More than 200 people are feared to have died when a tunnel caved in at North Korea's nuclear test site after its latest detonation, a Japanese news report said on Tuesday.A tunnel collapsed at......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi bore all expenses of his visit to London personally, BBC Urdu reported on Tuesday while quoting the Prime Minister House.The top leadership of the PML-N had met in......
Tensions rose on Tuesday after an Israeli operation to blow up a tunnel from the Gaza Strip killed seven Palestinian militants in one of the deadliest incidents since a devastating 2014 war.The seven......
Senators on Tuesday expressed serious reservations against the United States' policy on South Asia as well as related recent developments, including increased drone attacks and US Secretary of State......
Punjab police on Tuesday arrested an assistant sub-inspector for his involvement in the kidnapping of a couple abducted from outside their house in Rawalpindi in the month of June, police......
Punjab police on Tuesday arrested an assistant sub-inspector for his involvement in the kidnapping of a couple abducted from outside their house in Rawalpindi in the month of June, police......
Sri Lanka's surprise two-match Test cricket win against Pakistan this month was down to witchcraft, captain Dinesh Chandimal said on Tuesday, drawing mockery on social media.Chandimal told reporters......
Parliamentary leaders on Tuesday proposed reducing the number of seats held by Punjab in the National Assembly by nine.A meeting of parliamentary leaders was called after the federal cabinet referred......
A suicide bomber believed to be as young as 12 struck Kabul's heavily fortified diplomatic quarter on Tuesday and killed at least five people and wounding another 20.It was the first attack targeting......
A federal ministry on Tuesday formally started a probe into allegations of harassment leveled by a female staffer against a powerful male member of the elite Islamabad Club.A three-member committee......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange witnessed yet another trading session marked by selling pressure on Tuesday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index dropping below the 40,000 points barrier after losing 707......
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Najam Sethi on Monday said that after Sri Lanka's successful visit to Lahore for a Twenty20 international match, the Board remains 'hopeful' that Bangladesh and......
Singapore has banned Islamic preacher and scholar Mufti Ismail Menk from entering the city-state, saying that his views promote religious discord, reported Al Jazeera on Tuesday.Menk, who hails from......
We go to sleep at 1:45am on Saturday morning because after settling Pakistan’s ecstatic win in the 2nd T20 against Sri Lanka, we watch the highlights until the ads refuse to stop running.We – my......
Samsung Electronics logged a record profit of $10.0 billion for the third quarter and announced a sweeping reshuffle of its top management on Tuesday, seeking to maintain its lead while its heir is......
Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Jawed Bajwa discussed regional security with Iranian Ambassador Mehdi Honardoost in a meeting at General Headquarters on Tuesday, according to a statement issued by......
Sri Lanka are planning to send more teams to Pakistan after playing a Twenty20 International (T20I) match in Lahore for the first time since a gun attack eight years ago, a top official said on......
Japanese police have found nine bodies, including two with their heads severed and dumped in a cool box, in a flat in the Tokyo suburbs, media reported on Tuesday.Police confirmed to AFP they had......
An investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election moved into a new and more perilous stage for the White House Tuesday after three aides to Donald Trump's presidential campaign,......
Britain's Balfour Declaration turns 100 this week, hailed by Israel for helping lead to its founding, but viewed by Palestinians as contributing to a catastrophe that stole their land.The November 2,......
Apple's Tim Cook and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, state media said on Tuesday, as the Communist Party pushes for a larger role in private firms.The meeting......
Turkish state television says a lawyer for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed a criminal complaint against an opposition legislator for calling the leader a “fascist dictator.”Lawmaker Bulent......
South Korea and China will push to normalise ties that were badly strained over the deployment of a contentious United States (US) missile defence system in the South, both countries announced......
President Donald Trump's top military and diplomatic aides told US lawmakers on Monday that the administration was not seeking new authority for conducting military operations in the world's hot......
An accountability court in Islamabad on Tuesday ordered the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) to attach the shares held by ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif's sons — Hussain and......
Three Levies personnel were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast targeting a polio team in Bajaur Agency's Khar district on Tuesday, officials said.Officials in the political......
A year since new laws came into force aimed at stemming the flow of "honour killings", scores of young women in Pakistan are still being murdered by relatives for bringing shame on their family.The......
A man convicted of rape and murder was executed early Tuesday morning at the Hyderabad Central Prison.Magistrate Azhar Shamail was present at the time of Sikandar Ali Joyo's hanging while Prison......
China's legislature is considering a bill mandating prison sentences of up to three years for disrespecting the national anthem, amid rising nationalist appeals from the ruling Communist Party under......
DHOFAR: In sunglasses and jumpsuits, a crew of European test astronauts is laying the groundwork for a Mars simulation in the barren expanse of the Omani desert, a terrestrial mission intended to......
