Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday took notice of the lynching of a university student in Mardan over allegations of blasphemy.The notice by the chief justice was taken on......
Mufti Naeem, head of Jamia Binoria, on Saturday said ulema from all sects in the country should unanimously condemn acts of violence originating from the misuse of the blasphemy law.He also said the......
The Foreign Office on Saturday said talks scheduled between the Pakistan Maritime Agency (PMA) and the Indian Coast Guards have been cancelled.Nafees Zakaria, spokesperson for the FO, said talks were......
A day after a video showed a young man from the valley tied to the bonnet of an Indian Army jeep as a human shield against stone pelters, at least two videos circulating on social media Saturday......
A suicide car bomb attack on busses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns at least killed 43 people on Saturday, as US-backed fighters advanced in their push towards the......
PPP’s senior lawmaker Nisar Ahmed Khuhro on Saturday said Sindh’s water was being stolen at “the behest of rulers from Lahore”.The senior provincial leader alleged the province’s agriculture has been......
Afghan authorities Saturday reported a jump in fatalities from the American military's largest non-nuclear bomb, declaring some 90 militant Islamic State (IS) fighters dead, as US-led ground forces......
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday expressed disappointment over the "cold-blooded murder" of Mashal Khan — a 23-year-old journalism student lynched by an angry mob on Thursday......
A man was killed and his wife injured early Saturday allegedly by the woman's brother, who was unhappy that the two had married for love, Gulshan-e-Maymar police said.Police said Mohammed Azam, 28,......
Following the murder of Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan (AWKUM) student Mashal Khan over blasphemy allegations Thursday afternoon, several political leaders expressed their deepest condolences and......
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday celebrated Pakistan and China's 'enduring friendship' at the launch ceremony of the Urdu translation of The Governance of China, a book by Chinese premier Xi......
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday afternoon issued a strongly-worded condemnation of the lynching of a university student in Mardan over allegations of blasphemy."I am shocked and saddened by......
An Anti-Terrorism Court on Saturday gave the PPP's Dr Asim Hussain, who is currently under trial for multi-billion rupee graft and corruption cases, permission to leave the country for medical......
At Mashal Khan's funeral, the imam at the local mosque refused to read the last rites, according to Swabi resident Salman Ahmed. A technician who was asked to do so in the cleric's place was......
Intelligence agencies on Friday foiled a bid to carry out a "major terrorist attack" in Lahore on Easter, which is to be celebrated Sunday, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement......
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Saturday gave his go ahead to a judicial inquiry into the lynching of a student of the Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, on Thursday.KP......
Pakistani Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai used strong words to criticise the cold-blooded murder of Abdul Wali Khan University student Mashal Khan, who was lynched by a mob over allegations of......
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Most of you have stuff/plush toys at home, but making one definitely means a lot, not only to you but to your younger siblings too! Today we are making a cute little chick out of yarn pompoms.Things......
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To many people, Hammad was a symbol of failure as he would always fail, never get the desired results, never secured a good position in his class at school or in tuition, etc.However, he took it all......
A medieval brutality, a very cancer of the soul, has permeated this society. Not only has it pervaded the hinterland, it has also spread to places where minds are supposed to be enlightened by......
WHEN a trader converts his outfit, on his tax consultant’s advice, into a limited company, he does not acquire the culture of corporate governance. Likewise, emulating the Westminster model, with all......
THE state of Pakistan is in the process of scoring another own goal, and all we can do is watch in helpless, even desperate, silence. Yes, and, like many media colleagues, self-preservation has made......
GIVEN that Gilgit-Baltistan is strategically located at the entry point of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route, it has assumed enormous strategic importance. Hence, any misstep in the......
MARDAN/SWABI: The Mardan police on Friday arrested 10 people on the charge of involvement in the lynching of a journalism student of the Abdul Wali Khan University over blasphemy charges.Also in the......
PESHAWAR: Leaders and representatives of various political parties and civil society organisations have widely condemned the killing of a student in Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, on Thursday......
