A pregnant woman committed suicide after killing her children in Islamkot town in Tharparkar district, Sindh, when she reportedly jumped into a well along with her two children, thus resulting in the......
Adviser to Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said that India's attitude "that it will not have a dialogue with Pakistan" is unreasonable, and that "Pakistan will not compromise itself to......
Unidentified armed men attacked the convoy of a Qatari prince in Balochistan's Musakhel district on Sunday evening, DawnNews reported.The gunmen opened indiscriminate fire on the convoy, as a result......
Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Sunday telephoned Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to condole over the loss of life in recent terror attacks in Afghanistan and build rapport with Pakistan, said......
The federal government revised the prices of petroleum products for the next fortnight, Radio Pakistan reported Sunday.Finance Minister Ishaq Dar addressed a press conference in Islamabad, saying......
Pakistan Navy rescued 18 fishermen from a sinking fishing boat near Ormara Coast, said a statement issued on Sunday.The fishing vessel “Al-Rehman” which had sailed from Karachi on December 25 with 18......
Roads were blocked in Chitral and Balochistan due to heavy snowfall in the region, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Sunday, adding that the army and the Frontier......
The US-based World Kashmir Awareness organisation expressed the hope that the upcoming United States President Donald Trump would help resolve long-standing Kashmir dispute to establish durable peace......
Bahraini authorities on Sunday executed three Shia Muslim men convicted of killing an Emirati police officer and two Bahraini policemen in a 2014 bomb attack, in a move likely to stoke protests in......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan addressing a gathering in Dera Ghazi Khan on Sunday said the people of Punjab are tired of 'Takht-i-Lahore'.In an attempt to rally support for his party,......
At least seven civilians, including a women and three children, were killed when their truck hit a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said.The villagers were travelling from......
The death toll from a boat accident in eastern India rose to 26 on Sunday, a senior official said, warning of more casualties with rescue workers still scouring the waters.The non-motorised wooden......
US civil rights activists vowed on Saturday to defend hard-fought gains in voting rights and criminal justice during the presidency of Donald Trump, kicking off a week of protests ahead of the......
Pakistan beat Australia by 6 wickets in the second One Day International at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.This is Pakistan's first ODI win on Australian soil in 12 years. Both teams have won......
IN 1985, historian Ayesha Jalal published her brilliant doctoral dissertation from the University of Cambridge under the title The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League, and the Demand for......
SHE was born in September 1916, she thought; history claims that she was born in Henan, China, in 1917, and named Zhou Kuanghu. Either way, Han Suyin would have been 100 this year. She died in 2012......
Jannat Jahannum Aur Doosray AfsanayA. KhayyamAfter publishing his first short story in 1962, the author brought out a collection in 1993, then in 2005. In this, his third collection, some stories are......
THE book under review is an insider’s indictment of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) on the perceived abandonment of the party’s aim. The author’s thesis is that the JI has moved away from the original......
IT is almost an age-defying act, but Mustansar Hussain Tarrar seems so helpless in the face of his legendary wanderlust that he just keeps doing it. He moved around the world on shoestring budgets in......
There are few writers in the field of labour or industrial relations in Pakistan. Although this field encompasses all the industrial and commercial establishments operating within the country, there......
“Presumably, the mothers were begging the soldiers to release their sons, touching their faces and shoes and crying their hearts out to have mercy on them.”Nayeema Mahjoor’s Lost in Terror is an......
Fifty years ago, on November 9, 1966 (9/11 in British usage), Paul McCartney was decapitated in a car crash, and was soon replaced, unbeknownst to the public, by a look-alike with equal or better......
As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, many understandably fear a new hostility to human rights. One area of particular concern will be his approach to fighting terrorism: Nearly a......
Narcissistic personality traits seem to have risen as quickly as obesity in recent years. Entitlement has become a defining characteristic of millennials, and everything from selfies to the......
Lamha Kausar, 21, refused to let the wall of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) continue to look vandalised and sullied last week.Some unidentified men, allegedly belonging to religio-political groups —......
Leather never really ‘trends’ — for it is always around. Moulded into myriad variations, draped, layered or patched, it is a veritable fashion staple; never really ‘in’ or ‘out’, nor ‘on-trend’ or......
