The Khyber Pakthunkwa (KP) Assembly Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution seeking voting rights for the transgender community in the province.The resolution moved by Amna Sardar of PML-N, stated......
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Faisalabad on Monday arrested two people for allegedly publishing banned literature linked to the Ahmedi community.The banned publications, Tehreek-i-Jadeed and......
Benazir Bhutto Leadership Program (BBLP), an initiative to prepare people who will be assuming leadership positions in Muslim countries, has been launched at the Harvard University on Monday, said a......
The Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday sided with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling that said the South Korean company had......
US President-elect Donald Trump urged the government to cancel Boeing's new Air Force One plane in a Twitter post on Monday, saying it was too expensive."Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force......
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday in a speech looking ahead to Germany's 2017 general election rallied for a ban on the burqa in public places.Merkel, playing to the wing of her conservative party......
Pakistani authorities promised an inquiry on Tuesday after the Sindh government was found to have employed almost 50 members of the same family in various health ministry jobs, many in the same......
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday he would not let US President-elect Donald Trump rip up a global nuclear deal, warning of unspecified repercussions if Washington reneges on the......
Indian security forces in Kashmir blocked medical care for injured protesters by firing on ambulances, holding up emergency vehicles and preying on hospital patients during clashes in the restive......
Toyota Motor Corp said on Tuesday it will expand the development of its gasoline-hybrid technology over the next five years to speed up the introduction of lower-emission engines in the face of......
India's cricket board (BCCI) has not made a decision on the fate of the final test match against England next week, but is monitoring the situation in Chennai following the death of Indian politician......
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are joining forces to identify the worst 'terrorist content' more quickly and prevent it from spreading online.The new programme, announced Monday, would......
Leg spinner Yasir Shah suffered a back injury during a practice session at Cazaly's Stadium in Cairns, Australia, Pakistan Cricket Board officials said on Tuesday.Shah, who is receiving treatment for......
In Pakistan and beyond, tasks such as firefighting and disposing bombs are widely considered a man's job.In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), however, a young woman is defying stereotypes by training to......
The Balochistan High Court (BHC) on Tuesday suspended the federal government's order to deport Turkish staffers of the Pak-Turk schools and their family members to Turkey.The divisional bench of the......
Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it has opened a brick-and-mortar grocery store in Seattle without lines or checkout counters, kicking off new competition with supermarket chains.Amazon Go, the online......
Sales of the Apple Watch to consumers set a record during the first week of holiday shopping, and the current quarter is on track to be the best ever for the product, Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim......
A Saudi court on Tuesday sentenced 15 people to death for spying for Iran, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television reported.The 15 were among 32 people — comprising 30 Saudi Shia Muslims, one Iranian and......
Focus was on Maryam Nawaz's finances and legal status in the Supreme Court today as hearing of the Panamagate case probing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family's assets resumed.The apex court......
A man strangled his five children to death before committing suicide in Punjab's Chiniot district on Tuesday, police said.Hussain, a resident of Chiniot's Lalian Tehsil, strangled his five children,......
A man who authorities said shouted “go back to your country” at a Muslim woman wearing a religious head covering may have picked the wrong target: a decorated New York City police officer.Officer Aml......
The following information is based on documents submitted to the Supreme Court by Imran Khan's legal counsel for the Panamagate hearing. The assertions made in these extracts are solely the view of......
SHANGLA: Ziauddin Yousafzai, father of the Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, has provided furniture to a school where he received his primary education about 40 years ago.Initiating the campaign......
KOHAT: The first ever national cultural and winter food festival held in Kohat went a long way in promoting the soft image of the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, besides creating opportunities for the......
ISLAMABAD: Former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry seems unwilling to surrender the official bulletproof car to Islamabad High Court (IHC) saying the security on the......
RAWALPINDI: Clerks of the education department on Monday observed a strike and staged a token sit-in in front of their office on Murree Road against the delay in their promotions.They said all staff......
ISLAMABAD: Just 2.09pc of the students who had sat the Central Superior Services (CSS) exams passed, with 92pc failing in English, the National Assembly Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat was......
MULTAN: Three accused in the Qandeel Baloch murder case, including her brother, denied having killed the social media celebrity, after they were indicted by the court here on Monday.When Additional......
