RIYADH: Hundreds of Pakistani construction workers are to fly home from Saudi Arabia this week but without the salaries they have waited months to receive, embassy officials told AFP.A total of 405......
UNITED NATIONS: Indian Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, speaking at the 71st United Nations General Assembly, said on Monday that it was time to identify nations who nurture, peddle and......
RAMALLAH: Facebook apologised after temporarily disabling accounts linked to two Palestinian news sites critical of Israel, a move that drew concern over potential online censorship.Facebook pages of......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Monday urged the United Nations to take notice of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statements against Pakistan."The International......
ISTANBUL: Three members of the Turkish security forces were killed and seven others wounded on Monday in a roadside bombing by Kurdish militants in southeastern Turkey, local media reported.The bomb......
DUBAI: Iran's supreme leader has told former hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to stand again in next year's elections, state media reported on Monday, effectively eliminating a major......
AHMEDABAD: An angry mob in India attacked a low-caste pregnant woman and her family for refusing to clear away a cow carcass because of a weeks-long strike against such work, police said......
MUSCAT: A court in Oman on Monday ordered the permanent closure of a newspaper which had reported on alleged corruption within the judiciary, and jailed three of its journalists on charges that......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand researchers said Monday they have restored the first recording of computer-generated music, created in 1951 on a gigantic contraption built by British genius Alan Turing.The......
MANCHESTER: FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura insists the fight against racism is being taken seriously despite the governing body's task force overseeing discrimination being abolished.The......
KARACHI: A television host on local news channel Abb Takk was allegedly poisoned by a fan on Sunday.Sana Faisal, the host of Abb Takk's 'Khufia' programme, was allegedly approached by a minor 'fan'......
The father of Hizbul Mujahideen leader Burhan Wani in a recent interview with an Indian daily has said India will someday realise that his son was a “freedom fighter”.The father of the slain youth,......
MUMBAI: Former Barcelona and Chelsea striker Eidur Gudjohnsen was ruled out of the Indian Super League (ISL) Monday with an ankle injury only days before the start of the tournament.The veteran......
The feminine experience is a funny thing; it involves dodging, spluttering and plowing through to persevere in the circumstances best afforded to it. The privilege that patriarchy enjoys in Pakistan......
SEOUL: Exploding batteries and an embarrassing recall of a flagship gadget during a controversial, closely-watched leadership transition — it's been a bad year for Samsung, and analysts warn the......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz demanded an international probe into the Uri attack, Radio Pakistan reported on Monday.In an interview with BBC Urdu, Aziz......
BEIJING: More than 40 Chinese military aircraft have traversed a strait near Japan, China's defence ministry said Monday, after Tokyo announced it may patrol with the US in the contested South China......
PANAJI: World football body FIFA has banned a senior Qatari official from running in elections for a seat on its new-look council over an investigation.Scandal-plagued FIFA's ethics committee last......
LAHORE: A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) crashed near Mianwali on Monday.A PAF spokesman confirmed the UAV was on a routine training mission when it crashed.No loss of life or......
NEW DELHI: India on Monday successfully launched eight satellites from one rocket into two different orbits, Hindustan Times reported.The mission was the longest for the polar satellite launch......
JERUSALEM: The Israeli military says it has indicted more than 145 Palestinians so far this year for incitement over social media.Sunday's announcement comes amid an Israeli campaign to stamp out the......
PESHAWAR: At least nine people including four policemen were injured in an improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast targeting a police van in Charsadda on Monday, police said.The banned......
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook is apologising to advertisers for what it calls an error that overstated the average length of time users watched videos on the site.The measurement didn't affect how much......
KARACHI: Who dresses up as if they are off to dinner so early in the morning? There were over two hundred men, and women, too, in dinner jackets, suits, waistcoats complete with ties, bow ties, etc,......
KARACHI: Police have launched an investigation to ascertain the identity and motive of the culprits who kidnapped three brothers, later on gunned them down and threw their bodies at two separate......
KHAR: A brother of a pro-government tribal elder was killed in a roadside bomb blast in the Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency here on Sunday evening, local administration officials said.They said that......
