India's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday confirmed the country had submitted its written pleadings to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the case of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav who was......
Police on Wednesday arrested the employers of a teenage domestic helper in Karachi's Defence Housing Authority area (DHA) after they were accused of criminally assaulting the girl, officials said.The......
A man was killed on Wednesday in an incident of cross-border firing across the Working Boundary on Wednesday, according to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)."Indian......
The bodies of a teenage couple in Karachi feared to have been murdered by their families after they wished to contract a free-will marriage were found bearing electrocution and torture marks......
Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) experienced an exceptional trading session on Wednesday as bulls dominated the market amid higher volumes with the benchmark KSE-100 index gaining 1,031 points, or 2.50......
Thisara Perera smashed the winning six for a resurgent World XI side as they conquered the 175-run target with seven wickets to spare in the nail-biting second match of the Twenty20 international......
Pakistan's Champions Trophy star Hassan Ali on Wednesday lauded the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the organisers of the Independence Cup on the successful first T20 match yesterday.While speaking......
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday revealed that the government has decided to place a ban on militant group Ansarul Sharia Pakistan (ASP).Iqbal, addressing the Senate Standing Committee on......
A war veteran once said: “Nobody wins in a war. They lost but we didn’t win.” This is the reality of war — a didacticism that our leaders should not overlook.This comes to mind as the battle for......
ROME: An Italian couple and their 11-year-old son were killed on Tuesday when a hole opened up in the ground at a bubbling volcanic crater near Naples, a popular tourist site.Italy’s fire brigade......
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday announced that Amir Ahmed Sheikh has been appointed as the new director FIA Sindh Zone.Sheikh has been transferred to this position from his former......
They carry water home, store it, keep it as clean as possible. Yet women are kept out of major decisions around water supply.During this year’s World Water Week in Stockholm, experts focused on an......
An accountability court on Wednesday summoned former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his children ? Maryam, Hassan and Hussain Nawaz ? to appear on September 19 in a reference pertaining to the......
Seven bodies believed to be those of Rohingya Muslims washed ashore in Bangladesh on Wednesday, officials said, highlighting the risks many of the persecuted group are taking to flee violence in......
Some 379,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state for Bangladesh since fresh violence erupted last month, the United Nations (UN) said on Wednesday.The figure has risen by......
Syrian civil war has been modern world's most brutal conflicts and one of its most heavily filmed. Hundreds of thousands of amateur videos have been uploaded to YouTube every heartbeat of the war......
Self-driving cars may not hit the road in earnest for many years but autonomous boats could be just around the pier.Spurred in part by the car industry's race to build driverless vehicles, marine......
Eight Afghans expelled from Germany arrived in Kabul on Wednesday as Berlin resumed deportations of rejected asylum seekers from the war-torn country months after a huge truck bomb hit the Afghan......
Former President Jimmy Carter offered a damning indictment of United States (US) foreign policy and domestic affairs on Tuesday, saying money in politics makes the nation more like an “oligarchy than......
North Korea vowed on Wednesday to accelerate its weapons programmes in response to the “evil” sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council following its latest and most powerful nuclear test.The......
Skipper Sarfraz Ahmad said Babar Azam — Man of the Match in the first Independence Cup T20 — played a magnificent innings on Tuesday night to lead the side to success against the World XI at Lahore's......
Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, who headed the five-member Supreme Court bench that issued the decisive Panama Papers verdict disqualifying former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, made clear on Wednesday that......
A Soyuz space capsule with two Americans and a Russian aboard has docked with the International Space Station.The capsule blasted off from the Russian manned space launch facility in Kazakhstan and......
LAHORE: Road rage, long queues as far as the eye could see and snail’s pace – where traffic was fortunately moving – defined some of the city roads for the second consecutive day on Tuesday.This was......
Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif met with Turkish leadership in Ankara on Tuesday as part of his tour to regional powers in the aftermath of the United States' new policy announcement on......
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will not attend the United Nations General Assembly later this month, her spokesman said on Wednesday, as the Nobel laureate faces a barrage of criticism over her......
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Tuesday suspended the provincial government’s notice for the termination from service issued to Bank of Khyber managing director Shamsul Qayyum, who claimed......
