An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) handed 14-year imprisonment to Vijay Pervez Masih after convicting him of throwing acid on two women in Quetta in May 2015, DawnNews reported on Monday.The ATC Judge......
Karachi’s Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra, who recently quit the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and joined the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP), on Monday said that he foresees more members of the MQM-P leaving......
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday told DawnNews that his party will not tolerate any "technocratic or national government setup."During an interview, Bilawal was quick to add that he also......
The Sindh government approached the Supreme Court on Monday to challenge the Sindh High Court's (SHC) ruling regarding the functioning of A.D. Khawaja as the provincial police chief, DawnNews......
The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), the principal gas that drives global warming, in the atmosphere has hit a new high, the United Nations said on Monday, warning that a drastic action is......
Spain's state prosecutor said on Monday that he would seek charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement against members of Catalonia's ousted secessionist government, pushing the crisis over the......
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday submitted an adjournment motion before the National Assembly to discuss the recent visit of the prime minister and some federal ministers to London.The......
Asad Ali Laghari, the 25-year-old son of slain Sindh United Party (SUP) leader Anwar Laghari, was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a house in Tando Bago near Badin on Monday, police......
Senator Dr Karim Khawaja on Monday tabled the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill 2017 in Senate, demanding an end to punishment for attempted suicide. However, the Senate chairman shortly deferred the......
The Foreign Office on Monday said that it has been confirmed through DNA testing that two Chinese nationals, who had been kidnapped from Balochistan earlier this year, have been killed.According to a......
US President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and a former business associate, Rick Gates, surrendered to federal authorities on Monday in the first charges stemming from the......
The Taliban have killed 15 Afghan policemen in two separate attacks on checkpoints in the east and south of the country, officials said on Monday.Arif Noori, the spokesman for the governor of the......
A bearish trend drove the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Monday, taking the benchmark KSE-100 Index down 781 points to 40,324 by market close.Some positive movement was witnessed in the first few......
Students of the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila ended their protest on Monday after the university's vice chancellor accepted their demands.The vice chancellor confirmed that......
Pakistan "protested the deliberate" targeting of civilians along the Line of Control (LoC) during the Pakistani and Indian armies' special hotline contact on Monday, the Inter-Services Public......
Qandeel Baloch was killed on the behest of Mufti Qavi, her father Muhammad Azeem told a court hearing the social media celebrity's murder case in Multan on Monday.Qandeel had been murdered last year,......
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal suggested on Monday that some "hidden hands" are attempting to sabotage the democratic process in the country but that the nation would break the cycle [of political......
The imam of the Kaabah, Dr Sheikh Saleh bin Abdullah bin Humaid, was quoted on Monday by Radio Pakistan as saying that the militant Islamic State group and Al Qaeda have no links or concerns with......
One Frontier Corps personnel was martyred while another was injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in the Sarokai district of South Waziristan on Monday, official said.According to a......
Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg called North Korea a “global threat” Monday and said he backed tighter sanctions against it during a visit to Japan, which has been targeted by Pyongyang's......
The Chinese agency representing a 14-year-old Russian model, who recently took part in Shanghai Fashion Week, has denied allegations that she was overworked and exhausted.The death of the teenager in......
State-owned Saudi Arabian Airlines will launch its first flight to Baghdad in 27 years on Monday, state media said, amid a thaw in ties between the Arab neighbours.The airline, also known as Saudia,......
People marched in Myanmar's largest city on Sunday to support the military, which has come under heavy criticism over violence that has driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee to......
Qatar's emir in an interview airing Sunday accused Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies of seeking to topple his government with its nearly five month old political and economic embargo of the tiny Gulf......
West Indies cricket star Chris Gayle on Monday won a defamation case against an Australian media group which claimed he exposed his genitals to a massage therapist.The lurid accusations were made by......
WASHINGTON: Official Washington was abuzz this weekend over reports that a grand jury has charged at least one person stemming from the US probe of Russia’s attempts to tilt the 2016 presidential......
LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday called for tougher rules governing MPs’ conduct after a government minister was accused of asking his secretary to buy sex toys.Expressing her......
As the trial resumed against Ishaq Dar in a corruption reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), the finance minister failed to appear for the hearing in Islamabad's accountability......
The medical profession, since ancient times, has been recognised by all societies as a calling rather than just a job. Doctors command a high level of respect and medical graduates in Pakistan are......
POTCHEFSTROOM: David Miller smashed the fastest century in Twenty20 International cricket as South Africa outclassed Bangladesh by 83 runs in the second and final match at Senwes Park on......
KANPUR: India registered a 2-1 series victory against New Zealand after Jasprit Bumrah’s tidy final over secured the hosts’ six-run win in the third and final One-day International on Sunday.New......
BULAWAYO: Opener Hamilton Masakadza struck an unbeaten century as Zimbabwe reached 169 for four at the close on a rain-curtailed first day of the second Test against West Indies at the Queens Sports......
PERTH: England are steeled for a sledging war in the Ashes series with suspended Ben Stokes the expected focus of Australia’s barbs, captain Joe Root said on the team’s arrival in Perth on......
BARCELONA: Lionel Messi scored again and Barcelona won again, though in lackluster fashion and by 2-0 at Athletic Bilbao to stay four points clear at the top of La Liga on Saturday.Messi netted his......
BOURNEMOUTH: Eden Hazard’s second-half strike proved enough for champions Chelsea to eke out a 1-0 Premier League victory at struggling Bournemouth on Saturday.The Belgian, Chelsea’s main threat......
MILAN: Gonzalo Higuain is once again a lean, mean, goal-scoring machine.The Argentine scored twice, bringing his tally of Serie A goals to 101, to give Juventus a 2-0 win at AC Milan on Saturday,......
SEPANG: Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso won a dramatic and damp Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday to keep alive his slim chance of winning his first world championship and ensuring this year’s MotoGP title......
KARACHI: Hania Navaid, Rayyan Jawwad and Nadir Mirza won the finals of their respective categories as the inaugural Beaconhouse Open National Senior & Juniors Tennis Championship came to a close at......
LAHORE: Pakistan will host Asia Cup of emerging players next April with six top regional outfits, chairman of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Najam Sethi announced on Sunday after chairing the......
I AM not in the habit of following the Communist Party of China’s Congress, but a Reuters news report from the sidelines of the 19th National Congress being held last week in Beijing caught my......
FEW visiting heads are given the kind of adulation that leaders from China and Singapore get when they come calling, either to address trade meetings or to give speeches to august institutions in New......
IN recent years emerging market debt has been a haven for international investors looking for higher yields. Loose monetary policies pursued by developed economies’ central banks have fuelled demand......
LIKE all machines, the legal system comprises moving parts: gears and wheels, evidence and witnesses. And while it breaks down from time to time, and is prone to being hacked, we do like to believe......
China and Pakistan have redefined regional trade patterns after explicit bilateral contracts under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). At present, trade between the two countries stands at......
Pakistan is on the cusp of progress. The country has a window of opportunity in which to initiate key economic reforms that shall ensure it continues walking down the path to progress.Over the last......
AFTER recording a promising surplus in 2012-13 and 2013-14, Pakistan’s food trade ran into a deficit. The deficit keeps growing as demand is expanding for imports of food industry raw materials as......
ANNUAL wheat harvest crossed 25 million tonnes for the fourth year in a row in the previous fiscal year, according to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). As this amount exceeds the domestic......
Pakistan recently sought technological help from China to develop and introduce hybrid rice varieties in all the four ecological zones of the country. The objective was to arrest the decline in the......
FIDELITY Investments, one of the world’s largest investment firms, has pushed out two high-level executives over the past few weeks amid sexual harassment complaints, according to two people familiar......
The tall talk, globetrotting and endless meetings of the commerce ministry’s hierarchy have done little to serve the country’s commercial interests. Pakistan’s trade deficit has ballooned, its share......
