Mahmudullah Riyad and Imarul Kayes knocked half centuries to lift Bangladesh to a fighting 249-7 in their Super Four Stage match against Afghanistan in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.Riyad scored 81-ball 74......
North Korea and Iran will dominate this week's gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, where President Donald Trump will be in the spotlight as he continues to upend global diplomacy.After......
More than 3,000 civilians have been killed in US-led coalition air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria since they began four years ago, a monitor said on Sunday.The Washington-led......
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed that the United States would emerge victorious in an intensifying trade war with China, a day before Washington imposes $200 billion worth of tariffs.“We are......
A second Swiss canton will introduce a regional “burqa ban”, after voters in St Gallen on Sunday emphatically backed prohibiting all face-covering garments in public spaces.At the same time, voters......
Karachi police on Sunday registered a first information report (FIR) against members of the #FixIt self-help group for trying to lift roadblocks placed on Sharea Faisal that had been placed to make......
Prime Minister Imran Khan promised to completely overhaul the governance systems of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the centre during a televised speech to civil servants on Sunday, which followed a......
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday pointed blame at Arab separatists for a deadly attack on a military parade and accused an unnamed United States-backed Gulf state of supporting them.Tehran......
Tanzania declared the whole nation was in mourning Sunday as the first dozen bodies were buried from a devastating ferry capsize on Lake Victoria that left people 224 dead.Prime Minister Kassim......
As Pakistan and India face off against each other for a second time in the Asia Cup 2018 ? this time at the Super Four stage ? in Dubai, the green shirts won the toss and opted to bat.Skipper Sarfraz......
Despite Indian government's refusal to engage in dialogue, Pakistani authorities are willing to open the Kartarpur border crossing so that Sikh pilgrims can visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib without a......
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and others offered funeral prayers at General Headquarters on Sunday for seven soldiers martyred in an attack in North Waziristan a day earlier,......
Prime Minister Imran Khan has arrived at Lahore today to review Punjab’s progress on his government's 100-day agenda, and to launch an 'empowered' local government system as well as police......
Three men were killed and two injured after unidentified armed men attacked the camp of a pro-government tribal militia in the Dasht Goran area of Balochistan's Dera Bugti district on Sunday, Levies......
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced calls for his resignation over allegations of corruption in a military jet deal with France after former French president Francois Hollande was......
India on Sunday launched the world's biggest health insurance scheme which Prime Minister Narendra Modi said would cover some 500 million poor people.The programme, dubbed "Modicare", promises health......
With mid-term elections approaching, he desperately wants lower prices at the gas station. But his aggressive foreign policy, endeavouring to isolate the Iranian regime is pushing the oil prices......
KARACHI: As the local auto assemblers and real estate sector cheer the government’s decision of allowing non-filers to buy cars and property – the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and......
DUBAI: Four key officials of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and the Indian cricket board (BCCI) met here for more than an hour after the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) board meeting on......
DUBAI: In the first round of Asia Cup, defending champions India landed the first blow. Result — Pakistan were knocked out cold as the side led by Sarfraz Ahmed suffered an eight-wicket defeat last......
KARACHI: “Pakistan players should not over-burden themselves with the thought of facing arch-rivals India in Sunday’s game or from what happened last Wednesday, but should just go out there and enjoy......
LAHORE: The seasoned Dutch coach of Pakistan hockey team Roelant Oltmans resigned from his post here on Saturday citing problems with the current environment of the game and his inability to bring......
SYDNEY: Disgraced cricketers Steve Smith and David Warner made stunning returns to Australian grade cricket on Saturday, with the pair both notching up big scores in front of some of the largest......
DUBAI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani said on Saturday his board would review their stance on global leagues and seek assurances from the game’s governing body.The PCB earlier......
WASHINGTON: Only eight per cent women in Pakistan borrow money from banks, compared to 51pc in Brazil, according to a survey ‘Women in Finance: A Case for Closing Gaps’ conducted by the International......
KARACHI: The production of cigarettes in FY18 surges by 72 per cent.According to the State Bank’s Statistical Bulletin September 2018, the cigarette production went up by 72pc to 59.06bn in FY18;......
FROM starting off as the tournament favourites to narrowly escaping a defeat against a spirited Afghanistan side, Pakistan seem to be grappling with some issues in the Asia Cup which they must......
KARACHI: The outgoing week was restricted to three sessions as the market remained closed on Thursday and Friday on account of Ashura. During the week, the KSE-100 index gained 399.82 points (0.99......
LONDON: Britain said on Saturday it would not capitulate in Brexit talks and again urged its EU partners to engage with its proposals, as ministers in Paris and Berlin suggested the next move in the......