GILGIT: The weeklong Nagar cultural festival is underway at the famous tourist point of Hoper valley with a view to revive cultural heritage of the district and boost tourism.The event is organised......
LAHORE: Babar Azam led an inspired Pakistan side to a 20-run victory in the opening match of the Independence Cup against a star-studded World XI side here on Tuesday.The batsman lit up the Gaddafi......
LAHORE: The Independence Cup has all the makings of being a watershed moment for international cricket in Pakistan.Yet when the World XI squad took an open-top rickshaw ride around the stadium before......
CAPE TOWN: South Africa Test captain Faf du Plessis was on Monday named as the country’s One-day International skipper to add to his leadership roles in Test and T20 Internationals.Du Plessis, who is......
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s Shakib Al Hasan on Tuesday defended his decision to play in limited-overs games while skipping Test cricket, saying he needs a break from the longest format to extend his......
LAHORE: Although retired Younis Khan has announced that he won’t be attending the farewell function being held in honour of three former Pakistan captains here on Thursday, Pakistan Cricket Board......
JOHANNESBURG: The South African Football Association won’t appeal against FIFA’s unprecedented decision to strip it of a victory in World Cup qualifying and order a replay because of match-fixing by......
ZURICH: Tickets for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia go on sale from Thursday, the sport’s global governing body said on Tuesday.Tickets will be sold in two phases, the first of which has an......
BELFAST: The recall of explosive opener Chris Gayle to the West Indies ODI squad, for the first time since the 2015 World Cup, has dominated the countdown to the upcoming five-match series against......
COLOMBO: Jinnah Government College of Karachi cruised to a thumping seven-wicket victory over Marathwada Mitra Mandal College of Commerce, Pune (MMCC College) on the opening day of the World Finals......
LIMA: What was supposed to be a stress-free meeting of the International Olympic Committee turned into something quite different Monday, when IOC president Thomas Bach was forced to spend nearly an......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan tennis veteran’s Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi eagerly looked forward to more success on the court as they face the Thai duo of Sonchat Ratiwatana and Sanchai Ratiwatana in the Davis Cup......
ISLAMABAD: On a day they could have easily been forced to eat humble pie in the National Assembly, the government was saved from an embarrassing situation by infighting among opposition......
LAHORE: In campaigning for a by-election seen as a test of support for ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the most visible figure is not on the ballot: Maryam Nawaz, widely touted as Mr Sharif’s......
ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) on Tuesday called for long-term planning on foreign policy issues and addressing internal weaknesses to improve the country’s image......
ISLAMABAD: Portraying a bleak picture of the economy, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)’s financial wizard Asad Umar has warned that “due to mismanagement of the economy by the ruling party”,......
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly will get 23 more seats if and when the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) are merged into the province.This is what the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz......
QUETTA: A strike was observed here and in the surroundings areas on Tuesday in protest against the kidnapping of provincial chief of Jamiat Ahle Hadees Maulana Ali Muhammad Turab, his son and two......
QUETTA: Police registered a case on Tuesday against the provincial president of the Pakistan Peoples Party, Ali Madad Jattak, on charges of cheating police and escaping from court premises after......
RAWALPINDI: The New Town circle DSP was suspended, while the SSP (operations) was served a letter of displeasure for allegedly misleading senior police officers about a raid and exchange of gunfire......
RAWALPINDI: At least 12 people, including children, burned to death after an overcrowded Rawalpindi-bound wagon caught fire after colliding with a heavy trailer on the M2 Motorway near Chakri on......
ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday charge sheeted four suspects for allegedly uploading blasphemous content on social media.ATC Judge Shahrukh Arjumand indicted the suspects, who......
Q. What are you currently reading?A: I am reading Tahdis-i-Naimat by Sir Chaudhry Mohammad Zafarullah Khan, a jurist and the first foreign minister of Pakistan. He served as railways minister in......
ISLAMABAD: The issue of a ‘missing’ PIA plane was raised in the Senate on Tuesday with Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sheikh Aftab Ahmad claiming that the former acting chief executive officer......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWMB) confiscated two protected freshwater turtle species from a pet and aquarium shop on Wednesday.On a complaint from a citizen that a vendor in......
