An earthquake of moderate intensity was felt in the country's upper and northern parts on Friday.According to the Regional Seismic Monitoring Centre, Lahore, the jolts were recorded at an intensity......
Twenty men have been jailed for raping and abusing more than a dozen girls in a northern England town, in what a judge called a “vile and wicked” campaign of exploitation.The men in the town of......
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday issued the polling scheme for the second round of by-elections scheduled for Sunday.A total of 858,866 male and female voters will be eligible to......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday invited Qatari investment in all sectors of Pakistan's economy, especially in agriculture, livestock, and energy.He also expressed hope for early implementation of......
Turkey on Friday widened the investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after his visit to the Saudi consulate, searching a forest in the city.Ankara also denied giving any......
A ceremony was held in Quetta on Friday to celebrate the passing-out of 1,400 young students, who completed their primary education under an accelerated learning programme (ALP) launched by the......
The Ministry of Religious Affairs on Friday issued a statement of clarification regarding an exemption from additional tax for Pakistanis performing more than one Umrah within two years, saying that......
A newly recruited female employee at a Karachi-based software house was discriminated against on the basis of her attire and asked to either stop wearing her hijab at work or resign, it emerged on......
Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Friday stressed that arduous measures need to be taken in order to avert the water crisis facing Pakistan, Radio Pakistan reported.Addressing the opening session of......
Responding to claims that she had issued orders to bar women not wearing a dupatta from entering the Ministers Block of the Punjab Civil Secretariat, Punjab Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid on Friday denied......
The Lahore High Court on Friday heard a petition pertaining to Pakistanis on death row in various middle eastern countries who are in urgent need of diplomatic assistance.The hearing, presided over......
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday telephoned his Afghan counterpart, Salahuddin Rabbani, to condole the death of three senior Afghan leaders in a terrorist attack in Kandahar......
The wife of fallen former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei has expressed fears for his life and her own safety, lashing out at what she called the "cruel" and "dirty" Chinese government that arrested him......
Diamer Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Roy Ajmal on Friday said that a joint investigation team probing attacks on schools in the area had found that 22 suspects in police custody are responsible......
PAKISTAN’S ranking on the Human Development Index (HDI) in 2018, based on 2017 data, is 150th out of 189 countries. India (130th), Bangladesh (136th) and Nepal (149th) are ahead of us. Sri Lanka,......
Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed was sidelined at the start of play of the second Test against Australlia on Friday after complaining of headaches.Team management said Ahmed was taken to a hospital for......
Radical cleric Anjem Choudary, long a thorn in the side of British authorities, was released from prison on Friday having served half his sentence for encouraging support for the militant Islamic......
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Naeemul Haq said that the PTI government is committed to establishing peace in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and for the uplift of the......
Afghanistan is holding parliamentary elections on Saturday despite deep security concerns and ongoing fighting in as many as 20 out of the country's 34 provinces.The polls come amid a particularly......
New Zealand's limited overs opening batsman Martin Guptill will miss the upcoming series against Pakistan after straining his calf playing domestic cricket, officials said Friday.Selector Gavin......
The son of legendary leg-spinner Abdul Qadir has been included in an Australia Prime Minister's XI to play a tour match against South Africa in Canberra.The 25-year-old Usman Qadir's father took 236......
Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Saudi Arabia to attend the Future Investment Initiative Conference (FIIC) on the "special invitation of King Salman bin Abdul Aziz", according to a Foreign Office......
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday granted five-day protective bail to Tariq Mansha, the son of suspected land grabber Malik Mansha Ali Khokhar, alias Mansha Bomb, DawnNewsTV reported.IHC judge......
Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz on Friday warned that the PML-N would boycott the assembly unless six suspended MPAs were permitted to participate in sessions.Shahbaz......
United States (US) Defence Secretary Jim Mattis on Friday said the killing of a top Afghan official would not fundamentally change the security situation in Kandahar province.The Taliban claimed......
TAXILA: The Bassal police claimed to have busted a gang involved in child pornography by arresting its three members.“The gang adopted different tactics to lure schoolboys aged between 10 and 12......
PESHAWAR: The power supply will remain suspended due to maintenance work on the transmission lines on Oct 20 from three to 10 hours in different areas of Peshawar and other districts of Khyber......
GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan law minister Aurangzeb Khan on Wednesday said his government supported the cases pending with the Supreme Court of Pakistan about the settlement of the region’s......
COLOMBO: Security for Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has been stepped up following the discovery of an alleged plot to assassinate him, two of his advisers said on Thursday.An Indian......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday filed another reference against Lahore Development Authority (LDA) former director general Ahad Khan Cheema in an accountability court......
ISLAMABAD: A high-profile committee constituted by the Supreme Court has pointed out “insufficient commitment and patchy management” in Pakistan’s education sector and recommended several measures......
