Jordan's parliament scrapped a controversial article in the penal code that allowed a rapist to escape punishment if he married his victim, on Tuesday.“Lawmakers agreed to remove the controversial......
In another gesture of friendship towards Shahid Afridi, the Indian cricket team Captain Virat Kohli on Tuesday sent a bat signed by him for auctioning in a Shahid Afridi Foundation event.Kohli's bat......
Indian authorities have removed a copy of the Holy Quran and the Bible from a new statue of a former president after a complaint by a Hindu nationalist party, officials said Tuesday.The removal of......
Over half of 9,000 Pakistanis imprisoned across the globe were arrested on charges of drug smuggling, officials of the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis informed the Senate Committee on Overseas......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange landed in the green on Tuesday as the benchmark KSE-100 index gained 523 points, or 1.14 per cent, by the close of the trading session to reach 46,533 points.The index......
During the hearing of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf's (PTI) foreign funding case on Tuesday, the chief justice of Pakistan said that there is no law that states that a political party can be disqualified......
A notice issued by the Supreme Court of Pakistan's registrar, Arbab Muhammad Arif, on Tuesday says that the "twist given to Imran Khan's comments in an interview [about Justice Asif Saeed Khosa......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan avoided taxes via an offshore company, Pulitzer prize winning journalist Frederik Obermaier said in a tweet on Monday."Just for the record: Mr Khan......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Ayesha Gulalai announced her exit from the party on Tuesday amid a flurry of scathing allegations against party chairman Imran Khan and other top party......
PML-N’s Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was elected prime minister of Pakistan by lawmakers on Tuesday.Abbasi, an electrical engineer with a master's degree from George Washington University, served as the......
Indian security forces on Tuesday claimed to have killed a suspected Lashkar-i-Taiba (LeT) commander who has reportedly been identified as Abu Dujana.The announcement was made through a tweet by......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has announced the schedule for election in NA-120, which was left vacant after the disqualification of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.According to the......
PML-N's Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was sworn in as prime minister of Pakistan in an oath-taking ceremony held at President House on Tuesday.President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to Abbasi.Abbasi......
Nearly 500 people arrested in the crackdown following the failed July 15, 2016 coup in Turkey will go on trial today. They are accused of conspiring to oust the government from an air base seen as......
All 29 suspects nominated for their involvement in the panchayat-ordered 'revenge rape' of a teenage girl in Muzaffarabad area of Multan district last month have been arrested, read the police report......
Foul-mouthed spin doctor Anthony Scaramucci was axed as White House communications director Monday, just 10 days after being named to the post and hours after Donald Trump installed a new chief of......
A US government watchdog has filed a secret report to Congress into allegations of child sex abuse by the Afghan security forces ? and the extent to which America holds them accountable.According to......
Following the ouster of PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif from the prime minister's seat on July 28, the National Assembly voted in Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the country's new prime minister today, August 1.On......
GILGIT: An anti-terrorism court in Gilgit-Baltistan on Monday sentenced to 33 years in jail a man for raping an eight-year-old girl.The convict was also fined Rs250,000.After concluding the case......
LAHORE: Opposition in the Punjab Assembly on Monday took exception to, what they called, ‘strange demand’ by their colleagues on the treasury benches that only a member of the Sharif family be the......
LAHORE: The health department has distributed 50,000 “defective water resistant gowns” to the government hospitals of Punjab to be used for protection of medical staff and attendants against highly......
MULTAN: A magistrate remanded on Monday 27 suspects in judicial custody after police did not seek physical remand in the panchayat rape case.Police produced 27 suspects, including five women, in the......
LAHORE: A Pakistan Awami Tehreek lawyer on Monday filed an application with the Election Commission requesting it to restrain former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from holding any office of the......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to introduce a law for naming public places after prominent personalities, proposing strict punishment for calling a place with a different name other......
