Facebook has removed the page of a Myanmar monk once dubbed the “Buddhist Bin Laden” for his incendiary posts about Muslims, the company confirmed, as it faces pressure to clamp down on hate......
The Kremlin on Tuesday said the future of a ceasefire in a war-ravaged enclave near Damascus will depend on the rebels holed up there, as the Russian military accused the fighters of violating a......
The Maldives has declined an invitation from India to participate in friendly naval exercise 'Milan' ('meeting' in Hindi) starting March 6 in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Indian Chief Admiral......
China came out in support of Pakistan's anti-terror financing regime on Tuesday, days after it withdrew opposition against a US-led move to place Pakistan on the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF)......
A Turkish court jailed a paedophile a record 572 years for abusing 18 children at the school where he worked, reports said on Tuesday, as alarm grows over the extent of child abuse in the country.The......
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has reportedly taken notice of reports of PML-N supporters allegedly harassing women workers at a party gathering in Patoki, Kasur district, on Tuesday.Footage......
A top German court on Tuesday ruled that cities can impose diesel driving bans to combat air pollution, in a landmark decision that could shake up the auto industry and upend transport......
SHE saw herself as an actor in the south, but as a show thing in the north. “In Tamil films they love to see me act naturally. But in Hindi films all they want is lot of glamour, richness and......
Human Rights Watch says it has found new evidence that authorities in one of China's most repressive regions are sweeping up citizens' personal information in a stark example of how big-data......
Thanks to a fast-growing secondhand market, smartphones are increasingly being re-used but large-scale handset recycling is not happening as the industry struggles to go green.Thrown in the trash or......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Tuesday see-sawed into the green, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining 84 points to close at 42,995, five points shy of the 43K level.The benchmark KSE-100......
Karachi Kings skipper Imad Wasim lauded his team for a "great start" in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2018 and expressed hope that the side would "continue this form till the end" of the......
On February 13th, scores of Hindu devotees thronged to a Shiva temple six kilometres from Umarkot, Sindh.Singing Jai Shiva Shankar and Bolo Har Har Mahadev Ki Jai, the pilgrims were attending the......
The United States pressed Russia on Monday to use its “influence” to secure an “immediate” full-fledged halt to a bloody offensive in Syria's rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta.“The Syrian regime,......
In a rare public expression of dissent in China, a well-known political commentator and a prominent businesswoman have penned open letters urging lawmakers to reject a plan that would allow President......
Five people were injured when an ambo-lifter, which is used for carrying patients who can't walk, collapsed at Islamabad's Benazir Bhutto International Airport, DawnNewsTV reported on Tuesday.Four......
Two Chinese cricketers are set to join the Peshawar Zalmi squad on Thursday for the tenth fixture of the Pakistan Super League 2018 in Sharjah.Jian Li and Yufie Zhang were recruited by the Zalmi in......
The Taliban has called for direct talks with the United States (US) to find a “peaceful solution” to the conflict in Afghanistan, in an apparent policy reversal after months of escalating......
Punjab government spokesperson Malik Ahmed Khan on Tuesday dubbed Faisal Subhan, director of Capital Construction and Engineering Ltd a "suspicious character" in an interview to GeoNews' programme......
An 11-year-old boy was allegedly raped and assaulted in Sukkur's Navan Goth area and admitted to hospital in critical condition, family and police told DawnNews on Tuesday.An uncle of the victim told......
A meeting of the PML-N's Central Working Committee (CWC) is underway at the Sharif family's Model Town residence in Lahore to decide on a candidate to serve as interim president of the party......
As Pakistan navigates its troubled relationship with the United States and scrambles to avoid being blacklisted for "not taking action on some of the entities and individuals designated as terrorists......
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday suspended the sentences handed to 25 people in the Mashal Khan lynching case and ordered their release.Mashal Khan, 23, a student of Mass Communications at......
Russia called a daily “humanitarian pause” in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, bowing to pressure to halt the carnage in the rebel-held enclave where bombardments eased late Monday after hours of deadly......
Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Tuesday stressed that he as well as the other Supreme Court judges are devoid of any political inclination."We have no political agenda," said......
Where autumn follows spring, Nothing comes to fruitionTHE FATF embarrassment, utterly isolating and shameful as it is, has become the norm for Pakistan. Along with so much else that has isolated and......
Heavy shelling by Indian troops from across the Line of Control (LoC) claimed the life of a teenage boy in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Tuesday, pushing the death toll in ceasefire violations in......
Karachi: A sessions court granted on Monday interim pre-arrest bail to a suspect in an aerial firing case.Police had booked Adnan Pasha after his video went viral on social media in which he was seen......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Child Abuse on Monday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to submit a report on the dark web and if child pornography is......
