A young Saudi woman's plea for help after she was stopped at an airport in the Philippines en route to Australia where she planned to seek asylum has triggered a firestorm on social media and drawn......
The 'Yes' campaign to give Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expanded powers was ahead of its rival Sunday in a bitterly-contested referendum that will determine Turkey's future destiny, initial......
At least three people were killed and six others injured in an armed clash between two groups of the same tribe in Balochistan's Killa Abdullah district on Sunday evening, Levies officials said.The......
Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri on Sunday said Balochs can never become slaves of India at the behest of a handful of elements propagating enemy's agenda in the province.The chief......
As summers approach and temperatures rise in the Thar desert region, reports of death of the region's indigenous birds, the peacocks and their offspring, are increasing, with at least 20 of them......
An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a village in Shikarpur district on Saturday night following which raids were conducted by police and a suspect was also arrested from the area, police......
Mardan Police on Sunday arrested seven more suspects in connection with the lynching of Mashal Khan, a 23-year-old student who was attacked by a vigilante mob after being accused of blasphemy earlier......
The wife of a suspected militant killed in an encounter in Lahore, Naureen Leghari, allegedly went missing from her family home in February this year, according to her brother.Sources in the......
Iqbal Jan, the father of a university student in Mardan who was lynched by a vigilante mob earlier this week over allegations of blasphemy called for unity and tolerance in an appearance on......
China and Nepal began their first-ever joint military exercises on Sunday, a move likely to rattle India as Beijing boosts its influence in the region.Impoverished Nepal is sandwiched between China......
With 100 million new internet users every year, Amazon is betting big on India, but a major new investment in homegrown rival Flipkart means the battle to dominate the fast-growing e-commerce market......
When by-elections were held for the Srinagar Lok Sabha seat last Sunday, only 7.1 per cent of registered votes actually turned up at the booths.In Budgam district, only 31,476 people cast their......
Four more children died in Thar's Mithi and Nagarparkar hospitals over the past three days, raising the death toll to 98 since January 1, 2017, and Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar......
A North Korean missile "blew up almost immediately" on its test launch on Sunday, the US Pacific Command said, hours before US Vice President Mike Pence landed in South Korea for talks on the North's......
The Frontier Corps and intelligence agencies on Sunday recovered a large cache of weapons in joint operations conducted in Kurram and Orakzai agencies, a statement released by the Inter-Services......
What is it that makes the three Khans of Bollywood — Shah Rukh (SRK), Aamir and Salman — so popular and charming? Ever since their arrival in the Indian film industry, their popularity has gone from......
A few weeks ago, I was part of a Twitter conversation which was based largely around a single question — where was the Pakistani version of AIB? For those who don’t know, AIB is an Indian comedy......
Film star Reema talks sense, well, most of the time. But her recent grouse about cinemas in the country is a bit baffling.The former Lollywood leading lady believes Pakistan does not have cinema......
My oh my! He is the director of one of the most critically-acclaimed and commercially successful films in recent times — Queen. But all the respect that he gained after making that movie has gone out......
The trailer for Saba Qamar’s debut Bollywood film Hindi Medium is out, and my word, she’s looking absolutely stunning in it. Not just that, she looks the part (of a mother who wants her child to do......
Let’s hand it to Sahir Lodhi for being brave enough to lambast, in a video message, film critics for being class-conscious. However, he should realise that critics all over the world are supposed to......
Julliete Binoche is one of the finest actresses of her generation. The French artist has worked in celebrated films such as The English Patient and Blue (from the legendary Polish director Krzysztof......
Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is achieving one feat after another. Make no mistake: we should be proud of it!SOC’s documentary A Girl in the River on the issue of honour killing has already won her......
Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island starts off like any other big dumb monster film, aping the traditional formula from the genre of spectacular visual effects coupled with mediocre......
“You have to love the raag, completely get involved in it and become one with it. For example, if you plan to perform raag Vibhas, you have to become that raag. When you sing the words, ‘Mora ra re......
At every major film festival, for the past five years or so, be it Cannes, Venice or Berlin, there has been at least one Indian film that has managed to create big ripples. Last year, it was Neeraj......
Studio logos that appear in movie titles might feel rudimentary but they tell a story of their own. Take, for example, The Great Wall — a monster movie starring Matt Damon set in the past when the......