For 30 years, Kamal Amjad Mian’s family resisted the temptation to invest heavily in their electricity cable manufacturing business to avoid creating surplus capacity. Instead, they chose to make......
The celebrations of the best performing market in Asia are long since over for the Pakistan equity market which has been down in the dumps since May this year.After providing mouth-watering returns......
According to the weekly statement of position of all scheduled banks for the week ended October 13, deposits and other accounts of all scheduled banks stood at Rs11,733.096 billion after a 0.06 per......
Commencing the week on a stable note in the early sessions, the rupee witnessed some corrections against the dollar in the week’s closing sessions.However, it remained largely range-bound on the......
Fiscal and monetary coordination is attaining greater importance with the country’s evolving democracy, creating new challenges for economic progress and with prudent monetary management becoming......
MEASURED by the variable contributions of its components, the GDP has its own evolutionary dynamics: when growth hits a peak, it opens the gate leading to a downturn, recession or depression. When......
There is broad agreement that the rupee is overvalued, with estimates of overvaluation ranging from 20-40 per cent. There are, however, two opposing views on how to deal with the problem:One,......
The power sector regulator — National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) — appeared to be making a strategic surrender to government pressure by building additional, unreasonable, costs in......
KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has found some irregularities in the affairs of the University of Karachi (KU) but decided to close the inquiry as they are not inflicting financial......
KARACHI: Some 68 Indian fishermen were released from the city’s Malir jail and they left for their home on Sunday.However, there are still hundreds of Indian fishermen in the country’s jails.The......
KARACHI: The Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) for polio in Sindh is set to launch on Monday (today) a five-day polio campaign in 21 districts and towns of Sindh, including its sprawling capital,......
KARACHI: The petitioners of the Police Reforms Case / A. D. Khowaja Case on Sunday expressed their deep disappointment with the decision of the Sindh government to recommend the removal/replacement......
PAUL Hazard, the renowned French scholar, once wrote: “England could be reconstructed entirely from its children’s books”. He exaggerated a bit, perhaps, to emphasise the importance of children’s......
KARACHI: A Chinese company has offered an over $600 million transport project involving over 2,000 electric buses to solve the issues being faced by the metropolis commuters.The offer was made by a......
THESE days we hear a lot about corruption, especially institutionalised corruption. This is not a new phenomenon, although the scale of corruption in the past might have been smaller. The good thing......
BADIN: Poets, writers and other scholars speaking at a session — Laar sadyen khaan (Laar for centuries) — one of the main features of the two-day Laar Festival in Badin — were of the concerted view......
SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has said that use of inflammatory words in politics and confrontation with state institutions is dangerous for......
ARBIL: Massud Barzani, the president of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq, told a closed-door session of parliament on Sunday he was stepping down amid the fallout from a controversial......
A HUNDRED years after the Russian revolution brought Lenin and his Bolsheviks to power, the vast nation has seen the reappearance of a modern tsar in the shape of Vladimir Putin. This not to suggest......
PRAGUE: At least five people died in a windstorm that hit central Europe on Sunday, causing widespread power outages and traffic disruptions.In the Czech Republic, falling trees killed a woman in a......
WASHINGTON: Cuba has hit out at allegations that mysterious sonic attacks made American diplomats ill in the country, dismissing them as “political manipulation” aimed at undermining relations.At......
REYKJAVIK: Iceland’s conservative prime minister won a snap election despite a string of scandals, final results confirmed on Sunday, but it remained unclear whether he could form a viable......
JERUSALEM: US pressure delayed an Israeli ministerial vote on Sunday on a proposed bill that Washington fears entails annexation of Jewish settlements near Jerusalem, an Israeli lawmaker said.The......
PARIS: French women are protesting sexual abuse and harassment in 11 cities across the country under the #MeToo banner in the wake of mounting allegations against Hollywood mogul Harvey......
