Three police inspectors involved in the murder of 19-year-old student Intizar Ahmed in Defence have been dismissed from police service, it emerged on Friday.On January 14, Intizar was chased down and......
Karachi police have arrested four men suspected of blackmailing girls after allegedly raping and filming them, a senior police official told Dawn on Friday.Karachi West Zone DIG Amir Farooqi said......
Karachi Kings won the toss and elected to field first against Islamabad United in the last league match of the Pakistan Super League 2018 at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Friday.The game was of......
Lahore High Court (LHC) judge Syed Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi has asked the LHC chief justice to constitute a larger bench to hear the multiple petitions pending against ousted prime minister Nawaz......
As rumours do rounds on social media about the reasons for Umar Akmal being sidelined in the last few matches of ongoing Pakistan Super League 2018, Lahore Qalandars have stepped in to prevent any......
The tickets for the Pakistan Super League’s final have become a hot commodity and are being sold in black market as many cricket fans have expressed sheer disappointment with how the whole......
Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) closed the week on a negative note, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index plunging 132 points to close at 43,363.The benchmark index showed positive activity in the first few......
Notorious 'encounter specialist' and former police inspector Abid Boxer is yet to be extradited to Pakistan, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)'s director Interpol told the Lahore High Court......
A special court hearing a high treason case against retired Gen Pervez Musharraf on Friday ordered the Interior Ministry to take steps for the suspension of the former president's identity card and......
Lahore Qalandars won the toss and opted to bat first in the 29th match of the Pakistan Super League 2018 at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Friday.Peshawar Zalmi XI: Mohammad Hafeez, Kamran Akmal,......
The global male-to-female sex ratio at birth is slightly in favour of boys than girls, but if both sexes receive similar nutrition and care, females have a higher chance of outliving their male......
India is yet to grant visas to Pakistanis wishing to attend the urs of Sufi saint Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti at Dargah Ajmer Sharif in Rajasthan from March 19-29, said the spokesperson for the......
Buddhist flags hang limply from bamboo poles at the entrance to Koe Tan Kauk, a “model” village for ethnic Rakhine migrants shuttled north to repopulate an area once dominated by Rohingya Muslims.The......
Two women were arrested Thursday for breaking into an Islamic center in Arizona and filming themselves making anti-Islamic remarks, police said.Tahnee Gonzales and Elizabeth Dauenhauer were arrested......
The Ministry of Interior has refused to place the names of five Sharif family members on the Exit Control List (ECL), sources within the National Accountability Bureau told DawnNewsTV on Friday.NAB......
Peshawar Zalmi will face Lahore Qalandars in Sharjah on Friday in the penultimate match of the group stage fixtures before the four top sides in the league progress to the playoffs.While the......
Sportsgear maker Nike on Thursday announced the surprise departure of top executive Trevor Edwards, who was considered a potential successor to the firm's CEO.Without making any direct connection, a......
Sex. Money laundering. Espionage. The investigation of Washington special prosecutor Robert Mueller is bursting its seams, going far beyond Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.After......
Thousands of civilians poured out of Eastern Ghouta on Thursday after a month-long bombardment brought the Syrian regime closer to recapturing the devastated rebel enclave outside Damascus.Defying......
Air Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan was designated as the new chief of air staff of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) by the federal government on FridayAir Marshal Mujahid Khan will take command on March 19,......
KARACHI: The country’s first clinical transplant immunology laboratory aimed at accelerating advancement in the field of transplant sciences was inaugurated at the Sindh Institute of Urology and......
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday ordered the federal government to explain why Hafiz Saeed's two organisations, the Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) and its charity wing, the Falah-i-Insaniat Foundation......
The Supreme Court on Friday gave Sindh Inspector General (IG) A.D. Khowaja until Monday to arrest the absconding Sindh police officer Rao Anwar after Khowaja assured the court that Anwar would be......
PARIS: France has issued an arrest warrant for the sister of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on suspicion of ordering her bodyguard to beat up a worker at her Paris apartment, sources close to......
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe has said he never thought his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa would turn against him and denounced his move to oust him last year as a coup.Mugabe, 94,......
SARGODHA: Up to 100 more people have been tested positive for HIV/AIDS after a recent screening of the people in the Kot Imrana locality, health department officials say.The neighbourhood had......
BADIN: Former Sindh home minister Dr Zulfikar Ali Mirza has hinted at contesting polls in next general election against Mir Munawwar Ali Talpur, husband of MNA Faryal Talpur, who is the sister of......
BARCELONA: Barcelona hailed Lionel Messi as “The King” and he handed Chelsea the royal punishment by scoring twice to reach 100 Champions League goals and end their quarter-final hopes on......
HARARE: Afghanistan kept their hopes alive for a place in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 when they stunned the West Indies by three wickets in a match of fluctuating fortunes, while defending......
THE infamous legacy of ‘enforced disappearances’ that the Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet left behind has, unfortunately, been picked up by Pakistan. This phenomenon is today a source of......
KARACHI: The suspension has been lifted, the funding is resuming and the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) will also get its allocation of the 2018 FIFA World Cup tickets.However the status of the......
FORMER national captain Moin Khan posed serious questions to the custodians of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) when he said on Thursday if appropriate measures are not taken for the proper......
SYDNEY: Australia’s conservative government is considering fast-tracking visas for white South African farmers so they can flee their “horrific circumstances” for a “civilised country”.The offer was......
JAKARTA: Indonesians could be jailed for criticising national politicians under a new law which came into force on Thursday, in what critics slammed as a major step back for the world’s third-biggest......
WASHINGTON: The United States cannot be overly optimistic about the outcome of any summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and must go into it with “eyes wide......
