A young Hindu girl was allegedly kidnapped from a village in Nagarparkar area of Tharparkar district in the early hours of Tuesday.The parents and relatives of the girl while talking to local......
US President Donald Trump, wading into a deep rift among Arab states, said on Tuesday his trip to the Middle East was “already paying off”, as governments there took a hard new line in accusing Qatar......
Another PPP stalwart from central Punjab and former federal minister Nazar Muhammad Gondal announced his decision to join the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday, merely a week after former PPP......
The management of clothing company Khaadi and the National Trade Union Federation (NTUF) on Tuesday reached a milestone agreement on the workers' rights issue highlighted on social media late May......
The Event Technical Committee of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 has approved Rumman Raees as a replacement player for Wahab Riaz in the Pakistan squad for the tournament, an ICC press release said on......
An unidentified man was killed outside a mosque in Chitral allegedly as a result of being hit by a police officer.According to reports, the man had been asked for identification by a local police......
A three-member special bench of the Supreme Court overseeing the implementation of the Panama Papers verdict will on Wednesday review the 15-day performance of a six-member joint investigation team......
A special Corps Commanders' Conference was held at General Headquarters Tuesday during which the forum expressed its solidarity with the people and security forces of Afghanistan in the backdrop of......
Mark Wood took the key wicket of Kane Williamson as England booked their place in the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy with an 87-run win over New Zealand at Cardiff on Tuesday.New Zealand, set......
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday revoked the operating licence of Qatar Airways and ordered the airline's offices to close within 48 hours, state media reported, as a regional diplomatic crisis escalated.“The......
A suspected bomb outside a mosque in the Afghan city of Herat killed at least seven people and wounded 15 on Tuesday, police said, the latest casualties in a particularly bloody week in......
Police on Tuesday named the third attacker in the weekend terror assault in London amid mounting anger, two days before an election, over how the killers had apparently escaped surveillance.With......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange ended Tuesday nearly flat, with the benchmark KSE-100 index gaining only 23 points, or 0.05 per cent, by the close of trading session to reach 50,144.The index had tested......
The escalating Middle East diplomatic rift echoed in the National Assembly on Tuesday during a session intended for discussion of the budget, with opposition leaders calling for clarity in Pakistan's......
Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Tuesday expressed displeasure at being told that data on armed forces casualties during ceasefire violations from General Headquarters (GHQ) had not been received by......
Three children, including two infants, were killed in what was reported as an arson incident in Gadar Pallas, Kohistan, early Tuesday.According to reports, the house in which the children were......
Security agencies on Tuesday conducted a search of a hotel in Jhelum owned by family members of Pakistani-born London attacker, Khuram Shazad Butt, sources told DawnNews.Explore: London attacker......
At least 550 Pakistani pilgrims stranded at Doha Airport after a diplomatic rift between Qatar and six other countries were evacuated and flown to Muscat on Tuesday, Pakistani embassy officials told......
A rocket struck an Indian diplomatic compound earlier today, police said, as representatives of about two dozen international delegations met a kilometre or so away for the Kabul Process to discuss......
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani lashed out at Pakistan at the Kabul Process on Tuesday, alleging that it is waging an "undeclared war of aggression" against Afghanistan.Issuing a stinging rebuke aimed......
Just hours before Pakistani-born British man Khuram Shazad Butt and two accomplices drove a rented van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbed people nearby, he was asking neighbours where he......
A Chinese citizen in Islamabad appealed to the government for support on Tuesday after he was allegedly assaulted on Sunday when a business deal with a Pakistani man turned sour.Liu Xiao Long sent an......
A Rawalpindi customs court on Tuesday issued bailable arrest warrants for model Ayyan Ali, who was indicted in a case of currency smuggling, since she has not appeared in court since December last......
Suspended PML-N leader Nehal Hashmi on Tuesday withdrew his resignation from the Senate after a meeting with chairman Raza Rabbani, sources told DawnNews.Hashmi had submitted his resignation after a......
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) increased its profit forecast for the global airline industry Monday, citing surging demand.Total profits for the group's 275 member airlines are......
Kuwait is trying to mediate a diplomatic crisis in which Arab countries have cut diplomatic ties to Qatar and moved to isolate the energy-rich, travel-hub nation from the outside world, Qatar's......
ISLAMABAD: Government lawmakers on Monday lashed out at Leader of the Opposition Syed Khursheed Shah for continuing a boycott of the National Assembly, despite having made six speeches during the......
ISLAMABAD: The environment wing of the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad (MCI) in alleged connivance with a contractor got several rare sheesham trees (rosewood) chopped in Sector 1-8 last......
CHAKWAL: A Chakwal boy, who chased his dream of becoming a film artist all the way to Hollywood, is back home after winning name and fame to tell the fascinating story of his native land to the......
ISLAMABAD: Summers will continue to be hotter and longer each year if short and long term steps are not taken to tackle climate change, various environmentalists said on Monday, one of the hottest......
MURREE: The Punjab Provincial Development Authority has decided to revive a stalled project to supply water to Murree from the river Jhelum at a cost of Rs8 billion, a source in the Public Health......
