West Indies, replying to Pakistan's 579-3 declared, were 315-6 at the close of play on the third day of the first day-night Test in Dubai on Saturday.Shane Dowrich (27) and Jason Holder (10) were at......
A stampede at a religious gathering in northern India killed at least 24 people on Saturday as thousands of devotees of a controversial guru tried to cross a bridge at once, said Indian Police......
The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemeni rebels said Saturday that one of its warplanes had “wrongly targeted” a funeral in the capital Sanaa, killing more than 140 people, and announced disciplinary......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday suspended the membership of 336 members of the parliament over their failure to submit details of their assets, said a notification issued by the......
Former batsman and captain of the national cricket team Jaived Miandad on Saturday withdrew his allegations against former T20 captain Shahid Afridi.Miandad also announced that he harbours no ill......
A Senate sub-committee on Saturday asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to stop taxing consumers who do not fall in the taxable category on purchase of mobile cards, during a meeting......
Professor Dr Hasan Zafar Arif of the London-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement said on Saturday that there was no such thing as MQM-Pakistan, adding that the party could not even conceive the idea of a......
Battered by sordid new accusations of sexual misbehaviour, Donald Trump fought back in ever-more-remarkable fashion Friday, acting out one woman's allegation onstage and suggesting another was not......
Nearly 200 nations hammered out a legally binding deal to cut back on greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners, a Rwandan minister announced to loud cheers on Saturday, in a major......
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Saturday Pakistan is ready to hold dialogue with India if New Delhi is serious about resolving the Kashmir issue.Pakistan had offered holding of talks on outstanding......
Bangladeshi and Chinese firms have signed $13.6 billion in trade and investment deals on the sidelines of President Xi Jinping's brief tour to the South Asian nation, a trade group official said......
India and Russia on Saturday announced plans to set up a joint venture to build helicopters in India, which will also buy surface-to-air missile systems from its former Cold War ally, as the two......
A policeman shot dead by unidentified assailants in Karachi's North Nazimabad neighbourhood on Saturday.A gunman riding a motorcycle opened fire on the police constable, later identified as Munawwar,......
Self driving chairs make waiting comfortableRecently, Nissan has introduced their self-driving ProPILOT chairs which are equipped with cameras, can link chairs into a line by detecting the chair in......
World’s largest radio telescopeThe world’s largest radio telescope has begun searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life.Measuring 1,640ft in diameter, the radio......
Once again we will be reusing the newspaper in a creative way. We are making a little decorative kitty today which you can keep on your study or computer table, or can even present to your friend.......
Horrid Henry’s Ketchup by Francesca Simon, containing four stories about the worst behaved boy in the world, is as funny as the other books of the series. Henry is not a regular mischievous boy, he......
Have you ever wondered why most months have 30 and 31 days, except for February which has 28 days and 29 in the case of a leap year?Although before Pope Gregory XIII developed the Gregorian calendar......
“Not everyone can be a hero, Eshal. Besides, only boys are heroes,” my elder sister Rimsha explained as she ate her dinner.“What makes you say that? Girls can be heroes, too,” I mumbled pushing the......
There was a time when sport was just sport — no mild or extreme in it. But with time, things have changed so much that everything has gone extreme, whether technology, science, music, dance or......
KARACHI: Infrastructure financing by banks and development finance institutions (DFIs) reached an all-time high of Rs1.05 trillion at the end of the April-June quarter, a year-on-year growth of......
ISLAMABAD: With revenue slippages in the first quarter of this fiscal year, the government has pledged to cut current and capital expenditures and take ‘additional measures’ to recoup revenue......
ISLAMABAD: The Privatisation Commission has initiated process for Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (Fesco) as the government decides to reactivate its......
ISLAMABAD: The trade deficit rose nearly 30 per cent year-on-year to $7.06 billion in the first quarter of 2016-17 mainly because of falling exports coupled with a double-digit increase in......