PARIS: A Muslim feminist activist who has accused prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of violent rape detailed her claims in a hard-hitting interview on Monday.The leading Oxford professor, whose......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra has said major reservations of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on reforms in Fata have been addressed and that the......
DI Khan: The police have arrested seven of the nine people suspected of torturing and illegally confining a teenage girl in Garahmat village of Daraban tehsil here.The girl’s family had first......
SWABI: Women Engineering Society (WES) of Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI) ran an awareness campaign on Monday about breast cancer and its preventive......
ISLAMABAD: The Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), which re-opened a week ago after a 19-day closure, could not hold classes again on Monday as protesting students kept university buses from plying on......
ISLAMABAD: The 12th National Theatre Festival started on Monday at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) though with a delay of an hour and a half as the organisers waited for State......
ISLAMABAD: The capital administration on Monday warned organisers and activists of the Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah to immediately vacate Jinnah Avenue where they are staging a sit in and served......
LAHORE: Centenarian PPP jiyala Muhammad Siddique alias ‘Hara Saeen’ died here on Monday.After his funeral prayers, to be held at 10am in Mozang on Tuesday, he will be laid to rest in Miani Saheb......
MUZAFFARGARH: Police arrested a woman and her two accomplices on Monday in Lashariwala for allegedly spiking lassi with rat killing pills resulting in the death of 13 people of her family.Dera Ghazi......
KARACHI: A local court on Monday once again issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan chief Dr Farooq Sattar and other party leaders in a case pertaining to......
KARACHI: Children as well as teachers and volunteers enjoyed watching films belonging to several countries on the first day of the week-long International Children’s Film Festival organised by The......
KARACHI: The United States has given $241 million to the Sindh government since 2011 under the USAID programme for improvement in education, health and municipal services sectors.At present, Sindh......
THE Indonesian military killed as many as one million suspected communists in the mid-1960s, paving the path for a dictator, Suharto, who ruled the country for more than three decades. Newly......
LONDON: Immaculate in a grey woollen suit, 26-year-old Christopher Linares settles into a chair in his office near Buckingham Palace. The grand setting feels a long way from his Peruvian home — and......
GAZA: Six Palestinians were killed on Monday when Israel blew up what it said was a tunnel being dug across the Gaza Strip border.A source for the Islamic Jihad militant group said Arafat Abu......
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia will allow women into sports stadiums as of next year, the kingdom’s latest step towards easing rules on gender segregation but they will be seated in the so-called family......
TEHRAN: Tehran on Monday rejected as “ridiculous and baseless” accusations by Saudi Arabia that Iran was supporting rebels and blocking peace efforts in Yemen.“The Saudi foreign minister’s claims......
GENEVA: The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has hit a new high, the UN said on Monday, warning that drastic action is needed to achieve targets set by the Paris climate......
BARCELONA: Spain’s direct rule over Catalonia took hold smoothly on Monday as employees ignored calls for civil disobedience to turn up for work, and secessionist parties agreed to stand in new......
ANKARA: A mass trial in Turkey is set to resume on Monday of more than 220 suspects, including former generals, accused of being among the ringleaders of last year’s coup bid to unseat President......
WASHINGTON: Paul Manafort, a former campaign manager for President Donald Trump, surrendered to the FBI on Monday and another ex-aide pleaded guilty to lying to agents in the most serious steps yet......
WASHINGTON: The United States will pledge $60 million to support the new G5 Sahel regional counter-terrorism force, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday, ahead of UN talks on the......
BERLIN: Shallow waters off a North Sea island complicated efforts on Monday to dislodge a large freighter that ran aground as Germany began cleaning up after a storm that killed at least six people......
MEXICO CITY: Lewis Hamilton grabbed the British Union Jack for a “victory” lap, and then draped it over his shoulders. There was no way he was going to let it go.Hamilton won his fourth career......
LONDON: Big-spending Paris St Germain, five-time champions Barcelona and Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United are among the teams looking to book a Champions League last-16 place on Tuesday.The pick of......
SYDNEY: West Indies batsman Chris Gayle won a defamation case against an Australian media company in the New South Wales Supreme Court on Monday over an alleged incident during the 2015 World......
NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli reclaimed his throne as the world’s best One-day International batsman on Monday after smashing his sixth ton of the year in India’s series-clinching victory over New......
GIRONA: La Liga champions Real Madrid suffered a backlash on the field rather than from an expected hostile atmosphere amid political turmoil in Catalonia as they slumped to a shock 2-1 defeat in......
LONDON: After seeing the instant impact of Claude Puel at Leicester City, Everton might be looking to appoint a permanent manager sooner rather than later.Leicester were reinvigorated on Sunday by......
BASEL: Roger Federer displayed some rare flashes of temper as he battled past Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, 6-3 for an eighth Swiss Indoors title in front of a partisan Basel......
