Pakistan on Saturday urged the World Bank to fulfil its commitment in regards to the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), reported Radio Pakistan.The demand was made by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in a letter to......
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar on Saturday said Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari's return to Pakistan was not the result of a deal with the government.Talking to reporters......
At least eight children died and dozens other contracted the ailment in the aftermath of a measles outbreak in Balochistan's Zhob and Awaran districts on Saturday."Five children died and 36 other are......
India has reduced registration fee for Hindus and other minorities from Pakistan and two other countries, making it easier and financially affordable to become citizens, reported the Times of......
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday laid the foundation stone for what is set to be the world's tallest statue, as its projected multi-billion-rupee cost sparked criticism and an online......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Saturday cancelled the membership of dozens of party workers for violating party policies, said a statement released by the party.Party workers......
Pakistan and Turkey held their fifth round of the negotiations on Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and achieved progress on the tariff lines proposed for concessions by the both sides.Both sides undertook......
Turkish-backed fighter supported by warplanes from Turkey killed 68 fighters of the militant Islamic State (IS) in northern Syria overnight, the Turkish military said on Saturday, as intense fighting......
Nigeria's army has captured a key Boko Haram camp, the militant group's last enclave in the vast northeastern Sambisa forest that was its stronghold, President Mohammadu Buhari said on Saturday.Boko......
Australia vice-captain David Warner has found it “bizarre” that pundits and fans continue to criticise the team despite winning their last two test matches after a run of five losses.Australia beat......
Various forms of slavery, including child labour, are present in more than 90 per cent of south India's spinning mills which produce yarn for Western brands, researchers said, calling for mapping of......
The Karakoram Highway was opened for traffic on Saturday after an hours long suspension following protests by locals over the alleged murder of a local by a Frontier Constabulary (FC) official.As per......
Mohammad Raza is not your average 11 year old boy. While his peers go to school, play cricket and scrape the occasional knee, Raza sits in front of a computer and codes.He builds software that can......
China on Friday said the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is an "open initiative" of its One Belt One Road project, but it would consider the possibility of other countries joining CPEC......
China's military says its first aircraft carrier group has carried out a series of fighter launch, recovery and air combat exercises in the Yellow Sea amid tensions with the United States and......
Pakistan batting coach Grant Flower says his side is looking forward to a return of the red ball and a hard Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) pitch for the second test against Australia beginning......
Fried chicken scented candles anyone?Forget lavender, vanilla or sandalwood waxes, because KFC New Zealand has just launched a limited edition scented candle to fill your home with the smell of fried......
Hibernating and dormant mammals include bears, squirrels, groundhogs, raccoons, skunks, opossums, dormice, and bats. Frogs, toads, turtles, lizards, snakes, snail, fish, shrimp, and even some insects......
The New Year is around the corner and you may be planning a lot of ‘new things’ to buy for yourself or as gifts for your family and friends. One of the things that we always do is wish everyone a......
When was the last time you witnessed young kids saving the world from certain destruction? Some 18 months to be exact; when Kamil, Saadi and Amna defeated Mangu in Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s 3 Bahadur.......
Johnny Depp tops Forbes list of most overpaid Hollywood actorsJohnny Depp is Hollywood’s most overpaid actor for the second year in a row, according to Forbes.The Pirates of the Caribbean star topped......
Have you ever gone through a day when it seemed that the world was upside down and everything was just going wrong? It was one such day in Laiba’s world.The poor girl had slept late at night as she......
Snuggling into a warm bed, under a soft furry blanket, is the most appealing thing to do during winter. But animals are not so lucky to have a fireplace or blanket to keep themselves warm and have to......
THE recent allegations about Russian interference in the US elections have been met in Washington with much shock and horror.Michael McCaul, a Texan Republican and chairman of the Homeland Security......
KARACHI: Ending his 18-month self-imposed exile, Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman and former president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari returned to the country on Friday and told a big cheering crowd......
GWADAR: The Balochistan government has imposed with immediate effect a ban on transfer of land in the port city of Gwadar for three months.The provincial revenue department has issued an official......
KARACHI: Hours before the return of former president and Pakistan Peoples Party’s co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari from his self-imposed exile on Friday, the Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, conducted......
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has swept the elections of heads of local governments — metropolitan/municipal corporations, district councils and municipal committees — in Punjab as expected. Its......
