At least 23 people were killed and dozens injured after an express train derailed in north India Saturday, officials said, as rescuers clambered across mangled carriages to pull passengers from the......
In an attempt to bring Quetta back to its former glory, the provincial government has recently reconstructed iconic structures across the city.The structures include the Princess of Hope (Makran),......
Thousands of leftist counter-protesters marched peaceably through downtown Boston, United States on Saturday, chanting anti-Nazi slogans and waving signs condemning white nationalism ahead of a rally......
US President Donald Trump tweeted early Saturday that “many decisions” had been made in a meeting with his top military advisers, including on the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan.The Trump......
Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah's helicopter had to make an emergency landing in Balakot on Saturday evening due to bad weather conditions, all on-board remained safe, DawnNews reported.PPP leaders......
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, while addressing a political gathering in Mansehra on Saturday, accused the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and PTI chief Imran Khan of being involved in widespread......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday tried to dispel the impression regarding the confrontation among state institutions and said all the institutions were on the same page regarding......
Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar on Saturday said he will address a press conference on an as yet undisclosed matter on Sunday evening.The news accompanied media reports that PML-N leader and......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday challenged in the Lahore High Court (LHC) a returning officer's acceptance of PML-N candidate Kulsoom Nawaz's nomination papers for the upcoming NA-120......
A knife attacker stabbed eight people on the street in Russia's far northern city of Surgut before being shot by police, investigators said Saturday.The male attacker “carried out attacks on......
National media kicked up a storm on Saturday afternoon after it was reported that National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq had filed a complaint against Justice Asif Saeed Khosa in the Supreme Judicial......
A local leader of the Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Dera Ismail Khan district early Saturday, police said.The gunmen targeted......
A state funeral with full national honours was held in Karachi for Dr Ruth Pfau, a symbol of selflessness and devotion who passed away at the age of 87 earlier this month.Pfau, a German-Pakistani......
ISLAMABAD: Three chefs from the Çiraan Palace in Istanbul were invited to a week-long Turkish Culinary Art Festival to prepare Turkish delicacies in the capital.The festival was held at the Zamana......
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government has decided to transfer the murder case of former home minister retired Colonel Shuja Khanzada to a military court.Sources privy to the development told Dawn that the......
“I received my early education in the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In 1990, I moved to Nankana Sahib with my family. The city is of great historical and religious value, and it is a popular......
MANSEHRA: PPP central information secretary Sherry Rehman has said her party stands by democracy and will not make any deal with disqualified prime minister Nawaz Sharif over certain constitutional......
All the girls gathered around Saleha as she entered the classroom carrying their checked English test papers, sent by Ms Fareeha. They were curious to know the marks they had obtained.Saleha got the......
It was the night before I started my job as an office worker. I was excited as well as nervous. Finally, after 15 gruelling years of studying, I was about to start my career.I set my alarm at six in......
Going to school is an exciting as well as a daunting task that students have to face every day. While for many, being in school is all cool and stress-free, for others it can be a tough job that they......
Sony Pictures’ The Emoji Movie may deal with the life and times of ‘emoticons’, but it fails to engage the audience like Pixar’s Inside Out, where the ‘emotions’ kept the audience involved by being......
Shops are filled with beautiful pencil/pen holders and you can’t resist buying them for you desk, but as they are costly this might burden your parents’ pocket. However, they are easy to make if you......
The children of Pakistan share their vision for the country and how they feel it should be governed. Here are the lofty aspirations of our readers who are ready to be the leaders of tomorrow and......
If you are a fan of Disney-related products, then here is a good news for you — Disney Parks have just unveiled snazzy new rose gold Minnie Mouse ears.These glimmering pink (right on the millennial......
To do great things in life, you need inspiration. And what better way is there to get inspired than to read about people who did great things.Penguin’s series Who was? is made up of stories about......
AFTER the Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified Nawaz Sharif as prime minister, a welcome debate has focused on the role of the various institutions in installing a robust system of accountability......
FORMER prime minister Nawaz Sharif is being offered considerable counsel by critics, including journalists and analysts, about the way forward, with many holding forth about the repercussions of his......
MY son Shakir must have been around eight when, after hearing yet another anti-army rant from me during the Zia era, he stopped me in mid-flow by asking: “But why shouldn’t the army rule? After all,......
KARACHI: It remains a matter of debate what T.S. Eliot meant when he, in one of his poems, wrote; “Time present and time past, are both perhaps present in time future.” But it is clear what a......
KARACHI: No one who sees the photographs of beautiful flowers, buildings and museum artefacts, all nicely framed and labelled, and being displayed at the State Bank Museum here, would be able to......
KARACHI: As a country, we seem to be influenced greatly by Italian culture — whether it is in the mushrooming of Italian restaurants or pizzerias or in our love for The Godfather as was made evident......
WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s controversial far-right chief strategist Steve Bannon left the White House on Friday as the administration reels from the fallout over Trump’s response to a violent white......
HELSINKI: Two people were killed and six were injured in a stabbing spree in the Finnish city of Turku on Friday, police said, after officers shot one suspect and warned several others could still be......
