The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has appointed a military official accused of organising multiple deadly attacks against Israelis, as its deputy leader, an official said on Thursday.“Salah......
Another woman was stabbed by the lone 'knifeman' in a busy neighbourhood near Rado Bakery in Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Superintendent of Police Gulshan, Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto told DawnNews on Thursday.The......
Amid uncertainty, fear and cross-border terror, a young fast bowler has surfaced on the cricketing radar in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) who bowls at 90 miles per hour speed and is aspiring to......
Saudi Arabia signed on Thursday preliminary agreements to buy S-400 air defence systems and receive “cutting edge technologies” from Russia during King Salman's landmark visit to Moscow, the Saudi......
The Indonesian military should stay out of politics and remain loyal to the government, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo said on Thursday in an apparent rebuke over contentious statements by the......
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Thursday stressed that the "strategic logic" behind working with the US against terrorism remains intact.Speaking at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, the......
Rohingya militants have set fire to houses in Rakhine state in recent days to intensify the exodus of the Muslim minority, the office of Myanmar's commander-in-chief said on Thursday, in an apparent......
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has launched a dedicated helpline to facilitate banking consumers, said a press release issued on Thursday.SBP Governor Tariq Bajwa inaugurated the helpline UAN......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday released a list of players retained by Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchises for the third season after the deadline to trade and release players......
Iraqi forces retook one of the militant Islamic State (IS) group's last two enclaves in the country on Thursday, overrunning the longtime insurgent bastion of Hawija after a two-week offensive.Only a......
Muhammad Shaheer Niazi, a 17-year-old Pakistani boy, has garnered praise for his visualisation of a phenomenon, known to physicists for decades, which can help engineers develop technology for......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Thursday closed almost flat as the benchmark KSE-100 index edged up 7.49 points to close at 40,468 points.The index adopted an upward trajectory soon after the......
At least 20 people, including a police constable, were killed and more than 30 injured in a suicide bombing on Thursday at Dargah Pir Rakhel Shah in Fatehpur, a small town in the Jhal Magsi district......
The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned Advocate Sikander Mohammad, the counsel representing Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Jahangir Tareen, regarding discrepancies in his client's......
Karachi's District Central Police and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) late on Wednesday night killed a 'Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) terrorist' but said two others managed to flee the scene during an......
The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday rejected US Gen Joseph Dunford's allegations that Inter-Services Intelligence (IS) had ties to militant groups and that terrorists safe havens existed in......
The director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations, Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, on Thursday conducted a wide-ranging press briefing at the army's General Headquarters in Rawalpindi to discuss......
Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to be stripped of the Freedom of Oxford honorary title by the city's council for her response to the Rohingya crisis, CNN reported on Thursday.Suu Kyi,......
French President Emmanuel Macron offered Thursday for France to mediate between the Iraqi government and Kurds seeking independence after a controversial referendum.Macron made the offer after......
Gulalai Ismail, a Pashtun women's rights activist from Swabi, was awarded the Reach all Women in War (RAW) Anna Politkovskaya Award on Thursday alongside senior Indian journalist, Gauri Lankesh,......
India's Gujarat High Court on Thursday rejected Zakia Jafri's plea for an investigation and action against Narendra Modi — the then chief minister and current prime minister— and 57 others for a......
Additional Inspector General (AIG) Karachi Mushtaq Maher on Thursday said that 16 suspects had been arrested in relation to the knife attacks on women in Gulistan-e-Jauhar area of Karachi.Last week,......
The National Assembly on Thursday passed the Elections Reforms Amendment Bill 2017, tabled by Law Minister Zahid Hamid, that amends the recently-passed Elections Act 2017 to restore a......
Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif departed for London on Thursday to see his wife Kulsoom Nawaz, who is undergoing treatment for cancer there.Sharif, who was recently elected the president of his......
Claims of responsibility for terror attacks by the Islamic State group were once seen as credible, but in the wake of the Las Vegas atrocity, experts stress that the retreating jihadists are......
The girlfriend of the Las Vegas shooter said Wednesday she had no idea he was planning the attack, describing her boyfriend as a "quiet, caring man" as United States (US) President Donald Trump......
United States (US) Secretary of State Rex Tillerson firmly denied Wednesday that he had fallen out with Donald Trump and vowed to remain in post, dismissing a report that he had once dubbed the......
The lover of the wine cup who blurts out the truth in a state of abandon is better than the jurisconsult who seeks refuge in expediency. — Zafar Ali KhanMUCH water has flown under the bridge,......
