A Sessions Court in Karachi on Saturday granted an interim pre-arrest bail to the Frontier Constabulary (FC) guard Hasan Abbas, who had slapped a female reporter of a private news channel K-21 in......
Cameroon's president announced on Saturday that more than 70 people had been killed and another 600 injured when a passenger train crashed on Friday.The packed Camrail train had been travelling from......
Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Saturday evening claimed to have arrested two suspected militants allegedly involved in the suicide blast which targeted mourning procession in Jacobabad last year."Acting......
At least nine migrants drowned and 10 others, including four children, were missing after a tense series of rescues on Saturday in the Mediterranean that saved over 1,000 people, rescuers......
The Mazar-i-Quaid was illuminated pink on Saturday as part of solidarity with breast cancer patients and survivors.Pink Ribbon Campaign, in collaboration with Government of Pakistan, National History......
Zabivaka the wolf followed in the footsteps of Naranjito the orange, Footix the football-playing rooster and Fuleco the armadillo by being named as the official mascot of the 2018 World Cup on......
West Indies lost two late wickets to hand the initiative to Pakistan on the second day of the second Test in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.West Indies had defied Pakistan's bowlers well until the 44th over......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Saturday said he was “not aware” if any delegation of the Afghan Taliban had recently come to Pakistan in relation to peace......
Sindh Rangers on Saturday took Professor Dr Hasan Zafar Arif and Kunwar Khalid Yunus of the London-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement into custody from outside the Karachi Press Club, where they were due......
While Hillary Clinton unveiled an emotional television ad featuring the parents of a slain Muslim American army captain, Donald Trump assured supporters he would have no regrets if he loses the......
At least 19 people were killed when a helicopter crashed in northwestern Siberia, Russia's Investigative Committee said Saturday.Investigators said in a statement that an Mi-8 helicopter carrying 22......
Friday nights, the oldest and youngest members of my household sit and watch one of their favourite TV shows together. It is the weekend and my eight-year-old gets to stay up late with her......
Three senior Afghan Taliban members travelled to Pakistan this week and held a series of meetings with Pakistani officials in Islamabad, mainly to brief them about the recent talks held in Qatar......
Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Jalil Abbas Jilani has called on the US and the international community to help resolve the Kashmir dispute and not allow New Delhi to divert world's......
A very low fat French toast recipe that you can cook up in minutes without even troubling mummy!INGREDIENTS• 2 Slices of bread, cubed• 1 egg• 1 tbs of butter, melted• 1 tbsp of sugar• 2 tbs of milk•......
How To Capture An Invisible Cat by Paul Tobin is a lot of fun to read. It’s a book for middle school kids, but can be enjoyed by all readers who enjoy reading wacky kids adventure.The story is full......
In our everyday life, a lot of things happen. For instance, we meet new people, new neighbours or our class fellows. We go out to play with friends or for our sports activities.So whether you are at......
“This is how I spend my day,” said the girl miserably to me as she clasped a brick and placed it into a corroded wagon. I looked around and saw juveniles with tender hands forced into labour.How......
A ‘double-faced’ calfAn incredible rare ‘double-faced’ calf was born on a farm at Taylor County in Kentucky. The farmer, Stan McCubbin who owns the cow, admitted that he was stunned when he......
Dwayne Johnson in JumanjiActor Kevin Hart has taken to social media to share the first look at his upcoming film Jumanji alongside cast-mates Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black and Karen Gillan.“Day 1 of......
It was a bright Sunday morning when Jonathan and his friends decided to spend the time with his father, Alfred Bates, the famous detective. Jon’s friend Anthony assembled all in the dining room where......
A subject that is made up of problems is not meant to be easy. People who do well in it are those who know how to solve problems. Yes, I am talking about mathematics, the bane of every student’s......
PESHAWAR: Popular nonagenarian sitar player, poet and folk singer Shad Mohammad Ustad passed away at Babini village in Mardan on Friday. He was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard near his......
ISLAMABAD: Educational institutions in the capital are shocked by an NGO report that claims that 53pc of students at elite private schools are drug “addicts”, based on the findings of a survey of 44......
ISLAMABAD: The Embassy of China and the Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage held an exhibition of paintings, calligraphy and photographs at the Pakistan National Council of......
The Supreme Court has taken cognizance of Panamagate and issued notices to the prime minister and other government functionaries. Legal experts, however, believe that deciding petitions related to......
LAHORE: Life for those living on and around Khayaban-i-Jinnah – the boulevard connecting Johar Town with the Raiwind Road – has turned, in residents’ parlance, hellish for the last six months as the......
CHINIOT: Police seized a heavy cache of arms and narcotics on Friday and arrested one person.Chiniot District Police Officer (DPO) Mustansar Feroz told a press conference that on a tip off, police......
KARACHI: Maintaining the zoo’s heritage status but discarding the concept of caging animals forms the basis of the draft prepared by an eight-member team of professional architects who gave a......
NEW YORK: Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton took their acrimonious presidential contest to a charity dinner, where Trump drew boos from the well-heeled audience when his jokes......
FRANKFURT: Images taken by a Nasa Mars orbiter indicate that a missing European space probe was destroyed on impact after plummeting to the surface of the Red Planet from a height of 2-4 km, the......
QUITO (Ecuador): The United Nations formally adopted a global road map to grapple with rapid urbanisation on Thursday, capping nearly two years of behind-the-scenes international negotiations aimed......
MANILA: Philippine officials sought on Friday to play down comments by President Rodrigo Duterte who announced his “separation” from the United States a day earlier, saying their country will......
