NEW YORK: Republican candidate Donald Trump pledged Sunday in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's “undivided” capital if he is elected......
PARIS: Two teenage girls from the French city of Nice are being held on suspicion of planning an attack directed by a notorious Syria-based French militant, a source close to the investigation said......
LONDON: A Pakistan-born actor has been sacked from Britain's most popular television soap after posting what broadcaster ITV called Sunday “entirely unacceptable, racially offensive” comments about......
KARACHI: A traffic police official was shot dead on Sunday in a suspected targeted attack in the metropolis’ North Nazimabad area.“Sub-inspector Mohammed Arshad was performing his duty near Five Star......
KARACHI: Pakistan Test Captain Misbah-ul-Haq on Sunday said sports must be separated from politics and added that he aims for a cricket series between Pakistan and India."Pakistan is always ready to......
PESHAWAR: The former spokesperson for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Azam Tariq, has been reportedly killed in Afghanistan’s Paktika province in air strikes carried out by Afghan and Nato......
QUETTA: Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) Balochistan president Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti on Sunday said Bugti tribesmen were fully prepared to fight against India in the hills of the Kashmir valley.“Bugti......
ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey could join a US-led operation in Syria to retake the militant Islamic State (IS) group's stronghold of Raqqa only if Kurdish fighters are not......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday that his country will ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change on Oct 2, coinciding with the birth anniversary of India's independence......
NEW DELHI: The less-than-supersonic sale of French Rafale fighter jets to India has highlighted the obstacles facing foreign arms firms seeking to do business with the world's biggest weapons......
LAHORE: August 30, 2016 was a day when cricket commentators were forced to rethink the Pakistani bowling attack's status as one of the most lethal in the cricketing world.On a bright sunny Nottingham......
WASHINGTON: White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest during a briefing on Friday said that the United States has "long urged India and Pakistan to find ways to resolve their differences not through......
AMMAN: A gunman on Sunday killed prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar outside a court where he was facing charges for sharing a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam, state news agency Petra......
ISLAMABAD: Justice (r) Wajihuddin Ahmed on Sunday resigned from the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday.Wajihuddin turned in his resignation to PTI Chairman Imran Khan, but did not mention a......
LOS ANGELES: Authorities said Saturday they have arrested the suspect behind a shooting that left five people dead at a shopping mall in the US state of Washington, about 24 hours after the......
UNITED NATIONS: The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) accused Iran of playing "the greatest role in causing tension and instability" in the Middle East on Saturday.Sheikh Abdullah......
LAHORE: Chief Selector Inzamam-ul-Haq on Sunday finalised the 16-member One Day International (ODI) team for three ODIs against the West Indies to be played in the United Arab Emirates starting Sept......
BEIJING: The world's largest radio telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life Sunday in a project demonstrating China's rising ambitions in......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) on Sunday rejected accusations levelled by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that India was “trying to distract world attention from the atrocities......
Raza Rumi is a Pakistani journalist and policy analyst who is currently Visiting International Scholar in Residence at Ithaca College, US. A consistent voice for human rights and inclusion, he has......
The Fractious Path: Pakistan’s Democratic Transition provides an incisive look at a crucial period in Pakistan’s history: from 2008 till 2013. The book is a five-part compilation of published......
Ji Xianlin (1911-2009), the author of The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, was an internationally recognised authority on Sanskrit and Pali languages. He was a senior teacher at......
What exactly is identity? How do people’s expectations of us influence our self-concept? Do mental illnesses distort our inherent personality or are they just remote, extrinsic manifestations of......
Known as Pakistan’s most dashing film hero of all times, Waheed Murad dominated the Pakistani silver screen from the 1960s to the 1980s. Those two decades of cinema in Pakistan gave us such gems as......
Pakistan is a multi-ethnic state with a diversity of languages and cultures. The major linguistic groups with claims of distinct ethnic identities are the Punjabis, Sindhis, Pakhtuns, Balochs, and......
