A high-level Saudi delegation, in a meeting with Energy Minister Omar Ayub in Islamabad, has shown interest to invest in the alternative energy sector in Pakistan, Radio Pakistan reported on......
The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has launched a Twitter account to "tackle and expose" fake news that is spread through social media, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) announced on......
The airport manager of the Islamabad International Airport (IAA) has been dismissed after stray dogs were seen wandering the facility's premises on video, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)......
Brave Combat Federation has confirmed that the first-ever international mixed martial arts (MMA) event to be hosted in Pakistan on October 27 will feature five Pakistani fighters.Joining Uloomi Karim......
Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Afridi on Monday said that the recent case of sexual assault of a female police constable in Islamabad was a test for his ministry and the capital police.After......
A prosecutor says a total sum of 70,000 euros ($81,000) was paid for the contract slayings of a Slovak investigative journalist and his fiancee.Speaking at a news conference, a prosecutor in the case......
Last month, Prime Minister Imran Khan made his first foreign trip. His visit to Saudi Arabia marked another historic step in the 71-year friendship between the two countries.Many promises and......
The Supreme Court observed on Monday that it is the job of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led (PTI) government to regularise all properties located in the Banigala area of Islamabad, including the......
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that Pakistan expects the United States to "respect our legal process as we respect yours” while speaking on the imprisonment of Dr Shakil Afridi, who......
The man at the center of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature was convicted of rape and sentenced to two years in prison......
Several thousand marched in Hong Kong on Monday against suppression by Beijing as fears grow that freedoms in the semi-autonomous city are seriously under threat.The pro-democracy protest comes a......
United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who begins a three-day official visit to India today, expressed concern over the situation in India-held Kashmir (IHK), and encouraged......
In the ebb and flow of the conflict, the Kashmir dispute has always stoked powerful feelings and produced poignant stories.With tensions high once more, here's a short list of some of Dawn's most......
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday added veteran cricketer Mohammad Hafeez to an already sizable 17-member squad for the upcoming two-Test series against Australia.While the Aussies had......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Monday announced that additional secretary general Arshad Dad has been elevated to the post of secretary general.Dad, a veteran member of the party, was made the......
A German court said Monday it gave the green light for a Iranian diplomat linked to an alleged bomb plot against an Iranian opposition rally to be handed over to Belgium.The superior regional court......
India isn’t planning to buy any Iranian oil in November, raising the prospect that Tehran will lose another major customer as US sanctions hit and spurring speculation over whether China will follow......
LAHORE: Unlike the PML-N, campaigns of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) candidates for by-polls in NA-124 and NA-131 appear to lack lustre primarily because the party leadership has refused......
YAOUNDE: Cameroon imposed a 48-hour curfew on its English-speaking regions a day ahead of the one-year anniversary of a symbolic “independence” declaration by anglophone separatists, officials said......
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said on Monday that it launched ballistic missiles into eastern Syria targeting militants it blamed for a recent attack on a military parade, the Islamic......
ANKARA: Five people died after a boat carrying illegal migrants capsized off Turkey’s northwestern coast on Sunday, state media reported.The Turkish coastguard found the bodies after the rubber......
GWADAR: Former chief minister of Balochistan and senior leader of National Party (NP) Dr Abdul Malik Baloch has criticised the federal government’s move to grant citizenship rights to Afghan refugees......
COLOMBO: The jailed former Maldives president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom was released on bail on Sunday, a week after the country’s longest serving leader’s estranged half-brother was trounced at a......
BEIRUT: Pro-Ankara rebels began withdrawing from areas in northern Syria on Sunday, a monitor said, under a Russian-Turkish deal to avert a massive assault on the country’s last major opposition......
NEW YORK: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that he sees a palpable and distinct change in the perception of international diplomats about the festering Kashmir dispute.He was talking to......
IRBIL: Iraqi Kurds voted on Sunday for a new parliament in their autonomous region, which is mired in an economic crisis a year after an independence referendum that infuriated Baghdad.Almost 3.1......
MUMBAI: Opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan has been dropped from India’s Test squad for the upcoming West Indies series, the country’s cricket board announced on Saturday.Dhawan — who was the......
MILAN: Cristiano Ronaldo was hired by Juventus for his scoring fame. In the absence of goals, though, his influence knows no bounds.On Saturday, Ronaldo set up all three of his side’s goals — two for......
TO some this will read like apologia. To others it will perhaps seem like a last, defeated gasp escaping the throats of those being slowly digested in the belly of the beast. It may be both, and a......
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has clubbed together inquiries into alleged wrongdoing in two motorway projects launched by the previous Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)......
KARACHI: Former national champion Mohammad Bilal scaled new heights when he outplayed Ireland’s Brendan O’Donoghue 6-1 in the best-of-11 frames final to win the inaugural ACBS 10-Reds Asian Tour......
MADRID: Barcelona are getting some help from their rivals to stay top of La Liga despite falling into their worst slump in two years.The defending champions failed to win for the third straight game......
HYDERABAD: Qaumi Awami Tahreek (QAT) president Ayaz Latif Palijo has announced that his party will launch agitation against Kalabagh dam from Oct 10 and stage a long march from Bhitshah to Hyderabad......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government has decided to cut the Higher Education Commission’s (HEC) development budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year by around 14pc.Sources in the commission said the......
KARACHI: Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) capitulated to their third defeat in four matches of the Quaid-i-Azam One-day Cup when the Mohammad Hafeez-led side went down by 52 runs against......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are expected to sign four memoranda of understanding (MoUs) for oil and mineral sector investment and trade cooperation that would ultimately extend the Chinese......
PALU: Rescuers struggled on Sunday to reach victims in several coastal towns in Indonesia that were hit by an earthquake and tsunami, and authorities feared that the death toll of 832 would further......
THERE is perhaps no word that is more frequently used and less clearly understood than governance. And now, a related word is gaining currency: Pakistan, we are being told is ‘ungovernable’, (and the......
TO some this will read like apologia. To others it will perhaps seem like a last, defeated gasp escaping the throats of those being slowly digested in the belly of the beast. It may be both, and a......
