Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday disowned the statements made on the floor of the National Assembly by Nawaz Sharif’s son-in-law retired Captain Muhammad Safdar, when he launched into......
United States President Donald Trump on Thursday said the recovery of the Canadian-American couple from Taliban captivity by Pakistan's was a "positive moment" for US relations with Pakistan.The......
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa highlighted the concerns of Pakistan regarding peace and stability in the region in front of a delegation comprising US ambassadors and officials,......
Enraged students set a bus ablaze on Thursday after the vehicle ran over a student in Daska sub-district of Sialkot, police and rescue officials said.Hazima Aijaz, a student of a local private......
Bangladesh has banned three Islamic charities from working with Rohingya refugees, a Bangladeshi lawmaker said on Thursday, amid concerns displaced Muslims in camps along its border could be......
PPP-Parliamentarians President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday said that the party would continue to support the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) reforms even if Fazlur Rehman's Jamiat......
A house-sized asteroid grazed past Earth on Thursday, passing harmlessly inside the Moon's orbit, as predicted, to give experts a rare opportunity to rehearse for a real strike threat in......
The Pakistan cricket team is counting on a change in format and players to overcome a resurgent Sri Lanka in the five-match one-day series starting in Dubai from Friday.The green shirts were upset......
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said the US was in danger of “sacrificing” its relations with Turkey, as he blamed the American envoy to Ankara for the crisis in relations between the Nato......
The Balochistan government has suspended 140 doctors across the province for being absent and showing negligence in performing their duties, provincial health secretary Asmatullah Kakar informed Dawn......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) experienced another bearish session on Thursday with the benchmark KSE-100 Index plunging 266 points, or 0.66 per cent, to close at 40,237 points.It was the fourth......
Want to avail better than usual services at airports, excise offices? Want to get that new car at a lower price? Or even that prime piece of real estate at a lower-than-asking rate? Want to enjoy a......
The Pakistan Army said on Thursday that it had recovered "safe and sound" a family of foreign hostages from the custody of a terrorist outfit after it received and acted on intelligence shared by the......
The Supreme Court on Thursday told the counsel representing Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Jahangir Tareen that he had failed to convince the court that his client was exempted......
Researchers working to recreate textile patterns for an exhibition in Sweden have discovered that the woven bands of silk in burial costumes found in Viking Age boatgraves contained inscription in......
PML-N MNA and former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar at a press conference in Taxila on Thursday cautioned ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif against locking horns with the judiciary as he and his......
Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah have reached agreement on aspects of their bid to end a decade-long split during talks mediated by Egypt in Cairo, officials said on Thursday.Details of the......
The Sindh Wildlife Department, working with game police on Thursday, arrested four poachers at Angri Lake near Nindo Shahar and recovered 70 migratory birds from their possession.Asad Ali Marri, the......
The United Nations health agency has announced the establishment of a high-level global commission on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) which will be led by Pakistan’s Dr Sania Nishtar.The commission......
The media has “exaggerated” the number of Rohingya refugees fleeing an army crackdown, Myanmar's commander-in-chief said on Thursday, in a brash rebuttal of accusations of ethnic cleansing by his......
PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi, in a petition submitted on Thursday, requested the Supreme Court (SC) to set aside the documents recently submitted by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan to......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday rejected a petition moved by Nawaz Sharif's son-in-law, Muhammad Safdar, in a bid to postpone the date of his indictment in a corruption reference, saying......
Pope Francis will talk peace on his visit to Myanmar, a Catholic church representative said on Thursday, a potentially highly charged trip during a refugee crisis that has seen 520,000 Rohingya......
A judicial magistrate in Multan on Thursday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for cleric Mufti Abdul Qavi in the Qandeel Baloch murder case.Judicial Magistrate Muhammad Pervez Khan issued the......
Following retired Capt Muhammad Safdar's diatribe in the National Assembly on Tuesday, in which he attacked the persecuted Ahmadi community, reactions from political parties — including Safdar's own......