The opening pages of Shandana Minhas’s latest novel generate a frisson of excitement: a mock newspaper clipping from a fictitious Pakistani daily reports a terrorist attack in Karachi. In the......
As harsh as it may sound it is a fact that a large number of nurses in Pakistan are, by and large, neither skilled nor trained. Only a small number of nursing students receive proper education and......
This was one of the most daunting questions facing the founders of Pakistan: how was Muslim nationalism, which had given birth to a separate country, to be transformed into a more focused idea......
The world watches while America loses its moral compass. It stands at a crossroads — one that leads in one direction to an unknown place (Donald Trump) and in the other to the same old place (Hillary......
Let’s start by asking: where is Saqib Malik?Saqib Malik: He has just turned 50! I should be going through a mid-life crisis but luckily I’m not. I’m very charged and excited, and I’m going through a......
For better or worse, back in 1999, when The Blair Witch Project hit theaters, it quickly became a landmark achievement. Employing what would later be known as the ‘found footage’ style, the......
Those who say that the Pakistan film industry is going through a resurgent phase, well, rest assured that phase is over and our movies are doing pretty well. Reason being, this Eidul Azha three......
All you Abhishek Bachchan critics, lend me your ears! The actor (yes, he is an actor and not just the son of Amitabh Bachchan and husband of Aishwarya Rai) now has his name mentioned in the Guinness......
Good to know that shooting for a film based on the life of model and social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch has begun.Oscar-winning Pakistani documentary film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is behind one......
Ace film-maker Syed Noor does not hold back his punches. His views on the current state of the Pakistan film industry are no secret.Recently, he added another zinger to a series of uninhibited......
What’s wrong with the Kapoor clan? They seem to have the shortest temper in Indian film business.Every now and then Rishi Kapoor is found arguing on one topic or another on social networking websites......
Just when you think that things can’t get weirder in showbiz, something happens that makes you think how unpredictable it is to be someone from the world of glitz and glamour.Pop singer Britney......
Salman Khan is always in the news – whether it is for good or bad reasons is up to his fans and detractors to decide.This time round rumour has it that Sallu mian has left the flat in a posh Mumbai......
“This is going to be the worst day of Anderson’s life,” Anthony Bourdain announces gleefully as he settles behind a table at Takashi, a Japanese-Korean fusion restaurant in Manhattan’s West Village.......
There are local legends on the pavements of Karachi’s Boulton Market: if you went looking for old Pakistani currency notes that have been preserved in mint condition, Shaamat Bhai is the man to go......
I n its many variations, the male kurti is a hybrid phenomenon. It is firmly suspended in the middle of a spectrum that at the one end delves into traditional kurtas and formal sherwanis and at the......
Have you ever stopped for a moment to think about how lucky you are to be able to breathe? Only a person with breathing issues can tell you the agony of not being able to breathe normally. In this......
It is a universally acknowledged truth that deep-frying any foodstuff will enhance its flavour by a factor of 10 gazillion. Steamed cauliflower: meh; deep-fried cauliflower: delicious. Boiled......
Dear Auntie,I have been thinking about writing to you for a while. The problems which I am about to discuss are getting worse and worse. It is about my wife’s ex classmate, who has made my life a......
Q. I have an 18 to 20-year-old coconut tree in my Karachi garden. It used to produce healthy coconuts but now the nuts are oddly shaped, do not develop to full size and have rough brown patches on......
Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) is one of the most highly regarded Dutch artists of all time. Although his artworks have been a source of inspiration for centuries, his life remained a mystery. His father......
Miniature painting, with its early origins, bears focal significance in the history of regional art. This discipline germinates from the early rock paintings or petroglyphs that were found in the......
Ayesha Quraishi’s latest body of work was recently on display at the Koel Gallery, Karachi, where her abstract paintings, prints and sculptural pieces came together as a kind of mental portrait of......
