A newly married woman was hacked to death with an axe by her father in a suspected honour killing after she eloped with a man from another caste in western India, police said Thursday.The 21-year-old......
The Election Commission of Pakistan on Thursday released the details of assets of major political parties, which shows that the ruling PML-N owns assets worth more than Rs45 million as of 2015.In the......
The EU will abolish mobile phone roaming charges from June 15 following a vote in the European Parliament on Thursday.MEPs backed a deal between operators and European Union member states that will......
Minister for Water and Power Khawaja Asif said on Thursday that several power plants will start generating electricity from 2018, adding 8,000MW to the national grid.“8000 megawatt electricity will......
A group of six British parliamentarians from the ruling Conservative Party on Thursday called for a just and early solution to "the lingering Kashmir issue" in accordance with the United Nations......
The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday termed the change in India’s nuclear arms usage policy as “highly irresponsible and dangerous” and said it will "not help in promoting strategic restraint and......
The PPP on Thursday withdrew its decision to form an electoral alliance with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) at the local level during the upcoming by-election in Chakwal, thus widening the rift......
Twitter on Thursday unveiled a low-data usage version of the social network, which aims to bring in users in emerging markets and areas with slow or expensive mobile networks.The California group......
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate and de facto leader of Myanmar, has denied that there is any ethnic cleansing of the minority Rohingya Muslim community in the country, making the claim in a BBC......
Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan directed Islamabad Traffic Police (ITP) on Thursday to install radio frequency identification device (RFID) barriers at all entry and exit points of the......
Lashing out at critics of retired Gen Raheel Sharif's appointment as head of the multinational Saudi military alliance, Sindh Governor Muhammad Zubair defended the move, terming it Sharif's......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange ended Thursday’s trading session on a negative note, with the benchmark KSE-100 index losing 220 points, or 0.46 per cent, by the closing point to reach 47,356.Commercial......
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos said on Wednesday he is selling about $1 billion worth of the internet retailer's stock annually to fund his Blue Origin rocket company, which aims to launch paying......
Police said Thursday they have arrested three people for murder over the death of a Muslim man attacked while transporting cows in India, in the latest incidence of violence over the animal Hindus......
A sessions court on Thursday granted Karachi University professor Dr Riaz Ahmed bail in a case pertaining to the possession of illicit weapons.Additional District and Sessions Judge (South) Rajesh......
Former PML-N leader Liaquat Ali Jatoi joined the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Thursday, a statement issued by the party said.According to the statement, the senior politician from Sindh joined the......
A Pakistan Army Mushshak aircraft experiencing a 'technical failure' crash-landed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Mattani area in the village of Painda Khan near Peshawar on Thursday, security sources told......
Turkey said on Thursday the autopsies of three Syrians killed in an attack in rebel-held northwestern Syria confirmed that chemical weapons had been used by President Bashar al-Assad's regime, state......
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday extended its stay on the removal of Inspector General of Police (IGP) A.D. Khawaja from his post while asking for a copy of the decision made in this regard by......
A whale shark was brought to the Karachi Fish Harbour early Thursday to be auctioned off to bidders, but harbour authorities said they will be arresting the fishermen who hauled it in because the......
Ride-hailing service Uber on Thursday announced an up to 20 per cent reduction in rates for its UberGo offering in Lahore and Karachi and the introduction of its premium UberX service in......
Captain of Pakistan's Test team, Misbah-ul-Haq, announced his retirement from international cricket on Thursday.The West Indies Test series scheduled for this month will be his last, Misbah......
Batting great Viv Richards has slammed “arrogant” Caribbean administrators for thinking they are as important as players and has laid the blame for the decline of West Indies cricket firmly at their......
The bodies of three men were recovered from a men's salon in Karachi's North Nazimabad neighbourhood on Thursday, police said."The men apparently died overnight due to gas leakage from a generator......
Four people were killed and nine others injured when a landslide struck a house in Karachi's Baldia Town area early Thursday, police said.Rescue teams reached the site after receiving reports of a......
KOHAT: A local court here on Wednesday granted bail to six suspects charged in an honour killing case of a female NGO worker, Hina Shahnawaz, about two months ago.The court of additional district and......
TIMERGARA: Speakers at a conference here on Wednesday said that according to a survey there were 600 patients of HIV/Aids in Malakand division.They said that there were thousands of unregistered Aids......
