An employee of University of Karachi (KU), who was suspended from duty two years ago, was found dead on Sunday within the varsity's premises in what police officials believe to be a suicide......
Shadab Khan produced an outstanding debut performance as Pakistan defeated West Indies by six wickets in the first fixture of a four-match T20 international series at Kensington Oval in Barbados on......
The country’s maritime security forces on Sunday announced the arrest of at least 100 Indian fishermen for illegally fishing in its waters.The Maritime Security Agency (MSA) made the arrests on......
Two suspected militants were killed in an ambush by the Indian army and police in Awantipora, Pulwama district in the India-held Kashmir on Sunday, reports said.The suspects were identified as Rayees......
The security forces on Sunday claimed to have foiled a terrorism bid after they reportedly defused an improvised explosive device (IED) in Balochistan's Turbat area.According to law enforcement......
At least six more infants died in Tharparker over the weekend due to various waterborne diseases and malnutrition, raising the death toll in the desert region to 72 since January this year, a......
The contingent representing Pakistan at the Special Olympic Winter Games beamed with pride as they arrived in Islamabad on Sunday ."Medals, medals, medals and success," said Shumaila Erum, while......
Iran has imposed sanctions on 15 US companies for alleged human rights violations and cooperating with Israel, the state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.The agency quoted Iran's foreign ministry......
Former Sindh information minister Sharjeel Inam Memon on Sunday hit back at Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, suggesting that the minister should have resigned on ethical grounds following......
One person was killed and at least 14 people were wounded in a shooting at a nightclub in Cincinnati, Ohio, early on Sunday, police said.The shooting took place at Cameo Night Club, the Cincinnati......
One person was killed and about 14 injured when violence erupted following a scuffle between Muslim and Hindu school students in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat, a senior......
Uber has grounded its fleet of self-driving cars pending an investigation into the crash of an Uber autonomous vehicle in Arizona, a spokesperson for the car-hailing service said Sunday.No one was......
Three women and one man lost their lives in three separate cases of alleged honour killing in Sukkur and Matiari districts.A woman was shot dead early Sunday in Khuram village near Rohri, Sukkur by......
Beijing favourite Carrie Lam was selected as Hong Kong's new leader on Sunday by a mainly pro-China committee, in an election dismissed as a sham by democracy activists who fear the loss of the......
British anti-terrorism police said on Saturday they still believe the man who launched a deadly attack outside parliament this week was acting alone but conceded they may never understand his......
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey may hold a second referendum on whether to continue with European Union accession talks, following a planned vote on April 16 that could give him......
They might not have a gun in their hand but they can shoot a film into the stratosphere. And they can kill a project before the first box office returns are tallied. They are the scriptwriters –......
Another week, another new absurdity from the guardians of Pakistan’s cinematic morality. Two weeks ago, this paper carried an exposé about how the Shah Rukh Khan-Mahira Khan starrer Raees was denied......
All you Nabeel Qureshi and Fizza Ali Meerza fans, here’s something to cheer about and look forward to. The sequel (or is it prequel?) to the duo’s first blockbuster Namaloom Afraad is off the ground.......
She’s back, and back with spiritual zest. The reference is to Hadiq Kiani’s album Wajd — Volume 1 which has recently been launched. As can be gauged from the title of the project (wajd means ecstasy......
The Lux Style Awards’ nominations for 2017 have been announced. And some people aren’t happy. One of them is a director whose film (the one that has Mahira Khan in a small band) did alright at the......
It was inevitable. Long distance relationships are hard to maintain. After all, the dimpled doll Deepika Padukone is now a Hollywood star and is sometimes away from her homeland India, which creates......
It’s downright cruel. You may think that you are a celebrity author but in the film world you can be cut to size if and when required.Popular Indian novelist Chetan Bhagat will feature as the......
An understatement: Faran Tahir has made it big in Hollywood. After doing important roles in successful TV series such as American Crime and Criminal Minds, not to mention blockbuster movies such as......
