Women’s World Cup: Canada brace for limelight amid football’s darkest days
EDMONTON: While the wider football world continued to convulse over revelations of FIFA bribery and corruption, Canada took a deep breath and prepared for their moment in the Women’s World Cup...
View ArticleFIFA U20 World Cup Hyped Argentina facing early exit
WELLINGTON: Favourites Argentina were left facing early elimination from the FIFA Under-20 World Cup for the first time in 24 years on Friday, as hosts New Zealand kept their hopes alive. Argentina,...
View ArticleFrench Open: Ill Serena’s 20th Grand Slam bid hangs by a thread
PARIS: Serena Williams plays Lucie Safarova in the French Open final on Saturday and the odds, on paper and also by the statistics, are hugely in the American’s favour. Only the top seed’s fragile...
View ArticlePCB hopeful of hosting Bangladesh, SL next year
KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Shaharyar Khan has stated that the board will be extending invitations to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in hopes of hosting them next year in Pakistan after...
View ArticleThe men’s semi-final: Wawrinka sinks French hopes in Paris
PARIS: Stan Wawrinka shattered French hopes of a first men’s singles champion in 32 years on Friday when he outlasted Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3, 6-7 (1/7), 7-6 (7/3) 6-4 in the first of the semi-finals....
View ArticleFIFA can no longer protect itself, says ex-investigator
LAUSANNE: The US-led investigations into corruption at FIFA have pierced the veil of secrecy that protected football’s top power-brokers and more dominoes can be expected to fall, said a former...
View ArticleDear departed: Justice (retd) Ifitikhar Hussain’s funeral today
LAHORE: Funeral prayers for former Lahore High Court chief justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry will be offered on Sunday at 9am at the DHA’s Y-Block. He will be laid to rest at the local graveyard....
View ArticleRule of law: Case sought against policemen for wrongful detention
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Saturday sought comments from the Nishtar Colony SHO on a petition seeking the registration of a case against some policemen for wrongfully...
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Four policemen killed in Quetta gun attack
QUETTA: Gunmen shot dead four policemen — including a sub-inspector — in a targeted attack in a troubled suburb of the provincial capital on Saturday. The gunmen riding motorcycles pulled up near a...
View ArticlePilot-less US aircraft kills nine in N Waziristan
MIRAMSHAH: Remotely-piloted American aircraft struck in the mountainous Shawal Valley of North Waziristan Agency on Saturday, killing at least nine militants – some of them from the deadliest faction...
View ArticleAcquitted Malala attack suspects still in custody
PESHAWAR: Eight of the 10 men acquitted by a court over the attempted murder of schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai are still being held in custody on other charges, officials said on Saturday. Court...
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Aggressive Dar defends budget as ‘pro-poor’
ISLAMABAD: Faced with virulent criticism from populist journalists over the federal budget for the fiscal 20115-16, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar was aggressively defensive in his post-budget press...
View ArticleAqua Final
KARACHI: One day the only water in Karachi will be at Sea View — but you won’t be able to drink it. That scenario has started to loom apocalyptically close this summer. In a bid to understand the...
View ArticleBillions for counter-terrorism, nothing for Nacta
ISLAMABAD: Despite having allocated tens of billions of rupees to fight the war against terrorism, the federal government hasn’t been able to find any room in its budget for the National...
View ArticleInquiry commission: Nawaz forms three-member committee to defend government
ISLAMABAD: As the inquiry commission probing rigging claims in the May 2013 polls prepares to finalise its report , Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has formed a three-member committee to defend the ruling...
View ArticleShahbaz Qalandar Urs: 17 devotees die on first day of Urs celebrations
SUKKUR / HYDERABAD: Sweltering heat and a road crash claimed the lives of 17 people in Sehwan town of Sindh, as the annual Urs celebrations of 13th century Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar began on...
View ArticleIn need of regulation: Prices soar ahead of Ramazan
ISLAMABAD: With Ramazan around the corner, profit-makers have started to hike prices of some commodities putting consumers in a tight spot. “Though the consumption of some food grains and its...
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School health: ‘Noise from power looms affecting learning at schools’
FAISALABAD: Noise pollution from power looms impedes students’ ability to learn in schools near industrial zones. This was observed by Rabia Qurban Baghdadi, a faculty member of the Department of...
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45 dead in Saudi-led raids on Yemen capital
SANAA: Twenty civilians were among at least 45 people killed in Saudi-led air strikes on the rebel-held armed forces headquarters in the Yemeni capital early on Sunday, a medic said. The raids on the...
View ArticlePersecution of Muslims: Pakistan to mobilise OIC and UN over Rohingya plight
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is going to raise the issue of the persecution of Rohingya Muslims at international forums by mobilising the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), as well as the United...
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