A man defaced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Wednesday, hacking out the gold lettering displaying his name and the television logo.A man who......
Microsoft launched a consumer offensive on Wednesday, unveiling new high-performance computers and an updated Windows operating system that showcases three-dimensional content and “mixed reality.”The......
Fast bowlers Tim Southee and James Neesham ran through India's middle order to help New Zealand to a 19-run series-levelling win in the fourth one-day international Ranchi on Wednesday.Southee (3-40)......
Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Wednesday said that he does not rule out the threat to the present democratic system as a result of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s......
Pakistan on Wednesday conveyed to the United States that India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) are patronising terrorists groups to attack......
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Wednesday that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would complement regional connectivity initiatives of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation......
"'Who is hiding under the charpoy?' Capt Roohullah shouted out. His words still ring in my ears," recalled Abdullah Khan, one of hundreds of recruits who was trapped inside Quetta's police training......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Spokesman Naeemul Haque on Wednesday warned the government that if it attempts to arrest Imran Khan "it will face a harsh response".Speaking to DawnNews ahead of PTI......
Fighters linked to the militant Islamic State (IS) group abducted and killed around 30 civilians, including children, in central Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, raising concerns about the......
At least 15 members of a family were injured when a two-storey house in Lahore collapsed as an explosive went off in the building on Wednesday, police said. Eight hand grenades were recovered from......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan speaking to journalists in Islamabad on Wednesday alleged that one Javed Sadiq is a frontman for Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.The PTI chief......
Veteran batsman Younis Khan has risen to second position in the latest MRF Tyres ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Wednesday.The development......
A member of an anti-polio vaccination team worker was gunned down in Khyber Agency on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.The incident took place in Jamrud Tehsil where unidentified gunmen fired shots at a......
The Balochistan government, in an apex committee meeting, on Wednesday announced the formation of a high level inquiry commission to probe the Quetta police college carnage which left over 60 people......
At least two civilians were killed by Indian fire along the Working Boundary on Wednesday in Chaprar sector, said a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).Eight civilians......
A PML-N lawmaker during a National Assembly committee meeting on Wednesday said cricket players should offer prayers instead of doing push-ups following a victory.MNA Rana Muhammad Afzal said during......
United States (US) Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Democrat Hillary Clinton's plan for Syria would "lead to World War Three," because of the potential for conflict......
Nat Geo's famed 'Afghan Girl' Sharbat Bibi was arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday in Peshawar, an official said.Bibi was arrested from her home for alleged forgery of a......
On October 21, 2016, the Supreme Court of Pakistan turned down the plea to delay the hanging of Imdad Ali, a 50 year-old schizophrenic man convicted in 2002 for murdering a cleric.Taking cues from......
Apple Inc posted its third successive quarter of declining iPhone sales on Tuesday and forecast slimmer-than-expected profit margins over the upcoming holiday season even as it projected record......
BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO)(BBRY.O) launched its third Android-based phone on Tuesday, the last device whose success will be the company's financial responsibility, opting to price its top-end device well......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a literary function here on Tuesday declared Pashto fiction writer Zaitoon Bano a strong feminine voice saying the octogenarian depicted the plight of women in a Pakhtun society......
PESHAWAR: The Bank of Khyber earned Rs1.5 billion profit after tax (PAT) for nine months ending Sept 30, 2016 showing an increase of 22 per cent over the corresponding period of 2015.This was stated......
PESHAWAR: A large number of parents, teachers and owners of the private educational institutions staged a protest demonstration here on Tuesday against the government decision to shift the schools......
PESHAWAR: The World Health Organisation wants complete ban on all forms of tobacco advertisements and its sale to put brakes on fatal diseases like cancer, according to health officials.They said......
PESHAWAR: The local police on Tuesday announced they had arrested two family members over the killing of three women.Three badly burned bodies were recovered from Chandmari area of Tehkal on Oct 17.......
RAWALPINDI: After grouping of Dr Tahirul Qadri’s Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) with the PTI, former railway minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Tuesday convinced the PML-Q leadership to join Imran Khan’s......
ISLAMABAD: Although they have improved since 2015, the federal government’s public approval ratings remained negative on most governance indicators, according to the assessment of Pakistan Institute......
Q: Which books are you currently reading?A: I am reading two non-fiction books: Anjuman Taraqipasand Musannafin Pakistan Mein by Fateh Mohammad Malik, and Tehzibi Islam: Ibne Arabi aur......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MNA Dr Shireen Mazari on Tuesday filed an intra court appeal (ICA) against the dismissal of her petition seeking the disqualification of Defence Minister Khwaja......
ISLAMABAD: Not a single medical college in the country meets the criterion of the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), said the council’s vice president, Prof Dr Abid Farooqi on Tuesday.During......
ISLAMABAD: In violation of a decision of the Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) board, the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) has allowed for billboards to be installed in Lakeview......
