At least 12 people, including three teenagers, of two families drowned at Karachi’s Hawksbay beach on Saturday evening after they were swept away by strong waves, police officials said.The incident......
With Rohingya refugees still flooding across the border from Myanmar, those packed into camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh were becoming desperate on Saturday for scant basic resources as......
Foreign Secretary Tahmina Janjua summoned Myanmar's ambassador U. Win Myint to the Foreign Office on Saturday to register Pakistan's "strong protest" at the ongoing violence against the Rohingya......
Angry parents scuffled with Indian police in riot gear at an international school near New Delhi on Saturday after a staff member was arrested for slitting the throat of a seven-year-old boy.The body......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has served notices to Punjab provincial ministers Saiful Malook Khokhar and Bilal Yasin for violating the election board's code of conduct by participating......
Police, soldiers and emergency workers raced to rescue survivors from the ruins of Mexico's most powerful earthquake in a century, which killed at least 61 people, as storm Katia menaced the......
Saudi Arabia on Saturday suspended any dialogue with Qatar, accusing it of "distorting facts" soon after a phone call between the rulers of both countries offered hope of a breakthrough in the......
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Saturday filed an appeal against Asif Ali Zardari's acquittal in a corruption reference that accused the PPP co-chairman of acquiring assets through......
Rafael Nadal moved one win away from a third US Open title and 16th Grand Slam crown on Friday when he defeated weary Juan Martin del Potro 4-6, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2.The 31-year-old Spaniard, the 2010 and......
A team of six naval officers is starting a historic and gruelling around-the-world mission on Sunday, the first circumnavigation of the globe by an Indian all-female crew.Lieutenant Commander Vartika......
One man died and two others were injured when a bridge built on the Kabul River collapsed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Charsadda district on Saturday.The incident occurred when a truck carrying cement was......
Afew days back, while surfing randomly on internet, I came across with an amazing site and with that, I spent quite a few minutes in a brawl with AI (a robot). Yes, I had quite an amazing chat with......
Sylvia was sitting on the couch in the living room. Her sister sat by her side, applying nail polish on her nails, observing and disliking it, and then removing it.“Come on,” said Sylvia. “It’s time......
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The humanitarian charity Muslim Aid created the world’s largest samosa to feed the homeless in England.A total of 12 volunteers spent about 15 hours crafting the Guinness World Record-breaking......
National Geographic Kids is dedicated to introducing and educating kids about the world, nature and science.Their series, National Geographic Readers, has books for different age groups, with......
You are enjoying your vacation with your cousins, laughing around, making lame jokes, taking pictures and having a generally good time. But then suddenly, one of your relatives asks you about your......
You wake up and look outside the window and instead of the sun or its glimmering golden light, you find clusters of tiny twinkling dots in the infinite dark space, some close, some far. Then you......
PESHAWAR: Politico-religious parties and civil society groups held demonstrations and rallies across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in some areas of Fata on Friday to protest atrocities against Rohingya......
GILGIT: The long-delayed reconstruction and widening of the 170-kilometre strategically important Gilgit-Skardu Road has finally been started.The Rs33-billion project has been awarded to Frontier......
My close friends call me Ishaq Armani, because I sing sad folk songs in my spare time. I belong to the Salarzai tribe of the Mamond tehsil in Bajaur Agency – a thickly populated agency of the......
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary committee on Friday observed that the permissible limit of carcinogenic arsenic in drinking water set by the government was too high.Pakistan Council for Research in Water......
ISLAMABAD: Four references against ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family have been placed before a judge who had acquitted former President Asif Ali Zardari in five corruption......
ISLAMABAD: Several protests were held in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Friday against the killings of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The protestors urged the Pakistani government to......
DADU: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) staged another big show in Dadu district — its second in recent months — on Friday when 25 politically influential village elders along with their followers......
KARACHI: The Karachi University (KU) once again on Friday reiterated its stance on the much-hyped controversy over media reports suggesting that the university had decided to share students’ data......
KARACHI: All major political parties in the metropolis and civil society representatives at a panel discussion under the banner of ‘Save Karachi’ campaign on Friday questioned the results of the......
KARACHI: Just a few months after coming into the limelight, the Al Qaeda-inspired militant group Ansarul Sharia Pakistan (ASP) comprising hardly 10 fighters has been busted with almost all its......
HYDERABAD: Protests were held against ‘genocide’ of Rohingya Muslims on Friday in almost all parts of Sindh on a massive scale as people from every walk of life condemned the atrocities.Protests,......
HAVANA: Hurricane Irma menaced Cuba and the Bahamas on Friday as it drove towards Florida after lashing the Caribbean with devastatingly high winds, killing 19 people and leaving catastrophic......
Green, purple, pink and yellow lights danced across the sky in striking aurora displays over northern Finland early on Friday.Travel magazine ‘All About Lapland’ posted a video on social media of the......
ALBANY: More than 100,000 artefacts from one of the earliest European settlements in North America are now housed at an upstate New York museum located near where the objects were discovered more......
RIYADH: A Saudi-led bloc of Arab states hostile to Qatar took aim on Friday at Kuwaiti mediation and maintained a tough line even after US President Donald Trump offered to help resolve the......
