Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday urged global cooperation in the fight against terrorism and international crime at the 86th General Assembly of Interpol in Beijing, according to China.org,......
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday announced the addition of new rules, along with amendments to existing laws, to its playing conditions.The new rules will be effective in all series......
The United States (US) wants a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday, as China warned there would be “no winners” in a war on the Korean......
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain is a traitor like arrested Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav and should be handed a death sentence as well, Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Sial said......
Twitter is citing “newsworthiness” and the public interest as reasons why it didn't remove United States (US) President Donald Trump's declaration in a tweet that North Korean leaders may not “be......
Russia's internet watchdog on Tuesday warned Facebook it would be banned in 2018 unless it complies with a law on storing local users' data.“The law is compulsory for all,” the head of Roskomnadzor......
England have dropped Ben Stokes and Alex Hales from their side to play West Indies in the fourth one-day international at The Oval on Wednesday following Stokes's arrest, the England and Wales......
Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed lower on Tuesday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index losing 77 points to close at 42,666.As politics remained the main distraction of the day, with former prime......
Swedish police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of an arson attack that damaged a mosque overnight in the city of Orebro, the latest in a string of such incidents in recent years.“We currently see......
Attacks in two neighbouring provinces in Afghanistan killed at least five policemen, Afghan officials said on Tuesday, while a sixth policeman died in a gunbattle with the Taliban in another......
After the Taliban closed his local health clinic, Afghan farmer Haji Fazel Ahmad was forced to rent a car to take his sick wife to the nearest hospital six hours away. To his dismay, the insurgents......
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday approved an $800 million investment plan that seeks to enhance regional trade and connectivity in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC)......
India will not deploy troops in Afghanistan, its defence minister said on Tuesday but promised to boost support for a new United States (US) strategy in the war-torn country.After talks with US......
Posters demanding freedom for Jammu and Kashmir and Indian states Tripura, Nagaland, and Manipur have appeared on metro buses and trams in Geneva while the 36th session of the United Nations Human......
Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif addressed a much-awaited press conference on Tuesday, two days after returning from London where he had been attending to his ailing spouse.The press conference......
Chief Justice Saqib Nisar, during Tuesday's hearing of Imran Khan's disqualification case, said that the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief's failure to declare his London flat as an asset can have......
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday announced the introduction of a number of changes to its playing conditions which will be effective in all series starting September 28 or later,......
Chinese authorities appear to have severely disrupted the WhatsApp messaging app in the latest step to tighten censorship as they prepare for a major Communist Party congress next month.Users in......
Myanmar's United Nations ambassador insisted on Monday that there is no “ethnic cleansing” or genocide taking place against Muslims and objected “in the strongest terms” to countries that used those......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday issued a notice to the PML-N following its failure to elect a party president after the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif and notified that the......
An explosion occurred when a school bus carrying nearly 100 children passed by on Quetta's Hana Road on Tuesday, security sources said.Miscreants targeted the bus, which was coming from Sorenje area......
Pakistan will step into a new Test era without retired batting greats Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq when they take on Sri Lanka in the first Test in Abu Dhabi from Thursday.Playing without Younis and......
NEW YORK: Former congressman from New York, Anthony Weiner, was sentenced by a federal judge in Manhattan to three years of supervised release after he serves in prison and fined him $10,000.The......
A Palestinian opened fire at Israeli security personnel at the entrance to a West Bank settlement on Tuesday, killing three and wounding another before being shot dead, police said.“A terrorist who......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday issued a notice to the Ministry of Interior on a petition seeking a direction to place the names of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Law Minister Rana......
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif appeared before a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court on Tuesday in connection with the three corruption references, DawnNews reported.The proceedings lasted......
PESHAWAR: Spread over 13,000 square feet area, the central library of Islamia College University still stands with its past grandeur. With its splendid Mughal architecture, it was set up in 1913 soon......
ISLAMABAD: Though it has blamed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for not making a long term policy for resolving the summer water crisis in Islamabad, the Metropolitan Corporation Islamabad......
RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government plans to deploy an official of the Special Protection Unit (SPU) of the Punjab police at Islamabad and Lahore airports to collect data of Chinese and other......
ISLAMABAD: The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has been accused by one of its own spies of “protecting” terrorists.A serving assistant sub-inspector of IB, ASI Malik Mukhtar Ahmed Shahzad, has accused his......
ISLAMABAD: The gap between two seasons has pushed the tomato prices to a record high level. At the same time, the situation has revealed the fragility of the country’s agriculture sector.Tomato......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has approached the Cyber Crime Cell of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in regards to a fake notification circulating on social media......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday allowed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to proceed against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan for the alleged violation......
LAHORE: A day before ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif is appearing before an accountability court in Islamabad in corruption and money laundering cases, the National Accountability Bureau, Lahore,......
LAHORE: A full bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday observed that the Punjab government had raised many important legal questions in its appeal against a single bench’s decision that required the......
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Food Security Sikandar Hayat Bosan says tomato and onion crisis will be over within a few days after their crops ripen in Balochistan, making it clear that the government......
