A record-breaking goal from Olivier Giroud just before half-time and two stunning finishes from Kylian Mbappe at Doha’s Al Thumama Stadium on Sunday evening proved enough for Didier Deschamps’ men to......
Unicef’s Regional Director for South Asia George Laryea-Adjei on Sunday said the polio programme in Pakistan was back on track, expressing hope that the crippling disease will be eradicated from the......
Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Bahrain on Sunday on the first trip by an Israeli head of state to the small Gulf kingdom, following the normalisation of relations in 2020.Herzog, whose role......
Days after his son Moonis Elahi made a similar statement, Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi on Sunday said that former army chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa had nudged the PML-Q to support the......
Cities across Sindh came alive with colour and music on Sunday amid Culture Day festivities, as large jubilant crowds wearing traditional caps and Ajrak shawls poured into the streets.In Karachi and......
Indonesia’s Mount Semeru erupted on Sunday spewing hot ash clouds a mile into the sky and sending rivers of lava down its side, sparking the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people exactly one year after......
Iran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the death-in-custody of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country’s strict female dress code, local......
More Chinese cities including Urumqi in the far west announced an easing of coronavirus curbs on Sunday as China tries to make its zero-Covid policy more targeted and less onerous after unprecedented......
Iran on Sunday put to death four people accused of working with Israel’s intelligence service, the judiciary said.“This morning, the sentences of four main members of the gang of mobsters related to......
• Withdraws ‘proposal’ to sit with PDM, says suggestion was made in view of national interest • Says assemblies’ scuttling can be delayed if polls are called by end of March • Tells PTI lawmakers all......
A district court in Quetta remanded PTI Senator Azam Swati in police custody for five days on Sunday, a week after the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested him in Islamabad in a case......
A day after PTI chairman Imran Khan walked back his offer for talks with the government for snap polls, party leader Fawad Chaudhry said that the ex-premier “has directed [provincial] assembly......
Pakistan were dismissed for 579 on Sunday on the fourth day of the opening Test in Rawalpindi, conceding a first innings lead of 78 to England.Resuming at 499-7, Pakistan added 80 runs to close the......
The Foreign Office (FO) said on Sunday that it was “verifying the veracity of reports” regarding the militant Islamic State group claiming responsibility for the attack on Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul......
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday said the that Sindh government was ready to serve differently-abled people in every way and shall cooperate with every department,......
KHYBER: Over 50 participants of the 13th Vintage and Classic Car Rally reached the Khyber Pass here on Saturday.A convoy of 55 cars, including Mercedes, Ford, Chevrolet and Volkswagen models of 1930......
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar police have informed the deputy speaker of the provincial assembly about their plans to arrest MPA of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Haji Fazal Elahi for protesting......
KYIV: Ukraine has detained eight people over the theft from a wall in the Kyiv suburbs of a mural painted by elusive British street artist Banksy, the authorities said.The stencil image of a person......
LAHORE: Government College University (GCU) Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Asghar Zaidi called on former prime minister Imran Khan at Zaman Park here on Saturday and announced to rename the Mass......
NEW ORLEANS: President Emmanuel Macron on Friday visited New Orleans, a city emblematic of historic Franco-American ties, to promote the French language and conclude his state visit to the United......
ISLAMABAD: At a policy dialogue held by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and Potohar Mental Health Association (PMHA), activists have called for “robust legal and administrative......
ISTANBUL: A Turkish court on Saturday jailed a convicted member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) a day after Sweden extradited him, state media reported.After Russia invaded Ukraine,......
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) has warned that the country’s health delivery system is already in shambles and a shortage of medicines due to the non-opening of letters of credit......
KARACHI: Overall vegetable exports swelled by 90 per cent in quantity and 57pc in value during the first four months of the current fiscal year thanks to brisk potato shipments that have offset the......
THERE are suggestions that the new army chief has ordered a reorientation of the Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate policy in what could be the fifth such change since Gen Ziaul Haq perished......
SEOUL: South Korea on Saturday arrested a former national security chief on suspicion of covering up events surrounding the 2020 murder of a fisheries official by Pyongyang.President Yoon Suk-yeol is......
BANGKOK: The Myanmar junta handed out at least seven more death sentences this week, taking the tally of those on death row to 139, according to the United Nations.A junta spokesperson did not......
THE banned TTP’s formal announcement to call off a ceasefire it had agreed to with the government a few months ago requires an immediate and convincing response from the political and military......
MANAMA: The US Navy said on Saturday it had seized one million rounds of ammunition along with rocket fuses and propellant being smuggled on a fishing trawler from Iran to war-torn Yemen.The cargo......
TEHRAN: Iran said on Saturday it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as it struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code.Protests......
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Saturday regretted the treatment meted out to teachers by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government by discontinuing their conveyance allowance during summer and winter......
VINCENT Aboubakar didn’t even break stride. The timing of his run perfect, a little hop saw him get the connection with his head that sent Cameroon dancing with joy under the stars in Lusail, the......
DOHA: John Stones has warned England to treat Senegal with respect in Sunday’s World Cup last-16 clash as Gareth Southgate’s side aim to avoid becoming the latest title contender to suffer a shock......
DOHA: Poland coach Czeslaw Michniewicz believes his side can go on to lift the World Cup trophy in Qatar if they get past defending champions France in their last 16 tie on Sunday.The Poles reached......
DOHA: Argentina moved into the quarter-finals of World Cup on Saturday with a 2-1 win over Australia which set up a last-eight clash with the Netherlands.Lionel Messi scored his first-ever goal in a......
LAHORE: The governments of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa came down hard on the federal government on Saturday over the “ongoing financial crisis”, alleging that the Centre had withheld provincial......
DOHA: World Cup favourites Brazil are racing to overcome injuries to key players as they prepare for their last 16 match against South Korea on Monday, after a heavily changed side lost 1-0 to......
MUZAFFARABAD: The ruling PTI in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) beat its opponents in Bagh and Sudhnoti districts and trailed behind them in Poonch and Haveli districts of Poonch division where polling......
A SPECTACULAR light show opened the round of 16 of the World Cup in Qatar. And 10 minutes later, a spectacularly-worked team goal gave the Netherlands the lead against the United States before they......
LAHORE: The PML-N senior leadership on Saturday seemed confident of the fact that the military establishment would not intervene to secure a closer date for fresh elections, as the Pakistan......
• Withdraws ‘proposal’ to sit with PDM, says suggestion was made in view of national interest • Says assemblies’ scuttling can be delayed if polls are called by end of March • Tells PTI lawmakers all......
THERE are suggestions that the new army chief has ordered a reorientation of the Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate policy in what could be the fifth such change since Gen Ziaul Haq perished......
THE pace of climate change impact is outstripping efforts being made at the global level to reduce the rate of planetary warming. This disconnect is symptomatic of a deeper malaise of the dangerous......
A terrorist commander named Muhammad Noor was killed during an intense exchange of fire with troops in the Shewa area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, the army’s media wing said on......
