The United States has told Pakistan what it must do if it wants Washington to resume paying out hundreds of millions of dollars in security aid, the Pentagon said on Monday.“Our expectations are......
Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani called on National Security Adviser Nasser Khan Janjua in Islamabad and stressed the need to enhance relations among Muslim countries......
In the face of mounting US pressure against Pakistan, China has opposed the idea of linking terrorism to any country and placing the onus of responsibility of counter-terrorism on a certain country,......
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Monday took suo motu notice of the frequent blockade of roads for VVIP movement all over the country, ordering that the authorities concerned submit a......
South Africa beat top-ranked India by 72 runs in a thrilling first test on Monday, forcing out the best side in the world for just 135 on the fourth day at Newlands.India's defeat on a seam-friendly......
The single-minded insistence of the Sindh government on pushing the centre to appoint Sardar Abdul Majeed Dasti as the new provincial police chief in place of incumbent A.D. Khowaja reeks of......
Philippe Coutinho officially completed his “dream” 160-million-euro move from Liverpool to Barcelona on Monday, making him the third most expensive player in history.Coutinho, 25, signed a five-year......
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Monday ordered the release of Maulana Sufi Muhammad, chief of the banned Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), after accepting his bail application.Justice......
British Prime Minister Theresa May began a major shake-up of her ministers on Monday as she seeks to give fresh impetus to her government in a crucial year for the Brexit negotiations.The most senior......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) started the week on a strong note, with the benchmark KSE-100 index gaining 588 points to close at 43,112.The index reached a day's high of 43,256 before settling by......
Sports stadiums in Saudi Arabia will open their doors to women to attend football matches for the first time ever on Friday, the government has announced.“The first match that women will be allowed......
Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri on Monday — making good on an earlier threat — called for a nationwide movement starting January 17 with an eye on ousting the PLM-N......
I have many reasons to write in memory of the venerated Air Marshal Asghar Khan — a protégé of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, he was my role model from the age of 19 when I joined the Royal......
Indian police are investigating the reporter behind a story on alleged leaks from a government database containing the personal details of more than a billion people, sparking accusations of media......
The Supreme Court on Monday remarked on the plight of the Hazara community, which has been the target of multiple terrorist attacks over the years, while hearing a case pertaining to the deadly......
India's top court on Monday said it will re-examine its earlier decision not to strike down a colonial-era law that makes homosexual acts punishable by up to 10 years in prison.Three judges,......
A Syrian monitoring group and paramedics in the northwestern city of Idlib say the death toll from a massive car bombing on Sunday has risen to at least 25. Also, nearly 100 people were wounded.The......
Iran's foreign minister on Monday warned neighbouring countries over fomenting insecurity in Iran in a reference to anti-government protests that have roiled the country over the past two weeks.The......
Two large shareholders have urged Apple to study whether iPhones are proving addictive for children and that intensive use of the smartphones may be bad for their mental health, Bloomberg News......
Libya's navy says it has rescued 272 migrants whose vessels were stranded in the Mediterranean Sea as they tried to reach southern Europe.A navy statement late Sunday said the migrants were on two......
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday, during a suo moto hearing on the matter of private medical colleges' exorbitant fees, sought an explanation from Pakistan Medical and Dental Council's (PMDC) former......
Bangladesh will set up special courts at its cricket stadiums to try and convict any punters caught gambling during an upcoming international series, an official said Monday.Gamblers caught during......
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Monday took notice of a delay in the trial of the alleged torture of minor domestic worker Tayyaba in Islamabad, demanding an explanation for the......
An oil tanker that caught fire after colliding with a freighter off China’s east coast is at risk of exploding and sinking, Chinese state media reported on Monday, as authorities from three countries......
The opposition in the Balochistan Assembly on Monday turned down an invitation for a meeting with Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, who is scheduled to visit Quetta later in the day in an effort......
