The Sindh High Court (SHC) has reportedly granted bail to Jahanzeb Shahani, former landlord of TV actress Komal Aziz Khan, who had been booked on the orders of the Sindh chief minister on charges of......
At least 20 Indian farmers have died and hundreds of others have been hospitalised after inhaling poisonous pesticides while spraying crops, officials said on Monday, highlighting lax safety......
The Institute of Business Management (IoBM) on Monday claimed to have terminated employment of an official in the security department for 'misbehaviour' after he informed a visiting faculty member......
Turkey's justice minister on Monday said he hoped the United States (US) would “review” its decision to suspend most visa services for Turkish citizens following the arrest of a US consulate employee......
Senior Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leaders met on Monday to discuss the appointment of retired Justice Javed Iqbal as the new National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman, a statement from the......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday issued a formal clarification on the floor of the National Assembly regarding a list of lawmakers, allegedly issued by the Intelligence Bureau (IB), who......
Indian forces on Monday claimed to have shot dead a top leader of the Kashmir militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in a suspected clash in the disputed territory.The suspect identified as Khalid was......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) landed in the red on Monday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index losing 213 points to close at 41,100.The index hovered around the 41,200 mark for most of the session,......
Pakistani-origin batsman Usman Khawaja, one of the first few Asian origin players to compete at national level for Australia, in his latest blog opens up about racism and sports in Australia, saying......
Thousands of people from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and members of a number of political parties on Monday descended on Islamabad's D-Chowk, a roundabout just outside the Red......
Asad Shafiq and Sarfraz Ahmed hit fighting half-centuries on Monday to thwart Sri Lanka and set up an enthralling finish to the second and final day-night Test in Dubai.Shafiq scored an unbeaten 86......
US economist Richard Thaler on Monday won the Nobel Economics Prize for his pioneering work bridging the gap between economics and psychology, the jury said.“By exploring the consequences of limited......
The International Committee of the Red Cross will “drastically” reduce operations in war-torn Afghanistan after seven of its employees were killed in attacks this year, the aid organisation said on......
The PPP on Monday submitted a motion in the Senate Secretariat seeking debate on statements made by US Defence Secretary James Mattis regarding the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).The......
When my son Khizar was born, I held his small head in my hand and fell in love. Like all mothers, I dreamed that Khizar would grow up strong, live a good life with a wife and children, and be......
An Indian court on Monday commuted the death sentences of 11 men convicted of causing a 2002 train fire that sparked anti-Muslim riots in which more than 1,000 people were killed.The 11 men, all......
A top Emirati security official said that the Qatar diplomatic crisis can end if Doha gives up hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup — the first time someone from the four Arab nations boycotting the......
Germany's conservative parties said on Monday that they have agreed on a law limiting the number of migrants allowed to enter the country every year though parliament has the power to change the......
South Africa and Chad on Sunday signed an agreement that will see the re-introduction next year of critically endangered black rhino to the central African country, decades after it was last seen......
India's top court ordered a temporary ban on the sale of firecrackers in New Delhi on Monday, ahead of the Diwali festival that leaves the city shrouded in toxic smog.The decision comes a little over......
Pakistan is no more reliant on the United States for military requirements and will reach out to others if one source [of military supplies] dries up, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbas said in an......
Former Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) minister and MPA Ziaullah Afridi on Monday appeared before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for a hearing pertaining to a reference filed against him by......
Born and raised as a boy in rural Nepal, Monika Shahi Nath never dreamed that one day she would be a bride, adored and accepted as a wife and daughter-in-law.But the 40-year-old has made history,......
US Vice President Mike Pence walked out of an NFL game Sunday after some players knelt for the national anthem, the latest twist in a running saga over the controversial protests against racial......
At least 12 people died and scores were missing on Monday after a boat packed with Rohingya refugees — many of them children — capsized, the latest tragedy to strike those fleeing violence in......
Almost 150 former Turkish military personnel go on trial on Monday over clashes on an Istanbul bridge during last year's failed coup that claimed dozens of lives including a key aide of President......
A top Republican lawmaker warned on Sunday that US President Donald Trump's impulsive threats against other countries could set America "on the path to World War III," in comments capping an......
US President Donald Trump sent Congress his immigration legislation priorities on Sunday, including building a controversial border wall, speeding up deportations and dramatically increasing the......
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is set to approve plans for its long-awaited World Test Championship at a meeting in New Zealand this week, it was reported on Monday.The sport's governing......
Maryam Nawaz, daughter of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, and her husband retired Captain Muhammad Safdar appeared before an accountability court in Islamabad on Monday in connection with a......
