ISLAMABAD: The combined import bill of food, oil and machinery ballooned to a record $21.097 billion in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, a 30 per cent increase over the last year,......
ISLAMABAD: The constitutional position of the keeper of accounts of the federation and its federating units will fall vacant again on April 28 when acting auditor general of Pakistan (AGP) Haq Nawaz......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has decided to act against individuals who regularly express opinions on the stock market’s performance on social media.“Behaving......
KARACHI: There is a need to reassess the utility of foreign investment in Pakistan as the outflow of profits and dividends crossed the $1.3-billion mark by the end of the third quarter of......
KARACHI: Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited’s (PSMCL) profit after tax (PAT) grew 38 per cent to Rs1.31 billion for the quarter ended March, turning into earnings per share (eps) at Rs15.88, from net......
KARACHI: Cotton prices remained steady on Tuesday amid slow demand from spinners. Ginners also seemed to be in no hurry to sell their stocks, brokers said.Reports coming from Sindh cotton fields......
LONDON: Gold prices fell on Tuesday as markets became less concerned that far-right leader Marine Le Pen would win the French presidential election, increasing investor appetite for risky assets such......
KARACHI: The Site Association of Industry (SAI) has urged the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to treat its members fairly, maintaining a difference between a filer and a non-filer of tax.In a......
Alibaba Executive Chairman Jack Ma said on Tuesday the internet should be a utility available to the whole world, putting his weight behind a call for e-commerce by United Nations to boost developing......
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is launching a project aimed at reshaping the news media - and tackling the scourge of misinformation - using the same collaborative principles as the revolutionary......
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq hit successive sixes off Devendra Bishoo to give Pakistan victory by seven wickets in the first Test against West Indies in Jamaica on Tuesday.The tourists had bowled......
Ivanka Trump brushed aside groans and hisses Tuesday over her father's track record and defended his attitudes toward women as she made her first international outing as a White House adviser.Trump......
Google has sprinkled some new ingredients into its search engine in an effort to prevent bogus information and offensive suggestions from souring its results.The changes have been in the works for......
Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday approved new standard operating procedures (SOPs) regarding the transportation of delegates and their staff who visit......
Pakistan Rangers Sindh on Tuesday morning killed four members of the banned Jandullah militant group, said a statement released by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).The military’s media wing......
The National Selection Committee headed by Chief Selector Inzamam-ul-Haq on Tuesday announced a 15-member squad for the ICC Champions Trophy, a statement issued by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)......
The Child Protection Bureau (CPB) on Tuesday said it had recovered a 14-year-old child maid bearing marks of torture on her body from the suburbs of Lahore.The child was recovered after she ran away......
West Indies fast bowler Shannon Gabriel was fined for making "deliberate physical contact with non-striker Sarfraz Ahmed at the end of the 103rd over of Pakistan’s innings", the International Cricket......
Army officials contacted their counterparts in India to notify the movement of Pakistani civil and military enumerators near the Line of Control (LoC) as part of the ongoing census, Inter-Services......
Two men on Tuesday reportedly hurled abuse at an elderly Muslim man in India who had requested them to vacate a seat for him on a Delhi Metro coach, Hindustan Times reported.Hurling abuses at the......
The Taliban overran three security checkpoints in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province, killing eight policemen and cutting off a key road and two of the region's districts, an Afghan official said......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange's (PSX) benchmark KSE-100 Index lost 326.50 points (-0.65pc) on Tuesday as the bulls appeared to lose some of the momentum they had gained in the lead-up and aftermath of......
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly on Tuesday recommended that the national identity cards of tax defaulters be blocked and an article to this effect be included in the new......
The Chinese government has banned dozens of Muslim baby names in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang province, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported.Names such as Islam, Quran, Mecca, Jihad, Imam, Saddam, Hajj,......
One of United States' largest school districts has launched a campaign against Islamophobia, drawing praise and criticism.The San Diego Unified School District's multiyear plan includes a letter......
India could issue millions of cows with unique identification numbers, the latest effort to protect the sacred animals amid a spike in violence by Hindu vigilantes against farmers accused of cattle......
Samsung's latest phones feature big wraparound screens and lots of glass. They also appear to break more easily, according to tests run by SquareTrade, a company that sells gadget-repair plans.The......
Ambassador to the United States (US) Aizaz Chaudhry on Monday presented his credentials to US President Donald Trump at the White House.Chaudhry, who was named Ambassador of Pakistan to the United......
ABB has sealed a collaboration agreement with International Business Machines Corp (IBM), the Swiss engineering company said on Tuesday, the latest step in its efforts to ramp up its presence in......
During a Supreme Court hearing on Tuesday, an additional attorney general informed a three-member bench headed by the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) that the government is working on a bill on the......
Four "hardcore terrorists" tried by military courts were hanged on Tuesday, an Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said.The four were said to be involved in "committing heinous offences......
A passenger van hit a landmine in Godar area of Kurram Agency on Tuesday, killing 14 passengers including five women and four children, and injuring nine others, among them two census workers.The......
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly speaker on Monday blocked the opposition’s move in the house demanding prime minister’s resignation, but allowed the treasury to adopt a resolution reposing full trust in......
