Two Pakistan Army soldiers, Lieutenant Khawar and Naik Shehzad, were killed in an exchange of fire with terrorists in the Jani Khel area of Frontier Region Bannu on Thursday, Inter-Services Public......
Top US Democrats demanded the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions Thursday over his failure to disclose that he met twice with Russia's ambassador to Washington during last year's election......
An Indian Border Security Force (BSF) soldier who raised issue with substandard food served to him and his colleagues in videos shared on Facebook has now alleged he is being 'mentally tortured' by......
Sweden is to reintroduce compulsory military service, seven years after abandoning it, to respond to global security challenges including Russia's assertive behaviour in the Baltic Sea region,......
Syrian government forces battling the militant Islamic State (IS) group re-entered Palmyra on Thursday in their quest to again take the historic town they had lost to the militants in December, state......
Peshawar Zalmi's hard-hitting batsman Shahid Afridi hinted on Thursday that Darren Sammy, the West Indian star who captains the team, may be considering heading to Lahore for the final.However,......
A suspected missile-firing United States (US) drone killed two 'militants' on Thursday in Kurram Agency near the Pak-Afghan border, Pakistani officials in the area and a village elder said.Officials......
India on Thursday allegedly resorted to 'unprovoked' firing across the Line of Control (LoC) in the Khuiratta and Tender sectors, a statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)......
The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Thursday tabled a bill in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly seeking to ban exploitative dowry practices.The bill, tabled by JI MPA Rashida Riffat, includes the following......
With almost 19,000 students from Pakistan studying in China last year, the South Asian country has risen from the ninth-largest source of China's international students to the fourth.According to......
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday said good coordination and close cooperation between the civil and military leadership is in the interest of the state.“Better civil-military......
Usama Mir, an emerging spinner from Karachi Kings, believes that this year's Pakistan Super League (PSL) could be a major turning point for his career.Speaking to DawnNews Wednesday night after yet......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange closed Thursday deep in the green, with the benchmark KSE-100 index gaining 704 points, or 1.44 per cent, to break through the 49,000 points barrier and close at......
A study by Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan American think tank, says that Islam will overtake Christianity as world's most popular religion shortly after 2050.In 2010, there were some 1.6 billion......
Inflation rate accelerated to 4.22 per cent year-on-year in February from 3.66 per cent in January, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Thursday.On a month-on-month basis, prices rose by 0.28......
Pakistan and India traded barbs over Jammu and Kashmir at a United Nations meeting, with Pakistan demanding UN intervention through a fact-finding mission and India repeating its allegations of......
The federal cabinet on Thursday approved the recommendations put forth by a reforms committee to bring the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) in the mainstream, Radio Pakistan reported.The......
Chief Census Commissioner Asif Bajwa announced on Thursday that all necessary arrangements have been completed for the census scheduled to start from March 15, with a special focus on internally......
Police shot and killed a vendor they suspected of being a militant in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Mardan district on Thursday, police said.The man, identified as Wolas Khan, had been selling clothes on his......
Pakistan Super League (PSL) administration has decided to increase the quantity of tickets available to the general public for final match after witnessing the enthusiasm of cricket fans.According to......
Test skipper Misbah-ul-Haq plans on meeting Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shehryar Khan within the next couple of days to discuss his future in international cricket.Speaking to media......
Facebook plans to use artificial intelligence and update its tools and services to help prevent suicides among its users.The world's largest social media network said it plans to integrate its......
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday ordered the Sindh government to shut all liquor shops across the province for one month and devise a proper mechanism in this period regarding the sale of......
Wife: Puppu pass hogaya.Husband: Really?Yes. Please congratulate him when he comes back from school.How do you know that?Know what?Pappu pass hogaya.I have his report card. Here, see.Hmm. Are you......
Growth of sharia-compliant investment funds in Pakistan is helping fuel demand for sukuk, or Islamic bonds, giving local firms new funding options while strengthening the case for Islamic pensions in......
KOHAT/CHARSADDA: Police seized a big cache of weapons, including 38 Kalashnikovs, in Kohat and Charsadda on Wednesday.In Kohat, an attempt to smuggle silencer-fitted weapons to Wana, South......
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Wednesday struck down the imported cotton cess imposed on textile mills in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa declaring it illegal for violating the Cotton Cess Act,......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar has alleged that the Punjab government is continuing with its ‘racial policies’ and hasn’t even honoured a joint resolution passed by the KP......
ISLAMABAD: After a gap of seven months, the special court, which was trying the high treason case against former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf, will resume its proceedings and will also take......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday withdrew the arrest warrants for the chairman of National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) after its counsel told the court that due to......
ISLAMABAD: The attempt of the secretary general of the Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) to oust its leader failed within 24 hours, with the majority of PUC office bearers and central committee members......
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentarian committee on Wednesday expressed apprehensions about giving a flight-worthy Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aircraft to a German museum, and asked the PIA to submit......
