PESHAWAR — Suspected militants riding a motorcycle shot and killed two police officers assigned to protect polio workers during a door-to-door vaccination campaign Tuesday in northwestern Pakistan, officials said. The drive-by shooting in Mohmand, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan, also wounded a third officer. The police officers were traveling to a […]
LAHORE — Pakistan clinched the ODI tri-series title after chasing down a target of 326 runs to defeat Sri Lanka by three wickets in the final at Lahore on Saturday. Fakhar Zaman led Pakistan’s successful chase with a brilliant 127 off 99 balls, smashing 11 fours and six sixes to register his 12th ODI century. […]
KARACHI — An oxygen cylinder exploded inside a parked ambulance at a government-run medical facility in southern Pakistan, killing at least 10 people, including a patient of the facility, police and hospital officials said Thursday. The blast occurred overnight in Tharparkar district in the Sindh province, said district Police Chief Arif Aziz. He said the […]
SRINAGAR — Pakistan pacer Haris Rauf has been reprimanded and fined 20 per cent of his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during Sunday’s ODI against England in Lahore, while the visitors have also been fined for a slow over-rate. Rauf was found guilty of breaching Article 2.2 of the ICC Code […]
CAIRO — High-level delegations from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey were in Tehran on Monday for meetings with Iranian authorities to try to avert renewed fighting in the Iran war. Many in Iran are anxious about a possible return to all-out war. Israeli and American leaders have been sharpening their threats before elections in both […]
PESHAWAR — The roof of a private school collapsed in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least 34 children and a teacher and injuring more than 50 other people in the deadliest incident of its kind in the country, authorities and a hospital official said. The children killed or injured at […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan placed a northern province under emergency rule on Sunday, the president’s office said, following anti-government demonstrations by supporters of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and militant violence in the northwest. Thousands of Khan’s supporters have been marching in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to demand his release and airing anti-government criticism fuelled by […]
ISLAMABAD — Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan have started a long march to Islamabad to demand his release, his party said on Monday, amid deep divisions with the Pakistani leadership. The rally began on Sunday in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which is ruled by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, with […]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, PAKISTAN — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a roadside police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding about 30 others, officials said, in a sign of increasing violence in the region bordering Afghanistan. The attack occurred in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in […]
THE HAGUE — An international tribunal ordered India on Monday to “observe its obligations” under a treaty with Pakistan on the sharing of the Indus and other rivers, which the New Delhi government sought to suspend. The Permanent Court of Arbitration, based in The Hague in the Netherlands, also made an order “prohibiting” India from […]