LAHORE — Australian great Ricky Ponting has said that the Pakistan team is a strong contender to make it to the final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Speaking to journalist Sanjana Ganesan alongside Ravi Shastri in a bumper episode of The ICC Review on Saturday, the two cricket greats predicted that India and Australia […]
LAHORE — Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Saturday urged the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to abandon its plan to stage a protest in Lahore on February 8, warning that any public gathering would be dealt with in the same manner as on November 26. His remarks come as the opposition party launches a massive drive […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff Gen Syed Asim Munir visited Balochistan on Saturday amid clashes in the restive province in which 18 security personnel and 23 terrorists have been killed in the last 24 hours, according to a media report. The army chief was given a comprehensive brief on the prevailing security situation […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan former captain Rashid Latif has called the squad picked for the upcoming Champions Trophy 2025 as “a political selection” and played the national selection committee for making a few surprise decisions. In the squad announced on Friday, all-rounder Faheem Ashraf staged a comeback after two years on the sidelines. He was surprisingly […]
ISLAMABAD — Ahead of his party’s planned protest on February 8, jailed former prime minister Imran Khan has urged the Supreme Court to exercise its constitutional authority to safeguard the fundamental rights of the people of Pakistan. In a letter addressed to Chief Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Aminuddin, Khan highlighted the alleged human rights […]
LAHORE — Pakistan selectors want their premier batsman Babar Azam to open in the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy, a thought inspired by the success legendary Sachin Tendulkar had after shifting to the pole position from middle-order. The Indian batting maestro started opening the innings after playing 69 matches down the order, and his first match […]
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani government has officially ended its negotiation process with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party after PTI withdrew from the talks and rejected a renewed offer by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Express News reported. Senator Irfan Siddiqui, the spokesperson for the government’s negotiation committee and a leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), […]
PESHAWAR — Pakistan Security forces have killed at least 10 terrorists in five separate operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Friday. According to a statement issued by the military’s media wing, an intelligence-based operation (IBO) was conducted in general area of Khulachi in Dera Ismail Khan district. “During the conduct of […]
JAMMU — A Pakistan-occupied Kashmir resident, who had inadvertently intruded into this side recently, was handed over to the Pakistan Army along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday, officials said. The mentally unstable man, 32-year-old Mohammad Yasir Faiz is a resident of Tetrinote village in PoK. He was […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi on Friday confirmed that newly renovated Gaddafi Stadium Lahore and National Stadium Karachi would be inaugurated on February 7 and February 11, respectively ahead of the highly-anticipated ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025. “Lahore stadium is going to be inaugurated on February 7, God willing,” Naqvi told […]
