A man was killed and nine others, including women and children, were injured on Tuesday due to "unprovoked firing of mortars and artillery guns" by Indian forces along the Line of Control, a......
The National Assembly's Standing Committee on Finance on Tuesday approved the Anti-Money Laundering (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which prescribes punishments for offenders and outlines mechanisms for......
At least two people have been killed in a loud explosion outside the City police station in Quetta, DawnNewsTV reported quoting hospital officials.More than a dozen people have also been injured in......
Intermittent monsoon rains continued to wreak havoc on the ill-maintained electricity and sewerage systems in Karachi, leaving at least eight more people dead on Tuesday, officials and rescue......
US President Donald Trump ripped into China on Tuesday after US negotiators arrived in Shanghai to resurrect talks aimed at ending a year-long trade war between the world's two top economies.Trump......
The government has allowed a special delegation of over 500 Indian Sikh pilgrims to visit Nankana Sahib for kickstarting the celebrations of the 550th birth anniversary of Baba Guru Nanak, the......
When President Donald Trump drew widespread condemnation for describing a majority-black congressional district as a “rat and rodent infested mess” and for tweets targeting four Democratic......
The British pound tumbled on Tuesday as investors bet Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit brinkmanship with the European Union could trigger a messy divorce that would sow chaos through the world......
Fresh protests erupted in India on Tuesday amid growing public fury over a car crash that critically injured a teenager who accused a lawmaker from the ruling party of rape and harassment.Two of the......
Indian police on Tuesday launched a major hunt for one of the country's richest men, coffee tycoon V.G. Siddhartha, amid mounting fears for his safety.The billionaire owner of the Cafe Coffee Day......
The Indian cricket board (BCCI) is looking for an efficient planner with strong man-management skills to guide the senior national team, a member of the panel entrusted with the task of selecting a......
Capital One Financial Corp on Monday said that personal information including names, addresses, phone numbers and credit scores of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million......
RIO DE JANEIRO: At least 52 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday as rival gang factions fought each other, an official said.Sixteen of the dead were decapitated in the......
More Afghan civilians were killed by Afghan and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) forces than by the Taliban and other militants in the first half of 2019, the UN mission said in a report......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration to lift the ban on private land transfers in Zone III, imposed to stop unauthorised construction......
BUNER: The Buner district council unanimously approved the Rs4.44 billion budget for the fiscal 2019-20 on Monday.Of the total outlay, Rs633 million have been earmarked for development schemes. The......
KARACHI: Expressing concerns over the situation in Sindh including Karachi following heavy rains, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf said that despite ruling Sindh for the past 11 years the Pakistan......
MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf former secretary general Jahangir Khan Tareen said Leader of the House in the Senate Shibli Faraz and Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal should not have met JUI-F......
LAHORE: PML-N Punjab president and former law minister Rana Sanaullah Khan on Monday told a trial court that the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) had neither quizzed him nor did it record his formal......
ISLAMABAD: The capital administration has imposed a ban on selling, purchasing and movement of sacrificial animals in sectors, sources told Dawn.Although the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has......
MURREE: The Government House was opened to the public on Monday by the Punjab chief minister.Hundreds of police officials were deployed on the Islamabad-Murree Expressway for the chief minister’s......
ISLAMABAD: The Prime Minister’s Office on Monday said that Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa, accompanied by the spymaster and the military spokesman, met the prime minister for a discussion on the security......
LONDON: Ben Stokes has revealed the pride he felt after being reinstated as England’s Test vice-captain ahead of the Ashes series starting this week.Stokes was stripped of the role in 2017 following......
MOSCOW: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was “poisoned” by an unidentified toxic substance but doctors have sent him back to jail despite his condition, his lawyer and personal physician said......
ADEN: An attack on a market killed more than 10 civilians including children in a market in Yemen’s northern Saada province on Monday, a medical source and Houthi-run media reported.The manager of......
DUBAI: Protests broke out in Bahrain after the execution of two opposition activists on terrorism-related charges revived tension over the weekend in the kingdom, a Western ally that has cracked down......
QUETTA: Balochistan has started implementing the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and set up a joint investigation team to look into those bank accounts and assets that were......
NEW DELHI: India’s wild tiger population has increased by more than 30 per cent in the last four years, according to a new census released on Monday, raising hopes for the survival of the endangered......
MUMBAI: India captain Virat Kohli on Monday quashed reports of a rift with senior batsman Rohit Sharma, calling the rumours ‘baffling’ and ‘ridiculous’ before the team’s departure for a tour of the......
NEW DELHI: India’s tennis team will travel to Pakistan for their Davis Cup tie, the country’s governing body chief confirmed on Monday, despite strained relations between the nations.The All India......