SWABI: A man allegedly threw acid on his wife, badly damaging her abdomen and lower part of the body. The estranged woman was recently brought back to her husband’s house by a local jirga, said......
MANSEHRA: The affected people of Dasu hydropower project have withdrawn the deadline of Sept 28 to forcibly stop work on the dam after fruitful talks with the Wapda chairman. A 12-member committee......
ISLAMABAD: When it comes to cooking chicken, the people of the subcontinent have invented endless ways of preparing this most staple of all birds. It can be smoked, roasted, broiled, baked,......
ISLAMABAD: A demonstration of floral arrangements and floral ‘fashion show’ was held at the Serena Hotel on Sunday, in order to support the Pink Ribbon Charity’s endeavour to build the country’s......
ISLAMABAD: The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) will be starting e-learning ‘Accessibility Centres’ for visually impaired students at 44 of the varsity’s regional offices within a month.“After a......
ISLAMABAD: If one has diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, smoking habit with low or minimal physical activity and excessive salt intake, they are on the high risk of having......
LAHORE: The World Pharmacists Day was observed in the provincial capital by organising seminars, consultative dialogues and awareness walks on Sunday.A mega event was arranged at the College of......
LAHORE: The liver transplant unit of Shaikh Zayed Hospital is at its worst mainly due to denial of funds sanction by the Punjab government earlier.Sources told Dawn that 49 patients on the ‘waiting......
LAHORE: Samjhota Express will run according to schedule on Monday (today), said Pakistan Railways (PR) authorities an hour after announcing on Sunday night that the service of the train between Wagah......
MUZAFFARGARH: A 17-year-old girl was abducted allegedly by some relatives of a public representative in the National Assembly at Shadman Colony late on Saturday night.Four people stormed the house of......
LAHORE: Valuables were gutted when a fire erupted in a shoe factory at Timber Market on Ravi Road on Sunday.The fire erupted in the shoe factory’s second floor room when the unit was closed due to......
LAHORE: For the first time, different government hospitals in Punjab will now be run by trained health managers.General cadre doctors who completed training from Management and Professional......
LAHORE: The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) claims the joint opposition will come up with a common strategy against corruption within 10 days.“The opposition parties will present a common line of action against......
SARGODHA: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman says as India is bringing its forces on the borders, it is need of the hour to unite the nation instead of doing politics of......
GUJRANWALA: Ten policemen, including two station house officers, were dismissed from service for helping suspects flee police custody.Five policemen were handed down penalty of forced retirement and......
EVERY year, Sept 30 is commemorated as International Translation Day. The ritual began in 1991 when International Federation of Translators (IFT) began officially celebrating the day to show unity......
KARACHI: It was a solemn moment at the Empress Market where several learned individuals gathered on Sunday evening to hold a vigil in remembrance of the unsung heroes executed by hanging or by being......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has asked the National Accountability Bureau to stop witch-hunt in Sindh, telling it that “it is not your job to investigate cases of small-scale......
KARACHI: At least 8.3 million children aged five or less would be targeted in the six-day polio campaign being launched on Monday (today) in Sindh, officials said on Sunday.Of the children, they......
AMMAN: A prominent Jordanian writer was shot dead on Sunday on the steps of a court where he was facing charges for sharing an anti-Islam cartoon on Facebook.Nahed Hattar was struck by three bullets......
BEIJING: The world’s largest radio telescope began operating in south-western China on Sunday, a project which Beijing says will help humanity search for alien life.The Five-hundred-metre Aperture......
MUSCAT: Oman Air has switched off an in-flight map system that labelled the waterway between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran, the subject of a bitter naming dispute, as the “Persian Gulf”. The......
NEW YORK: Top names in music including Metallica and Rihanna joined leaders on Saturday in a concert that brought promises of action to support refugees and improve sanitation in the developing......
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council met for urgent talks on Sunday as Syrian and Russian war planes pounded rebel-held east Aleppo in the worst surge of bombing to hit the devastated city in......
JERUSALEM: An Israeli court on Sunday sentenced a Palestinian Islamic preacher to eight months in prison over a sermon at a volatile Jerusalem holy site in which he called for Jews to be killed.The......
NEW DELHI: India, the world’s third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, will formally join the Paris agreement on climate change on Oct 2, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday.The......
