Cristiano Ronaldo looks set to retire at Real Madrid after agreeing a bumper new five-year contract to be signed on Monday that ties him to the Spanish giants until 2021.“The official event for the......
Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms Ahsan Iqbal on Sunday said the decision of Khyber Pakthunkwa government to take the issue of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to court was......
With nothing to lose, Pakistan U-21 colts put a strong show against favorite Australia, who thrashed them 8-1 in round robin, before going down 3-1 in the final of the Sultan of Johor Cup Under 21......
Police on Sunday registered a case against Former Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Senator Faisal Raza Abidi over charges of carrying a SMG (sub-machine gun) without licence and later on presented him......
Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said the opposition should not frame a “person-specific” Terms of Reference (ToR) for probe into the Panama Papers.The ToRs should......
Founder and Director of the Digital Rights Foundation Nighat Dad has been awarded the Dutch government's Human Rights Tulip award 2016, a statement released by the Government of Netherlands said on......
The death toll from an explosion and fire at the Gadani ship-breaking yard last week has risen to 26, officials said Sunday.More than 50 others were wounded in the incident when a gas cylinder......
Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition announced a partial boycott of parliament on Sunday, saying it was “halting its legislative efforts” after its leaders and other lawmakers were detained in a move......
Secretary general of the proscribed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) Taj Hanafi and All Pakistan Shia Action Committee Chief Allama Mirza Yusuf Husain were detained in Karachi, officials said......
Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump was rushed off stage by security agents at a rally in Reno, Nevada, on Saturday night after a false alarm as someone in the crowd shouted “gun”......
Manny Pacquiao put on a dazzling display in his return to the ring after a brief retirement, scoring a unanimous decision over champion Jessie Vargas to claim the WBO welterweight title in Las Vegas......
Japan and India are set to sign a controversial civil nuclear deal this week, reports said Sunday, as the two Asian allies look to boost economic and security ties to counter an assertive......
No weapon was involved in a commotion that briefly disrupted Donald Trump's Saturday night rally and caused agents to hustle Trump from the stage, the Secret Service said.The Republican presidential......
It is often said that if Western art of the 1980s could be epitomised by any one technique or practice — it would be appropriation. The intentional borrowing, copying and alteration of iconic images......
If you subscribe to the morbid tune of the naysayers, Test cricket currently has a future bleaker than those locked up in Guantanamo Bay. The game goes too long. No one is watching it. There’s more......
Kids (and adults) get ready for another triply delightful adventure! Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s 3 Bahadur — Revenge of Baba Balaam is ready to hit the cinema screens on December 15.It is the sequel to......
They are not letting go of Karan Johar.Despite the fact that an agreement had been reached between K-Jo and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) that rightwing extremist parties wouldn’t create......
It was extremely wise and understanding of Indian film actress and producer Pooja Bhatt to pay a visit to Karachi last week. Reason being: in an atmosphere where border tensions between Pakistan and......
Sara Loren, the artist formerly known as Mona Lisa, is happy that good films are being made in Pakistan.For the past few years, she was busy acting in Bollywood movies, therefore was unable to give......
It was a bumpy road that Fashion Pakistan Week (FPW) travelled this time. The Winter/Festive edition of the event, which took place in Karachi earlier this week, occasionally rode high to the......
Overhyped by an expensive and elaborate marketing campaign, The Girl on the Train does a fine job of convincing you that it is a high-quality thriller worthy of a few Academy Awards even before it......
Awards ceremonies follow a familiar terrain; a grand stage ablaze with lights, celebrities galore, song, dance, designer-wear and the giving out of golden statuettes. More than anything else, awards......
Balochistan tends to draw global attention because of its strategic location and enormous mineral resources. And it’s in the spotlight once again due to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).......
Around 500 guests sat stunned as the beautiful Miss Universe Vietnam 2015, Pham Huong, and renowned singer, Ngoc Giau, performed an extract from an opera play at the prestigious Gem Center in......
Everyone loves banana bread. Right? Even people who don’t otherwise want anything to do with bananas. So it’s important to have a simple and easy recipe to turn to. Once you have a basic banana bread......
Dearest Auntie, I think I am losing my best friend. After graduating from school, we are now in different colleges. She no longer makes an effort to talk to me or meet me. We meet once or twice a......
Winter is a busy season for any gardener and there’s plenty to do this November and December — from putting together a miniature garden to planting winter flowers and prepping your vegetable......
Contemporary miniature painting in Pakistan has absorbed social, religious, political and economic themes and a satirical yet empathetic approach more intensely than other genres of visual arts.......
