A 21-grade officer and Sindh secretary for human rights, Dr Badar Jamil Mandhro, who was reportedly facing a corruption case, has gone missing in Karachi, officials said on Saturday. The incident......
Thousands of angry protesters took to the streets to tell India's leader he was unwelcome in Kolkata on Saturday, in the latest rally against a citizenship law that critics say discriminates against......
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Saturday visited former prime minister Nawaz Sharif at his London residence to inquire after the latter's health.Karzai was received by Nawaz's sons, Hussain......
Government's chief spokesperson Firdous Ashiq Awan on Saturday asked PML-N lawmaker Rana Sanaullah not to create the impression that he has been acquitted in a drug case against him, reminding that......
India's new army chief Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane on Saturday said that the Indian army will move to claim Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) if it is given orders in this regard by the parliament, Indian......
PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah on Saturday said that his party should not have "become a part of government's undue haste" in the passage of bills pertaining to the tenure of services' chiefs.In a press......
The provisions of the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) have come into effect from today, according to a notification issued by the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs late Friday night,......
The United States on Friday rejected a request by Iraq to start talks on pulling out its 5,200 troops, notching up the discord after Washington killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad.Angry at an......
Hours after Tehran admitted on Saturday that she had unintentionally downed a Ukrainian commercial plane, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded that Iran punish those responsible for the......
Oman's Sultan Qaboos, who died on Friday aged 79, transformed the former Arabian Peninsula backwater into a modern state and sought-after mediator while shielding the sultanate from a region in......
North Korea has received United States President Donald Trump's birthday greetings to its leader Kim Jong Un, but will not return to the negotiation table, according to a statement published on......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said that he had directed authorities to submit an "immediate report on the condemnable, cowardly terrorist attack" in Quetta on Friday, which claimed the lives......
A Ukrainian aircraft which crashed earlier this week in Iran had flown close to a sensitive military site belonging to the elite Revolutionary Guards and was shot down unintentionally due to human......
Sultan Qaboos, the longest-reigning leader of the modern Arab world, has died at the age of 79, the royal court said on Saturday.“With great sorrow and deep sadness [...] the royal court mourns His......
LONDON: Oil slipped further towards $65 a barrel on Friday as tensions in the Middle East over Iran eased for now and investors focused on rising US inventories and other signs of ample supply.Iran......
KARACHI: The country’s 10 banks signed an agreement on Friday to establish Pakistan Corporate Restructuring Company Ltd (PCRCL).Under the provisions of Corporate Restructuring Companies Act 2016 with......
QUETTA: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) will extend its One-Stop-Shop (OSS) facility for company registration in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.SECP Commissioner Shaukat......
KARACHI: Bulls continued to hold sway at the stock market on Friday as they tossed the KSE-100 index up by 683.98 points (1.61 per cent) with closing seen at 17-month high 43,207.05 points.Including......
LONDON: Prince Harry’s wife Meghan has returned to Canada following the couple’s bombshell announcement that they were quitting their frontline royal duties, it emerged on Friday, as the monarch held......
LONDON: A British female news presenter who was paid one sixth of the fee earned by a male presenter on a similar show won her discrimination case against the BBC on Friday.An employment tribunal......
WASHINGTON: Boeing Co on Thursday released hundreds of internal messages that contained harshly critical comments about the development of the 737 MAX, including one that said the plane was ......
BEIJING: The Chinese paddlefish’s sharp, protruding snout made it one of the largest freshwater species in the world. Since scientists declared it extinct in a research paper published last week,......
ADDIS ABABA: Video of US President Donald Trump saying he had a hand in the latest Nobel Peace Prize has gone viral in Ethiopia after Trump asserted that he had made a deal to save the country.The......
WASHINGTON: US lawmakers concerned about rushing to war with Iran adopted a measure on Thursday aimed at reining in President Donald Trump’s ability to take military action against the Islamic......
PESHAWAR: A Sikh youth, whose body was found in Chamkani area last Sunday, was killed by hitmen hired by his fiancée, claimed police.A senior police official told Dawn that the four accused,......
PESHAWAR: A lawyer on Friday moved the Peshawar High Court seeking contempt proceedings against the provincial assembly’s speaker and six others over the re-appointment of a special secretary to......
GILGIT: Winter sports competitions were held at the frozen Khalti Lake in Ghizer district on Friday, providing excitement and joy to the people.The sports competitions included football, ice hockey......
TAXILA: Wah Cantonment police on Friday arrested two men for allegedly gang raping a 13-year-old mentally challenged girl in village Miasian.SP Potohar division Syed Ali while talking to newsmen here......
ISLAMABAD: Around 3,000 illegal Pakistani immigrants detained in inhuman conditions in Bosnia have refused assistance from the government of Pakistan to return home.Special Secretary Ministry of......
LAHORE: A mobile phone video of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s nephew, Hassaan Niazi, surfaced on Friday showing him misbehaving with a commuter on road following a minor accident.The video showed Mr......
