The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday issued notices to several parliamentarians and political leaders, including Imran Khan and Farooq Sattar, for levelling horse-trading allegations......
A Russian military cargo plane crashed as it was descending to land at an airbase in Syria on Tuesday, killing all 32 people onboard, the Russian Defense Ministry said.The Russian military said an......
Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and opted to field first against Multan Sultans in the 16th fixture of the Pakistan Super League 2018 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.The usual pairing of Ahmed......
Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani on Tuesday lauded the Supreme Court for demonstrating restraint and not "entering into controversy", and assured that the judiciary and parliament both aim to preserve,......
A large number of Kashmiri men, women and children paraded through the main boulevard of Muzaffarabad on Tuesday, calling upon Islamabad to extend military support to an ongoing struggle in held......
The French government is proposing a law that would say anyone under 15 cannot consent to sex, after widespread shock at two cases involving 11-year-old girls.It would be the first such law in......
India's ruling party warned its supporters on Tuesday they were not above the law after a mob celebrating an election victory against communist opponents bulldozed a statue of Vladimir Lenin.Police......
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson warned on Tuesday that Britain would respond “robustly” if it emerged that a government was behind the suspected poisoning of a former Russian double agent.Sergei......
The Russian military said on Tuesday that rebels were being allowed to leave Syria's Eastern Ghouta enclave via a humanitarian corridor together with their families and firearms, news agencies......
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Tuesday landed in the red, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index paring 124 points to close at 43,705.The benchmark index opened higher to touch the day's high at......
Peshawar Zalmi head coach Mohammad Akram has said that there is nothing to read into leg-spinner Ibtisam Sheikh's recent absence from the team's line-up and that the youngster 'has a very bright......
Saudi-owned broadcaster MBC has stopped airing Turkish soap operas, a spokesman said on Tuesday, prompting fans to take to social media to express dismay.MBC said the move, which comes amid tensions......
Myanmar is continuing its “ethnic cleansing” of the Rohingya with a “campaign of terror and forced starvation” in Rakhine state, a United Nations (UN) human rights envoy said on Tuesday, six months......
The Supreme Court on Tuesday screened former PML-N senator Nehal Hashmi's most recent inflammatory speech — delivered after the PML-N leader completed his one-month sentence for contempt of court —......
Days after a medical student in Quetta was allegedly kidnapped, doctors and paramedics belonging to the Balochistan wings of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) and Paramedical Staff Association......
A significant drop in Indian girls being forced into marriage has led a global decline in the number of child brides, the United Nations (UN) said on Tuesday.According to UN children's agency Unicef,......
China's government said on Tuesday that it had asked for a hold on a United States (US) request for United Nations sanctions against ships accused of helping North Korea evade sanctions imposed over......
The United States (US) on Monday called on the Taliban to consider an offer for peace talks extended by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.Ghani at an international conference in Kabul last week unveiled......
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saudi Arabia has agreed to allow Air India to use its airspace in flights to and from Israel in what could indicate a warming of ties.But Air India said......
The Multan Sultans and Peshawar Zalmi are going to face each other in the 16th fixture of the Pakistan Super League's (PSL) third edition in Dubai on Tuesday.The performance of both franchises have......
Sri Lanka on Tuesday imposed fresh curfews and deployed heavily-armed police commandos to a central hill district popular with tourists where riots have left two dead and Muslim homes and businesses......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday heard a petition filed by a 27-year-old person requesting sex reassignment surgery after being diagnosed with gender dysphoria.Yusra Waheed had moved the......
A Senate Special Committee on Human Rights on Tuesday recommended that perpetrators of false accusations of blasphemy be given the same punishment as set for those accused for blasphemy."Anyone......
For all the goodwill they may have accumulated for their off-the-field activities, Lahore Qalandars are yet to make their mark on the field.They have one of the worst win percentages of all the T20......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the premier intelligence agencies namely the Inter-Services Intelligence, Military Intelligence, the Federal Investigation Agency and other law......
Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan's (MQM-P) MPA Shazia Farooq was admitted to the hospital on Monday night after allegedly swallowing a large quantity of sedative pills.A section of the media......
PARIS: It’s time for Paris Saint-Germain to live up to their own hype, and what better way than knocking Real Madrid out of the Champions League without Neymar? The teams meet on Tuesday at Parc des......
BARCELONA: Diego Simeone has claimed if Lionel Messi played for Atletico Madrid, his side would have beaten Barcelona on Sunday.But instead, it is Barca with one hand on the La Liga title after......
DUBAI: Asad Shafiq, Pakistan’s test player and Quetta Gladiators’ opening batsman, has said that Quetta Gladiators will bounce back in the second phase of Pakistan Super League (PSL).Speaking to Dawn......
DURBAN: Australia wrapped up a 118-run win on the fifth day of the first Test against South Africa here on Monday but the result is likely to be overshadowed by an ugly bust-up between David Warner......