KARACHI: The Sindh Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) has approved 11 schemes worth Rs2.59 billion for irrigation, education, local government, livestock and fisheries, and works and......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) explained once again on Friday why some of its SBP Banking Services Corporation (SBP-BSC) functions have been shifted to Lahore.Earlier, the move was......
BRUSSELS: Lawmakers in the small Belgian region of Wallonia on Friday voted to block an EU-Canada free trade deal, a move which could seriously complicate future talks with the US and a non-EU......
LONDON: A British financial trader accused of manipulating markets and causing the 2010 “Flash Crash” in US stocks lost his appeal on Friday against extradition to face trial in the United......
OTTAWA: When Canada was designing its current C$20 bill, it considered dispensing with its “tradition” of depicting the reigning British monarch if Queen Elizabeth dies or abdicates, internal......
The stereotype of millennials living in their parents’ basements is well worn by now, but what about the 30-year-old still on a family cellphone plan? Or the 35-year-old piggybacking mom and dad’s......
DUBAI: Pakistan declared their first innings at 579-3 after opener Azhar Ali knocked his maiden triple hundred on day two of the first day-night Test against West Indies in Dubai on Friday (see close......
The beauty of cricket lies in its charming unpredictability, its ups and downs and its twists and turns, no matter it is played at the Test level or in a shorter format game.Dull periods make you......
CHITTAGONG: England’s preparations for their Test series against Bangladesh were disrupted on Friday when the first day’s play of a two-day warm-up fixture against a Bangladesh XI was cancelled due......
SYDNEY: The family of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes walked out of the inquest into his death on Friday, with his father calling the Sydney Cricket Ground an “unsafe workplace”.Hughes, who......
ZURICH: The US, Canada and Mexico’s hopes of hosting the 2026 World Cup were handed a significant boost when European countries were effectively ruled out of bidding by FIFA on Friday.The FIFA......
BARCELONA: Barcelona maestro Lionel Messi has fully recovered from injury and should make his comeback against Deportivo La Coruna on Saturday, coach Luis Enrique said.The five-time world player of......
LONDON: Chelsea manager Antonio Conte laughed off rumours that he is close to being sacked and confirmed that club captain John Terry would return to the squad for Saturday’s visit of defending......
SHANGHAI: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic hummed on the baseline to keep himself calm as he survived an almighty scare against 110th-ranked Mischa Zverev to reach the Shanghai Masters semi-finals on......
KARACHI: Hamza Tahir of IBA was declared the fastest man while Shiza Ayub from BBA was declared the fastest woman during the 3rd IBA Games held at the institution’s campus recently. Besides, Hasan......
KARACHI: Amid shrill screams, intense pounding by two chimps confined separately in tiled-floor cages, a group of activists took down notes and shared their ideas at the zoo on Friday morning to see......
JAKARTA: Thousands of Muslim hardliners protested in Jakarta on Friday demanding the Indonesian capital’s Christian governor be executed for allegedly insulting Islam, as he faces an increasingly......
JERUSALEM: Israel suspended cooperation with Unesco on Friday after the UN cultural organisation adopted two resolutions on the occupied Palestinian territories including annexed east Jerusalem ahead......
DHAKA: Bangladeshi leaders on Friday welcomed the first Chinese president to visit in three decades, seeking to secure much-needed infrastructure investment without alienating China’s main regional......
MUHANGA: Rwanda on Friday inaugurated a drone operation that its backers hope will kickstart a revolution in the supply of medical care in rural parts of Africa, in the first instance by delivering......
The fine black stone Ottoman gateway of the Karavanserai Hotel was just the same: guarded by two antique stone lions, the reception desk tucked away to the left of the door, the 18th-century......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday appointed a two-man commission of experts for re-verification of the environmental assessment reports on the Rs45 billion Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT)......
ISLAMABAD: Days ahead of the planned siege of Islamabad by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), the Supreme Court will take up on Oct 20 the much-anticipated Panamagate case seeking disqualification......