Young Michael Slater is fidgeting at the crease.Scratch. Shake. Rub. Repeat.His career is off to a flyer. The New South Welshman averages nearly 50. In 1995, openers don’t average anything near that......
They say a novelist is as good as his or her second novel. This can be debated because there are fiction writers — Milan Kundera and J.M. Coetzee, for example — whose later works have given them more......
Pakistan has been portrayed in Hollywood films and American TV shows as a strife-torn country where women wear burqas, men sport beards and carry firearms while kids run around trying to save......
NOWSHERA: A woman councillor of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf was shot dead by unknown assailants here early on Saturday. The shooting occurred in Khawarai area.Unknown armed attackers entered the house......
PESHAWAR: Noted painter, sculptor and calligrapher Arbab Mohammad Sardar passed away after protracted illness here on Saturday at his Arabab Landi home. He was 71.He was buried in Arbapano graveyard......
MINGORA: Culture activists and archaeologists here on Saturday pledged to make joint efforts for the revival and promotion of archaeological tourism in the region.They were speaking during a seminar......
ISLAMABAD: An exhibition of contemporary prints, titled ‘Entanglement 2016’ opened at the Nomad Art Gallery on Saturday, and featured the works of seven artists from Fatima Jinnah Women’s University......
Although it has yet to overtake cricket in terms of popularity, football has attracted a following among young people if the crowds at sports grounds in the garrison city is anything to go by. At......
Zameeda Bibi keeps her steps steady as she crosses a dilapidated wooden bridge in her village, with both her children in tow.She does this four times every day, in the morning and then again in the......
A mother of three and just 24 years old, Parveen died a few months ago after using the services of a local, unskilled birth attendant for aborting what would have been her fourth baby.A resident of......
RAWALPINDI: The newly-built Taleemul Quran seminary and its attached mosque, which burned down during riots in the garrison city three years ago, is set to be inaugurated – with the permission of the......
ISLAMABAD: The returning officer for provincial assembly seat in PP-7 (Taxila), Ali Abdullah, has put Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on notice for violating the election code of......
Farewell to Moroccan envoyThe dean of the diplomatic corps, Kazakh Ambassador Bakhitbek Shabarbayev, held an elegant lunch reception to bid farewell to Moroccan Ambassador Mustapha Salahddinne as his......
ISLAMABAD: Despite a lazy day at the polls, the PML-N seemed to emerge the victor in both by-elections held for vacant posts of union council (UC) chairmen in the Tarnol and Shah Allah Ditta areas of......
Imran Waheed has struggled through the thick and thin of life keeping his passion for photography alive. He is blessed with creative madness.His father was a photographer, and he forced Imran to......
LAHORE: India is creating a war hysteria to divert the world’s attention from its brutalities in Kashmir, said Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) chief Senator Sirajul Haq.Addressing the JI youth festival held......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday deported a Filipina and imposed a fine of Rs500,000 on a foreign airlines for not checking her legal status before boarding her on the......
LAHORE: Britain wants easing of tension between Pakistan and India as she is concerned over the present situation in the region, says the British High Commissioner in Pakistan, Thomas Drew.Mr Drew......
LAHORE: The World Pharmacists Day being observed on Sunday (today) promises nothing for these professionals in Punjab where over 6,000 posts of pharmacists are lying vacant.The data sounds more......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Awami Tahreek (PAT) has asked the PML-N government to desist from imposing another tax of $1.5bn in the guise of security for new power projects.“The new tax will be received......
PML-N MNA Chaudhry Riazul Haq Juj had on the May Day lauded the efforts of the Punjab government in general and Shahbaz Sharif in particularly for being keen to provide education, particularly for......
KARACHI: Although there are writers today who are writing with sincerity, ever since the concept of commercialisation has entered the world of literature, it has caused it harm.This was said by......
Karachi: Being overweight or obese, marrying at an advanced age, and having a family history of diabetes are some of the major factors that make women vulnerable to diabetes during pregnancy, a......
