Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday said Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) Imran Khan may have surrendered on the issue of Panama Papers but the PPP will fight......
Pakistan all-rounder Muhamamd Hafeez is set to undergo re-testing of his bowling action as Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) wrote a letter to International Cricket Council (ICC) requesting......
A case has been filed against an official of the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) stationed at the Pakistan Embassy in Kuwait over the charges of embezzling funds of the state......
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq expressed disappointment over the loss in third Test against West Indies in Sharjah stating, “It's always disappointing to lose a Test.”West Indies on Thursday beat......
At least 110 people are feared to have drowned off Libya when a migrant boat capsized, and more may have died in another stricken vessel, the UN's refugee agency said Thursday, citing survivor......
A Nato airstrike killed at least 30 Afghan civilians, including women and children, on Thursday in the volatile northern province of Kunduz, officials said, after a Taliban assault there left two......
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission on Thursday arrested Islamia Collage University professor Dr Naeem Khalid for alleged embezzlement of millions of rupees in the varsity funds and misuse of......
West Indies skipper Jason Holder believes Windies cricket could be set for a return to the glory days after upsetting Pakistan by five wickets in the third and final Test in Sharjah on Thursday.West......
Renault, a French car manufacturing company, is expected to start assembling cars in Pakistan by 2018.The government was wooing foreign car makers like Renault and Nissan with generous import duties......
Leg-spinner Danish Kaneria believes Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) must find a way out for him so that he could continue with the game of cricket to earn for a living.Kaneria, was life banned by......
The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday said eight Indian 'diplomats' in Pakistan ? allegedly members of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) and Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) ? are suspected of......
At least 13 were killed while 72 others sustained injuries when 12 vehicles collided into each other on the Islamabad-Lahore Motorway on Thursday, police officials said.The vehicles involved in the......
A five-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC) hearing the Panamagate petitions on Thursday decided that a single-member commission will be formed to probe revelations made in the Panama Papers after......
Every winter, cities in upper and central part of Pakistan wear a blanket of fog; which is primarily due to a particular climate zoning, but the problem is getting worse with each passing year. The......
West Indies secured their first victory since May 2015 as opener Kraigg Brathwaite capped a brilliant match with an unbeaten half-century in the third Test against Pakistan at Sharjah......
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar on Thursday defended the government's decision to permit a Difaa-i-Pakistan Council (DPC) gathering in the capital despite imposition of Section 144 in the run-up to......
At least 22 people were killed and more than 40 injured when two passenger trains collided Thursday morning near Karachi's Landi Railway Station, officials said.Divisional Superintendent (DS) Railway......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has once again asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign after initiation of the hearing of an alleged corruption case against him by......
ISLAMABAD: In information leaked to the media, the identity of eight Indian officers and staffers believed to be undercover operatives and posted at the country’s high commission was made public on......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday expressed profound satisfaction over the fact that the Panamagate issue would now be settled by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, causing......
LAHORE: A blanket of smog which had been hovering over Lahore in the last few days thickened on Wednesday, causing thousands to complain about breathing problems, eye irritation and reduced......
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader from Rawalpindi filed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday a petition seeking disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan and its......
ISLAMABAD: The government disclosed on Wednesday that it would submit the same Terms of Reference (ToR) to the Supreme Court which it had presented in the parliamentary committee on Panama leaks,......
Karachi: Senior journalist Hamid Mir on Wednesday received the ‘most resilient journalist’ award by the International Free Press.He was presented the award in the Hague, the Netherlands.Hamid Mir......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday told the Supreme Court it had no authority to investigate and prosecute holders of public office in connection with the Panama Papers or......
NEW DELHI: Amnesty International on Wednesday demanded an impartial investigation into the police shooting of eight alleged Muslim radicals accused of escaping from a high-security prison in Bhopal......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Khurshid Ahmed Shah has said that PTI chief Imran Khan’s decision to call off his ‘lockdown’ plan has not only disappointed the party workers......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: Mah Pari, mother of seven, lives in a fertile region of Balochistan, but her two-year-old son, Gul Mir, is crying from hunger as she cradles him in her arms.“All my babies were......
ISLAMABAD: A United Nations report has estimated that as much as $32 trillion is stashed offshore in secrecy jurisdictions, resulting in a loss of $3tr every year to governments due to tax evasion......
