The National Accountability Bureau arrested a former police constable and his son, also a police constable, from Hyderabad and seized cash, gold and property documents worth billions.NAB conducted......
United States President Donald Trump is seeking what he called a “historic” increase in military spending of more than 9 per cent, a huge rise even as the United States has wound down major wars in......
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday flayed Punjab government officials for the "apparent racial profiling" and "stereotyping" of Pashtuns in the province as authorities step up a......
A meeting of Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority (Pemra) officials on Monday, taking notice of a delay in action against the Lahore High Court's (LHC) move to set aside the direct-to-home......
A 'spiritual healer', in an effort to treat a 15-year-old boy with a prolonged illness, allegedly burned his legs and lower body with hot coals in Gujranwala's Khayali area Sunday night.The......
Israeli aircraft hit targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday, hours after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory slammed into southern Israel.“Three bombs were dropped by the air force on a Hamas......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange commenced the week on a negative note, with the benchmark KSE-100 index dropping 487.25 points, or 0.99 per cent, to close below the 49,000 points barrier at 48,521.The......
Balochistan government spokesperson Anwarul Haq Kakar on Monday said that the provincial home minister's comments about Afghan Taliban studying in seminaries across the province to the Voice of......
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Monday said the Pakistan Super League (PSL) final will be held in Lahore as scheduled, reported DawnNews."The announcement to hold the final in Lahore will be......
The Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights on Monday rejected a proposed amendment to the 'Women at Workplace' bill which sought punishment for those caught harassing women at educational......
A retired general and former president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf seems to have chosen mainstream media as his career of choice post retirement, with Bol TV billing him as the main attraction of a......
After having been declared dead several times in the past, a senior Taliban commander has been killed in an air strike in northern Afghanistan, officials of the militant group confirmed on......
A line of trucks weaves in and out of the open coal pit that has been dug in the Sindh's Thar Desert.Below the massive hole lies one of the world's largest coal reserves, untapped until now.For......
PPP Chairmain Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday said that sufism is the country's first line of defence against terrorism.He was addressing the inaugural session of the Jhirk Mullan Katyar bridge,......
The death toll of peacocks reportedly succumbing to an avian disease reached 170 Monday when 20 peafowls were confirmed dead in the Thar region of Sindh, it has been learnt.Tharparkar's honorary......
Iran's navy has test-fired the latest versions of the Nasr and Dehlaviyeh missiles during military exercises in the Gulf, local media reported on Monday.“The latest naval cruise missile called Nasr......
The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has issued show-cause notices to a pilot and two others officials for loading seven extra passengers on a Karachi-Madina flight on January 20, in a violation......
A Chinese engineer was wounded in what police described as ‘incidental firing’ in the Jaranwala area of Faisalabad on Monday.The shot was fired by the engineer's own guard and hit the engineer in the......
An accountability court on Monday rejected the application filed by Mir Khalid Langove, the former adviser on finance seeking exemption from appearance before the court on medical grounds.Mir Khalid......
Phonemakers are piling in to fill a gap in the market left by Samsung, still licking its wounds from a costly recall of its flagship Note 7 and with no key device of its own to launch at the telecom......
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday directed police to get in touch with the relevant authorities to put the names of Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) leaders Farooq Sattar, Khalid Maqbool and Amir......
February is Black History Month in the United States. It originated in 1926 with the efforts of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, founded by historian Carter G.......
Heavily-backed favourite Mahershala Ali won the best supporting actor Oscar on Sunday for his portrayal of a drug dealer in coming-of-age drama “Moonlight” — becoming the first Ahmadi film star to......
President Donald Trump was on people's minds if not on everyone's lips at the Oscars on Sunday night.He was the subject of a protest non-appearance by an Academy Award-winning director, an oblique......
Samsung Electronics launched two new tablets on Sunday, marking its first major announcement since being forced to withdraw the flagship Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after some of the devices caught......
SHRINKING riverine and inland forests have significantly reduced production and supply of wood required for soil fertility, livestock’s fodder, firewood and a growing furniture market.Acacia wood,......
IN the long haul to keep upgrading technical monitoring of water flows, Punjab is now in the process of installing Real Time Flow Monitoring system on its barrages, canals and link canals.It has......
For years, millennials looked at owning a home as a distant fantasy. Student debt and a weak job market seemed to conspire to keep this generation stuck in their parents’ basements, if not......
OmanOMAN is a middle-income economy. It has 5.50bn barrels of proven crude oil reserves which represents one of the most important segments of the economy.However, the government is pursuing......
President Donald Trump’s sweeping crackdown on undocumented immigrants will strain an already tight US job market, with one study suggesting that removing all of them would cost the economy as much......
Stored old dollar bills worth $500m surfaced in the first two months of 2017 as panic stricken savers and hoarders rushed to exchange them at any price. Market sources confirmed a sizeable amount was......
