An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Abbottabad on Tuesday started reviewing video footage in connection with the Mashal Khan murder case, defence and prosecutor lawyers said.An ATC judge was hearing the......
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in for a second term on Tuesday in what some hoped would be the end of months of election turmoil, which Kenyatta said stretched the country “almost to the......
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday accused Gulf rival Qatar of being behind a call for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate allegations of war crimes by the UAE in Yemen.A......
Total investment envisioned under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has increased to $60 billion, Radio Pakistan, the state-run radio service, reported on Tuesday while quoting the deputy......
Turkish police rescued 57 Pakistani migrants who had been chained up in an Istanbul basement by human traffickers trying to extort money, local media reported on Tuesday.The traffickers told the......
Egyptian security forces killed 11 suspected “terrorist elements” during a raid on a hideout in the northern Sinai, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.A ministry statement said police were still......
Bears continued to dominate the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Tuesday as the benchmark KSE-100 index lost 398 points, or 1 per cent, to fall below the 40,000 mark at 39,634.The market opened......
Pope Francis insisted on Tuesday that Myanmar's future depends on respecting the rights of each ethnic group, an indirect show of support for Rohingya Muslims who have been subject to decades of......
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to continue his "struggle for democracy" during an informal address to workers at the Punjab House in Islamabad on Tuesday."What has been happening in the......
Rape is not a number. And, neither should it nor other forms of gender-based violence ever become only digits in a report.Yet, when it comes to researching this form of violence, experiences of......
The Supreme Court on Tuesday, after questioning the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) Special Prosecutor Imranul Haq, adjourned its hearing of the Hudaibiyah Paper Mills reference till Dec 11......
A six-year-old girl was killed in Faisalabad on Monday evening when a loan shark opened fire on the victim's house following a heated argument with her father over a delay in the repayment of a......
With the country still smarting from the government's mishandling of the Faizabad sit-in, PML-N's Member National Assembly (MNA) Sheikh Muhammad Akram said last night that he, along with 14 other......
Justice Qazi Mohammad Amin Ahmad of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday praised the army for its efforts in defusing the situation in Faizabad, a day after Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui lashed out......
A Chinese general has killed himself in his Beijing home after becoming the latest top official ensnared by President Xi Jinping's sweeping anti-corruption campaign, state media said on Tuesday.Zhang......
A first-information report (FIR) was registered by police against the allegedly jirga-ordered murder of a couple in Karachi who contracted a free-will marriage earlier this year.The couple were......
A knife attacker injured a German town mayor in an assault which officials on Tuesday said appeared motivated by the municipal leader's pro-refugee stance.Chancellor Angela Merkel was “horrified by......
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Tuesday ordered a retrial of the Shahzeb Khan murder case in a sessions court after revoking the punishments previously awarded to Shahrukh Jatoi and three others.The......
Ivanka Trump is making a significant solo outing by headlining a business conference in India, but her trip highlights questions about whether her message of empowering poor women matches her......
The Supreme Court on Tuesday disposed off a contempt of court petition filed by PPP leader Dr Asim Hussain against the Interior Ministry.On November 22, Dr Asim had filed the petition after the......
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Monday that he will resign if the Hezbollah militant group refuses to accept a new power-sharing arrangement for Lebanon, speaking as consultations got......
A Chinese court sentenced Taiwanese democracy activist Lee Ming-cheh to five years in prison on Tuesday on charges of attempting to subvert state power, further souring cross-strait ties.Lee sat......
The government on Monday gave in to the demands of Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLY) in order to end the Faizabad sit-in.The agreement document — bearing signatures of Interior Minister Ahsan......
The Lahore High Court issued on Monday a notice to the Punjab secretary of the school education department on a petition by a teacher allegedly terminated for being an Ahmadi.Shaukat Rauf contended......
An accountability court in Islamabad on Tuesday adjourned the hearing into corruption references against the Sharif family after former prime minister Nawaz Sharif requested the investigators to......
THE 2016 Global Gender Gap Report ranked Pakistan as the second worst country in the world for gender equality. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s annual report states that violence against......