Paaye or paaya is a popular winter dish but there is no hard and fast rules against not having it in the summer, too. But you can only devour paaye if you forget your table manners, and dip all......
Dear Auntie, I have been married for five years to my cousin and have two kids. It was an arranged marriage and she is about 10 years younger. We live in a joint family. Out of these five years, she......
Strange as the term ‘over-gardening’ sounds, a surprising number of gardeners — both new and old ones — are guilty of doing one, or all, of the......
The link between art and geography is integral and complex and has existed as long as art itself. ‘The Highway’, curated by Riffat Alvi and co-curated by Habib Phulpoto and S.M. Raza recently opened......
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) was born in Venice to wealthy parents and chose to pursue a career in painting. In his early career he experimented with various styles simultaneously and by......
The second week of December saw the opening of two very similar yet exceedingly distinct shows by two artists working with geometry and patterns. The more colourfully vibrant of the two, Jamil......
With just a single point ahead of sixth place New Zealand and Sri Lanka, Pakistan’s ascent to the top of the cricketing world is already a distant memory. If one throws into the equation the recent......
“Give me your top six modern era batsmen.”As I sit in a trendy hipster cafe in Melbourne, this is the question I’d just had put to me.“Well, it’s probably Hayden and Sehwag, Lara, Sachin, Steve Waugh......
The first time we spoke to him was after he had read his character in Actor in Law. In the first few sentences of our phone conversation, Om Puri Ji melted away all our nervousness by praising the......
At the start of his career, Bollywood actor Om Puri couldn’t get roles due to his ‘average’ looks but he never gave up. During the ’80s, he took up character acting and conquered Bollywood slowly and......
Since 1970 there have been nine elections based on adult franchise in Pakistan. But none of them have been studied or analysed by Pakistani political scientists and academics in the manner in which......
Monday, August 6, 1990 was a morning like any other except for those in the Prime Minister’s House.Pakistan Television had broken news that after just 20 months in power, Benazir Bhutto and her......
The Pakistani film industry is going through a renaissance at lightning speed, making a great leap in terms of skills and technology to catch up to a level other industries took decades of trial and......
Even the title Monster Trucks sounds like a bad joke. It is as if some studio execs made a terrible quip about monster trucks with actual monsters in them, and an idea for a kid-friendly film formed......
“There is a well-known theory that if your friendship with someone survives seven years, it will last a lifetime,” Rafay Rashdi starts off, giving us the gist of his storyline. “This will be the......
No matter how much we debate on whether artists should raise their voices on political issues, what happened at the Golden Globes awards ceremony is a clear indicator of the times to come.Arguably......
All you fans, especially boys, of that super-gorgeous and uber-talented Jennifer Lawrence, this was bound to happen. She has been spotted holding hands and coochie-cooing with Darren Aronofsky, the......
Indian actor Akshay Kumar is a no-nonsense man. He is the only actor in the Indian film industry who does morning shifts. He is also known for speaking his mind no matter what the......
Ever since the video of the song O Zalima from the upcoming Shah Rukh Khan movie Raees has been released, people have been raving about the chemistry between the king of Bollywood and our very own......
This is the time for veteran film-maker Syed Noor to put his money where his mouth is. Last week he started filming for his next movie Chaen Aey Na in Karachi and he expects to round it off way......
Actors work hard to stay in shape, sometimes so hard that working out becomes a painful exercise.Bollywood young gun Aditya Roy Kapoor is known for putting his heart and soul into anything he does.......
In 1990, Pakistan Medical Association’s (PMA) Karachi branch organised its first round-the-lake marathon at the Haleji Lake in the Thatta district. Since then, the marathon has been organised......
CHARSADDA: Qaumi Watan Party chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao has reiterated his demand for holding local government elections in Fata in the current year and extending jurisdiction of higher courts......
ISLAMABAD: Despite medical experts’ assertions that people with burn injuries should be admitted to hospitals and treated immediately to reduce chances of infection, it has become near impossible to......
For local and foreign tourists, the city of Taxila is home to the historical Gandhara civilisation and religious Buddhist sites, but for many others, the city is also a symbol of hope for those......
