Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that Tehran would “respond appropriately” to new US sanctions but that Iran remained committed to its nuclear deal with world powers.“The Islamic......
Britain's public broadcaster BBC came under fire on Wednesday for its gender pay imbalance after it was forced to reveal how much it pays its top-earning talent.For the first time in its 94-year......
Sri Lanka's sports minister gave his support Wednesday for an investigation into the country's controversial 2011 World Cup loss against India, amid fresh allegations of match fixing.The South Asian......
Saudi police have released without charge a woman who was filmed in a miniskirt at a historic site in the kingdom, the government said Wednesday.The Saudi ministry of information said police had......
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, while addressing a political gathering in Sialkot on Wednesday, warned his opponents that today he was being held accountable, but tomorrow others will be made to walk......
Senators on Wednesday invited renewed scrutiny of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016, calling it "dangerous" and a "black law".In a meeting held in Islamabad on the matter, Senator......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Wednesday landed in the red, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index losing 218 points, or 0.48 per cent, to close at 45,418.The market touched the day's low at 45,297......
A teenage boy and a man were killed and at least 13 others were injured as Indian troops continued to pound civilian populations along the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) with......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was given multiple chances to come clean, yet he is still confused about what crime he is accused of.He was......
Two suspects in a robbery and murder case were gunned down by the complainant in the case while they were on court premises in Rawalpindi's Gujar Khan Tehsil on Wednesday.The person who reportedly......
A nine-member delegation from the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) called on Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz on Wednesday.The delegation briefed Aziz about the grave human rights situation......
The Pakistan Army on Wednesday slammed the "unwarranted ... rhetoric of blames and suggestive allegations" reportedly made by the Afghan Defence Ministry in response to the launch of Operation......
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday said "no compromise will be made" on the country's defence "irrespective of the constraints".He made the remarks on a visit to Heavy......
An air raid in Yemen has killed at least 20 people mostly from the same family, the United Nations (UN) and witnesses said Wednesday, the latest in a series of suspected strikes on civilians by a......
A UAE-based legal firm has verified the contents of a report submitted to the Supreme Court by the joint investigation team (JIT), which states that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was an employee of an......
The United States (US) Embassy announced the provision of over 50 "world class" Fido X3 explosive device detectors to the Pakistan Army on Wednesday.The Fido ? a hand-held device allowing Pakistani......
Seven members of staff have been suspended by the administration of Peshawar's Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) for filming a video that showed rainwater dripping from the ceiling of an operation theatre......
France's military chief has quit in a dispute with President Emmanuel Macron over budget cuts, a new challenge to Macron's administration and his economic reforms.The office of General Pierre de......
Four Arab nations that cut ties with Qatar urged the tiny Gulf nation on Tuesday to commit to six principles on combating extremism and terrorism, and to negotiate a plan with specific measures for......
Pakistan lodged a protest with India on Wednesday against "unprovoked ceasefire violations" along the Line of Control (LoC) which resulted in two civilian casualties and left six others injured on......
United States President Donald Trump had another, previously undisclosed, conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Germany earlier this month.The conversation came......
Teams left with medals in a variety of categories at an international robotics competition in Washington that attracted teams of teenagers from more than 150 nations.But the team that drew the most......
A day after the Supreme Court (SC) pointedly inquired about Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's money trail, the premier's counsel reiterated that his client had presented details of all his assets to the......
At least four family members belonging to the ethnic Hazara Shia community and their driver were shot dead when unidentified gunmen opened fire on their vehicle near Balochistan's Mastung area on......
IT does not exactly qualify as a giant leap for womankind. The announcement last week by the Saudi education ministry that girls in public schools would be permitted to partake of physical education......
KHAWAJASIRA, the Urdu language equivalent for ‘transgender’ in Pakistan, was the title of the chief eunuch in the Mughal court. Eunuchs were royal slaves who not only served as custodians of the......
IN the year 2009, after Iraq had been thoroughly wrecked and pillaged and items from museums and excavations were in the hands of people they should not have been, an American company was on the......
It may take days or weeks for the three-member Supreme Court bench to decide the fate of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. But the long-drawn-out legal battle over the Panama Papers scandal has left a......
