A grenade explosion killed a police officer and injured 10 other security personnel in India-held Kashmir on Sunday, police said, hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the tense region.The......
Many areas of Karachi plunged into darkness on Sunday after a technical fault in the city's power grid disrupted the electricity supply.Posting on the company's twitter account, K-Electric claimed......
Dozens of women took part in female-only bike races in major cities across the country on Sunday, as part of an event organised by a group called 'Girls at Dhabas' to challenge what they termed "the......
March 23 is celebrated as a national holiday across the country without any discrimination of area, language or culture. But a calculated assumption reveals that not many are actually aware of......
The United States (US) ambassador to the United Nations (UN) says there's no question Russia was involved in the US presidential election and that the actions of the Kremlin will be addressed after......
At least seven people were killed in a road accident near Pak-Iran border In Chagai on Sunday evening, Levies officials said.Two others were reportedly injured when a pick-up and a truck collided......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Sunday criticised the removal of AD Khawaja as the Inspector General (IG) Police Sindh, exclaiming that the move was made because Khawaja refused to......
A Pakistani petroleum engineer, who had been kidnapped from his workplace in South Sudan, arrived at Jinnah International Airport on Sunday after being freed from the custody of rebels.Ayaz Hussain......
After months of uncertainty and controversy, Bob Dylan finally accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature at a jovial, champagne-laced ceremony on Saturday, the Swedish Academy announced.The......
British finance minister Philip Hammond will head a business delegation to India next week in an effort to boost international trade as Britain begins the process of leaving the European......
This story was originally published in April 2017.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his wife Kulsoom Nawaz are celebrating 46 years of marriage today.To mark the occasion, the prime minister's daughter......
This story was originally published in April 2017.Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his wife Kulsoom Nawaz are celebrating 46 years of marriage today.To mark the occasion, the prime minister's daughter......
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his wife Kulsoom Nawaz are celebrating 46 years of marriage today.To mark the occasion, the prime minister's daughter Maryam Nawaz, shared photos of her parents and......
When Durdana married for a second time and to a man of her own choosing, her parents threatened to kill her if she tried to see her new husband. They imprisoned her in their home, but she still had......
The Dalai Lama arrived in India's northeastern state of Assam on Saturday ahead of a visit to neighbouring Arunachal Pradesh, a region run by New Delhi but claimed by Beijing.The Tibetan spiritual......
China and Saudi Arabia have agreed to implement the consensus reached between heads of the two states and promote bilateral relations between two countries and two militaries to a new level.Vice......
At least 200 Indian paramilitary police were hospitalised with suspected food poisoning after eating meals at a training camp in the southern state of Kerala, police said Sunday.Training cadets and......
Week by week, country by country, the Pentagon is quietly seizing more control over warfighting decisions, sending hundreds more troops to war with little public debate and seeking greater authority......
Two security personnel were injured in an explosion in North Waziristan on Sunday, security officials said.A bomb planted by the side of a road in the Kand Ghar area of Shawal exploded when a......
Rescuers clawed through piles of mud and twisted debris Sunday searching for survivors after violent mudslides destroyed homes in southern Colombia, killing over 200 people and injuring hundreds......
Four missiles were fired from across the Pak-Afghan border into Kurram Agency Sunday morning, according to local political administration.A spokesperson of the local administration said the attack......
There is an air of old world charm about Huma Qureshi. In the few films the actor has worked in, particularly the ones in Hindi, she evokes a certain sense of nostalgia through her roles — a nod......
There was a time when the duo of Abbas-Mastan was one of the most sought-after directors in Bollywood. They made the super-hit Baazigar with Shah Rukh Khan and gave a new lease of life to Bobby......
A 90-second clip of Nandita Das’s upcoming film Manto on the life and works of writer Sadat Hasan Manto has been released on the internet. As expected, it has had countless hits, mainly because the......
