An anti-terrorism court in Shikarpur on Monday sentenced 11 terrorism accused in absentia for their role in a foiled suicide attack during Eid prayers in Shikarpur's Khanpur tehsil.An arrested......
Police on Moday claimed to have arrested a close relative of slain criminal Rehman Dakait and recovered arms and explosives from his possesion.“Acting on a tip-off, Moachko SHO Babar Hameed arrested......
British police said on Monday they had found no evidence that Khalid Masood, who killed four people in an attack on Britain's parliament last week, had any association with the militant Islamic State......
A Pakistani-American trauma surgeon in the United States has been awarded one of the country's most prestigious awards for immigrants — the Ellis Island Medal of Honour — in recognition for his......
Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it plans to sell refurbished versions of the Galaxy Note 7 smartphones that were pulled from markets due to fire-prone batteries.The Note 7s were......
The Nest i/o hosted the Startup Weekend Karachi 2017 from March 24 to March 26 in Karachi to bring together local entrepreneurs and industry leaders to collaborate on ideas, form teams and pitch in......
A high-level delegation of the Organisation of Islamic Countries' (OIC) Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) called on Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz in......
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan on Monday confirmed that the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has refused to tour the country.He added that it is unlikely for Bangladesh to make......
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Amir Hani Muslim on Monday heard a suo motu case pertaining to 'illegal' appointments and promotions of National Accountability Bureau......
Minister of Planning and Development of Pakistan Ahsan lqbal on Monday said the international community has termed Pakistan as the fastest-growing Muslim economy in the world, adding that 2018 will......
A Pakistani man has pardoned 10 Indians convicted of murdering his son in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), in 2015, BBC Urdu reported.According to Sharia law in the United Arab Emirates, if......
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday addressed a public workers' meeting in Hyderabad, where he announced healthcare, infrastructure and education initiatives for the people of Sindh.He was......
United Bank Limited (UBL), one of the country's largest banks, announced Monday that it had appointed Sima Kamil as the new president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the bank, to replace......
Two universities in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region will add Urdu and Farsi (Persian) to their undergraduate curriculum.Shihezi University and Xinjiang Normal University based in......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange started the week on a negative note, with the benchmark KSE-100 index losing 291 points, or 0.59 per cent, by close of trading to reach 48,680.16.Hammad Aman, equity sales......
The Supreme Court of India on Monday questioned whether the Muslims living in India-held Kashmir can be treated as a minority group and asked the central government to reconsider the use of pellet......
Muttahida Qaumi Movement - Pakistan (MQM - Pakistan) backed PPP's bill to change the names of universities being built in Karachi and Hyderabad bearing the name of Muttahida Qaumi Movement founder......
A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, on Monday demanded that a residence owned by Mohammad Ali Jinnah in Mumbai be demolished and that a cultural centre be built in its......
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that Tehran welcomed Russian investment in its gas and oil fields, signalling major developments in energy cooperation between the two countries.“There......
Attacks by the Taliban and other militant groups are having a devastating impact on education in Pakistan, according to a new Human Rights Watch report released on Monday.Pakistan faces significant......
Pakistan and South Africa on Monday signed a defence deal with Pakistan that will entail increased military cooperation between the two countries at a ceremony held at the defency ministry in......
The appointment of the former army chief, retired Gen Raheel Sharif, as the head of a Saudi-led 39-nation Islamic military alliance will prove to a welcome step for the Muslim world, National......
Extreme and erratic weather conditions, regular floods and lower agricultural outputs call for urgent adaptation reforms to counter the adverse effects of climate change in Pakistan.Currently,......
Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait has announced his retirement from all forms of the game on Monday due to persistent elbow injuries.Tait, who had retired from first-class cricket in 2009 and one-day......
Gurudwara Patti Sahib is relatively small, as far as Sikh places of worship go. The single-storey structure is surrounded by a courtyard, next to which there are several rooms.These were once......
More than 100 countries are set to launch the first UN talks on a global nuclear weapons ban on Monday over objections from the major nuclear powers.Some 123 UN members announced in October that they......
Police claimed to have arrested four students, allegedly belonging to Islami Jamiat Taleba (IJT) from the Punjab University Islamic Centre Hostel, on Monday while IJT claims that 12 of their members......
India's most populous state is running out of meat.After the Hindu right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in Uttar Pradesh this month on the back of a resounding electoral victory and......
The interior ministry informed the Islamabad High Court on Monday that Facebook administration has been blocking illegal blasphemous content on Pakistan's request and 85 per cent of such material on......
