The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) might confirm the team's schedule for its tour to Pakistan for a short series in a few days, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Najam Sethi told DawnNews on......
The Senate on Monday passed the Elections (Amendment) Bill 2017 with a majority vote, thus imposing a ban on disqualified persons from taking part in political activities.The bill had jointly been......
The Faisal Mosque in Islamabad was illuminated pink on Sunday as part of a solidarity and awareness campaign with breast cancer patients and survivors.The initiative has been taken by Pink Ribbon......
A Russian journalist was in a “serious condition” after an unknown assailant on Monday forced his way into the offices of a radio station critical of the Kremlin and stabbed her in the neck.Tatyana......
Catalan separatists on Monday threatened “mass civil disobedience” against the Spanish government if it fulfils its vow to depose the region's secessionist leader to stifle his drive for......
Police on Monday recovered bodies of a man and woman, who had allegedly been shot dead, from a hotel room in Bahawalpur, DawnNews reported.The victims, identified as Mohammad Owais and Anoosha — both......
Jordan's queen said on Monday that the international community must respond effectively to end the suffering of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh to escape......
United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Monday to discuss Washington's new strategy with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.Tillerson reiterated the US......
A judicial magistrate in Multan extended the remand of Mufti Abdul Qavi in police custody after recording the statement of the cleric in an ambulance on Monday, DawnNews reported.Judicial Magistrate......
The security representative of a firm that advises the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Federation of International Cricketer's Association (FICA) met the Sindh chief minister and the......
National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday ordered an inquiry into the corruption allegations levelled against Shahbaz Sharif in the Multan Metro Bus Project, and the controversial selling of a......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) commenced the week on a negative note as the bears returned on Monday, pulling the benchmark KSE-100 Index 604 points lower to 41,483.Though the index showed some......
Former first daughter Maryam Nawaz on Monday said that while she could not make any predictions regarding the upcoming general elections, she would honour any role or responsibility "given to her by......
Never in the country's history has Pakistan faced a worse crisis than the one it faces today, former PML-N leader Javed Hashmi said in a characteristically well-timed press conference on Monday.The......
A Taliban attack killed four policemen in southern Ghazni province on Monday, An Afghan official said.Separately, in Kabul, two rockets fired from the east of the Afghan capital hit inside the city......
PML-N leader and federal minister Riaz Pirzada on Monday doubled down on a suggestion he made last week: that Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif take over the party's reins from his brother, ousted......
Pakistan comfortably won the fifth ODI against Sri Lanka by nine wickets, completing a 5-0 whitewash in Sharjah on Monday and marking their ninth consecutive victory in the format.It was Sri Lanka's......
As the Supreme Court on Monday took up Imran Khan's revised statement ? which seeks amendments to his earlier pleadings ? the counsel representing PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi once again objected to the......
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stormed to a landslide “super-majority” in snap Japanese elections, near complete projections showed on Monday, with the hardline nationalist immediately pledging......
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has issued a decree banning Pakistani trucks from entering the country via the Torkham and Spin Boldak border crossings, ToloNews reported.The Afghan Transport Ministry......
Cracking down on students protesting against the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU) administration, Islamabad police arrested 70 students on Monday in a bid to reopen the university, which has remained......
Two more bodies buried by a landslide in a construction site in northern Malaysia were recovered Monday, bringing the death toll to 11, mostly foreign workers.Fire and rescue official Mohamad Rizuan......
Syrian activists are reporting that at least 65 bodies of civilians have been found in a central town retaken by government forces from the militant Islamic State (IS) group.Most of the victims are......
A Muslim activist accused of campaigning in refugee camps for the unconditional return of displaced Rohingya to Myanmar has been arrested in Bangladesh, police said.More than 600,000 Rohingya have......
Makkah's Summary Court on Sunday ruled that victims and affectees of the 2015 crane crash at the Grand Mosque which resulted in the deaths of at least 109 people would not receive any blood money or......
United States President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday that he does not object to France and Germany continuing trade with Iran, despite his refusal to certify the Iran nuclear......
A team from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) took former Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon into custody on Monday after the Sindh High Court (SHC) rejected his bail plea in a......
India's foreign minister told Bangladesh's government that Myanmar must take back Rohingya Muslims to resolve one of Asia's largest refugee crises in decades, the government said.Indian Foreign......