KARACHI: Without announcing any plan to return to the country, former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf on Sunday asked the people of Karachi to shun the politics of ethnicity and support his......
The Supreme Court (SC) on Monday remanded a case regarding possession of alcohol against television personality Atiqa Odho to a trial court.In 2011, Odho was detained by the Airport Security Force at......
National Bank of Pakistan's Golimar branch in Karachi was looted Sunday night by one of its own guards and his accomplice.Saddam, the suspect, along with an unidentified associate, broke into the......
ISLAMABAD: Five people allegedly impersonating Rangers personnel raided a home and stole cash and valuables during a “search operation” in the limits of the Tarnol police station.Khalid Noor, a......
KARACHI: The provincial authorities have sent a petition to President Mamnoon Hussain for grant of pardon to five Rangers personnel who were convicted by an anti-terrorism court of killing a student......
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday launched a state visit to China at the starting point of the ancient Silk Road, a nod to his Chinese counterpart's scheme to revive the famous trading......
Police in India-held Kashmir on Sunday arrested four cricketers for playing the Pakistani national anthem before the start of a cricket match in Bandipora district, Times of India reported.The two......
Barely 15 days old, Kinza whimpers at an Islamabad hospital where she is suffering from diarrhoea and a blood infection, a tiny victim among thousands afflicted by Pakistan's severely polluted and......
The BBC's China editor has resigned her position in Beijing in protest over what she called a failure to sufficiently address a gap in compensation between men and women at the public......
THE fugitive son and one-time heir apparent of Libya’s late Muammar Gadhafi is planning a comeback.Seif al-Islam “decided to run in presidential elections and I see a big chance for him because all......
Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reportedly arrested in Shiraz city for inciting unrest, Al Arabiya reported on Sunday.Ahmadinejad, who served as the president of Iran from 2005 to......
SANAA: The political party of Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was killed in December by his erstwhile Houthi rebel allies, on Sunday named his replacement.The General People’s......
SYDNEY: Australia were closing on an innings victory with England fighting a desperate rearguard on 93 for four at stumps on the fourth day of the fifth Ashes Test on Sunday, still 210 runs from......
SYDNEY: Shaun and Mitchell Marsh’s overflowing emotions on scoring centuries batting together almost ended in disaster on Sunday, as Australia seized control of the final Ashes Test against......
The following are excerpts from five columns by the writer published in Dawn on June 18, 2000, July 2, 2000, July 9, 2000, July 16, 2000 and December 25, 2011....Mohammad Ali Jinnah was a proud man,......
THE dispute over a plot of land in Lahore owned by the Punjab University has more angles to it than are ever likely to be seen by one-dimensional officials apparently in a hurry to oblige a......
MITHI: Sindh Home Minister Suhail Anwar Siyal on Sunday visited the bereaved family of Daleep and Chandar, the two brothers who were shot dead by robbers at their food grain outlet in Mithi on......
HYDERABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan leader Dr Farooq Sattar has dismissed reports of rifts within the party’s Hyderabad chapter and said on the contrary those who had deserted the party are......
KARACHI: Federal Minister for Environment Senator Mushahidullah Khan has said that Karachi, whose identity used to be the city of lights, is presenting the look of a garbage dump today due to neglect......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Ejaz Chaudhry has demanded that the Supreme Court of Pakistan should take notice of disqualified prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s attack on Pakistan’s superior......
LAHORE: The audit of public companies in Punjab by the Auditor General of Pakistan’s (AGP’s) provincial office may not be qualitative as most of the auditors do not qualify to perform the job under......
NEW YORK: The eastern United States and Canada froze on Saturday under record-breaking low temperatures following a deadly winter storm as New York’s flagship airport descended into chaos, battling......
BEIJING: A tanker carrying oil from Iran to South Korea was ablaze and spilling its cargo off eastern China on Sunday after a collision with a cargo ship which left 32 tanker crewmembers missing.The......
