In response to an international backlash against his diatribe against the skipper of the Pakistan team, Sarfaraz Ahmad, former cricketer and chief selector of the Pakistan Cricket Board Aamer Sohail......
Seven American troops were wounded Saturday in an insider attack by an Afghan soldier at a military base, as the US appears set to boost its troop presence in the country.The shootout at Camp Shaheen......
A total of 58 people are presumed dead after the devastating fire in a London tower block, police chief Stuart Cundy told reporters on Saturday.“We've worked tirelessly to establish how many people......
Saudi Arabia said Saturday a Turkish military base similar to that built in neighbouring Qatar would not be welcome in the kingdom, insisting it is “not needed”.The statement came after Turkish......
Sarfaraz Ahmed has vowed to continue playing "attacking and positive" cricket in tomorrow's Champions Trophy final against India. He was speaking to media ahead of the clash in London.Asked about the......
Exposure is the biggest difference between the two sides, Pakistan's cricket team coach Micky Arthur stated in a press conference ahead of Sunday's Champions Trophy 2017 final. He was answering a......
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the outlook for Pakistan's economy was “favourable”, citing Chinese infrastructure investments among reasons for growth, but warned of risks to recent......
At the beginning of the new millennium, cell phones were losing their novelty and turning into a necessity.Nokia had been leading the global mobile phone market for a little more than a decade.The......
In a reply submitted to the Supreme Court, the director general (DG) of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has conceded that the agency collected 'details' of the members of the joint investigation team......
A newborn girl child was thrown in a dumpster at Vehari Chowk in Multan by unidentified people, police has said on Saturday, quoting eyewitnesses.Eyewitnesses had quickly informed Rescue 1122, which......
Pakistan suffered a huge defeat against Canada in World Hockey League semi-final round at London Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.Pakistan lost to Canada 0-6, its......
A diplomatic crisis pitting Saudi Arabia against Qatar has put Syrian rebels in a difficult position, analysts say, after rivalries between Gulf backers had already weakened the opposition.Both......
Pakistan paceman Hasan Ali hopes the Champions Trophy final with arch-rivals India will see him continue to live the dream he had before the competition started.The 23-year-old has been central to......
South Africa's Marais Erasmus and England's Richard Kettleborough will be the on-field umpires for the Champions Trophy final between arch-rivals India and Pakistan, the International Cricket Council......
A minor household servant suffered serious injuries after his employer allegedly beat him up over suspicions of theft, the victim's brother has claimed in a first information report (FIR) filed at......
London will be painted green and blue come Sunday in anticipation for one of the biggest games in cricket history. Pakistan play India in a 50-over ICC tournament final for the first time.It cannot......
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, while talking to the media after his appearance in front of the joint investigation team (JIT) on Saturday, said he was asked to appear before the team as......
Ramazan is a month of countless blessings and an abundance of opportunities — the opportunity to do good deeds, to strengthen our faith, to discipline ourselves and to practice qualities such as......
It’s all about weather Hmm ... talk about weather, and sizzling hot and humid days come to one’s mind, especially to those living in hot regions of our country. Perhaps with every passing year we......
Surprise and cool everyone this summer by making some mango ice cream yourself. This recipe is very easy, with just three ingredients required and you can make it independently on your own, though......
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Fans of Disney Land and its characters will be delighted to know that Minnie Mouse heels are here now. Subtly designed, these black stilettos feature Minnie’s ears on the back of the ankle — meaning......
Stories about animals are always interesting and true stories are all the more so. There have been many incidents in Prophet Muhammad’s (PBUH) life where things in nature, plants and animals have......
“This isn’t fair!” I yelled at the top of my lungs and, at that time, it seemed the right thing to do. My father, a man in his late forties with curly hair and dark complexion, stood in front of me,......
While growing up we tend to relay on our mother for everything — she is the centre of our universe, the superpower that controls everything. It is only when we grow older that most of us realise the......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Friday ruled out an electoral alliance with other political parties for the coming general elections.Speaking at a party gathering......
