Police on Thursday claimed to have made significant progress to ascertain the identity of the suspects who were involved in the rape and attempted murder of a six-year old girl.A senior police......
A Saudi court on Thursday dismissed charges against 13 accused over a crane collapse that killed dozens at Islam's holiest site, a newspaper reported on its website.The prosecution objected to the......
Skipper Eoin Morgan and batting mainstay Joe Root engineered England's easy chase to secure their seven-wicket victory against India in the first Twenty20 International on Thursday.Beaten in the......
Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright says she is ready to register as Muslim in a show of solidarity.Albright tweeted Wednesday: “I was raised Catholic, became Episcopalian and found out later......
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Thursday stepped forward to clarify its position over the allotment of 90 acres land to the former army General (retd) Raheel Sharif, saying all such......
A scuffle broke out in the National Assembly on Thursday when five members from the opposition parties requested the speaker to submit a privileged motion against the prime minister, reported......
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday issued orders to suspend an accord between between National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and Mastercard with immediate effect,......
Roger Federer reached his first Australian Open final in seven years on Thursday and then made it as clear as he politely could that he would welcome the chance to renew his epic rivalry with Rafa......
Dawn columnist, historian and cultural critic Nadeem F. Paracha published his second book, 'The Pakistan Anti-Hero' on Friday.Paracha's second offering, published by Vanguard Publications, explores......
World Bank (WB) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kristalina Georgieva called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad on Thursday to discuss implementation of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) and the......
Avalanches killed 10 Indian soldiers in Kashmir after cascading onto an army post and a patrol along the Line of Control (LoC), the military said Thursday.The separate avalanches buried the soldiers......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) crossed the 50,000 point barrier at day end on Thursday amid a bullish trading session witnessed during the day.The KSE-100 index closed at a record level of 50,192......
It took 8,500 men working two shifts every day for six months — and three shifts for two months — to finish, ahead of schedule, the Adani Group's giant solar power plant in southern India.The vast,......
“I cannot do it without Viagra,” the anonymous Afghan caller whispered into the phone, wary of being overheard by his family.The voice on the other end of the line was soothing, professional and......
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Thursday banned Amir Liaquat's programme 'Aisay Nahi Chalay Ga' on Bol News with immediate effect.Liaquat recently came under fire on......
Elon Musk is already going high, and now he says he's going low. Subterranean, apparently.Just weeks after suddenly tweeting "Traffic is driving me nuts" and "am going to build a tunnel boring......
Facebook is updating its "trending" feature that highlights hot topics on its social networking site, part of its effort to root out the kind of fake news stories that critics contend helped Donald......
China may be testing a new, long-range air-to-air missile that could take out early warning aircraft and aerial refuelling aircraft, a state-run newspaper said on Thursday, after pictures of the new......
US President Donald Trump said late Wednesday that his plan to limit the entry of people from several Muslim countries was necessary because the world is “a total mess”.Interviewed on ABC News, Trump......
As the Panamagate hearing resumed Thursday, a second letter signed by Qatari royal Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al-Thani submitted to the Supreme Court attempted to offer up clarification on the Sharif......
Australia thrashed Pakistan, winning the fifth and final One Day International (ODI) at the Adelaide Oval on Thursday with a 57-run lead.Australia piled on the runs, setting an unassailable target of......
BY taking suo motu notice of the grave violence against three little girls, two allegedly tortured by their employers and the third raped, badly wounded and thrown in a drain, the chief justice of......
LET me try and explain why events like the Greek debt crisis, the Chinese stock market run, Brexit, and most recently, the election of the unpredictable Donald Trump — all of which I see as......
ANYONE who wishes to understand the drama being enacted at the Supreme Court in Islamabad should watch the film Shatranj Ke Khilari, Satyajit Ray’s brilliant adaptation in 1977 of Munshi Premchand’s......
IN 1994, Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the then crown prince of Dubai, had a rude awakening: oil — the primary driver of the state’s economy — was running out fast. Advisers estimated that......
PESHAWAR: High altitude areas of Malakand and Hazara divisions received heavy snowfall that resulted in blockade of roads as downpour continued across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and tribal areas on......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa home and tribal affairs department has recommended the sacking of three prosecution directorate officials deported from Thailand recently over ‘sexual harassment and......
PARACHINAR: The patients and their attendants have expressed concern over lack of facilities and shortage of doctors at the agency headquarters hospital, Parachinar.Talking to reporters on Wednesday,......
PESHAWAR: Pashto poets at a poetry recitation session expressed an intense desire for establishing permanent peace in the region and revival of cultural traditions towards a better and prosperous......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Select Committee discussing the Right to Information Bill, 2016, on Wednesday remained preoccupied with armed forces institutions that use the pretext of national security to......
ISLAMABAD: The capital police’s failure to defend its final progress report of its investigation into the abuse of a child employed as a maid invited the ire of the Supreme Court of Wednesday, as it......
Mohammad Ali Ijaz is a documentary filmmaker with a passion for wildlife and environmental conservation. In 2015, he received the WWF-Living Planet Award for his film ‘Missing Vultures’.His most......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Scores of people from two localities of Kamalia blocked the Kamalia-Chichawatni road on Wednesday for over two hours against the failure of the municipal committee to clear their......
HYDERABAD: Businesspeople, senior citizens and members of the city’s elite have appealed to the Sindh chief minister to approve summary for the establishment of an autonomous institute of heart and......
