Political workers from India's right-wing Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) party barged into an outlet of Zara, a popular Spanish clothing brand, in a Mumbai mall and demanded the showroom be shut......
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said that he will brief the Senate regarding details of former army chief Raheel Sharif’s appointment as head of the 41-nation Islamic Military Alliance to Fight......
Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Saturday strongly condemned the attack on a Afghan army base in Mazar-i-Sharif, said a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations......
World-class Test batsman Younis Khan said in an interview that he may reconsider his retirement plans if the Pakistani team still needs him, Australian media reported Saturday.The 39-year-old......
More than 100 Afghan soldiers were killed and wounded in a Taliban attack on an army base in northern Afghanistan, the defence ministry said Saturday, the latest in a string of deadly assaults......
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan on Saturday announced it had ordered an investigation into brokers suspected of market manipulation on Pakistan's stock exchange.It did not name the......
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday directed the local police to constitute a medical board and submit a detailed report regarding the mental and physical health of a man arrested on......
The Sindh government has approved an extension in the special powers of the Pakistan Rangers for 90 days in Karachi.The decision was taken in a Sindh Cabinet meeting on Saturday.Chief Minister Murad......
General Motors Co. plans to launch 10 electric and gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles in China by 2020, an executive said Friday, as automakers speed up the roll-out of alternative vehicles under......
One of the last surviving members of the team that created the pioneering ENIAC computer in the 1940s has died. Harry Huskey was 101.The University of California-Santa Cruz says Huskey died April 9......
In light of the Supreme Court ruling on the Panama Papers case, the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Saturday gave an ultimatum to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif: resign within a week, or......
Three women including a mother of four children were attacked by their relatives in the past 24 hours in three different districts of Sindh. One of these women was killed in the name of 'honour',......
A police guard murdered the 27-year-old son of deputy inspector general (DIG) of Peshawar police at their residence in Karachi's Defence Housing Authority (DHA) early Saturday, police said.Umair......
On this Earth Day, I revisit my New Year’s Resolutions. It is four months into this year and I recognise the importance of the resolutions I made at the starting of this year. I believe in......
According to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, “February 2017 was the second-warmest February in 137 years of......
The Smurfs are back and this time they are on a journey to find more of their kind, hence the title The Lost Village. This flick is unrelated to the last two live action/animated films and that’s......
New perfume captures fragrance of kitten furThe new fragrance by Demeter Fragrance Library, accurately named Kitten Fur, was manufactured to capture the smell of the ‘PURRfect spot’ just behind a......
Halfway on the stairs, I reeled back, startled, and almost lost my footing. I strained my ears and tried to make out the source of the noise. It was a low, deep and menacing hum — and it was coming......
We live on earth, the only planet known to carry life. We breathe its air, drink from its waters, live off its produce, build on its soil, dig up its treasures and exploit it to our advantage. Yet,......
Making small toys from clay and creating colours by mixing one or more colours is fun. There would have been many moments when you were doodling and accidently created something so great that you......
Creamy chocolate chips ice cream is a dream! And this dream can easily be a reality for you anytime you have the urge for it because we are going to tell you how to whip it up easily at home.The......
PESHAWAR: The district administration on Friday sealed 40 private educational institutions, mostly schools, in the upscale University Town locality of Peshawar over the nonconforming use of......
MARDAN: Members of Aman Jirga, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, here on Friday staged a protest demonstration and held the administration of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan responsible for the lynching of a......
ISLAMABAD: The National Highways Authority (NHA) has begun constructing tracks for the metro bus from Peshawar Mor to the new airport without mandatory approval from the Pakistan Environmental......
RAWALPINDI: A Norwegian family, including a woman and her two daughters, who were manhandled by immigration officials at Benazir Bhutto International Airport (BBIA) here on April 15, were offloaded......
I came to Rawalpindi 14 years ago from Sargodha and got my first job as a helper at a panaflex printer’s shop. Here, I learned about scanning, designing, printing and hanging panaflexes on outdoor......
MARDAN: Members of Aman Jirga, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, here on Friday staged a protest demonstration and held the administration of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan responsible for the lynching of a......
