Experienced batsman Shoaib Malik believes youngsters should be given the chance to carry a winning momentum into the second day-night international against Sri Lank in Abu Dhabi on Monday.Malik's......
Pakistan lost 3-1 to arch-rivals India in their last pool match at the Asia Cup hockey tournament at Dhaka’s Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium on Sunday.The blockbuster match brought the best......
The Taliban on Sunday rejected claims by freed Canadian hostage Joshua Boyle that his kidnappers had killed his child and raped his wife during the family's captivity, saying the woman had a "natural......
Chief Justice Saqib Nisar on Sunday highlighted the need for a system in which women, who are deprived of their rights in several parts of the country, can speak about the problems they face......
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) held a press conference on Sunday to announce the addition of new faces to the party, including renowned fashion designer Deepak Perwani and other......
Sahiwal police have arrested the prime suspect in the recent knife attacks on women that have been taking place in Karachi, District Inspector General Sultan Ali Khowaja said on Sunday.Waseem, who......
Pakistan and Iran signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Sunday to improve the situation at the border between the two countries, Radio Pakistan reported.During the 21st two-day meeting of the......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday claimed that the ruling PML-N is issuing statements against the army "in order to protect itself from being punished for money......
King Salman of Saudi Arabia, in a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump on Saturday, welcomed the US government’s firm strategy towards Iran, reported Arab News on Sunday.According to......
The United States-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Sunday announced the "final phase" of the battle to capture Raqa, once the Syrian stronghold of the militant Islamic State group."We are now in......
The people of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) are sitting on a treasure chest: millions of rubies, estimated to be worth up to half a billion dollars, are lying beneath them.But archaic tools and a lack......
Villagers in Rajasthan are rallying in support of a Muslim family whose cattle was snatched by an extremist Hindu mob earlier this month, India Today reported on Sunday.On Oct 3, a mob of Hindu......
South African fast bowler Wayne Parnell on Saturday signed on to Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2018 and agreed to play the PSL matches which will be held in Pakistan, sources within the paceman's......
At least 231 people were killed and more than 275 injured in the most powerful bomb blast ever witnessed in Somalia's capital, a senator said on Sunday, making it the deadliest single attack in this......
President Donald Trump's decision to not re-certify the Iranian nuclear deal marks yet another key moment in relations between Iran and America, which has seen decades of mistrust and mutual......
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences expelled Harvey Weinstein on Saturday, vowing that the era of "shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior" in the movie industry was over.An......
The death toll from California's raging wildfires rose to 38 on Saturday, with more than 10,000 firefighters battling 16 large blazes and 100,000 people evacuated, the state's fire service......
Philippine troops on Sunday bombed fighters loyal to the militant Islamic State (IS) group who have held out for over four months in a southern city and the military said the conflict would be over......
At least four Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were martyred and three others injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in the Kharlachi area of Kurram Agency near the Pak-Afghan border on......
ABIDJAN: Four Moldovan nationals were killed on Saturday when a transport plane chartered by the French army crashed off Ivory Coast, firefighters said.Another six people were injured in the crash of......
VIENNA: Wrapping up a bruising political campaign season, Austrian political parties were counting down to an election on Sunday that could turn the country to the right amid voter concerns over......
SEOUL: North Korea is believed to be preparing to launch a ballistic missile ahead of an upcoming joint naval drill by the US and South Korea, a news report said Saturday, citing a government......
BEIJING: China’s ruling Communist Party has agreed to amend the party constitution, expected to embed President Xi Jinping’s political thought, ahead of next week’s five-yearly party congress in......
SONOMA: Fierce winds were expected to stir wildfires and test firefighters on Saturday in Northern California where the most lethal outbreak of wildfires in state history has killed 35 people and......
LEEUWARDEN: A century ago on Sunday, an exotic dancer named Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad, condemned as a sultry Dutch double agent who supposedly caused the deaths of thousands of......
MOGADISHU: A truck bomb exploded outside a hotel at a busy junction in the Somali capital on Saturday causing widespread devastation that left at least 20 dead, with the toll likely to rise.“Initial......
BAGHDAD: Thousands of Iraqi troops were locked in an armed standoff with Kurdish forces in the disputed oil province of Kirkuk on Saturday as Washington scrambled to avert fighting between the key......
KABUL: A US drone strike killed 14 members of the militant Islamic State (IS) group in a remote area in Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province, Afghan officials said on Saturday.Abdul Ghani Musamim,......
BERLIN: A Cistercian monastery that’s existed for almost 900 years in what is now western Germany is closing down for good, due to a shortage of monks.The Himmerod Abbey, founded in 1134 by the......
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s chief justice has been accused of serious crimes including corruption by the country’s government, it emerged on Saturday, as he departed for Australia expressing his fears for......