PESHAWAR: Although most people are unable to buy traditional Peshawari and Charsadda Chappal owing to its high price yet still it has not lost market due to its popularity, traditional touch and......
RAWALPINDI: A day after a traffic warden was shot and injured while intercepting a motorcyclist doing wheelies, a mob attacked a traffic police post at Chandni Chowk to get back scores of motorcycles......
“I came to Islamabad 10 years ago to earn a better living. Back home in Battagram, I worked in the fields which did not excite me. I always wanted to work in a big city where I heard the wages were......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: MNA and Awami Raj Party Chairman Jamshed Dasti held protest fasting (hunger strike) in the central jail of Dera Ghazi Khan in protest at barring his visitors from meeting him,......
LAHORE: The Syndicate of the King Edward Medical University (KEMU) approved on Friday the creation of 22 non-teaching posts for the establishment of “a Turkish-model emergency department” at the Mayo......
LAHORE: Threatening to strike off Lahore Fort and Shalamar Gardens off the World Heritage Site list, civil society activists quoted the World Heritage Committee (WHC) as saying that the Orange Line......
BAHAWALPUR: Ten people were killed and 37 passengers were injured in two separate road accidents on Friday near Channigoth and Ahmedpur East, about 70km and 40km from here, respectively.In the first......
SAHIWAL: A 25-year-old Christian community centre located at Isa Nagri needs immediate attention of the provincial and district governments.The centre was developed in 1992 to promote collective......
NAROWAL: Only 3,901 people got the facility of free treatment from private hospitals under Prime Minister’s Health Card Scheme during the last six months, showing lack of public interest in the......
SAHIWAL: A man killed a woman for refusing his marriage proposal in Barkat Town on Friday.Farzana, 28, a resident of Barkat Town, had got married with Rahim 10 years back but her husband died soon......
KARACHI: With the passage of Sindh Finance Bill, the provincial assembly on Friday passed a ‘tax-free’ budget of over Rs1.043 trillion for financial year 2017-18 with a deficit of Rs14.32 billion.In......
KARACHI: The city administration said on Friday that all the ‘encroachments’ in the way of the much-delayed Lyari Expressway project had been removed, which resulted in displacement of more than......
KARACHI: It was heartening to see almost the entire family of Amjad Sabri, the distinguished qawwal who was shot dead last year on June 22, to turn up at an event held in his memory on Thursday night......
KARACHI: A two-day calligraphy exhibition in connection with the month of Ramazan opened at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi’s Ahmed Pervez Art Gallery on Friday evening.Close to 30 artists,......
KARACHI: Women members of the City Council have urged the government to resolve the issues of water and power in Karachi on a priority basis.Speaking at a press conference at the Karachi Press Club......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has approved a soft loan of $86 million for ‘Karachi neighbourhood improvement’ project which will benefit almost one million residents, business owners and commuters by......
HYDERABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) detectives are finding it difficult to investigate millions of rupees technical fraud committed by a bunch of officials in the National Bank of......
BADIN: Former Sindh home minister Dr Zulfikar Ali Mirza has said that he had never quit Pakistan Peoples Party and still considers himself a part of the real PPP.Dr Mirza told media persons after......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was under investigation for firing the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.The probe seeks to determine whether the......
FENGXIAN: A bomb blast that killed eight people and injured dozens outside a kindergarten in eastern China was the work of a 22-year-old introvert who was among the dead, authorities said on......
MIAMI: President Donald Trump on Friday ordered tighter restrictions on Americans travelling to Cuba and a clampdown on US business dealings with the Caribbean islands military, saying he was......
MUMBAI: The Indian family of Ireland’s new Prime Minister Leo Varadkar have said his election is “big news for the world”, and are looking forward to his first official visit to the country of his......
MOSCOW: The Russian army said on Friday it was seeking to verify whether chief of the militant Islamic State (IS) group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed after its warplanes hit its leaders in a......
GENEVA: The UN said on Friday that the militant Islamic State group may be holding more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians as human shields in the Old City of Mosul.Iraqi forces are fighting to retake......