Prominent cleric and head of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) Tahirul Qadri was admitted to a hospital in Toronto after being diagnosed with intestinal obstruction, a press release issued by the......
Two teenage girls wearing leggings were barred from boarding a United Airlines flight on Sunday because they did not meet a dress code for special pass travellers, a company spokesman said amid a......
The continuing furore over the events leading up to the Abbottabad raid in which Osama bin Laden was killed is perhaps inevitable given the unwillingness of all sides to publicly acknowledge the......
AT present, there exist two opposing narratives of Pakistan’s economic performance. The rosier one, predicting great things to come, is perpetuated by the government’s economic managers. Any......
Observers of Indian politics identify two major takeaways from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s resounding win in Uttar Pradesh. Firstly, the scale of the victory confirms PM Modi and the BJP’s status as......
MOMENTS after the attack on Westminster Bridge, a woman was photographed walking past a small group of people attending to an injured victim. In sequential images, she looks past the victim, and then......
THE Karachi Press Club is a popular venue to hold protests. A colleague once speculated that the practice had built up possibly because of pressmen’s laziness — the public, not entirely confident......
LANDI KOTAL: Transporters continue to bear the brunt of travel restrictions imposed on them by Pakistani authorities at Torkham border as nearly 6,000 loaded trucks and containers have been forced to......
MINGORA: National and international mountaineers, hikers and trekkers on Sunday highlighted the importance of mountaineering and trekking to boost tourism and explore nature.They were speaking at a......
PESHAWAR: Old Edwardians, parents, teachers, students and music buffs gathered here on Sunday evening to celebrate the advent of spring season by conducting a musical concert and poetry session.The......
TAXILA: The first phase of the ongoing population census enumeration process in Hassanabdal was monitored by an observer from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to determine the process’......
RAWALPINDI: Even as upscale restaurants, offering both traditional and foreign cuisine, crop up around the city, fast food outlets hold a special place in the city, and indeed in the hearts of most......
TAXILA: A school located in the Hassanabdal town has been turned into a cattle pen by the local people showing the apathy of the government towards the promotion of education even though it has......
MUZAFFARABAD: An executive magistrate in the lakeside city of Mirpur on Sunday remanded in police custody a three-member gang allegedly involved in fraudulent withdrawal of cash through cloned......
Ole Thonke, ambassador of Denmark, welcomed a large number of guests from its partners in cultural and development aid at a seminar cum luncheon in Marriott Hotel in Islamabad a few days ago. Chief......
When the Australian High Commissioner Margaret Adamson welcomed hundreds of guests to celebrate ‘Australia Day in Spring’, she emphasized that this year’s theme is cultural diversity, noting that......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar has directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to open new sectors, particularly one exclusively for overseas Pakistanis.The direction came despite......
ISLAMABAD: Musicians from Gilgit-Baltistan performed at a Nowruz celebration held on Saturday night at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA). Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, marks the......
LAHORE: The Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) has stopped two hospitals from functioning and imposed a fine of Rs0.6 million for negligence in treating patients while sending cases of two doctors to......
LAHORE: Punjab police denied having any specific list of 10 influential bookies allegedly running betting and match-fixing racket in the Punjab as reported by a private TV channel.A report aired by......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) has issued a final warning to various food production units to either mention ‘This is not milk’ on 15 per cent of the total area of a tea whitener’s packaging......
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it – Aristotle.Perhaps not exactly what the great master was thinking, especially in context of our educational......
LAHORE: The trend of marriages between cousins, within a clan or caste should be discouraged as the number of children suffering from a group of genetic diseases, called Lysosomal Storage Disorder......
Just last week, a new American restaurant was launched in the city. Although it had been opened to public a while ago, maybe a ‘launch’ was a better way to make your presence felt.Located on the top......
FAISALABAD: Ramzan has to daily erect a tent-fabric wall around a specific area in a ground sans boundary wall that serves as a collective classroom for some 200 girls and boys who study at the......
TOBA TEK SINGH: Gojra Saddar police arrested on Sunday three alleged drug dealers who mistook the census team’s visit as a police raid and misbehaved with them at Chak 351 JB Kalyan Das.Witnesses......
KARACHI: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani said on Sunday the state wanted to produce a brand of citizenry that could not question its authority.“When you make one [detached] from history, one will......
KARACHI: Mayor Wasim Akhtar, pointing out the re-emergence of illegal hydrants, has warned that if these unlawful structures are not shut down, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) squad would......