LAHORE: Dust storms in many cities, including Lahore, broke the spell of a severe heat wave in northeastern Punjab on Friday evening.The storms were reportedly coupled with light rain in some cities......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided that it will not let the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) work until Premier Nawaz Sharif steps down from office.In order to build pressure, the......
LAHORE: Present at a wheat procurement centre in Sheikhupura on Thursday, Abbas Ali Virk looked worried after food staff told him that his name was not on the list of cultivators eligible for getting......
SIALKOT: The three sisters who allegedly murdered on April 19 a man charged with blasphemy said they did not regret killing him as, what they called, a punishment for committing blasphemy 13 years......
KARACHI: After a career spanning almost five decades, the House of Kazmi, or Bunto Kazmi to be more precise, looked beyond bridals as the opening act on Day Two of the ongoing prêt fashion week......
KARACHI: The Sindh Rangers on Friday informed the Sindh High Court that they did not arrest Ghulam Qadir Marri, a close aide to former president Asif Ali Zardari, who has been missing since April......
KARACHI: A sessions court granted bail to former Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Saleem Shahzad on Friday in an around 25-year-old case.The suspect through his lawyer moved a bail application and......
KARACHI: Dr Asim Husain, Pakistan Peoples Party leader and close aide of ex-president of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari, has claimed that armed men chased him in two cars and showed him a pistol......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party, Sindh chapter, announced on Friday that it would launch ‘Go Nawaz go’ campaign across the province from Sunday (tomorrow) in which the party workers would stage......
TEHRAN: Campaigning began on Friday for Iran’s presidential election with incumbent Hassan Rouhani facing a tough battle against hard liners, though not from former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad......
NEW DELHI: Indian government has cancelled permission for foreign funding for one of the country’s main public health organisations, whose donors include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.It’s......
THE sound of a gun salute tore through central London on Friday to celebrate the 91st birthday of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, with the world’s longest-reigning monarch taking a step back from royal......
FORMER president Barack Obama will make his first public appearance since leaving office, breaking his post-presidency silence on Monday in Chicago just days before his successor marks his 100th day......
ANKARA: Turkey’s main opposition party launched a legal challenge at a top court on Friday to last-minute changes to voting rules in the referendum that saw President Recep Tayyip Erdogan win......
PARIS: The jihadist killing of a policeman on the Champs Elysees in Paris cast a pall over the last day of campaigning in France’s presidential election on Friday, making the terror threat the......
MAZAR SHARIF: “More than 50 Afghan soldiers have been killed” in a Taliban attack on Friday on their base near the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a US military spokesman told AFP.The attack lasted......
Talk to Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s enemies, and they’ll tell you he’s to blame for every man, woman and child who has been killed in his country. That’s 400,000 or 450,000 or 500,000.The......
KUNTA ISLAND: As the rebel slave who defied his captors, Kunta Kinte, immortalised in print and on screen in Roots, put The Gambia on the map for historical tourism.But the island where he and tens......
Three matches decidedLAHORE: Three more matches were decided in the FMC Premier Squash League at the Punjab Squash Association complex here on Friday.While Treet Falcons and Servis Stars edged Matrix......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Boxing Federation (PBF) announced a seven-member team here on Friday to participate in the Asian Boxing Championship, scheduled to be held in Uzbekistan from April 30 to May......
ISLAMABAD: Participation of Pakistani squash players in the Asian Senior Individual Championship scheduled to be held in India is in jeopardy as despite making all-out efforts Pakistan Squash......
ZURICH: Disgraced former FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Friday he had met lawyers from the US Justice Department but was not a suspect in their corruption investigations.The 81-year-old, banned......
KINGSTON: Mohammad Abbas had a dream debut as Pakistan reduced the West Indies to 71 for four at lunch on the opening day of the first Test of the three-match series at Sabina Park in Jamaica on......
NYON: Eleven-time champions Real Madrid will take on neighbours Atletico Madrid in the Champions League semi-final after the draw pitted last year’s finalists against each other.The other semi-final......
ZURICH: Ajax Amsterdam, trailing 3-0 and down to 10 men, scored two late goals to overcome Schalke 04 in the Europa League quarter-finals on Thursday while Olympique Lyonnais won a 16-kick penalty......
MONTE CARLO: Andy Murray surrendered a 4-0 lead in the decisive third set on his way to defeat at the Monte Carlo Masters here on Thursday as the world number one’s 2017 season hit another......
