The APS Shuhada Forum on Tuesday filed a writ petition in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) seeking trial and sentencing of Ehsanullah Ehsan, former spokesperson of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan......
In an escalating war of words, a senior Iranian military official has said it is Iran's "inalienable and legal right to confront and destroy terrorists' dens in any depths of the neighboring......
Pakistan and Afghanistan plan to use Google Maps to help settle a border dispute that led to deadly clashes last week, officials from both sides said Monday.On Friday, Pakistan closed the border......
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration on Monday declared 122 properties in Islamabad’s Bani Gala, including the residence of Pakistan......
Six Pakistanis working for a Polish oil company who were kidnapped by militants in November last year pleaded for their lives in a video released Tuesday by a militant outfit.The workers were......
Pakistan State Oil (PSO) has cancelled a tender to buy jet fuel for delivery in June amid a border dispute between the South Asian country and Afghanistan, a source at the company said on Tuesday.PSO......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange ended Tuesday on a positive note, with the benchmark KSE-100 index gaining 137 points, or 0.27 per cent, by the close of the trading session to reach 51,073.After closing......
The Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday cautioned Tehran that a warning issued by the Iranian army chief a day earlier was against the "spirit of brotherly relations" between Pakistan and Iran.Read more:......
At least 40 people were wounded on Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a supermarket in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, police said, the largest attack for months on a civilian target in......
Extending its restraining order against the handover of Bagh Ibn-i-Qasim to property developer Bahria Town, the Sindh High Court on Tuesday put off hearing a set of petitions against the provincial......
Through sombre black and white drawings, graphic novelist Malik Sajad tells the brutal story of his native Kashmir in the 1990s, as an armed insurgency against Indian rule reached its bloody......
The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday continued hearing a petition filed by PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi seeking the disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) leaders Imran Khan and Jahangir......
A bombing at a religious school in Afghanistan's northern Parwan province killed the chief cleric and wounded four students on Tuesday, a government official said.Deputy governor Shah Wali Shahid......
The All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC) on Tuesday condemned an Indian government ban on the airing of 34 Pakistani and Saudi TV channels in held Kashmir, terming the move a 'strangulation of the......
The militant Islamic State (IS) group has issued a video showing the beheading of what it described as a Russian intelligence officer captured in Syria, the US-based SITE monitoring website reported......
India's top court on Tuesday found wanted tycoon Vijay Mallya guilty of disobeying its order barring him from transferring $40 million to his children.Mallya, who fled to London last year, is wanted......
Former federal minister and PPP Karachi president Dr Asim Hussain will likely miss a medical examination he was scheduled to undergo in London this week. A court hearing a plea for the removal of his......
The Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday said that Uzma, an Indian woman who came to Pakistan to marry a man from Buner and went ‘missing’ last week, will be repatriated only after all legal requirements......
When the Masjid Al-Kareem mosque in Providence, Rhode Island, received a threatening letter in November calling Muslims a "vile and filthy people," its members were frightened enough they asked for......
China is fine-tuning legislation on the proper way and place to sing its national anthem, tightening rules that already bar people from belting it out at parties, weddings and funerals.A draft bill......
A team of Pakistani and Afghan officials conducted a joint geographical survey in Chaman's 'controversial' Killi Luqman and Killi Jahangir villages and submitted a report to Kabul and Islamabad on......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday restored a petition seeking disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on charges of collecting party funds through......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Shireen Mazari on Tuesday boycotted the National Assembly Standing Committee on Rule of Procedure and Privileges in protest of the committee chairman's dismissal of......
A young man and woman were killed in Shangla on Monday in a suspected 'honour killing', police said.Zarghuna Bibi, 23, and Ziaul Haq, 27, were shot allegedly by the woman's brothers after they found......
Fat wads of bank notes move across counters in Old Delhi's gold and diamond district in one of many challenges to six months of Indian government efforts to suffocate the black market.Cash has been......
Jakarta's Christian governor was jailed for two years Tuesday after being found guilty of blasphemy, in a shock decision that has stoked concerns over rising religious intolerance in the world's most......
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday arrested a man in Gujranwala for his suspected involvement in an illegal organ trade gang which was busted during an FIA raid in Lahore last......
PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar have urged the government to implement Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Preventive Health Act, 2009 to control thalassaemia.The seminar was organised by Hamza Foundation in......
BATTAGRAM: A shutter down strike in Battagram Bazaar, which started on Saturday, continued for third day on Monday to protest the arrest of provincial president of the proscribed ASWJ Maulana Atta......