The girl has pizzazz. She locks horns with the high and mighty of Bollywood, speaks her mind, shoots from the hip and moves on to do as she pleases.The box office failure of Rangoon and a verbal......
It’s a healthy sign that artists are now becoming more and more vocal in expressing their opinion on political issues. After all, politics affects everyone’s life.The recent appointment of a Hindutva......
Talk about being circumspect. Iconic Indian actor Sanjay Dutt has aged gracefully and with each passing year sounds wiser than before. These days he is diligently working on his comeback (from jail)......
That’s how you do it, that’s how you keep relevant! First, the news about the rift between Veena Malik and her husband Asad Khattak and their impending break-up hogged the media limelight for a week......
Call it resilience, stupidity or the return of his mojo, Tom Cruise will not listen to you. Why should he? Those of you who thought that the Hollywood A-lister is blissfully happy by being single at......
Remaking a classic film near and dear to the hearts of countless is a tricky business, and it’s a business that Walt Disney Pictures has partaken in many times over the recent years.Films such as......
Defending so-called “genre” fiction against the people who shallowly assume that it’s nothing but stories of ray guns printed on cheap paper stock is a long and noble argumentative tradition.It......
Pakistani cinema may have launched into a much-touted revival but it will take some time before it gets completely airborne. A disappointing spate of flops over the past year has exemplified the need......
One London night, a few weeks after Brexit, something happened as I was walking to a bus stop that had never happened in the 9 years since I’d moved to the UK: a man (white, young, Londoner by his......
As the wave of populism jolts established democracies in the West, questions are being asked about the fate of Muslim immigrants living in the United States (US) and Europe.Will a Western leader......
A few years ago while travelling on the Haripur-Islamabad highway, I had observed an old, seemingly abandoned building on the eastern side of the Khanpur Dam. I could not visit it at the time but the......
The ruins of a lost civilisation are unveiled in the British Museum’s latest blockbuster. It fills the same huge gallery that recently housed colossal Egyptian statues and has previously displayed......
Whenever one happens to be in The Hague, what a pleasure it is to visit Delft, a peaceful town full of crisscrossing canals less than half an hour’s bus ride away from The Netherlands’ capital. On a......
Under a flyover on the bank of a drain in Hayatabad, Peshawar, teenaged Ali Daud lies motionless among a group of addicts. His sunken green eyes, dishevelled hair and slender frame confirm that the......
It’s no secret that teenagers love social media.Members of “Generation Z” can spend up to nine hours a day sharing photos on Instagram, consuming “content” on YouTube and talking to friends on......
Two qualities that one never tires of seeing ascribed to the motherland and its accomplished citizens are that we are an extremely resilient nation, and that we just can’t stop oozing with talent no......
There is nothing that describes Italy more than Il bel far niente, meaning the beauty of doing nothing or the sweetness of doing nothing. Yes, that’s what Italians know how to accomplish to......
After 10 years working at the same company, Debra Woodfork is planning a four-week sabbatical in May. The design manager at an association for corporate in-house lawyers in Washington plans to take......
Dear Khalajee,I am 15 years old without a phone, entertainment or love. My parents don’t respect my wishes and opinions and everything I want is considered being “selfish.” I already have social......
April is a lovely month for gardening as the temperature is still tolerable and there is much preparation to be done for the blistering heat of summer which, unfortunately, seems to intensify each......
The custodian of a shrine in Sargodha and two accomplices have been arrested for intoxicating and murdering 20 devotees and injuring four others with batons and knives early Sunday, police said.Four......
On March 27, 2017, chairman of the Senate Mian Raza Rabbani was quoted by the media as saying that the recent attempts being made by the Pakistani state and government to construct a......
The mushroom growth of news channels has awakened the self-righteous critic in each one of us. We find it difficult to agree with others and seldom entertain the thought, “Can I be wrong?” It’s time......
One hundred and thirty-six years ago, when electric lights were still rare and motion pictures were just a dream, the showmen P.T. Barnum and J.A. Bailey joined forces to create “the Greatest Show on......
