A senior Qatar World Cup official took to social media on Friday to re-assert that the Gulf state will host the 2022 tournament, even as it faces a torrent of fresh criticism.A defiant Nasser......
Karachi has been named among the least safe cities of the world in a report published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) — the research and analysis division of The Economist Group.The report......
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal in a statement issued by his public relations officer on Friday said that the Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, should......
On a rugby field overlooked by a towering cathedral, a group of young refugees has introduced a small northern French town to the beautiful game of... cricket.Saint-Omer lies 40 kilometres south of......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) concluded the week on a negative note on Friday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index plunging 391 points, or 0.97 per cent, to close at 39,847 points.The capital market......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Friday alleged that a "drama" was staged in Islamabad today so that the Sharif family could protect itself from accountability.Earlier in the......
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) chief Jens Stoltenberg on Friday urged the United States and Turkey to “sit down and find solutions” to a crisis in relations between the two key members of......
Two Arab candidates and France's former culture minister vied to become the new head of the United Nation's (UN) embattled culture and education agency on Friday, a day after the United States quit......
Babar Azam scored an impressive hundred while Shoaib Malik smashed a quickfire half-century to help Pakistan thump Sri Lanka by 83 runs in the first one-day international in Dubai on Friday.Azam......
The Pakistan Army said that the captors of a Canadian-American family held by a Taliban-linked group fled on foot after troops shot at their vehicle's tyres, as it offered a fuller account on Friday......
Foreign hostages kidnapped five years ago by a terrorist group in Afghanistan and recovered by the Pakistan Army in Kohat left the country by plane from Islamabad on Friday, two security officials......
South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that President Jacob Zuma can face prosecution on almost 800 charges of corruption relating to a 1990s arms deal.Zuma had lodged a challenge at......
Japan's Kobe Steel admitted Friday that a snowballing falsified data scandal had affected around 500 customers, more than twice as many as initially thought.The new estimate comes as Kobe Steel's......
World leaders should take advantage of the healthiest global growth in years to pursue policies that will spread prosperity to those being left behind, the head of the International Monetary Fund......
Journalist Haroon Khan, who was gunned down outside his house in Swabi town on Thursday, was involved in an ongoing property feud with members of his family, District Police Officer (DPO) Mohammad......
Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif has filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the filing of multiple corruption references against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on orders......
United States (US) military troops in Afghanistan have started working with smaller Afghan units to prepare them for a more aggressive offensive against the Taliban next year in a push to break the......
Australia is tightening English language requirements for foreign students in, what it said on Thursday, is a bid to improve standards across the country's Aus$28 billion international education......
A policeman was martyred and three others, including a child, were injured when armed suspects opened fire on a police patrolling party in Quetta on Friday, police said.Constable Ali Muhammad was......
South Korea and China have renewed a $56 billion currency swap deal, Seoul said on Friday, despite tensions over the controversial deployment of a US anti-missile system in the South.There had been......
The news that a young reporter at Japan's public broadcaster had worked herself to death came as little surprise to those inside the country's media, where a culture of excessively long hours has......
The CEO of Samsung Electronics Kwon Oh-Hyun resigned Friday, saying the South Korean tech giant was facing an “unprecedented crisis”, even as it expected profits to hit an all-time high in the third......
UNITED NATIONS: The United States has announced it will withdraw from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organisation, accusing the body of “anti-Israel bias”.A US State Department......
HANOI: Floods and landslides caused by a tropical depression have killed at least 43 people, left 34 others missing and damaged homes and crops in northern and central Vietnam, officials said on......
BRUSSELS: Brexit talks are deadlocked over money, the EU’s Michel Barnier said on Thursday as he ruled out discussions on future trade being launched by European Union (EU) leaders next week but......
LONDON: Sally Jones, a British jihadi who recruited online for the militant Islamic State group, has been killed in Syria by a US drone along with her 12-year-old son, The Sun newspaper reported on......
An accountability court was forced to adjourn the proceedings in a graft case against ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Muhammad Safdar, after PML-N lawyers......
GILGIT: The traders observed shutter down strike in Skardu against imposition of taxes on the residents of Gilgit-Baltistan without determining constitutional statues of the region.The protesting......
