Shooting between Indian soldiers and militants holed up inside an army camp in India held Kashmir (IHK) has left at least five soldiers and one civilian dead, officials said Sunday, the second day of......
Police on Sunday arrested two suspects over charges of raping a 13-year-old girl in Gharibabad locality of Larkana, officials said.The victim’s father lodged a complaint with the police on Friday,......
Pakistan lost arguably its most prominent champion of human rights on Sunday after leading lawyer Asma Jahangir succumbed to a cardiac arrest.Over her illustrious career, Jahangir used her......
A Russian airliner carrying at least 62 passengers has crashed after vanishing from radar screens, Russian media say, BBC reported on Sunday.The Saratov Airlines An-148 regional jet, according to......
The Election Commission of Pakistan on Sunday allowed Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) deputy-convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui to hand out party tickets for the upcoming Senate......
This article was originally published in Dawn on August 12, 2012.“I can never forget the day when we were performing a theatre play for General Musa and a fire broke out backstage. A few of us tried......
Renowned senior lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangir passed away in Lahore on Sunday, DawnNews reported.The cause of her death has not been confirmed yet, but multiple reports suggest she......
Veteran actor Qazi Wajid passed away on Sunday, DawnNews reported.According to DawnNews the 87-year-old actor was admitted to the hospital late last night.Speaking to DawnNews soon after the news of......
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday arrived at the Lahore High Court to present himself to the chief justice-led Supreme Court (SC) bench hearing a suo motu case and petition regarding......
A dress rehearsal for the Pakistan Super League Final, which will be held in Karachi on March 25, is underway in the metropolis on Saturday.At least 8,000 personnel of different law enforcement......
LONDON: The British government is reviewing its relationship with Oxfam amid a deepening sexual misconduct scandal involving some of the charity’s employees working in Haiti after its devastating......
LAS VEGAS: The much anticipated autopsy report on Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock did nothing to help explain why he carried out the deadliest shooting in modern US history.His body didn’t hold......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Saturday accused the Democrats of playing politics with classified information, asserting that their memo countering GOP allegations about the conduct of......
HONG KONG: The driver of a double-decker bus that overturned in Hong Kong killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 60 was arrested on Saturday evening for dangerous driving, police......
WASHINGTON: A Russian who offered stolen National Security Agency cyberweapons and compromising information on President Donald Trump bilked US spies out of $100,000 last year, The New York Times......
JERUSALEM: Anti-aircraft fire downed an Israeli warplane returning from a bombing raid on Iran-backed positions in Syria on Saturday in the most serious confrontations yet between Israel and......
KARACHI: The first batch of Pakistan hockey team embarks for Muscat on Sunday to compete in the three-nation tournament being played there from Feb 14 to 20.The first batch comprises 12 players while......
KARACHI: Pakistan cricket is defined by emotions, said cricket historian and author Richard Heller at the 9th Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) on Saturday.“This country has a really special......
THE expansion of the US bombing campaign in Afghanistan to target a little-known Chinese terrorist group is an example of how the 16-year-old war has changed under President Donald Trump, according......
THEY may not look like much more than blue-green smudges, but the images are record-breakers. The machine that took these photos was farther from Earth than any other functioning camera in......
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in for talks in Pyongyang, South Korean officials said on Saturday, setting the stage for the first meeting of Korean......
WASHINGTON: A second White House staffer in a week resigned on Friday over domestic abuse claims, in a widening scandal that called into question the president’s judgement and tainted his chief of......
WARSAW: An adviser to Poland’s president has said he thinks Israel’s negative reaction to a law criminalising some statements about Poland’s actions during World War II stemmed from a “feeling of......
DHAKA: Off-spinner Akila Dananjaya claimed five wickets in an innings on debut as Sri Lanka beat Bangladesh by 215 runs in the second Test to win the two-Test series 1-0 here at the Sher-e-Bangla......
JOHANNESBURG: Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan hit a century and upstaged his captain, Virat Kohli, in the fourth One-day International against South Africa at the Wanderers on Saturday.Dhawan made 109......
LONDON: Harry Kane tormented Arsenal again as the Tottenham Hotspur striker’s clinical finish sealed a 1-0 win in the north London derby at Wembley on Saturday.Kane’s header early in the second half......
MELBOURNE: Australia cruised to a seven-wicket victory over England with more than five overs to spare to remain unbeaten after three games in the triangular Twenty20 series here at the Melbourne......
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leaders Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed and Andleeb Abbas have, respectively, challenged the Senate election nomination papers of former finance minister Ishaq Dar, prime......
LAHORE: The Supreme Court on Saturday sought personal appearance of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to explain his government’s position regarding provision of clean drinking water to people and......
