President-elect Donald Trump was hours away on Friday from listening to the nation's top intelligence officials make their most detailed and persuasive case yet that Russia's government interfered in......
It's a New Year's card with a message. Turkey has mailed thousands of diplomats and journalists a fragment of its bomb-damaged parliament, along with its wishes for a happy year of democracy.The......
Pakistan has asked the United Nations to restrain India from interfering in Pakistan and refrain from activities aimed at destabilising Pakistan, said a statement issued on Friday.Pakistan’s......
Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Friday confirmed the recent development that former army chief General (retd) Raheel Sharif was made the chief of 39-nation Islamic military coalition formed......
World number 49, Pakistan's Farhan Mehboob, overcame world number 30 Leo Au of Hong Kong in the final of the First President Gold Cup International Squash Tournament 2017 at Mushaf Squash Complex,......
Former Test batsman Basit Ali is likely to be reinstated as the chief of the junior selection committee by the Pakistan Cricket Board, it has been learnt.Ali was relieved by PCB of his duties as......
Senior police official Rao Anwar was reinstated as Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Malir on Friday, following direct orders issued to Sindh police by Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, it has......
World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver Flyweight Champion Muhammad Waseem called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa at General Headquarters on Friday.The army chief praised Boxer......
The federal government on Friday approved tax exemptions worth Rs20 billion to Punjab government’s pet multibillion-dollar Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project.The development took place in a......
Unidentified assailants injured five members of Quetta's Hazara community in a targeted attack on Friday, police said.The assailants shot and injured the individuals on Spini Road in the Qila Mubarak......
Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board Shaharyar Khan approved the names of the 14-player squad and two stand-by players forwarded by Women’s National Selection Committee for the ICC Women World Cup......
Police on Friday announced the arrest of a teacher in connection with the suspected suicide of University of Sindh Jamshoro student Naila Rind on Jan 1.The suspect, Anis Khaskheli, is a teacher at a......
The scene was hardly conducive to romance: she was a sick Iraqi in a wave of refugees trying to enter Serbia, while he belonged to the stern Macedonian police force keeping guard.But Noora Arkavazi,......
The US army has taken new steps to make it easier for Sikhs, Muslims and other religious minorities to obtain approval to dress and groom themselves according to their religious customs while serving......
The 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) is once again in the news, especially the role being played by the designated mediator, the World Bank. As a Bank representative starts to shuttle between New Delhi......
TWO seemingly insignificant events could amount to the writing on the wall for our municipal administrators all over the country. It is plain, the public will no longer turn a blind eye to poor......
THE new year has been rung in around the world in already a less than auspicious way. For Pakistan, 2016 may not have been entirely annus horribilis, with a few positive developments taking place......
WEDNESDAY, Jan 4 in Lahore marked a new phase in the life of a particular religious group said to be an offshoot of the majority Sunni mainstream. The day could also define the Punjab government’s......
LAST November, the Supreme Court settled the issue of whether amendments relating to levies/ contributions/ payments under various labour laws could be effected through the different finance acts. In......
The ball is pitched well outside off stump, but the long arms of Younis Khan reach for it as he sweeps Nathon Lyon towards deep backward square leg for four runs.The bat swing makes an immaculate......
The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday ordered DNA tests to confirm the identity of the parents of a 10-year-old child maid who was allegedly tortured by her employers ? an influential judge and his wife ?......
The Supreme Court continued hearing the Panamagate case on Friday for the third consecutive day.Naeem Bokhari, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) lead counsel alleged that the owner of the London flats......
At least one civilian was killed and two policemen injured in two separate attacks in Karachi's North Nazimabad neighbourhood on Friday.Police constable Muhammad Iqbal was injured when unidentified......
A train crushed two motorised rickshaws on an ungated crossing, killing seven schoolchildren in Punjab's Lodhran district, police said.Police officer Javed Ahmed said the rickshaw drivers apparently......
Australia were nine wickets away from a series clean sweep and Pakistan an improbable 410 runs from victory with one day left in the third Test in Sydney on Friday.Spinner Nathan Lyon grabbed the......
Who doesn't suffer from unhealthy levels of wanderlust? Almost everyone I know dreams about taking a break from the city to discover the wonders of the natural world. Don't you ever wish to go......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued notices to 10 members of the National Assembly for submitting ambiguous statements detailing their assets and liabilities.These were......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said on Thursday that Qatar’s former prime minister Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al Thani would be jailed if he appeared before the Supreme......
