More than 330,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since it started six years ago, around a third of them civilians, a monitor said on Sunday.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for......
The encrypted messaging app Telegram is forming a team of moderators who are familiar with Indonesian culture and language so it can remove “terrorist-related content” faster, its co-founder said......
Four suspected terrorists were killed during an exchange of fire with the Frontier Constabulary (FC) troops late Saturday night after they attacked a post in Zhob, Balochistan, according to the......
At least 16 Hindu pilgrims were killed and several others injured in a bus crash on Sunday in India-held Kashmir, said police.The bus carrying pilgrims to a Himalayan cave — revered as the abode of......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will land in Adiala jail as an outcome of the Panamagate hearing in the Supreme Court (SC).Addressing a......
Indian troops targeted a vehicle of the Pakistan Army moving along the Neelum River at Athmuqam on Sunday. "The vehicle fell into the river and four soldiers embraced martyrdom in the Line of Control......
The younger brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Hossein Fereydoun, has been arrested on financial crime charges, deputy judiciary chief of Iran Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeie said in a......
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with 15 offences, including grievous bodily harm, following the London acid attacks last week.The boy, who cannot be named because of his age, was arrested after......
Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) won the NA-260 Quetta-cum-Chagai by-election on Sunday, after a tough contest from the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M).According to sources in the Election......
Director General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor on Sunday announced the launch of Operation Khyber-4 under Radd-ul-Fasaad (RuF) to "wipe out terrorists" in the......
Two Iranian civilians were killed in an alleged cross-border attack by suspected militants on Saturday, according to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.A statement on the Guards' Sepah News website......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Naz Baloch on Sunday announced her joining of the PPP, alleging that the PTI's focus is centred on Punjab and not Sindh, where she is from.Baloch, a resident of......
ISLAMABAD: The joint investigation team (JIT) looking into the Panama Papers case has recommended reopening five cases decided by the Lahore High Court (LHC), eight investigations and two inquiries......
In the past decade or so, a growing number of Western specialists — from long-standing academics to freshly ordained fearmongers — have sought to come to grips with the disturbing phenomenon of......
Lately I’ve been watching the television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. It is one of the foremost examples of dystopian fiction, in which an imagined future is a bleak and......
Elias Khoury is a well-known Lebanese novelist, critic, journalist and academic. He is a professor at New York University and has also taught at Columbia University and the American University of......
The current state of Pakistani-English fiction penned by expatriates is ambivalent at best. This involves, among other things, the anguish and fear of misrepresentation from a people who have a long......
I could feel the weight of betrayal and loss, remorse and sadness, after watching The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Ken Loach’s 2006 film. Set in the times of the Irish war of independence and the......
It’s Business, It’s Personal: From Setting a Vision to Driving it Through Organisational Excellence Saad Amanullah KhanFrom a writer who spent more than 20 years in a corporate career, this......
Don’t look for fashion on the local high street.One can easily spot the all-purpose tunic suitable for a day at work. Or the light kurta designed to weather the sweltering summer.One will also......
It’s just eight words — “I’m only 19, but my mind is old” — but it might be the most paralysing rap lyric ever written, the kind of declaration that makes your pulse quicken while your blood cools in......
Sajal Ali is over the moon. She should be. Her first Indian film Mom has been received well by critics on both sides of the Wagah border.In fact, Indian and Pakistani cinegoers have liked her......
Spider-Man Homecoming is the sixth film starring the webslinger since Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, star Tobey Maguire caught the imagination of comic book fans in 2002, and another attempt at restarting......
In films both good and bad there’s always a scene that sticks with you, one that quantifies its essence and a moment you remember the film by in later conversations. In Mom, that quintessential scene......
My most powerful film-going experience at Cannes this year was arguably not a film at all.Barefoot, fitted with a pair of goggles, headphones and a backpack, I was led into a dark 50-by-50 foot room,......
Carne y Arena, meaning Flesh and Sand, marks the fifth time writerdirector Alejandro González Iñárritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki have come together on a project. With their past......
Dressed in a pink headscarf and a smart black jacket, 18-year-old Kiran Rao leaves her home in a hurry. It is early morning in Karachi and Kiran could easily be mistaken for a regular office-goer.......
Campaigners opposed to British arms sales to Saudi Arabia suffered a major defeat last week, as London’s high court ruled that the controversial exports that include precision guided munition and......
The jewellery aficionado has had a change of heart. Till only about a decade ago, the pièce de résistance in a woman’s wardrobe would be glinting diamonds and exorbitant jewellery sets fashioned......
July 10 was a historic day for Pakistan. In an unprecedented turn of events, a week-long poultry training programme was started by the Poultry Research Institute in Rawalpindi. Oh and the Joint......
In summer, most people do not have an appetite for heavy food so the easiest food to prepare and eat is either salads or a cold entree that can accompany a main dish. Here are two healthy and......
Flowering perennials should be the backbone of all ornamental gardens. Yet, for some obscure reason, many gardeners have a tendency to rely on purely seasonal/annuals. This, rather than making......
