Two soldiers were martyred and three injured in a landmine blast in South Waziristan's Barmal area on Sunday.A forces jeep was patrolling the area during a search operation when it struck a landmine......
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and his Afghan counterpart on Sunday agreed to form a joint working group of the two armies, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced in a......
Acting United States Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Alice Wells' scheduled trip to Pakistan has been postponed, the US Embassy in Pakistan confirmed on Sunday.Wells was set to......
Police fired tear gas shells and baton charged an Imamia Students Organisation (ISO) rally on Sunday in Karachi, protesting against the United States President Donald Trump's recent diatribe.The......
Pope Francis decried the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and prayed that they receive “full rights” on Sunday.The pontiff said there was “sad news about the persecution of the religious......
The cricket franchise of the House of Zalmi, Benoni Zalmi, on Sunday signed Wahab Riaz and Umar Akmal for $0.115 million and $0.1 million respectively, for the upcoming Global T20 League which will......
Inaugurating the second Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal at Karachi's Port Qasim on Sunday, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that LNG was the only solution to Pakistan's energy crisis."If......
The petroleum production grew overall by 3.39 per cent during the last fiscal year as compared to the corresponding year 2015-16.Production of six petroleum products including jet fuel oil, motor......
Lebanon's military has announced a ceasefire in its week-old battle against the militant Islamic State (IS) group along the Syrian border, saying it will allow for negotiations with the terrorists......
Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat said on Sunday that situations similar to the ongoing standoff over Doklam Plateau between Indian and Chinese troops could recur in the future, adding that......
Thousands of supporters of a controversial Indian guru ended a tense standoff with soldiers on Sunday, avoiding renewed violence after their leader's rape conviction sparked riots in which at least......
Gen John W. Nicholson, the top United States commander in Afghanistan, claimed on Saturday that the US was aware of Afghan Taliban leadership's presence in Peshawar and Quetta, adding that the......
Floyd Mayweather outclassed Conor McGregor with a 10th-round stoppage in Las Vegas on Saturday to win their money-spinning superfight and clinch his 50th straight victory.Former welterweight boxing......
At midnight, a multi-coloured van speeds down the motorway towards Lahore. It stands out from the other vehicles on the road because of its unique exterior, with Na Maloom Afraad 2 (NMA2) emblazoned......
If you had watched this prequel to The Conjuring (2013) and Annabelle (2014), you may not have expected Annabelle: Creation to be worth your time. After all, Annabelle was quite disappointing,......
An interesting clip of the current crop of Coke Studio singers has gone viral on social media in which they’re seen trying to figure out Urdu/Punjabi songs after listening to the English translations......
Jerry Lewis, who died Aug 20 at 91, was a comic actor whose rubber-limbed pratfalls, squeaky voice and pipsqueak buffoonery made him one of the most uncontainable screen clowns of all time.Lewis......
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, an unusual title for a love story, is a cautionary tale of fighting for life’s basic necessities. In the film, love hinges on finding an easily accessible place to defecate —......
Imran Khan achieved his greatest success in 20 years of political life when he managed to convince the country’s Supreme Court to knock out his main rival Nawaz Sharif from the political arena. The......
“Be careful! Don’t step on the dung!” my guide warns me as I make my way through the cattle enclosures. Besides watching your step, a day at any of the markets for sacrificial animals is spent......
Shall we remember? Shall we forget? Shall we look to the future? Shall we bring along the past? They tell us we need a new Pakistan.Pakistan began with fear and faith. We still live in fear and......
One of the most intriguing qualities of art is the way it exposes the unique peculiarities in each of us as individuals through the vastly diverse ways in which each artist approaches the subject.......
From tourist attraction to political platforms biennales are part of a global network that not only produces and disseminates contemporary art but also grapples with current issues of race, identity,......
It is quite likely that the three factions of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement — MQM-Pakistan, MQM-Haqiqi and Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) — will merge to re-establish the MQM as Karachi’s largest......
