An unbroken 53-run seventh-wicket partnership between Roston Chase and Jason Holder frustrated Pakistan's push for a series-clinching victory with the West Indies holding on at 146 for six at tea on......
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar on Sunday directed the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing to take action against "those ridiculing Pakistan Army on social media" in order to......
A cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen has killed 115 people and left 8,500 ill as hospitals struggle to cope with an influx of patients, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Sunday.“We......
North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Sunday in defiance of calls to rein in its weapons programme, days after a new leader in its old rival South Korea came to power pledging to engage it in......
Two militants were killed in a shootout with security forces in India-held Kashmir on Sunday, the army and police said.Acting on a tip-off, Indian security forces surrounded a thickly forested area......
A 15-year-old Afghan boy was allegedly killed by a flat-owner in Karachi's Karimabad area on Sunday after he reportedly demanded Rs25 for cleaning the flat's staircase, police said.Ayaz Malik, the......
A political secretary and his security guard were shot dead by unidentified assailants in Kurram Agency on Sunday, political administration officials said.The secretary, Sarfraz Hussain and his guard......
Emmanuel Macron was inaugurated as France's youngest ever president on Sunday, saying the country had chosen “hope” and promising to relaunch the flagging European Union.Macron, a 39-year-old......
Former president Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday said he stood for good relations with Pakistan's neighbouring countries and criticised the PML-N government for creating discord along the lines of what he......
A mother of two children was axed to death allegedly by her husband in a suspected 'honour killing' in Sindh's Umerkot district on Sunday, police said.Ghulam Machhi, a resident of Kunri Town in......
British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Sunday Britain is a natural partner for China's new Silk Road program, and as it leaves the European Union (EU) it wants more trade with the world not......
India has not sent an official delegation to attend the “Belt and Road Forum” in Beijing and instead criticised China's global initiative, warning of an “unsustainable debt burden” for countries......
Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) Chairman Mustafa Kamal and other party leaders was released from detention in the wee hours of Monday, police said. The leaders were detained along with several party......
A First Information Report (FIR) was registered against unknown accused in connection with the killing of 10 labourers in Gwadar on May 13, security officials said.The FIR was registered on behalf of......
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday addressed the plenary session of the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) for International Cooperation in Beijing, where he stressed that geo-economics should take......
Four people, including three teenagers, drowned in the sea near the Paradise Point beach in Karachi on Sunday, police said.The four were residents of the Buffer Zone area. They drowned early Sunday......
MANSEHRA: Tourists rushed to witness the frozen Saiful Muluk Lake after reopening of the Lake Road on Saturday.“I am seeing such a beautiful frozen lake for the first time,” Sahrish Irfan, a tourist......
LANDI KOTAL: Former Supreme Court chief justice and Pakistan Justice Democratic Party head Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry on Saturday declared the recently announced Fata Reforms Plan a fraud and said......
SHANGLA: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Election Commissioner Peer Maqbool Ahmed has urged the local government representatives, civil society and media to play their positive role in educating people,......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari said here on Saturday that his party had unwillingly accepted the results of the last general elections so that they could save......
KARACHI: A British junior doctor of Pakistani origin has won the UK’s leading culinary competition, MasterChef 2017, the BBC reported on Saturday.Saliha Mahmood Ahmed, 29, is a junior doctor and......
MILITANTS in Pakistan have struck across the length and breadth of society, from ‘hard t argets’, including personnel of the armed forces and law enforcement agencies, to ‘soft’ ones, such as......
KARACHI: Bakhtawar Bhutto-Zardari has severely criticised the Ehteram-i-Ramazan (Amendment) Bill which prohibits eating and drinking in public during the month of Ramazan, Dawn.com reported.In a......
QUETTA: A strike was observed here on Saturday to mourn the death of 27 people in Friday’s suicide attack on the convoy of Senate Deputy Chairman and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader Maulana......
ISLAMABAD: The Central Depository Company (CDC) — with active support of the 1Link (Guarantee) Limited, Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) — has......
BEIJING: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday that extensive efforts were being made for the implementation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has finally announced that the intra-party elections will be held on June 11 under the newly-appointed election commissioner Senator Azam......
GWADAR: At least 10 men were killed and another was injured on Saturday when unidentified motorcyclists opened fire on labourers working on a road meant to connect remote towns with the port city of......
