The Indian Army opened fire on a group of protesters Friday, killing one youth and injuring another in India-held Kashmir, police said.The demonstrators had gathered in the town of Beerwah after......
The accused, Mian Mohammad Tanzeem, 55, had reportedly been running his extortion racket in a densely-populated area of Muzaffarabad for more than a decade. He was finally netted by the police after......
A soldier embraced martyrdom in an improvised explosive device (IED) during Operation Khyber-4 in Khyber Agency, said Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Friday.Sepoy Mohammad Yasir embraced......
An Emirati state minister Friday welcomed changes to Qatar's anti-terror legislation as a “positive” step in the crisis between Doha and four Arab neighbours which accuse it of backing......
The US Defense Department withheld $50 million in Pakistan military payments after Pentagon chief Jim Mattis accused Islamabad of not doing enough to counter the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network,......
A young boy was killed, while three other members of his family were injured after the Leepa Valley of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) was hit by heavy Indian shelling on Friday, officials told......
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Friday met with leaders from different political parties represented in the Sindh Assembly to brief them on the proposed Sindh Accountability Bill,......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) ended the week on a positive note, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining 234 points, or 0.52 per cent, by the close of trading to reach 45,294.The market lost......
Three police personnel and a 12-year-old boy were killed after six unidentified individuals opened fire on a police van parked near Korangi's Darul Uloom in Karachi on Friday.Superintendent Police......
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has failed to complete an internal inquiry — which was to ascertain the reasons behind the sudden depreciation in the value of rupee against US dollar by more than 3......
A young man and woman were killed in Karachi, allegedly in the name of honour, Superintendent of Police Gulberg Bashir Ahmed Brohi said on Friday.According to the police, 22-year-old Sajid Bahadur......
A dinner hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel for G20 leaders and their spouses made the news on Thursday and set the internet alight after social media users and journalists began wondering......
Where the men failed, India is hoping its female cricketers can blaze to glory when they face England in the World Cup final on Sunday.Images of captain Mithali Raj and star batswoman Harmanpreet......
A sessions court on Friday issued a second notice to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on a Rs10 billion suit for damages filed by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif under......
US President Donald Trump has named veteran diplomat John Bass as his choice to become the new US ambassador in Afghanistan, ending his current posting in Ankara.In a written statement on Thursday,......
Qatar has announced changes to its anti-terror legislation, one of the controversial issues at the core of the crisis between Doha and its neighbours who accuse it of backing extremists.The decree......
Two foreigners died early Friday and more than 100 people were injured on the Greek island of Kos when an earthquake shook popular Greek and Turkish holiday destinations in the Aegean Sea.The......
Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Chairman Zafar Hijazi was taken into custody by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday morning in Islamabad after his interim bail......
The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday concluded the hearings in the Panamagate case and reserved its judgement. A date for the judgement has yet to be announced.The court also opened Volume X of the joint......
MINGORA: Following public complaints, the district administration, Swat, filed cases against 15 shopkeepers for selling adulterated milk and sealed four shops in a crackdown on milk dealers here on......
PESHAWAR: Uproar marred budget session of the city district council here on Thursday as councillors from the ruling side and opposition demanded allocation of more funds for agriculture, rural......
PESHAWAR: The Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WCCI) on Thursday organised ‘market linkage convention’ to encourage women entrepreneurs belonging to different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.The......
ISLAMABAD: After quizzing the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) is expected to argue against extending the bail granted to......
In what seems like a complete farce, an unnamed source from PCB has told APP that the captain of the Pakistani Women’s Cricket Team, Sana Mir, is likely to lose captaincy as well as her place in the......
LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Thursday directed the leading social media networking website Facebook’s management in California, US, to submit information about the creator of an online shopping......
LAHORE: A number of passengers could not board the Rawalpindi-bound Subakkharam Express (Rail Car) at the Lahore railway station on Thursday after the authorities allegedly detached a couple of......
SAHIWAL: Sport lovers and amateur snooker players on Wednesday night accorded a warm welcome to 17-year-old Naseem Akhtar who has brought laurels to the country by becoming under-18 world snooker......
SAHIWAL PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari will lead rallies in Attock and Sahiwal during the first week of the next month as a part of the first phase of party’s ‘go Nawaz go’ campaign in......
KARACHI: There is absolute silence in the ward despite presence of many children, all patiently seated in rows alongside their parents. While they look pale and exhausted, their faces barely reflect......
