The Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, on Wednesday claimed to have busted a gang of robbers in Karachi reportedly led by a worker of Muttahida Qaumi Movement.A statement issued by the paramilitary force read......
A member of government's legal team pursuing the Mashal Khan murder case has distanced himself from the trial citing personal reasons, DawnNews reported on Wednesday.Zafar Abbas was appointed by the......
The death toll from an avalanche in Mongolia rose to 17 on Wednesday after rescuers found the bodies of seven missing climbers who had ignored a ban on climbing a mountain.The Mongolian nationals......
The Taliban targeted two military posts in western Afghanistan, killing 11 soldiers and setting off gun battles with the military, Afghan officials said on Wednesday.In one attack, in western Farah......
Security guards at Berlin shelters are encouraging refugees to go into prostitution, German public television has reported, sparking outrage with Berlin saying on Wednesday it was taking the......
Former hockey captain Haseem Khan announced his retirement on Wednesday, holding the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) responsible for the dismal state of the game in the country.During a press......
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif, while briefing the Senate on Wednesday regarding the talks held between Pakistani and American delegations a day earlier, asserted that Islamabad will co-operate with......
Careem, the ride-hailing service that operates in several cities across Pakistan, has just announced the acquisition of Delivery Chacha, an on-demand delivery and errand service operating out of......
Police have arrested a pastor in eastern India accused of raping two women on the pretext of driving out evil spirits, an official said on Wednesday.Chandrama Raj, the pastor with the Indian Mission......
A gunman shot to death a student and his friend early on Wednesday on a university campus in Louisiana, and then fled, officials said.The shooting took place around midnight outside a dormitory at......
A Pakistani blogger who went missing mysteriously earlier this year and returned home several weeks later has alleged that he was tortured while in detention, a BBC report said on Wednesday.Asim......
In an apparent bid to replace Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) A.D Khowaja, the PPP-led Sindh government has included the subject of his replacement in the agenda for the next provincial......
Authorities in Madagascar said on Wednesday that the death toll from a plague outbreak has reached 124 people as the disease for the first time affects the island's two biggest cities.The nation's......
Half-centuries from Shikhar Dhawan and Dinesh Karthik fired India to a comfortable six-wicket win over New Zealand after a pitch-tampering storm threatened the second one-day international in Pune on......
As a part of the Pakistani society, we are well aware of the fact that a strange sort of onus befalls an expectant mother of a female child.If this very expectant mother is ripped off of all the......
Trading at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) was suspended early on Wednesday due to a technical fault, a notification on the PSX website informed.Bullish trend was observed on the exchange with the......
Following the meeting between Pakistani officials and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Islamabad on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif ? who was a member of the Pakistani delegation ? said......
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Wednesday sought a complete record of payments in excess of Rs102 million made by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources to the Sindh and Punjab......
Likening the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen's case to the Panama Papers case, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked Tareen's counsel to explain how the two cases were......
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has said that his country will not be a part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) unless it is given access to Pakistan's Wagah and Attari border, DNA India......
QUETTA: Newspapers were not distributed in the city and other parts of the province on Tuesday as hawkers and agents refrained from delivering them due to threats hurled by banned militant......
Pakistan has topped the list of countries with the highest number of illegal overstayers after the 2016-2017 Umrah season, Arab News reported on Tuesday.According to Arab News, the 6,905 pilgrims......
Iraqi Kurdish leaders offered on Wednesday to freeze the outcome of last month's vote for independence, taking a step back in a major crisis that prompted Baghdad to seize swathes of disputed......
Indian Chief of Army Staff Gen Bipin Rawat on Wednesday said that the appointment of a new interlocutor to hold talks with groups and individuals in India-held Kashmir will not affect the army's......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan, addressing a press conference on Wednesday in Karachi, said that he is in touch with Aamir Liaquat Hussain and other "opinion makers"."I am in touch with......
President Xi Jinping was formally handed a second term on Wednesday, with no clear successor emerging in a revamped ruling council, cementing his grip on power and setting the stage for him to......
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, during his visit to India on Wednesday, said that the United States was concerned that extremist groups "left unchecked in Pakistan" posed a "threat to the stability......
ISLAMABAD: The sub-committee of National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance was informed on Tuesday that despite a bilateral tax treaty with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), authorities were not......
A sector in-charge of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Dr Naushad, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Hyderabad on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.The MQM leader, a veterinary doctor,......
One worker of a private steel mill was killed while 14 others received burns on Wednesday due to an explosion in the factory's furnace unit in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa's Haripur district.One worker......
MY favourite summation of the origins of the Palestinian-Israeli dispute can be found in a poem — not by a justifiably renowned resident of, or refugee from, the territories, such as Mahmoud Darwish......
IN this political game of Chinese chequers, ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif seems to have been left with very few choices. He is returning home extremely beleaguered. Not only has he, and his......
ABOUT 1,000 years ago, when Europe was supposedly traversing through its dark ages, the Muslim empire was the envy of the world. Its wealth and material standards were such that Cordoba alone was......