PESHAWAR: The government has decided to deregister the internally displaced families disinclined to return to native towns in Fata.The decision was made during a meeting here on Thursday, which......
PESHAWAR: In a major action against encroachers, the district administration on Thursday demolished over 60 cemented structures in the area from Gulbahar to Tarnab Farm by using heavy......
PESHAWAR: The 89th birth anniversary of former prime minister and founder of Pakistan Peoples Party Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (ZAB) was celebrated here on Thursday.The event was held at the......
SHANGLA/UPPER DIR: Major roads in Shangla were re-opened to traffic on Thursday after the district administration personnel and army soldier removed snow from it.The development comes as the weather......
LAHORE: The Punjab Apex Committee which met here on Thursday decided to ban all means of funding to extremist organisations.The first meeting of 2017 chaired by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif reviewed......
LAHORE: The Punjab government is ignoring requests by the Unesco to facilitate the UN mission to investigate threats posed to Shalamar Gardens, a heritage site, due to works undertaken for the......
LAHORE: In what appears to be first such attempt, the authorities organised on Thursday a psychotherapy session for 100 ‘aggressive’ traffic wardens performing duty in the provincial capital with a......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Two students were injured on Thursday when a layer of dilapidated roof of a classroom fell on them at the Government Postgraduate College for Women at Chak 111-P village.College......
CHAKWAL: Despite the deployment of over 150 police personnel in the troubled village of Dulmial, burglars broke into the house of an Ahmadi family and took away cash, jewellery and prize bonds.The......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee on Thursday proposed that the government bind the Arab royals coming to Pakistan to hunt the threatened houbara bustards to contribute some of the staggering amounts......
ISLAMABAD: Another 728 Pakistanis were added to the list of missing persons in 2016 - the highest in at least six years - taking the total to 1,219, according to the Inquiry Commission on Enforced......
RAWALPINDI: Rifts and fissures within the PPP’s Rawalpindi chapter remained apparent on the birth anniversary of former prime minister and the party’s founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on Thursday, with......
PNCA programmePakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) is organising the second programme on Halqa Arbab Mausiqui on Wednesday, Jan 11 at PNCA Lecture Hall, F-5/1, at 5pm.ExhibitionAn exhibition......
No concrete steps as yet to enforce 25-AThe case of 10-year-old Tayyaba Bibi, who was beaten by her employers, a serving additional district and sessions’ judge and his wife, should serve as an eye......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar on Thursday summoned an Islamabad additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) and the records of the case of a child employed as a maid and......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party observed the 89th birth anniversary of the party’s founding leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by cutting cakes in special ceremonies held in almost all major cities and......
DADU: The Jamshoro police said on Thursday that they raided the residence of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University (Nawabshah) registrar Ghulam Rasool Khaskheli in the Syedabad area and arrested his son,......
KARACHI: District Jail Malir released 217 more Indian fishermen on Thursday morning, taking the number of fishermen released from this facility in 10 days to 447.Though all the men were happy to be......
KARACHI: The culmination of music, theatre and poetry marked the memorial service held at T2f on Thursday in remembrance of beloved feminist poet and activist Nasreen Anjum Bhatti, who passed away in......
KARACHI: One was expecting that the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa) students’ presentation of Italian songs and poems on the moon on Thursday evening would be a tad dissimilar from what......
KARACHI: A total of 399 suspected cases of chikungunya viral fever have so far been reported in Malir, health department officials stated on Thursday.According to the regional disease surveillance......
CHONBURI: After losing part of her foot in a snare in Thailand, baby elephant ‘Clear Sky’ is now learning to walk again — in water.The six-month-old is the first elephant to receive hydrotherapy at......
WASHINGTON: In a letter to the American people, US President Barack Obama said on Thursday that at the end of his two four-year terms, he was confident what he was leaving behind was better than what......
BAGHDAD: Militias fighting alongside Iraqi troops against the militant Islamic State group are committing war crimes using weapons provided to the Iraqi military by the United States, Europe, Russia......
STOCKHOLM: Queen Silvia of Sweden has said that the royal palace where she resides is haunted, according to a documentary to be aired on public television on Thursday.“There are small friends.........