LAHORE: Upping the ante against interior minister, Pakistan Peoples’ Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has alleged that Chaudhry Nisar misused his authority in implementing the National Action......
LAHORE: A two-day Media Management Training Workshop, organised at the Central Police Office, concluded on Monday.Organised by the Pakistan Peace Collective, a sub-department of the Ministry of......
KARACHI: “Only my son escaped unhurt. My wife, daughter and myself have all landed in hospital,” said Naveed Khurram, one of the injured being treated at the Aga Khan Hospital after a narrow brush......
KARACHI: Police on Monday launched an investigation into the death of businessman Javed Khanani, who fell to his death from the eighth floor of an under-construction building in Mohammad Ali Society......
HYDERABAD: The Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) on Monday announced its plan to hold ‘people’s court’ in the Pucca Qila ground on Dec 23, when the first ever public meeting of the party is to be held.PSP......
“THE only tribute a French translator can pay to Shakespeare is not to translate him,” said Henry Max Beerbohm, the English humorist.But we have to take with a pinch of salt what Beerbohm said......
KARACHI: Samples of chicken meat collected from various spots in the city have been found to have high levels of arsenic. The city’s environment hasn’t yet recovered from the damaging effects of......
Innovation SummitThe inaugural session of the 1st Invention to Innovation Summit Sindh 2016 at the arts auditorium, Karachi University, at 10am.EXHIBITIONAn exhibition of calligraphic works by by Ali......
SANTIAGO: Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro’s ashes were encased in a large granite boulder on Sunday in a ceremony that capped nine days of public mourning and aimed to literally set in stone the......
MOSCOW: Russian and US experts will meet in the coming days to determine the routes and timing for a total rebel withdrawal from eastern Aleppo, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.“During......
TOKYO: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to become the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor, announcing on Monday a trip to the site of his country’s surprise attack that launched World War II in......
MOSCOW: Authorities in Russia’s Siberian region of Tuva on Monday were examined several pieces of the Progress cargo spaceship found after it crashed last week having failed to reach orbit.Two......
ROME: Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said his goodbyes on Monday after a ruinous referendum defeat that was cheered by populist leaders and sent shockwaves rippling around Europe.“My experience......
STOCKHOLM: Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan will provide a speech and fellow American singer-songwriter Patti Smith will perform one of his best-known songs in his absence during Stockholm’s prize......
VIENNA: The house where notorious Austrian incest monster Josef Fritzl kept his daughter imprisoned in the cellar for 24 years has been sold and will be turned into flats, local media reported on......
CHENNAI: Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the chief minister of southern India’s Tamil Nadu state and one of the country’s most popular political leaders, died after a prolonged illness on Monday night.“It is......
WELLINGTON: Popular New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced his shock resignation on Monday, saying he was never a career politician and it was the right time to go after eight years in the......
BERLIN: The resounding “no” from Italian voters to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s referendum on constitutional reform was not a rejection of the European Union and its single currency, as jubilant......
MUMBAI: Bhupendra Vira, an activist who tried to expose political links to illegal land dealings in Mumbai, was watching television at his suburban home one evening in October when he was shot......
OSAKA: Navy aircraft mechanic Kuniyoshi Takimoto watched as Japanese planes roared off the aircraft carrier Hiryu to attack Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941.The shock assault 75 years ago on Wednesday in......
KORMAKTIS: In a village in northern Cyprus, a community struggling to save its ancient language has seen a glimmer of hope in intensified efforts to reunify the divided island.Kormakitis was once the......
CANBERRA: Australia will be aiming to regain the Chappell-Hadlee trophy with a victory in the second game of the series at the Manuka Oval in Canberra on Tuesday.After some initial wobbles, Steve......
MANCHESTER: There used to be no team better than Manchester United at scoring much-needed late goals.Under Jose Mourinho, the opposite is happening.In the last two months, United have drawn five of......
PARIS: Nice restored their three-point lead at the top of Ligue 1 with a 3-0 win over Toulouse after producing another impressive performance on Sunday.Despite the absence of the injured Mario......
KARACHI: Habib Bank Limited (HBL) qualified for the final of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship in somewhat tragic circumstances when their Super Eight match was abandoned as a......
PARIS: As Paris St Germain joust with Arsenal for top spot in their group, Napoli, Benfica and Besiktas will battle it out Tuesday for last 16 Champions League slots.The Group ‘B’ trio all have......
