Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa headed a special meeting of the Sindh Apex Committee at Headquarters Karachi Corps on Tuesday. The meeting was briefed about the law and order......
The Pakistan High Commission in India has reached out to the Indian authorities for the release of five Pakistani Hindu citizens after they were reportedly arrested by police in Rajasthan.The......
The death toll from the deadly dispute between the two rival groups of Saad Khanani Jatoi and Badani Jatoi in Shikarpur increased to 15 on Tuesday as three more injured succumbed to their wounds, it......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Israel Tuesday for the first ever visit by an Indian premier, amid growing ties between the two countries including billions of dollars in defence......
At least 43 people have lost their lives so far due to monsoon rainfall and the flooding caused by it, according to a report published by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).According......
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping met Tuesday against a backdrop of mounting tensions over North Korea ahead of G20 summit talks with US President Donald Trump.The......
Sarfraz Ahmed, Pakistan's ODI and T20 captain who led the team to victory in the 2017 Champions Trophy, will now also captain Pakistan's Test team, Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Sheheryar......
They are all pictures of women doing everyday activities: a woman on a street, a woman playing the piano in her home, a woman lounging on a boat, a woman at a table in a restaurant.All unremarkable,......
Indian authorities want the stall where Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi once sold tea with his father to become a global tourist magnet.The nationalist leader spoke often during his election......
The prime minister's elder son, Hussain Nawaz, while speaking to the media after being questioned by a Supreme Court-sanctioned joint investigation team (JIT) probing his family's business dealings......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange has ended Tuesday’s session on a positive note, with the benchmark KSE-100 index gaining 728.65 points, or 1.63 per cent, by the close of the trading session to reach......
Israel backs India's right to defend itself from terrorist attacks, said an Israeli foreign ministry official on Tuesday, the Press Trust of India reported."We are both suffering from the same......
The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights on Tuesday approved the Child Protection Bill 2017 which will prevent children under the age of 18 from working.Under the new bill, which was approved......
Research published in the journal Nature has analysed the DNA of 10,503 Pakistanis who were participating in a Pakistan Risk of Myocardial Infarction Study (PROMIS) and discovered 1,317 disabled or......
A talented student and tech entrepreneur from Pakistan, Syed Faizan Hussain, has received the Queen’s Young Leaders Award.The 23-year-old has been recognised for his work to support the use of......
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Monday urged his country's judiciary to extend support to "oppressed" Muslims in Kashmir, news agency IRNA reported.Khamenei called on the Iranian......
Two members of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing allegations of financial impropriety against the Sharif family on Tuesday left for Doha with a questionnaire for former Qatari premier Sheikh......
Iran will be allowed to set up temporary consulates in Saudi Arabia during the Haj pilgrimage despite the absence of diplomatic ties between the two rivals, said Iran's foreign ministry on......
The Canadian government is going to apologise and give millions to a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who pleaded guilty to killing a US soldier in Afghanistan when he was 15, with Canada's Supreme......
India's top refiner has issued its first tender to buy high-sulphur, or sour, crude from North America as it seeks to diversify imports, three trading sources said on Tuesday.The purchase comes after......
A US drone strike killed four fighters of the militant Islamic State (IS) group, including a senior commander, an Afghan official said.Waheedullah Kalimzai, the governor of the eastern Kunar......
Energy-rich Qatar said on Tuesday that it plans to increase natural gas production by 30 per cent over the next several years, as it faces pressure from its neighbours in a diplomatic crisis.Saad......
Indian government forces killed three suspected militants in a gun battle in the India-held Kashmir while 35 civilians were injured in anti-India protests and clashes in solidarity with the......
Sri Lanka is suffering its worst-ever dengue outbreak, with the mosquito-borne virus killing 225 people and infecting more than 76,000 this year.Alarmed by the magnitude of the crisis, the government......
North Korea on Tuesday launched what appeared to be its longest-range ballistic missile yet, with experts suggesting it could reach Alaska, triggering a Twitter outburst from US President Donald......
A hike in taxes on gold sales in India could stoke under-the-counter buying and drive up appetite for precious metal smuggled into the country, where millions of people store big chunks of their......
A boiler explosion at a Bangladeshi garment factory killed 10 people and injured dozens, fire officials said on Tuesday, the latest mishap to hit one of the world's biggest garment producers.The......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan on Tuesday failed to submit his reply to a contempt of court case filed against him before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).Last week, the ECP......
Hussain Nawaz, the elder son of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, arrived at the Federal Judicial Academy (FJA) on Tuesday to appear before the six-member Joint Investigation Team (JIT) investigating......
LAHORE: Shalimar police claimed on Monday to have arrested an 11-year-old boy for allegedly killing his minor sister four days ago for teasing him “for having poor handwriting”.Nine-year-old Eman......
BAHAWALPUR: A large number of teachers from government schools took to the streets on Monday against a written test scheduled for today (Tuesday) to be conducted by the district education authority......
SHEIKHUPURA: A large number of farmers held a demonstration in front of local irrigation offices on Monday against non-availability of canal water.The protesters gathered in front of Upper Chanab......
