Nokia's newly revitalised phone business went back to the future on Sunday, re-introducing a brightly coloured version of the best-selling phone of 2000.The new version of the classic 3310 talk and......
Chinese telecoms giant ZTE unveiled Sunday what it said is the world's first smartphone compatible with the lightening-fast 5G mobile internet service that networks expect to have up and running by......
Pakistan and Iran on Sunday agreed to make joint efforts for eradication of terrorism, ensure legal movement and facilitate trade on the Pak-Iran border.The two countries reviewed all affairs......
Hollywood actor Bill Paxton, best known for his roles in such blockbusters as “Apollo 13” and “Titanic,” has died at the age of 61, a family representative said Sunday.The versatile Texas-born actor......
A Pakistan Army soldier was injured in cross-border firing from Afghanistan on Sunday, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).The incident took place in the Mangrotai area of South......
At least 1.7 million children below the age of five would be vaccinated for polio virus during the upcoming three-day anti-polio campaign starting on Monday in Balochistan.The campaign would target......
At least 150 peacocks have succumbed to a disease during the last four weeks in the Thar region of Sindh, with reportedly 12 more peacocks dying on Sunday in the Nagarparkar and Mithi tehsils of......
Three people belonging to the Shia community were gunned downed in the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday, said police.The incident took place in the jurisdiction of Paroa......
Pakistan International Airline (PIA) said Sunday it would investigate allegations that a plane flew from Karachi to Saudi Arabia carrying seven extra passengers, but denied they stood in the aisles......
Police say at least 16 people were killed and 50 injured when a truck taking them to a Sunday church service overturned after hitting a concrete barricade on a highway in India's remote......
Iran's navy has begun an annual drill near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, its first major exercise since the inauguration of United States (US) President Donald Trump.Iranian state television quoted......
Quetta Gladiators fast bowler Umar Gul has been ruled out of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) after a forearm fracture.The Quetta Gladiators media manager confirmed to DawnNews that an x-ray......
India's top diplomat will visit Washington this week for talks with the new US administration, an Indian foreign ministry official said Sunday.Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar is expected to discuss......
Two women and two girls from the same family were injured as Indian troops shelled a village in Kotli district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) from across the Line of Control (LoC) on Sunday,......
Police on Sunday claimed to have foiled a major terror plot as the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) defused a bomb found planted at Quetta's Sabzal Road area Sunday, police sources said.The bomb weighing......
Top civil and military officials during a high-level huddle in Lahore decided to intensify military operations across the province on Sunday.Participants of an apex committee meeting chaired by......
As the country reels from a surge in terror activity, the Pakistan Army on Sunday reiterated a request to the general public to report 'suspicious' militant activity 'regarding terrorists' on......
The PLA Navy is likely to secure significant new funding in China's upcoming defence budget as Beijing seeks to check US dominance of the high seas and step up its own projection of power around the......
After a hiatus of more than 15 years, next month the country’s most prestigious film awards, Nigar, will resume honouring actors and technicians from the film industry for their outstanding......
Heartbreak time boys! The peach of an actress with a raspy voice, Shruti Hassan (daughter of Sarika and Kamal Hassan) is seeing someone. Who is he? No, he is not from India. He is from Italy and his......
Ranbir Kapoor comes across as a cool guy, but actually he is pretty jazbaati. He wants to give a piece of his mind to anyone who he feels is in the wrong. Yes, even his father. I shall expand on......
Hollywood hunk George Clooney and his elegant wife Amal like to keep away from the media gaze. They do know, though, that these days it is almost impossible to escape it. So despite Mrs Clooney’s......
This is cool. Actress Mawra Hocane follows her heart and doesn’t attach too much importance to worldly gains. She is a known showbiz personality. And yet, she wants to study law. Mawra H intends to......
We know that Ranveer Singh can act. We know that he’s fond of rapping and can belt out a tune or two with effortless ease. But now the Bollywood actor is rumoured to have written a song for Zoya......
