Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah on Friday said that an important clue had been found in relation to the knife attacks on women in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar area of Karachi, and that police had reason......
Air China, China's national flag carrier, has decided to increase flights on the Beijing-Islamabad-Karachi route from four a week to seven starting October 29.Air China had launched the route between......
A movement for the safe recovery of missing Shia persons was announced on Friday in Karachi, with leaders and members of the Shia community presenting themselves for voluntary arrest to force the......
A man was arrested on Friday for attempting to burn his wife in Gharo, Sindh, police officials told Dawn.According to Civil Hospital Karachi's Additional Police Surgeon, Dr Qarar Ahmed Abbasi, the......
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday extended an earlier stay on the deportation of two Turkish nationals, Murat Ervan and Mesut Kacmaz, as well as three family members of the latter.The court had......
Around 90 per cent of the world's nuclear weapons are held by the United States (US) and Russia, with the remainder in the hands of another seven countries including North Korea, that form a small......
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will introduce a new weekly flight to India in its schedule in November, PIA Spokesperson Mashood Tajwar confirmed on Friday.Speaking to Dawn.com, the......
India has given away 27,000 tickets to the opening games of the FIFA U-17 World Cup to fill empty stands, an official said on Friday, in a desperate bid to avoid an embarrassing repeat of the 2010......
South Africa's new Global T20 league will go ahead, Cricket South Africa (CSA) pledged on Friday, but it is expected to lose money for the first two seasons.No broadcast deal has yet been signed but......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) bounced back on Friday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining 844 points on Friday to cross the 41,000-points mark.The index opened higher and continued on an......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday demanded that the federal government expedite the merger of the Federal Administrated Tribal Areas (Fata) with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa without......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday submitted to the Supreme Court documents detailing bank transactions in connection with his assets and accounts of his offshore company,......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday met the director general of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the law minister along with several members of parliament allegedly investigated by the......
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif, speaking about the new United States (US) policy in Afghanistan, told journalists at the Pakistan Embassy on Thursday that Islamabad is "genuinely concerned" about New......
Opener Dimuth Karunaratne compiled a brilliant century to put Sri Lanka in a commanding position at 254-3 on the opening day of the second day-night Test against Pakistan in Dubai on Friday.The......
Japan's public broadcaster apologised Friday to the parents of a young reporter who died of heart failure after logging 159 hours of overtime in a month.NHK reporter Miwa Sado, 31, who had been......
Nuclear disarmament group ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb as......
French car maker Renault said on Friday that half of its models will be electric or hybrid by 2022 and it's investing heavily in “robo-vehicles” with increasing degrees of autonomy.A strategic plan......
PPP senior leader Dr Asim Hussain returned to Karachi from London on Friday, where he had gone for medical treatment last month, with a message for thrice-ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif."Nawaz......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday announced the squad for One Day Internationals (ODIs) against Sri Lanka beginning on October 13."The Champions Trophy team has been retained except Azhar......
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Friday called on clerics and religious leaders to denounce "the fatwas for jihad" posted by people on social media.While addressing the National Assembly, Iqbal said,......
Around 50 witnesses could be called to a hearing in March to determine if there is enough evidence for Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell to stand trial on sex abuse charges, a court heard on......
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian police arrested on Thursday the head of the national Olympics committee, who is accused of conspiring to bribe members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to pick......
At least 19 people were killed on Friday when a train slammed into a passenger bus that had broken down on a level crossing east of Moscow, regional authorities said on Friday.The accident occurred......
Much as automakers are hitting the accelerator on electric cars, an aerospace venture backed by Boeing said Thursday it will introduce a hybrid electric plane for delivery in 2022.Zunum Aero, a......
An Indian Air Force (IAF) Mi-17 helicopter crashed on Friday in the country's remote northeast bordering China, killing all seven crew members and passengers, an official said.The police control room......
Lionel Messi and Argentina's hopes of reaching the 2018 World Cup were left hanging in the balance on Thursday after another stalemate on a nail-biting day of South American qualifying......
OVER the last century or so, the Middle East has seen its fair share of strife between religions, sects, empires and ethnic groups.This seemingly eternal ‘shatterbelt’ appears to lurch from crisis to......
US President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted Iran has not acted in keeping with a deal to curb its nuclear program, days before he must decide on the future of the accord.“They have not lived up to......
Tropical Storm Nate has killed at least 22 people in Central America with torrential rains that forced thousands from their homes, uprooted trees, knocked out bridges and turned roads into rivers,......