LAHORE: Twenty-eight garment shops were gutted in a fire at Muhafiz Plaza in New Anarkali on Monday.It took the firefighters more than eight hours to extinguish the fire that had erupted in the......
LAHORE: Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain of the PML-Q on Monday met with Sirajul Haq of the Jamaat-I-Islami and invited the party to become a part of, what he called, grand alliance, in the post-Panama......
FRIDAY’S carnage at the Afghan National Army (ANA) base on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of the northern Balkh province, has raised a whole slew of disconcerting questions. The killing......
HOW are Panama and Mashal’s case linked? They reflect varied ways of pursuing justice. But both show how far we are from the rule of law. The Supreme Court could not find a rich, likely corrupt man......
THE search has begun among India’s fractious opposition groups for a strategy to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi, two years from now. A dire situation should require an enlightened coming......
INFRASTRUCTURE projects all over the world have a tendency towards cost overruns and schedule delays. Pakistan’s implementation record has been relatively worse, irrespective of the form of......
ISLAMABAD: Tourism is already a key sector in Pakistan, makes for 2.9pc of the GDP and accounts for 1.4 million jobs, but this is far below Pakistan’s potential, said World Bank Country Director......
ISLAMABAD: The alleyways of Lahore’s walled city with their crafts bazaars and centuries old houses with intricately carved overhanging windows and balconies have long fascinated artists. But what......
CHAKWAL: A resident of Lawa, which is 103 kilometre from Chakwal City, 65-year-old Mohammad Iqbal says he was able to grow 40 maunds of wheat on one acre of land last year but could only cultivate 15......
SAHIWAL: As many as 37 boys and girls participated in the district level painting competition held here on Monday at Jinnah Hall under the Chief Minster’s Talent Hunt Programme.?More than 60 per cent......
LAYYAH: Imported tractors worth millions of rupees parked at the Water Management office in Karor have turned into scrap without being used for a single hour.The Water Management DG had purchased......
ISLAMABAD: The ongoing population census will on Tuesday enter its final phase during which it will cover 87 districts of the country.This phase will continue till May 24 and will also cover the twin......
MARDAN: Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari has accused the federal government of snatching the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and promised that if......
GWADAR: A security official laid down his life and another suffered injuries in the line of duty in Kallag Kolanch, an area near the coastal town of Pasni in Gwadar district, on Monday. The two......
TEHRAN: In what appears to be a veiled reference to the Saudi-led military alliance, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq on Monday that the countries which had......
DERA MURAD JAMALI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Balochistan chief Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind has said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has no option but to resign after the Supreme Court’s verdict in the......
GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly through a resolution on Monday expressed confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.The resolution presented by the deputy speaker......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Chief Minister’s Adviser on Financial Affairs Sardar Muhammad Aslam Bizenjo resigned from his office on Monday, alleging that some high-ups of the Planning and Development......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday asked the power sector to buckle up for the upcoming month of Ramazan and avoid a repeat of the 13-14 hours of loadshedding in April.Chairing a......
KARACHI: Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar has vowed to take on the provincial powers that be in order to reclaim the city from the neglect it has suffered since the Sindh government wrested control of......
ISLAMABAD: Country’s cricketers have hailed legendary batsman Younis Khan for becoming the first Pakistan cricketer to score 10,000 Test runs.Younis, 39, became the first Pakistan batsman — and the......
SYDNEY: Fast bowler Peter Siddle and batsman Shaun Marsh were the biggest names to miss out as all-rounders Ashton Agar, Hilton Cartwright and paceman Billy Stanlake received their first Australia......
As the leaks from the Isthmus of Panama poured in, to nick the words of honourable Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed, ‘many an alabaster pedestals crumbled’ on being confronted with the irrefutable qualms......
KINGSTON: Pakistan were steadily building a handy lead on the first innings as an unbroken stand of 86 between captain Misbah-ul-Haq and Sarfraz Ahmed lifted them to 322-5 at lunch on the fourth day......
MADRID: Lionel Messi scored his 500th Barcelona goal with the last kick of the game to snatch a stunning 3-2 win at 10-man Real Madrid and blow the La Liga title race wide open on Sunday.Messi had......
MILAN: Juventus defender Leonardo Bonucci scored a sublime solo goal as they crushed Genoa 4-0 on Sunday to claim a 33rd straight home league win and continue their march to an unprecedented sixth......
PARIS: Monaco reclaimed the Ligue 1 lead on Sunday when goals by Radamel Falcao and Kylian Mbappe gave them a 2-1 win at Olympique Lyonnais.Falcao and Mbappe struck before the interval to put Monaco......
KARACHI: Karachi Omar Associates emerged as the Southern Zone champions of the 18th PVCA National Seniors Cup Cricket Tournament after crushing Karachi Fact Date Engineering by eight wickets in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Indian High Commission on Monday refused to grant visas to four Pakistani squash players, thus depriving them of participation at the Asian Senior Individual Championship, scheduled to......
PESHAWAR: The appointment of a National Accountability Bureau official to a key post of director at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission on deputation was challenged in the Peshawar High Court......
