Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique on Sunday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had to pay the price for carrying out the nuclear tests in the form of exile and the division of his party into......
Syrian opposition activist groups say airstrikes have killed at least 17 people just south of the northern city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the militant Islamic State (IS) group.The......
Sri Lankan rescuers on Sunday pulled out more bodies that were buried by enormous mudslides as the death toll in the disaster climbed to 151, with 111 others missing.Although the weather has cleared,......
At least 15 members of a single family were killed when a pickup truck veered off the road and plunged into a river in northern Afghanistan, officials said.Women and children were among the dead......
Europe “must take its fate into its own hands” faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump's presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday.“The times in which we could......
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, in a letter written to Water and Power Minister Khawaja Asif on Sunday, complained about the “fragile and unreliable transmission network” of the national......
Eight people, including a sheriff's deputy, were killed in a shooting in Mississippi, US whereas authorities said Sunday that a suspect has been taken into custody in this regard.Mississippi Bureau......
Sindh police’s Counter-Terrorism Department on Sunday claimed to have killed a wanted gangster in an ‘encounter’ in Site area of Karachi.The killed suspect was allegedly involved in targeted killings......
Indian authorities clamped a curfew across most of held Kashmir for the first day of the Muslim Ramazan festival Sunday and partially cut telephone services to thwart protests over the killing of a......
Former Test cricketer Younis Khan said on Sunday, "Pakistani side has the ability to beat India in Champions Trophy as Pakistan has outperformed India in the past as well.""Pitches look good and in......
A senior politician and influential feudal lord belonging to upper Sindh region, Sardar Taj Mohammad Domki, has claimed that he had settled the gang rape case of a 12-year-old maid servant and......
The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) on Sunday recovered two kilogrammes of heroin from a passenger at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport, officials said.ANF officials said the passenger, Ghulam......
With trouble facing him back home, US President Donald Trump ended his nine-day overseas journey in dramatic fashion on Saturday, addressing US troops at a campaign-style rally.Trump flipped......
A spokesperson of K-Electric on Sunday said that efforts were underway to "normalise matters" after several areas of Karachi suffered a lengthy power breakdown starting in the early hours of......
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's son Hussain Nawaz on Sunday visited the National Judicial Academy to appear before a Supreme Court-appointed joint investigation team (JIT) investigating his family's......
A well-timed half century from Fahim Ashraf helped Pakistan achieve victory while the team chased down the hefty target of 341 runs in a warm-up game against Bangladesh.The young debutante shined as......
For some time now, the question among security officials has not been if terrorists would bomb Britain again, but when.They got their answer on Monday night.There have been attacks and arrests in......
As I stepped out of the Pioneer Book House on a bright afternoon earlier this year, I wasn’t very sure what would be the future of the bookstore. Internationally acclaimed writer Maniza Naqvi had......
For many American Muslim activists and scholars, the bar for Donald Trump’s speech to the Muslim world was low.Speaking from a podium in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Trump didn’t repeat his earlier claim......
Call it a honey trap, but there is something about the golden syrup that has enslaved us forever. The 100 percent pure and natural sweetener has been around for time immemorial, long before sugar......
By now the entire country is an expert on espionage and international law. The year-long Kulbhushan Jadhav saga has been educational, if nothing else. But nobody can still definitively say who he is.......
Did you ever wonder how Thousand Island dressing got its name? I didn’t either. All I cared about was how much of the salmon-coloured creamy concoction with tiny bits of dill pickle I could ladle on......
Q. The leaves of my Dahlia plant have been attacked by some insect that seems to be inside them. The leaves have developed strange lines and have become dry and brittle. Can you tell me what the......
Dear Auntie. I am a 27-year-old girl. I completed my MBA from reputable university and am now desperately looking for a job because I am the eldest of my siblings and my family badly needs financial......
LAHORE: While the two cricket boards of Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to play bilateral matches at all age group levels including at the national level, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (AFC)......
Islamabad-based Kashif Jadoon is a 38-year-old computer engineer by profession. He was a fighter pilot in Pakistan Air Force and later became commercial pilot. He then joined the IT industry where he......
Never ask Jehanzeb N. Chaudhri, CEO of Mandi Express, a Karachi-based technology start-up, incubated at The Nest i/o, how his day begins. It will leave you breathless and very, very tired.“The......
