All-rounder Mohammad Hafeez has been inducted into the One Day International (ODI) team, set to face Australia on Jan 13, a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official told DawnNews Saturday."The PCB......
President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday formally announced former Indiana Senator Dan Coats as his pick for US director of national intelligence.A mild-mannered former ambassador to Germany who also......
The controversial Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sakshi Maharaj was booked on Saturday for "a veiled attack on the Muslim community", blaming it for the "population explosion" in......
Yemeni government forces attacked rebel positions on the Red Sea coast on Saturday, sparking clashes in which six soldiers and 11 rebels were killed, a loyalist commander said.The assault on the......
A US army veteran who complained that the government was controlling his mind drew a gun from his checked luggage on arrival at the Fort Lauderdale airport and opened fire in the baggage claim area......
At least 43 people were killed Saturday when a car bomb went off in a busy market in a rebel-held Syrian town along the Turkish border, activists and rescue workers said.The explosion ripped through......
Amazon.com Inc’s digital assistant appeared almost everywhere at the CES technology show this week in Las Vegas, even making an unexpected appearance on rival Google’s Android system.Companies......
President Mamnoon Hussain on Saturday night passed an ordinance to disbar for life public office holders and government servants who seek to benefit from the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB)......
Human rights activist and Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU) professor Salman Haider has been reported missing from Islamabad.A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered at the Lohi Bher......
Respected Minister for Information Technology,This might be a long letter but please bear with us as it is an important one, especially since the issue is so close to your heart — one you fought for......
Captain Misbah-ul-Haq says Pakistan will not end their touring misery in Australia until they can adapt to the unique playing conditions Down Under.Pakistan succumbed to a 220-run defeat to Steve......
The FBI on Friday released 100 pages of heavily censored documents related to its agreement with an unidentified vendor to hack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters,......
Renowned Pakistani architect Habib Fida Ali passed away on Saturday.According to a message sent to alumni by Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, his funeral prayers will be offered at 12......
The murals on the walls of Karachi Press Club which were vandalised on Thursday, allegedly by members of politico-religious parties, have been restored by senior artist and cartoonist Feica and......
Australia clinched a series clean sweep with an emphatic 220-run win over Pakistan in the third Test in Sydney on Saturday.The tourists were all out shortly before tea on the final day for 244......
They’re calling it Black Monday. For around two minutes on the morning of Monday, August 21 2017, a narrow swath of the USA will go dark, as the sun fully disappears behind the new moon. This rare......
In a lot of places in Pakistan, we never get to see snow falling, especially in the major cities. But in northern areas of Pakistan snowfall is seen every year and people there indulge in a lot of......
It was the end of December, people were excited about celebrating New Year Eve and wishing their friends a happy New Year. I had just reached home and was on the way to my room. I was thinking about......
The exam invigilator handed me the paper and I sighed with frustration as I noticed how thick it was. I had been studying until very late at night and my eyes felt swollen and heavy and my mind......
If you have seen the movie Smurfs or Alice in the Wonderland, you might have wondered about mushrooms — if they were elves or fairies or any sci-fi creation? Hey kids, they are a part of the natural......
A rock in leather pouch, anyone?A product offered online by Seattle-based Nordstrom is gaining viral attention for an unusual reason — it’s an $85 rock in a leather pouch.The “Medium Leather Wrapped......
What Woody Woodpecker has to offer us in his feature film?Tnews of an upcoming movie of the classic cartoon character Woody Woodpecker delighted many fans; however, after the release of the teaser......
“I hate snow, I hate New Year!” Jonathan tells his father Alfred Bates, the famous detective, while looking outside through a window.“On the contrary, I like snow and New Year,” Bates replies to his......
With each passing year, the Guinness World Records get bigger and better — as more records and categories pile up each year. If you want to know how amazing and weird this world and its people are,......
NEW DELHI: Selectors appointed Virat Kohli as India’s limited-overs skipper on Friday as the number one ranked Test side sets its sights on winning back its title as one-day cricket’s world......
SYDNEY: Australia moved within nine wickets of completing a series clean sweep as Pakistan reached 55-1 chasing 465 for victory at stumps on Friday’s fourth day of the third Test at the Sydney......
