Televangelist and talk show host Aamir Liaquat on Saturday resigned from Bol TV saying the channel owed him money.The TV talk show host, who had earlier also 'resigned' during a live programme, this......
Pakistan has conveyed it to India that the “deliberate targeting of innocent civilians” along the line of control by Indian forces was “highly unprofessional and unethical”, the military’s media wing......
The daughter of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz, on Saturday warned that those "conspiring against the PML-N will gain nothing except defeat".While talking to journalists during her......
Five suspected militants and an Indian air force commando were killed during a fierce gunbattle on Saturday in India-held Kashmir, which also left another soldier injured, the Indian military......
India has sought an additional visa for Kulbhushan Jadhav's mother and a permission for her to meet the convicted spy after Pakistan offered to allow his wife a meeting on humanitarian grounds, a......
Decorated hockey player Afzal Manna breathed his last on Saturday morning in Lahore, a press release issued by the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) informed.An inside-left of repute, Manna......
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived in France on Saturday from Saudi Arabia, where his shock resignation announcement two weeks ago sparked accusations that he was being held there against......
A senior Chinese envoy has met an aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Pyongyang, the two sides said on Saturday, stressing longstanding ties despite deep divisions over the North's nuclear......
Top-ranked India were skittled out for 172 after Cheteshwar Pujara top-scored with a gritty half-century on day three of the rain-hit first Test against Sri Lanka on Saturday.After the highly rated......
Five bullet-riddled bodies were found in Turbat's Tajaban area in Balochistan on Saturday morning, Levies sources said.The sources added that locals had spotted the dead bodies and informed levies......
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has expressed hope that the face-off between religious activists and security personnel at Faizabad Interchange will end within a day.While talking to media persons on......
Superhero and comic book fans are a breed apart. They live, breath, eat and sleep the fictional stories and characters they are so obsessed about. In My Brother Is A Superhero by David Solomons, Luke......
If you have got to have a pizza, you have just got to have a pizza. So what do you do when the urge is strong, but appetite is small? You can put together a different version of this popular food......
We generally use dustbins for trash or solid waste in our homes, schools and work places, where waste in the form of papers, organic waste, metals, glass, cloth, etc. are dumped to maintain......
Dozens of octopuses suddenly spotted crawling ashore on a Ceredigion beach on the Welsh coast, and no one could explain why.The curled octopuses spotted are only about 20-inches long. It is uncommon......
The morning sunlight fell on bed, as if trying to wake me up. It was 7:30 already and I quickly got up to get ready to face the new day. It was the day of my maths exam.As I waited for my school van,......
If you are interested in augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) — 3D modelling technologies, you will be glad to know that Google has launched www.poly.com — an online library of 3D objects......
How many of you feel irritated when the teacher asks you to work in groups? And that happens a lot of times when you are in school or in college. Most of the times, you don’t even have a choice and......
I was home alone with my cat, Cupcake. My parents had gone out for a dinner with their friends. They asked me to come with them, but I had to do my assignment. Besides, I sleep early so I didn’t......
UNDERNUTRITION is a challenging development dilemma in Pakistan that has been in the policy spotlight over the last few years — in-depth surveys, seminars, donor missions, government meetings,......
WHAT an auspicious start to the week. Despite being buried under layers of columns of news of the latest twists and turns of what has become a sordid Pakistani political saga, was an uplifting update......
AT times, you need the silence of a hospital room to achieve clarity and perspective. Of course, there are frequent disturbances: the appearance of a nurse seeking yet another blood sample, or......
PESHAWAR: Frustrated by the delay in Fata reforms, the Jamaat-i-Islami has announced it will stage a walk from Khyber Agency to Islamabad to protest against the federal government for prolonging the......
PESHAWAR: Various civil society organisations on Friday voiced concern about the increasing incidence of HIV among transgender persons in the province and asked the government to ensure that the......
SHANGLA: The forest department in Shangla has foiled a bid to smuggling a big quantity of cedar wood from northern parts to Peshawar through an oil tanker and arrested an accused.Divisional Forest......
ISLAMABAD: The intelligence wing of the capital police on Friday suggested negotiations with the organisers of the protesters at Faizabad even though the Islamabad High Court (IHC) directed the......
“My father was a tailor, but he was not someone with a vision. For him education wasn’t a priority. For him feeding his family was the top priority. I don’t blame him because he lived in a time where......
LAHORE: The third Faiz International Festival, which has now become a major feature of Lahore’s cultural calendar, commenced at Alhamra Art Centre, The Mall on Friday.The venue has been tastefully......
LAHORE: Pakistan and UK researchers’ joint study has revealed that all sugars are not bad for health, as some can heal wounds such as diabetic and chronic ulcers in elderly people.The Department of......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday adjourned hearing of a petition of Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed against his detention to wait for a decision on the matter by a provincial review......
LAHORE: The Punjab government on Friday promulgated an ordinance to give legal cover to a Chinese technical education university being established in Lahore.The Punjab Tianjin University of......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Lahore, sought on Friday details of assets belonging to PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat Husain, his cousin Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi and their spouses......
HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad police on Friday claimed to have arrested a “former activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan, Shahid Abbasi alias Dancer” and described him as the main suspect......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has said the Ministry of Railways is creating hurdles in the revival of Karachi Circular Railway (KCR) and he will not let them ‘encroach’ upon the land which......