William Dalrymple is a Scottish historian and writer whose work has won, among other accolades, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Scottish Book of the Year Prize. His most recent book,......
ISLAMABAD: Tobacco is grown on more than four million hectares of land in Pakistan, which could have been used to grow food for approximately 20 million people. Though the health detriments of......
LAHORE: With a request sent to Islamabad for deployment of four companies of the Pakistan (Punjab) Rangers, a five-layer high-grade security plan has been finalised for the PSL final to be held in......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Post Office has released commemorative postage stamps of Rs8 denomination each to mark the 13th summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO), which began in......
DADU: Additional Inspector General (AIG) of Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Sanaullah Abbasi has said that cases will be filed against the National Database Registration Authority officials for......
KARACHI: Terming it ‘irrational’ and ‘unjust’, Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar on Wednesday asked Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to take back his approval given to a recent summary regarding......
KARACHI: The 17th Hamza Wahid Memorial Lecture organised by Irtiqa Institute of Social Sciences at PMA House on Wednesday had scholar and award-winning author Dr Fahmida Hussain Memon looking at the......
PARIS: Fashion brand Balenciaga said on Wednesday it had sacked its casting agency amid a furore over the “sadistic” mistreatment of models at Paris fashion week.The label, the hottest on the Paris......
VATICAN CITY: Marie Collins, an Irish survivor of clerical sex abuse, resigned on Wednesday from Pope Francis’s child protection panel, accusing senior Vatican officials of “shameful” blocking of......
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump pledged a “renewal of the American spirit” on Tuesday, as he fleshed out his America-first agenda in a more measured presidential tone during a landmark speech to......
JERUSALEM: An Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday shot and killed a knife-wielding Palestinian assailant who broke into his home and stabbed him, the Israeli military said.An army......
PARIS: A French artist emerged “a little stunned” on Wednesday from a week entombed inside a 12-tonne rock and thanked it for having made him feel “so welcome”. Abraham Poincheval, 44, had difficulty......
GENEVA: All Syrian sides that fought in the battle for Aleppo committed war crimes and the deal to evacuate civilians following the rebel defeat was a “crime of forced displacement’, a UN probe said......
PARIS: French rightwing presidential candidate Francois Fillon announced on Wednesday that he would be charged over a fake job scandal that has battered his campaign, but vowed to continue his bid......
Penguin Random House has landed a deal to publish two forthcoming books by former US President Barack Obama and the former first lady, Michelle Obama, with one volume to be written by each, the......
BEIRUT: Syrian government forces, backed by Russian soldiers, advanced to the outskirts of ancient Palmyra on Wednesday after battles with the militant Islamic State group.“Regime forces and Russian......
MOSUL: At least 26,000 people have fled in the 10 days since Iraqi forces launched a push to retake western Mosul, where the militant Islamic State (IS) group put up “fierce” resistance on......
SAN FRANCISCO: YouTube has unveiled a streaming television service offering bundles of live channels, in a direct challenge by the Google-owned network to traditional cable and pay TV.YouTube TV was......
GENEVA: The vacuum in US policy on Syria is being keenly felt at the latest round of peace talks aimed at negotiating a political solution to the Syrian war — talks that seem destined to wind down......
ON March 11, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have a better sense of whether he has a mandate.That’s when the votes for Indian state elections — currently underway in five of the country’s......
KARACHI: It appears that the PCB think-tank, in their over eagerness to hold the 2017 HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) final in Lahore, has overlooked several key factors which require immediate......
HAMILTON: Martin Guptill roared back from injury with a record-breaking 180 as New Zealand thrashed South Africa by seven wickets to level the five-match One-day International series in Hamilton on......
BANGALORE: Opener Murali Vijay on Wednesday rejected the idea that the Pune pitch was to blame for India’s drubbing in the first Test against Australia despite it being classified as ‘poor’ by the......
LAHORE: The potential absence of high-profile foreign cricketers did little to dampen the fans’ spirit as the tickets for Sunday’s Pakistan Super League (PSL) showpiece at the Gaddafi Stadium were......
BERLIN: Eintracht Frankfurt defender Marco Russ made his return to football after cancer treatment on Tuesday as his side reached the German Cup semi-finals, while Borussia Dortmund’s quarter-final......
BUDAPEST: Budapest ended its bid to host the 2024 Olympics on Wednesday, citing a lack of unity after a political movement opposing the move collected more than a quarter of a million signatures to......
TURIN: Napoli were left fuming after Juventus were awarded two penalties early in the second half on their way to a 3-1 win in the first leg of their Italian Cup semi-final on Tuesday.To add insult......
MADRID: Real Sociedad conceded an equaliSer in the final minute of stoppage time to draw 2-2 against Eibar on Tuesday, missing a chance to take fourth place from Atletico Madrid in La Liga and......