SYDNEY: Master batsman Younis Khan’s disappointment at Pakistan’s perilous position in the third Test has been mitigated by his first century in Australia and proximity to the exclusive 10,000-run......
MOUNT MAUNGANUI (New Zealand): Colin Munro became the third New Zealand player to score a Twenty20 International century as his side secured a 47-run victory and wrapped up their three-match series......
BILBAO: Barcelona’s two-year reign of the Copa del Rey was in jeopardy after they lost to a nine-man Athletic Bilbao 2-1 at a packed San Mames Stadium here on Thursday.Athletic played a man down from......
AUCKLAND: Croatian teenager Ana Konjuh outlasted Julia Goerges in a two-hour battle on Friday to set up a final against diminutive American Lauren Davis in the WTA Auckland Classic.Konjuh, 19, a......
ISLAMABAD: Brilliant Farhan Mehboob stunned world number 30 and top seed Hong Kong’s Leo Au in a thrilling five-game final to win the President Gold Cup International Squash Championship at the......
BRISBANE: A more aggressive Milos Raonic moved into the semi-finals of the Brisbane International when he beat Spaniard Rafael Nadal in a high quality quarter-final on Friday.Raonic, the defending......
KARACHI: In a renewed wave of violence barely a few days into the new year, a police station came under grenade attack by unidentified assailants, who minutes later killed a rickshaw driver and......
KARACHI: It is not easy to describe the difference between Eastern forms of music and their Western counterparts. Both differ in tonality, in melodic structures and scale progressions. So any effort......
A TALK & EXHIBITION‘Cranes and cube’: a talk and exhibition of artworks by Asma Kazmi at T2F at 7pm.QAWWALIA programme titled Baethak featuring Najmuddin Saifuddin Brothers under the auspices of the......
KARACHI: The first batch of machines imported from China to lift garbage in Karachi’s district South has arrived at the Karachi port and the second shipment is expected to arrive next week, officials......
HYDERABAD: Noted playwright Noorul Huda Shah has said that extremism has penetrated the minds of people in Sindh and that she does not want to see Sindhi youths becoming part of a bloodbath. Rather,......
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has asked members of the Larkana Municipal Corporation (LMC) and district council to prepare for his contest in the by-election......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday granted Rs20-billion tax relief to Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project and decided to extend the same benefits to three future projects of similar nature in......
KARACHI: Deposits of the banking sector increased 20.4 per cent in 2016, which is notably higher than the growth rate witnessed in recent years.In its latest statement of position of all scheduled......
ISLAMABAD: The government’s efforts to bring the rich into the tax net has failed to bear fruit as only 845,985 people filed their income tax returns in the tax year 2016.Of them, 769,565 people......
ISLAMABAD: Inflation for the week ended on Jan 5 for the combined income group declined 0.12 per cent over the preceding week.According to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on......
KARACHI: Extending its rally into the second day, the stock market saw the KSE-100 index cross the barrier of 49,000 points on Friday with a gain of 324.6 points, or 0.67 per cent, to close at an......
NEW DELHI: India’s government said Friday that the economy would grow by 7.1 per cent in the financial year ending in March, slower than the growth registered during the previous year, amid warnings......
KARACHI: Cotton prices rose on Friday on the back of sustained buying, but ginners generally preferred to hold back their stocks.Spinners remained in the forefront of buying spree as they tried their......
WASHINGTON: Two American astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station on Friday to work on upgrading the orbiting outpost’s electrical system.Americans Shane Kimbrough, the 49-year-old......
BEIRUT: Russia’s military said on Friday it has begun scaling down its deployment to Syria, as the regime intensified its bombardment of a rebel-held district home to the capital’s main water......
DHAKA: Bangladeshi police shot dead an Islamist extremist accused of being one of the masterminds of last year’s deadly siege at a cafe during a pre-dawn raid in Dhaka on Friday.The bodies of Nurul......
MUMBAI: Veteran actor Om Puri, known for a variety of roles in many Bollywood and Hollywood films, died on Friday.He was 66 years old. Celebrities like director Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Akshay......
