A severe drought-like situation has forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes in Balochistan’s Noshki district, DawnNewsTV reported on Friday.According to a letter written by Noshki Deputy......
US investigators have arrested a suspect in Florida in connection with 12 suspicious packages and pipe bombs sent to critics of Donald Trump in a days-long spree that has inflamed the United States......
The concerned authorities have so far been unable to identify the actual cause of oil spill along the Mubarak Village-Churna Island coastal belt, which has badly affected the lives of local......
The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM)'s final report on the July 25 elections was released on Friday after a briefing to discuss its findings, prominent among which was the......
A special bench of the Supreme Court will on Monday hear the National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) review petition against the top court's judgement regarding reopening of the Hudaibya Paper Mills......
Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed won the toss and opted to bat in the second Twenty20 international against Australia in Dubai on Friday.Pakistan, who won the first match by 66 runs in Abu Dhabi on......
Federal Law Minister Dr Farogh Naseem on Friday said that a draft of the Whistleblower Protection Bill has been prepared which will be tabled before the parliament for approval to validate the......
Speaker Asad Qaiser has convened a National Assembly session on October 29 and issued orders for the production of Leader of the Opposition Shahbaz Sharif, who has been in the custody of the National......
The Chinese ambassador and deputy ambassador to Pakistan on Friday dismissed the notion that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a burden on the Pakistani economy, assuring that the......
LONDON: Artist Rashid Rana’s work, Red Carpet Series, fetched the highest price of Rs 34.4 million (200,000 pounds) among all art works by Pakistanis at an auction of modern and contemporary South......
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday addressed a press conference in Islamabad and briefed the media persons about his meeting with a high-level delegation of United Arab Emirates (UAE)......
The Saudi officials who killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi in their Istanbul consulate must reveal the location of his body, Turkey's president said on Friday in remarks that were sharply critical of......
Outspoken Irish singer Sinead O'Connor has announced she has converted to Islam and changed her name to Shuhada.Having adopted the name Magda Davitt last year, the 51-year-old is now called Shuhada......
'Reforms', as a buzzword, seems to be back in fashion again.Ever since the new government was sworn in, the one constant we have heard repeatedly is their urge to push through reforms.Committees have......
The Embassy of Yemen in Islamabad on Friday issued a clarification on local reportage of the Saudi-backed Yemen war, dismissing the notion that the conflict is a war between Yemen and Saudi......
Late lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jahangir was announced as one of the four winners of the 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize on Friday.The announcement was made through the official......
Nawaz Sharif's lawyers Khawaja Haris and Zubair Khalid on Friday asked Accountability Judge Arshad Malik to take notice of Minister of Information Fawad Chaudhry's remarks on the Hill Metal......
The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) told Dawn.com on Friday that the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) has sent boats and equipment for a cleanup operation along the Mubarak......
The Pakpattan Police on Friday took two men from Kalyana into custody over their alleged involvement in the suspected rape and murder of a six-year-old boy.The boy — a resident of Kalyana village and......
Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Friday said he will make sure that the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) tasked with probing fake bank accounts receives all the documents they need from the Sindh......
Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui, who earlier this month was sacked as a senior puisne judge of the Islamabad High Court, challenged his termination in the Supreme Court (SC) on Friday.President Arif......
The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday resumed hearing a suo motu case on the tragic killing of 10-year-old Amal in Karachi on August 13.A three-member bench, heading by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP)......
President Arif Alvi will inaugurate an express train service for Karachi on Oct 31 as Pakistan Railways (PR) sets its sights on developing railways in Sindh.Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid, without......
KARACHI: Cotton and phutti (seed cotton) prices came under correction on Thursday in line with the rise in rupee value recorded a day earlier. As a result the official spot rate of cotton was also......
BEIJING: Japan’s Shinzo Abe and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang commemorated the 40th anniversary of a friendship treaty on Thursday, at the start of a rare trip to Beijing by the Japanese prime......
KARACHI: As euphoria over the Saudi package of $6 billion in financial assistance simmered down a bit, investors resisted the temptation to take fresh positions across the board, which slowed down......
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has suggested legal changes to the Stamp Duty Act 1899 in order to introduce e-stamping to pay provincial duties on various......
KARACHI: Foreign exchange reserves of the State Bank of Pakistan fell by $264 million to $7.825 billion during the week ended on Oct 19 — its lowest level since 2013-14 — due to external debt......
KARACHI: Concerns related to serious environmental degradation affecting the federally administered Port Qasim area dominated the proceedings of a public hearing held at a hotel on Thursday.Among......
KARACHI: Habib Bank Ltd (HBL) declared consolidated 9MCY18 profit after tax (PAT) of Rs9.9 billion, with earnings per share (EPS) of Rs6.57, said a press release issued by the bank on Thursday.The......
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia said it signed $56 billion of deals at an investment conference this week and expected the United States to remain a key business partner despite a partial boycott of the event......
PORT-OF-SPAIN: West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo announced his retirement from international cricket on Thursday.The 35-year-old Trinidadian, who made his West Indies debut in 2004, played 40......
SINGAPORE: Elina Svitolina produced one of the best performances of her career to overcome defending champion Caroline Wozniacki 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 in a pulsating round robin encounter and reach the last......
THE HAGUE: Scientists on Thursday unveiled a revolutionary way of screening children for tuberculosis, which they say will prevent hundreds of thousands each year from contracting the world’s......
ISLAMABAD: In order to promote foreign investment in export-oriented sectors, the Commerce Division has shared a draft investment document titled “Trade Related Investment Framework” with all......
MELBOURNE: A review into the culture of the Australian cricket team would be made public next week and had not been delayed, the chairman of Cricket Australia (CA) said on Thursday.David Peever, who......
