KARACHI: A hitter from Sri Lanka strikes during a practice session at the National Stadium on Sunday, before the second one-day International against Pakistan. – Tahir Jamal / White Star KARACHI: After the long-awaited First International Day in Karachi fell prey to heavy rains, the scene is now set for Pakistan and Sri Lanka to […]
Kabul: Saifullah Safi shows the inked finger next to the cut finger on Saturday in this image obtained from social networks. KABUL: The Taliban cut Safiullah Safi's right index finger to vote in 2014. That didn't stop the businessman from doing it again. Safi's defiance in the 2019 presidential elections in Afghanistan on Saturday aroused
NEW YORK: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Friday that, despite UN resolutions on Jammu and Kahsmir, the territory has been invaded and occupied. “There may be reasons for this action, but it is still wrong. The problem must be solved by peaceful means. India should work with Pakistan to solve this problem, ”he said
KARACHI: Opening batter Imam-ul-Haq believes that Pakistan fans will never accept him for what he is, instead of him hitting the great nephew of former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq. Left-handed Imam said he had reached the Pakistan team through hard work instead of accusations of nepotism directed at him. "I don't think it changes unfortunately," Imam said.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is regaining its participation in the Afghan transit trade as cargo flow increased 43.95 percent to 93,732 containers in 2018-19 from 60,516 containers in the previous year, official data showed. The assessed import value of transit loads also grew a robust 54.88pc to $ 5,715 billion in 2018-19 from $ 3.97 billion a
NEW YORK: The United States did not object to allowing Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed to withdraw some money from his frozen accounts because it is legal to do so, says a senior US official. Last month, the UN Security Council sanctions committee (UNSC) allowed Pakistan to allow the JuD leader to use his
WASHINGTON: Democrats aggressively accused President Donald Trump of an impeachment investigation on Friday, ordering Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to hand over documents related to Ukraine and schedule testimony for witnesses of alleged abuses of power by the US leader. Three House committees gave Pompeo a week to produce the documents, saying that several State
NEW YORK: Prime Minister Imran Khan's commitment to prevent cross-border terrorism, if implemented, would provide a solid basis for the dialogue between India and Pakistan, says a senior US official. At a press conference on Friday afternoon in New York, the Acting Assistant Secretary of State, Alice G. Wells, enunciated the offers of the president
KABUL: Millions of Afghans are expected to face the threat of militant attacks to vote in a presidential election on Saturday, hoping to avoid repeating a bitter, fraudulent and ultimately unresolved poll in 2014. About a dozen candidates are in the fray for the presidency, but current President Ashraf Ghani and its executive director Abdullah
SRINAGAR: Few people leave Anchar, a neighborhood surrounded by barricades of steel and barbed wire in occupied Kashmir, where police have imposed a week-long repression to quell protests. The densely populated area of the working class in Srinagar is a bag of resistance to the removal of India last month of special status for Jammu
