US consulates in Turkey indefinitely halted all non-immigrant visa services on Sunday, the American embassy said, after one of the mission's Turkish staffers was arrested in the latest dispute......
Paceman Wahab Riaz took three wickets in a fiery spell but Sri Lanka were still in the driving seat after the third day of the second day-night Test in Dubai on Sunday.Riaz grabbed 3-10 to derail Sri......
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday inaugurated the first set of bogies that recently arrived from China to be used in Lahore's Orange-Line Metro project, RadioPakistan reported.Speaking......
The Chinese Foreign Ministry has dismissed United States (US) criticism that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) passes through disputed territory, the Economic Times reported.The $56 billion......
The government on Sunday issued a notification confirming the appointment of retired justice Javed Iqbal as chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), DawnNews reported.Justice Iqbal......
India has created a “mess” in Kashmir in the past 15 months, India’s former Intelligence chief was quoted as saying in an article by The Hindu.“It is high time we started talking,” said Amarjit Singh......
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Sunday questioned how ? under the watch of US intelligence and military ? the militant Islamic State (IS) group emerged in Afghanistan over the past few......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan at a public gathering in Buner on Sunday accused ousted premier Nawaz Sharif of attempting to provoke the army to "take over"."He [Nawaz] keeps......
MOSCOW: Supporters of opposition leader Alexei Navalny rallied across Russia on Saturday, heeding his call to pressure authorities into letting him enter the presidential race with a wave of......
Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz on Sunday said that the graft cases against her family have nothing to do with accountability.Speaking to reporters in London before her......
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that diplomatic efforts with North Korea have consistently failed, adding that “only one thing will work.”Trump has engaged in an escalating war of words......
A gunman opened fire outside a Saudi royal palace in Jeddah on Saturday, killing two members of the Saudi Royal Guard, an official Saudi news agency reported.The Saudi Press Agency quoted the......
Former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Rizwan Akhtar on Saturday requested early retirement from the Pakistan Army citing "pressing personal commitments".Gen Akhtar, in a letter, asked......
Faisal Jamil Kashmiri was chatting with a neighbour outside his home in Khawaja Mohalla, one of the oldest and thickly populated parts of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) capital, Muzaffarabad, when......
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilised people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”— Our National Parks, John Muir.Ever the......
“I am not going to die,” he would say with that impish smile on his face. “I will live to be a hundred and will see all my enemies to their graves.” He had become frail and weak but the indomitable......
It is indeed an age of ‘selfies,’ text messages and sharing of ourselves through images transported through cyber space. Technology has given us the control to present our best looking selves to the......
I knew Domeli from my few years in the army back in the 1970s when we did exercises (or as the Americans would say manoeuvres) in that area. I had no real memory of the town itself, located near......
The Goan community in Karachi might have shrunk but before you enter their homes, there’s always a whiff of spicy and tangy seafood at their doorstep — sharp aromas titillating the taste buds. As it......
On past visits to Morocco, I enjoyed the cuisine without getting into the cooking in any serious way. But watching Jamie Oliver, the popular TV chef — owner of a successful restaurant chain and......
Q. The Ajwa date palms we grew from seed in Karachi have now fruited. The fruits are yellow but we don’t know how to process them into edible dates. Please explain how to process them.A. Ripe dates......
On October 19, 1941, the central leader of the All-India Muslim League and future founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, in his Eid message asked the Muslims of India to demonstrate unity......
The approach to Kali Mori College belies what is to come. Narrow passages, plenty of potholes and mounds of garbage. Amidst this labyrinth of decay is the only access to one of Hyderabad’s most......
Let’s begin with an admittedly lame joke. The defeat in the first Test against Sri Lanka in the UAE was a ‘fitting’ result. It was so because Pakistan had taken a supremely ‘fit’ squad, every member......
Unless you’ve been living under a rock over the past few months, you must have heard about Neymar Jr breaking the world record for the most-expensive transfer ever as he completed his move away from......
History repeats itself, often in unlikely places. Such is the parity between Gotham’s Batman and Gujranwala’s Maula Jatt. I depicted their uncanny similarities first in a 2015 essay, and later in......
With a centre tooth that’s creepily aligned perfectly with the bridge of his nose (Google at your own risk), scientology madness and over-familiarity thanks to a series of similar blockbuster......
We are among the stingiest people in the world when it comes to praising our own talent. So let’s give it up for the girl with a silken voice Momina Mustehsan, who’s been picked by BBC as one of 100......
On a hot, sticky May afternoon in 1970, a crowd of several thousand students and protesters took over the University of Maryland mall. Many were there to protest the Vietnam War. Others were hoping......
The story goes something like this: in 1997 producer Sajid Nadiadwala and director David Dhawan (known for their utter disregard of common sense in stories) thought to rework the twin-brother formula......
What does the ultimate team player do when he suddenly sets his sights on ‘world domination’? He releases his first solo album, of course.Asad Ahmed has decades of experience as a musician playing......