KARACHI: Consumers continue to suffer at the hands of poultry sellers, who have pushed up chicken meat prices to Rs420 a kilogram in view of the ongoing marriage season amid a surge in demand,......
KARACHI: An exhibition of artworks by author and artist J. Francois Chenin, Monument Valley, opened at T2F’s Faraar Gallery on Saturday evening.The show is dedicated to the memory of Sabeen Mahmud,......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has directed departments concerned to ensure supply of clean water across the province as per the guidelines of the Supreme Court.The chief minister, who......
KARACHI: “Who is Putin? Perhaps the best person to answer this would be the president of the Russian Federation himself. And that is exactly what he does in the book,” said Dr Najam ul Sahar Butt,......
KARACHI: Irrespective of their political affiliations, a large number of Pakhtuns converged outside the Karachi Press Club on Sunday to perform their traditional dance Attan.It was in defiance of the......
FAYZEE Rahimin was an artist of high merit. His decision to accompany his wife, the scholarly and graceful Atiya Fayzee, when she decided after the partition of India to migrate to Pakistan at......
LARKANA: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that no one is above the law and anyone found to be lawbreaker will have to face action.He was speaking to reporters after laying a wreath......
HYDERABAD: Justice Amir Hani Muslim of Supreme Court has said that the real problem is that people want 17 judges of Supreme Court to take care of the entire country which is impossible.If all......
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party MPA Sharjeel Inam Memon has raised questions over the mechanism for exit control list (ECL) and dared Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to also put......
LONDON: The British government said on Sunday that its security services must have access to encrypted messaging applications such as WhatsApp, as it revealed that the service was used by the man......
SOFIA: Boyko Borisov, the karate-chopping comeback specialist of Bulgarian politics, looked to have done it again on Sunday as exit polls from a snap election put his pro-EU centre-right party in......
SAARBRUCKEN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party easily won a regional election on Sunday, dealing an early blow to centre-left hopes of ending her more than decade-long reign.In the Saarland......
HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s new leader Carrie Lam pledged on Sunday to mend political rifts after winning a vote dismissed as a sham by democracy activists who fear the loss of the city’s cherished......
DHAKA: Bangladesh army commandos shot dead two suspected Islamist extremists at a hideout in the northeast on Sunday, a day after six people died in explosions claimed by the militant Islamic State......
SANAA: Thousands of Yemenis packed a square in the capital Sanaa on Sunday on the second anniversary of a war that has claimed the lives of more than 10,000 people and pushed the impoverished country......
NAIROBI: Six aid workers have been killed in an ambush in South Sudan, the UN said on Sunday, the latest such attack in the country suffering a famine blamed on brutal civil war.A humanitarian source......
MOSCOW: Hundreds of people including top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny were arrested on Sunday as thousands of Russians defied bans to stage protests across the country against corruption.Navalny......
MOSUL: Iraq’s military said on Sunday that 61 bodies were recovered from a collapsed building that the militant Islamic State group had booby-trapped in west Mosul, but there was no sign the building......
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump on Sunday squarely blamed his Republican party’s ultra-conservative wing for the most stinging defeat of his young presidency, holding it responsible for the failed attempt......
NEW YORK: Should the “Fearless Girl” stand up to Wall Street’s charging bull forever? That’s the question New York City officials are facing after a statue of a ponytailed girl in a windblown dress......
CAMP ARENA: The target is behind a slope, the advance is unprotected: crawl, fire! Italian instructors in western Afghanistan have been using the relatively quiet winter to bolster Afghan troops......
MOSCOW: A quarter of a century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia is finally set to pay off all the foreign debt it inherited from the vanished Communist empire.Keen to establish a reputation......
CAIRO: Once a flourishing community, only a handful of Egyptian Jews, mostly elderly women, remain in the Arab world’s most populous country, aiming at least to preserve their heritage.Egypt still......
WESTMINSTER is a close second to Buckingham Palace as a symbol of British history and traditions. Whenever I have entered it, I have been struck by the soaring ceilings and the sense of continuity. I......
DHARAMSALA: Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon claimed four wickets in the final session to halt India’s progress and help restrict the hosts to 248 for six on the second day of the fourth and final......
HAMILTON: Quinton de Kock batted through the pain of a damaged finger to bolster South Africa with a defiant 90 as the deciding Test against New Zealand was evenly poised at the end of day three in......
MELBOURNE: Sebastian Vettel jumped onto the podium at the Australian Grand Prix and held up his right index finger, celebrating the end of Ferrari’s Formula One drought and a break in the Mercedes......