ACCORDING to the weekly statement of position, deposits and other accounts of all scheduled banks for the week ended Feb 10, stood at Rs10,645.41bn after a 0.41pc decrease over the preceding week’s......
Firmness prevailed in the local currency market last week.Commercial banks maintained a balance between demand and supply amid dull dollar demand from importers and companies due to lack of interest......
The current account deficit for Jan 2017 clocked in at $1,189m versus a deficit of $590m in the same period last year showing a 102pc rise on YoY basis. This takes the cumulative 7MFY17 deficit to......
ALTHOUGH the move to extend sales tax from 11 categories of services in July 2013 to 57 did not bring any substantial revenue for want of strict enforcement, the KP government is planning the......
THE broker’s power is finally being subdued. And the strongest evidence of this surfaced at mid-night last Tuesday when a team from the National Accountability Bureau barged into the offices of AWJ......
Large businesses, including those top ranking companies listed in magazines like Fortune, make up only 0.3pc of all organisations in the US, according to the USA Small Business Administration......
EXPORTS of seafood are picking up now after falling for last two years. With the facility for exporting frozen seafood to China via land route to be in place from April, coupled with quality......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has virtually shelved the much-trumpeted scheme of establishing prefabricated container schools for several reasons, according to officials.The......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has announced a separate industrial park for women entrepreneurs of the province, which would be the first of its kind in the country.This was disclosed by......
GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly Member Mohammad Ali Sheikh died here on Sunday due to cardiac arrest. He was 48.The deceased was also parliamentary leader of Islami Tehreek in......
CHAKWAL: Kamakshi Vairaji, who made her first visit to Katas Raj, the home of Lord Shiva, from Mumbai this year, was awed by the welcome she received from her Pakistani hosts.“I cannot describe the......
The High Commission of Canada held a press conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, where High Commissioner Perry Calderwood spoke about the country’s history.He said......
Nepal Army Day was marked with a large reception at the Islamabad Serena Hotel on Friday, hosted by Ambassador Sewa Lamsal Adhikari and Military Attaché Col Neeraj Poudyal.Frontier Works Organisation......
ISLAMABAD: The last of the shishas have been extinguished in the capital, but at a swanky new retail outlet in F-11 Markaz, well-heeled men lean over a wood-panelled counter, inhaling what appears to......
ISLAMABAD: Lok Virsa organised a Basant song competition on Sunday to celebrate spring, featuring several musicians from across the country.Executive Director Dr Fouzia Saeed said it was very......
ISLAMABAD: Residents of the federal capital are fighting air pollution from emissions from steel mills in the local industrial area that continue to poison the air they breathe.“We are fighting a......
RAWALPINDI: People queued outside the Sadiqabad police station, among them both young and elderly individuals, waiting to register their tenants with the police to avoid legal action against......
RAWALPINDI: The sizzle of puris deep-frying can be heard in the narrow streets of downtown Rawalpindi before sunrise. Even on weekends, the area is thrumming with activity, and people are often......
LAHORE: After more than 18 months of probing into a corruption scam involving provincial minister Rana Mashhood Ahmed, the National Accountability Bureau, Lahore, has again sought permission from NAB......
LAHORE: ‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.’ So goes Rumi’s well-known couplet. For Dr Riffat Hasan nothing is more inspiring at present.“In Rumi’s......
KARACHI: Shared sectarian hatred and existence of extremist outfits may provide fertile ground to the militant Islamic State (IS) group to spread its tentacles to Pakistan by recruiting sectarian......
HYDERABD: Sindh United Party (SUP) convener Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah has assailed what he claimed to be the nexus between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in......
HYDERABAD: Jamaat-i-Islam emir Sirajul Haq has said that Islamabad and Kabul must find common ground to create mutual harmony and bring an end to all kinds of proxies because only India benefits from......
AN understatement: Karachi has changed. These days we get to hear this on a regular basis. Yes, it has. But we often fail to realise that when we say that Karachi is no more what it used to be, we......
The two Koreas seem to exist on different planets: prosperity and democracy in the South, and grinding poverty and repressive dictatorship in the North. These differences were highlighted in the......
BETHLEHEM: Hundreds of Palestinians celebrated in Bethlehem after a young singer from the occupied West Bank city became the second Palestinian to win the Arab Idol television song contest.Yacoub......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has decided to not attend the annual White House correspondents’ dinner, indicating his desire to continue his confrontation with mainstream US media which he......
CAIRO: Egyptian officials said on Sunday they were inching closer to meeting all demands set by Russia on airport security to resume flights to Egypt, suspended after militants from a local affiliate......
MOSCOW: Thousands marched through central Moscow on Sunday in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov ahead of the second anniversary of his murder.The 55-year-old former deputy prime minister was......
NEW DELHI: India demanded the “strongest action” from the United States government on Sunday after an Indian expatriate was killed and another wounded in a suspected hate crime in Kansas.Indians at......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Millions of people in costumes — or little of anything — partied in street carnivals across Brazil on Sunday ahead of the elite samba school dance-off in Rio de Janeiro.The Carnival......