PESHAWAR: The artists and performers gathered here on Monday to raise voice for their rights and vowed to use the art of music for addressing social issues.The Music Welfare Society (MWS) conducted......
PESHAWAR: Expressing satisfaction over the report of joint investigation team, Mashal Khan’s father Mohammad Iqbal has demanded transfer of the case from Mardan to Peshawar High Court.Addressing a......
PESHAWAR: ANP general secretary Mian Iftikhar Hussain has shown resentment over mentioning the name of the student wing of his party in the report of joint investigation team for Mashal murder......
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will be operating special flights to Doha to bring back Pakistani pilgrims stranded there.In a statement issued on Monday, PIA CEO Nayyar Hayat had......
LAHORE: Maryam Nawaz, daughter of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, appears to have become careful in tweeting following her squabble with some Pulitzer prize-winning journalists over Panama Papers and......
LAHORE: A meeting, presided over by Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, approved on Monday a teachers’ training programme under which 5,000 school heads will attend a 28-day training abroad.Mr Sharif said......
LAHORE: The capital city police have launched an android mobile phone application ‘Welfare Eye’ to facilitate the families of the policemen who laid down their lives in the line of duty in getting......
GUJRANWALA: Jinnah Library, having more than 4000 registered members, has been closed due to nonpayment of employee’s salaries, utility and internet bills.The library was established in June 1988 and......
GUJRAT: A fire erupted on Monday in a warehouse of a leading electric fan manufacturing unit situated at GT Road, reducing to ashes plastic raw material and machinery worth millions of rupees.Rescue......
LAHORE: The chief minister and the governor cost the Punjab government Rs2.9 million a day as expense for the chief minister are over Rs991,000 and the governor Rs197,400 daily, said Leader of the......
LAHORE: Two of the three Pakistani boys arrested by Indian authorities for crossing the border (Narowal sector) mistakenly last year were handed over to their families at the Wagah border on......
LAHORE: The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, UK is conducting the Membership of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons (MRCS) exam in Pakistan for the first time through the British......
LAHORE: PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain claimed on Monday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif wanted to send former chief justice Sajjad Ali Shah to jail.“Nawaz not only got telephone calls of......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party government in Sindh chose not to give any special package for Karachi in its election year budget for financial year 2017-18, it emerged on Monday.In his budget......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Monday announced a 10 per cent increase in the budget for security with a plan to recruit 10,000 more policemen in the next financial year to “improve......
KARACHI: The largest chunk of Sindh’s budget (27 per cent) has been allocated for the education sector for fiscal year 2017-18, documents show on Monday.Next fiscal’s allocation of Rs181.5 billion......
KARACHI: Admitting the government’s failure in implementing environmental laws, Secretary Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development Baqaullah Unnar said that the situation was alarming in......
MONROVIA: An official with West Africa’s regional bloc says leaders of the 15-nation group have agreed “in principle” on Morocco’s membership application for membership, though more assessments will......
BUDVA: Once the Balkan stronghold of pro-Russian sentiments, tiny Montenegro is on Monday silently celebrating its entry into Nato in a historic turn that has made the Kremlin furious.Despite the......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump urged his Justice Department to shun political correctness and call a proposed restriction on travellers from certain Muslim countries what it’s, a travel......
UNITED NATIONS: Marking 50 years of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, UN Secretary General Antonio Guteress on Monday called for direct negotiations to resolve the dispute “a driver of......
NEW DELHI: India’s federal investigating agency — CBI — raided the properties of NDTV founder Prannoy Roy on Monday over an alleged loan default, and the news channel called it a witch-hunt.Reports......
CAPE CANAVERAL: The International Space Station welcomed its first returning vehicle in years on Monday a SpaceX Dragon capsule making its second delivery.Space shuttle Atlantis was the last repeat......
ANKARA: Germany has no choice but to pull its troops out of the key Turkish airbase of Incirlik, after failing to reach agreement with Ankara on visits by politicians, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel......
WASHINGTON: A disgruntled former employee at a car accessory business in Orlando, Florida, fatally shot five workers on Monday before turning the gun on himself, US television channels reported.In......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, emboldened by US President Donald Trump’s new approach to the region, have seized the chance to isolate Qatar, analysts said on Monday.“This......
IranIran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday urged Qatar and neighbouring Gulf Arab countries to engage in dialogue to resolve their dispute. “Neighbours are permanent; geography can’t......
DUBAI: Here are the main developments that led to the unprecedented crisis between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours:May 20Qatar says it is the victim of a smear campaign and rejects accusations of it......
CAIRO: Anxious Egyptians began flooding their community in Qatar with calls at dawn on Monday after learning that Cairo had cut ties with the wealthy Gulf state where they have made their......
LONDON: Tamim Iqbal offered Bangladesh’s lone resistance with a valiant 95 as Australia restricted his side to 182 in Monday’s Champions Trophy Group ‘A’ clash.After hitting 128 against England in......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s defeat against India has been described as “shameful” and “humiliating” by country’s former players.Wasim Akram said India’s cricket had improved a lot due to the IPL and massive......