If you can get through Lion without utilising a box of tissues, then you deserve the Academy Award for Most Stoic Viewer. Directed by Australian filmmaker Garth Davis, Lion is based on a true story......
Even if Chuck Berry never sang all of those beautiful words about V8s, jitneys, limousines and Coupe de Villes, it was obvious that he was making a new kind of car music. His songs started like......
A US drone strike in eastern Afghanistan on March 19 killed the senior Al-Qaeda military commander Qari Yasin, who has been linked to numerous attacks in Pakistan, the US military confirmed on......
Life in a refugee camp is a surrealistic nightmare. All nightmares, at some point, come to an end. But when you are made to feel like a refugee in your own homeland, the nightmare becomes a Sisyphean......
Last year, when the anti-‘honour’ killing law was proposed, it was expected that under the legislation, murderers of women would not be pardoned. Campaigners called for tougher legislation that would......
Since Pakistan’s inception, inconsistent and even contradictory national narratives have rendered the nation rudderless, swerving hither and thither with an obscure past, a stormy present and an......
This year’s Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) provoked the usual conversations about the usual topics: Are literature festivals necessary in a country beset by poverty and illiteracy? Why aren’t more......
“I hope we didn’t shoot at each other during the 1965 war,” was the unexpected opening remark made by General Pervez Musharraf when Amarinder Singh called upon the president of Pakistan in Islamabad......
His monumental poetry, such as his 1990 epic ‘Omeros’, a Caribbean reimagining of ‘The Odyssey’, secured him an international reputation which gained him the Nobel Prize in 1992. Derek Walcott......
Thomas Carlyle popularised the theory that the history of the world was but the biography of great men and that it was their genius and skill that won great men power. Many disagreed, including......
At a time when Recep Tayyep Erdogan plans to hold a referendum in Turkey to expand his presidential powers, and trades barbs with his Dutch and German counterparts for not allowing his ministers to......
Khwaab GarAltaf FatimaSet before the creation of Pakistan, this novel follows the lives of people compelled to leave their homes in the mountains of Baltistan and Skardu to find new livelihoods in......
Not many have shown the perseverance and pluck, and the courage and character, put on display by Kamran Akmal in recent times.Yes, he was the butt of many a joke even in his heyday. Yes, he made a......
If you ever believed that traditional men are uncreative beings, think again. Away from the chaos and cacophony of main M. A. Jinnah Road, in a little nook off a narrow by-lane, a number of men all......
"Tell me,” Munaf Kalia challenged his interrogator immediately after his arrest, “who is not involved in this?” The question hung over the ensuing investigation into money laundering by Pakistan’s......
More than 25 years ago, according to a confessional statement signed by Ishaq Dar, he helped the Sharif family launder large sums of money using benami accounts. In his defense in numerous public......
When society strives to transform itself, there are always forces that resist change, and art usually finds itself in the eye of that storm, challenging traditional definitions of aesthetics or......
The recent paintings of Komail Aijazuddin, on view at the Canvas Gallery, Karachi, seem to assert many truths, and perhaps some half-truths. The artist’s veneration for the gilded and its central......
Young artist Soraya Sikander is a go-getter and focused on being recognised as a significant painter. I recall viewing her prolific output of paintings at Lahore’s Alhamra Art Gallery in 2014, where......
In a society still traumatised by war, trumpeting hope is a revolutionary act. Even as many in Afghanistan pick up whatever is left from the throes of desolation, a group of girls is playing to a......
Muhammad Ashraf works in his little shop in Gulistan-i Jauhar, Karachi and since the past 12 years he is known for repairing some of the most complicated and expensive watches and clocks. He sits......
Summer in Pakistan tends to be infested with lawn. A profusion of three, four or five pieces crowd the landscape, presenting a dizzying jigsaw puzzle of embroidery, silk and chiffon. The onslaught of......
According to a recent news report, insects are heading to Canadian grocery shelves. It’s not an attack of killer ants or an infestation of locusts; rather these insects are of the edible variety......
Q. Aphids and spider-mites have suddenly become a major problem in my garden in Islamabad. They are decimating my plants. I keep trimming the affected leaves, have tried spraying chilli-garlic water......
