Former first daughter Maryam Nawaz on Tuesday met her uncle, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, and his son, Hamza Shahbaz, at their residence in Model Town Lahore on Tuesday, DawnNews......
Pakistan wants to extend its complete cooperation in bringing peace and stability in Afghanistan and no one should be allowed to ruin the cordial relations between the two countries by indulging in......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday announced the 16-member squad for the T20 series against Sri Lanka, and also put the tickets on sale for the last match of the series to be played in......
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif on Tuesday claimed that the recent US drone attacks targeted militants along the Pak-Afghan border area and did not happen inside Pakistan's territory.Asif, while......
A Qatari national was arrested at Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore for allegedly trying to smuggle nine falcons worth more than Rs50 million, DawnNews reported on Tuesday.The director......
Some 582,000 Rohingya refugees have now fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since late August, the United Nations said on Tuesday, warning that thousands more were still stranded at the border.The UN said......
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday submitted its objections to the proposed National Accountability Commission Bill 2017 to a parliamentary committee reviewing the document.The bill "does......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to host two matches of the next Pakistan Super League (PSL) season in Karachi, DawnNews reported on Tuesday.A senior PCB officials told DawnNews that the......
Sri Lanka's cricket board on Tuesday halved a six-match ban imposed on all-rounder Danushka Gunathilaka for misconduct, amid speculation several players may drop out of an upcoming Twenty20 series......
"Music connects people, it brings inner peace," says Sana Gharshin, a student at the Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences; hopeful that in the years......
An anti-terrorism court in Multan on Tuesday sentenced a woman to death on two counts while also handing her a life imprisonment sentence after finding her guilty of murdering her husband.A first......
A volatile session was seen at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), with the benchmark KSE-100 erasing intraday gains on Tuesday to close with a loss of 66 points at 40,725.The index opened higher and......
Ahmed Rabbani was arrested by Pakistani authorities in 2002 and handed over to the US Government under the claim that he was Hassan Ghul, a known Al-Qaeda operative.The US Senate Select Committee......
The Supreme Court on Tuesday noted that the money trail submitted by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan regarding a sum of nearly 100,000 pounds was inconsistent.A three-member bench......
As Chinese President Xi Jinping prepares for a second five-year term, foreign investors will be watching for any sign that he finally intends to follow through on long-promised reforms to further......
The Lahore High Court on Tuesday accepted a contempt of court petition against the federal government for deporting a Turkish couple ? which had gone 'missing' late last month ? in violation of the......
A Spanish court has ordered two powerful Catalan separatists to be detained, threatening a further escalation of the political crisis on Tuesday as both sides refuse to budge in their high-stakes......
United States-backed forces said on Tuesday that they had captured Raqa's state hospital, one of the last redoubts of the militant Islamic State group fighters holding out in their onetime Syrian......
Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency on Monday in northern Florida ahead of a speech by white supremacist leader Richard Spencer, who was involved in a march in August that ended in......
Five people were killed on Tuesday in the fourth drone strike along the Pak-Afghan border near Kurram Agency since Monday, the local political administration said.The strike was the third in the day......
The death toll in a suicide and gun attack on police in southeast Afghanistan has risen to 32 with more than 200 wounded, an official said, in the latest deadly violence to hit the country.The......
Eighty-four lawmakers were barred from attending the session of Punjab Assembly on Tuesday, a day after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) suspended their membership for not submitting their......
Three companies have offered to resume the search for flight MH370 but no decision has been reached on whether to take up any of the proposals, a Malaysian minister said on Tuesday.US seabed......
A woman in Raiwind gave birth outside the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital (THQ), Raiwind early Monday morning after staff at the hospital refused to treat her.Initial investigation conducted by the......
Cleric Mufti Abdul Qavi appeared before a sessions court in Multan for the first time in connection with the Qandeel Baloch murder case on Tuesday.Mufti Qavi, who is currently on a pre-arrest bail,......
