Four more women were stabbed and injured by the "knifeman" in Karachi in the vicinity of Aziz Bhatti and Shahrah-e-Faisal police stations on Wednesday, bringing the official number of victims to 10,......
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif raised the issue of United States's South Asia Policy with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and told him that Islamabad has pursued a zero-tolerance and indiscriminate......
The former spokesperson of Balochistan government and central secretary information National Party (NP), Jan Buledi, narrowly escaped an attempt on his life as unidentified miscreants attacked his......
A US-based leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement's (MQM) London faction allegedly financed the targeted killing of a party worker in Karachi three months ago, Sindh Rangers claimed on Wednesday.The......
Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock's girlfriend returned to the United States and was met by FBI agents eager to hear whatever she might know about the motive behind the worst mass shooting in US......
A faculty member of the University of Karachi (KU) who had gone missing and was believed to be in custody of law enforcement agencies returned home on Wednesday, his family and KU officials told......
Sri Lanka will hope their left-arm spinner Rangana Herath maintains pressure on Pakistan when the second and final Test, a day-night affair with pink ball, starts at Dubai stadium on Friday.The......
A Turkish court on Wednesday handed life sentences to 34 people for plotting to assassinate President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a luxury Aegean hotel during last year's failed coup.The 34 were given......
The Parliamentary Committee on National Accountability Law has failed to reach a consensus on the formation of National Accountability Commission over the clauses pertaining to its imposition on the......
‘Injustice is relatively easy to bear,’ says H.L. Mencken. ‘It is justice that hurts.’In the wake of the Panama Papers decision, justice was thought hurtful to many: we now face a flood of what’s......
The Honda Civic has forever maintained a rather premium prospect for itself against a rather unruly competing vehicle, the Toyota Corolla.While one is sporty, the other banks mostly on the fact that......
Congratulating his party's supporters on the NA-120 win, newly re-elected PML-N President Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said that the party's victory was a "golden page in history.""You have not won just......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange closed another dreary session as a sell-off triggered on Tuesday continued unabated, forcing the benchmark KSE-100 Index below the 40,000 mark before late buying recouped......
The Abraaj Group in a press release on Wednesday announced an investment in Cinepax Ltd, one of the leading cinema operators in the country, but did not disclose the size of its investment.The......
"The Panama Papers verdict was based on hiding of facts, not on the intent to give false statements," Chief Justice Saqib Nisar remarked on Wednesday while hearing a petition against Pakistan......
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Iran on Wednesday in a sign of warming ties between the two neighbours who support rival camps in Syria but both strongly oppose last week's Iraqi......
Three researchers based in the US, UK and Switzerland have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developments in electron microscopy.The 9-million-kronor ($1.1 million) prize is shared by Jacques......
Four Turkish soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a bombing blamed on Kurdish militants in the restive southeast, the local governor's office said.Another four soldiers were injured when a handmade......
Members of the Upper House on Wednesday requisitioned a Senate session to discuss the "growing conflict between institutions of the state."Opposition party leaders, most notably Pakistan......
The spectre of accountability seems to be looming large on Pakistani lawmakers as the threat of being questioned, indicted and disqualified for possessing assets beyond their means of income becomes......
Following the controversy surrounding an 'amendment' to the Elections Act 2017 which ended up affecting a Khatm-i-Naboowat (finality of prophethood) declaration public office holders are required to......
Former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's Pakistan Justice and Democratic Party (PDJP) on Wednesday filed a petition in the Supreme Court (SC) against Nawaz Sharif for his "criticism of the judges and......
LAS VEGAS: The man who unleashed hundreds of rounds of gunfire on a crowd of concertgoers in Las Vegas had two accessories that could have allowed his semi-automatic rifles to fire rapidly and......
The Las Vegas gunman transferred $100,000 overseas in the days before the attack and planned the massacre so meticulously that he even set up cameras inside the peephole of his high-rise hotel room......
As the accountability court resumed hearing the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) graft case against Ishaq Dar on Wednesday, the prosecution’s first witness claimed that the finance minister’s......
A relative of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif has formed a political party and will serve as its chairman, according to an Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) notification issued on......
