Two Palestinian teenagers were shot dead in clashes with Israel's military on Thursday, Palestinian officials said, amid tensions over US President Donald Trump's recent Jerusalem declaration and a......
Richard Morin has joined Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) as the first-ever non-Pakistani chief executive officer of the market, the PSX announced on Thursday.Stockbrokers, reportedly, resisted the......
A Rawalpindi magistrate on Thursday ordered an assistant registrar of the Supreme Court (SC) and four other accused to submit surety bonds worth Rs50,000 each to ensure their appearance during the......
Police on Thursday unearthed the plot behind the staged abduction of the son of an Airport Security Force (ASF) official and revealed that the alleged victim had actually staged his own abduction to......
Saudi-led coalition air strikes on a marketplace and house in rebel-held northern Yemen have left at least 14 people dead, witnesses and a rebel-run news agency said on Thursday.An eyewitness in the......
Israeli authorities have approved more than 1,100 new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the Peace Now NGO said on Thursday, the latest in a raft of such moves in recent months.The approvals......
A third night of unrest has shaken Tunisia where authorities on Thursday said more than 600 people have been arrested this week as anger at austerity measures boils over on the streets.Tunisia is......
PML-N dissidents and PML-Q legislators — who forced Nawab Sanaullah Zehri to resign — have nominated former Balochistan Assembly deputy speaker Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo as the new chief minister of......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa visited the Special Service Group (SSG) Headquarters in Cherat on Thursday, the military's media wing reported.Upon......
Cameron White has replaced injured Chris Lynn in Australia's squad for this month's one-day international series against England, Cricket Australia said Thursday.The Victorian right-hander has been......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Thursday announced he would join Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri for the protest he has announced for January 18.Qadri has......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) landed Thursday in the red after a volatile session, with the benchmark KSE-100 index losing 236 points to close at 43,395.The index touched a day's high of 43,824......
A Bangladeshi immigrant was indicted on Wednesday in the failed pipe bombing of the New York subway system last month.Akayed Ullah faces numerous charges including providing material support to a......
The body of a 15-year-old girl who was allegedly raped and murdered was recovered from a field in Tasawarabad, some 40 kilometres from Sargodha, as the country reels from the brutal murder of......
Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, hearing on Thursday a suo moto case on non-functioning tribunals and special courts across Pakistan, gave a week's time for all vacant positions for judges to be......
With riots triggered by perceived police inaction over the rape and murder of 6-year-old Zainab Amin continuing throughout the day in Kasur, the alleged murderer and rapist of an 8-year-old child was......
After Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar took suo motu notice of the brutal murder of six-year-old Zainab in Kasur, Inspector General Punjab Arif Nawaz Khan submitted a report to the Supreme......
BRUSSELS: European powers will reaffirm on Thursday their support for the Iran nuclear deal that Donald Trump has rejected, EU diplomats said, on the eve of a deadline for the US president to decide......
China warned Washington on Thursday it will “resolutely safeguard” its interests ahead of a possible decision in an investigation into whether Beijing improperly pressures foreign companies to hand......
One soldier was martyred and two others injured in a landmine blast in Mir Ali tehsil's Sarobi area in North Waziristan on Thursday, sources in the political administration said.The martyred soldier......
Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday offered some words of comfort to private medical colleges fighting for their future, taking a comparatively lenient stance than the one he has taken in......
North Korea has found good material to attack United States (US) President Donald Trump: Michael Wolff's bombshell new book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”The book paints Trump as a......
LAHORE: The investigations into the rape-cum-murder case of eight-year-old girl that surfaced in Kasur indicated that a serial killer was behind all the eight cases reported in the district since......
Former Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) secretary general Jahangir Tareen, along with five other mill owners, on Wednesday told the Supreme Court (SC) that he is willing to buy harvested sugarcane from......
SYDNEY: Former players want the Twenty20 version of cricket to be a part of future Olympics, although they realize it might be at least a decade away.The introduction of T20 cricket to the Olympics......
TOKYO: North Korea is starting off the year with a fresh diplomatic initiative aimed at wooing South Korea ahead of its hosting of next month’s Winter Olympics. But it’s sticking to a decidedly harsh......
HYDERABAD: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah has said that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) does not support Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri’s......
A postmortem examination conducted on 6-year-old Zainab, whose body was recovered from a trash heap in Kasur days after she went missing, suggests she may have been raped before she was strangled to......
KARACHI: Pakistan on Wednesday recalled opener Ahmed Shehzad for their three-match Twenty20 series against New Zealand later this month, but selectors ignored wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal......
