Welcome to DAWN, Pakistan's most widely circulated English language newspaper
Updated round-the-clock, with a major update before 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
Omar says he thinks Pearl is dead
KARACHI, Feb 14: The prime suspect in the Daniel Pearl kidnapping case, Shaikh Omar Ahmed Saeed, said on Thursday as far as he understood the US journalist was dead....
Ex-governor of Herat arrested
QUETTA, Feb 14: Pakistani border forces arrested a former Taliban commander and governor of Heart, Mullah Khairullah Kahirkhawa, on Thursday from a village near Pak-Afghan border in Chaman....
Congress told poll on schedule
WASHINGTON, Feb 14: President Gen Pervez Musharraf told the US Congress on Thursday “the eyes of all Pakistanis” were fixed on the United States and its support....
Enraged pilgrims kill Afghan minister
DUBAI, Feb 14: Afghan Haj pilgrims, angry over plane delays, attacked and killed Afghanistan’s interim transport minister at Kabul airport on Thursday, Arabic-language al-Jazeera television reported....
Hekmatyar to go home if expelled from Iran
ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar will return to his country and not to Pakistan if he is expelled from Iran, his spokesman said on Thursday....
Deceased Pakistani pilgrims identified
ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: Forty pilgrims, including 37 Pakistanis, travelling by bus from the United Arab Emirates to Makkah for Haj, were killed on Wednesday in a road accident in eastern Saudi...
3 Israelis killed in Gaza blast
TEL AVIV, Feb 14: Three Israelis were killed and two others injured on Thursday night by a blast near an Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip, a military source said....
Washington to revive defence ties
WASHINGTON, Feb 14: US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld indicated that Washington would resume long-lasting military-to-military “strategic relationship” with Islamabad based on discussions the Pakistani president had had at the White...
Three hurt in Indian firing
MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 14: Three people were injured in two different areas of Azad Kashmir on Thursday as Indian troops shelled from across the Line of Control, officials said....
ATCs: SHC admits petition
KARACHI, Feb 14: The Sindh High Court on Thursday admitted a constitutional petition challenging the induction of serving army officers in the proposed anti-terrorism courts....
JUI-F leader arrested
QUETTA, Feb 14: The police arrested Maulana Noor Mohammad, a central leader of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F), here on Thursday evening, official sources confirmed....
Delhi claim
NEW DELHI, Feb 14: The Delhi police on Thursday claimed to have arrested a Pakistan-trained “terrorist” and recovered a large quantity of the powerful RDX explosive from him. Mohammed Hanish Kalish,...
Founder: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Editor: Tahir Mirza
KARACHI, Feb 14: The prime suspect in the Daniel Pearl kidnapping case, Shaikh Omar Ahmed Saeed, said on Thursday as far as he understood the US journalist was dead....
