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President Gold Cup: Iqbal upsets top seed Meguid to reach final
KARACHI: The President Gold Cup $25,000 International Squash Championship semi-finals on Monday witnessed the ouster of two top-seeded Egyptians, one of whom was defeated by local player Nasir Iqbal as...
View ArticleBenitez suffers first loss as Real boss
MADRID: Real Madrid suffered their first defeat of the season as they squandered a 1-0 lead to lose 3-2 at Sevilla on Sunday.Rafael Benitez’s men are now three points adrift of leaders Barcelona...
View ArticleGoing 2-0 up: Kayes, bowlers give Bangladesh the series
Imrul Kayes scored 76 before the Bangladesh bowlers shared the wickets among themselves to give the hosts an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series against Zimbabwe at the Shere Bangla...
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Tour of Sri Lanka: PCB announces Women’s A team
KARACHI: Quetta’s Nahida Khan has been named Pakistan A’s skipper as the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the Women’s A team for a tour of Sri Lanka.The team will play three one-dayers and T20...
View ArticleFutsal: FFP joins hands with Bradford club
KARACHI: The Futsal Federation of Pakistan (FFP) will work together with the Bradford City Futsal Club to develop a national team for the country and host the squad in the UK.According to FFP Chairman...
View ArticleQuaid-e-Azam Trophy: Taufeeq, Butt and Khalid lift SNGPL
KARACHI: Half-centuries by Taufeeq Umar, Imran Butt and Imran Khalid enabled SNGPL to post 331 on the opening day of their Pool A fixture against Hyderabad at the Niaz Stadium in Quaid-e-Azam Trophy’s...
View ArticleSecond cyclone kills 6 on Yemen island
ADEN: Cyclone Megh has killed six people on war-ravaged Yemen’s Socotra island, the second rare tropical storm to hit the Arabian Peninsula country in a week, an official said on Monday.The latest...
View Article‘Act of terror’ possibly behind Egypt crash: Russian PM
MOSCOW: Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev admitted Monday that a plane crash in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula that killed 224 people was possibly a terrorist attack.“The possibility of an act of terror...
View Article$25,000 President Gold Cup: Iqbal breezes past Harrity to grab title
KARACHI: Pakistan’s Nasir Iqbal took next to no time to claim the $25,000 President Gold Cup International Squash Championship title as he thrashed USA’s Todd Harrity 3-0 in the final at the Mushaf...
View ArticleAmid Juve woes: No new replacements for Old Lady
MILAN: The battle for Serie A supremacy is the closest in years but Juventus sitting nine points off the pace is not enough for the Turin giants’ potential successors.After 12 games, only five points...
View ArticleQuaid-e-Azam Trophy: Adil, Raees reduce Lahore Blues to 36-7
KARACHI: UBL’s Ehsan Adil and Rumman Raees reduced Lahore Blues to 36-7 on the second day of the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy’s third round at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Tuesday.Lahore Blues lost their...
View ArticleUnder pressure: Russia faces possible ban from athletics
GENEVA: Russia could be banned from international athletics, including the 2016 Olympic Games, after an anti-doping commission report on Monday alleged widespread corruption and collusion that added up...
View ArticleRussia working to pierce ‘any missile shield’: Putin
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pledged Russia would build weapons that could pierce any anti-missile shield as he accused the United States and its allies of looking to shackle Moscow’s...
View ArticleLeghari and the making of ‘Jinnah’
“Beware of the Indians and other enemies of Pakistan,” said Farooq Leghari, the president of Pakistan, looking at me straight in the eye. “They will do everything possible to destroy your project. They...
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Is Pakistan out of the woods?
As the year draws to a close, it would be useful to assess the country’s state of overall strengths and weaknesses. Interestingly, around a year and a half ago a high-profile group of former foreign...
View ArticleWhy can’t FATA be a province?
The regions, agencies and tribal communities of the borderlands, the historic Sarhad or the frontier, can and should be converted into a separate province. For that matter, the Gilgit-Baltistan regions...
View ArticleThe anatomy of corruption
No society worth the name condones corruption. But there is no society in this wide world that can legitimately claim to be completely free of corruption. There are societies that seem to be brimming...
View ArticleGoogle Maps guides travellers offline
SAN FRANSICO: Google on Tuesday updated its free map service to guide users of Android-powered smartphones to destinations without relying on internet connections.An offline navigation feature...
View ArticleThe festival of lights : Diwali celebrations kick off
PESHAWAR / ABBOTTABAD: In a very subdued beginning to a very festive occasion, Hindus in the city started Diwali celebrations at their homes on Wednesday. Elders said they visited temples and performed...
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Stolen lyrics: Copyrights infringement hearing fixed for Nov 13
PESHAWAR: Prominent Pashto film actor and petition respondent Jehangir Khan told the court Sultan Mehmood Qalandar’s poem featured as a song in Pashto film Badnaam was censored by Central Board of Film...
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