Indian skipper Virat Kohli on Sunday urged India to be “relentless” after they thrashed Australia by seven wickets in the fifth one-day international, clinching the series 4-1.Chasing 243 for......
A video of a 9-year-old girl showing marks of physical abuse allegedly by her teacher went viral over the weekend and caused outrage among people in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), police said on......
In an attempt to bridge the growing trust deficit between the two neighbouring countries, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited Kabul on Sunday to hold discussions with Afghan......
An Indian policeman has been arrested on suspicion of raping a seven-year-old girl, allegedly while he was drunk, a senior officer said on Sunday.Colleagues raised the alarm after finding the girl......
A knifeman killed two women at the main train station in the French Mediterranean city of Marseille on Sunday before being shot dead by soldiers patrolling there, local officials and police......
Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah grabbed the key wicket of Dinesh Chandimal to leave Sri Lanka fighting to avoid defeat after the fourth day of the first Test in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.The prolific......
Canadian police said on Sunday that an attack on an officer outside a football game with a car and knife and a high-speed chase of a U-Haul that left four people injured in the western city of......
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Sunday that the rule of law had prevailed in Catalonia because an independence referendum in the region prohibited by the courts had been blocked.“Today......
Thousands of people took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday to mark China's national day with a pro-democracy rally, and voice growing fears that the city's liberties are under threat from......
Youm-i-Ashur is being observed throughout the country on Sunday with due solemnity and reverence to pay homage to the sacrifices of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) and his companions at Karbala.Amid tight......
The United Arab Emirates has begun collecting new “sin” taxes on tobacco products, energy drinks and soft drinks.Beginning Sunday, tobacco and energy drinks will be taxed at 100 per cent and soft......
KARACHI: As the number of victims of the mosquito-borne chikungunya disease has already climbed to over 4,400 this year, a recent survey shows the incidence of the disease is greater in the city’s......
Chinese President Xi Jinping told United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Saturday that he expected President Donald Trump's upcoming visit to be "wonderful", as ties appear warmer......
President Donald Trump spoke by phone with senior officials in hurricane- devastated Puerto Rico late Saturday, hours after lashing out at the mayor of San Juan who had pleaded for help and......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to offer $10,000 per match to each foreign cricketer who would play Pakistan Super League (PSL) matches in the country, sources told DawnNews.The......
Disgraced American football star O.J. Simpson, whose racially charged 1995 murder trial riveted the nation, was released from jail on parole early Sunday after nine years behind bars for armed......
A university in Saudi Arabia has said it will open a driving school for women, in a first for the ultra-conservative country after a ban on women driving was lifted.“Princess Nourah University is......
Pakistani boxer Mohammad Waseem on Sunday maintained his position as World Boxing Council's (WBC) number one and undefeated Silver Flyweight champion by defeating Panama's Carlos Melo.Quetta-born......
Hard hit by a drop in oil income, energy-rich Gulf states will next year introduce value-added tax to a region long known for being tax-free.Some have hailed introducing VAT as the start of......
A cargo plane chartered by Democratic Republic of Congo's army crashed near the capital Kinshasa on Saturday, killing all 12 on board, the authorities said.The Antonov transporter had just taken off......
LONDON: The Oxford University college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied said on Saturday it had taken down a portrait of the Myanmar leader, a decision that follows widespread criticism of her over the......
Iftikhar Arif wears his spirituality on his sleeve. There’s a reason for it: he thinks of spirituality in tangible terms. For him, the soul is as corporeal a thing as the body — you can touch it, see......
Ismat Chughtai transcends generations. Who hasn’t heard of this blazing feminist, her furious womanhood and her aggressively progressive agenda? At some point, we’ve all been introduced to her short......
Early in Svetlana Alexievich’s The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II, we encounter a haunting image: an official letter arrives from the Soviet authorities summoning a......
Lisa See, the bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love and Shanghai Girls — among others — now brings forth a stirring tale spun around the lives of two women, Li-yan and......
Memorial Stones: Tharparkar by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro, published by the Endowment Fund Trust for Preservation of the Heritage of Sindh, provides an extensive survey of a centuries-old tradition within......
Art has the large embrace and inherent capacity to divulge complex emotions. It can rise above the mundane to make it sublime when at the same time it is delving deep into the most commonplace......
Dao Paich M. Naeem AbrarA collection of articles on serious issues, yet written with a humorous slant, with such intriguing titles as ‘Haathi ki Soondh Par Faalij’ [The Elephant’s Paralysed Trunk]......