The downturn in Pakistani cinema is at least allowing some interestingly-themed projects to make it to the theatres. Add one more to the list. Titled Cake and directed by Asim Abbasi, the story has......
If you love Batman then you will adore The Lego Batman Movie, especially if you grew up with the adventures of the caped crusader on film and television and in comic books. Directed by Chris McKay......
Promoting a ‘soft image’ of Pakistan has become a cliché. However, it is indeed important that positive endeavour also gets its fair share of applause to reinforce our faith in the fact that, despite......
When I was a child, we had a large painted board outside our tyre shop in Layyah, Pakistan,” says Kamran Ali, otherwise also known as ‘Kamran on Bike’ owing to his penchant for travelling across the......
For more than a decade, our Oscar predictions have had a single purpose: to forecast how and where the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) changes its perception of the artists (and......
Watching films like Whistle makes you lose your cool as a viewer. No one in their right mind will be able to digest director Ammad Azhar’s movie for two hours. Despite having senior TV actors Farhan......
Many years ago Azra Jalauddin Ahmed said to me, “Beti we have lost the grace of living.” The phrase has stayed with me ever since. As we enter deeper and deeper into the world of survival instead of......
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence,” the French fauvist Henri Matisse once aptly put it. Sure enough, drawing has slowly evolved from being a brainstorming......
January 22, 2017. The clock hadn’t even struck 9am when a blast ripped through a vegetable market in Parachinar, killing at least 25 people and leaving 87 injured.The attack was claimed by the......
A day after the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan was soaked in innocent blood, an exquisite book was delivered by post. Ajmer Sharif: Awakening of Sufism in South Asia by Reema Abbasi — a big......
For Asnia Asim, who grew up on army bases across Pakistan, moving to Washington was a no-brainer.It wasn’t the first time she would be away from home in Islamabad. Asim had lived in a girls’ hostel......
Not Pakistanis again? It’s always bloody Pakistanis!”I suspect these are the first thoughts had by many a casual cricket fan upon hearing about the latest Pakistan Super League (PSL) scandal.That......
I recently got a ‘Forward as Received’ message on a WhatsApp group warning me of a terror plot involving a white Toyota Corolla with 120kg of explosives targeting Dolmen Mall. As it happened, I was......
One of the most famous scenes from the 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz is Dorothy performing Glinda the Good Witch’s simple magic spell: “Click your heels together three times and say ‘There’s no place......
Q. What are the beneficial uses of comfrey plants? What is the Urdu name and can we grow it in Faisalabad?A. Comfrey — botanically called Symphytum spp but also known as Symphytum uplandicum — is a......
Hey Auntilicious, I am a 17-year-old. There are six friends in my group. The problem is that they all have girlfriends and I am the only one who is single. Though my best friend is among them, I feel......
I consider myself a ‘Muslim rationalist.’ Over the years I have devoured the writings of well-known South Asian ‘Muslim modernists’, from Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Syed Ameer Ali, Chiragh Ali to Muhammad......
In my last column I wrote about the artistic depictions of Pakistan’s capital. Stark contrasts are to be found in Islamabad’s much older sister city Rawalpindi. Like Islamabad, ’Pindi is stiflingly......
Nobody Killed Her By Sabyn Javeri HarperCollins, India ISBN: 978-9352641550 431pp.When I put the book down, the first thing that came to my mind was that Sabyn Javeri’s debut novel Nobody Killed Her......
Warming her hands around a mug of hot tea, 39-year old Sabyn Javeri seems relaxed, even relieved. She should be; the “tumultuous journey” her book took to getting published is finally over.Nobody......
Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-Up Bubble By Dan Lyons Hachette, US ISBN: 978-0316306089 272pp.Dan Lyons’ book Disrupted: Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-Up Bubble, as......
The fiasco that has gripped the Pakistan Super League (PSL) in its second edition has all the trappings that go comfortably with just about anything related to the perception of the country in the......
