This year, Pakistan’s 70th Independence anniversary and Janmashtami (the Hindu festival celebrating Krishna’s birth) fell on the same day: August 14th...
This nazm is by Hafeez Jalandhari, the Urdu poet most well-known for composing the lyrics to Pakistan’s national anthem, the Qaumi Taranah...
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) landed flat on Friday after a see-saw session affected by political noise following the verdict announced by accountability court against Nawaz Sharif in Avenfield reference case...
KARACHI: For Pakistan’s residents, fiscal year 2020 was the worst year as they witnessed highest inflation in the world forcing policy makers to increase interest rate...
“Pakistan witnessed highest inflation not only in comparison with the developed economies but also with emerging economies,” said the Inflation Monitor for April issued by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)...
After years of watching him on television, that evening I saw Lionel Messi, in the flesh, for the first time as he emerged from the tunnel to train...
Reporting on my first FIFA World Cup for DAWN, and just arriving at Rio after a spectacular opening match in Sao Paulo, as a sports journalist from Pakistan, I really did feel like I was living the dream...
When the BJP bosses saw the impending defeat in Bihar, they tried to make beef and cows as the focus of the elections...
Indian political observers recalled BJP ministers fuelling fires by telling Hindu voters that BJP’s defeat would mean that vegetarian Hindus would be forced to eat beef!Pakistan had undergone a similar radicalisation under General Ziaul Haq...
LOS ANGELES: Movie director Tobe Hooper, best known for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist horror films, died in California on Saturday, US media reported...
Hooper, a native of Austin, Texas, was a college professor and documentary producer before branching out in 1974 to direct The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, one of the most influential films of the horror genre...
The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) managed to close in the green on Tuesday after see-sawing over the course of the day, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index gaining 232 points to close at 40,459...
Their fine performance on the classics, semi-classic, term and handicap racing, especially the National Breeders Cup and the Pakistan Derby 2015, drew applauses from the connoisseurs of the equine sports...
Celebration crowning the triumph in the Pakistan Derby 2015 in March with My Guest occupying the runners-up position took home a particular slice of the prize-money cake big enough to satisfy a healthy appetite for success of the...
SEOUL: An airplane crew flying over Japan saw North Korea’s missile as it plunged back through the atmosphere last week, their airline said on Monday, as South Korea and the US kicked off their largest ever joint air exercise...
KARACHI: Equities closed flat in lacklustre trading session on Wednesday where the benchmark KSE-100 index saw marginal fall of 9...
Start to the day was on positive note with oil scrips leading gains tracking higher global crude and helping the index to retest important resistance level of 46,100...
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s Washington hotel saw almost $20 million in revenue during its first few months of operation a period that coincided with his election and inauguration as the 45th president...
ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) spokesperson, Asma Jahangir, on Wednesday said courts that are responsible for protecting human rights have been infringing on the rights of the people...
When asked a campaign recently launched by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority that involves SMS messages against blasphemy on social media, Ms Jahangir said she has never seen blasphemous material on social media but...
In a 28-page section titled 'Assets beyond means (Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif)' the joint investigation team (JIT) looking into the Panamagate probe, questions the veracity of the documentation submitted by the Respondents to the Supreme Court of Pakistan...
However, as per the JIT's findings, in two accounts opened at Standard Chartered Bank (Pakistan) Limited, he showed himself as CEO of the Chaudhary Sugar Mills Limited, while in an...
Comparing the two bodies, the KP NAB had arrested two former provincial ministers, Syed Mureed Kazim of Awami National Party (ANP) and Mehmood Zeb of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), whereas KPEC had arrested a sitting minister, Ziaullah Afridi of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) who was subsequently removed from cabinet and his party membership also suspended, and ex-provincial minister Liaquat Shabab of PPP...
In April 2015, the KPEC...
MANSEHRA: The forest department on Wednesday sealed four saw machines and confiscated the smuggled timber during raids here...
They said wood exceeding the limit at saw machines and at furniture making shops was also confiscated and shifted to forest offices in Oghi...