MINGORA: The Swat forest department officials have been accused of being involved in illegal cutting and smuggling of precious cedar trees.The accusation was made by the members of the Kalam Forest......
PESHAWAR: PTV Peshawar centre has recently got the project of an Urdu serial play ‘Gul-i-Sang’ after a break of seven years where local actors would get an opportunity to reappear on......
LANDI KOTAL: The local authorities have announced all Pakistani nationals will be required to produce passports at Torkham from today (Saturday)) to get permission for cross-border movement.Earlier,......
SWABI: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is ready to support installation of solar system in those remote areas of the province where Wapda could not supply electricity to the poverty-stricken......
ISLAMABAD: A committee tasked with overhauling the accountability law is undecided whether or not to bring judges and generals under the ambit of the proposed law.Minister for Law and Justice Zahid......
ISLAMABAD: The fifth Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF) began on Friday. Some 150 speakers from various countries are taking part in the festival, which will consist of 50 sessions.The inaugural......
ISLAMABAD: One of the first sessions of this year’s Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF) was a discussion on literary translation in Pakistan, from the perspective of a translator and a......
ISLAMABAD: At a session organised on the first day of the fifth Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF) on Friday, speakers discussed human rights and the partition’s continuing legacy of violence and......
ISLAMABAD: Perched on a stool in front of the mirror in the greenroom of the Pakistan National Council of the Arts auditorium on Friday night, opera singer Saira Peter was visibly excited before her......
RAWALPINDI: Defence Minister Khwaja Mohammad Asif discussed important national and political matters with Punjab Governor Rafique Rajwana at the Punjab House here on Friday.Speaking on the occasion,......
“I had wanted to sing since I was in school and started taking part in performances when I was in college, though I did not let my parents know because they did not want me singing in front of......
LAHORE: Good Friday, which marks the day when Jesus Christ, according to the Bible, was crucified, was observed in the churches across the provincial capital.Unlike the celebratory Palm Sunday......
LAHORE: Declaring warranties by unuthorised medicine wholesalers and distributors illegal and sheer violation of laws, the Lahore Division Drugs Court has directed the provincial authorities to stop......
LAHORE: The second day of the 10th Pakistan Fashion Design Council Sunsilk Fashion Week-2017 on Friday was all about chic styles and fashion fusions.The day began with an afternoon high-street group......
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Friday told the Lahore High Court that no rule had been violated in introducing new uniform for the police force in the province.During hearing of a petition against......
SAHIWAL: A primary schoolteacher allegedly beat her five young students, locked them up in a room for hours and struck their names off the rolls on suspicion of their involvement in stealing her......
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party Sindh chapter president Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani has taken a principled stand to stop working over absence of federal......
KARACHI: For the first time since the beginning of a tug of war between the provincial government and the office of the inspector general of police, IGP A.D. Khowaja appeared to speak his mind on......
KARACHI: As feared with the advent of the sizzling summer, Naegleria fowleri, better known as ‘brain-eating’ amoeba, caused this year’s first death in the province, said officials of the Sindh health......
KARACHI: A three-day exhibition of watercolour artworks by 40 Italians, 20 Pakistani and 20 Portuguese artists began at the Foundation for Museum of Modern Art (Fomma), DHA on Thursday evening. The......
KARACHI: Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power Senator Sardar Mohammad Yaqoob Khan Nasar has sought a detailed report from K-Electric regarding the causes of overbilling.He was......
KARACHI: Expressing dissatisfaction over the slow pace of work on the Edhi (Orange) Line project, Sindh Minister for Transport Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has directed the consultant and the contractor......
KARACHI: Over 17,000 Christian workers and pensioners of the civic agencies had not been paid advance salary, therefore they would not be able to celebrate their religious festival Easter (to be......
MITHI: Residents of Gorano and some other villages of Tharparkar on Friday expressed their deep concern over release of wastewater into the controversial reservoir being built across their......
HYDERABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said the country’s Constitution empowers him to first provide natural gas to Sindh, from where it is extracted, and then share the surplus with......
TOKYO: A Japanese “black widow” convicted of murdering three boyfriends she had met online and dated for their money faces execution after Japan’s Supreme Court on Friday dismissed her final......
