The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday named former captain Ravi Shastri the new head coach of India, ending weeks of speculation over the high-profile job after Anil Kumble's......
Discreet in his youth and invisible as the world's most wanted man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was once again reported dead on Tuesday as his cross-border “caliphate” falls apart.The reclusive militant......
PPP Chairman Bilwal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday lent his support to the rising chorus of demands for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's resignation following the revelations made in the report submitted by......
An Afghan-American female pilot on a solo flight around the world seeking to inspire young women across the globe has taken a detour to visit her native Afghanistan and meet the country's president......
Senior PML-N ministers addressed a press conference Tuesday evening in an effort to counter rising political pressure on the bigwigs of the ruling party.The crux of the PML-N's message was that the......
A memorandum of understanding, aimed to shore up Qatar's counter-terrorism efforts, was signed between the United States and the Gulf nation on Tuesday.The agreement was signed during US Secretary of......
Imran Khan has repeated his demand for the resignation of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, along with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif......
Human rights lawyer and activist Asma Jahangir on Monday said that the Panamagate joint investigation team's (JIT) report cannot be taken as the final word on the Panamagate case.Speaking in the show......
A cache of arms and ammunition was recovered by the security forces in Kohat on Tuesday, the military's media wing claimed.According to an Inter-Services Public Relations' press release, armed forces......
Sahiwal's Naseem Akhtar has won the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) Under-18 Snooker World Championship after beating China's Peifan Lei in Beijing on Tuesday.Akhtar won five......
In a section titled "Ownership of Avenfield Apartments", the final report submitted by the Panamagate joint investigation team (JIT) on 10 July, points out major discrepancies in documents submitted......
A day after the Panamagate joint investigation team (JIT) handed its report on the Sharif family's financial history to the Supreme Court (SC), PML-N frontmen continue to come up with a number of......
Volume one of the Joint Investigation Team's (JIT) report highlights several discrepancies and fabrications regarding the ownership and sale of the Gulf Steel Mills by Nawaz Sharif.The 40-page......
The otherwise innocuous Calibri font became a trending topic among Pakistan's Twitterati after suspicions about its use were raised in the joint investigation team (JIT) report submitted to the......
In a 28-page section titled 'Assets beyond means (Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif)' the joint investigation team (JIT) looking into the Panamagate probe, questions the veracity of the documentation......
Awami Muslim League (AML) leader Sheikh Rashid at a press conference in Islamabad on Tuesday announced that he would approach the Supreme Court (SC) next week to present his arguments against Prime......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has granted transit bail to Zafar Hijazi, the chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), until July 17.Earlier on Tuesday, when Hijazi submitted......
The Pakistani government has awarded a contract worth nearly $382 million to a Chinese company to reconstruct Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport, the Chinese state-owned People's Daily......
India's top court on Tuesday stayed a nationwide ban imposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on the sale of cattle for slaughter that had provoked outcry in many states.The Supreme Court......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday agreed to form a commission investigating whether the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) acquired foreign funding from prohibited sources during a......
Top PML-N officials met at PM House on Tuesday to discuss the party's legal and political strategy following the submission to the apex court of a damning inquiry report probing the Sharif family's......
Former skipper Ravi Shastri has emerged as the front-runner to be the new coach of India, but a final decision remains on hold until captain Virat Kohli has been consulted.Shastri, 55, was among five......
Sporadic clashes are continuing in Mosul, even after Iraq declared a “total victory” over the militant Islamic State (IS) group in the city.At least one airstrike hit the Old City, the scene of......
Nato's secretary general says the 29-member alliance is supplying hardware to the Ukrainian government to help protect its government networks from cyberattacks.At a news conference in Kiev alongside......
Members of the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) Shah Mahmood Qureshi and the PPP's Khursheed Shah in a meeting on Tuesday decided to push for the resignation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) witnessed a bloodbath on Tuesday on the back of political uncertainty a day after a joint investigation team (JIT) report on the ruling Sharif family's financial......
Terrorists killed six Hindu pilgrims and wounded 14 others Monday in India-held Kashmir, police told AFP, after their bus came under attack.India's Central Reserve Police Force, which provides......
An active duty soldier based in Hawaii pledged his allegiance to the militant Islamic State (IS) group, helped purchase a drone for it to use against American forces and said he wanted to use his......
A US military aircraft has crashed in the southern state of Mississippi, killing 16 people, US media reported Monday.The US Marine Corps confirmed that a “mishap” involving a KC-130 occurred in the......
Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini, the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismailis, celebrates 60 years today since he inherited the leadership of his community from his grandfather and became the Aga Khan.Prince......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak said here on Monday that investigation into Panama Papers case was the most important chapter of the political history of the......
CHITRAL: The Pakistan Post officials and a contractor have been accused of disrupting the mail delivery system in Chitral.An official of Chitral GPO confirmed that no mail had reached here from Upper......