In the latest price spike, Bitcoin saw its its price jump north of $6,000 for the first time, weeks after it crossed the $5,000 figure for the first time.The currency peaked at $6,067. At the time......
The Philippine government declared the end Monday to the militant siege of a southern city that lasted five months, left more than 1,100 people dead and sparked fears of the militant Islamic State......
Swiss academic and Oxford University Professor Tariq Ramadan has denied rape allegations levelled against him by French activist and author Henda Ayari, Arab News reported on Sunday.Ramadan, a......
BAGHDAD: When Haider al-Abadi was tasked with forming a new Iraqi government in August 2014, just weeks after a lightning offensive by the militant Islamic State group, many believed he would......
Like her abduction from Lahore, the recent recovery of the female freelance journalist, Zeenat Shahzadi, after over two years of captivity has given birth to several questions due to unavailability......
At least 7 people including four children and two women were killed on Monday as the roof of two adjacent houses collapsed in Bajaur Agency's Khar area, officials said.Six others were also injured by......
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar appeared before an accountability court in Islamabad for the seventh time on Monday as his trial resumed in a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau......
SMALL farmers, particularly from south Punjab, have been staging protests in the provincial capital for the last many years to draw authorities’ attention to their plight.This previous week sugarcane......
Romania is the largest electronics producer in Central and Eastern Europe and is rich in iron ore, oil, salt, uranium, nickel, copper and natural gas; and a regional leader in multiple fields, such......
THE sweets usually fly off the shelves during the Hindu festival of Diwali, but this year, only a handful of passers-by stopped by. Idle employees waited around to take down orders while the neatly......
HOW long can this nirvana last for investors? The stock market keeps ticking methodically higher into record territory, and the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 23,000 for the first time on......
LONDON: The 10-storey building may look like a hotel, but it is thought to be the world’s biggest large-scale house-share, offering modest rooms and upscale services for hundreds of young adults......
IN pockets of China’s industrial heartland, a government push to clean up the environment and cut excess output is starting to bite: furnaces have gone cold, the lights have been switched off,......
REGULAR appearances before an accountability court and related matters have been consuming a significant portion of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s busy schedule in recent weeks.Pressure keeps mounting......
What we see these days is a continuing romance between banks and car companies. One fuels car sales while the other enables banks to earn significant interest income.Car financing in particular and......
Pakistan is fast losing the market for its products in Afghanistan owing to frequent changes in federal government policies coupled with a greater focus on security instead of trade.Resultantly,......
According to the weekly statement of position of all scheduled banks for the week ended October 06, deposits and other accounts of all scheduled banks stood at Rs11,739.872bn after a 2pc decrease......
RAISING farm income tax seems to be as problematic as increasing agricultural productivity in Sindh.With agriculture’s share declining to a reckoned range of 15 to 16 per cent in the guesstimated......
With the increase in economic activity, the need for energy has increased and a balance between energy sustainability and economic growth is the need of the day.The exploitation of appropriate energy......
PAKISTAN has been asked to fully adopt the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approach to achieve food security and broader development goals under a changing climate and increasing food demand.The......
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s team claims that a plan is in the pipeline to ward off the external front crisis.Besides tweaking the fiscal policy framework to curtail the trade deficit by promoting......
Over the past few years, Pakistan’s construction industry has seen significant growth on the back of rapid urbanisation, population growth, improved middle-class household income, spike in public......
ALL major food crops are doing well at the same time after a gap of many years. The trend could be sustained by investing more in conducting production and productivity research.According to the......
A NUMBER of World Bank-funded agricultural and irrigation projects, primarily aimed at benefiting small and medium-sized growers, are under way in Sindh.Small growers are considered the fundamental......
THE quest again seems to be on for a consensus on a new accountability law. Initially, the major political parties had appeared to agree on repealing the existing National Accountability Ordinance,......
PROVISIONAL census results show Lahore district’s population at 11.1 million people. This is up from 6.3m in 1998, through an average annual growth rate of three per cent. To accommodate these extra......
A hostage rescue. A drone strike. Courtesy phone calls. High-level official visits. Pakistan and the United States are trying to re-establish ties, however fledgling, after the Trump administration......
IT’S got to be saying something when the high point of your day is the fact that you have seen not one, not two, but three garbage trucks on your daily commute. All in one day, all piled high with......
