World Tour Championship: McIlroy wins Race to Dubai
DUBAI: Rory McIlroy won Dubai’s DP World Tour Championship on Sunday, overhauling overnight leader Andy Sullivan with four birdies on the back nine to also be crowned Europe’s top earner for a third...
View ArticleJhelum incidence: 4-member probe panel starts work
JHELUM: A four-member committee has been set up to probe the arson attack on a factory owned by a member of the Ahmadiyya community in Jhelum.Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, who heads the...
View ArticleForeign funding: PTI not on the same page on financial details
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) back-to-back statements on the party’s stand regarding submission of its accounts details to the poll supervisory body apparently seem to reflect that...
View ArticleBalochistan hands SUPARCO 9,000 acres of Hingol forest
QUETTA: It took the Balochistan government five minutes to hand over 9,000 acres of the Hingol National Park land to a federal agency, in a move that not only subverted rules of the provincial...
View ArticleStill got it: Misbah guides Rangpur Riders to narrow win
Pakistan Test captain Misbahul Haq once again showcased his hitting skills as his 39-ball 61 guided Rangpur Riders to a narrow two-wicket win over Chittagong Vikings in the first Bangladesh Premier...
View ArticleMunir claims Pakistan Golf Open
KARACHI: Muhammad Munir of the Islamabad Golf Club clinched the Pakistan Open after the final round of the 43rd Pakistan Open Golf Championship concluded on Sunday at the Airmen Golf Course in...
View ArticleICC president excited by first-ever day-night Test
DUBAI/PERTH: The president of cricket’s governing body hailed the concept of day-night Tests; just a few days before Australia play New Zealand in the first-ever such match.Zaheer Abbas, president of...
View ArticleSixteen people hospitalised after New Orleans shooting
LOUISIANA: At least 16 people were hospitalized after a shooting at a playground in New Orleans, a local TV station reported on Sunday, citing police.WWL TV said the shooting occurred around 7 pm local...
View ArticleGoing green: Imran Khan vows to plant one billion trees in K-P
DI KHAN: Reiterating the intention of planting over one billion trees across the highlands and lowlands of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan has said it is...
View ArticleGovt working round the clock to serve nation, says PM Nawaz
LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is working round the clock for the welfare of the masses.“National resources are a trust of the nation...
View ArticleGrowing intolerance: My wife suggested we leave India, says Aamir Khan
Bollywood megastar Aamir Khan on Monday said he was “alarmed” by the rising number of incidents of intolerance in the country with his wife, Kiran Rao, suggesting they leave India.“As an individual, as...
View ArticleJamiluddin Aali — a man in search of identity
KARACHI: Jamiluddin Aali, lovingly called Aaliji, was an ambitious man with an undying, never-ending lust for fame and prominence. More than that he was an enigma, a man of many contradictions, eluding...
View ArticleChildren study under open skies as quake rocks education in K-P
PESHAWAR: Ishtiaq Khalid is having a snow day, forced to stay home from his school in the Pakistani district of Shangla due to inclement weather — but unlike most 12-year-olds, he is not happy about...
View ArticleUS Muslim teen accused of clock bomb suing Texas city, school for $15 million
CHICAGO: The Muslim teenager arrested when a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb threatened to sue his school and the town of Irving, Texas for $15 million, his lawyer said Monday.Ahmed...
View ArticleCries of ‘inquisition’ as Vatican puts journalists in dock over leaks
VATICAN CITY: Two journalists and three Vatican officials go on trial Tuesday over the publication of classified documents in a case critics have attacked as having a whiff of the inquisition.All five...
View ArticleBrussels extends terror alert as United States issues travel warning
BRUSSELS: Brussels will stay at the highest security threat level for another week over fears of an imminent attack, the Belgian government said Monday, as the United States issued a worldwide terror...
View ArticleUS issues global travel alert due to ‘increased terrorist threats’
WASHINGTON, DC: The United States issued a worldwide travel alert on Monday warning American citizens of “increased terrorist threats” in the wake of the Paris attacks.A massive manhunt is underway in...
View ArticleWife says we should leave India: Aamir Khan
One of India’s top actors, Aamir Khan, on Monday disclosed that his wife is scared following a number of cases pertaining to religious intolerance and even suggested leaving India.“I have been alarmed....
View ArticlePolio case reported in Khyber Agency
PESHAWAR: A two-year-old boy in Khyber Agency has tested positive for poliovirus, taking this year’s count of polio cases to 42 across the country. Nine children have been crippled by the virus in the...
View ArticleAmazon ads for Nazi-themed TV show pulled from NYC subway
NEW YORK: Amazon.com Inc show featuring Nazi-inspired imagery have been pulled from a busy New York City subway line after Governor Andrew Cuomo intervened, a transit spokesman said late on Tuesday.The...
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