Rescuers were trying to recover five miners trapped in a coal mine near Muzaffarabad on Sunday but there were bleak chances of their survival, an official said.The incident was reported from Seri......
At least four suspected terrorists were reportedly killed on Sunday during an intelligence based operation carried out by Frontier Corps, Balochistan, on suspected terrorist camps in Kohlu and Dera......
"Nawaz Sharif’s plan to travel to Lahore in a cavalcade on GT Road is a deliberate attempt to continue undermining the Supreme Court of Pakistan by calling into question its decision on the Panama......
An Afghan official says that at least 30 people, including women and children, have been killed by Taliban fighters in northern Sari Pul province.Zahir Wahdat, the provincial governor for Sari Pul,......
In an apparent move to improve the current state of matters in the hockey structure, the new team management has dropped 13 players on fitness grounds.The players were attending national camp at......
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday blamed Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan for introducing politics of abusive language in the country.Addressing a public meeting at......
Israel's communications minister, Ayoob Kara, said on Sunday that he wants Al Jazeera's press cards revoked and has asked cable providers to block the Qatar-based broadcaster's transmissions.Kara......
Authorities at Bangladesh's main international airport on Sunday arrested a man accused of posing as a wheelchair user in an elaborate plot to smuggle 25 kilogrammes of gold past customs.The bullion......
Japan on Sunday marked 72 years since the world's first nuclear attack on Hiroshima, with the nation's traditional contradictions over atomic weapons again coming into focus.The anniversary came......
An investigation into the killing of eight Hindu pilgrims in India-held Kashmir last month has revealed the alleged involvement of terrorists belonging to the banned Lashkar-i-Taiba (LT), Indian......
Ravindra Jadeja will miss India's third and final Test against Sri Lanka after being slapped with a one-match ban on Sunday by cricket's governing body for dangerous play.The left-arm spinner was......
An actress was arrested for hitting a 40-year-old man on a motorbike — who died on the spot — on Masoom Shah Road in Multan on Sunday, DawnNews reported.According to the police, actress Iman Shah was......
Indian boxer Vijender Singh has offered to return the championship belt he won in this weekend's title fight over his Chinese rival in a nod to diplomacy amid a tense border standoff between New......
A government-appointed commission on Sunday cleared Myanmar security forces of systematic rape, murder and arson against Rohingya Muslims, dismissing United Nations' (UN) allegations of widespread......
Internet services have been restored across the country after a 38-hour-long disruption caused by a fault in an undersea internet cable, a Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL)......
The United States (US) and China piled new pressure on North Korea on Sunday to abandon its nuclear missile programme after the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approved tough new sanctions......
An "improvised explosive device" targeting a mosque in Minneapolis during morning prayers on Saturday damaged the imam's office, but did not cause any injuries, the Federal Bureau of Investigation......
Usain Bolt's farewell party was spoiled by a pair of Americans.The Jamaican great finished third in his final 100-meter race, with Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman taking gold and silver Saturday......
Two Chinese tourists were detained in Berlin for making the straight-armed Hitler salute for photos in front of the Reichstag parliament building, a police spokeswoman said on Sunday.The......
Reham Khan, the former wife of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, on Sunday said that she is not in contact with MNA Ayesha Gulalai, dismissing allegations that she is 'conspiring'......
Flight operations at Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport were restored on Sunday following a temporary suspension earlier due to fault in a submarine internet cable, which has since been......
Ustad Tafoo called me to his studio in the busy, narrow lanes of Allama Iqbal Town near Moon Market in Lahore. Steep staircases led to the recording studio on the second floor of a dim marble-tiled......
Angelina Jolie is opening up about her life after filing for divorce from Brad Pitt last year. In an interview with Vanity Fair, the actress and film director talks about focusing on her children in......
The wait is over. Dawn Films and IMGC’s first feature film Saat Din Mohabbat In got off the ground last week. The cast of the film rehearsed the whole month of July after which the project finally......
From the trailers, if you thought Atomic Blonde was a female character-driven answer to the instant cult classic Keanu Reeves action vehicle John Wick (2014), then you’d be mostly right. Starring the......
Munna Michael“Michael (Jackson) lives forever” is one line you hear a lot in Munna Michael. Only, it doesn’t mean anything. Nevertheless, I do understand where it is coming from.A few years back, I......
