A suspect, who was arrested last month, reportedly confessed to his involvement in the assassination of prominent social activist Parveen Rehman and informed the Joint Interrogation Team (JIT) that......
A teenager was set on fire allegedly by his friends over some monetary dispute in Surjani Town of Karachi, police said on Sunday.The victim sustained severe burn wounds and was rushed to Abbasi......
More than 500 foreign and national cricketers were available for selection of the six teams that will compete in the 2018 Pakistan Super League (PSL) as the players draft for the third edition began......
The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PSMA) arrested 23 Indian fishermen and impounded four boats after they were found violating territorial water limits of the country, read a statement issued on......
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned Palestinian militants against carrying out attacks in revenge for the blowing up of a tunnel reportedly stretched from the Gaza Strip into......
The biennial Dubai air show opened on Sunday with hometown long-haul carrier Emirates making a $15.1 billion buy of American-made Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners, as the world's biggest defence companies......
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, ex-chief of army staff Gen Raheel Sharif and Malala Yousafzai have been named among the 'World's 500 Most Influential Muslims' 2018, published by the Royal Islamic......
A Muslim man was killed and another left critically injured by 'cow vigilantes' in India's Alwar district of Rajasthan state, local media reported on Sunday.The two Muslim men were targeted for......
Japan thumped Pakistan 2-1 at the four-nation International Festival of Hockey at Melbourne's State Netball and Hockey Centre on Sunday.With their second consecutive loss against Japan, the Green......
The players draft for the Pakistan Super League's (PSL) third edition was held today in Lahore.A total of 501 foreign and local cricketers were available for selection at the draft.The six teams that......
The Multan Sultans on Sunday decided to hand the skipper's cap to Shoaib Malik for the third edition of the Pakistan Super League.In a press release announcing Malik's captaincy, the Sultans also......
Police on Sunday raided a marriage ceremony in Sindh's Badin district, foiling a bid to marry off a minor girl to a 40-year-old man.The police team, led by Model Police Station's Station House......
From a stalled Indonesian rail project to an insurgency-threatened economic corridor in Pakistan, China's push to revive Silk Road trade routes is running into problems that risk tarnishing the......
Iran's nuclear deal is “not negotiable”, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghassemi said Saturday in response to remarks by the French president.Emmanuel Macron called for vigilance towards......
US President Donald Trump took his verbal jousting with Kim Jong-Un to a new level on Sunday, taunting the North Korean leader over his height and weight before musing over the idea of them......
From Shahjahan’s Taj Mahal in Agra to Aurangzeb’s Badshahi Mosque, the subcontinent is laden with monuments that stand in testimony to the magnificence of the material used in their making:......
Ali Kazim is the recipient of the inaugural Mahvash and Jahangir Siddiqui Foundation Art Prize 2017 at the Karachi Biennale. The award, designed by Fahim Rao, comes with a 500,000 rupees cash prize.......
About a decade ago, Karachi’s Saddar Cooperative Market was lined with shops selling Pakistani artisanal handicrafts: jewellery, ornaments, textiles, furniture, wooden and brass artefacts, leather......
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent visit to Pakistan has inevitably brought US policy towards the region into sharper focus. Tillerson’s visit has followed a period in which the US......
You may think these are all just things. They are not. Suddenly, they are “lifestyle brands.”Take the sushi burrito. This summer, Maki Shop, a Washington, D.C., carryout specialising in the trend......
When you’re cooking steak, it’s all about the quality of the meat. If you have the right cut, you will rarely get it wrong. But sadly, some people overcook the meat to death, and it becomes leathery......
Q. My grandmother’s garden in Gujrat was neglected for many years and is now in a bad state. There is moss on the soil, and small insects and fungal infections on plant leaves. A rose bush which used......
Salaam Auntie, I’m a 17-year-old girl. I have natural scars on my face, natural yellow teeth, and am short in height. People make fun of me and taunt me heartlessly, especially at school. I wish I......
The October 27 edition of The Guardian, UK’s premier daily, quoted Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammad Bin Salman, as saying that he is committed to “return the country to moderate Islam.” He added......
Over the past few years, participating in the ceremony on Remembrance Day to honour those who lie buried in the Karachi War Cemetery has taken on a deeply heartfelt meaning for me. The plea on many a......
As the whirlwind of excitement caused by the inauguration of the Karachi Biennale wanes, the time for reflection arrives — a task turned exceedingly daunting by the sheer size and volume of the......
