A group of girls from Afghanistan are finally going to the United States for a robotics competition after US President Donald Trump intervened into the matter.The girls' applications for US visas had......
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday wrote a letter to the Embassy of United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Islamabad, a copy of which is available with DawnNews, seeking an arrangement for urgent......
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Police on Thursday announced to have arrested five men — allegedly workers of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) — over charges of killing 20 people......
If international teams can play in England despite all the issues they should also come to Pakistan to play cricket, captain Sarfraz Ahmed said at a gathering held in his honour at Karachi Press Club......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange ended nearly flat on Thursday, with the benchmark KSE-100 index shedding only 8.6 points, or 0.02 per cent, by the close of the trading session to reach 43,783 points.The......
China's Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo died on Thursday aged 61 after losing a battle with cancer, authorities said, more than a month after he was transferred to a hospital from prison.The......
India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Gopal Baglay has made it clear that India is, "ready to have a dialogue with Pakistan ... but in a bilateral framework," ANI reported on......
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has awarded former Pakistan Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq with Honorary Life Membership for his services to the game.MCC, the owner of Lord’s Ground and the "guardian of......
It shameful for a prime minister to remain in office once his own cabinet begins discussing his resignation, Leader of the Opposition Khursheed Shah said in a press conference on Thursday.He accused......
The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday directed Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan to submit financial details for his London flat by July 25.The SC bench had taken up the petition......
Two top American nuclear experts have said that India's nuclear strategy is experiencing a shift as it is now modernising its nuclear arsenal with a focus on China rather than its traditional rival......
The pending visa application of the mother of Indian spy Kulbashan Jadhav is currently under review, said the Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday.India had requested Pakistan to allow Avantika Jadhav to......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) halted the notification of PPP candidate Saeed Ghani's victory in the PS-114 elections on Thursday. The ECP was hearing a petition by Muttahida Qaumi......
An emergency meeting of the federal cabinet on Thursday endorsed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's decision to not step down as the premier, even as clamour for his exit got louder in wake of the Joint......
The United Nations special envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, warned on Wednesday that conflict in Yemen is intensifying daily, with terrorist groups expanding, 14 million people in desperate......
Indian censors have refused to certify a documentary film featuring Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen unless words like “cow” and “Hindu India” are beeped out, the director said on Wednesday,......
Hoping to find respite from the deepening scandal over alleged Russian involvement in the United States (US) elections, US President Donald Trump headed to Paris on Thursday.During a lightning visit......
At least four policemen were shot dead by unidentified assailants in Quetta's Killi Deba area on Thursday, police said.The gunmen opened indiscriminate fire at the police mobile while it was......
Worshippers quietly passed through metal detectors as they entered the central mosque in China's far western city of Kashgar under the stern gaze of stone-faced police officers.The increasingly......
Human rights lawyer and activist Asma Jahangir on Thursday denied reports that she will be joining the PML-N's legal team which will represent the Sharif family before the Supreme Court as hearing of......
A SERIES of developments have made it necessary for Pakistan to review some of the basic assumptions on which its foreign policy has traditionally been based. Unfortunately, matters are coming to a......
THE Sindh budget tells us how poorly the provincial government intends to use the people’s money. It is evident that there are clear gaps in planning; thereby making it important to establish whether......
PAKISTANI politicians could never become Roman Catholic priests. They refuse to take a vow of poverty.One has only to turn the leaves of Pakistan’s ledgers kept since 1947 to see how almost every......
SOMETHING very important was said by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in his angry remarks against the rupee’s depreciation last week that has passed unnoticed in the din of the Panama inquiry and the JIT......
PESHAWAR: Three persons were killed in rain-related incidents as heavy downpour lashed parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the adjoining tribal region on Wednesday.The torrential rains triggered......
UPPER DIR: Pakistan People’s Party, Upper Dir chapter held a protest demonstration here on Wednesday against excessive power outages in the district.The protesters blocked the Dir-Peshawar road to......
ISLAMABAD: A lawyer has filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking information about the $2.4 million in blood money that was paid to families of two men killed by American defence......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa directorate of culture is working on several projects to revive the once thriving live theatre of South Asia in early 20th century that had produced large number of......
ISLAMABAD: A lawyer has filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking information about the $2.4 million in blood money that was paid to families of two men killed by American defence......
Balochistan native Barket Ismail recognised the importance of an educated nation and established the Dynamic English Language Teaching Academy (Delta) in Turbat in 2001. By 2004, Delta had......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani on Wednesday directed the Islamabad Mayor Sheikh Anser Aziz and two senators to contact Sri Lankan high commission for replacing Kaavan with a pair or......
GUJRAT: The pedestrian side of the railway Victoria Bridge connecting Malakwal tehsil of Mandi Bahauddin district to Pind Dadan Khan tehsil of Jhelum district over the river Jhelum has been closed......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taunted Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman, saying Imran Khan cannot come into power through backdoor despite all his efforts.In a statement issued here on......
LAHORE: A woman on Wednesday secured pre-arrest bail in a case pertaining to death of a domestic worker, while police awaited the postmortem report of the deceased for further investigation.The......
KARACHI: Leading academicians have called for a coordinated and strong policy to check extremism that they believe is no more limited to conventional madressahs (seminaries) but can now be found in......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan on Wednesday challenged before the Election Commission of Pakistan the victory of Pakistan Peoples Party candidate Saeed Ghani in the July 9 by-election......
KARACHI: An excited Dr Fatema Hassan is making hectic efforts, running from the mayor to the chief minister and to many others who matter, to get removed the last hitches in the way of inauguration......