The irony is unmistakable: rewind to March 15, 2009 when Mian Nawaz Sharif defied house arrest orders to lead a rally to restore the then Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.......
1. Mayfair ApartmentsIn the cacophony surrounding the prime minister’s ouster, one critical fact has been obscured: the original assertions made in the Panama Papers about Nawaz Sharif’s children......
Thar is the only fertile desert in the world so recent rains in the area, after a continuous low spell of rainfall since 2011, are a momentous occasion. Many farmers are busy growing crops in the......
People are stupid. Wait, hear me out. I didn’t say that — although in a time when Donald Trump can get elected as the US president and a referendum can doom Britain to inglorious isolation, haven’t......
There is so much in the way we conduct ourselves in society, which we take for granted, that it becomes impossible to believe almost all of it is learnt. Through years of social interactions we make......
In a pithy and innovative treatise on travelling titled Wanderlust: A History of Walking, American author Rebecca Solnit offers a strikingly simple explanation as to why creative type tends to be......
The legend in Saddo Mazzo, Sindh that lives on through the ages is that of the sisters Saddo and Mazzo, princesses who ruled from a hilltop castle in the rugged and largely barren hills west of Johi......
Scene: A sparsely furnished, dark room in which EnEss sits alone, pensive. We hear a sitar strum. EnEss stands up, walks to the edge of the stage and addresses the audience. EnEss: Main keya, is this......
There is nothing better than a hot sandwich — except for hot cake of course — but how did the sandwich come to be, and that’s our quest for today. Besides, of course, making a few of these delicious......
Greening up our urban areas by planting trees, preferably indigenous varieties of trees, continues to be of prime importance in the battle against climate change. But, let’s face it, the vast......
Hi Auntie, I am a 19-year-old student of public administration at a local university. I currently live with my parents, elder brother, his wife and daughter.My issue is that my household is......
Lahore’s NA-120 constituency is all set to hold a by-election after the Supreme Court recently dismissed Nawaz Sharif as prime minister. Five judges of the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous......
Turkey and Germany are, nominally, friends.But if you take even a cursory look at the way the two have been behaving lately, you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise.Over the past few months, the two......
When he walked out to bat for the very first time in a Test match, Fawad Alam knew he had already made his father proud by earning the green cap. Not only did he score a century on debut, he also......
For over 2,000 years India’s dramatic output remained an all-male affair. It was only in the latter half of the 19th century that, because of the untiring efforts of some courageous men and women who......
Generally we approach works of fiction with certain expectations even though we can’t always predict the events. Pleasure in reading, it can be argued, hinges upon the satisfaction of these......
Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People, a collection of short stories based in the United Arab Emirates, begins with a telling quote: “There exists this city built by labour, mostly men, who......
In world literature there are quite a few instances of a single collection of works acquiring the position of a landmark and influencing literary figures appearing later on the scene. A convenient......
“It has always almost been the case that the gift which has spoken so commandingly to my soul has been a printed book.” I take this simple but passionate line from Robert Macfarlane, a British travel......
A longlist of 13 books — the Booker’s dozen — was recently announced by the Man Booker judging panel. The list was whittled down from more than 150 submissions.Mohsin Hamid has been nominated for his......
PESHAWAR: The girls students got top three positions in the annual results of the higher secondary school certificate examinations declared by the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education,......
MANSEHRA: PML-N MNA retired captain Mohammad Safdar on Saturday declared the disqualification of former prime minister and his father-in-law Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court a conspiracy against the......
ISLAMABAD: Judicial activism, which was at its peak during the tenure of former chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, not only invited criticism on the judiciary but also encouraged......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has written a letter to the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) seeking an explanation by August 9 about a number of complaints against the......
RAWALPINDI: Two years after launching the metro bus service between Rawalpindi and Islamabad, the provincial government has started preparing standard operating procedures (SOPs) to hire drivers and......
Arranging freshly plucked loquats, 44-year-old Mohammad Shakil said he leased the historic Gandhala Garden - nestled between two mountains and just a kilometre from Choa Saidan Shah – for a year and......
Home to some exotic flora and fauna, the Saiful Muluk National Park in Kaghan valley is in a state of neglect as the wildlife department hasn’t made any serious effort to preserve it since it was......