KHOCH (INDIA): As Soni Wadwi breastfed her one-year-old son, Sonu, outside her hut in Khoch village, western India, she recounted how he almost died from severe malnutrition four months ago.The......
MOST mammals, Tim Caro says, are “rather boringly coloured, drab browns and grays”.But zebras? Far from it. Their stripes are stark, beautiful and decidedly strange, the sort of markings found......
ANKARA: A car bombing blamed on Kurdish militants rocked the Turkish city of Izmir on Thursday, killing at least two people and triggering a deadly shootout, as authorities chased the fugitive killer......
WASHINGTON: The top US intelligence official told a congressional panel on Thursday that he believed Russia had undoubtedly interfered in America’s 2016 presidential election.In October last year,......
KARACHI: Fine bowling by Zameer Khan and quickfire batting by Farid Shah helped Prince Imtiaz CC beat Rising Star CC by 5 wickets in the opening match of the KCCA President Cup on Wednesday at TMC......
TUPIZA: Qatari two-time winner Nasser Al Attiyah has been forced to pull out of the Dakar Rally on Thursday, his Toyota team confirmed.The 46-year-old, the 2011 and 2015 champion, would not start......
SYDNEY: Younis Khan claimed his 34th Test century and first in Australia to keep Pakistan’s first innings barely alive in the final Test in Sydney on Thursday.The 39-year-old Pakistani great became......
LAHORE: Giles Clarke, head of the ICC Task Force on Pakistan, and a two-member delegation of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) will arrive Lahore on a two-day visit from Jan 27 for a security......
CAPE TOWN: Fast bowler Kagiso Rabada claimed a six-wicket haul on Thursday as South Africa bowled Sri Lanka out for 224 in their second innings to win the second Test by 282 runs with a day and a......
LONDON: Dele Alli underlined his growing reputation by single-handedly ending Chelsea’s 13-match winning run on Wednesday, scoring two headed goals to give Tottenham Hotspur a 2-0 victory over the......
MADRID: James Rodriguez made the most of a rare start for Real Madrid on Wednesday, scoring twice in a convincing 3-0 win over Sevilla in a first-leg match in the Copa del Rey’s round of 16.Less than......
BRISBANE: Defending champion and top seed Milos Raonic cruised into the quarter-finals of the Brisbane International with a regulation 6-3, 6-2 win over Argentine Diego Schwartzman on......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Farhan Mehboob, continuing with his brilliant form here, caused yet another upset when he outclassed third seed Mohammad Reda of Egypt in the semi-final of the President Gold......
ISLAMABAD: The government is expected to impose 10-paisa per unit surcharge for all electricity consumers for at least 18 months to finance cost overruns of Rs500 billion Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower......
KARACHI: The price of sugar has continued to edge higher despite huge stocks. The wholesale price of sugar, which was Rs57 a kilogram when sugarcane crushing began in November 2016, has now risen to......
KARACHI: Pakistan will have to foot a bill of around $1.58 billion for the import of 4.5 million bales (170kg each) to bridge the gap between the production and consumption of raw cotton.Cotton......
KARACHI: Volatility prevailed on the stock market on Thursday where the KSE-100 index closed flat with a minor gain of 8.64 points (0.02 per cent) at 48,713.63 after posting intraday gain of 229......
KARACHI: Cotton prices surged on strong demand and short supply on Thursday. At the outset buyers cashed quality cotton, which was running in short supply.Soaring cotton prices in the world leading......
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Thursday that the government had virtually won the Panama Papers case in the Supreme Court after the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) failed......
ISLAMABAD: Mass transit projects in Peshawar, Quetta and Karachi have been included in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the federal government has arrived at an understanding with the......
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has formed a 20-member Parliamentary Committee on National Accountability Law to suggest amendments to controversial laws such as plea bargain......
KARACHI: The Telenor Pakistan, a provider of telecommunication services, has decided to close down its 17 sales and service centres across the country within this month.According to a press release,......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday proposed calling members of the prime minister’s family to examine whether they would abide by the stance they had taken on four London flats in their......
KARACHI / LARKANA: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Peoples Party-Parliamentarians (PPP-P) have decided that PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and PPP-P president Asif Ali Zardari will......
KHUZDAR: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Thursday rubbished a recent claim by his Indian counterpart about surgical strikes having been carried out against Pakistan.In an interview......
