DHAKA: Skipper Mashrafe Mortaza starred with bat and ball as Bangladesh outplayed England by 34 runs in the second one-day international to level the three-match series 1-1 in Dhaka on Sunday.Mortaza......
PESHAWAR: The alleged mastermind of the attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore was reportedly killed in Afghanistan, sources said on Sunday.Qari Ajmal, a suspected Pakistani militant wanted for......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has approved increase in gas tariff by Rs57.89/MMBTU for Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL), while it decreased gas price by Rs65.12 for......
KARACHI: Former T20 captain Shahid Afridi, while responding to a question, said “money has always been an issue for Javed Miandad”.The all-rounder was talking to journalists in Karachi at the book......
KARACHI: A First Information Report was registered against two detained police officers by family members of a cadet student who was allegedly killed in an 'encounter' near Nipa on Friday evening,......
KARACHI: West Indies heavy hitter Chris Gayle, Sri Lankan wicket keeper Kumar Sangakkara and fast-rising Pakistani batsman Babar Azam have been inducted into the Karachi Kings lineup for the second......
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq on Sunday lambasted the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) for boycotting a joint session of parliament on Kashmir held last week."We [lawmakers] should......
JERUSALEM: A Palestinian opened fire from a car in Jerusalem Sunday and again as police chased him, killing two people, authorities said, after concerns over the potential for a new upsurge in......
ANKARA: At least 18 people were killed Sunday when a van packed with five tonnes of explosives blew up in Turkey's restive southeast in an attack blamed on Kurdish militants, the prime minister......
NEW DELHI: Emergency workers sealed off a portion of New Delhi's international airport Sunday after officials suspected a consignment containing radioactive material had leaked, a police officer......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Sunday expressed satisfaction over the operational preparedness of troops deployed along the Line of Control (LoC) in a visit to the......
INDORE: India declared their first innings on 557 for five in the evening session of the second day's play of the third and final Test against New Zealand in Indore on Sunday.The hosts, who started......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday expressed its condolences over the killing of 12-year-old Junaid Ahmad during a violent protest in India-held Kashmir (IHK) last week.The boy was critically injured on......
KABUL: Eight Afghan Army soldiers were killed early Sunday morning when a military helicopter crashed in northern Baghlan province, officials said.Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said......
Recently the American author Lionel Shriver (We Need to Talk About Kevin) caused controversy with her keynote speech at the Brisbane Writers Festival. Asked to deliver a talk about “community and......
Over My Shoulder is a collection of essays (and a few moving poems) by Alys Faiz, the British-born wife of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Commencing with a reverential love poem addressed to her husband, the......
Anjum Rehmani’s book is a befitting ode to Lahore, the quintessential Mughal city, and its architecture. Lahore: History and Architecture of Mughal Monuments, however, is neither lyrical nor poetic.......
Fabulator and academician Aziz Ahmad had a strange writer’s life, as if two writers were stapled together. His first career consisted of a string of short stories, novels and long tales in Urdu, many......
On the Reconciliation of the Primordial Rights of Man is a curious book to read and, indeed, review. Armed with two doctorates (in theocentric psychology and metaphysical science) from the University......
The Bekal fort in Kasaragod, the northernmost district of Kerala, is the best preserved fort in the state and stands on a 35 acre headland, facing the Arabian Sea. Standing at the edge of the fort,......
Jill Mansell ranks amongst the top 20 British female novelists of the 21st century, with 27 titles — of which several have been bestsellers — to her name. Her latest offering, You and Me, Always, is......
For all the attention paid to billionaire Elon Musk’s recent announcement that he hopes to get humans to Mars as early as 2024, the early news stories about his efforts focused mostly on the......
With a fondness for travelling, trekking and swimming, Emaan Mahmud documents her experiences with an equally thrilling combination of colour and form. “My paintings do not portray any particular......
In a valiant attempt to keep the tradition of dreaming alive, Ajoka Theatre recently staged a play in Lahore on Bhagat Singh. The venue was a public hall and tickets cost nothing but your transport......
