Heavily-armed militants wearing suicide vests stormed a police academy in Quetta, killing at least 61 people and wounding at least 117, Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti said Tuesday, in......
Veteran politician and former PTI lawmaker Javed Hashmi on Monday described the politics of sit-ins as disaster for Pakistan and alleged Imran Khan of being under the control of foreign powers,......
Suspected militants on Monday killed two officials of Pakistan Customs in Balochistan’s Mastung district.One customs official was critically wounded in the armed attack.“Armed men opened fire at a......
Pakistan’s physically disabled cricket team overpowered their counterparts from England in the final of ICC Academy PD T-20 Tournament 2016 by three wickets on Monday at Dubai Sports City Stadium.The......
Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Monday confirmed that Pakistan will be attending the upcoming Heart of Asia conference scheduled to be held in India.Aziz confirmed......
The lawyers' organisations in Quetta boycotted the court proceedings and staged a protest against what they called “holding of delayed full court reference”, at Balochistan High Court (BHC) on......
In a significant development on Monday, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri accepted Pakistan Tahreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) request to take part in their November 2 'lockdown' of......
A district and sessions court in Lahore on Monday awarded a death sentence to a person after he was found guilty of murdering his daughter for not making ‘gol roti’, DawnNews reported.Additional......
The Shuhada Foundation, which manages the media affairs of Lal Masjid, is considering the option of supporting the upcoming protest by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in Islamabad, said a statement released......
Two men have been arrested for the suspected honour killing of three women whose charred bodies were found in Peshawar a week ago, DawnNews reported on Monday.Hasan Bano and her two daughters were......
The Supreme Court on Monday stopped the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) from accepting offers of the voluntary return of ill-gotten money by a wrongdoer under the National Accountability......
Pakistan pressed West Indies hard for a series-clinching win in the second Test after setting a daunting 456-run target on the fourth day in Abu Dhabi on Monday.By close of play Pakistan had taken......
Anyone possessing the notorious Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone in Pakistan can now get it exchanged or obtain a refund inside the country from Samsung.Samsung has been struggling to contain a......
The first cross-border transaction between banks using multiple blockchain applications has taken place, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Wells Fargo & Co said on Monday, resulting in a shipment of......
When seven hours of non-stop rain led to a flash flood that swept through his village school, leaving it heavily damaged, science teacher Ali Zamin Samejo had to be hospitalised for shock.“I passed......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan continued his verbal onslaught against the ruling party when on Monday he termed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif "the biggest security threat" in the......
Pakistan Peoples Party leader Aitzaz Ahsan on Monday said that although the party was not a part of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's November 2 'lockdown' of Islamabad, it would review its decision if......
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director (MD) Christine Lagarde in a meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad on Monday maintained Pakistan is now "certainly out of economic......
A retired worker of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) committed suicide by jumping off the sixth floor of Karachi's Civic Center on Monday, police said.Iqbal Ali, a resident of Mansehra......
Two people, including a one-year-old baby, were killed and seven others injured in firing by Indian troops across the Working Boundary, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Monday."Due......
Companies can reduce the risk from the type of cyber attack that took out major websites on Friday by using multiple vendors for the critical internet service known as a domain name service, or DNS,......
NOWSHERA: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sirajul Haq on Sunday warned to quit the PTI-led coalition government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa if posts of theology teachers in public sector schools were not restored......
ISLAMABAD: A French couple visiting Pakistan said that contrary to the portrayal of the country in international media, they have received a lot of love, hospitality and care from locals.Robin and......
ISLAMABAD: OLOMOPOLO Media and Qissa Khwaan came together to bring Likhay Jo Khatt Tujhey - An Ode to Love, a dramatic rendition of fictional and original letters from Urdu literature, to the......
TAXILA: Declared the “house of learning” by the education department, a title which is emblazoned on its boundary wall, the students of a primary school in the heart of the city have to pass by heaps......