GILGIT: The weeklong Jashan-i-Baharan freestyle polo tournament began at Aga Khan Shahi Polo Stadium here on Sunday. Twenty-seven teams from all the districts of the region, including government......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government is likely to provide new medals to the family of late poet Ahmed Faraz as the police failed to recover the two medals that were taken away by robbers from his son’s......
RAWALPINDI: An exhibition of the covers of Belgium’s most famous comic strip books started at a local hotel on Monday.Titled ‘Highlights of the Belgian Comic Strip Art’ and hosted by the Belgian......
MUZAFFARABAD: Leader of the opposition in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Assembly Chaudhry Mohammad Yasin on Monday threw down the gauntlet to Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider to declare and prove the......
ISLAMABAD: The vice chancellors of public and private universities met on Monday to discuss the rise in incidences of intolerance on university campuses and resolved to take steps to avoid such......
RAWALPINDI: The police have disposed of a complaint lodged against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for allegedly provoking people and creating hatred against the armed forces.However, the complainant on......
KARACHI: As the bulls continued to rampage on the stock market underpinned by the exuberance over the approaching entry of the KSE-100 index in the MSCI emerging-market index, stocks rallied by......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday excluded high-loss areas from electricity demand estimates as the electricity shortfall continued to cause extensive power cuts across the country.As a......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) believes banks follow a discriminatory lending policy that hurts the economy and violates rules set for financial institutions.The SBP asked banks and......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has issued show-cause notices to seven top oil marketing companies (OMCs) for alleged overcharging and substandard sale of petroleum products in......
KARACHI: In the absence of buying interest, the cotton market on Monday remained listless and spinners holding big inventories of yarn were reluctant to enter into any deals.Market sources said the......
VIENNA: After Austria and the Netherlands, the defeat of France’s Marine Le Pen in a presidential run-off is a new blow for the European far-right but its march to power is far from over, analysts......
SEOUL: Thirty years after South Korea became a democracy, voters born in the period go to the polls on Tuesday frustrated over their prospects and demanding change as growth slows and job prospects......
WASHINGTON: As the Trump administration weighs sending more troops to Afghanistan, the 16-year war grinds on in bloody stalemate.Afghan soldiers are suffering what Pentagon auditors call “shockingly......
GAZA CITY: The new leader of Hamas made his first public appearance in the new role on Monday, visiting a solidarity tent in his native Gaza for hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners held by......
CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme guide Mohamed Badie to life in prison for “planning violent attacks” in a retrial on Monday, judicial officials and a lawyer......
MOGADISHU: A suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into a cafe in central Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least eight people in an attack claimed by the Islamist militant group Al......
TEHRAN: Iranian student Reza Parastesh looks so much like his sporting hero Lionel Messi that it almost landed him in jail for disrupting public order this week.So many people came out to take......
MUMBAI: An epic battle movie from one of India’s lesser-known film industries has trumped Bollywood by becoming the country’s highest-grossing film to date, an industry analyst said on......
BONN: Uncertainty over America’s future in the climate-rescue Paris Agreement loomed large over UN talks that opened in Bonn on Monday to work out the nuts and bolts of implementing the hard-fought......
BEIJING: Up to 5,000 ethnic Uighurs from China’s violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang are fighting in various militant groups in Syria, the Syrian ambassador to China said on Monday, adding......
KARACHI: Announcing a Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD)-led crackdown on the rampant ‘cheating mafia’ across the province, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Monday ordered for printing of......
KARACHI: Goods carriers went on strike on Monday in protest against the restriction imposed by the Sindh High Court on the movement of heavy vehicles within the city’s jurisdiction.The transporters......
WASHINGTON: The United States offered on Monday to work closely with Pakistan and other states in the region as tensions on the country’s western borders increase and after its envoy urged Washington......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to file yet another petition in the Supreme Court against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seek an investigation into allegations of receiving......
KARACHI: Apropos a story headlined “PIA pilot grabs some shut-eye leaving aircraft in hands of trainee” published in Dawn on May 7, Amir Akhtar Hashmi, the pilot, has issued a contradiction.In his......
KARACHI: The Sunni Tehreek (ST) on Monday extended its support to the Pak Sarzameen Party’s (PSP) “million march” scheduled to be held on May 14.A PSP delegation led by its chairman Mustafa Kamal......
KARACHI: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) submitted on Monday an interim charge-sheet before an anti-corruption court in one of two identical cases regarding the demolition of a heritage......
KARACHI: Pakistan, like the rest of the world, can effectively address the challenges posed by polio, especially in its conflict-hit areas, by introducing community-based strategies and integrating......
MITHI: Seven more infants died from complications caused by malnutrition over the past three days in government hospitals of Thar, raising the death toll to 137 since January this year, according to......