VALLETTA: A Maltese investigative journalist who had exposed her island nation’s links with the so-called Panama Papers document leak was killed on Monday when a bomb destroyed her car as she was......
THE last couple of weeks have seen much diplomatic activity between Pakistan and the US.I am struck by the overly positive read-out of the engagement in Pakistan’s media. True, these efforts signify......
TODAY marks the 200th birth anniversary of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. His invaluable contributions towards the Muslim renaissance in the subcontinent are well acknowledged — particularly his founding of......
“HE would make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises.” Winston Churchill was taking a celebrated shy here at his arch rival Lloyd George to everyone’s mirth. How......
THE provisional results of the much-delayed census in Pakistan are shrouded in mystery and ambiguity due to lack of transparency. This has led to the validity of the entire exercise being questioned......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was informed on Monday that the Kohat Development Authority high-ups had given away its commercial plazas on 33 years lease at throwaway prices.The documents......
PESHAWAR: Two journalists from tribal areas taken away by unidentified persons were freed on Monday night after a day of their captivity.Shahnawaz Khan Tarkzai was picked up by unidentified armed men......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has cut down a large number of trees along the Attaturk Avenue for making the road dual.It is common for the CDA to cut down trees for the expansion......
ISLAMABAD: The third prosecution witness on Monday testified against Finance Minister Ishaq Dar as the accountability court resumed the trial in the assets reference.Mr Dar’s counsel Khawaja Haris......
RAWALPINDI: Police officers dislike the new uniform and want the old uniform back, says a survey report compiled by a team constituted by the inspector general of police (IGP) Punjab.The team......
ISLAMABAD: Adorned in their traditional clothes and jewellery, Champa and her group from Tharparkar, Sindh were trying to understand what the speakers were saying in the 10th annual conference on......
LAHORE: An intelligence report by the police special branch has revealed that 64 out of the 121 drug inspectors in the province are allegedly involved in corruption.The report has appeared at a time......
LAHORE: Former President Asif Ali Zardari has claimed that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz is trying to establish backdoor contacts with the Pakistan People’s Party.“The PML-N is trying to establish......
LAHORE: The three-day 7th PFDC Bridal Fashion Week concluded on Monday at Nishat Banquets.The collections presented on the ramp on the last day included Tabya Khan’s, IVY Couture by Shazia and Sehr,......
BAHAWALPUR, RAHIM YAR KHAN: Eighteen poachers, including some influential people from Balochistan, allegedly tortured wildlife officials, tore their clothes, held a district officer hostage and......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: A number of students of Government Degree College for Women, Manthar, on Monday protested against the non-availability of 37 lecturers for the last two years and blocked......
BAHAWALPUR: The 10-day ‘Jashn-i-Bahawalpur’ concluded on Sunday night at the polo ground of the historic Noor Mahal.A documentary was screened at the event highlighting the 1947 unconditional......
KARACHI: The investigations into multiple cases of knife attacks on women in the city’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar and Gulshan-i-Iqbal areas hit a snag just a day after the arrest of the perceived prime......
KARACHI: Scholars shed light on Sir Syed Ahmed Khan’s educational, cultural, social and political achievements on Monday, eulogising him as a great visionary whose services would continue to bear......
KARACHI: Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra said on Monday that the real tribute one could pay to the first prime minister, Shaheed-i-Millat Liaquat Ali Khan, was to follow his teachings.He was talking to the......
ANKARA: Iranians quickly closed ranks against a hawkish new US approach to Tehran, but Iran’s powerful hardliners are set to exploit the latest dispute with Washington to weaken domestic rivals who......
DONETSK: In war-scarred eastern Ukraine, the military look is all the rage this season, with fatigues and Soviet regalia a must-have for those who dress to impress in the battered crucible of the......
VOUZELA: At least 31 people have died in fires ravaging forests in northern and central Portugal over the past 24 hours, rescuers said Monday afternoon, after three people were killed in Spain in......