A SEVERE blow has been dealt to democracy. Balochistan has become the laughing stock of the world — a virtual unknown from the province has been made Senate chairman whereas celebrated nationalists......
NEW DELHI: As Indian and Pakistani troops continue to fire indiscriminately at each other in breach of a 2003 ceasefire agreement, domestic mishandling of the Kashmir militancy by New Delhi has added......
KABUL: An Afghan man taken hostage by the Taliban made a dramatic escape by stealing a gun while his captors were praying and shooting dead seven of them and wounding 18 others, officials said on......
ISLAMABAD: Criticising economic policies of the government, the main opposition Pakistan Peoples Party vowed on Thursday to oppose the proposed moves to introduce an amnesty scheme for Pakistanis to......
QUETTA: Balochistan Assembly Speaker Raheela Hameed Khan Durrani has appointed Abdul Rahim Ziaratwal of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) as new leader of the opposition in the assembly with......
WASHINGTON: The United States slapped sanctions on 19 Russian individuals and five groups, including Moscow’s intelligence services, for meddling in the 2016 US election and malicious cyber attacks,......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government assured the Supreme Court on Thursday that it would return to the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) the funds which were earlier transferred to the......
MUZAFFARABAD: The local administration in Kotli district of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Thursday imposed Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code barring the holding of public meetings, a day......
ISLAMABAD: The chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), who is also heading the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances, commonly known as the missing persons commission, is......
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa suffered Rs600 million loss as the federal authorities reduced the production of crude oil and gas from their wellheads located in the province last December.The local......
PESHAWAR: The biggest Buddha statue in the Peshawar Museum would be displayed at the Rietberg Museum of Zurich in Switzerland at an exhibition to promote religious tourism.Under a Memorandum of......
KASUR: Two inspectors allegedly involved in the extrajudicial killing of Mudassar got post-arrest bail from a local court on Thursday.A joint investigation team (JIT) is investigating the death of......
LAHORE: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has approached the Lahore High Court against ban on social welfare activities and freezing of accounts of his two organisations - Jamatud Dawa (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniat......
KABUL: When Asadullah Poya’s wife gave birth to their third child in a tiny village in rural Afghanistan, he immediately thought of Donald Trump.Not Donald Trump the upstart politician, who at that......
PESHAWAR: Listed as vulnerable species in the world, a snow leopard died in Peshawar Zoo on Thursday, officials said.However, the reason for the 10-year-old big cat’s death is not known.The snow......
LAHORE: Death toll in the Raiwind suicide blast reached 10 after another policeman succumbed to his wounds at the Lahore General Hospital on Thursday.Head-Constable Mohammad Naeem was among seven of......
LAHORE: The PML-N has identified its 28 MPAs, mostly women, who allegedly voted for the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and PPP candidates in Senate elections in Punjab, Dawn has learnt.The party leadership......
ISLAMABAD: Supreme leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Nawaz Sharif has announced that judicial reforms aimed to provide speedy and inexpensive justice to the masses is one of the main......
KARACHI: Experts on water and environmental issues warned on Thursday of potentially disastrous consequences Pakistan faced owing to increasing water scarcity, a problem, they said, which had......
KARACHI: A sessions court on Thursday sentenced a physiotherapist to life imprisonment in a woman’s murder case.Karamat Hussain was found guilty of killing Amina Yusuf Patel and robbing her house in......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition in the National Assembly on Thursday rejected the proposed privatisation of Pakistan Post when the five-year tenure of the government is to end soon.Verbal clashes were......
ISLAMABAD: A defence counsel in the Avenfield Properties reference on Thursday questioned the admissibility of the report of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) which is the basis of three references......
KARACHI: Police arrested on Thursday a US-educated man found involved in selling drugs to youths in Clifton and Defence for the last five years, according to South SSP Sarfraz Nawaz.Speaking at a......
KARACHI: Thousands of Karachiites returned empty-handed from dozens of designated centres of a courier company on Thursday as the sale of tickets for the Pakistan Super League (PSL) final witnessed......
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI: After getting its candidates elected as Senate chairman and deputy chairman, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is now set to occupy the office of the opposition leader as its......
KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to devolve property tax collection to the local bodies, for which a proper database and capacity building of the relevant local bodies staff would be......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed concern over the growing number of drug-related cases pending disposal in the special courts for the control of narcotic substances and directed the......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office said on Thursday that the high commissioner to India had been ‘called for consultations’ over continued harassment of Pakistani diplomats and their families based......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday indicted Minister of State for Interior Mohammad Tallal Chaudhry of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for his anti-judiciary tirade. The minister,......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which had earlier termed the formation of a parliamentary committee on delimitation of constituencies a useless exercise, informed the committee......
LONDON: Britain’s third biggest company Unilever picked Rotterdam over London for its main headquarters on Thursday in a blow to Prime Minister Theresa May’s government a year before Brexit.The......
WASHINGTON: International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Thursday issued a renewed warning against protectionism, saying moves to restrict trade threatened to slow the current global......
ISLAMABAD: The government has given an undertaking to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to immediately increase natural gas and electricity tariffs and conduct deeper scrutiny of foreign-funded......
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs Dr Miftah Ismail said that rationalised agriculture policies could double the value of its products in five years,......
ISLAMABAD: With the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) board elections scheduled to be held on April 19, lobbying has intensified between stockbrokers and some independent directors for a place on the new......
A newly installed pedestrian bridge over a six-lane highway in Miami on a college campus collapsed on Thursday, crushing a number of cars below and reportedly leaving several people dead.The Miami......