WASHINGTON: Botulism pills. Conspiracy theories. What the government might have known and still won’t say about Lee Harvey Oswald.The release of thousands of records relating to the assassination of......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Sunday accused Iran of blocking peace efforts in Yemen, slamming its political arch-rival over its support for rebels that Saudi-led forces are battling in Yemen.Saudi Foreign......
ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) is set to revive an agreement with Mastercard which will allow citizens to receive foreign remittances through the 13-digit......
The city’s restaurant scene has witnessed a gradual move towards diverse cuisines. Where Chinese was the only international food available here at one point, now one can get their share of spicy......
CHAKWAL: The yield of the peanut crop, which is the sole cash crop of the Potohar region, has been dramatically affected by climate change.Peanut production this year has halved in some parts of the......
Ambassador Brigitta Blaha welcomed guests to a formal garden reception to celebrate Austria’s National Day on the eve of the actual day, which is celebrated on Oct 26.The Austrian national day marks......
Ambassador Istvan Szabo, Consul Emilia Szabo and Hungarian embassy staff welcomed hundreds of guests to a ‘60s themed garden party to celebrate Hungary’s National Day last week.The day is celebrated......
RAWALPINDI: An American woman, who was found roaming around Commercial Market Satellite Town a few days ago by the police, was offloaded from a Qatar Airways flight at Benazir Bhutto International......
Ambassador S. Babûr Girgin greeted guests and shoppers at the Safa Gold Mall at an event held to mark the Turkish Republic Day on Saturday.In his short speech, Mr Girgin said it has been 94 years......
TAXILA: Despite Punjab government’s tall claims about the provision of healthcare facilities to the citizens, work on the Basic Health Unit (BHU) at Jand in the district of Attock could not be......
PESHAWAR: Rising Pashto Sufi singer Ali Baba Khan released his video titled ‘Malang Abdur Rahman’ to pay tribute to legendary 17th Sufi poet Rahman Baba here on Sunday.He claimed that his video was......
PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party chairman Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao has urged both Islamabad and Kabul to remove the trust deficit and improve bilateral relations, which is essential for restoring......
TIMERGARA: Several tube-wells supplying drinking water to consumers in parts of Lower Dir have been converted to solar power.This was stated by public health engineering department (PHED) engineers......
MANSEHRA: A man was burnt to death and four shops and a hotel were gutted after fire erupted at a market in Mahanadi area of Kaghan valley on Sunday.The fire, which apparently broke out from a......
• Brave Lankans get ecstatic welcome • Pakistan win third Twenty20 by 36 runs • Shoaib Malik declared Man of SeriesLAHORE: In a historic game at the Gaddafi Stadium, Mohammad Amir picked up four Sri......
LONDON/ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The top leadership of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) converged on the British capital ahead of what is billed as a key consultative meeting that will decide both......
ISLAMABAD: The government is set to allow another bailout package worth Rs13 billion to the embattled national flag carrier, and will allocate around Rs230bn for the procurement of more than seven......
GUJRAT: Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan said on Sunday that he was fighting against ‘mafias’ in Pakistani politics“Politicians do not get people killed. Rather they serve the......
LAHORE: With posters bearing pictures of players lining the streets and enthusiastic fans carrying the flags of Sri Lanka and Pakistan into the Gaddafi Stadium in large numbers, the Punjab capital......
KARACHI: In a major blow to the Dr Farooq Sattar-led Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), Karachi’s Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra quit his party and joined the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) on......
ISLAMABAD: Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior Rehman Malik on Sunday announced that the case of journalist Ahmad Noorani would be taken up at the committee.Mr Malik said this......
MIRPUR: The tiled palaces beside Mangla reservoir and dozens of exchange offices testify to the prosperity enjoyed by Azad Kashmir’s Mirpur thanks to vast sums of cash sent back by tens of thousands......
WASHINGTON: Six US Senators have urged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to designate Pakistan and Myanmar as “countries of particular concern” for their alleged violation of religious freedom.In a......
