RAWALPINDI (AP) — Captain Babar Azam matched the aggression of England batters on a lifeless wicket with his eighth test hundred and led Pakistan to 411-3 at tea on the third day of the first test on Saturday. Babar became the seventh batter to rack up a century in England […]
TEHRAN:President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday hailed Iran’s Islamic Republic as a guarantor of rights and freedoms, defending the ruling system amid a crackdown on anti-government protests that the United Nations says has cost more than 300 lives. A top state security body, meanwhile, said that 200 people, including members of […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS- PTI Chief Imran Khan has that he had hoped the new military leadership would have “immediately disassociated” itself from the eight months of the previous army chief’s “action against the PTI” as he criticised the arrest of party Senator Azam Swati. Condemning the “vindictive” treatment of the senator […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: The board of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) has approved the inclusion of the transgender community as beneficiaries of the Benazir Kafalat Programme (BKP), it emerged on Friday. In the 56th Board of Directors meeting chaired by federal Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety and BISP Chairman […]
By M Haroon Abbas 100 years ago, Australian superstar Dame Nellie Melba sang ‘Home Sweet Home’ into a microphone & made history. The world’s 1st live public entertainment broadcast came from a Marconi studio in Chelmsford. Nellie’s voice was heard by radio enthusiasts around the World, given there was little […]
LAHORE: Pervaiz Elahi Chief Minister has signed the summary to dissolve the Punjab Assembly and handed it over to former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Friday. PTI Chairman Imran Khan revealed, While, talking to a parliamentarian group via video link from his Lahore Zaman Park […]
Regulators must step in to protect crypto investors after the collapse of FTX, financial industry executives and lawmakers said at the Reuters NEXT conference this week, the latest call for tougher oversight of a sector prone to meltdowns. Policymakers have for years highlighted the need for effective rules on the […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A US judge on Friday dismissed an indictment against Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co , formally ending a criminal sanctions case that strained U.S.-China relations. Meng, whose father Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei and is the telecommunications company’s chief executive, entered an […]
KABUL – Two suicide bombers disguised as burqa-clad women were killed as they tried to storm the headquarters of an Afghan political party in Kabul Friday, its veteran leader said. Hekmatyar is regarded as a political survivor in Afghanistan, having fought against the Soviet occupation, the Taliban’s first stint in […]
