The Islamabad Club found itself amid another controversy on Sunday after a female official of the elite club accused a "powerful member" of the club's management committee of sexually harassing......
Iran's president on Sunday said his country would continue building weapons including developing missiles as the United States prepares new sanctions over its ballistic missile programme.“To defend......
Pakistan on Sunday released 68 Indian fishermen held for reportedly trespassing into its territorial waters, officials said.Indian and Pakistani fishermen are frequently detained for illegal fishing......
Defenders of Spanish unity massed in the streets of Catalonia's capital Barcelona on Sunday, waving national and European flags and chanting “Viva Espana” two days after regional lawmakers voted to......
Somali security forces ended a night-long siege at a Mogadishu hotel by five attackers who stormed the building after a suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the entrance gate......
India on Sunday shipped its first consignment of wheat to Afghanistan by sea through Iran's strategic Chahbahar Port, launching a trade route bypassing longtime rival Pakistan.The shipment, an Indian......
MNA Ayesha Gulalai's former personal secretary was gunned down on Sunday in Laki Marwat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, DawnNews reported.Noor Zaman was killed when unknown suspects on motorcycles opened fire......
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lashed out at Indian National Congress and said that the party batting for greater autonomy in India-held Kashmir was an insult to the bravery and......
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Najam Sethi on Sunday announced that Pakistan will be hosting the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Emerging Cup in April 2018.Sethi made the announcement at a press......
LAHORE: Even Pakistan’s prime minister did not believe it could happen but when Sri Lanka visit the eastern city of Lahore on Sunday for a T20 match, the hosts will celebrate the end of eight years......
PPP's Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) chapter on Sunday called upon the federal government and the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) to address the concerns of the people of Muzaffarabad......
A Russian helicopter that went down off the coast of Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic this week has been found and the eight Russians on board are presumed dead, Norwegian rescue crews......
Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) leader and Karachi Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra on Sunday joined MQM dissenter Mustafa Kamal's Pak Sarzameen Party.The announcement was made by PSP leader Anis......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday said that the adventures and experiments of technocrat and national governments had proved futile in the past and advocated for public-mandated......
At least two suspected militants were killed in a clash with the Aman Lashkar, a pro-government tribal militia, near the Pak-Afghan border in Khyber Agency on Sunday.The clash began after the......
From a holographic lion to talking robots and flying taxis, Saudi Arabia has dazzled investors with plans for hi-tech “giga projects” — but sceptics question their viability in an era of cheap......
Qatar's emir has warned against any military confrontation over the ongoing diplomatic dispute between his country and four other Arab nations, saying it would only plunge the region into......
A law coming into force on Wednesday will give the Kremlin greater control over what Russians can access online ahead of a presidential election next March.Providers of virtual private networks......
Chinese billionaires are boasting about their Marxist bonafides. The Communist Party is tightening its grip on state-owned companies. And foreign companies are being asked to invite party cells into......
Chinese President Xi Jinping has promoted an ally to the top job in Shanghai, media reported Sunday.The elevation of Li Qiang is another sign of Xi's increasing control over China.Xi has amassed more......
Investors including Japan's SoftBank and Google-parent Alphabet are fuelling a drive to a ride-sharing future, betting on startups such as industry giants Uber and Lyft which have so far failed to......
The tiled palaces beside the Mangla reservoir and dozens of exchange offices testify to the prosperity enjoyed by Azad Jammu and Kashmir's Mirpur thanks to vast sums of cash sent back by tens of......
Pakistan marked the return of Sri Lanka with a 3-0 Twenty20 series whitewash on Sunday, as officials hoped the match will help re-establish the country's reputation for hosting international......
GILGIT: World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in collaboration with Gilgit-Baltistan wildlife and parks department and a private school celebrated the International Snow Leopard Day in Hoper valley of Nagar......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday approved the launch of a village cleanliness and development programme at the union council level at a cost of Rs19 billion.He gave the approval at a......
The long wait for a novel from short story genius George Saunders is finally over. And as anyone who knows Saunders’s work would expect, his first novel is a strikingly original production, a......
One day, after trudging aimlessly on the long highways of the city, when I reached home, I found my hunger slumbering. My sleep remained awake with me for a long time. At that time, I put my poem in......
Late summer, 1991. On a break between teaching classes at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), I found myself by a trolley of returned books and picked up one — Selected Short Stories......
If you had more than one life to live in order to achieve perfection, how would you go about it? Michael Poore’s Reincarnation Blues is a wildly imaginative tale of a man who lives nearly 10,000......
Mike Scalise’s book — ‘Scalees’ he insists, although the correct pronunciation is ‘Scalizay’ as he is told by a monotone Italian-American doctor — The Brand New Catastrophe is a memoir/collection of......
