Local police say a player for German soccer team Borussia Dortmund was injured on Tuesday following explosions near the team bus ahead of the Champions League quarterfinal match against Monaco.The......
The United States Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale on Tuesday appreciated Army's contribution towards regional peace and stability while meeting with Chief of Army Staff Qamar Javed Bajwa, said a......
Two "hardcore terrorists" tried by Military Courts were hanged in a high security prison in Sahiwal on Tuesday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) reported.The two convicts were awarded the......
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday cancelled the plea bargain application submitted by the key accused in Balochistan mega corruption scandal, former secretary finance Mushtaq......
Seven suspected terrorists said to be associated with the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar were arrested in Multan on Monday by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), it has been learnt.According to the CTD......
Toshiba Corp filed twice-delayed business results on Tuesday without an endorsement from its auditor and warned its very survival was in doubt, deepening a prolonged crisis at the Japanese......
The Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) on Tuesday issued a report revealing the data regarding the first four months of operation of its Cyber Harassment Helpline.According to the report, Facebook is......
In an unexpected move, a Field General Court Martial (FGCM) sentenced Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav to death after a trying him for involvement in espionage and sabotage activities in Karachi and......
A sublime Shoaib Malik century and equally responsible knock from Mohammad Hafeez inspired Pakistan to a six-wicket win in the third and final one-day against the West Indies at the Providence......
The federal government on Tuesday announced that it had appointed Jameel Ahmed as a Deputy Governor at the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), a press release from the central bank said.Jameel Ahmed, a......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday issued a notice of charge to former batsman Nasir Jamshed for violation of the boards rules.Jamshed violated Articles 2.4.6 and 2.4.7 of PCB......
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States is ready to solve the North Korean “problem” without China if necessary.“North Korea is looking for trouble,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “If......
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Tuesday dismissed India's accusations that the sentencing of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav was a "premeditated murder".Hitting out at New Delhi during a Senate......
Russia said it hoped forthcoming talks in Moscow with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson would be productive, but said it was extremely worried the United States might decide to unilaterally attack......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed Tuesday in the green, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining 307 points (0.64pc) to breach the 48,000 points barrier and close at 48,250.07.50.13 million......
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday extended its stay on the removal of Inspector General of Police (IGP) A.D. Khawaja from his post and ordered the IGP to continue his duties till the court......
A group of lawmakers in the United States said on Monday they had requested more information from President Donald Trump's administration about the potential sale of precision-guided munitions to......
After a top level inquiry was ordered into the demolition of an old bungalow building inside Jufelhurst School in Karachi's Soldier Bazaar on Monday, the 'owners' of the plot upon which the structure......
Rakhmat Akilov, the main suspect in the truck attack in Stockholm that killed four people and injured 15, has admitted to committing a terrorist crime, his lawyer told a court on Tuesday.Police......
Nine people including four members of the Philippine security forces were killed Tuesday in clashes with 10 suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf kidnap group on the resort island of Bohol, authorities......
State executions in Pakistan dropped by 73 per cent in 2016 as compared to the previous year, with over 360 convicts put on death row and more than 87 hanged, rights group Amnesty International said......
The Pulitzer Prizes on Monday honoured an international consortium of more than 300 reporters on six continents for their investigative series on the Panama Papers which detailed the hidden......
A Chinese official who allegedly declined to smoke in front of Muslims in Xinjiang has been demoted for taking an “unstable political stance,” a state-run newspaper reported Tuesday.Xinjiang, home to......
The US strike on a Syrian air base destroyed a fifth of the Damascus regime's remaining warplanes, Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Monday as Washington fired a fresh salvo of warnings at President......
A huge fire, apparently started deliberately, tore through the Grande-Synthe migrant camp near the northern French city of Dunkirk late Monday, reducing it to “a heap of ashes”, the regional chief......
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday that Pakistan is a peace-loving country and desires good relations with all countries, particularly its neighbours.Addressing the passing out parade of......
Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday assured lawmakers that New Delhi would go "out of its way" to save sentenced spy Kulbhushan Jadhav from death row in Pakistan, according to Indian......
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday called on India to 'wake up', and warned New Delhi that: "You are losing Kashmir."In a stinging......
British Prime Minister Theresa May spoke on Monday to US President Donald Trump and agreed that "a window of opportunity" exists to persuade Russia to break ties with Syrian President Bashar......
Past cyber attacks on scores of organisations around the world were conducted with top-secret hacking tools that were exposed recently by the web publisher Wikileaks, the security researcher Symantec......
“Read this interesting one-liner by Manto,” said my boss from one of my former workplaces as he nudged his smartphone in my direction.Knowing who Saadat Hasan Manto was, and well-acquainted with the......
ISLAMABAD: MNA Shahjehan Mangrio on Monday suggested that retired Capt Mohammad Safdar should become the imam (prayer leader) of the Parliament House mosque.“You have a lot of information on Islam......
