Two Americans including a civilian were killed when a gunman opened fire near a Nato base in Kabul on Wednesday, with Afghan officials calling it an “insider attack”.“One US service member and one US......
The number of ghost employees working in various government departments of Balochistan is around 50,000, said Public Accounts Committee Chairman Abdul Majeed Khan Achakzai on Wednesday."There are......
The UN Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances on Wednesday called on the Government of India to immediately release Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez who was arrested......
Pakistan's Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, giving a speech on Wednesday in the Emirates, urged Muslims to respect the “true message of Islam” and unite against wars in their countries.“We......
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Wednesday approved a complete ban on airing of Indian content in Pakistan from October 21, said a statement released by the regulatory......
The final of second edition of Pakistan Super League (PSL2) will be played in Lahore, PSL Chairman Najam Sethi announced on Wednesday while addressing the drafts ceremony in Dubai.“The second edition......
One villager was killed and five others injured due to unprovoked firing by Indian security forces across the Line of Control (LoC) on Wednesday, the Foreign Office said in a statement.Abdul Rehman,......
More than 50 bodies have been recovered from a ferry that sank in central Myanmar, a local official said Wednesday, warning the toll would keep rising as workers raise the capsized boat.The......
New Zealand's batsmen are struggling for answers against India's bowling attack, Black Caps pace spearhead Trent Boult conceded Wednesday, before the second One-Day international (ODI) in New......
There has been a shift in the way women are considered in climate change discussions.We are being urged to stop thinking of women as victims of climate change, but as a valuable resource, capable of......
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif lashed out at the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday, vowing to leave politics if corruption is proven against Prime Minister Nawaz......
Serene Air, Pakistan's upcoming airline, is set to begin operations along domestic routes by the end of 2016, DawnNews learnt on Wednesday.The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) granted Serene Air a......
Polio health workers have been instructed by the Health Department of Punjab to take photographs of the children they administer vaccinations to, a spokesperson from the health department confirmed......
Governor Sindh Dr. Ishratul Ibad on Wednesday termed former city nazim Mustafa Kamal "an incredibly dishonourable man."Talking to reporters in Karachi, he alleged that the Pakistan Sarzameen Party......
Indian police have detained two schoolboys accused of repeatedly beating a low-caste classmate for getting good grades, an officer said Wednesday, with a video of the attacks going viral.The......
A multi-million-dollar racket that used fake Indian call centres to trick United States (US) citizens into paying bogus tax bills may be the tip of the iceberg, with police warning similar scams......
IMRAN Khan and the PTI have a democratic right to protest, and the party’s focus on the as yet unresolved Panama Papers issue is an important source of political pressure on the PML-N government.The......
ALMOST everyone was taken by surprise last Thursday when the Swedish Academy named this year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. And it is perfectly possible that no one was quite as......
A LAST-MINUTE month-long extension until end October for the deadline to file this year’s tax returns should hardly be surprising.It followed a repeated delay last year too, with the onus then placed......
LAST week, a young Yazidi woman named Nadia Murad was awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Award. Her story is a truly harrowing one. In July 2014, Nadia was just an ordinary girl living in the......
SLOWLY but surely, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari is making his presence felt on the national political scene. Though still raw and a novice, he has infused new life into the PPP that many thought was on the......
The Taliban on Wednesday rejected reports of secret meetings with the Afghan government in a bid to resume long-stalled peace negotiations, insisting that their hard line policy remains......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday hit back at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's speech a day earlier, demanding a response to accusations of corruption levelled against the......
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said it had received interest from Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc for media rights to the popular Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket......
Four teenage students were shot in the shared parking lot of two San Francisco high schools Tuesday and one of the students is in critical condition, authorities said."The shooting occurred as......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has said that federal government is cheating federating units of the country on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.Talking to......
AUTUMN is almost coming to close yet it appears the hot weather is here to stay. Is it climate change or global warming? I guess both but somehow our policy makers are missing the point here.In this......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court bench on Tuesday issued notice to the attorney general for Pakistan to respond to a petition filed by a Pakistani woman and her Afghan husband against the Pakistan......
RAWALPINDI: Even parliament and Senate are at times reluctant to share information and the contempt of court laws in the country also militate against the right of expression and right to information......
ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Aushtar Ausaf on Tuesday attempted, unsuccessfully, to convince the Supreme Court that the federal government was willing to conduct a census in March next year but......
LAHORE: A man allegedly committed suicide after killing his wife and two children at Nawab Town on Tuesday.Muhammad Maalik, 27, his wife Asia, 25, and children -- five-year-old Asif and two-year-old......