Last week, the US President and heads of state and government from over 50 Muslim countries met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for a rather extraordinary conference. In it US President Donald Trump made an......
When fugitive warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar returned to his Kabul home to a lavish official welcome last month, abandoning his 16-year insurgency and forgiven for a history of wartime abuses, he was......
What is now the tribal belt of Pakistan, known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), was maintained by the British from 1849 to 1947 as a unique political, military and administrative......
Before the world entered — or was made to enter, if you will — the arena of the infamous ‘clash of civilisations’, the preceding five decades from the 1940s to the 1980s were defined by a clash of......
It’s 8:00am and boys begin the line up for assembly at the Government Boys’ High School in village Malnhore Vena, six kilometres from Mithi, Tharparker. As they start with a few minutes of physical......
A curious piece of art drags people to it on Eduljee Dinshaw Road — a large spool with every imaginable animal, bird, flora and fauna found in Pakistan, it stands proudly among pre-Partition......
Nahid Raza’s sixth floor apartment in Clifton, a few blocks away from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, is much more spacious than the one she shared with her son Azfar Ali. That was......
The first thing that strikes you about Armeena Khan are her photogenic, peaches-and-cream looks. But Armeena Khan is more than just another pretty face. And she is out to prove it. This non-resident......
ROGER MOORE, RIPSir Roger Moore, the actor who played James Bond’s character in seven films and was thought to be as one of the most iconic on-screen Bonds, died on May 24 of cancer. He was 89.Sir......
As Partition approaches in 1947, large convoys of Sikh and Hindu refugees head towards East Punjab, and Muslims flee to the two wings of Pakistan. It is estimated that over 15 million people were......
The Alien franchise helped make two of the most important filmmakers of our time a household name. In 1979, Alien put Ridley Scott on the map in what was a landmark film in both science fiction and......
Half Girlfriend, adapted from a novel by Chetan Bhagat, is like a factory-made Swiss roll: a sickly-sweet smelling, squishy, artificially-flavoured byproduct that passes off as the real thing. You......
Trawling through the super-abundance of TV plays on our entertainment channels, you do stumble on some that will catch your fancy, for there is something there for everyone. There are a lot of drama......
A new drama is unfolding in the world of music. Earlier last week Pakistani singer and activist Shehzad Roy took to twitter with this angry message: “Laga Reh is a song I made to protest about......
Get Me Roger Stone could have been a very different movie. When the documentary’s directors started filming the proudly notorious political strategist in 2011, he appeared to be in the twilight of......
BIRMINGHAM: Opener Tamim Iqbal led a Bangladesh batting feast with a century as the new ICC one-day sixth-ranked nation amassed 341-9 in their Champions Trophy warm-up fixture against Pakistan at......
SYDNEY: Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland believes the revenue-share model which the body is trying to dump in its ongoing pay negotiations with players is “starving” the grassroots of the......
MANCHESTER: Sport can help Manchester’s healing process by celebrating humanity following the arena attack, IAAF president Sebastian Coe said on Friday night after watching athletes competing in the......
SOUTHAMPTON: Ben Stokes made South Africa pay for dropping him twice in his first two balls with a century that powered England to 330 for six in the second One-day International at Southampton.There......
PARIS: With the world’s top five occupied by players over 30 for the first time, Rafael Nadal is poised to tighten the old guard’s Grand Slam grip by capturing an unprecedented 10th French Open.The......
EUGENE: Some 10 athletes, including 2015 world champion hurdler Sergey Shubenkov, encountered issues with obtaining visas to compete in the Prefontaine Classic track meet.The meet that started on......
EUGENE: Teenaged Kenyan star Celliphine Chespol recovered from a lost shoe to win the 3000m steeplechase with the second fastest time in history at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on......
HAVANA: Cuban hurdler and Beijing 2008 Olympic champion, Dayron Robles, on Friday began his return to professional athletics after years of injuries in an attempt to participate in this year’s World......
MONACO: Ferrari veteran Kimi Raikkonen rolled back the years and upstaged his championship-leading team-mate Sebastian Vettel to take pole position at the Monaco Formula One Grand Prix on......
ISLAMABAD: In a major decision, the government is looking to empower a board led by federal ministers to take decisions on all financial matters on behalf of the federal government. It wants to do......