The entire Salt Range belt is blessed with various kinds of minerals such as salt, coal and gypsum.One of the salt mines in this area, the Khewra Salt Mines, is popular with tourists.There is great......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday took five police inspectors into custody after stripping them of their shoulder badges for their failure to submit investigation reports in six hate speech......
KARACHI: The Sindh police have sought support of the provincial government to provide security to Mohammad Qasim and Hazrat Ali, who were picked up by police with their friend Naqeebullah Mehsud last......
LAHORE: Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) former chairman Syed Asif Hashmi arrived here on Saturday from Dubai to face corruption cases.The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) detained him for a......
FRANKFURT: Bayer needs to ensure that a merger with rival Monsanto does not stifle competition in digital farming, the European Union’s Competition Commissioner Margrethe Verstager told a German......
NEW YORK: Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies solve the problem of making payments in an environment where trust is broken - but it’s unclear whether that’s a dilemma that needs to be solved, Federal......
KARACHI: The Indus Motor Company (IMC) made a third recall of Toyota Corolla vehicles in just one year owing to low quality parts and accessories, with total recalls now tallying over 15,000.IMC......
DUBAI: IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Saturday urged Arab countries to slash public wages and subsidies in order to rein in spending, achieve sustainable growth and create jobs.Speaking at the......
Crude sentiments change, and, rather rapidly.Hardly a couple of weeks ago, crude markets were rallying and rallying. On various counts, 2018 has been kind to oil markets.The Organisation of Petroleum......
WASHINGTON: The tumble in US stock prices has inflicted psychological pain and financial losses at least on paper for people with a meaningful stake in the market.Their anxiety conjures another fear,......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday constituted an anti-corruption and accountability cell to highlight corruption and irregularities it believes the federal and three......
KARACHI: Falling demand for dollars in the open market has pushed its price below the target set by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP).The dollar traded as low as Rs111.20-Rs111.50 in the open market......
LAHORE: A proposal to cut the cost of energy for textile exporters, especially from Punjab, looks likely to die a natural death awaiting the prime minister’s nod, according to the commerce and......
FAISALABAD: Police will send the mobile phone confiscated from the fitting room of a Levi’s factory outlet in Faisalabad to the forensics lab for assessment of the video recordings on it.The phone......
ISLAMABAD: The country’s tax machinery has so far not issued notices to the Pakistanis whose investment in offshore companies was revealed in the Paradise Papers of November 2017.The International......
TAXILA: Estranged Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan has categorically rejected reports that a forward bloc is in the making in the party. He also denied being part......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakhtun tribesmen ended their 10-day sit-in outside the National Press Club on Saturday after Adviser to Prime Minister Amir Muqam assured them of justice for Naqeebullah Mehsud who......
KARACHI: Lower-caste Indian women are taking the most advantage of the Panchayati Raj, a three-tier system of local government, which was envisioned by Gandhi and formally introduced in 1992, said......
MIANWALI: Calling for “jihad” against political horse-trading, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday promised to name and shame those politicians who were looking to become senators by......
DUBAI: Saudi women need not wear the abaya — the loose-fitting, full-length robe — a senior member of the top clerical body said, another indication of the kingdom’s efforts towards modernisation.On......
SRINAGAR: A spokesman for the Indian army said that militants stormed a military camp early on Saturday in India-held state of Jammu and Kashmir, killing two army personnel and wounding nine......
THE magnificently tiled early 17th century madressah of Nadir Divan Beghi in Bokhara’s historic town square is aglow in the evening light, silent witness to an era when this legendary city was famed......
ISLAMABAD: The second round of Pakistan-Afghanistan talks on an engagement plan on peace and security issues ended on Saturday without making any headway on its key elements because the Afghan......
KARACHI: In a bid to steer the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan out of the present quagmire, saner elements within the party’s Bahadurabad camp on Saturday decided to defer to Dr Farooq Sattar’s......
ISLAMABAD: There have been growing rumblings of discontent within the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) over the leadership’s choice of candidates for the upcoming Senate elections and the......
LAHORE: A day after opposition lawmakers in the Punjab Assembly raised questions regarding the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman’s remarks that the Punjab government was not providing......
THERE were several contenders, but the worst of 2017 came down to a choice between two: Faizabad and the lynching.A shot to the face and a stab in the heart, Faizabad and the lynching were different......
In his 2006 book Politics of Self-Expression, Markus Daechsel, lecturer at the University of London, describes the nature of politics practised in India and Pakistan as “politics of interest.” By......
PREMATURE deindustrialisation and its impact on Pakistan’s development prospects have been in the news lately. The argument put forth by some commentators is that until and unless the manufacturing......
THIS is not a tale from the mediaeval times which glorified fighters returning from war. This is the story of those who went on the jihadist expedition to Iraq and Syria to support the militant......
