Hours after the four PML-N lawmakers in Punjab Assembly — who recently withdrew their resignations — called on Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, he constituted a committee to probe into the......
Children as young as 12 are making surgical instruments in hazardous conditions in Pakistan, prompting fears that the tools could be used in the National Health Service (NHS), the Guardian has......
The French mountaineer who was saved in a daring night-time rescue on Nanga Parbat nicknamed “killer mountain” flew home on Tuesday, vowing to come back to scale other mountains.Elisabeth Revol was......
A female Muslim religious scholar who led Friday prayers in the Indian state of Kerala last week is now facing death threats, Indian media has reported.The 34-year-old Jamida, the general secretary......
Pakistan and India are considering a proposal to release prisoners of certain categories held in each other's jails on humanitarian grounds, even as tensions simmer between the two South Asian rivals......
Two ATM skimmers were caught red-handed on Tuesday from Jhelum's Shandar Chowk while trying to withdraw money using stolen and tampered ATM cards, police said.According to the police the two......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Tuesday that it will hold a full dress rehearsal of the security arrangements for the Pakistan Super League (PSL) final at National Stadium Karachi on......
After Supreme Court's deadline to arrest former SSP Malir Rao Anwar, wanted in the Naqeebullah murder case, expired on Tuesday, a contingent of Sindh police raided the suspended cop's Islamabad......
Two British human rights lawyers said on Tuesday they will ask for Saudi Arabia to be suspended from the UN Human Rights Council over 61 people “arbitrarily detained or disappeared” by the country's......
Taiwanese troops on Tuesday staged live-fire exercises simulating a response to an invasion, as China stepped up pressure on the island's President Tsai Ing-wen and a row over airline routes......
A bearish trend sustained at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Tuesday, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index losing 224 points to close at 44,233.The index opened higher and touched a day's high of......
The start of a military trial for a Palestinian teenager charged after a viral video showed her hitting two Israeli soldiers has been delayed until February 6, her lawyer said Tuesday.The trial of......
South Africa and India will vie for the world number one ranking again when they meet in a six-match one-day international series, starting at Kingsmead on Thursday.The one-day games start just five......
The BBC is proposing a pay cap on news presenters as it grapples with disparity in what it pays men and women.The broadcaster has proposed a 320,000 pound cap the day before the head of the BBC is to......
The United States (US) faces a bigger threat from China than it does from Russia, CIA Director Mike Pompeo told the BBC in an interview.Pompeo claimed that there was a "much bigger footprint" of......
Fourteen soldiers were killed on Tuesday in a suicide attack by suspected Islamist extremists in southern Yemen, a senior military official said.The bomb struck a checkpoint manned by UAE-trained......
The United States and Qatar have reached a deal to resolve a years-old quarrel over alleged airline subsidies, seven individuals familiar with the deal said Monday, as Qatar's government works to......
The Trump administration late Monday released a long-awaited list of 114 Russian politicians and 96 “oligarchs” who have flourished under Russian President Vladimir Putin, fulfilling a demand by......
The United States announced on Monday it was lifting its ban on refugees from 11 “high-risk” countries, but said those seeking to enter the US would come under much tougher scrutiny than in the......
A deeply felt preference for boys has left more than 63 million women statistically “missing” across India and more than 21 million girls unwanted by their families, government officials say.The......
The Supreme Court on Tuesday imposed a fine on the Punjab Government for failing to submit its report in the Katas Raj suo motu case.A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice......
A senior administration officer in the city of Dalbandin in Balochistan's Chagai district has barred barbershops in the region from styling customers' beards "in designs", threatening those who don't......
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday took suo motu notice of the murder of Asma Rani, a third-year medical student who was shot dead in Kohat for refusing a marriage proposal.Chief Justice of......
An eight-month-old Indian girl was on Tuesday recovering in hospital after she was raped at her home in Delhi, the latest such case in a country notorious for high levels of sexual violence.The......