DUBAI: World number one Andy Murray eased into the second round of the Dubai Tennis Championships on Tuesday on his return five weeks after suffering a shock Australian Open exit.The top seed, now......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Squash Federation has requested the World Squash Federation to lift suspension on Pakistan of hosting international events.The request was made at the 44th Annual General......
ISLAMABAD: In what came as a wonderful birthday gift for skipper Alkalanka, Sri Lanka lifted the 13th West Asia Baseball Cup defeating Pakistan in the final here at the Pakistan Sports Complex on......
KARACHI: Country’s top two golfers, defending champion Mohammad Shabbir and Mohammad Munir, both of the Islamabad Golf Club, shot two under par 70 to share the lead on the opening day of the 36th......
KARACHI: Brokerage house M.R. Securities has forfeited its trading rights entitlement (TRE) certificate after it failed to comply with the instructions of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), acting......
KARACHI: Renewed buying interest was witnessed on the cotton market on Wednesday, but lint prices generally remained steady.There was no apparent reason for sudden revival of buying interest, except......
ISLAMABAD: Set to enter the final year of its tenure, the government on Wednesday hinted at a populist budget for 2017-18 with a focus to facilitate people and incentivise the business......
KARACHI: The prices of essential commodities have relatively been stable despite an increase in diesel and CNG prices in the last few months.On Tuesday, flour millers in Sindh had reduced the price......
KARACHI: The Customs have detected a case of under-invoicing and money laundering committed by a cement company on the import of Portland clinker, official sources said on Wednesday.The company......
KARACHI: Increasing expenses and declining revenues have left the government with no option but to borrow from scheduled banks.The government is set to raise Rs2.1 trillion in March-May, as it plans......
GREATER NOIDA: At a furniture store outside India’s capital, a salesman scans the manager’s ID and takes her fingerprint on a biometric device attached to his cell phone.Within minutes, Meenakshi......
LONDON: Gold fell on Wednesday as the dollar gained after comments from US Federal Reserve officials raised expectations of an interest rate hike in March and overshadowed President Donald Trump’s......
KARACHI: Shareholders of Bank Al Habib approved annual financial accounts for 2016 on Wednesday, according to a press release. The payment of 35 per cent final cash dividend was also approved in the......
ISLAMABAD: Thousands of people here on Wednesday defied a ban on demonstrations to observe the death anniversary of Mumtaz Qadri, the convicted murderer of former governor of Punjab Salman......
LONDON: A new film exploring the partition of India will offer audiences a poignant reminder that using politics to divide communities is nothing new, its British director says.Gurinder Chadha, whose......
QUETTA: A door-to-door campaign to enrol every child of school-going age will be launched soon, Balochistan Education Minister Abdul Rahim Ziaratwal said on Wednesday at a press conference.Senior......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has a word of advice for the courts of law: do not get distracted while dealing with terrorism-related cases, especially when the investigation or inquiry carried out by......
BOGOR: Saudi Arabia and Indonesia signed agreements in areas ranging from trade to aviation as King Salman began a nine-day visit to the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country for the first......
ISLAMABAD: In order to encourage women’s participation in the electoral process, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has planned to reach out to women who are eligible to vote but are not......
ISLAMABAD: The 13th summit of the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) ended here on Wednesday with calls for doubling intra-regional trade in the next five years and promoting connectivity amid......
ISLAMABAD: The government has convened sessions of parliament to secure the passage of a constitutional amendment seeking to revive military courts. But it may not get its way if it fails to win over......
PESHAWAR: In the face of stiff opposition by one of the key allies of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the federal cabinet in its exclusive meeting on Thursday is likely to approve......
West Indies batsman Dwayne Smith announced his retirement from international cricket on Wednesday.Smith, who is playing for Islamabad United in the Pakistan Super League, confirmed the decision......
On Tuesday, Islamabad heard a series of perspectives on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that could be viewed as a case study on the gap between the claims and apprehensions about the project.At......
BACK in 1954, the Justice Munir Commission report into the anti-Ahmadi violence in Punjab famously complained that no two Pakistani clerics, or “divines” in the language of the time, could agree on......
ABOUT one more year to go. The stage is almost set for the general election in 2018. As we brace ourselves for another year of political rallies, party manifestos and campaign slogans, what are we......
AN interesting series of developments is taking place around the stock market these days. I believe this is the first time we are seeing the regulator getting tough with brokers exactly at a time......
THIS year’s Lahore Literary Festival survived due to the organisers’ extraordinary resolve to hold it and the healthy response from a sizeable number of intrepid lovers of literature. But it was......
Senior Pakistani diplomat Amjad Sial assumed the office of secretary general of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) on Wednesday, becoming the 13th secretary general of the......
The Indian government on Wednesday released 39 Pakistani prisoners, including 18 fishermen who were lodged in Indian jails.The Indian authorities handed over the prisoners to Pakistan Rangers......