When an incidence of homicide takes place in New York in which a 65-year-old Jewish woman is killed and three other people besides the intended victim are injured, a New York Police Department (NYPD)......
They say in every adult there is a child fervently kicking at the barrier of time to break the glass and re-enter the paradise of early childhood. Most don’t succeed in their effort. But those who......
“This is Stanley Baldwin who got in as prime minister and got out again ere long… Miss Mackay [the headmistress] retains him on the wall because she believes in the slogan ‘Safety First.’ But Safety......
Shelina Janmohamed, author of Love in a Headscarf, has written a topical book titled Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World. While her earlier work chronicled her 10-year journey of finding......
Sometime ago I came across a theory of creativity propounded by Austin Kleon in his book, Steal Like an Artist. According to him, we can borrow themes and ideas from other artists to create art that......
The famous Victorian biographer Lytton Strachey held that “it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.” Pakistani autobiographers would have us believe that they not only led good......
It was 2001 and Islamabad was a little unnerving for someone who had not just lived in big cities, but also cherished a frank, inclusive, multiclass and unpretentious existence. In some sense it was......
Untouched Octaves: Reflections on Life, Love and SocietyAmin Hashwani, Bobby SagarA glossy volume of poems with such intriguing titles as ‘Carl Sagan: Family Barbecues’ and ‘Poverty Index: Brazil’,......
I am on my way to Shah Alam in Lahore. The Uber driver asks me the exact spot where I want to get dropped.“Bhai Pehlwan ka Dera, near Bansaan wala Bazaar.”He looks alarmed. “Madam, woh ladies ke......
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party central general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain has urged the government to appoint women enumerators for conducting census in the Federally Administered Tribal......
MINGORA: Representatives of the local bodies, including the district nazim, have demanded handing over control of the ongoing registration process of the non-custom paid (NCP) vehicles in Swat......
RAWALPINDI: A month and a half old baby was stabbed to death, allegedly by her mother, on Saturday morning in the Civil Lines police station area.The police arrested the suspect after a murder case......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday ordered action against vehicles plying without registration number plates, officials told Dawn on Saturday.Initially, the traffic police will......
ISLAMABAD: A delegation from the Technical Advisory Group (TAG), the highest international technical body advising Pakistan on the polio eradication programme, has suggested that the routine......
ISLAMABAD: Justice Aamer Farooq of Islamabad High Court (IHC) has observed that a subordinate judge cannot conduct a fair trial of his senior and this was the reason he transferred the child......
In a densely populated part of the city stands a 104-year-old building, now the Government Postgraduate College Asghar Mall, which bears the marks of the historical pluralism of......
MUZAFFARABAD: The AJK High Court has admitted for regular hearing a petition challenging the appointment of the principal of the AJK Medical College Muzaffarabad.The petition has been filed by Prof......
LAHORE: More than 100 shops were gutted and three people suffered minor burns when a fire erupted in a four-storey plaza in Anarkali’s Gudi Bazaar which later engulfed two adjoining plazas as well on......
LAHORE: Lahore was ruled by many rulers of different dynasties and all of them have left their mark on it, most significantly in the form of buildings and architecture. The Badshahi Mosque and......
Lubna Jehangir’s passion to draw human figures during high school was alarming for her parents who wanted her to study medicine. With the help of preaching by the Maulvi Sahib who would come to teach......
KARACHI: Packing a celebrity punch on its opening day, the three-day Q Mobile Bridal Couture Week kicked off on Friday with a special performance by the Raga Boys who opened the show for Amir Adnan,......
KARACHI: The notion of power and its uses or abuses has dominated debates in intellectual circles from the time man began to express himself through art. More recently, French philosopher Michel......
DADU: Around 10 men, women and children were injured when two coaches of the Peshawar-bound 19-Up Khushal Khan Khattak Express caught fire and many of the passengers jumped out of the affected......