SRINAGAR: In scenes reminiscent of what transpired in the aftermath of popular militant leader Burhan Wani’s killing, a civilian lost his life and dozens of others were injured on Saturday after......
ISLAMABAD / QUETTA: Pakistan on Saturday reopened the Friendship Gate — the border crossing with Afghanistan in Chaman district of Balochistan — on humanitarian grounds.The gate was reopened a day......
ISLAMABAD: A number of government departments have dramatically exceeded the amounts allocated to them in the budget for FY2016-17, with certain divisions spending as much as four to eight times the......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court was asked through a petition filed on Saturday to order the federal government to ensure an early decision under the domestic laws of Pakistan on any pending appeal by......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank on Friday approved a credit of $61.6 million to reduce stunting among children of five years or less in Pakistan, particularly in some districts in Sindh where children are......
ISLAMABAD: The budget for the development of nuclear energy in the country for 2017-18 has declined by almost 47 per cent against the expenditure incurred in the outgoing fiscal year.Documents show......
QUETTA: The harried family of Mujeebullah Khan Tareen rushes him to the trauma centre of Sandeman Provincial Hospital (SPH), Quetta, situated on Jinnah Road. The 20-something had had an accident in......
BATKHELA/PESHAWAR: The Malakand Levies on Saturday arrested a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet member, a PTI MNA and five ruling party activists for leading a mob into ransacking the Pesco office in......
ISLAMABAD: There were expectations that the people of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) would get their rights under a reform programme, but it seems the government is not serious about it,......
ISLAMABAD: The families of around 20 people who were slaughtered by the custodian of a Sufi shrine in Sargodha on April 2 gathered outside the National Press Club (NPC) on Saturday to demand......
Though machines have been used to mould iron into utensils and spare parts for some time now, some blacksmiths still do this work by hand.In a small corner of Rawalpindi along Leh Nullah and near the......
ISLAMABAD: It was painful for a 74-year-old man to bury his son who died after falling into a ditch at an under-construction metro bus station in the capital in 2014. However, it is more painful for......
GUJAR KHAN: An ancient pond near the Miana Mohra village of Gujar Khan has touched the lowest level due to the sweltering heat and diversion of water in the catchment areas.Ponds in the rural areas......
The volatile Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata) has been the centre stage for the world powers’ theatre for the last over several decades.The unfortunate tribesmen have suffered huge losses......
A suspension bridge built by the British rulers on Laspur River connecting two villages of Laspur valley at Shahdas will complete its 100 years in June this year as recorded on the plaque in its......
LAHORE: A Ramazan package of over Rs9 billion has been devised to provide relief to people during the holy month, and out of it Rs8.78bn will be spent on the provision of subsidised flour – bringing......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) will launch a formal movement after Eidul Fitr to make Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tender resignation as its seven-day ultimatum issued to the......
LAHORE: The severe heatwave gripping the plains of the country, especially in Punjab and Sindh persisted on Saturday and the Met department sees no respite from it in the next three to four......
LAHORE: The Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) will keep all the dedicated industrial feeders closed for nine and a half hours daily to supply uninterrupted electricity to consumers during Iftar......
I grew up knowing Pakistan at three levels; first, through my dadu’s narrations as his hometown; second, through the lens of diplomacy, as the arch-enemy of my homeland. However, after my own visit......
RECENTLY, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accepted jurisdiction as the latest forum to host the long-standing diplomatic feud between Pakistan and India.As the UN’s principal judicial organ......
THE internet age has opened up new vistas for the advancement of information, news, and entertainment in Pakistan. The digital penetration of mobile phones has reached close to 50 per cent of our......
AND we’re off. They started a bit early, but now stuff is in place. There’s no big moves left to make.Let the election games begin.The budget lost its relevance a while ago. Expenditures are......
ON his first foreign foray, President Donald Trump, apart from asking the 50-odd Muslim leaders assembled in Riyadh to act against “Islamist terrorism”, proposed a new alliance between the US,......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and now top White House adviser Jared Kushner proposed a secret back channel between the Kremlin and the Trump transition team during a December......
MANCHESTER: Britain on Saturday lowered the terror threat level which was hiked after this week’s carnage in Manchester as police pushed forward with their investigation, arresting two more......