THE declaration of a countrywide counterterrorism operation, Raddul Fasaad, has unfolded the security vision of army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa. It may be the beginning of his legacy.A security......
A VAGUE new operation, a court judgement unknown — the only thing that felt real this week was the fear.Fake bomb, real bomb, Lahore confirmed that anxiety stalks the land again. A nascent trust in......
PAKISTAN grew up on natural gas. For decades, much of our power generation requirement was met by this fuel after substantial domestic reserves started being discovered from the 1950s.In addition, we......
THE urgency with which the government is trying to build consensus amongst the major political parties to bring back military courts, given that the sunset clause in the 21st Amendment that......
In the absence of a formal school for performing arts in Islamabad, a few dancing academies are filling the void and are offering classes in various forms of dances including classical and......
LAHORE: The fifth edition of the Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) on Saturday drew a steady trickle of visitors throughout the day with at least 1,000 guests by the end of the second session.The usual......
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Saturday constituted a four-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe the DHA Z-Block cylinder blast and also fix the responsibility.The JIT was constituted......
People know Dr Adeebul Hasan Rizvi because of his landmark Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) alone.The grey-headed doctor, when sat at a Lahore Literary Festival-2017 session with......
British historians and authors sat down at the LLF on Saturday to talk about the women at the time the subcontinent was ruled by the British.The session, titled ‘Wives, Daughters, and Courtesans of......
The LLF session titled “Nixon, Mao and Pakistan” started with art historian F.S. Aijazuddin making a brief presentation on the imperialist China through slides showing dynastic rule and post-republic......
Historian Ayesha Jalal says Pakistan must learn from its partnership in the past with the US and vis-a-vis its relationship with China, it should look for a partnership and not dependency.The great......
‘Not a Nice Man At All’ was probably the most loved man at the LLF 2017 as Michael Palin’s session attracted scores of people.Mr Palin sat down with Kamila Shamsie to recall his childhood, time at......
Among the sessions at the fifth LLF on Saturday was a discussion on fake news.The panel including Ahmed Rashid, Nermeen Sheikh, Qasim Nauman and Max Rodenbeck discussed fake news especially in the......
KARACHI: The current wave of terrorism in the country has led the Sindh police authorities to give the green signal for procurement of gadgets, tools and machinery, including robots worth millions of......
KARACHI: In order to look for a ‘counter-narrative’, the state and the people must look towards Sufism “because it is the best counter-narrative in itself”.This view and other thoughts were expressed......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Saturday inaugurated the daylong ‘Abilities Expo 2017’, dubbed as the ‘largest event for people with disabilities in the country’ at the Expo......
DADU: Condemning the suicide bomb blast at the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has said it was an attack on all nations and humanity.He said that for centuries, the......
KARACHI: Investigators have made some progress in the Lal Shahbaz Qalandar shrine blast probe as a team of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) assigned with the job has collected 46 parts of the......
HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that his government wants joint security, regular communication and information sharing between senior superintendents of police of Sindh and......
WASHINGTON: The unthinkable happened at a Friday afternoon news briefing when an aide to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer denied access to reporters from CNN, The New York Times, Politico, The......
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Homeland Security barred a young Syrian cinematographer who worked on the documentary The White Helmets and has been nominated for an Academy Award.Khaled Khatib, 21,......
MATOBO: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 93rd birthday with a lavish party on Saturday, addressing his own mortality in a speech, but showing no signs of stepping down.Mugabe, who is......
GENEVA: Syrian government and opposition delegates of peace talks in Geneva on Saturday warned of the impact on negotiations after a day of violence in Syria that included jihadist suicide bombings......
DUTCH Prime Minister Mark Rutte took his bid for a third term to voters on Saturday, mingling with shoppers in a small market town ahead of closely-watched March elections. “The VVD makes the best......