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government will table an amendment bill in the provincial assembly today (Tuesday) with an aim to dilute the right to information law and make the process of getting......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Miftah Ismail has brushed off concerns that economic growth will suffer because of the country’s re-inclusion on a terrorist financing watchlist,......
BEIJING: China’s Communist Party has handed President Xi Jinping an open path to indefinite rule — a move analysts warn carries enormous risks by abandoning a succession model that brought stability......
KARACHI: An accountability court indicted former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain along with former top officials of two state-owned companies — the Sui Southern Gas Company and the Oil and Gas......
LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Muhammad Yawar Ali said on Monday judges must now consider impact of climate change, especially on vulnerable groups like women and children, and those living......
DURBAN: South African fast bowler Morne Morkel announced on Monday that he would retire from international cricket after the four-Test series against Australia which starts at Kingsmead on......
JERUSALEM: The Jerusalem church built at what many consider the holiest site in Christianity remained closed for a second day on Monday to protest Israeli tax measures and a proposed law, leaving......
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Monday dealt a setback to President Donald Trump, requiring his administration to maintain protections he has sought to end for hundreds of thousands of......
MINGORA: The educationists and social civil society members have shown concerns over lack of basic facilities in the government schools in Swat.They said that lack of basic facilities in schools was......
LONDON: After finishing his first season in England empty-handed, Pep Guardiola finally collected his first trophy with Manchester City on Sunday. Thanks to some familiar faces.Despite recruiting......
BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday overwhelmingly won the blessing of her conservative party for a hard-fought coalition deal, a relief for the veteran leader who has been weakened by......
DOUMA: Russia called a daily “humanitarian pause” in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, bowing to international pressure to halt the carnage in the rebel-held enclave where fresh strikes claimed more civilian......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Monday said authorities need to do a better job of handling warnings about violent people of the sort that were missed ahead of this month’s shooting at a......
SEOUL: South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged the United States to “lower the threshold for talks” with North Korea on Monday as his aides held rare talks with a Pyongyang general on ways to defuse......
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Monday the directed the management of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) not to enter into any lease agreement regarding the Roosevelt Hotel in New York,......
KARACHI: Outflow of profits and dividends on foreign investments from the country have increased by 26 per cent in the first seven months of the 2017-18, putting more pressure on country’s ability to......
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Industries on Monday decided that a resolution be forwarded to the upper house to clear Rs505 million in terms of gross salaries of the Pakistan Steel......
LONDON: More than $200 billion of investment in liquefied natural gas is needed to meet a boom in demand by 2030, Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s top LNG trader, said on Monday.The LNG market is set......
Saudi King Salman on Monday replaced top military commanders including the chief of staff, state media said, in a major shake-up of the kingdom's defence establishment.The monarch replaced the heads......
ISLAMABAD: Amid criticism of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s funding to Maulana Samiul Haq’s Darul Uloom Haqqania, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has claimed that no cash transaction was......
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will hold the much-awaited meeting of its central working committee (CWC) on Tuesday (today) to elect the party’s ‘interim’ president, after the......
ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry has placed the name of former minister for railways retired Lt Gen Javed Ashraf Qazi on the Exit Control List (ECL).Informed sources told Dawn that the names of......
ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court bench hearing the missing persons’ cases on Monday admitted that it was still groping in the dark as it had failed to make much headway.The three-judge bench comprising......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Monday offered the provinces to take over full responsibility of electricity and gas production, transmission and generation, with two provinces readily accepting......
Where autumn follows spring, Nothing comes to fruitionTHE FATF embarrassment, utterly isolating and shameful as it is, has become the norm for Pakistan. Along with so much else that has isolated and......
SHE saw herself as an actor in the south, but as a show thing in the north. “In Tamil films they love to see me act naturally. But in Hindi films all they want is lot of glamour, richness and......
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court has summoned the president of the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) in a supplementary reference against defunct finance minister Ishaq Dar filed by the National......
ISLAMABAD: As several mainstream political parties expressed their reservations over the delimitation of constituencies and revision of electoral rolls, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on......
ISLAMABAD: A senior United States National Security Council official has been quietly visiting the federal capital amid reports that both sides are giving ‘behind-the-scenes’ efforts aimed at fixing......
A FEW years back, I invited an American law-enforcement expert to visit Pakistan. The gentleman had developed police units in the Balkans and the Caribbean. Based on demand from Pakistani police......
China's Huawei used the artificial intelligence capabilities of its flagship Mate 10 Pro phone to drive a sports car as the Mobile World Congress got underway in Barcelona on Monday, in what it said......
