Coercive measures: India shuts internet in Kashmir on Eid
The Indian government on Thursday ordered to close internet in the Kashmir valley for 40 hours during Eidul Azha. In a notification issued on Thursday evening, the government asked telcos to shut down...
View ArticleUnusual patterns: Climate change behind weather anomalies: PMD
GILGIT / ISLAMABAD: With Karachi coming out of a scorching heat wave and mountains in Kalam receiving the season’s first snowfall, experts believe the anomalous weather pattern in Pakistan is the work...
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Eid message: President, PM lay stress on spirit of sacrifice
LONDON / ISLAMABAD: As the nation celebrates Eidul Azha on Friday, President Mamnoon Hussain has urged Pakistanis to remember the soldiers who have sacrificed their today for the nation’s tomorrow. In...
View ArticleTop court’s verdict: Malls can’t be built on public playgrounds
ISLAMABAD: The top court has banned construction of shops and shopping centres on public playgrounds and directed a supermarket chain owner to clear out an amenity plot in Karachi. The Supreme Court...
View ArticleRUSTLERS: Balochistan govt fails to stop cattle smuggling
QUETTA: Director General of Livestock Balochistan Ghulam Hussain Jaffer said that the provincial authorities are unable to control smuggling of cattle to the neighbouring countries because the federal...
View ArticlePTI mulls action against seven party members
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has issued show-cause notices to seven of its parliamentarians for violating party discipline in the recent local government elections in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa....
View ArticleSpeeding car: Four members of family die in crash
HYDERABAD: Four members of a family were killed when their car collided with a coach on Indus Highway in Jamshoro, on Wednesday. The police identified the deceased as 65-year-old Khadija, wife of Gul...
View ArticleMultan heist: Cricketer Sohaib Maqsood’s home burgled
MULTAN: Thieves took away cash, foreign currency, cell phones, jewellery and valuables from cricketer Sohaib Maqsood’s home in Nasheman Colony of Multan in the early hours of Thursday. Maqsood, a...
View ArticleIndonesian quake injures scores, shakes popular tourist spot
SORONG: A powerful earthquake in remote eastern Indonesia on Friday injured more than 60 people, left hundreds of houses damaged and rattled an idyllic island chain popular with foreign tourists and...
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Five things to do with meat this Eid
Meat and meetings go together on Eidul Azha. As we host and attend hearty suppers, deciding what to put on the table can be a real challenge. While you never want to part with the ‘Kaleji’, ‘Biryani’,...
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Iran holds anti-Saudi protest over hajj stampede deaths
TEHRAN: Iranian authorities organised a demonstration against Saudi Arabia’s management of the annual hajj on Friday as it mourned 131 nationals among 717 pilgrims killed in a crush outside Makkah....
View ArticleSaudi Arabia suggests pilgrims at fault over Hajj deaths, Iran indignant
MINA, SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Arabia, under growing pressure to account for a crush that killed more than 700 people at the Hajj pilgrimage, on Friday suggested pilgrims failing to follow crowd control...
View ArticleAfter years of saving, 105-year-old Pakistani finally performs Hajj
After saving money for almost 15 years, Noor Mohammed, a 105-year-old Pakistani pilgrim, has finally made it to Makkah to perform Hajj. “My repeated failures to perform Hajj did not deter me. I...
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Obama welcomes China’s Xi with tough talk on rights, cyber-theft
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama welcomed China’s Xi Jinping to the White House on Friday with pointed remarks about human rights, cyber espionage and Beijing’s territorial ambitions. Xi arrived...
View ArticleFIFA boss Blatter faces criminal proceedings: Swiss prosecutor
ZURICH: Switzerland’s top prosecutor said Friday that criminal proceedings had been opened against FIFA chief Sepp Blatter, on suspicion that he misapproriated funds and violated his duties as the head...
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Pope takes aim at global economic order at UN
UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES: Pope Francis urged a more humane global system that respects the poor and the environment, as he criticised the economic order, in an address to the United Nations on...
View ArticleIndia, Pakistan troops exchange Eid sweets at LoC
Despite tensions prevailing across the border, Indian and Pakistani soldiers Friday exchanged sweets and dry fruits on the occasion of Eidul Azha at the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir. “The...
View ArticlePakistan complains to UN about India’s plan to build wall along LoC
Pakistan has complained to the UN Security Council (UNSC) about India’s plans to construct a wall along the Line of Control allegedly to convert it “into a quasi-international border”. Pakistan’s...
View ArticleMan who claims he was 15 at time of crime to be hanged
ISLAMABAD: Authorities are set to hang a man who says he was 15 when he was arrested for a murder he claims he did not commit, lawyers said on Saturday, in the latest case to shine a spotlight on...
View ArticleCanada revokes citizenship of convicted terror plotter: report
MONTREAL: The Canadian government has revoked the citizenship of the convicted mastermind of a 2006 al Qaeda inspired plot to detonate bombs in Toronto, a newspaper reported Saturday. Zakaria Amara...
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