NEW DELHI: The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported incidents of Zika virus in Gujarat in January, but India’s health ministry believes the mosquito-borne disease has been contained, The......
SINGAPORE: Apple opened its first Southeast Asia store in Singapore on Saturday, drawing hundreds of excited fans to the swanky two-storey site in the city’s upmarket shopping district.Located on the......
Inspired by the paintings of Iqbal Hussain while having dinner at Kuku’s Den, she decided to drop the studies of law for visual arts during A levels. It becomes a never-ending story for visual artist......
KABUL: A suspected suicide bomber killed as many as 18 people in Afghanistan on Saturday and fighting between militants and security forces left at least 36 people dead on the first day of Ramazan.In......
TRIPOLI: Forces loyal to Libya’s unity government said on Saturday that 52 of its fighters were killed as they repelled rival militias in fierce clashes in the capital Tripoli.Apart from sporadic......
Prominent scholars from all religious schools of thought, Saturday, issued a unanimous Fatwa, condemning terrorism and extremism.The religious decree declared suicide attackers and their supporters......
Indian meat traders plan to take the government to court over new rules banning the trading of cattle including buffalo for slaughter, calling it a move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's......
TAORMINA: President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would decide next week whether the United States would abide by the 2015 Paris agreement on cutting global carbon emissions.The unexpected......
COLOMBO: India and Pakistan were among the first countries to respond in the aftermath of Sri Lanka’s flash flood disaster which has killed at least 103 persons with another 100 categorised as......
RAMALLAH: Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike since April 17 have ended their mass protest after Israel agreed a deal following weeks of refusing to negotiate, sources......
KARACHI: Showing grave concern over the killing of Sindhi labourers in Gwadar earlier this month, leaders and intellectuals from Sindh and Balochistan gathered at Haider Manzil on Saturday to condemn......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday said his government was working hard to improve the efficiency of revenue collecting institutions instead of imposing new taxes to......
KARACHI: Insisting that Allama Iqbal is a blessing [neamat] for the Muslims, an Iranian diplomat has cautioned that we may lose this gift of God if we do not follow the message [of unity] contained......
KARACHI: A three-metre long bottlenose dolphin that recently got entangled in a fishing net off Malan, Balochistan coast, was successfully released back into the sea by fishermen.“Fishermen......
KARACHI: Pakistan Rangers, Sindh on Saturday claimed to have arrested nine suspects, including five workers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London and MQM-Pakistan.The paramilitary force apprehended......
HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday said that he failed to understand why the overdue National Finance Commission (NFC) Award was not being announced by the federal government.......
THE visit of Peter Millett, the British ambassador to Tripoli, was eventful. From early Friday morning, parts of the capital had echoed to exchanges of gunfire between two of the armed factions......
WHILE the central character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s famous novel The Gambler turns into ashes everything he touches, French businessman Bernard Tapie on the contrary was reputed for his gift of......
ISLAMABAD: The government, in its attempt to document the economy, has increased the rate of taxes in several categories for people who do not file their tax returns.Moreover, the federal government......
KARACHI: The KSE-100 index gained 1,895 points (3.73 per cent) over the outgoing week to close at an all-time high of 52,636 points.Investors continued to be enchanted by the stocks that have......
KARACHI: The budgetary measures announced by the finance minister for next fiscal year will jack up cement price by Rs18 per 50-kilogram bag and steel bar (Sarya) by Rs2,000-3,000 per tonne pushing......
KARACHI: The country’s savings-to-GDP ratio, already the lowest in the region, missed the target set for the outgoing fiscal year and was even less than the preceding year’s number.The budget......
When the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) opted last Thursday to renew its output cuts for another nine months, it was already priced in by the markets. And though prices......
KARACHI: Steady flow of buying orders from needy spinners on Saturday pushed cotton prices higher. The dwindling stocks of cotton with ginners induced renewed buying, brokers said.According to......
THE gender pay gap has shown up in seemingly every job there is: Tech workers. Scientists. Even male nurses make more than their female peers.But in one occupation — one at the very tiptop of......
VIENNA: First, they ignored each other. Then, they went into a bruising fight. Finally, they are talking, albeit with opposing agendas.The history of the relationship between the Organisation of......