LAHORE: The London edition of Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) is set to take place on Oct 29.The daylong festival will be held at the British Museum’s BP Theatre.“LLF in London highlights the......
LAHORE: The premiere of Ajoka’s new play ‘Talismati Tota’ turned out a treat as the play written in the tradition of Urdu ‘dastan’ was highly appreciated by a large audience at Alhamra Art Centre,......
LAHORE: PML-N and PML-Q council members will likely elect Shahbaz Sharif and Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi their party Punjab president on Wednesday.The PML-N is holding intra-party election in Expo centre......
LAHORE: High Commissioner of Canada Perry John Calderwood called on Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Minority Affairs Minister Tahir Khalil Sindhu on Tuesday.Mr Sharif sought exchange of trade......
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday arrested a man who allegedly blackmailed a girl after making her video.The FIA cyber crime wing arrested Azhar Safdar on the complaint of a......
MULTAN: More than 200 contestants from around 50 schools participated in the Multan round of the 12th DAWN In Education Spelling Bee Competition 2016 held at the Multan Arts Council auditorium on......
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, along with MNA Faryal Talpur, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali, former chief minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, members of the Sindh......
KARACHI: Did the fabled Emperor wear any clothes at all? No. Perhaps he did. Perhaps the people around him, his subjects, were visually impaired and the child who said he wasn’t wearing any clothes......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Tuesday directed the excise and taxation department to revoke liquor licences granted in violation of the Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Order 1979.Headed by Chief......
KARACHI: About 3,000 retired employees of the Pakistan Steel Mills have been running from pillar to post to get their retirement dues, benefits totalling Rs5 billion for the past several years but......
KARACHI: Nine years after the twin suicide attacks on the homecoming rally of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistan Peoples Party-led Sindh government constituted a five-member team on......
KARACHI: More than half a dozen armed robbers stormed into a private bank branch in Ranchhore Line on Tuesday and walked off with half a million rupees in this year’s eighth such heist in the city,......
KARACHI: A couple of weeks after the lifting of ban on “all kinds of initial recruitments”, the Sindh government on Tuesday asked all its ministries to make “immediate” arrangements to advertise more......
KARACHI: “The purpose of the Faiz Foundation is to carry on with the mission of Faiz Ahmed Faiz which is to uphold the cause of human rights, democracy and equality. In that connection we have......
MOSCOW: Moscow announced on Tuesday that Russian and Syrian air forces have stopped bombing Aleppo ahead of a brief truce, a move the Kremlin said showed “goodwill” as it faces mounting criticism for......
NEW DELHI: Israel may be too small a country for the formidable Indian army to emulate in strategy or military philosophy, but in the mind of the Hindu nationalist leadership in Delhi the Jewish......
NEW YORK: Slain rapper Tupac Shakur, pop star Janet Jackson and protest singer Joan Baez were among 19 musicians nominated on Tuesday for induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.Artists must have......
SYRIA’S army and Hezbollah and Iranian allies are preparing for a massive invasion by thousands of IS fighters who will be driven out of Iraq when Mosul falls. The real purpose behind the......
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi Islamist party allied to the opposition has elected a new chief untainted by war crime allegations, seeking to turn the page after the execution of several of its top......
QAYYARAH: Iraqi forces were making gains as tens of thousands of fighters advanced on Mosul on Tuesday in an unprecedented offensive to retake the city from the militant Islamic State group.With the......
PARIS: The UN cultural agency on Tuesday adopted an Arab-sponsored resolution condemning Israel’s actions at a flashpoint holy site in east Jerusalem, deepening anger in the Jewish state.The Unesco......
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama warned on Tuesday of a tough battle ahead as Iraqi forces backed by a US-led coalition advance on Mosul to wrest the city from the militant Islamic State......
FRANKFURT: David Hockney presented the largest book ever devoted to his art on Tuesday, a limited-edition volume costing $2,500 that spans more than 60 years of work by one of the most influential......
The distinction between sanity and insanity was blurred in the minds of otherwise normal individuals of which there was ample evidence in the way the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) had......
THE United Nations confronts a number of challenges, including the Syrian civil war, an outflow of refugees, the spread of terrorism and poverty. Anyone at the helm of the world body must possess......
THE overwhelming majority of Right to Information (RTI) laws around the world were enacted in the last quarter of a century, following the end of the Cold War. They became one of the fastest growing......
We asked several celebrities if they had the guts to do what Agot Isidro did on Facebook. To backtrack a bit. The singer-actress became a trending topic recently after criticising President Duterte......
