An interpreter who helped rescue US President Joe Biden in a 2008 Afghan snowstorm has escaped Afghanistan with his family after hiding from the Taliban for weeks, the State Department confirmed on......
The Anti-Vehicles Lifting Cell (AVLC) of Karachi police on Monday claimed to have busted a gang involved in the selling of snatched or stolen vehicles on online marketplace OLX.Acting on a tip-off,......
India's largest port operator Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone said on Monday that its terminals would no longer handle export and import of container cargoes from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan......
THERE are men taller than any tribute; Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was among such men. An iconic figure, he has left his mark on history by providing an unassailable security shield to Pakistan. Beyond......
A group of disgruntled Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) lawmakers and their allies in the coalition government on Monday filed a no-confidence motion against Chief Minister Jam Kamal Alyani, deepening......
Police claimed on Monday to have arrested two suspects near Karachi's Paposh Nagar graveyard on charges of renting weapons from the City Courts' malkhana (warehouse) to commit crimes.According to SSP......
It’s been a landmark year for Pakistani startups who have proved their mettle in terms of fundraising, with total invested capital year-to-date close to $290 million. This is bigger than all previous......
The Punjab government approached the Supreme Court on Monday, challenging the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) order declaring the detention of TLP chief Saad Hussain Rizvi (TLP), illegal.The LHC had on Oct......
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday once again stressed the need for the international community to engage with the Taliban and said that a failure to do so could push the group back 20 years.In an......
The Supreme Court directed on Monday the prosecution to submit evidence against Asmat Adamjee, the mother of Zahir Jaffer, who is the prime suspect in the Noor Mukadam murder case. The direction came......
A US couple has been arrested in the state of West Virginia for allegedly selling information on nuclear warships to what they believed was a foreign state, the Justice Department said on......
Senior PML-N leader and MNA Mohammad Pervaiz Malik passed away in Lahore on Monday according to his son, Ali Pervaiz Malik. He was 73.Speaking to Dawn.com, his son said that Malik — who was also the......
Talks between Indian and Chinese army commanders to disengage troops from key friction areas along their border have ended in a stalemate and failed to ease a 17-month standoff that has sometimes led......
The United States and Britain warned their citizens on Monday to avoid hotels in Afghanistan, days after dozens were killed at a mosque in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.The Taliban,......
MUCH of the international community saw the Trump years as deeply destabilising for the world. The former US president acted not just irresponsibly and unpredictably but was intensely divisive both......
LONDON: Denmark added to the most perfect campaign in World Cup qualifying on Saturday and England also eased towards winning their group.Wins for Scotland, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine......
LAHORE: In what was a disastrous National T20 Cup campaign for them, Southern Punjab signed off in style on Sunday.Last year’s runners-up humbled holders Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by 11 runs at Lahore’s......
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka have added spinner Akila Dananjaya, batter Pathum Nissanka, and seamers Lahiru Kumara and Binura Fernando to their revised 15-man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup, the country’s......
LONDON: England were able to name their strongest available squad for the Ashes tour to Australia on Sunday as their stars committed to the trip after coronavirus (Covid-19) quarantine fears.The......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica Dr Roosevelt Skerrit and his delegation during their two-day visit to Pakistan signed an agreement with Rawal Institute of Health Sciences......
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: As the rain heralded a change in the weather, health authorities on Sunday expressed the hope that the dengue mosquito will be eliminated by the end of October as it becomes......
SWAT: The social and human rights activists here on Sunday demanded of the government to ensure representation of persons with disabilities in parliament and local governments.They were speaking at a......
ISLAMABAD: The issue related to fee regulation of private schools is still undecided as operators of some schools have obtained stay orders against a government policy notified in August.The Private......
PESHAWAR: The health department is set to sign contracts with two private hospitals for free liver transplant of the residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa amid plan to include Shaukat Khanum Memorial......
LAHORE: Claiming that the Punjab government has accepted two of its four demands, the Pakistan Flour Mills Association (PFMA) has withdrawn its call for a strike, earlier scheduled from Tuesday.PFMA......
LAHORE: The Punjab government has opened a 280-bed dengue field hospital at Expo Centre in the provincial capital to deal with increasing number of dengue patients.Doctors from General Hospital,......
RAWALPINDI: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has said that airlines operators are not serving meals onboard domestic flights within Pakistan on the pretext of Covid-19.The CAA had on Monday allowed......