HYDERABAD: The Lakhra Coal Power Plant was shut down for an indefinite period after a big fire caused extensive damage to its underground cables on Thursday morning. Many fire tenders were employed......
KARACHI: Around a dozen suspects stormed a private bank in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Thursday afternoon, held the security guards and staff at gunpoint and took away over Rs3 million as the management......
KARACHI: Four labourers died after falling into an underground chemical tank of an industrial unit one after another in the Bin Qasim area on Thursday.The incident came as a grim reminder of last......
WASHINGTON: US and European police on Thursday announced the shutdown of two huge “dark web” marketplaces that allowed the anonymous online trade of drugs, hacking software and guns.US Attorney......
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday urged his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin to swiftly remove metal detectors that have outraged Muslim Palestinian worshippers at a......
BEIRUT: At least 28 Syrian government soldiers and pro-regime fighters were killed on Wednesday in a rebel ambush in the Eastern Ghouta region near Damascus, a monitor said on Thursday.The fighters......
SYDNEY: Axeheads and grinding stones from a cave in Australia’s far north suggest humans arrived on the continent about 65,000 years ago, or 18,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to......
LONDON: Climate change-driven extreme weather — from flooding and mudslides to blistering heat — is accelerating migration to Bangladesh’s cities, raising the risks of problems such as child......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s persistent overtures towards Russia are placing him increasingly at odds with his national security and foreign policy advisers, who have long urged a more......
PARIS: AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll that marked the peak of the deadly epidemic, said a UN report on Thursday proclaiming “the scales have tipped”.Not only are new......
LONDON: London Zoo is welcoming a new star attraction this summer: robotic dinosaurs. Visitors will see robotic replicas of Mesozoic-era dinosaurs, including T. Rex and Triceratops, which lived......
VIENNA: Google’s Street View cars on Thursday started taking images in Austria, the only EU country along with Germany to remain largely absent from the popular online service showing 360-degree......
DERBY: Australia were set 282 to win and book a place in the ICC Women’s World Cup final after Harmanpreet Kaur hit an incredible 171 for India in the semi-final at Derby on Thursday.Rain had reduced......
COLOMBO: Whether it’s Shikhar Dhawan or Abhinav Mukund, whoever opens alongside KL Rahul in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle should treat this as an opportunity rather than feel the pressure......
LAHORE: Sacked head coach of Pakistan team Khawaja Junaid is disappointed the way the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) ousted him from the job in the backdrop of the national team’s dismal......
LAHORE: National Cricket Academy (NCA) director Mudassar Nazar on Thursday said that the ongoing high-performance camp would help in identifying fresh talent which in turn would fill the void in the......
LAHORE: National Cricket Academy head coach Mushtaq Ahmed on Thursday said that greater emphasis was being laid on enhancing players’ fitness and mental toughness level in the high performance camp......
ISLAMABAD: Renewed team effort, after a huge loss to India in the opening match, helped Pakistan lift the prestigious ICC Champions Trophy in England, says captain Sarfraz Ahmed.Speaking at a......
SOUTHPORT: Jordan Spieth produced one of his best major championship efforts and Brooks Koepka underlined his credentials as the American duo both shot first-round 65s to share the British Open......
PHILADELPHIA: Defenders Omar Gonzalez and Eric Lichaj scored a goal apiece in the closing minutes of the first half to send the United States into the CONCACAF Gold Cup semi-finals with a 2-0 win......
DOETINCHEM: Jodie Taylor scored a hat-trick as England demolished newcomers Scotland 6-0 at the women’s European Championship while Spain cruised past Portugal in their opening Group D match in the......
LONDON: Essex batsman Tom Westley is in line to make his England debut at No 3 in next week’s third Test against South Africa at The Oval, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced on Thursday.He......
COL D’IZOARD: Annemiek van Vleuten made up for her Olympic heartbreak by winning the first stage of the women’s Tour de France on Thursday.The 34-year-old Dutchwoman was leading the Olympic Games......
KARACHI: Qualifier Zahir Shah and unseeded Ali Bukhari, who created a sensation the other day, kept their unbeaten run intact by winning their second round matches before advancing into the......
ISLAMABAD: Textile and clothing exports posted a paltry growth of 0.04 per cent to $12.45 billion in 2016-17, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Thursday.These exports stood at......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Thursday Pakistan’s economic growth rate for 2016-17 surpassed the bank’s estimate that the international lender had projected three months......
