The opening ceremony for the final of the Pakistan Super League 2018 between Peshawar Zalmi and Islamabad United is underway at the National Stadium Karachi.After Najam Sethi briefly took the stage......
The gates are open, security arrangements are in place and hundreds of spectators have started lining up to experience the first major cricketing event in Karachi in the last nine years.Nearly 32,000......
Steve Smith and David Warner will stand down as captain and vice-captain for rest of Australia's third Test match against South Africa, Cricket Australia said on Sunday as it investigates a......
Steve Smith was fighting to save his job and reputation on Sunday after admitting he was the chief plotter in a ball-tampering scandal.It is not the first time that the Australia cricket captain has......
Every autumn on the mountainous Karakoram Highway, part of the ancient Silk Road, groups of Pakistani merchants living in China's far west would wave goodbye to their Chinese wives and cross the......
KEY BISCAYNE: Six-time champion Novak Djokovic’s hopes of turning around his season at the Miami Open ended in the second round when he was defeated 6-3, 6-4 by Frenchman Benoit Paire here on......
KARACHI: The cotton market reflected steady conditions on Saturday amid sustained demand for quality lint. Depreciation of the rupee against the dollar helped cotton prices stay firm.However, trading......
Oil futures finished at an eight-week high Friday, surging to almost $70 a barrel during the week. The surge was a knee-jerk reaction of the markets to the unexpected drop in the US crude inventory......
KARACHI: A spectacular rally in the shortened (four-session) outgoing week enabled the KSE-100 index to collect 1,667 points (3.84 per cent) and power past the strong barrier of 45,000 to close at......
KARACHI: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has urged the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to withhold recovery of tax demand till such time a decision of appeal is......
KARACHI: After a gap of five months, the country exported 65,649 tonnes of wheat alone in February fetching $12.5 million compared to nil foreign sales of the commodity since September 2017.Recovery......
ISLAMABAD: No official of the capital police could meet the new criteria set by the police to fill three main posts in the police stations of the city.A committee was constituted by the inspector......
PESHAWAR: Road closures and traffic diversions for the ongoing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project have turned commuting across the provincial capital into a nightmare for the local residents.As the work......
PESHAWAR: An academician from Bajaur Agency on Saturday moved the Peshawar High Court challenging the judicial powers of Fata’s executive officers under the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) as well......
ISLAMABAD: Friday sermons will now be delivered after they have been approved by the capital administration, which will also monitor them, officials said on Saturday.The administration had initially......
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) has issued a notification banning the sale of loose cigarettes across the country. Under the new rules, shopkeepers or individuals involved......
LAHORE: Former PML-N MPA Yasmeen Khan was found dead at her house in Defence here on Saturday morning.She was living alone at her Rehman Villas residence situated near Bhatta Chowk. Neighbours......
LAHORE: Around 100 renowned academics have signed a petition written by their colleagues showing their grave concern over enforced disappearances of people, and demanding their early recovery.The......
NAWABSHAH: The agenda of world powers is to keep religious parties away from power in Pakistan.This was stated by Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl......
KARACHI: Earth Hour on Saturday was observed in Pakistan from 8.30pm to 9.30pm.Well-known landmarks all over Pakistan switched off their lights to connect to the biggest movement on the planet for......
LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday lambasted the Punjab government for running most of the province’s affairs by establishing public companies and summoned complete record......
LAHORE: The Supreme Court on Saturday ordered all infant formula/powdered milk manufacturing companies to clearly print on packaging of their products “it is not natural milk” and also restrained......
IT might have been avoided. Fifteen years ago this week, we invaded Iraq. It was a criminal war. Indeed, it was a war crime. It had no UN resolutions to excuse its cruelty. It left a wealthy Arab......
PERTH: The “Kangaroo Route” from Australia to Britain became a shorter hop Saturday when the first direct passenger service left Perth for London, with the 17-hour flight set to break aviation......
HELSINKI: Catalonia’s former president Carles Puigdemont on Saturday appeared to have foiled attempts by Finnish police to arrest him under a European arrest warrant as an MP said he had already......
WASHINGTON: Summoned to action by student survivors of the Florida school shooting, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied in the nation’s capital and cities across America......
NEW DELHI: India’s biometric ID programme, Aadhaar, has been hit by another major security lapse, allowing access to private information, business technology news website ZDNet reported on Saturday.A......
Pakistani TV news channels seem to change their support for certain political parties and state institutions faster than a person would change their undergarments. Newspapers, on the other hand, do......
BERLIN: A Portuguese airline apologised for keeping more than 100 passengers stranded at Stuttgart airport in south-western Germany after one of its flights was cancelled last-minute because of a......
AFRIN: The Turkish army and Syrian opposition fighters it backs have “total control” of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria, the country’s official news agency said on Saturday, nearly a......
WASHINGTON: The United States and Pakistan have a lot to gain by working with each other, says a senior White House aide, Lisa Curtis, while Pakistan’s Ambassador Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhary argues that......
KHUZDAR: Several political parties have condemned the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision to add an area of Balochistan’s NA-260 constituency to a Sindh constituency under its new......
ISLAMABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan has urged the British parliamentarians “to effectively put pressure on their government and their Foreign and Commonwealth Office to......
ISLAMABAD: South Korea has announced its support for Unesco’s Girls’ Right to Education Programme in Pakistan with the signing of an agreement between Unesco Director General Audrey Azoulay and South......
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Ten people, among them two security personnel, were injured when unidentified people hurled a hand grenade on the stage during a cultural festival in the Sikandar Janoobi area, 35km......
ISLAMABAD: A Supreme Court-appointed amicus has said that open trial of references against sitting judges of high courts will strengthen confidence in the integrity of the judicial system.But the......
BANNU: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that the PPP would not allow rolling back of the 18th Constitution Amendment and changes in the National Finance Commission......
The setting is the courtyard of a dilapidated village house. A group of adults, some with slates and chalk, and others with a notebook or two, sit on the courtyard floor. A teacher takes his place on......
LAHORE: Giving a message to his detractors in political circles, Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday stated that he would continue to visit public hospitals in order to protect......
ISLAMABAD: Investigations against 270 influential people accused of laundering un-taxed money into accounts and assets abroad, involving tens of billions of rupees, have come to a halt due to legal......
KARACHI: The nine-year itch of National Stadium Karachi (NSK) holding its first major cricket fixture in this city of lights is on the threshold of culminating when Peshawar Zalmi defend their HBL......