HARIPUR: More than 100 pieces of Islamic and traditional calligraphy were put on display at a four-day exhibition organised by Haripur Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Sunday.Elahi Bakhsh......
SWABI: A father of three young boys has no qualms in putting them to hard labour instead of enrolling them in school as ‘all his efforts to make them aware of the importance of education have failed......
MANSEHRA: The motorcyclists and motorists taking part in Pakistan Motor Rally reached Mansehra on Sunday evening.The rally, featuring classic and sports vehicles, had kicked off from Khunjerab top on......
ISLAMABAD: Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai announced on Sunday that the merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would not be......
PESHAWAR: Pashto poets at a literary gathering on Sunday pledged to work for promotion of local art and culture.They said that poets were protectors and preservers of language, art and local culture.......
PESHAWAR: Ali Masjid was built around 700 years ago by a few devotees for their spiritual guide, Ali, a reclusive Sufi, near the narrowest point of the historic Khyber Pass in the administrative......
RAWALPINDI: Whether lunch or dinner, most people in this part of the world are always ready for a bite of dessert after their meal. And among the subcontinent’s wide range of meetha, kheer is always......
Burgard Brinksmeier, cultural and press counsellor at the German embassy, welcomed guests to the screening of Luther, a 2003 film directed by Eric Till and starring Joseph Fiennes, at the embassy’s......
Dozens of diplomats and Serena Hotels staff trekked up the Margalla Hills on Saturday, this time taking Trail Six from Faisal Mosque to the plateau overlooking Talhar village.Austrian Ambassador......
Victoria and Abdul is not only a must watch for fans of the legendary Dame Judi Dench, but also for any fan of history – and British history in particular.Set in 1880, this based-on-a-true-story......
RAWALPINDI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has asked the Rawalpindi police to cooperate with its staff in obtaining surety bonds from 57 terror suspects placed on the fourth schedule of the......
GUJAR KHAN: A mass marriage ceremony of 30 couples from different parts of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir was organised by a charity organisation in the Daultala town of Gujar Khan on Sunday.Tahira......
LAHORE: Tahmina Durrani, wife of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, who spares no chance to target ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif for any of his ‘wrongdoing’, does not see her husband at fault......
KASUR: Kanganpur police on Sunday arrested the caretaker of a mosque over charges of alleged blasphemy in Kals area.Villagers staged a protest demonstration outside the Kanganpur police station......
KARACHI: The Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) has decided to get their alliance registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan and contest next year’s National Assembly and provincial assembly......
KARACHI: Accusing the Pak Sarzameen Party of snatching its mandate, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan warned on Sunday that its all lawmakers would resign from parliament if any of its elected......
KARACHI: The first Karachi Biennale was formally inaugurated at the NJV School on Saturday evening. Artists and art lovers started to gather at the venue at the time mentioned on the invite (5pm) and......
KARACHI: The QMobile Hum Style Awards (QHSA) held at the Expo Centre on Saturday night gave away trophies in 21 categories based on voting and jury sessions and were interspersed with song and dance......
BEIRUT: US-backed fighters captured Syria’s largest oil field from the militant Islamic State group on Sunday, marking a major advance against the extremists in an area coveted by pro-government......
WASHINGTON: About a dozen women who accused President Donald Trump of sexually harassing them during the 2016 election campaign, are now demanding a popular condemnation of his alleged......
BARCELONA: Catalonia’s separatists were weighing their options on Sunday after Spain took drastic steps to stop the region from breaking away by dissolving its separatist government and forcing new......
MILAN: Voters in the wealthy northern Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto were deciding on Sunday if they want to seek greater autonomy from Rome, riding a tide of self-determination that is......
BERLIN: Thousands of demonstrators marched on Sunday in Berlin, in protest against the far-right Alternative for Germany’s debut in parliament next week.Bearing posters with slogans like “Stop AfD”,......
BY now, entire forests must have been sacrificed to produce the paper used to print the endless news items, op-ed pieces and editorials about Brexit. In fact, it is impossible to open a newspaper or......
BEIJING: While Chinese President Xi Jinping and his cohorts chart the nation’s future at their leadership conclave in Beijing, his citizen army of red-armbanded foot soldiers are keeping an eye out......
IF and when the last remaining government documents about President John F Kennedy’s assassination are made public next week, historians may have to hold their noses and thank JFK — a 1991......
