KATHMANDU: British mountaineer Tim Mosedale was descending Mount Everest’s treacherous Khumbu Icefall after a recent acclimatisation run when he came across a large group of inexperienced climbers......
Russia and Turkey have agreed to lift nearly all remaining trade restrictions imposed in the aftermath of Ankara's downing of a Russian warplane in 2015, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.“You......
BERLIN: The bizarre case of a racist soldier allegedly plotting an attack while posing as a Syrian refugee and several abuse scandals have sparked a war of words between Germany’s defence minister......
FOR the first time since news of his split with Angelina Jolie last September, Brad Pitt is back on the interview circuit. The occasion is his new Netflix movie, War Machine, which comes out on May......
LAHORE: Batsman Khalid Latif on Wednesday filed an intra-court appeal in the Lahore High Court (LHC) challenging dismissal of his writ petition by a single bench and the proceedings of Pakistan......
BRIDGETOWN: West Indies lost two more wickets as they worked themselves into the lead at 112 for three at lunch on the fourth day of the second Test against Pakistan at Kensington Oval in Barbados on......
KARACHI: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq, playing his penultimate international fixture before retiring, achieved two unprecedented landmarks during Tuesday’s third day of the ongoing second Test......
LONDON: Prince Philip, husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, opened the new Warner Stand at Lord’s on Wednesday following a 25 million ($32.3 million, 29.6 million euros) reconstruction......
LONDON: Maria Sharapova may have to wait until June 20 to see if she will be welcomed back to this year’s tournament at Wimbledon.Sharapova, the 2004 champion at the All England Club, returned to the......
MADRID: Another impressive performance by Cristiano Ronaldo has left Real Madrid on the verge of another Champions League final.Ronaldo scored a dazzling hat-trick to lead Real to a crushing 3-0......
MADRID: An injury crisis, coupled with an intense schedule, is eroding Manchester United’s status as favourites to win the Europa League.United, England’s most decorated club, are the standout name......
LAHORE: International Cricket Council’s ex-president and Pakistan’s former Test batsman Zaheer Abbas has advised India not to boycott the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy.The event will be held in......
India has not filled any complaint with the United Nations (UN) regarding allegations that Pakistani troops killed two of its soldiers and mutilated their bodies, said a spokesman for the UN on......
KARACHI: The YMCA and Police Boys Hockey Club chalked up victories over their respective opponents in the Late Olympian Munawwar-uz-Zaman Veteran’s Hockey League in the floodlights at the Olympian......
US President Donald Trump committed the United States Wednesday to helping Israel and the Palestinians reach peace, telling visiting Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas: “We will get it done.”Trump spoke......
PAKISTAN is on top of Asian countries with 52pc males and 53pc females dying of non-communicable diseases under the age of 70 every year. The country bears the brunt of having the highest rate of......
SPIES are not encouraged to write their memoirs. But after a career keeping secrets, many feel the urge to spend their twilight years recounting their heroics. Such accounts should be read with......
BREVITY, like wit, is the soul of haiku. Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry in which each poem is limited to three lines, with no more than 17 syllables in all. Haiku was not invented by lawyers.The......
HERE comes the moment we were warned of in December. The move to ‘capture’ the regulators, particularly the power-sector regulator Nepra, has now been launched with reports that a meeting of the......
FOR several weeks now, people have been treated to political debates of a variety that is recognised neither by authorities on political science nor by democratic convention, and which can only be......
Yasir Shah's stranglehold of the West Indies continued on the fourth day of the second Test at Kensington Oval in Barbados on Wednesday as the leg-spinner snared six for 90 to re-open the prospect of......
A delegation of Pakistani students and their teachers were forced to cut short their visit to India amid Indian allegations that Pakistani troops had mutilated two Indian soldiers, a claim denied by......
At least a dozen? stray dogs were reportedly killed on Wednesday near Aram Bagh in Karachi's Saddar area, which falls under the jurisdiction of Karachi Municipal Corporation's (KMC) South District.A......
Facebook said Wednesday it would add 3,000 people to screen out violent content as the social media giant faces scrutiny for a series of killings and suicides broadcast on its platform.“If we're......
A drug court in Quetta, issued non-bailable arrest warrant against Drug Quality Control Board Secretary Dr Imdadullah Baloch on Wednesday as he failed to appear before the court in fake and......
