Gunmen killed 10 people including a Canadian tourist and police officers on Sunday in southern Jordan where security forces were hunting down the unidentified attackers.The shootings took place in......
Right arm middle-order batsman Asad Shafiq on Sunday sailed past West Indies's Garry Sobers' as he scored his 9th Test century, playing at 6th number, reported espncricinfo.com.Earlier, Sir Garry......
KARACHI: While laboratory confirmation of suspected ‘chikungunya’ cases is still awaited, hundreds of patients with complaints of high-grade fever and severe joint pain continued to report at public......
Six people, including five members of the same family, were killed and four others injured in a road accident on Sunday evening — some 25 km off Shikarpur.Zeeshan Rajput, 25, accompanied by his......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Vice-Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan’s press conference in response to the judicial commission's report on Quetta attack......
Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa called on Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud on Sunday, said a statement issued by military’s media wing.The Saudi king and the army chief agreed that both......
At least 18 people were killed and around 80 others wounded in two separate highway traffic accidents in western Afghanistan, provincial officials said on Sunday.Mohammad Naser Mehri, spokesman for......
A person was killed and two others injured when mortar shells, reportedly fired by Iranian border guards, hit a vehicle in Panjgoor district of Balochistan near Pak-Iran border on Sunday.A senior......
PPP Co-Chairman Asif Zardari will return to Pakistan on Dec 23, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Sunday.The PPP chairman, addressing a press conference, said Zardari's doctors had......
Under the next phase of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, Karachi-Peshawar railway tracks will be made signal-free and gate-free, Radio Pakistan reported Sunday.Work on the project will be......
Lokesh Rahul and Parthiv Patel put on a record opening stand as India reached 173-1 at lunch Sunday on day three of the fifth cricket Test against England.At the break, Rahul was unbeaten on 89 runs,......
Saudi Arabia's largest telecommunications firm STC plans to buy a 10 per cent stake in car booking firm Careem, the company said on Sunday.Careem is a competitor of US-based Uber, a smartphone app......
Five suspected terrorists were killed in an 'encounter' with the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Sunday in Dera Ghazi Khan, according to a statement released by the CTD Punjab.The statement......
A suicide bomber killed at least 43 soldiers in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Sunday, officials there said, a week after an attack by the militant Islamic State (IS) group killed 50 troops......
India on Saturday announced the names of the new army and airforce chiefs along with the heads of the country's spy agencies.Lieutenant General Bipin Rawat will take over as the new chief of army......
Pakistan made a recovery on the back of a composed, unbeaten century by Asad Shafiq as the team looks to chase down a daunting total of 490 runs in the first day-night Test against Australia in......
An Indonesian air force transport plane has crashed into a mountain, killing all 13 people board, during a training exercise in the remote region of Papua, a search and rescue agency official said on......
BY now, anyone who knows anything about the literary world is aware of the almost daily incidents that roil us in America. To outsiders having nothing to do with the literary world, these frequent......
KHALED Ahmed’s Sleepwalking to Surrender: Dealing with Terrorism in Pakistan is a book with a mission: over the course of 32 chapters, largely comprised of columns and book reviews published in......
Pakistan: Politics and Islamic LawDr Hafizur Rahman SiddiquiTranslated from the original Urdu, this is an examination of the Constitution of Pakistan, its structure and amendments in the light of......
NAOMI Alderman’s latest novel The Power is the unholy child of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Sultana’s Dream. It is contemporary feminist speculative fiction......
HUMANS are considered social animals and rightly so, not only because we have an urge to communicate with others, but also because we want to have a sense of belonging. This sense of belonging —......
PERI is slowly getting drunk at a dinner party in Istanbul. The courses are immaculate, the wine superb, the discourse a slice of high Turkish society. There’s a coffee stain across her purple silk......
Bone Gap, Illinois, is not a place where one would think to start their life anew. So when Polish beauty, Roza, appears in the O’Sullivan barn battered and bruised, brothers Sean and Finn offer her a......
People have been growing food plants for thousands of years and have done so — until recently — without the aid of chemicals such as fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides, or even gardening books to......
