Tag Archives: Pakistan

Maulana Samiul Haq, a former Pakistani Senator more widely known as the “Father of Taliban”, was stabbed to death on Friday while resting in his room in Rawalpindi city, his family said. The influential religious leader’s son Maulana Hamidul Haq …

Radical Islamist groups protested on Wednesday in a number of Pakistan cities against the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the death sentence of Christian woman Asia Bibi, who had been convicted in 2010 of blasphemy. The top court acquitted Asia …

Hosts India will face South Africa in the opening game of the Deaf ICC Twenty20 World Cup, starting November 26, it was announced on Wednesday. The World Cup will see the participation of teams from as many as seven countries …

Indian and Pakistan were declared as the joint winners of the 5th Men’s Hero Asian Champions Trophy Muscat 2018 hockey tournament after the final was abandoned due to bad weather conditions here on Sunday. India were looking to defend their …

Two men have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a suspected sexual assault of a Sikh teenage girl inside an ambulance in Pakistan’s Punjab province, Dawn newspaper reported on Monday. The 15-year-old girl, said to be mentally unstable, had …

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Saturday reinstated a ban on the transmission of Indian content on local television channels, setting aside an earlier ruling by the Lahore High Court (LHC). Chief Justice Saqib Nisar announced the ruling in a case filed …

Skipper Manpreet Singh put on a stellar show as India registered a facile 3-1 victory over arch-rivals Pakistan in the second match of the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy here on Saturday. India got off to the worst possible start as …

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Thursday said that a bailout deal with Pakistan would require “absolute transparency” of its debts, many of which come from China’s landmark Belt and Road Initiative. “In whatever work we do, …

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday directed former President Pervez Musharraf, who has been living in Dubai since 2016 for “medical treatment”, to return and record his statement in a treason case, saying “there are good doctors in Pakistan” to treat …

NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad on Tuesday said the Centre’s move to import sugar was affecting the cultivators Maharashtra. Before the commencement of the state Legislature’s sitting for the day, Awhad arrived at the Vidhan Bhawan here with a bag of …