Karachi Kings' Pakistan Super League 2018 campaign was dealt a major blow on Friday when it was revealed that their superstar all-rounder Shahid Afridi will be unavailable for the next 10 days due to......
Police on Friday claimed to have arrested a "most wanted" militant linked with the banned Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) who at one point remained a close aide to the convicts of the......
Lahore Qalandars won the toss and decided to field first in the 12th fixture of the Pakistan Super League 2018 at Sharjah Cricket Stadium.The first match of the day between Karachi Kings and Multan......
Shots have reportedly been fired on campus at a university in the US state of Michigan and the suspect is still at large, the school said on Friday.“There has been a report of shots fired at Campbell......
Hyderabad police on Friday claimed to have busted a gang which was reportedly getting funding from India to sabotage China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and target security personnel in......
Supreme Court (SC) on Friday issued the detailed judgement in the Election Amendment Act 2017 case. The 51-page-long decision was authored by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar.The detailed judgement......
Some Pakistan Super League (PSL) players were once again targeted in a fresh approach by a bookmaker, DawnNews, citing a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official, reported on Friday.The players, whose......
Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Friday closed its week on a positive note with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining 230 points to close at 43,740.The index showed some mixed activity in the first......
Senior lawyer and expert on law affairs Akram Shaikh on Friday told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that a constitutional court has the authority to direct the government to legislate against those......
Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Farooq Sattar is holding a press conference in Islamabad alongside the leader of his party's estranged camp, Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui.Dr Sattar said......
It looks mainly like a legal matter, with police investigating, prosecutors deliberating, journalists digging and shady associates cutting deals. But in this season of scandal in Benjamin Netanyahu’s......
The United States has accused Moscow of openly breaching Cold War-era treaties by developing what Russian President Vladimir Putin called a new generation of "invincible" hypersonic weapons and......
Surrounded by thousands of others, there is nothing remarkable about the grave of Dulla Bhatti, on a raised platform, plastered with cement under the shade of an old tree.There is no mark on the......
Israeli police arrived on Friday at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home where media reports said they were to question him for an eighth time over allegations of fraud and bribery.An AFP......
The capital of Burkina Faso came under multiple attacks on Friday, targeting the French embassy, the French cultural centre and the country's military headquarters, an AFP reporter and witnesses......
A subeditor working for a local daily in Islamabad was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the late hours of Thursday in a high-security zone of Rawalpindi, police said.Anjum Muneer Raja, 40, was......
The Karachi Kings and Multan Sultans are going head to head at Sharjah Cricket Stadium as the 11th match of the Pakistan Super League 2018 kicks off.The Kings won the toss and opted to bat first, but......
The United States dared to permit itself renewed hope on Thursday that the longest war in its history may be closer to a negotiated settlement, after Afghan-led talks went better than expected.After......
Syrian and Russian forces kept up military pressure on rebel-held Eastern Ghouta on Thursday as their controversial unilateral truce failed to yield a humanitarian breakthrough.More than 40 trucks......
The Karachi Kings will face off against the Multan Sultans in Pakistan Super League's (PSL) 11th fixture to be played in Sharjah on Friday.Both the Kings and the Sultans have put on quite a show......
PARIS: Heavy snowfall and deadly blizzards lashed Europe on Thursday, forcing airports to cancel or delay flights around the continent, as a deep freeze gripped countries from the far north to the......
A suicide car bomb targeting a foreign forces convoy rocked eastern Kabul early Friday, killing at least one civilian and injuring four in an area where many expatriates reside, the Afghan interior......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday told the Lahore High Court that all legal formalities had been fulfilled before the arrest of former head of Lahore Development Authority......
KARACHI: Madiha Kayani, a TV show host and only eyewitness to the January 13 murder of Intizar Ahmed in Defence, who in a video message on social media on Wednesday described the teenager’s murder as......
LAHORE: Breaking silence on his elder brother’s ‘ordeal’, newly-elected PML-N interim chief Shahbaz Sharif has said that Nawaz Sharif is being victimised and one day he will get justice.Since the......
VATICAN CITY: A Vatican magazine denounced widespread exploitation of nuns for cheap or free labour in the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, saying the male hierarchy should stop treating them like......
QUETTA: Provincial general secretary of the PML-N, Nasibullah Khan Bazai, who was contesting coming Senate election as an independent candidate for the seat reserved for technocrats, has announced to......
ISLAMABAD: Farooq Sattar, chief of his own faction of Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), on Thursday challenged the jurisdiction of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hear petitions......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan and the United States will make another major effort to improve bilateral ties next week when Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua arrives here for a series of meetings with senior......
ISLAMABAD: The counsel for ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif in cases against him and his family members on Thursday raised objections to what he called interference by a National Accountability......
ISLAMABAD: Asserting that the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will form the next government at the Centre, party chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said that people did not care about former prime......
PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has hailed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s offer to the Taliban to hold negotiations and recognise them as a legitimate......
PESHAWAR: The voluntary repatriation process for Afghan refugees resumed here on Thursday after a three-month winter break. Over 1.4 million registered refugees have the option to go back to their......
LONDON: Fernando Llorente scored a 12-minute hat trick as Tottenham beat third-tier Rochdale 6-1 in an FA Cup fifth-round replay dominated by referrals to the video assistant referee on Wednesday.Son......