DUBLIN: Ireland will play 2007 World Twenty20 champions India in two T20 internationals in Dublin in June, Cricket Ireland announced on Wednesday.Both games will be played in the Dublin suburb of......
KARACHI: United Bank Limited (UBL) will be hoping their honeymoon period lingers on for a while after having maintained a clean slate during the league phase of the One-day Departmental Cup as title......
CHAKWAL’S Bhoun Chowk, the central square of the city, erupted into jubilation late on Tuesday evening as the results of the PP-20 by-election started pouring in from different polling......
LAHORE: Apropos of an article about Hafiz Muhammad Saeed entitled “Saeed incited UK Muslims to militancy, says BBC report”, which was published in Dawn on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Jamaatud Dawa......
KARACHI: A tribal feud in the Chaghi district of Balochistan claimed life of a youth in the Defence Housing Authority here on late Tuesday night.Officials said Imran Umer, 21, was travelling in a car......
KARACHI: The National Accountability Bureau filed on Wednesday a corruption reference against two former chairmen of the Fishermen Cooperative Society (FCS) and others.The then chairman of the FCS,......
Pakistan Business Investment and Franchise Forum 2018: The Investment Roadshow is scheduled to take place on February 27, 2018 at Marriott Hotel Karachi, from 10am to 7pm.The one-day event will be a......
KARACHI: Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday pledged to ‘heal the wounds of Karachi’, saying that the city’s lost glory would be restored with the support of the citizens of the sprawling......
KARACHI: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said the government will revisit federal taxes on the transfer of properties and bring them at a rational level.In a meeting with a delegation of the......
KARACHI: Three quarters of foreign investors foresee continued growth in their businesses and plan to make further investments in Pakistan, according to the Perception and Investment Survey (November......
KARACHI: Overseas Pakistanis sent remittances amounting to $9.7 billion in the first half of 2017-18, up 2.5 per cent from the same period of the previous fiscal year, the State Bank of Pakistan......
ISLAMABAD: Exports grew nearly 15 per cent year-on-year in December 2017, raising hopes about a revival in the overseas sales of Pakistani goods.The upward trend in exports will contribute towards......
ISLAMABAD: Out of the 120 confirmed cases of influenza (H1N1) reported across the country, seven have been reported in Islamabad, the National Institute of Health (NIH) revealed on Wednesday.A total......
LAHORE: A police constable was injured when three people allegedly attacked him on The Mall to get a suspect freed on Wednesday.The policeman was assaulted by motorcyclists when he was taking a drugs......
PESHAWAR: The police have initiated the process to attach the immovable property of the absconding prime accused in the recent DI Khan girl stripping case, the Peshawar High Court was told.A teenage......
MIAMI: Global warming is expected to unleash more rain, exposing millions more people to river flooding, particularly in the United States and parts of Asia, Africa and central Europe, researchers......
GWADAR: A former militant commander was gunned down in Turbat town of Kech district on Wednesday evening, Levies sources said.Levies officials said that Muhammad Bakhsh alias Jaggo was targeted by......
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank says that economic growth in Pakistan is forecast to increase to 5.5 per cent in the fiscal year 2017-18, and reach an average of 5.9 per cent over the medium term on the......
ISLAMABAD: Washington’s freeze on billions in military assistance to Pakistan will have limited impact, thanks to its friendship with China and diminishing importance of aid to the economy, observers......
WASHINGTON: The US State Department on Wednesday issued four new levels of threat assessments for its citizens — from normal precautions to no travel — but kept Pakistan in the third category of......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday issued notices to the federal government and the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and sought a reply for not stopping anti-judiciary......
LAHORE: The investigations into the rape-cum-murder case of eight-year-old girl that surfaced in Kasur indicated that a serial killer was behind all the eight cases reported in the district since......
LAHORE: Though the incidents of abuse and murder of children had been reported in Kasur since long, the public reaction on Wednesday to Zainab’s brutal murder shook the provincial government, forcing......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed in the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday a petition challenging the Nov 8, 2017 order of an accountability court that had deleted the charge......
A LARGE misunderstanding is growing that Pakistan has just opened the door to settling all bilateral trade with China in yuan instead of the dollar. It all began when, in response to repeated queries......
A LARGE misunderstanding is growing that Pakistan has just opened the door to settling all bilateral trade with China in yuan instead of the dollar. It all began when, in response to repeated queries......
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday restrained the police from arresting former education secretary and brother-in-law of PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zaradari, Fazalullah Pechuho, in a case......
The Trump administration's attempt at “humiliating and penalising” Pakistan for allegedly failing to take decisive action against militant groups hostile to the US is unlikely to work, former......
