Pakistan High Commissioner to New Delhi Abdul Basit on Monday rejected Indian claims about Pakistan violating a bilateral pact by not allowing India the consular access to its spy Kulbhushan Jadhav......
Yasir Shah ripped through the top order of the West Indies second innings in the final session of another long day to put Pakistan on course for victory at the end of the fourth day of the first Test......
Four suspected militants were killed during a raid carried out by Rangers personnel in Karachi's Urdu Bazaar area on Monday night, a press release issued by the paramilitary force said.Lasting nearly......
The United States must confront Russia for providing weapons to the Taliban for use against American-backed forces in Afghanistan, top US military officials said Monday.At a news conference with......
Virat Kohli said “it really hurts” after Royal Challengers Bangalore slumped to a record low score of 49 against Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League.Chasing a modest 132, the Bangalore......
Supreme Court of Pakistan on Monday suspended a decision of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) regarding the addition of a separate column for members of the Sikh community in the census forms.The......
A Dubai court on Monday convicted three Pakistani men of raping a roommate and sentenced them to three years in jail, reported UAE's The National.The convicts attacked their roommate on January 17,......
Malik Ghulam Mustafa Khar on Monday joined Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) after a meeting with party chairman Imran Khan."I agree with the PTI's manifesto and its leadership," said the veteran......
Suspected Maoist rebels killed 24 paramilitary commandos and wounded six on Monday in a remote part of central India in one of the deadliest attacks of a long-running internal conflict.The soldiers......
Former president Asif Ali Zardari, while addressing a public gathering in Mardan on Monday, discounted the notion that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan could serve as a leader for Khyber......
Russia became the world's third largest military spender in 2016 despite low oil prices and economic sanctions, as the global expenditure rose for a second consecutive year, a study said on......
Police fired into a crowd of stone-throwing students in India-held Kashmir on Monday, as violence in the disputed Himalayan region intensified.Hundreds of student protesters shouting “We want......
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed Xiaohong Yang as the new Country Director for Pakistan.According to ADB press statement, Yang, who assumed office on April 24 is ADB's first female......
PML-N MNA Marvi Memon has been appointed to the World Bank's Advisory Council on Gender and Development, Radio Pakistan reported.Marvi Memon, who is in Washington attending an annual meeting convened......
Dubai Metropolitan Police has expressed interest in Punjab Information Technology Board’s (PITB) crime mapping and integrated criminal records office systems, which have modus operandi-based search......
At least 11 'cow vigilantes' have been arrested for brutally attacking a five-member family of nomads in India-held Kashmir, the Deccan Chronicle reported.According to the Chronicle, the group......
The Army's senior command resolved at a Corps Commanders' Conference at General Headquarters on Monday that the military would play its 'due role' as part of the Supreme Court-ordered Joint......
After the imam at a local mosque in Zaida refused to lead Mashal Khan's funeral prayers and locals refused to attend his funeral, Sherin Yar, a resident of a nearby village, stepped forward prepared......
A suicide car bomb struck near a military base in Afghanistan's Khost province on Monday, Afghan news agency Khaama Press reported.The Afghan interior ministry confirmed that a car bomb went off......
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday filed a reference with the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) for the removal of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry from his......
The benchmark KSE-100 index breached the 50,000 point barrier in Monday's session, gaining 0.81 per cent (403 points) to reach 50,111.67 points, as the post-Panama verdict bullish sentiment continued......
Barcelona coach Luis Enrique revelled in turning the tables on bitter rivals Real Madrid as Lionel Messi struck deep into stoppage time to edge a thrilling El Clasico 3-2 on Sunday.Messi's second......
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar — while hearing a case regarding illegal felling of trees and encroachment of land in Bani Gala, brought to his notice by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief......
The Afghan defence minister and his army chief resigned Monday, days after what is believed to be one of the deadliest-ever Taliban attacks on a military base triggered calls for officials to step......
The Foreign Office has rubbished recent news reports regarding the special assistant to the prime minister on foreign affairs, Tariq Fatemi, labelling them 'irresponsible and malicious'.Earlier last......
KARACHI: Punjab were left still searching for their first victory in the Cool & Cool presents QMobile Pakistan Cup after their game against Federal Areas on Sunday was abandoned because of heavy......
KINGSTON: Pakistan lost both openers and reached 59-2 at lunch with Younis Khan at the crease after West Indies were bowled out for 286 on the third day of the rain-hit first Test on Sunday.Captain......
LONDON: Kenya’s Daniel Wanjiru held off a late charge from Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele to win the London Marathon on Sunday in two hours five minutes 48 seconds.His triumph completed the double for......
