The Trump administration on Friday announced the reimposition of all US sanctions on Iran that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal, ramping up economic pressure on the Islamic Republic as......
The son of former ISI chief retired Lt-Gen Hamid Gul, Abdullah Gul, on Friday claimed to have survived an attempt on his life, saying his vehicle reportedly came under fire in Islamabad.Talking to......
Condemnations against the killing of JUI-S chief Samiul Haq started pouring in moments after news broke of his assassination at his residence in Rawalpindi.Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is currently......
Chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Maulana Samiul Haq has been shot dead in an assassination attempt, TV reports say.JUI-S's Peshawar president has confirmed his death following an......
Armed police stormed into Sony Music's offices in London on Friday after two people were stabbed in what the company said was a violent argument between two kitchen staff.Panicked employees were......
The federal government on Friday appointed grade-21 officer Amir Zulfiqar Khan as the Inspector General (IG) of Islamabad police after former IG Jan Mohammad relieved his charge, DawnNewsTV......
ONE speech does not a nation change and given this country’s fraught history with religious extremism, the prime minister’s address on Wednesday needed to be followed immediately with firm and......
Lahore-based Tanzeem Ittehad-i-Ummat Chairman Ziaul Haq Naqshbandi, while addressing a press conference on Friday, called for nationwide calm and urged protest leaders to ask their followers to......
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) teams once again raided sugar mills reportedly owned by the Omni Group in three towns of Badin district on Thursday, credible sources said.According to the sources,......
The body of Jamal Khashoggi was “dissolved” after he was murdered and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul a month ago, a Turkish official said Friday, as the journalist's fiancee......
The National Assembly session scheduled for Friday was adjourned till Monday evening within five minutes of commencing after a lawmaker pointed out lack of quorum.Under the rules, the presence of......
Prime Minister Imran Khan has arrived in Beijing on his first official visit to China at the invitation of Chinese leadership, Radio Pakistan reported.The PM's four-day visit is aimed at reviewing......
Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor on Friday advised religio-political parties protesting against the Supreme Court judgement on Asia Bibi's appeal to seek a......
ISLAMABAD: The government of Punjab has rejected the proposal of property tycoon Malik Riaz for the construction of Dadocha Dam as the Bahria Town-led joint venture (JV) proposed over Rs26 billion......
Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar on Friday directed Minister for Science and Technology Senator Azam Swati to immediately resign from his post during hearing of a suo motu case regarding......
LAHORE: India is likely to fulfill its commitment of getting its two hydropower projects -- 1,000MW Pakal Dul and 48MW Lower Kalnal — inspected by Pakistani experts next month after the local......
GILGIT: The 71st Independence Day of Gilgit-Baltistan celebrated on Thursday across the region with traditional zeal and fervour.Different events were held in various parts of the region to mark the......
KARACHI: A 15-year-old domestic servant was tortured and strangled to death in a bungalow in Clifton area, police and hospital officials said on Thursday.Initially, the teenager’s death had been......
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday granted pre-arrest interim bail to opposition leader in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shahbaz and restrained the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) from arresting......
LAHORE: PML-N senior leader Ahsan Iqbal has reminded the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government of its own stance on the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP) Faizabad (Islamabad) sit-in in November 2017,......
DUBAI: Pakistan will look to finish off the series when they face New Zealand in the second Twenty20 International here at the Dubai International Stadium on Friday.For a team coming out of a......
PARIS: Rafael Nadal pulled out of the Paris Masters on Wednesday guaranteeing Novak Djokovic’s return to the world number one spot.Announcing his withdrawal at a hastily arranged press conference......
KARACHI: Normal life in the metropolis was adversely affected for a second consecutive day on Thursday as business centres and educational institutions remained closed and thin traffic was seen on......
LAHORE: Protection of life and property of the citizens is the prime responsibility of the state and the government will perform this duty at all costs.Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has ruled that the recent terrorism convictions by the military courts in the province were wrongful and were based on ill-will and not evidence.In its 173-page......