Dear Khala Jan, I am 26 years old, currently working in a multinational company. My younger sister is 24 years old and is currently doing her Masters. My mom is really concerned about both of us......
On March 17, the Express Tribune reported that books authored by Islamic scholar, Javed Ahmad Ghamidi, were barred from being displayed at a book fair held at the Peshawar University.Initial reports......
Suddenly PML-N and PPP politicians are playing dumb. They are distancing themselves from Husain Haqqani’s self-congratulatory column in the Washington Post. As Pakistan’s former ambassador to......
BY seizing the strategically located Sangin district, with a population of less than 100,000, Taliban insurgents have gained control of more than 50 per cent of southern Helmand province. The town......
IN a recent positive move, the Indian parliament has approved a bill that extends maternity leave from 12 to 26 weeks and directs employers to provide nursery facilities to female employees. This......
IT could just be the absence of meaty stuff. No Panama, Fasaad already inducing yawns — the national circus needed some excitement.And there’s nothing like a bit of civilian bashing to energise the......
A POSITIVE gesture or statement changes little if not supported with affirmatory, concerted action. The prime minister’s participation in the Hindu festival of Holi reflects his approach towards......
PESHAWAR: Imam-i-Kaaba Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais and Saudi religious affairs minister Saleh bin Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh will visit Nowshera on April 7 to attend the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl’s......
PESHAWAR: A Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader from Hazara division has illegally used the provincial government’s helicopter as part of his campaign for the upcoming PK-62 by-election, sources......
PESHAWAR: Two motorcyclists reached here on Saturday on a campaign ‘save forests - save lives’ to create awareness among people against deforestation.Talking to media persons, one of the campaigners,......
ISLAMABAD: Though essential medicines are updated all over the world on regular basis, Pakistan is one of the few countries where the matter is not taken seriously.There is a need to encourage the......
Every morning at 7am, Gulsher Khan opens a small shop on the Chakwal-Talagang Road near the city’s general bus stand and closes it 12 hours later.Despite the long hours, he makes between Rs200 and......
ISLAMABAD: With a view to minimising the damages of floods in Jhelum city, a new protection bund has been proposed to be constructed in open river bed along the right bank of Jhelum River where......
LAHORE: The three-day Mela Chiraghan (festival of lights) began with traditional zeal at the shrine of Madhu Lal Hussian at Baghbanpura on Saturday.A number of devotees from all over the country......
LAHORE: A writ petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court challenging the new uniform for police force in Punjab.Advocate Azhar Siddique stated in his petition that an extensive debate has......
MULTAN: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has sought across the board accountability of all those who looted national wealth, while reiterating that his party will accept whatever verdict is given in......
LAHORE: Census enumerators have occasionally been facing rude citizens, who instead of providing them information, ask weird questions or refuse to share data.Bushra Bibi, who is a lady health......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Army besides performing its role as defender of national frontiers has always been contributing to national development.Lahore Corps Commander Lt Gen Sadiq Ali said this on the......
SAHIWAL: The University of Sahiwal was formally inaugurated here on Saturday at a ceremony, attended by teachers, students and political leaders.The UoS has been developed under a Punjab Assembly act......
The 57-year-old All Pakistan Music Conference is scheduled to organise its monthly musical evening on April 1 at Alhamra Art Centre, The Mall. Beenish Pervaiz, daughter of former information minister......
UMERKOT: The four-day Thar and Parkar Festival organised by the Sindh culture, tourism and antiquities department concluded on a high note at the historical Umerkot fort here on Saturday.The first......
KARACHI: As street protests broke out against excessive billing by K-Electric (KE) in different parts of the city, civil society organisations, labour and human rights activists on Saturday asked the......
KARACHI: Development ideologies embraced without critically examining their pros and cons have almost wiped out vernacular architecture in developing countries, including India and Pakistan. There is......
DUBAI: A controversial ban on carry-on laptops and tablets on flights from the Middle East to the United States and Britain went into effect on Saturday — with less fanfare and frustration than......