PESHAWAR: The federal government has postponed reopening of the Ghulam Khan checkpoint on the Pak-Afghan border in North Waziristan Agency over security reasons, an official said.The FBR official......
On the 22nd of June, 15-year-old Junaid Khan left his home in Khandwali, a small village in Haryana, along with his three brothers on a train bound for Delhi to do their annual Eid shopping for their......
TWO inextricably linked policy distortions, and poor governance, have impacted the economy’s competitiveness. They have created and reinforced potentially grim challenges in the......
PRIME MINISTER Theresa May could have easily ignored, without anyone noticing, the vengeful white Briton who drove his truck into a crowd of Muslim worshippers, mowing down a few and killing one.......
OUR mercurial cricketers achieved a quick and miraculous turnaround in the UK, evidently by having a few sessions of honest talk. This raises the intriguing issue whether this equally mercurial......
In a recent op-ed published by the New York Times, former US national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley and I argued for a US approach to Pakistan that centred on understanding Pakistan’s strategic......
LONDON: British factories were left out of a demand-driven surge in activity across much of Asia and Europe in June, as weakness in sterling failed to translate into export growth, surveys......
DOHA: Qatar’s stock exchange dropped on Sunday as the tiny Gulf nation braced for a deadline to accept demands from four Arab countries in part over what they allege is its support for extremist......
KARACHI: Monday saw a bloodbath on the trade floor as the benchmark KSE-100 index crashed by 1,900 points, the highest single-day decline.The event brought back memories of Aug 15 last year when......
KARACHI: Foreign companies working in Pakistan repatriated $1.88 billion in profits and dividends to their home countries in the 11 months through May, a year-on-year increase of nearly 7 per cent,......
KARACHI: Revenue collection by the Sindh Excise and Taxation Department increased 20.8 per cent in 2016-17, according to official data.The department collected Rs52.54 billion in the last fiscal......
TEHRAN: French energy giant Total defied US pressure on Monday by signing a multibillion-dollar gas deal with Iran, the first by a European firm in more than a decade.Total will invest an initial $1......
SHANGHAI: China on Monday widened access to its $10 trillion bond market, which analysts said will boost Beijing’s drive to internationalise the yuan and more deeply integrate its markets with the......
NEW DELHI: India’s market regulator chairman Ajay Tyagi said on Monday he was considering imposing more regulations on ratings agencies, days after announcing a set of tough new rules that the......
THE finds of the tournament are now the champions of the tournament.If Germany retain the FIFA World Cup title in Russia next year, the groundwork for that were probably laid on this night at the......
LONGWY: World champion Peter Sagan suffered an untimely pedal problem but slotted his shoe back into its clip in time and powered to victory in the third stage of the Tour de France on Monday.The......
ST PETERSBURG: Germany’s Confederations Cup-winning coach Joachim Loew and FIFA president Gianni Infantino have led the calls for giving Russia the seal of approval to host next year’s World Cup.Lars......
LONDON: Wimbledon has ramped up security following the recent wave of terror attacks in London, chief executive Richard Lewis said as the prestigious tennis tournament got under way on......
NORTH SOUND: West Indies captain Jason Holder took five wickets as they beat India by 11 runs in a low-scoring One-day International on Sunday (partly reported in Monday’s edition).After West Indies......
LONDON: Defending champion Andy Murray celebrated the news that he’s about to become a father again by reaching the Wimbledon second round on Monday as fellow two-time winner Rafael Nadal clinched......
KARACHI: The outgoing chief of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Shaharyar Khan has invited the International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Shashank Manohar to visit Lahore next month.Shaharyar......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is to deploy game wardens to stop wild elephants straying onto the pitch when the country hosts Zimbabwe for a series of One-day Internationals at the Hambantota stadium.Experts......
LONDON: Former Chelsea and England captain John Terry has joined Championship side Aston Villa on a one-year deal, the club confirmed on its website on Monday.“I am delighted to join Aston Villa,”......
CAPE TOWN: South Africa captain Faf du Plessis will miss the first Test against England at Lord’s starting on Thursday due to family reasons, the cricket board confirmed on Monday.Du Plessis has......
MOSCOW: It was Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the flesh. Standing in front of the dilapidated wooden barracks where Anastasia Votintseva shares a single room with her sister and three......
NARENDRA Modi begins a first visit to Israel by an Indian prime minister on Tuesday, in a public embrace of a country that he has long admired for its military and technical expertise but which his......
WASHINGTON: On Oct 14, 1926, a distinguished citizen of Poland named Leopold Kotnowski came to the White House with a greeting card for the United States’ 150th birthday.It was a little late — the......
BEIJING: Torrential rain lashed parts of central and south China on Monday, with floods damaging crops, forcing hundreds of thousands from their homes and killing at least 33, while the north wilted......
NEW DELHI: The China-India border standoff got shriller on Monday as Beijing accused Indian troops of intrusion across their disputed border and betrayal of a colonial era agreement it claimed to......
VERSAILLES: France’s new president, Emmanuel Macron, told parliament in a ceremonial address on Monday that he would seek direct approval from voters in a referendum if parliament failed to sign off......