BAGHDAD: The wires protruding from the small, misshapen stuffed animal revealed the deadly booby-trap tucked inside.For the people of Mosul, the sophisticated bomb was a reminder of how difficult it......
CAPE CANAVERAL: Nasa launched the last of its longtime tracking and communication satellites on Friday, a vital link to astronauts in orbit as well as the Hubble Space Telescope.The end of the era......
PARIS: Vehicle attacks of the sort seen in Barcelona are easy to organise and difficult to stop and have become part of a new reality for Europeans, experts say.Paris, Berlin, Nice, London and......
TODAY is the third anniversary of the death of US journalist James Foley, whose beheading at the hands of the militant Islamic State group became a turning point in how the media industry ensures the......
BIRMINGHAM: Alastair Cook’s double century ensured West Indies continued to struggle in the inaugural day/night Test in England here at Edgbaston on Friday.England were 449 for four at lunch on the......
DARWIN: Captain Steve Smith on Friday backed Usman Khawaja to return to the Australian team for this month’s two-Test series in Bangladesh.Smith, speaking ahead of the team’s departure to Dhaka, said......
FORMER Pakistan Test fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz has had a two-hour meeting with the investigators of National Crime Agency (NCA) in Britain to discuss alleged corruption in PSL which recently resulted......
PARIS: Everton took a 2-0 lead in a Europa League qualifying play-off first leg clash on Thursday against Hajduk Split in Liverpool in a game stopped temporarily due to crowd trouble.Hajduk fans......
CARY (North Carolina): Manny Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum is “optimistic” a rematch between his fighter and Jeff Horn will be confirmed in the next few days, he told Reuters on Thursday.Arum said the......
KARACHI: Top seed and national champion Mohammad Sajjad on Friday became the first major casualty when he was knocked out on the last day of the league matches in the ninth National Bank of Pakistan......
KARACHI: Eminent golfer Shabbir Iqbal displayed his class when he shot masterly eight under par 64 in the second round to leap three places and attain top slot on the leader board in the UMA 22nd......
KARACHI: A committee investigating the rupee’s sudden depreciation against the dollar last month is expected to submit its report next week, according to banking sources.The spokesman for the State......
KARACHI: Two Chinese auto companies — truck maker Sinotruck Limited and bus manufacturer Shanghai Sunlong — on Friday expressed interest in establishing assembling units in Pakistan.In a meeting with......
ISLAMABAD: Large-scale manufacturing (LSM) expanded by 5.6 per cent in 2016-17, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday.This is the highest rate of increase recorded in the last......
KARACHI: Traders and industrialists have urged the government to shift the handling of Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) from Karachi to Gwadar Port in order to ease cargo-related congestion and......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Friday that Japan and Pakistan are long-term partners in their quest for economic development.Mr Dar was talking to Japanese Ambassador Takashi Kurai who......
KARACHI: The benchmark KSE-100 index declined by 57.68 points (0.13 per cent) to close at 43,078.38 on Friday with politics continuing to dominate market sentiments.The index dropped by nearly 800......
KARACHI: Cotton prices came crashing down on Friday due to panic selling from ginners holding huge stocks.The Karachi Cotton Association revised the spot rates downwards by Rs150 to Rs5,950 per......
ISLAMABAD: Power tariff for all distribution companies, except K-Electric, is estimated to come down by Rs1.71 per unit for a month due to lower than assumed fuel costs in July.The Central Power......
KARACHI: After 57 days under house arrest, Kashmiri leader Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was released and allowed to attend Friday prayers at Jama Masjid in Srinagar. The Mirwaiz had been under house arrest......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah ordered on Friday high vigilance to counter maritime threats.Presiding over a Command and Staff Conference of the Pakistan Navy at......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, taking notice of backlog in the registration and price fixation of various drugs, ordered the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) on Friday to......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah will perform groundbreaking of the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) on the birthday of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Dec 25) at a ceremony to be held at......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the National Assembly on Friday objected to the proposed elections bill in its present form and sought significant amendments to it, with the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf......
LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his two sons have decided not to appear before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) till his petition seeking a review of the Supreme Court’s......
KARACHI: A juvenile whale shark was rescued and released back into the sea on Thursday after it got entangled in a fishing net about two kilometres north of Churna Island in Balochistan.The shark was......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday said the world must use “whatever means necessary” to stop “radical Islamic terrorism”, after twin attacks in Spain killed at least 14 people.The militant......
KATHMANDU / GUWAHATI: More than 16 million people have been affected by floods in South Asia, aid workers and officials said, with heavy rains and damaged roads hampering relief efforts amid severe......
KARACHI: Today, Dawn embarks on a series of 16 special reports under the banner of ‘70 years of Pakistan and Dawn’. The first report covers the epoch of the founding fathers (1947 to 1951) and......
KARACHI: A somewhat veiled criticism by senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz politician Pervaiz Rashid of former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan caused the latter to hit back, saying he did......
BARCELONA: Suspects in Spain’s twin terror attacks — one of which took place on Thursday and the other on Friday — had been planning for an even bigger assault than the deadly car rampages they......
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Friday underlined the need to introduce constitutional reforms in the parliament to protect the sanctity of vote and strengthen the democracy in the country.“It was......