PPP-Parliamentarians President Asif Ali Zardari, while addressing a political gathering in Badin district, urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down following the formation of the joint......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange ended Wednesday’s trading session on a negative note, with the benchmark KSE-100 index losing 194.38 points, or 0.40 per cent, by the close of the trading session to reach......
A Saudi appeals court has ordered about a dozen people accused of negligence in a deadly 2015 crane collapse at Islam's holiest site to stand trial again, newspapers reported on Wednesday.By a vote......
An Indian village has banned women from using mobile phones in public in an attempt to restrict their contacts with men and plans hefty fines for violators, police said Wednesday.Village elders ruled......
The Drug Regulatory Authority Pakistan (DRAP) has launched the country's first ever "Online National Registry for Cardiac Stent”, in a move that aims to bring greater transparency to the process of......
Arif Khan, a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) councillor who was seen warning a crowd not to name Mashal Khan's murderer after the student's lynching, has yet to be arrested, police officials in Mardan......
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday laid the blame for her defeat in last year's White House race squarely at the feet of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey and Russian President......
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing a petition seeking the disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and PTI Secretary General Jehangir......
Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called on Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa at General Headquarters (GHQ) on Wednesday to discuss regional security and other issues of bilateral interest, read......
A special bench of the Supreme Court (SC), which will be overseeing the implementation of the Panama Papers case verdict, on Wednesday rejected the nominees from the Securities and Exchange......
President Donald Trump will play peacemaker at the White House on Wednesday, meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas as part of an effort to end the long-running Palestinian-Israeli......
China has issued new internet regulations increasing Communist party control over online news providers, the latest step in the country's push to tighten its policing of the web.The ruling party......
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday extended an interim order restraining the provincial government from removing Sindh Inspector General of Police A.D. Khawaja.Headed by Justice Munib Akhtar, a......
The federal government has appointed Riaz Riazuddin as the acting Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), a notification issued on central bank's website stated.Riazuddin, who had been serving......
Despite Islamabad's repeated rejection of Indian army claims that Pakistani soldiers had killed two Indian soldiers across the Line of Control (LoC) and mutilated their bodies, Indian Vice-Chief of......
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan met Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Wednesday in Islamabad for talks after a terrorist attack near the Pak-Iran border resulted in the killing of 10......
Dr Asim Hussain, PPP’s Karachi president and a close aide of former president Asif Ali Zardari, on Wednesday submitted to the Sindh High Court a plane ticket for London.The court was hearing a plea......
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Wednesday revoked the satellite television licences granted to Bol News and Bol Entertainment (Pak News) for failing to secure security......
Struggling to retain control of the streets and college campuses here, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti went to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week. Something had to be done to......
A powerful blast targeting an armoured Nato convoy in Kabul killed at least eight people and wounded 28 Wednesday, including three coalition members, officials said in an attack claimed by the......
ISLAMABAD: Division appears to have crept into the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA). A majority of the 22-member SCBA will respond to the call of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) by attending the......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) will observe the World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday during which journalists across the country will express solidarity with Dawn.This......
QUETTA: A senior economist and representative of the Balochistan government in the National Finance Commission (NFC) has said he does not see the 9th NFC Award materialising in the near future as......
WASHINGTON: The United States urged Pakistan and India on Tuesday to engage in direct talks for reducing tensions, as sabre-rattling along the Line of Control alarmed world capitals.“We encourage......
NEW YORK: US First Daughter Ivanka Trump revived ethics concerns on Tuesday by publishing a self-help book for working women, albeit peppered with anecdotes likely to jar on those outside the moneyed......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has said freedom of expression is systematically being eroded in the name of ideology and national security on the one hand and......
ISLAMABAD: Welcoming the Turkish president’s suggestion to adopt a multilateral approach to resolve the Kashmir issue, Pakistan said on Tuesday that an Indian proposal of bilateral talks over the......
ANKARA: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Tuesday that Turkey would bring the curtain down on its over half-century bid to join the European Union if new accession chapters were not......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has requested the Supreme Court to reject Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Hanif Abbasi’s case seeking his disqualification as well as......
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has apparently completed its review of the US Afghan policy and the new policy calls for providing at least $23 billion a year to sustain the US-backed set-up in......
LAYYAH: Beaming at a large crowd gathered in the District Sports Complex here on Tuesday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he was delighted by the support he had received in Layyah, which boded well......
ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz Sharif, the daughter of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, triggered a new controversy on Tuesday when she took to social media to attack the authenticity of the Panama Papers and......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday announced a three-judge bench to implement its judgement in the Panama Papers case.The bench, which will hold its maiden hearing at 1.30pm on Wednesday after......