KOHAT: Senior doctors here are not satisfied with security arrangements at the KDA Teaching Hospital and Women and Children Hospital, saying that they have been feeling insecure because of the......
PESHAWAR: Young artist Pir Hamid Ali alias Kheshgi Khan believes that art is a strong medium of expression through which social and cultural ways of a nation can be preserved and also a peace......
ISLAMABAD: A march was organised on Tuesday by the capital’s health department, the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Medical University, the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) Nursing College......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority’s (CDA) laboratory has found high concentrations of waste contamination in water samples taken from Rawal Lake earlier this week, which may offer a clue......
Kim Hong Bin, 53, was the first to climb to the top of Nanga Parbat this summer.“The Korean mountaineer climbed to the summit in just 15 days when it takes a month to climb the killer mountain,” said......
LAHORE: It rained in Lahore and many other cities on Tuesday, ridding people of the uneasy mugginess being created due to excessive amount of humidity in the air.Rain in Lahore was particularly......
NAROWAL: Inundation of low-lying areas and a hospital in parts of Punjab remained the biggest casualty of Tuesday’s downpour.It rained for hours together in Shakargarh tehsil of Narowal which......
LARKANA: A two-hour-long spell of heavy rain, followed by intermittent showers, lashed Larkana and Qambar-Shahdadkot districts on Tuesday causing considerable relief in the otherwise very hot weather......
LARKANA: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and its Shaheed Bhutto (SB) faction separately observed the 32nd death anniversary of Mir Shahnawaz Bhutto, the younger son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, on......
KARACHI: A four-storey residential-cum-commercial building in the densely-populated Liaquatabad No. 10 area collapsed in the early hours of Tuesday, leaving at least five people dead and over a dozen......
KARACHI: Urdu poets have used the distance and difference between sky, sea and earth — aasman, samandar, zameen — not as geographical physical realities but as extremes that define, and in certain......
KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation on Tuesday sent a seven day notice to M/s Funrama Arts and Entertainment to shut down a cinema and other allied activities in the building of the Islamic......
MUNICH: At least 547 boys at a German Catholic choir school suffered sexual or physical abuse in what victims have likened to “prison, hell or a concentration camp”, said an investigator releasing a......
GOVERNMENTS around the world are enlisting “cyber troops” who manipulate Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets to steer public opinion, spread misinformation and undermine critics,......
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged on Tuesday to make “unremitting” efforts towards promoting peace in the Middle East following a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as......
MONTREAL: Almost 40,000 Canadians have fled their homes under threat of huge wild fires, with British Columbia facing its largest emergency evacuation ever, officials said on Monday.Canada scrambled......
CANBERRA: A second Australian senator in less than a week said on Tuesday she was quitting Parliament after discovering she was a dual national and had therefore never really been elected.The......
VVIPs like presidents, prime ministers and important personalities or celebrities often cut a red tape with a silver scissor to inaugurate a factory or a project. On Nov 14, 1957 Prime Minister......
BALI: The popularity of cheese in Indonesia makes it only natural for the country to produce its own cheese, because milk as its basic material is sufficiently available.Milk-producing cattle are......
MADRID: Spanish Football Federation president Angel Maria Villar was arrested along with his son and two more federation executives in an anti-corruption investigation on Tuesday.Villar, who is......
LAHORE: In what looks like an eyewash, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to review the budgetary allocation and domestic structure of its women’s wing in the wake of the national team’s......
COLOMBO: Niroshan Dickwella and Asela Gunaratne guided Sri Lanka to a record 388 target to beat Zimbabwe by four wickets on Tuesday in a pulsating end to their one-off Test.A crucial 121-run......
NOTTINGHAM: Joe Root was stunned by former England captain Michael Vaughan’s assertion that his side had failed to respect Test cricket during their thumping 340-run defeat by South Africa at Trent......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) Anti-corruption Tribunal (ACT) on Tuesday deferred hearings of cricketer Shahzaib Hasan in the spot-fixing case to August 17 and 24.With the hearing, in......
GUANGZHOU: Borussia Dortmund insisted that Chelsea target Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was going nowhere after the Chelsea target scored twice in a 3-1 preseason win over AC Milan in China on......