VENEZUELA’S economy is a catastrophe of Dickensian proportions. And for plenty of readers, that’s hardly a surprise. Every time I write about it, dozens pipe in with some variant on the same comment:......
FOR much of my career as a critic, I’ve written primarily about the ideas in movies and television and how they relate to important issues we’re working out in the world beyond the screen. Over the......
LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police claimed on Friday to have arrested two people suspected to be involved in Gulshan-i-Iqbal Park suicide attack in 2016.At least 74 people were......
SAHIWAL: Harappa civilisation is a universal heritage and its importance has been recognised by the local and international community, says Ms Vibeke Jensen, Country Director of the United Nations......
ISLAMABAD: Members of the Supreme Court bench hearing the Panamagate case on Friday expressed divergent opinions over which side shouldered the burden of proof. While Justice Asif Saeed Khosa — who......
ISLAMABAD: The controversial special powers given to the army to establish tribunals for trying civilians on terrorism charges are set to end after two years as the sunset clause contained in the......
KARACHI: Former army chief retired Gen Raheel Sharif is said to be on his way to becoming the top commander of a Saudi-led Islamic Military Alliance.Gen Raheel retired in November last year after......
QUETTA: Five members of the Shia Hazara community were injured when gunmen on two motorcycles attacked their vehicle near the Killi Mubarak area on Spiny Road on Friday.The outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi......
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that Pakistan was among the key countries where the United States has constructed state-of-the-art tactical security operations centres.In a......
PESHAWAR: Members of minority communities demonstrated here on Friday to demand of the government to impose a complete ban on sale and use of liquor.The protesters, who belonged to Christian and Sikh......
PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has said that the federal government should increase Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s share in the National Finance Commission (NFC) award as the presence of......
MURREE: The snowfall which began on Wednesday night continued on Friday with regular intervals and so far one foot snow has fallen on the hill station.Rashid Bilal of the local Met Office told Dawn......
UPPER DIR: The second Lowari snow jeep rally would be held on Sunday (tomorrow) at the scenic and snow-covered Lowari Top for which contestants from across the country had already reached......
ISLAMABAD: Although a medical board waited several hours in vain for police to produce Tayyaba for a second medical examination, Pims Vice Chancellor Dr Javed Akram said there was no doubt the child......
ISLAMABAD: In keeping with its tradition of delaying the completion of its mega projects, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has also failed to complete a small-scale project to install floral......
“I was born and raised in Rawalpindi and I am my parents’ only child. My father passed away when I was young and my mother had to work hard to bring me up. She has been selling embroidery work and......
KARACHI: A senior official of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has resigned claiming that the management manipulated a Senate committee and did not present a clear picture of the airline’s......
QUETTA: Members of the provincial assembly from the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) on Friday criticised reported remarks of former prime minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali against the governor of......
ISLAMABAD: All hurdles in the way of the proposed merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been removed as all parliamentary parties have given their......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Friday termed India the biggest hurdle in the way of regional peace.Talking to a three-member delegation of British and European parliaments......
ISLAMABAD: Musings by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers regarding the outcome of the Panamagate case continue to provide grist to the rumour mill......
IF ever an image was emblematic of Pakistan’s progress in the war against extremism — and indeed of the fissures in its society — it is that of the viciously defaced Karachi Press Club walls. Last......
GEN Bipin Rawat, the recently installed army chief in India, was the surprise choice of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the country’s next top soldier. And now Gen Rawat has pulled a bit of a......
IT is estimated that by 2030, we will number 250 million, and more than 315m by 2050. Surely it does not take much to imagine how today’s fight for water, for space on public transport, for food and......
IN one of the most noticeable statements from the country’s military leadership, Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Bajwa has proposed that a “people-centric approach based on local ownership” should be......
US SECRETARY of State John Kerry’s long speech on peace between Israelis and Palestinians offered the wronged party (the Palestinians) little, and is unlikely to win support either in the US or in......
A shooter wearing a Star Wars T-shirt opened fire at the baggage carousel at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday, killing at least five people before being taken into custody,......