PAKISTAN and the US are making yet another effort to find common ground.Multiple high-level delegations have engaged in recent months. We have seen reports of renewed drone strikes in Pakistan that......
“YE Prataap ka watan pala hai azadi ke naaron pe/ Kood padi thee’n yahan hazaaro’n Padminiya’n angaaro’n pe/ Bol rahi hai kan kan se qurbani Rajasthan ki/ Is mitti se tilak karo ye dharti hai......
“Lai aai hai kahan par kismet hamain kahan se/ Yeh to wohi jagah hai guzrey they hum jahan se” (Fate has brought us to the same place we had visited) — from the movie SalgirahTHIS couplet aptly......
SHANGLA: The locally produced blood orange has arrived in the market and its supply to other cities of the country has also started.“I daily bring 2,000 oranges from Kerai orchards to sell in the......
ISLAMABAD: The attorney general’s (AG) office is looking into how a reply on behalf of the Ministry of Law in a pending matter concerning a demand for the open trial of a sitting judge of the......
ISLAMABAD: The workers of Capital Development Authority moved in to clean the Islamabad Expressway on Monday as protesters of the Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah started moving out gradually.The......
RAWALPINDI: The two police officials, who were allegedly kidnapped by unidentified activists of religious parties, from the District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital on Sunday were found lying alongside a......
ISLAMABAD: There are less than 20,000 Chinese nationals in Pakistan but some elements are continuously spreading rumours that Beijing will occupy Pakistan through the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor......
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday slammed the recent spate of enforced disappearances of some Baloch students and activists in Karachi.The commission demanded that the......
KARACHI: The exhumation and subsequent post-mortem examination of the bodies of a young couple on Monday confirmed that they were strangled to death and secretly buried in an Ittehad Town graveyard......
KARACHI: The trend of enjoying tea outside home is now changing fast. New breeds of investors are gradually firming up their position against the decades-old tea stalls, mostly owned by......
HYDERABAD: Antiterrorism Court Hyderabad on Monday remanded in judicial custody for 15 days Nadir Jakhrani, linked to the militant Islamic State group and a key suspect in Qalandar Lal Shahbaz shrine......
LAS VEGAS: Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, who represented South Africa, won the Miss Universe crown on Sunday.The 22-year-old, who wants to use her reign to champion HIV/AIDS and self-defence causes, was......
BEIRUT: A breakthrough in UN-backed Syria peace talks in Geneva this week seems hardly more likely than in seven failed earlier rounds as President Bashar al-Assad pushes for total military victory......
NEW YORK: Russian election influence, the ever-widening sexual harassment scandal, mass shootings and the opioid epidemic helped elevate the word “complicit” as Dictionary.com’s word of the year for......
NEW DELHI: A woman confined to her parents’ home because she married a Muslim should be removed from her father’s custody and allowed to finish her studies, India’s top court ruled on Monday.Akhila......
UNITED NATIONS: Israel and the Trump administration are working together to prevent publication of a United Nations database of companies that operate in Israel’s West Bank settlements, in......
ABIDJAN: A furore over migrant slave markets in Libya casts a shadow over an AU-EU summit this week that aims to promote Africa’s long-term economic growth and stability, spurred by European fears of......
LONDON: Britain’s Prince Harry said he was thrilled after he and US actress Meghan Markle announced they were engaged on Monday with the couple to tie the knot in the spring of next year.Harry, 33,......
VIENNA: Women need to be given a greater role in industries in poorer nations to meet the global goal of cutting poverty by 2030, the head of the United Nations industrial development agency said on......
TEGUCIGALPA: Initial election results released early on Monday in Honduras showed opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla leading President Juan Orlando Hernandez, after a tense evening that saw both......
JAKARTA: Implicated in five corruption scandals since the 1990s but never convicted, the speaker of Indonesia’s parliament Setya Novanto is a political survivor.Last week Novanto was detained by......
AFTER a hideous terrorist attack on a mosque in north Sinai, which killed at least 305 people on Friday, Egypt’s strongman president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, issued a characteristically tough warning.......
