The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the group that had unravelled the Panama Papers a year ago, has now released Paradise Papers revealing the often-murky financial......
Protesting against the alleged discrepancies in the 2017 census results, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Sunday staged a political show of power in Karachi.MQM leader Dr Farooq Sattar, while......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday addressed a political convention in Ghotki and asked the attendees to vow that they would never elect a politician who has financial......
Preedy police on Sunday claimed to have arrested a suspect from the outskirts of Karachi who had allegedly made a hoax call, claiming to have planted a bomb inside the Sindh High Court......
Pakistan will be supplying 400 cricket balls for the Blind Cricket World Cup scheduled to be held in Pakistan and UAE in January 2018, said Pakistan Blind Cricket Council (PBCC) Chairman Syed Sultan......
Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has returned to Lahore after a week-long visit to London.During his stay in London, Shahbaz called on his ailing sister-in-law Kulsoom Nawaz and met various......
The legendary batsman and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief selector, Inzamam-ul-Haq, has joined Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise Lahore Qalandars as an adviser, read a statement issued on......
Two years after the terror attacks on Paris nightspots that left 130 people dead, seven people are in custody in France while key figures remain at large and may be dead.Among the 10 militants who......
Saad Hariri's resignation from Lebanon's premiership has raised fears that regional tensions were about to escalate and that the small country would once again pay a heavy price.Analysts said the......
Thousands of South Koreans protested on Sunday against an upcoming visit by Donald Trump and called for peace as the US President begins an Asian tour dominated by North Korea's nuclear......
Suspected Al-Qaeda militants staged twin suicide bombings and took hostages on Sunday in Aden, officials said, striking at the heart of the Yemeni government after suffering a string of setbacks.Six......
At least 27 people have died and nearly two dozen are missing after Typhoon Damrey barrelled into Vietnam, authorities said Sunday, just days before the country welcomes world leaders to the APEC......
President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that “no dictator” should underestimate the United States, as he launched an Asia tour that will be dominated by the North Korea nuclear crisis.Speaking to......
Saudi Arabia arrested 11 princes, including a prominent billionaire, and dozens of current and former ministers, reports said, in a sweeping crackdown as the kingdom's young crown prince consolidates......
Saudi Arabia on Saturday intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile near Riyadh's international airport after it was launched from conflict-torn Yemen, in an escalation of the kingdom's war......
Annoyed, rebellious, melancholic Jaun Elia passed away 15 years ago on Nov 8, 2002. The surge of repugnance in him for traditional thought and orthodoxy, and quest for self-abnegation, swept his mind......
In the mid-19th century, English was imposed on the subcontinent as a language for ‘educating’ and subjugating a population. It was used initially by the governing elite and a small segment of......
Recently I’ve been reading Lauren Elkin’s Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, which feminises the word ‘flâneur’ — a man who saunters around observing society......
In Zeinab Abul-Magd’s book Militarising the Nation: The Army, Business and Revolution in Egypt, ‘The Republic of Retired Generals’ is the fourth chapter’s apt title and prepares the reader for what......
Ever had that feeling of déjà vu when reading a review or a blurb about a must-read book? I recently did, when every publication worth its weight in the United States was recommending Zinzi......
For the last 40 years, there has been an insidious and concerted effort to demolish the theological and historical structure of Islam. Suleiman Mourad’s book The Mosaic of Islam: A Conversation with......
Terry Eagleton, one of the leading cultural critics and literary scholars of our times, comments on Irish society in one of his works, saying that literary realism never took root there and the......
Sometimes life hits you like a boulder. Literally.“My family was sound asleep when one night, the roar of boulders woke me up,” narrates 55-year-old Muhammad Ali, resident of a village named Guro......
Earlier this year I travelled along the west bank of River Indus for an assignment from Karachi to Peshawar. Only a patch of 17 kilometres of the entire Indus Highway (N-55), which starts from Kotri......
In their discursive event ‘South-South Dialogue’ at the ZVMG Rangoonwala Auditorium, the Karachi Biennale (KB) team had invited art critics and curators from Latin America to talk about contemporary......
Paolo de Grandis, an international guest curator at the first Karachi Biennale, has to his credit many editions of the Venice Biennale and well over 118 exhibitions. In 1984, his first exhibition......