ISLAMABAD: Located on the second and third floors of the new Ensemble Plaza in F-8, ‘#Social’ recently opened its doors to the public.One has to climb a narrow column of stairs to the first floor of......
LAHORE: Army Services Sports of Pakistan won the first International PACES Competition 2016 which concluded at the Fortress Stadium here on Sunday night.Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif......
GUJRAT: West Yorkshire police’s initial inquiry report in the Samia Shahid case is not going to affect her murder trial in Pakistan, says a local jurist.The report says Samia Shahid, who was killed......
SIALKOT: The people living in border villages are in high spirits after the ‘unprovoked shelling’ on Oct 21 and 22 by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Bajwat, Chaprar and Shakargarh sectors......
KARACHI: Two boys aged between eight and 10 years drowned in a sewerage drain in New Karachi on Sunday evening, according to police.Gabol Town police SHO Waseem Ahmed said three boys were playing......
KARACHI: On the concluding day of the film and photo exhibition titled Yeh Hai Karachi, dynamic images and narratives were projected onto screens with documentary films taking centre stage. Karachi......
HYDERABAD: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Information Maula Bux Chandio has said that [Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf] chief Imran Khan is depending on some ‘hidden’ forces in his party’s agitation......
HYDERABAD: In an accelerated pace of their action against the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London, the Sindh Rangers demolished its three offices and carried out raids on the houses of its activists in......
KARACHI: Veteran politician and eminent agriculturalist of Sindh Syed Qamaruzzaman Shah passed away here on Sunday at a hospital after protracted illness.He was 83 and left behind a widow, three sons......
RENOWNED Indian scholar of Urdu Dr Khaliq Anjum passed away on Oct 18, 2016 in Delhi. He was buried in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia graveyard — and with him was buried a part of Delhi’s history,......
ONE of the many differences of 21st century Karachi and that of the 1960s is the element of care with which those who ran the city and those who lived in it handled its tangible and intangible......
NAIROBI: Twenty-six Asian sailors freed after more than four years of captivity in a small fishing village in Somalia arrived in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Sunday, ahead of flights home, a......
NEW YORK: AT&T Inc said on Saturday it had agreed to buy Time Warner Inc for $85.4 billion, the boldest move yet by a telecommunications company to acquire content to stream over its network to......
OPLENAC: At the wedding of his grandfather, King Aleksandar I of Yugoslavia, nearly a century ago, more than 100,000 people thronged Belgrade’s streets in heavy rain to celebrate. Prince Mihajlo......
TRENTON: While secrecy in the voting booth has become a thing of the past for those ready to share their views and daily lives on social media, laws in the US are mixed on whether voters are allowed......
ARBIL: Iraqi forces battled on Sunday through booby-traps, sniper fire and suicide car bombs to tighten the noose around Mosul, while also hunting the militant Islamic State group militants behind......
CALAIS: On the eve of the demolition of the Calais “Jungle” camp, French officials on Sunday handed out flyers in several languages notifying migrants of the camp’s imminent closure and urging them......
RAMALLAH: Four Palestinians have been detained for attending a Jewish holiday celebration in a West Bank settlement, according to Palestinian officials.A senior Palestinian security official said......
ALEPPO: Clashes and air strikes shook the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, as heavy fighting resumed after the end of a three-day ceasefire declared by government ally Russia.The unilateral ceasefire......
HASAKEH: On a dusty road in northeast Syria, a woman and her four children stand beside a freshly erected green sign for Joldara, the Kurdish name of her village known for decades as Shajra.As part......
EDINBURGH: A tale of murder and class warfare in the Scottish Highlands by a little-known novelist is one of the favourites to win this year’s Booker Prize for literature on Tuesday.His Bloody......
BENGALURU: They are not easy to spot. Working in vegetable patches and on millet fields in India’s southern state of Karnataka, farm labourers caught in debt bondage suffer mainly in silence.But......