PESHAWAR: Fata reforms, an idea with many takers in the political and bureaucratic circles, have brought in its wake a moneymaking opportunity for retired bureaucrats and the people associated with......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) is in a bind over the question of waiving surcharges on a plot allotted to the chief justice, and may have to change their policies in order to get......
ISLAMABAD: Defiance of court orders is nothing new for high-profile figures across the political spectrum, and most of them have been declared proclaimed offenders for avoiding proceedings, in one......
RAWALPINDI: The police seized a car carrying 600 pieces of illegal explosives during a security check at a police post in Naseerabad on Thursday.According to bomb disposal experts, the explosives......
TOBA TEK SINGH/LAHORE: Three minor girls died allegedly hours after they were administered anti-measles vaccine at a rural health centre at Chak 262-GB, Marthan Wala, in Rajana area.According to......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid on Thursday filed a resolution in the Punjab Assembly condemning Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah for his recent controversial remarks.The resolution filed......
Pakistan chairs abroad still vacantPakistani chairs at foreign universities are still vacant and there is no development in sight on this important project.Pakistan has chairs in 14 foreign......
ISLAMABAD: To the pleasant surprise of 21 international health delegations, including 17 health ministers, Pakistan appeared to be one of the peaceful destinations unlike the international media......
MULTAN: The two-day Multan pool rounds of the 13th Dawn in Education Spelling Bee Competition concluded here at the Multan Arts Council Auditorium on Thursday.In the 15 to 17 years age group, Ishrat......
LARKANA: Police on Thursday claimed to have saved the lives of a man and a woman from the wrath of their relatives who were allegedly planning to kill them in the name of honour in Naudero town, 19......
KARACHI: Robbers striking in broad daylight in the city’s so-called red zone deprived a travel agent of more than Rs300,000 near the Metropole Hotel traffic section on Thursday.The armed bandits......
KARACHI: Seven peregrine falcons and one laggar falcon recently confiscated from two suspects travelling in a passenger bus at Toll Plaza off the Superhighway were released in the Kirthar National......
LARKANA: Relatives of the missing persons allegedly taken away by security agencies held a demonstration along with rights activists outside the local press club on Thursday.Ms Sorath Hidayat Lohar,......
SOFIA: Couples lining up to face each other are given 30 seconds to chat before moving on _ in a version of speed dating that, rather than sparking romance, aims to promote understanding and......
GAZA: Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation deal on Thursday after Hamas agreed to hand over administrative control of Gaza, including the key Rafah border crossing, a......
NEW YORK: Police detectives in New York City and London are taking a fresh look into sexual assault allegations against Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein.New York Police Department spokesman......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is poised to break with US allies and withdraw his backing from the Iran nuclear accord, undermining a landmark victory of multilateral diplomacy.On Friday, the......
HONG KONG: China’s best known report on personal riches says property tycoon Xu Jiayin has become the country’s wealthiest person, knocking billionaire Wang Jianlin off the top spot.The Hurun Report......
RAQA: Dozens of desperate civilians streamed out of battlefront districts of Syria’s Raqa on Thursday after a ferocious resumption in bombardment against the militant Islamic State group holdouts in......
BRUSSELS: Britain and the EU are stuck in a “disturbing” deadlock over the Brexit divorce bill, though a breakthrough remains possible in the next two months, EU negotiator Michel Barnier said on......
MADRID: Thousands of Catalans who want their region to remain in Spain marked the country’s national day on Thursday, marching through Barcelona waving both Spanish and Catalan flags and shouting “I......
LONDON: The university city of Oxford has unveiled plans to ban petrol and diesel cars from its centre as part of the most radical set of proposals so far in Britain to curb pollution.Whilst London......
SONOMA: Firefighters struggled to halt the spread of wildfires that have killed at least 23 people in Northern California and dry, gusty winds threatened on Thursday to push flames into the evacuated......
ADELAIDE: Dutch team “Nuon” on Thursday won an epic 3,000-kilometre solar car race across Australia’s outback for the third-straight year, continuing its dominance of an innovative contest showcasing......
ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States on Thursday of mistreating a strategic ally, in a blistering speech which appeared to rule out swift resolution to a dispute between......
PARIS: A house-sized asteroid grazed past the 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......