Syed Murid Husain Shah lives on an oasis. Around him is the sprawling Phase-1 of the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) in Multan, being constructed on more than 3,000 acres of land. And while......
Not wanting to be late and miss anything, I had rushed the seven- and six-year-olds back from school. A day earlier, we’d managed to beg off from a special class that the seven-year-old had to attend......
Iqbal Bhai Chamakpattiwala was putting the finishing touches on the tram he had decorated in the style of the W11 bus of Karachi. Mick Douglas, who conceived the project for the 2006 Commonwealth......
This poetry. I never know what I’m going to say I don’t plan it. When I’m outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all. — RumiWaqas Khan does not offer any insights on how to......
A few years ago, during a walk through the Louvre I found myself standing in front of Théodore Géricault’s ‘The Raft of the Medusa’ trying hard to memorise the massive painting and trace the......
From the looks of it, now is a good time to be a part of the Pakistan film industry. There’s a lot happening: new filmmakers are taking chances, television drama-makers are turning to filmmaking,......
The moment I first saw Blade Runner (1982) is forever etched in my memory. The deeply arresting visuals, thought-provoking narrative, symbolism and moody atmosphere, even though sometimes beyond the......
It is mind-boggling, to put it mildly. On Oct 6, the film Na Maloom Afraad 2 was banned from screening in Punjab after it had already been in theatres for five weeks. The issue was picked up by the......
The professional trajectory of Harvey Weinstein, the famed and feared Hollywood mogul, has been as volatile as his personality.One of Hollywood’s most powerful producers, Weinstein co-founded Miramax......
In the Saif Ali Khan-starrer Chef — adapted from the 2014 Hollywood original by Jon Favreau — grilled cheese sandwiches are replaced by pizza parathas. This quite obvious change in menu defines the......
For admirers of mainstream Bollywood films, the name Rahul Bose commands attention. But for audiences of Bengali and art house cinema, his name commands respect. The actor known for being choosy when......
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan emerged as a key leader of the Indian Muslim community in the aftermath of the War of Independence of 1857, as a thoroughly modern Muslim in a thoroughly pre-modern age. He is......
What do I say? And what do I write?My eyes have lost their vision, and my heart its joy. Hands tremble, And my ears are bereft of hearing …A friend like Maulana Fazl-i-Haqq dies — that creative......
In 2015, Usman Tanveer Malik’s non-fiction piece in the Herald titled Rockets, Robots and Reckless Imagination: How Science Fiction can Spur Pakistan into the 21st Century claimed that “Encouraging......
In her second major novel on Eastern history, Oxford-trained historian Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang makes the energetic figure of Edwina Mountbatten, wife of Lord Louis ‘Dickie’ Mountbatten, India’s last......
Light blue against grey, the words “It’s Kazuo Ishiguro!” flashed on my computer screen. Reading this message, I was ready to prostrate myself before the Almighty in sheer gratitude. “The Force be......
Neither an obituary of Toheed Ahmed nor a review of his work, this column — appearing on his 70th birth anniversary — is simply an expression of the wonderment one feels after being introduced to the......
Allama Iqbal’s Tulip of Sinai – from A Message from the East (Payam-i-Mashriq) M. Hadi Hussain, Shireen Gheba NajibIqbal wrote Payam-i-Mashriq in 1923. This book presents the first two poems of his......
Concrete skeletons litter northern Pakistan — monuments to the government’s failure to rebuild thousands of schools destroyed by the massive 2005 earthquake. About 67 percent of the schools in the......
There’s a relationship fantasy that has nothing to with getting physical. Rather, it’s verbal. And the climax isn’t orgasm; it’s that ever-elusive concept of “closure.”In this fantasy, maybe you’re......
Major Retired Zaheer has vowed to kill Nawaz Sharif should he ever meet the thrice-deposed prime minister. The former prime minister’s schedule has suddenly filled up for the next few months. “I’ve......
What shall we cook today?’ is a daily dilemma for every housewife and I am no exception. Having been married for nearly 43 years, this question pops up in my mind early in the morning, except,......
Time to get deep down dirty, right underneath the fingernails if you wish to create a large or small patch of ‘spring woodland’ in your garden, or in pots and containers.All you need is a partially......
Dear Auntie, I am a 16-year-old girl who goes to school. Recently I changed my school which has caused my brother and sister to make up stories about me. They say that I am doing scandalous things,......
Many in the ruling Pakistan Muslim League—Nawaz (PML-N) and some media persons have recently alluded that a “1977 type of a conspiracy” is being hatched to dislodge an elected government and pave way......
Asif Hamid was busy tilling his land some eight kilometres away from Chakwal city when he was called by another villager. He sensed the urgency in the caller’s voice and jumped off his tractor,......
