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Major victory for women as Iran allows them to attend top league matches in stadium

Iran: Iran will see the return of female spectators to the stadiums for the top league games this year, the country's football boss said, marking a major victory for women against the long-standing ban on attending football matches.  The country...

Pakistani trio beats South Korea to clinch Gamers8 Tekken 7 Nations Cup in Saudi Arabia

Riyadh: A Pakistani videogaming trio on yesterday won the Gamers8 Tekken 7 Nations Cup in Saudi Arabia with a 3-2 win over South Korea. The tournament was organised by the Saudi Esports Federation in Riyadh from July 6-9 with a total prize pool of $1...

World Cup 2023: PM's aide says national team should be allowed to tour India

Islamabad: As Pakistan's participation in the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 hangs in balance, Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) on Interior and Legal Affairs Ata Tarar has said the national team should be allowed to visit India for the me...

Pak vs SL: Shaheens reach Colombo ahead of two-match series

Colombo: Ahead of the much-anticipated two-match Test series against Sri Lanka, the Pakistan national side landed in the country's capital Colombo yesterday. The Men in Green are scheduled to travel to Hambantota tomorrow to play a two-day warm-up ma...

England seal thrilling win in third test to keep Ashes alive

Headingley: Harry Brook's aggressive 75 trumped Mitchell Starc's five-wicket haul in a thrilling fourth day at Headingley that saw England record a tense win to keep the series alive at 2-1. England kept a raging Mitchell Starc at bay to pull one bac...

PCB bars Pakistan cricketers from attending Haris Rauf’s wedding

Islamabad: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has stopped the national cricketers from attending Haris Rauf's wedding in Islamabad. According to the PCB spokesperson, the board has stopped the players from traveling to Islamabad due to unfavorable weat...

Dominant Sri Lanka thumps West Indies in CWC Qualifier

HARARE: Maheesh Theekshana’s astonishing figures of 4/34, followed by Pathum Nissanka’s century powered Sri Lanka to crush West Indies by eight wickets in the Cricket World Cup (CWC) Qualifier. Set to chase a modest 244-run target, Pathum...

Iraq’s militias: Double the size, double the money, double the threat

Mushrooming funding for the Tehran-backed Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi paramilitary movement in Iraq has almost doubled their size to 238,000 personnel and nearly $3 billion of the budget, according to the Iraqi parliament’s finance committee. When the H...

Bowlers-led Sri Lanka crush Scotland in CWC Qualifier

BULAWAYO: Sri Lankan bowlers put on a scintillating show and defended a modest total to muscle their side to a resounding 82-run victory over Scotland in the 19th match of the Cricket World Cup (CWC) Qualifier on Tuesday. Put into bat first, the Sri...

Ashleigh Gardner gives Australia women’s Ashes win over England

Trent Bridge: Ashleigh Gardner took eight wickets in England’s second innings as Australia’s women secured victory in the one-off Ashes Test match by 89 runs yesterday. Chasing the highest run chase in women’s test history of 268 to...

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Police registers case against TLP leadership, workers under terrorism charges

LAHORE: At least five people, including a police officer, three Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) workers, and a passerby, were killed as law enforcement agencies carried out a major pre-dawn operation in Muridke on Monday to disperse what officials d...

PM Shehbaz lauds Trump as 'man of peace'

EGYPT: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday described US President Donald Trump as a "genuine man of peace", who had worked relentlessly and untiringly to end global conflicts, including the war in Gaza. Standing with the US president and other gl...

SSP Central and Community Police meet to discuss new security measures

KARACHI: SSP District Central Zeeshan Shafiq Siddiqui met with officials of Community Police Karachi (CPK) Nazimabad at his office yesterday. The meeting was attended by CPK Chief Aqeeq Iqbal, Deputy Chief Hammad, and other representatives. During th...

Pakistani youth to get training in IT skills

ISLAMABAD: If you’re an engineer completing your four-year bachelor's programme and enter the industry, companies are frustrated you have no experience. But now, Huawei and the Pakistan government are trying to fill this gap by training 300,000...
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