LAHORE: Power distribution companies (Discos) will now observe a loadshedding schedule of around four hours in urban areas and eight hours in rural areas across the country owing to a decline in......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday defended the placement of five regulatory authorities under the administrative control of line ministries without taking the matter to the Council of Common......
VALLETTA: Hijackers claiming to have a grenade took over a Libyan plane on Friday and diverted it to Malta before releasing everyone on board and surrendering to authorities, officials said.“Final......
ISLAMABAD: All five stakeholders — the Centre and the four provinces — have failed miserably in the past seven years to deliver on their promise to increase tax-to-GDP ratio to 15 per cent in five......
MIRPURKHAS: The mother rummages through a large metal trunk, searching for a picture of her young daughter taken away in the night to be the bride of a man who says the family owed him $1,000.Beneath......
MUZAFFARABAD: The PML-N government in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) has called upon Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to ask the authorities concerned to take measures for grant of water use charges at a......
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Defence has awarded a $284.6 million contract to Lockheed Martin to produce infrared target sight systems for the US Navy and Pakistan, the Pentagon announced on......
KARACHI: Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) pensioners are facing difficulty in withdrawing pension amounts due to the shift from manual disbursement to withdrawal through debit......
LONDON: In a legal first for the UK, ARY News has had to broadcast a summary of a highly critical legal judgement against it. ARY was forced to announce that the judgement found that 24 ARY......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday said his government was raising a special force to protect the Chinese nationals working on various projects in the province, including......
ABBOTTABAD: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) staff started shifting the crashed plane’s wreckage from Havelian to Islamabad on Friday amid tight security and the process is likely to take a......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Nisar Khan said on Friday tax rates for non-filers of income tax returns will be further increased in the next budget.“We will increase the rates of......
ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Friday approved 14 projects worth Rs139.5 billion in communication and transport, highways, physical planning, energy, information......
LAHORE: Pakistan’s economic growth lies in generating electricity through water as it is one of the cheapest sources, said speakers at a seminar organised by the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and......
ISLAMABAD: A new research of Asian Development Bank (ADB) found that Pakistani farmers affected by flood in 2011 and 2012, have a significantly higher increase in their savings.The flood of 2011......
KARACHI: Pakistan Soap Manufacturers Association (PSMA) Chairman A. Abdullah Zaki has condemned higher valuation of sulphonic acid issued by the Director Customs Valuation on Dec 22 despite its low......
KARACHI: Investors continued to book profit on Friday in thin trading, ahead of the upcoming rollover week. The benchmark KSE-100 index declined 65.79 points (0.14 per cent) to settle at......
MELBOURNE: Pakistan say they have the momentum heading into the Boxing Day Melbourne Test after giving Australia a mighty fright during an epic run-chase in the opening clash of the series.The......
PRAGUE: Czech tennis star Petra Kvitova is determined to play tennis again no matter what that requires after a knife-wielding intruder attacked her inside her home.The two-time Wimbledon champion......
MELBOURNE: Pakistan’s young opening batsman Sami Aslam, who had modest returns of 22 and 15 at the Brisbane Test, said his side was ready to better handle Australia’s attack led by the......
MILAN: Federico Bernardeschi did his best impression of Lionel Messi and it still wasn’t enough for Fiorentina to beat visiting Napoli and the seemingly unstoppable Dries Mertens.A last-minute......
SHANGHAI: Brazilian international midfielder Oscar will join Chinese club Shanghai SIPG from Chelsea, the English Premier League club said on its website on Friday.Although no financial details of......
KARACHI: United Bank Limited (UBL) continued their losing streak in the National One-day Cup for Departments on Friday when Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) edged them by three wickets......
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian lands, with the United States......
BEIRUT: Turks reacted angrily on Friday on social media to a video released by the militant Islamic State group purportedly showing two captured Turkish soldiers being burned alive, while awaiting an......
WASHINGTON: The Radio City Rockettes dance troupe and a Mormon choir will perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration next month, the president-elect’s team said, insisting the show is on for the Jan 20......
BARCELONA: Catalonia’s separatist government staged a summit on Friday to prepare an independence referendum it plans to stage in September, despite fierce opposition from Spain’s central......
YANGON: The headless body of a Muslim villager has been found days after he spoke to reporters on a rare government-guided media tour of restive northern Rakhine State, Myanmar police said on......