Cuban envoy holds dinner receptionCuban Ambassador Gabriel Tiel Capote held a dinner reception with the Pak-Cuba Social Forum and other guests a few days ago. The event was held at the ambassador’s......
General election may be scheduled for 2018, but the people of Chakwal are already talking about the promises political parties made to them to win the last one.Naturally, the promises of PML-N they......
At a time when the federal government is carrying out the multi-billion rupee Prime Minister’s Education Reform Programme in Islamabad, there are several issues facing the teaching and non-teaching......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Fort Munro, the hill station in the Sulaiman Range, 85km from here, received its first snowfall on Saturday, attracting scores of tourists who reached the place to enjoy the rare......
BAHAWA-LPUR: Chaudhry Gulzar Ahmed, Dawn correspondent in Bahawalnagar, died here on Saturday. He was 75.He is survived by a widow, three sons and as many daughters.His funeral was attended by a......
LAHORE: Replicating the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) model that bans private practice for the head of the institute, the government has invited applications from senior medics for the......
KARACHI: Four more persons died in rain-related incidents in the metropolis on Saturday, taking the death toll to seven since Friday afternoon when the city had received the first showers of the......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has said the provincial government will address the reservations expressed by the Ministry of Interior over Sindh’s request to ban 94 seminaries under the......
KARACHI: For a playwright, perhaps more than a novelist, nothing can be more intriguing, enigmatic and fascinating than exploring the depths or understanding the shallowness of human relationships.......
KARACHI: Widespread showers in most districts of the interior of Sindh played havoc with electricity network and caused a considerable drop in the temperatures, besides crippling the routine life and......
KARACHI: The rain forecast was there. The heavens had been threatening to open up for a few days now but until it actually happened, the citizens of the desert city of Karachi remained in denial.Now......
SAN FRANCISCO: The head of Sony’s entertainment business announced on Friday that he is stepping down to devote energy to Snapchat as the start-up behind the smartphone messaging app prepares to go......
BEIRUT: The militant Islamic State group on Saturday launched one of its fiercest assaults yet on the besieged Syrian city of Deir Ezzor, leaving more than 30 regime fighters and jihadists dead.The......
DHAKA: Bangladesh police on Saturday said they have arrested an Islamist extremist accused of being one of the “masterminds” of last year’s deadly siege at a Dhaka cafe where 22 hostages were......
BELGRADE: There is no mistaking the Serbian nationalist message of the train, from the Orthodox icons adorning its interior to the bold claim plastered across its exterior in a host of languages:......
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s top religious authority has called cinemas and singing concerts harmful and corrupting, in a move that could complicate government efforts to introduce cultural reforms to the......
BEIJING: Zhou Youguang, a linguist considered the father of modern China’s Pinyin Romanisation system, died on Saturday at the age of 111.Born in 1906 during China’s last imperial dynasty, the Qing,......
VATICAN CITY: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas warned on Saturday that moving the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem would “not help the peace process,” as he opened a Palestinian......
WASHINGTON: Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for national security adviser, held five phone calls with Russia’s ambassador to Washington on the day the United States retaliated......
SYDNEY: A Japanese man has been rescued after spending a night drifting on his surfboard miles off the east coast of Australia, a report said on Saturday.The 37-year-old told police a current pulled......
PARIS: China’s president will preach the advent of a new world order in Davos next week before the high priests of globalisation, who are facing an uprising from voters against their orthodoxy of......
THE founder and chief executive of India’s largest digital payments company has barely slept and is nursing a head cold. Having just arrived at Paytm’s office, Vijay Shekhar Sharma discovers the......
France's love-hate relationship with opinion polls is in the spotlight after a newspaper announced it would stop commissioning polls in the run-up to the French presidential election and instead do......
RO CUARTO: France’s Stphane Peterhansel won his 13th Dakar Rally title on Saturday, saying the latest win was the sweetest following an epic battle with French Peugeot teammate Sbastien Loeb.The......
SYDNEY: An emotional Gilles Muller clinched a first ATP Tour title in his 17th year as a professional when he beat Briton Dan Evans 7-6(5), 6-2 to win the Sydney International here on Saturday.The......