Last month, with the Saudi and Emirati-led efforts to isolate Qatar, and the militant Islamic State (IS) group’s attacks in Tehran, new fronts opened in the Greater Middle East war, making Pakistan’s......
Tucked away in a corner of the old PECHS Block 6 lies a remnant of Karachi’s more recent history.Long before General Ziaul Haq mandated the study of Arabic in state schools, a private language......
Pakistan is a mountaineer’s paradise. It has five of the world’s 14 8,000m mountains and over 108 peaks over 7,000m and almost the same for those above 6,000m. There is currently no count for......
Cicero famously once said, “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Some of my best memories are of reading a book through the night, then going out in the garden to watch......
In its evolution over the last 20 years, miniature art has emerged with an identity that seems to simultaneously defy and embrace the traditional practice. Post 9/11, miniature has grown with a......
A text on Indian aesthetics called Natyasastra composed by Bharata Muni around the 3rd century CE uses a word rasa which is an intangible concept described by Goswamy as “the non material essence of......
Dear Auntie, I am 20 years old, a university student and my parent’s only daughter. Naturally my parents are worried about my rishtas. A few days ago my father’s cousin visited with his wife and son......
Right after it became clear that the PPP candidate Saeed Ghani was going to win the hotly contested by-election in the PS-114 constituency in Karachi, I received the following SMS from a veteran PPP......
Witnessing its present-day maze of narrow lanes and decaying houses, one can hardly imagine that Thatta was once the seat of learning and culture, a flourishing centre of commerce and industry and a......
The cash bonanza for players in the wake of the recent Champions Trophy heroics came as no surprise. What did come as a surprise was the legal challenge filed against it. The petition perhaps needs......
Anticlimax: when having gone sleepless for 26 hours, the moment to meet Ronaldinho is ruined right before your eyes.Here’s the story: a group of journalists was invited by Leisure Leagues Pakistan,......
LANDI KOTAL: Authorities on Saturday reopened Hamza Baba mausoleum in Landi Kotal after it remained sealed for almost five months due to security reasons.Confirming reopening of the mausoleum,......
PESHAWAR: Eleven companies, including international and local joint ventures, have so far submitted bids for the proposed multi-billion dollars Peshawar Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project.The bidding......
PESHAWAR: More and more people are turning to the government’s medical teaching institutions of the provincial capital to avail themselves of free treatment under the Sehat Sahulat Programme.The......
SWABI/MANSEHRA: As many as 495 recruits, including 229 elite force personnel, joined the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police force following passing-out parades held in Swabi and Mansehra districts on......
LAHORE: The Ministry of Water and Power is planning to implement a swift integrated consumer complaints resolution management system to deal with complaints related to power breakdowns, generation,......
He is a witness to many phases of street life of the Walled City of Lahore, from peaceful Choona Mandi Chowk of 50s where people would freely sleep in the streets during hot summer, to the......
BAHAWALPUR: A 14-year-old boy was allegedly tortured to death on Saturday over goat theft at Uch Sharif, about 70 km from here.Family of deceased Muhammad Amir alleged that he was tortured to death......
LONDON: Garbine Muguruza stormed to her first Wimbledon title and shattered Venus Williams’ history bid with a majestic 7-5, 6-0 victory in Saturday’s final.Muguruza overwhelmed Williams with a......
LONDON: Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed has signed for Yorkshire as an overseas player for the NatWest T20 Blast.Sarfraz, captain of the ICC Champions Trophy winning side last month, replaces......
NOTTINGHAM: South Africa’s bowlers made good progress despite Joe Root’s sizzling 78 as England struggled to 184-6 to tea on the second day of the second Test on Saturday.England were 151 runs behind......
COLOMBO: Captain Graeme Cremer picked up three wickets with his leg spin to help Zimbabwe reduce hosts Sri Lanka to 293 for seven at the end of the second day in their one-off Test at the R.......
LONDON: While 14,999 spectators were left wonderstruck as they watched Roger Federer reach the Wimbledon final a month short of his 36th birthday, there was one man on Centre Court who could have......
FRISCO (Texas): Canada advanced to their first quarter-final since 2009 after playing to a scoreless draw with Honduras in the final Group ‘A’ match of the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Friday.Canada and......
KARACHI: In an effort to help revive the game at the national level, the seventh Roshan Khan Open Squash that carries a purse of Rs0.5 million springs into action at the PN Roshan Khan-Jahangir Khan......
ISLAMABAD: Water supply from the Rawal Dam was suspended on Saturday after a large number of dead fish were spotted in the lake, sparking fears that the waters had been poisoned or......
Although letters may no longer be the primary way people stay in touch, Pakistan’s postal service remains active; from the Siachen Glacier to the Arabian Sea. With its network of post offices across......
QUETTA: The Provincial Election Commissioner, who is also the returning officer for the by-election to a seat of the Senate, rejected nomination papers filed by two candidates of the Pakistan Muslim......
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: There is no law that compels a son to be accountable for his father’s deeds, government ministers defending the ruling Sharif family declared on Saturday.Declaring the Joint......