There you go. At long last, the wafer-thin, fashion conscious and pretty looking Sonam Kapoor ain’t single anymore. Or so I think.There’s this rich young man by the name of Anand Ahuja who has......
In the summer of 2014, I was at a marketing and media conference, in Dubai, organised by a British cultural organisation. Guests were invited from various Asian and African countries whereas the......
America’s latest scourge is fake news on social media. Its president-elect is a serial conspiracy theorist. Read his wild Twitter feeds to laugh out loud, get alarmed, or pity the 60 million......
What happened to the so-called revival of cinema in Pakistan? Why are those cinema seats falling empty again and that box office looking so deserted? Why is a thriving production pipeline that had......
I must confess that I’ve only seen two of Underworld: Blood Wars’ four predecessors. One I had the displeasure of watching in the cinema, and the other I caught in pieces on television. OK, so that’s......
Last week marked a milestone for the Pakistani entertainment and showbiz industry with FocusPK16, the country’s first national production and entertainment trade conference held in Karachi. It was......
A short documentary Feica Vs Feica directed by journalist Faisal Sayani is the latest Pakistani film to have made an impact on a global scale.After being shown at an event in Bucharest in October and......
Unlike his WWE avatar, Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock is a thorough gentleman, especially when it comes to respecting women.Here’s one reason. The hullabaloo surrounding the promo of the film Baywatch......
We have heard about breakups and divorces in showbiz many a time, so much so that they have stopped surprising us. But this is huge and worth keeping an eye on.Hollywood A-lister George Clooney and......
Like him or not, you can’t ignore him. Sahir Lodhi is unique. Ok, not unique, but different. Ok, not different but zara hutt ke. I mean people do doubt his originality as an artist but rest assured......
There’s something about Skardu that makes you want to come to visit it again and again. I’ve been to many places, traversed paths less travelled and ventured to destinations most people may not have......
Close to two million Afghan refugees currently reside in Pakistan. While those registered have a legal right to stay, many are being pressured to return to a place they no longer consider ‘home’. How......
Enabling children and youth to become caring, knowledgeable and creative citizens of tomorrow should be the vision of all public and private schools, but most lack in this endeavour. However only a......
vWe have been familiar with Peshawari chappals since the beginning of shoe shopping in Pakistan. Most of us recognise them from the really bulky, black, feet-engulfing footwear who would team them......
You know what really annoys me? It’s when you’ve made the most perfect dish for your little one and they just look at it and say no. It doesn’t matter a bit if you’ve spent hours carefully boiling,......
India has mind-boggling and palate-numbing versions of the biryani. To understand the culinary culture of any state, all one needs to do is to understand how people make their biryani. This one dish......
Dear Auntie,I am a 17-year-old girl. My father found out that I was in a relationship with someone and that basically started my downfall. I ask you not to judge me by my age. In the past, my father......
Unlike a number of painters and sculptors moving out to Europe, Canada or the US to settle down, Ejaz Malik — who also has French citizenship — insists it was an obligation for him to return to......
An exciting new development in the Karachi art scene is the Mandarjazail Collective. Described by its members as a self-initiated group of visual artists belonging to various creative fields, it......
Caravaggio or Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610) was an Italian artist who is considered one of the founders of modern painting. He was born in an era which was violent and unstable. There is very......
As attempts at resuscitating Pakistan hockey continue apace, there is more good news: Bannu’s players are back in the big time. The country’s Under-18 boys team, which appeared in the U-18 Asia Cup......
It was 1983 when Rohail Hyatt first saw the tall, scrawny, dark-haired but good-looking guy that was later to become the front man for his band. He and Shahi Hasan were already a few bands old by......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MPA Ziaullah Afridi on Saturday warned that his supporters would besiege the office of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission (KPEC) if PTI chairman Imran Khan did......
PESHAWAR: Shahzada Farhad Aziz, who died in the Dec 7 crash of Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-661 near Havelian, was himself a flight enthusiast and accomplished paraglider.Mr. Aziz, a......