LAHINCH: Three people died as Tropical Storm Ophelia battered Ireland’s southern coast on Monday, knocking down trees and power lines and whipping up 10-metre waves.Over 360,000 homes and businesses......
LUXEMBOURG: The European Union on Monday reaffirmed its support for a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers despite sharp criticism of the accord by US President Donald Trump, and it urged......
FORT BRAGG: US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, accused of endangering fellow soldiers who searched for him after he walked off his combat outpost in Afghanistan in 2009 and was captured by the Taliban,......
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Monday paved the way for a Guantanamo Bay detainee accused of being the mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole in a Yemeni port to......
VIENNA: Austria’s shift to the right in a parliamentary election has paved the way for young conservative star Sebastian Kurz to become the next leader and opened a path for the resurgent far right......
JERUSALEM: Israeli archaeologists in Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday unveiled a newly unearthed section of the Western Wall and the first Roman public structure ever discovered in the city, they......
WASHINGTON: It was a faint signal, but it told of one of the most violent acts in the universe, and it would soon reveal secrets of the cosmos, including how gold was created.Astronomers around the......
KABUL: Afghan forces seized a car packed with 300 kilograms of explosives as it drove towards Kabul on Monday, less than two days after police foiled a massive truck bomb in the capital.Two Taliban......
MOGADISHU: The death toll from Saturday’s truck bombing in Somalia’s capital is now over 300, the director of an ambulance service said on Monday, as the country reeled from the deadliest single......
NEW YORK: An Afghanistan-born man was convicted on Monday of planting two pressure-cooker bombs in the Chelsea neighbourhood in New York last year, injuring 30 people with a rain of shrapnel when it......
MARAWI: The head of the militant Islamic State (IS) group in Southeast Asia, who figures on the US “most wanted terrorists” list, was killed on Monday in the battle to reclaim a militant-held......
JAKARTA: Indonesian football fans are mourning the death of Choirul Huda, the long-term goalkeeper and captain of top flight side Lamongan FC, usually known as Persela, following an accidental......
KARACHI: A resolute Imran Shah century and dogged resistance from Kahaf Patel helped Karachi Blues lift the PCB Under-19 National Cricket Championship title after their final against Karachi Whites......
KARACHI: Karachi Whites remained on course for a much-awaited first victory in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship after dominating the second day of their Group ’B’ fixture against......
KARACHI: The pair of prolific scorers Rija and Naziha guided Neighbourhood Club to an exciting 35-20 victory over PECHS Girls College to win the Shaheed-i-Millat Liaquat Ali Khan girls basketball......
ABU DHABI: Babar Azam scored a second successive century to lift Pakistan to 219 for 9 in the second One-day International against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi on Monday.The 23-year-old right-hander made......
LONDON: Something has to give when holders Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspur, two teams with perfect Champions League records, square off and the formidable attacks of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City......
SYDNEY: Australia batsman Usman Khawaja has criticised the country’s selection policy and says the constant team changes hampered his attempts to develop his all-round game.The 30-year-old......
NEW DELHI: Batting genius Virat Kohli was all praise for Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir whose sensational opening spell rattled India’s top-order in the ICC Champions Trophy final in England earlier......
LONDON: English police have called again for two men who they believe are key witnesses to the incident that has placed talismanic England all-rounder Ben Stokes’s place on the Ashes tour in jeopardy......
MADRID: Valencia spent the last couple of seasons trying to avoid relegation in La Liga. After eight matches this season, they’re already looking to dethrone Barcelona from the top of the......
MILAN: Mauro Icardi is a goal predator. Seemingly absent one moment, he swoops in unannounced to score in the next.The Argentine striker had a hat-trick in Inter Milan’s 3-2 derby victory over......
PARIS: Greece striker Kostas Mitroglou netted a late equaliser on his club debut as Olympique de Marseille salvaged a 3-3 draw at Strasbourg in Ligue 1 on Sunday.Dimitri Payet gave Marseille the lead......