Mohsin Hamid recommends Pereira Maintains by Antonio TabucchiExit West, Mohsin Hamid’s fourth novel about migrants, refugees and teleporting through doorways, is up for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. In......
By any definition, Fahad Mustafa is a star, a showbiz celebrity. He is ubiquitous — leading man in many blockbuster films, the face of television’s most popular game show, the man behind many......
One can see why Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) earned cult status. A stylish action-packed spy film directed by Matthew Vaughn, The Secret Service was at once a parody of old-school James Bond......
Pictures of gorgeous Mahira Khan and the talented Bollywood A-lister Ranbir Kapoor, in which both are seen smoking cigarettes in New York, went viral on social media last week. There was a big number......
Ten years is a considerable period for a TV programme based on music to last, successfully at that. Surely, Coke Studio is doing something worthwhile. You don’t get global recognition for producing......
BhoomiFor filmmakers, rape victims and dimly-lit deserted roads seem to be the new cinematic vogue. With exception to Kaabil (one of the four rape-avenging movies this year) where the victim is......
On a cloudy August afternoon, Taj Muhammad, 47, guides me through a narrow, dingy staircase that leads to the first floor of Sharif Manzil. It is a decrepit building on Moin Niazi Qawwal......
Three nights before Eidul Azha, nine-year-old Iqru went to bed hungry because he was too angry to eat. He and his 14-year-old brother had had such a violent fight that women from the neighbourhood......
Pakistan is experiencing a start-up boom. With our unique demographics of having a majority of our population below 25, and as associated shortage of lucrative jobs, the aspiration of our youth and......
A fellow parent tagged me on a great Facebook thread the other day. Her query echoed a question parents frequently ask me: What do you do when other people’s rules for their kids are different,......
He is known throughout the republic for tackling tough issues in his inimitably bold style; issues that would leave lesser mortals dazed. But then for many of his patriotic admirers placed well......
Varying from region to region, this healthy dish of meat and grains boasts of a rich history and tradition and is symbolic of generosity and sharingDuring my wonder years, the 10th of Muharram meant......
Our country is in dire need of natural healing, more so in our major cities and other centres of frighteningly dense population. For decades, city/town planners have worked against nature rather than......
Assalam o alaikum Auntie, I am a 27-year-old woman, single but in a relationship. We met last year and were just friends. He got engaged at the start of our friendship so it was okay. Over time, we......
The result of the by-election in Lahore’s NA-120 constituency generated a lot of debate in the media. The constituency had fallen vacant after former prime minister of Pakistan Mian Nawaz Sharif was......
Xenophobic populism has returned to German national politics with a bang, this time in the guise of a 38-year-old lesbian investment-banking economist. Alice Weidel is the unusual figure who has come......
More than a thousand years ago, a small group, including women and children, fearing bloodshed in the sanctified city of Makkah began an arduous journey to Kufa, more a city of deception than a......
The impact of the tragedy of Karbala on the cultural ethos of most Muslim communities in the subcontinent has been immense. In fact the word Karbala itself has become a byword for both suffering and......
A family friend Katja Neuburger, who escaped to London from a German concentration camp, briefly housed the well-known artist Kurt Schwitters. She would rue the fact that she threw away so many of......
A group exhibition Botany of Desire was organised at the Koel Gallery in Karachi recently. The show, curated by Roohi S. Ahmed, included the work of 19 artists who were chosen for their practice of......
Maps of Skin and Spirit is a two-person show that recently took place at the Canvas Gallery featuring works by Dua Abbas Rizvi and Wardah Shabbir. Aptly named, the works in this show are deeply......
PESHAWAR: The 9th Muharram processions in the provincial capital and other parts of the province concluded peacefully amid tight security on Saturday. Thousands of security personnel have been......
KOHAT: New coal reserves found in the semi-autonomous Darra Adamkhel have made the tribesmen millionaires overnight. Also, the local tribesmen have recovered most of their coalmines let out to aliens......
Truck art typically brings to mind the brightly and intricately painted large trucks that can be spotted across the country, but another lesser known, but no less ubiquitous, form of truck art,......
“My mother-in-law changed her attitude from hostility to friendship when I started earning from my business and now she loved me more than my husband (her son) and this is a great achievement for......
Known for its scenic beauty and ruins of Ganhdara civilisation, Swat valley has also tracks of the early Islamic period. Among them the Mahmood Ghazanvi Mosque in Odigram is an important site, which......
ISLAMABAD: Police have registered an FIR against property tycoon Malik Riaz, his son Ali Riaz, and the Bahria Town management in a land-grabbing case more than a week after a local court issued......