LAHORE: Fatima Sughra, remembered as the young girl who had hoisted up the Pakistani flag for the very first time, passed away on Monday after an illness. She was 84.Sughra’s role in 1947 is......
LAHORE: As the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf is making hectic efforts to woo the Muttahida Qaumi Movement for grabbing the slot of the opposition leader in National Assembly in the near future, its rivals......
LAHORE: A consumer court on Monday ordered a private engineering company to return the price of an auto-rickshaw to a citizen who had sued the company for selling a defective four-stroke rickshaw to......
SAHIWAL: Baba Farid promoted peace and tolerance and abhorred sectarianism. It is time the Muslim world and people of Pakistan understood essence of his poetry and message.These views were presented......
KARACHI: Girls bagged all the top positions in the annual Pre-Engineering and General Science Part-II exams as the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced their results at the Sir......
KARACHI: WASH, a five-year strategy for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in schools, said to provide a roadmap for the Education and Literacy Department and partners working on education programmes, was......
SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khurshid Ahmed Shah on Monday laid the foundation stone of the DC secretariat on the premises of the deputy commission’s office. The......
MIRPURKHAS: Recently launched Rs3 billion master drainage project for the city has mired in controversy with chairman of Mirpurkhas municipal committee (MCM) and officials concerned of the Sui......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has directed the health department to ensure supply of medicines to all government hospitals by the end of next week. “This may be taken on top......
KARACHI: The Pak Sarzameen Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Functional on Monday agreed to work together for the development and progress of the country, particularly Sindh.A PSP delegation led......
ARBIL: Iraqi Kurds voted in an independence referendum on Monday as tensions rose with Baghdad and neighbouring countries over the historic vote.The referendum was proceeding peacefully but there......
ADDIS ABABA: Clashes that erupted in Ethiopia this month between two of the country’s largest ethnic groups have killed hundreds of people and displaced thousands, the government said on Monday.The......
GENEVA: The UN human rights office said in a report on Monday that Russia is violating international law in Crimea, including by imposing Russian citizenship on its people and deliberately......
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration announced late on Sunday night that it was replacing its travel ban with a new proclamation barring visitors from eight countries, adding two non-Muslim countries......
BERLIN: The nationalist Alternative for Germany was hit by party infighting on Monday, just hours after winning its first seats in parliament, with its co-chief Frauke Petry declaring that she won’t......
TOKYO: Japan’s Shinzo Abe, who called snap elections on Monday, is seen as a pragmatic and canny diplomat who has cosied up to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin while pushing a nationalist agenda at......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Monday reiterated his criticism of NFL players who knelt during the national anthem, pushing back against suggestions that race drove his calls for those......
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that she would talk to all mainstream parties about trying to form a “good, stable” government after Germany’s watershed election, and vowed to try to......
ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates on Monday announced plans to open a nuclear power plant next year, in what would be a first for the emirate and the Arab Gulf region. The $20-billion Barakah plant......
MILAN: Residents of inventor Thomas Edison’s Ohio home town have marked its 200th anniversary by burying mementos in a time capsule that’s intended to be opened in a century.The Sandusky Register......
BRUSSELS: Poland’s president on Monday scrapped his bid to give himself more power over the judiciary, as the EU warned that Warsaw still risked unprecedented sanctions over what it calls a threat to......
COX’S BAZAR: The World Health Organisation warned on Monday of a growing cholera risk in the makeshift refugee camps in Bangladesh where more than 435,000 Rohingya Muslims have sought shelter from......
YANGON: Searchers on Monday found 17 more Hindu bodies in mass graves in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the government said, a day after 28 corpses were exhumed in what the army says is evidence of a......
MEXICO CITY: Hopes of finding more survivors after Mexico City’s devastating earthquake have dwindled to virtually nothing, nearly a week after the seismic jolt shook the mega-city, killing more than......
PRAGUE: Roger Federer won the inaugural Laver Cup for Team Europe on Sunday, beating back a fierce challenge from players from the rest of the world to claim the trophy in a dramatic final match of......
MILAN: AC Milan’s problems with consistency continued as a poor performance saw them lose 2-0 at Sampdoria in Serie A on Sunday.Milan didn’t even have a shot on target as late goals from Duvan......
PARIS: St Etienne forward Jonathan Bamba salvaged a 2-2 home draw from the penalty spot against Stade Rennes as the 10-time champions missed the chance to go third in the French league on......
MADRID: Simone Zaza added to his scoring streak with a late goal that gave unbeaten Valencia a 3-2 win at Real Sociedad in a thrilling La Liga match on Sunday.Zaza’s fourth goal in his last two games......
LONDON: Borussia Dortmund welcome title holders Real Madrid while Bayern Munich visit ambitious Paris Saint-Germain in two heavyweight Champions League clashes this week.Cristiano Ronaldo’s Real have......
ABU DHABI: Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur is upbeat about coming up with a good show in the series against Sri Lanka starting here later this week.The full series comprising two Tests, five ODIs......