BERLIN: Former German champions Werder Bremen slumped to a 2-0 home defeat to Borussia Moenchengladbach on Sunday to sink deeper into trouble after having now gone eight games without a win in the......
ISLAMABAD: In blistering remarks at the first public appearance since his indictment on corruption charges, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar tried on Monday to dispel the impression that the country is......
WASHINGTON: The World Bank said on Monday that Pakistan’s external financing needs in 2017-18 were $17 billion and not $31bn, which was wrongly deduced from one of its previous reports.The World......
ISLAMABAD: Trade opportunities between Pakistan and Afghanistan would further increase with the improvement in infrastructure carried out by Pakistan at Chaman and Torkham borders to enhance transit......
ISLAMABAD: The government is developing strategies to uplift the agriculture sector and boost rural economy to minimise rural to urban migration, Minister for National Food Security, Sikandar Hayat......
KARACHI: Bulls staged a comeback on Monday, tossing the KSE-100 index up 945 points (2.37 per cent) to close at 40,791.Investors’ hopes were rekindled after a delegation of stockbrokers, mutual fund......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) unveiled on Monday a ‘Climate Change Financing Framework’ (CCFF) structured to respond to climate change and promote......
WASHINGTON: The United States and Japan will seek to find common ground in thorny issues on trade in their second round of bilateral economic dialogue on Monday, with Tokyo showing little appetite to......
BRUSSELS: Global steel demand growth is expected to slow to 1.6 per cent next year, after strong growth in 2017 driven by demand from top consumer China, the World Steel Association (worldsteel) said......
TORONTO: Canada’s federal government said on Monday it would cut the small business tax rate to 9 per cent from 10.5pc as it sought to counter a growing backlash against a July tax reform that......
ISLAMABAD: The auditor general of Pakistan (AGP) has found irregularities worth hundreds of billions of rupees in the award of various road projects by the National Highway Authority (NHA), including......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday announced that party chief Imran Khan would appear before the Election Commission of Pakistan on Oct 26.The announcement comes on the heels of......
ISLAMABAD: The Balochistan government on Monday told the Supreme Court point-blank that it never promised to provide jobs to the heirs of those who were killed in a suicide blast in Quetta on Aug 8......
KARACHI: Justice Muhammad Ajmal Mian, a former chief justice of Pakistan, died early on Monday morning after a long illness. He was 83.He is survived by a widow, three sons and two daughters.Several......
KARACHI: A teenage girl was injured in a knife attack by a man on a motorcycle in Karachi’s F. B. Area, police said on Monday night.According to Central SSP Irfan Ali Baloch, the girl aged around 15......
ISLAMABAD: A ladder rests against the wall of the Out Patient Department (OPD) at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) where workers are adding a fresh coat of paint to the building. In......
BAGHDAD: Iraqi government forces captured the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk on Monday, responding to a Kurdish vote on independence with a bold lightning strike that transforms the balance of power in......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Law and Justice approved on Monday extension of the jurisdiction of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas......
NEW DELHI: In a stinging response to recent remarks questioning the Taj Mahal’s place in history by India’s ruling party legislator, a leading politician on Monday asked if Prime Minister Narendra......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan and party’s secretary general Jahangir Tareen submitted on Monday fresh documents to satisfy the Supreme Court’s queries over the......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday directed the counsel representing the federal government to verify reports about the deportation of a former vice president of Pak-Turk International......
ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON: Representatives of Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and the US gathered in Muscat on Monday to rejuvenate the stalled Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) working to restore......
A teenage girl was allegedly stabbed with a knife by a motor-bike rider in the Federal B. Area of Karachi, police said on Monday night.According to the senior superintendent of police (SSP) Central,......
The Punjab government on Monday dismissed Additional Advocate General Khawar Ikram Bhatti for reportedly slapping a police officer outside an accountability court in Islamabad, DawnNews reported.A......
