Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Monday admonished Minister of State for Interior Affairs Talal Chaudhry and asked that "the house wants to know what forced the government to sign an agreement with......
A report compiled by the committee formed to fix responsibility for the introduction of the controversial amendment to the Khatm-i-Nabuwwat declaration for electoral candidates in the Elections Act,......
As daily life in Islamabad limps back to normalcy after being disrupted for 20 days by protesters, Dawn.com looks back on the chain of events that ended with the government surrendering unequivocally......
An Indian army official was arrested in India-held Kashmir with eight kilograms of heroin worth Rs400 million in the international market on Sunday, a top police officer confirmed on Monday.According......
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday arrested four National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) employees and three agents over charges of corruption and facilitating the issuance......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) opened the week on a lower note, with the benchmark KSE-100 index losing 216 points but managing to close above the 40,000-mark.The index lost around 300 points......
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the women doctors of Pakistan. I was both surprised and humbled by the response.People wrote in to say how it changed their perceptions of the profession and the place......
The Saudi Arabian government has banned pilgrims from taking photos and videos using any devices for any purpose at Makkah's Grand Mosque and Masjid-i-Nabvi (Peace be upon him) in Madinah.The......
A couple who contracted a free-will marriage in Karachi earlier this year were killed allegedly on the orders of a jirga, police said on Monday.Abdul Hadi and Hussaini Bibi, who hailed from Kohistan,......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Army Chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa travelled to Riyadh on Monday to hold meetings with King Salman Bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman.A statement......
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe cried and lamented “betrayal by his lieutenants” when he agreed to step down last week under pressure from the military and his party after 37 years......
DENPASAR: Indonesian and regional authorities heightened flight warnings around Bali’s Mount Agung on Sunday as the volcano’s eruptions sent a plume of volcanic ash and steam more than 6,000 metres......
The Islamabad High Court on Monday lashed out at the government as well as the army for the role assigned to the military "as the mediator" in the agreement to end the sit-in at Islamabad's Faizabad......
After the weeks-long protest that virtually paralysed the capital and saw several people losing their lives, the government has finally given in to the demands of protesters camped out at Faizabad......
UBER’S voluntary disclosure of a year-old hack that exposed the personal data of 57 million drivers and customers could be taken as a sign that under new Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi,......
EARLY last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) ordered an investigation into the leakage of trading information at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). The apex regulator......
FINALLY, the Ministry of Finance is without Ishaq Dar — the man who led the PML-N’s economic team for the third time after replacing senior party colleague Sartaj Aziz in November 1998.To ensure a......
FRENCH carmaker Renault announced last week that it is entering the Pakistani market. The company said it had signed definitive agreements with Al-Futtaim, a Dubai-based firm, for “exclusive assembly......
Encouraged by growing demand for wholesale and retail business financing, banks had started focusing on this area some years ago so that now wholesale and retail financing has emerged as a key......
PAKISTAN’S official unemployment rate is around six per cent. However, a private research firm recently reported that 49pc employable people are out of job in the country. The vast gap between the......
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has yet to create a favourable environment for local investors in the province.While focus of the provincial government has largely remained on legislation in the......
HOW much are Pakistanis paying for the political uncertainty affecting the country?Economic literature emphasises that the cost of political uncertainty is painfully high as policy direction becomes......
In a bid to retard imports in the face of a gaping external account, the government has recently levied regulatory duty on import of around 300 ‘non-essential’ items — mainly vehicles, tyres,......
THE recent increase in wheat flour prices in Sindh is a grim reminder of flawed wheat policy in the country. Removing structural flaws in the policy is a must to keep prices stable and ensure fair......
LIZ Whitehurst dabbled in several careers before she ended up here, crating fistfuls of fresh-cut arugula in the early-November chill.The hours were better at her nonprofit jobs. So were the......
WE should anticipate a bumpy road ahead because of the trust deficit that exists between Pakistan and the United States, as candidly admitted by our foreign minister recently while inaugurating the......
ISHAQ Dar’s decision to finally embark on a longer term leave with his illness still leaves Pakistan to reconcile with his legacy as the country struggles to overcome its mounting economic illnesses......
PESHAWAR: A 20-year-old transgender person was shot at in her apartment here on Sunday morning.The transgender person named Spogmay (moon) lived in an apartment in Khyber Super Market where she was......
PESHAWAR: About 2,500 riot police had been deployed at all important locations in Peshawar while the Pakistan Army troops were in the backup to handle the situation in the provincial capital as......
l Traders, transporters to participate in shutter-down, wheel-jam l Sit-in participants offer funeral prayers for deceased,demand justice l Charged protesters torch vehicles, attack policemen in......
RAWALPINDI: Two police officials were kidnapped allegedly by religious parties’ protesters from the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital early on Sunday.The two sub-inspectors (SI) were in the......
When the 207th National Day of Chile was celebrated last week, it was the last event in a row of several countries’ national day events in Islamabad. For Chile, it was the first time ever that the......
Argentine Ambassador Ivan Ivanissevich welcomed diplomats and locals to a tree planting session at Argentina Park.In his speech, Ambassador Ivanissevich listed a number of old and new names of trees......