ISLAMABAD: The main 9th Muharram procession on Saturday witnessed a decline of the ‘element of fear’ among the mourners as well as law enforcement agencies.Compared to the previous years, the......
LAHORE: The list of 13 people who were allegedly allotted plots by Nawaz Sharif as Punjab chief minister from 1985 to 1990 could be the first of so many “other beneficiaries” of the same favours,......
FAISALABAD: A murder case has been registered against 17 policemen, including a station house officer, for their alleged involvement in the killing of two persons in a “staged encounter” in 2013.The......
Known for his smiling face, witty and light-hearted talk, Raja Sadiqullah is the third generation of poets. He was born in Wazirabad in 1955 into a family which was expelled from Rajouri, Kashmir, in......
FAISALABAD: The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) is only focusing the front portion of the Kaleem Shaheed Park and ignoring the beautification of most of it including its centre and rear......
KARACHI: Amid strict security measures that included suspension of cellular service and a ban on pillion-riding for the second consecutive day, the 9th Muharram mourning procession ended safely at......
KARACHI: Jail authorities have questioned the mandate of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police to investigate a case against prison officials for their alleged role in the escape of two......
KARACHI: Law enforcement agencies have so far found no clue to the three suspected Jundullah militants who were allegedly involved in the 2009 Ashura bombing cases despite the passage of over seven......
SUKKUR: All mourning processions of the 9th Muharram, which were taken out amid tight security in all big and small towns of the province early on Saturday morning, concluded peacefully in the......
KARACHI: Zubair Ali, Adil Ali and Mohammad Haseeb are three friends living in the same apartment building behind Cantonment Railway Station. This Muharram they decided to set up a sabeel on the......
DUBLIN: Thousands of demonstrators marched in Dublin on Saturday in favour of liberalising Ireland’s tight abortion laws ahead of a planned referendum on the fiercely-debated issue. Protesters......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s embattled health secretary was forced out of the US administration on Friday amid a scandal over his use of costly private jets for government travel.Tom Price......
NEW DELHI: Tom Alter, a well-known Indian theatre, television and Bollywood actor of American descent, has died in Mumbai of cancer. He was 67.A statement issued by his family on Saturday says Alter......
BERLIN: German authorities say a passenger jet with 88 people on board overshot the end of the runway on the North Sea island of Sylt, but nobody was injured in the incident.The regional emergency......
BASRA: A veteran fighter known as “the sheikh of snipers” has been killed in Iraq’s battle to retake the town of Hawija from the militant Islamic State group, his paramilitary force announced on......
BEIJING: Communist Party members should study contemporary capitalism but must never deviate from Marxism, Chinese President Xi Jinping said, offering a clear signal there will be no weakening of......
BEIRUT: At least 28 civilians were killed in air strikes on northwestern Syria where a planned safe zone has been overshadowed by a bombing campaign against jihadists, a monitor said on Saturday.Four......
LONDON: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned that the only way to stop its nuclear deal from collapsing is for Europe to defy any US reimposition of sanctions.In an interview......
ARBIL: International pressure mounted on Iraqi Kurdistan on Saturday after its controversial independence “yes” vote, with neighbouring Iran announcing joint border drills with Iraq and banning fuel......
THROUGHOUT history, maps have been redrawn as countries have been founded, empires have fallen, and borders have shifted. And this week, if two would-be nations have their way, we will be redrawing......
KOBANE: Just after sunrise outside Syria’s Raqa, dozens of militant Islamic State group jihadists donned Kurdish military uniforms, piled into cars with weapons, and broke back into a district they......
ABU DHABI: Azhar Ali once more rescued Pakistan’s batting with a fighting half century on the third day of the first Test against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.The one-drop batsman was unbeaten......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Saturday it will not release its centrally-contracted players from Nov 7 to 17 for the T20 leagues in South Africa and Bangladesh to ensure......
POTCHEFSTROOM: South Africa took extended lead to 230 after Bangladesh avoided the prospect of follow on before bad light brought an end to day three of the first Test on Saturday.South Africa were......
LONDON: Romelu Lukaku extended his hot streak as Manchester United powered to a 4-0 victory against Crystal Palace, while Harry Kane inspired Tottenham Hotspur’s 4-0 demolition of Huddersfield Town......
BERLIN: Shinji Kagawa became the top Japanese scorer of all time in the Bundesliga when he chipped in the winner in Borussia Dortmund’s nervous 2-1 victory at Augsburg on Saturday.Dortmund, who......