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) was a celebrated Dutch graphic artist famous for his innovative works in the 20th century. He explored echoing patterns, perception, space and transformation......
In the history of American cinema, few film directors have persistently tackled political and historical controversies as Oliver Stone has — his body of work can be taken as a critique of the......
At the end of World War II, Britain’s hold over its colonial territories was weakening. It was finally decided by the colonial regime that an election should be held in India so that a government of......
Europe today is a mess. The strongest countries face lacklustre economic growth, while the weakest, like Greece, are struggling to recover from depression-like downturns. Politically, things are even......
“It wasn’t that I didn’t have film offers,” says Saba Qamar when asked why she waited so long to make a debut in films. “In fact, I had many from home and abroad. The lack of ‘quality’ films in......
PESHAWAR: A day after a special anti-corruption and immigration court ordered the deportation of National Geographic famed ‘Afghan Girl’ Sharbat Gula, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Saturday......
MARDAN: Father of two 8th grade students has demanded of the authorities concerned to take stern action against a teacher of government middle school, Biligar, for subjecting his sons to severe......
GHALANAI: More and more people, especially youths, are becoming drug addicts in Haleemzai tehsil of Mohmand Agency due to the easy availability of narcotics in local bazaars, local residents......
PESHAWAR: A two-day gems and mineral bazaar got underway at the Nishtar Hall here on Saturday.The show is organised by the Pakistan Gems and Jewellery Development Company in collaboration with the......
TIMERGARA: All public sector schools in the province would be provided with basic and missing facilities until June 2017 while shortage of teaching staff would also be overcome.This was stated by......
SHANGLA: The residents and transporters of Bisham on Saturday blocked the Karakoram Highway for two hours in protest against the killing of a driver from the area in Jaglot, Gilgit-Baltistan.The......
RAWALPINDI: After the banners urging Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif to impose martial law and form a government of technocrats in the country a few months ago, posters again emerged in the......
ISLAMABAD: The three-judge committee of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) has submitted its report to the Supreme Court of Pakistan on the illegal appointments and promotions made in the IHC.On......
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) failed to develop even a single housing scheme during the last 30 years and also could not monitor private housing societies.Due to the......
Italian Armed Forces Day celebratedItalian Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo and Defence Attaché Col Giorgio Raino welcomed hundreds of guests to a reception at the Marriott Hotel to mark Italian Armed......
The quarrying and carving of stones is a practice as old as human history, and stones such as marble have been an integral part of both construction and decoration.But where it was once limited to......
Mohammad Khan grows wheat and other Rabi crops including mustard, lentils and grams on his farm in Chawali, which is located 28 kilometres to the west of Chakwal city and has prepared his land for......
LAHORE: Mother of a 24-year-old woman has approached the Lahore High Court seeking the court’s permission for her daughter to undergo a sex change surgery as advised by doctors.The mother of the......
LAHORE: Former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar thinks Hillary Clinton will win the United States presidential election as she is considered more suitable, respected, experienced and sensible......
LAHORE: Nine students from the shortlisted students of various leading schools of Lahore, Multan and Faisalabad won the final round of the 12th Dawn in Education Spelling Bee Competition held here at......
Rubab Uppal, a versatile painter and a dedicated art teacher, has a very unique temperament of creating art. Painting regularly for more than three decades, she rarely exhibits her works. Unlike many......
SIALKOT: Two labourers were killed when the wall of a house adjacent to an under-construction multi-storey plaza collapsed in city’s congested Lehaayi Bazaar on Saturday.Some labourers were busy in......
LAHORE: As many as 250,000 participants of Raiwind Ijtima (congregation) underwent biometric verification in the first phase of the event, which is going to conclude on Sunday (today).“We have......
SAHIWAL: Up to 55,000 women ages 18 years and above in rural areas of Sahiwal have not got their computerised national identity cards (CNICs), according to a report by the ‘Deepening Democracy and......
LAHORE: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq says there has been no talk in the PML-N on an alternate prime minister.“There has been no talk in the party on the alternate prime minister,” the......
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court on Saturday indicted former petroleum minister Dr Asim Hussain and five other leaders in a case registered for sheltering and treating alleged terrorists.Dr Asim, a......
KARACHI: Every second woman in Pakistan suffers from some form of domestic violence that has an extremely damaging effect on her physical and mental well-being, said Dr Tazeen Saeed Ali during a......
KARACHI: Speakers at the two Sindh Literature Festival (SLF) sessions on the print and electronic media of Pakistan on Saturday questioned ‘adulteration’ of news stories with a pack of lies and......