ISLAMABAD: The Austrian embassy hosted a performance of Austrian music band Nifty at the Pakistan National Council of Arts (PNCA) auditorium on Tuesday to celebrate Austrian National Day, which was......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will take up four petitions on Wednesday, seeking the arrest of PTI chief Imran Khan and restraining him from the proposed lockdown of the federal......
LAHORE: A female athlete was found dead in a room of a Punjab University hostel here on Tuesday.Police said Ayesha Furqan, 22, of People’s Colony, Attock, came to the university on Oct 23 after she......
LAHORE: Defence Minister Khwaja Asif has been criticised for “doing politics” on the Quetta tragedy in which 61 police recruits were killed in a terrorist attack.In reply to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Police registered a case against the son of a ruling party MPA on allegations of raping a woman after kidnapping her with the help his accomplices.Saddar Station House Officer......
LAHORE: Forty eight percent of women human rights defenders received threats at work, mainly because of its nature, but also because of other reasons. A recent research has shown that harassment,......
TOBA TEK SINGH: A primary school established 94 years ago some 9km from Toba has finally started functioning as a middle school.Financial grant for construction of the building of middle section of......
FAISALABAD: The 12th Dawn in Education Spelling Bee Competition, Faisalabad pool rounds, concluded at the Iqbal Auditorium of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) here on Tuesday.Winners of......
GUJRAT: Construction work on a flyover at Shaheen Chowk interchange along Gujrat bypass has become an inconvenience for the motorists on GT Road.Roads being used as alternate routes are either......
LARKANA: Perturbed over reports that the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has declined to register students graduating from the Bibi Aseefa Dental College (BADC) — a constituent unit of the......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will not support any change in the country through unconstitutional means because any change through conspiracies will not be in the interest of......
HYDERABAD: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Labour Senator Saeed Ghani has said that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has the right to raise its voice over issues but the lockdown of Islamabad it......
KARACHI: A four-person exhibition titled Aas Paas opened at the Art Chowk gallery on Tuesday. The participating artists are Adnan Mairaj, Noorulain, Sophia Mairaj and Sujjal Kayani.The theme of the......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Tuesday decided to register all immigrants living in the metropolis, including slum areas, and on its outskirts to have their complete database, and constituted 15......
KARACHI: How inaptly the government deals with mega projects of ‘national importance’ came to light on Tuesday when strong opposition from stakeholders at a public hearing forced the Sindh......
CHICAGO: Late pop icon Prince’s Paisley Park studio compound in Minnesota will become open to the public on Friday, after gaining final approval as a museum.The Purple Rain star’s complex was......
LONDON: The British government approved a new third runway at London’s Heathrow airport on Tuesday in a long-awaited decision that has stoked divisions and follows decades of debate over the......
NEW DELHI: A high-level civil society delegation led by former external affairs minister and senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha met top Kashmiri resistance leaders in Srinagar on Tuesday, including......
MADRID: Spain’s king on Tuesday tasked Mariano Rajoy with forming a new government, taking the acting conservative prime minister a step closer to power again after a 10-month political deadlock.“I......
THAT despicable khoon ki dalali comment has acquired fresh resonance — from an unexpected, in-house quarter. The political “deal” struck by a gutless chief minister of Maharashtra (Devendra Fadnavis)......
IN the just concluded national council of Bangladesh’s ruling Awami League, more than 6,000 councillors empowered by their party constitution to elect all office-bearers of the party’s central......
LAHORE: The Inzamam-ul-Haq-headed national selection committee has retained the 15-member squad for the third and final Test against the West Indies starting in Sharjah on Oct 30.Squad:Sami Aslam,......
LONDON: England will suffer a series whitewash against India unless their batting improves dramatically from the first Test win over Bangladesh, former captain Michael Vaughan has warned.England......
SYDNEY: Australia cricket captain Steven Smith has shrugged off his team’s lamentable form on tour and is adamant his side will lift for the Test series against South Africa and Pakistan this......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Carlos Alberto Torres, captain of the great Brazil team that won the 1970 World Cup, died on Tuesday of a heart attack in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 72.TV Globo, which employed......
RANCHI: Rediscovering himself in the twilight of his career, a rejuvenated Mahendra Singh Dhoni would look to continue his form and aim for a series-clinching win when India take on New Zealand in......
PARIS: Leicester City forwards Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy will try to break the domination of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in the annual Ballon d’Or award for the world’s best player.The......
LOS ANGELES: Up until last week, Manny Pacquiao was concentrating on trying to get the death penalty restored in the Philippines.Now he’s focusing on something not nearly as controversial his return......
KARACHI: Former chief selector Salahuddin Ahmed Sallu on Tuesday lauded Pakistan’s fabulous victory over the West Indies in the second Test at Abu Dhabi, which also handed them the series, and......
