Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Palestine during a brief tour of the Middle East, the foreign ministry said Monday, just weeks after hosting Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.Modi will......
The South African one-day international team suffered a third injury blow on Monday when wicketkeeper-batsman Quinton de Kock was ruled out of the rest of the series against India because of a wrist......
PPP-Parliamentarians President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday said the era of dictators ruling Pakistan has ended, and held the PML-N responsible for letting former president Pervez Musharraf leave the......
At least one person was killed and seven passers-by injured in a roadside blast in Balochistan's Panjgur district on Monday, police said.Police said unknown miscreants had planted a bomb in a......
As American sport reels from a horrifying sexual abuse scandal, athletes competing in this month's Pyeongchang Olympics will have access to trauma units for the first time in Games history.The Winter......
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Pope Francis on Monday while police enforced a protest ban in central Rome as feelings run high over Turkey's offensive against Kurdish militia inside......
Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has signed for Dhaka Premier League side Mohammedan Sporting Club after securing a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB),......
A landmark reconciliation meeting between survivors of terror attacks and the perpetrators will be held in Indonesia this month, Jakarta said on Monday.The meeting, announced by Chief Security......
Iranian security forces shot and wounded a man who tried to enter the president's office in central Tehran by force on Monday, local media reported.“An individual wearing a shroud tried to push......
Dubai airport was the world's busiest for international passengers in 2017 for the fourth year running, with 88.2 million travellers, a statement said on Monday.International traffic at the UAE......
Posters of wailing mothers and battered children, of Indian officials attacking the 'honour' of Muslim women, of beatings and thrashing of young boys, mark the Kashmir Highway in Islamabad ahead of......
HEALTH freaks can be quite a pain. You know the type: they turn up their nose at nihari, count their calories and crusade against carbohydrates.Given half a chance they’ll bore you with tales of......
A SOCIETY that is evolving and progressing exhibits a tendency to question old ways and behaviours and undertakes institutional improvements. The criminal justice system is no exception. Be it the......
Islamabad police on Monday nominated two traffic police officials in a first information report (FIR) of a 20-year-old man's death. The family members of the victim were also nominated in the......
In an address to a PML-N rally in Muzaffarabad on Sunday, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif claimed he loves the youth of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) as much as he loves the youth of Pakistan.The......
The only surviving member of the Islamic State cell that attacked Paris in November 2015 refused to rise for a Belgian court on Monday during his first appearance in public since his arrest nearly......
A Chinese national was critically injured on Monday when unknown suspects opened indiscriminate fire in Karachi, police said.A 30-year-old passer-by was also shot in the leg. Police said nine bullet......
As the country marks Kashmir Day on Monday, the Foreign Office (FO) summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner J.P. Singh to protest the latest "unprovoked" ceasefire violation by India across the Line......
Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in an address to the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly on Kashmir Day, urged politicians to continue supporting the struggle of India-held......
The Supreme Court of India on Monday told 'khap' panchayats — or kangaroo courts — not to become conscience keepers of society, saying that no one should interfere in the marriage of two consenting......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday hit back at Nawaz Sharif a day after the PML-N head and his daughter Maryam lashed out at the cricketer-turned-politician and criticised......
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Monday took suo motu notice of the alleged encroachment of a public football ground in Islamabad's F-8 area by lawyers who are constructing their......
A protest over the death of a 19-year-old allegedly in police custody ended after four police personnel were suspended on Monday.Earlier today, protesters chanting anti-police slogans over the death......
A nine-year-old girl in Thatta district was allegedly sexually assaulted as she was returning home from tuition on Sunday.The child's father said in the first information report (FIR) that the prime......
SEOUL: North Korea’s ceremonial head of state will visit the South this week in connection with the Winter Olympics, Seoul said on Sunday.The trip by Kim Yong-Nam will be the diplomatic high point of......
BAGHDAD: Iraqi security services on Sunday published the names of 60 people wanted on suspicion of belonging to the militant Islamic State group, Al Qaeda or the Baath Party of late dictator Saddam......
NEW YORK: Egypt allowed Israeli jets, drones and helicopters to carry our covert strikes inside Egyptian territory against militants who were undermining Egypt, according to a report published in the......
ATHENS: Tens of thousands of Greeks staged a mass rally in Athens on Sunday, urging the government not to compromise in a festering name row with neighbouring Macedonia.Organisers claimed some 1.5......
BELGRADE: The United States surged to an unbeatable 3-0 lead to eliminate 2010 champions Serbia in the first round of the Davis Cup on Saturday.Joining Serbia at the exit were 2014 winners......
LONDON: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored on his Arsenal debut but was overshadowed by Aaron Ramsey’s hat-trick in a 5-1 Premier League thrashing of Everton, while former Gunner Alexis Sanchez netted......