It was impossible to not absorb art while on the special bus tours organised by the Karachi Biennale’s curatorial team led by sculptor Amin Gulgee for visitors and art enthusiasts from the city and......
About a thousand years ago, Al-Muqaddasi, an Arab geographer of the Middle Ages, wrote in his book The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions that there were 2,200 villages in Mastung, a......
My friend Daanish is every rishta aunty’s dreamboat: a newly-minted emergency room (ER) physician in New York City. I gave him the rundown on the doctor at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) who was......
It’s not the first time I have received unsolicited “pics” on social media. I was once added on a Facebook chat group by a random ‘woman’ who wanted to flaunt ‘her’ family jewels. In different......
Warm chanay ki daal ka halwa, a beautiful winter afternoon, a family gathered around, a steaming cuppa chai and the quorum is complete.Chanay ka halwa is my ultimate favourite. There are many times I......
Dreaming, about gardens and gardening is something all plant people indulge in from time to time. Gardens — just like dreams — are perpetually being honed towards a perfection we never actually......
Dear Auntie Agni, I have been married for a year-and-a-half. It was an arranged marriage and we had several family issues during our engagement. As a result our families do not communicate with each......
At this year’s prestigious ICC Champions Trophy in England, the Pakistan cricket team was the lowest ranked squad. Yet, after losing its first game against India, it exhibited one of the most......
The sheesham across the road turned 25 this past monsoon. From the tiny sapling sown into the wasteland that was once the upcoming housing society, to a full-grown Don Juan on the road, the......
It is late afternoon. You know you are at the right place as per the directions given to you but you don’t see them. You take out your phone to call and ask again. That’s when your gaze falls on the......
At last Pakistan hockey was able to make some waves. Generally cricket has been able to overshadow the national game almost completely, but even though Pakistan was giving the Sri Lankans greenwash......
Bilal, the frontman, is carefully perched in the driving seat of his car moving at a steady speed. Owais, the lead guitarist, is sitting next to him. They are carrying their instruments with them — a......
DUUR FROM COKE STUDIOThere you go! Strings have announced that they’re not going to be part of Coke Studio anymore, which means that Season 10 was their last as producers of the show.Bilal Maqsood......
Let this be a lesson for George Clooney the director. If the Coen brothers (No Country for Old Men) don’t want to direct a script they’ve written, then maybe you shouldn’t either. Worse still, don’t......
For a few hours after a bombshell BuzzFeed interview in which actor Anthony Rapp alleged Kevin Spacey had made a sexual advance toward him more than 30 years ago, when Rapp was just 14, Spacey......
When we talk of Pakistani cinema’s revival, we tend to focus solely on features, when it is in fact our documentaries that have been the country’s more noteworthy efforts in film and......
Celebrities live a life where they are constantly under a microscope: any fashion faux pas or the tiniest blunder will be highlighted on TV, lead to ink on thousands of pages and produce terabytes of......
FOR those conscientious Pakistanis working for the social and economic progression of the disenfranchised, the provisional data representing persons with disability from the 2017 Population Census of......
COUNTERFACTUALS are impossible, but occasionally we get close enough to have a peek at what could have been.A transfer to Maryam would be wrong.Not this way, not at this time, not as the coronation......
WHENEVER some political or ideological crisis engulfs Pakistan, liberals too are dragged in — although irrelevantly, as they neither created the crisis nor will they resolve it. They have already......
THE one good thing, at least which I have observed, about the army being concerned about the economy is that almost everyone in the country has suddenly become an economic wizard.Economic indicators......
UPPER DIR: Two minor girls were burnt to death after a fire gutted their house in far flung Doog Darra area of Upper Dir district, police said on Sunday.Sheringal police station house officer said......
PESHAWAR: The Fata Secretariat has transferred three senior officials over reluctance to toe the official line on its plan to outsource health facilities in tribal areas to NGOs.Among them are Agency......
MANSEHRA: The Hazara police have sought the help of religious leaders to check the honour-related killings in the highly conservative Upper and Lower Kohistan districts.“In Kohistan, ulema influence......
At the foot of the Shakarparian Hills, the spot where Islamabad’s famous Lotus Lake once greeted visitors has long been replaced by a cemented structure.The lake, its pink and white flowers and its......