It’s the day before the grand opening of Shaden, a luxury desert camp in Saudi Arabia where air-conditioned tents look out on sandstone cliffs. A princely delegation is on its way. But the place......
MEXICO CITY: Confrontation with the United States is so central to Mexican history there’s an institution dedicated to the trauma. It’s called the Museum of Interventions.Remember the Alamo? They do......
DHAKA: Bangladesh Test captain Mushfiqur Rahim believes his team has ‘a good chance’ of an upset victory against Sri Lanka given the island nation’s current dearth of heavyweight players.A 16-member......
LONDON: England striker Harry Kane hit a clinical first-half hat-trick as Tottenham Hotspur stormed up to second in the Premier League with a 4-0 home demolition of Stoke City on Sunday.Kane reached......
PUNE: Australia’s utter dominance in Pune provided clear evidence that the touring side arrived in India armed with the tactics and personnel to beat the hosts at their own game in what promises to......
MILAN: The bar has been raised at Atalanta.Not only are the provincial squad dreaming of a place in Europe but they have the Champions League within their sights after winning at Napoli 2-0 on......
BERLIN: Bayern Munich forward Robert Lewandowski scored a hat-trick as the Bundesliga leaders mercilessly obliterated Hamburg SV 8-0 at the Allianz Arena on Saturday as coach Carlo Ancelotti......
DUBAI: Elina Svitolina of Ukraine is set to debut in the top 10 after winning the Dubai Tennis Championships on Saturday.The seventh seed Elina Svitolina overpowered former world number one Caroline......
TOKYO: Wilson Kipsang of Kenya missed out on the world record but ran the fastest time ever on Japanese soil to win the Tokyo Marathon in two hours, three minutes and 58 seconds on Sunday.The......
KARACHI: After three unsuccessful attempts, fancied four-year-old bay filly Lady’s Secret made her mark while galloping to a facile five-length victory to lift the inaugural Sindh Cup in the Gymkhana......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has warned Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra that KP could lose at least $27 million meant for economic revitalisation of the province and tribal areas, if the......
Asif Ali Zardari announced at a public meeting in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh on Dec 27 last year that he intended to enter parliament along with his son, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, by contesting a by-election......
CHARSADDA: Awami National Party President Asfandyar Wali Khan has warned of ‘forcible eviction of Punjab people’ from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa if what he called unjust treatment meted out to Pakhtuns in......
QUETTA: Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal, president of the Balochistan National Party (BNP-M) has said that he sees no benefit for his province from the implementation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor......
CHAKWAL: The Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) has freed a man who was sentenced to death over blasphemy allegations five years ago.The accused, a Talagang resident who had also been......
NOWSHERA: The Central Committee for Afghan Refugees has appealed to the United Nations to take notice of what it termed illegal arrest of Afghan refugees following the recent wave of terrorism across......
WASHINGTON: Balochistan’s minister for home and tribal affairs, Sarfaraz Bugti, has told the Voice of America radio that thousands of Afghan Taliban were still studying in seminaries across the......
KUALA LUMPUR: Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud arrived in Malaysia on Sunday to kick off a multi-nation tour aimed at boosting his country’s economic ties with Asia.The visit is the first by a......
DUBAI: Karachi Kings sealed the last available play-off place in the 2017 HBL Pakistan Super League here on Sunday night by virtue of a pulsating victory against holders Islamabad United by six......
LANDI KOTAL: Scores of Afghan families thronged Landi Kotal on Sunday in anticipation of reopening of the Torkham border after Pakistani authorities late on Friday evening allowed nearly 250 stranded......
RAWALPINDI: The National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) has asked the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting not to allow the publication or airing of any of its threat alerts, in a bid to......
KABUL: The Taliban group in Afghanistan on Sunday used a rare public statement in the name of its leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, to call on Afghans to plant more trees for worldly and other-worldly......
ISLAMABAD: Pending a strategic decision on its privatisation, Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) continues to lose its land — this time to an industrial park to be set up under the China-Pakistan Economic......
If there is one thing the national carrier could make a career of, it is ‘how not to do it’. Efficiency, courteousness, reliability and in-flight care all tend to be of standards that are the......
LAST week I spent a few days in Fez, Morocco, strolling through the city’s maze-like streets, visiting its ornate mosques and madressahs, and enjoying steaming street food. Being in Fez is akin to......
SINCE early 2000, we have gradually experienced a change in the country’s security landscape, especially in the cities: gated communities; intrusive stop-and-search pickets; zigzag barriers; armed......
IN the wake of a renewed militant assault, the thought of holding the Pakistan Super League (PSL) final in Lahore appears superfluous to many. Perhaps with good reason too: why fret and expend energy......
NO gadgets or scientific studies are needed to ascertain that the sea that skirts Karachi is heavily polluted. A walk on the sand is often rendered nauseating by not just the variety of waste left......