FRENCH President Francois Hollande has acknowledged the state’s culpability in abandoning Algerians who fought alongside French colonial forces in Algeria’s war for independence — and were then......
The UK has recently announced an extra 37 million pounds in aid to Yemen, taking the total to 100 million pounds for the year. I wonder if Britain’s international aid secretary, Priti Patel, saw the......
BAGHDAD: An unlikely array of forces is converging on the city of Mosul, lining up for a battle on the historic plains of northern Iraq that is likely to be decisive in the war against the militant......
WAYANG WINDU: Columns of steam shoot from the ground at an Indonesian power plant sitting in the shadow of an active volcano, as energy is tapped from the red-hot underbelly of the archipelago.Pipes......
KARACHI: Pakistan star Bismah Maroof struck a magnificent century as Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) overwhelmed the PCB XI by 124 runs in the fourth fixture of the First State Bank Women’s......
KARACHI: Asad Raza completed the rare feat of capturing all 10 wickets in an innings as Faisalabad outclassed Hyderabad inside two days of their PCB Inter-region Under-19 Cricket Tournament fixture......
KANPUR: Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Sunday became the second fastest bowler to claim 200 Test wickets, achieving the milestone in his 37th match.Ashwin is just behind Australia’s......
KANPUR: Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin claimed three wickets to have New Zealand reeling on 93 for four at stumps on Sunday as the hosts tightened their grip on the first Test.New Zealand......
DHAKA: Paceman Taskin Ahmed made a brilliant comeback to international cricket as he claimed four wickets to steer Bangladesh to pull off a thrilling seven-run win in the first One-day International......
LONDON: Arsenal swept aside London rivals Chelsea 3-0 with three first-half goals at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday to mark Arsene Wenger’s 20th anniversary as Gunners boss in style.“It was one of......
TOKYO: Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei on Sunday won his sixth Yonex Open Japan title, defeating third seed Jan O Jorgensen of Denmark.Lee, a silver medallist in the last three Olympics, triumphed 21-18,......
MILAN: An own goal by Palermo’s Edoardo Goldaniga was enough to give Serie A leaders Juventus a cagey 1-0 victory in Sicily on Saturday and remain one point clear of rivals Napoli, 2-0 winners over......
PARIS: Nice reclaimed top spot in Ligue 1 after Alassane Plea’s finely executed second-half goal gave the Azurean side a 1-0 win at promoted Nancy on Sunday.Lucien Favre’s Nice team were missing......
MADRID: Antoine Griezmann was Atletico Madrid’s hero once more with the winner as last season’s Champions League finalists moved third in La Liga with a 1-0 win over 10-man Deportivo la......
TOKYO: Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki continued her revival by brushing aside Japanese teenager Naomi Osaka 7-5, 6-3 to capture the Pan Pacific Open on Sunday, her first tournament......
KARACHI: Outsiders dominated a small four-race card in the Gymkhana race meeting as stewards come down hard on a rider by withdrawing his license for ‘unsatisfactory riding’ on Sunday.The opener set......
The officials of the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) are beating the drum on the success against low-rated Oman in the four-match junior under-18 series as if they had win the junior World Cup.In......
WUHAN: Roberta Vinci downed Olympic gold medallist Monica Puig in the first round of the Wuhan Open on Sunday.Italy’s Vinci took just one hour and 20 minutes to defeat the Puerto Rican in two sets,......
With an 8.2pc decline in the first two months (July-August) of the new fiscal year, the export downfall has continued unabated for a few years now.The last fiscal year ending June 30 concluded with......
Corporate Pakistan wishes for the de-escalation of tension with India, but is not particularly worried over the situation, primarily because of the weak bilateral economic ties.The footloose investor......
Last week, the Central Bank pumped a cumulative Rs180.0bn into the banking system in two separate open market operations.On Sept 19, the State Bank injected Rs40.0bn at 5.81pc and was for a four day......
No major development was seen in the local currency market where the rupee continued to fluctuate against the dollar and euro in range-bound trading amid mixed sentiments last week.In the......
Initially 16, currently 4; the SDR — a synthetic currency — created by the IMF in 1969 — has changed over time to include the currencies of countries with the largest share in exports of goods and......