KARACHI: The stocks extended losses on Thursday with the KSE-100 index shedding another 359 points (0.79 per cent) to close at 45,059.93.The index edged up by as much as 1.3pc within the first 15......
MELBOURNE: A plan by top global liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter Qatar to ramp up output will stall the expected growth of US LNG exports, the head of Australia’s Woodside Petroleum, operator of......
LAHORE: The government should encourage and facilitate the farming community to adopt modern technologies to avoid post-harvest losses and increase agriculture production, Lahore Chamber of Commerce......
KARACHI: Trading remained lacklustre in the cotton market on Thursday.A new spell of rains has hampered the supply of phutti (seed cotton), causing an acute shortage of cotton. There was demand from......
ISLAMABAD: Significant shortfalls in the revenue collection in 2016-17 curtailed releases for the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) by about Rs111.5 billion, down almost 17 per cent from the......
QUETTA: Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) president Sardar Akhtar Mengal has claimed that the election results of NA-260 proved that the mandate given by the people to his party has been......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate witnessed on Thursday a heated debate between the opposition and treasury benches on the report submitted recently by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to the Supreme Court in......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court has given intelligence agencies five days to produce an aide to former president Asif Ali Zardari who was allegedly picked up from his house on April 4.At the......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah has asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to present before parliament the record of the assets he mentioned in his speech......
QUETTA: There was always that cloud of fear whenever Murtaza Ali’s parents put him on a bus to Karachi or had to wait for him to arrive home in Quetta for the Eid holidays. For the 24-year-old Hazara......
QUETTA: Four years after the devastating earthquake in Awaran district, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif sent a cheque of Rs132 million to Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Zehri to help......
GWADAR: A desalination plant established at a cost of Rs1 billion to supply drinking water to Gwadar city has been closed.The plant was shut down due to non-availability of required quantity of total......
RAWALPINDI: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Aviation Sardar Mehtab Abbasi on Thursday said that the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) suffered major losses due to the open skies policy, adding that......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan could be in trouble for not doing enough to prevent militant groups from raising funds inside the country, warns a report of the US State Department.The report — titled “Country......
GWADAR: Policemen found in Semsori area of Panjgur on Thursday the bullet-riddled body of a man who had been kidnapped from Dalbandin, sources said.They said the deceased, identified as Haji Muhammad......
WASHINGTON: US Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war and the maverick 2008 Republican presidential nominee, has been diagnosed with brain cancer, his office announced on Wednesday.The......
MUDDLED by thoughts reflective of years spent in mental exhaustion for being the only unmarried girl in her large family, 28-year-old Shehla is confounded by an email notification that reads “your......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has said he would never have hired Attorney General Jeff Sessions if he had known the top law official would recuse himself from a probe into Russia’s alleged......
ISLAMABAD: In a fresh response, the British Virgin Islands’ (BVI) law officer has declined to assist the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) in probing alleged offences committed by the two offshore......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court observed in clear terms on Thursday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, being a public office-holder, could get into trouble if his children failed to justify the source of......
LANDI KOTAL: The Pakistan Army on Thursday claimed to have made fresh gains during Operation Khyber IV in Rajgal, killing 13 suspected militants and injuring six others.According to an Inter-Services......
Ever since the decision of the incumbent finance minister to adopt a ‘strong’ rupee policy in December 2013, and convert the regime into a near-fixed exchange rate one, the resulting overvaluation......
LAHORE, it seems, is content to defy all the calls that urge it to contribute to the grand exercise in progress to unmask a legend. It sits serenely in quiet contrast to the hustle and bustle of......
IS the world really waking up to the population crisis that received a lot of international publicity at the London Summit on Family Planning last week? One wishes it were. But all the noise seems to......
THE Supreme Court of Pakistan recently directed Sindh’s chief secretary to ensure Karachi’s cleanliness following the impact of the recent rains on urban infrastructure. Many older neighbourhoods,......
Police on Thursday evening sealed a chemical factory in Bin Qasim area of Karachi after four workers died of inhaling toxic fumes in an underground tank of the industrial unit, said Malir SSP Rao......
Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, who overcame a troubled childhood to top the charts with an angry but melodic brand of metal, was found dead Thursday in an apparent suicide. He was 41.“Shocked......
