A car carrying a family fell off a road into a deep gorge near Murree, killing all six people onboard, DawnNews reported on Sunday.Police official Qasim Jadoon told AP that three young girls were......
The Rabi-ul-Awwal moon has been sighted and Monday will be the first day of the new month, furthermore, Eid Milad-un-Nabi (PBUH) will be celebrated on Dec 1 (Friday), DawnNews reported.The sighting......
Afghanistan recorded a historic cricket victory as the team clinched the Under-19 Asia Cup for the first time, reported International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday.Afghanistan pulled off a 185-run......
Robert Mugabe has been removed as president of Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party and replaced by his former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, a party delegate told AFP on Sunday outside a meeting in......
Turkish officials have banned all events by lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex rights groups in the country's capital.The ban took effect on Saturday for an “indefinite” period and applies to......
Tens of thousands of runners on Sunday choked through smog for the Delhi half marathon, ignoring dire health warnings from doctors who fought for the controversial race in the heavily polluted......
Saudi Arabia warned on Sunday that it would not stand idly by in the face of Iranian “aggression”, as Bahrain said the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement was “in total control” of Lebanon.The foreign......
The Taliban attacked three checkpoints in the western Farah province of Afghanistan, killing at least six policemen, an Afghan official said on Sunday.Mohammad Naser Mehri, a spokesman for the......
Former prime minister and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif on Sunday addressed a public gathering in Abbottabad, formally launching his party's campaign for the upcoming general election.Sharif began his......
As the clock runs out on the Islamabad High Court's (IHC) deadline to the district administration to clear the Faizabad Interchange of a sit-in of religious parties, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on......
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Sunday took suo motu notice of media reports regarding the killing of 20 people in Balochistan whose bullet-riddled bodies were found in areas of Turbat......
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to be questioned by police on Sunday for the second time this month over two alleged cases of corruption, media reports said.Netanyahu is suspected of......
A joint task force of various security and intelligence officials is conducting a 'sanitisation' operation in Quetta days after superintendent police (SP) Muhammad Ilyas and three members of his......
In one go, Dr Farooq Sattar took out three adversaries: Mustafa Kamal, exposing him as a tantruming political toddler; the ‘establishment’, which wanted two parties merged; and the Muttahida Qaumi......
What exactly went down on November 8 and 9? How did things swing so suddenly?I felt that my presence was not being acknowledged and my voice was not being heard. We [MQM-P and PSP] have been engaged......
As you enter the Dr Soomar Khoso Elementary School in Ahmed Detho Village, Talhar district Badin, a diverse environment greets you. Plants abloom with flowers, students chanting lessons mixed in......
Knowledge is often formally divided into the sciences and humanities — as if one can exist without the other — and is reflected in the channeling of students into one or the other stream at an early......
Internationally acclaimed Pakistani ceramist Sheherezade Alam needs no introduction. Her art practice spreads over decades of devoted endeavours and her personal life is steeped in passion, romance,......
Chughtai watercolour is a joy to behold even if it is just in a slideshow, such is its charm. This opportunity, with the added benefit to view the artist’s rarely seen works located in various......
Speculations are rife about who is going to hold the reins of Coke Studio’s next season (or from the next season) now that Strings have departed. The name that emerged as the front-runner for the job......
Qarib Qarib Singlle is a women’s lib film but not in the traditional sense of the phrase. Jaya (Parvathy) is an independent mid-30s widow who works nine-to-nine Monday to Saturday — because......
We live in the age of hashtags and the Trade Development Authority Pakistan (TDAP) pitched two of them during their recent trade expo: ‘Emerging Pakistan’ and ‘Made In Pakistan’. The former was......
I meet Mansha Pasha at a crowded restaurant. For someone who has been in showbiz for five years, she has quite a few hits to her credit. She is a good looking girl, and at a stage in her career when......
Last month, the world reverberated with shock when A-list Hollywood actresses accused cinema titan Harry Weinstein of sexual harassment and even rape. The allegations quickly led to a tsunami of......
When I first learned that they were remaking Murder on the Orient Express, the question that instantly popped into my head was ‘Why?’. Another cinematic interpretation when the 1974 version still......
"The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the colour-line.” So wrote the Afro-American activist W.E.B. Du Bois in his famous 1903 work The Souls of Black Folk. And indeed, the century of......
There’s a nip in the air and as we reach out more frequently for a hot cup of coffee, it’s time to start thinking ‘winter wardrobe’. It’s the season where layers dominate — with fluid linens paired......
Once upon a time there was a phenomenon called Fawad Khan who ruled the television airwaves. There were damsels oohing and aahing over his good looks and mesmerising eyelashes. Even Asher’s......
