Disney debuted its highly-anticipated first trailer for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” at a fan event in the United States on Friday, sending the internet into a frenzy of excitement.The footage from the......
Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security Lt-Gen (retd) Nasser Khan Janjua on Friday said the two nuclear powers — Pakistan and India — could not remain enemies forever and need to interact......
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) signed a Banking and Payment Arrangement (BPA) with Iran’s central bank, Bank Markazi Jomhouri Islami Iran (BMJII), on Friday in Tehran.Deputy Governor SBP Riaz......
Smoking-related diseases will claim 200 million lives in China this century and plunge tens of millions into poverty, a report said on Friday.China is the world's largest consumer and producer of......
The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Police on Friday claimed to have arrested three suspected agents of India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) who were allegedly involved in anti-state activities,......
The counsel for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday submitted all the supporting evidence against batsman Khalid Latif before the Anti-Corruption Tribunal constituted by PCB, following which......
China issued a stern warning Friday that a conflict over North Korea could break out “at any moment”, as Pyongyang vowed a “merciless” response to any US military action.Tensions in the region have......
In a bizarre move, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan (AWKUM) has decided to probe three students for alleged "blasphemous activity", a notification posted to their website said Friday.Of the three......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange's (PSX) benchmark KSE-100 Index lost 331 points (0.69pc) in yet another session marked by low trading volumes.100 Index volumes fell sharply once again, clocking at 45.3......
Pakistan Cricket Board's Anti-corruption tribunal (ACT) held a hearing for Sharjeel Khan, in the matter of the Pakistan Super League, spot fixing charges at the National Cricket Academy, Lahore on......
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday announced a Rs1 billion package for Jacobabad and said votes are earned through actions and not through sloganeering while addressing a public gathering in the......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday turned down Nasir Jamshed's request that he be allowed time to respond to an investigation into his alleged involvement in the Pakistan Super League (PSL)......
An Army-owned Mushshak aircraft experiencing a 'technical failure' crashed into a tree in Kalowal near Jhelum on Tuesday, police said.The aircraft was on a routine flight when it crashed into a tree......
India, in the first-ever diplomatic contact between Islamabad and New Delhi after the sentencing of spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, made two formal demands of Pakistan during a meeting between Indian High......
Sartaj Aziz, the prime minister's adviser on foreign affairs and the government's de facto foreign minister, shared the state's charge sheet against Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav and a timeline of his......
Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani, seemingly frustrated by the continued absence of senators from the Upper House, registered his protest on Friday by suspending his official duties.He had been visibly......
An ice-encrusted moon orbiting Saturn appears to have the conditions necessary for life, Nasa announced Thursday, unveiling new findings made by its unmanned Cassini spacecraft.Cassini has detected......
Federal and provincial authorities chose to remain away from Friday's proceedings in a case pertaining to Ghulam Qadir Marri's recovery being heard by the Sindh High Court (SHC), even though they had......
A video circulating on social media of a man tied to the bonnet of what was believed to be an Indian Army jeep as a human shield once again raised concerns over the violation of human rights by......
Three soldiers of Pakistan Rangers (Punjab) lost their lives in an exchange of fire with suspected militants in Dera Ghazi Khan on Friday morning, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.ISPR......
New Delhi is planning to slow down the issuance of visas to Pakistani applicants as a form of retaliation for Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav's death sentence, a report published by the Indian Express......
As many as 80 sheep were killed when a speeding truck ran over their herd in Sialkot on Friday, police sources said.The incident occurred as a large herd of sheep came onto the path of two dumper......
A First Information Report (FIR) was registered by police on Friday against members of a lynch mob that brutally assaulted two university students ? killing one and injuring another ? over alleged......
A doctor was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Karachi's Kharadar area early Friday morning, police said.City Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Adeel Hussain Chandio told Dawn that the......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan on Friday condemned the lynching of a 23-year-old student of Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan by an enraged mob a day earlier.Khan, in a tweet,......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Thursday announced a ban on the production and sale of non-biodegradable plastic bags in the province.It however said the ban would take effect after......
CHARSADDA: Fruit fly attack in Charsadda district has caused panic among fruit growers who fear incurring big financial losses if immediate measures are not taken by the agriculture department.Owners......
PESHAWAR: Senior radio and TV artist, Syed Shahenshah, passed away here on Thursday. He was 68.Mr Shahenshah had been suffering from multiple health complications for the last over two decades. Being......
ISLAMABAD: The members of the ruling PML-N and the main opposition PPP in the Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reforms on Thursday opposed two key proposals of the PTI - appointment of returning......