Over the past three decades, much has been written in support of and to debunk the various conspiracy theories surrounding Gen Ziaul Haq’s death in a mysterious plane crash in August 1988. Kallol......
It was a cold and misty Islamabad morning some 15 years ago when a friend wanted me to drive him to a posh neighbourhood in Rawalpindi. He had to see two very senior retired officers; one from the......
Vegetable intake doesn’t always mean eating boring bhujiyas, mushy sides or munching salads. You can be creative and add vegetables to pasta dishes or bake with interesting toppings. Likewise, fruit......
In 2006, the State Bank decided to establish a museum. At that time, there was a small display on the fourth floor of the State Bank where they had a modest collection of artefacts. This was the time......
Embroidery is often synonymous with fashion. The two artforms are interlinked but it needs to be remembered that the former is a subsidiary, albeit essential, element working as a means to an end......
With the 2018 elections not too far away, a host of new political parties are being launched across Cliftonia. Traditional power centres are re-assessing alignments and forging new bonds in their bid......
Sometimes it seems that no matter how much dedication and hard work you spend on your garden it is the weeds that thrive rather than the flowers, vegetables or herbs you are trying to grow and — as......
Aapa Assalam-o-Alaikum I belong to rural Sindh and study in Punjab University. I face a lot of problems while talking as I can’t talk fluently in Urdu. Because of this the rest of the students make......
In the mid-1990s, I attended a seminar on ‘Anthropology and Politics’ at a hotel in Karachi. One of the speakers was a professor of anthropology from Germany, but unfortunately I have completely......
Motorcyclists pause at the hut with the wattle roofing. Even cars make the hundred-metre detour from the Grand Trunk Road (N-5) at the sign that says ‘Domeli Mor’, where the road for Domeli branches......
If selecting Pakistani players was food, then we have a katakut (or takatuk) on our hands. In Tests, Pakistan have handed out 229 caps, the latest being Haris Sohail. In One-day Internationals, Usman......
The bearded men holding a green flag with white stripes at the launch of this new political party were all familiar faces, except for a handful of clean-shaven ones who were representing non-Muslims.......
Multan Road, the highway that leads from Lahore to Multan, is lined with many villages along both sides of the road. Every now and then, wall-chalking emerges in one village or the other in praise of......
One of the greatest gifts that any government can give its people is designating and preserving its national parks. Urban centres in Pakistan are devoid of a healthy balance between nature and......
Two years in the making, Karachi Biennale17 (KB) finally goes full swing as the country’s first art biennale. For art world outsiders here, the significance and attention surrounding a biennale may......
The strength of any artistic endeavour lies in its ability to force our attention towards the ordinary and to transform it into something extraordinary. In Koel Gallery’s show Super Duper......
Italian artist Marco Nereo Rotelli is known for blurring the line between visual art and poetry. His startling use of light, imparting a beatific look to famous buildings in several cities of the......
Star power isn’t what it used to be. It must pose a dilemma to organisers of award shows as they go about assembling the building blocks for a grand ceremony. Long gone are the days when you could......
From the cheesy title to the equally cheesy music, from the ensemble cast to the occasionally cringe-worthy heroic dialogue — some of which couldn’t possibly have been real — elements of Only the......
SYRA SAYS NOThese are sure signs that the Pakistani film industry has come of age. How so? Well, actresses have begun to turn down roles.Syra Shehroz was offered to act in the sequel to Jawani Phir......
For every Bhoomi or Golmaal there is a Secret Superstar — a movie that forces one to call it a film. If the difference between ‘movie’ and ‘film’ doesn’t make sense here, allow me to elaborate.In......
Los Angeles — The door to the Doors is numbered 420. A quirk of circumstance that feels comically ordained.Technically, this is the entrance to the Doors Music Co., the licensed legal corporation in......
As I walked through the gate of the Esakhelvi house in Lahore it felt like I was transported to another space, time and era. I could feel the musical energy all around me. The family name, which has......
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: The deputy governor of Afghanistan’s Kunar province, Qazi Mohammad Nabi Ahmadi, was kidnapped from Peshawar’s Dabgari area on Friday, officials said.Mr Ahmadi is a leader of......
LAHORE: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has challenged before the Lahore High Court a provision of the Elections Act, 2017, that paved the way for ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif to......
ISLAMABAD/NEW YORK: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which is already reeling from rumours of a split in the wake of the ouster of Nawaz Sharif, was thrown another curveball on......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hanif Abbasi told the Supreme Court on Saturday that pleas based on mistakes, misapprehensions, bona fide intentions, a lack of mens rea or the......
AT the very first barrier on the road leading to the Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), at the junction of Third Avenue and Bari Imam Road, a few taxis are parked at their usual spot. But the increased......