Directed by Clint Eastwood (American Sniper) and written by Todd Komarnicki, Sully is a biographical drama based on the memoir by Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, which recounts the events of......
There is more than just one lasting legacy of Mustafa Kamal’s tenure as mayor of Karachi. The many flyovers, underpasses and roads constructed under his gaze, new provisions for civic amenities, new......
In the 1980s, CJ Rapp created super-caffeinated Jolt Cola to give the body a charge. But tastes have changed, and today he’s offering something to calm people down: beverages with a shot of live......
We’ve all tried everything – from herbal treatments and masks made at home to clay masks, peel offs and high-end skin creams — to maintain our youthful look or rather to slow down the arrival of......
In London the other day, we were sitting in Clare and Robbie’s small garden on a balmy summer evening when he brought out dinner from the kitchen. The chicken was divine, with a gentle tang that made......
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Q. I would love to grow all the beautiful flowers you suggested for the upcoming winter months in Karachi. The problem is that while petunia, dahlias and roses are easy to find, ranunculous,......
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch Golden Age artist. Only 36 of his paintings survive and are considered as some of the world’s greatest artworks. They are exhibited in the finest museums.The......
Syed Hasan Mujtaba’s ‘A monochrome episode’ revolves around the insistence of the powers-that-be to mass produce youth from a single mould. According to the artist, society attempts to control young......
A film was recently released about M.S. Dhoni. The film is referred to as a ‘biopic.’Knowing the true meaning of the word ‘biopic’ is interesting, because a biographical film is meant to be an......
Among the many woes of being a Pakistani cricket fan is the glorious uncertainty associated with Pakistan cricket and, in particular, the batting department. As former England captain Nasser Hussain......
It is, of course, a relief when bridal fashion tilts towards trendy minimalism as opposed to bling, texture, print and all the flotsam and jetsam in the world strewn upon a single unassuming garment.......
There’s no stopping the Pakistani film industry it seems. Films are being made with such frequency that pretty soon we might be half-way back to the peak of the industry, at least in terms of......
The young, petite and talented Sajal Ali is one of the finest actresses of her generation. It is a testimony to her talent that despite being a relative new entrant to the world of cinema, she has......
Recently TV and film actor Humayun Saeed met with a group of journalists at his home where a variety of issues concerning showbiz came under discussion, including Pakistani cinema owners’ decision of......
Talk about being modest. Amitabh Bachchan is one of the brightest superstars that the subcontinent has produced, and yet when it comes to being self-effacing, very few can rival him.Amitji, as has......
In an atmosphere where temperatures are running high on both sides of the Wagah border, comes a voice of sanity, followed by some other voices having the same tone and tenor.Bollywood A-lister Salman......
These hackers and their perverse pleasures! They don’t think for a moment that their devious acts can cause irreparable damage to people they’re going after.Indian superstar Kareena Kapoor [who is......
Ah, the fickle world of showbiz. The two sizzling babes of Bollywood Priyanka Chopra and Bipasha Basu are very good friends. This is why when Priyanka C decided to make a movie on the life and work......
Here’s a case of life imitating art. A sister-in-law of the critically acclaimed Indian actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has filed a complaint about him with the Muzaffarnagar police. She got married to the......
“That constellation is the Big Bear, the one opposite it is the Little Bear. At the tail end of the Little Bear is Polaris, the North Star,” I was told. I was around 15 years old when one clear night......
In a region that has become known for its religious and sectarian conflict, tazias — or representations of the tombs of the imams, which form part of elaborate theatre of Muharram processions — are a......
In most nationalist discussions in India, Jinnah’s ‘Two-Nation Theory’, which became the basis of the partition of India in 1947, is often lambasted as being communal in nature.The theory suggested......
MANSEHRA: The survivors of Balakot observed the 11th anniversary of 2005 earthquake amid protests and tears on Saturday. The earthquake had claimed over 25,000 lives in Balakot alone.The main......