“Tourist resort in Nagarparkar opens” reads a Dawn news item (August 21, 2017). The news item is topped by an image of a cluster of red pitched-roof buildings under a cloud-dappled sky. There would......
There are always two ways of learning from what we see people around us doing or not doing. The commonly recommended way is to do what good others are doing or not to do what others are not doing so......
Bandages are crucial for Pakistani society. A bomb blast you say? One million rupees for the dead. A season of drought? National prayers for rain. A failing domestic cricket system? Draft selection......
The 1950s and early 1960s saw the rise of the Cold War between the USSR and the USA. During this period, aggressive military action by the Soviet Union in Europe, coupled with several high-profile......
With Karachi’s never-ending summers, it’s always good idea to go and cool off with a bowl of ice cream; after all what can be better than indulging oneself with a trip to one’s local parlour? And......
Shoaib was in search of a wife who would help him run a burger joint that he planned to open. A wife manager, I recall either him saying or myself thinking. Somehow it was relayed to us that he would......
You can improve small spaces, or soften the edges of larger ones, easily by growing an assortment of climbers and creepers which, with plenty of tender loving care, will reward you with cascades of......
Hello Auntie, I have been in a relationship with this girl for a couple of months now. We love each other a lot but have been encountering some serious issues lately. She is being pressurised by her......
Administering a spiritualistic spin on the Urdu word darsgah [school], writer and playwright Ashfaq Ahmad called Government College, Lahore, a dargah [spiritual shrine] in his memoir Chand ka Safar.......
In August 2007, when smartphones and social media ‘connections’ weren’t ubiquitous, I returned to London from Andalusia to the news that Qurratulain Hyder had died a day or two before, at the age of......
The German doctor Ruth Pfau, born in Leipzig on Sept 9, 1929, first arrived in Karachi in 1960. She established 157 leprosy clinics across Pakistan, combed its inaccessible regions to treat patients......
Whether it is advertising or business development, dozens of good books on these topics are released every single year. You can read all of them and try to work out the theory behind a successful......
Pakistani Urdu literature possesses some very distinctive features. These features not only lend unique colours to Urdu literature written in Pakistan after independence, but also set it apart from......
The leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour party will now be the newest superhero on the block to boast of his own comic book.Independent graphic novel publishers SelfMadeHero sent out an open call to......
FORMER interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had directed the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) to prepare an anti-extremism narrative. His successor Ahsan Iqbal, during his maiden......
THERE’S nothing like a dose of patriotism and nationalism to muddle the senses. We’ve just been told what kind of country Pakistan will be, but all we can think is, Trump said what?How dare he!Well,......
MANY op-ed columnists and journalists use the term ‘elite’ loosely. Almost always, it is a code to mark a social problem and rebuke the privileged, powerful or ruling classes. But the broad scope......
PESHAWAR: The implementation of reforms in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and its imminent merger with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have become one of the great mysteries for parliamentarians,......
PESHAWAR: A girl and a boy died of dengue fever in Abbottabad on Saturday taking the death toll from the vector-borne disease in the province during the last two months to 10.Dengue, which broke out......
RAWALPINDI: The district administration has started the process to acquire 700 kanals for the construction of a new jail in the district.The government in this regard has imposed Section 4 of the......
Like many historical sites in the Salt Range, the condition of the Malot Fort, a beautiful and unique fort in the region, is deteriorating because of neglect.Two temples on the premises of the fort......
Five senior officials from the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) will assist the Ministry of National Health Sciences (NHS) to prevent misunderstandings in the registration of 20 new medical......
ISLAMABAD: Auditors have found gross mismanagement and financial errors worth billions of rupees in the 2016 Haj operation, and uncovered a move by the Ministry of Religious Affairs to grant illegal......
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Saturday constituted a five-member joint investigation team (JIT) to probe the Outfall Road truck blast.Two men were killed and 48 others injured in an explosion in a......
Is healthy, nutritious, calculated eating the ‘it’ trend in town? Maybe not yet, but there is potential, definitely. People are more than ever conscious of what and how much they eat. Eating habits......