AMMAN: Jordan’s king on Sunday endorsed a fledgling Palestinian reconciliation agreement that is meant to end a decade-old political and ideological split between rivals Hamas and Fatah.King Abdullah......
JERUSALEM: A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo, briefly describing his theory on happy living, has surfaced after 95 years and is up for auction in Jerusalem.The year was 1922, and......
LONDON: A letter written by one of the Titanic’s passengers a day before the ship sank has sold for 126,000 pounds ($166,000) at an auction in England.The handwritten note, on embossed Titanic......
RIYADH: Top US diplomat Rex Tillerson pursued efforts to curb Iran’s influence in talks with Gulf allies on Sunday, but there was scant hope of a breakthrough in attempts to reconcile Saudi Arabia......
KARACHI: Talented Saad Saleem and Hasheesh Kumar outscored their opponents in the under-18 category on the opening day of the 1st Beaconhouse Open National juniors & seniors tennis Championship at......
SHARJAH: Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur made no secret of his intention of inflicting a clean sweep on Sri Lanka when the sides meet in the fifth and final One-day International here on......
SHARJAH: Afghanistan will play three One-day Internationals with Ireland in Sharjah in December and they are also eyeing their inaugural Test against Zimbabwe, an official said on Sunday.“We are......
MUMBAI: Tom Latham hit a masterful unbeaten hundred and added 200 in a stand with Ross Taylor to help New Zealand to a comfortable six-wicket victory over India in the first One-day International at......
EAST LONDON: An injury to captain Faf du Plessis took some of the gloss off a comprehensive South African win in the third and final One-day International against Bangladesh at Buffalo Park on......
SINGAPORE: Karolina Pliskova put on a ruthless display of big hitting to swat aside crowd favourite Venus Williams 6-2, 6-2 as the WTA Finals opened with a pair of power-packed slugfests at the......
MILAN: Napoli’s perfect start to Serie A finally came to an end on Saturday in an enthralling 0-0 home draw with Inter Milan, the only other unbeaten side in the Italian top flight.There were plenty......
LONDON: North London’s teams were too good for the sides from Merseyside in the Premier League on Sunday.Harry Kane scored twice as Tottenham Hotspur dismantled a defensively deficient Liverpool to......
BARCELONA: Barcelona regained a four-point cushion atop La Liga with a ho-hum 2-0 win over visiting Malaga and surging Valencia dismissed Sevilla 4-0 at home on Saturday.Barca faced last-placed......
PARIS: French champions Monaco stayed in leaders Paris St Germain’s footsteps after a 2-0 home win against mid-table Caen in Ligue 1 on Saturday.Monaco had lost three and drawn one of their previous......
BERLIN: Corentin Tolisso got the winner as defending champions Bayern Munich continued their winning run under new coach Jupp Heynckes with a 1-0 victory at Hamburg SV on Saturday to join leaders......
PHILLIP ISLAND: Marc Marquez took a giant step toward retaining his MotoGP world title when he won a feisty Australian Grand Prix Sunday, his sixth win of the season giving him a 33-point lead over......
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has alleged that leaders of both the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf are involved in massive corruption and......
WASHINGTON: The United States and Pakistan need to engage in a transaction of interests, instead of each being overly focused on persuading the other that its interests are the ones that need to......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has asked Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal to explain why a hefty amount of Rs22 million from the exchequer was spent on the security of and the VVIP......
KARACHI: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has so far taken no serious action against a senior pilot of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) who had allegedly invited a passenger to the cockpit......
QUETTA: National Party President Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo and Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Sanaullah Khan Zehri have urged the Baloch youth to become part of mainstream politics and take part in......
SITTWE (Myanmar): Rohingya Muslims who return to Myanmar after fleeing to Bangladesh are unlikely to be able to reclaim their land, and may find that their crops have been harvested and sold by the......
DADU: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has held both Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) responsible for the country’s economic ills, saying......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate is set to take up on Monday a crucial opposition bill seeking an amendment to the recently-passed Elections Act, 2017, with an aim to repeal the controversial clause that allows......
WASHINGTON: The United States and Pakistan deepen their engagement with talks between both civil and military officials as Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat arrives in......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) has sought urgent help of the federal government to recover more than 1,800 acres of land from the Sindh government and private parties amid the Centre’s......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Sunday took the Turkish attack helicopter T-129 for a test flight, becoming the first Pakistani premier to fly a military helicopter, Radio Pakistan......