MILAN: Serie A leaders Napoli reinforced its title credentials by making it 10 wins from 11 league matches this season with a typically entertaining 3-1 win over Sassuolo on Sunday to retain their......
ISLAMABAD: Appreciating the splendid gesture shown by Sri Lankan government which sent its national cricket squad to Pakistan, Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada on......
KARACHI: Contrasting fortunes for Lahore Whites and Karachi Whites saw the former clinch their berth in the Super Eight stage of the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy National Cricket Championship on Monday.On the......
ISLAMABAD: The 1st Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) Blind Cricket Championship 2017, organized by Islamabad Cricket Club of the Blind (ICCB), was inaugurated at Bhutto Cricket Ground.Deputy Managing......
KARACHI: The parliamentarians of Sindh defeated their counterparts from Punjab by 58 runs in a festival T20 match at the DHA Moin Khan Academy here on Sunday night.Electing to bat first, the......
ISLAMABAD: ExxonMobil has pulled out of a major project in Pakistan in a potential blow to plans to boost imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) after years of winter shortages.Differences among the......
LAHORE: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said liquefied natural gas (LNG) is being imported from Qatar on a cost-free basis.The country is saving $1.25 billion annually, which is more than the......
ISLAMABAD: Disregarding prevailing political uncertainty, Standard & Poor’s affirmed on Monday Pakistan’s stable economic and fiscal outlook for the short and long terms with a downward expectation......
ISLAMABAD: China Power Hub Generation Company Pvt Ltd (CPHGC) — the sponsor of proposed 1,320MW coal power project — on Monday said it had finalised $1.5 billion financing arrangements with a......
KARACHI: The stock market witnessed a bloodbath on Monday as the KSE-100 index plunged by 781 points (1.90 per cent) to close at 40,324 points.Deafening noise on the political front, uncertainty on......
HYDERABAD: The Sindh government has yet to notify the indicative price for sugarcane and fix crushing date despite the fact that the 1950 Act calls for beginning of crushing season in......
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) recommended on Monday an increase of Rs5.19 per litre in the price of high speed diesel (HSD) and Rs2.49 in that of petrol for November.It also......
BEIJING: China on Monday signalled it would again block an Indian request at the United Nations to blacklist the head of a Pakistani militant group because there was no consensus, a move likely to......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) central information secretary Shafqat Mahmood on Monday lambasted the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for holding a meeting of its senior leaders,......
WASHINGTON: There’s no pressure within Pakistan to revoke the country’s blasphemy laws, although foreign governments and media often demand such a change, says Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar......
RAWALPINDI: Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday installed Rawalpindi Corps Commander Lt Gen Nadeem Raza as the first Colonel Commandant of the Mujahid Force (MF) at a......
ISLAMABAD: Two days after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) took the step of conducting an inquiry into leaked question papers of the National Testing Service (NTS), as well as alleged......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Thursday deferred a bill seeking to decriminalise attempted suicide, with Chairman Raza Rabbani ruling that a decision was not possible without a definitive view of the......
ISLAMABAD: The National Party (NP) on Monday approached the Supreme Court, assailing the Elections Act 2017 in a different way — by seeking a declaration against certain restrictions imposed on......
ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal has decided to separately study corruption cases against Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leaders Dr Asim Hussain and......
KARACHI: It was really a good read … the report in this paper unfolded the story of how a garbage dumping site in Islamabad has proven to be significant for a handful of scientists and academics of......
BAKU: The leaders of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Georgia launched an 826-km rail link connecting the three countries on Monday, establishing a freight and passenger link between Europe and China that......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan is trying to reacquire an unspecified number of helicopters from the United States for anti-narcotics operations after returning nine Huey II helicopters it had acquired in 2002,......
KABUL: The Afghan Taliban said on Monday that Kevin King, one of the two professors from the American University of Afghanistan who were kidnapped at gunpoint in Kabul last year, is seriously ill and......
ISLAMABAD: Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan claimed on Monday that an overwhelming majority in the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) differed with ousted prime minister Nawaz......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army on Monday rejected Indian allegations of targeting civilian population living on the other side of the Line of Control (LoC).The denial was made during a ‘special hotline......
LONDON/KARACHI: After having deliberations with the top brass of his party, including his “establishment-friendly” younger brother, ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday brushed aside reports......
THE use of information and communication technologies for political purposes has had the state machinery worried for the past few years. What has transpired in the last week is of particular......
WE can take the boy out of the country. The challenge is to take the country out of the boy. Through all the decades since school and college, I have lived with a silent difference of opinion with......
The incident of the Karachi-based Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) doctor who was reportedly fired/suspended after sending filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s sister a Facebook friend request has......
HOW many parents and children remember their teachers? How often do they express appreciation for the knowledge teachers have imparted to them? Indeed, how many teachers rededicate themselves to the......