JAKARTA: A rescue helicopter crashed while heading to help evacuate residents near an active volcano on Indonesia’s main island, killing all eight people on board, officials said on Monday.The......
BOSTON: In the shadow of giant war machines, a tiny rare butterfly is flourishing. Oddly, experts say, the US military gets the credit.The frosted elfin, which flutters along on a one-inch wingspan,......
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he will work to regain public trust after his party suffered an historic defeat in an election in the nation’s capital, signalling trouble......
KARACHI: Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Khwaja Izharul Hasan of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement said on Monday that opposition parties would launch a protest drive against the ruling......
KARACHI: Terming the escape of two undertrial prisoners (UTPs) from the Central Prison Karachi (CPK) a “most serious incident”, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday suspended the deputy......
KARACHI: The once life-giving Manchhar Lake is now filled with dead fish to an immeasurable extent due to contamination, posing a severe risk to the livelihood, health and lives of the communities......
KARACHI: Mayor Wasim Akhtar has said that Karachi will carry on its progress towards becoming a smart city on the lines of Singapore, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Madrid and Stockholm.However, support from......
KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party chairman Mustafa Kamal has said there will be no use of conducting counterterrorism operations in the country when corrupt rulers and bureaucrats are “killing” innocent......
MITHI: The recent rainfall in Tharparkar has sent a wave of happiness across the desert region with optimism for prosperity reigning supreme, but impediments to their ambitious plans to avail the......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom Division on Monday informed the Senate Committee on Delegated Legislation that intercepting telephone calls is lawful and should not be......
ISLAMABAD: A son of the founder of outlawed Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan has approached the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to get his name removed from the fourth schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Religious Affairs on Monday decided that the Haj quota for private tour operators should be reduced to accommodate new operators and that doing......
RAWALPINDI: Local singers from the Potohar region performed at a musical night at the Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC) on Monday.The event was attended by Senator Najma Hameed, MNA Raja Javed Ikhlas,......
UPPER DIR: A three-day Kumrat summer sports and cultural festival concluded here the other day with a colourful ceremony and spectacular fireworks.Deputy commissioner Mohammad Usman Mehsud, district......
PESHAWAR: Poets, artists, political activists and members of civil society organisations staged a protest demonstration outside Peshawar Press Club on Monday to condemn the airing of a programme by......
PESHAWAR: The business of private diagnostic centres has declined after the upgradation of pathological and radiology services at the government-run medical teaching institutions of the provincial......
SWABI: The tobacco growers have announced a protest drive against both the national and multinational companies for fixing ‘lower’ prices of their crop.As Pakistan Tobacco Company (PTC) and other......
ISLAMABAD: Amid Panama Papers controversy, the government on Monday appointed a trusted aide to Finance Minister Ishaq Dar chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and notified over 10 per cent......
QUETTA: Minister for Ports and Shipping Hasil Bizenjo has said that Pakistan is passing through a very critical juncture and all state institutions, including parliament and judiciary, will have to......
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Monday reacted to a hard-hitting statement of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar after his appearance before the joint investigation team......
ISLAMABAD: Taking another initiative, Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani has decided to hold meetings with the four provincial chief ministers to discuss with them a proposed roadmap to establish a......
MUZAFFARABAD: As many as 13 people, three of them women, have so far been killed and another 97 injured in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) in the ongoing year in “unprovoked” firing and shelling by......
LAHORE: Regarding the reservations shared by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders about the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the Panama Papers case, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP),......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman called on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday and briefed him about operational preparedness of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF),......
LAHORE: When Lahore was being adorned with underpasses and flyovers left, right and centre, who would have thought the infrastructure-obsessed chief minister of Punjab would, one day, give a go-ahead......
STAMMBACH: Eighteen people were killed on Monday in one of the deadliest road accidents in Germany’s recent history when a tour bus carrying mostly pensioners smashed into a trailer truck and burst......
ISLAMABAD: The National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) has taken up the case of Muhammad Iqbal, a juvenile offender, and urged authorities to abstain from issuing his execution warrants.It is......
SARGODHA/JHANG: Member of the National Assembly Jamshed Dasti, who was arrested last month on charges of water theft, was released from the Sargodha district jail on Monday afternoon after getting......
ISLAMABAD: The Balochistan police told the Supreme Court on Monday that a provincial assembly member who fatally ran over a traffic sub-inspector on June 20 in Quetta was also booked in a 2009 case......
ISLAMABAD: Questioning the way the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) is conducting the Panama Papers probe, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Monday again disowned the confessional statement he signed in......
ISLAMABAD / PESHAWAR: Hours before a bipartisan US Senate delegation visited South Waziristan Agency on Monday, a CIA-operated drone carried out a missile attack in a village of the tribal region,......
ISLAMABAD: A former senator and ruling party leader has asked the Supreme Court to order the immediate extradition of Raymond Davis — a contractor with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — and......
KARACHI: Taking advantage of its numerical strength in the Sindh Assembly, the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party managed to get passed a controversial bill to repeal the applicability of the National......