BRITISH Prime Minister Theresa May is increasingly isolated as her demands to control all areas of policy alienate key colleagues, according to more than a dozen officials who worry tensions will......
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels outside Aleppo on Friday shelled a neighbourhood in the northern city, killing three people in the first bombardment since government forces took control of the whole city after......
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced hope on Friday that frayed relations with the US will improve once Donald Trump becomes president despite his pledge to strengthen the US’s nuclear......
MILAN: Italian police on Friday shot dead the prime suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack, ending a frantic four-day hunt for Europe’s most-wanted man.Tunisian Anis Amri, 24, is believed to......
NEW YORK: US president-elect Donald Trump, reaffirmed his remarks on nuclear arms expansion when asked by a reporter by saying “Let it be an arms race,” and that the United States would win it, MSNBC......
WASHINGTON: A modest little dinosaur that scampered across northwestern China 160 million years ago boasted a unique trait not seen in any other dinosaur or other prehistoric creature yet unearthed:......
CHENNAI: The arrests of several businessmen and sacking of a senior bureaucrat in southern India have highlighted the power of the so-called “sand-mining mafia”, accused of damaging the coastline and......
WE’RE still gauging the diplomatic fallout of the chilling assassination of Andrey Karlov, Russia’s ambassador in Turkey, on Monday. In front of cameras at an art exhibition in Ankara, a lone......
NEW YORK: The television industry is in the midst of a sea change but one format hasn’t varied in 70 years — and yet remains a favourite among American viewers.The sitcom still brings the same bag of......
HYDERABAD: Pak Sarzameen Party chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal has said that today’s public meeting of his party in the Pucca Qila ground has buried the myth that Mohajirs and the Muttahida Qaumi......
KARACHI: Driving to the airport from Sharea Faisal on Friday morning, when one feared the road would be blocked by the Pakistan Peoples Party jialas also heading that way for Asif Ali Zardari’s......
HYDERABAD: Back in 2012, when the Pir Sibghatullah Shah Rashdi-led Pakistan Muslim League (Functional) demonstrated its strength in a public meeting against the dual local government system —......
KARACHI: Out of more than 10,000 madressahs functioning across the province, the Sindh government has sealed 2,309 seminaries which were unregistered or being run ‘illegally’, while all the remaining......
LAHORE: Veteran journalist and columnist Syed Anwar Qidwai died of cardiac arrest here on Friday. He was 72.Known for his leaning to the right and close association with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif,......
LAHORE: A dialogue on Shakir Ali was held and an exhibition opened in connection with his centennial celebrations was held at Shakir Ali Museum on Friday.The event, Homage to Shakir Ali, was......
BAHAWALPUR: Special persons (deaf and dumb) blocked the busy DCO Chowk to press the government to accept their demands.The protesters blocked the intersection for the vehicular traffic by forming a......
TOBA TEK SINGH: The local grain market that was among the top few grain markets in Punjab for three decades cannot be called so anymore, as currently grains are stocked in one-fourth of the shops......
RAWALPINDI: The slaughtering of a goat at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport hanger before an ATR flight on Sunday has raised concerns among security officials about how a butcher’s knife was......
“I was born in Faisalabad in a poor family and am the second of eight siblings. I grew up working various jobs including weaving carpets and working as a cobbler to help out the family. My father had......
ISLAMABAD: For Farkhanda Javed, this Christmas is likely to be a source of worry rather than a celebration.The mother of three lives in a single room tent with her children and husband in Rimsha......
PESHAWAR: Adviser to the Chief Minister on Information and Higher Education, Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani, has rejected claims of the federal government and media reports regarding the award of a......
KOHAT: Rohu fish has flooded the market where people throng stalls to buy uncooked or fried fish from the available variety to enjoy the taste as well as get warmth during winter.The sale and cooking......
THE law in India is in a precarious state on a vital aspect of freedom of the press: the lack of statutory protection of a journalist’s sources.The fundamental right to freedom of speech and......
THANKS to the mindless policies of the country’s security establishment, Balochistan has become Pakistan’s Achilles’ heel. Rather than find a sensible way out, more blunders are being committed.Take,......
On the campus of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) — Pakistan’s premier public university — stands a large, ornate palace with manicured lawns and parked SUVs, protected by menacing guards and dogs. The......