MONACO: Second-half substitute Souleymane Camara struck in stoppage time as visitors Montpellier snatched a 1-1 draw with champions Monaco in Ligue 1 on Friday.Camara found the back of the net two......
WUHAN: Caroline Garcia overpowered Australia’s Ashleigh Barty 6-7 (3-7), 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 to claim her first Wuhan Open title on Saturday in a thrilling see-saw final in the Chinese city.Ranked 20 in......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan coach Musaddiq Hanif said the aim was to improve the rankings as the national team left for Taiwan on Saturday to take part in the Asian Baseball Championship to be held there......
SEPANG: Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix with another brilliant drive under pressure on Saturday, while title rival Sebastian Vettel’s miserable luck continued as he......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Federation (PBSF) have sold a number of imported tables approximately worth over Rs 8 million in the last few years to meet its expenses including the......
KARACHI: Talented Sahibzada Mohammad Ali fought a tough battle with brilliant Nauman Aftab before emerging victorious by 6-4,4-6,6-3 to win the under-18 title while brilliant Hania Naved kept her......
SOUTHAMPTON: Jonny Bairstow hit an unbeaten century to lead England to a thumping nine-wicket victory over the West Indies in Southampton on Friday, in a low-key fifth and final One-day International......
KARACHI: The government is developing a plan to address the growing difficulties on the external front in the immediate term, involving regulatory duties on imports of a large number of items, a......
KARACHI: Stocks endured another week of bleak performance as the KSE-100 index declined by 341 points (0.8 per cent) to close at 42,409.Investors’ participation thinned as the overhang of political......
WASHINGTON: Insurer AIG, rescued by the US government at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, will no longer face the stricter oversight of a “too big to fail” institution, the Treasury Department......
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s economy has slipped back into recession as the oil sector stagnates and the government sector is hit by austerity policies designed to curb a state budget deficit caused by low......
NEW DELHI: Coal India Ltd, the world’s largest coal miner, has held internal talks to discuss buying metal mines abroad amid faltering revenues and rising employee costs, potentially signaling a......
BEIJING: China’s central bank on Saturday cut the amount of cash that some banks must hold as reserves for the first time since February 2016 in a bid to encourage more lending to struggling smaller......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has ordered that retired employees of the state-owned National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) will continue to get pension benefits calculated at 70pc, rather than the reduced......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has allotted the election symbol of ‘crane’ to the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) led by Khadim Hussain Rizvi.The TLP had forced its way into......
ISLAMABAD: The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), the premier social safety net, is not only catering to the well-being of 5.4 million vulnerable women across Pakistan but has also earned $794m......
BARCELONA: Police in Catalonia had sealed over half of the 2,315 polling stations in the region by mid-Saturday to stop an independence referendum from taking place, the Spanish government said, as......
THE bells sounding around the necks of animals are melodious, with herdsmen taking care of them in the usually desert plains that now look like meadows. After back-to-back spells of rainfall across......
BEIJING: Washington has opened channels to North Korea to find out if the regime there is ready to talk about giving up its nuclear weapons, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Saturday.Speaking......
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump spoke harshly about Pakistan; but he has not yet imposed sanctions, as has been the case with Iran, nor threatened to “totally destroy” it, like North Korea. Pakistani......
THEY came this far only to let him sneak back in? It doesn’t make any sense. It’s like the gang that can’t shoot straight. So back, again, we must go to the beginning.Why did the attack......
THERE is debate in Muslim societies about the need to project ‘true’ Islam. Considering the abominable acts carried out by militants and terrorists in the name of religion — which make the average......
ADMITTEDLY, ‘stop eating’ is perhaps a harsh term to use for curtailing consumption, but while complete starvation as a remedy for past gluttony is impractical, neither can a comfortable lifestyle be......
ISLAMABAD: Effective from Sunday (today), petroleum prices have been increased by up to Rs4 per litre.Petrol and high-speed diesel — the two most widely used products — will now sell for Rs73.50 and......
ISLAMABAD: In an attempt to bridge the growing trust deficit between the two neighbouring countries, Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa will visit Afghanistan on Sunday (today) to hold......
ISLAMABAD: The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that answering the queries posed by one of its officials would affect Pakistan’s relations with several countries and......
LAHORE: Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s children Hassan, Hussain and Maryam as well as son-in-law retired Captain Safdar will skip the third consecutive accountability proceedings on Monday......
ISLAMABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah has blamed the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) for providing indirect support to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz......
Washington has opened channels to North Korea to find out if the regime is ready to talk about giving up its nuclear weapons, United States (US) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Saturday.His......
