An interior ministry spokesperson on Wednesday, speaking on behalf of Chaudhry Nisar, dismissed media reports stating that efforts were being made to placate the interior minister and that he is......
Balochistan's higher education secretary, Abdullah Jan, who was abducted from Quetta four months ago returned home Wednesday evening, family members told DawnNews.Unidentified gunmen had picked the......
Two Pakistani diplomatic officials abducted in Afghanistan last month were recovered in an operation conducted by Afghan security forces, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani told Pakistani officials in......
US President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that transgender people may not serve “in any capacity” in the US military, citing the “tremendous medical costs and disruption” their presence would......
At least 26 Afghan soldiers have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military base in southern Kandahar province, the defence ministry said Wednesday, the latest blow to the country's struggling......
Shikhar Dhawan smashed a career-best 190 during a brilliant Indian batting assault on the opening day of the first Test against Sri Lanka on Wednesday.Dhawan struck 31 boundaries in a blazing......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange ended nearly flat on Wednesday, with the benchmark KSE-100 index shedding 9.5 points, or 0.02 per cent, by the close of the trading session to reach 45,908.The index......
Muslims in United States (US) say they have experienced widespread suspicion about their faith in the first months of Donald Trump's presidency, but also have received more support from individual......
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that Iran would respond in kind to any breach by the United States of the 2015 nuclear deal after the House of Representatives passed a new sanctions......
Bahrain, on Wednesday, charged 60 people with forming a “terrorist group”, with a judicial source saying all 60 are Shiites, as authorities tighten their grip on dissent in the Sunni-ruled......
Qatar said on Wednesday that a new blacklist released by Saudi Arabia and its allies came as a "disappointing surprise" in a diplomatic crisis that has split the Gulf.The four Arab governments named......
Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) AD Khawaja on Wednesday ordered strict compliance to the directives of the Supreme Court to block bank accounts as well as national identity cards of the......
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain allegedly congratulated target killers on the murder of two members of the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) in Karachi's Orangi Town area, a Pakistan......
Admonishing Balochistan police and health officials, the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday expressed severe displeasure on the lack of progress made on recommendations made in the Quetta Inquiry......
The Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday initiated proceedings on PML-N stalwart Hanif Abbasi's petition seeking the disqualification of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Jahangir Tareen......
A sessions court on Wednesday granted a three-day physical remand of Zafar Hijazi, the former chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), to the Federal Investigation Agency......
A visibly irritated Murad Ali Shah criticised the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 1999 in his Sindh Assembly speech on Wednesday, vowing to press for the bill repealing the ordinance.Earlier......
The National Highway Authority (NHA) chairman informed the Senate Standing Committee on Communications on Wednesday that it will not be possible to complete and inaugurate the Lyari Expressway, in......
Nielsen, the ratings service, announced Tuesday that it will begin to tabulate how many people get their live TV from Hulu and YouTube, an effort to provide a more accurate picture of how many people......
Pakistan's military industrial base is "better" than India's, said India's Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS) Lieutenant General Sarath Chand, as he "slammed" the performance of ordnance factories at......
Five children were injured on Wednesday when explosive devices in an under-construction building went off in a village in Swat's Barakot Tehsil, police said.The school children, aged between 6 and......
United States Senator John McCain stood with his party on Tuesday, casting a crucial vote in the Republican drive to repeal “Obamacare”, while also condemning the tribal politics besetting the......
The second session of talks between government authorities and All Pakistan Oil Tankers Association (APOTA) on Wednesday reportedly proved successful after the APOTA members were assured that their......
The UN envoy on Middle East peace has warned that the developments over the past 11 days in and around the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem have demonstrated the grave risk that the......
A search operation is underway to arrest the members of a panchayat (village council) who fled after ordering a man to rape a 16-year-old girl, police said on Wednesday.According to SHO Malik Rashid,......
GALLE: Indian batsmen have done their homework and will not allow Sri Lanka’s Rangana Herath to wreck them again at Galle, captain Virat Kohli said on the eve of the first Test between the neighbours......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to organise the Pakistan Super League (PSL) itself instead of making it an autonomous company.PSL chairman Najam Sethi had announced in March this......
PARIS: Real Madrid have reportedly reached a world record deal in principle to sign Kylian Mbappe from Monaco for 180 million euros ($210m, 160m), closing one of the hottest transfer sagas of the......
LONDON: Ben Stokes has urged England to bounce back from their Trent Bridge thumping by South Africa and show how good they really are when the third Test at The Oval starts on Thursday.England were......
BELGRADE: Former world number one Novak Djokovic is in doubt for the US Open due to his elbow injury, Serbian media reported, citing the country’s Davis Cup team doctor.Djokovic retired hurt during......
BUDAPEST: Adam Peaty and Ben Proud both struck gold for Britain at the world aquatics championships on Monday as Hungary’s ‘Iron Lady’ Katinka Hosszu came close to tears.Peaty clocked a new......