LAHORE: A group of men allegedly belonging to the PML-N, reportedly abused and manhandled some PTI workers, including eight women, when they were campaigning for their party candidate to NA-120, Dr......
He remembers the excitement and thrill of working with 35mm film camera during the early 90s when he got his first photography equipment, a manual SLR with basic set of lenses.A promising......
KARACHI: Ships of the desert, camels, known for their steadfastness in hot and dry climates and for going without food and water for long periods of time as they transport people and supplies over......
TEHRAN: Just a couple of weeks into her appointment, the new Iranian vice president’s decision to abandon her fashion style for the all-encompassing black chadar is raising questions among women in......
AS early as November, the stretch of Jefferson Davis Highway that runs through Alexandria, Virginia, will boast a new title after the city council voted to erase the name of the Confederacy’s......
NEW DELHI: A flamboyant and hugely popular spiritual guru who was convicted of rape, triggering a deadly rampage by angry supporters, is not the only Indian sect leader to find himself on the wrong......
QAMISHLI: Syrian Kurdish authorities on Saturday began laying the groundwork for the first local elections in the federal system they are establishing in the country’s north, an official said.Hadiya......
TAL AFAR: Iraqi forces announced on Saturday the ouster of fighters of the militant Islamic State group from central Tal Afar and its historic citadel, leaving them poised to fully recapture one of......
BANGKOK: Former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra fled to Dubai and may try to seek asylum in the UK, a junta source said on Saturday, after she ducked a legal ruling, wrong-footing the court and her......
BARCELONA: Spain’s King Felipe VI joined thousands of people in a defiant march against terror through Barcelona on Saturday following last week’s deadly vehicle rampages.People who tended the......
AUSTIN: Hurricane Harvey left a trail of devastation on Saturday after the most powerful storm to hit the US mainland in over a decade slammed into Texas, destroying homes, severing power supplies......
ANAKKALE: Turkey’s main opposition leader warned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday that the whole country has a “thirst for justice”, opening an unprecedented four-day meeting protesting......
You’re lying in bed, hung over from a night of excess, and nothing sounds better than filling your belly with a plate of greasy food. But nothing sounds worse than leaving the house to go and find......
KABUL: Hundreds of Shia mourners on Saturday buried victims of a suicide bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Kabul as the death toll from the atrocity rose to 28.Distraught relatives and friends......
PANCHKULA: Indian authorities arrested hundreds of people and cancelled more than 300 trains passing through two northern states after 32 people were killed in violent protests following the......
MANILA: A Filipino teenager at the centre of the latest outcry against the president’s bloody crackdown against illegal drugs was buried on Saturday, with mourners turning his funeral into a protest......
LEEDS: Kraigg Brathwaite’s defiant unbeaten century and a fine knock from Shai Hope ensured the West Indies continued their spirited fightback in the second Test against England at Headingley on......
DHAKA: Batsman Usman Khawaja and left-arm spinner Ashton Agar will play the first Test against Bangladesh beginning on Sunday, Australia skipper Steve Smith has confirmed.Both left-handed opener......
MADRID: Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said on Saturday he was satisfied with his squad and ruled out any more signings before the transfer window shuts even though his side are short in defence......
SPA -FRANCORCHAMPS: Triple world champion Lewis Hamilton equalled Formula One great Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 68 pole positions on Saturday with a dominant performance in Belgian Grand......
PARIS: Neymar for once played a more restricted role as Edinson Cavani scored twice and Thiago Motta once in Paris Saint-Germain’s comfortable 3-0 home win over Saint-Etienne in Ligue 1 here on......
COLOGNE: Hamburg SV enjoyed their best start to a season in eight years after they surprised hosts Cologne 3-1 to climb to the top of the Bundesliga here on Friday.The northern club, who were on the......
GLASGOW: Lin Dan stayed on course for a record-breaking sixth men’s singles title at the World Championships in Glasgow on Friday with a straight games quarter-final win over Hong Kong’s Wong Wing Ki......
