Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has announced to provide free education for transgenders across the country, DawnNews learned on Tuesday.The university, that offers distance learning, will offer......
Federal Law Minister Zahid Hamid on Tuesday rejected the objections being raised by the opposition over the Election Act 2017, which paved the way for Nawaz Sharif to be re-elected president of the......
A security official, Naib-subedar Azher Ali, lost his life in an alleged terrorist attack on the Pakistani post in Khyber Agency from across the Afghan border, read a statement issued by the......
A Saudi was executed on Monday in Riyadh, the official SPA news agency reported, taking to 100 the number of people put to death in the kingdom so far this year.The man was sentenced to death for......
United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday described the gunman behind the Las Vegas mass shooting as a “sick,” “demented” individual.“He was a sick man. A demented man, a lot of problems,”......
A US-led coalition air strike killed at least 18 civilians on Tuesday in the militant Islamic State (IS) group's former stronghold of Raqa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor......
An associate professor employed by the University of Karachi's Department of Islamic Studies has been missing for the past 18 days, Dawn learned on Tuesday.Dr Mohammad Ismail was taken away from his......
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday Israel would reject any reconciliation deal between the two leading Palestinian factions unless Hamas disarmed.“We are not prepared to accept......
In a major trade before the formal drafts of Pakistan Super League's (PSL) third edition, Shahid Afridi's move from Peshawar Zalmi to Karachi Kings as a player was finalised on Tuesday.Afridi, who......
A district and sessions court in Quetta on Tuesday rejected an application filed by Gazeen Marri, the son of late Baloch politician Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, seeking a production order ahead of a......
Leg-spinner Yasir Shah's eight wickets in the Abu Dhabi Test have helped him retain the 15th place in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test Bowling Rankings.Meanwhile, among Pakistan's......
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Tuesday imposed a Rs1 million fine on Geo News for airing comments against the Pakistan Army.The channel had reportedly accused the......
The bears returned in full force at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Tuesday, pulling the benchmark KSE-100 Index down 903 points to 41,116 by day's end.The index remained under pressure......
The Election Act 2017, which paved the way for Nawaz Sharif to promptly be re-elected president of the ruling PML-N, was challenged in the Supreme Court on Tuesday.A petition, filed under Article......
Vice Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi will be succeeding Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Admiral Mohammad Zakaullah after President Mamnoon Hussain on Tuesday approved his elevation to the office.The......
US astrophysicists Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for the discovery of gravitational waves ? a phenomenon that opens a door on the extreme......
The PML-N on Tuesday re-elected former prime minister Nawaz Sharif as the party's president after bulldozing a law through parliament that did away with the condition that persons otherwise......
Iran's foreign minister on Tuesday met with Qatar's ruling emir as a quartet of Arab states continues its boycott of the energy-rich nation, in part over relations that Doha maintains with......
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif, in an interview on Monday, termed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "terrorist" and said the Indian government was being run by a "a terrorist party".Asif made the......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar yesterday challenging his ‘swift indictment’ by an accountability court in a reference pertaining to......
Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in creating full-color emissive carbon dots (F-CDs), which brings them one step closer to developing a faster wireless communication channel that could be......
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it still remains to be seen where money for Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan's London flat came from."We will have to see where the [money......
More than 10,000 Rohingya have massed near a crossing point with Bangladesh, Myanmar media said Tuesday, as an exodus continues to swell with food supplies low and hostility towards them surging.The......
A coalition of Muslim and Iranian-American advocates and a nonpartisan legal institute filed the first lawsuits against the Trump administration's new travel restrictions for citizens of eight......
If United States (US) President Donald Trump and his top diplomat are playing “good cop, bad cop” with North Korea, it doesn't appear to be working: entreaties of diplomacy aren't yielding meaningful......
As qualifying for the 2018 World Cup reaches its climax, Lionel Messi's Argentina find themselves in trouble, Syria face a play-off to keep their remarkable dream alive and European champions......