ISLAMABAD: As US influence in Islamabad wanes, former adversary Moscow is building military, diplomatic and economic ties that could upend historic alliances in the region and open up a fast-growing......
HONG: KONG: The visit of a US aircraft carrier to Vietnam for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War is a powerful symbol of the growing strategic ties between the former foes.But the......
ROME: Two populist and stridently anti-European Union political groups both fierce rivals surged in Italy’s parliamentary election at the expense of the country’s traditional powers, but neither......
BEIJING: Thousands of Chinese legislators erupted into enthusiastic applause on Monday over plans to give President Xi Jinping a lifetime mandate to mould the Asian giant into a global......
JERUSALEM: An ex-aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signed a state witness deal in a corruption probe linked to his former boss, Israeli media reported on Monday, dealing a new......
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Monday summoned the case record and a report from superintendent of the Kot Lakhpat Jail on the appeal of Imran Ali against his conviction in......
KATHMANDU: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and his Nepalese counterpart Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli met on Monday and agreed to enhance cooperation in areas of economy, defence and culture.Mr......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has approved two new inquiries against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s family and expanded its scope of investigation to include Punjab......
ISLAMABAD: Supreme leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif has said that people have nullified the court verdicts against the political leadership by electing the candidates backed......
LAHORE: Concerned at his party MPAs voting for the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and PPP candidates in Senate election in Punjab, ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif has tasked a five-member committee with......
PESHAWAR: The Jamaat-i-Islami’s Fata chapter has warned it will move the Supreme Court if the Senate further delays the passage of a bill on Fata reforms.JI Fata chief Sardar Khan told reporters at......
QUETTA: The Pakistan Tehreek -i-Insaf (PTI) leadership has formally approached senators-elect who contested in the recent Senate elections as independent candidates from Balochistan and extended an......
GWADAR: The establishment of a peaceful environment in less developed parts of Balochistan is a dream come true, said Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa on Monday at the concluding......
ISLAMABAD: An amicus curie in the case related to finality of Prophethood stated before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that an apostate should not be given capital punishment.The court was hearing a......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a review petition moved by Shahrukh Jatoi — the main accused in the 2012 Shahzeb murder case — against its Feb 1 decision of cancelling his bail and......
KARACHI: A collective of women from diverse affiliations, backgrounds and professions referring to themselves as ‘Hum Aurtein’ gathered at the Karachi Press Club on Monday to introduce and brief the......
NAWABSHAH: Two more children, who were administered anti-measles vaccine a couple of days before, were brought to Peoples University Hospital (PUH) in critical condition on Sunday evening.The......
SRINAGAR: Police fired tear gas when thousands defied a curfew in India-held Kashmir and took to the streets on Monday in protest over the killing of six people by soldiers.Indian authorities had......
ISLAMABAD: It is a million dollar question whether the independent senators-elect who were backed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) can now join this political party, as the constitutional......
KARACHI: The completion of the Karachi Greater Water Project K-IV has been delayed by a year and it is now expected to be ready by the middle of next year, said Local Government Minister Jam Khan......
ABID Masih sits on a stone bench outside the emergency ward at Lahore’s Mayo hospital, nervously scratching his salt-and-pepper beard.Inside, his son Sajid is fighting for his life. Lying in the......
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Crying foul a day after the Senate elections, several political parties, including the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, on Monday called for an investigation into the......
ISLAMABAD: The accountability court of Islamabad on Monday decided to indict National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) president Saeed Ahmed on March 12 in the reference related to the assets of defunct......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday issued a preliminary report of the draft proposals for the delimitation of constituencies of the national and provincial assemblies for......
KARACHI: On a sunny weekend afternoon, the road leading to New Rizvia Society in Karachi’s Safoora Goth area has very thin traffic. A huge billboard overlooking the visitors at the society’s main......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump increased pressure on Canada and Mexico over trade on Monday, saying the two could avoid being caught in his planned hefty tariffs on steel and aluminum imports......
KARACHI: Veteran leftist politician Jam Saqi, who passed away in Hyderabad on Monday after a prolonged illness, was one of the country’s best known communist leaders, who was arrested, tortured and......
ISLAMABAD: Amid delays in the commercial operations of three mega projects of about 3,600 megawatts in Punjab, the government on Monday directed scaling down supplies of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)......
KARACHI: AGP Ltd, a pharmaceutical company in the fold of OBS Group, has raised Rs2.8 billion from foreign institutional investors, local institutions and general public.At the gong-ringing ceremony......
RESULTS from the remote, predominantly tribal, Tripura assembly elections have set off a false alarm and, predictably, a false debate within the left. On the other hand, the outcome comes as a......
The candidate of Pakistan People's Party has reportedly emerged victorious in the by-polls held in PS-7 constituency in Ghotki, according to the unofficial results.PPP candidate Abdul Bari Pitafi......
Personal insults were at the root of a row between Australia's David Warner and South Africa's Quinton de Kock during the tea break of the fourth day of the first Test, their captains said.The......