WITH US President Donald Trump apparently hell bent on creating global trade chaos, can Europe and Asia join forces to stabilise the rules-based multilateral trading system?The response from the......
ISLAMABAD: After much prodding into the matter, the government has finally initiated in-house consultations for proposals to reform the multilateral trade systems and making the Geneva-based World......
NEW YORK: China has scrapped trade talks with the United States days before President Donald Trump is set to escalate the commercial battle with a new round of tariffs, according to a person familiar......
MONTREAL: Women foreign ministers from around the world kicked off a first-of-its-kind meeting on Saturday, bringing together more than half of the world’s top women diplomats in Montreal.Women are......
WASHINGTON: Combat won out over caution. White House aides and congressional allies worked all week to keep President Donald Trump from unloading on the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee......
NAIROBI: The death toll soared past 200 while a survivor was found inside a capsized Tanzania ferry two days after the Lake Victoria disaster, officials said on Saturday, while search efforts were......
MALE: Police in the Maldives raided the main campaign office of the opposition presidential candidate on Saturday, the eve of an election viewed as a referendum on whether democracy will survive in......
The timing of today's Pak-India clash could not have been better. Just a day or so after diplomatic relations between the two nations went kaput, their cricket teams are set to face each other, which......
SUKKUR: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has opposed Prime Minister Imran Khan’s proposal vis-a-vis granting of nationality/naturalisation to the children of illegal immigrants settled in the......
CHITRAL: Supreme Court Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday said no compromise or laxitywas possible on the conservation of water in the country when it was fast running out.“It’s our duty to......
MINGORA: To understand the lifestyle, fashion and technological use in vitreous materials, ornamental culture and ceramics used in the ancient Swat, international archaeologists launched different......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Saturday repeated his stance that the teeming provincial capital needed 1,200 cusecs additional water for the K-IV project and vowed to persuade a meeting of......
LAHORE: There is a threat of very high floods in the eastern rivers over the next three days due to heavy to extremely heavy rains expected over their upper catchments by a depression from the Bay of......
ISLAMABAD: Poliovirus that originated in the Northern Corridor in Afghanistan – Kandahar and Helmand – has been detected in various Pakistani cities including Rawalpindi.Emergency Operations Centre......
RAWALPINDI: Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan on Saturday said that right to information act will soon be promulgated in Punjab to facilitate mediapersons in getting the required......
LAHORE: A young man died after the string of a stray kite slit his throat in Bhati Gate area late on Friday.Faisal, 30, was returning home on his motorcycle when the string of a stray kite slit his......
LAHORE: Victory of Prime Minister Imran Khan from NA-95 (Mianwali) and of former defence minister Khwaja Muhammad Asif from NA-73 (Sialkot) in July 25 general elections has been challenged through......
LAHORE: Activists of the Young Doctors Association (YDA) forced closure of the outpatient departments of five teaching hospitals in Lahore on Saturday to protest against an incident of alleged......
KHAR: Security forces on Saturday claimed to have foiled a terrorism bid in Bajaur tribal district by killing two terrorists, including one would-be suicide bomber, during an intelligence-based......
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani has said that Asian people have to be master of their own destiny, adding that parliaments of Asian countries can play an active role in promotion......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday strongly condemned the terrorist attack on a military parade in Ahvaz city, Iran, which resulted in the loss of dozens of innocent lives.In a statement, Foreign......
LAHORE: Prime Minister Imran Khan is scheduled to visit Lahore today (Sunday) to review Punjab’s progress on 100-day agenda and launch an ‘empowered’ local government system as well as police......
QUETTA: Opposition in the Balochistan Assembly on Saturday demanded proper implementation of the Balochistan High Court’s judgement on the provincial Public Sector Development Programme......
LAHORE: Pakistan Railways will have a ‘sub-headquarters’ in Karachi to boost its freight sector.“Karachi is the hub of business and it is the need of the hour to make a sub-headquarters of the PR......
In the July 2017 issue of The New Statesman, British academic David Marquand writes that populism is not a doctrine or a governing philosophy; it is a disposition, a set of attitudes and, above all,......
How many times do you use your smartphone in a day? Are you constantly checking your Instagram or Facebook on your phone, say every 10 minutes? If your answer to these questions is YES, you are......
WASHINGTON: The United States and Pakistan will resume their effort to reset a once close relationship on Oct 2, when Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is scheduled to meet US Secretary of State......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), which has come in for flak over the release of the Sharif family in the London properties reference, on Saturday issued an incomplete performance......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has sought legislation to award up to 14-year jail term for illegal sale of organs and ordered the government to also implement other recommendations of a committee......
It was only after Neeli Rana and the rest of the ‘party’ were beaten blue during a ceremony that she vowed to turn to activism.“We were at an event somewhere in Lahore,” she recalls. “The night was......