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis tried to clear up doubts about the US administration's North Korea strategy on Tuesday, backing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's effort to find a diplomatic solution to......
President Donald Trump shook hands with storm survivors in Puerto Rico and told them to be "proud" the island did not lose more lives to Hurricane Maria, on a trip designed to quiet criticism of his......
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) claimed the army killed three Indian soldiers in "retaliatory firing" across the Line of Control (LoC) as Indian shelling took two civilian lives in Azad Jammu......
ISLAMABAD: A special corps commanders conference that reportedly lasted around seven hours was held at the military’s General Headquarters (GHQ) on Tuesday.Chaired by Chief of the Army Staff Gen......
KARACHI: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Tuesday that the government would seek an explanation from the director general of Punjab Rangers as to how and under whose directives the paramilitary......
Three terrorists tried and convicted by military courts were executed at a jail in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday, according to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).The convicts were "involved in......
PESHAWAR: As Fata parliamentarians gear up for the Oct 9 mass protest in Islamabad to press the government for constitutional amendment to mainstream their region, a multi-party conference here on......
The controversial amendment in the election laws may have allowed Nawaz Sharif to retain the leadership of his party, but it has further dented democratic values. The government bulldozed the bill......
WHEN Saudi women’s rights activist Manal al-Sharif was taken to a women’s prison in Saudi Arabia, the prisoners inside crowded around her in shock. They were not surprised to see a woman there; after......
“AND I get the urge for going,” sang Joni Mitchell more than a half-century ago, “When the meadow grass is turning/ And summertime is falling down.” That sentiment has been echoed in recent days in......
A: I am reading Sham-i-Shair-i-Yaaran by Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi. He is one of the best humorists and I really enjoy his works.His writing style is very captivating and readers cannot put his books down......
ISLAMABAD: Human rights activist Asma Jahangir and representatives of the Pak-Turk School’s parents association on Tuesday demanded that the government unmask those involved in the abduction of Mesut......
TAXILA: A nearly 2,000-year-old well at the Mohra Maradu Stupa still serves as a source of water for over a hundred families living nearby.Archaeologists believe the well was made around 2,000 years......
KARACHI: Having received encouraging results from a pilot project in Korangi, where it increased immunisation coverage to 54 per cent in six years, officials of the provincial health department with......
KARACHI: The Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) announced the results of commerce part-II (private) and home economics part-I on Tuesday.Hira Ziauddin stood first with Grade A and 858......
LARKANA: During a surprise visit to government health and educational institutions in several villages of Naudero, Ratodero’s Civil Judge Mohammed Ali Ruk found three dispensaries non-functional and......
SULAIMANIYAH: Ex-Iraqi president and Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani died on Tuesday in Germany, officials in his party said.Talabani, 83, was Iraq’s president from 2005 to 2014 and a key figure in......
STOCKHOLM: Three US-based scientists won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for detecting faint ripples flying through the universe the gravitational waves predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein......
ROME: Visitors to the Colosseum can now enjoy even more of the ancient amphitheatre and the spectacular views it offers of Rome.Officials on Tuesday showed off the newly restored fourth and fifth......
BARCELONA: Shouting “occupation forces out” and “the streets will always be ours,” hundreds of thousands turned out in Barcelona on Tuesday to protest police violence during a banned weekend......
WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis warned on Tuesday that an American withdrawal from Afghanistan would be “to our ultimate peril,” as he briefed Congress on plans to increase US troop......
WASHINGTON: The United States ordered the expulsion of 15 Cuban diplomats on Tuesday, accusing Havana of failing to protect their US counterparts from harm in a series of mystery “attacks” on their......
MAINZ: Germany’s Sept 24 national election has shown the country is divided by new, less visible “walls”, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday, the anniversary of German......
DHAKA: Few people walk into a refugee camp expecting to live there forever. Certainly not Roshida Begum, who fled Myanmar some 25 years ago at the age of 11. Its military regime then was trying to......
LAHORE: Star all-rounder Shahid Afridi completed his move to Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise Karachi Kings from champions Peshawar Zalmi on Tuesday, Pakistan Cricket Board confirmed.The former......