ALMOST everywhere I go these days, there is one question that props up: is the rupee about to be devalued? This is one of the signs that an exchange rate adjustment is coming, and if you are asking......
ISLAMABAD is gradually degenerating from drollery to slapstick, and now into farce. It is as if some hack playwright scribbles a fresh script every day and hands pages to the performers before they......
WORKING for an institution that is committed to establishing a sexual harassment-free environment, I am often confronted with situations that require great maturity and understanding. Sexual......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan on Wednesday said that mainstreaming climate change into country’s development agenda is necessary to protect Pakistan from......
ISLAMABAD: Three days after they started the protest, employees of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) were finally paid a visit by the Minister for Capital Administration and......
LAHORE: MNA Hamza Shahbaz, son of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who was allegedly separated from Kulsoom Nawaz’s NA-120 by-poll campaign by Maryam Nawaz, returned to the country on Wednesday after......
LAHORE: A woman allegedly clubbed her young son to death at Ferozwala following ‘order of her spiritual mentor’.Kaneez Fatima was living in Ferozwala Pind along with her two sons – Zeshan Haider (26)......
LAHORE: The power of accountability courts to issue arrest warrants for ensuring attendance of suspects has been challenged before the Supreme Court for being a violation of the National......
LAHORE: The Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) on Wednesday commenced a week-long bus tour to highlight through theatre how Pakistan’s death penalty targets poor and vulnerable citizens.The tour, named......
KARACHI: While 17 inmates belonging to banned militant outfits were shifted from Karachi Central Prison to a jail in Sukkur on Wednesday, a provincial minister insisted that “not a single” prisoner......
KARACHI: Holding senior jail officials responsible for the June 13 escape of two militants of the outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi from the Karachi Central Prison, a Sindh police inquiry committee has......
KARACHI: It is always a delight to see an artist making use of geometric shapes and turning them into identifiable ‘fields and spaces’. Why? Because in the hustle and bustle of daily life we seldom......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s first optical remote sensing satellite PRSS-1 is set to be launched in 2018 with which the country will become self-reliant in multi-spectral imaging, announced a senior official......
STOCKHOLM: A trio of Swiss, American and British scientists won the Nobel chemistry prize on Wednesday for developing cryo-electron microscopy, allowing researchers to see biological molecules frozen......
LONDON: Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai has condemned America’s new policy on Afghanistan as a `message of war and bloodshed`.The Afghan leader, who worked closely with US political and military......
ANKARA: The presidents of Iran and Turkey vowed during talks in Tehran on Wednesday to work closely together to prevent the disintegration of Iraq and Syria and to oppose the Iraqi Kurds’ drive for......
WASHINGTON: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is a rational politician and the US needs to understand that to deal with the nuclear-armed country, a top Central Intelligence Agency Korea expert said on......
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called his boss, President Donald Trump, a ‘moron’ after a July 20 meeting at the Pentagon and threatened to resign, NBC News reported on Wednesday.The......
WASHINGTON: Americans are more likely to disapprove than approve of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Puerto Rico hurricane relief effort.According to a poll by the Associated Press-NORC......
MUGLA (Turkey): A Turkish court on Wednesday found 42 former soldiers guilty of trying to kill President Tayyip Erdogan during last year’s failed coup, and handed most of them life sentences in the......
MOSCOW: King Salman arrived in Moscow on Wednesday, the first official visit to Russia by a ruler from Saudi Arabia.His three-day trip is expected to focus on energy and the Syrian conflict.King......
WASHINGTON: DeepMind, the Google sibling focusing on artificial intelligence, has announced the launch of an “ethics and society” unit to study the impact of new technologies on society.The......
MOSCOW: Embattled Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro arrived in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss financial aid for his crisis-stricken Latin American country with his Russian counterpart, the Kremlin......
VIC: Catalonia’s pro-independence leader Carles Puigdemont has called for the European Union to mediate with Spain over the region’s future, but for many Catalans the intensity of a police crackdown......
KOROLYOV: When the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite 60 years ago, it marked both the beginning of space exploration and the start of a race between Moscow and Washington.Sputnik,......
LESKOVAC: It’s a source of Balkan rivalry but one ubiquitous smell: the wood-fire roasting of peppers wafting through towns and villages each autumn as families prepare the region’s best-loved......
MALACCA: A qualifying campaign that has defied civil war and internal splits has brought Syria within sight of a miraculous World Cup berth — if they can overcome Asian champions Australia.Syria were......
