ISLAMABAD — The government and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will begin second round of dialogue on Thursday (today) afternoon, The News reported. The government and PTI negotiation committees’ in-camera meeting has been rescheduled from 11am to 3:30pm today. As per the spokesperson for the National Assembly, the committee members requested for changing the meeting’s timing. The […]
SYDNEY — Former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson termed India’s inability to travel to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy as “unfortunate” but said the ICC showpiece will offer star batters Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma a chance to liberate themselves from a prolonged form slump. The global governing body has adopted the ‘Hybrid’ model for this […]
KARACHI — The ninth edition of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Champions Trophy, famously known as the Mini World Cup, will be held from February 19 to March 9, 2025, in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Teams have started announcing their squads for the event, and it is expected that the defending champions, […]
ISLAMABAD — An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Tuesday sentenced Gilgit-Baltistan’s former chief minister Khalid Khurshid Khan to 34 years in prison for threatening the region’s security agencies. Cases of sedition and terrorism were registered against Khan following a protest in July 2024, where he was accused of delivering a threatening speech. The Anti-Terrorism Court […]
NEW YORK — The PTI will start a campaign for the release of its leader Imran Khan on the oath-taking of US President-elect Donald Trump in Washington on January 20. According to sources, the party will hire trucks and use pictures and videos for propaganda against alleged human rights violations in Pakistan and the state […]
RAWALPINDI — Aleema Khan, the sister of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, said that the former prime minister has refused to strike any deal, asking “why he would enter any deal when he has already spent one-and-a-half years” in prison. “The PTI founder said that his cases have been wrapped up and he was […]
ISLAMABAD — At least 18 people were killed and 37 sustained injuries in two separate traffic accidents on Monday, including a bus overturning incident near Punjab’s Fateh Jang and a collision between a wedding van and trawler in Sindh’s Naushahro Feroze. 11 people, including six women and five men, were killed after a bus met […]
NEW DELHI — Notwithstanding the economic issues faced by it back home, the Pakistan Army is fully backing the militant infrastructure as 60 per cent of militants killed in Jammu and Kashmir this year were Pakistanis. The local recruitment of militants in the Pakistan-sponsored terror groups ia also very low as only four locals have […]
LAHORE — Pakistan’s star batter Babar Azam has been named among the nominees for the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year Award. Babar, who currently is the top-ranked one-day international (ODI) batter and is at the sixth spot on the T20I rankings, is nominated alongside India’s Arshdeep Singh, Australia’s Travis Head […]
LAHORE — Mumbai attacks alleged mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s brother-in-law and banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa deputy chief Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki died of heart attack here on Friday. According to the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), Prof Abdul Rahman Makki had been ill for the past few days and was undergoing treatment following high diabetes at a private hospital in Lahore. […]