NEW DELHI: Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said India plans to seal international borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh soon.“India is planning to seal the international boundaries with......
MILAN: Pope Francis showed the common touch during a trip to Italy’s business capital on Saturday, visiting the homes of working-class families, including a Muslim one, and using an outdoor portable......
LONDON: Britain’s anti-immigration, anti-EU UK Independence Party (Ukip) lost its only MP on Saturday when Douglas Carswell quit the party, just days before Prime Minister Theresa May is to launch......
ROME: Europeans must contain their squabbling and carping about the EU if the Union is to survive, leaders warned on Saturday as they marked the 60th anniversary of its founding in Rome by signing a......
BEIJING: China has captured 2,566 fugitives who had fled to more than 90 countries and regions and recovered 8.6 billion yuan ($1.25 billion) of illicit funds from 2014 to 2016, the official Xinhua......
NEW YORK: Hundreds of people demonstrated on Friday night in protest against the killing of a black man by a white supremacist who confessed he hated “black men”.This man, a speaker at the rally......
BAGHDAD: The US-led coalition against the militant Islamic State group said on Saturday that it struck a location in west Mosul where civilians were reportedly killed by aerial bombing.“An initial......
LONDON: Tens of thousands of pro-EU protesters took to London’s streets on Saturday, in defiance of the terror threat, to mark the bloc’s 60th anniversary just days before Brexit begins.Organisers......
PHNOM PENH: Eleven wild elephants, including a baby, were rescued from a mud-filled bomb crater in Cambodia on Saturday after languishing in the swampy waters for four days, an environmental official......
WASHINGTON: In the end, the Closer couldn’t close the deal.For President Donald Trump, the collapse on Friday of his first legislative priority, a healthcare reform bill, was an embarrassing loss of......
THE soldier was grinning, his wounds bandaged but blood still on his hands. He had the weary, cynical, joyful eyes of a man who had survived. Gunfire cracked around the little concrete hut in which......
BRIDGETOWN: World champions West Indies will be seeking to erase the recent memory of a pitiful showing in the United Arab Emirates when they commence the four-match Twenty20 International series......
DHARAMSALA: Australia skipper Steve Smith’s third century of the series and India spinner Kuldeep Yadav’s memorable debut left the fourth and final Test between the teams evenly poised on......
DHARAMSALA: Newcomer Kuldeep Yadav on Saturday revealed he had learnt some tricks of the trade from none other than Aussie spin legend Shane Warne, after scripting a memorable debut against Australia......
DAMBULLA: Opener Tamim Iqbal struck a century as Bangladesh posted a record 324-5 in the first One-day International of a three-match series against Sri Lanka in Dambulla on Saturday.Tamim made 127......
HAMILTON: New Zealand’s muddled use of the review system allowed Faf du Plessis and Hashim Amla to lead a South African recovery on a rain-hit day one of the third Test in Hamilton on Saturday.New......
MELBOURNE: Lewis Hamilton took pole for Mercedes at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Saturday but Sebastian Vettel raised hope of a Ferrari renaissance by grabbing a spot on the front......
KEY BISCAYNE: Rafael Nadal’s first fist pump on Friday followed his second point in the Miami Open, when he kissed a forehand off the sideline to win a long rally.He accompanied the celebratory......
LONDON: Italy kept pace with Spain in European World Cup qualifying as goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon played his 1,000th professional match in a 2-0 victory over Albania on Friday.A first-half Daniele......
SAN FRANCISCO: Clint Dempsey scored a hat-trick as the United States hammered Honduras 6-0 in California on Friday to get their 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign back on track.The United States, who......
QUETTA: In a fantastic display of high class soccer, Kharan thrashed Sibi 8-1 while Panjgur scored a narrow win over Lasbela 1-0 on the fourth day of the final round of the PPL Balochistan Football......
KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) became the first department to qualify for the knockout round of the Patron’s Trophy Grade-II Cricket Tournament after cantering to their fourth successive......
