The United States forces successfully tried out Sunday a missile interception system the US hopes to set up on the Korean peninsula, military officials said following a trial just days after North......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) ‘thanksgiving day’ celebrations were held on Sunday at Islamabad's Parade Ground, attended by a jubilant Imran Khan and the party's senior leadership.The PTI chairman......
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended his decision to remove metal detectors from the entrance to a Jerusalem holy site after the deadly unrest, saying it was in the best......
PML-N leader and former railways minister Khawaja Saad Rafique on Sunday called for an investigation over the comments made by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan and Awami Muslim League......
The PML-N’s nominee for interim prime minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, on Sunday challenged his critics to prove irregularities in his finances, saying “whoever wants to file a reference against me......
The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula on Sunday in a show of force against North Korea following the country's latest Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)......
President Vladimir Putin on Sunday oversaw a pomp-filled display of Russia's naval might as the Kremlin paraded its sea power from the Baltic Sea to the shores of Syria.Some 50 warships and......
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif vacated the Prime Minister's House on Sunday and departed for Murree along with members of the Sharif family.The former premier, his wife Kulsum Nawaz, his daughter......
Pakistan's ace boxer Mohammad Waseem retained his position as World Boxing Council's (WBC) number one and undefeated Silver Flyweight champion by defeating Panama's Ivan Trejos in a ranking match on......
China's military has the “confidence and capability” to bolster the country's rise into a world power, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday as he oversaw a large-scale military parade meant to show......
Six people were killed on Sunday morning when a van carrying the passengers caught on fire after hitting a gas pipeline near Attock, said police.SHO Abbas of Saddar city circle confirmed that six......
They say you should dance like no one’s watching. But in Pakistan, if you do decide to go down this road and pursue dance as an art form, the one thing you will always get is a lot of attention — and......
Kangana Ranaut does not seem to have a moment of respite in her life. Just when it seemed that her never-ending spat with Karan Johar over nepotism — whose bitter effects also spilled over to the......
I was perhaps unreasonably excited to see Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan’s new movie about the evacuation of British forces from a French beach during World War II. The historical event on which it is......
Relatively short for a war film, Dunkirk is only 106 minutes long, yet eight people walked out of my viewing by the time it drew to a close. Five of those had left by the time it had hit the......
The related but distinct muses of history and storytelling are distraught. An era in fiction has come to its end. Literary scholarship and research-based historiography are much the poorer. A city......
The last half of this century has witnessed the popularising of science as an important task. It was taken up by scientists beginning with Carl Sagan and carried on by people such as Stephen Hawking,......
The phrase ‘pretty wrongs’ comes from the first line of William Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 41’, a line that somehow rings familiar when received in the universe of Urdu literary sensibility. This is how......
The author of Dil Mein Chubbhe Kaante, Shameem Akhtar, should have heeded her own advice and written her mother’s biography to emphasise the torment stateless individuals suffer. The author’s own......
Ghachar Ghochar, the English-language debut of South Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, has all the trappings of becoming a modern classic. Translated nimbly from Kannada by Srinath Perur, it is a......
The grey, but welcoming café and bar at the Institute of Education in London was a regular haunt of Professor Amin Mughal — one of Pakistan’s leading Progressive intellectuals who went into exile......
A few months ago, former cricketer and current leader of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, Imran Khan, approached the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) to intervene against Islamabad’s municipal corporate......
Defining Karachi is always difficult. Is it a port city or an industrial hub? Can Karachi best be described as the city of Urdu speakers or is it actually a mini Pakistan? The truth is that Karachi......
One has to admit that if you are trying to pull a look it is incomplete without sunglasses. Not only can you put a layer of cool aloofness between you and the rest of the world with a pair, they are......
Fruits add fibre and flavour to desserts and are nutritional too. With a wide range of summer fruits such as peaches, mangoes, plums and melons, why not make seasonal treats out of these? But ice......
My garden is nothing special,” the lady I visited in a Peshawar suburb kept insisting. “I just have a few trees, very little vegetables, a few seasonal flowers and some herbs in pots. It isn’t......
Dear Auntie, I am a well educated 31-year-old man living abroad. I am the only child and my parents live back home. My father has a job and is quite fit; however, my mother is not well at all. I......
