An attack on an aid shipment in Myanmar's violence-wracked Rakhine state and a deadly Red Cross truck crash in Bangladesh on Thursday hampered desperately needed relief efforts for Rohingya Muslims......
The body of a nine-year-old boy who had been raped and then murdered was found in Karachi's Saeedabad area on Thursday, officials said.The body of the boy, recovered in Saeedabad Sector-4, was......
At least six people, including four women, were killed and 20 others injured near the Working Boundary in Sialkot on Thursday as Indian forces "resorted to unprovoked firing of mortars targeting......
Abolishing militant hideouts in Pakistan is critical to establishing peace in neighbouring Afghanistan, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Thursday before meeting United States (US) President......
Washington and Tehran's top diplomats confronted each other for the first time on Thursday as envoys scrambled to save the Iran nuclear deal from a sceptical Donald Trump.US Secretary of State Rex......
Technology giant Huawei has officially announced its plans to build one of the five major "clouds" that will power the future of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).Thought leaders,......
Complainants of a pre-Partition property inheritance case celebrated its 99th anniversary on Thursday by cutting a cake in the compound of the Supreme Court (SC), DawnNews reported.The case, which......
In its Thursday session, the Senate agreed to suspend till further notice the workings of a Pak-Switzerland Friendship Group in reaction to the appearance of "Free Balochistan" posters in......
The Central Ruet-i-Hilal Committee, presided over by its Chairman, Mufti Muneeb-ur-Rehman, announced on Thursday that the Muharram moon had been sighted in Islamabad.The 10th of Muharram will......
A Turkish court on Thursday jailed on terror charges 14 lawyers representing two detained teachers who have been on hunger strike for six months after being sacked in a mass crackdown.The case of......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) landed in the red on Thursday after consecutive sessions in the green, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index losing 572 points, or 1.32 per cent, to fall below the......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is currently in New York to attend the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly. His maiden visit to US as prime minister comes at a time when the......
Three were killed and at least 20 others were injured on Thursday when suspected militants fired a grenade at the motorcade of a local politician in India-held Kashmir, police said.The attack......
A sixth man was arrested in Britain early on Thursday as part of a probe into the bombing attack on a London Underground train last week, police said.The man, aged 17, was detained under......
A two-year-old girl in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has been diagnosed with the polio virus, the province's health department told DawnNews on Thursday.The girl, who belongs to the Lakki Marwat district,......
Former president Pervez Musharraf on Thursday directly accused PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari of being complicit in Benazir Bhutto's assassination, reasoning he had "the most to gain from [it]", in......
The Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Thursday ordered that the record in the Benazir Bhutto murder case be provided to the court by the end of November, after it approved......
Indian cricketing great Farokh Engineer would like to see “relations restored” in a “delicate” situation with Pakistan so the arch-rivals can resume bilateral cricket series.Amid the current glut of......
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday decided on a petition seeking the disclosure of a judicial inquiry report on the 2014 Model Town tragedy, ordering the provincial authorities to release......
A reporter covering political unrest in India's northeast was beaten to death during violent clashes, officials said on Thursday, two weeks after the high-profile murder of another prominent......
Taiwan's struggling smartphone maker HTC said on Thursday it would sell part of its smartphone business to Google for $1.1 billion as the US giant looks to take greater control of its hardware......
North Korea's foreign minister has brushed aside United States (US) President Donald Trump's fiery threat to destroy his nation, comparing it to a “dog's bark” and suggesting Pyongyang would not be......
A teenage girl employed at the house of a local businessmen died under mysterious circumstances in Sanghar, police said on Thursday.According to the deceased's family, the girl died on Tuesday,......
France's President Emmanuel Macron declared on Wednesday that the Iran nuclear deal is no longer a sufficient safeguard against the growing power that Tehran wields in its region.“We need the 2015......
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) recovered more than Rs36 billion through plea bargain in the last five years, Law Minister Zahid Hamid informed the National Assembly on Thursday.According to......
The headquarters of the restive North Waziristan Agency hosted a cricket match on Thursday as part of the Peace Cup 2017 in which the UK Media team XI was playing Pakistan XI.The UK Media team XI is......
Pakistan's relationship with the United States is 70 years strong and is not defined by the conflict in Afghanistan alone, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said while speaking at the Council on......
Rescuers dug Wednesday for survivors of a 7.1- magnitude earthquake that killed at least 230 people in Mexico, as the nation watched anxiously for signs of life at a collapsed school in the......
IN Balochistan, before the census began, it was believed that the results of the exercise in the province would lead to a hue and cry among the Baloch. However, they were not as irked as expected.......