At least three members of the ethnic Hazara community and two other Shias were killed, while one other was seriously injured on Quetta's Kasi road on Monday morning as unidentified armed men opened......
SWABI: Speakers at a function here on Sunday demanded of the federal government to end its ‘unfair treatment’ of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and give the province right over its resources to help end economic......
CHITRAL: Well before his arrival and assuming charge of office, the newly posted deputy commissioner Irshad Sodhar suspended the deputy medical superintendent of DHQ hospital on Sunday for dumping......
SHANGLA: People from the six most backward districts across the Hazara and Malakand divisions on Sunday demanded of the provincial government to set up the zone six in order to ensure provision of......
PESHAWAR: Dengue haemorrhagic fever is causing scare among the staff of Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) as two more patients, including a ward boy of the hospital, died of the disease on Sunday.So far......
In the context of the current, arguably cynical and calculated backlash, the comments are perhaps appropriate. In the context of long-term challenges that state and society will inevitably have to......
THE degenerate politics of Pakistan on public display every day is sucking the life-blood of the country. The legislative and political stratagems in support of massive and organised corruption and......
THE title of this piece is a bit misleading. There is no substantive debate on the subject of mainstreaming militants. This lack of substance is because actual decision-makers are mostly quiet.......
THE massacre in Las Vegas last weekend is made so much worse by the nature of the attack — a massive spray of bullets into a crowd gathered 32 storeys below Stephen Paddock, or somewhere in the......
China’s ambassador Sun Weidong has not only been a powerful ambassador, but also a popular man in the diplomatic community, with a quiet and respectful demeanour.“If I hadn’t known him, I would have......
Martin Kobler, Ambassador of Germany, hosted a reception to commemorate the German National Unity Day. Hundreds of guests - including diplomats, government and military officials, businessmen and......
RAWALPINDI: The Special Branch has asked the Punjab Home Department to place the names of 22 individuals who were accused of terrorism-related crimes and released from prison, on schedule four of the......
LAHORE: Lack of attention to governance and indifference towards people’s rights has caused deep resentment and frustration among people, which all institutions must urgently wake up to address, the......
LAHORE: The Punjab government claims to have ‘spun a quality wheel’ in the school education sector over the past three years.The government says for the first time, some 350,000 students have moved......
LAHORE: Awami Workers Party (AWP) senior leader Naeem Shakir Advocate died of cardiac arrest over the weekend in the US. He was 73.According to an announcement made by the party on Sunday, Mr Shakir......
LAHORE: Alarmed over rising incidents of sexual assault on young boys and subsequent murders of some of them in Kasur district, the provincial government has decided to not only sternly deal with the......
MUZAFFARGARH: The Punjab government approved Rs200 million for clinics for the treatment of hepatitis and a burns unit at the district headquarters (DHQ) hospital, work on which has started.This was......
LAHORE: With only 12 weeks to go in the expiry of the officially declared deadline of Dec 25, the Orange Line Metro Train (OLMT) project is set to miss it as even the officials don’t see early......
HYDERABAD: Awami Tehreek leader Rasool Bux Palijo has called for ridding society of tyrannical and barbaric anti-woman system which forces people to remain silent over atrocities against women.Mr......
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that all tall claims made by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi during his speech in Naushahro Feroze a day before are......
BADIN: Sindh Home Minister Suhail Anwar Siyal has said that foolproof security measures have been taken to protect shrines across the province after the terrorist attack at Fatehpur shrine in Jhal......
KARACHI: A committee constituted by Inspector General of Sindh Police A. D. Khowaja last month in compliance with an order of the Sindh High Court has prepared rules for posting of police officers......
KARACHI: A one-day exhibition of paintings made by children with disabilities titled Meri Dunia Ke Rung at the Sanat Art Gallery on Saturday pleasantly surprised art lovers. The artworks put on......
KARACHI: When you celebrate the 70 years of Pakistan, music automatically merits for discussion since it has made the country proud both at home and abroad. However, renowned theatre and TV actor......
THE annual party conference is a peculiarly British event. At this time of the year, all the major political parties gather in a city for three days to listen to speeches by senior figures, be......
FRANKFURT: Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown and Nicholas Sparks are among the big names descending on Frankfurt this week as the world’s oldest book fair glams up for the Instagram generation, hoping to......
TEHRAN: Iran’s judiciary confirmed on Sunday the five-year prison sentence given to a Canadian-Iranian member of its nuclear negotiating team on spying charges.“Mr Abdolrasoul Dorri Esfahani... was......
ANKARA: 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......