ISLAMABAD: The Lok Mela on Monday held five wrestling competitions, also known as dangals, featuring pehlwans from Punjab in a bid to revive the dying sport and provide residents of the twin cities......
RAWALPINDI: A short play titled Intizar was performed at the National College of Arts (NCA) Rawalpindi on Monday, which highlighted prisoners on death row, the flaws in the criminal justice system......
MINGORA: The members of civil society here on Monday demanded of the district administration to remove concrete pavement made around trees on footpaths in Saidu Sharif to save the centuries-old......
PESHAWAR: The World Health Organisation in collaboration with provincial health department has launched a province-wide campaign to provide treatment to the people for leishmaniasis and create......
LAHORE: Scores of peasant leaders from various parts of Punjab gathered here on Monday and decided to re-launch their struggle for land rights despite arrests and state repression.The meeting......
KARACHI: Demolishing a building was easy, but in order to do so you need a demolition permit from the Sindh Building Control Authority, said NED University’s Prof Noman Ahmad while talking to Dawn on......
KARACHI: As the mercury surged to 40.5 degrees Celsius in Karachi on Monday, the city and provincial authorities geared up efforts to save lives during extreme weather conditions that would prevail......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah appointed Ziaul Hasan Lanjar as provincial law minister on Monday. He was sworn in by Sindh Governor Mohammad Zubair at a simple ceremony held at Governor......
KARACHI: Speakers at an interactive session on police reforms jointly organised by the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee and civil society organisations at the CPLC office in Governor House on......
SUKKUR: Activists of various civil society and local trade organisations, holding rallies daily for 10 days in Jacobabad for the recovery of two teenagers missing since April 1, intensified their......
MITHI: Residents of Gorano and about a dozen other Thar villages protesting against the construction of a reservoir meant for temporarily storing mine effluent have rejected the fresh move to conduct......
LONDON: Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi, seen as pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani’s main challenger in a May 19 election, is a close ally of Iran’s supreme leader and despises the West.The......
What’s the story and why does it matter?Turks will go to the polls on April 16 to vote on constitutional amendments that would transform the country from a parliamentary democracy into a presidential......
IF you’d designed her in a lab, you could not have produced a more highly optimized first daughter than Ivanka Trump. Her wardrobe is stylish but not risky. She’s an Instagram-worthy mother of three......
STANFORD HOPE: The first-ever freight train from Britain to China started its mammoth journey on Monday along a modern-day “Silk Road” trade route as Britain eyes new opportunities after it leaves......
JERUSALEM: A rocket fired from Egypt’s Sinai crashed into Israel on Monday, in an attack claimed by the militant Islamic State group, as authorities closed a border crossing over security threats,......
CAPE CANAVERAL: A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts made a parachute landing in Kazakhstan on Monday, wrapping up a nearly six-month mission aboard the International Space Station, a Nasa TV......
LONDON: Two dazzling pink and blue pear-shaped diamonds are together expected to fetch close to $70 million when they go under the hammer next month.Sotheby’s said the Apollo and Artemis stones are......
LONDON: British Vogue, an iconic fashion magazine which celebrated its centenary last year, named Ghana-born Edward Enninful as its first male editor on Monday.Enninful, a close friend of British......
ALEXANDRIA: Hundreds gathered on Monday to mourn 45 Egyptian Christians killed in jihadist bombings just a week before Easter, after Cairo declared a state of emergency following the attacks on two......
MOGADISHU: Somali security forces rescued a hijacked Indian cargo dhow on Monday, but pirates took the 11-member crew with them when they fled to land, authorities said.The Al Kausar vessel was......
WASHINGTON: Neil Gorsuch was sworn in Monday as the US Supreme Court’s ninth justice, retilting the bench to the right as he filled the seat left vacant by last year’s death of conservative icon......
ISLAMABAD: Rik Van Grewen, a guest player from the Netherlands, registered back-to-back upset victories to qualify for the men’s singles semi-finals of the Subh-e-Nau National Hard Court Tennis......
MIRPURKHAS: Karachi beat Sukkur while Hyderabad beat Mirpurkhas to reach the final of the SSB Inter-district Women Softball Championship here on Monday.Karachi team scored 14 runs in three innings......
HYDERABAD: Tour de Sindh cycle race partcipants were greeted with a warm welcome when they reached Hyderabad on Monday .The cyclists paddled their way to University of Sindh, Jamshoro where Vice......
AUGUSTA (Georgia): No one had played more majors with less to show for it.Sergio Garcia had plenty of reasons to believe it would go on that way forever.He was already two shots behind Justin Rose......
MILAN: Lorenzo Insigne atoned for a glaring first-half miss with a brace to help Napoli win 3-0 at Lazio in Serie A on Sunday and all but guarantee his team a spot in next season’s Champions......
TERMAS HONDO: Spaniard Maverick Vinales continued his perfect start to the MotoGP season on Sunday with a victory in Argentina after compatriot and reigning champion Marc Marquez crashed while......