“During my four years in the government, the Lowari Tunnel project gives me immense pleasure due to its vitality and importance and its leverage to change the plight of Chitralis and I will always......
LAHORE: Since the PML-N could not get Turkey-like ‘public reaction’ on the ouster of Nawaz Sharif, the party is now banking on its workers for making the return of the former prime minister to his......
Since her graduation in print making in 2001 from the National College of Arts (NCA), Nadia Khawaja has continuously been evolving her artistic expression. Drawing and writing from a tender age, she......
MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi has termed Ms Ayesha Gulalai’s accusations against party chief Imran Khan a conspiracy to divert public attention from Panama Leaks......
LAYYAH: A medium level flood in the River Indus wrecked havoc in the riverine belt of Layyah on Saturday while erosion along the river has engulfed three villages displacing 500 people in Union......
GUJRAT: The Shahbaz Sharif Park, considered to be the biggest public park of Gujranwala division, does not have a sewerage system to drain rainwater out of its lawns while its maintenance has been......
UMERKOT: The Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court has suspended superintendent of district and sessions court Umerkot Akbar Ali Rahimoon, and assured a group lawyers that an impartial inquiry......
KARACHI: Mayor Wasim Akhtar has said that 95 per cent of drinking water being supplied to the metropolis is contaminated, expressing the fear that the deepening water crisis could create a civil......
KARACHI: With the city’s local government deliberately kept paralysed, Karachi is passing through one of the worst civic crises in its history. Its people are paying a huge cost for the persistent......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Bengalis Action Committee (PBAC) on Saturday staged a protest demonstration in front of the Karachi Press Club against the statements issued by Sindhi nationalist parties in......
KARACHI: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan has chosen a development package for the urban areas of Sindh instead of becoming part of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government at the Centre, it......
MITHI: Game officials of the wildlife department conducted raid on an autaq (guesthouse) in a village near Kaloi town on Friday night and recovered two fawns which were to be trafficked to......
KARACHI: Among the many voices of shopkeepers urging you to step into their shop in the ever-bustling Zainab Market, the woman with the cropped grey hair goes from shop to shop asking if they have......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Thousands of Brazilian army troops raided Rio de Janeiro slums in a pre-dawn crackdown on crime gangs on Saturday, leaving parts of the city looking like a war zone on the first......
NEW DELHI: India’s lawmakers on Saturday elected a veteran leader from the ruling right-wing party as the country’s next vice-president, boosting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political......
ROME: Swaths of southern Europe sweltered on Saturday in a heatwave that has claimed several lives, cost billions in crop damage and is, scientists warned, a foretaste of worse to follow in coming......
MANILA: South Korea’s foreign minister said on Saturday she was open to rare discussions with her North Korean counterpart at a security forum in the Philippines in a bid to rein in Pyongyang’s......
WASHINGTON: Investigators probing President Donald Trump’s team for possible connections to Russia have asked the White House to hand over records for what is believed to be the first time, the New......
MOSCOW: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, who loves to cultivate a man-of-action image, was shown on Russian TV on Saturday spear-fishing in a camouflage wetsuit, piloting a powerboat and catching......
BEIJING: China has stepped up its rhetoric in an increasingly tense border row with India, hinting at the possibility of military action in a propaganda push that analysts are calling “genuinely......
JEANNE MOREAU’S sudden death a few days ago was quickly received as a national tragedy all over France. Many TV networks altered their programmes to show a documentary on her life or screen one of......
LONDON: Mohamed Farah launched the World Athletics Championships in scintillating fashion on Friday with another consummate 10,000 metres triumph that further embellished his claim to being the......
COLOMBO: World’s top-ranked side India tightened their grip on the second Test against Sri Lanka despite a fighting century by Kusal Mendis during the hosts’ follow-on here on Saturday.Mendis put on......
MANCHESTER: England are in control of the fourth and final Test against South Africa despite the disappointment of Jonny Bairstow being dismissed for 99 on Day 2 on Saturday.Bairstow just missed out......
WASHINGTON: Top-10 rivals Kei Nishikori and Alexander Zverev advanced to a semi-final showdown at the ATP and WTA Citi Open here on Friday while second-ranked Simona Halep retired with heat......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is yet to get security clearance from the Punjab government to formally invite the World XI squad to visit Lahore to play three T20 matches against Pakistan......