Bangladesh has deployed secret police in the burgeoning refugee camps near its border with Myanmar, where Rohingya claiming to be members of a militant group say they have found fertile ground for......
President Donald Trump condemned the massacre of at least 59 Las Vegas concert goers as an "act of pure evil" on Monday, but refrained from addressing calls for gun control or the motives for the......
Suspected militants stormed a paramilitary base in Indian-administered Kashmir early Tuesday, police said, leaving one soldier and three attackers dead.Three paramilitary troopers and a police......
Stephen Craig Paddock, the retired accountant who smuggled an arsenal into a swank Las Vegas hotel and mowed down concert-goers from a 32nd story window, was a high-stakes gambler whose bank-robber......
Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif was elected the president of PML-N unopposed on Tuesday, reclaiming his position as the head of his namesake party.Addressing a gathering of charged party members......
The militant Islamic State (IS) group on Tuesday claimed a bomb attack at a police station in the Syrian capital Damascus a day earlier that killed at least 17 people.In a statement circulated on its......
KOHAT: A combined mourners’ procession was held in Kohat on Monday, a day after Ashura, which was observed across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with religious zeal and fervor on Sunday amid tight security.The......
SAIDU SHARIF: Like many Swatis, Khursheed Alam lovingly called Spin Dada by his relatives is getting on with his life with a smile but his left arm hanging down uselessly is a constant reminder of......
ISLAMABAD: All visitors – be they ministers, senior politicians, mediapersons, lawyers or litigants – were barred from entering the Federal Judicial Complex (FJC) by Rangers officials on Monday, but......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate committee on Monday approved a bill to provide a mechanism for public interest disclosures by providing protection to whistleblowers in corruption cases.The Senate Standing......
Dean’s farewell to 5 ambassadorsThe dean of the diplomatic corps, Kazakhstan’s ambassador Bakhitbek Shabarbayev held a large lunch reception for five outgoing ambassadors this week. The event forms......
ISLAMABAD: The government has substantially increased disbursements for development programmes as it gets closer to the general election to be held next year.In the first quarter of current fiscal......
KARACHI: People will soon be able to pay federal taxes and customs duties through internet banking and ATMs.According to a press release on Monday, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Federal Board of......
NEW YORK: Oil fell more than $1 a barrel to below $56 on Monday as a rise in US drilling and higher Opec output put the brakes on a rally that helped prices to register their biggest third-quarter......
Political finance, spending by political parties, can best be described as limitless and mysterious in Pakistan.Charged crowds in public gatherings that look more like carnivals, complete with music......
Han Bekke, president of the International Apparel Federation (IAF), thinks Pakistan’s apparel manufacturers must invest in product development, fashion education and creativity to build their own......
According to the weekly statement of position of all scheduled banks for the week ended September 15, deposits and other accounts of all scheduled banks stood at Rs11,647.739bn after a 0.47pc......
Besides dull demand for dollar in local market, stronger dollar in the overseas trade weakened the local currency. With minor corrections, the parity traded almost range-bound.The week ended early......
The recent ruling of the Supreme Court in a dispute over calculation of pension for retired employees of the state-run National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) is an eye-opener for the banking industry in......
The shallow reforms carried out over the past few decades have not helped improve deep-seated structural weaknesses, but evolving economic trends hold out the promise for a transformational change in......
THE ongoing hike in tomato prices is a chilling reminder of the structural problems facing the marketing of perishable food items in Pakistan.Tomato and onion prices peaked before and during Eidul......
SUGARCANE producers in Sindh fear a delay in the start of the crushing season, as millers don’t seem ready to start the process before late December or early January.The Pakistan Sugar Mills......
KIWIFRUIT, which can be found on the shelves of leading supermarkets in major cities, will soon be available in abundance after its trial production has proved successful.Trials for growing kiwi,......
IT’S 10 years since Apple unleashed a surge of innovation that upended the mobile phone industry. Electric cars, with a little help from ride-hailing and self-driving technology, could be about to......