MANSEHRA: The Mansehra district council on Monday unanimously approved the Rs8.5 billion revised budget for the current financial year.The council’s unanimous nod to the budget is......
MINGORA: The local farmers and owners of cattle participated enthusiastically in Azikheli buffalo beauty and milk competition and hoped that the event would be held every year.The three-day......
ISLAMABAD: Highlanders FC of Islamabad on Sunday secured Pakistan’s berth in the Neymar Jr’s Five 2017 Global Final by defeating Lahore’s Fantastic Five in the National Finals decider stage here,......
TRUE to the spirit of 1789, the revolutionary French are a step ahead of everyone else. On Sunday, they became the first large Western country to ditch, in a major election, the......
WASHINGTON: In 1943, when Refik Veseli, a photographer’s apprentice, smuggled his mentor Moshe Mandil and Mandil’s family across Albania to escape the Nazis, he didn’t see himself as particularly......
RAIPUR: 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......
LONDON: Britain’s anti-EU UK Independence Party says it will promote social unity by banning face-covering veils and barring the opening of new Islamic schools.The right-wing party on Monday unveiled......
KABUL: 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 on Monday.At a news conference......
ATHENS: Ten countries formed a new group on Monday aimed at protecting ancient heritage from extremism of the kind that saw the militant Islamic State group lay waste to Syria’s historic......
WASHINGTON: The UN Security Council has to be ready to impose tougher sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear and missile programs, US President Donald Trump said on Monday, calling the status quo......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump congratulated Nasa astronaut Peggy Whitson for setting a new space record on Monday, but expressed disdain for a particular rigour of space life — drinking......
SAVAR: Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers staged a tearful demonstration on Monday to mark the anniversary of a factory disaster that killed 1,138 people, demanding justice for the victims and......
NEW YORK: A Saudi Arabian charitable foundation said on Monday it will give $50 million to the United Nations children’s agency to help eliminate measles, the largest private donation ever to......
BEIRUT: A US-backed alliance of Arab-Kurdish forces entered the key jihadist-held town of Tabqa on Monday as they pursued their campaign against the militant Islamic State group in northern Syria.......
WASHINGTON: The US government imposed “sweeping sanctions” on Syrian officials in response to what the US says was a sarin gas attack on civilians earlier this month, the Treasury Department......
PARIS: French President Francois Hollande on Monday urged voters to reject far-right leader Marine Le Pen in next month’s presidential run-off against pro-EU candidate Emmanuel Macron.Macron is the......
CHITRAL: It was the chilly morning of April 20 when Anwaruddin left native Rech village for Chitral city.His destination was Peshawar, where he was to take the mentally-challenged elder brother,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top tax team has decided to establish dedicated anti-money laundering (AML) units to investigate and prosecute growing offences of tax evasion and fraud.The announcement came......
ISLAMABAD: The Utility Stores Corporation (USC) launched the second phase of Ramazan Relief Package on Monday by reducing the prices of more than 450 items by up to 10 per cent.Earlier in the month,......
ISLAMABAD: Textile and clothing exports rose 6.2 per cent year-on-year to $1.064 billion in March, mainly driven by value-added products such as garments, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday changed banks’ exposure limits through amendments to prudential regulations, but stopped short of setting a threshold for investments in government......
KARACHI: Pakistan State Oil (PSO) logged strong growth in earnings during the nine months through March as its after-tax profit swelled 209 per cent year-on-year to Rs14.2 billion. Earnings per share......
SHANGHAI: Global security companies and their smaller Chinese rivals are jostling for business along Beijing’s modern-day “Silk Road”, the grandiose plan for land and sea routes connecting the......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank has appointed Ms Xiaohong Yang as the first woman country director for Pakistan.The appointment of a Chinese national reflects ADB’s support to the country’s......
ZURICH: French-Swiss cement maker LafargeHolcim said on Monday its chief executive Eric Olsen is stepping down following an internal investigation into the company’s activities in Syria.His......
ISLAMABAD: World Bank President Dr Jim Yong Kim on Monday offered technical and financial help in technological improvements in the renewable energy sector.He was talking to Finance Minister Ishaq......
LONDON: Gold fell by more than one per cent on Monday, marking its biggest tumble in over a month, after the market’s favoured French presidential candidate won the first round of the country’s......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Monday extended special policing powers of the Pakistan Rangers in Karachi for another 90 days while rejecting conditions of the Sindh government.In a letter......
KARACHI: Local Government Minister Jam Khan Shoro on Monday blamed the federal government for carrying out up to 16 hours of load-shedding in Hyderabad, Thatta and other parts of Sindh that resulted......
Although the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan staged a show of strength on Sunday — 10 days after winning the local government by-election in Karachi’s six union committees — in a bid to prove that......
KARACHI: The theatrical trailer of what has been described as ‘Pakistan’s biggest film ever’, Yalghaar, was unveiled at a press meet at a local hotel on Monday evening.The film stars Ayub Khoso,......
HYDERABAD: Growers of tail-end area of Khairpur Gambo, whose sit-in outside the press club entered its eighth consecutive day on Monday, appealed to the Supreme Court to take suo motu notice of acute......
