDON: London wrapped up its seasonal fashion week on Tuesday after five days of luxury and highstreet labels unveiling colourful and eclectic collections amid Brexit uncertainty.Holding its leg of......
THE violence perpetrated on an Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura rally at Agartala on Aug 23 — during which at least six persons were killed and scores injured — by “infuriated locals” even as......
WHILE athletes from around the world were competing at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics last month, Tokyo hosted another global competition — for chefs of one of Japan’s most iconic dishes: sushi.Held at......
LOS ANGELES: Mexican star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez will not fight again this year after suffering a fracture to his right hand after his bruising defeat of Liam Smith, his promoters said on......
KANPUR: Indian pace bowler Ishant Sharma was on Tuesday ruled out of the first Test against New Zealand after contracting the mosquito-borne disease chikungunya.“Ishant Sharma is recovering from......
LONDON: Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is under pressure to drop Wayne Rooney, with the captain’s clanking performances emblematic of the team’s struggles.United have lost their last three......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) on Tuesday invited former greats to a seminar wherein they put heads together to help the national governing body of the sport in introduction of a......
DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) conducted its annual three-day Elite Panel Conference in Dubai from Sept 17 to 19, which was attended by members of the elite panel of match referees,......
LONDON: Rafael Nadal and British Olympic great Mohamed Farah said they have nothing to hide after their medical records were the latest to be leaked by a cyber-hacking group on Monday.They are among......
KARACHI: The faction of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) which was making the most noise about players suffering due to the conflict in the country’s football governing body acted in exactly......
DUBAI: Pakistan T20 captain Sarfraz Ahmed and head coach Mickey Arthur believe that their team will have to be at their best to beat World Twenty20 champions West Indies in the upcoming three-match......
TOKYO: Former champion Petra Kvitova stormed through her opening match at the Pan Pacific Open here on Tuesday, beating American Madison Brengle 6-3, 6-3 in a flurry of swashbuckling winners.The......
KARACHI: Veteran Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has hit back at the Pakistan Cricket Board’s apparent offer of a “fitting send-off”, saying he has no intention of walking away from the game.A tweet......
MADRID: Diego Simeone has one of the few feats to elude his hugely successful spell in charge of Atletico Madrid in his sights on Wednesday by claiming a first win in nine attempts at Barcelona’s......
DUBAI: Leg-spinner Samuel Badree has said the West Indies would be wary of an unpredictable Pakistan side, as they chase victory in the upcoming three-match Twenty20 International series.He said......
BERLIN: Mainz midfielder Jose Rodriguez was on Tuesday hit with a five-match ban and fined 10,000 euros ($11,171) for his horror tackle which left his opponent with a gash to the bone.Rodriguez was......
KARACHI: The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) dropped by 128 per cent in the first two months of this fiscal year, reflecting the government’s poor performance on the external-sector front.FDI in......
KARACHI: The government is taking measures to tap chilli exports potential of 90,000 tonnes a year, which can help the country earn $47 million in foreign exchange, the federal food minister said on......
ISLAMABAD: Service exports plunged 53 per cent to $327.2 million in July from $701.2m in the same month of the last year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday.Exports of services during......
KARACHI: Escalating tension between Pakistan and India has caused anxiety in the business community of the country’s industrial and commercial hub Karachi.They wished a better sense prevailed on both......
ISLAMABAD: The government has initiated a project to garner World Bank support to implement the National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) for achieving its financial inclusion goals and moving......
KARACHI: Stocks retreated on Tuesday with a volatile KSE-100 index closing down by 74 points, or 0.18 per cent, at 40,340.After reaching an intra-day high of 94 points, the bourse underwent sharp......
KUWAIT CITY: Gulf Arab oil exporters are expected to see their budget deficits peak this year owing to the plunge in energy revenues, a report said on Tuesday.The combined deficit of the six Gulf......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Shah has urged the ruling party to handle the PTI’s Raiwind march with extreme caution, since the responsibility of any......
RAWALPINDI: Commander of the Turkish Land Forces General Salih Zeki Colak on Tuesday visited the General Headquarters and called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif.During the......
ISLAMABAD: The law secretary told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday that it lacks the jurisdiction to take up the matter of the Panama Papers, even as the heads of all major government......
LAHORE: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif agreed on Monday to lower the rising tension between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: India is participating in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) conference on measures to curb corruption to be held in the federal capital from Sept 25 to 27.The......
KHUZDAR: Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) president Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal has said that the federal and provincial governments should remove apprehensions of Baloch people about the......
UNITED NTIONS: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reminded the world that for nearly four decades, Pakistan has served as a generous host to millions of Afghan refugees.In his address to a high-level......
KARACHI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) cancelled multiple flights after the Civil Aviation Authority’s (CAA) announcement of closing airspace over the country’s northern areas on Wednesday.No......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday night talked to army chief Gen Raheel Sharif on phone about tensions with India over held Kashmir.“The prime minister and Gen Raheel Sharif had a......
ISLAMABAD: As space technology is being used in the planning and monitoring of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects, the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco)......
NEW DELHI: India ratcheted up its diplomatic campaign to target Pakistan as a ‘terrorist state’ on Tuesday and the immediate casualty may be Islamabad’s Saarc summit, with Kabul’s envoy in New Delhi......
ATHENS: Greek police arrested nine migrants after clashes and a huge fire at an asylum seekers’ camp, as the UN warned on Tuesday that 2016 could be the deadliest year yet for refugees trying to......
LOS ANGELES: Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt and is seeking custody of their six children, TMZ reported on Tuesday, spelling the end for “Brangelina”, one of Hollywood’s......
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan’s effort to stay focused on Indian atrocities in held Kashmir is resonating at the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, as US Secretary of State......
ISLAMABAD: A military official on Tuesday dismissed as propaganda the Indian claims of ceasefire violation by Pakistan on the Line of Control (LoC) and having foiled an infiltration bid.“There was no......
KARACHI: The leadership of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Pakistan on Tuesday night removed the London-based coterie of MQM founder Altaf Hussain from the top decision-making forum of the party......
THE decision by Brahamdagh Bugti to seek political asylum in India is ominous; it is a dangerous twist to rising regional tensions. The move comes at a time when India has stepped up its aggressive......
SEVERAL years ago, a female member of the Punjab Assembly shared some troubling details with me. According to her, the majority of women on reserved seats in the assembly did not regularly attend the......
AMIDST all the turmoil, climate change is rapidly surfacing as an issue that eclipses all others in terms of its severity and sheer scale of impact. As part of the UN Framework Convention on Climate......
DID The Beatles play a part, however small, in American racial desegregation? It sounds like a tall claim.I was reminded of it last week while watching Ron Howard’s new documentary, Eight Days a Week......