The winds of change are blowing through Pakistan cricket after the retirements of Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan.Its effects were there to see at Abu Dhabi and Dubai, where the first and second Tests......
Robert Charles Russell, popularly known as Jack Russell, represented England in 54 Tests and 40 ODIs. He remained a stalwart player and member of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club throughout his......
“A strong middle class, as thinkers from Aristotle to James Madison to modern political scientists have noted, fosters better governance by helping ensure government is well-run, increasing citizen......
HARVEY Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment, coercion, and abuse have come to light in a scandal that has shaken Hollywood. The Hollywood mogul’s story was first broken by The New York Times,......
PAKISTAN-US relations have entered a new and tense phase following President Donald Trump’s harsh allegations and threats against Pakistan in August and Islamabad’s angry response.Both sides,......
PESHAWAR: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Saturday offered an alternative way to resolve the standoff over the future of Fata by suggesting drastic reforms in the existing colonial-era system of......
PESHAWAR: A symbol of the violation of the antiquities law and court orders was pulled down after years of delay when a commercial building right inside the protected heritage site of Gor Khatri was......
KOHAT: A man killed his wife and her alleged paramour in the name of honour in Waziro Kalay area here on Saturday.A man informed the Jarma police that his nephew allegedly saw his (latter’s) wife in......
SWABI: The law-enforcement agencies have started investigations from different aspects into the killing of local journalist Haroon Khan who was gunned down on Thursday, according to......
ISLAMABAD: An anti terrorism court (ATC) has confiscated the Rs1 million surety submitted by the guarantors of retired General Pervez Musharraf for his release in the judges detention case.In June......
ISLAMABAD: An exhibition of drawings by Sadequain for Parto Rohilla’s book Rainn Ujyara opened on Saturday at Gallery 6.Although Sadequain’s illustrations of his own poetry, and of the work of......
Development of the federal capital began in 1960, on the basis of a master plan designed by the Greek firm Doxiadis Associates that now faces several challenges due to the loss of greenery and......
LAHORE: Actor Nusrat Ara, who played a popular character in a children’s television play, commonly known as Bil Batori, passed away on Saturday. She was 65.Nusrat’s brother Aftab told Dawn she had......
LAHORE: Instead of expanding jurisdiction of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), it must improve its performance and eliminate corruption from the country, says Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.In......
LAHORE: The gates to fashion and style swung open at Nishat Banquets, Johar Town, to fashion fanciers at three-day 7th PFDC Bridal Fashion Week on Saturday.The inaugural collection put on the ramp......
SAHIWAL: Four Mepco poles along with five 100-KV transformers fell down on the road on Saturday when a truck hit the dangling high voltage wires on Sahiwal Road, ?Pakpattan, causing a great deal of......
His mother making colourful traditional ‘ralli’ and sisters doing intricate embroidery at home was his first exposure to the beauty of colours and lines, during his early childhood. Rooted in the......
A training camp for women national hockey team is in progress in Lahore for Asian Challenge Cup being held in Brunei from Oct 22 to 29.The Pakistani women hockey team got this opportunity after a gap......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday summoned Muttahida Qaumi Movement lawmaker Rauf Siddiqui asking him to appear in court on Nov 4 in the Baldia factory fire case.The same court also......
KARACHI: How can you have just development when you have a structure that is fundamentally unjust? This was the question that Dr Mwangi wa Githinji tried to find an answer to in his keynote address......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday granted interim pre-arrest bail to the superintendent and two other officials of the Karachi Central Prison in two cases pertaining to recovery of......
SITTING last month in the Phnom Penh villa that houses Cambodia’s main opposition party, Mu Sochua searched for a way to fight back against one of the world’s longest-serving leaders.Her boss in the......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s cricket authorities are reconsidering plans to play a match against Pakistan in Lahore later this month after their players expressed security concerns, officials said on......
LONDON: Manchester City maintained their blistering start to the season as the Premier League leaders demolished Stoke City 7-2, while champions Chelsea crashed to a shock 2-1 defeat at lowly Crystal......
LAHORE: More foreign cricketers including Sri Lanka’s Angelo Mathews, South Africa’s J.P. Duminy and former Australian Test paceman Mitchell Johnson have joined Pakistan Super League (PSL) for its......
KIMBERLEY: The return of leading all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan provides encouragement for Bangladesh ahead of their three-match One-day International series against South Africa starting at the Diamond......
NEW DELHI: India on Saturday recalled wicket-keeper/batsman Dinesh Karthik to the squad for three upcoming three One-day International against New Zealand.Karthik, 32, was part of the squad for the......
LAHORE: Pakistan take on arch-rivals India in their last pool match at the Asia Cup hockey tournament at Dhaka’s Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium on Sunday.India, leading the pool ‘A’, are......
