US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un agree on their assessment of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Sunday, aligning......
Four men died and seven were injured on Sunday in three separate explosions in Kathmandu, Nepali police said.There was no immediate claim of responsibility but police said they suspect the......
Violent clashes continued in India on Sunday between supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party and a regional party in the politically volatile eastern state of West......
The World Cup warm-up match between Pakistan and Bangladesh in Cardiff on Sunday was called off without a ball being bowled due to rain.Bangladesh play one more warm-up game against India on Tuesday......
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services Dr Zafar Mirza on Sunday announced that after seeking the advice of the Sindh health minister, he had called an international rapid......
Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Sunday launched what he said is Pakistan's "first official" moonsighting website and a calendar showing main Islamic dates and months for......
MODI’S repeat landslide victory has taken India by storm and the world by surprise. It is not a good omen for India and its neighbourhood, unless Modi demonstrates an ability to rise above himself......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday telephoned his newly elected Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on his Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral victory in the Indian election, Foreign Office spokesperson......
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan arrived in Islamabad on Sunday on a three-day official visit to Pakistan, Radio Pakistan reported.During the visit, VP Qishan will call on President Arif Alvi and......
At least 20 people were injured after violence erupted during a sit-in being held in North Waziristan's Doga Macha Madakhel area on Sunday, a source told Dawn.com.The sit-in staged by residents of......
A brother of late Afzal Kohistani, the central character behind the exposition of the 2012 Kohistan video scandal, was booked on Saturday for his alleged involvement in the murder of an acquaintance......
Lasith Malinga will be one of the World Cup's oldest players but the Sri Lanka paceman shows no signs of slowing down as he bids to prove his critics wrong.Malinga was stripped of the Sri Lanka......
The UN said Taliban captives in Afghanistan have been subjected to abuse, ill-treatment and actions that may amount to torture.The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said it interviewed 13......
Asad Ahmed, one of about 1.2 million young Indians entering the cutthroat job market each month, diligently scribbles notes at a computer class in New Delhi.While nationalist Prime Minister Narendra......
Yemen's Houthi rebels allegedly launched a drone strike on military hangars in Saudi Arabia's Jizan airport near the Yemeni border, according to the group's Masirah TV on Sunday.There was no......
India skipper Virat Kohli preferred to highlight the positives from their six-wicket defeat to New Zealand in a Cricket World Cup warm-up on Saturday and was particularly pleased with the performance......
MUZAFFARABAD: Ambassador Yusuf Buch, a former Pakistani cabinet minister and a distinguished diplomat and intellectual of Kashmiri origin, passed away in New York on Friday evening after a long......
All the data geeks in Pakistan know how boring and tiring it generally is to scroll through a thousand websites with a hundred tabs open to finally get all your metrics in one place. And when number......
HAMBANTOTA: Pakistan U-19 team begin their tour of Sri Lanka on Sunday with the opening match of the five-match 50-over series in Hambantota.In Colombo, captains Sri Lanka’s Nipun Dananjaya and......
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ideological grooming should be traditionally wary of promoting the anti-British revolt of 1857 for its association with Hindu-Muslim unity.The prime minister......
LAHORE: While urging the Pakistan think-tank not to push panic button after the national team’s shocking loss to Afghanistan in the World Cup warm-up, former Test pacer Sarfraz Nawaz on Saturday told......
CARDIFF: South Africa captain Faf Du Plessis led by example with a confident 88 as his side cruised to an 87-run win over Sri Lanka in their World Cup warm-up on Friday.Du Plessis was supported by......
LONDON: Former England spinner Monty Panesar says he wants to return to cricket having been cured of the “paranoia/schizophrenia” which bedevilled him over the past few years.The 37-year-old — who......
RAWALPINDI: Two armed men shot dead an elderly woman and injured her daughter-in-law after snatching a purse on gunpoint in Nanakpura area in the limits of the Ganjmandi police on Saturday.The......
HYDERABAD: A multi-billion-rupee scam involving procurement of wheat and misappropriation of jute bags, also called bardana, has hit the Sindh food department after hundreds of thousands of such bags......