LOS ANGELES: A giant Bat-signal lit up the side of City Hall in Los Angeles on Thursday night to honour Batman actor Adam West, who played the superhero role in the 1960s television series. He died......
MUMBAI: An Indian court on Friday found six men guilty of involvement in a series of blasts in Mumbai in 1993 that killed 257 people and wounded 800, the latest in convictions related to India’s most......
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional American forces to Afghanistan, a Trump administration official said on Thursday, hoping to break a stalemate in a war that has now passed......
REMEMBER when Europe was mired in the worst possible nightmare, with countries across the continent grappling with toxic far right populists, the sudden arrival of thousands of refugees and......
LONDON: In a report compiled before the Grenfell Tower disaster on Wednesday, Britain’s Building Research Establishment, which works for the Department of Communities and Local Government on fire......
RUPKITE: Seven million years ago the sunflower and corn fields in parts of southern Bulgaria were like an African savannah, roamed by gazelles and giraffes.And perhaps also, amazingly, by the oldest......
LONDON: British police said officers guarding one of the gates to the Westminster parliament in central London had fired a stun gun at a man who reached for a knife when they approached him on Friday......
SINGAPORE: A family feud being played out in public between Singapore’s prime minister and his siblings took an acrimonious turn on Friday, with accusations their late father’s will had been tampered......
KARACHI: Spinner Tauheed Khan starred with a four-wicket bag while inspiring National Bank of Pakistan to a 15-run victory over State Bank of Pakistan in their Cola Next presents Jazz Corporate T20......
LONDON: Pakistan are ready to change the course of history in a clash that’s “bigger than the Ashes” when they face arch-rivals India in the ICC Champions Trophy final.Some estimates suggest Sunday’s......
THE uncertainties of a limited over game at any level is such that even an unbeatable team is beaten into submission as was the case a couple of days ago when Pakistan convincingly thrashed England......
LONDON: Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir believes he is “fast gaining fitness” ahead of the Champions Trophy final against arch-rivals India.The 25-year-old left-armer missed Pakistan’s shock......
CARDIFF: Joe Root accepted England had missed a “golden chance” to end their long wait for a maiden One-day International title after a crushing eight-wicket ICC Champions Trophy semi-final defeat at......
AFTER leading Real Madrid to a historic second successive Champions League title in Cardiff earlier this month — scoring twice against Juventus in a 4-1 victory, Cristiano Ronaldo was asked what was......
ST PETERSBURG: Football fans in Pakistan, rejoice. If you have a ticket for a game at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, you don’t need to apply for visa to travel to Russia.To top that up, Russia will also......
ERIN: Canada’s Adam Hadwin tied a US Open record by firing six consecutive birdies on Thursday to roar up the leaderboard and into contention for a first major.Playing the back nine first at the......
CALL it my poor understanding of the English language or my love for Urdu that the only way I have learnt to enjoy cricket is through radio commentary in Urdu. I share this weakness with the......
OSLO: World champion Dafne Schippers’s 25th birthday celebrations almost fell flat here on Thursday when the Dutch sprint star was disqualified twice from the 200m at the Oslo Diamond League before......
KARACHI: June 18, 2017 has gained special significance in the annals of Pakistan sports as its national hockey and cricket teams will be up against traditional rivals India in London on the day.The......
KARACHI: Opener Ali Shan produced a dazzling display as Jaffer Brothers stunned Tapal CC by five wickets to reach the semi-finals of the 30th Aga Khan Gymkhana T20 Ramazan Cup at the AKG Ground here......
ISLAMABAD: Large-scale manufacturing (LSM) grew 9.7 per cent year-on-year in April, the second-highest monthly growth recorded in the past few years.However, annual growth during the July-April......
QUETTA: The provincial government is trying to increase allocation for development despite resource constraints by implementing strict discipline and reforming its current expenditures, Balochistan......
KARACHI: The number of branchless banking accounts increased by 73 per cent to 23.69 million in 12 months through March, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported on Friday.In geographical terms,......