KARACHI: The Karachi Hockey Association (KHA) on Saturday received a major breakthrough when the Karachi Development Authority (KDA) restored its hockey team after quarter-of-a-century and offered......
LAHORE: Some exciting games of rugby were witnessed during the second Women’s National 7s Rugby Championship featuring top six teams from all over Pakistan here at Lahore Cantt on Saturday.Six......
LONDON: Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola was left scratching his head after Raheem Sterling was sent off moments after giving his side a last-gasp 2-1 victory at Bournemouth on Saturday.Sterling......
LAHORE: The government is making efforts to reduce the cost of doing business for the poultry sector as well as removing hurdles, Federal Minister for Commerce Mohammad Pervaiz Malik said on......
KARACHI: The KSE-100 index dropped 437 points (one per cent) in the outgoing week to settle at 42,642 points.Major reasons for the weak sentiments on the bourse included political uncertainty,......
KARACHI: The Karachi Tax Bar Association (KTBA) has asked the Sindh government to remove a number of ambiguities and flaws in the Sindh Workers Welfare Fund (WWF) Act 2014.KTBA General Secretary......
QUETTA: The Agricultural Credit Advisory Committee (ACAC) has proposed that banks should dedicate at least 20 per cent of total branches to agri-lending, according to a press release on Saturday.A......
CRUDE markets are faced with contrasting push and pull.In the short term, markets are keeping a close eye on the possible debt default by Venezuelan oil giant Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDSVA). This......
KARACHI: Buying spree was witnessed at the cotton market on Saturday where prices moved further lower due to higher phutti (seed cotton) arrival and smooth availability of quality cotton.The sudden......
AS she was getting on in years and her resources dwindled, Virginia Rayford took out a special kind of mortgage in 2008 that she hoped would help her stay in her three-bedroom Washington, DC,......
ACCORDING to the provisional figures of the sixth national census conducted in May, Pakistan’s population today stands at 207.77 million with an annual growth rate of 2.4 per cent.The census,......
KARACHI: All the three factions of the once unified Muttahida Qaumi Movement expressed their concerns over the provisional results of the sixth population census in the country with a specific......
HYDERABAD: Provisional results of the sixth population census in the country have not gone down well with nationalist parties of Sindh who are of the opinion that influx of people into the province......
ISLAMABAD: Financial expenditures for the sixth Population and Housing Census 2017 were reviewed at a meeting held here on Saturday with Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in the chair.Following the......
MULTAN: Terming the recent census findings “politically motivated and economically biased”, Seraiki nationalists have expressed their doubts over the provisional results and viewed them in favour of......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan said on Saturday that the PTI was fully committed to contesting the by-election in NA-120 as its results would reveal what kind of Pakistan the......
STEPPING into Zarifa Salahova’s world of miniature books brings back memories of the wee gold locket-shaped book I received as a gift, that my mother would put around my neck on special occasions.......
SRINAGAR: Authorities in India-held Kashmir claimed on Saturday that a daylong gun battle left at least 10 people dead as gunmen stormed a police facility in a pre-dawn attack.Director-General of......
LAHORE: Foreign Minister Khwaja Asif met former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday for ‘directions’ ahead of his tour to three countries where he is expected to discuss America’s new policy......
KARACHI: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested another suspected assassin for his alleged involvement in the 1997 murder of managing director of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation Shahid......
LAHORE: Maryam Nawaz on Saturday officially kicked off the election campaign of her mother and former first lady Kulsoom Nawaz, who is currently undergoing cancer treatment in London, and said she......
ISLAMABAD: The flaws in the country’s weak tax system have been further exposed following the revelation that over 15,000 corporate taxpayers paid no taxes to the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR)......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition parties on Saturday voiced serious concerns over the preliminary results of the national census, questioning the authenticity of the figures released by the statistics......
ISLAMABAD: Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday got a clean chit in the sixth and final corruption reference against him, thanks to an......
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, in his speech on Saturday which primarily focused on foreign policy, said that his party's government had closed Nato supply lines and airbases after the Salala......