The first book I received as a present was a French cookbook given to me by my brother who had sensed my love for cooking. At that time I had just started college. And I was a disaster where......
Q. I have a Bougainvillea that gets full sun and is smothered in beautiful, thick blooms all year round. How can I propagate from it?A. Very easily! Simply take cuttings, approximately six inches......
Dear Auntie Agni, I’m a bachelor in my late 20s from a conservative, middle-class family and work in a private organisation. Prior to this, I was teaching at a secondary school. During my teaching......
As a new general election (expected any time next year) approaches, possible electoral alliances have begun to take shape. In Pakistan, such alliances often emerge when the system throws up a......
"Hati is the bad man round-about; he it is robs on the roads; he it is brings them to ruin; he ought either to be driven out from these parts, or to be severely punished.” So said Malik Asad, the......
It was a struggling, stuttering, face-saving bronze that Pakistan had got at the Asia Cup, but just as it went a step further — the four-nation Asia-Oceania outing — the worth of the regional bronze......
"I belong to a Pakhtun family so initially, when I started playing, my parents had their reservations, but they trusted me, too, and saw me as a positive example for other girls,” says Mehwish Khan.......
When a state decides to assert supreme control over its people, the arts tend to be at the front-lines of the symbolic firing squad. This is especially true for music. There are few other art forms......
Pakistan is home to some of the world’s largest mountains. The three biggest mountain ranges on Earth — the Himalayas, Karakoram and the Hindukush — all converge here. When it comes to mountains......
Novel-writing is a desperate struggle against the community imposed by the world. It is a fight against so-called reality, which must be defeated at all levels to successfully create the alternate......
Initially intended as a family memoir that developed into a political and public comment — probably after the realisation that, as Ernest Hemingway said, no human being can make a separate peace —......
Mohsin Hamid once said that making up stories is an inherently political act. One of literature’s critical roles is to instigate change but, sometimes, the most powerful form of literature is that......
At the tail end of the 1990s, a youngster named Jamie Oliver burst on to the scene with his scandalously titled cooking show The Naked Chef. It had nothing to do with cooking in the nude. ‘Naked’......
Frantz Fanon enjoys a special place in the minds and hearts of thinkers and activists belonging to the developing world, non-white races, oppressed nations and struggling classes. Fanon’s works have......
DURING my two years in Pakistan, I have travelled to many places in Pakistan, from the mountain valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan to the desert in Sindh, from the urban slums of Lahore to the coastal......
SOME 43 million Pakhtuns are currently shuttling between peace, extremism, modernity and tradition. Fata, created as a buffer, has gradually become an incubator of extremism. The inaccessible......
IN another week of numbing stupidity and vileness, maybe it’s time to stop pretending that there isn’t a solution: a straight fight between Shahbaz and Imran in an August election.May the better —......
ATTEMPTS to fix Afghanistan have accelerated after the Trump-led US administration announced its South Asia policy in August. Regional actors are realigning their positions to respond to the new US......
NOWSHERA: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Sami chief Maulana Samiul Haq on Saturday announced that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal would be revived only if the religious parties, including JUI-F, supported the......
Orders issued by the Prime Minister’s Office for the immediate removal of all staff from the Cardiac Centre at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims) who are involved in private practice......
ISLAMABAD: Men gathered outside the National Press Club on Saturday as part of the ‘Pakistani Men Against Rape’ campaign to show solidarity with rape victims.The campaign’s chief coordinator Haseeb......
ISLAMABAD: Station house officers (SHOs) have been threatened with disciplinary action if they do not lose weight, police officials said on Saturday.According to a circular issued from the office of......
Of late there is a growing interest among academic circles in the skill of the astrolabe makers of Lahore. What interests them in particular is not only the metallurgy and the manufacturing......
Soft spoken and down-to-earth Muhammad Sharif is commonly known as Ustad Sharif among his contemporaries. He was given the title ‘Ustad’ by his class-fellows at National College of Arts over his......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau has finally decided to launch a thorough probe into affairs of the 56 public sector companies formed by Shahbaz Sharif administration in Punjab for their......
Last week, the glittering player draft ceremony for the third edition of the 2018 Pakistan Super League (PSL) was held at the National Cricket Academy. Several former and current cricketers were......
KARACHI: Speakers at a reference paid tribute to Mohammad Ibrahim Joyo saying the eminent author and teacher inspired generations, practiced critical pedagogy and taught his students the means to......
DADU: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has dispelled the impression that Sindh’s reservations over census have been removed and said the federal government has not so far done anything to......
“This entire area is called Lighthouse because of our presence here for almost seven decades now. The electrical light fixtures shops started opening up here in 1948,” says Mohammad Siddiq, manning......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday indicted Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan leader Amir Khan in a case pertaining to providing shelter to alleged terrorists.The senior deputy convener of......