GENEVA: Sepp Blatter lost his appeal against a six-year ban by FIFA on Monday, and now has more serious legal cases lined up against him.Blatter said in a statement it was “difficult” to accept the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is expected to produce 10.542 million bales (1 bale=170 kilograms) during the current season, according to the Cotton Crop Assessment Committee (CCAC).The estimates were released......
KARACHI: Cement sales rose 11 per cent year-on-year to 3.749 million tonnes in November thanks to a continued rise in local despatches. The figure suggests the cement industry achieved its......
KARACHI: Investors’ confidence surged on Monday as they sensed slowdown in selling by foreign investors and witnessed the rise in international crude prices to a six-month high.The rupee’s recovery......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Italy have identified areas of cooperation to have greater economic and commercial exchanges for mutual benefit.At the conclusion of a meeting of the Pakistan-Italy Joint......
KARACHI: The expected higher cotton output this season continued to depress prices on slow and selective buying activity on Monday. The undertone weakened and outlook for the near future was......
NEW YORK: Crude rose above $55 a barrel to hit a 16-month high on Monday as rising prospects of a tightening market after last week’s Opec landmark deal to cut production has given speculators......
LONDON: The amount of money spent on advertising on social media is set to catch up with newspaper ad revenues by 2020, a leading forecaster said on Monday.The rapid expansion of social media......
ISLAMABAD: The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) has cleared Shanghai Electric Power (SEP) of China to take over a majority stake in Karachi-based integrated power utility K-Electric from......
KARACHI/LAHORE: Activist and writer Abdul Wahid Baloch was released on Monday afternoon, according to the family and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).As other activists and friends of......
NEW YORK: US president-elect Donald Trump could use his “extraordinary deal-making skills” to reduce tensions around the world and solve problems such as the “intractable” Kashmir issue, vice......
ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court judge on Monday regretted that judges had started avoiding shaking hands with people even in weddings and other functions to make sure that they were not caught in a......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court acquitted on Monday yet another death-row convict after a decade of imprisonment on the grounds that his accomplices were set free by lower courts on the basis of the......
ISLAMABAD: A day before the hearing of the Panamagate case is scheduled to resume in the Supreme Court, the federal government and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday accused each other of......
ISLAMABAD: Members of the Senate’s special committee on PIA expressed their extreme displeasure on Monday over the absence of top officials of the national flag carrier from a crucial meeting and......
KARACHI: Several members of the Qatari royal family arrived in various parts of Pakistan to hunt the internationally protected migratory bird houbara bustard for which the government had issued them......
WASHINGTON: The United States has urged Afghanistan’s neighbours to make it clear to the Taliban that there is no alternative to a negotiated settlement of the Afghan dispute.The statement, issued on......
CHAKWAL: On Nov 12, Sardar Faiz Tamman — former MNA from NA 61 (Chakwal II) — proclaimed on his Facebook page, “First shikar [hunt] of the season.” With the post, the influential man also uploaded......
ISLAMABAD: As the Supreme Court resumes hearing the Panama Papers leaks case on Tuesday, both the petitioners, including Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan, and the defendants, the family of......
KARACHI: Twelve people, including five doctors, were killed and over 80 others injured in a fire that broke out in the Regent Plaza Hotel located on the arterial Sharea Faisal on Monday, police and......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Monday submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) his much-awaited reply, which raised questions about what he had earlier......
AMRITSAR reconfirmed Pakistan remains a target of joint criticism by India and Afghanistan. Much of domestic and international opinion by and large concurs with such criticism. Such is the failure of......
AT a South Asian summit in the Maldives during the Zardari era, Pakistan decided to acknowledge its past assertively, not as it imagined its history through the familiar neo-religious prism as, say,......
I FINALLY have the guts to make a confession that may infuriate our honour brigade. I don’t believe in the two-nation theory! But I don’t oppose Pakistan’s creation, to disappoint Indian hawks too. I......
INCOMING army chief Gen Bajwa takes over at a time when Pakistan is already on the road to recovery. Since 2010, the country has experienced a significant reduction in terrorist violence. The economy......
Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the chief minister of south India's Tamil Nadu state and one of the country's most popular political leaders, died after a prolonged illness, hospital authorities announced late......