KARACHI: The government plans to borrow Rs1.6 trillion by auctioning securities in the next three months (November to January), the State Bank of Pakistan said on Wednesday.Such a large borrowing......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar chaired on Wednesday a meeting on the anti-money laundering/combating financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime and its implementation in Pakistan.In a......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has approved super basmati paddy rice futures contracts for listing on the Pakistan Mercantile Exchange (PMEX).The move will......
KARACHI: The last date for exchanging all old design banknotes — of Rs10, 50, 100 and 1,000 denominations — is Nov 30, 2016.The State Bank on Wednesday warned the general public that all old design......
KARACHI: The bullish frenzy at the PSX continued on Wednesday as the KSE-100 index clocked in gains of 442.88 points (1.07 per cent) to close at a new all-time high of 41,742.75.Investors who were......
KARACHI: Cotton prices moved lower on Wednesday in line with global trend where leading markets recorded fresh losses for a second straight session on conflicting reports about consumption and......
LAHORE: Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) President Abdul Basit said on Wednesday that curbing illegal trade between Iran and Pakistan can give considerable boost to the bilateral trade......
HELSINKI: Finnish telecoms giant Nokia on Wednesday said it had finalised its acquisition of former French-American rival Alcatel-Lucent.Nokia, the world’s number one mobile phone maker for more than......
LONDON: Gold rallied to a one-month high on Wednesday as uncertainty over the outcome of the US election knocked stocks and the dollar lower and burnished the appeal of precious metals as a haven......
SHARJAH: Skipper Jason Holder took a maiden five-wicket haul and opener Kraigg Brathwaite stood firm in a tense chase to bring West Indies in sight of a consolation win in the third and final Test......
The third Test has turned into a dream game which in the context of the run of play we could say is too good to be true.From day one, it has been very absorbing with the balance most of the time......
MUMBAI: Injured openers Shikhar Dhawan and .K.L Rahul and middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma have been ruled out of India’s first two Tests against England, the country’s cricket board said on......
PERTH: Australia have chosen the experience of Peter Siddle over the potential of the uncapped Joe Mennie as their third seamer for the opening Test against South Africa, which starts on......
LONDON: Four teams, including five-time winners Bayern Munich and Arsenal, sealed early places in the Champions League knockout rounds on Tuesday.Barcelona, shockingly, were not among them despite......
PARIS: Fourth-seeded Milos Raonic hit 17 aces as he beat Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 on Tuesday to reach the third round of the Paris Masters.Seventh-seeded Tomas Berdych avoided......
KARACHI: Rawalpindi required just 38.3 overs to get the remaining eight wickets Faisalabad lost in their second innings to seal the PCB Inter-region Under-19 (Three-day) cricket title with well over......
HARARE: Sri Lanka ended Zimbabwe’s day-long resistance seven overs from the end of play to grab victory by a convincing margin of 225 runs on the final day of the first Test at the Harare Sports Club......
PESHAWAR: Mardan’s right-arm pacer Nadra steered her team to a three-wicket victory over Peshawar White in the ongoing 2nd All-Pakistan Twenty20 Women Cricket Tournament on Wednesday.Nadra finished......
India’s mines ministry has told state governments to explore the use of drones to check illegal mining, as officials crackdown on an activity that has led to deforestation and the use of child......
WELLINGTON: Around 7,000 New Zealand schoolchildren stomped and bellowed their way through what is believed to be the largest-ever haka on Wednesday, claiming a new world record for the Maori war......
SEOUL: South Korea’s presidential office on Wednesday named a new prime minister and finance minister, the highest-level shake-up since President Park Geun-hye’s administration was rocked by a......
MOSCOW: Amnesty International, a campaign group which has accused the Kremlin of violating human rights with its bombing campaign in Syria, was evicted from its Moscow office on Wednesday.The Moscow......
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump sprinted from swing state to swing state in a fight for the last few unclaimed votes on Wednesday, six days out from an election that has set the world on......
TEHRAN: Tehran’s notorious former chief prosecutor, Said Mortazavi, has been sentenced to 135 lashes for misappropriation and waste of public money while head of Iran’s welfare programme, Iranian......
PRETORIA: South Africa’s anti-corruption watchdog on Wednesday called for prosecutors to investigate alleged criminal activity as it released a report into President Jacob Zuma that fuelled further......