SYDNEY: Australia fast bowler James Pattinson will take an indefinite break from cricket and has been ruled out of the Ashes series against England after re-aggravating his lower back stress......
SYDNEY: Claire Polosak never played cricket and failed the umpires’ exam ‘a few times’ but is set to become the first woman to officiate an Australian men’s top level fixture when New South Wales......
BEIJING: World number two Simona Halep beat Maria Sharapova 6-2, 6-2 in the China Open third round on Wednesday for her first win over the Russian in eight attempts.Halep, who lost to Sharapova in......
ZURICH: Europe will provide 14 of the 32 competing teams in Russia, the hosts included. But so far only Belgium have punched their ticket to the finals going into the last two sets of fixtures.World......
MONTEVIDEO: Brazil are in, and over the next week three more South American countries will join the five-time champions at the World Cup in Russia.The fifth-placed team from the region will also keep......
ST JOHN’S: West Indies named an unchanged squad on Tuesday for their tour to Zimbabwe later this month.The same 15 players that lost a three-match Test series 2-1 and five-match One day International......
ISLAMABAD: The opening of a branch by National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) in China has run into snags due to a recent decision by the apex court, which requires one-time capital adjustment of Rs47.5......
ISLAMABAD: Pre-empting a sugar glut in domestic market, the government on Wednesday allowed export of 0.5 million tonnes of the commodity and set down conditions for availing cash subsidy.The most......
KARACHI: Chinese and two leading Japanese bike assemblers have raised the prices of two-wheelers by Rs500 to Rs5,000.Pak Suzuki Motor Company Ltd has issued a letter to its authorised dealers......
ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Power Abid Sher Ali informed the Senate Standing Committee on Power on Wednesday that loadshedding had been reduced by 52 per cent while recoveries increased to 94pc in......
KARACHI: Panic-selling on the stock market on Wednesday resulted in steep fall of KSE-100 index by 654.78 points (1.59 per cent) to close at an 11-month low of 40,461 points.As the political......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Wednesday stressed on the need for public and private sectors to collaborate and formulate a policy which will strengthen and promote agriculture in......
KARACHI: Total petroleum oil and lubricants (POL) sales were 2.16 million tonnes in September, down 14 per cent month-on-month and up 3pc year-on-year.On a year-on-year basis, growth was pulled by......
SINGAPORE: The World Bank warned on Wednesday that surging tensions over North Korea’s nuclear programme could be a threat to robust growth in Asia.The bank predicted that developing East Asia and......
KARACHI: Steady flow of buying orders from spinners and exporters kept cotton prices firm on Wednesday.Rising demand for cotton is unlikely to impact prices as global cotton production has been......
MUMBAI: India’s central bank held interest rates at a seven-year-low on Wednesday as it downgraded growth forecasts for Asia’s third largest economy amid a slowdown following recent high-profile......
ISLAMABAD: Opposition members’ protest over the absence of the ministers forced Deputy Speaker Murtaza Javed Abbasi to abruptly adjourn the proceedings of the National Assembly on Wednesday.Before......
ISLAMABAD: Mainstream political parties on Wednesday could not reach a consensus on how judges and generals would be brought under the purview of the proposed National Accountability Commission......
ISLAMABAD: The government has rejected a demand by three provinces to fully finance from the federal budget more than Rs18 billion spent on the National Population Census-2017.An informed source told......
WASHINGTON: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa’s visit to Kabul earlier this week presages a new chapter’ in ending the Afghan conflict, says US Defence Secretary James Mattis.Appearing......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has announced that it will not propose any name for the post of the chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), saying it has decided to stay......
QUETTA: The Senate Functional Committee on Devolution has expressed concern over the establishment of devolved ministries with other names at the federal level, describing the practice as......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Railways has developed two indigenous IT-based solutions, which are expected to reduce train accidents and help improve its safety record.The ‘Train Approaching Warning System at......
LAHORE: For the second consecutive day, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday assailed high-ranking government functionaries, going to the extent of calling for ouster of at least one......
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said after a meeting with Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday that he believed the United States had a reliable partner in Pakistan.In his......
ISLAMABAD: Following the controversy surrounding Rangers deployment outside the court hearing corruption references against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the paramilitary force on Wednesday......
ISLAMABAD: A political storm over a controversial amendment in the Khatm-i-Nabuwwat declaration for electoral candidates forced the government to reconsider its stance and restore the original text......