ISLAMABAD: The government is seeking a joint mechanism with India and Afghanistan for joint watershed management and trans-boundary aquifer sharing to minimise the negative impact of development......
KIGALI: A decade after poachers wiped out its native population of rhinos, Rwanda has reintroduced the animals to its national parks after flying up a group of 10 from South Africa on Tuesday. The......
SOCHI: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on a rare visit to Russia, said that Berlin and Moscow had to keep talking despite their disagreements, but those same differences overshadowed her talks with......
RIYADH: A powerful Saudi royal said on Tuesday that there could be no rapprochement between his country and Iran, which he said wanted to dominate the Muslim world.In a television interview, Deputy......
BRUSSELS: Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday rejected a decision by the UN’s rights council to investigate allegations of crimes by Myanmar’s security forces against minority Rohingya Muslims.The UN body......
WASHINGTON: An FBI translator who was hired to spy on a German member of the militant Islamic State group instead apparently grew attracted to him and went to Syria to get married.According to court......
TEHRAN: Iran will maintain its support for the Syrian government despite the deaths of hundreds of its advisers and volunteers in the six-year civil war, a commander said in comments published on......
ROME: The mausoleum of Emperor Augustus, a towering monument when it was built in 28 BC but long a decrepit eyesore in Rome’s historic centre, is being restored. The 10-million-euro ($10.9 million)......
MARDAN: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday sent 10 accused persons to jail in the lynching of a student of the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan.According to police officials, the accused were......
CHITRAL: The arrival of Eurasian golden oriole, a migratory songbird, in Chitral has heralded full bloom of spring season in the valley.The people of all age groups in the valley eagerly wait for the......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has challenged the ban imposed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on party heads and lawmakers to run campaigns for by-elections.PTI chairman......
RAWALPINDI: Two persons, including a two-year-old girl, died and six other passengers were injured after the van they were travelling in caught fire on Chakri Road near the Chahan village in Jatli on......
Q: What books are you currently reading?A: I am reading Mystic Expression by Sadequain which is a book by Salman Ahmed in which he presents Sadequian’s illustrations based on selections of poetry by......
ISLAMABAD: Plans to link hundreds of villages in the tribal areas and Balochistan with the rest of the country and the world through digital communications are hampered by a lack of security......
ISLAMABAD: An exhibition of images featuring the Portuguese ceramic tile work known as Azulejo opened at the Satrang gallery on Tuesday.Titled ‘Art of Azulejo in Portugal’, the event was hosted by......
WHAT had been simmering for a long while erupted into the open last week when the military, through the DG ISPR’s tweet, publicly rejected a ‘notification’ issued by the Prime Minister’s Office. The......
SHE was a poet in a country where both women and poets are persecuted. Farzana Naz, 36 years old, mother of two, was the author of one volume of poetry published last month. She was just beginning to......
THE 2016 media freedom report card makes for uncomfortable reading. Impunity for those who kill journalists continues to undermine attempts by legal systems worldwide to deliver justice and ensure......
ON his first visit to the White House after winning last November’s election, Donald Trump was informed by Barack Obama that his biggest initial headache as president would be North Korea.Trump......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Tuesday upheld death penalty handed down to three men for their role in Police Emergency Rescue Service-15 building suicide attack.The bench comprising......
BAHAWALPUR: The Lodhran Saddar police on Tuesday registered a case against 200 people on the charges of lynching two suspected robbers in a nearby village.Police said hundreds of people tortured two......
LAHORE: A lawyer has filed a plea in the Lahore High Court seeking an order for a probe into Rs10 billion alleged offer made to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan by the Sharifs for not......
LAHORE: Guidelines of the World Health Organisation (WHO) for chickenpox treatment should be disseminated among family physicians and general practitioners, enabling them to provide better medical......
VEHARI: Wheat growers have alleged malpractice and abuse of power by the food department in the ongoing wheat procurement drive.Kissan Board Pakistan President Chaudhry Tariq Mahmood said the farmers......
FAISALABAD: A trap set up by police to arrest alleged members of a proscribed outfit who killed two policemen, in fact, ended up in the suspects managing to escape with a detained woman suspect.The......
GUJRAT: The roads of the city’s only industrial estate are inundated with sewage while heaps of garbage are scattered along many of them due to negligence of the municipal corporation.The situation......