INDORE: Steve Smith has said his side’s record in 2017 is unacceptable for an Australian cricket team in the wake of the One-day International series loss to India.Australia’s five-wicket defeat in......
NEW DELHI: Captain Virat Kohli has called on his players to be ‘ruthless’ after the crushing one-day series win over Australia took India top of the world one-day rankings to add to their number one......
LAHORE: Pakistan LNG Terminal Limited (PLTL) is presently under alleged government pressure to waive $50 million penalty it has imposed on the contractor for delaying the completion of the country’s......
KARACHI: The government has asked China to expedite the second Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and conclude the process by December, a senior official of the commerce ministry told Dawn on......
KARACHI: A decision by the Supreme Court in favour of the pensioners of National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) on Monday will cost the bank approximately Rs47.7 billion.NBP said in a stock notice the......
ISLAMABAD: The country’s oil import bill rose nearly 35 per cent year-on-year to $2.03 billion in the first two months of this fiscal year.The share of oil in Pakistan’s total import bill in the......
ISLAMABAD: Chinese businessmen are keen to explore investment oppurtunities, joint ventures and partnerships, with particular focus on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects, said......
KARACHI: Cotton prices remained firm on Monday as buyers indulged in short covering to meet their immediate cotton needs. Meanwhile, slow arrival of phutti (seed cotton) continues to impact trading......
LONDON: Gold fell on Monday as the prospect of a fractured parliament in Germany after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s less than resounding election victory knocked the euro lower. Consequent dollar......
KARACHI: Nishat Mills Ltd reported on Monday its unconsolidated profit for 2016-17 decreased 13.4 per cent year-on-year to Rs4.26 billion.In a notice sent to the stock exchange, the vertically......
KARACHI: Oil and Gas Development Company Ltd (OGDCL) has discovered gas and condensate from its exploratory well Tando Allah Yar South West 1, which is located in Hyderabad district.In a press......
ISLAMABAD: The government has released over Rs141.17 billion under its Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the fiscal year 2017-18 for various ongoing and new schemes against their total......
NEW YORK: Oil prices hit a more than two-year high on Monday after major producers said the global market was on its way towards rebalancing, while Turkey threatened to cut oil flows from Iraq’s......
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League insiders say there is a solid reason why ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif ignored advice from his daughter Maryam Nawaz and returned to Pakistan to face corruption......
UNITED NATIONS: A human blunder embarrassed Pakistan when its envoy displayed the picture of a Palestinian girl inside the UN General Assembly as a Kashmiri victim of Indian pellet guns and officials......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, who faces a contempt charge, finally owned on Monday the unconditional apology tendered by his counsel to the Election Commission of......
ISLAMABAD: Not happy with the recent passing of the Election Bill, 2017, allowing an otherwise disqualified office-bearer of a political party to hold the party’s presidency, the Supreme Court Bar......
ISLAMABAD: The Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) has decided to support the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) candidate in the upcoming by-election in Peshawar’s National Assembly constituency, NA-4.The......
QUETTA: District and Sessions Judge Rashid Mehmood on Monday granted interim bail to Gazain Marri, son of Baloch nationalist leader the late Khair Bakhsh Marri, in the murder case of Justice Nawaz......
SRINAGAR: Indian soldiers killed four men during a two-day gun battle near the Line of Control, officials said on Monday.Police claimed civilians tipped them off on Saturday about the movement of......
QUETTA: These deaths are not the kind you have come to associate with Balochistan — no disfigured Baloch, not the beleaguered Hazaras. Discernible it is not if you don’t look hard, this creeping......
SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Monday severely criticised Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan for “damaging the democratic system” in......
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani said on Monday that if parliament and provincial assemblies asserted their due constitutional space, it would bring about positive results for democracy in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Water Resources was informed on Monday about an inflexible stance adopted by India in the latest round of secretary-level talks, violating the water treaty......
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who returned to the country on Monday morning, is set to appear before a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court today (Tuesday) in connection with......
ISLAMABAD: A day before ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif is due to face the references filed against him, an accountability court decided to indict Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday......
ISLAMABAD: A day before the hearing of his disqualification case, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Monday re-emphasised before the Supreme Court that his Draycott Flat in London was......
THE external account has been the perennial soft underbelly of the economy. Its situation today is precarious with foreign exchange reserves barely sufficient to finance three months’ imports, having......
IT is difficult to play down the irony of our myriad daily pursuits. We may be planning to blow up the world, as ‘brattish’ Kim and ‘dotard’ Trump seem to be pondering. We may be locked in a wordy......
PAKISTANI politics is very conservative. Conservatives have ruled us for 53 years and centrists just for 17. The most likely winners in 2018 (PML and PTI) are both conservative. So, the next prime......
THE political debate around ‘Panamagate’ provides an opportunity to examine whether uninterrupted democratic rule since 2008 has injected maturity into the system.I used to argue that two to three......
Pakistan's Mission to the United Nations (UN), responding on Monday to a photograph mix-up made earlier by Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi, accused India of hiding behind......