LAHORE: The Asian Development Bank has allocated $200 million to provide clean drinking water schemes in Sahiwal City and implementation plan is ready under the aegis of Punjab Intermediate Cities......
LAHORE: Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on Saturday appealed to clerics belonging to various schools of thought to provide all-out support to making the anti-polio campaign successful.The clerics, who......
ISLAMABAD: Two teams have been constituted to investigate the murder of a 10-year-old girl that sparked public outcry in the capital.Read: Family protests after body of missing girl found, three......
LAHORE: Civil society organisations have voiced concerns over the removal of Fauzia Viqar as chairperson of the Punjab Commission for the Status of Women (PCSW), through a notification issued by the......
LAHORE: Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid has warned a leading US firm of forfeiture of its performance bond if it doesn’t rectify the fault developed in the newly-purchased 20 locomotives......
KATHMANDU: The deaths of an Irish and a British climber on Mount Everest took the toll from a deadly season on the world’s highest peak to 10, expedition organisers said on Saturday.British climber......
KABUL: An Afghan security forces raid against Taliban fighters in eastern Nangarhar province mistakenly killed at least six civilians, including a woman and two children, provincial officials said on......
BERLIN: Germany’s government commissioner on anti-Semitism has warned Jews about the potential dangers of wearing the traditional kippah cap in the face of rising anti-Jewish attacks.“I cannot advise......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s military launched a major hunt on Saturday for remnants of an Islamist group which carried out the Easter suicide bombings that killed 258 people, officials said.Several Colombo......
LONDON: The contest to replace Theresa May as British prime minister hotted up on Saturday with five candidates now vying for a job whose central task will be to find a way to take a divided Britain......
WASHINGTON: Afghanistan’s exports — by both ground and air — totalled only $891 million in 2018 compared to $7.4 billion in imports, says the US Department of Defence’s latest report on the......
GWADAR: A suspected militant was killed during an exchange of fire with security forces in the Tump area of Kech district on Saturday, officials said.According to security officials, Frontier Corps......
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations is launching next week a Decade of Family Farming (2019-28) which provides a unique opportunity to ensure food security, improve livelihoods, better manage natural......
KARACHI: The rupee’s fall seems to have dissipated due to excess supply of dollars in the open market amid seasonal effect of Ramazan followed by disappearing interest from buyers.“The inflow is high......
QUETTA: Death toll in the Pashtoonabad Rehmania mosque explosion reached four as two more persons succumbed to their injuries during the past 24 hours.Sources in the Bolan Medical College Hospital......
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: The country’s two major opposition parties — the PML-N and the PPP — which have been crying foul over the ongoing accountability process for the past couple of years and have not......
KARACHI: Investors heaved a sigh of relief as the stock market posted recovery after snapping the seven-successive-week selling spree that had seen the stocks plunge 14pc with the KSE-100 index......
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has announced setting up an endowment fund to ensure free and lifelong treatment of people living with HIV/Aids in Sindh.He was......
ISLAMABAD: The government looks set to reverse tax concessions extended by the PML-N government to benefit high-earning salaried and non-salaried individuals substantially more than the middle-class......
ISLAMABAD: The government announced on Saturday that it would increase next fiscal’s revenue target to Rs5.550 trillion — almost 35.4 per cent or Rs1.450tr higher than current year’s revised......
MODI’S repeat landslide victory has taken India by storm and the world by surprise. It is not a good omen for India and its neighbourhood, unless Modi demonstrates an ability to rise above himself......
IN recent weeks, Pakistan has been stalked by bad economic news: a tough IMF package, revenue shortfalls, sharp rupee depreciation, stagnant exports, reduced foreign investment, and, to top it all,......
IN recent weeks, Pakistan has been stalked by bad economic news: a tough IMF package, revenue shortfalls, sharp rupee depreciation, stagnant exports, reduced foreign investment, and, to top it all,......
Steve Smith ignored the jeers of the crowd to mark his first match against England since a ball-tampering ban with a century that set up Australia's 12-run win in a World Cup warm-up clash at......