Once home to Kashmiri wood carvers, the trend for such wood art is declining in the city. Kashmiri wood art was loved by Rajas and Maharajas, and later on, by the British. After the partition,......
Kazakh envoy hosts receptionKazakhstan’ ambassador Bakhytbek Shabarbayev and his wife hosted a reception in Marriott Hotel to celebrate his country’s Independence Day. Sharbarbayev is also Dean of......
ISLAMABAD: A heritage fair was hosted at the Serena Business Complex Lawn to celebrate the cultural diversity of Pakistan and brought together local artists, craftspeople, artisans and performers.The......
ISLAMABAD: As many as 18 water quality testing laboratories working under the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) - an autonomous body of the Ministry of Science and Technology......
ISLAMABAD: Less than two years after the introduction of Nizam-i-Salat, mosques in the capital seem to be ignoring the system, with a general trend being for mosques to start their call to prayer a......
LAHORE: A large number of people thronged Dawn Media Group’s annual “All About Lifestyles” exhibition that opened at the Expo Centre, Johar Town, on Saturday.Now in its 16th successful year, the......
The life of transgender persons is pitiful in a society that doesn’t accept them as normal human beings. This was the theme of a play, Teesri Dhun (The Third Tune), by Olomopolo Media presented at......
KARACHI: The health department on Saturday decided to investigate cases of high-grade fever and acute joint pain being reported at a hospital in Malir after its medical superintendent informed......
KARACHI: The family of a 60-year-old diabetic and jobless man, who was suffering from end-stage kidney disease, honoured his last wish to donate his organs to the ailing humanity after he succumbed......
KARACHI: Students, professors and activists gathered at the Jinnah Medical and Dental College’s Zaki Hasan auditorium to remember one of Pakistan’s most prominent social scientists, Hamza Alavi, on......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Post will issue on Sunday a commemorative postage stamp of Rs8 denomination on ‘Death anniversary of Dinshaw Byramji Avari (philanthropist)’, says a press release.Designed by......
KARACHI: More than half of the women in Sindh desire no excess births despite certain social pressures on them to give 26 per cent more births than the desired level, a report authored by the......
HYDERABAD: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Information and archives Maula Bux Chandio has said that the Sindh government has consulted religious circles before deciding to review those clauses of......
LARKANA: The Sindh United Party (SUP) on Saturday kicking off a province-wide campaign against corruption, religious extremism and terrorism by taking out a rally from Airport Road in......
SEOUL: Tens of thousands of protestors turned out in Seoul for the eighth straight week on Saturday, pushing for the immediate and permanent removal of impeached South Korean President Park......
ISTANBUL: Thirteen Turkish soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded on Saturday in a suicide car bombing blamed on Kurdish militants targeting off-duty conscripts, the latest in a string of......
ALEPPO: A new deal is being negotiated to complete the evacuation of rebel-held areas of Syria’s east Aleppo which ground to a halt on Friday after demands from pro-government forces that people also......
KANDAHAR: Gunmen on motorcycles shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining the dangers facing employed women in the conservative,......
BEIJING: China’s defence ministry said on Saturday it had been in talks with the United States about returning an underwater drone taken by a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea, but the US......
BEIJING’S city government ordered 1,200 factories near the Chinese capital to shut on Saturday after authorities issued the highest possible air pollution alert.On Friday, China’s environmental......
BOTH President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump believe the United States never should have invaded Iraq in 2003 (or, at least, Trump claims he now does).The war in Iraq and its chaotic......
While US and European politicians wring their hands and indulge in recriminations over the fall of Aleppo, Russia, Iran and Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian regime are celebrating a “historic” victory they......
AMERICA is now a country without hope, Michelle Obama has said.Asked by Oprah Winfrey if her husband’s administration had lived up to its promise of hope, the first lady said yes, adding: “Because we......
LONDON: Diego Costa struck as Chelsea won 1-0 at Crystal Palace on Saturday, a club record-equalling 11th straight victory that sent them nine points clear at the Premier League summit.Costa’s......
BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund twice came back from a goal down to draw 2-2 at Hoffenheim on Friday despite playing for more than one half with 10 men following the dismissal of Marco Reus.The......
YOKOHAMA: Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane admitted on Saturday his players were suffering from cabin fever after spending almost a week cooped up in a Japanese hotel.As the European champions......
YOKOHAMA: FIFA President Gianni Infantino has defended the use of video replays despite a shaky debut for the new system at the Club World Cup.The replay system allows referees to halt play to review......
BRISBANE: Pakistan were in a backs-to-the-wall struggle to save the day-night first Test as Australia took a strangle-hold on the third day at the Gabba on Saturday.At the close, the tourists were......
CHENNAI: Lokesh Rahul and Parthiv Patel gave India a solid start at 60-0 in the fifth and final Test on Saturday after finally dismissing England for 477, with debutant Liam Dawson scoring an......
BRISBANE: Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur has defended the selection of three left-arm fast bowlers in the attack for the first Test at the Gabba, where Australia piled on 429 in the first......
KARACHI: Inspired by brilliant knocks from Asif Zakir and Shoaib Malik, Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) upstaged United Bank Limited (UBL) by 79 runs in the first round of the National One-day Cup......
KUALA LUMPUR: The sport of softball is rapidly catching up in Pakistan and for its further development the International Softball Federation (ISF) and Softball Confederation Asia (SCA) should......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) retained its status as the fastest growing market in Asia in the outgoing week with 11 consecutive sessions of winning streak that propelled the KSE-100......
ISLAMABAD: The government is seeking a $200 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a project to rehabilitate and dualise the 460-kilometre Lahore-Peshawar track, it was learnt on......
ISLAMABAD: The Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) has lost its relevance because of the country’s changing export base, officials and exporters told Dawn on Saturday.The objective of the......
AT least twice a week, Tanja Vanderlinde says patients call in to say they can’t afford drugs.High-deductible health plans mean they have to dip into their own pockets to pay for generic antibiotics......
OPEC’s deal to cut production and boost prices gives oil companies the opportunity to shake off two years of layoffs and slumping profits to start investing again — if they still have the risk......
ISLAMABAD: In its report on the Aug 8 militant attack on the Civil Hospital, Quetta, the Justice Qazi Faez Isa inquiry commission has underlined the need to make the country’s premier intelligence......
LAHORE: It has been two years since the government lifted the moratorium on the death penalty following the militant attack on the students and staff of the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar.Since......
KARACHI: No changes have been made in the western or any other alignment of the designated route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), said President Mamnoon Hussain on Saturday.Addressing......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Saturday reached Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on a three-day official visit.According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, Gen Bajwa was warmly......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan will preside over a meeting of the party leaders and parliamentarians at his Banigala residence on Sunday (today) to discuss the party’s......
CHITRAL: Amid heart-rending scenes, the remains of 12 victims of the recent air crash near Havelian, six of them belonging to a single family, were buried near here on Saturday.The remains of the six......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday questioned the release of what he termed a ‘one-sided’ inquiry commission report on the Aug 8 terrorist attacks in Quetta and vowed to......
QUETTA: At least eight people burned to death and seven others were injured when a passenger coach and a truck caught fire after a head-on collision near Nokundi in Chagai district on......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly’s secretariat has asked the provincial police chief and the home department to take ‘necessary measures’ to safeguard 13 lawmakers, including three ministers, and a......
AS the fallout from Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s report continues and governments, federal and provincial, struggle to explain their inaction, there has been yet another manifestation of the collective......
THE China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has generated competing claims among provinces on where the corridor should lie, as though counting the trucks plying on it is what really matters. This is......
ALTHOUGH Pakistan ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in 2011, there is yet no parliamentary act to remove barriers to their accessing and participating in......
IN the plan to counter terrorism through the National Action Plan (NAP), 2016 was the second operational year. Towards the end of it, we are still mired in debate. After the December 2014 attack on......
Suspected militants attacked the convoy of a district police officer and the assistant commissioner in Balochistan's Awaran district on Saturday."Five levies and police personnel were injured in the......