MUZAFFARGARGH: The relocation verdict worries hundreds of farmers whose Rs100 million have been stuck with the Haseeb Waqas Sugar Mills for over one year.As soon as the news channels broke the news......
A narrow alleyway lined with motorcycles next to the Civil Secretariat on Lower Mall leads to the blue gate which serves as the entrance to Fountain House – one of Lahore’s oldest mental health......
SIALKOT: The Daska local administration on Tuesday issued show-cause notices to owners/principals of 17 private schools for bringing out minor students to participate in an anti-Myanmar rally.The......
VEHARI: A dispute over mobile phone actually led to the torture of a Class IX student, Sheron Masih, at the Government MC High School, Burewala, who later died of his injuries on Aug 30.District......
SIALKOT: The Daska police arrested on Tuesday a woman who was filmed being beaten up by a police official at the Daska judicial complex on Monday for ‘beating the assistant sub-inspector (ASI).The......
LAHORE: One rarely finds programmes for children at the cultural scene of Punjab. Be it television, theatre, music or stage, one feels the severe dearth of the representation of children on cultural......
KARACHI: Amid tight security in and outside the tomb, thousands of devotees flocked to the Hazrat Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine on the first day of his three-day urs on Tuesday.The urs is celebrated......
KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly is all set to revive the applicability of the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO), 1999, better known as the NAB law, in the province and the law department is......
KARACHI: Police have decided to ask the organisers of majalis, mourning processions and other religious activities during Muharram-ul-Haram to get their licences renewed so that better security......
KARACHI: Abdul Jabbar Gull has established credentials as an artist. Like all creative people worth their salt who work with brass and wood he tries to breathe life into the artworks that he puts......
KARACHI: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said there is nothing surprising in the results of the population census and it should not be given a political colour.He was talking to the media after......
KARACHI: “My three children constantly talk about revenge from the people who took away their father,” said Nausheen Kamal whose husband, Shariq Kamal, has been missing for three years now. She......
KARACHI: Two sperm whales, a species that had no past record of its live sighting in Pakistan’s waters, were recently spotted by fishermen off Jiwani, the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P)......
THATTA: A young boy committed suicide by jumping into the KDA Canal while his mother drowned in an attempt to save his life here on Tuesday near Gharo town.Identified as Azeema Khanyo, the woman......
MITHI: Joining in the celebration of the completion of 50 per cent work of the Thar coal power generation project, Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah attributed the progress to the vision of slain......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s top two bike assemblers in August broke all earlier production and sales records.Atlas Honda Limited (AHL) sold a total of 187,249 bikes in July-Aug 2017-18 as against 136,890 and......
KARACHI: Five former senior officials of National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) and two corporate chiefs are in the crosshairs of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for allegedly engaging in a fraud......
ISLAMABAD: Independent consultants have found the proposed unbundling of SSGC and SNGPL to negatively affect equity value, make the gas distribution companies unviable and increase financial pressure......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Tuesday passed the Corporate Rehabilitation Bill 2017 after a clause-by-clause reading.The bill was tabled by Minister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid.The bill aims to......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Tuesday that it had previously released incorrect trade figures for August.It said the error occurred due to the use of an incorrect......
KARACHI: Remittances sent by overseas Pakistani workers increased 13.2 per cent in the first two months of 2017-18, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported on Tuesday.Inflows from all major sources......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed two loan agreements totalling $453 million on Tuesday with Pakistan for important development projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh.Under the......
ISLAMABAD: The Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) has detected irregularities in sales tax, income tax and federal excise duty worth over Rs275.55 billion during scrutiny of receipts and expenditures......
KARACHI: The boards of Younus Brothers Group and Sapphire Group have announced their investment plans for Energas LNG terminal to be developed at Port Qasim, a press release issued on Tuesday......
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning and Development Sartaj Aziz on Tuesday said Pakistan’s heavy dependence on imported energy was the main cause of circular debt, and the country needs a decisive shift......
KARACHI: Cotton prices came under pressure after buying activity slowed down on Tuesday after past one week’s intense buying.Trading was influenced by rising cotton prices on New York market and......
