Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training on Tuesday launched National Education Policy Framework 2018 under the first 100-day plan of the government.The education ministry in its......
A Sunni imam who leads Friday prayers was shot dead on Tuesday in a village in northern Iran, official news agency IRNA said.Molavi Abdolghafur Jamalzahi was an imam at the Reza Abad mosque, near......
Three US soldiers were killed and three wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan on Tuesday, Nato said, with the attack claimed by the Taliban as the US tries to ratchet up efforts to engage the militants in......
Google Maps has started showing commuters Multan Metro Bus Service (MMBS) transit routes and arrival and departure times, according to a report published by ProPakistani....
The ride-hailing service Uber has been fined the equivalent of nearly $1.2 million by British and Dutch authorities for failing to protect customers' data during a cyber attack in 2016.Britain's......
A team of Karachi Development Authority's (KDA) anti-encroachment cell was shot at and pelted with stones, allegedly by land grabbers, in Korangi area on Tuesday, according to the authority's......
Indian cricket heroine Mithali Raj has furiously accused cricket leaders of bias for dropping her for last Friday's World Twenty20 semi-final, which India lost to England.Raj, the highest run scorer......
The government on Tuesday said it has decided to close a mandatory audit and waive a Rs20,000 penalty imposed on citizens who recently filed returns for tax years preceding 2017-18.The Federal Board......
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is encountering something in Tunisia that he doesn't see often: public anger.Amid international concern about the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,......
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be invited to Pakistan for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summit, Foreign Office Spokesman Dr Mohammad Faisal said on......
To hear United States President Donald Trump tell it, he was made for a moment like this: a high-stakes face-off. A ticking clock. A cagey adversary.The man who calls himself a supreme deal-maker......
The Foreign Office (FO) on Tuesday lodged a "strong protest" with Bangladesh authorities following a burglary in the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka.A few days ago, unidentified burglars broke into......
New Zealand lost established Ross Taylor and Tom Latham before reaching 222-4 at lunch on the fourth day of the second Test against Pakistan.Resuming on 131-2 on Tuesday after being forced to......
Former Indian cricket star Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday arrived in Pakistan to attend the groundbreaking ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor in Nankana Sahib.Sidhu arrived in response to the......
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) decided during a meeting on Tuesday that there will be no gas loadshedding in winter, DawnNewsTV reported.It was also decided that 150-200 mmcdf will be......
A Pakistani-born American woman has acknowledged her role in defrauding numerous financial institutions in a bitcoin scheme to help the militant Islamic State (IS) group.Prosecutors say Zoobia......
Six beached whales were successfully refloated off New Zealand on Tuesday, rescuers said, after a spate of mass stranding in recent days that resulted in the deaths of dozens of marine......
President Donald Trump said Monday he doesn't believe his own government's report last week warning of massive economic losses if carbon emissions continue to feed climate change unchecked.“I don't......
President Donald Trump is strongly defending the US use of tear gas at the Mexican border to repel a crowd of migrants that included angry rock-throwers but also barefoot, crying children.Critics......
Jack Ma, founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, is among the world's richest people but he has now emerged as a member of another club: China's 89-million-strong Communist Party.The billionaire's......
President Arif Alvi on Tuesday while addressing the opening ceremony of the 10th International Defence Exhibition and Seminar (IDEAS) 2018 in Karachi stressed that Pakistan's weapons are for peaceful......
KARACHI: The Sindh government on Monday made it clear that it was committed to building the crucial bulk water project, called K-IV, for Karachi even if the federal government did not pay half of the......
THE first 100 days of a first-time government are often tumultuous, strewn with tactical errors and gaffes, and hindered by inexperience.The opposition morphs into the mythical Argus, ready to swoop......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court-mandated commission on water and sanitation in Sindh on Monday expressed serious reservations over the provincial authorities’ decision to empower the Sindh Building......
KARACHI: Although the Bahadurabad group of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan had expelled disgruntled leader Dr Farooq Sattar from the party, the relationship between the two sides dipped to a......
KARACHI: Former world No 1 Karim Abdel Gawad of Egypt, who is presently ranked ninth, and world No 12 Diego Elias of Peru are the main attraction as US$73,000 Golootlo Pakistan Open Squash......
DUBAI: The International Cricket Council (ICC) has submitted a bid for the inclusion of women’s Twenty20 in the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the governing body said on Monday.Cricket has......
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced on Sunday evening that the United States is offering a new reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of......
ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi has said that the parliament has an important role to play in supporting the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold the next polls in a more transparent, free......
IN this game of glorious uncertainties, the ongoing second Test has been turned on its head, mainly due to the sensational bowling display by wrist-spinner Yasir Shah who having weaved his web around......
COLOMBO: England overcame spirited late resistance from the hosts to seal a first 3-0 series sweep in Sri Lanka when the tourists wrapped up a 42-run victory shortly after tea on the fourth day of......
RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD: As many as 207 workers and activists of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), including its three local leaders, have been booked on the charges of sedition, blocking roads and......
PESHAWAR: A Peshawar High Court election tribunal on Monday dismissed petitions against the election of three MNAs and six MPAs on July 25 declaring them non-maintainable on technical grounds.Justice......
PESHAWAR: The police on Monday booked their two officials, including a station house officer, over the custodial death of a suspected cellphone snatcher.Agha Mir Jani police station SHO Ebad Wazir......
MANSEHRA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf MPA Babar Saleem Swati on Monday said the Saudi government would execute the Rs2 billion Mansehra water supply scheme abandoned by the Japan International......
NEW YORK: Misinformation, as opposed to disinformation, was chosen on Monday as Dictionary.com’s word of the year on the tattered coattails of “toxic”, picked earlier this month for the same honour......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution criticising India for its continued interference in Balochistan.The Senate Standing Committee on Interior, headed by former......
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Communications Murad Saeed has said that arrangements are under way for provision of Sui gas in various parts of the country, particularly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa......
MOSCOW: Russia on Monday ignored Western calls to release three Ukrainian naval ships and their crews it fired on and captured near Crimea at the weekend and accused Kiev of plotting with its Western......
TIJUANA: US agents fired tear gas at hundreds of Central American migrants that climbed over a fence and attempted to rush the border from Tijuana, Mexico into the United States on Sunday.The San......
BEIRUT: A major attack by the IS in eastern Syria has killed 92 US-backed forces in three days while 51 civilians also died in the fighting, a war monitor said on Monday.It was the highest death toll......
PASADENA: Nasa’s Mars lander InSight touched down safely on the surface of the Red Planet on Monday to begin its two-year mission as the first spacecraft designed to explore the deep interior of......
QUETTA: The provincial government is taking steps to mitigate the impact of environmental issues and climate change, says Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan Alyani.Chairing a meeting of the......
KARACHI: Dullness prevailed on the cotton market on Monday as buyers withdrew to the sidelines amid reports of sluggish cotton yarn off-take in domestic and world markets. Barring a few small deals,......
ISLAMABAD: A US-funded project has helped reduce water losses in the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region by 60 per cent, bringing more land under cultivation to spur agricultural growth in the territory,......
KARACHI: The stock market saw directionless trading on first day of the week in the absence of triggers. The KSE-100 index shed 97.73 points (0.24 per cent) and closed at 40,771.55.While investors......
QUETTA: Officials of the customs anti-smuggling wing raided a train at the Quetta railway station and seized a large quantity of smuggled foreign goods worth Rs250 million.The train had come from the......
KHUZDAR: Five people, including the divisional director of education department of Kalat, were killed in road accidents on Monday.Police said that Mir Mohammad Bangulzai, divisional director of......
ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Monday withheld countrywide applicability of Rs1.27 per unit increase in uniform electricity tariff, saying it lacked legal......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed the Commerce Division to finalise three strategic policy documents ahead of Dec 31, a senior official told Dawn on Monday.The direction from the......
ISLAMABAD: Mohammad Akram Sheikh, a senior Supreme Court lawyer who had prosecuted former military ruler retired Gen Pervez Musharraf on treason charges and later pleaded a case seeking......
ISLAMABAD: National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) chairman retired Justice Ali Nawaz Chowhan has written a letter to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal,......
KARACHI: Burdens on the common citizenry have increased markedly in the first 100 days of the new government as it moves to address the massive economic imbalances it inherited upon coming to......
ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government informed the Supreme Court on Monday that it had approved a management information system for online registration and assessment of disabled persons.“The data so......
TAXILA: Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed on Monday announced that the government would provide land to Sikh organisations for construction of modern hotels in Kartarpur, Nankana......
ISLAMABAD: The last prosecution witness in the Flagship Investment reference, an investigation officer of the National Accountability Bureau, admitted during cross-examination on Monday that the......
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Fawad Chaudhry has stated that “external forces” are involved in the botched terrorist attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi and the government knows......
PARLIAMENT these days is mostly about ugly noises. The government cannot get enough of calling those on the opposition benches ‘chor’ and ‘daku’ while the opposition too has ratcheted up its......
ISLAMABAD: In an attempt to stamp out instant divorce, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) is set to move towards declaring triple talaq in one go illegal, ineffective and even punishable.The......
PARLIAMENT these days is mostly about ugly noises. The government cannot get enough of calling those on the opposition benches ‘chor’ and ‘daku’ while the opposition too has ratcheted up its......
THE other day President Donald Trump took away the White House press card of a CNN journalist. The journalist, Jim Acosta, had simply asked Trump why he described as an invasion the peaceful march of......
THE first 100 days of a first-time government are often tumultuous, strewn with tactical errors and gaffes, and hindered by inexperience.The opposition morphs into the mythical Argus, ready to swoop......