Halfway through Sarmad Masud’s debut film. My Pure Land, a man rather hesitantly proposes marriage to a woman. She is not entirely against the idea, given that the two were promised to each other in......
An 18-year-old Sindhi girl student went on a hunger strike until death all by herself, without a platform or a canopy or media promoters, or any help except for a faithful friend’s decision to join......
Azra Abbas’s memoirs Mera Bachpan, translated by Samina Rahman as Kicking Up Dust, are an insight into the mind of a child growing up in Karachi, but it is a city that appears to be a much different......
I recently met up with British-Pakistani author Qaisra Shahraz at her house in Manchester to discuss The Concubine and the Slave-Catcher: Stories From Around the World — her new cosmopolitan......
Following the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, the nascent states of India and Pakistan busied themselves with writing each other out of their national histories. Punjab was carved up and, in......
Victoria Schwab’s Monsters of Verity duology culminates with Our Dark Duet that picks up a few months after where This Savage Song (reviewed in Books & Authors earlier) left off. The narrative stays......
On Aug 11, 1947, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah stated, “You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in the State of......
As we approach the second birth centenary of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, he is being criticised to the extent of being condemned with renewed vigour from certain academic and religious quarters. I......
PESHAWAR: Three more patients of dengue haemorrhagic fever died on Saturday as the health department devised a six-month plan to eliminate larvae from inside houses in 12 union councils in the......
Around 80 kilometres from Islamabad, the mausoleum of Sultan Mohammad Ghori, who conquered Delhi in 1192 and founded his sultanate in India, is a picture of neglect.The mausoleum was built by nuclear......
LAHORE: Inspector General of Punjab Police retired Capt Arif Nawaz has recommended to the government to de-freeze the fixed daily allowance and grant it as per revised rates of 2017 to the......
BAHAWALPUR: An oil tanker having thousands of litres of petrol was damaged in a fire during filling of a reservoir at a fuel station in Kudwala area of Yazman about 30 kilometres from here on......
LAHORE: Federal Law Minister Zahid Hamid on Saturday clarified his position to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif regarding controversy over the clause dealing with Khatm-i-Nabuwat.In his speech this week......
LAHORE: Disqualified prime minister Nawaz Sharif will not succeed in his attempts to create confrontation among state institutions, inviting martial law and become a political martyr, says Pakistan......
Chirping birds, their colourful wings and free flights have always been a cheerful sight on the horizon of Jahanian until the few years; these scenes inspired Tariq Hameed Sulemani to pick a camera......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: Dozens of residents of Chak 109-P, Pattan Minara, on Saturday staged a protest here at the GPO Chowk against alleged attempts by an influential person to evict them by force from a......
KARACHI: It was a strange sequence of events. On Friday, social media was abuzz with the news that the film Na Maloom Afraad 2 (NMA 2) had been banned in Punjab after a successful five-week run.......
KARACHI: The Sindh police stepped up their efforts to arrest the “lone knifeman” attacking women in Gulistan-i-Jauhar and Gulshan-i-Iqbal as the investigators on Saturday collected data through......
KARACHI: Four months after the escape of two prisoners belonging to the outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, the security situation at the Karachi Central Prison is still unsatisfactory as there is not only a......
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party-Parliamentarians (PPP-P) information secretary Maula Bux Chandio on Saturday advised Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan to adopt political attitude while......
ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday announced pro-Ankara Syrian rebels were launching a new military operation in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province to push out the......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department has approved the sale of an anti-missile defence system to Saudi Arabia at an estimated cost of $15 billion to enhance the kingdom’s military capabilities, the......
COLOMBO: Twenty-six people were arrested after around 2,000 supporters of the opposition Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) attempted to storm the Indian consul general’s office in Hambantota on......
MADRID: Thousands of demonstrators rallied across Madrid on Saturday calling for Spanish unity and demanding action to resolve a volatile political crisis over plans by Catalan separatists to declare......
COPENHAGEN: Danish police said on Saturday that divers had recovered the decapitated head and the legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who vanished in August while interviewing a Danish inventor......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s administration annulled on Friday an Obamacare provision that obliged employer health plans to pay for contraception, potentially stripping free birth......
DUBAI: Opener Dimuth Karunaratne scored a career best 196 to guide Sri Lanka to an imposing 482 in their first innings of the second and final day-night Test in Dubai on Saturday.Karunaratne missed......
KARACHI: Three-time world champions Pakistan hockey team will fly to Dhaka on Sunday morning to compete in the Asia Cup for men’s which runs from Oct 11 to 22.Pakistan takes on host Bangladesh in the......
PROBLEMS seem to be escalating for Sarfraz Ahmed and his men as the Sri Lankan batsmen like they did in the first Test continue to dominate a disjointed Pakistan attack in the final Test here.The......
RANCHI: Spinner Kuldeep Yadav led an inspired Indian attack to restrict Australia to 118-8 with rain ending their innings prematurely in the first Twenty20 International on Saturday.Yadav returned......