ISLAMABAD: More than half the incidents of cigarette sale to minors occur in Punjab, while the province in also the worst offender in terms of allowing tobacco sale within 50 metres of educational......
ISLAMABAD: Lok Virsa hosted a Kashmiri musical night featuring local folk songs on Thursday at the Open Air Theatre as part of the ten-day Lok Mela.Minister Sports, Youth and Culture Azad Jammu and......
TAXILA: Around 1,500 Indian Sikh pilgrims arrived at the Gurdwara Punja Sahib Hassanabdal to offer religious rituals in connection with the Baisakhi festival that started on Thursday.Every year on......
HEC website gives ‘incorrect’ informationHaving barred universities from conducting entry tests via the National Testing Service (NTS), which is a private entity, the Higher Education Commission’s......
ISLAMABAD: It could take over three months before the government can connect to the servers of cellular phone operators to monitor the taxes which these companies charge their customers, the Federal......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) will crack down on the food establishments that will not stop sale of used cooking oil to unauthorised persons/firms by April 15.Eateries including major food......
LAHORE: Three suspected militants, allegedly belonging to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), were killed in the Dera Ghazi Khan area in an operation by Rangers and police personnel, while 27......
KASUR: Provincial Minister for Education Rana Mashood Khan said on Thursday the Punjab government would allocate Rs340 billion for school education in the forthcoming budget.He said the budget for......
KARACHI: Most parts of the city had to go without water for several hours on Thursday when the Dhabeji pumping station under the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) faced a sudden shutdown.While......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Thursday began a five-day general discussion on the Budget 2016-17’s two quarterly execution reports — July to September, and October to December 2016.On the first day......
KARACHI: Art and medicine were linked by eminent neurosurgeon Dr Rashid Jooma during the Sixth Sense Forum lecture on ‘The peril of diagnosis without examination: stories of the artist and the king’......
KARACHI: By-elections for 12 seats of various local government institutions in Sindh were held in a peaceful atmosphere in Hyderabad, Thatta, Sujawal and Badin districts on Thursday.According to......
When I wrote a few weeks ago that the Middle East would at some point reach out and grab America’s crackpot President, I never guessed it would do so at such speed. Nor that the entire fandango would......
NEW DELHI: It was a balmy August afternoon last year when 11-year-old Piyush Sharma disappeared while playing outside his home in the small east Indian town of Hatia.The skinny little boy, with big......
NEW YORK: A trailblazer black jurist who became the first Muslim woman to serve as a US judge in a high court, was found dead in New York’s Hudson river in Harlem on Wednesday. She was 65.Sheila......
GENEVA: Dramatic improvements are needed in ensuring access to clean water and sanitation worldwide, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday, warning that nearly two billion people......
CHICAGO: The United Airlines passenger dragged from a plane in Chicago in an incident that sparked international outrage and turned into a corporate public relations nightmare suffered a concussion......
LONDON: Fossils discovered in Tanzania in the 1930s have helped identify a “missing link” in dinosaur evolution that reveals their ancestors had long necks, walked on four legs and looked like......
WASHINGTON: A human smuggling ring that helped people from Pakistan and Afghanistan illegally enter the United States by way of Brazil and Latin America was publicly revealed as the ring’s Brasilia......
DAMASCUS: Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has accused the West of fabricating a suspected chemical weapons attack that prompted an unprecedented US missile strike, in an exclusive interview with......
TEHRAN: Iran’s first cruise ship since the 1979 Islamic revolution completed its maiden revenue-earning voyage on Thursday, docking in the Gulf resort island of Qeshm, a port official said.The......
STRASBOURG: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday there were “serious failings” in Russia’s handling of the Beslan school siege by Chechen rebels in 2004 in which over 330......
LAHORE: Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur, disappointed by the unimpressive performance of senior pacers Wahab Riaz and Mohammad Amir in the recently concluded ODI series against the West Indies, has......
DUBAI: Afghanistan’s big-hitting batsman Mohammad Shahzad has tested positive for the banned substance Clenbuterol and will be suspended, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on......
JOHANNESBURG: Chris Gayle and Kevin Pietersen are among several big names to have signed up for the new T20 Destination League in South Africa which is set to take place later this year.Apart from......
DELHI: Contrary to popular belief, Saurav Ganguly does not think that Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a good Twenty20 player any more.The former India captain said Dhoni is a “champion ODI player” but......
ST JOHN’S: West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor on Wednesday announced he was coming out of retirement, just nine months after he called time on his 46-Test career.Taylor, 32, said he was available......
BENGALURU: India have finally developed a potent pace attack which can help them win overseas but the fast bowlers would still benefit from the recruitment of a dedicated coach, spearhead Umesh Yadav......