MOSCOW/ALEPPO: Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg has expressed concern that a Russian aircraft carrier battlegroup, on its way from the North Sea and currently off the coast of Britain, could join attacks......
HONG KONG: The usually frenetic streets of Hong Kong were deserted on Friday as the city was battered by Typhoon Haima after the storm left a trail of deaths and damage in the Philippines.More than......
MAYBE it’s because I live in Lebanon, and return to Beirut from Aleppo and Damascus, that the place seems so “normal”. While all around this little jewel, the Middle East burns — Syria, the occupied......
IT’S time to worry when an utterly illogical proposition begins to sound half-way logical because it has been repeated over and over again, and because glaring gaps in reason have been plugged with......
ABU DHABI: Younis Khan showed no ill effects from dengue fever to score a brilliant century as Pakistan dominated the opening day of the second Test against the West Indies here at the Sheikh Zayed......
ALL successful batsmen in the game’s history have possessed one basic and most important ingredient in their make-up and that is the ability to concentrate for longer periods to stay at the wicket......
CHITTAGONG: Tamim Iqbal scored a half-century as Bangladesh made a solid start on Friday in response to England’s first innings in an evenly-poised opening Test before skipper Mushfiqur Rahim was......
LONDON: Paul Pogba repaid some of his world record transfer fee with two goals as Manchester United rediscovered their early-season shine, cruising to a 4-1 Europa League win over Fenerbahce to go......
ISLAMABAD: Farhan Mehboob, Pakistan’s last hope in the Chief of the Naval Staff International Squash Championship, offered strong resistance to top seed Omar Abdel Meguid of Egypt in the semi-final......
LAHORE: Fine bowling by Ghulam Murtaza and Ahmad Shafique and equally good batting by Waqas Ali helped PCB Youth-XI beat Australian Army team by 107 runs in a T20 match at the Gaddafi Stadium on......
KARACHI: As many as seventy eight sports teachers and coaches participated in a Netball Inset Programme held here on Friday at the NCC which was jointly organised by Pakistan Netball Federation and......
ISLAMABAD: Following revenue slippages in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, the Ministry of Finance has asked various ministries and their autonomous bodies to provide details of their......
KARACHI: Pak Suzuki has announced its plans to start local production of Suzuki Alto 660cc by 2018 to replace its iconic Mehran 800cc.The information was shared with the Senate Standing Committee on......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports of merchandise fell in the first quarter of the fiscal year mainly because of a drop in textile and non-textile exports, data released by the Pakistan Bureau of......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) registered 481 new companies during the month of September 2016.Of these, 87 per cent companies have been registered as private......
KARACHI: Stocks turned volatile in the last trading session of the week, with the benchmark 100-share index moving wildly in a band of 344 points. Nervous investors who suspected the market to be......
KARACHI: Cotton trading was brisk on Friday, but prices slightly came under pressure in line with world trend. However, the underlying sentiment remained positive on strong demand for lint from......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Friday launched an attack on the government’s economic track record, saying the country is in the midst of an ‘economic crunch’.“Amid reports of falling......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan made it clear on Friday that citizenship of suspected terrorists included in the fourth schedule of the antiterrorism law could not be taken......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday signed an agreement for the sale of 10 Super Mushshak aircraft to the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) announced here on Friday.“The contract......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz media team unleashed its fury at Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan for the third consecutive day on Friday, accusing him of seeking an......
ISLAMABAD: In the corner of a pristine park in Islamabad, an open-air classroom run by an aging rescue-worker offers a beacon of hope to the poor.For the past 30 years Master Mohammad Ayub, who......
QUETTA: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), in collaboration with USAID, has established more than eight hundred community organisations in Balochistan to increase the production, sale and......
QAYYARA (Iraq): The militant Islamic State (IS) group launched a major attack on the city of Kirkuk on Friday as Iraqi and Kurdish forces pursued operations to seize territory around Mosul in......
NEW DELHI: The Indian government on Friday asked the banks concerned and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to submit a report on the nature of a security breach which compromised about 3.25 million......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has ruled out for now any negotiations with the government over his decision to bring the federal capital to a standstill on Nov......
KARACHI: Amid a debate on media ethics and calls for training of security personnel, the police registered a “counter-case” against the reporter of a private news channel on the complaint of a......
LONDON: British journalist Mazher Mahmood, renowned for his “fake sheikh” undercover sting operations for media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids, was jailed for 15 months on Friday for tampering with......
LAHORE: In what would be seen in political circles as a message to bitter foe Imran Khan, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday said that his government would complete its five-year constitutional......
QUETTA: Justice Qazi Faez Isa, head of the judicial commission constituted by the Supreme Court to hold an inquiry into the Aug 8 suicide bombing that claimed 76 lives, including 57 lawyers,......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has fixed the hearing of the Panama Papers leaks case for Nov 1 — only a day before the planned lockdown of the capital by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.The SC decision,......
MILITARY power is relatively easy to measure by counting the number of soldiers, tanks, planes, ships, etc. Economic might is quantified by readily available data on exchange rate, GDP, productivity,......
SINCE Pakistan and India agreed on a need to address each other’s concern for territorial integrity and protection against covert operations, it shouldn’t be hard for them to define a framework in......
THE next six weeks promise to be as tumultuous a period in Pakistan’s often unfortunate history as any, with the fate of an elected government possibly decided via street protests and the question of......
THIS newspaper’s initiative to help mainstream Sustainable Development Goals through a series of articles focusing on the SDGs has brought forth the complexity and policy choices that need to be made......
Police on Friday registered a case against the owner of Ciaton Engineering Company where three workers died late Thursday night after a boiler exploded inside the industrial unit in Karachi's New......