LARKANA: The first higher education conference organised by the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SMBBMU) on its premises got under way on Friday and will continue till......
KARACHI: “It is always better to come to the park for walks and exercises in the morning. It is even better if you do it at the crack of dawn,” says Mohammad Shoaib Salfi as he bends down to tie his......
FROM Colonel Saleh’s forward position on his front line north of Quneitra, he has a unique and exclusive view of the Syrian war. To his west and south is a vast area of his country which is occupied......
LONDON: Bob Dylan, music legend and Nobel laureate, is also a prolific painter whose works depicting the landscapes and culture of the United States are now the focus of a major London......
Democrat Hillary Clinton holds a clear advantage in Electoral College but can she hold this advantage for the next two days? If she does, she will make history as the first woman president of the......
NEW YORK: The Muslim vote in the US election, particularly in the battleground state of Florida, could tilt election in favour of Hillary Clinton, reports suggest.According to the US Council of......
TIKRIT: Two roadside bombs struck a convoy carrying Iraqi families fleeing an Islamic State-controlled town in the north of the country late on Friday, killing 18 people, a police officer said.The......
LEISHAN: To an ear-splitting soundtrack of chanting and drums, 400 young dancers in spangled outfits clanged sickles and kick-stepped before thousands of spectators and a dais of a dozen Chinese......
PESHAWAR: Opening pair of Khurana and Sana Sajjad guided Karachi to a thrilling three-run victory over Peshawar Greens in the final of the All-Pakistan Malik Saad Invitation Women’s Cricket......
PERTH: Centuries to Dean Elgar and J.P. Duminy guided South Africa into a commanding position on the third day of the opening Test against Australia in Perth on Saturday.At stumps on the third day......
DHAKA: Bangladesh cricket authorities said on Saturday they are expecting pace prodigy Mustafizur Rahman will be available in their upcoming December series in New Zealand as they declared the squad......
PERTH: Former captain Shaun Pollock thinks Dale Steyn will be remembered as the best Test bowler South Africa has produced even if he never gets back on to the pitch to claim the record as the......
MUMBAI: Captain Alastair Cook on Saturday hailed top bowler Jimmy Anderson’s surprise return from injury as he insisted England would revel in their status as underdogs during their tour of......
MONTPELLIER: Algerian playmaker Ryad Boudebouz scored twice as Montpellier beat Olympique Marseille 3-1 on Friday to leave new OM coach Rudi Garcia still looking for a first league win in......
PARIS: After all the battles and hard graft chasing the world number one spot, Briton Andy Murray arrived there without hitting a ball on Saturday as Milos Raonic pulled out of their Paris Masters......
BERLIN: A hat-trick by Ivory Coast striker Salomon Kalou gave Hertha Berlin a 3-0 victory over Borussia Moenchengladbach on Friday to lift them to third in the Bundesliga before the rest of the 10th......
KARACHI: It was a familiar tale of woes for Karachi Blues when Lahore Blues shot them out for 153 on day one of the sixth-round Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship match here on......
KARACHI: Sindh government’s tax revenue jumped 36 per cent year-on-year to Rs11.932 billion during the July-September quarter on the back of increase in rates of some of the taxes in the latest......
NEW YORK: A federal judge on Friday sentenced a former Wall Street executive who defrauded friends and family members of $38.5 million to four years in prison.Andrew Caspersen an Ivy League-educated......
KARACHI: Cotton prices on Saturday remained under pressure amid slow trading. Spinners and exporters changed their strategy after noting higher phutti (seed cotton) arrivals.The erratic behaviour of......
DHAKA: Remittance’s slide continues for the third straight month in Bangladesh, after the month of October saw receipts decline 8.18 per cent year-on-year to $1.01 billion.Migrant workers sent home......
ORION TOWNSHIP: It can go more than 200 miles on battery power and it costs less than the average new vehicle in the US But in an era of $2 per gallon gasoline, the Chevrolet Bolt probably won’t do a......
ISLAMABAD: A joint report of UNDP-OECD has suggested that Pakistan needs to create jobs for a quickly growing young workforce to tackle its complex security challenges and to broaden its industrial......
KARACHI: The rise of social media has given a new dimension to marketing.Large companies are using it to further their recognition by providing customers with easier access to their promotions.Having......
KARACHI: Events of the outgoing week will long be remembered by investors, as the KSE-100 index climbed 1,969 points (4.97 per cent) to close at an all-time high of 41,841 points.It included the......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has approved the draft regulatory framework for the licensing and regulation of Debt Securities Trustees (DSTs) in order to......