HONG KONG: Australia fell just short of a men’s and women’s team pursuit double on Thursday as Malaysia’s ‘Pocket Rocketman’ Azizulhasni Awang won an emotional maiden world track cycling title in......
LONDON: Last season’s finalists Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid stepped closer to the Champions League semi-finals on Wednesday while AS Monaco won at Borussia Dortmund in a last-eight first leg......
LAHORE: Karachi’s Iqra University beat Lahore’s Government College University in a nail-biting final to win the inaugural Caltex Cricket Extravaganza on the last ball of the match at the Aleem Dar......
MILAN: Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi finalised his troubled sale of football club AC Milan to a Chinese-led consortium on Thursday, a 740 million euro ($788 million) deal that......
MITHI: Tour de Sindh competitors braved scorching heat to reach Mithi from Umerkot with Ghulam Mustafa of Larkana winning the 93-kilometre 11th stage on Thursday.He covered the distance in three......
KARACHI: Despite mounting tension along the border, the trade between Pakistan and India has remained intact since the beginning of the current fiscal year.A recent report by the State Bank of......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) is at loggerheads with a group of 13 leading oil marketing companies (OMCs) over massive storage capacity shortfalls and the expansion of retail......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports of services witnessed growth of 90 per cent year-on-year to $668.33 million in February, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Thursday.The increase will......
KARACHI: Stocks went into free fall on Thursday as the KSE-100 index plunged by 507 points (1.1 per cent) to finish at 47,951 points.The index conceded half of the 1,100 points it had gathered in the......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia raised $9 billion in its first global Islamic bond issue, the government announced on Thursday, a move analysts say could ease pressure on foreign reserves.The sale of Islamic......
KARACHI: Cotton prices rebounded on Thursday on renewed buying from some spinners. Brokers said new cotton crop could be delayed due to a heatwave across the country. There were also reports that......
ISLAMABAD: In alliance with the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), the Australian government announced on Thursday an additional support of $1 million to Pakistan to improve nutrition, eliminate hunger......
QUETTA: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri on Thursday stressed that no hurdles would be tolerated in achieving a polio-free province and the issue would be dealt with......
KARACHI: The alleged “espionage” by suspected Lyari gangster Uzair Jan Baloch, which he confessed in a statement before a judicial magistrate and joint interrogation team a year ago, has already......
WASHINGTON: Former president Pervez Musharraf urged Pakistan on Thursday to engage with the Trump administration as the change in Washington presents Islamabad with an opportunity to improve its......
ISLAMABAD: The government informed the Senate on Thursday that foreign remittances had declined by 2.3 per cent during the first nine months of the current financial year.Responding to a calling......
DUBAI: The Human Rights Watch is calling on Saudi Arabia to investigate the death of a Pakistani transgender woman who had been detained by police in Riyadh, following a raid on a private......
ISLAMABAD: Following a heated debate on increasing loadshedding in different parts of the country, especially in Sindh, the main opposition Pakistan Peoples Party on Thursday boycotted proceedings of......
ISLAMABAD: Human rights activist Asma Jahangir on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) had expressed concern that the......
Eric Alabaster, a Jewish American musician, recalls being a “pure gora” back in the 1990s. This was before the New Yorker met the late Ustaad Mulazim Hussain, a tabla nawaz from Pakistan, and his......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ordered the establishment division to reconsider the promotion of over 300 civil servants, who were elevated to higher grades by the Central Selection Board (CSB) in......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday suspected Indian spy agencies’ involvement in the mysterious disappearance last week of a retired Pakistan Army officer from Nepal.Though Foreign Office spokesman......
MARDAN: A mob comprising hundreds of university students on Thursday afternoon lynched a fellow student on the campus of Abdul Wali Khan University over allegations of blasphemy, officials said.The......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Thursday threatened to disconnect the Sui Southern Gas Company’s pipeline and storm its head office in Karachi if it did not sign a gas supply......
ACCORDING to the ‘standard’ theory on state formation and development, usually the first step in the emergence of a nascent ‘state’ historically has been when a ruler, more often than not the......
THE elections will come in due time but the poll fever gripping commentators is already taking root. In some cases, the witnesses to the event, the celebrated observers as they are reverently......
EDUCATION in Pakistan has not proved to be the catalyst for change that a dynamic and enlightened knowledge sector has been in many societies. The socio-cultural stagnation has been made worse by the......
EMERGING in 2006-07, Pakistan’s energy crisis still haunts the country — be it lengthy load-shedding, the growing demand-supply gap, energy insecurity, increasing reliance on imports and circular......