KABUL: The US forces are helping the militant Islamic State group in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, the country’s former president, alleged in a controversial interview aired on Sunday.Asked whether he......
JORDAN RIVER: Thousands of Israeli and Palestinian women trekked through a biblical desert landscape on Sunday, converging on the shores of the Jordan River in a march for peace.The women, many of......
BEIRUT: Fighters of the militant Islamic State group succeeded on Sunday in expelling Syrian regime forces from the eastern town of Mayadeen, days after they entered the key remaining jihadist......
Al Khubah: Gas masks lie abandoned among rusting debris in a shell-pocked Saudi military outpost on the border with war-torn Yemen, an enduring flashpoint in more than two years of fighting against......
ADEN: A drone strike on Sunday killed five suspected Al Qaeda militants in the Yemeni province of Marib, east of the capital Sanaa, security officials said.One official said a US drone had probably......
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed on Sunday to impose “all possible pressure” on North Korea over its nuclear and missile programmes, promising to secure national security in a......
LONDON: A man arrested after his car ploughed into pedestrians in London’s museum district, injuring 11 people and sparking fears of a terror attack, was released from custody on Sunday, police......
BERLIN: Two weeks after winning elections with a reduced majority, German Chancellor Angela Merkel took a first step on Sunday towards forming a government by trying to unite her conservative camp......
EDINBURGH: Britain’s struggles to chart a way out of the European Union are boosting the case for Scottish independence, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Sunday, but she shied away from......
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his nuclear weapons are a “powerful deterrent” which guarantee North Korea’s sovereignty, state media reported on Sunday, hours after US President Donald......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he will not go ahead with his controversial pledge to move the American embassy to Jerusalem until after pushing for an Israeli-Palestinian......
SYDNEY: The World Solar Challenge began on Sunday with 42 solar cars crossing Australia’s tropical north to its southern shores, a gruelling 3,000 km race through the outback.The race from the......
WASHINGTON: The night Donald Trump took the White House in a shock electoral victory ushered in a new US political reality — and drove the American Civil Liberties Union into the resistance.Since......
THE Russian air force arrived in Syria two years ago this week to save President Bashar al-Assad and his army. They succeeded. The Syrian army held out, albeit at the cost of (then) 56,000 of its......
BEIJING: World number one Rafael Nadal won his sixth title of another remarkable year as he beat Australian Nick Kyrgios 6-2, 6-1 in the China Open final on Sunday, while Caroline Garcia stunned......
KARACHI: After two rounds of action in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship four regional outfits are still searching for favourable results while several other teams will feel......
DUBAI: 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.Wahab grabbed 3-10 to......
HAVING watched eight days of Test cricket in this brief two-match Test series, I am now more than convinced that this Pakistan batting line-up is in urgent need of oxygen to liven up the quality of......
BLOEMFONTEIN: Fast bowler Kagiso Rabada led a ruthless bowling performance as South Africa completed an innings and 254 run win on the third day of the second Test against Bangladesh at the Mangaung......
SUZUKA: Lewis Hamilton was within reach of his fourth Formula One title on Sunday after winning the Japanese Grand Prix for Mercedes while Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel suffered engine problems and......
JOHANNESBURG: Nigeria became the first team from Africa to qualify for the World Cup in Russia, doing it with a game to spare and emerging from the so-called ‘group of death’ after beating Zambia 1-0......
LONDON: Cristiano Ronaldo scored and helped Portugal win an eighth straight game in World Cup qualifying on Saturday and still could fail to qualify.While Portugal were labouring to beat Andorra 2-0,......
SAN JOSE: Kendall Waston scored in the fifth minute of second-half stoppage time, giving Costa Rica a 1-1 draw against visiting Honduras on Saturday and clinching the Ticos’ second straight World Cup......
RANCHI: India beat Australia by nine wickets under the Duckworth-Lewis method in the rain-truncated first Twenty20 International at Ranchi on Saturday (partly reported in Sunday’s edition).Chasing 48......
EVEN though India is hugely dependent on imports of edible oil at present, there are signs that the country’s oilseeds production will shoot up over the coming years, reducing its huge dependence on......
Pakistan and Iran have decided to strike a deal on trade despite slow or no progress regarding the implementation of a payment mechanism and the Iran-Pakistan pipeline project.Both sides have decided......
DOES Pakistan have the capacity to refine the talent of its 200 million-plus people to achieve the high economic growth? The answer is found in the recently released Global Human Capital Report by......
The country’s economic team’s hierarchy has contested Pakistan’s low ranking on the global index of competitiveness.The local partners of the global monitoring agency accepted the possibility of an......
