First level defending champion Novak Djokovic said "life goes on" after a shoulder injury forced him to abandon Sunday's clash with Stan Wawrinka in the last 16 of the US Open. Wawrinka, the 23rd champion and 2016 champion, led Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 2-1 when the Serb resigned with a persistent left shoulder problem that had […]
Hong Kong students made human chains in schools early Monday and protesters interrupted the trains at peak times when the city's pro-democratic movement returned to action after a weekend that brought the worst violence in three months of anti-government protests. The global financial center is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis, as a movement
NEW DELHI: Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the Modi government on Sunday to reject his revenge policy, which he blamed as a factor in India's worrying economic outlook. In a recorded message to Prime Minister Narenda Modi, she said that the 5 percent growth in India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) signaled a prolonged
PESHAWAR: Dengue hemorrhagic fever is spreading rapidly, as 1,200 cases have been confirmed during the last 25 days from rural areas in the Peshawar district due mainly to the lack of coordinated efforts by line departments to ensure cleaning, water supply, electricity, fumigation and raising public awareness about preventive measures. The health department issued a
QUETTA: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Sania Nishtar has sought the federal government's association with the provincial governments for the success of Pakistan's flagship program Tehreek-i-Insaf Ehsaas. She visited the capitals of Balochistan and Sindh on Sunday and during meetings with representatives of the two provinces informed
BEIJING: A Pakistani businessman, along with three other foreigners, received the first work visa valid for five years by the administration of the Chinese city of Yiwu in Zhejiang Province. Mohammad Arif and three citizens of Afghanistan, Jordan and Iraq were the first lot that received the First Class work permit from the Administration of
ISLAMABAD: The Vice President of the National Assembly, Qasim Khan Suri, raised on Sunday the cause of Kashmir at the summit of the Sustainable Development Goals and informed its participants about the uncontrollable steps and atrocities committed by the Indian government against innocent people of Kashmir stopped. Members of the Indian delegation at the summit
MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi urged the opposition to participate in activities planned by the government to express solidarity with the people of Kashmir, controlled by India. "The opposition that did not register its protest [against Indian atrocities in the held valley] last Friday I should do it this Friday [during the weekly Kashmir
ISLAMABAD: Stakeholders of the missing Pakistan Steel Mills have alerted Prime Minister Imran Khan about deliberate delays over interests created in the revival or sale of the country's largest industrial complex that has been bleeding for more than a decade. Composed of employees, pensioners, suppliers, distributors and contractors, the PSM Stakeholder Group (PSMSG) said it
KARACHI: The Mutumiida Qaumi-Pakistan Movement (MQM-P) has expressed concern about the proposed changes in the accountability law and hopes that it will not aim to provide assistance to corrupt elements. Concern was expressed at a meeting of the party coordination committee held on Sunday at the temporary headquarters in the Bahadurabad area of Karachi. Efforts