PESHAWAR: The panelists during the 11th study circle of the Bacha Khan Fellows stressed youths to adopt scientific approach and way of critical thinking in their life for clear vision and unbiased......
MINGORA: The local people and tourists in Sulatanr valley have demanded of the government to take action against the people involved in illegal cutting of trees and timber smuggling.They claimed to......
ISLAMABAD: In an attempt to rein in the bureaucracy of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Mohammad Yousuf followed members of the National Assembly Standing......
RAWALPINDI: The prime minister’s elder son Hussain Nawaz returned to Islamabad from London on Monday.He had left for London from Islamabad on Thursday via Doha, sparking speculation that he would......
ISLAMABAD: The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement has been a setback for Pakistan, as it may no longer receive the share of funding it had expected, Climate Change......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court division bench on Monday dismissed an intra-court appeal (ICA) of cricketer Khalid Latif challenging proceedings of Pakistan Cricket Board’s Anti-Corruption Tribunal on......
LONDON: Angelique Kerber crashed out of Wimbledon and lost her hold on the world No 1 ranking, while five-time champion Venus Williams became the oldest All England Club quarter-finalist in 23 years......
LAUSANNE: Olympic chiefs will meet in Lausanne on Tuesday to discuss and likely rubber-stamp the process to award the 2024 and 2028 Games simultaneously.Members of the International Olympic Committee......
MUMBAI: The Cricket Advisory Committee of the Indian board (BCCI) interviewed five candidates for the head coach’s post on Monday but said it will name Anil Kumble’s successor only after consulting......
HAMBANTOTA: Sikandar Raza starred with the bat and ball to help Zimbabwe edge out Sri Lanka by three wickets and clinch a historic series victory in the fifth One-day International on Monday.Taking......
LEICESTER: Winless Pakistan women’s cricket team will be aiming to register their first win in the ICC Women’s World Cup when they face the West Indies at Grace Road, Leicester on Tuesday.Overcoming......
SAN DIEGO: Mexico launched their CONCACAF Gold Cup title defence with a comfortable 3-1 victory over El Salvador in their Group ‘C’ opener on Sunday.A young Mexico side aiming to capture an eighth......
KINGSTON: Evin Lewis blazed his second hundred against India to lead the West Indies to a rampaging nine-wicket victory in the one-off Twenty20 International at Sabina Park on Sunday.Replying to the......
LIVERPOOL: Wayne Rooney believes his return to Everton can revive his international career with England.Rooney, who has 119 caps and a record 53 goals for England, was left out of the most recent......
EARLIER this year, 18-year-old Razia (not her real name) ran away from her husband’s home in Shireen Jinnah Colony, Karachi, after he smashed her head against the wall, punched her on the side of the......
TEVYE: As the good book says, when a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick.Mendel: Where does the book say that?Tevye: Well, it doesn’t say that exactly, but somewhere there is something about......
FROM the perspective of a non-filer, I would be fiercely bitter with being repeatedly discriminated against in successive budgets.After all, it is not that non-filers weren’t paying taxes like every......
VEHARI: An oil tanker caught fire during unloading petrol at a local agency situated at 192/EB, some 20km from here, on Monday evening.The fire erupted when the tanker was being emptied out. The oil......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Dozens of owners and drivers of taxis on Monday blocked Shahi Road from bridge chowk to District Press Club Chowk by parking their cars against what they called illegal tax on taxi......
WORKSHOPA national workshop on classical protein chemistry at the Dr Panjwani Centre for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, University of Karachi, at 9.30am. Dr Aftab Ahmed, a scientist from......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the Pakistan Peoples Party candidate’s victory from PS-114 constituency is the manifestation of the confidence of the people belonging......
KARACHI: An inquiry into the recent jailbreak by two high-profile militants of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi has revealed that some militants belonging to banned outfits were virtually running the affairs of the......
KARACHI: Karachi’s shifting political landscape has a new big fish: Saeed Ghani.A lifelong jiala, Ghani is the son of labour leader Usman Ghani who was gunned down on Sept 17, 1995 along with a......
SOME 50 years ago, a publisher in India began publishing selections from Urdu poetry. Each selection consisted of 100 best couplets of an individual poet. Many such selections were published and it......
LARKANA: Mohammad Aslam has finally found a way to give his family relief from extended power cuts. In February this year he installed a 300-watt solar power generating system on the roof of his......
KARACHI: Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal on Monday asked the relevant authorities to prepare a database vis-a-vis the madressahs constructed on encroached government land.“Details of all such......
ISTANBUL: Turkey marks one year on July 15 since a coup attempt aiming to topple President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that failed within hours but etched far-reaching consequences into its society and......
WASHINGTON: The Iraqi military’s hard-fought victory over the militant Islamic State group in Mosul marks a defining moment not just for them. It is also a key win for the US doctrine behind......