The buzz about Balochistan in the rest of the country involves China but at a local blood bank in Quetta, jihad in Kashmir and Myanmar takes centre stage. An activist of the Falah-i-Insaniat......
Nostalgia can be a tasty beast. Some years ago, I left Quetta because of the security situation and moved to Karachi to pursue my studies, but in the decade since, whenever I visit my beloved......
When the artist Peter Harrap moved to Brighton, to a narrow street sloping down towards the sea, he set up his studio in an upper room with a north-facing window — and then discovered to his surprise......
“It is as if the viewer has been taken on an unnerving journey through dark alleys, sombre pathways, and the much desolate architectural spaces that eventually led to the inner world of the artist’s......
Young artist Abdullah Qureshi has been contributing to Lahore’s art scene for almost a decade now. He initiated the gallery-cum-studio space ‘39K’ in Lahore — when he was studying at the Chelsea......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has amended the Public-Private Partnership Act 2014 to give wide-ranging exemptions to the government-owned and foreign entities to execute projects under......
The recent developments on both sides of the White Mountain (Speen Ghar) - more than 15,000 feet high natural barrier between Pakistan and Afghanistan – signify a disturbing security situation in the......
MINGORA: Girl students here on Saturday exhibited their models to highlight the importance of skills along with cognitive approach in proper learning for every student.They tried to make understand......
GHALANAI: Owners of water tankers are doing a roaring business as Haleemzai tehsil and its surrounding areas of Mohmand Agency are experiencing a severe shortage of drinking water.Several tubewells,......
LAHORE: A heat wave developed over the plains of the country on Saturday and the Met department expected it to last till coming Tuesday.The maximum temperature in Larkana, Jacobabad, Sukkur, Turbat,......
LAHORE: Anti-stress measures and periodic medical checkups are being planned for civil servants in Punjab to avoid posting of the ill at demanding posts, and allow them to undergo proper......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau, Lahore, on Saturday arrested 23 employees (Grade-18 and above) of the State Life Insurance Corporation on charges of embezzlement of Rs106......
LAHORE: The concluding night of Pakistan Fashion Design Council’s Sunsilk Fashion Week saw glitz, glamour and some exciting fashion here at the Expo Centre on Saturday.The first collection of the......
LAHORE: The second convocation of four-year BS programme of the Government Postgraduate Islamia College for Women, Cooper Road, was held here on Saturday.Degrees were awarded to 472 students while......
There have always been abundance of literary journals in Urdu literature in Pakistan but the case with such journals for writings in English has been quite opposite. There was the Alhamra Literary......
International Dance Day is celebrated every year on April 29 across the world. In Lahore, the Pakistan National Council of Arts, Shakir Ali Museum is celebrating this day at Alhamra Art Centre, The......
Some of the greatest science fiction films ever made revolve around the relationship between man and machine. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927), 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968), Blade......
Hot-cross buns, hot-cross buns, One a penny, two a penny, hot-cross buns, If you have no daughters then give them to your sons; But if you should have none of these pretty little elves You cannot do......
In today’s fast-paced life who has the time to slog in the kitchen for hours preparing elaborate meals. For working women who are always short on time getting the children ready for school, seeing to......
As a child I used to eagerly await the gardening activities of a neighbour who, every year without fail, grew a magnificent show of what I learnt were dwarf antirrhinums beneath her equally glorious......
On March 3, 2016, a man named Kulbhushan Jhadev was arrested by Pakistan’s security forces when he was allegedly entering the country’s Balochistan province from Iran. On March 30, 2016, ISPR......
The land around village Kabir Panhwar, a few kilometres from Johi in Dadu district, has remained unirrigated and uncultivated for centuries. Only hardy desert trees can grow in its sandy soil. Amid......
Eminent Indian television and print journalist Saeed Naqvi’s book Being the Other: The Muslim in India is, in fact, two books rolled into one. The first, about the Ganga-Jamuni culture of Awadh, is a......
In Ways of Seeing, John Berger, the late, great, British art critic, posits that, “The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe. In the Middle Ages when men believed in the......
Writing the next great American novel is the holy grail of American writers. Like Infinite Jest and American Pastoral, these books attempt to recapture America’s troubled conscience. Nathan Hill’s......
In a village in Victorian Essex, the terror known as the Serpent rears its (unseen) head and a man goes missing. Then arrives in the village Cora Seabourne — a Londoner, an outsider, a woman. As the......