The highly anticipated by-election in NA-120 is finally over and Kulsoom Nawaz, wife of the ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has come out victorious. Many pundits had declared that this was going......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday restrained private schools from raising their fee by more than five per cent until final orders.Headed by Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M. Shaikh, a two-judge......
KARACHI: An early morning fire destroyed a warehouse of cosmetics goods in the PECHS area, leaving a 28-year-old labourer dead and his co-worker wounded on Wednesday.The blaze, shortly followed by......
KARACHI: How the law is ignored, often by its own custodians, was evident at a public hearing held on Wednesday at a local hotel, where officials representing the Sindh Environmental Protection......
KARACHI: Friends, colleagues and relatives of Hasan Akbar Kamal, who passed away on July 21, shared their views on the life and work of the poet at an event organised in his memory at the Arts......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has expressed displeasure over deductions of around Rs6 billion, including recent deduction of Rs125 million, by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) from......
KARACHI: The dusty winding road lined with thorny keekar in Walidad Jokhio leads you to the Government Girls Elementary School. On Wednesday, there are several students there with dreams about their......
LARKANA: Ghinwa Bhutto, chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party-Shaheed Bhutto, has proposed holding a ‘national dialogue’ to thoroughly discuss the burning issue of terrorism and rejected......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has urged the British government to trace out the engineers and the firm which had constructed one of the largest irrigation systems of its kind in......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports of value-added textile products recorded positive growth during the first two months of 2017-18, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Wednesday.The......
ISLAMABAD: Amidst a divided house, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Wednesday allowed an increase of 48 paisa per unit in the average electricity tariff for ex-Wapda......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Finance learned on Wednesday that Finance Minister Ishaq Dar would supervise the payment of sales tax refunds in the near future.Responding to complaints......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Food Security and Research (MNFSR) is in the process of establishing the Plant Breeders’ Rights Registry at the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) in......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Wednesday determined up to Rs96 per unit increase in the prescribed price of gas utilities, allowing them to charge about 6.3 per cent system......
ISLAMABAD: The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will leverage synergies to support the implementation of the 2030 ‘Agenda for Sustainable......
KARACHI: Fauji Cement Company Ltd (FCCL) earned a profit of Rs2.61 billion (earnings per share at Rs1.89) for the financial year ended June 30.This represented a decline of 51 per cent year-on-year......
LONDON: Gold prices were steady on Wednesday, aided by a weaker dollar ahead of a US Federal Reserve policy announcement that could signal whether it will raise interest rates for a third time this......
ISLAMABAD: The state minister for Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) on Wednesday said that the eight-storey US Embassy building in the Diplomatic Enclave was being constructed......
ISLAMABAD: Over 12 million women are missing from the electoral list for want of Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs), a senior official from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said on......
Fahd Khan was forming a tech company when he heard about the attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar. He says he realised one could pursue a lot in tech, but “the need of the hour in third world......
RAWALPINDI: Non-registration of first information reports (FIRs) by police has been a chronic problem. Contrary to the claims made by the Punjab government and the provincial police chief, 725......
ISLAMABAD: The Asia Peace Film Festival concluded at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) on Wednesday. Over a hundred documentaries, short films and animated films were screened during......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka all-rounder and former skipper Angelo Mathews has been ruled out of the first Test against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi next week with a calf injury, but the uncapped Sadeera......
MANCHESTER: Sri Lanka captain Upul Tharanga backed his side to uphold the island’s proud World Cup record after their automatic qualification for the 2019 edition in Britain was assured by West......
KOLKATA: Heavy rain that lashed the eastern city of Kolkata on Wednesday forced the Australian and Indian teams to skip net practice on the eve of their second One-day International.The ground staff......
TOKYO: Newly crowned world No.1 Garbine Muguruza pulverised Olympic champion Monica Puig 6-4, 6-0 to reach the quarter-finals of the Pan Pacific Open here on Wednesday.Earlier, second seed Karolina......
MADRID: Lionel Messi added four more goals to his soaring early season tally as a much-changed Barcelona maintained their 100 per cent start to La Liga by routing Eibar 6-1 on Tuesday.Paulinho and......
MILAN: Skipper Mauro Icardi rescued a 1-1 draw for Inter Milan at Bologna on Tuesday that ended his side’s perfect start to the Serie A season.Luciano Spalletti had been looking to make it five wins......
LONDON: Liverpool failed to finish off a slew of chances and conceded a sloppy goal in a 2-0 loss at Leicester in the English League Cup, arousing the ire of their frustrated manager Juergen Klopp......