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is likely to return to Pakistan today and appear before an accountability court tomorrow (Friday) in connection with the graft cases prepared by the National......
Move over Saturn! Scientists have found a ring around an unassuming mini-planet in our Solar System to debunk the theory that only giant planets can be so adorned.The planet, dubbed Haumea, orbits......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in the contempt of court case against him for......
For the first time in years the International Monetary Fund is optimistic about global economic growth. But it sees a new problem: mounting debt in the world's largest countries.“Debt levels are......
An Iraqi court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of senior Kurdish officials responsible for organising an independence referendum, in the latest salvo by the central authorities over the disputed......
The United States (US) ambassador to Turkey says he hopes the two countries can quickly resolve a spat over the arrest of a US consulate staffer, stressing that cooperation between the two allies......
US President Donald Trump tore into the press and questioned whether broadcasters should have their licenses revoked on Wednesday, after an unflattering story about his nuclear policy."It's frankly......
The trial into the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) graft case against Finance Minister Ishaq Dar was adjourned till Oct 16.An accountability court had indicted Dar last month in a reference......
THE rise of the gig economy poses numerous regulatory challenges. The unique nature of this model where an application serves as an intermediary to connect consumers with suppliers, without actually......
The meeting between Pakistan’s army chief Qamar Bajwa and Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani over a week ago seemed to have gone off well and hopes were raised that perhaps the ice between both......
THE N-League will mark today the 18th anniversary of its government’s overthrow by Gen Musharraf’s task force. For the other main parties it will be business as usual. For the PPP, July 5 is a black......
INDUSTRIAL relations (IR) in a factory environment is the most crucial part of human resource management. The role of an IR manager is not only to keep these relations workable but also to make......
MARDAN: Awami National Party provincial president Ameer Haider Hoti said on Wednesday that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led provincial government had failed to bring any positive change in the lives of......
PESHAWAR: Scores of women belonging to different political parties and civil society organisations have criticised the Islamabad police for resorting to violence against women during a rally in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Wednesday rejected ‘The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill, 2017’ and said it was un-Islamic.The bill was rejected even though the mover......
RAWALPINDI: Federal Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique on Wednesday said that stay orders issued in cases of people illegally occupying Railways land hamper the process of development.Mr......
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary committee on Wednesday observed that the Commission on Enforced Disappearances has failed to fix responsibility on individuals and organisations involved in enforced......
App-based ride-hailing services have taken the country by storm. By making the act of hailing a cab less cumbersome through the use of smartphones, these companies have made life easier for countless......
CHINIOT: The management of the Govt Girls High School, has on a self-help basis, rehabilitated an 11-room block of the school which was declared dangerous some two years back.The school was......
MULTAN: The two-day Multan pool rounds of the 13th Dawn in Education Spelling Bee Competition started here on Wednesday at the Multan Arts Council Auditorium.Over 300 students from 47 schools of......
LAHORE: Visually challenged people blocked on Wednesday the Metro bus service corridor for more than 10 hours in protest at the non-regularisation of their jobs.Up to 25 challenged people gathered at......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Civil Society Forum on Wednesday condemned what it said Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s “incitement to public violence” in the event “Supreme Court’s ruling does not sanction the......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) sealed a coffee shop on Mahmood Kasuri Road and awarded Rs25,000 to an ice cream factory during raids here on Tuesday.The coffee shop was sealed for poor......
LAHORE: The Punjab Food Authority (PFA) has decided to ban the manufacturing, sale and purchase of vanaspati ghee for its extremely hazardous effects on human body by July 2020 and to restrict......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday gave approval to extend the special powers of the Rangers for another 90 days.The powers which were earlier given to them three months ago in July......
KARACHI: The Reformation movement of the 16th century in Germany caused unification of the German language, the adoption of religious education for individuals by means of general access to the......
KARACHI: World Day Against the Death Penalty on Tuesday was observed at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture with the performance of Intezar, an open-air interactive play organised by......
KARACHI: Experts at an awareness seminar on family planning on Wednesday said the population of Sindh would double by 2048 if it continued to swell at the current growth rate of 2.4 per cent, which......