LAHORE: The unfettered cement industry in Punjab is once again being brought under the regulatory control of the provincial government after 29 years, allowing it to function and expand under a......
CHAKWAL: Instead of any future manifesto for development or reforms, PML-N and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) politicians involved in Chakwal’s upcoming by-election appear to be relying on the......
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced optimism as she opened talks Sunday with Germany’s second biggest party on restoring their alliance, in a new attempt at shaking Europe’s biggest economy out......
DUBAI: Iran has banned the teaching of English in primary schools, a senior education official said, after Islamic leaders warned that early learning of the language opened the way to a Western......
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman is embarking on what is called Saudi Vision 2030 through a National Transformation Plan.In this regard the Initial Public Offering of Aramco, a company......
AS the current sugarcane crisis in Punjab and Sindh rages, farmers are now worried about wheat as well.The emerging crop context is threatening for all — provincial and federal governments, traders,......
RAWALPINDI: The police have decided to reinvestigate labourers working on the Karot Power Project in the case of a Chinese engineer who went missing last month.The decision was made by Regional......
PESHAWAR: After an electoral alliance between Maulana Samiul Haq’s Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-S) and the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak went a step......
ISLAMABAD: Footprint of the militant Islamic State (IS) group is continuously on the rise in the country, especially in northern Sindh and Balochistan, as over the past one year responsibility for as......
PRESSURE on the exchange rate persists and is unlikely to go anytime soon because the current account imbalance is still too wide (ie $6.43 billion in the first five months of this fiscal year) to be......
THE Punjab irrigation department is modernising its measurement and communication systems by installing sensors to monitor real-time water flow in the channels under its command.Started with......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan is believed to have told US interlocutors that a major military offensive against the Taliban from both sides of the Afghan border, if ending in failure, will have negative......
THERE was anxiety in business circles over a harsher US stance towards Pakistan that evoked an angry response from the people. The government’s response, however, was muted.Senior government......
ISLAMABAD: In what would reflect the growing trend of rural population’s migration to urban areas, particularly to big cities, the federal and all the four provincial capitals are set to have an......
QUETTA/LAHORE: Ousted prime minister and chief of his Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz Sharif swung into action on Sunday to save his party’s government in Balochistan by defeating a no-trust motion......
RONALD Goldfarb in his book The Contempt Power referred to a criminal case from mediaeval England as follows: “When King Henry the Fifth was the Prince of Wales, his servant was arrested for......
NINETEENTH century jurist Robert Ingersoll once said: “Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.”These words still ring......
THE year has not started well for India. Dangerous new flashpoints have emerged in a country suppurating along old fault lines and smarting from the relentless blows to its enterprise of building a......
NINETEENTH century jurist Robert Ingersoll once said: “Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.”These words still ring......
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Law Minister Rana Sanaullah gave a fig to the demand for their resignations in connection with the Model Town tragedy as the January 7 deadline set......
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called for the closure of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, days after US President Donald Trump threatened to cut......
LONDON: Not even an FA Cup match against fourth-tier opposition could provide any respite for Mark Hughes.The beleaguered Stoke City manager was condemned to one last humiliation, a 2-1 loss to......
NELSON: Pakistan’s winning run of nine One-day Internationals came to a shuddering halt in Wellington on Saturday, while New Zealand’s home streak is climbing steadily towards the 12 they achieved......
A BOOM in asset-backed securities issued by micro-lenders aiming to expand in China’s fast-growing online credit market looks set to slow this year amid growing regulatory scrutiny.Micro-lenders have......
AN increase in fuel prices at the start of this year is expected to drive up already high food prices, especially those of fruits and vegetables.In December, year-on year food inflation measured by......
Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry has said that Islamabad is seeking a clarification from Washington over its recent announcement to place Pakistan on a special watch......
One person died and another was slightly hurt Sunday in a blast outside a metro station in a Stockholm suburb, which police said did not appear to be a terrorist attack.A man in his 60s died in......