LONDON: Alexis Sanchez ensured Arsenal’s stormy season will end with an FA Cup final after securing a 2-1 victory over Manchester City in extra time at Wembley on Sunday.Arsenal will play Chelsea on......
BERLIN: Bayern Munich were held for a second successive Bundesliga game, with the leaders twice coming from behind against lowly Mainz 05 to recover a 2-2 draw on Saturday.It was another setback for......
LONDON: Wayne Rooney scored on his return to the Manchester United starting-line up as Jose Mourinho’s side enjoyed a 2-0 win at Burnley in the Premier League on Sunday, lifting the team to within a......
MONTE CARLO: Rafael Nadal claimed a record-extending 10th Monte Carlo Masters title as he geared up for his beloved French Open with a 6-1, 6-3 victory against fellow Spaniard Albert Ramos on......
AS Earth Day 2017 passed on Saturday, a number of news headlines from the preceding days provided reason to reflect on how humanity’s habit of heedless consumption and propensity to pollute is......
TWO young Pakistani women, two different trajectories. Within days of Malala Yousafzai being named UN ambassador of peace, Naureen Leghari was arrested in Lahore before she could carry out a......
OVER the days ahead, legal academics and practitioners will analyse in great detail the judgement delivered last Thursday. From a preliminary reading, it appears the court split on the question of......
FEW would disagree that under the present dispensation, the poor have little hope for a brighter future. Our planners, economists and policymakers admit the existence of a huge backlog in low-cost......
MARDAN/SWABI: Two more suspects including security chief of the campus were arrested in murder case of Mashal Khan, a student of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, a senior police official told......
ISLAMABAD: Until recently, Jinnah Avenue – one of the capital’s main arteries – was surrounded by luxuriant, green pine trees that provided shade and helped keep temperatures at tolerable levels.But......
ISLAMABAD: Overlooking Bhittai Road in F-7, Meraki – Islamabad’s newest fine dining restaurant – greets customers with soft lighting and an ornate interior done in creamy pastels.An almost floor to......
Special Olympics celebrated‘Heartbeat for the World’ was the motto of the Special Olympics World Winter Games held in Austria this March. A total of 12 Pakistanis attended the games, six young women......
LAHORE: Dust-thunderstorm and rain continued to occur at scattered places in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir on Sunday, keeping temperatures low but damaging crops.Lahore......
LAHORE: Opposition parties in the Punjab Assembly have decided to attend assembly proceedings wearing black armbands and table a joint resolution demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s......
Lahore, as well as the entire country was caught-up in watching the fate of the current government. The result was not what most had hoped for; in that the verdict did not meet expectations.There is......
SIALKOT: Lahore-based amateur actors came together under the Sangat Group to stage a play, Heer Ranjha, at the auditorium of University of Gujrat (UoG) Sialkot Campus on Sunday.The play was based on......
HOW many of us know that in the 1960s there used to be a very efficient Balochi literary circle at the University of Karachi? Answer: not many. Well, there was one, and it arranged cultural events......
KARACHI: Thousands of Pakistan Peoples Party workers and supporters joined in street protests held in all districts of Sindh on Sunday for the removal of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the wake of......
KARACHI: Less than three weeks after it released a ‘white paper’ against the bad governance of the Pakistan Peoples Party in Sindh, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan staged a big rally in the......
KARACHI: Investigations into the demolition of a protected heritage building on the premises of Jufelhurst School earlier this month have revealed how one of the key suspects having power of attorney......
BARBARA D. Metcalf in her article ‘Reflections on Iqbal’s Mosque’ says that “most studies of Iqbal take for granted the fact that Iqbal is a poet and do not analyse his skill as a craftsman and......
KARACHI: Primary witness accounts of the partition of the subcontinent have lent insight into an event that caused irreparable damage to millions. Those left behind, and those who crossed borders,......
NAIROBI: Italian-born conservationist and writer Kuki Gallmann was shot and seriously wounded on Sunday while patrolling her conservation park in central Kenya, a region plagued by violence linked to......
THE more dangerous America’s crackpot president becomes, the saner the world believes him to be. Just look back at the initial half of his first 100 days: the crazed tweeting, the lies, the fantasies......
THERESA May’s surprise announcement of a general election on June 8 had the impact of a hand grenade thrown into a library. After her repeated promises of not calling a snap election until the Brexit......
MAZAR SHARIF: Afghan families buried their dead and the country observed a national day of mourning on Sunday after at least 100 soldiers were killed or wounded in a Taliban attack on a military......