KABUL: When the Taliban charged in to Afghanistan’s state-run film company in the mid-1990s intent on destroying all the movies, Habibullah Ali risked everything to save them.He hid thousands of......
A MESSAGE came through from Syria on my mobile phone last week.“General Khadour kept his promise,” it read. I knew what it meant.Five years ago, I met Mohamed Khadour, who was commanding a few Syrian......
NEW YORK: Americans Sloane Stephens and Madison Keys, both struggling with serious injuries just three months ago, advanced to their first Grand Slam final at the US Open on Thursday.Stephens, who......
LONDON: England all-rounder Ben Stokes followed his bowling masterclass against West Indies with a half century and Stuart Broad blazed away for a vital 38 as the hosts took a 71-run first innings......
DUBAI: Sri Lanka’s 28-year-old all-rounder Thisara Perera considers himself to be lucky to be picked for the World XI tour to Pakistan which is scheduled to commence next week with matches in......
LAHORE: Fast-rising paceman Hasan Ali is eager to play his maiden international match before the home crowd in the upcoming three-match T20 series against the World XI.“Obviously I am very excited......
BARCELONA: Barcelona coach Ernesto Valverde will be banking on new signing Ousmane Dembele to fill the gap left by Neymar’s departure as he looks to overcome off-pitch difficulties when the Catalans......
LONDON: Enaam Ahmed, the 17-year-old British racing sensation of Pakistani origin, won the British F3 Championship here recently to stun his rivals. Young Enaam picked up 12 wins in the season to......
ISLAMABAD: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations launched on Friday a project to reverse the deforestation and forest degradation through chilgoza pine in Pakistan.The......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government is persuading the provincial governments for gas-sector reforms that envisage dismantling of two gas utilities into at least five public-sector companies besides......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will try to convince Chinese authorities to revise the existing free trade agreement (FTA) on the less-than-equal reciprocity principle, Commerce Minister Pervaiz Malik told Dawn......
KARACHI: The asset base of the banking sector expanded 8.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2017, which is the highest growth rate recorded in corresponding quarters since 2008.However, banks’......
KARACHI: The Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) on Friday expressed concerns over the newly introduced Companies Act 2017 and feared the shortcomings would adversely affect......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said the NA-120 by-election results will leave an ever-lasting impression on the course of Pakistan’s future, making it clear whether......
ISLAMABAD: The government claimed on Friday that the references filed against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and members of his family had been prepared on ‘weak grounds’ which could not be......
Punjab’s share in the general seats of the National Assembly is likely to go down by as much as seven when a new constituency delimitation exercise is conducted in accordance with the population......
THATTA: Violating Pakistan’s territorial waters, Indian Border Security Forces (IBSF) stormed into Harami Dhoro Creek along coastal town of Jati in Sujawal district, resorted to intense firing, and......
ISLAMABAD: In an open letter to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan has condemned silence and inaction of the UN on the genocide and plight of......
QUETTA: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday claimed to have arrested another facilitator of the Aug 8, 2016, Civil Hospital suicide bombing that claimed 72 lives, mostly of lawyers.The......
KARACHI: The Civil Aviation Authority has issued a show-cause notice to the Pakistan International Airlines’ (PIA) chief of flight operations (CFO) for violating air safety rules and putting lives of......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan is 46th on a list of 146 countries that face significant money laundering/terrorism financing risks, says a recent report by a Swiss institute.The Basel Institute on Governance......
JUCHITAN: At least 58 people were killed when the most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in over eight decades tore through buildings, forced mass evacuations and triggered alerts as far away as......
WASHINGTON: The United States needs to condition its aid to Afghanistan on the recognition of the Durand Line as Kabul’s refusal to recognise it unsettles Pakistan, a US lawmaker told a House......
SEOUL: More than 1,000 people might already have been killed in Myanmar, mostly minority Rohingya Muslims — more than twice the government’s total — a senior United Nations representative said on......
BEIJING: China on Friday defended Pakistan’s counterterrorism efforts, following US President Donald Trump’s accusation that militants carry out attacks inside Afghanistan from Pakistani soil.“The......
ISLAMABAD: In a major step towards implementation of Fata (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) reforms, the committee overseeing the process decided on Friday to install a transitional mechanism.“It......
ISLAMABAD: The accountability court here on Friday received four references against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his three children and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar from the National......
CHASHMA (Mianwali): Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Friday that the government would end power load-shedding in the country by the end of the year, and complete the ongoing power projects......
Necessary and desirable, a reset of foreign policy is possible — if the government approaches the issue sensibly, cooperatively and with a genuine intent to effect change.Foreign Minister Khawaja......
JOSEPH Stalin is reputed to have said: “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths are a statistic.”The same applies to migrants. Today, we are concerned about the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar that......
MARK Tully recently wrote, “Whenever I talk to students of journalism in India about radio I am told ‘It’s dead. Killed by television’. As the presenter of a radio programme broadcast in Britain I......
AFTER President Donald Trump asked Pakistan to crack down on the Afghan Taliban on its soil in his Afghan policy address, army chief Gen Qamar Bajwa spelt out his country’s response, saying Pakistan......
THE National Assembly, the government and the COAS have categorically rejected President Trump’s allegations against Pakistan. The furious outrage of the political and military elite in Pakistan......