The celebrity status of game show hosts in Pakistan has increasingly bloated beyond the usual parameters of what constitutes being a glorified show-biz personage. In the last decade or so, various......
When Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates led the imposition of a political and economic blockade on Qatar last month, there were immediate, far-reaching consequences: flights were cancelled and......
While the cricketers were busy getting their Champions Trophy kickbacks, the original Greenshirts, the hockey players, were getting kicked in their backs in the wake of whatever happened at the World......
When it comes to fast bowling, Pakistan has been ruling the roost in world cricket ever since the country earned Test status in 1952. It did not take long for Pakistan’s pacers such as Khan Mohammad......
As one reaches the nearly 9,000-ft mountaintop called Thandiani, near Abbottabad, there comes in view a little stone and wood building in need of urgent repair. A small wooden plate erected in the......
When my daughter was about three or four, and we grown-ups were busy talking, she would say in great frustration, “Stop, I can’t hear my voice.” She was referring to her inner voice, her thinking......
Cubist Mansoor Rahi and orientalist Hajra Mansoor, now married for 48 years, think on the same level but work at different levels. In their Islamabad house which they painstakingly and lovingly built......
Every artist dreams of producing original work. Yet to actually accomplish this feat is a matter of understanding the meaning of ‘originality in art’. It is a complex phenomenon that can be quizzed......
PESHAWAR: A large number of students throng the lone bookstore at Pashto Academy of University of Peshawar every day to buy different of books under various titles including poetry and fiction.Due to......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is all set to the hold a public gathering at the Parade Ground in connection with its ‘thanksgiving day’ on Sunday.After the Supreme Court disqualified Nawaz......
RAWALPINDI: A day after the Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister, the garrison city, where most of the MNAs, MPAs and even the local government members belong to......
MURREE: People in the constituency of federal minister for petroleum and natural resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in Murree started rejoicing after he was nominated as the interim prime minister on......
Established as a target shooting facility for the 2004 South Asian Games, the Gun and Country Club is now the second club of its kind that caters to Islamabad’s affluent residents.The club has......
SAHIWAL: Police have registered two cases against 10 people for their involvement in a vani “marriage” of an underage girl allegedly held at 114/7-R village, Chichwatini, on the orders of a panchayat......
KARACHI: While security officials claimed that they have eliminated the strongholds and infrastructure of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Karachi, they are apprehensive about reports......
KARACHI: A sessions court sentenced on Saturday a shopkeeper to 10 years in prison in a case pertaining to the abduction and rape of a minor girl.Hamza Khan was found guilty of subjecting a......
KARACHI: A judicial commission investigating the failure of the relevant authorities to provide potable water and the worsening sanitation conditions in Sindh expressed on Saturday dissatisfaction......
TEHRAN: A defiant Iran vowed on Saturday to press ahead with its missile programme and condemned new US sanctions, as tensions rise after the West hardened its tone against the Islamic republic.In......
KANO: At least 69 people died in a Boko Haram ambush of an oil exploration team in north-east Nigeria, as three men kidnapped by the jihadists made a video appeal.Experts said the attack — Boko......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump ousted his beleaguered chief of staff Reince Priebus on Friday, replacing him with Homeland Security Secretary and former general John Kelly after vicious White......
TAIWAN suffered flooding, widespread power outages and winds of over a hundred miles and hour as it was battered by its first typhoon of the year on Saturday. Much of the island came to a standstill,......
THE Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson once boarded the liner SS United States with 100 pieces of matching luggage bought from Maison Goyard of Paris. Next year, some of the cases, with his title......
SYRIAN troops are now set up in positions on the Lebanese side of the border between the two countries in their battle to destroy IS in the towering mountains of Qalamoun. Corpses rot on the......
LOS ANGELES: Unbeaten Gennady Golovkin of Kazakhstan will risk all his world middleweight titles when he faces Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in September, but the Mexican won’t be trying to win them......
KARACHI: ICC Champions Trophy-winning Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed became a proud owner of a new BMW XI sports activity vehicle here the other day.The keys of the BMW X1 sDrive18i was jointly......