SHANGLA: One year has passed since the heavy rains caused havoc in the Shangla district, but no effort has been made to rebuild the battered infrastructure, particularly roads and water supply......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) told a Senate committee on Wednesday that it lacked the human and financial resources to monitor and control objectionable content......
ISLAMABAD: A senator from the ruling party has written to the prime minister, asking for the revival of the old Mandra-Chakwal railway line.In his letter to Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif,......
Samar Khan is the first woman to have cycled on the 4,500 metre Biafo Glacier in the Karakoram Range in Gilgit-Baltistan. She set off for Biafo from Islamabad, cycling over 1000 kilometres in 15......
RAWALPINDI: Three Pakistanis who were kidnapped in Turkey and released after 23 days of captivity were transferred to a detention centre on Wednesday, from where they will be deported to Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Lok Virsa hosted a conference for highlighting the best practices in cultural management on Wednesday.Titled ‘Greatness in Diversity’, the conference aimed to develop the curatorial......
LAHORE/SARGODHA: In the wake of Sargodha shrine tragedy, the Punjab government is considering takeover of all the shrines in the province.The tragedy had claimed 20 lives allegedly due to a rivalry......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Last year, mysterious banners urging Gen Raheel Sharif to take over appeared in major cities. Such mysterious posters, again for Raheel, appeared in Rahim Yar Khan city on......
LAHORE: The two-day Dawn Pakistan Food & Agri Expo of 2017 concluded here at the International Expo Centre with the participation of over 40 local and international companies and thousands of......
MULTAN/MUZAFFARGARH: Though the crushing operation in the three sugar mills owned by the Sharif family has been stopped for the last two months on the directions of the Supreme Court, the mills owe......
HYDERABAD: While claiming that the country’s power generation will stand at 18,000-19,000 megawatts by June, State Minister for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali has cautioned the Pakistan Peoples Party......
HYDERABAD: The civil district administration has decided to install 200 closed-circuit TV cameras and double the deployment of Rangers and police while making intelligence network more effective for......
KARACHI: A retired army officer was shot dead in a suspected targeted attack in the Baloch Colony area on Wednesday, police and witnesses said.Two passersby were also wounded in the firing.Retired Lt......
KARACHI: Police on Wednesday resorted to baton charge and fired into the air to disperse a group of people protesting against an anti-encroachment drive in Mohammadi Colony, better known as Machhar......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday directed the senior superintendent of police (SSP) Malir Rao Anwar and other officials to file their respective replies on the petition of a former SSP......
KARACHI: A sessions court heard on Wednesday arguments on a bail application of a Karachi University professor in an illicit weapon case.Dr Riaz Ahmed, associate professor at the Applied Chemistry......
KARACHI: The Karachi University Teachers’ Society (Kuts) has announced a boycott of classes on Thursday from 11am, according to a press release issued on Wednesday. The boycott is to protest the......
KARACHI: Chief Census Commissioner Asif Bajwa said on Wednesday that the head count was progressing satisfactorily and so far no resistance from anywhere was faced.The housing census was completed in......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump reaffirmed his vow to destroy the militant Islamic State group and “protect civilisation” during a White House press conference on Wednesday.Speaking after talks......
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis met briefly on Wednesday with a delegation of four British Muslim clerics and praised their contribution to dialogue between different faiths and cultures.“I like to think......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s navy was on Wednesday battling a major fire aboard a massive container ship travelling from Singapore to Egypt.The navy said it had received a distress call on Tuesday when the......
STRASBOURG: European Union lawmakers adopted a resolution on Wednesday setting their red lines for the two-year divorce talks with Britain and rejected attempts by British MEPs to recognise......
LONDON: A British burglar who stole 18 stuffed animals including lions, a giraffe and a snarling chimpanzee in a top hat and tie has received a suspended jail sentence, police said on Wednesday.The......
DEIR HAFER: Syrian soldiers in this dust-covered, rubbelised town don’t smile very much and their battle fatigue is obvious. They wear an assortment of T-shirts and scarves and black headbands and......
COLOMBO: Kusal Perera struck a quick-fire half century to steer Sri Lanka to a six-wicket win over Bangladesh in the first of their two-match Twenty20 International series in Colombo on......
KARACHI: Governor Sindh Mohammad Zubair has hailed the participation of the foreign teams in the fifth edition of the Blind Cricket ODI World Cup to be staged in Pakistan early next year.He was......
LONDON: India captain Virat Kohli has been named as the Leading Cricketer in the World in the 2017 edition of the respected Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, — ‘cricket’s bible’ — published this......