KARACHI: Popularly known as a reformer, educationist and philosopher, not many are aware that Sir Syed Ahmed Khan published an Urdu text, listing and describing several notable historical monuments......
HYDERABAD: Experts at a conference stressed the need for monitoring progress in implementing reform policies, providing community services, and involving users, families and stakeholders in mental......
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi army retook the last town in the country still held by the militant Islamic State (IS) group on Friday as its self-proclaimed “caliphate” faced collapse on both sides of the border......
LAS VEGAS: ‘Despacito,’ the viral dance hit that swept past borders, has won big at the Latin Grammys where singer Luis Fonsi announced a new frontier for the song — the Chinese-speaking......
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri dismissed reports about his alleged detention in Saudi Arabia as “rumours”, hours before he is expected to leave the kingdom to France two weeks after his......
BERLIN: Tough talks to form Germany’s next government stretched into overtime on Friday, putting Chancellor Angela Merkel’s political future in the balance since failure to produce a deal could force......
BONN: Fiji plans to move more than 40 villages to higher ground to escape coastal floods and is also working on ways to help future migrants from other Pacific island nations as sea levels rise,......
WHEN I heard that President Macron was ready to whisk Lebanon’s kidnapped prime minister to Paris with his family — victims of the gentlest hostage-taking in the history of Saudi Arabia — I couldn’t......
LONDON: Arsenal’s record signing Alexandre Lacazette has not been a certain starter this season and will be desperate to prove his worth in their Premier League derby against Tottenham Hotspur on......
LONDON: Jack Sock became the first American to reach the last four of the ATP Finals for 10 years when he stunned world number three Alexander Zverev in a firecracker of a match on Thursday.The world......
LAHORE: Remington Polo toppled Edezell 8-4 to qualify for the main final while Guard Group edged out Artema Medical/Black Horse Paints 6-5½ to reach the subsidiary final here at the Lahore Polo Club......
KARACHI: Vital Five Cricket Club beat Al-Noor Gymkhana by 65 runs at KCCA Stadium on Friday to lift the Fazal Mahmood Club Cricket title in style.Al-Noor Gymkhana won the toss and asked Vital Five to......
KOLKATA: India’s top order bulwark Cheteshwar Pujara resisted a relentless Sri Lankan pace attack with a gutsy unbeaten 47 before rain returned to wipe out more than two sessions of the second day’s......
RAWALPINDI: Fast bowler Sohail Khan, Pakistan’s top performer in domestic cricket, on Friday confirmed his fine working relationship with head coach Mickey Arthur and said that he would have been a......
SYDNEY: Spurned by his own state, wicketkeeper Tim Paine considered retirement before winning a surprising recall to Australia’s squad for the first two Ashes Tests against England.It was the most......
ROUGHLY 17,000 kilometres of the Pacific Ocean separate Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste, and Lima, the capital of Peru. But this was a journey that took a full 979 days and a few hours to complete.......
ZURICH: A loophole that allows national teams to boost their seedings for the World Cup by avoiding friendly matches is likely to disappear after next year’s finals in Russia, with changes due to the......
KARACHI: The stock market remained range-bound with the KSE-100 index closing almost flat on minor gains of 31.09 points (0.08 per cent) at 40,844.40.The index made intraday high and low of 97 and......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Energy (MoE) has sought formal approval of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet to introduce fuel markings in oil products, starting with kerosene, to......
LAHORE: The government has decided to conduct another study of the second 660kV High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission line from Port Qasim to Faisalabad to assess whether the project is......
KARACHI: A key suspect of the Feb 16 suicide attack on the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan Sharif was arrested in Karachi on Friday and remanded in police custody by an antiterrorism......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to start construction work at Gwadar Port by March 2018, and contrary to earlier reports in the media, has agreed that Chinese and Pakistani investors will get......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has held that an individual convicted in a foreign land but transferred to Pakistan to complete the rest of his sentence will be governed by local laws. And in case the......
WASHINGTON: The US Congress has passed the bill that requires Pakistan to work with the Afghan and American forces to destroy the Haqqani network but leaves Lashkar-e-Taiba out (LeT).The National......
KARACHI: Shoaib Mansoor’s Verna got released in the country on Friday evening after a battle with the censor board.Central Board of Film Censors (CBFC) chairman Mubashir Hasan confirmed to Dawn.com......
UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a Pakistan-sponsored resolution reaffirming that the universal realisation of the right of peoples to self-determination was a......
WASHINGTON: The US Department of Defence has advised American soldiers to ignore child sex abuse in Afghanistan as a culturally acceptable phenomenon, says a Pentagon report.The department’s......
QUETTA: A ‘commander’ of the banned Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) was killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Abdur Rehman village of Kech district, official sources said on Friday.The......
ISLAMABAD: The question of missing legislators haunted both houses of parliament on Friday as the Senate was unable to pass the 24th constitutional amendment, passed by the National Assembly a day......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Lahore, on Friday initiated the process to place ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and four of his family members on the Exit Control List......
ISLAMABAD: A showdown between the government and protesters holding a sit-in at the Faizabad interchange for the past several days appears likely as the last appeal made by Interior Minister Ahsan......
ISLAMABAD: The decision to replace embattled Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has been made at the highest levels of government, a senior government official told Dawn.According to the official, the only......