BEIRUT: Buses evacuated thousands of people from two rebel-besieged Shia villages in northwest Syria on Friday and hundreds of rebels left a town near Damascus with their families, under a deal......
The United States dropped a 21,600-pound GBU-43 bomb, one of the largest non-nuclear devices used in combat, on a suspected target of the militant Islamic State group in Afghanistan on Thursday.Here......
BEIJING: China issued a stern warning on 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......
KRESEVO: Centuries ago when Saxons developed mining and blacksmithing in Bosnia’s Kresevo, the ability to shoe an egg was regarded as the sign an apprentice was fit to start his own business and......
BEIJING: From Twitter threats to Tomahawk missiles, US president Donald Trump’s unorthodox and seemingly impulsive approach to foreign policy has unsettled China, piling new pressure on its hands-off......
BADIN: The cyclists of Tour de Sindh cycle race reached Badin from Mithi on Friday, where they were warmly welcomed by the citizens.The cyclists covered a distance of 112 km. The first position in......
LONDON: European football was given good and bad reminders of its past on Thursday with an impressive 2-0 win for once-mighty Ajax Amsterdam over Schalke 04 in one Europa League game but ugly scenes......
MILAN: AC Milan’s new owners are aiming to make the team a force in European football once more, and they want to do so with a mix of star signings and talented young players.The takeover of Milan by......
HONG KONG: Germany’s twice Olympic champion Kristina Vogel brushed aside Australia’s Stephanie Morton to win the women’s sprint final on a superb day of racing at the UCI Track Cycling World......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Anti-corruption Tribunal on Friday handed over evidence to Sharjeel Khan and Khalid Latif, facing charges of spot-fixing in PSL.The two cricketers will now......
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan has said that the national selection committee will look into head coach Mickey Arthur’s request for sending fast bowler Rahat Ali to the......
ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Friday approved the issuance of Rs9 billion standby credit for the Sialkot-Lahore motorway, one-month salary to Pakistan Steel......
ISLAMABAD: The weekly inflation, measured through the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), dipped for the second consecutive week, according to data issued by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on Friday.SPI......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has taken action against unlicensed entities carrying out trading operations in currency and commodity markets across the......
LAHORE: Sarmayacar, a syndicate of foreign investors working to promote Pakistani start-ups, has announced $250,000 seed funding for ProCheck, a serialisation and patient engagement service......
ISLAMABAD: Policy recommendations were finalised to support the use of biomass technology in industry at a consultative stakeholders’ workshop held on Friday.The event was organised by the Alternate......
BEIJING: The 100-day trade talks announced after a Sino-American presidential summit last week will aim to deal with decades of thorny trade issues, leaving some US business leaders wary that the......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday formed a 33-member Parliamentary Committee on National Security headed by National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, with Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman......
LAHORE: The post-census increase in parliament’s seats is haunting the government and the opposition as both sides are engaged in an informal dialogue to develop a seemingly “impossible” consensus on......
ISLAMABAD: For the first time in the country’s history, the government has announced a nationwide optional holiday for Christians on the occasion of Easter Monday, on April 17.The interior ministry......
NEW DELHI: Despite a bitter row over the death sentence awarded to former navy commander Kulbhushan Jadhav, India has cleared a proposal to host a disaster management seminar in Gandhinagar for......
ISLAMABAD: Ahead of formal launch of gas schemes, the government on Friday removed Petroleum Secretary Arshad Mirza and directed him to report to the establishment division.Azad Jammu & Kashmir Chief......
ISLAMABAD: Shortly after openly opposing the reinstatement of military courts under the 23rd Amendment, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Rasheed A. Razvi has formally challenged the......
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Defence said on Friday that “the mother of all bombs” targeted a base in Afghanistan of the militant Islamic State of Khorasan (ISK) group, which draws most of its......
ISLAMABAD: Iran has cautioned against a “vilification campaign” launched against it on the basis of allegations by Lyari gangster Uzair Baloch that its intelligence agencies had links with him.A......