Two things became very clear after the conclusion of the 2015 Cricket World Cup — that One-day International (ODI) cricket was evolving rapidly in the Twenty20 era and that Pakistan was still playing......
Imagine Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur landing in Lahore for the first time, hungry not just for cricket but a healthy meal too. Had Arthur run into Shoaib Akhtar, the former fast bowler would have......
A larger than life, iconic image is indelibly stamped on my mind and comes up again as I read the name “Sibte Hasan” on the spine of these books: a man with a swathe of white hair, pipe in hand and......
Festivals are not a new phenomenon in Sindhi cultural and literary traditions. In fact, this is one of the major moving factors that have time and again given impetus to literature in particular and......
Pakistan has consistently been in the news with reports on religious persecution, ranging from mob violence and arson on a Christian colony to the ongoing harassment of Ahmadis, to sectarian target......
Although ostensibly a sequel to Syrene R. Saladin’s The Princess and the Peace, the author’s second novel of the fantastical Viridian series is a standalone book. Whereas the first dealt with the......
“There seemed to be a mosque on every other corner; brown faces predominated in every direction. I was, I knew, in the heart of a Muslim community 250,000-strong: one of the greatest urban......
The recent demise of Dina Wadia, the only child of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, reminded me of Lieutenant Colonel Ilahi Bakhsh’s account of the last days of the Quaid in his slim yet extremely......
Hollywood actress Rose McGowan’s memoir, Brave, is scheduled to be published by HarperCollins in January 2018.The memoir traces McGowan’s early childhood spent in the religious cult Children of God......
Haroon Shahid is on the verge of super stardom. At least that’s what it seems. I meet him at the hotel he’s staying at during the pre-release promotions of his film Verna. After doing back-to-back......
The funniest gag in Avengers (2012) and perhaps any Marvel movie was when Thor’s brother, the trickster Loki (Tom Hiddleston) had just begun an arrogant monologue on why he was a god and hence......
Listen to the beautiful Babra Sharif. It has taken her a while to give a statement on the so-called revival of Pakistani cinema theory but, man, she has spoken. The yesteryear heartthrob believes......
Halloween and the Hollywood tradition of horror films screening in theatres go hand in hand. This annual ritual prompts another: a debate over whether violent scenes onscreen inspire real-life......
The image of Akshay Khanna as a staunch, methodical policeman standing as a silhouette against a gloomy background gives you the feeling of déjà vu. This is not the first time Akshay has played a......
Is what we see unfold a carefully contrived interview between a journalist and a solitary writer? Or are we being sucked into a seemingly innocuous conversation that is set to reveal a tumultuous......
Mukkabaaz — The BrawlerAnurag Kashyap’s Mukkabaaz or The Brawler is an ingenious state-of-the-nation address, a passionate and vital boxing picture that is unlike anything else mainstream Hindi......
HYDERABAD: A Supreme Court-appointed water commission on Saturday directed a federal law officer to ensure liaison between the Centre and the Sindh government with regard to the approval of the......
KARACHI: An understatement: William Shakespeare was a genius. His plays and sonnets have enriched the world of literature, and provided an insight into the human condition, like no other works of......
KARACHI: Friday, the opening day of the three-day Made in Pakistan Fashion Showcase 2017 by Fashion Pakistan in partnership with the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) saw foreign......
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party MNA Shazia Marri has urged the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan to avoid fanning flames of hatred by resurrecting the demand for a separate province and advised......
DADU: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader and a former chief minister of Sindh Liaquat Ali Jatoi led a big procession of local party leaders, activists and supporters which arrived in his native......
LAHORE: A rare collection of artworks was put on display at Suleman Dawood School of Business, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), on Saturday.The exhibition will remain on for 12......
Thirteen years ago, a visit to a weaving unit in Kasur hooked a young student of textile designing, Hassan Babar, to this dying art and craft. The romance with warp and woof became a never-ending......
ISLAMABAD: The activists and supporters of Tehreek Labaik Ya Rasul Allah and Sunni Tehreek continued the blockade of Faizabad Interchange on the fourth consecutive day on Saturday multiplying the......
ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar is likely to skip the trial proceedings on November 14 in the assets reference when the accountability court is scheduled to resume the hearing.Sources......
The matter of a mosque constructed on the premises of a pre-partition gurdwara, which currently houses a school, has reached the Rawalpindi district and sessions court.The Singh Saba Gurdwara has......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s exports to Tajikistan plunged 40 per cent owing to tariff restrictions and non-availability of cost-effective transportation system.The biggest bottleneck for Pakistani......
