A charismatic Indian opposition figure and former top UN official was charged on Monday over the death of his wife, reigniting a mystery that shook the country's establishment.Shashi Tharoor, 62, is......
Indian authorities said on Monday that at least 86 people have been killed and over 100 injured in a fresh wave of violent sandstorms and thunderstorms that battered vast swathes of the country.Winds......
The Foreign Office (FO) on Monday expressed "grave concern" on the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which it deemed "a violation of international law and several United Nations Security......
US defence attaché Col Joseph Emanuel Hall, who was earlier barred from flying out on an American military aircraft by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), was reportedly allowed by the government......
The Supreme Court on Monday suspended till further notice an Islamabad High Court (IHC) ruling in which the latter had revoked a ban placed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on new......
Kevin O'Brien became the first Ireland batsman to score a fifty in men's Test cricket as the debutants avoided an innings defeat by Pakistan on Monday.Ireland, made to follow-on, were 212 for six at......
The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday recommended a visually impaired lawyer for appointment as a civil judge after his original snubbing — allegedly due to his disability — rankled Chief Justice......
Pakistan cemented its place in the final of Street Child Football World Cup 2018 in Russia after defeating Indonesia 5-4 on penalties in the semi-final fixture on Monday.Earlier the team drew against......
Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was discharged from Lahore's Services Hospital on Monday.Iqbal was shot at and injured during a corner meeting in Narowal's Kanjrur tehsil on May 6.He was rushed to......
A bloodbath was seen at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Monday as confusion over Nawaz Sharif's controversial remarks regarding the 26/11 Mumbai attacks prevailed even in the aftermath of a......
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi addressed a press conference on Monday, hours after a National Security Council (NSC) session was convened to discuss a "recent misleading media statement"......
A witness in a case pertaining to the extrajudicial killing of Naqeebullah Mehsud in a police encounter told the court on Monday that a statement establishing the presence of former Senior......
The United States moves its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem later Monday after months of global outcry, Palestinian anger and exuberant praise from Israelis over President Donald Trump's decision......
A meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC), the country’s top civil-military body, was held on Monday to consider the situation arising out of the recent remarks of PML-N supreme leader Nawaz......
Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday defended his recent remarks about the 2008 Mumbai attacks — which have stirred a controversy in Pakistan as well as across the border in India — asking,......
KATHMANDU: Eight Nepali climbers reached the top of Mount Everest on Sunday, the first of hundreds of climbers expected to summit the world’s highest mountain in coming weeks. The team reached the......
LAHORE: Around 700 women were handed over keys of motorcycles under a project of the Chief Minister’s Strategic Reforms Unit (SRU) at an event held at Alhamra on Sunday.The keys were handed over by......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore has re-summoned former prime minister Nawaz Sharif for May 20 for allegedly misusing his authority for illegal construction of a road leading......
ABU DHABI: Military transport planes from the United Arab Emirates landed on the sleepy Yemeni island of Socotra last week, unloading tanks and troops as part of the Arab state’s drive to extend its......
The political coalition of influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr took an early lead in Iraq's national elections in partial returns announced late on Sunday by the Iraqi electoral commission.An......
JERUSALEM: Israelis basked in national pride and pro-American fervour on Sunday as tens of thousands participated in a Jerusalem march, a day ahead of the controversial US embassy move to the......
SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has said that even after splitting in factions, the strings of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) are......
Four militants on motorcycles blew themselves up at a police headquarters in Indonesia's second city Surabaya on Monday, police said, wounding at least 10 people, including officers, a day after a......
KARACHI: The inquiry into last month’s fire at the City Courts’ malkhana that destroyed evidence about some of high-profile criminal cases has come to a conclusion that keeping explosive and......
KARACHI: The solidarity of Pakistan is in danger, said former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf on Sunday.Speaking at the first rally of a newly formed alliance, Pakistan Awami Ittehad, led by......
BARCELONA: Lewis Hamilton won the Spanish Grand Prix in a commanding Mercedes one-two on Sunday to stretch his Formula One lead over Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel from four to 17 points.The victory,......
LONDON: Manchester City beat Southampton 1-0 to become the first team to reach 100 points, Mohamed Salah established a new Premier League goalscoring mark to guarantee Liverpool’s place back in the......
LAHORE: Visually challenged persons on Sunday blocked the Metro bus service track in protest against non-acceptance of their demand for regularisation of jobs.Around 30 visually impaired people......
DESPERATE and on the lookout for a genuine all-rounder, Pakistan may in fact have discovered two in Shadab Khan and debutant Fahim Ashraf who sensibly controlled a rocking ship of innings with their......