KARACHI has always been an adaptive city, unlike some of the other large urban centres of the country. Whatever the people like, the people get and that’s one of the reasons why burger joints are the......
KARACHI: Over a dozen shops were looted in Urdu Bazaar, according to police, after unknown suspects broke their locks and took away cash.The watchman of the market has been taken into custody by the......
KARACHI: This city is the only one in the country to have honoured Pakistan’s sports persons with a network of roads and streets named after them.Cricketers Avenue in North Nazimabad has many streets......
RABAT: They were among Morocco’s best-known natural wonders: two immense rock archways towering over Legzira beach on the Atlantic coast. But on Friday afternoon one of them collapsed.A massive pile......
HELSINKI: Around 15,000 people marched in central Helsinki on Saturday to protest against rising racism and violent right-wing extremism, police said, following the recent death of a man allegedly......
PARIS: French President Francois Hollande on Saturday confirmed plans to close the squalid Calais migrant camp known as “the Jungle,” saying he hopes authorities can relocate as many as 9,000......
VIENNA: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, under fire at home over her refugees policy, called on Saturday for Europe to secure deals with third countries to send back migrants who do not qualify for......
ALEPPO: With pools of blood and shredded bodies on the streets, the rebel-held east of Syrian city Aleppo has been reduced to an apocalyptic battlefront under relentless regime and Russian......
SANAA: Four members of Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch, including a local commander, were killed in a suspected US drone strike on a vehicle travelling east of the capital Sanaa, two local officials said on......
CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced seven men to hang for killing a police general in the unrest following the 2013 military overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.It was the......
LIVERPOOL: Left winger Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected British Labour leader on Saturday, seeing off a challenge from MPs but leaving the opposition party split as critics said it was even further from......
TEHRAN: Iran’s state TV is saying the country has started its first web-based national general census.The Saturday report says people can visit a dedicated website to fill out forms in the first......
WASHINGTON: Centuries of struggles and strife, decades of planning and pain, and years of hoping for a place that African-American history can call home will culminate as President Barack Obama......
WASHINGTON: Neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald Trump is the clear favourite as the two major-party candidates for the White House go head-to-head in their crucial first debate on Monday.If Clinton,......
ON a site four times the size of Manhattan along the banks of the Niger river, the Ajaokuta steel plant was supposed to symbolise Nigeria’s modernity and prosperity rather than its failure.Russian......
LONDON: Manchester United thrashed defending Premier League champions Leicester City 4-1 as they vindicated manager Jose Mourinho’s decision to drop Wayne Rooney while Manchester City maintained......
LAHORE: Earlier in the week when Test captain, Misbah-ul-Haq, was handed the prestigious ICC Test mace here for inspiring Pakistan to the top spot in the limited overs format, commentators lamented......
KANPUR: Spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin helped India gain control of the first Test against New Zealand before the hosts stretched the second innings lead to 215 on the third day in......
BERLIN: Champions Bayern Munich needed an 88th-minute winner by Joshua Kimmich to beat Hamburg SV 1-0 on Saturday and protect their three-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga.Strugglers Hamburg......
TOKYO: Malaysian badminton king Lee Chong Wei on Saturday beat 15th ranked Marc Zwiebler of Germany in the semi-final at the Japan Open, moving a step closer to his sixth title of the Japanese......
ALCANIZ: Championship leader Marc Marquez took a dominant pole position for Honda at Spain’s MotorLand Aragon circuit, with MotoGP’s run of eight different winners in eight races looking likely to......
PARIS: Ivory Coast defender Serge Aurier was sent off against his old club as Paris St Germain suffered their second defeat of the Ligue 1 season when they lost 2-0 at Toulouse after being reduced to......
TOKYO: Former world No.1 Caroline Wozniacki produced a spirited fightback to beat fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 and reach the Pan Pacific Open final here on Saturday.Awaiting the Dane......