KARACHI: The killing of a teacher belonging to the Shia community in the Gulistan-i-Jauhar area of the city just a day after the murder of a community member in Orangi sparked protests against the......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill against employment of children below the age of 14, making child labour an offence punishable with prison term and fine.The Sindh......
KARACHI: Marked by smog in Punjab and fog in Sindh, winter this season was delayed for at least a month across the country, a phenomenon being observed along with other climate variations for the......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday directed the provincial authorities to ensure within 20 days recalling of the licences of the liquor shops located in Muslim-majority areas or near mosques,......
WASHINGTON: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) asked US authorities on Wednesday to drop rioting charges against three journalists arrested while covering protests during President Donald......
MOGADISHU: Twenty-eight people were killed on Wednesday when Al-Shabaab fighters attacked a popular Mogadishu hotel, setting off two car bombs and opening fire on security guards, according to the......
LONDON: Hundreds of working women in Britain have to wear high heels and revealing outfits, dye their hair blonde and constantly reapply make-up due to discriminatory dress codes imposed on them by......
BRUSSELS: The European Union’s executive recommended on Wednesday extending emergency border controls inside what would normally be the bloc’s zone of free travel that collapsed amid an influx of......
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Wednesday to rapidly examine a constitutional bill that would expand his powers, ahead of an expected referendum in April on the controversial......
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait on Wednesday hanged seven people including a member of the ruling family and a woman who burned dozens of people to death at a wedding party, the authorities said.The three women......
Saudi Arabia unveiled its next-generation fighter-bomber on Wednesday, nearly two years after beginning a controversial air war in Yemen.At a ceremony and air show in the Saudi capital, a hangar......
BEIJING: China is calmly mapping out global leadership aspirations from trade to climate change, drawing distinctions between President Xi Jinping’s steady hand and new US President Donald Trump,......
EDINBURGH: The Supreme Court’s Brexit ruling has hit pro-EU Scotland hard by denying it the legal right to have a say on leaving the bloc and pushing it further towards making a new bid for......
REDEMPTION — or at least a whiff of it — was in the air on Tuesday when nominations for the 89th Academy Awards were announced.Whether in the form of records being broken or milestones being reached,......
PORT GENTIL: The curse of the defending champion struck Ivory Coast at the African Cup of Nations and the Democratic Republic of Congo Congo put a strike over money well behind it to dance into the......
PARIS: Edinson Cavani and Angel Di Maria each scored twice as holders Paris St Germain thumped a feeble Girondins de Bordeaux 4-1 on Tuesday to reach the final of the French League Cup.The win keeps......
NAPLES: A fine second-half header from Jose Callejon fired Napoli into the semi-finals of the Italian Cup and a last four date with either Juventus or AC Milan after a bad-tempered 1-0 win over......
ADELAIDE: Pakistan captain Azhar Ali calls on his team to channel Wahab Riaz’s World Cup spell to Shane Watson when the teams meet in the fifth and final One-day International at the Adelaide Oval on......
MELBOURNE: A resurgent Rafael Nadal beat Milos Raonic to reach his first Grand Slam semi in three years at the Australian Open on Wednesday, as Serena Williams eyed a final with her sister......
SYDNEY: Australian paceman Joe Mennie suffered a ‘minor brain bleed’ and fractured skull after a ball hit his head during training, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Wednesday.Mennie was bowling at a......
KARACHI: Nasir Ismail claimed that the referees denied his National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) side a clear equaliser against Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC).“The referee didn’t even see that there was a......
ISLAMABAD: Keeping his supremacy intact, Naseem Akhtar comfortably defeated Shaikh Mudassir to claim the U-18 title in the Jubilee Insurance National Junior Snooker Championships on......
ISLAMABAD: The government has restored the capacity of a coal-fired power project in Hub, Balochistan, to 1,320 megawatts after the Chinese company that was developing the project reportedly took up......
KARACHI: The price of one-kg ghee and one-litre cooking oil pouches have been increased by Rs2-10 in the wake of rising trend in palm oil rates on the world markets.However, wholesalers and retailers......
KARACHI: The stock market came under selling pressure on Wednesday with KSE-100 index retreating 212.15 points (0.42 per cent) to close at 49,756.77.The market got off to a roaring start with the......
KARACHI: Brisk activity in the cotton market on Wednesday led to a price hike as a couple of deals were finalised at the season’s high level.Spinners were at the forefront of the buying spree after......
KARACHI: According to a Defence Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) appraisal report on Indo-Pak tensions in 1971, one unidentified US ambassador writes to his/her government to apprise them of the situation......
KARACHI: In the light of Pakistan’s advances to build a reprocessing plant for extracting plutonium, a top Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official alerted the US government to the significant......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) requested the Supreme Court on Wednesday to allow live media coverage of the Panama Papers leaks case’s proceedings so that the nation could know factual......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri said on Wednesday that planning for the Gwadar port city should be made keeping in view the future expansion of the city.Presiding over......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkey opened on Wednesday their two-day defence talks aimed at increasing bilateral cooperation.The Pakistani side at the talks was led by Defence Secretary retired Lt Gen......
US President Donald Trump had a telephone chat with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday night and, according to sketchy reports on Wednesday, both invited each other for an early......
ISLAMABAD: Pointing out the inconsistencies in the different replies submitted by the prime minister’s daughter Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that the real issue in the......
KARACHI: The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) digital release earlier this month of nearly 13 million pages of declassified documents from the 1940s to 1990s has sparked international......
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the order to start the Mexico border wall project and is also expected to sign measures targeting US “sanctuary” cities, where local officials refuse to......