LAHORE: Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur is most likely to be retained on the said post till next year’s Twenty20 World Cup while Azhar Ali may also get back Test captaincy, it is learnt.Arthur has......
LONDON: Britain on Monday ruled out swapping seized oil tankers with Iran as a second UK warship arrived in the Gulf to conduct convoys that have irritated Tehran.A sense of crisis in the world’s......
LUXEMBOURG: Europe’s top court ruled on Monday that online retailers must warn web users that they send personal data to Facebook through the “like” button.According to the European Court of Justice......
LONDON: The opening day of the Ashes series between England and Australia at Edgbaston on Thursday also marks the start of the International Cricket Council’s new World Test Championship.The aim is......
WASHINGTON/KABUL: US officials said on Monday that an Afghan soldier has killed two American service members in Afghanistan.The US Central Command confirmed that two US troops were killed, but......
KHARTOUM: Four Sudanese school students were among five demonstrators shot dead on Monday during a rally against shortages of bread and fuel, a day before protest leaders and ruling generals are set......
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has ordered US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to reduce the number of US troops in Afghanistan by the 2020 election, said Mr Pompeo on Monday.Responding to a......
ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed in the Islamabad High Court against what it described as media censorship and taking off air private television channels giving time to opposition......
LONDON: Britain will not automatically have direct access to the European Union’s financial markets after Brexit, even if it meets all the conditions set out by Brussels, under an EU policy document......
KARACHI: The stock market continued to drift lower on the first trading day of the week with KSE-100 index down 369.04 points (1.15 per cent) and close at 41-month low at 31,734.23.While the foreign......
LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board managing director Wasim Khan on Monday said a long-term plan aimed at enhancing the working of the PCB will be introduced in which all departments of the Board will be......
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Minister for Communications and Postal Services, Murad Saeed, has said that an authority will be set up to issue driving licences which will also be valid in the Gulf......
KARACHI: Trading activities remained almost paralysed on Monday as majority of shopping malls, wholesale and retail shops kept their business shut owing to incessant rain coupled with accumulated......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China have decided to enter into an agreement to control misdeclaration at the country’s ports as the menace has been causing massive revenue losses and hurting foreign......
WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve is set to “vaccinate” the US economy against a slowdown with the first interest rate cut in a decade, but the decision has been made more difficult by unrelenting......
KARACHI: Pakistan Bedwear Exporters Association (PBEA) on Monday rejected the Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) draft refund rules.In a letter addressed to the board, the PBEA asked FBR chairman to......
ISLAMABAD: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has reiterated its decision, asking the general public not to share personal information on fake calls.“It has come to our knowledge that fraudsters are......
ISLAMABAD: A Senate panel on Monday expressed concern over the deaths of coal miners in Balochistan, insufficient safety arrangements and delayed compensations to the affected families.The Senate......
ISLAMABAD: A draft bill seeking to allow dual nationals to contest elections is ready and will be shortly debated in the two houses of parliament.Read: Proposal to let dual nationals contest......
‘DAAGH toh achay hotay hain’ is a detergent campaign that has proved to be regionally successful. According to experts, its success lay in its unique take on the idea of cleanliness. While......
ISLAMABAD: A new controversy about the upcoming session of the upper house of parliament has cropped up, with the government giving clear indication that there would not be voting on a no-confidence......
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Monday that his father, former president Asif Ali Zardari, is not seeking post-arrest bail and the PPP will continue to......
THE idea of neutral umpires was given to cricket foremost by Imran Khan. The quaint invention has a longer precedence in diplomacy. Neutral umpires in the arena are called honest brokers. Imran Khan......
MUCH like a chronic drug addict, we are back with IMF doctors for our chronic fiscal and external deficit ills. The blame for the original ills lies clearly with patients. But just as medical doctors......
ISLAMABAD: The high-handedness meted out to Irfan Siddiqui, a close aide to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, also caught the attention of Chief Justice of Pakistan Asif Saeed Khosa on Monday.A......
17 people, including five crew members and 12 civilians, died after a Pakistan Army aviation aircraft on a routine training flight crashed near Mora Kalu Rawalpindi.According to an Inter-Services......
‘DAAGH toh achay hotay hain’ is a detergent campaign that has proved to be regionally successful. According to experts, its success lay in its unique take on the idea of cleanliness. While......
“HE came, he saw, he conquered,” wrote US-based South Asia expert Michael Kugleman in his recent Dawn article on Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Washington sojourn. Perfectly put! One can have Democrat......
Indian police were investigating on Monday a highway collision that critically injured a woman who had accused a legislator of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of rape, a police officer......