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi government said on Thursday it would not hold talks with the Kurdish autonomous region on reopening its airports and providing dollars for its banks, unless the Kurds commit to ......
BUDAPEST: Hungary will continue to withhold its support for Ukraine’s further integration with the European Union as long as a new Ukrainian education law remains unchanged, Hungary’s foreign......
PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron launched round two of his ambitious domestic reform programme on Thursday, welcoming business leaders and trade unionists for talks about a highly sensitive......
DUBLIN: Ireland will play their first-ever Test match against Pakistan on home soil next May, the country’s cricket chiefs announced on Thursday.Afghanistan and Ireland became full members of the......
LAHORE: Former Pakistan Test fast bowler Aaqib Javed on Thursday expressed surprise over the national team’s recent 2-0 whitewash by Sri Lanka.Aaqib believed the current Sri Lankan side were a......
SYDNEY: Test great Steve Waugh says England can’t win the Ashes without Ben Stokes and the bad boy all-rounder would have been dumped immediately if he was Australian.England vice-captain Stokes was......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand coach Mike Hesson said on Thursday his players need to hit the ground running in India if they want to challenge the world’s top-ranked ODI team on their home turf.New......
LONDON: Ben Stokes is waiting until “the time is right” before explaining the violent incident that cost him his place in England’s Ashes squad, his agent said on Thursday.The talismanic all-rounder,......
HYDERABAD (India): Unlike the one-day series, where India dominated the visitors, the T20 rubber is up for grabs as the hosts lock horns with Aussies one last time here on Friday in the......
ZURICH: Swiss prosecutors said on Thursday they had opened a criminal investigation into former FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke and Nasser Al-Khelaifi, chief executive of Qatar’s beIN Media,......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Inter Provincial Co-ordination (IPC) Riaz Hussain Prizada on Thursday directed the Pakistan Sports Board to devise a new strategy to tackle the embarrassing situation......
NEW DELHI: Rank outsiders India ended their maiden FIFA U-17 World Cup campaign in a cry of pain and agony as they were handed a 0-4 thrashing by two-time champions Ghana in their final group match......
NEW DELHI: Indian fast bowler Ashish Nehra on Thursday announced his retirement from international cricket and the Indian Premier League (IPL) after an injury-plagued career.Nehra, 38, who is part of......
RABAT: World athletics chief Sebastian Coe has told AFP he wants a radical review of track and field to ensure it survives as a spectator sport.With the sport’s biggest star Usain Bolt retired, IAAF......
SHANGHAI: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer breezed into the quarter-finals of the Shanghai Masters here on Thursday and Juan Martin del Potro defeated racquet-smashing Alexander Zverev.World number one......
KARACHI: City School PAF Chapter (Blue) proved their superiority by outplaying rivals in both junior (schools) and senior (colleges) categories to win the Karachi Girls Netball Cup here at the PSB......
DUBAI: Pakistan are counting on a change in format and players to overcome a resurgent Sri Lanka in the five-match One-day International series starting here at the Dubai International Cricket......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) expects the GDP growth rate for 2017-18 will remain between five and six per cent against the 6pc growth target set by the government.It also lowered its 6pc......
KARACHI: Issuance of fresh sovereign guarantees jumped to Rs586.3 billion in 2016-17 from an average of Rs143bn for the past five years, according to the latest annual report by the State Bank of......
KARACHI: The much-vaunted tax on bank transactions introduced as a “documentation measure” a few years ago has “defeated the very purpose for which it was imposed”, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)......
KARACHI: The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is about to shift gears and enter its next phase as the industrial working group on Special Economic Zones (SEZs) is going to finalise its......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) asked money changers on Thursday to bring down the dollar price by at least one per cent to reduce the gap in the open market and interbank rates.SBP......
KARACHI: Stocks extended losses on Thursday for the fourth session in a row with the KSE-100 index closing in the red by 266.15 points (0.66 per cent) at 40,237.53.The index started out on a buoyant......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves amounted to $19.6 billion on Oct 6, down $91.2 million or 0.46 per cent from a week ago, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on......
SIALKOT: High Commissioner of Canada in Pakistan, Perry John Calderwood, on Thursday stressed the need for boosting bilateral trade and investment between the two countries.Addressing a meeting of......