DADU: Arrangements for the 765th annual Urs of Hazrat Qalandar Lal Shahbaz were reviewed at a meeting held at the irrigation rest house in Sehwan Sharif on Monday.Three-day Urs celebrations will......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday demanded that the inquiry into the assets of the Sharif family not be held in camera as the joint investigation team (JIT) constituted under a......
NEW DELHI: Chinese Ambassador Luo Zhaohui has called on India to join its One-Belt-One-Road project and assured New Delhi that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would not impinge on......
LONDON: The head of the Iranian armed forces warned Islamabad on Monday that Tehran would hit bases inside Pakistan if the government does not confront “militants who carry out cross-border......
ISLAMABAD / BUNER: An Indian woman, who supposedly went missing after a visit to the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, claimed before a magistrate on Monday that she was “physically and mentally......
MIRPURKHAS: Sixteen-year-old Sita was picking cotton in the fields of Darshi Kohli near Samaro, Sindh. Like many other Hindus in rural Pakistan, she along with her parents worked on land owned by a......
QUETTA: Pakistan and Afghanistan on Monday started a joint survey of the Killi Luqman and Killi Jahangir villages along their border near Chaman following last week’s deadly clashes, officials......
BILL Gates made headlines earlier this year when he argued that robots taking away human jobs should be taxed. His argument is that governments have a responsibility to intervene in order to slow......
AS a Dalit student from Maharashtra who became a Buddhist, my friend Chandan Kamble was curiously sceptical of Marxism. My Marxist friends on the leftist campus were equally sceptical of Chandan with......
IN my column of March 28, 2017, about our pressing problems, I had picked elite politics as our biggest or mother problem. But if there’s a mother, there must be a grandmother too. So what’s the......
IN Pakistan, the case of Tayabba, a 10-year-old maid allegedly beaten and tortured by her employers, a judge and his wife in Islamabad, serves as an ugly reminder that the myriad of programmes and......
LAHORE: The country’s mango production will considerably drop this year, as the climate change factor has badly affected a majority of fruit farms and orchards, lowering the yield especially in......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Monday allowed one week to chief executive officers (CEOs) of three sugar mills, believed to be owned by the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif......
LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Monday censured the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) investigating officer in an illegal organ transplant case for producing a suspected woman after the court’s......
Lahore: Inspector General of Punjab Police Usman Khatak has directed the authorities concerned to implement e-ticketing system in Lahore immediately by overcoming all the problems causing......
LAHORE: The Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) is going to establish a Chinese language centre on its campus.“We are going to establish a Chinese language centre in the varsity within six......
SIALKOT: The sports stadium in Chawinda, Pasrur tehsil, is facing official apathy and shortage of funds. Its rooms have become a haven for addicts while grass in the ground is untrimmed and cattle......
SIALKOT: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has stressed the need to promote knowledge-based education and personality building of the students to make Pakistan a developed and forward-looking country.He......
MULTAN: Senior police officers of the district, led by the district police chief, observed World Thalassaemia Day by donating blood for children suffering from the disease here on Monday.City Police......
NEW DELHI: India recalled fit-again fast bowler Mohammed Shami and opening batsman Rohit Sharma on Monday as they belatedly unveiled a squad to defend their Champions Trophy title after a row over......
LAHORE: Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Shaharyar Khan on Monday said that the board had signed a proper contract with Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in 2014 as a result of which......
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board’s Security and Vigilance Department on Monday issued emerging all-rounder Mohammad Nawaz a notice of demand for a possible breach of PCB’s anti-corruption code by the......
TURIN: AS Monaco, beaten 2-0 at home in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Juventus, will have to make history in Tuesday’s return if they are to end Ligue 1’s long absence......
An Austrian court has ruled that Facebook must delete hate speech postings worldwide and that Austrian law can be applied to lawsuits against the social media website.Maria Windhager, a lawyer for an......
LOS ANGELES: The race for the right to stage the 2024 Olympics heads into the home straight this week as a team of International Olympic Committee delegates arrives in Los Angeles to inspect the......
MANAMA: Prominent women’s soccer advocate Moya Dodd of Australia lost her place on FIFA’s ruling body after she was beaten in a vote by Mahfuza Ahkter of Bangladesh at the Asian Football......
MADRID: Maria Sharapova’s reward for advancing to the second round of the Madrid Open here on Sunday is a match against Eugenie Bouchard, one of the most outspoken players against the Russian’s......
PARIS: Former Argentina captain Diego Maradona has ended a five-year absence from football to return as coach of Al-Fujairah FC, the UAE club announced on Sunday.“I want to tell you that I am the new......