BLOEMFONTEIN: South Africa’s fast bowlers ripped into Bangladesh’s top-order batting as the home side continued their dominance on the second day of the second and final Test at Mangaung Oval on......
RANCHI: Australian captain Steve Smith on Saturday left his country’s tour of India because of a shoulder injury, the team announced.The 28-year-old batsman’s injury is a new blow to Australia as......
SUZUKA: Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton smashed the Suzuka track record to seize a dominant Japanese Grand Prix pole position on Saturday with Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel lining up alongside on......
PARIS: Heavyweights Spain qualified for the 2018 World Cup with a routine 3-0 home win over Albania on Friday, but Serbia must wait to seal to their place following a 3-2 loss in Austria.Rodrigo,......
ORLANDO: Christian Pulisic fired the United States to a 4-0 win over Panama on Friday that saw the Americans inch closer to a 2018 World Cup berth.The brilliant 19-year-old scored one goal and made......
BEIJING: Emotional Simona Halep called it the best day of her life and targeted a maiden Grand Slam as she surged to number one in the world for the first time on Saturday.The tearful Romanian said......
KARACHI: The influx of cheap imports from China has left an adverse impact on the local industry as small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are losing ground to products from Asia’s largest......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top tax machinery is delaying honouring its international commitments to prevent tax evasion and the setting up of offshore accounts for stashing ill-gotten wealth.The......
KARACHI: Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (PNSC) is looking to enter the marine services business, official sources told Dawn on Saturday.The national flag carrier has bid for two 75-tonne......
KARACHI: The country’s wheat stocks have swelled to a record nine million plus tonnes.As per flour millers’ data, substantial wheat stocks have accumulated due to carryover stocks of previous......
Riyadh and Moscow are courting, and, in public – apparently at the expense of the United States. The crude glue is bringing the two states closer and still closer – as eight decades ago – it aided......
KARACHI: Strong demand for quality cotton kept prices firm on Saturday.Interestingly, higher arrival of phutti (seed cotton) did not dent cotton prices.Due to peak season for the textile industry,......
SYDNEY: Large protests were held across Australia on Saturday against Indian mining giant Adani Enterprises’ proposed Carmichael coal mine, which would be the country’s largest coal mine but has been......
The ink on the ‘total loss’ insurance paperwork, like the 2007 Range Rover itself, was still wet when Morgan Moran began trying to buy his vehicle back after Hurricane Matthew last year.The insurance......
WASHINGTON: The US Federal Communications Commission said late on Friday it had approved Alphabet Inc’s application to provide emergency cellular service to Puerto Rico through balloons.In the......
WASHINGTON: The United States and Pakistan are sending two key visitors — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal — to each other’s capitals, as efforts to mend their......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar will skip the annual meetings of the boards of governors of the World Bank group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in view of a corruption case against......
LAHORE: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is seriously mulling suspending its flight operation for the United States from January next year, primarily because of ‘low traffic’.The airline has......
ISLAMABAD: Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi was sworn in as Chief of the Naval Staff at an impressive change of command ceremony held at the naval headquarters on Saturday.He was appointed naval chief by......
NEW YORK: Three people, including a Pakistani, have been charged with plotting attacks in New York City last year for the militant Islamic State (IS) group, US prosecutors said on Friday.The planned......
TOURISM has picked up ever since the volatile situation in the province has simmered down, and on Saturday, the maintenance staff of the Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering......
ISLAMABAD: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approached the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for financial assistance to support its reforms programme in the health sector, it is learnt on......
ISLAMABAD: A case was registered against a private TV channel on Saturday for airing a news report allegedly based on forged documents amid protests and warnings from journalistic circles.The FIR was......
THEY travel in groups now, never alone; and each time the doorbell rings, they dread the worst. Their homes are becoming emptier; personal possessions are being sold off.The Turkish community here......
LONDON/ISLAMABAD: Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of the ousted prime minister, and her husband have decided to end their stay in London and may return to Pakistan next week to appear before an......
QUETTA: Fifteen people, including three security personnel, were killed and 29 others injured in an accident on the Quetta-Sibi highway near the Dasht area of Mastung district, some 25km from here,......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday constituted a three-member committee of the ruling party to fix responsibility for the......
NAUSHAHRO FEROZE/SUKKUR: On his first visit to the interior of Sindh after assuming office, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday went on the offensive against the provincial government,......
THE federal interior minister’s ire against the Punjab Rangers is not related to the enemy’s narrative, as suggested by DG ISPR Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor in his recent presser in which he justified the......
FOR the thousands of prisoners on Pakistan’s death row, Oct 10 will pass just like any other day. They will just strike off one more day of their nearly 12-year average jail sentence. It does not......
DURING the last 20 years, Karachi has lost most of its open spaces, including even the smallest amenity spaces. While rapid population growth has its own adverse effects, those of skyrocketing......
Responding to the reservations raised by US over the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Islamabad on Saturday asserted that “CPEC is a development and connectivity project for the betterment......
