India hammered Namibia by nine wickets to give Virat Kohli a winning farewell in his last match as Twenty20 captain and finish their disappointing World Cup campaign on a high on Monday.India, who......
Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood said on Monday that the "exclusionist policies" pursued by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its fountainhead, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), reflected......
Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi is expected to visit Pakistan this week for talks on the relationship between the two countries, a Pakistani official said on Monday.The......
English cricket's top administrator has flown to Pakistan in a bid to repair relations damaged by the cancellation of October's Twenty20 tour.A spokesperson for the England and Wales Cricket Board......
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry announced on Monday that a complete ceasefire had been reached between the government and the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), according to state-run......
Indian legend Kapil Dev accused the country's cricket players of prioritising the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) over national duty after the pre-tournament favourites were dumped out of the......
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin on Monday called upon the public to forget the idea that they could get away by evading taxes, saying those not paying their dues......
Udhaar Book, a digital bookkeeping app for small businesses in Pakistan, has raised $6 million in seed funding, it emerged on Monday.The round saw the participation of multiple investors including......
The Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) announced on Monday that it was ending its sit-in in the Wazirabad town of Punjab's Gujranwala district after more than a week, following an agreement with the......
The military leadership is briefing lawmakers from the government and the opposition on national security issues at a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS).The in-camera......
Former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar vowed on Sunday that he "will not give up and fight this legal battle" after the Pakistan Television Corporation (PTVC) sent him a recovery notice asking him to pay......
Australia will tour Pakistan in March and April next year — the country's first since 1998 — to play a series of Test, ODI and T20 matches, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Monday.In a......
The man who killed 51 Muslim worshippers at mosques in Christchurch is considering appealing against his life sentence, saying his guilty plea after the 2019 attack was obtained under duress, his......
LONDON: Arsenal go into the international break fifth in the Premier League after Emile Smith-Rowe clinched a 1-0 victory over Watford on Sunday while Tottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte endured......
KARACHI: Pakistan women’s team will start the final phase of their preparations for the ICC Women’s World Cup Qualifier when they take on the West Indies in the first of the three One-day......
SHARJAH: Jason Roy is “unbelievably important” for England and the team hope the injured opener can play some part in the knockout stage of the Twenty20 World Cup, captain Eoin Morgan said on......
GILGIT: Members of the opposition parties in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly have been made chairpersons of nine standing committees of the house.According to separate notifications issued by the GB......
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Sunday hinted at diverting Annual Development Programme’s funds to food subsidy next year.Addressing a rally in the provincial capital, he said that he was......
PESHAWAR: Freezing of funds for local communities by federal ministry of climate change is hampering conservation activities at Chitral Gol National Park where a recent study has revealed significant......
KARACHI: Nearly 600 serving and retired government officials, including a former chief secretary and an ex-inspector general of police of Sindh, are facing trials in 108 corruption references filed......
KARACHI: Two out of four firms have been shortlisted for demolition of Nasla Tower by a committee formed by the city administration, it emerged on Sunday.Well-placed sourced told Dawn that the......
KARACHI: Fourteen Arab dignitaries have been officially granted permits for hunting houbara bustard, an internationally protected bird species, in Sindh this year.Sources told Dawn this year the......
LAHORE: Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information Hasaan Khawar has indicated that the Punjab government will take action against all those, who have been accused of committing......
LAHORE: The district administration on Sunday took into custody two of the suspects involved in an artificial sugar price hike.The administration had identified four dealers involved in the price......
ISLAMABAD: A commission formed by the federal government to revise Islamabad’s master plan will brief Planning Minister Asad Umar on the progress made so far.The commission has invited the minister......
LAHORE: Opposition Leader in Punjab Assembly Hamza Shehbaz has expressed his grave concern at the spread of dengue and shortage of the medicines needed for treating the disease.In a statement here on......
ISLAMABAD: The Secretariat police have arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting his daughter.A complaint was registered with the police that the suspect had raped his 13-year-old daughter in the......
ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has said it has no objection to the privatisation of Jinnah Convention Centre (JCC) but is waiting for study reports which are to be submitted by......
NEW DELHI: Indian police are seeking the owners of around 100 social media accounts accused of sharing “fake news” after mob attacks on mosques in the country’s northeast.Last month’s violence in......
CAPE CANAVERAL: High wind off the Florida coast has prompted SpaceX to delay the return of four space station astronauts in orbit since spring.The US, French and Japanese astronauts were supposed to......
MUMBAI: India’s manufacturing capital Chennai came to a standstill on Sunday with many areas flooded after the southern Indian coast was battered by heavy rainfall overnight, prompting authorities to......
GLASGOW: COP26’s first week saw keynote pledges to end deforestation, phase out coal, and mobilise trillions for green investment.But observers say there is a gulf between host Britain’s......
TEL AVIV: The Palestinians on Sunday slammed Israel for rejecting the promised reopening of the US consulate in Jerusalem, a move that would restore Washington’s main diplomatic mission for the......
WASHINGTON: A nongovernmental estimate of US costs for the 20-year war in Afghanistan is more than double the calculation made by the US Department of Defence (DOD), says an official report.The......
“Different countries were interested in our stock exchange,” reminisces former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Khalid Mirza. “I met a representative, who I will not name, in Karachi. He......
Nauman Kabir is from that rare breed of business people who staunchly believe that the financially excluded and politically marginalised small- to medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector would not only......
When Mera Pakistan Mera Ghar (My Pakistan, My Home) or MPMG was launched in October 2020, the government boasted that it would help millions of Pakistanis have their own homes. The ruling PTI party......
WHEN it comes to government officials in Sindh, it is understandable that they find the impression of governance deficit in the province rather misplaced, and insist that a quiet transformation in......
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday started the process of door-to-door verification of voters to give the list a final shape before the next general elections.The......
ISLAMABAD: An in-camera meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on the Appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will be held on Tuesday......
BEIJING: Ambassador to China Moinul Haque has expressed the confidence that Pakistan’s exports to China will double over the next three to five years as a result of increasing interest of local......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has directed all public and private TV channels to flash the political map of Pakistan before airing news bulletins at 9pm.“All......
THE opposition alliance PDM has decided to step up its campaign against the PTI government by announcing a fresh schedule of rallies in major cities this month. The top leadership of the alliance......
AS Pakistan passes through yet another episode of galloping inflation, trite explanations — from the IMF bogey to ‘external shocks’ — abound to assuage public anger. However, there’s more to......
IF confirmation was needed that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s preferred way of governing is by unilateral actions, it came in his government’s recent handling of a slew of issues. Not only has this......
ISLAMABAD: Special envoy of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Jammu and Kashmir Yousef Aldobeay has said the OIC will continue to support the right to self-determination of the people......
PAKISTAN waved goodbye to Sharjah and said hello to a World T20 semi-final against Australia with a clinical victory over Scotland on Sunday.The feel-good factor continued for Babar Azam’s team,......
QUETTA: An all-men cabinet of Balochistan took oath on Sunday while Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo also appointed five advisers and three female lawmakers as parliamentary secretaries.Most......
ISLAMABAD: With supply shortages and unsustainable average cost of gas, the government is going to withdraw subsidised gas rates of $6.5 per unit for the industrial sector as first part of a......
ISLAMABAD: The government has lifted the ban on the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) “in the larger national interest” and in line with the “secret agreement” it had signed with the group on October......
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday said Pakistan had fared much better than other countries in the wake of unprecedented price hike brought about by Covid-19.The opposition, on the other......
SHARJAH: Pakistan captain Babar Azam and Shoaib Malik cracked blistering half-centuries as the former World Twenty20 champions eased past Scotland by 72 runs on Sunday to seal top spot in Group II......
IF confirmation was needed that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s preferred way of governing is by unilateral actions, it came in his government’s recent handling of a slew of issues. Not only has this......