MELBOURNE: Mohammad Hafeez will captain Pakistan in the second One-day International against Australia on Sunday after regular skipper Azhar Ali was ruled out with a hamstring injury.Hafeez, who has......
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa took 16 Sri Lanka wickets in a little over two sessions to secure a ruthless victory by an innings and 118 runs in the third and final Test at the Wanderers on......
PUNE: Indian captain Virat Kohli said his team had a battery of world-class bowlers to counter a ‘fearless’ England batting attack in a three-match One-day International series starting here on......
LONDON: New father Harry Kane scored a hat-trick as Tottenham Hotspur crushed West Bromwich Albion 4-0 on Saturday to climb to second place in the Premier League table.Kane’s hat-trick, which took......
MELBOURNE: At last year’s Australian Open, the players were caught by surprise when a report was published on the eve of the season-opening Grand Slam alleging widespread match-fixing in the sport.......
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government is seeking a $50 million loan from World Bank affiliate International Development Association (IDA) for the development of tourism sector in the province.The......
KARACHI: Trading activities in the city remained almost suspended on Saturday because of continuous rain since Friday afternoon.Factory output on the weekend plummeted by 50-80 per cent in different......
KARACHI: The stocks market’s momentum slightly fizzled out in the outgoing week as profit-taking limited gains to 172 points, or 0.35 per cent. However, the benchmark KSE-100 is still at its all-time......
KARACHI: The cotton market remained bullish on strong demand from spinners running short of quality cotton.However, activity remained restricted as ginners were reluctant to dispose of their......
ISLAMABAD: As part of its ongoing mass contact campaign on the Panamagate issue, the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to hold two more public meetings in Punjab by the end of......
WASHINGTON: US defence secretary-designate James Mattis has warned that putting conditions on US security assistance to Pakistan has not always produced the desired results.“Conditioning our security......
KARACHI: The claim in a report of BBC Urdu that properties owned by the Sharif family in London’s upscale Park Lane neighbourhood were purchased in the 1990s may give a new twist to the Panama Papers......
WASHINGTON: Ahmer Abbasi speaks softly as he describes the strip searches, the extra shoves and the curses that he endured in a federal jail in Brooklyn following the Sept 11, 2001 attacks.“I don’t......
NEAR Gorano village, construction work on a reservoir is in full swing despite protests by the villagers that the project be shifted to an alternative site.On a recent visit to Tharparkar’s Islamkot,......
LAHORE/CHITRAL/QUETTA/KARACHI: Six people lost their lives and two others suffered injuries as a cold wave caused by moderate rain and snowfall gripped different parts of the country on Saturday.The......
GUJRAT: Two lady health workers (LHWs) posted at a Basic Health Unit (BHU) in Bheelwal were gang-raped by four unidentified men, according to information gathered on Saturday.The gangsters also took......
GWADAR: China handed over two ships to the Pakistan Navy here on Saturday for joint security along the sea route of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).Recently built in China and equipped......
GUJAR KHAN: Defending remarks he made in the Senate earlier this week, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan reiterated on Saturday that he believed there should be separate laws for......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has told the Supreme Court that at least 135 Pakistani fishermen are currently detained by India.In a report, the Foreign Office explained that according to......
PESHAWAR: Contrary to the widespread notion of massive involvement of Afghan refugees in major crimes, a study has revealed that they constitute just over one per cent of those found to have been......
ARE we still too naive to determine our enemy?Certainly not, but only if we have common sense and we keep our eyes wide open.We must also keep in mind that the enemy is non-traditional, in the sense......
A BUNCH of years ago, the problem was a declining state. Across swathes of social, economic and security interventions, the state was in retreat.Pakistan itself seemed in terminal decline.But then an......
RECENTLY, one has begun to hear apprehensions on the Chinese investment in Pakistan with a few commentators even likening it to the East India Company. On the opposite side one hears mindless......
“There are many horizons that must be visited … and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed…” Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North.IT was 1991 and I was travelling by road in a......
A SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off from California on Saturday, returning the company to flight for the first time since a fiery launchpad explosion in September.The launch of the 230-foot (70-metre)......
At least 19 people died Saturday after a boat carrying some 40 revellers returning from a kite festival capsized in the Ganges river in eastern India, police said.“We can confirm that 19 people have......