QUETTA: Three personnel of the Frontier Corps were killed in an attack here on Friday.Police said that the three personnel were on a routine patrol in the Sabzal road area, a locality on the......
BAKU: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that all regional and global issues must be resolved through dialogue and peaceful means within the framework of international law.Addressing a joint press......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif on Friday called for sustained efforts to defeat all hostile attempts to reverse the gains of Operation Zarb-i-Azb.Recounting the successes of......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), led by the opposition leader, created uproar in the Punjab Assembly against the PML-N government, charging it with bad governance, corruption and......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The Kamalia city police arrested on Friday night a private college teacher on the allegation of committing blasphemy.According to the case registered under section 295 A of PPC, the......
LAHORE: The Punjab law minister says that none will be allowed to shut any city.“Which authority does permit (anyone) the closure of a city and that, too, of the federal capital?” Rana Sanaullah said......
LAHORE: Entomologists of the Government College University, Lahore, have successfully genetically modified the aedes aegypti mosquito to block the transmission of dengue virus to humans.The Zoology......
LAHORE: An exhibition of photographs and paintings by Akhtar Mummunka and Sapna Khan will open at the Nairang Art Gallery on Saturday (today).With his works based on the Cholistan desert, Akhtar......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has granted bail to Zafar Iqbal Gondal, former chairman of the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI), in six cases of corruption and misuse of authority.Justice......
SAHIWAL: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ?has said the country will overcome the energy crisis by the end of 2017.The chief minister stated this during his visit to 1,320 megawatt Sahiwal Coal-Fired......
ISLAMABAD: After the intervention of the Supreme Court, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has finally imposed a ban on the import of all kinds of sheesha, its substances and flavoured......
“I never went to school, I only worked as a labourer to support my family. I worked as an automobile mechanic in Sargodha and then moved to Rawalpindi a few months ago. I was working as a labourer at......
ISLAMABAD: Though the civic agency has spent millions of rupees under the prime minister’s package on the improvement of roads in the capital, most of the roads still lack proper zebra......
PESHAWAR: The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and Women Chamber of Commerce and Industries (WCCI) on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding on skill development training for BISP......
MINGORA: Speakers at the concluding ceremony of a training session here on Friday noted that inaccessibility to relevant laws was one of the major factors in triggering militancy in Malakand......
ISLAMABAD: India has not formally conveyed any plan to Pakistan to completely seal its border with Pakistan by December 2018, Foreign Office spokesman Nafees Zakaria said during a weekly press......
GILGIT: The Pak-China Friendship Car Rally arrived here from China’s Xinjiang region through the Khunjerab Pass on Friday.The rally, comprising 20 cars with 52 people, including media......
KIGALI (Rwanda): Talks on a global pact to cut greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners are making progress, said the United States Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday, raising......
GWADAR: All accords signed by the federal government regarding Gwadar and the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) should be made public, said Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal, chief of the Balochistan......
KARACHI: The London-based leadership of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement announced on Friday a 12-member interim coordination committee — nine members of which are based in Pakistan — in an attempt to......
“The upstream users of an international river are no longer entitled to the unrestricted use of (the waters) of such a river, and are bound, when taking decisions concerning its use, to take......
COMMEMORATED on Oct 10, this year’s World Mental Health Day focused on ‘psychological first aid’, with an aim to generate awareness about this theme: simple psychosocial interventions that can be......
THE corps commanders have spoken. They have expressed concern over the “feeding of a false and fabricated story” that appeared in Dawn on Oct 6 as a breach of national security. At the same time, the......
AS we pass through yet another fraught period in civilian-military relations, it would be instructive to look at another country where such tensions have prevailed for decades.In Turkey, the military......
Now that the latest IMF programme has concluded, a few questions must be asked.First, is this the last Fund programme for Pakistan? In the last 27 years, there have been only six in which Pakistan......