Dr Fiaz Ahmad Chaudhry, the new managing director of the National Transmission and Despatch Company, does not believe in mincing words. He doesn’t have to as long as he does his job efficiently and......
LACKING enabling capacity, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has not succeeded in increasing the revenue from sales tax on services since July 2013, when it took over this responsibility from the......
Paint companies have recorded their profit and loss accounts in bright green and a healthy impact has travelled down to their stock prices.In Pakistan, Berger is in competition with AkzoNobel — the......
THE two state-run trade bodies have been accused of failing to find export markets for surplus wheat due to ‘poor negotiation skills’, by a representative of the apex body of trade and industry.He......
BEEKEEPING is a lucrative business in Pakistan. Each beekeeper here produces three times more honey than their European counterparts, although a majority of these beekeepers belong to the rural......
A HEALTHY sugarcane crop is now ready for harvesting but the cane price for the 2016-17 crushing season is yet to be fixed by the Sindh government.The Sindh Sugarcane Commissioner’s office has......
ThailandTHAILAND, the Southeast Asia’s second biggest economy after Indonesia, plays a major role in promoting regional cooperation having moved from a low-income to an upper-middle income......
On a quiet Sunday in May, as dawn was breaking over Tokyo, a 100-strong army of hooded ‘withdrawal mules’ rolled up at convenience stores across Japan and began a bank robbery that the country had......
KARACHI: The Civil Aviation Authority has decided to keep the airspace over northern areas closed on Monday after completion of four flights early in the morning.This is the third time in five days......
QUETTA: Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) president Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti has condemned Indian Prime Minister Nirendra Modi for hurling threats at Pakistan and said that Bugti tribesmen will be fighting......
ISLAMABAD: A nationwide polio vaccination campaign is set to kick off all over the country on Monday — except in the Taxila tehsil of Rawalpindi and Wana subdivision of the Federally Administered......
WASHINGTON: President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Masood Khan has urged the international community to dissuade India from launching surgical strikes inside Pakistan as any such move would have......
QUETTA: The lawyers’ community has announced that after about seven weeks it is ending its boycott of court proceedings.The community had decided to boycott court proceedings in the aftermath of a......
- Pakistan’s first solar power plant was funded by Beijing in 2015- Power sector deficits average 4,000 megawatts- For affordable clean energy, Pakistan requires more transmission lines,......
LAHORE: The PML-N government announced on Sunday that it would give a ‘complete free hand and security’ to Imran Khan’s PTI during its Raiwind march on Sept 30, but will not allow ‘violence’ to......
NEW DELHI: Pakistan will remain positive and constructive in its ties with India and expects both countries to pull out of the current crisis with maturity from their leaders, High Commissioner Abdul......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has convened a meeting on the Indus Waters Treaty on Monday to which all the officials concerned have been summoned.According to sources, he will......
WASHINGTON: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement violates all United Nations and international charters against non-interference in internal affairs of other countries, Foreign......
ISLAMABAD: Disappointed by the power regulator’s ‘stubbornness’, the government is planning to seek judicial intervention to jack up the consumer tariff of the controversial Nandipur power project by......
ISLAMABAD: The head of India’s anti-corruption body arrived here on Sunday to attend a conference of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc). The two-day meeting will begin on......
Eidul Azha was marked by an unusual rite in Lucknow recently. Instead of the customary goat, a cake was ‘sacrificed’ by a Muslim who said he wanted to spread “the message of humanity”. It was a......
THE Uri attack’s aftermath showcased Indian media and public discourse outlets winning the subcontinent’s battle for inanity and disinformation. From rushing to conclusions, to hard-nosed jingoism,......
THE number of sensational, yet inaccurate, reports in the Indian and Pakistani media about developments since the Uri attack is staggering: India staged the attack; India carried out a cross-border......
THE availability of cheap labour and low levels of educational/ economic opportunity, to say nothing of the insufficiency of jobs and the surfeit of both poverty and people, make it one of Pakistan’s......
THE truce that Washington D.C. and Moscow hammered out for Syria earlier this month is all but dead, and with it any hope for an end to hostilities in that forsaken land. As these lines were being......