RAWALPINDI: Two women were shot dead over a land dispute in Kalar Syedan on Monday, police said.Ms Saffia and her daughter-in-law Ms Sadia were gunned down allegedly by their relative who was their......
PESHAWAR: The district government Peshawar has decided to shift fish market from Ghanta Ghar to an alternative place near Haji Camp Bus Stand to restore the historical site and facilitate the vendors......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s Party has criticised Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan for his remarks about Asif Ali Zardari.PPP former provincial president Rahimdad Khan said in a statement......
HANGU/KOHAT: Police Training College (PTC) Hangu on Monday arranged a programme to commemorate Youm-i-Shuhada.On the occasion, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Kohat Division, Awal Khan,......
ISLAMABAD: Niaz Ali visited the I-11 slum on Monday, where he lived before it was bulldozed by the Capital Development Authority (CDA). The 30-year-old said nothing remains of the house he had once......
KARACHI: A month after the killing of a dozen militant Islamic State group fighters in the Mastung area of Balochistan, two suspects belonging to the banned terrorist outfit were shot dead in an......
KARACHI: A day before schools reopened after summer vacations, Urdu Bazaar, the city’s biggest wholesale market of books and stationary items, was abuzz with activity on Monday evening as students......
KARACHI: The Inspector General of Sindh Police, A.D. Khowaja, said on Monday that talks with different companies and consultants were under way to install 10,000 cameras in Karachi under the safe......
ISLAMABAD: China will now cooperate with the Sindh government to help it revive the long-delayed Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) within three years under a recently signed memorandum of understanding,......
LARKANA: In protest against extended power outages and the alleged political victimisation of the residents of Union Council-11, a large number of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal (JUI-F) workers took to......
HYDERABAD: Hyderabad Mayor Syed Tayyab Hussain presented a surplus budget 2017-18 of Rs2.38 billion of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (HMC) amid token walkout by opposition members associated with......
CRITICS of the Supreme Court verdict disqualifying the former prime minister for life from parliament and from party office tend to focus on its apparently narrow and technical reasoning. They......
SUPPOSE Lalu Yadav is really corrupt, which he may not be, and suppose Narendra Modi is clean as he claims to be. Does that lessen the threat India faces from fascism? Now that Pakistan’s Supreme......
ELECTED rulers are not above the law if they commit crimes. Democracy is bolstered if they get barred via due process. The Supreme Court launched an unprecedented inquiry via its 184(3) discretionary......
CAMP HUMPHREYS (South Korea): This small American city has four schools and five churches, an Arby’s, a Taco Bell and a Burger King. The grocery store is offering a deal on Budweiser as the......
ALEPPO: On the terrace of the Baron Hotel in Aleppo, the owner’s widow, Roubina Tashjian, sorted through old photographs of its happier past in a more peaceful Syria.Founded by an Armenian family in......
PARIS: Emmanuel Macron is a master of persuasion.In his youth, he seduced his married high school drama teacher, the woman who is now his wife. In middle age — with no government experience — he......
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration, which until recently appeared committed to sending more troops to Afghanistan, is now said to be considering another extreme option: withdrawal.On Monday, even......
DUBAI: Four Arab states that have cut diplomatic and transport ties with Qatar said on Monday that they have opened up air routes that Qatari planes can use in case of emergency.The United Arab......
BEIRUT: Nearly 90,000 Iranians are expected to perform the Haj in Makkah this year after Tehran boycotted the pilgrimage last year amid tensions with Saudi Arabia.Around 800 pilgrims were due to......
LONDON: A British Royal Marine was jailed for 18 years on Monday after admitting that he worked as a bomb maker for dissident Irish Republican groups that violently oppose Northern Ireland’s peace......
YPRES: Britain’s Prince Charles hailed the “courage and bravery” of soldiers who fought at Passchendaele as he led thousands of their descendants at centenary tributes for one of World War I’s......
LONDON: The automatic right of European Union citizens to live and work in Britain will end in March 2019 with Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said on Monday, after her ministers......