MUZAFFARABAD: As was being widely believed, Chaudhry Yasir Sultan of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Chaudhry Amir Yasin of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) won the by-elections in LA-3, Mirpur-III......
In the past few weeks, major issues of public concern — rising unemployment, high food prices and uncongenial conditions at workplaces — a reflection of the plight of the poor and the vulnerable —......
ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved technical assistance to Pakistan for reforming state-owned enterprises and supporting the government in high priority areas included in the......
LAHORE: The boards of directors (BoDs) of some state-owned power sector companies are flouting corporate governance rules-2013 by indulging in day-to-day affairs required to be handled by the......
THERE are men taller than any tribute; Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was among such men. An iconic figure, he has left his mark on history by providing an unassailable security shield to Pakistan. Beyond......
The State Bank of Pakistan has recently taken multiple measures — ranging from the imposition of cash margins on hundreds of import items to requiring the purchase of dollars to biometric......
“WHERE’S your brain?” a frustrated teacher asked a cheeky student who had asked the same question for the fourth time. Other students laughed at the obvious sarcasm in the question. The child to whom......
Pakistan’s oil consumption is gradually getting back to normal pre-Covid lockdown levels as economic activities regain momentum and international prices are again rising amid supply limits maintained......
“I SPENT 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I......
LAST Friday, as worshippers gathered for prayers at the Sayyidabad mosque in Kunduz city, a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing some 50 people. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan put the......
LONDON: Britain has rescued or intercepted a total of 1,115 migrants attempting to cross the English Channel over just two days, the country’s interior ministry said on Sunday.Rising numbers of......
COX’S BAZAR: Bangladesh police arrested at least 16 Rohingya refugees in a series of raids on camps in Dhaka after the murder of a top Rohingya community leader last week, officials said on......
DUBAI: FaceTime calls seemed to be working in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, an apparent loosening of long-standing restrictions on the Apple programme in the federation of seven......
JERUSALEM: Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel said Israel’s security will remain a top priority for “every German government”, during a farewell visit to the Jewish state on Sunday near the end of her......
TAIPEI: Taiwan will not bow to pressure by Beijing and will defend its democratic way of life, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Sunday, following an alleged spike in incursions by Chinese warplanes......
LA PALMA: Blocks of molten lava as large as three-storey buildings rolled down a hillside on the Spanish island of La Palma on Sunday while a series of tremors shook the ground three weeks after the......
BAGHDAD: Iraqis voted on Sunday in a parliamentary election a year early as a concession to an anti-government protest movement but seen as unlikely to deliver major change to the war-scarred......
WASHINGTON: As a US government agency probes claims that former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani took with him $169 million while fleeing Kabul, a senior member of his security staff said on Sunday that......
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to shift the headquarters of erstwhile Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) from Lahore to Islamabad with a new nomenclature and fresh roles, but rejected the......
ISLAMABAD: Some 11 hours before his death, nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan had disclosed to Dawn that he would challenge in court the flawed entry tests for admission to medical and dental......
HYDERABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui has urged federal government to name all nuclear installations, including the principal one at Kahuta, after Dr Abdul......
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday invited all estranged old guards and other leaders to return to the party fold and join in the ongoing struggle for......
KARACHI: Politicians, city intelligentsia, experts of urban planning and prominent members of the civil society have agreed that growing problems of Karachi, fast decaying infrastructure and the......
KARACHI: A sessions court has ruled that the evidentiary value of a DNA test is not acceptable in a case falling under the penal provisions of zina punishable under the Hudood laws, which had its own......
LAHORE: Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin has said that participation in the Afghan war during the 1980s and the ‘war on terror’ after 9/11 resulted in destabilising the country’s economy, which......
ISLAMABAD: Seeking help from society for the government in its fight against corruption and growing sex crimes in the country, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday announced that he planned to set up......
ISLAMABAD: The country reported the lowest number of Covid-19 cases in a single day since June 28.According to data of the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 767 people contracted......
MUCH of the international community saw the Trump years as deeply destabilising for the world. The former US president acted not just irresponsibly and unpredictably but was intensely divisive both......
ISLAMABAD: Some 11 hours before his death, nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan had disclosed to Dawn that he would challenge in court the flawed entry tests for admission to medical and dental......