KARACHI: A serving faculty member and a retired professor of Karachi University (KU) were taken away from outside the Karachi Press Club reportedly by law-enforcement agencies just before their......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah urged the federal government on Saturday to allocate its complete share for the K-IV project in the next budget to enable its completion within a year.Mr......
DHAKA: Three people including a woman were killed when Bangladeshi security forces stormed an Islamist militant hideout on Saturday, police said, as the country fights to contain a wave of extremist......
SOFIA: You wouldn’t expect to encounter Donald Trump in a Bulgarian shopping mall, especially not standing next to Vladimir Putin.Wax figures of both presidents are part of a visiting exhibition......
NEW YORK: Rock and Roll super star Bob Dylan went to Stockholm (Sweden) to formally accept his Nobel Prize given to him last December by the Nobel Academy. Dylan did not attend the ceremonies.In a......
BOGOTA: Mudslides have killed 92 people, injured 180 and left 200 missing after destroying homes in southern Colombia, the Red Cross and officials said on Saturday.The surge swept away houses,......
BERLIN: Hoffenheim came from a goal down to beat 10-man Hertha Berlin 3-1 away with two goals from Andrej Kramaric on Friday to climb into provisional third place in the Bundesliga and tighten their......
LOS ANGELES: The head of Los Angeles’s bid for the 2024 Olympics ruled out issuing an ultimatum to the International Olympic Committee on Friday, taking a veiled swipe at rival city Paris as the......
LONDON: Wilfried Zaha rocked Chelsea as Crystal Palace breathed new life into the Premier League title race with a stunning 2-1 win over the leaders at Stamford Bridge here on Saturday.In a frantic......
LAHORE: Accusing the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) of showing biased attitude against him, former Test captain Salim Malik on Saturday said if the PCB accepts the recommendations of the Justice......
COLOMBO: Paceman Nuwan Kulasekara claimed four wickets as Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by 70 runs in the third One-day International, securing a 1-1 draw in the three-match series here on......
BARCELONA: Barcelona coach Luis Enrique defended the integrity of his team’s talisman Lionel Messi on Saturday after the Argentine was hit with a lengthy ban from international football for insulting......
LONDON: Kenya’s Joyciline Jepkosgei broke the world half marathon record as well as the 10km and 15km marks at the Prague Half Marathon on the way to winning the IAAF Gold Label Road Race in 1 hour,......
MUMBAI: India’s bumper 13-Test home season has taken a big toll on its players with a host of them set to miss at least part of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with injuries.Royal Challengers......
KARACHI: Pakistan may soon have a new face in their pace-bowling armoury for next month’s three-match Test series against the West Indies with Mohammad Abbas being hotly tipped to make the 16-member......
KEY BISCAYNE: Roger Federer beat Australia’s Nick Kyrgios 7-6 (11/9), 6-7 (9/11), 7-6 (7/5) in a thriller on Friday to set up a mouth-watering Miami Open final against Rafael Nadal.Federer and......
KARACHI: Defending champion SMD won the opening match against IBG in the NBP T20 Inter-Group Division Cricket Tournament here at the NBP Sports Complex on Saturday.Anan Arif, son of late Test......
QUETTA: Skipper Hayatullah Khan scored a fantastic goal in the semifnal against Quetta City to propel Chaman into the final of the Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) Balochistan Football Cup 2017 here......
Metals were one of the best investments in 2016, and that’s turning out to be true again this year. An index of the six major metals rose for the fifth straight quarter, the longest stretch of gains......
Vladimir Putin wanted to remake Josef Stalin’s quest for a greater foothold in the Arctic into a global shipping bonanza that could compete with the Suez.For now, however, Russia will have to be......
LONDON: Britain sought on Saturday to reassure Gibraltar that it will protect the territory’s interests in upcoming talks on exiting the European Union amid a dispute with Spain that underscores the......