ONE speech does not a nation change and given this country’s fraught history with religious extremism, the prime minister’s address on Wednesday needed to be followed immediately with firm and......
SYDNEY: Australia coach Justin Langer claims there is a worldwide problem with ball-tampering, partly due to unresponsive pitches, while vowing it will never happen under his watch.The former Test......
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Ravindra Jadeja starred in India’s nine-wicket series clinching win over West Indies after the tourists were skittled out for just 104 in the fifth One-day International here on......
DUBLIN: Hundreds of employees walked out of Google’s European headquarters in Dublin on Thursday as part of a global campaign over the US tech giant’s handling of sexual harassment that saw similar......
QUETTA: The newly elected president of the National Party, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, has said that the country needs major changes in economic, foreign and educational policies to tackle the ongoing......
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has started the process for the appointment of a new ambassador in Washington, the second in less than six months, diplomatic sources told Dawn.Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood......
ANKARA: Troops from Turkey and the United States launched joint patrols in the northern Syrian city of Manbij on Thursday, the Turkish defence minister said, part of a bid to ease tensions between......
PARIS: The world’s oceans have absorbed 60 per cent more heat than previously thought over the last quarter of a century, scientists said on Thursday, leaving Earth more sensitive still to the......
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump says the number of military troops deployed to the US-Mexican border could reach 15,000 roughly double the number the Pentagon said it currently plans for a......
ISLAMABAD: Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman acquitted after eight years on death row for blasphemy, plans to leave Pakistan, her family said on Thursday.The development followed a landmark move by the......
KABUL: Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who still wields considerable influence in today’s Afghanistan despite being out of office for four years, said on Thursday he welcomes the entry of five......
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan president’s party on Thursday reignited a constitutional crisis over which of two rival prime ministers heads the government by insisting that parliament will remain......
JAKARTA: Indonesian authorities said they would immediately begin examining a damaged black box retrieved on Thursday from the sunken wreckage of a Lion Air jet that crashed off Jakarta this week,......
KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) profit declined by 26 per cent to Rs175.6 billion in FY18, from Rs238bn last year — a decrease of Rs62.4bn.The decline is primarily attributed to an......
ISLAMABAD: The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has recommended the appointment of senior puisne judge of the Islamabad High Court as its next chief......
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Thursday rejected Indian protest over the launch of a luxury bus service between Pakistan and China, saying the international community could not be misled.“We reject......
KARACHI: Industrial and commercial trading activities in the country’s economic nerve centre came to a standstill on Thursday owing to thin labour attendance and lack of public transport amid violent......
ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised the Ministry of Railways to reduce its fiscal deficit so that it can rid itself of its dependancy on federal government subsidies.A......
WASHINGTON: Karachi has improved the transparency of land registration process by publishing online the fee schedule and the list of documents necessary to complete any property registration, says......
KARACHI: The Freedom House has declared Pakistan “Not Free” in terms of internet use for the seventh consecutive year in its global report released on Thursday.The report showed that the country’s......
IT’S a chilly night, the coldest since the past two I’ve spent here. It was expected, what with the constant drizzling and hazy overcast skies all the time. Here on the highway it’s even colder, if......
WHAT has followed Aasia Bibi’s acquittal should not surprise anyone. The stick-wielding hordes that once again seek to paralyse the functioning of our cities, the incendiary rhetoric of their......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Thursday said it would not seek rescheduling of about $2.7bn Chinese loans due for repayment this year but expected a good economic package, including expansion of the......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court registrar has returned a petition filed last week by former Islamabad High Court judge Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui challenging his dismissal by the Supreme Judicial......
LAHORE: Tension gripped many parts of Punjab amid protests and road blockades over the Supreme Court’s decision in Aasia Bibi case and sporadic action by police on Thursday.In Lahore, the......
WHAT has followed Aasia Bibi’s acquittal should not surprise anyone. The stick-wielding hordes that once again seek to paralyse the functioning of our cities, the incendiary rhetoric of their......