LAHORE: Fast bowler Wahab Riaz, who had to leave the field after twisting his ankle during Pakistan’s opening match against India, is declared unfit to take part in remaining matches of the Champions......
PARIS: Andy Murray racked up his 650th career win to reach the French Open quarter-finals on Monday where he was joined by 2015 champion Stan Wawrinka.World number one Murray, the runner-up in Paris......
ON a sombre day, reeling from a night of terrorist attacks in London, Pakistan surrendered to India on a soggy cricket field in Birmingham. Cricket, in these dangerous times, may seem a distraction,......
BIRMINGHAM: England fast bowler Steven Finn hopes to make the most of his late call-up to Champions Trophy duty when the tournament hosts face New Zealand in Cardiff on Tuesday.Finn was left out of......
BOSTON: South African Wayde van Niekerk easily won a 200-metre straightaway race and fellow Olympians Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Tori Bowie clocked the fastest times ever in two other infrequent races......
KARACHI: The City School’s Southern Region team will participate in the Waverley International Schools Netball Championship to be held in Melbourne, Australia from July 4-7 2017, president of the......
MADRID: Thousands of delirious Real Madrid fans poured onto the streets of the Spanish capital to catch a glimpse of Cristiano Ronaldo and his team-mates here on Sunday as they paraded the Champions......
ZURICH: Football’s governing body FIFA said on Monday it was in “regular contact” with the organising committee of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, though it did not comment directly on the diplomatic......
PARIS: The Netherlands warmed up for a vital 2018 World Cup qualifier next week with an emphatic 5-0 friendly win against Ivory Coast on Sunday.The Dutch are struggling to make it to Russia next......
ISLAMABAD: As new signature power projects undertaken by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government suffer technical problems, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has called a special meeting of the......
ISLAMABAD: After incurring a loss in duty collection over the past few years, the government is trying to minimise the impact of free and preferential trade agreements by withdrawing duty exemptions......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chamber of Agriculture (KPCA) has welcomed the decision of the federal government to introduce a new tier to document and curb the menace of illicit trade of......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s economic growth will be 5.2 per cent during the outgoing fiscal year ending June 2017, says a World Bank report released on Monday, adding ‘the growth remains strong over the......
LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) on Monday urged the Ministry of Water and Power to exempt poultry sector from load shedding.“Poultry farmers, hatchery owners and poultry......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump outlined a plan on Monday to privatise the US air traffic control system to modernize outdated systems and lower the cost of flying, but the proposal faced......
SINGAPORE: Saudi Arabia and key allies on Monday cut ties with Qatar, the world’s top seller of liquefied natural gas (LNG), stoking concern over any supply disruptions to neighbouring countries......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday visited mountaineer Abdul Jabbar Bhatti, the retired colonel who recently became the fourth Pakistani to summit the world’s......
SRINAGAR: Indian paramilitary forces killed four suspected suicide attackers who tried to storm their camp in the disputed Kashmir region on Monday.The gunmen lobbed grenades and fired automatic......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday directed the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) to make sure observance of a code of conduct with reference to Ramazan......
A DARK empty room and the constant sound of bombardment are amongst the most prominent memories Kabir Hussain carries of his six-month stay in Al Hudaydah, Yemen.The chief officer aboard an ill-fated......
ISLAMABAD: The government’s attempt to arrive at a consensus on economic policy direction hit a stumbling block in the Senate on Monday as members of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) accused the......
ISLAMABAD: As tensions along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir heightened, Pakistan and India on Monday threatened each other with strong retaliatory measures.Director General of Military......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday unveiled a Rs1,043.185 billion deficit budget for the financial year 2017-18 in the Sindh Assembly amid protest by opposition lawmakers.......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has submitted records of the Hudaibya Paper Mills to the joint investigation team (JIT) probing allegations of money laundering......
•Doha accused of harbouring terrorist and sectarian groups •Gulf states ban citizens from travelling to Qatar and order its citizens to leave within 14 daysRIYADH: Arab nations, including Saudi......
AN ESCALATING controversy over the JIT probing the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif demands the urgent attention of the Supreme Court.There are at least three problems with the composition and......
ALMOST three decades of existence as a frontline state in fighting one set of real or imaginary threats to the US-led Western world after another, has left Pakistan with a negative reputation — a......
ROGUE, terrorist, or evil states: there are so many states which have poor track records internally or externally. But are there states that can be held up as role models?First we must establish a......
THERE are not too many media houses left in India that will stand up to Prime Minister Modi’s insidious dismantling of freedoms. Universities are being destroyed by pseudo nationalist bigots, the......
PAKISTAN’S politics is not a game of hopscotch where you hop, skip and jump according to laid-out rules, retrieve the crucible and then hop, skip and jump back to safety and continue till you......
Finnish communications and information technology giant Nokia has authored the 'Digitalisation Scorecard' under the patronage of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, which seeks to......
Kabul will host a multinational peace conference on Afghanistan Tuesday, as the capital reels from a wave of bombings and clashes that left more than 100 people dead and hundreds wounded in the last......