GALLE: Spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja shared six wickets to help India to a thumping 304-run win against an injury-hit Sri Lanka on the fourth day of the first Test on Saturday for......
BUDAPEST: Ferrari’s Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel took pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday as Mercedes title rival Lewis Hamilton missed out on a record-equalling......
LONDON: Toby Roland-Jones may have felt that being known as the man who took a hat-trick to win his team the county championship would be a pretty decent way to ensure a distinguished place in......
LONDON: Toby Roland-Jones saw his dream debut continue as he completed a five-wicket haul to end South Africa’s belated resistance and ensure England maintained their domination of the third Test at......
SINGAPORE: Inter Milan’s Geoffrey Kondogbia entered the annals of sporting infamy with a remarkable own goal but the Italian side held on to win 2-1 and condemn Chelsea to a successive pre-season......
BUDAPEST: Russia took triple gold across the 200-metre events at the world championships on Friday, thanks to Anton Chupkov and Yuliya Efimova in a breaststroke double and Evgeny Rylov in the......
MADRID: Cristiano Ronaldo faces a brutal return to Madrid before starting pre-season training with Real Madrid as he is expected in court on Monday, accused of evading millions in taxes.The......
KARACHI: Some assemblers are still rolling out heavy vehicles with non-Euro engines, creating a price distortion in the market.It has created problems for those assemblers that have shifted their......
KARACHI: A research report by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said 30 per cent of banks’ exposure is to only 20 business groups.Growth in credit depends heavily on the appetite of the corporate......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Saturday signed a long delayed deal to lease its southern Hambantota port to China.The much debated $1.12 billion deal was signed by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) and the......
KARACHI: The KSE-100 index had all the right reasons to show wild swings during the outgoing week, but finally closed with gains of 618 points (1.4 per cent) at 45,912.Extending the preceding week’s......
WASHINGTON: The US economy acquired an exclusive label on Friday: Recession-free for eight full years. Yet the third-longest economic winning streak in American history still doesn’t get much love.No......
PESHAWAR: Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan says Pakistan Muslim League-N leader Nawaz Sharif has become victim of the articles of the Constitution the ANP wanted to change but the......
KARACHI: History may treat the Supreme Court’s decision to disqualify Nawaz Sharif as a parliamentarian as a “faulty judgement”, National Party chief Mir Hasil Bizenjo said at a press conference at......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government’s talk of bringing all members of parliament into the tax net has failed to produce any noticeable results as 167 legislators did not file their......
ISLAMABAD: When the legal team of the ousted prime minister seeks a review of the Supreme Court decision to disqualify him, a main aspect of their case may be the fact that Nawaz Sharif was not given......
ISLAMABAD / PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) announced on Saturday that it had decided to expel the Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) for a second time from the coalition government of Khyber......
ISLAMABAD: Saying that his conscience is clear, ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif has regretted “derogatory treatment” meted out to him and asked that at least his services to the nation be......
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who is set to succeed his brother at the Centre in less than two months, is looking towards his son, Hamza Shabaz, as his replacement in Punjab so as to......
ISLAMABAD: The joint opposition is likely to field a candidate for the office of prime minister against Shahid Khaqan Abbasi of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the ruling party’s choice for......
Over the past month, there has been a barrage of criticism by users of ride-hailing services like Uber and Careem. The reason behind this criticism has been the higher than usual fares due to price......
OUT of necessary respect for the Supreme Court and abundant caution in a matter where a hasty or premature assessment could trigger controversy, the initial response by sensible and responsible......
A MONTH ago, the US Supreme Court (USSC) allowed the partial implementation of President Trump’s travel ban while it gears up to hear arguments in October. By then, the 90-day ban on travel from six......
THE ducks were in a row. They’ve been dragged, kicked, shot and used to beat Nawaz over the head. It has not been pretty. Hell, it couldn’t have been uglier.So, now what?Attack the court, blame the......
IT appears as though the symptom of externalisation is gradually taking over the thinking pattern of most people living in this country. While regional strategic and internal security challenges and......
President Mamnoon Hussain has called a session of the National Assembly on Aug 1 for the election of an interim prime minister, DawnNews reported.The president's decision follows a landmark Supreme......