KARACHI: A bullish trend prevailed on the cotton market on Saturday, with buyers remaining at the forefront. Higher arrival of phutti (seed cotton) and sustained demand from spinners kept prices......
Julien Ochala can’t live without his morning cup of Joe. But not just any coffee will do. For the past five years, the 37-year-old physiology lecturer at King’s College London has visited the same......
KARACHI: China emerged as the largest trade partner of Pakistan in 2016-17, although exports to Beijing have been declining for the last four years.Exports to China equalled just 15 per cent of......
KARACHI: Stocks rebounded in the outgoing week with the KSE-100 index up by 965 points (2.06 per cent) to close at 46,877.Investors were comforted with the end to political uncertainty after the......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top tax machinery faces the task of disposing of more than half a million pending audit cases as well as 100,000 court cases involving billions of rupees.Chief commissioners of......
LAHORE: Commerce Minister Pervaiz Malik on Saturday said with active participation of the private sector all-out efforts will be made to achieve the $35 billion export target by 2018.In a meeting......
CRUDE market woes are getting more and more apparent.The oil market is set to see a downward correction this quarter, a recent research note from Barclays underlined. “Prices have moved higher, due......
NEW YORK: Less than an hour after a US jury convicted Martin Shkreli of securities fraud, the so-called “Pharma Bro” was back at his New York City apartment doing what comes naturally: trash talking......
WASHINGTON: US National Security Adviser Gen H.R. McMaster said on Saturday that President Donald Trump wants Pakistan to change its ‘paradoxical’ policy of supporting the militants who are causing......
KARACHI: While confusion and frustration keep rising at the White House over the Afghan war, another vessel carrying military cargo and vehicles for US troops in Afghanistan called at Port Qasim on......
ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain and Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi have observed that Pakistan being a federal state will flourish more when federating units have better representation at......
LAHORE: As Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) candidate for the by-election in NA-120, Dr Yasmin Rashid, began her door-to-door campaign in the constituency vacated by the former prime minister on......
SIXTY-NINE years after India annexed the princely state of Hyderabad there is little resentment amongst the city’s Muslims about the collapse of royal Muslim rule.Back in 1947 the Nizam of......
NEW DELHI: The Indian government is hopeful that the strategic Chabahar port in Iran will be operational by 2018, Union minister Nitin Gadkari has said.India’s minister for transport, highways and......
KABUL: Former Afghan prime minister Gulbadin Hekmatyar on Saturday rejected any increase in US troops and said elections were the only way to bring stability to Afghanistan.Also on Saturday, two......
UNITED NATIONS: In a notice delivered to the United Nations, the Trump administration has declared its intention to withdraw from the Paris climate change accord, but has said it will continue to......
ISLAMABAD: In a bid to demonstrate its political power, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has announced that ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif will travel to Lahore via the historic......
SRINAGAR: Thousands of protesters clashed with government forces in India-held Kashmir on Saturday after three suspected militants were killed in a firefight with troops, police said, with tensions......
CHITRAL: Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that both ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan will be eliminated in next......
ISLAMABAD: Cracks emerged in the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) — the regulatory body of lawyers — on Saturday after a number of members from the 23-strong council came out in support of the outspoken......
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: A fault in the India-Middle East-Western Europe (IMEWE) submarine cable caused consumers and businesses across Pakistan major internet disruptions, the Pakistan Telecommunication......
LANDI KOTAL: Security forces have cleared almost 90 per cent area of the Rajgal Valley adjacent to Afghanistan’s troubled Nangarhar province and troops have taken effective control of important......
WHEN the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, US President George H. W. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker promised Moscow that Nato would not be moved closer to Russia’s new borders. That promise......
IF voters wanted the same kind of scrutiny for electoral candidates that their would-be domestic help is subjected to, we would end up with honest and competent prime ministers.What characteristics......
“A PRINCE is also respected when he is either a true friend or a downright enemy, that to say, when, without any reservation, he declares himself in favour of one party against the other; which......
THE new prime minister has wasted no time in merging two vital ministries into a single Ministry of Energy, something that the PML-N had promised it would do in its election manifesto of 2013.The......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)'s estranged leader and MNA Aysha Gulalai reiterated claims that PTI Chairman Imran Khan had been sending her "indecent, inappropriate messages" during an interview for......