DUBAI: Pakistan rode on Babar Azam’s century and brilliant bowling by their seamers upfront to notch a convincing 83-run victory against Sri Lanka in the first One-day International on Friday (partly......
SHANGHAI: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer will meet in the Shanghai Masters final here on Sunday, just the latest chapter in their storied rivalry.The celebrated duo have faced one another 37 times,......
MUNICH: Jupp Heynckes made a winning return to the Bayern Munich bench on Saturday with the German champions crushing Freiburg 5-0 for their first win in three league matches.The emphatic victory......
EAST BRENT (England): Troubled England all-rounder Ben Stokes — whose Ashes hopes hang in the balance after he was arrested on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm — was married on Saturday.Stokes......
MOTEGI: Yamaha’s Johann Zarco produced a sizzling lap Saturday to claim a surprise pole for the Japanese Grand Prix with MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez qualifying in third.With only a minute......
WASHINGTON: Governments need to develop global cyber security standards and increase information sharing on cyber threats, Daniel Pinto, chief executive of JPMorgan’s corporate and investment bank,......
ARLINGTON: The Trump administration on Friday demanded that US made content account for half the value of the cars and trucks sold under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), raising......
KARACHI: A market support fund of Rs20 billion should be set up under the management of National Investment Trust (NIT) to revive the stock market, stakeholders told Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan......
KARACHI: Bears were in complete command at the Pakistan stock market in the outgoing week where the KSE-100 index sank 1,466 points (3.5 per cent) to close below the 40,000 points level after almost......
KARACHI: Local production of Toyota Corolla XLi and GLi is likely to be discontinued by 2019 with a new 1,300cc vehicle replacing the two popular models, sources said on Saturday.However, Indus Motor......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) says about two-thirds of all developing countries have become dependent on commodity exports between 2010 and 2015, which......
KARACHI: Senator Saleem Mandviwalla said on Saturday the Ministry of Finance has lost credibility under Ishaq Dar who now spends most part of his day fighting corruption cases in the accountability......
KARACHI: A recently issued circular of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has perturbed many senior citizens and widowed investors of the National Savings who have been slapped with 10 per cent tax......
WASHINGTON: The leaders of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank are vowing to fight climate change, combat income inequality and push back against rising populist scepticism over free......
WASHINGTON: The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) could get new powers to monitor eurozone economies next year as part of the single currency bloc’s plan to integrate more deeply, Klaus Regling,......
NEW DELHI: A leading Indian cotton producing-state has withdrawn an order asking government officials to inspect fields planted with an unapproved variety of genetically modified (GM) cotton......
KARACHI: The cotton market on Saturday came under profit selling as many brokers holding long position preferred to dispose their stocks partially. However, activity remained brisk and undertone was......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to press the government for improving the existing accountability laws, instead of bringing a new law altogether.Background interviews with a......
PESHAWAR: Chief of the General Staff (CGS) of British Army Gen Sir Nicholas Patrick Carter called on Peshawar Corps Commander Lt Gen Nazir Ahmed Butt at the Corps Headquarters on Saturday.During the......
ISLAMABAD: Responding to criticism of Pakistan Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa’s comment on the economy, the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) on Saturday said that the......
SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has said that confrontation among institutions is dangerous for the country and it must stop immediately.Speaking......
KARACHI: Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday asked the Sindh government to shelve plans for proposed increase in the salaries of legislators......
WASHINGTON: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that the United States and Pakistan will have a detailed and frank discussion on all relevant issues when US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson......
QUETTA: An eight-year-old boy, who had been abducted for ransom on Oct 8, was recovered by the police from Sariab Road area on Friday night. Two suspects were arrested.Addressing a press conference......
SRINAGAR: A young man was killed on Saturday during protests in India-held Kashmir following an alleged gun battle in which two Kashmiris were said to have been killed, according to police and......
QUETTA: The Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) has urged the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) and the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) to play their role in protecting......
THE remnants of Kalat Fort (Meeri) lie at a stone’s throw, on the western side, from main Kalat city. It is said that a sizeable Hindu community once lived here, next to the old fort. But after the......
AIN ISSA: The militant Islamic State (IS) group is on the verge of defeat in Raqqa, once its de facto capital in Syria, and the city may be cleared of the militants by Sunday (today) night, according......
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON: Deflecting criticism from the government for commenting on the state of the economy, the military’s chief spokesperson on Saturday stressed that the economy was inextricably......
TORONTO: Joshua Boyle — the Canadian citizen who was recently rescued along with his wife and three children — has revealed that their captors killed a newborn daughter and raped his wife during the......
Two Lahore men, arrested for torturing children with special needs in a horrific incident caught on camera, have told police they were trying to "stop the kids from mischievous activities", officials......