NOTTINGHAM: South Africa captain Faf du Plessis said Vernon Philander was on the way to becoming the “new Jacques Kallis” after his man-of-the-match winning display in a crushing 340-run win over......
ROMANS-EN-ISERE: Michael Matthews won a sprint to the line on stage 16 of the Tour de France as Britain’s Chris Froome kept the yellow jersey on Tuesday ahead of two difficult days in the Alps.Heavy......
SALT LAKE CITY (Utah): New signing Romelu Lukaku got off the mark with the winning goal in his first start for Manchester United on Monday as the Premier League giants came from behind to beat Real......
NOTTINGHAM: Former England captain Nasser Hussain delivered a withering indictment on the “abysmal” selection behind the current side following their colossal 340-run defeat by South Africa in the......
BRISTOL: Sarah Taylor struck a vital half-century to help England book a place in the Women’s World Cup final as they beat South Africa by two wickets at Bristol on Tuesday.Taylor, back in an England......
KARACHI: Hamid Israr Gul, Ameer Ismail, Yahya Ehtesham and Talha Khan beat their respective rivals in the boys singles main draw matches of the Asian Tennis Federation Super Series Tennis......
KARACHI: Pak Suzuki Motor Company Ltd has discontinued the booking of CNG-fitted Mehran variants from July 10, according to a letter that the company recently sent to its dealers.“Keeping in view the......
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday allowed exports of 300,000 tonnes of sugar provided the industry maintains stable domestic prices.The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet’s Economic......
ISLAMABAD: The revenue collection recorded a growth of over 30 per cent in the first 15 days of 2017-18.The spurt is despite the entanglement of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) in the Panama......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is taking measures to improve and upgrade customs procedures in line with international standards.During a meeting on Tuesday, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar informed World Customs......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday was briefed by State Bank officials about current laws to counter money laundering, loan default and other financial crimes.The......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition on Tuesday expressed confidence that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will be disqualified by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers case, warning that otherwise the people will......
GWADAR: The young army major who was martyred in a suicide attack in Peshawar a day earlier had tied the knot only seven months ago.Major Jamal Sheran Baloch, 31, originally hailed from Turbat, the......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday dismissed Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan’s petition seeking the disqualification of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif after declaring......
BADIN: The Balochistan government has provided compensation money (Rs9 million) to the heirs of nine workers belonging to Sindh who were killed in different militants’ attacks in......
NOWSHERA: Afghan Ambassador Dr Muhammad Umer Zakhilwal called on Jamiat Ulama-i-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq here on Tuesday and discussed with him relations between Pakistan and......
QUETTA: Mir Baz Khan Mengal Road slopes downhill in the austere Kili Deba locality leading up to a beige home that has an address plaque with the title: Jamal Shah House. This is the residence of......
QUETTA: Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri has said that the government will utilise all available resources for the rehabilitation of families affected by torrential rains.He directed the......
MUZAFFARABAD: A temporary ban clamped by the administration on the entry of tourists in the picturesque Neelum valley of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in the wake of a cross-LoC attack on an Army vehicle in......
NEW DELHI: In yet another stress-related death in the Indian armed forces, an army jawan shot dead a major after he was pulled up for using a mobile phone during guard duty at a forward post in......
NEW DELHI: China has conveyed to foreign diplomats in Beijing that troops of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have been waiting patiently at the Doklam plateau in a standoff with Indian troops, but......
WASHINGTON: An angry President Donald Trump railed on Tuesday against dissenters in his party who dashed his months-long effort to dismantle Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law.Trump fired off a......
WINCHESTER: The Bank of England on Tuesday unveiled a new banknote featuring Jane Austen to coincide with the author’s death 200 years ago after a campaign to include more women on Britain’s......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s counsel point-blank whether the judges should form their own opinion over the concealment of facts by his client or......
ISLAMABAD: The controversy over former army chief retired General Raheel Sharif’s appointment as head of a Riyadh-based military coalition refuses to die down, with senators noting on Tuesday that......
LAHORE: Looking to mount pressure on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down from office in the light of findings in the Joint Investigation Team’s (JIT) report in the Panama Papers case, several of......
ISLAMABAD: Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani arrived here on Tuesday for talks on his country’s diplomatic row with the Arab quartet ahead of a fresh mediation effort......