ISLAMABAD: The Ex-Servicemen Legal Forum (ESLF), an association of retired officers from the military’s Judge Advocate General (JAG) Branch, have expressed concerns about the exclusion of judges and......
Tajamal Hussain, a resident of Thoha Bahadur village in Chakwal, had been working in agriculture since his boyhood.Now, 52, the farmer did not see his economic condition improve until he took the......
LAHORE: After touching its peak on Friday, the forced loadshedding in areas under Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) and other Discos started declining from early Saturday after the government......
LAHORE: Smog thickened to the critical level over Punjab on Saturday, disrupting road and air traffic across the province and creating health problems for the people.The level of smog at the lower......
LAHORE: Renowned rights activist and writer I.A. Rehman looked back at his life at the Lahore Press Club on Saturday evening, reminding the journalists and media owners of the need to connect to each......
Aseasoned photographer, Gulraiz Ghouri’s heart beats with Lahore. Though he has visited forty-two countries for photographic ventures, he always finds himself contented and composed when he is back......
KARACHI: The Regal Chowk in Karachi is known for several things such as the market for electrical appliances, newspaper, magazines and digest stalls ... big traffic jams ... and if you look more......
HYDERABAD: The 274th urs of the great Sufi saint Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai was formally inaugurated by Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani at Bhitshah on Saturday.The three-day celebrations......
KARACHI: Love is a shooting star. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. Love makes the world go round. … How many lines can one of think of while describing love? Countless. And......
KARACHI: If only regret could alter the course of life, 34-year-old Sultan would have counted himself as the most fortunate person in the world. Lying on a hospital bed with a stitched up neck......
KARACHI: Standing outside the Edhi Foundation Centre’s Kharadar office on Saturday evening, Hussain Themore’s tired old eyes remained fixed in the direction the buses came from. In between he would......
MADRID: A judge in Madrid was set on Friday to issue an EU arrest warrant for Catalonia’s deposed leader over his region’s tumultuous independence drive, in a move likely to take tensions to a new......
SEOUL: North Korea ruled out talks and threatened to increase its nuclear arsenal in a fresh warning to Donald Trump’s administration Saturday as the US President set off on a tour of Asia.Trump......
LONDON: Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party has suspended a lawmaker over what it said were serious allegations, a step that could undermine the authority of her minority government as......
BEIJING: China has unveiled a massive ship described as a “magic island maker” that is Asia’s largest dredging vessel, state media reported on Saturday.The ship, capable of building artificial......
BONN: Thousands of demonstrators converged on Bonn on Saturday ahead of UN climate negotiations demanding that governments step up action to halt global warming, starting with a rapid phase-out of......
WASHINGTON: An adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has admitted meeting with Russian government officials in 2016, according to a New York Times report published on Saturday which cited......
HARARE: A 25-year-old American journalist charged with attempting to overthrow Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, on account of an alleged tweet that described the ageing leader as “selfish and......
STOKE-ON-TRENT: Former England striker Peter Crouch came off the bench to rescue a point for Stoke City in a 2-2 draw on Saturday, denying new Leicester manager Claude Puel a second consecutive win......
RAJKOT: Opener Colin Munro hit a blazing century to power New Zealand to post 196 for two against India in their must-win second Twenty20 International in Rajkot on Saturday.Munro, who hit an......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) on Saturday announced a 16-member squad for the four-nation International Festival of Hockey being held in Melbourne from Nov 8 to 12.Pakistan along with......
LONDON: Legendary Australian paceman Glenn McGrath is fond of predicting Ashes whitewashes for his compatriots over England but this time round he is not so sure.The 47-year-old, who brought the......
LAHORE: A career-halting stress fracture back is set to sideline Pakistan fast bowler Usman Khan Shinwari for next four to six months, a spokesman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on......
PERTH: Mark Stoneman and James Vince were in the runs but skipper Joe Root was dismissed cheaply as England made a solid start to their Ashes tour in Perth on Saturday.Stoneman hit 85 off 113 balls......
ZHUHAI: America’s CoCo Vandeweghe defeated Ashleigh Barty in the semi-finals of the WTA Elite Trophy here on Saturday, ending the Australian’s impressive run in the tournament.Barty, who had beaten......