LAHORE: The United States has generated a Level 2 travel alert for Pakistan and other polio-endemic Asian countries following outbreak of the crippling disease, declaring the life-time booster dose......
LAHORE: Deputy Commissioner (DC) Danish Afzal has removed 17 price control magistrates from their posts for not doing their duties properly.The DC issued a strict warning regarding officers who are......
LAHORE: The Punjab Higher Education Department (HED) has taken notice of illegal sub-campuses operated by several private universities and directed these varsities to immediately stop the intake of......
LAHORE: The United States has generated a Level 2 travel alert for Pakistan and other polio-endemic Asian countries following outbreak of the crippling disease, declaring the life-time booster dose......
KARACHI: Cargo supplies from Karachi remained suspended for the fifth consecutive day on Friday as goods transporters continued their strike over a hefty increase in penalties on traffic rules......
KARACHI: The Supreme Court on Friday expressed resentment at officials of the Civil Aviation Authority over non-provision of proper facilities at airports and directed the CAA director general to......
KARACHI: Mayor Waseem Akhtar, who is also deputy convener of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s (MQM-P) Rabita Committee, said on Friday that his party would be compelled to review its support......
KARACHI: In what police described as a ‘revenge killing’ incident, armed men stormed into a house in Sohrab Goth on Friday and shot dead two children after failing to find their father, their real......
KARACHI: With 101 eateries and thousands of foodies eager to taste everything on offer, the much-awaited three-day Karachi Eat 2020 Food Festival kicked off at the Beach View Park on Friday.Unique......
KARACHI: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) is very much concerned over the incident at the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) in which a two-day old girl died on Thursday due to a fire......
EXTENSION done. What’s the lay of the land? Here goes:1- The empire/umpire always strikes back. The temporary hitch in the system has been corrected and all political engines are now working fine.......
IN the 1997 movie Wag the Dog, the US president gets embroiled in a sexual scandal while fighting for re-election. A spin doctor is hired to divert the public’s attention away from the tawdry......
IN the 1997 movie Wag the Dog, the US president gets embroiled in a sexual scandal while fighting for re-election. A spin doctor is hired to divert the public’s attention away from the tawdry......
EXTENSION done. What’s the lay of the land? Here goes:1- The empire/umpire always strikes back. The temporary hitch in the system has been corrected and all political engines are now working fine.......
A BABOON-faced thug with hair dyed orange threatens — and then repeats his threat — to destroy the world’s precious architectural heritage. He is not Mullah Omar, who ordered blowing up the......
LAHORE: A majority of the franchises of the HBL-Pakistan Super League (PSL) are demanding financial relief, claiming that they are suffering big losses but are reluctant to submit their financial......
NEW DELHI: Long-serving Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni may quit One-day Internationals soon but could still be in contention for a place in the country’s squad for the Twenty20......
SYDNEY: World number one Rafael Nadal lost a singles match for only the second time since July, and was two points from another defeat not long after that would have ended Spain’s run at the ATP......
ISLAMABAD: Australian Vice Chief of Defence Forces Vice Admiral David Johnston, the Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) Royal Australian Navy (RAN) on Friday called on Chief of the Army Staff......
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is scheduled to open his regional trip on Sunday (tomorrow) with a visit to Iran for offering Pakistan’s help for defusing tensions prevailing in the......
ISLAMABAD: Australian Vice Chief of Defence Forces Vice Admiral David Johnston, the Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) Royal Australian Navy (RAN) on Friday called on Chief of the Army Staff......
QUETTA: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Senator Sirajul Haq has welcomed the announcement of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government to keep Pakistan out of war between Iran and the US.Speaking at a press......
ISLAMABAD: The opposition and the government on Friday traded barbs in the Senate over gas shortage, with the former slamming the latter for depriving the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan of their......
ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench on Friday rejected an intra-court appeal filed by the defence ministry against its order that had declared the detention of retired army......
KARACHI: Bank Alfalah received the Best Bank Award for 2019 at the 4th Pakistan Banking Awards ceremony held here on Friday. Six awards were given to other banks for their best performance in......
EDEN: Gale-force winds in Australia merged two big fires into a monster blaze spanning an area four times the size of Greater London on Friday, while tens of thousands rallied to again demand action......
DUBAI: Iran said on Friday it wanted to download black box recordings itself from a Ukrainian airliner that crashed, killing all 176 people aboard, after Canada and others said the plane was brought......
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Friday witnessed a rare show of solidarity when opposition leader Rana Sanaullah rejected drug smuggling charges levelled against him and he was backed by some......
KARACHI: Six members of a family, including four children, burned to death while five others suffered critical injuries when a fire broke out in a moving van in New Karachi area on Friday night,......
ISLAMABAD: The federal government on Friday reiterated that people of Pakistan — not any particular province — have the first right of use over natural gas as they are its ultimate owners.In a......
