LAHORE: People from all walks of life thronged the Fortress Stadium on Sunday to participate in an event held to commemorate the 1965 war...
A flypast by the Pakistan Air Force formations and display of tanks, big guns and other military equipment were the main attraction for children, while their elders keenly watched the war exercises and skills exhibited by the paramilitary forces to combat terrorism...
Barca, bidding to become the first team to retain the Champions League, were left to rue referee Nicola Rizzoli’s decision to give a free-kick on the edge of the box in injury time instead of a penalty when Gabi appeared to be inside the area as he was penalised for handball...
The result sent Diego Simeone’s team, which had played most of the first leg match with 10 men, to the semi-finals for the second time in the last three...
It is also a source of disappointment for many who believed in the creation of an open, more tolerant society and thought Europeans had learned the lessons of a shameful, tragic past...
Many governments, especially in the former Communist central and eastern European states are gearing up for military action to keep out the desperate people on their doorsteps...
BEIJING: Officials working at the grassroots in Tibet must be a "fortress" against separatism and work to ensure the ruling Communist Party's monopoly on information is maintained, China's top official in the restless region wrote on Thursday...
"Build up grassroots party organisations which serve the masses and promote development and are a staunch combat fortress to maintain stability and oppose separatism," Chen wrote...
The operation, which reportedly took four whole months of planning, had to be aborted and the army was called in for help the next morning...
The island lying west of Bangla and comprising about 48 square kilometres has been used by notorious criminals as their sanctuary for the past 40 years...
THE newspaper was already a fortress when I stepped into the office of the Editor at Dawn in early 2000...
It wasn’t easy as I was replacing the venerable Ahmad Ali Khan who had been there for more than a quarter of a century and had his mark stamped on just about everything – from editorial discretion to the manner in which Dawn journalists were expected to behave...
The raging pre-tournament favourite, Djokovic will bid for a record-extending eighth title at Melbourne Park, having surprised no one with his business-like march through the draw...
FOR the third time, the cabinet has approved a draft of social media rules titled the ‘Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Content Rules 2021’ to govern (read: censor) content on social media in Pakistan...
The utility of social media as the last fortress of citizens to express themselves with relative freedom has been commented on ad infinitum, but this notification presumably is the climax of the state’s perseverance to exercise...
LAHORE: As from April 15 the railway swicthes over ot summer timing, the authorities have introduced in stops of trains...
It has been a tradition that summer timings come into effect from April 15 and remain scheduled till October 14 and the winter timings from October 15 till April 14 every year since the early quarter of 20th century when a railway was constructed in this part of the subcontinent, which now comprises Pakistan... ...
ISLAMABAD: After Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Mohammad Yousaf announced enforcement of Nizam-i-Salat in the federal capital from Friday, it was later decided that its implementation would solely be on voluntarily basis...
Under the system, call to prayer (Azaan) and prayer timings at all mosques would be the same irrespective of the sect...
“The decision in this regard has been taken to discipline the consumer pattern in the country and we hope to implement the closure timings in other parts of the country,” said the PML-N MNA from Islamabad...
The conservation drive called for closing of shops in the federal capital at 8pm and restaurants and bakeries by 11pm...
LAHORE: The newly-launched Green Line Express Train will be operating between federal and Sindh capitals according to revised timings from May 22...
A spokesperson said on Monday that from May 22, the Green Line train would leave Karachi Cantt at 10pm for Islamabad’s Margalla station where it would arrive the next day at 8pm...
ISLAMABAD: While the 40 traders arrested by police on Saturday night, for not closing their shops at the stipulated time, were released by the police on Sunday morning, the issue of closing time could not be settled...
On April 8, the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCE) chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif announced a new energy conservation plan for the capital stipulating that shops would be closed at 8pm...
Although Imam of Kaaba Dr Khalid al Ghamdi had sanctified the move, imams of the mosques in Islamabad are found observing their own prayer timings 20 days after the uniform Nizam-e-Salat was introduced in the federal capital to begin with...
Introduced on May 1, the winter-summer time-table for azaan (call for prayers) and jamaat (prayers) was prepared by the ministry of religious affairs in consultation with the Met Office and the...
ISLAMABAD: The government finally decided to take stakeholders on board 25 days after launching the uniform prayer timings system in the federal capital...
Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Sardar Mohammad Yousuf, the minister for religious affairs, acknowledged that Nizam-i-Salat had been launched in Islamabad on May 1 but clerics, business community and the officials concerned would be given a detailed briefing about it...