SWABI: About 140 Afghan families have left the Gohati and Gandaf refugee camps here for their motherland since the start of voluntarily repatriation of Afghan refugees in the country, sources told......
PESHAWAR: With months to go for the expiry of the umpteenth extension, the federal government has prepared a set of proposals to grant stay incentives to Afghan investors, students and those seeking......
PESHAWAR: Activists of minority communities on Saturday held a demonstration against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for issuing threatening statements against Pakistan.The protest demonstration......
26th German Unity Day celebratedGerman Ambassador Ina Lepel welcomed over a thousand guests to a garden reception at her residence in the embassy complex, to celebrate the 26th German Unity Day last......
RAWALPINDI: The city witnessed traffic gridlocks on Friday evening as the police and Rangers conducted a flag march to show their preparedness to ensure peace during Muharram.The flag march was......
In 2012, Ali Javed Naqvi got one of the happiest movements of his life when he became the grandfather of a baby girl. At birth, the child was fine and taken to home and later named as Zahra Beau......
More than 40,000 streetlights have been installed in Islamabad over the last few decades, according to the Capital Development Authority’s directorate of electrical and mechanical maintenance, but......
One of the tourist attractions in Saidpur Village, a historic village in the Margalla Hills, is an old temple known as Ram Mandir. Said to have been built by Raja Man Singh, who was close to the......
Vocalist, illustrator and watercolour painter Khalid Qureshi is a multifaceted artist, living a low-profile life moving. For the last 10 years, he has been settling with watercolour paintings,......
The Pakistan baseball team returned home from New York last week after making maiden appearance in the World Cup Baseball Qualifying round.On the field it was hard nut to crack for Pakistan to earn......
LAHORE: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq says Islamabad will not be blocked on Oct 30 on the call of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.However, he parried a question about the government’s plan......
LAHORE: The Punjab Home Department has issued a high alert on the basis of intelligence reports that banned outfit Lashkar-i-Jhangvi Al-Mi (LJA) is planning to strike Shias in Faisalabad.Alerting the......
LAHORE: The applications of a good number of farmers, who want to avail themselves of interest-free loans for Rabi and Kharif crops under Punjab Kissan Package 2016, are being ‘refused’ either for......
LAHORE: The Punjab government signed on Saturday several agreements with different commercial banks for the provision of government-sponsored interest-free agriculture loans to small farmers through......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s central leader and former Punjab governor Chaudhry Sarwar has announced launching a campaign in Britain and European countries for the right of self-determination......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday worked out a plan to bring three million out-of-school children back to school if an expenditure of Rs800 million was incurred on it......
KARACHI: Around 50 million people are suffering from common mental disorders in Pakistan. The illness afflicts 15 to 35 million adults, which is about 10 to 20 per cent of the......
KARACHI: Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra has said that a fumigation campaign in the city is being launched and every district will be given 50 vehicles to carry out the spray in their respective......
KARACHI: The two gun attacks targeting people belonging to the Shia sect in the Gulistan-i-Jauhar and Gulshan-i-Iqbal areas within half an hour on Friday night were carried out by same motorcyclists,......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Saturday imposed a ban on pillion riding of motorcycle for five days across the province in line with Muharram security plans, said an official.“The decision has been......
KARACHI: Sindh Parliamentary Affairs Minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on Saturday said the federal government had not yet responded to the resolution, which had been passed by the provincial assembly last......
LARKANA: The district and session court on Saturday ordered registration of an FIR against a doctor who had prescribed substandard medicines for a minor boy which deteriorated his condition.The judge......
HYDERABAD: A large number of students of public and private schools were enthralled by daylong activities in a programme titled ‘Rising Pakistan Children Festival’ held at Mehran Arts Council......
KARACHI has had a rich history when it comes to bakeries as the metropolis had a considerable number of shops that sold bakery items when the country came into existence. Even today, it is not......
KARACHI: It is around 5pm. A grandfather with his three little grandchildren, one of whom is in a pushchair, stops by at the roundabout across the Sindh High Court building to feed and admire the......