HYDERABAD: US Consul General (CG) in Karachi Grace Shelton handed over equipment and vehicles worth approximately Rs7 million on Wednesday to the deputy inspector general of police (DIG) Hyderabad,......
GENEVA: Aung San Suu Kyi’s government in Myanmar risks getting bracketed with “pariah states” like North Korea and Syria over its refusal to grant visas to a UN team investigating the plight of......
Spanish King Felipe VI called for a deal on the status of Gibraltar that would be “acceptable to all” on Wednesday, raising a thorny dispute on the first day of his state visit to Britain. “I am......
THE best thing about the rebooted Planet of the Apes film series has always been the apes. Impressive on a technical level and a dramatic one, these motion-capture creatures — representing......
SAYLORSBURG: Fethullah Gulen, the US-based Muslim cleric accused by Turkey of instigating last year’s failed coup, says he has no plans to flee the United States and would accept extradition if......
WASHINGTON: The email to Donald Trump Jr just before the general election campaign offered a meeting with a Russian lawyer who would provide incriminating information about Hillary Clinton as “part......
ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday ruled out an immediate end to the year-old state of emergency imposed after a failed coup, saying it could only be lifted once the fight against......
JEDDAH: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held talks on Wednesday with four Arab states boycotting Qatar as part of a round of intense shuttle diplomacy aimed at resolving the regional......
NEW DELHI: A surprise decision by India’s cricket board to appoint two high-profile stars to assist new coach Ravi Shastri has some experts wondering how much autonomy the former all-rounder will......
ISLAMABAD: Junior player Israr Ahmed registered an upset win in the exhibition match against Todd Harrity on the opening day of the two-day squash series between Pakistan and World V here at the......
HOUSTON: French Guiana are facing disciplinary proceedings after defying FIFA regulations by fielding former France international Florent Malouda in their CONCACAF Gold Cup match against Honduras on......
KARACHI: FIFA’s Member Associations Committee finally seems to have had enough. And that could mean that the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) dispute is finally resolved, despite a looming FIFA......
LONDON: Limping between points and fading down the stretch, defending champion Andy Murray was stunned by 24th-seeded Sam Querrey of the US 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-1, 6-1 in the Wimbledon......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) president Brig. (retd.) Sajjad Khokhar is not happy over the performance of the Pakistan team in the recently concluded World Hockey League and he has......
ISLAMABAD: Stakeholders in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) on Wednesday sought the implementation of the trucking reform policy approved a decade ago, creation of a ministry for transport......
ISLAMABAD: Various foreign investors have shown their interest in investing in the auto sector under the the new development auto policy (ADP) 2016-2021 announced last year.In a meeting held under......
KARACHI: Stocks continued the losing streak on Wednesday with the KSE-100 index recording a loss of 328 points or 0.74 per cent to close at 43,792.19, the lowest level in 2017.The benchmark has shed......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department has described Pakistan’s current political situation as an internal matter of the country and avoided making policy statement before the announcement of a new......
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani has called an opposition-requisitioned session of the upper house on Monday, mainly to discuss the situation emerging in the wake of the Joint Investigation......
KARACHI: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar told the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing money laundering allegations that Saeed Ahmed, incumbent president of the National Bank of Pakistan, was running a......
ISLAMABAD: Despite a legal provision under the SECP Act, 2016, the finance ministry has decided not to suspend or remove the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, Zafar......
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was informed on Wednesday that the 969MW Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project would become operational by March 31 next year.Wapda chairman retired Lt Gen......
ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry has informed the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) that four cases, two investigations and one inquiry against Prime......
LAHORE: At least 12 people were killed in different incidents on Wednesday as torrential rain pounded Sialkot, Jhelum and Kasur regions that led to flooding in stormwater channels of the Chenab and......
PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said the Panama leaks scandal has been orchestrated to sabotage the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor project.Addressing his......
BEIJING: Ships carrying personnel for China’s first overseas military base, in Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, have set sail to begin setting up the facility, as China’s rapidly modernising military......
LONDON: One of the biggest icebergs on record has broken away from Antarctica, creating an extra hazard for ships around the continent as it breaks up, scientists said on Wednesday.The one trillion......
ISLAMABAD: Amidst growing calls for his resignation, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has convened an emergency meeting of the federal cabinet today (Thursday) to take his ministers and coalition partners......
MULTAN: Veteran politician Javed Hashmi has termed the Panama Papers investigation “a ploy to oust” Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif rather than to hold him accountable and regretted that there is no......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition on Wednesday stepped up its campaign for the prime minister’s resignation, contending that the country’s entire political machinery had been paralysed by the shocking report......
ISLAMABAD: In its damning report on the Sharif family’s alleged money laundering, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) has noted that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was non-committal about the two letters......
ISLAMABAD: Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa wants civilian institutions to step up to the plate and fully benefit from the opportunities coming the country’s way because of the China-Pakistan Economic......
A Dutch court is going to hear, Friday, arguments involving ownership of a 1,000-year-old mummified monk in a case brought against a local collector by Chinese villagers who claim their ancestor was......
A nine-year-old boy died in Abbottabad after being brutally tortured, allegedly by a landlord who reportedly tied the boy to a donkey and made it run into the field, thus dragging the boy along which......
The first portentous sign of trouble for Andy Murray, surprisingly enough, came right as the two-time Wimbledon champion constructed an ample lead over Sam Querrey in the quarterfinals Wednesday.The......
Pakistan has asked the Facebook management to link opening of Facebook accounts to mobile numbers to overcome the issue of fake accounts, said a Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA)......