MUZAFFARABAD: As shelling by Indian troops injured another 13 people, eight women and a toddler among them, Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Saturday visited the restive Line......
THE hour-long journey to Quetta’s neighbouring district Mastung brought back fond memories of carefree school holidays spent when my maternal uncle was a tehsildar there some 15 years ago. The......
LAHORE: A woman, working as a housemaid, was found dead under mysterious circumstances at her employer’s house in Model Town on Saturday.Police said Munaza, 25, of Vehari district had been working as......
LAHORE: Saturday was a sad day at the Lahore zoo when it lost its most precious elephant, Suzi, after an association of 29 years.Suzi -- a female African elephant -- died at the zoo around 7am on......
LAHORE: Alzheimer’s Pakistan organized a seminar on the ‘Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementia at a local hotel here on Saturday.The purpose of the seminar was to spread awareness about the disease......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Police thwarted an underage marriage bid on Saturday, arresting father and mother of the would-be minor bride and the “groom” in a raid in basti Chandia in Shidani police limits,......
The Punjab Council of Arts will soon be holding a short story writing competition across the province. The information and culture department had initiated the idea to bring forth promising short......
Ameditative temperament, clarity of mind and outstanding skills distinguish Kiran Saleem from her contemporary visual artists, hastily producing bulk of works using tricky shortcuts to get an......
TEHRAN: A leading figure of Iran’s minority Sunnis endorsed moderate President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday ahead of this week’s election, despite the government’s “shortcomings”.Sunnis make up around......
ROME: German contemporary artist Anne Imhof won the Golden Lion for best National Participation at the Venice’s Biennale on Saturday for her provocative “Faust”, a dark reflection on modern......
SEOUL: A senior North Korean diplomat who handles relations with the United States said on Saturday that Pyongyang would have dialogue with the US administration if conditions were right, South......
BOUAK: Hundreds of renegade soldiers blocked access to Ivory Coast’s second-largest city on Saturday after firing guns into the air throughout the night, according to an AFP journalist at the......
GAZA CITY: Gaza doesn’t have much space for cultural events — there is no proper cinema in the entire enclave — but this weekend the city’s port has been transformed into a venue for outdoor......
WASHINGTON: The United States has slapped new sanctions on Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jamaatul Dawa Al Quran (JDQ) to disrupt their leadership and financial networks.The sanctions, announced on Friday......
WASHINGTON: The United States is close to completing a series of arms deals for Saudi Arabia totalling more than $100 billion, a senior White House official said on Friday, a week ahead of President......
MINYA: An Egyptian archaeological mission has found a necropolis holding at least 17 mummies near the Nile Valley city of Minya, in the first such find in the area, the antiquities ministry said on......
NEW YORK: For the first time since an Oval Office taping system was removed by President Richard Nixon’s chief of staff nearly 44 years ago, a president has hinted that White House conversations......
LOS ANGELES: Computers across the world were locked up on Friday and users’ files held for ransom when dozens of countries were hit in a cyber-extortion attack that targeted hospitals, companies and......
FOLLOWING last Sunday’s political earthquake, while Emmanuel Macron takes office as president of France today, subsequent tremors are shaking the country almost on an hour-to-hour basis.This is for......
Technological disruption, urbanisation, premature shrinkage of the manufacturing sector — especially in the labour-intensive textile segment — and allied factors have exposed capacity constraints and......
DARK and dreary. That is the world of the unemployed, especially of the educated unemployed. But the statement does need a qualifying clause: it is dark and dreary for a few who are not enterprising......
WITH elections in sight, major political parties are busy mobilising the masses ... with showmanship and rhetoric, it seems. It is hard to project at this point how the public sentiments are being......
ISLAMABAD: The Central Selection Board (CSB) is going to revisit the May 2015 promotion of powerful bureaucrats, including the secretary to the prime minister, which may start another round of......
LABOUR Force Survey annual report 2014-15 (last available) serves as the book of reference for whoever is curious to dig out the unemployment numbers in Pakistan. Released by the Pakistan Bureau of......
THE government expects the implementation of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to generate more than 1.5 million jobs on top of about 1.41 million net employment created in the first two years......
THE gripe never stops. “From our early school days we are told that a university degree is everything (to get a decent job). But it isn’t,” an irritated Abid Javed grumbled as he tossed a crumbled......