ABU DHABI: Australia’s sensational Powerplay batting collapse was like ‘watching a car crash in slow motion’ according to captain Aaron Finch after his side were dismissed for their third-lowest......
PARIS: Across the West, governments face a difficult balancing act after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi: pressuring Saudi Arabia over an appalling killing, while preserving their own......
For an Australian team to become the main talking point against Pakistan in the UAE — and not in a good way — something absolutely catastrophic must have happened. And it had; those who saw the......
LONDON: Women will soon be able to apply for any role in the British military, including in previously off-limits elite units like the famed SAS, the government announced on Thursday.Calling the move......
BERLIN: The European Court of Human Rights has rejected a plea by an Austrian woman that her conviction for blaspheming the Holy Prophet (PBUH) breached her freedom of speech.The Strasbourg-based......
WASHINGTON: New Federal Reserve vice chair Richard Clarida on Thursday said he’d support “some further” increase in interest rates as the best way to nurse the current US recovery along while......
WASHINGTON: The US military in Afghanistan has halted most face-to-face contacts with the Afghan security forces and has temporarily withdrawn troops from Afghan security facilities after recent......
NEW YORK: A total of ten packages sent to opponents of President Donald Trump were discovered by the US law-enforcement authorities.Police in New York City removed on Thursday a suspicious package......
Navaid H. Malik, a well-known businessman, has strongly denied the allegations made against him in the Wall Street Journal and subsequently published in the daily Dawn of October 18, 2018 under the......
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is expected to deploy about 800 troops to the US-Mexico border, two US officials said on Thursday, after President Donald Trump said the military would be used there to......
ISLAMABAD: A gender audit of Pakistan’s labour laws has found that they do not create an enabling working environment for women and suffer from inconsistencies in the definitions of labour and labour......
ISLAMABAD: A subcommittee of the Senate Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation expressed displeasure over delays in the finalisation of rules for the National Institute of Technology Board......
ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the National Counter-Terrorism Authority (Nacta) have joined hands to counter extremism and terrorism through joint research and collaboration......
ISLAMABAD: After auctioning surplus vehicles and buffaloes at the Prime Minister House, the federal government auctioned six used cars and a motorbike of the National Assembly.“The National Assembly......
ISLAMABAD: Academics, civil servants, media professionals and students attended an insightful presentation by Dr Kaiser Bengali on the five key aspects of deprivation in Balochistan – gas pricing,......
LAHORE: Opposition Leader in the Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz has asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to tell [us] who sought the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) for the Sharif family.“Niazi......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday sought compliance report from the Punjab government on the implementation of anti-smoking law at public places in general and educational institutions in......
LAHORE: The Task Force on Austerity and Restructuring is planning redesigning of the federal government with initial idea of reducing the number of ministries and abolishing the tier of section......
IT IS mid-afternoon. You step into a café. The aroma of freshly brewing coffee, milk, chocolate and vanilla hits the spot even before you place your order. The combined sounds of bubbling water and......
RAWALPINDI: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has established its sub-offices in Greece and Iran to check increasing activities of organised criminal networks and illegal movements of Pakistani......
QUETTA: Minister of State for Interior Shaharyar Afridi on Thursday condemned the attack on inspector general of FC (South) Major General Saeed Ahmed Nagra, saying such cowardly attempts could not......
COULD Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi have asked for anything more? When he accepted the chair of the speaker of the Punjab Assembly after the 2018 general election, many thought that this was a climbdown for......
ISLAMABAD: Envoys of several countries have asked the Pakistan government to be flexible on the issue of registration of international non-government organisations (INGOs).A letter signed by the......
ISLAMABAD: Chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur Rehman has expressed the hope that the opposition parties will soon come up with a “joint strategy” and during......
ISLAMABAD: The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has expressed concern over the proposed Pakistan Media Regulatory Authority (PMRA) to be formed under the new media law to control print,......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered constitution of a special committee to suggest measures to curb unchecked availability of smuggled Indian direct-to-home (DTH) devices in the local......
ISLAMABAD: After recommendations from legislators, the National Highway Authority (NHA) has decided that commuters travelling in small vehicles between Karachi and Hyderabad would pay toll tax once......
ISLAMABAD: The protesting employees of Utility Stores Corporation (USC) ended their sit-in near the Parliament House on Thursday night after the government accepted their demands.The last round of......
ISLAMABAD: Afghan Taliban on Thursday said that their former deputy chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar had been set free by Pakistani authorities.“It is stated with great pleasure that former deputy of......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is seeking an integrated economic package from China envisaging financial support, increase in trade and investment and cooperation in agricultural research and will go ahead with......
QUETTA: Two security personnel were martyred and three injured in an attack on the convoy of the inspector general of Frontier Corps, Balochistan, in Washuk district on Thursday.IG Maj Gen Saeed......
ISLAMABAD: National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) chief Khaliq Dad Lak has called for qualitative change in investigations and prosecutions of terrorism financing cases.Speaking at a meeting of......
HYDERABAD: A washerman in Tando Mohammad Khan suddenly finds himself to be millionaire as the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has detected a transaction of Rs10.4m in his name.Tariq Saeed, son of......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition parties have strongly condemned the government’s decision to increase electricity tariff and termed it a result of the “economic mismanagement” of the present......
ISLAMABAD: The Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) headed by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed are no more on the list of banned outfits after the presidential ordinance that proscribed......
WITH Saudi Arabia’s help, the scope for adopting strategic approaches to economic reform independent of IMF has increased. Towards clarifying these, this article makes five points. One, that the......
COULD Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi have asked for anything more? When he accepted the chair of the speaker of the Punjab Assembly after the 2018 general election, many thought that this was a climbdown for......