KIEV: Ukraine’s security agency said on Saturday it has arrested a Russian man wanted by Interpol over the 2004 murder of American journalist Paul Khlebnikov.The suspect, originally from Chechnya,......
BUENOS AIRES: An Argentine submarine with 44 crew on board was missing in the South Atlantic two days after its last communication, prompting the navy to step up its search efforts late on Friday in......
MADRID: The former mayor of Caracas, a staunch opponent of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, arrived in Madrid early on Saturday after escaping house arrest and fleeing to Colombia.Antonio......
PARIS: Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Saturday he will return home in the coming days from where he will declare a political stance for the first time since making a strange resignation......
LOS ANGELES: Nasa on Saturday launched a next-generation satellite into space designed to monitor weather around the world and help improve forecasts.The satellite, called the Joint Polar Satellite......
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration put the Palestinians on notice on Friday that it will shutter their office in Washington unless they’ve entered serious peace talks with Israel, US officials......
GAZA CITY: Egypt opened its largely sealed border with Gaza on Saturday after a reconciliation agreement with Hamas gave the Palestinian Authority control over the crossing for the first time since......
WASHINGTON: The latest US and Russian bid to find enough common ground on which to build some hope for Syria is in trouble, just days ahead of talks that could make or break the peace process.A......
MADRID: Spray-painted in murals, wielded on anti-war banners, and even once hung as a tapestry at the United Nations, Pablo Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ might be the world’s most famous political artwork.Now......
BONN: There was a telling moment at the 23rd edition of UN climate talks that underscored both the life-and-death stakes in the fight against global warming, and how hard it is for this belaboured......
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party will meet on Sunday to dismiss President Robert Mugabe and reinstate the vice-president he dismissed, Emmerson Mnangagwa, two party sources said on......
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel resumed complex coalition talks on Saturday in a last-ditch effort to forge a government and avert a political crisis in Europe’s biggest economy.The veteran......
LONDON: David Goffin pummelled his good friend Dominic Thiem 6-4, 6-1 to advance to the semi-finals of the ATP Finals here on Friday, where he will have the daunting task of facing Roger Federer.The......
DHAKA: Bangladesh has launched a series of police raids to crack down on illegal betting in cricket stadiums that has gripped the country’s main Twenty20 competition, tournament officials said on......
LONDON: Andy Murray and Ivan Lendl are calling it quits for a second time, ending a partnership that produced three Grand Slam titles and two Olympic gold medals.Murray announced on Friday on his......
BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund slipped deeper into crisis after losing 2-1 at VfB Stuttgart on Friday for their fourth defeat in the last five Bundesliga matches.The Ruhr valley club, firm title......
PARIS: Defending champions Monaco dropped more points after drawing 1-1 at Amiens in the Ligue 1 on Friday.It could have been worse for second-place Monaco after forward Serge Gakpe gave promoted......
ISTANBUL: Former Olympic and world weightlifting champion Naim Suleymanoglu, one of the sport’s most successful athletes, has died aged 50 in a hospital in Istanbul, officials said on......
RAHIM YAR KHAN: The 17th FFC Invitational Sona Golf Championship featuring over a hundred contestants started at the Sona Golf Course, Goth Machi near Sadiqabad on Saturday.The contestants belonging......
KARACHI: Lahore Blues rode on a whirlwind innings from Ahmed Shehzad to pull off a thrilling win over Peshawar before Islamabad grabbed a sensational last-ball triumph against Faisalabad in the......
KARACHI: National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) and Sindh Government Press (SGP) will kick off the inaugural Naya Nazimabad Quaid-i-Azam Departmental Football Tournament when they meet in the opening game......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan hosted its first ever international rugby league match here on Saturday when the national rugby league teams of Italy and Pakistan met here at the Jinnah Stadium Sports......
KOLKATA: Fifties from Lahiru Thirimanne and Angelo Mathews kept Sri Lanka firmly on course for a handy first-innings lead against India on day three of the rain-hit first Test on Saturday.The......
LONDON: Controversial goals from Shkodran Mustafi and Alexis Sanchez gave Arsenal their first Premier League success against Tottenham Hotspur for over three years as the Gunners won 2-0 in a heated......
BRISBANE: Batsman Shaun Marsh is determined to grasp what he admits is probably a final chance to establish himself as a regular member of the Australia Test side after earning an Ashes recall.The......
TOWNSVILLE: Novices Jason Sangha and Matt Short scored their maiden first-class centuries for a Cricket Australia XI to frustrate England on the last day of their final Ashes warm-up game on......
KARACHI: Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Senator Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo said on Saturday the government is enhancing the capacity of ports and developing the related infrastructure to......