WHEN I talked to Stephen Falk in August in advance of the new season of his excellent dark comedy You’re the Worst, we found ourselves talking about the nature of contemporary comedy.“I do feel......
ANKARA: Two people suspected of planning a car bomb attack on the Turkish capital Ankara on Saturday blew themselves up after being confronted by police, averting what the justice minister called a......
KIM Kardashian is arguably one of the most exposed people in our current celebrity culture and, according to her, that led to her being robbed of more than $10 million worth of jewellery at gunpoint......
RABAT: Morocco’s ruling Islamists have beaten their liberal rivals in parliamentary elections five years after sweeping to power following Arab Spring-inspired protests, results showed on......
CHARLESTON: A fast-weakening Hurricane Matthew continued its march along the Atlantic coast on Saturday, lashing two of the South’s most historic cities and some of its most popular resort islands,......
TOKYO: Mount Aso in southern Japan sent huge plumes of gray smoke as high as 11 kilometres into the air on Saturday in one of the volcano’s biggest explosions in years.The Japan Meteorological Agency......
AS usual, all the warnings were there. Three Anglo-Afghan wars. Russia’s Vietnam. The Graveyard of Empires. Poppy capital of the world. The most bombed, crushed, corrupted and mined nation on the......
BAYEUX: How far to go in terms of gore and shock value when covering conflict? Capturing violence on camera was hotly debated on the fringes of Bayeux, a major French photography festival.Seasoned......
EDINBURGH: The first biography of Adolf Hitler which presented him as “Germany’s saviour” and compared him to Jesus may have been written by the future dictator himself, a Scottish historian has......
KARACHI: Uncapped duo of Babar Azam and Mohammad Nawaz were rewarded on Saturday for their superlative showing in the ODI clean sweep against the West Indies when both were named in a 14-member......
INDORE: Skipper Virat Kohli struck form with a gritty century as India ended the opening day’s play on a commanding 267 for three against New Zealand in the third and final Test here on Saturday.The......
LONDON: Cristiano Ronaldo needed only four minutes to put European champions Portugal back on track in qualifying for the 2018 World Cup, while France’s recovery came thanks to a pair of goals by......
BEIJING: Top seed Andy Murray cruised past Spain’s David Ferrer 6-2, 6-3 on Saturday and Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov received a walkover into the China Open final after Milos Raonic withdrew due to an......
SUZUKA: Championship leader Nico Rosberg seized pole position for the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday, the German marginally fending off Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton in a close-run......
KARACHI: Opener Hamza Ghanchi rewrote the record books by compiling an undefeated 300 for his maiden first-class century as Karachi Whites amassed 628-5 declared against NBP on the second day of......
KARACHI: The Lyceum School outplayed The City School Gulshan to clinch the U-19 girls basketball final while Nixor College beat City School PAF by five points to win the U-19 boys basketball final at......
ISLAMABAD: Rice exports by Pakistan this year are poised to exceed the 2015 level by 7 per cent to reach 4.4 million tonnes, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United......
KARACHI: As the Sindh government is set to announce the new support price for wheat next month, flour millers have raised prices of different varieties.The retail price of 10-kilogram flour bags of......
KARACHI: Belying expectations of a pullback, bulls continued their relentless charge at the stock market in the outgoing week with the KSE-100 index accumulating 658 points (1.62 per cent) to close......
KARACHI: The infected portfolio of the corporate sector has been increasing for the last three quarters, according to the Statistical Bulletin for October 2016 released by the State Bank of Pakistan......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan’s powers to regulate the foreign exchange business have been strengthened through enactment of the Foreign Exchange (Amendment) Act 2016.An SBP statement on......
ISLAMABAD: While remittances to South Asian countries from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are expected to decline by 2.3 per cent in 2016, the World Bank says these are expected to......
WASHINGTON: The United States called on Saturday for the International Monetary Fund to speak out on crucial global economic matters, such as exchange rates, even if this made it unpopular.“The IMF......
KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Ashraf Mahmood Wathra has been awarded Euromoney’s Central Bank Governor of 2016 award, according to a press release on Saturday.The governor received......
KARACHI: Cotton prices remained under pressure on Saturday in line with global trend. The underlying sentiment also remained easy and outlook uncertain.Floor brokers said cotton prices moved lower in......
KARACHI: A polio case was reported on Saturday from Sujawal district, taking the total number of cases in Sindh to five and in the country to 15 this year, officials said.Officials in the emergency......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has praised parliament for consensus legislation that closes the loophole of forgiveness in murders in the name of honour and stops......
ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance Senator Saleem Mandviwalla has termed the issuance of $1 billion Islamic bonds (sukuk) “a wrong decision taken at the wrong time”.In......
QUETTA: A tribal chief was gunned down along with his brother in the Bhag area of Bolan district on Saturday, Levies officials said.Sardar Wakeel Ahmed Buledi and his brother Bahadur Ali Buledi were......
WASHINGTON: There’s no role for militancy in policy-making and non-state actors cannot be allowed to operate from the Pakistani territory, says a parliamentary delegation from Pakistan, which......
QUETTA: President of the National Party (NP) Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo has said that Balochistan has become a hub of “international conspiracies” as “external forces” are involved in destroying peace in......
SARGODHA: Two suspected terrorists, believed to be members of the defunct Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) and also working for Al Qaeda, were arrested at a village near here on Saturday.According to Regional......
ISLAMABAD: The management of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of $9.7 million for Pakistan to help finance the designing of the Karachi Bus Rapid Transit Project, it was learnt......
NEW DELHI: Indian journalists crawled when Indira Gandhi asked them to bend. So lamented former BJP home minister Lal Kishan Advani, in his memoirs. On Saturday, the crawling and bending seemed to......
ISLAMABAD: The PML-N’s Punjab Assembly member Rashida Yaqoob Sheikh from Jhang stands de-seated after the Supreme Court dismissed her appeals against the Jan 14 order of the Lahore Election Tribunal......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department on Saturday hailed the legislation against the so-called honour killings as an important step towards protecting women and girls in Pakistan.In a message of......
FOR many, the targeted killing of four women in Quetta earlier this week was the worst sectarian tragedy even this blood-drenched province has seen. Women’s lot is far from satisfactory here; even......
SRINAGAR: Indian security personnel fired shotgun pellets and tear gas on Saturday as thousands of people carried the body of a 12-year-old boy killed overnight during an anti-India protest......
DHAKA: Bangladeshi forces on Saturday killed 11 suspected Islamist extremists including the new leader of a banned group behind a Dhaka cafe massacre, a minister said.“Eleven extremists were......
LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s meeting with renowned businessmen and cabinet members at Governor House on Saturday centered around discussions on a growing national economy and possibilities......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court seems keen to lay down a new legal principle by interpreting Articles 23 and 24 to determine whether a private company — even if it is a charitable trust — can acquire......
KASUR: Hakim Ali of Wallaywala village knows the trouble wartime brings, especially for residents of villages bordering the Line of Control between India and Pakistan. The tiny village, barely a......
LANDI KOTAL: Trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan across the Torkham border remained suspended for the third day on Saturday because of a strike by transporters of both countries against the......
BIG news can trigger a big debate, which is always a healthy process in itself. A well-articulated exchange of ideas has the potential to change our perceptions and positively contribute to the......
THE message has been delivered; it has been received coolly; so we’re left with two questions: why now and what next?Let’s get down to it.Nawaz and the N-League are wrong on militancy. They’ve been......
MIGRATION is a recognised fact of today’s globalised world, largely caused by wars, conflicts and humanitarian disasters. According to a recent UN report, 65 million people have been uprooted and......
JUST some days ago, on Sept 22, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the UN co-organised along with the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme, the......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday took notice of an ‘encounter’ by police officials of two students in the Nipa Chowrangi area of the metropolis on Friday night, said a......