From 1947 to 2001, the US gross domestic product grew at an annual, inflation-adjusted rate of 3.5 per cent. Since 2002, average real GDP growth has plummeted to 1.9pc annually. This fall from strong......
OPEC members aren’t likely to reach a supply deal in Algiers next week, but an agreement to boost prices could be drawing closer after Saudi Arabia signalled for the first time in two years that it’s......
ISTANBUL: Credit ratings agency Moody’s Investor Service has downgraded Turkey’s sovereign credit rating to non-investment grade citing worries about the rule of law following an attempted coup,......
KARACHI: Cotton prices extended loss on Saturday because of renewed selling pressure influenced by falling world cotton prices and partly by higher arrivals of phutti (seed cotton).Buying from......
KARACHI: The stock market in the outgoing week was the victim of heightened hostility between Pakistan and India. As stock prices plunged, small investors were further unnerved by rumours of margin......
LAHORE: With an improved economic and political outlook, Pakistan has started regaining international inves tors’ confidence and the government is willing to work with all industries including the......
KARACHI: The vacuum created by the absence of local assembling of below-800cc cars in Pakistan is being filled by higher imports of small cars.Small cars constituted almost half of the total imports......
Eight targets for universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking waterIncludes sanitation and hygiene for all and to end open defecation, with special attention to the needs of women......
ISLAMABAD: United States Senator John McCain has assured former president Asif Ali Zardari that a bill currently before the US Senate for branding Pakistan a “sponsor of terrorism” will not......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) says that it has no plans to procure electronic voting machines (EVMs) and biometric verification machines (BVMs) from India for 2018 general......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has appealed to people to fully participate in his party’s Sept 30 march to Raiwind in order to put pressure on state institutions which,......
QUETTA: Provincial Health Minister Rehmat Saleh Baloch and other ministers and members of the National Party (NP) staged a walkout from the Balochistan Assembly on Saturday for what he called being......
KARACHI: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced closing airspace over the northern areas of the country on Sunday, forcing the Pakistan International Airlines to reschedule its flights to......
DUBAI: Pakistan overcame a late onslaught from West Indies to wrap up the Twenty20 International series with a 16-run win in the second game at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Saturday......
THE latest trend on British and American university campuses is to oppose so-called ‘cultural appropriation’. An increasingly influential offshoot of identity politics, cultural appropriation most......
ISLAMABAD: In a major move to clamp down on terrorism financing, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has directed all banks in the country to freeze accounts worth millions of rupees linked to 2,021......
ISLAMABAD: Five terrorists convicted of their involvement in the Safoora Goth massacre and the murder of a prominent social activist in Karachi have challenged their convictions before the Rawalpindi......
QUETTA: Hundreds of tribesmen belonging to various tribes of Chaman marched on the streets of the border town on Saturday, condemning Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for hurling threats at......
“THERE is a climate of impunity in Pakistan with regard to enforced disappearances, and the authorities are not sufficiently dedicated to investigate cases of enforced disappearance and hold the......
TWO years of intense negotiations have finally led to the signing of a peace agreement between the Ashraf Ghani administration and Gulbadin Hekmatyar’s faction of the Hezb-i-Islami (HiG). Under the......
TRY this one for a conspiracy theory. Two months ago, on July 8 to be precise, the Indians did something stupid in the Valley: they killed Burhan Wani.Stupid not because Pakistan says so, but because......
PAKISTAN is under constant diplomatic stress, and needs to come up with some effective responses to counter Indian diplomatic coercion. The country is not lacking in policy and intellectual strength.......
THE timing may be incidental — or perhaps fortuitous for Pakistan — but the arrival of a 70-man Russian squad, led by the chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces, for joint drills with......
MIRPUR: At least 23 people including four women were killed and five others were injured when a passenger wagon skidded off the road and plunged into Neelum River.The accident took place at Nausehri,......