ISLAMABAD: Denouncing the federal government’s decision to take all news channels off the air on Saturday, the journalist community in the twin cities on Sunday announced to launch a movement to put......
LAHORE: The Tehreek-i-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLY) on Sunday intensified its protest, staging 262 small and large rallies and sit-ins across the province, causing a great deal of inconvenience to......
MULTAN: Nigar Khana, just opposite the mausoleum of saint Shah-Rukn-i-Alam, is known as a house of handicrafts which has been selling antiquities and cultural and artistic items for over 45......
KARACHI: Activists and members of different religious parties continued protests and sit-ins for a second consecutive day on Sunday in different parts of the metropolis against law enforcers’......
KARACHI: As many as 8,628 policemen would be deployed for the security of Chup Tazia processions in the metropolis on Monday, a police spokesperson said on Sunday.This was stated in a report......
KARACHI: No matter what mayhem is created by fellow countrymen, life, indeed, goes on in the City of Lights. When I called Ayla, the moving spirit behind the All Pakistan Music Conference, to confirm......
SHORT story is Urdu’s most popular prose genre. Its counterpart in Urdu poetry, ghazal, has faced many challenges and adversaries and, of late, ghazal’s reign is threatened by a steep rise of modern......
EXHIBITIONAn exhibition of paintings by A. Q. Arif opens at the Artciti gallery at 6pm. The exhibition title ‘Mystical mosaic’ will remain open till Dec 2.Published in Dawn, November 27th, 2017...
KARACHI: The Ladies Horticulture Club, Karachi, launched a new edition of their classic book Nature’s Bounty — Gardening, Flower Arranging, Preserves of Garden Produce at the Horticulture Society of......
IMAGINE a Karachi whose streets and roads are lined with flowers. In 2017, it sounds like a pipedream.The city has demographically exploded and geographically expanded at such a speed that it has......
HYDERABAD: A three-day festival titled ‘Sindh Sufi melo’ was inaugurated by by Sindh Senior Minister for Food and Parliamentary Affairs Nisar Ahmed Khuhro in Hyderabad Club on Sunday.The festival,......
HYDERABAD: The three-day conference organised by the Pakistan Cardiac Society (PCS) in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology and European Society of Cardiology concluded in a local......
SUKKUR: Lashing out at the Pakistan Peoples Party’s leaders and its poor governance in the province, Pakistan Muslim League-Functional president and chief of the Grand Democratic Alliance Pir Pagara......
BEIRUT: Government air strikes and shelling outside the Syrian capital killed at least 23 civilians, activists reported on Sunday, as fighting in the area showed no signs of letting up ahead of the......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Sunday redoubled his support for embattled Senate candidate Roy Moore, ignoring the allegations of sexual harassment plaguing Moore’s Alabama campaign and......
CAIRO: The scale of the bloodshed was vastly higher than past militant attacks but the Egyptian government response the same: three days of mourning, reassuring messages in the media that things are......
BALEPHI: Nepalis across the country’s mountainous north voted on Sunday in elections that could herald change after 20 ruinous years marked by a bloody Maoist insurgency, a devastating earthquake and......
NAGPUR: Virat Kohli coasted to his fifth double century as India’s frontline batsmen crushed Sri Lanka’s toothless attack to stay on course for an innings victory in the second Test in Nagpur on......
LILLE: David Goffin never once lost his cool as he swept aside a nervy Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 7-6 (7-5), 6-3, 6-2 in the first reverse singles match on Sunday to put Belgium level at 2-2 with hosts......
LONDON: An injury-time penalty from Alexis Sanchez gave Arsenal a controversial 1-0 win over Burnley in the Premier League on Sunday to send the Londoners up to fourth place.Arsene Wenger’s side......
ABU DHABI: Valtteri Bottas won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday as Mercedes wrapped up the Formula One season with a one-two finish and four-time world champion Lewis Hamilton had to settle for......
LAHORE: As the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) hinted that two federal ministers may resign by Monday (today) as part of its efforts to end the ongoing crisis, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz......
LARKANA: Chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that the political crisis in the shape of a sit-in at Faizabad in Islamabad was created under an......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Iran have agreed to enhance cooperation in the public health sector, including medical education and drug manufacturing. Besides, both sides stressed the need for vaccination......
ISLAMABAD: The government is ready to launch the Rs515 billion Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project in February next year, even though the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) is far from......
WASHINGTON: South Asian experts reject the nuclear pessimism in Western capitals about their region, noting that the West’s nuclear “sky is falling” in South Asia argument does not hold when seen in......
NEW DELHI: An Indian woman whose marriage to a Muslim was annulled at her Hindu father’s request has denied she was forcibly converted to Islam, ahead of her testimony in the Supreme Court on Monday......
ISLAMABAD: Top civil and military leaders on Sunday went into a huddle to review and assess the law and order situation developing in the country in the aftermath of Saturday’s botched operation......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia gathered officials from 40 Muslim countries on Sunday in the first meeting of a counterterrorism alliance, a move Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman declared a “clear signal” to......