MANCHESTER: Jonny Bairstow struck his maiden One-day International hundred as England condemned West Indies to a seven-wicket defeat at Old Trafford here on Tuesday that means the twice former......
KARACHI: The Central District accumulated 1777 points with 44 gold medals to clinch top honours in the 4th Pizza Hut Karachi Games that concluded here recently.A record number of participants......
LAHORE: As the Elite Force remains preoccupied with the security of VVIPs, there are complaints that it is ignoring its duty towards the man in the street.The force was established in Punjab to fight......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday allowed a newly married Muslim convert girl to go with her husband as she refused to live with her parents.Earlier, Chunian police (Kasur) produced the girl......
LAHORE: The government will make Punjab “100 per cent literate” by 2030, claims Minister for Literacy and Non-Formal Basic Education Dr Farrukh Javed.Speaking at a consultative workshop for......
DERA GHAZI KHAN: Health officials in Rajanpur failed to dispense polio drops to 10,420 children in the riverine areas due to security issues, it is learnt.The three-day anti-polio campaign undertaken......
SARGODHA: An oil tanker, carrying 40,000 litres oil fell into a drain (sem nullah) near Chak 55-NB, Bhalwal Road, on Wednesday and oil spilled into the drain. Police and rescue teams cordoned off the......
NEW YORK: The United States will contribute nearly $32 million in humanitarian aid to help Rohingya Muslim refugees, the State Department said Wednesday, in the Trump administration’s first major......
COX’S BAZAR: Bangladesh’s army was ordered on Wednesday to take a bigger role helping hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled violence in Myanmar, amid warnings it could take six months to......
SAN JUAN: Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico on Wednesday, cutting power on most of the US territory as terrified residents hunkered down in the face of the island’s worst storm in living......
UNITED NATIONS: Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who rescheduled his meeting with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, urged Pakistan on Wednesday to hold a state to state dialogue with Afghanistan.In......
BELARUS said on Wednesday the West had no reason to fear attack by its close ally Russia or that Moscow could leave behind forces after war games it is holding with Minsk for a possible occupation of......
SWABI: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak said on Wednesday that no nation could achieve progress and prosperity without giving contemporary education to their girls.He was speaking on the occasion of......
CHARSADDA: Interior minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that apart from equipping the Frontier Constabulary with sophisticated weapons and imparting proper training the government is mulling to enhance......
PESHAWAR: After consulting stakeholders and experts, the Provincial Commission on the Status of Women, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has planned to launch a pilot project to provide a police desk, forensics......
PESHAWAR: The defence ministry on Wednesday requested the Peshawar High Court to dismiss a petition against the federal government’s alleged plan to give clemency to the former spokesman for the......
PESHAWAR: As many as 25 candidates have submitted nomination papers with the returning officer for contesting by-election on NA-4, Peshawar-IV, where polling will be held on Oct 26.The candidates had......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department has decided to extend the Sehat Sahulat insurance programme to the transgender community of the province.In this regard, provincial secretary health......
THE recent by-election for NA-120 in Lahore has been a contest between a doctor and a patient: Dr Yasmin Rashid a gynaecologist versus Kulsum Nawaz, under treatment for lymphoma in a London hospital.......
GIVEN all the noise in the system these days, a few crucial developments that will have far-reaching implications for the economy are passing by unnoticed. One of these is the growing role of......
NOW that the hullabaloo generated by the NA-120 by-election is over, a serious study of the exercise should begin, for there are lessons in it that must not be ignored.It was a well-contested poll......
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani said on Wednesday that the Swiss ambassador should be asked to leave because the latter’s country was allowing its soil to be used for terrorism in......
MEXICO CITY: Rescuers frantically searched on Wednesday for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed more than 200 people in Mexico on the anniversary of another massive quake that left......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday seized the bank accounts and properties of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar as an accountability court initiated proceedings against him in......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa met Afghan Ambassador Dr Omar Zakhilwal on Wednesday and discussed with him steps to improve bilateral relations.“Today, met with......
UNITED NATIONS: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi met US Vice President Mike Pence on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday afternoon, launching a process that both hoped......
ISLAMABAD: The government’s foreign policy came under fire in the National Assembly on Wednesday as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, led by Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, flayed the prime minister......
ISLAMABAD: The Indian High Commission has sought release of an Indian convict who has served his five-year sentence.A petition filed by the commission was taken up by Islamabad High Court (IHC)......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) will participate in next year’s general elections along with its allies, its central executive committee announced on Wednesday.The decision came days......