NAIROBI: Former Kenyan Olympic chief Kipchoge Keino and ex-sports minister Hassan Wario surrendered to police on Thursday to answer charges of corruption at the 2016 Rio Olympics.Keino, 78, a......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump threatened on Thursday to send the military to the Mexican border and to imperil a trade deal in an intensification of his anti-immigrant rhetoric ahead of......
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Thursday that the US office in Jerusalem dealing with Palestinians is being merged into the controversial new US embassy in the city.Pompeo......
SINGAPORE: World number one Simona Halep pulled out of next week’s WTA Finals due to a lower back injury on Thursday, handing first alternate Kiki Bertens a spot at the season-ending eight-woman......
KARACHI: By attaining third spot in the latest national ranking local cueist Zulfiqar A. Qadir has reminded the good old days when Sindh used to dominate the top 10 list at the national level, a......
KABUL: At least 10 election candidates have been killed, thousands of polling centres closed, and many voters are likely to stay home due to the threat of militant attacks.This is democracy,......
NEW DELHI: The ICC has been carrying out investigations on deep-rooted corruption in Sri Lankan cricket but amid that, its Anti Corruption Unit official Alex Marshall revealed an alarming fact: most......
PALLEKELE: Bowlers Adil Rashid and Tom Curran set up England’s comfortable seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the rain-shortened third One-day International in Pallekele on Wednesday night.Rashid and......
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has approached authorities in the United Kingdom with a request to give details of assets of Punjab’s senior minister for local government and......
LAHORE: Mohammad Amir’s recent form saw him being left out for the upcoming Twenty20 series against Australia while uncapped left-arm quick Waqas Maqsood earned a call-up as Pakistan announced their......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court-mandated commission on water and sanitation in Sindh on Thursday expressed displeasure over the repeated absence of the chairman of a Chinese sanitation company working in......
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party-Parliamentarians (PPP-P) information secretary Senator Moula Bux Chandio has said that if [the ongoing] accountability process turned vindictive, then the pace of......
GILGIT: Army personnel rescued on Thursday more than 50 people, including a foreigner and 20 local tourists, who were stranded at Babusar Pass and Deosai plains due to heavy snowfall.Army helicopters......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday announced a broad outline of the newly proposed Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (PMRA) to oversee print, electronic and social......
ISLAMABAD: The large-scale manufacturing (LSM) index entered negative growth of 3.33 per cent year-on-year in August, data shared by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics revealed on Thursday.The......
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Shaukat Hussain tendered his resignation on Thursday.The SECP notified that the Ministry of Finance has already forwarded a......
LONDON: Oil fell more than $1 a barrel to below $79 on Thursday as the fourth weekly increase in US crude inventories suggested ample supply, while Saudi-US tension and falling Iranian exports lent......
ISLAMABAD: Succumbing to pressure from some lawmakers, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has extended indefinitely the Oct 20 deadline for registration of mobile phones.After the Senate......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a forensic audit of the Thar coal project, directing the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to probe the matter and submit a report within 15......
KARACHI: The consumption-led economic growth of 5.8 per cent came at the cost of widening of macroeconomic imbalances as manifested in a five-year high fiscal deficit and a record current account......
KARACHI: Foreign direct investment (FDI) declined by 42 per cent during the first quarter of current fiscal year compared to the same period last year falling short of even half billion mark.Central......
OVER the past week, two events have taken place beyond our borders that ought really to have found more space in our political and intellectual mainstream, seeing that they confirm just how rapidly......
NILAKKAL: Conservative Hindu groups including youth members of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party returned to an Indian hill temple on Thursday to block women from entering for a second day, in......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday condemned the shooting incident in Kandahar in which top security and intelligence leadership of the Afghan province was eliminated and hoped for peaceful conduct of......
ISLAMABAD: A senior counsel representing incarcerated PML-N leader Hanif Abbasi termed the Supreme Court’s judgement of Dec 15 last year of exonerating Prime Minister Imran Khan a “juristic......
PAKISTAN’S ranking on the Human Development Index (HDI) in 2018, based on 2017 data, is 150th out of 189 countries. India (130th), Bangladesh (136th) and Nepal (149th) are ahead of us. Sri Lanka,......
WASHINGTON: While calling recent meetings between United States officials and the new Pakistani government useful, acting Deputy Secretary of State Henry Ensher said the US would continue to apply......
ISLAMABAD: A nine-member delegation of global experts on Thursday finalised a report envisaging a string of measures for de-listing Pakistan from the grey list of countries from September 2019.The......
AN interview of young Middle Eastern men was uploaded on Facebook some months ago, with the aim to assess their views on their wives and sisters. It was tragic but not surprising to hear that they......
OVER the past week, two events have taken place beyond our borders that ought really to have found more space in our political and intellectual mainstream, seeing that they confirm just how rapidly......