KARACHI: This year will be the second time Web merchants in Pakistan will ramp up crazy deals on Black Friday and entice consumers to open their wallets a bit wider.The foreign concept of going on a......
TOKYO: This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the Toyota Corolla, one of the world’s best-selling cars.Since the first model went on sale in Japan on Nov 5, 1966, some 44.3 million Corollas have......
MUZAFFARGARH: As many as 65 vehicles participated in the first-ever Thal Jeep Rally held in the desert area of Muzaffargarh district.Sultan Mohammad Ali won the international rally and was awarded a......
MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Mohammad Masood Khan said on Saturday that India was bound by international humanitarian laws not to use brute force on unarmed civilians......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) told the Supreme Court on Saturday that it had received Rs20.4 billion as voluntary return (VR) between Jan 2006 and June 2016.VR is a provision in......
SUKKUR: Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Saturday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif must present himself for accountability for his alleged links to Panama......
ISLAMABAD: A retired high court judge will head the committee meant to establish the identity of the person who provided information regarding a high-level meeting of top civilian and military......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan held two back-to-back meetings at his Banigala residence on Saturday amid reports that the party’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter felt......
NEW DELHI: Kashmiris and human rights activists getting slapped with sedition charges in India is passe. A young man was so miffed by his inflated electricity bill in Kanpur that he staged an unusual......
ONE of the classic works of English fiction is Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. It has several parts but the first one, in which Gulliver is shipwrecked and washes ashore on the island of......
MUZAFFARABAD: Around 35 people, including two women, were injured after Indian troops and police resorted to tear gas shelling on the funeral of a teenager in the capital of India-held Kashmir on......
ISLAMABAD: Hanif Abbasi of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz moved an application before the Supreme Court on Saturday with a request to hear his petitions seeking disqualification of Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: The Panamagate controversy has now spilled over into bar politics, with fissures between two schools of thought within the 23-member Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) — the supervisory body for......
KARACHI: Faisal Raza Abidi, former Pakistan Peoples Party senator, was picked up from his Karachi residence in the early hours of Saturday morning and was being grilled for his alleged involvement in......
LAHORE: The latest smog situation has left Lahore in a choking haze, but even in the past environmental experts and activists have been vocal about air pollution issue. Now NASA (the National......
Every nation gets the cinema it deserves, quip the editors of this volume, and if Cinema and Society has an intertitle, it is that filmmakers, like countries, have to work with they’ve got. Ali Khan......
Kashmir is the beautiful region of South Asia about which the Mughal emperor Jahangir wrote: “If on earth there is a garden of bliss, it is this, it is this, it is this”. The area’s strategic......
Author of the acclaimed Panopticon, Jenni Fagan sets her new novel The Sunlight Pilgrims in a dystopian world: it is 2020 and the earth is facing the rapid onset of a second Ice Age. The protagonist,......
Since its inception Pakistan has been facing various administrative problems. If we peel off the layers of these politico-economic problems we get to the managerial question of formulating effective......
Homegoing tells a compelling story of the lineage of two half-sisters who have never met and live two entirely different lives in 18th century Ghana. The book takes us into the family trees of both,......
The opening up of the media TV sector to private undertakings and the adoption of relevant legislation is a recent phenomenon in Pakistan. The enforcement problems facing the Pakistani TV media......
When life takes an unpredictable turn, how does a young girl cope? She makes a bucket list. This forms the premise of Zainab T. Khan’s debut novel, A Bucket Full of Awesome.Summer Wallace is a......
A man was shot dead while his relative injured critically in a suspected sectarian attack in the Sachal area of Karachi on late Saturday night, police officials said."Deceased man identified as Syed......
DESPITE efforts by the state to bring peace to Karachi, sectarian killings in the metropolis continue, putting a question mark on official claims.Within a week, over 10 people have been murdered in......
POLITICAL turmoil is fast becoming a permanent feature of Pakistan’s state of affairs. While political opposition and dissent are generally deemed positive democratic norms, in Pakistan’s context,......
ULTIMATELY, they’re going to have to do it. They know it, we know it and the targets do too: decommission the favourites; defang the good ones.Get rid of militancy.Think of it as an arc: from......
KARACHI is becoming an increasingly anarchic, ugly and divided city — but is loved and glorified by its comparatively well-to-do citizens, public intellectuals and those in search of an identity.......
FOR millennia, the symbol of the ship epitomised hope and the promise of new horizons. With the discoveries of new lands and the onset of trade, the image of the ship was besmirched with the......