LAHORE: Pakistan on Wednesday selected leg-spin sensation Shadab Khan in its Test squad for the West Indies series.Uncapped middle-order batsman Usman Salahuddin, fast bowler Mohammad Abbas and slow......
KARACHI: While expressing his delight at Pakistan’s series victory over current World Twenty20 champions West Indies, head coach Mickey Arthur predicts the multi-talented Shadab Khan would emerge as......
LAHORE: Former Test spinner Mushtaq Ahmed, now the head coach at the National Cricket Academy, believes young sensation Shadab Khan could play alongside Yasir Shah and form a lethal leg-spin pair for......
ISLAMABAD: The current pace of progress on three global energy goals — access to electricity, renewable energy and efficiency — is not fast enough to meet 2030 targets, according to the latest......
LAHORE: Minister of Commerce Khurram Dastgir Khan said on Wednesday his ministry is trying to facilitate business activities and may introduce legislation in this regard.Addressing a programme on the......
KARACHI: Premier Oil plc is selling its Pakistan business for $65.6 million in line with its strategy to dispose of non-core assets.It has signed a share-purchase agreement with Al-Haj Energy Ltd for......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s oil sales rose four per cent year-on-year to 2.1 million tonnes in March while that of high-speed diesel and petrol increased by 3pc and 4pc, respectively, as demand slowed due to......
KARACHI: Nothing short of a bloodbath, the PSX trading terminals were red across all the sectors as bears continued to rampage sending the KSE-100 index reeling down by 511 points (1.1 per cent) to......
RIYADH: Britain said on Wednesday it would help Saudi Arabia to diversify its oil-dependent economy as British Prime Minister Theresa May visited the Gulf kingdom.May and Saudi King Salman held talks......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani and French enterprises have identified agriculture, food processing, hydro-electric and renewable energy, digitalisation of industry, electronics, information technology and LNG......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has asked the Federal Investigation Agency to provide details of the actions it has so far taken in line with the Supreme Court’s decision in the famous Asghar......
SRINAGAR: When Kashmiri teenager Shabnam Bashir first took up classical sufi music three years ago, she had to practise singing in secret because all the men in her family opposed her new......
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has selected Lisa Curtis, a senior think tank expert, to advise the White House on South Asian affairs, which includes Pakistan’s relations with the United States......
PESHAWAR: Under a decision made by the administrative committee of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Wednesday, 14 judicial officers, including a district and sessions judge and seven additional......
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani on Wednesday suggested that Pakistan and China enhance parliamentary linkages and increase cooperation on foreign policy matters.He was addressing a......
ISLAMABAD: Sindh’s provincial government, still reeling from the scandal surrounding Inspector General of Police A.D. Khowaja’s dramatic removal and reinstatement a few days ago, is now facing fresh......
KARACHI: ITS Carabiniere (F593), a Bergamini-class antisubmarine frigate of the Italian Navy, arrived on a goodwill visit at Karachi port on Wednesday.The ship was accorded a warm welcome during an......
LAHORE: Following the suicide attack on a census team here on Wednesday, Chief of General Staff Lt Gen Bilal Akbar called Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to......
UNITED NATIONS: US Ambassador Nikki Haley warned during a United Nations Security Council meeting on a deadly poison gas attack in Syria that when the world body failed to act collectively, then......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is keeping itself engaged with all major processes aiming for peace in Afghanistan and isn’t committing itself to any one particular initiative.This was the gist of an in-camera......
LAHORE: At least seven people — four army soldiers, an employee of the air force and two other passers-by — lost their lives and 18 others were injured in a suicide bomb attack on a population census......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has warned that time is running out for the enactment of electoral reforms if political parties want the next general elections to be held under......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday widened its fiscal deficit outlook by a significant margin, citing a shortfall in revenue collection, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) raised concerns over......
INDIA’S recently passed Mental Healthcare Bill marks the government’s first national effort to tackle depression. One of the bill’s impacts is that it decriminalises suicide, a landmark move that......
PRIME MINISTER Nawaz Sharif has a kidney stone. It is his second. The first is an equally painful obstruction called Imran Khan. This latest disclosure of the prime minister’s medical problems has......
The latest quarterly report by the State Bank of Pakistan points out an intriguing development regarding the payments connected with CPEC projects. This year, the gap between import recorded by the......
A SERIES of cases in which the Supreme Court has acquitted the accused whose death sentence had been upheld by the high courts have thrown up questions that need to be answered if innocent persons......