KARACHI: The stock market recouped some of the losses in the outgoing week as the KSE-100 index managed to claw up by 372 points (0.91 per cent) to close at 41,436.Although the market started on a......
DANANG: Ministers from 11 Asia-Pacific countries agreed on Saturday to press ahead with a major trade deal without the United States, as the world’s largest economy seeks to go it alone under......
KARACHI: Several memorandum of understandings (MoUs) and joint ventures were signed on the sidelines of the Expo Pakistan at the Karachi Expo centre on Saturday.Several B2B (business-to-business)......
KARACHI: Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has asked major political parties to share their economic policies with the business community.FPCCI President Zubair Tufail......
KARACHI: The recent banking data released by the State Bank identifies rural population of Sindh as the poorest among all provinces except Balochistan.The Statistical Bulletin-November 2017 issued by......
OIL markets are entering an interesting phase. Prices have gained over 35 per cent from their early summer lows and recouping, in the process, all of their year-to-date losses, reaching levels last......
SHANGHAI: China’s smartphone-wielding masses unleashed billions of dollars in e-commerce spending Saturday as they rushed to snap up bargains on ‘Singles Day’ — billed as the world’s biggest one-day......
TASHKENT: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which has just resumed lending in Uzbekistan, plans 15 more projects in the Central Asian nation in the next 12 months, EBRD first vice......
NEW YORK: The US biofuels industry, fresh off a win against Big Oil, is lining up for a fight with Brazil.American ethanol producers said on Thursday in a letter to US Trade Representative Robert......
Narendra Modi’s first term as leader of the world’s fastest-growing oil market coincided with the biggest price crash in a generation. Crude’s rebound into a bull market is set to test the Indian......
If the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) encounters trouble, it could impact other areas of cooperation with the US such as security and immigration, according to......
NEW DELHI: Foreign embassies have put out travel advisories for New Delhi and a US cancelled its services, but a senior minister in the Modi government denied on Saturday any link of deaths with......
DHAKA: Bangladesh on Saturday said its chief justice has tendered his resignation from overseas in the wake of government corruption allegations, as opposition groups raised fears that his departure......
MOGADISHU: The self-proclaimed state of Somaliland will vote for a new president on Monday, hoping to continue a series of democratic transitions of power that sets it apart from its troubled......
SYDNEY: Embattled Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull lost his grip on parliament when another of his coalition’s MPs resigned on Saturday, the latest victim of a constitutional crisis over......
WASHINGTON: US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, joined several dozen volunteers to give the Vietnam Veterans Memorial a holiday cleaning.Carrying orange buckets with the message “Let’s......
SANAA: The Saudi-led coalition carried out air strikes on the defence ministry in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa late on Friday, witnesses and rebel media said, leaving at least three civilians......
NEW DELHI: Buoyed by President Donald Trump’s gushing praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the recent APEC summit in Vietnam, Indian diplomats are hoping for a rich outcome when the two leaders......
BEIRUT: The militant Islamic State group recaptured Albu Kamal in eastern Syria on Saturday after a fierce fightback to save the last urban bastion of its collapsing “caliphate”.The jihadist rebound......
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is allowing American troops in Afghanistan to participate in joint operations with official Afghan forces and to call in air strikes when needed, US officials......
NEW DELHI: Azad Jammu and Kashmir is part of Pakistan and both parts of Kashmir — in India and Pakistan — should be granted autonomy, former chief minister of the Indian-occupied state Farooq......
THE Saudis may be holding the Lebanese prime minister hostage but their apparent plan to topple the Beirut government has gloriously backfired. Far from breaking up the cabinet and throwing......
INDIAN summer over, we’re all back in Paris; days are short and temperature is slipping down. Today we’re once again together in Count André de la Roche’s apartment, the drawing room window facing a......
ISLAMABAD: The twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi house over five million people, and about 500,000 of them commute daily through the 16 entry-exit points which connect the two cities.A large......
ISLAMABAD: With Pakistan finalising its strategy to fight the case of Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav, an Indian judge and an English judge will vie with each other in a run-off election scheduled to......
KARACHI: Heaping scorn on the rival Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan leadership, Pak Sarzameen Party chairman Mustafa Kamal publicly confirmed the establishment’s meddling in politics for redrawing......
LAHORE: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has questioned the Supreme Court’s decision to take up the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) plea to reopen the Rs1.2bn Hudaibya Paper......