TECHNOLOGY surrounds every aspect of our lives. From surgical procedures to space navigations, search engines to communication systems, database collection to policy formulation, all sorts of work is......
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court bench on Tuesday directed the defence ministry to explain in clear terms whether any clemency has been offered to a former spokesman for banned militant outfit......
PESHAWAR: The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), which had raised global concerns over frequent cases of polio a couple of years ago, has been freed from the virus of the crippling disease......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Tuesday claimed that the prime minister and army chief had agreed on the merger of Fata with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa before the next general......
KOHAT: Honey produced by wild bee has started arriving in the market with the advent of winter.The people collecting the local delicacy are having it free from the government owned forests, but sell......
PESHAWAR: The representatives of civil society organisations on Tuesday demanded of the government to make political and election process friendly for transgender persons and urged the Election......
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday admitted a petition aimed at preventing Nawaz Sharif from heading PML-N.After admitting the petition the IHC judge Aamer Farooq issued notices to......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Tuesday told the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology that a high-level committee was being formed to monitor......
ISLAMABAD: Containers have been brought back for sealing Islamabad’s Red Zone to intercept a rally coming from Lahore, according to officials of the capital administration and police.The rally was......
ISLAMABAD: A performance by Le Concert Impromptu, featuring music ranging from the pre-Napoleonic waltz to jazz classics and modern contemporary, was held at Lok Virsa’s Garden Avenue on Thursday.The......
LAHORE: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Energy approved on Tuesday inclusion of a new clause in the Nepra Act that empowers the regulator to recommend award of imprisonment for a period......
LAHORE: Former president Asif Ali Zardari claims a major breakthrough in Punjab politics hinting that many a big gun will soon join the Pakistan Peoples Party.“Many political bigwigs are in touch......
LAHORE: After recording statements of those involved in conducting a forensic examination of the Calibri font used by ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz in certain documents......
KARACHI: The Sindh education department has identified 4,524 schools across the province, including 614 in Karachi, for improvement and rehabilitation of the infrastructure and academic environment......
KARACHI: The constant refrain of how dismally neglected heritage and conservation efforts are in the country, despite efforts to resuscitate it by a small but galvanised community, has all but fallen......
KARACHI: KopyKats Productions will present its new stage play Hua Kucch Yun on Nov 22. This was announced at a press conference at the Arts Council on Tuesday.Talking to Dawn the director of the play......
KARACHI: In our neck of the woods, the monsoon season can be both a boon and a bane. If on the one hand it has romantic connotations, on the other hand it can also have a damaging effect simply......
HYDERABAD: Experts called for improving food and nutritional security and reducing poverty in the developing countries through research for efficient, safe and sustainable use of livestock.They were......
BERLIN: The far-right AfD party vowed a “new era” as it made its debut on Tuesday at the first sitting of Germany’s newly-elected parliament, where it immediately sparked an outcry by comparing......
GAZA CITY: Qatar announced on Tuesday it will fund a new headquarters for the Palestinian Authority in Gaza as it seeks to support a recently agreed reconciliation deal between rivals Hamas and......
TORONTO: Caitlan Coleman, a US national and wife of Canadian citizen Joshua Boyle, has said that claims made by both Washington and Islamabad that she and her family were rescued soon after crossing......
ARBIL: Parliament in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region decided on Tuesday to hold legislative elections in eight months after they were delayed amid tensions with the central government in Baghdad......
PHOENIX: Paul Weitz, a retired Nasa astronaut who commanded the first flight of the space shuttle Challenger and also piloted the Skylab in the early 1970s, has died. He was 85.Weitz died at his......
KABUL: Fleeing grinding poverty and unemployment, thousands of Afghan Shias have been recruited by Iran to defend Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, former fighters and rights activists......
WASHINGTON: The Afghan government doctored the official photo of the Tillerson-Ghani meeting at an American base in Afghanistan to create the impression that they met in Kabul, the US media reported......
BEIJING: Xi Jinping was elevated to the pantheon of China’s most powerful leaders on Tuesday as his name was enshrined in the Communist Party constitution alongside Chairman Mao.The inclusion of Xi’s......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday discussed a range of bilateral, regional and global issues and expressed their “firm resolve” to end......
LONDON: A British-based shipwreck hunter said on Tuesday a navigation tool he found that guided Portuguese explorers on a perilous voyage to India in the 16th century has been confirmed as the......
THE threat of infectious diseases looms large in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya refugee camps as well as the local communities and beyond with hardly any sign of the Myanmar nationals going back anytime......
ISLAMABAD: Third seed Heera Ashiq narrowly avoided defeat at the hands of unseeded Barkatullah in the second round match of the men’s singles category on the third day of the Subh-e-Nau National Clay......
KARACHI: The secretary general of World Baseball-Softball Confederation (WBSC), Dato Low Beng Choo, has accepted the invitation to visit Pakistan on the occasion of the National Women’s Softball......
KARACHI: The Lyceum School beat Alpha College 2-0 and Alpha College beat DA Degree College 2-0 in the U-19 girls table tennis competition held at the DHA Boys and Girls Degree College on Tuesday......