NEW DELHI: Three men who were transporting buffaloes in their truck to a slaughterhouse were attacked by vigilantes in New Delhi, the police said on Sunday.The latest attack comes amidst a wave of......
ACHIN DISTRICT: The remote site in eastern Afghanistan where the US military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed in combat earlier this month bears signs of the weapon’s power, but......
EGYPTIAN President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received a royal welcome from King Salman as he landed on Sunday in Saudi Arabia for a visit to boost ties after months of tension. Salman, surrounded by key......
PARIS: Centrist Emmanuel Macron will face off against far-right Marine Le Pen in the second round of France’s presidential election, projections showed on Sunday, making him clear favourite to......
The future of US homebuilding depends on more people like Cyndicy Yarborough, a 26-year-old former Wal-Mart clerk with no background in construction.At Blueprint Robotics in Baltimore, she works in a......
The likely loss in Punjab’s estimated general receipts, for the ongoing fiscal year, owing to an expected shortfall in federal transfers and a lower-than-targeted provincial tax and non-tax revenue......
When investors in the Pakistan stock market — which stood out as ‘the best performing market in Asia in 2016’ — waltzed into 2017, they had little knowledge of what lay ahead.Jubilant stock pundits......
The reduced federal transfer of funds may increase Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s budget deficit to over Rs30bn this year, but the final figure will depend on the staggered disbursements of committed amounts......
Lucky Pakistanis who succeed in dodging death through bombing or by being shot stand a lean chance of escaping the hazardous effects of industrial practices leading to environmental degradation.The......
In 2000 the government of Pakistan decided to introduce a mono grade petrol which was called 87 RON as part of a policy initiative for overall oil sector deregulation.Research Octane Number (RON) is......
The success that the current phase of globalisation engineered for giant banks and big corporations perked up at the commanding height of economies under different stages of development, led many......
THE shortage of grain storage facilities results in huge post-harvest losses that range from 15pc to 35pc and affects national agricultural output.For decades, Pakistan’s storage facilities and......
TO the relief of farmers, the domestic rice market is finally looking up. The paddy prices (basmati) have risen by almost 50pc over a year — from Rs1,500 per maund to current Rs2,200 per maund — and......
A NEW FAO study released last week has suggested development of supplementary basic spatial information on the distribution of various crops in digital form, better known as ‘crop masks’.The study is......
FLOUR milled from discarded coffee fruit. Chips made from juice pulp. Vodka distilled from strawberries that nobody seems to want.At one point not so long ago, such waste-based products were......
Artificial intelligence is being touted as a tool for addressing some of humanity’s most pressing problems, including climate change and cancer.But starting this week, you can put it to work for......
AlgeriaALGERIA is world’s tenth-largest proven natural gas reserves, the third-highest technically recoverable shale gas resources and the third-largest proved crude oil reserves in the region.It is......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Bar Council — the top regulatory body of lawyers — has disowned the announcement of a movement by the Lahore High Court Bar Association to force Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to......
LAHORE: Even the common cause of forcing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign after the ‘adverse’ judgement of the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers case has failed to bring the Pakistan......
LAHORE: Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority Chairman retired Lt Gen Muzammil Hussain has directed the officials concerned to accelerate efforts for recovery of over Rs1 billion from Sindh......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Iran have emphasised the need for better cooperation and information sharing for the common cause of elimination of terrorism from the region.“Iran’s cooperation in fighting......
KHUZDAR: People of Khuzdar staged a protest rally here on Sunday against prolonged loadshedding, sacking of employees from the engineering university, alleged corruption in road construction and......
QUETTA: Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping and president of the National Party Senator Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo has said that if results of the census are not in favour of the interests of the......
QUETTA: Social and political notables and intellectuals of Balochistan underlined the need on Sunday for reviving the book reading culture and establishing a relationship with books in the society......
KARACHI: Seldom have we waited for a sporting milestone with such eagerness, and anxiety, as we did for master batsman Younis Khan to complete 10,000 runs in Test cricket at the start of his farewell......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has named an air force pilot son of King Salman as ambassador to the United States, a major ally with which its ties are improving under President Donald Trump.The change came......
ISLAMABAD: Chinese investors in the $56 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) are enjoying all sorts of tax breaks from customs, income, sales, federal excise and withholding taxes.But......
WASHINGTON: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has urged the World Bank to finance a major project in the Pak-Afghan region, which could greatly enhance intra-regional trade.The project — Peshawar-Kabul......
ISLAMABAD: Encouraged by the legal fraternity’s ultimatum to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resign within a week or face a lawyers’ movement-style agitation, opposition parties have started flexing......