ISLAMABAD: Exports of services grew nearly five per cent year-on-year to $816.27 million in the first two months of 2017-18, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Thursday.However,......
KARACHI: A large number of public and private sector employees do not file their tax returns under the misconception that since income tax has been deducted at source there was no need for......
KARACHI: Sustained buying from textile industry pushed cotton prices higher on Thursday. However, much of the activity remained around quality cotton which is running in short supply.Though higher......
ISLAMABAD: The counsel for Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf secretary general Jahangir Khan Tareen facing a disqualification case described as “difficult” an apex court query whether a person holding......
ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission (JC) on Thursday extended for another year the tenure of seven additional judges of the Lahore High Court, but dropped the names of as many judges from the same......
ISLAMABAD: The inquiry committee formed by Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) president Nawaz Sharif to find those responsible for the introduction of a controversial amendment to the Khatm-i-Nabuwwat......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has submitted to the Senate Secretariat a bill seeking an amendment to the recently-passed Elections Act, 2017, with an aim to repeal the controversial......
TAXILA: In an effort to scotch rumours regarding a split within the ruling party, former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday categorically stated that no ‘forward bloc’ was being......
MULTAN: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) announced a Metro Bus Service for Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2014, but despite the passage of three years it has been unable to begin work on it,......
KARACHI: The United Nations health agency has announced the establishment of a high-level global commission on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) which will be led by Dr Sania Nishtar of Pakistan.The......
KARACHI: The army is a national institution where every Pakistani can serve irrespective of his or her religion.The assertion came from Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor, the director general of the......
ISLAMABAD: The High Commissioner for Pakistan to Canada said on Thursday night that Pakistani commandos carried out a raid and there was a shootout before they safely rescued from a van an American......
WASHINGTON: She was a small-town American woman yearning to explore. He once married a Guantanamo inmate’s sister.Together they backpacked into war-ravaged Afghanistan, were taken hostage, and bore......
ISLAMABAD: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) on Thursday expressed fears of unusually acute water shortage during the current Rabi season and asked the provincial governments to make contingent......
SWABI: A local journalist was gunned down outside his house in Swabi town on Thursday, police and hospital sources said.Haroon Khan, a correspondent for Waqt News TV, came under fire when he stepped......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump praised Pakistan on Thursday for helping secure the release of a North American family, held hostage by a Taliban-linked group, and hoped that this cooperation......
RAWALAKOT: The settlement of Rawalakot lies at an elevation of around 5,400 feet, a little lower than Murree. Drive about two hours or so from here and you suddenly reach an altitude of 8,500 to......
ISLAMABAD: During a meeting presided over by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, the Cabinet Committee on Energy decided on Thursday to import additional electricity from Iran, and directed the......
KARACHI: Work carried out by a Swedish researcher on garments found in graves dating back to the ninth and 10th centuries has thrown up groundbreaking insights into linkages between Vikings and the......
• Kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2012, the woman gave birth to the children during captivity • Operation conducted by Pakistan forces ‘based on actionable intelligence from US authorities’:......
LAHORE: Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif will not appear before the accountability court in Islamabad on Friday (today) to face indictment in three graft cases since his wife’s condition is......
ISLAMABAD: Strains in the Pak-US relationship appear to be disappearing fast as the two sides on Thursday agreed to continue bilateral engagement at all levels and reinvigorate relationship to......
ISLAMABAD: During an eight-hour trial on Thursday, the counsel for Finance Minister Ishaq Dar continued to point out discrepancies in the prosecution’s evidence and, during the cross-examination of a......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on contempt charges by a majority decision of......
PAKISTAN is in the early stages of experiencing, yet again, intensifying pressure on its balance of payments position. The external current account has widened sharply, and is on a trajectory of......
FOR some time now, PML-N ministers in Lahore have been telling everyone how important the metro bus and the ever burgeoning roads have been in providing relief — even of the medical kind — to those......
IS feminism changing in Pakistan? That is the question that should be asked by those who are interested in women’s issues. That is the question that I pondered over at the Women’s Peace Table I......
‘He’s stabbing women because he wants us to stay at home. He’s instilling fear in us. But we will continue to come out and work’. — Gulzar, 27, domestic workerSO says my domestic help (maasi) after......