KARACHI: Net credit to the private sector appeared on the positive side for the first time in 2017-18, a recent report by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) shows.Compared to the last fiscal year, the......
ISLAMABAD: The Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) would be the first step towards increasing trade between the two countries, Economic Counsellor at US Embassy, Chip Laitinen said on Saturday.Talking......
KARACHI: Bears re-grouped in the outgoing week to launch an assault on the equity market, which sent the KSE-100 index scurrying down by 592 points (1.43 per cent) to close at 40,844 points.A......
Karachi: Pakistan has a great potential for the growth of printing and graphic arts industry, said Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Muffasar Atta Malik.Inaugurating the 26th edition......
The world is in transformation and the energy world is no exception, Paris-based International Energy Agency notes in its much-awaited World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2017 released last Tuesday. However,......
ISLAMABAD: The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will launch next year the second phase of community development programme in Azad Jammu and Kashmir with a financing of $36.45......
SIALKOT: The Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) must facilitate and encourage women entrepreneurs by giving them all trade and export-related incentives for their capacity building, Dr......
BEIRUT: Iran does not have a problem obtaining financing for its aircraft deals and the delivery of purchased aircraft is on track, its deputy transport minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan said on......
BRUSSELS: An EU 2018 budget deal was announced Saturday that cuts funds destined to Turkey, citing doubts about Ankara’s commitment to democracy and human rights.German Chancellor Angela Merkel had......
MEXICO CITY: A key round of talks to update the Nafta trade pact formally opened on Friday, but within hours Canada was complaining about inflexibility by the United States, which is demanding big......
Ryu Bokyoung is confident she can do anything a man does in the sprawling Ulsan refinery in South Korea, be it scaling 100-meter steel towers or working through the night when repairing the plant.The......
AT the handover of the 100th A380 superjumbo to Gulf carrier Emirates earlier this month in Hamburg, Airbus rolled out the red carpet to airline executives and Dubai royalty, who in turn winked and......
SIALKOT/GUJRAT: One phone call from 16-year-old Haider Ali breathed new life into his family. The teenage resident of Jethikey village in Sambrial tehsil, Sialkot district, was the sole survival of......
ISLAMABAD: The prime minister’s spokesman, Musaddiq Malik, has said that Finance Minister Ishaq Dar would himself make a decision to quit the cabinet depending on his health and claimed that Mr Dar......
ISLAMABAD: More than a year since issuing notices to the Pakistanis mentioned in the Panama Papers, the country’s tax officials are losing hope of obtaining information about the money used to buy......
ISLAMABAD: The main opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has submitted a calling attention notice to the National Assembly Secretariat seeking a response from the government over reports about the......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has observed that it is not the obligatory duty of the litigant to point out to the court the correct law in a case; rather it’s the duty of the judges to apply the......
QUETTA: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that fast socio-economic development of the people of Balochistan is the top priority of the PML-N government.Speaking at the fifth Annual Parents Day......
KARACHI: Chairman of the Ruet-i-Hilal Committee and religious scholar Mufti Muneebur Rehman on Saturday urged both the government and parties protesting under the banner of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Ya......
ISLAMABAD: Senator Farooq H. Naek of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has replaced the party colleague Farhatullah Babar as member of the Parliamentary Committee on National Accountability Law. A......
KARACHI: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai’s memoir I am Malala is being translated into Urdu, it was announced on Saturday.The book written about the young activist with the subheading......
WASHINGTON: Two key US officials — Defence Secretary James Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen Joseph Dunford — will visit Pakistan soon for seeking Islamabad’s cooperation in war......
IN the 90s, Prof Saba Dashtiyari was consumed by Balochi, his comrades claim.The renowned poet and writer was born in Lyari but did not fall in love with the language till he started teaching Islamic......
ISLAMABAD: India has ‘positively’ responded to Pakistan’s offer for a meeting between convicted Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav and his wife, but made a few ‘requests’, a diplomatic source said on......
ISLAMABAD: Signs of a negotiated end to the sit-in organised by some religious parties at Faizabad emerged on Saturday night when a ministerial-level government team held marathon meetings with the......
LAHORE: Commenting on the furore in the wake of claims that around 20 Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNAs received phone calls telling them not to attend the National Assembly session last......
GWADAR: Another five bullet-riddled bodies were found in the Tajban area of Turbat tehsil in Kech district on Saturday just two days after 15 bodies were found in the Grock mountainous area in the......
TAXILA: The Punjab department of archaeology and museums has constituted a high-level committee to probe theft of antiquities worth millions of rupees from the United Nations Educational, Scientific......
Magician off-spinner Saeed Ajmal on Saturday said he can help all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez correct his bowling stance within a month if the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and Hafeez approach him.While......