PHNOM PENH: Archaeologists at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex studying the site of a hospital from eight to nine centuries ago say they have found a large statue in their excavations.The......
PARIS: French actress Jeanne Moreau, the smoky-voiced femme fatale of French cinema’s “new wave” who starred in Francois Truffaut’s love triangle film Jules and Jim and worked with many other......
One of Princess Diana’s closest friends is writing to Channel 4 bosses asking them to scrap a forthcoming documentary using private video footage which includes Diana talking about about her sex life......
MADRID: Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo protested his innocence after testifying in court on Monday against charges of evading 14.7 million euros ($17.3 million) in taxes.The 32-year-old......
THE handsome cash awards of Rs10 million doled out by ex-Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif to each member of the national cricket team, to the chief selector and others for doing Pakistan proud in......
LONDON: Moeen Ali became the first bowler in The Oval’s 100 Test-history to take a hat-trick as England wrapped up a crushing 239-run win in the third Test against South Africa on Monday.Victory put......
BUDAPEST: Michael Phelps, you’ve got company.Caeleb Dressel brought the curtain down on the world championships with an historic seventh gold medal in Budapest on Sunday, putting the US team ahead to......
NEW YORK: Juventus closed out the International Champions Cup friendly tournament with a 5-4 win on penalties over Roma after the Italian clubs played to a 1-1 draw.Mario Mandzukic’s opening goal for......
KARACHI: Talented Noor-e-Mustafa overcame stiff resistance from Farhan Altaf 6-2,7-5 to win the mens singles title while young Eibad Sarwar Khan defeated Mazhar Hayat 6-2,6-4 to win the under-17......
KARACHI: Lucky Cement reported on Monday an unconsolidated profit of Rs13.69 billion for the year ended on June 30, up 5.8 per cent from a year ago.The company declared a final dividend of Rs12 per......
KARACHI: The drop in exports of kinno, mango, onion and potato contributed to decline in overall exports of fruits and vegetables in 2016-17.According to the figures of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) collected Rs200 billion in the first month of this fiscal year exceeding the target set for the month. It registered a growth of 22pc over the......
LAHORE: Ongoing imports of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) are meeting up to 25 per cent of gas shortage, which currently hovers around 2.5 billion cubic feet per day.According to an official at the......
LAHORE: The opposition in the Punjab Assembly has announced that it will move court to stop Chief Minister Shahbaz from contesting the by-election in NA-120 — the seat vacated by deposed prime......
ISLAMABAD / MUZAFFARABAD: An adjournment motion has been moved in the Senate of Pakistan to discuss the remarks made by Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider.Mr Haider was quoted......
ISLAMABAD: Senator Mohammad Ali Saif of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement on Monday filed a contempt of court petition in the Supreme Court against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan for......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday felicitated China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on its 90th founding day and expressed the hope that professional collaboration......
KARACHI: The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has failed to provide the country’s biggest Keamari port with proper and permanent road connectivity even after a lapse of 10 years, causing frequent gridlocks......
ISLAMABAD: The food security situation of temporary displaced persons (TDPs) who have returned to their homes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) has improved significantly since 2014,......
ISLAMABAD: The two old friends and now arch-rivals — Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan and former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan — had a chance encounter at a restaurant here on......
QUETTA: Nestled deep in the midst of towering mountains, Quetta’s historic tourist point Hanna Lake has completely dried up. Cracks have started to appear in the lakebed as there has been no rainfall......
ISLAMABAD: In the absence of a political leadership, the bureaucratic machinery of the state struggled to take a routine monthly decision to revise prices of petroleum products on the due date of......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), which earlier seemed reluctant to proceed against ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has finally decided to file references against him, his......
ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) nominee, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, will coast to an easy win in today’s election for the prime minister in the National Assembly — thanks to......
The Punjab Government on Monday issued a notification to extend the house arrest of Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed for two more months.The JuD chief had been placed under house arrest......