KARACHI: Wholesale sugar prices have started crawling up after the reopening of the Pak-Afghan border coupled with a costly print media campaign by millers for allowing exports of the one million......
KARACHI: The Monetary Policy Committee of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) decided on Saturday to keep the policy rate unchanged at 5.75 per cent, a press release said.Inflation expectations in the......
Immigration is the topic of the day. The political right, after once embracing a laissez-faire policy toward immigration — President Ronald Reagan signed an amnesty for undocumented immigrants and......
KARACHI: The Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) has accused the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) of collecting excessive and undue taxes by resorting to coercive measures.Addressing the annual dinner......
A new global energy order is emerging on the horizon.The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) is no longer the sole player on the global energy chess board. Russia and the US......
WASHINGTON: Packed into a ritzy hotel ballroom, a meeting of nearly 1,500 bankers momentarily turned into a pep rally. Be proud of being a banker and of the industry’s record profits, the speaker......
OTTAWA: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was quick to welcome Washington’s approval Friday of a major new pipeline from Canada into the United States, but observers say it creates political headaches......
DUBAI: An Airbus A330 airliner arrived in Tehran on Saturday, the third of 200 Western-built passenger aircraft ordered by IranAir following the lifting of sanctions on Iran last year.The long-haul......
KARACHI: The cotton market on Saturday remained steady as buyers continued to replenish their stocks to meet their current season’s demand.The short crop coupled with high cotton prices gave tough......
GERMANY’S state-owned development bank KfW, which gained publicity for erroneously transferring hundreds of millions of euros to Lehman Brothers the day the US firm filed for bankruptcy, has done it......
DHAKA: Hazardous, heavily polluting tanneries, with workers as young as 14, supplied leather to companies that make shoes and handbags for a host of Western brands, a nonprofit group that......
BRASLIA: Brazil, trying to recover from a rotten meat scandal that has pummeled its agribusiness industry, said on Saturday that major trading partner China had lifted a ban on imports of its......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Elders of the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe of South Waziristan Agency have demanded that the government open the Angoor Adda border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan to facilitate......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is yet to take disciplinary action against top customs officers involved in clearing more than 50 containers carrying high-duty goods on fake documents......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and the Pak Sarzameen Party — the two breakaway factions of the Altaf Hussain-led MQM — have strongly condemned the London-based leader’s recent......
QUETTA: Voting for the Balochistan Assembly seat PB-7 Ziarat will be held amid tight security at 59 polling stations across the constituency on Sunday.Personnel of the Pakistan Army and Frontier......
QUETTA: A former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), Kamran Murtaza, has called for restoration of the Quota System Act, 1992, and said that recruitment of the Qazis and judges of......
KARACHI: A fire broke out in a warehouse at the Pakistan Navy dockyard on Saturday, according to officials.The blaze erupted in the morning, which was controlled by over two dozen fire tenders......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s historic ties with China and its efforts to forge closer relations with Russia will not have an adverse effect on its traditional partnership with the United States, says......
AS Mohammad Sadiq gets out of his Corolla on Double Road, Quetta, he is anxious to have a word with Mohammad Nazar, an auto-mechanic. “I’ve been coming here for the past three days and you still......
ISLAMABAD: As part of preparations for general elections to be held next year, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has received the names of 635,000 federal and provincial officers who have......
SIALKOT: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday arrested a woman for allegedly being involved in blackmailing on social media, making her the first female to have been taken into custody......
QUETTA: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has claimed that peace has been established in Balochistan by the joint efforts of the government and security agencies. He said the recently......
ISLAMABAD: Over a month after the conclusion of marathon hearings held by the Supreme Court bench in the Panamagate case, a verdict is eagerly and anxiously awaited — the suspense merely heightened......
ISLAMABAD: Retired army chief Gen Raheel Sharif is likely to assume in April the command of a yet-to-be-formed Saudi-led, 39-country Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism (IMAFT), which is......
Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions (Safron) Lt Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch on Saturday said if former army chief Gen Raheel Sharif accepts the appointment as head of a 39-nation......
