BAGHDAD: Rights group Amnesty International called on Monday for the release of a Yazidi woman detained by Iraqi Kurdish authorities for nearly two years following her escape from Daesh enslavement. Bassema Darwish, a 34-year-old mother, has been held without trial since October 2014 on charges of...
ISTANBUL: An explosion rocked the eastern Turkish city of Van on Monday, leaving several people wounded, state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The blast took place in the heart of the bustling city centre, between the ruling AKP´s offices and those of the governor, Anadolu added, without giving ...
MAKKAH: The annual ceremony to change Ghilaf-e-Kaaba (Kiswa) was held today at the Grand Mosque where 1.5 million Muslims have gathered to perform Hajj. A Kiswa consumes about 700 kg of silk and 120 kg of golden and silver threads. It consists of 47 pieces of cloth, and each piece is 14 meters lo...
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Sunday said that there was no space for extremism in the country envisioned by Father of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. “It is the firm resolve of the present democratic government that we would leave no stone unturned to make Pakistan the Quaid...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Saturday urged Americans to remain united in the face of terrorist attacks, in a barely-veiled jab at Republican White House nominee Donald Trump 15 years after 9/11. "In the face of terrorism, how we respond matters," Obama said in his weekly radio ...
MUMBAI: In the first ten minutes of Sohail Khan’s “Freaky Ali”, the protagonist plays in a colony cricket match and hits sixes at will. In the final moments of the film during a crucial match, he tells a friend, “chakka maarta hoon” (I’m going to hit a six). You’d be forgiven for thinking this was ...
MONTREAL: Global airport traffic grew at its fastest rate last year since 2010, rising 6.4 percent to 7.2 billion passengers, according to data published on Friday by an international trade association representing airports. But passenger growth this year could be tempered by the threat of militan...
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehrik-e-insaf Chairman Imran Khan on Friday expressed his resolve to lead a protest march into Raiwind, the home town of country’s ruling family, before Muharram. Addressing a press conference, Khan said though the tentative date for the protest march was September 24, the PTI ...
PESHAWAR: The police claimed to have foiled a terror bid and arrested a suspected person besides recovering a bomb from his possession in Peshawar. The police conducted snap checking of suspected person near Machni gate on Friday morning and recovered a homemade bomb from his bag while his accompl...
LONDON: A clash between supposedly the two most expensive lineups in history overseen by two of the most decorated coaches will end the phoney war and ignite the Premier League season for real when Manchester United host Manchester City on Saturday. Jose Mourinho's United and City, under the comma...
KABUL: An explosion went off in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday as crowds gathered to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Masoud, a leader of the fight against Soviet forces in the 1980s and an enemy of the Taliban in the 1990s. The blast, which came at a time of hei...
MAKKAH: Despite being emotionally scarred by the death of two childhood friends during last year´s hajj stampede, Muhammad Sani has still returned to Saudi Arabia for another pilgrimage. The Nigerian pharmacist, 46, says his faith remains unshaken even after the deaths of at least 2,297 pilgrims d...
LAHORE: A local court in Lahore has decided in favour of prominent singer Humaira Arshad in the child custody case. In a short order, the court directed Ahmad Butt, former husband of Humaira, for handing over the son temporary to mother till September 23. The final decision would be pronounced aft...
VIENTIANE: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to personally tear apart and eat Abu Sayyaf militants, in a bloodthirsty vow of revenge for deadly attacks. "They will pay. When the time comes, I will eat you in front of people," Duterte told an audience of Filipinos late on Mon...
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, Imran Khan said the founder of MQM in collaboration with India’s spy agency RAW destablised the metropolis. Speaking to the media in Karachi on Tuesday, Khan said MQM’s founder had damaged the city. “The type of language used by Altaf Hussain that...
KABUL: A Taliban suicide attack near the defence ministry in Kabul killed at least 24 people on Monday, including a number of senior security officials, and wounded 91 others, officials said. Two blasts in quick succession hit a crowded area of the city near government buildings, a market and a ma...
ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday notified three public holidays for Eidul Azha that would be celebrated on September, 13. According to a notification issued by the ministry of interior, September, 12, 13 and 14 would be public holidays. Eidul Azha commemorates the willingness of Hazrat Ibrahim...
CAPE TOWN: Cricket South Africa (CSA) have put in place racial quotas for the national team across all three formats of the game in an effort to increase the number of black players in a sport still dominated by whites. CSA have sought an average minimum of six Black players, of which two must be ...
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid on Saturday said PTI rally in Lahore inflicted loss of Rs4 billion on local business. Addressing a press conference, he said Metro Bus Service remained suspended in Rawalpindi due to Tahirul Qadri’s rally in Rawalpindi. He said the government spent mi...
QUETTA: Another patient, suffering from Congo virus died in Fatima Jinnah Hospital Quetta on Friday, raising death toll to 10 in Balochistan. Deceased Rehmat Ullah, hailing from Quetta, was admitted in the isolation ward of the facility on August 27 and he diagnosed with Congo virus two days back....
KARACHI: Two American climbers have gone missing in Pakistan while attempting to climb a mountain, and bad weather was preventing a rescue, the Alpine Club of Pakistan said on Thursday. The climbers, Kyle Dempster and Scott Adamson, were attempting to summit the 6,960-metre (22,835-feet) Ogre-II p...
KARACHI: Sindh government has decided to transfer murder case of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) leader Khalid Mahmood Soomro to a military court. Chief Minister Sindh, Syed Murad Ali Shah has signed the summary of sending the case to the military court. Advisor to CM Sindh on Law, Barrister Murtaza ...