MIANWALI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said that if his party came to power after next general elections his government will reduce poverty in the country by creating job......
ISLAMABAD: A member of the Pakistan Bar Council has asked the PBC to play a role by calling upon all political parties to oppose exclusion of the judiciary from the scope of the proposed......
QUETTA: Awami National Party (ANP) chief Asfandyar Wali Khan on Saturday said that his party believed in parliamentary domination and constitutional supremacy and would oppose all unconstitutional......
ISLAMABAD: Amid indignation and condemnation from all sides, the government on Saturday formed a team to investigate the heinous attack on a journalist in the capital.According to an interior......
NAROWAL / LAHORE: Denying tensions between state institutions, Minister for Interior Affairs Ahsan Iqbal claimed on Saturday that certain segments of the media and the army, and some “failed”......
LONDON: Speaking at the second annual Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) in London, Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan’s only living Nobel laureate, repeated her call for girls in Pakistan and around the world......
KARACHI: The 20 per cent increase in import duty coupled with 10-37pc anti-dumping duties on sanitary wares and tiles will push up construction cost by 12-15pc per square metre.Addressing a press......
THE ongoing crude oil rally is in danger, analysts are beginning to underline.And this is despite the recent proclamations of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec)......
ISLAMABAD: The Olive Plantation Project would generate an estimated Rs858 million revenue by 2020, with a long-term goal of creating an ‘olive economy’ for rural communities, said Dr Muhammad Tariq,......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank says that global agricultural prices are forecast to recede modestly in 2017, but will largely stabilise in 2018, while most food markets are well-supplied and the......
There’s a prolonged pause when I ask Lyft driver Gaby Oseguedaif her family is middle class. Her smile fades as she thinks about it for a while.“Yeah, I think so. I don’t even know what the middle......
KARACHI: The dollar rate is increasing in the open market despite two back-to-back meetings that the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently held with currency dealers.The exchange rate reached......
KARACHI: Imports of used and new bikes of higher engine power are thriving, official data shows.Bike imports in July-September amounted to $2.48 million, up almost five times from the same quarter a......
KARACHI: Stocks remained depressed during the outgoing week as the KSE-100 index plunged 982 points (2.3 per cent) to close at 41,105. The market hit a high of 42,162 and low of 40,904 points.The......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, the main opposition party in the National Assembly, is broadening its activities by reaching out to the business community which is battling dwindling exports.The......
LONDON: Sergio Aguero was left waiting to become Manchester City’s outright all-time leading goal-scorer as his side remained five points clear at the top of the Premier League table on......
BERLIN: Hannover 96 forward Ihlas Bebou struck twice on Saturday to hand them a 4-2 victory over Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund, who remain without a win in their last three league matches.The......
SEPANG: Honda rider Dani Pedrosa grabbed his third pole position of the season at the Malaysia Grand Prix here on Saturday while MotoGP leader Marc Marquez qualified seventh after crashing on his......
LAHORE: When Thisara Perera-led Sri Lanka take the field for the third Twenty20 International against Sarfraz Ahmed and company at the heavily-guarded Gaddafi Stadium here on Sunday, it will mark the......
KANPUR: India would aim to play with the same grit and gumption they displayed in the second match in Pune when they face New Zealand in the three-match ODI series decider here on Sunday.Faced with......
ISLAMABAD: Batting legend Javed Miandad believes Sri Lankan team visiting Lahore for the last Twenty20 is a great achievement for Pakistan cricket.Talking to APP, Miandad said Sri Lankan team’s visit......
WASHINGTON: US special counsel Robert Mueller has charged at least one person in the sprawling probe over Russian interference in last year’s presidential vote, marking the start of a new judicial......
BARCELONA: Catalonia’s secessionist leader Carles Puigdemont stood defiant on Saturday against Madrid’s moves to depose him, urging “democratic resistance” to direct rule imposed in a bid to stop the......
PALONGKHALI: Bangladesh is planning to introduce voluntary sterilisation in its overcrowded Rohingya camps, where nearly a million refugees are fighting for space, after efforts to encourage birth......
RAQQA: At a house in Syria’s Raqqa, women and men danced together in celebration at a wedding that would have been unimaginable just months ago, when the militant Islamic State group ruled the......
LEGION of Honour is the most prestigious medal that is awarded to French citizens, but often also to foreigners, for their distinctive services in art, science and literature, or even in social......
DUBAI: The man who may soon be king of Saudi Arabia is charting a new, more modern course for a country so conservative that for decades there were no concerts or film screenings and women who......
BAGHDAD: Iraqi and Kurdish commanders made “progress” in talks on Saturday on Kurdish fighters withdrawing from disputed areas, Iraq’s chief of staff said hours before a truce in clashes over a key......