HYDERABAD: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) chairman Syed Mustafa Kamal has reiterated his claim that PSP will bring in its own chief minister with the help of Sindhis in next general elections because......
LARKANA: No lecturer has been posted in the Government Girls’ College of Naudero since its inauguration at the hands of Sindh Senior Minister Nisar Ahmad Khuhro in 2014.This emerged during an......
UMERKOT: Police on Wednesday arrested two ‘exorcists’ who were allegedly involved in torturing a man to death by scorching his body parts with a hot steel jar full of burning coals “to rid him of......
MADRID: Spain threatened on Wednesday to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy if it follows through on its threat to break away as an independent country in the biggest challenge to Spanish unity in a......
LONDON: British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn told Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday that she should quit if she could not unite her divided party.“If a prime minister can’t lead, she should......
BEIJING: China said on Wednesday it has lodged a protest with the United States after an American warship sailed near disputed islands in the South China Sea.The US Navy missile destroyer Chafee......
ANKARA: Turkey’s top diplomat and his American counterpart on Wednesday discussed the reciprocal suspension of visa services, in their first talks since the eruption of one of the worst crises......
FRANKFURT: From a transgender teddy bear to a fearless girl pirate, children’s authors are tackling gender norms like never before, as debate rages about what it means to be a boy or girl.Visitors at......
BEIRUT: The US-led coalition battling the militant Islamic State (IS) group said on Wednesday that it won’t accept a negotiated withdrawal for hundreds of IS militants holed up in the Syrian city of......
NICE: Picasso’s mansion on the French Riviera — where his last wife tragically shot herself — is expected to be sold for more than 20 million euros ($24m) at an auction on Thursday.The artist spent......
NEW DELHI: At least 200 Muslims have fled their village in the western Indian state of Rajasthan after a Hindu priest and his friends were alleged to have killed a Muslim folk singer late last month,......
SRINAGAR: Indian army claimed that two air force commandos and two Kashmiris were killed in what it described as a fierce gun battle in India-held Kashmir on Wednesday.According to Col Rajesh Kalia,......
ON Wednesday, NBC News reported that President Donald Trump sought a dramatic increase in the number of nuclear weapons in the United States’ arsenal. It’s a position that runs contrary to recent......
PARIS: No plate of French charcuterie or picnic would be complete without the cornichon, but most Gallic food lovers would be surprised to learn that the tangy green garnish was likely grown in......
PARIS: Exotic dancer and suspected double agent Mata Hari was executed in Paris 100 years ago but her name endures today as that of the ultimate seductive spy.She was just 41 when she faced a firing......
KARACHI: The ban finally came, more than two months after FIFA had warned it would. But it doesn’t really solve the problems in the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF). Rather, it has only exacerbated......
The better team lost. At least that’s what the Pakistani fans would like to believe. The critics, though, would be wiser in their analysis, carefully weighing the strengths and the weaknesses of the......
MELBOURNE: The Australia cricket team suffered a scare following their Twenty20 International win over India in Guwahati on Tuesday after a rock was thrown at their team bus, shattering one of the......
DUBAI: Qatar on Wednesday strongly criticised Emirati officials for questioning Doha’s hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, saying that the tournament “is not up for discussion or negotiation” amid a......
LONDON: Any changes to Test cricket must be in line with in with the sport’s new global structure, the head of the international cricket players union (FICA) Tony Irish has said.The International......
MONTEVIDEO: When it really mattered and when the pressure was most intense, Lionel Messi delivered for Argentina.On the brink of being eliminated from World Cup qualifying for the first time in......
COUVA (Trinidad and Tobago): Twenty-eight years after the United States ended a four-decade World Cup absence with a stunning victory at Trinidad and Tobago, the Americans’ chances for the 2018......
LONDON: Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal are going to the World Cup and not by the risky playoff route this time.France also sealed their ticket to Russia on Tuesday after, like Portugal, needing a......