LONDON: King Edward VIII sacrificed his throne and Queen Elizabeth’s sister Margaret gave up her one true love, but for Prince Harry marrying a divorcee is no longer a bar to being a royal or......
LILLE: Lucas Pouille throttled Belgium’s Steve Darcis 6-3, 6-1, 6-0 in Sunday’s decisive fifth rubber to clinch a 10th Davis Cup title for France in front of a passionate Lille crowd.Belgian ace......
KARACHI: Brilliant Nouman Aftab cruised into the final of U-18 event of the third McDonald’s National Junior Tennis Championship at the DA Creek Club here on Monday.Nouman faced little resistance......
KARACHI: Pakistan’s dominance in the world of youth scrabble was demonstrated when 19-year-old Hammad Hadi Khan clinched the 29th Princess Cup Youth Scrabble Championship in Kuala Lumpur on......
VALENCIA: After being denied a legitimate goal, Lionel Messi made sure nobody would keep Barcelona from mounting a comeback against Valencia.Messi was deprived of a goal after a mistake by officials......
LONDON: Only a third of the way into their Premier League campaign, Manchester City are already making history.Pep Guardiola’s City restored an eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League with......
BRISBANE: A record-breaking opening partnership between David Warner and Cameron Bancroft cemented a crushing 10-wicket victory for Australia here on Monday, leaving England with pressing issues to......
NAGPUR: Spin wizard Ravichandran Ashwin played down comparisons with Dennis Lillee after his record-breaking feat helped India crush Sri Lanka by an innings and 239 runs in the second Test here on......
NAGPUR: Sri Lanka coach Nic Pothas warned his players there would be “repercussions” after the country’s worst-ever Test defeat, at the hands of India on Monday.The South African could barely contain......
LONDON: The British government unveiled an industrial strategy focused on research and innovation on Monday, in an effort to boost poor productivity and to shield the economy from Brexit.“As we leave......
KARACHI: Ghandhara Nissan Ltd (GNL) has closed down the production of UD trucks following the discontinuation of the said model by UD Trucks Corporation, Japan a few months ago.GNL produced only......
ISLAMABAD: Concluding lengthy legal proceedings, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) imposed on Monday a fine of Rs5 million on National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC)......
KARACHI: Singer Pakistan Ltd will merge with Cool Industries Ltd, which produces home appliances under the brand name of Waves, a stock notice said on Monday.The name of the post-merger company will......
ISLAMABAD: Even though he was considered a hard-working and undemanding cabinet minister, this is not the first time that Zahid Hamid has lost a cabinet portfolio.From drafting the National......
LAHORE: Major opposition parties have held the government responsible for ‘mishandling’ the Faizabad operation.Asking Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi to resign along with his cabinet for his......
SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah said on Monday that religion should not be used for achieving political objectives.Talking to reporters at his......
WASHINGTON: The United States is working on new approaches with India and Pakistan for promoting stability and reconciliation in Afghanistan, says the State Department.The State Department’s annual......
BASHEERAN Bibi spends hours selling toys in a Model Town market, one of the higher socio-economic areas of the city. But when it comes to using a washroom, she is stuck.“I have to try and control......
LAHORE: The backlash from religious elements to the ruling PML-N on the issue of Khatm-i-Nubuwat has apparently compelled ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif to postpone his public rallies scheduled......
• Law minister Zahid Hamid resigns • ISI official signs agreement as ‘guarantor’ • Interior minister seeks proposals to prevent future sit-insISLAMABAD: Protesters from various religious groups on......
KARACHI/ DADU: Eight members of a family and the driver of the van they were travelling in were killed and four others injured in an accident on the Karachi-Hyderabad highway (M-9 Motorway) near the......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday endorsed Saudi Arabia’s policies in the region and assured it of Pakistan’s support in its efforts for maintaining peace and stability.The......
Cameron Bancroft scored the winning runs for Australia in his test debut as he shared a record partnership with David Warner, and then fielded a flurry of questions about an incident that happened......
A Bangladesh court upheld the death penalty for 139 soldiers on Monday over their role in a “brutal and barbaric” mutiny in which dozens of top army officers were massacred.In delivering his verdict......