BlackBerry is finally starting to look like a real software company.After three years of acquisitions, layoffs and trying to convince customers it could do more than build smartphones, the Canadian......
In the dusty scrub of the Thar desert, Pakistan has begun to dig up one of the world’s largest deposits of low-grade, brown, dirty coal to fuel new power stations that could revolutionise the......
ISLAMABAD: Expressing concern over low cross-border trade, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has asked the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to revise the proposed customs reform strategy in line with the......
MITHI: In a move to utilise indigenous coal for power generation, Jamshoro Power Company Limited (JPCL) on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Sindh Engro Coal Mining Company......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday issued guidelines to the administrative heads of divisions, attached departments and autonomous bodies for facilitating domestic and foreign......
KARACHI: The collector of Customs preventive division has warned shipping lines to stop collecting port congestion surcharge on containers or face legal action.Addressing a meeting of stakeholders of......
KARACHI: Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited (PSMCL) on Saturday increased the retail car prices.In a letter sent to authorised dealers, the company did not mention the reason for pushing up the......
KARACHI: Bears were on the rampage for most sessions in the outgoing week, knocking down the KSE-100 index by 815 points (1.7 per cent) in the week to 48,156 points.The concerns over settlements in......
IF President Donald Trump gets confrontational with Chinese President Xi Jinping over trade at their Mar-a-Lago summit in Florida in April, the Chinese leader will have potential allies in some......
KARACHI: The Sindh government collected Rs1.375 billion in property tax during July-Feb 2016-17 compared to Rs1.31bn in the corresponding period last year.Though the amount exceeds by Rs44 million......
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has indicated that an eventual settlement between the Afghan government and the Taliban is the ultimate goal of the Trump administration.The......
ISLAMABAD: A key squadron of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) — its 9th squadron — was declared the twin of an elite squadron of the UK’s Royal Air Force (RAF) — incidentally its squadron number 9 — at a......
KARACHI: Controversy over the provincial government’s decision to hand over Bagh Ibne Qasim, the city’s iconic park, to real estate tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain of Bahria Town deepened on Saturday when......
SRINAGAR: The 11-year-old boy set out for a stroll with a friend in the main city of the disputed region of Kashmir. It was a sunny spring day, and quiet, during a general strike and after anti-India......
QUETTA: A person was killed and seven others, including five Frontier Corps personnel, were injured after FC troops shot at protesters hurling stones at them near the Friendship Gate close to the......
THOSE who have ever required blood for either themselves or for someone close will know what a stressful, arduous task it is. From making frantic phone calls to sending text messages to friends to......
KARACHI: Three months after a botched attempt to remove Inspector General of Sindh A.D. Khowaja, the provincial government sent him packing on Saturday by appointing another grade-21 police officer......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Saturday observed that the mandate of the National Accountability Bureau — to check corrupt practices and hold the corrupt accountable — required that it be staffed by......
THE China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project is a win-win proposition for both countries. It can create ‘Double Happiness’ (Chairman Mao’s favourite cigarette brand).For Pakistan, CPEC......
HE arrived to the usual frenzy of curiosity, though some of it was unusual. Most powerful man in Pakistan — the very job description attracts it.But Bajwa was more. Victim of an ugly hit job while......
AFTER a succession of army chiefs reluctant to hand over the baton of command, we saw Gen Raheel Sharif retire right on schedule last November — only to un-retire, as we now know, to lead the Islamic......
“APRIL is the cruellest month of the year,” wrote T.S. Eliot. It is a month of painful rebirth, but also a time of immense possibilities, when each being has the chance to blossom. It is thus very......
West Indies beat Pakistan by seven wickets in the third T20 match on Saturday at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad.Pakistan frittered away a promising position but still managed to......
Air strikes by the US-led coalition against the militant Islamic State (IS) group have likely “unintentionally” killed 229 civilians since the offensive began in 2014, according to US Central......