PROVIDENCE: With pride and an ODI series at stake, both teams will be out in full force to battle for the glory in the third and final game at the Providence Stadium in Guyana on Tuesday.Pakistan and......
THERE comes a time in every successful sportsman’s life when he has to make a decision and say farewell to the game he loved and made a living out of, besides providing high class entertainment to......
LONDON: Title-holders Real Madrid renew their long-time rivalry with Bayern Munich and Barcelona play Juventus in a rematch of the 2015 final when the Champions League quarter-finals get underway on......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday approved ending a moratorium on fresh bulk gas connections to domestic, commercial and industrial consumers and ordered settlement of growing circular......
KARACHI: The GDP growth rate for 2016-17 will fall short of the target of 5.7 per cent, according to the half-yearly economic review issued on Monday by the Institute for Policy Reforms (IPR), an......
KARACHI: Pakistan received $14 billion remittances in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, down 2.3 per cent year-on-year.According to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)......
ISLAMABAD: In order to develop the Islamic capital market, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) is amending the 2015 Issue of Sukuk Regulations to facilitate issuers, reducing......
KARACHI: The KSE-100 index started out on a firm note on Monday with the index making it to the intraday high by 206 points, but the bulls staged a hasty retreat as uncertainty over the upcoming......
BERLIN: The chiefs of the IMF, WTO and OECD vowed on Monday in a joint statement to defend free trade against creeping protectionist trends, amid growing global alarm over US President Donald Trump’s......
ISLAMABAD: Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Dr Yusuf Ahmad Al-Othaimeen said on Monday that India had been declining the OIC’s request for a visit to held Kashmir to......
RAWALPINDI: Undeterred by a recent terrorist attack carried out by the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on soldiers performing census duty, Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court bench hearing the Orange Line Metro Train case hinted on Monday that it might take up other work if the case at hand was not completed by the end of the week.“We will try......
SRINAGAR: Four men were killed in fighting with the Indian army in held Kashmir, as businesses and schools shut in the disputed region on Monday in response to a call to protest the killing of eight......
KARACHI: Haji Nadir, an Uzbek-Afghan carpet weaver from Afghan Camp in Gadap Town, has switched professions recently.He had moved his carpet workshop from Northern Bypass to Al-Asif Square, hoping......
LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari commented on the death sentence awarded to Kulbhushan Jadhav by a military court on Monday saying his party was opposed to the......
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres appointed Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai a UN Messenger of Peace on Monday to promote girls education.At 19, Ms Yousafzai is the......
ISLAMABAD: The spouse of Nawab Ali Leghari, the ‘missing’ aide of former president and Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, has moved the Islamabad High Court (IHC) for the......
SARGODHA: Built on private land amidst lush farms in a village almost 20km from Sargodha, the shrine of the self-proclaimed faith healer, Ali Mohammad Qalandar, has been attracting hordes of......
QUETTA: The president of Pakistan Peoples Party, Balochistan, Mir Madad Ali Jattak, on Monday threatened to block highways linking the province with the rest of the country if three close aides to......
QUETTA: Iranian authorities reopened on Monday the Zero Point on the Pakistan-Iran border that remained closed for over three weeks.The border crossing point was closed on March 20 in connection with......
ISLAMABAD: Described as the biggest proof of Indian interference in Pakistan, Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav has been court-martialled and sentenced to death by a military tribunal for espionage and......
ISLAMABAD: Following the intervention of National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday ended its boycott of the electoral reforms committee which met......
ISLAMABAD: As the Senate on Monday marked the passage of the 1973 Constitution, members on both sides of the aisle appeared united in their denunciation of past military interventions, regretting......
IT stands to reason that a poor selection test would be unable to identify the best candidates in any given applicant pool. Given the importance of the civil service, I reviewed recent CSS written......
IT was seven years ago that WikiLeaks revealed a conversation Rahul Gandhi had with former US ambassador Timothy Roemer. That sharing of a pivotal idea scrubbed off much of the adverse imagery —......
NATIONAL myths glorify nations, create a false sense of superiority and impunity among members towards others and cause abuse. Myths harm myth creators too as they abandon reality. Writers must bust......
Last month, Indian-American scholar Vipin Narang stirred a storm by casting doubt on the sanctity of India’s No-First-Use (NFU) pledge on nuclear weapons and positing the possibility of Indian......
Inspector General Police (IGP) Punjab Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera has retired from service after serving for more than three decades in the police.Sukhera's retirement leaves Arif Nawaz with the additional......
A 14-year-old mentally challenged girl was set on fire, and later succumbed to her injuries, in the district of Naushahro Feroze on Monday.The girl was under treatment in Civil Hospital Naushahro......
Donald Trump revelled in the biggest political victory of his presidency at a White House ceremony on Monday in which his Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch was sworn in, poised to make an instant......
Indian news agencies reported on Monday that four Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) officials reportedly drowned after their boat capsized near the International Maritime Border Line......