PUNE: Virat Kohli hit his 31st ODI hundred in the first match, meaning only Sachin Tendulkar (49) has more centuries than the India captain in 50-over international cricket, but finished on the......
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) Director Game Development Aizad Sayid has claimed that a huge data about the players of registered clubs and of schools have been prepared as a result of the......
SYDNEY: Former Australian Test umpire Darrell Hair has admitted stealing cash from the liquor shop where he was working, in a dramatic fall from grace for a man who enjoyed a successful but......
CAPE TOWN: South Africa captain Faf du Plessis is expected to be fit for the inaugural four-day Test against Zimbabwe in late December, Cricket South Africa (CSA) said on Tuesday.Du Plessis will sit......
BULAWAYO: Devendra Bishoo provided an excellent display of leg spin to grab four wickets as West Indies eased to a 117-run victory over Zimbabwe in the first Test in Bulawayo on Tuesday.Bishoo took......
ANCIENT OLYMPIA: The torch for the Pyeongchang 2018 winter Olympics was lit in ancient Olympia on Tuesday using the backup flame from the dress rehearsal due to rainy weather, kicking off the......
SINGAPORE: Venus Williams produced a vintage display full of guts and determination to grind out a 7-5, 6-7 (3-7), 7-5 victory over Jelena Ostapenko at the WTA Finals on Tuesday to set up a White......
LONDON: Cristiano Ronaldo has set his sights on a “lucky seventh” piece of FIFA silverware after he was crowned the best footballer in the world for the second year running at The Best ceremony to......
BASEL: Canadian rising star Denis Shapovalov fought hard to beat Japan’s Yuichi Sugita 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) in the first round of the Swiss Indoors here on Monday.The 18-year-old, ranked a career-high......
NEW DELHI: India’s cabinet approved a $32.43 billion plan on Tuesday to recapitalise its state banks over the next two years, in a bid by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to tackle a major drag on the......
KARACHI: Cement manufacturers have begun receiving notices from the Competition Appellate Tribunal (CAT) regarding their penalty case dating back to 2009, sources told Dawn.Fines of about Rs6-7......
ISLAMABAD: After resisting for more than two years, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Tuesday approved Rs1.52 per unit average increase in the base tariff for all consumers......
ISLAMABAD: Expressing concerns over the shift of revenues from federal level to the provinces, Special Assistant to Prime Minister Miftah Ismail said on Tuesday that there was a need to revisit the......
KARACHI: The land of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) belongs to the people of Sindh and we would never sell it to settle the liabilities of the mill, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said on......
KARACHI: Bears extended their onslaught for the second day on Tuesday when the KSE-100 index fell 192 points (0.46 per cent) to close at 41,2912.Elixir Securities observed that market opened negative......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has urged the Japanese government to initiate talks on early-harvest programme, leading to a free trade agreement between the two countries.The formal request was made in a......
ISLAMABAD: India has abstained from an ongoing two-day conference of Saarc Energy Regulators called to finalise common grid codes, laws and regulations for regional energy trade.The second meeting of......
KARACHI: Panic buying for quality lint pushed prices further up on Tuesday. Phutti (seed-cotton) arrivals remained high, quality issues continue to haunt the textile industry.Growers have been......
QUETTA: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors has declared the situation regarding press freedom in Balochistan as extremely bad and contrary to democratic standards.According to a press release......
ISLAMABAD: Low quality learning outcomes around the world are often blamed on teachers, however, in Pakistan the level of teacher salaries has been identified as the crux of educational problems,......
MUZAFFARABAD: Indian troops shelled different villages of a picturesque valley in Azad Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, leaving two women dead and six others wounded, officials said.A 12-year-old girl,......
ISLAMABAD: Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday challenged before the Supreme Court the order of its registrar who had returned his petition seeking a declaration that the apex court’s......
ISLAMABAD: Following in the footsteps of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) has also rejected the almost finalised National Accountability......
QUETTA: The Balochistan government has decided to establish an elite force comprising 1,000 personnel to combat terrorism and curb crimes in the province.The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting......
LAHORE: Begum Kulsoom Nawaz has been admitted to hospital after her condition deteriorated.In a tweet on Tuesday, her daughter Maryam said: “Ami [mother] has been hospitalised again. Earnest request......
RIYADH: Powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pledged a “moderate, open” Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, breaking with ultra-conservative religious figures in favour of an image catering to foreign......
ISLAMABAD: US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Pakistani leadership on Tuesday to step up their fight against terrorist groups on their soil and facilitate the Afghan reconciliation......
ISLAMABAD: The counsel for Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf secretary general Jahangir Tareen told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that his client’s offshore company held around 12 acres of property in the UK,......
ISLAMABAD: Amid growing concerns over the alleged disappearance of a number of social media activists linked to the ruling party, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday announced plans to formulate......
Former Australian Test umpire Darrell Hair has admitted stealing cash from the liquor shop where he was working, in a dramatic fall from grace for a man who enjoyed a successful but controversial......