DOHA: France’s foreign minister on Saturday called on Qatar’s neighbours to immediately lift measures impacting thousands of people in the Gulf, becoming the latest foreign diplomat to visit the......
CAIRO: An Egyptian Muslim stabbed and wounded a security guard after being prevented from entering a church in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria on Saturday, a senior police official said.The man......
WASHINGTON: A team of Afghan girls who were earlier denied visas to attend a Washington robotics competition landed in the United States early on Saturday following an intervention by US President......
JERUSALEM: Security forces locked down parts of Jerusalem’s Old City on Saturday and an ultra-sensitive holy site remained closed after an attack that killed two police officers and heightened......
WASHINGTON: Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian-born mathematician who was the first woman to win the coveted Fields Medal, has died in a US hospital after a battle with cancer. She was 40.Mirzakhani’s......
SHENYANG: The ashes of China’s late Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo were buried at sea on Saturday, depriving his supporters of a place to pay tribute to the pro-democracy dissident.Officials showed a......
LONDON: European Union leaders are willing to change the bloc’s rules for the freedom of movement of workers, opening an opportunity for Britain to avoid a damaging “hard Brexit”, former prime......
SINGAPORE: Hundreds of Singaporeans staged a rare protest on Saturday calling for an independent inquiry into a bitter family feud between Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his siblings.The rally at......
FETHULLAH Gulen says he has no intention of fleeing America if Donald Trump is going to extradite him to Turkey. But the Muslim cleric might like to read a new book before he obliges the Turkish......
KARACHI: A welter of new revenue measures could become necessary this fiscal year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Article IV report released earlier in the week.The IMF projects a......
KARACHI: The labour employed in the city’s industrial hubs shows a changing ethnic trend – the arrival of new workforce from South Punjab and interior Sindh replacing Pakhtuns and Punjabis in......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Tariq Pasha transferred on Saturday more than a dozen grade-21 officers, including Member Inland Revenue (Operation) Rehmatullah Wazir.The change......
KARACHI: Political uncertainty, submission of the JIT report and adjournment of Supreme Court decision to next week, resulted in adding to the pervading gloom over the investor sentiments. KSE-100......
ISLAMABAD: In a ceremony presided over by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Saturday, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) released outstanding sales tax refund payments of up to Rs1 million.The board did......
KARACHI: Fed up with a growing number of customer complaints, the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) is planning to revamp its system particularly related to branch timings, ATM-related issues and......
ISLAMABAD: Recommendations for the National Food Security Policy that seeks to achieve agricultural growth of four per cent per annum were finalised on Saturday for approval by the federal cabinet.A......
KARACHI: Cotton prices on Saturday remained firm on sustained demand amid short supply as heavy rains in Sindh and Punjab have hampered phutti arrivals into the ginneries. Up till now most of the......
KARACHI: A private company has been awarded one-year contract to run Madadgar 15 helpline after the authorities decided to outsource the service for effective policing and quick response to emergency......
KARACHI: A sessions court acquitted on Saturday an activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement for want of evidence in an over decade-old case pertaining to an attack on a former jail superintendent in......
KARACHI: More than 80 per cent of water samples collected from surface and groundwater sources in 14 districts of Sindh for an analysis have shown that water quality in these areas has worsened over......
ISLAMABAD: As the three-judge Supreme Court bench seized with the Panama Papers case formally takes up the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report on Monday, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s legal team is......
ISLAMABAD: The social media networking site Facebook has termed Pakistan’s request to link all accounts to individual phone numbers “improbable”.“Pakistan had suggested that Facebook accounts be......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday disputed a cabinet colleague’s account of remarks attributed to him, the latest in a spate of rejoinders issued by the senior minister......
KARACHI: Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat said on Saturday Pakistan knew that Indian intelligence agency RAW was operating from Afghanistan to create unrest in......
ATIYA is dressed in the same printed red dress in which she was discovered three days ago. Her faded orange dupatta is speckled with sequins — a stark contrast to her physical condition. Her jaw......
LAHORE: No ‘bird’ will fly from the PML-N camp this time around even if its leader is sent packing in the Panama Papers case, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was assured by his comrades in a recent......
THE report released recently by the joint investigation team probing the Panama Papers case against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family has raised the political temperature. It has also......
THEY’VE had their fun, they’ve brought us to the brink. The Sharifs have been damaged, embarrassed and humiliated. Nawaz has been politically diminished. Maryam is a punchline. Yay, amazing,......
NEW York police have foiled at least 25 major terror attacks since 9/11, says John Miller, the counterterrorism chief, adding that NYPD maintains on average three or four active terrorist......
THE Iraqi government’s formal announcement of the recapture of Mosul, the last remaining stronghold of the militant Islamic State group in Iraq, is certainly a huge achievement. Iraqi special forces......
ACCOUNTABILITY has always been a flawed process in Pakistan. However, it makes no sense to do away with institutions responsible for ensuring accountability and replacing them with obedient......
The Panama Papers issue has nothing to do with ending corruption, and “we expect justice from the Court in this regard”, said Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazlur Rehman.Addressing a press......