ABU DHABI: Leg-spinner Yasir Shah took six second-innings wickets for a match haul of 10 in Pakistan’s crushing 133-run second Test win over West Indies in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday as they took an......
PREDICTABLE as it was Pakistan wrapped up the series by winning the second Test against the West Indies to remain also in the hunt for the top ranking once again.Unlike the first Test where the......
ABU DHABI: Skipper Misbah-ul-Haq showed disappointment over the downfall of once-mighty West Indies after Pakistan achieved a series-clinching win in the second Test in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.Pakistan......
KUANTAN (Malaysia): Defending champions Pakistan rode on two penalty corner goals from Mohammad Aleem Bilal to survive a scare and prevail 4-3 over Japan in the fourth Asian Champions Trophy hockey......
ISLAMABAD: Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao on Tuesday offered to increase its development assistance to Pakistan and called for improved governance and security, reviving......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Committee on Agriculture (FCA) has fixed the wheat production target of 26.01 million tonnes for the 2016-17 Rabi season.In a meeting on Tuesday, the committee headed by......
KARACHI: The repatriation of profits and dividends from Pakistan in the first quarter of the current fiscal year was $335 million, which is slightly lower than the outflow recorded in the comparable......
KARACHI: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has pinned hopes on Iran allowing the import of Pakistani kinno and potato this year.“We are very optimistic. The Iranian......
KARACHI: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has issued another licence to a private equity and venture capital fund to operate under the newly promulgated Private Funds......
KARACHI: Reports of a terrorist attack on a Police Training Centre in Quetta, amid heightened political uncertainty, added fuel to the fire as the stock market started on across the board selling......
KARACHI: Cotton prices came under renewed selling pressure in line with world markets on Tuesday despite sustained buying from spinners and some exporters.Outside factors including renewed decline in......
LONDON: Gold rose on Tuesday due to rising physical demand from India but growing expectations of a US interest rate hike kept a lid on prices.The metal is highly sensitive to rising US rates, which......
KARACHI: The Association of Builders and Developers of Pakistan (ABAD) has threatened to stop all construction activities for an indefinite period and go to courts if the issue related to newly......
LONDON: Building just a third of planned new coal-fired power plants around the world would push hundreds of millions of people into poverty as it accelerates climate change past an agreed limit of 2......
In all her recent public appearances, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has reiterated the same message: Pakistan is out of crisis and a “moment of opportunity” presents itself. But......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday accused India of trying to sabotage his party’s ‘reform movement’, doubling down on earlier claims that the eastern......
ISLAMABAD: A three-member government team met leaders of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) at the residence of the Opposition Leader in the Senate, Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, on Tuesday to discuss the......
CALAIS (France): An island of comfort in the squalid Calais ‘Jungle’, the Khyber Pass Cafe is one of the few still serving customers even as migrants heed an eviction order and camp residents move......
ISLAMABAD: Aviation Secretary Mohammad Irfan Ellahi on Tuesday told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the Privatisation Commission (PC) was considering a proposal to divide Pakistan......
September 3, 2010: A suicide bomb attack killed 59 people at a rally held by Shia organisations on Al Quds day.August 31, 2011: A powerful blast killed at least 11 and injured 13 others when a bomb......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a Chinese company’s request for participating in the tendering process for building the World Bank-funded 4,320MW Dasu hydropower project on the Indus......
QUETTA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif were among the senior government and military functionaries who rushed to the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been ranked the second-worst country in the world for gender inequality for the second consecutive year.According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report......
QUETTA: While the militant Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest militant attacks in the country in recent months, officials in Quetta said the carnage was carried......
QUETTA: Heavily armed militants who stormed a police training college near Quetta tricked cadets hiding in their rooms into opening locked doors by pretending to be soldiers, witnesses said on......
PESHAWAR: A policeman was killed and two others suffered injuries when an explosion hit a police party providing security to a polio vaccination team near here on Tuesday.The area where the blast......
THERE is no longer much cause to doubt that Hillary Clinton will be inaugurated in January as the first female president of the US. The opinion polls have been strongly trending that way, notably......
RECENTLY, when young chaiwallah Arshad Khan glanced up from the tea he was pouring to hear the distinctive click of a camera, he couldn’t have imagined that a few short days later his face would be......
SOMEWHERE late in the 1500s, after he had been king for many years, Emperor Akbar asked one of the Jesuit priests then in the Mughal Empire for a copy of the Holy Bible. It was this act that led to......
MATTERS are getting increasingly ominous for Nawaz Sharif, although he may still be in a state of denial. It is not just about Imran Khan’s threatened lockdown of the capital; it is his increasingly......
Three suspected terrorists were killed on Tuesday after an exchange of fire with Rangers in Ittehad Town area of the metropolis, while two Rangers personnel also sustained injuries in the action.The......