Did James Joyce write the most scandalous and pornographic novel ever written? Or is Ulysses the Mount Everest of modern literature, perhaps the finest work of fiction written in the 20th......
In Pakistan, the realisation of linguistic rights is an issue placed within the gamut of national rights, provincial autonomy and the acceptance of diversity. This is raised time and again by those......
Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian WarMyra MacdonaldIn tracking the progress of post-nuclear Pakistan and India, the author examines the paths taken by both and concludes......
On the lawns of Aitchison College, a game of schoolboy cricket is developing. Saeed is batting at number four. His proud parents casually watch on, grazing on fruits while engaging in idle chit-chat......
A few days ago, my friend from a production house called me while shooting in the northern areas. He said that he had met an interesting sportsman in Gilgit-Baltistan, who has many achievements to......
ISLAMABAD: A large number of civil society activists, politicians, students and citizens gathered outside the National Press Club on Saturday and protested the lynching of Mashal Khan.They appealed......
ISLAMABAD: A joint show by Aisha Khalid and Imran Qureshi, titled Two Wings to Fly, Not One, opened at the National Art Gallery on Saturday. This is the first joint exhibition by the couple at a......
ISLAMABAD: One of the first sessions of the second day of the Islamabad Literature Festival (ILF) was a discussion on the issues of ‘Young Women Writers from Peshawar’.The seminar was somewhat of a......
ISLAMABAD: With many still reeling from the shock of the lynching incident at Mardan University, it is no surprise that the name of the student murdered over blasphemy allegations came up numerous......
ISLAMABAD: At an Islamabad Literature Festival session on Pakistan’s Sikh heritage, Amardeep Singh recounted his “personal quest” in search of his community’s roots - a quest that led him to 36 sites......
Duran Gul, 65, a resident of Bajaur Agency is a daily wager. He comes every day to Speen Jumaat, University Road to look for a handy job but most often goes back empty hands.“I spend my nights on the......
KARACHI: A total of 1,997 students, including Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctorates, received their degrees as 168 among them were awarded gold medals during Karachi University’s 27th convocation held......
KARACHI: A suspected gangster was shot dead in an ‘encounter’ late on Friday night in Lyari’s Kalakot area, police said.They added that the area police acting on a tip-off conducted a targeted raid......
KARACHI: Speeches on the life and work of journalist and writer Tanvir Kazmi at the Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu on Saturday afternoon enabled the audience to understand the late journalist’s contribution......
DADU: Sindh United Party (SUP) leader Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah has accused the Pakistan Peoples Party of having raised the issue of curtailed gas supply to Sindh to protect its leaders and activists......
BADIN: Sindh Minister for Food and Parliamentary Affairs Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, who is also Sindh president of the Pakistan Peoples Party, led a demonstration and sit-in by party workers at DC Chowk in......
KARACHI: With the view clearer and wider, the roads seemed broader and one could breathe more easily after those blots on our landscape, the monstrosities known as billboards, were taken down on the......
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s top politicians made a final effort on Saturday to sway undecided voters in a frenetic end to campaigning a day ahead of the closely-contested referendum on expanding President......
LONDON: British learner drivers will have to prove their proficiency in operating satellite navigation (satnav) systems if they are to pass their tests, under changes announced on Saturday to be......
RASHIDIN: A suicide car bomb attack on buses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns killed over 100 people on Saturday, as US-backed fighters advanced in their push......
PYONGYANG: North Korea unveiled what could be a new intercontinental ballistic missile at a giant military parade in Pyongyang on Saturday, analysts said.The country’s number two official said North......
ALBUQUERQUE: Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are claiming success with the first in a new series of test flights involving an upgraded version of a nuclear bomb that has been part of the......
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan soldiers dug through rubbish with their bare hands on Saturday looking for survivors after a huge garbage mountain collapsed destroying 145 homes and killing at least 19......
THIS may sound a bit fanciful but also an amusing story to the others, but if you happen to be in Corsica you’ll be surprised to discover everyone here has a firm conviction that the late Libyan......
LAST month, Ali Gul, a 21-year-old law student, uploaded a video to YouTube entitled “What is ‘No’?,” a witty explanation of why Turks should vote against the question posed in the Sunday referendum......
LONDON: Title-chasing Tottenham Hotspurs thrashed Bournemouth 4-0 to move within four points of Premier League leaders Chelsea, while Everton climbed to fifth place with a 3-1 win over Burnley on......