KUANTAN (Malaysia): Defending champions Pakistan were undone by a superb comeback by India as they fell 3-2 to their arch-rivals in a high-voltage preliminary round match of the Asian Champions......
ABU DHABI: Openers Azhar Ali and Sami Aslam hit half-centuries to help Pakistan strengthen their grip on the third day of the second Test against West Indies in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.Azhar was unbeaten......
MOHALI: Virat Kohli hit an unbeaten 154 to make short work of a seemingly steep target as India beat New Zealand by seven wickets in the third One-day International in Mohali to take a 2-1 lead in......
CHITTAGONG: Bangladesh battled to 253-8 at stumps on the fourth day of a thrilling Test in Chittagong on Sunday, needing 33 for their first-ever win against England.Hopes of an historic Test victory......
LONDON: Manchester’s two Premier League clubs managed just a point between them on Sunday as Manchester United suffered a chastening 4-0 defeat by Chelsea on manager Jose Mourinho’s return to......
PHILIP ISLAND (Australia): Cal Crutchlow held off an extraordinary ride from Valentino Rossi at Phillip Island to claim his second career MotoGP victory and become the first British winner of the......
BERLIN: Arturo Vidal and Douglas Costa struck as Bayern Munich disposed of Borussia Moenchengladbach 2-0 on Saturday to claim their first win in three Bundesliga matches.What was expected to be a......
PARIS: Alassane Plea grabbed a hat-trick as surprise Ligue 1 leaders Nice continued their terrific start to the season with a thrilling 4-2 victory at promoted Metz on Sunday.It was a fifth......
MILAN: A second-half screamer from Manuel Locatelli gave AC Milan a 1-0 win over Juventus after the Serie A titleholders had a goal controversially disallowed on Saturday.Locatelli’s powerful, rising......
KARACHI: Ace rider Sohail Ahmed stole the limelight by galloping home a brace of winners in a small four-event card as Gymkhana race meeting resumed after a break at the Karachi Racecourse on......
KARACHI: Pakistan clinched identical victories over Bangladesh and England to set up a date final with defending champions England in the ICC Academy Physically Disabled T20 Cricket Tournament in......
LAW enforcement agencies in Pakistan are currently engaged in conducting probes against individuals suspected of using the banking channel for financing illegal activities.Very few are aware that......
Foreign direct investment inflows into Pakistan have maintained a steady decline, from a $5.2bn peak in 2007-08, for a variety of reasons, but chiefly due to adverse security perception, political......
The contrast in consumer and business behaviour in the country is too stark to ignore, especially in times of heightened political activity.Businessmen dislike street politics which, they feel,......
Pakistan’s economy has recovered somewhat over the last three years as is underscored by the improvements in the fundamental indicators and the International Monetary Fund’s parting note released......
During the month of October (up to Oct 20) the State Bank of Pakistan injected a massive Rs2.181tn into the banking system in three separate open market operations.Earlier in the month it had mopped......
IN international trade, the dollar, which had rallied around 3pc since the end of September, strengthened to its highest level against most major rivals, in more than eight months, towards the......
In a significant development early last week, the Hub Power Company indicated that it might reduce the commercial size of its imported coal power plant joint venture with China Power Hub Generation......
According to the Competition Commission of Pakistan, legal shortcomings exist in the consumer protection laws of the country particularly the lack of coverage to unfair trade practices online and......
The irrational disparity in income and assets, coupled with uneven development of human resources — produced by a fragile recovery or subdued, narrowly based, economic growth — poses a great......
The agro-food sector is the largest non-textile component of the national export basket, and has been the main driver of export diversification during the last 15 years — since 2001.The share of......
IN consultation with growers’ bodies, the Sindh government has managed to fix the sugarcane rate for 2016-17 at Rs182/40kg, coupled with an undertaking by sugar millers to commence cane crushing from......