PARIS: One journalist is killed every four-and-a-half days, according to a shocking report released by Unesco on Wednesday. During the last decade, 827 journalists have been killed while on the job,......
Russia seeks “honest cooperation” for a political solution in Syria — “the sooner the better”, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday as Moscow declared a brief truce in the war-ravaged......
WASHINGTON: FBI agents are plumbing hundreds of thousands of emails in search of potentially incriminating evidence against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, in a high-pressure probe seven days......
THEY are keeping open the eight passages to western Aleppo, just in case. There have been no more air strikes on the surrounded east of the city by either Syrian or Russian jets — despite the......
TEHRAN: The Iranian students who stormed the US embassy in 1979 and released thousands of secret CIA documents were the WikiLeaks of their time, their former lead spokesperson has told AFP.Every year......
KARACHI: Pakistan is set to achieve total generation capacity of 1,185 megawatts from renewable energy sources next month when the first wind power project under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM) and its nemesis, the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP), shared a rare moment of joy, for the same reason yet with the opposite resolves, when their key......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has vowed to take up the pending issues of water allocation, devolution of some institutions, transfer of Zakat and royalty on crude oil with the......
KARACHI: If the words didn’t sound difficult to spell, they could be very tricky. And several students at the 12th Dawn in Education National Spelling Bee regional championship here on Tuesday at the......
HYDERABAD: A team of the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) dismantled 150 fire tunnels, large drums in which used batteries were burned to extract lead, in a massive crackdown launched......
LAHORE: The judicial commission to be set up for Panama leaks inquiry should take no more than 25 days to complete investigation and the process should begin with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.The......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is ‘unresponsive’ to the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) efforts for submitting to the Supreme Court unanimous terms of reference (ToR) for the Panama......
LAHORE: Some 240 students from 80 schools on Wednesday participated in 9-11 and 12-14 age groups in the Lahore pool round of the 12th DAWN In Education Spelling Bee Competition.A total of 120......
BAHAWALPUR: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has sent 29 trucks laden with food packets for their onward distribution to the inhabitants of Cholistan, says Cholistan Development Authority Chairman Malik......
ISLAMABAD: Archaeologists are trying the save the many surviving cultural relics scattered across Islamabad before they are lost to the developing housing societies.Experts from the Department of......
ISLAMABAD: After the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) decided to abandon the idea of laying siege to Islamabad and announced to hold a ‘thanksgiving rally’ at the Democracy Park and Speech Corner......
The Argentine Embassy invited award winning artist, Gonzalo Sojo, to Pakistan to exhibit his work at the Satrang Gallery to celebrate 65 years of bilateral relations between the two countries. Mr......
ISLAMABAD: A man was killed and 20 others injured after a university vehicle met with an accident on Wednesday, police said.The accident took place at the Dhok Kashmirain G-11 traffic signal, when a......
WANA: Security forces took away weapons and ammunition from a market in Wana here on Wednesday, where a military officer was killed and six soldiers were injured in a bomb attack the other......
GHALANAI: A man was killed when a pickup truck hit an improvised explosive device in Koda Khel area of Baizai tehsil of Mohmand Agency here on Wednesday.Assistant Political Agent, Baizai tehsil, Pir......
PESHAWAR: The Elementary Education Foundation has decided to extend the provincial government’s programme for supporting the education of out of schools poor children in private schools to eight......
IT is most famously known as the place where ships go to die, but it seems that the Gadani ship-breaking yard is also a place where workers perish on the job. Tuesday’s oil tanker explosion, which......
IT takes a visit to the British Museum in London to make sense of contemporary Pakistani politics. Only there, in that shrine to unending civilisation, in those honey-combed galleries honouring man’s......
PUNJAB is considered the epitome of good governance by many donors, the media and political classes. A large part of this perception is formed by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s hyperactive......
'Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days Where Destiny with men for pieces plays Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays And one by one back in the closet lays.' — Omar KhayyamDHARNA 2016......
I STILL remember back in the fall of 2008 when I was with DawnNews, this paper’s sister TV channel which broadcast in English back then, and in the studio with me was Naveed Ismael, the new CEO of......
India police on Wednesday detained opposition leaders as they tried to meet the family of an ex-serviceman who allegedly killed himself over the government's pension policy for army veterans.Top......