We hear the sound of a crowd clapping in unison, chanting an indecipherable name, faster and faster, and then exploding in applause. When the applause fades, we see a lone hand holding a quill to......
RELIGIOUS institutions in the Islamic world should try to improve the quality of life of Muslims as well as of other groups with whom they live, Prince Shah Karim Al Hussaini, the 49th Imam of the......
LONDON: London’s High Court on Monday rejected a claim by campaigners that Britain’s multi-billion-pound arms sales to Saudi Arabia should be halted because they were being used in Yemen in violation......
BEIJING: China’s cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo is in a critical condition, his hospital said on Monday, raising fears about his life after Western doctors said there was time to take him......
MONGOLIAN businessman and martial arts expert Khaltmaa Battulga was sworn in as president on Monday, vowing to revive the flagging economy and pursue relations with countries outside its giant......
MOSUL: Iraq’s prime minister declared victory over IS in Mosul on Monday, three years after the militants seized the city and made it the stronghold of a “caliphate” they said would take over the......
ISTANBUL: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Kuwait on Monday for talks aimed at resolving the crisis triggered by the the cutoff of links with Qatar by Saudi Arabia and Arab allies......
MUMBAI: A government-run laboratory in western India has developed portable “beef detection kits” that will allow police to quickly determine whether meat is that of an illegally slaughtered cow, an......
BEIRUT: Syria’s six-year conflict has ravaged its infrastructure and caused losses to its economy of $226 billion, according to estimates published by the World Bank on Monday.The devastating war has......
LONDON: Wimbledon defended shunting top women players onto the outside courts on ‘Manic Monday’, saying the big four of men’s tennis were the marquee matches demanded by broadcasters and......
DUBAI: Qatar has $340 billion in reserves that could help the Gulf country to weather the isolation by its powerful Arab neighbours, central bank governor Sheikh Abdullah Bin Saoud al-Thani......
KARACHI: For the first time in 13 years, remittances recorded a year-on-year drop in 2016-17, data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) showed on Monday.Remittances declined 3.08 per cent to......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan says it could become one of the world’s top-five buyers of liquefied natural gas (LNG), with Petroleum Minister Shahid Abbasi predicting imports could jump more than five-fold as......
KARACHI: A relief rally right before the close of the market on Monday saw the KSE-100 index propel 1,051.66 points (2.33 per cent) to settle at 46,273.81.The benchmark opened the session on a......
ISLAMABAD: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Monday approved a total of 11 development projects with an estimated cost of about Rs235bn.Finance Minister Ishaq Dar......
Elon Musk tweets pictures of first Model 3NEW YORK: Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Sunday tweeted pictures of the first Model 3 sedan to roll off the assembly line.Tesla board member Ira......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Petroleum and Natural Resources on Monday recommended the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) to increase the number of new domestic gas......
KARACHI: Cotton prices remained firm in the midst of slow to moderate trading on Monday. The day was marked with reports that some picking of cotton has started in Punjab.Though there was sustained......
LAHORE: While several legal experts believe that the report submitted by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in the Panama Papers case could lead to the disqualification of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition on Monday asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down, otherwise they will launch a campaign for his removal.It also requisitioned a fresh session of the Senate and the......
KARACHI: Indian Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Monday said that visas would be issued to Pakistani patients on the recommendation of Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s nominee has been elected as the independent chairperson of the Council of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Foreign Office said on Monday.Pakistan nominated Khalid......
MUZAFFARABAD: Thousands of people have fled their homes in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Monday, as continued shelling between Pakistan and India escalated tensions along the Line of......
ISLAMABAD: The final report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) revealed that the state’s tax machinery had a very limited tax record of the Sharif family.The available income tax returns and......
ISLAMABAD: With the registration of an FIR against Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan Chairman Zafar Hijazi, his appointment as SECP Commissioner is likely to be de-notified today......
KARACHI: “I don’t think taking the Sharea Faisal route is a good idea. They are observing Edhi Saheb’s first death anniversary at the hockey stadium named after him and traffic is really chaotic......
ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz Sharif, who has been billed as the latest member of the Sharif family to enter mainstream politics, has been accused by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) of submitting......
ISLAMABAD: The Joint Investigation Team (JIT), constituted by the Supreme Court to probe money laundering allegations against the Sharif family, set in motion a political upheaval by reporting that......
QUETTA: The District Police Officer (DPO) of Qilla Abdullah, his security guard and driver were killed and over 10 other people, including five police personnel, injured in a suicide blast in the......
ISLAMABAD: The military’s command said on Monday that its actions would continue to be grounded in national interest.Its public affairs division, Inter-Services Public Relations, in a statement on......
Suspected terrorists sprayed bullets on a passenger bus bringing Hindu pilgrims back from a cave shrine in India-held Kashmir on Monday, killing at least six of them, including five women, and......
Following the latest developments in the Panamagate implementation case, opposition parties have decided to further tighten the noose against the ruling PML-N and made contacts to devise a joint......