MADRID: Valencia swept aside Leganes 3-0 on Saturday to continue their stunning form with an eighth straight win to provisionally close to within a point of La Liga leaders Barcelona.Marcelino Garcia......
FRANKFURT: Sebastien Haller struck late for Eintracht Frankfurt to beat struggling Werder Bremen 2-1 on Friday and deny the visiting side a point in their first Bundesliga game since firing their......
NEW YORK: This week’s deadly truck attack in New York could not deter blind Japanese runner Toshiaki Ito from joining 50,000 fellow competitors in the city’s marathon this Sunday.“I will not be......
PARIS: John Isner stayed on track for the last spot at the ATP Finals by beating Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-4 in the Paris Masters quarter-finals on Friday.The American was the runner-up......
KARACHI: The City School PAF Chapter beat The City School Gulshan Campus by 9 runs in the boys under-17 T-20 cricket final held at the IBA cricket ground here on Saturday. The cricket event was held......
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said here on Friday that the newly raised Olympian Islahuddin-Dr.Shah Hockey Academy will help revive Pakistan hockey in the coming years.“I am sure that......
BEIJING: For Yu Kaiguang, harsh new United Nations sanctions on North Korea are a disaster.The trader in the Chinese border city of Dandong has seen business all but dry up, and he spends his days......
NEW DELHI: India may announce measures next week to help traders and small businesses who say a new nationwide goods and services tax (GST) has increased their tax and administrative burden.Prime......
KARACHI: The number of small borrowers of bank money increased sharply in 2016-17, with the highest 36 per cent growth registered in recipients of agriculture credit, said a State Bank of Pakistan......
KARACHI: If you want to deploy capital in Pakistan, now is the time, said Jeffery Paine, founding partner of Golden Gate Ventures, a Southeast Asian venture capital firm, at a conference on......
KARACHI: Pakistan stock market took investors on a roller coaster ride in the outgoing week and after dramatic twists and turns, the KSE-100 index finally closed the week almost flat with a slight......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Commerce has suggested measures to curtail the widening trade deficit in the next few months.It has identified several factors that caused an increase in the trade deficit......
As always — oil is on the move, and, the see-saw continues. One factor after the other continues to appear on the crude horizon, impacting the global energy dynamics.There seems a growing support to......
ISLAMABAD: The chief of the Awami Muslim League (AML), Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, on Saturday requested the Supreme Court to take up his appeal against the decision of its office to return his petition......
QUETTA: Pilgrims travelling to Iran and Najaf held a protest demonstration on Alamdar Road on Saturday against delay in the immigration process at Taftan along the border with Iran.A large number of......
TAXILA: Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Saturday the committee set up to investigate the news leak crisis had found no evidence of Maryam Nawaz’s involvement in the episode......
KARACHI: Six flights of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) were cancelled on Saturday because of poor visibility caused by smog and other weather-related conditions in southern Punjab and......
MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said that scenic spots and valleys have been identified in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where activities related to tourism could be......
ISLAMABAD: Police on Saturday registered a case against senior journalist and TV anchor Hamid Mir on kidnapping charges, Dawn has learnt through sources.The case has been registered in the light of......
QUETTA: The distribution of local and national newspapers in southern and central Balochistan remains suspended, since their delivery was stopped by Baloch militant organisations on October 25.At......
THE weather is getting cooler and so the working day now begins — as it does for most construction workers — at 7am, amid a grey haze that seems to hang all over the city. At the site of the......
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri resigned on Saturday, saying he believed there was an assassination plot against him and accusing Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of sowing strife......
KARACHI: A day after Nawaz Sharif rejected the possibility of a technocrats’ government, Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Saturday echoed the ousted prime minister’s remarks, saying the Constitution......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has returned the petitions filed by a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader seeking detailed scrutiny of funding records submitted by the Pakistan......
LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif held consultations with senior party leadership here on Saturday and assured them that he would frame a policy to iron out all internal differences within......
United States President Donald Trump on Saturday urged Saudi Arabia to choose Wall Street as a venue for the initial public offerings (IPO) of shares of oil giant Aramco in 2018.“Would very much......
Afghanistan has ordered the suspension of WhatsApp and Telegram to resolve “technical problems”, officials said on Saturday, sparking an outcry among social media users.Facebook-owned WhatsApp and......