MULTAN: The Punjab government’s Rs708 million ‘Diversification of High Value Cropping Through Promotion of Horticulture’ project aims to grow five top date varieties in the southern region of the......
KARACHI: The stock market continued its losing streak for the third consecutive day on Friday, with the benchmark KSE-100 index shedding 584 points, or 1.23 per cent, to close at 46,859.The market......
ISLAMABAD: Amid a political rush to deliver ahead of elections, the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) has rubber-stamped additional expenditure of Rs10 billion for the Lahore-based Sui Northern......
LAHORE: The second phase of the 456-acre Rahim Yar Khan Industrial Estate (RYKIE) would be completed soon and an independent grid station would be set up to facilitate investors, PIEDMC Chairman......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the French Development Agency (AFD) have approved loans worth over $400 million to help Pakistan improve reliability and sustainability of the energy......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Friday accused Nawaz Sharif of making “dangerous insinuations” in his speech on Thursday by claiming that a conspiracy had been......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday reserved its order on the maintainability of a petition filed by an additional district and sessions judge (ADSJ) facing allegations of illegal......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has approved a project worth $137 million to help the poorest and vulnerable people in Pakistan, especially women, who do not have access to digital banking and financial......
KARACHI: Prison police on Friday tear-gassed a group of prisoners who were protesting against frequent power cuts and shortage of water inside the Karachi central jail, according to officials.Around......
ISLAMABAD: A spokesman for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday alleged that the Supreme Court was not paying heed to what he called the ‘biased’ attitude of the joint investigation team (JIT)......
LONDON: Angry residents stormed local authority headquarters on Friday demanding justice as the death toll from the London tower block fire reached 30, with dozens more unaccounted for.Fire-fighters......
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, while describing the aspersions of a congressman about Pakistan’s alleged links to terrorism as ‘well-founded’, has announced an inter-agency review......
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry has cancelled the visa of a Korean national identified as Juan Won Seo, owner of the ARK Info Tech Institute in Quetta where two Chinese nationals had come to learn......
SRINAGAR: Separate clashes in India-held Kashmir killed 10 people — five police officers, a soldier, two civilians and two suspected militants — authorities said on Friday, as violence in the......
BERLIN: Germany’s longest serving post-war leader, Helmut Kohl, the father of German reunification and an architect of European integration, died on Friday at the age of 87.Kohl, a passionate......
ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif will appear before the joint investigation team (JIT), constituted to probe money laundering allegations against the Sharif family, on Saturday.Sources......
ISLAMABAD: Blame game seems to have become the order of the day and Friday was the turn of Prime Minister House that accused the joint investigation team (JIT) probing the Panama Papers case of phone......
MITHI/KARACHI: The abduction, forced conversion and marriage of a teenage Meghwar girl from a village in Thar has sparked outrage and concern among members of the Hindu community and civil society......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was informed on Friday that 66 international non-government organisations (INGOs) had been registered so far and the applications of 10 others......
ISLAMABAD: Most senators, especially those from the tribal areas, claimed they did not own weapons, according to the statement of assets filed at the Election Commission of Pakistan, while the......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa has counselled unnamed neighbours to address problems at home instead of blaming Pakistan for their woes.“Terrorism cannot be defeated by......
THE tagline in the old Laurel and Hardy movies was “another fine mess”, and was uttered whenever things went wrong for the comic duo, as they often did.I can imagine some judges in the Supreme Court......
THE Congress Working Committee (CWC) met in New Delhi on June 6, with its president Sonia Gandhi in the chair, to pave the way for elevation of the vice president — her son Rahul — to the presidency......
IN a polarised milieu, calls for accountability may mean anything from simply an expectation that the rule of law will be upheld to seeking freedom for a lynch mob to run amok with a hangman’s noose.......
AFTER escaping mass casualty attacks for 12 years, the United Kingdom suffered three in quick succession in 72 days, suggesting the authorities are not able to stop low-tech, improvised assaults......
New evidence has surfaced about the abduction and reported murder of two Chinese nationals by the militant Islamic State (IS) group in Quetta, the interior ministry said on Friday.The ministry has......