GUJRAT: The first-ever trauma centre in the district went functional here on Tuesday in Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital (ABSTH) following its inauguration by a patient at a ceremony.The event......
BRIDGETOWN: Azhar Ali crawled to within six runs of a hundred as Pakistan reached 226 for three at lunch on the third day of the second Test at Kensington Oval in Barbados on Tuesday.Captain......
PARIS: Monaco have scored plenty of goals this season and boast one of European football’s most exciting newcomers in striker Kylian Mbappe but that might not be enough to break down the defensive......
DUBAI: England and Pakistan were the biggest gainers in the ICC’s annual Twenty20 International rankings update, climbing to second and third place respectively.New Zealand, meanwhile, held on to top......
LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Shaharyar M Khan has said that officially he has learnt nothing from the Patron-in-Chief of the Board, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, about the fate of his......
COLOMBO: Famed South African paceman Allan Donald began his appointment on Tuesday as Sri Lanka’s interim bowling coach, declaring the squad has the potential to claim victory in next month’s ICC......
WATFORD: Liverpool’s Emre Can produced a goal of stunning brilliance to earn a crucial 1-0 victory at Watford on Monday that boosts the Reds’ push for a top-four finish in the Premier League.A game......
LONDON: Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon has signed for Worcestershire for the duration of the Champions Trophy, the English county side confirmed on Tuesday.Lyon — who has taken 247 wickets in 67......
LONDON: England fast bowler Steven Finn is hoping to impress the selectors during the two-match one-day series against Ireland after being left out of the Champions Trophy squad.“These matches......
KARACHI: Amid a noisy protest by three members of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution against PTI chairman Imran Khan terming his attitude “irresponsible......
KARACHI: Sindh High Court Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M. Sheikh on Tuesday directed district and sessions judges to visit district jails every week and designate judicial magistrates for speedy disposal......
KARACHI: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) approached on Tuesday provincial anti-corruption court seeking permission to interrogate detained suspects in prison after registering two identical......
KARACHI: The Jamaat-i-Islami on Tuesday ended its sit-in against the K-Electric over power outages and ‘overbilling’ outside Governor House on the fourth day of its protest following assurance from......
KARACHI: Almost 99.5 per cent of revenue collected under the head of car/bus registration tax/fees in Sindh was generated from Karachi while the contribution under this head from the rest of the......
KARACHI: The Council of Common Interests (CCI) meeting in Islamabad ended on Tuesday without discussing several proposals forwarded by the Sindh government for inclusion in the 10-year National Flood......
HYDERABAD: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal has said the local government (LG) powers that had been snatched by the PPP’s Sindh government, will have to be grasped by the masses......
MANCHESTER: Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has undergone surgery on his damaged right knee and will make a full recovery, his agent Mino Raiola said on Tuesday.United’s leading goal......
KARACHI: Mohammad Touseef Siddiqui, a longstanding Karachi City Cricket Association (KCCA) official, was decorated with a gold medal for his meritorious services for the sport during a special......
Many were opposed to the idea of the ‘Big Three’ when it was first introduced in 2014 — effectively ceding most of the executive decision-making to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI),......
ISLAMABAD: The Council of Common Interests (CCI) on Tuesday approved drastic changes to a law to clip powers of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) to independently determine......
ISLAMABAD: Consumer inflation fell to 4.8 per cent in April from 4.9pc in the preceding month on the back of a slight decline in prices of non-perishable products.Inflation rose 1.4pc month-on-month......
KARACHI: A number of fuel stations are selling petrol and diesel adulterated with cheap kerosene. Unaware motorists are paying full prices for these substandard fuels which could damage engines of......
KARACHI: The government will raise over Rs2.8 trillion through auction of Market Treasury Bills (MTBs) and Pakistan Investment Bonds (PIBs) during the next three months.It is setting higher borrowing......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has laid down the criteria for mutual funds investment in listed equity securities.The criteria has been finalised to safeguard......
KARACHI: On the first trading day of the month, heightened nervousness over the political situation sent investors rushing off to dump stocks and book profit.In contrast to the global market......
GENEVA: A new virtual currency launched on Tuesday aims to rival industry leader bitcoin by pegging its value to hard oil assets, a first in the rapidly growing digital money sector.The currency......
KARACHI: Cotton trading was slow on Tuesday as buyers remained on the sidelines due to slow off-take of cotton yarn and fabric.Reports of imposing customs duty on import of yarn and export duty of......