MOSCOW: One of Russia’s best known novelists, Zakhar Prilepin, has sparked a bitter row among top writers by revealing he is now fighting with pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.Prilepin is acclaimed......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan with the help of Waseem Ali and Riaz Khan’s home runs defeated Nepal with a huge margin of 16-1 runs in the opening match of West Asia Baseball Cup here on Saturday at the......
KARACHI: As many as thirty-five teams will be competing in the second edition of PPL Balochistan Football Cup, the round matches of which commence from March 10.The local clubs and district football......
DUBAI: Karachi Kings needed the power-punch of Kieron Pollard to send Lahore Qalandars out of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) for the second successive season with a remarkable last-ball victory......
IN just over a week’s time the planned PSL final is to be played in Lahore and yet uncertainty looms over the impending decision from the government and security agencies pondering whether it will be......
PUNE: Left-arm spinner Steve O’Keefe picked up 12 wickets to guide Australia to a first win in India since 2004, the 333-run thrashing in the opening Test also bringing the home side’s 19-match......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews was on Saturday ruled out of next month’s two-Test home series against Bangladesh as selectors prepared to field a ‘formidable team’.The 29-year-old all......
WELLINGTON: A record-setting innings by A.B. de Villiers set South Africa up for a resounding 159-run win in the third One-day International against New Zealand in Wellington on Saturday to go 2-1 up......
NICE: In the absence of top scorers Alassane Plea and Mario Balotelli, title contenders Nice found an unlikely saviour as Mickael Le Bihan came off the bench to score twice in a comeback 2-1 win......
QUEBEC: Eleider Alvarez stopped former champion Lucian Bute with a pair of right-hand shots in the fifth round to win a light heavyweight elimination bout between the two Montreal-based boxers on......
DUBAI: Angelique Kerber said she needed to nurse her injured knee after a semi-final defeat at the Dubai Tennis Championships on Friday ended her chances of reclaiming the world number one......
KARACHI: Prices of almost all essential consumer goods and services rose sharply in January, especially those of housing, education and medicines.According to State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) inflation......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports to the European Union witnessed a paltry growth of over three per cent in 2016 from a year ago, indicating the preferential market access failed to boost the dwindling......
KARACHI: The stock market remained volatile throughout the week and finally saw the KSE-100 index close down by 368 points (0.74 per cent) to barely cross the 49,000 level at 49,008.After testing the......
TORONTO: A realisation is gripping the energy world: The growing US shale output is undercutting Opec.Societe Generale oil analyst Michael Wittner has been underlining that the US shale oil output......
KARACHI: The cotton market remained devoid of activity on Saturday as diminishing cotton stocks with ginners and higher imports by big spinners left little room for trading activity.Floor brokers......
ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the appointments of chairman and commissioners of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP).The petition......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and Senate Standing Committee on Finance Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla seem to be poised for a showdown over the former’s......
QUETTA: Border authorities allowed over 70 Afghan nationals, including women and children, with passports and visas to cross into Afghanistan from the Friendship Gate at the Pak-Afghan border in......
MUZAFFARABAD: In his first formal address to the officials of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Supreme Court after taking the oath on Saturday, Chief Justice Chaudhry Mohammad Ibrahim Zia made it......
CLOSE to the private residence of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider in the main city of old Muzaffarabad is an establishment that has witnessed a stupendous past. This is......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Afghanistan have started negotiating a mechanism for addressing each other’s concerns over terrorism and can strike a deal next week.This was disclosed by Adviser on Foreign......
LAHORE: Four terrorism suspects have been killed and around 600 have been taken into custody during crackdowns jointly conducted by the Counter Terrorism Department of the Punjab Police and the......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has started contacting political parties to extend invitation for a multi-party conference (MPC) on the revival of military courts to be hosted......
A female reporter working for Iraqi Kurdish channel Rudaw was killed by the explosion of a roadside bomb Saturday during fighting between government forces and militants in Mosul, her channel......