“We have been paying Pakistan billions and billions of dollars” — President Donald TrumpSOME years ago at a seminar on Pakistan’s foreign policy with a special focus on Pak-US relations, a senior......
A RECENT study published in the Science Advances journal, ‘Extensive arsenic contamination in high-pH unconfined aquifers in the Indus Valley’, has led to widespread concern about the health effects......
WHEN someone offers us a gift, we apply our sense of propriety before accepting it or politely turning it down. The minority community of Hindus in Sindh decided to not observe Ram Lila celebrations......
LAST month, the government extended the tenure of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances for another three years. The latest extension makes the CoIoED, initially established for six......
LAHORE: The PML-N says what was done to Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal at the accountability court in Islamabad is nothing new as during the last four years this ministry has faced similar situations......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday restrained the federal government from deporting another Turkish family associated with Pak-Turk Schools.Mr Murat Ervan filed a writ petition pleading that his......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday directed a senior lawyer to furnish a summary of his appointment as the private counsel by the Punjab government to represent it in its appeal against a......
KARACHI: Police officers investigating the six attacks on women having different family and educational backgrounds with different age groups in various parts of Gulistan-i-Jauhar appear to be still......
KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency has registered a case against Muttahida Qaumi Movement founder Altaf Hussain pertaining to “terror financing and money laundering” exactly a year after......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan on Monday jointly filed an application in the Sindh High Court against the Electoral Reforms Bill, 2017.A total of six......
KARACHI: Retailers have kept the prices of tomato high despite its import from Iran which resulted in a big drop in its wholesale price ahead of Ashura.The wholesale price of tomato showed......
HYDERABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that credit goes to people for complete peace across the province during the first 10 days of Muharram as they helped the government and......
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party Sindh president Nisar Ahmad Khuhro on Monday said it was a big question as to who had called in the Rangers, who took over security of the Islamabad Accountability......
Las Vegas: At first glance, it seemed Stephen Paddock, 64, was set for a quiet life in a desert retirement community where he bought a new home in 2015. From there it was only an hour’s drive to Las......
LONDON: World leaders offered condolences on Monday after the mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed at least 58 people and injured hundreds.The gunman, identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock,......
WASHINGTON: After a gunman killed more than 50 people at a Las Vegas concert Sunday, here are some of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States in the past 25 years.A heavily-armed gunman......
PARIS: The brother of the Islamist radical who shot dead seven people in southwest France in 2012, including three Jewish schoolchildren, went on trial on Monday accused of complicity in the first of......
GAZA: The West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister crossed into the Gaza Strip on Monday in a move towards reconciliation between the mainstream Fatah party and Hamas, a decade after the Islamist......
SINGAPORE: Aamir Khan, the Bollywood superstar with a conscience, says his next movie about a small town teenage girl who uses the Internet to become a singing sensation will be much bigger than his......
GENEVA: More than two million people fleeing wars or persecution have joined the ranks of the world’s refugees this year, but often face more restrictive asylum policies, including in Europe and the......
STOCKHOLM: Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries about the body’s biological clock, opening up whole new fields of research and raising......
Indian Minister for External Affairs Sushma Swaraj has appealed to the people of her country to help authorities find the family of Geeta, a hearing and speech impaired woman.Geeta, who had been......
HAVANA: A half-century after his death, Ernesto “Che” Guevara will be remembered in ceremonies next week in Cuba and in Bolivia, whose CIA-trained troops sent shockwaves around the world when they......
ABU DHABI: Rangana Herath became the second Sri Lankan to bag 400 wickets as his six-wicket haul steered Sri Lanka to a dramatic 21-run win over Pakistan in the first Test in Abu Dhabi on Monday.The......
ABU DHABI: After almost three and a half days of snail-paced proceedings, the first match of the two-Test series sprung to life on Monday to culminate in a nail-biting finish and a 21-run victory for......