In an evolving world of work— the rapid creation and destruction of jobs— the issue of unemployment has acquired centrality in the development process and has led to the question of whether jobs, or......
In order to understand investment strategies of stock market, players ought to be segregated into four categories: institutions, High Net worth Individuals and small investors, mutual funds and......
THE importance of irrigation for the agriculture sector can be gauged from the fact that it can help double the per-hectare yields of crops, according to Agricultural Research Council of Pakistan’s......
RICE exports have started the current fiscal year on a positive note, giving rise to hopes that the full-year proceeds will hit $2 billion after a gap of two years.The country’s rice exports jumped......
On Sept 12 the senate passed the Corporate Rehabilitation Bill, 2017, to provide an institutional arrangement and legal process for the revival and rehabilitation of distressed companies.The......
LOW on cash but high on hope, Iran’s technology entrepreneurs are learning to live with revived hostility in the United States and growing suspicion — or worse — from hardliners at home.Their......
HungaryHungary has a high-income mixed economy which continues to be one of the leading nations in Central and Eastern Europe for attracting foreign direct investment.Major industries include food......
IN many ways 2017 has been a reasonably stable year for the Washington, DC, area’s business community. The surging job growth of 2016 hasn’t let up. The prospect of a jump in defence spending has......
Depositors continue to suffer as banks maintain low deposit rates in an extended stable monetary policy regime while rising inflation continues to erode the net deposit rate further.Average......
There is a distinct sense of déjà vu regarding the current economic situation, calls for devaluation and new import tariffs.There were similar calls in 2007-08, when the economy was in serious......
According to the weekly statement of position of all scheduled banks for the week ended September 22, deposits and other accounts of all scheduled banks stood at Rs11,671.125bn after a 0.20pc......
KARACHI: India has created a “mess” in disputed Kashmir over the past 15 months, India’s former intelligence chief was quoted as saying in an article published by The Hindu.“It is high time we start......
ISLAMABAD: The sponsors of smaller hydropower projects have complained to the prime minister about the discouraging response from power purchasing agencies, amid a focus on large projects using......
NAROWAL: Interior Minister Ashan Iqbal says the government awaits ‘final report’ on the Rangers’ deployment issue outside an accountability court in Islamabad last week.Speaking at a gathering......
MUZAFFARABAD: Prayer gatherings and protest demonstrations went hand in hand across Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Sunday, as the region observed 12th anniversary of the devastating 2005 earthquake......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has warned that macroeconomic risks in Pakistan have increased substantially during the fiscal year 2017, as the external balance is particularly vulnerable given the......
WASHINGTON: The United States has invited Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (JCSC), to attend a conference of military chiefs from various friendly countries,......
MINGORA: The chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, said on Sunday that certain elements, at the behest of the United States, had started making a hue and cry in......
CHARLOTTESVILLE: White nationalists rallied on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, where violent clashes in August led to the death of a woman who was run down by a car.A few dozen white......
ISLAMABAD: The provinces have sought real time access to data on production of oil, gas and electricity in the country to ascertain their equitable share in consumption and revenue calculation under......
BILOXI: Hurricane Nate weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday after coming ashore in Mississippi as the fourth hurricane to hit the United States this year, flooding roads and buildings but......
BEIRUT: Iran warned the United States against designating its Revolutionary Guards Corp as a terrorist group and said US regional military bases would be at risk if further sanctions were passed.The......
BARCELONA: Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving demonstrators packed central Barcelona on Sunday to rally against plans by separatist leaders to declare Catalonia independent following a banned......
BUNER: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Sunday warned of launching agitation for an indefinite period if the institutions responsible for conducting accountability failed to freeze......
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday unveiled the first train of the Orange Line Metro Train Project (OLMTP), regarded as vital by the ruling PML-N to retain its vote bank in the......
ISLAMABAD: The country’s electoral rolls have swelled by almost 11 million since the last general elections, with the tribal areas registering the largest overall increase.According to the latest......
ISLAMABAD: A three-star general, who has served as chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has announced his plans to seek early retirement from service.Military sources confirmed on Sunday......
KARACHI: Retired Captain Muhammad Safdar was taken into custody by a team of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) minutes after he landed at Benazir Bhutto International Airport along with his......
ISLAMABAD / SUKKUR: The government has appointed retired Justice Javed Iqbal as the new chief of the all-important National Accountability Bureau (NAB).“In exercise of the powers conferred under......
India is unleashing baseless propaganda against China Pakistan Economic Corridor and nothing good is expected from New Delhi, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was quoted as saying by Radio......