RAWALPINDI: The Evacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB) has launched an inquiry into complaints that Kali Mata Temple in Moti Bazaar has been encroached by local shopkeepers who were even trying to......
DUBLIN: Ireland were 64 without loss in their second innings, a deficit of 116 runs, at stumps on the third day of their inaugural Test after being made to follow-on by Pakistan at Malahide on......
ISLAMABAD: The water shortage in the capital city may worsen in the summer as the water level in both Simly and Khanpur dams has not risen and 33 of the tubewells are also dysfunctional.“We are......
PESHAWAR: Qaumi Watan Party chairman Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao has urged the writers and intellectuals of Pakistan and Afghanistan to play their role to remove the trust deficit between the two......
AS THE month of Ramazan nears, there usually is a sharp increase in the price of kitchen items in Pakistan, while in other countries, such as the United Kingdom, deals and discounts are the norm......
SINDH’s budget for the next fiscal year is filled with sweet talk to agriculturists. Or, so it seems.Greater allocation of expenses, larger development allocations, the continuation of several......
A BUMPER mango crop is not likely in Sindh for many reasons, mainly water shortage at a time when the crop was at crucial stage, ie March onwards.Farm owners believe that mangoes have started......
LAHORE: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) — the recently revived alliance of religio-political parties — held its first election-related activity by holding a public meeting at the Minar-i-Pakistan......
QUETTA: A man gouged out his youngest son’s eyes for wanting to marry a girl against his family’s wishes in Loralai, Balochistan. On Sunday, the police said that the night before Abdul Baqi, a......
AS Punjab announces May 31 as the deadline for Bt cotton sowing, farmers wonder what it would mean for them this year. Last year, they could achieve only 11.98 million bales from 2.8m hectares (6.92m......
BY restoring sanctions against Iran, US President Donald Trump has tasked a little-known State Department office with convincing companies and governments worldwide to cut imports of Iranian crude —......
YET another major institutional investor is slamming how Facebook is governed, describing it as “akin to a dictatorship” and calling for an end to the way it structures voting power among its......
GIVEN the scarcity of capital in Pakistan’s nascent start-up ecosystem and the shyness of local angel investors to invest in home-grown ventures, the government has decided to step in for supporting......
LAHORE: Moneeza Hashmi, a daughter of renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz and trustee of the Faiz Foundation Trust, was not allowed to attend the 15th Asia Media Summit held in New Delhi on May 10 even......
PEOPLE have already started availing parts of the tax amnesty scheme, officials of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) say; attributing a 17 per cent growth in April’s tax revenue partly to an early......
THE Pakistan Economic Survey 2017-18 provides no data on the latest unemployment rate in the country. The last official figure was a rate of 5.9 per cent for the fiscal year 2014-2015 when......
UNTIL recently, the warm public debate on nationalisation and privatisation has been conducted largely in terms of ideology and dogma. It is encouraging that in books published this year two leading......
In the local currency market, the rupee continued to trade under pressure against the dollar in the open market last week while the country’s foreign exchange reserves fell to $17.286 billion last......
ISLAMABAD: On the request of defence authorities, the federal government has finally ordered immediate suspension of unauthorised operations at two key oil installations at Keamari in Karachi being......
THE Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) has been quietly celebrating its undeclared status as the best performing market in the region in 2018 year-to-date.Up to May 4, the return for CY2018 dished out by......
ACCORDING to the weekly statement of position of all scheduled banks for the week ended April 27, 2018 deposits and other accounts of all scheduled banks stood at Rs12,276.660 billion after a 0.74......
THE current democratically elected government — the second in the country’s 70 year history — will complete its five-year term on May 31 and hand-over control to an interim administration for two......
KARACHI: Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen on Sunday said that bringing Rao Anwar, a police officer charged with killing Naqeebullah Mehsud in a fake encounter, to justice was......
CLOSE to elections and in an environment of heightened political temperature, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leadership was probably too preoccupied with political wrangling to spare time or......
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Saturday issued a notice to the special public prosecutor on an application seeking bail for former senior police superintendent Rao Anwar Ahmed in a case relating......
ISLAMABAD: National security adviser Nasser Khan Janjua on Sunday said US and the West should play a positive role in maintaining security of the region that has become quite fragile.He was speaking......
ISLAMABAD: National security adviser Nasser Khan Janjua on Sunday said US and the West should play a positive role in maintaining security of the region that has become quite fragile.He was speaking......
At least two villagers were killed and seven others wounded when a group of armed men attacked Mehran Bijarani village in Shikarpur on Sunday.According to reports, a group of armed men belonging to......