SINDH has experienced the highest average urban unemployment growth of 1.8pc during the period between 2001-02 and 2013-14, says the annual review of social development done by Social Policy and......
THE government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa does not have the numbers to determine the current unemployment rate in the province, and it depends entirely on the federal Labour Force Survey (LFS) 2014-15 for......
BALOCHISTAN is backward merely because its vast resources have remained untapped and unexploited. As things stand, unemployment is only a logical fallout. The entire pressure, as such, is on the......
Gali Loharan, a narrow street that connects Pirwadhai to Dhoke Hassu, Dhoke Mangtal and Railway colonies, houses shops where workers fashion iron into cookware and other household and commercial......
ALL three possible patterns of employment and unemployment are available across the Industrial sector. There are jobs, say, in the auto sector, while others dealing with denim and apparel have just......
LET’S have the bottom line first. The market is suffering from a disconnect. The reality of the job market differs from the types of educational degrees people go for, and, as a result, fresh......
ECONOMIC concerns, inequality and anxiety of being jobless in the local market are some reasons why so many Pakistanis try to find employment overseas. According to the Ministry of Overseas......
IT takes a while before a fresh graduate even gets an interview call. Employment often comes much later because everyone is looking for someone with some experience under the belt.Talking to Dawn, an......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Saturday ordered the constitution of a high-level committee headed by the city mayor and all stakeholders to review the movement of heavy vehicles in the city during......
KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party chairman Mustafa Kamal said on Saturday that “one million” people would march towards the “palace of the Sindh chief minister” on Sunday (today) for their rights.“No one......
KARACHI: When a few years back, research work on the 22-volume Urdu dictionary came to a successful end and its last volume was unveiled, officials of the Urdu Dictionary Board, despite the......
KARACHI: The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) on Saturday organised an event to mark the completion of 100 years of one of its most spectacular buildings called OPD-14 located on......
HYDERABAD: Rail traffic between Karachi and other parts of the country was badly disrupted after two goods trains collided on an upcountry track between the Meeting-Bholari section in Thatta district......
THERE are significant reasons for the maintenance of close and cooperative relations between Pakistan and the US.Unfortunately, Washington has almost always conducted its relations with Pakistan as a......
THERE’S consensus: they pulled back from the brink. Sanity prevailed, democracy has been strengthened. We should all be grateful.So let’s try another version.Nawaz missed an opportunity, the prime......
IN 1994 Karachi citizens of all walks of life got together to create the Citizens’ Forum on Mass Transit. Through this organisation they opposed the construction of an elevated light rail through the......
SHOULD a tree have the right to sue? This line of inquiry is met with an equal measure of incredulity and fascination. After all, to answer in the affirmative is to entertain the rather rib-tickling......
LAHORE: Repudiating reports that the Board has recommended Test captian Misbah-ul-Haq for the post of ICC match-referee, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan has said that the Board......
SYDNEY: Cricket Australia (CA) has threatened its contracted players they will not be paid beyond June 30 unless they accept the governing body’s proposed overhaul of player remuneration, a report......
ROSEAU: Pakistan’s Mohammad Abbas claimed his first five-wicket haul in Test cricket to trigger a West Indies first-innings collapse to 247 all out before lunch on the fourth day of the third and......
BARCELONA: Lewis Hamilton secured pole position for Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix in a closely-contested qualifying session at the Circuit de Catalunya, restoring Mercedes’ dominance in Formula One......
LONDON: Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has had the golden touch in his first season in the English Premier League, all the way through to the title-clinching game.With Chelsea scoreless at West......
MADRID: Rafa Nadal set up an intriguing Madrid Open semi-final against Novak Djokovic by overcoming Belgian David Goffin 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 in a high-quality last-eight match on Friday.Nadal edged a......
SHANGHAI: Olympic champion Elaine Thompson clocked the fastest 100m of the season at the Shanghai Diamond League on Saturday to bolster her claim as sprint favourite for this year’s world......
BAKU: Pakistan’s talented shooter Khalil Akhtar bagged the first bronze medal for the country in the 25 meter center-fire pistol competition here at the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games on Friday.There......
BERLIN: Arjen Robben scored a superb solo goal in the 95th-minute to seal Bayern Munich’s dramatic 5-4 comeback win at RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga’s electric top-of-the-table clash on Saturday.Carlo......