ISLAMABAD: The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has urged Pakistan to repeal the Unskilled Minimum Wage Ordinance 1969 in order to avoid inconsistencies in wage-setting mechanisms for......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Turkey on Tuesday vowed to work together for peace and stability in Afghanistan, said the Foreign Office here at the conclusion of Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif’s visit to......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Tuesday took notice of a disclosure made by former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan regarding a grave threat to national security, known only to four individuals,......
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it had foiled a plot to bomb its defence ministry’s headquarters by the militant Islamic State (IS) group. The country said it had also arrested several people......
LAHORE: A big crowd in an upbeat mood turned out at the Gaddafi stadium as the first of the three T-20 games between Pakistan and the World XI on Tuesday marked the start of a crucial phase in the......
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s parliament’s on Tuesday voted against plans by Kurdish leaders to hold an independence referendum just two weeks before it was to be held, echoing regional criticism of the poll.The......
COX’S BAZAAR: International divisions emerged on Tuesday ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on a worsening refugee crisis in Myanmar, with China voicing support for a military crackdown that has......
LONDON: British director Peter Hall, who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960 and is credited with the boom of post-war British theatre, has died at the age of 86, the National Theatre said......
PARIS: The number of nuclear new-build projects worldwide has dropped to a decade low in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster and due to the rising cost of atomic energy, an industry report......
CUPERTINO: Apple Inc on Tuesday rolled out its much-anticipated iPhone X, a redesigned product of glass and stainless steel with an edge-to-edge display that Chief Executive Tim Cook called “the......
PARIS: Tens of thousands of French protesters marched against President Emmanuel Macron’s flagship economic reforms on Tuesday in the first major demonstration against his pro-business agenda.The day......
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Monday unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea, slapping a ban on textile exports and restricting shipments of oil products to punish Pyongyang for......
BEIRUT: Separate Russian and US-led coalition air strikes on Tuesday killed 35 civilians in Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province, where parallel offensives against the militant Islamic State group are......
LONDON: Over 100 high-risk prisoners escaped in the British Virgin Islands during Hurricane Irma, a British junior minister said on Tuesday, as he raised the death toll in British territories to......
LONDON: Britain on Tuesday said it may widen its probe into the planned takeover of pan-European satellite TV giant Sky by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox entertainment group.While the blockbuster......
In the recently-held seventh Indian Restaurant Congress 2017 in New Delhi, one of the country’s renowned celebrity chefs Ranveer Brar spoke about his culinary journey, food culture in India and much......
Overdue, but still very welcome, is the move by an apex regulatory body of Hindu seers — the Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad (ABAP) — to crackdown on fake “god-men” by publishing a list of 14 popular......
Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace is the last in the trilogy that began with A Golden Age and was followed up by The Good Muslim.Despite the recurrence of characters from the previous novels, The......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said on Tuesday that his country was willing to set up joint patrols with Afghanistan to combat militants along their porous border.His remarks came......
ISLAMABAD: The registrar of an accountability court in the capital on Tuesday returned three of the four references filed against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members in......
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved extension of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) as a first......
ISLAMABAD: The gaps in Imran Khan’s money trail that led to the purchase of his palatial Banigala estate loomed large as the Supreme Court on Tuesday resumed hearing the disqualification petition......
WHAT are the chances that the appalling humanitarian crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state could readily have been resolved had Aung San Suu Kyi at least attempted to live up to the ideals she so......
WITH Pakistan’s population at 207.8 million and an annual growth rate of 2.4 per cent, alarm bells must be ringing for policymakers.A key issue is how census managers have handled Pakistan’s urban......
“SUFFERING degrades and embitters and enrages.” The words were spoken by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in 2012 in a speech delivered in Norway. Things have changed, it seems, and so has Suu Kyi. As......
There is some semblance of proactive governance and an institutionalised decision-making process under a supposedly stopgap prime minister — indeed, a pleasant change from the capricious ways of the......
Apple unveiled three new iPhone models on Tuesday, including a top-of-line handset described as “the biggest leap forward” since the original iPhone 10 years ago.Apple chief executive Tim Cook......