LONDON: While Cristiano Ronaldo kept moving up Europe’s all-time scorers list on Saturday, a demoralising loss to Bulgaria endangered the Netherlands’ World Cup qualification.Ronaldo moved into......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) secretary Khalid Rehmani has said that Hong Kong refusal to play the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group II semi-final in Pakistan seems to be their tactics of......
KARACHI: The 17th Sindh Amateur Golf Championship ended in a blaze of glory for the first two rounds leader Taimur Khan of the PAF who won by six shots over holder Zohaib Asif as curtain falls on the......
KARACHI: Public fancy four-year-old bay colt Luck Pass galloped to a facile six-length victory over Lahore’s bay horse Beat The Clock to win The Pakistan Day Cup as favourites swept a four-race card......
The government’s move to convert the State Life Insurance Corporation into a public limited company has hit snags for want of parliamentary approval.It intends to divest 25pc of the corporation’s......
Institution-building is a challenging job particularly when adjustments are dictated by dynamics of a fast transforming economic scenario. And those organisations, which do not promptly address the......
AS Punjab prepares for wheat harvesting next week, a sense of optimism has gripped farmers and policymakers alike. Both feel that achieving the target of 19.50m tonnes should not be a problem,......
THE Punjab Irrigation Department is considering an increase in the irrigated water tax (abiana) rate per acre for farmlands under Culturable Command Area while facing around 20pc shortfall in the......
Some of the world’s biggest protein buyers are slapping limits on supplies from Brazil as producers in the country become embroiled in a tainted-meat scandal.China, the largest importer of Brazil......
Having failed to achieve cotton sowing targets for the past few years, Sindh’s agriculture department estimates that 650,000ha may be brought under cotton cultivation this year. The last season’s......
Big Oil is muscling in on shale country.ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron are jumping into American shale with gusto, planning to spend a combined $10bn this year, up from next to nothing......
EgyptEGYPT’S economy is gradually improving with annual rates of GDP growth reaching 4.3pc in 2015-16. Nevertheless, large spatial disparities exist in terms of education and health outcomes.Official......
As global finance chiefs return from their first collective engagement with the Trump administration, they’re bringing home a load of unfinished business.While the weekend meeting of the Group of 20......
Investors at the stock exchange lament that they are being robbed of their hard earned savings owing to an abrupt ‘suspension’ of trading of a number of companies by regulators.When the bourse......
Despite the promise that $51bn CPEC-related projects hold in removing big hurdles to investment and tackling infrastructure and energy bottlenecks, many in the country’s business community do not......
Deposits and other accounts of all scheduled banks stood at Rs10,794.04bn after a 0.03pc decrease over the preceding week’s figure of Rs10,797.73bn, according to the weekly statement of position of......
LAST week, the dollar dipped to a six-week low against other currencies due to pressure on political uncertainty arising after President Trump’s ultimatum to his party regarding health-care vote in......
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis has said that by killing a TTP (Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan) terrorist in Afghanistan, the United States has sent a clear message to the extremists that......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Interior on Sunday issued data showing implementation status of the National Action Plan (NAP).According to it, law enforcement agencies have registered 17,562 cases and......
BEIJING: Former prime minister Shaukat Aziz said on Sunday that relations between Pakistan and China had stood the test of time and the two countries were now looking forward to deepening that......
GILGIT: The economy of Gilgit-Baltistan is largely dependent on dried fruits and agriculture as the area is famous for its almonds, apricots, cherries all over the world.Almond is the most popular......
ISLAMABAD: The government has approved 97 natural gas expansion schemes worth more than Rs37 billion on the recommendations of members of parliament, most of whom belong to the ruling party’s......
CINCINNATI: Gunfire erupted inside a packed nightclub in Cincinnati, Ohio, early on Sunday morning, killing one person and injuring 14 others, and at least one shooter was at large hours after the......
ISLAMABAD: While members of parliament have repeatedly asked for information about the salaries, pensions and post-retirement benefits enjoyed by top government functionaries, answers have seldom......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has opposed the government’s decision to allow former chief of army staff (COAS) retd Gen Raheel Sharif to assume the command of a yet-to-be-formed,......
LAHORE: Former president Asif Ali Zardari has said he will not let the ruling party ‘steal’ the 2018 elections “like it did in 2013” through ROs (returning officers) and contact other parties to stop......
An executive magistrate in Azad Jammu and Kashmir's (AJK) lakeside city of Mirpur on Sunday remanded three suspects in police custody for a week over charges of their alleged involvement in......