MANAMA: Finland’s Valtteri Bottas claimed a first career pole position on Saturday when he edged out Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton in qualifying at the Bahrain Grand Prix.Ferrari’s Sebastian......
HONG KONG: Belgium won a crash-filled inaugural women’s madison at the Track Cycling World Championships on Saturday as the helter-skelter race makes its bid for Olympic inclusion.Belgium’s Lotte......
MILAN: Cristian Zapata hit a dramatic late leveller as AC Milan snatched a 2-2 draw with Inter Milan at the San Siro in the city’s first Chinese-owned derby on Saturday.Long-suffering Milan fans had......
PARIS: Angel Di Maria scored a brace to keep Paris Saint-Germain hot on Ligue 1 leaders Monaco’s heels with a 2-0 win at Angers on Friday.The Argentina international showed his class with one sublime......
SAN FRANCISCO: Apple is joining the fiercely competitive race to design self-driving cars, raising the possibility that a company that has already re-shaped culture with its iPhone may try to......
POLITICAL issues are enhancing the anxiety of crude markets, with the US missile attack on Syria and the growing developments in North Korea contributing to it.Last Tuesday, the North Korean state......
Uber Technologies Inc isn’t required to report its finances publicly, but the privately held company has decided to forgo that luxury for the first time.Uber said its revenue growth is outpacing......
ISLAMABAD: Cable and wire manufacturers have demanded tax exemptions similar to ones offered to Chinese and other importers.They said the current exemptions from customs duty and sales tax on the......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Saturday that improving the well-being of the general public and addressing their needs would be the top most priority of the government in the......
KARACHI: The price of split air conditioners has gone up by Rs1,500-3,000 as dealers blame assemblers for pushing up the rates while a Lahore-based manufacturer said the dealers are basically cashing......
KARACHI: The bears managed to drive out the bulls in the last two sessions of the outgoing week, wiping out the gains of the relief rally seen in the first three days. The KSE-100 index closed the......
ISLAMABAD: The start of negotiations to ban nuclear weapons at the United Nations could have unseen implications for Pakistan particularly with regard to its position on Fissile Material Cut-Off......
LAHORE: In his reply submitted to the Lahore High Court (LHC) on a petition filed against 64 prominent personalities, including past and current rulers, former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf......
LAHORE: The shortfall of electricity in the country surged to 5,000MW on Saturday after the total demand soared to 18,000MW against a production of 13,000MW.The large gap between supply and demand,......
LAHORE: Personnel of law enforcement agencies (LEAs) killed a suspected militant in an encounter in the Factory Area on Friday night and arrested his wife and an accomplice.The Inter-Services Public......
PARACHINAR: The powerful non-nuclear bomb dubbed mother of all bombs (MOAB) which was dropped by the US on an area in Afghanistan on Thursday also left impact on this side of the border, damaging......
WHEN Karim, a police officer in the eastern Afghan district of Shinwar, heard the sound boom through the night sky he was taken aback by the sheer magnitude of the sound.“I never heard anything like......
MARDAN/SWABI/ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and leaders from across the political spectrum on Saturday condemned the “cold-blooded murder” of Abdul Wali Khan University student Mashal Khan......
WASHINGTON: Four ‘senior commanders’ of the groups that have moved to Afghanistan from Pakistan were among the 94 suspected militants killed by a US bomb dropped at a hideout in Nangarhar this week,......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Saturday succeeded in persuading Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani to call off his protest after Finance Minister Ishaq Dar assured him, on behalf of the prime minister, that......
ISLAMABAD: As the controversy over hundreds of thousands of blocked computerised national identity cards (CNICs) refuses to die, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has revealed that a total of......
WHEN China’s former vice premier, Qian Qichen, was asked 20 years ago about the future of Sino-US relations, he reportedly responded: “They [Sino-US relations] will never be as good as they should......
IN that pause — between the killing and the coverage and the condemnation — we learned something. The stomach churns and the heart sinks to say it.It will happen again.Because in that silence, of the......
THE Moscow-hosted conference on Friday marked the latest regional initiative to end the 16-year-old conflict in Afghanistan, where the growth of terrorism has been fuelling anxiety in South and......
A FEW days back, I read in the paper details about the chief minister of Punjab’s Rs9.45 billion e-youth initiative for 2016-17. The venture is meant to distribute laptops to select students in the......