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa agriculture suffers from very low productivity, with risks of crop failures owing to persistent weather anomalies.The Climate Change Centre at the University of Agriculture,......
BangladeshBANGLADESH, a market based economy, has successfully sustained a robust GDP growth over the past seven years.Its per-capita income was estimated at $1,316 in 2015-16 which is expected to......
COFFEE growers in India have been suffering for the past four years, as prices have fallen sharply due to various factors. But many in the industry believe that the fortunes will change over the next......
Many influential interests and opinion-formers detest today’s ultra-low interest rates. They are also clear who is to blame: central banks.Theresa May, UK prime minister, has joined the fray,......
On January 20, 2017, President Hillary Clinton or President Donald Trump will inherit Barack Obama’s legacy, just as Mr Obama still uses George W Bush’s tenure as a reference for his own.The Pew......
As Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s increasingly embattled government sharpens its knives to block Imran Khan’s promised storming of Islamabad on Nov 2, Monday’s visit by the IMF’s managing director is......
ISLAMABAD: As the imminent lockdown of the federal capital by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Pakistan is looming large, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) have......
LAHORE: Pakistan expects a decision from the World Bank within next 15 days on its petition seeking change in designs of two Indian run-of-the-river hydropower projects — Ratle and Kishan Ganga —......
TORKHAM: Perched on top of lumbering trucks overflowing with all their possessions, Afghan families are streaming back to their home country at unprecedented rates, leaving international......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has expressed dissatisfaction over the pace of award of contracts for foreign-funded projects in Pakistan that leads to project delays, cost overruns and......
DOHA: President Mamnoon Hussain called upon the Qatari government on Sunday to enhance the quota for Pakistani workers and relax visa regime for them as Islamabad could provide unskilled, skilled and......
GWADAR: A human rights activist and prominent lawyer of Makran who had been missing for about three years has returned his home in Turbat.Advocate Haider went missing on Nov 27, 2013, when he was......
ISLAMABAD: The Law Division and the Establishment Division have refused to rescue the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in a case of controversial appointments in the bureau which is being heard......
KABUL: Afghanistan saw a 10 per cent jump in opium cultivation this year because of bumper harvests, with eradication efforts collapsing due to growing insecurity and declining international aid to......
PANAJI (India): Faced with a barrage of criticism from various quarters over his statements on “cross-Line of Control strikes” by the army, Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Sunday he......
TOKYO: A 72-year-old retired soldier blew himself up in a park in the Japanese city of Utsunomiya, killing himself and injuring three other people in an apparent suicide, state broadcaster NHK......
LAHORE: Justice Iqbal Hameedur Rehman, a judge of the Supreme Court, tendered his resignation to President Mamnoon Hussain on Sunday.The resignation letter was sent to the president from Lahore......
LAHORE: Terming Zarb-i-Azb an example of war for peace, Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif said on Sunday that the successful military operation brought stability and prosperity to the country as......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday asked the United Kingdom to play its role in ensuring the resumption of stalled talks with India, as well as helping stop the killings in held Kashmir.“As a country with......
GHULAM Sarwar and Ghulam Qadir are names that must not be forgotten if the criminal justice system of the country is ever to be reformed. Even by the distressing standards of a broken justice system,......
RANA Chandra Singh, chief of the Rajput clan, was probably the last prominent Sindhi leader belonging to the traditional, upper-caste Hindu elite. He was elected to the Hindu seat of the National......
THE government finds itself battling on three fronts. Civil-military relations are said to be at their lowest ebb in years, a main opposition party is gearing itself to lay siege to the capital, and......
THE ECP last week released its draft code of conduct for the 2018 elections, which is now under deliberation by political parties. The code seeks to check the scale of political campaigns; banning......
At least one civilian was injured when Indian Border Security Force (BSF) opened fire in the Chuprar and Harpal sectors of the Line of Control (LoC) on Sunday, said a statement released by the......