ISLAMABAD: With Lahore in the lead, eight districts in the country account for a gap of over three million between the numbers of male and female voters — more than one fourth of the difference of......
SHANGLA: The people of Kana tehsil of Shangla district have demanded of the police to take action against underage drivers, particularly motorcyclists, who had become a nuisance for the local......
PESHAWAR: Women in Peshawar may have religious or personal reasons to cover their faces in public but a thick layer of smog that has recently blanketed the city has set a growing trend to wear face......
PESHAWAR: The ongoing efforts for decentralisation of the admission process are helping in early start of academic session in the public sector medical and dental colleges of the province, according......
PESHAWAR: An archaeological team of the University of Peshawar (UoP) during digging along Sulaiman Range in Dera Ghazi Khan has found relics it believes date back from the Stone Age to the British......
KARACHI: At least seven flights of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) were cancelled and five others re-routed owing to the poor weather conditions — dense fog and smog — in the upper Sindh......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar has warned the government against any attempt to “falsify” human rights situation in Pakistan at the United Nations review meeting......
MANSEHRA: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that his government is removing hurdles in the way of the Suki-Kanari hydropower project being built in Kaghan under the China-Pakistan Economic......
QUETTA: The $52.4 million Balochistan Rural Development and Community Empowerment Programme (BRDCEP) was launched on Saturday.The five-year programme of the Local Government and Rural Development......
GWADAR: A complete shutterdown strike was observed in the port city of Gwadar, Turbat and other coastal towns of Gwadar district on Saturday in protest against an armed attack on water tankers......
THIS century’s future will be largely defined by the relationship between a rising China and a resentful America.China has so far risen peacefully. Over 40 years, the US and China have developed an......
THERE’RE only three options. Elections on time, elections ahead of time or no elections at all. The puzzle is to figure out what suits whom.In the chaos of this week, there was relief.The obscenity......
STANDING by Bangladesh’s border with Myanmar, we watched the refugees slowly cross the thick, lime-green paddy fields. They wore signs of exhaustion. Their faces were drawn and their bare feet badly......
PAKISTAN is a hard place to be a baby. While according to the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (PDHS) it brought its under-five mortality rate down from 94 in 1999 to 89 per 1,000 live births......
STOCKHOLM: Sweden claimed a precious 1-0 first-leg victory over Italy in their World Cup playoff at Stockholm on Friday, leaving the four-time champions in danger of missing the tournament for the......
MELBOURNE: Pakistan continued their disastrous run in the four-nation international hockey festival in Australia, suffering their third successive defeat as New Zealand beat them 3-2 at the State......
SAN PEDRO SULA: Honduras held Asian Cup champions Australia to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of their intercontinental World Cup playoff, leaving a spot in Russia still very much at stake for both......
WELLINGTON: New Zealand weathered a lack of possession and territory to hold Peru to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of their World Cup playoff at Wellington Regional Stadium on Saturday.The South......
ADELAIDE: Chris Woakes took 4-17 and Jimmy Anderson and Craig Overton snared three wickets each as England skittled the Cricket Australia XI for 75 on Saturday to win the pink ball, pre-Ashes warm-up......
JOHANNESBURG: English Premier League pair Diafra Sakho and Sadio Mane played key roles as Senegal defeated South Africa 2-0 in Polokwane Friday to qualify for the 2018 World Cup.West Ham striker......
SYDNEY: Ellyse Perry has added another milestone to an impressive sports resume that includes appearances at football and cricket World Cups, scoring an Australian record 213 not out to give her team......
PARIS: Goals by Antoine Griezmann and Olivier Giroud helped France see off Wales 2-0 in Paris and a new-look England held Germany 0-0 at Wembley in their respective international friendlies on......
SAO PAULO: A determined Lewis Hamilton completed a perfect record-breaking ‘double top’ in Friday’s practice for this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix, leading his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in......
KARACHI: The Cool & Cool National T20 Cup got off to a blazing start in Rawalpindi on Saturday when career-best knocks from Gohar Ali and Sahibzada Farhan powered Faisalabad to a crushing......
KARACHI: It will be a race against time as renovation work at the National Stadium Karachi (NSK) was gearing up for holding Pakistan Super League (PSL) early next year.The country’s premier Test......
At least 26 civilians have died in artillery fire and Russian air strikes on two displacement camps and surrounding villages in eastern Syria, a monitor said on Saturday.The Syrian Observatory for......
