Streets named after slave traders in the southwestern French city, known for its red wine but also one with a colonial past, are getting additional information plaques put up but will not be renamed, a local official said...
The city’s colonial past has left its mark on France’s ninth largest city and five streets are named after slave traders...
WASHINGTON: The White House retains a list of 20 terrorist groups that the Trump administration claims are operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan and is believed to have shared this list with Pakistani officials, diplomatic sources told Dawn...
Mr Tillerson told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday that Pakistan was willing to target terrorists if provided specific information about their whereabouts and Washington plans...
KARACHI: In what appears to be an attempt to strengthen its role in the ongoing Afghanistan peace process, the government has appointed veteran diplomat Mohammad Sadiq as Pakistan’s first special envoy for Afghanistan...
The development comes ahead of a visit of United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad, who, according to the State Department, embarked on a new round of diplomatic trips to...
ISLAMABAD: Tobacco is grown on more than four million hectares of land in Pakistan, which could have been used to grow food for approximately 20 million people...
The presence of World Health Organisation (WHO) officials has also played a role in the decrease in the prevalence of tobacco in the city...
Hailed first as the country's Garden City and then its Silicon Valley, drawing in multinational IT firms and their monied executives, today Bangalore is paying a heavy price for its success ? it's a city overflowing with garbage, its infrastructure and waste collection services unable to keep up with decades of unchecked growth...
Located on a plateau and blessed with a relatively cool climate, the city is dotted with public parks and...
LONDON: Manchester City turned on the style to dismantle West Ham United 4-0 and revive their fading Premier League title aspirations as Manchester United’s hopes suffered a potentially fatal blow with a goalless home draw against struggling Hull City on Wednesday...
City produced a scintillating first-half display, scoring three times before the break through Kevin De Bruyne, David Silva and new boy Gabriel Jesus, before Yaya Toure’s...
ASK anyone in Pakistan or elsewhere the process of how he/she was named, and there is a little bit of a history attached; often times simple, sometimes a bit complicated but mostly quite interesting...
My father’s name for instance is an amalgamation of his two grandfather’s names, Azeiz and Aman, forming his, Azeiz-ul-Aman, followed by the family name, Zuberi...
KOHAT: The alliance of the opposition parties finalised here on Wednesday the names of candidates for 90 per cent seats in the district for the upcoming local government elections...
The leaders of the alliance in a meeting made decisions about seat adjustment for the polls according to which PPP would field candidate on one seat, JUI-F three, and ANP on two seats in the city...
ISLAMABAD: The director general of the Intelligence Bureau met several parliamentarians on Friday only to assure them that a list containing their names and accusing them of having links with banned outfits was a fake document and not issued by his agency...
Having names of 37 lawmakers who were alleged to have links with banned outfits, the list first came to light when a private television channel aired a report claiming that former...
Aziz had served as the prime minister of Pakistan from 2004 to 2007, soon after completing a five-year stint as the country’s finance minister...
The other prominent political figure from Pakistan named in the Paradise Papers is former National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) chairperson Ayaz Khan Niazi, DawnNews reported...
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Tuesday exchanged names for the appointment of the new chairman of National Accountability Bureau (NAB)...
Talking to a group of reporters after his second meeting in as many days with the prime minister, Mr Shah disclosed that both the government and the opposition had proposed three names each for the important...
A senior official told Dawn on condition of anonymity that NAB Lahore had written to its headquarters requesting that Hussain and Hassan’s names be placed on the ECL...
The NAB spokesman in Islamabad confirmed the other three names — Nawaz Sharif, Maryam and Capt Safdar — that had been recommended by NAB Lahore to be placed on ECL...
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday announced a panel of umpires for next week's Independence Cup, which will be played between Pakistan and the World XI at Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium...
Aleem Dar, Pakistan's most prominent international cricket umpire, and Ahsan Raza ? both of the Emirates Elite Panel of the International Cricket Council Umpires ? will officiate in the series opener at the Gaddafi Stadium on Sept 12...
An interim selection committee headed by former Pakistan batsman Basit Ali on Tuesday announced the women's team under the captaincy of Bismah Maroof for the series against New Zealand...
The series will be Pakistan's first since the team's win-less women's World Cup campaign earlier this year, following which Sana Mir was replaced by Maroof as the skipper...
Both Rashad and Rizwan were not part of the Pakistan team which recently toured Australia and South Korea as they were playing league in Europe...
The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) also axed three coaches Nasir Ali, Sameer Hussain and Malik Shafqat to reduce the cost...