DUBAI: Rival captains Misbah-ul-Haq and Jason Holder praised the fight till last attitude in the first day-night Test played with Pakistan upstaging West Indies by 56 runs in the final hour on......
LONDON: Andres Iniesta can see it already. The Manchester City team coming to the Nou Camp for Wednesday’s Champions League match against Barcelona has quickly been infused with Pep Guardiola’s......
DUBAI: West Indies batsman Darren Bravo, who scored a resolute hundred in the first Test against Pakistan, on Tuesday said his team could have beaten Pakistan after fighting their way in Dubai.Bravo......
CHITTAGONG: Proud new father Alastair Cook will become England’s most capped Test cricketer on Thursday when he leads his country into battle against Bangladesh only days after attending his......
LIVERPOOL: One of the most eagerly-awaited clashes of the Premier League season turned into a major letdown as arch rivals Liverpool and Manchester United nullified each other in a largely......
LOS ANGELES: Former world champion Bernard Hopkins plans to call time on his 28-year boxing career in December when he takes on compatriot Joe Smith in his farewell bout, it was announced on......
KARACHI: A tax on real estate has resulted in a drop in foreign investment in properties across Pakistan, which is slowing down foreign currency inflows and appreciating the dollar against the rupee......
KARACHI: Despite higher arrival of phutti (seed cotton) in the last fortnight (October 1-15), the overall cotton production in the current season remained 4.374 million bales, down 6.2 per cent from......
ISLAMABAD: United States is one of the largest trading partners of Pakistan and it will be in the interest of both countries to enhance the bilateral trade volume which has been hovering around $5......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has approved first ever application for a private equity and venture capital fund under the newly promulgated Private Funds......
KARACHI: The deepening political crisis took its toll on the country’s stock market on Tuesday where the KSE-100 index went on a downward spiral at the sound of the opening bell. As nervous investors......
KARACHI: Almost 90 per cent of real estate business has collapsed due to double valuation, raising tax by 100 per cent along with new valuation, and harassment of real estate agents and new buyers by......
LONDON: Gold prices fell on Tuesday as the dollar rose but receding worries about the outcome of the US election and expectations of US rate rises in December could mean lower levels.Spot gold was up......
KARACHI: Strong buying from spinners kept cotton prices steady on Tuesday amid reports of higher phutti (seed-cotton) arrivals in the last fortnight night (Oct 1 to 15).Brokers said trading resumed......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has expressed concern over slow progress of project implementation in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development (ANR) mainly in Punjab and the......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued notices to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan and secretary general Jahangir Khan Tareen, asking them to appear before......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has informed the Supreme Court that it has completely banned the import of tobacco used in ‘sheesha’ (glass water pipe hookah).In a report submitted to the court,......
HYDERABAD: Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, the former chief minister of Balochistan and leader of the National Party (NP), said on Tuesday that even after the passage of the 18th constitutional amendment the......
QUETTA: Forty-three militants belonging to a banned organisation have surrendered themselves to authorities in Dera Bugti.According to official sources, at a ceremony held in Dera Bugti on Tuesday......
ISLAMABAD: More than 350,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their war-torn homeland from Pakistan this year, UN data shows, with the torrent of people crossing the border expected to continue.This......
KARACHI: The Taliban and representatives of the Afghan government have restarted secret talks in Qatar, sources within the insurgency and the Kabul government have told The Guardian.Among those......
KARACHI: Wing Commander Fayaz of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) sustained fatal injuries when his Mirage jet aircraft crashed during a routine operational training mission near Hawksbay here on Tuesday......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar on Tuesday directed the Federal Board of Revenue chairman to approach nine tax havens through the ministry of foreign affairs to obtain information about......
PESHAWAR: The fourth phase of the return and rehabilitation process of the people displaced from South Waziristan will commence on Wednesday.According to a statement issued by the ISPR, the......
GWADAR / KARACHI: Fishermen belonging to the Jiwani area stopped fishing in the Arabian Sea along the Makran coast a day after over 100 of their colleagues were taken into custody by Iranian......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif claimed on Tuesday that his party would form the next government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after the 2018 general elections, lashing out at the Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Justice Aamer Farooq of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday reserved his order on the maintainability of a petition seeking the status of field marshal for incumbent Chief of the......
ISLAMABAD: In what might come as a nightmare for many, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to randomly scrutinise annual statements of assets and liabilities submitted to it by the......
ISLAMABAD: Chinese Ambassador Sun Weidong called on Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan at the latter’s Bani Gala residence on Tuesday.The gist of the meeting, according to PTI......