ROME: AC Milan’s unbeaten streak in all competitions reached 13 matches with a 5-4 penalty shootout victory over Lazio on Wednesday to advance to the Coppa Italia final against Juventus.After Lazio’s......
DURBAN: South Africa kept Australia’s big three of Steve Smith, David Warner and Shaun Marsh in check on the opening day of the four-Test series here at Kingsmead on Thursday.Australia were 225-5 at......
LAHORE/KARACHI: Faisal Saleh Hayat’s group has regained control of the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) headquarters. Now, the body recognised by FIFA is hopeful that football’s global body will......
TANK: Unknown assailants gunned down two youths and threw their bodies at a roadside here on Thursday.Mohammad Javed, son of Mohammad Rasool, reported to Gul Imam police station that his brother......
RAWALPINDI: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has informed the Sindh police that former senior superintendent of police Rao Anwar, wanted by them in the extrajudicial killing of Naqeebullah......
FAISALABAD: A medical student orchestrated her kidnap to get money from her parents with the help of her Facebook friend in Lahore, say police.The Civil Lines police arrested the alleged kidnapper......
RAWALPINDI: The first phase of the $3.2 billion project to upgrade Pakistan Railways under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will begin next month, and will cut the duration of the......
KOHAT: Four cousins were gunned down as a result of old enmity in Ittehad Colony at Naway Kalay area on Hangu Road here on Thursday.The police said that the rivals came face to face and four accused......
LAST Monday, Chinese engineers performed a short trial run of the famous Orange Line Metro Train in Lahore. This was ostensibly meant to gauge the load capacity of the track that has come about at......
TOMBRU: Bangladesh on Thursday asked Myanmar to immediately “pull back” security forces and heavy weapons from the border after the troop build-up near a camp housing thousands of stranded Rohingya......
BERLIN: Germany’s government IT network is suffering an “ongoing” cyberattack, the parliamentary committee on intelligence affairs said on Thursday, without confirming a media report that Russian......
KARACHI: Police submitted on Thursday an interim charge sheet before the administrative judge of antiterrorism courts against former senior superintendent of police Rao Anwar and other police......
KARACHI: A recently reinstated police officer was arrested on Thursday for his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of a young man, whose body was exhumed a few days ago in Gulshan-i-Iqbal,......
MUZAFFARABAD: Two people were killed and five others injured in Indian shelling in different areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Thursday, local officials said.In Nakyal sector, shelling started......
DOUMA: An elderly Pakistani man and his wife have fled Syria’s embattled Eastern Ghouta, the Red Crescent said on Thursday, the only known civilians to have left since a “humanitarian pause” took......
ISLAMABAD: Iran believes that peace in Afghanistan is a prerequisite for peace in the region, said Iranian Air Force Commander Brig Gen Hassan Shahsafi on Thursday.Brig Gen Shahsafi led an Iranian......
KABUL: The United States welcomes Afghan plans for peace talks with the Taliban but will keep up pressure on the militants until they are concluded, the US ambassador said on Thursday.After an......
WASHINGTON: White House communications director Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump’s most trusted and longest-serving aides, abruptly announced her resignation, leaving a void around a......
KANDAHAR: A German national has been arrested with the Taliban in Afghanistan’s militancy-racked Helmand province, officials said late on Wednesday, a rare example of a European among the......
LONDON: “Real political difficulties” lie ahead for Brexit, EU summit chair Donald Tusk said after British Prime Minister Theresa May gave him a preview of the vision of future trade ties she will......
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursday asked a senior parliamentarian point blank about his opinion on the Supreme Court’s authority to strike down a law if made......
ISLAMABAD: Inflation decelerated to 3.8 per cent in February from 4.4pc in the previous month, owing to a slight decline in prices of perishable and non-perishable eatables.Inflation, measured......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has notified draft Sharia Governance Regulations 2018.Theres regulations are for governance of Sharia-compliant companies and......
IN the conservative Pashtun society, it was unthinkable to bring young men and women at one platform for an open debate. Children in our country grow up in an environment where asking a question is......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’ energy sector’s circular debt is estimated to have gone beyond a record Rs922 billion mark by end of November 2017.According to a report submitted to the parliament this week,......
LAHORE: The government has warned power projects under construction in Sindh that if their dates of commercial operations are delayed, they will be responsible for paying the capacity charges of the......
KARACHI: The military’s top command hinted on Thursday that the Rangers-led operation in Karachi, which has been continuing for more than four years, was not going to end anytime soon and that it......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Miftah Ismail has said that the decision to put Pakistan on ‘grey list’ by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) would only cause “embarrassment”......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif on Thursday said that Pakistan’s interests could not be sacrificed for the sake of American interests.He was talking to journalists after......
LAST Monday, Chinese engineers performed a short trial run of the famous Orange Line Metro Train in Lahore. This was ostensibly meant to gauge the load capacity of the track that has come about at......
A passenger was burned when her cell phone caught fire onboard a Canadian domestic flight on Thursday morning, officials said.The incident occurred at 7am (1200 GMT) as Air Canada flight 101 was......
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the last say on all state matters, on Thursday praised Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for his “resistance” after seven years of war.“Syria is......