India crushed arch-rivals Pakistan by 203 runs in their Under-19 World Cup semi-final in Christchurch Tuesday to set up a tournament decider against Australia.An unbeaten century from Shubman Gill......
The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday heard a case regarding the interpretation of Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution, with a view to ascertaining the period of disqualification of a member of......
The Taliban and the Islamic State (IS) group are creating a perfect storm of carnage in Kabul, adapting to ramped up security in the war-weary capital to strike again and again, and it is civilians......
Six members of a family were killed in a landmine blast in Kurram Agency on Tuesday, sources in the political administration told DawnNews.The family was on its way to attend funeral prayers when the......
MANSEHRA/ MARDAN: Police arrested a man for allegedly assaulting a girl in Ichrian area of Mansehra the other day.“I want justice as my friend deceived me and took me to her house where her brother......
An accountability court in Islamabad on Tuesday rejected the Sharifs' objections to the supplementary reference that was filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) earlier this month in......
WHEN Taha Mustafa al-Khatr, his wife Amina, his two daughters Zakia and Safa and son Sulieman went to bed in the tiny village of Maabatli, they placed their shoes outside the door. Most Middle......
FRANKFURT MAIN: German carmakers came under fire on Monday following revelations they helped finance experiments that saw humans and monkeys exposed to toxic diesel fumes that have been linked to......
MOSCOW: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Russia on Monday for talks focused on Syria, reaffirming Israel’s opposition to Iran’s growing military presence there and in neighbouring......
AFRIN: Hundreds of people attended funerals on Monday for casualties of a Turkish offensive against Kurdish forces in the Syrian border region of Afrin.New civilian casualties were reported following......
MELBOURNE: Australian Open champion Roger Federer is set to continue defying Father Time after announcing he will return to defend his title next year, the Swiss said on Monday.The 36-year-old......
BARCELONA: Lionel Messi scored a spectacular free kick to give Barcelona a 2-1 win over struggling Alaves on Sunday while Luis Suarez was also on target as the Catalans battled back from a goal down......
LAHORE: Syed Fakhar Ali Shah and Mazhar Sheikh were elected as the Pakistan Baseball Federation (PBF) president and secretary respectively here on Sunday.Fakhar was elected in place of his father......
GILGIT: Two skiers from Pakistan, Mohammad Karim and Syed Haman Shah who both hail from the Naltar valley of Gilgit Baltistan have qualified for the Winter Olympics 2018, to be held in Pyeongchang,......
CHRISTCHURCH: Australia ended Afghanistan’s inspiring run at the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup with a six-wicket win in the first semi-final at the Hagley Oval here on Monday.Afghanistan have had a......
An accomplice of the main accused in the murder case of Asma Rani, a third-year medical student who was shot dead for refusing a marriage proposal, was arrested on Tuesday morning, police said.Last......
DADU: Retired Justice Amir Hani Muslim, head of the one-man Supreme Court-mandated water commission, on Monday inspected water supply and sewerage installations in the district and expressed his......
HYDERABAD: Sindh Local Government Minister Jam Khan Shoro has said that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari articulated Pakistan’s narratives on all major issues and the......
ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal on Monday directed all nine regional headquarters of the bureau that no complaints would be rejected or approved......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has reappointed Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Dr Asim Hussain as chairman of Sindh Higher Education Commission for another term.The notification for his......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court is all set to take up on Tuesday (today) a number of appeals involving, among other constitutional questions, the interpretation of Article 62(1)(f) of the Constitution......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has sought the record of a number of public and private sector hospitals containing information about the number of cardiac stents they have implanted in patients and the......
ISLAMABAD: French climber Elisabeth Revol, who was rescued from Nanga Parbat by Polish mountaineers on Sunday, may go back home as her family is seeking a second opinion from a doctor in......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday constituted a three-member committee to determine the veracity of allegations levelled by anchorperson Dr Shahid Masood in the Zainab rape-murder case.Headed by......