ROME: Gonzalo Higuain scored a hat trick as Juventus swept past Sassuolo 7-0 on Sunday to remain on course for a seventh straight Serie A title.Sami Khedira netted twice for the hosts while Alex......
CENTURION: Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal took career-best figures as India cruised to a thumping nine-wicket victory over a woeful South Africa in their second One-day International on Sunday, though......
PYEONGCHANG: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) threatened to axe boxing from the Tokyo 2020 Games on Sunday as it opened an investigation into the sport’s controversial governing body and......
WASHINGTON: The new US nuclear strategy — released this weekend — calls for developing a ground-launched, intermediate-range cruise missile to counter a similar Russian weapon, US officials said.The......
THE success of initial public-private partnership (PPP) projects in Sindh and Punjab served to remove apprehensions regarding the concept in Pakistan. They paved way for expanding the scope and the......
THE government’s decision to allow drug makers and importers to adjust prices on their own in line with inflation is expected to put burden on low-income households. In contrast, the pharmaceutical......
FOOD exports are growing faster this fiscal year, but the quality of exports is not such that it can make enough and immediate impact on stubbornly high food trade deficit.The food trade deficit was......
A HACKING theft that netted $530 million, a ban on Facebook advertising, regulation even in Russia and more wild price swings: despite another stomach-churning week for cryptocurrencies, analysts say......
THE recent unsavoury happenings at Pakistan’s equity market provide further evidence that the local bourse is not for investors with small means.The two latest casualties are shareholders of Dewan......
CENTRAL banks often love to surprise markets. But they do it with a clear purpose.If a central bank makes a move in line with the market anticipation, this means the market has already somewhat......
MUZAFFARABAD / ISLAMABAD: People will observe Kashmir Solidarity Day in Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Monday to express their unfaltering support to the Kashmiris fighting over......
KARACHI: The wooden boats, which have become extinct in the rest of the global shipping arena, are still favourites in South Asia, which fetch handsome economic fortune for the builders and their......
QUETTA: Eight people were killed and two others injured in a clash between members of two tribes in Barabcha area, close to Pak-Afghan border and some 80km west of Dalbandin town of Chagai district,......
KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party chairman Mustafa Kamal has said Karachi will continue to face serious water problems even after completion of the much-hyped K-4 water supply project because of......
MULTAN: Electioneering for by-election to NA-154, being held on Feb 12, has been a lackluster affair so far.PPP candidate Mirza Muhammad Ali Baig, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Ali Khan Tareen and......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office (FO) spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal confirmed death of 32 Pakistanis who were aboard a boat that sank near Libya last week.On Sunday, the spokesman said that information......
LAHORE: Just when Nawaz Sharif and his team are vociferously asking the judiciary to bring former president Pervez Musharraf back to try him for treason under Article 6, the disqualified prime......
SANAA: An air raid hit the police criminal investigations unit in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa on Sunday as insurgents battled the government, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, for control of the......
MALE: The Supreme Court in the Maldives is trying to impeach President Abdulla Yameen for not obeying its order to release jailed opposition leaders, the attorney general said on Sunday, warning of......
GILGIT: The Ministry of Interior has informed the Gilgit-Baltistan’s home department that India has made a plan to attack the installations of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in a bid to......
THE Zainab rape-murder case in Kasur has jolted the nation into thinking seriously about a highly prevalent but hushed-up issue. There is an increased sense of urgency and greater receptivity among......
ISLAMABAD: Despite suffering a political setback in Balochistan, the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is all set to become the single largest party in the Senate after 18 years.A careful......
ISLAMABAD: A much delayed Rs3 billion strategic project to secure the Balochistan capital from terrorism and smuggling appears to have become a turf war between two Chinese contractors and their......
PESHAWAR: In a second power show of his party within a week, a defiant Nawaz Sharif on Sunday hit back at the judiciary for issuing contempt of court notices to Minister of State for Interior Tallal......
Five persons, including an infant, were killed and nine others injured when a jeep they were travelling in fell from a narrow hilly road near Muzaffarabad on Sunday, police said.The vehicle was on......
HEALTH freaks can be quite a pain. You know the type: they turn up their nose at nihari, count their calories and crusade against carbohydrates.Given half a chance they’ll bore you with tales of......
THE Zainab rape-murder case in Kasur has jolted the nation into thinking seriously about a highly prevalent but hushed-up issue. There is an increased sense of urgency and greater receptivity among......
We committed ourselves to China-Pak Economic Corridor (CPEC)-related investments that we could not afford and now we are beginning to feel the growing pains of the balance of payment crises.In wake......