BEIJING: World number one Rafael Nadal saved two match points to avoid a huge shock defeat in the first round of the China Open, seeing off Lucas Pouille in three sets on Tuesday.The Frenchman broke......
CAPETOWN: On the day that two of South Africa’s leading Test cricketers voiced their strong opposition to the concept of four-day Tests, it has emerged that Cricket South Africa failed to properly......
ADELAIDE: An Ashes series shorn of Ben Stokes would be a great shame for cricket but England are heading for defeat with or without the troubled all-rounder, former Australia batsman Greg Blewett has......
ABU DHABI: Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal has hailed the contribution of veteran spinner Rangana Herath who led the side to a dramatic 21-run victory over Pakistan in the first Test in Abu......
CHAKWAL: Fakhar Iqbal, 56, is an uneducated village woman. But whenever she happens to visit Chakwal city for shopping, she returns with a football, a must item on her purchase list. Back at her......
KARACHI: Work is in full swing for the construction of Pakistan’s first softball stadium in Karachi.This was stated by the president of Sindh Softball Association (SSA), Muhammad Salim Rajput, here......
ISLAMABAD: All electricity distribution companies including K-Electric could not make any major improvement in their performance standards, failed to deliver on loadshedding schedules, struggled in......
KARACHI: Cement despatches in the first quarter of this fiscal year stood at 10.348 million tonnes — the highest ever. The industry operated at 88 per cent installed capacity.Of the 10.348m tonnes,......
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet authorised the Power Division on Tuesday to negotiate the draft framework agreement with Russia for the construction of 600-megawatt natural gas combined power plant at......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is actively processing over $500 million of LEAP debt and equity transactions for private infrastructure development in Asia-Pacific region, which also......
KARACHI: Bears were all over the stock market on Tuesday as the KSE-100 index plunged 903 points (2.15pc) to close at 41,115.78. As distraught investors started to jettison shares, the market losses......
LAHORE: Fertiliser manufacturers have demanded a change in the urea export policy to get rid of the accumulating yearly surplus stocks.The Fertiliser Manufacturers of Pakistan Advisory Council......
DUBAI: Abu Dhabi sold its first ever 30-year sovereign bond on Tuesday as part of a $10 billion triple-tranche debt issue that drew heavy demand.The sale followed a $12.5bn bond issue by Saudi Arabia......
ISLAMABAD: A number of lawmakers, including the chief ministers of three provinces, have failed to submit their statements of assets to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) by the deadline of......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Tuesday exchanged names for the appointment of the new chairman of National......
WASHINGTON: The lobbying firm that campaigned to get F-16 fighter jets for Pakistan in 2016 also advocated for India to block the proposed sale, claims a new book by a former US senator, Larry......
ISLAMABAD: Nearly 16 million Pakistanis went online for the first time between 2012 and 2015, accounting for half the number of the overall internet users in the country, according to a UN report......
LAS VEGAS: America mourned the victims of the worst gun massacre in recent US history on Tuesday as investigators probed the motive behind an apparently senseless attack on Las Vegas......
WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary James Mattis said on Tuesday Washington would try “one more time” to work with Islamabad on the Afghanistan front before President Donald Trump turned to options to......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department confirmed on Tuesday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will meet Foreign Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif at his office on Wednesday morning.Mr Asif is reaching......
ISLAMABAD: Zafar Mahmood Abbasi will succeed Admiral Muhammad Zakaullah as Chief of the Naval Staff on Saturday (Oct 7) upon the latter’s retirement, according to a notification issued by the......
• Punjab CM advises brother to consult the old guard following PML-N vote • Ahsan Iqbal criticises PPP for opposing controversial bill in parliament • ECP restores party election symbolISLAMABAD: A......
The United States military's top leaders told lawmakers on Tuesday that the thousands of additional US troops President Donald Trump has ordered to Afghanistan will cost just over $1 billion a year,......
The United Arab Emirates will introduce a new cricket format when big hitters Shahid Afridi of Pakistan, India's Virender Singh, Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara and England's Eoin Morgan feature in a......