KARACHI: As the city police chief on Thursday claimed to have made a key arrest in the mysterious ‘knifeman’ attacks in Gulistan-i-Jauhar and Gulshan-i-Iqbal, another woman was stabbed and injured in......
Abdul Basit, a former administrator at a medical college, was sentenced to death in 2009. On 1 August, 2010 whilst in Central Jail, Faisalabad, Basit contracted tubercular meningitis which, due to......
HARIPUR: The anti-terrorism court (ATC), Abbottabad, continued recording statements of official witnesses for the second day in the current week where four persons testified against the accused in......
PESHAWAR: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Peshawar, has arrested a senior official of the agency for extorting money from a Dir resident during a raid.Sources told Dawn that the agency......
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak said on Thursday that the provincial government was focusing on improvement of quality of education and for this purpose it had introduced a policy of reward......
ISLAMABAD: The military’s chief spokesperson on Thursday justified the deployment of Rangers personnel outside a court hearing corruption reference against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, saying......
ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench on Thursday suspended the sentence of two senior police officers convicted by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in connection with Benazir......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights on Thursday took up the issue of a Turkish family affiliated with the Pak-Turk schools allegedly abducted from Lahore and decided to summon......
Teacher’s day a ‘black day’ for unpaid teachersThe hundreds of teachers who have not been paid their salaries for the last few months observed Oct 5, which is celebrated across the globe as World......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif may not name those who in his view had ill-advised his elder brother to confront the military and judiciary but he and the like-minded group in the PML-N do want......
LAHORE: Faisalabad pool round of the 13th Dawn in Education Spelling Bee Competition concluded at Iqbal Auditorium of the University of Agriculture Faisalabad on Thursday.The students who......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday rejected a petition seeking transfer of the trial of suspects involved in the murder of MQM’s Dr Imran Farooq from the anti-terrorism court (ATC)......
KARACHI: A suspected militant linked with the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, who was planning to carry out major acts of terrorism in the city, was gunned down in an ‘encounter’ with a joint team of......
KARACHI: Despite the blazing sun, the Seaview beach on Thursday afternoon had many people wearing goggles and caps, and looking skywards.Some of them had also brought umbrellas. And all were waiting......
KARACHI: As part of World Teachers’ Day celebrations on Thursday, over 1,000 students of SMB Fatima Jinnah Govt Girls School paid a warm tribute to teachers across the country by forming a human......
THATTA: The Inspectorate of Sindh Mines and Mineral Development Department has directed its staff and police to immediately stop illegal mining and quarrying activity in Jherruck and Thatta and take......
EDINBURGH: The standoff between Madrid and supporters of independence in Spain’s wealthy Catalan region has stirred separatist feelings far beyond the Spanish borders.Politicians across the globe......
ABOARD SHIP: Just before the sun dipped into the Mediterranean on Saturday, rescuers spotted a tiny wooden boat on the horizon. It turned out to contain five young Libyans fleeing violence and......
WASHINGTON: The infotainment technology that automakers are cramming into the dashboard of new vehicles is making drivers take their eyes off the road and hands off the wheel for dangerously long......
NEW DELHI: The chances of a two-front war — assuming simultaneous conflict with Pakistan and China — are low but the Indian Air Force can face any threats despite shortage of fighter jets, India’s......
STOCKHOLM: Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author of The Remains of the Day, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for a run of “exquisite” novels that the Swedish Academy said mixed Franz Kafka......
LAS VEGAS: The Las Vegas gunman who killed 58 people and himself in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history stockpiled weapons and ammunition over decades, and meticulously planned the......
BRUSSELS/KABUL: The United States is to ask Nato allies to contribute around 1,000 extra troops to help in the battle against the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan, the new US ambassador to the......
MADRID: Spanish judges ordered Catalan lawmakers on Thursday to suspend a planned session that could see the region declare independence as the national government rejected calls for mediation in a......
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: Brunei’s all-powerful and fabulously wealthy sultan marked 50 years on the throne in lavish style on Thursday, travelling in a gilded chariot through the streets and holding a......
MOSCOW: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, on a landmark visit to Russia, and President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a slew of arms and energy deals as the key US ally seeks to deepen cooperation with......
DUBAI: Dinesh Chandimal’s Sri Lanka will look to become the first team to win a Test series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates, when the second and final match starts in Dubai on......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Thursday slapped a six-match ban on all-rounder Danushka Gunathilaka for ‘misconduct’ during the recent home series against India which the islanders lost......
MALACCA: Syria striker Omar Al Soma blasted home an 85th-minute penalty to keep their World Cup dream alive as the side from the war-torn country battled back to earn a 1-1 draw against Australia in......