ISLAMABAD: The government has taken strong issue with the way the World Bank calculated the Ease of Doing Business Index in the country, results of which were released in November last year.Fareen......
TABLIGHI Jamaat’s (TJ) plan to build Europe’s biggest mosque in East London suffered another blow when a high court judge last week threw out their petition seeking suspension of an injunction for......
LAHORE: The three recently-built combined-cycle gas-fired power plants in Punjab are facing production delays of up to two-and-a-half months because of a “variety of factors”, including but not......
DUBAI: Bahrain-based Ithmaar Bank plans to add more than 100 branches in Pakistan this year through its subsidiary Faysal Bank, to capitalise on the country’s low penetration rate of banking......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump is weighing an option to send more troops to Afghanistan to help Kabul deal with a sudden increase in terrorist attacks, the US media reported on Monday.These......
KASUR: A faith healer, who had been grilled in connection with the Zainab case, was found hanging from the ceiling fan of his room under mysterious circumstances on Monday at Peerowala Road in Saddar......
ISLAMABAD: Relations between Pakistan and the United States are just like a terrible marriage where divorce is not possible because the cost is too high. The marriage will remain strained but the two......
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Demanding the arrest of former interior minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan over the killings of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah (TLYRA) supporters at Faizabad, Pir Afzal Qadri,......
WASHINGTON: “We want Pakistan to be seen as what it is, a country of more than 200 million people, with a large and vibrant middle class, eager to play its role in the international community,” says......
KASUR: The arrest of alleged serial killer Imran Ali has the killing of Mudassar, 22, in limelight who was dubbed as the alleged rapist and killer of a minor girl of Ali Park, and later killed in a......
BAHAWALPUR: The family members of deceased Muhammad Ishaque (of Uch Sharif), killed along with Naqeebullah Mehsud in an alleged encounter in Karachi, have announced lodging of a first information......
Language variation has been a subject of huge research studies in the West. Sociolinguists say that within a society the differences in speech may occur because of the different ethnic or social......
KARACHI: World’s football governing body FIFA on Monday put to rest all claims of embattled Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) president Faisal Saleh Hayat regarding the FIFA World Cup Trophy coming......
A WEEK or so before I boarded the PIA flight to Jeddah on my way to Makkah for performing Umrah, I was told that the second language in the holy city is Urdu. That was music to my ears.As my family......
‘SECULARISM’ is a dirty word in Pakistan. Our ‘pious’ lot equates it with atheism, moral decay and US plots. Ironically, these views are not due to confusions about its real nature but are attempts......
THE French faculty graduate was table tennis captain of her school team in Mumbai. When she beat Shannay Saahab from Lucknow 11-nil in a friendly match at the hostel mess in JNU, he pretended to look......
THE current level of mistrust in the Pakistan-US relationship is unprecedented. Even in 2011, when ties had literally broken down, there were individuals with good rapport on both sides who continued......
THE current level of mistrust in the Pakistan-US relationship is unprecedented. Even in 2011, when ties had literally broken down, there were individuals with good rapport on both sides who continued......
‘SECULARISM’ is a dirty word in Pakistan. Our ‘pious’ lot equates it with atheism, moral decay and US plots. Ironically, these views are not due to confusions about its real nature but are attempts......
THE French faculty graduate was table tennis captain of her school team in Mumbai. When she beat Shannay Saahab from Lucknow 11-nil in a friendly match at the hostel mess in JNU, he pretended to look......
US President Donald Trump on Monday ruled out quick talks with the Taliban, following a wave of bloody large-scale attacks in the Afghan capital Kabul.“I don't think we are prepared to talk right......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Aleem Khan on Monday appeared before the National Accountability Bureau and claimed that all of his assets had already been declared.The PTI leader, while......
An Indian man died after being sucked into an MRI machine while visiting a relative at a hospital in Mumbai, police said on Monday.Rajesh Maru, 32, was yanked towards the machine by its magnetic......