BUENOS AIRES: Diego Maradona has backed the use of video assistant referees (VARs) in football even though he is aware that his infamous ‘Hand of God’ goal would not have stood if the technology had......
LONDON: South Africa’s Hashim Amla has insisted memories of an inspired innings will play no part when he returns to one of his favourite venues for the third Test against England at The Oval.Five......
KARACHI: Four of Pakistan’s ICC Champions Trophy-winning squad members, including skipper Sarfraz Ahmed, were honoured by the Quetta Gladiators management at a glittering ceremony on Monday......
LONDON: World long jump champion Greg Rutherford will not defend his crown in London next month after being forced to withdraw from the championships through injury, British Athletics announced on......
KARACHI: Boys and girls teams comprising cricket, futsal and netball players from The City School PAF Chapter recently undertook a short and successful tour to Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia which was......
LAHORE: Two opposition parties on Tuesday – a day after the ghastly blast in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat area on Ferozepur Road – questioned the efficacy of the safe city project.Leaders of the Pakistan......
LAHORE: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar is unlikely to make public his political differences with the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leadership as he has been assured that no change in the......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday presided over a meeting of the cabinet committee on law and order which discussed the preliminary report on suicide attack at Kot Lakhpat along the......
KHAR: The United Nations Children Fund (Unicef) has planned to hire female staff for its polio eradication activities in Bajaur Agency, according to sources. They said that according to the......
RAWALPINDI: A strike by the Oil Tankers Association and reports of a petrol shortage prompted long queues at petrol stations on Tuesday.Customers rushed to petrol stations on main roads to fill up......
ISLAMABAD: Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights argued on Tuesday that the parliamentary panel should concentrate on human rights violations in the country instead of......
CHAKWAL: A woman has been diagnosed with Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic fever, commonly referred to as Congo fever, in Chakwal, the first case to be reported in the district this year.A resident of the......
A: I am reading Fususal Hikam by Ibn-al-Arabi, a renowned mystic poet, writer and philosopher who was born in Abdalusia, Spain, and later settled in Damascus while travelling to Makkah, Turkey and......
RAWALPINDI: A Railway police official was arrested after a female Chinese tourist alleged he tried to rape her when she visited Rawalpindi Railway Station on Tuesday, the police said.Railway police’s......
RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) will be starting the Khanpur Dam Water Supply Project Phase III next month and the federal government has promised to release Rs190 million for the......
LAHORE: The Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) on Tuesday announced the result of the annual secondary school certificate examination.Of total 226,619 candidates, 167,131......
FAISALABAD: A number of powerloom workers staged a protest demonstration on Tuesday against the government and the factory owners for not enhancing their wages and issuing health and social security......
BAHAWALPUR: The heirs of 29 victims of the Ahmedpur Sharqia oil tanker explosion are involved in litigation among themselves to claim the government’s compensation worth Rs2m each, says Bahawalpur......
SARGODHA: The University of Sargodha syndicate on Tuesday approved the annual budget to the tune of Rs4.3 billion.Vice Chancellor Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmad briefed the syndicate members about the budget and......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the interior ministry, the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and the provincial home authorities to block the computerised national......
KARACHI: A strong local government can focus on conflict resolution as it can redress grievances of various communities, but the present system in Sindh allows bureaucrats to have more power than......
KARACHI: Scholars highlighted the salient features of Mir Anees’s poetry at an event held on Monday at the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi to commemorate the poet’s (1802-1874) 143rd death......
KARACHI: The federal government had issued at least 13 permits to foreigners to hunt the migratory houbara bustard in the province during hunting season 2016/17, said Sindh Parliamentary Affairs......
SUKKUR: The traffic policeman who was shot dead in Karachi on Monday was buried with full police honours in the graveyard of his native town, Pannu Aqil, on Tuesday.Head Constable Mohammed Khan......
LARKANA: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Larkana district president Maulana Nasir Mehmood Soomro on Tuesday led scores of seminary students and party supporters who joined in a violent protest by......
PARIS: The two main rivals in conflict-ridden Libya are committed to a ceasefire and holding elections “as soon as possible”, according to a draft statement released ahead of French-brokered talks on......
DETROIT: A federal judge in Michigan halted on Monday the deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals from the United States, the latest legal victory for the Iraqi nationals facing deportation in......
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday announced progress in talks to get Russia to supply its latest S-400 air-defence system to Ankara.“We have signed with Russia. God willing,......
DUBAI: Fourteen Saudi Arabians face “imminent” execution after a “grossly unfair mass trial” in which they were convicted of rioting, theft and rebellion, Amnesty International warned on......
NICE: Firefighters battled wind-whipped infernos along the French Riviera coast on Tuesday as the flames torched vegetation on hills overlooking glitzy Mediterranean resorts thronged by summer......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump turned up the heat on Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday, launching a fresh Twitter tirade against him while musing privately about firing the man who was......