MELBOURNE: Having been pulled out of Australia’s ODI team to prepare for India, then ignored by selectors for every match in the subcontinent, batsman Usman Khawaja is guarded about his chances of......
KARACHI: The government should focus non-tradition items like plastic to boost its exports as the polymer industry has an average growth of 8 to10 per cent per annum and plastic exports are around......
KARACHI: The cotton market remained lacklustre on Friday on slow demand from spinners who seem to be facing acute shortage of working capital.Though world’s leading cotton markets witnessed brisk......
ISLAMABAD: The government is devising a strategy to boost the production of pulses, Minister for National Food Security and Research Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan said at a news conference on Friday.The......
KARACHI: Despite the introduction of completely built-up (CBU) hybrid electric vehicles by two car assemblers, the market share of these vehicles remain negligible, the Pakistan Automotive......
KARACHI: Stocks extended their grand rally into the third day on Friday, with the benchmark KSE-100 index rallying by 965 points, or 1.98 per cent, to close at 49,709.In the past three sessions, the......
PANAMA CITY: The co-founder of the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal says the fallout has set off a “thriving” boom in the creation of tax shelters in the United States.Juergen......
WASHINGTON: As the global recovery gathers pace, the IMF is turning up the volume on its call for wealthy countries to address popular anger over the impact of globalisation and head off the threat......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has detected tax evasion of Rs898.4 million over a period of five years.The tax was evaded by a Lahore-based wholesaler/retailer who suppressed the sales......
JHANG: There are two laws in the country — one is for the Sharifs and the other is for the poor, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said at a public gathering in Shah Jewana......
KARACHI / QUETTA: The echo of the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Panama Papers case was heard in the provincial legislatures of Sindh and Balochistan on Friday, with the former demanding resignation......
ISLAMABAD: Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, who wrote a minority judgement in the Panama Papers case disqualifying Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has described Article 62 of the Constitution as a recipe for......
QUETTA: Around 500 militants belonging to different banned Baloch militant organisations surrendered themselves to authorities concerned on Friday.At a ceremony held on the lawns of the Balochistan......
KARACHI: Simply but aptly titled “The mysterious Mr Jadhav”, well-known journalist Karan Thapar has written a hard-hitting article about the Indian spy who has been sentenced to death by a military......
KARACHI: The acting chief executive officer of the Pakistan International Airlines, Bernd Hildenbrand, has been relieved of his charge and the airline’s chief financial officer Nayyar Hayat has been......
NEW DELHI: Indians appeared to be poles apart on Friday, as they usually are, over the way ahead in the strife-torn region of India-held Kashmir.A government minister in the state said bullets were......
DOHA: Twenty-six kidnapped men, including members of Qatar’s royal family, were freed on Friday after being held for 16 months in Iraq, Iraq’s interior ministry said.The men had been handed over to a......
WASHINGTON: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Friday that Pakistan would welcome any effort by the Trump administration to encourage India and Pakistan to resolve their differences.In his speech at......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has stopped PML-N leaders and members from making any adverse comment or showing reservations over any part of the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Panama Papers......
ISLAMABAD: Former army chief retired Gen Raheel Sharif on Friday left for Riyadh to assume the command of the 41-nation Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism (IMAFT) after the government......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), which wholeheartedly accepted the Supreme Court’s verdict in the Panama Papers case just a day earlier and distributed sweets among its workers, is now......
The historic Panama Papers verdict may have been short on immediate impact and pounced on by both sides to claim vindication, but it is relatively clear that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will still......
MASHAL Khan was murdered by a mob. The students were worked up into a frenzy, with the knowledge that they will harm Mashal, and then they were led to him and they killed him. The issue used to work......
AS the Saudi royal jet took off from Lahore airport carrying the former Pakistan army chief to his new assignment in Riyadh merely a day after a Supreme Court verdict in the Panama Papers scandal......
EVER since the death of India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in 1964, India has heard periodic cries for replacing its carefully chosen parliamentary system with a presidential one. They......
IN a nation of some 200 million, I doubt if a handful could pinpoint Panama’s location. And yet, this tiny Central American state has dominated Pakistan’s political discourse for the last year to the......