KARACHI: Can you eat rubies? Well, you surely can even though the edible variety is better known by another name — pomegranate, or anaar as we call the fruit in Urdu.Fruit markets these days are......
KARACHI: It was an early Saturday morning when veteran journalist I.A. Rehman gave a history lesson to Karachiites on Karachi. Compressing information from before and after partition, the city was......
KARACHI: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani said on Saturday that plans from certain quarters to roll back the historic 18th Amendment to the Constitution had not yet subsided and dangers were still......
BADIN: The two-day Laar Festival in Badin got under way on Saturday with a well-attended ceremony which was addressed by Pakistan Peoples Party Senator Sassui Palijo and other party leaders,......
MITHI: Sindh Governor Muhammad Zubair has said that Tharis have the first right over huge coal reserves and thereby Thar should have a share in the electricity produced by the coal underneath its......
KARACHI: In a renewed effort to remove Inspector General of Police A.D. Khowaja from his office, the Sindh cabinet on Saturday decided to ask the Centre to post Sardar Abdul Majeed Dasti as the new......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Saturday pledged to make efforts for early recovery of people gone “missing” from various parts of the province, including requesting the authorities in Islamabad to......
KARACHI: Police came up on Saturday with supplementary charge sheets before an antiterrorism court against Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan chief Dr Farooq Sattar and party leader Amir Khan in two......
FAISALABAD: Ensuring clean environment at the Fruit and Vegetables Market, Ghulam Mohammadabad, doesn’t seem to be among priorities of the municipal corporation as it presents a picture of neglect......
NAROWAL: Prisoners from Sialkot Central Jail have been shifted to the newly constructed district jail in Narowal.The town was accorded the status of district in 1990. District courts were set up, a......
Every time I visit Mochi Gate and walk along Bazaar Lal Khuh – the Red Well – it is for two reasons. Firstly is to buy ‘barfi’ from the small original shop of Rafique, and, secondly, is to pay......
The stage is set to host the Sri Lankan cricket team for one-off T20 match at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium today (Sunday). Although Pakistan have taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series in the UAE,......
Ejaz Art Gallery organised a painting exhibition, titled Zoetic, on Oct 27. At first – casual -- glance, the colourful, commercial and comic style of the paintings seemed to be inspired by the work......
SAHIWAL: Four people were crushed to death after an oil tanker overturned at Iqbal Nagar Bypass on Lahore-Multan Motorway on Saturday.The deceased were pedestrians and passers-by, including a cyclist......
LAHORE: Former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Saturday questioned the ‘leniency’ with the Sharif family in corruption references made by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).Speaking to......
LAHORE: The 13th Dawn in Education Spelling Bee regional competition concluded at the Ali Institute of Education on Saturday.As many as 1,000 schools from across the country participated in the......
PESHAWAR: Scores of engineers and jobless professionals on Saturday demonstrated against lack of job opportunities, absence of proper service structure and demanded of the government to provide them......
The biggest recreational picnic resort of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, once the most beautiful and frequented Kund National Park, was destroyed in the flashfloods of July 2010. It is lying in ruin and could......
ISLAMABAD: More than 100 people staging a sit-in at Jinnah Avenue were on Saturday arrested and shifted to different police stations.The action was taken after negotiations between a government team......
Where many once kept a pet goldfish or two in a glass fishbowl, many people are now turning to larger aquariums to house, and showcase, colourful pet fish.Aquariums have been a feature in shopping......
SHANGLA: A local lawmaker claimed on Saturday that chikungunya virus had broken out in Maira area of Bisham tehsil, where 150 patients had been diagnosed with the disease, while another 500 were......
CHARSADDA: The Women and Children Hospital in Rajar constructed at a cost of Rs1.5 billion about two years ago is yet to be made functional, which belies the claim of PTI-led government about health......
PESHAWAR: The elementary and secondary education department has directed all boards of intermediate and secondary education in the province to register seminaries in their respective areas as a first......
A SOUTH ASIAN crisis is still brewing after US Secretary Rex Tillerson’s speed visits to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The brief encounter in Islamabad confirmed the gulf in Pakistan-US......
PEOPLE with serious mental illnesses are among the most vulnerable defendants in the criminal justice system. They are at risk of being wrongfully punished for crimes they did not commit, and more......
GEN Joseph Dunford, chairman, US joint chiefs of staff, recently stated at a hearing of the US Senate’s armed services committee: “I think in a globalised world there’s many belts and many roads and......
FOLLOWING the rapid ascent of Mohammed bin Salman to the second-most powerful position in Saudi Arabia, a series of unprecedented changes have occurred in the desert kingdom.The young crown prince —......
The additional district and sessions court in Rahim Yar Khan sentenced a man to life imprisonment on the charges of committing blasphemy, Dawn reported on Saturday.The court also ordered the convict......