SHANGHAI: Temperamental Australian Nick Kyrgios was fined $10,000 and lost another $21,085 in prize money on Wednesday after storming off midway through his first-round match here at the Shanghai......
KARACHI: United Bank Limited (UBL) continued their ruthless demolition of regional outfits in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship when they annihilated Fata by innings and 130 run......
ISLAMABAD: Olympian Naveed Alam is optimistic Pakistan will at least make it to the final of the Asia Cup following the national team’s emphatic 7-0 win over Bangladesh on Wednesday.“I think they......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Telecomunication Company Limited (PTCL) announced financial results for the nine months’ ended Sept 30, posting profit after tax (PAT) at Rs6.49bn and earning per share......
ISLAMABAD: With first-quarter disbursements amounting Rs147 billion, the Planning Commission said on Wednesday it has sought advice from local and foreign stakeholders to reprioritise critical......
KARACHI: Stocks fell for the third day this week with the KSE-100 index tumbling 107.04 points (0.26 per cent) on Wednesday to close at 40,503.68.Trading remained choppy as the index hovered between......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Committee on Agriculture (FCA) on Wednesday set the wheat production target for the Rabi season at 26.46 million tonnes over an area of about 22.2m acres (9m hectares).The......
KARACHI: Buyers of Honda bike models 70cc and 125cc are being asked for premiums by certain authorised dealers of Karachi for the last two and a half years despite record production by Atlas Honda......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s trade deficit widened nearly 30 per cent in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday.It rose to $9.09 billion between......
ISLAMABAD: Amid regulator’s warnings about a conflict of interest, the federal cabinet has silently approved a policy to determine prices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) through a committee of......
KARACHI: The Exchange Companies Association of Pakistan (ECAP) reported the dollar rate in the open market on Wednesday as Rs107.30-60 while the interbank rate the same day was Rs105.38-48.The......
QUETTA: Nawabzada Gazain Marri, son of the late Baloch nationalist leader Khair Bakhsh Marri, has categorically denied that he returned to the country after making a deal with the government and said......
ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday that a law was pending before the Senate that sought to amend the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 1999 by......
ISLAMABAD: Chairpersons of three standing committees of the National Assembly were appointed after elections on Wednesday, according to an official notification.After separate elections in the three......
QUETTA: Around half a dozen customers sit patiently waiting to be served lunch at the Pakistan Chaat Point, on Faiz Mohammad Road in Quetta, when a boy with a dusky complexion hobbles up to the......
ISLAMABAD: A new accountability law that aimed at leaving no ‘sacred cows’ untouched was sabotaged by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Mutahidda Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Wednesday when both......
SHEIKHUPURA: A district and sessions court sentenced three men to death on Wednesday on charges of committing blasphemy.The court also fined them Rs200,000 each, but if they are unable to pay the......
ISLAMABAD: Maulana Fazlur Rehman — who is widely blamed for stalling measures aimed at mainstreaming the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) — told the National Assembly on Wednesday that the......
KABUL: Representatives of Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the United States will meet in Oman next week to discuss reviving peace talks with Afghan Taliban militants, an Afghan official and a......
WASHINGTON: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal urged the United States on Wednesday not to look at CPEC from the Indian perspective as it was an economic plan for bringing peace and stability to South......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has formally communicated its decision to nominate Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, former chief justice of the Supreme Court, to sit as the judge ad hoc in the International......
• Laments Pakistan has failed Balochistan • Describes CPEC as complete development platformKARACHI: Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa has said that the army is keenly watching......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has given ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s sons — Hussain and Hassan — 30 days to appear before the Islamabad accountability court, otherwise they......
ISLAMABAD: In a belated show of unity, the opposition in the Senate on Wednesday defeated the government’s position with a majority vote of 52-28 by passing a resolution which states that a person......
A first information report (FIR) was lodged against Deputy Superintendent of Police Tasdeeq Waris, Sub-Inspector (SI) Irshad Jatt and SI Younas Jatt at Nabi Bux police station, Karachi, and they were......
United States (US) President Donald Trump said “we'll see what happens” on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) at the start of his meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at......