LAHORE: A good number of leading sports personalities of the country including squash legend Jahangir Khan, hockey Olympians Islahuddin Siddiqui, Manzoor-ul-Hasan Senior, Mohammad Usman attended an......
POTCHEFSTROOM: The pace of Kagiso Rabada and the spin of Keshav Maharaj sent Bangladesh crashing to a 333-run defeat on the fifth day of the first Test against South Africa at Senwes Park here on......
BERLIN: Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich wasted a two-goal lead for the second straight week to draw 2-2 at Hertha Berlin on Sunday in interim coach Willy Sagnol’s debut following the midweek......
MADRID: In a day marked by demonstrations over Catalonia’s disputed independence vote, Barcelona won their seventh game in a row and Real Madrid earned their first victory at home in the La Liga on......
MILAN: Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri might be keen to play down his team’s chances of winning the league title but they are now the only side with a perfect record in Serie A after six-time defending......
PARIS: Ten-man Olympique de Marseille moved up to third in Ligue 1 after Lucas Ocampos hit a brace in a thrilling come-from-behind 4-2 win at Mediterranean rivals OGC Nice on Sunday.In an......
LONDON: England all-rounder Moeen Ali is expecting Australia’s fast bowlers to try and unsettle him with short-pitched deliveries during the Ashes series later this year but the left-hander is......
LONDON: Everton manager Ronald Koeman is under mounting pressure after they lost 1-0 at home to Burnley on Sunday, while Liverpool drew 1-1 at Newcastle United as the Merseyside clubs continued to......
SEPANG (Malaysia): Red Bull’s Max Verstappen gave himself a perfect 20th birthday present by winning the last Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday, while Lewis Hamilton stretched his Formula One world......
Renowned artist Tasadduq Sohail passed away on Monday. He was 87.Sohail was born in Jalandhar in 1930. After partition of India his family migrated to Lahore. In the early 1950s, the family relocated......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah held a meeting on Monday — their second sitting in less than three weeks — to......
MUZAFFARABAD: A schoolteacher who had appointed a ‘surrogate’ instructor in her stead at a girls’ primary school in Upper Tengerran village of Abbaspur tehsil, was suspended on Monday after the......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the bail application of Balochistan’s former finance secretary Mushtaq Ahmed Raisani, who is facing a corruption case.The National Accountability......
HARIPUR: The ride along the reptilian road to Central Jail Haripur is claustrophobic. The shops straddle the road oppressively; the rush-hour traffic heaves. Only the roadside mulberry trees and the......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) intends to challenge before the Supreme Court its registrar’s decision of returning a set of petitions the party had moved seeking proclamation about the......
NEW DELHI: The rightwing Hindu government in Uttar Pradesh has removed the Taj Mahal from its official list of tourist destinations for which the state is famous, reports said on Monday.The move......
LAS VEGAS: At least 58 people were killed and over 500 injured when a gunman opened fire from a 32nd floor hotel room on a country music concert in Las Vegas in an attack claimed by the militant......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul on Sunday to discuss matters of regional security and issues of common interest.The......
ISLAMABAD: Dramatic scenes were witnessed outside the accountability court trying former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in three references after Rangers personnel mysteriously descended upon the......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) took full advantage of its position as the ruling party on Monday as President Mamnoon Hussain signed the controversial Election Act 2017 into law......
Amid provincial concerns, the federal government’s push for gas sector reforms has accelerated since the elevation two months ago of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi from the minister for the......
In an update of its annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook 2017, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) reviewed its prospects for developing Asia, including Pakistan.Here we take a look at......
Cameroon's military is heavily deployed in the country's English-speaking regions and few people are on the streets after 17 people were killed over the weekend in protests in support of independence......
Karachi police, on Monday, took six suspects into custody as part of the ongoing investigation of knife attacks on six different women in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar area of Karachi.Karachi East-Zone......