FROM light into darkness into light again plus the debatable pink ball constitutes what we call a pink ball Test. Pakistan already having played two of them could claim to have the experience of......
LAHORE: Five Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchises retained nine players each from their rosters while new entrants Multan Sultans will pick their first ten players on October 10, the Pakistan......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has dropped Lasith Malinga from the One-day International squad to face Pakistan in their five-match series starting next week, raising doubts if the fast bowler will feature in......
MOSCOW: Preparations for next year’s World Cup finals in Russia are on track but lots of work remains to be done, a top official of global football’s governing body FIFA said on Thursday.“In general......
LONDON: England are focused on getting the best out of their players and beating Australia during the Ashes tour and will not be distracted by the absence of all-rounder Ben Stokes, veteran seamer......
BEIJING: Russian teenager Andrey Rublev recovered from a set and a break down to storm past former winner Tomas Berdych and into the China Open quarter-finals on Thursday.Rublev, who beat the......
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government has sought reference tariff for another 1,240-megawatt LNG-based fast tracked power project at an average unit cost of Rs7.10 (6.72 cents) for 30 years with......
KARACHI: Foreign exchange reserves of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) have dropped below $14 billion for the first time in two years, the central bank reported on Thursday.Reserves of the SBP fell......
KARACHI: Stocks finished flat on Thursday after a volatile trading session, with the KSE-100 index closing with a minor gain of 7.49 points at 40,468.It also brought to an end the three sessions of......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Thursday asked the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to broaden the tax base in real terms.Mr Dar was chairing a session at the Chief Commissioners Conference to......
ISLAMABAD: The top management of Nepra is deliberately delaying ‘The Regulation of Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electric Power (Amendment) Bill, 2017’ as it would reform the power......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has offered Vietnam to initiate talks on a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) for boosting bilateral trade volume.Secretary Commerce Younus Dagha extended this offer at the fourth......
NEW YORK: Some of 2017s top-performing emerging market fund managers are reshuffling their currency holdings, paring back bets on some of the asset class’ big names and shifting to more exotic......
KARACHI: Trading activity was brisk on Thursday amid higher flow of phutti (seed-cotton) and rising cotton demand from spinners and some exporters.Despite the fact that more cotton had been......
DUBAI: The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it is advising Saudi Arabia to slow down some of its sensitive cutbacks as economic growth remains stagnant this year and unemployment......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has called a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Friday to approve Rs39 billion sovereign guarantees for a coal power......
KARACHI: Cotton production up to Oct 1 recorded year-on-year growth of over 50 per cent, according to a report issued by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) on Thursday.More than 3.99......
MUMBAI: Two fearless Asian women — a Pakistani and a late Indian journalist — who risked their lives campaigning against extremism won a joint award on Thursday for their common courage.Gauri......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday received five more petitions assailing the Elections Act, 2017 for allowing a disqualified parliamentarian to hold party office.The petitioners include the......
WASHINGTON: Foreign Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif warned on Thursday that if India launched a surgical strike on the country’s nuclear installations, nobody should expect restraint from Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: The Parliamentary Committee on Appointment of Judges (PCAJ) has finalised a bill that will give complete authority to parliament to appoint superior court judges instead of the chief......
LAS VEGAS: It is 10:05pm and I walk along Las Vegas Boulevard, famously known as The Strip. Today I am going to take a selfie in front of the ‘Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas’ sign. It’s been 17 years......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), which had earlier distanced itself from the process of appointment of the National Accountability Bureau’s chairman (NAB), on Thursday announced three......
• ISPR chief insists spy agencies played ‘constitutional’ role in JIT probe • Acknowledges MML’s right to participate in political process • Argues ‘silence is also an expression’ with reference to......
ISLAMABAD: Legislators from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) started their campaign for implementation of Fata reforms on Thursday by staging a token sit-in outside the Parliament......
ISLAMABAD: The government faced embarrassment in the National Assembly on Thursday when, one after the other, members from the treasury benches lashed out at their political leadership.Soon after the......
BORROWING from the example that Kaushik Basu uses in one of his books: imagine that the mother of the prime minister applies for an electricity or gas connection. Imagine that she is told to wait for......
AS youngsters we saw this period play telecast by Doordarshan’s Amritsar station that satirised an investigation into a faulty construction. Some details are still stuck in the mind all these decades......
IN a classroom, a teacher was discussing the utility of various parts and organs of the human body, asking his pupils which one was the most important. All students were quiet but after a short......
AS images of a 62-year-old man firing indiscriminately on concert-goers in the quintessentially American city of Las Vegas went viral, the gloom and doom that was triggered within many progressive......