NEW DELHI: Ram Nath Kovind was sworn in on Tuesday as India’s 14th president, becoming the first member of a powerful Hindu nationalist movement to assume the highest public office in the world’s......
BALLARAT: One of the pope’s top advisers, Cardinal George Pell, makes his first court appearance in Australia this week on charges of historic sex crimes, a bitter reminder for his home town reeling......
ROME: The historic fountains in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican lay empty on Tuesday after the tiny city state turned them off as Italy struggles with a prolonged draught.The dry basins of the......
BRUSSELS: Poland’s row with Brussels over judicial reforms threatens to undermine the bloc’s legal order and stoke a growing divide between the EU’s eastern and western states, officials and analysts......
IN November 2006, in an interview with the US-based National Public Radio, the then law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister Moudud Ahmed, speaking about extrajudicial killings, said:......
HANOI:How to mobilise idle foreign currency and gold from locals to invest in business and production has become a hot issue recently, with the government once again asking the State Bank of Vietnam......
CLIMATE change is affecting countries all over the world. It is disrupting national economies and has had negative impacts on people, communities and countries. This trend will only grow in the......
KARACHI: Foreign companies operating in Pakistan sent abroad profits and dividends amounting to $2.1 billion in 2016-17, putting additional burden on the economy that already faces a current account......
KARACHI: Wholesale prices of pulses and sugar continued a downward trajectory but retailers are not ready to pass on the benefit to consumers, keeping their profit margins very high.Wholesale sugar......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is once again on an economic growth trajectory, which must not be interrupted, according to former State Bank governor Dr Ishrat Husain.In an analysis published in Development......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has raised $4.53 billion from a local Islamic bond issue that was three times oversubscribed, it said on Tuesday as it battles a budget deficit caused by low oil revenues.The......
ISLAMABAD: The government allowed on Tuesday unparalleled tax breaks to a $2.1 billion power transmission line being executed by Chinese contractors and approved a Rs193bn financing arrangement to......
MALE: Maldivian troops blockaded parliament and clashed with the opposition for a second day on Tuesday, witnesses said. Political turmoil has escalated in the troubled honeymoon islands over the......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Tuesday ordered all ex-Wapda distribution companies of to refund Rs2.23 per unit to consumers this month for overcharging them......
ISLAMABAD: In a major development, the Federal Board of Revenue issued notices to over 2,785 wealthy Pakistanis who have allegedly laundered Rs102 billion during the outgoing fiscal year by......
LAHORE: Law enforcement agencies have identified a new militant network, an offshoot of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), as the group responsible for Monday’s attack on Lahore’s Ferozepur......
JERUSALEM: Israel removed metal detectors from entrances to the Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City on Tuesday in favour of CCTV cameras, hoping to calm days of bloodshed, but Palestinians......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s cabinet cleared a revised agreement for its Chinese-built southern port of Hambantota on Tuesday, the government said, after terms of the first pact sparked widespread anger in......
WASHINGTON: Recent experiences indicate that the United States cannot win the war in Afghanistan without Pakistan’s support, says US military chief Gen Joseph Dunford.And US Defence Secretary James......
NEW DELHI: A court here ordered on Tuesday that seven Kashmiri leaders and activists be held in police custody for allegedly funding militant groups and stoking unrest in India-held Kashmir.Federal......
WASHINGTON: A US delegation is likely to visit Islamabad in the first week of August to discuss the new US strategy for South Asia with Pakistani officials, says Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed.The......
ISLAMABAD: Following Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s confession that he had obtained Iqama (work permit) of the United Arab Emirates, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif was also found to be a holder of such......
ISLAMABAD: After late night consultations with the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra), the government on Tuesday decided to offer a major relaxation to oil transporters in terms of an extended......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), which usually prefers to quote the decision of the dissenting judges in the Panama Papers case judgement, on Tuesday referred to the majority ruling to......
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Tuesday ordered the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) to carry out an audit of all foreign companies operating in......
LAHORE: Pakistan is willing to help Afghanistan eliminate terrorist safe havens along their border areas, Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa said at a security meeting held at the......
“EUROPE has lost faith in humanity, and has become distrustful and sickly … There are habits that are not merely passive but aggressively arrogant. They are not like mere walls, but are like hedges......
LIKE many things, I saw it first on Facebook: a denim headscarf or hijab being sold by the popular American Eagle brand. The friend who posted it actually wears the hijab, and her accompanying post......
NAWAZ Sharif may have been disgraced, but he is not out yet. He has not given up hope of the Supreme Court stopping short of sending him home. He appears willing to face charges of financial......
Israel removed metal detectors from a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site on Tuesday after their installation triggered deadly violence.The Israeli move came in the face of intensive international......
The Punjab government on Tuesday issued orders for the constitution of a high-powered joint investigation team (JIT) to investigate the Ferozepur Road bombing in Lahore.At least 26 people, nine......
