At least 19 killed in avalanche on Afghan-Pakistan border on February 7, 2022At least 19 people were killed by an avalanche on Monday while crossing a remote mountain pass from Afghanistan to Pakistan, a Taliban official said. Scores of Afghans cross illegally to Pakistan every day through the porous mountain border in search of jobs or to buy essential goods for trade. Najibullah Hassan Abdal, head of […]
Rohit plots steady course for India-Windies series on February 5, 2022India captain Rohit Sharma on Saturday ruled out drastic team changes in the wake of Virat Kohli’s departure as skipper ahead of the hosts’ 1,000th one-day international against the West Indies. Rohit begins his tenure as full-time ODI captain in Ahmedabad on Sunday for the first of three matches after replacing Kohli. A hamstring injury ruled out […]
Taliban fighters pepper spray women protesters calling for rights on January 16, 2022KABUL: Taliban forces on Sunday fired pepper spray at a group of women protesters in Afghanistan’s capital demanding rights to work and education, three demonstrators told AFP. Since seizing control of the country by force in August, the Taliban authorities have imposed creeping restrictions on Afghans, especially on women. Around 20 women gathered in front of […]
NAB’s case against Zardari not according to law, remarks CJ Minallah on December 14, 2021On Tuesday, the Islamabad High Court has disregarded the NAB’s reference against former president and PPP Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari declaring it ultra vires while directing the bureau to make a new reference, Daily Times reported. Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Amir Farooq heard a petition filed by Mr. Zardari seeking […]
Pakistani woman abused by a UK civil servant in mortgage case inquiry on December 4, 2021ISLAMABAD/LONDON: In the UK’s biggest mortgage fraud probe, a Senior UK civil servant working for Serious Fraud Office (SFO) made a British Pakistani woman a target of verbal abuse, and also insulted another ethnic female lawyer calling her a “dog”. The senior civil servant Jonathan Francis McGarry a lead lawyer within the Proceeds of Crime […]
India announces first two cases of Omicron variant on December 2, 2021India announced its first two cases of the highly infectious Omicron Covid variant on Thursday, months after a devastating wave of the virus killed more than 200,000 people around the country. Top health ministry official Luv Agarwal said two men in southern Karnataka state, aged 66 and 46, had tested positive for the variant. “As […]
Pakistan to host OIC summit on Afghanistan on November 30, 2021Pakistan has offered to host a summit of foreign ministers from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) next month to address the looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said. The United Nations has repeatedly warned that Afghanistan is on the brink of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, and Qureshi said the […]
Nisar Afzal gets clean chit as SFO ends 15-year pursuit of fraud case on November 28, 2021The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) decided to end the high profile 15-year-long pursuit of British Pakistani businessman Nisar Afzal after concluding that the investigation involving £50 million mortgage fraud no longer met the test of prosecution as defined in the Code for Crown Prosecutors because there was not enough evidence against Nisar Afzal to prosecute […]
Italy bans visitors from southern Africa over new Covid variant on November 26, 2021Italy said Friday it was banning entry to those who have been in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, or Swaziland in the past fortnight due to fears over a new coronavirus variant. Health Minister Roberto Speranza said scientists were studying the new B.1.1.529 variant, “and in the meantime, we will follow the path […]
Shaheen Afridi fined for throwing ball at Bangladesh’s Afif on November 21, 2021Pakistan fast bowler Shaheen Afridi was fined 15 percent of his match fee on Sunday for throwing a ball at Afif Hossain of Bangladesh during a T20 encounter in Dhaka. The incident occurred during the third over of Bangladesh’s innings, when Afridi fielded the ball on his follow-through and threw it at Afif, hitting him […]