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)
NA calls for UN probe into BB’s assassination
ISLAMABAD, April 14: The National Assembly asked the government on Monday to approach the United Nations to get former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination investigated by an international commission, on the...
Gilani for balance between president and parliament
ISLAMABAD, April 14: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Monday the government would take measures to redress the balance between the powers of the president and the parliament....
Multan rocked by power riots
MULTAN, April 14: At least 58 people were injured and two offices of the Multan Electric Supply Corporation and one of Nadra, a bank branch and several vehicles, including a police...
Time running out to avert food crisis: WB
WASHINGTON, April 14: The president of the World Bank has warned that developing nations cannot wait till the next G-8 meeting in June for help to deal with a food crisis which is threatening to spread chaos across the globe....
Seven banks fined for acting like cartel
ISLAMABAD, April 14: Seven major banks and the Pakistan Banking Association (PBA) have been fined a total of Rs205 million by the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) for operating ‘like a cartel’ to fleece depositors....
10 million energy savers to be distributed free
ISLAMABAD, April 14: The Pakistan Electric Power Company (Pepco) will distribute 10 million energy-saver tubes and bulbs among consumers free of cost in order to save electricity in an effort to tide over the power crisis in the country....
Election for 38 seats to be held on June 3
ISLAMABAD, April 14: The Election Commission announced on Monday that elections for 38 vacant seats of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies will be held on June 3....
Political cases to be withdrawn: Shahbaz
LAHORE, April 14: Pakistan Muslim League-N president Mian Shahbaz Sharif announced on Monday that all political cases would be withdrawn and said that revolutionary steps would be taken to improve education and health sectors in Punjab....
Musharraf vows tight security for Olympic torch relay
BEIJING, April 14: President Pervez Musharraf on Monday condemned protests that have marred the Beijing Olympic torch relay and vowed to maintain security when the flame arrives in Pakistan this week....
Crucial coalition talks on judges issue tomorrow
ISLAMABAD, April 14: Law Minister Farooq H. Naek has said that the heads of the ruling coalition parties will decide on Wednesday whether the issue of reinstatement of deposed judges should...
Gas projects talks with India on 23rd
NEW DELHI, April 14: Senior oil officials from India and Pakistan, led by their ministers, are to hold two days of talks in Islamabad next week on the Turkmenistan gas pipeline...
LNG import from Qatar sought
ISLAMABAD, April 14: Pakistan has asked Qatar to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Sui Southern Gas Company Limited to help the country tide over the energy crisis....
Chinese help for dam in AJK spurs India response
NEW DELHI, April 14: India said on Monday that it would expedite the strategically important but disputed Kishanganga hydro project in Jammu and Kashmir on a tributary of the Jhelum river...
Blast case convict to be hanged six times
QUETTA, April 14: An anti-terrorism court on Monday sentenced a man to death and ordered that he be hanged six times after finding him guilty in a case of bomb blast...
FIA not keen on organ trade probe
ISLAMABAD, April 14: The Federal Investigation Agency has declined to provide help to the Human Organs Transplant Authority (HOTA) in looking into unethical human organs trade, citing jurisdictional restrictions....
Bangladesh, India revive train service after 40 years
ON BOARD THE FRIENDSHIP EXPRESS (India-Bangladesh), April 14: Huge crowds of cheering people lined the railway tracks on the border between India and Bangladesh on Monday as passenger train services between...
Taliban, Al Qaeda can be ‘squeezed’, says Boucher
KABUL, April 14: Al Qaeda and Taliban militants on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border are increasingly facing pressure on two fronts and they can be squeezed with more coordination between the neighbours, a US official said on Monday....
Landmine kills Wapda worker
QUETTA, April 14: A man was killed and four others were injured in a landmine explosion in Mastung on Monday....
Founder: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Editor: Abbas Nasir
MULTAN, April 14: At least 58 people were injured and two offices of the Multan Electric Supply Corporation and one of Nadra, a bank branch and several vehicles, including a police...
ON BOARD THE FRIENDSHIP EXPRESS (India-Bangladesh), April 14: Huge crowds of cheering people lined the railway tracks on the border between India and Bangladesh on Monday as passenger train services between...
