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Pakistan’s top player Babar Azam scored match-winning century after grappling with poor form, low confidence since early last year. PHOTO: AFP RAWALPINDI: Babar Azam hit his first international century since August 2023 to lift Pakistan to an emphatic eight-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the second day-night international on Friday. Azam notched an unbeaten 102 … Read more
Landlocked Afghanistan is leaning more heavily on trade routes through Iran and Central Asia to reduce dependence on Pakistan, officials said, as tension between the neighbours escalates, with their border closed in recent weeks, Reuters reported. Afghanistan’s reliance on Pakistan’s ports has long given Islamabad leverage to press Kabul over outlaws sheltering across the border. … Read more
The policy change is a major expansion of the administration’s push to crack down on immigration from countries that it says lack sufficient screening and vetting abilities.
Under the plan, the company will dissolve and its owners, members of the Sackler family, will pay as much as $7 billion of their personal fortune to states, localities, tribes and others harmed in the opioid crisis.
[A Biden-era rule, now halted, would have forced airlines to pay passengers up to $775 in cash for significant flight disruptions.
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s longtime residency program has been pivotal to artists of color. Here, alumni look back on why it was so crucial to them.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has unveiled 20 probables for Pakistan Women’s U19 tour to Bangladesh with five T20 games set to be played from December 3-12 at Cox’s Bazar Academy Ground between the two teams. Pakistan U19 players are set to take part in a 14-day intensive training camp at the Hanif Mohammad High-Performance Centre … Read more
Speed limits on Shahrah-e-Faisal, widespread no-parking zones in Saddar mark traffic discipline drive Concerned agencies are installing signboards and road markings for better traffic management in Karachi. PHOTO: AUTHOR Following the imposition of speed limits on Shahrah-e-Faisal in Karachi, the administration has begun installing no-parking and no double-parking signs across the city’s busiest commercial hub, … Read more
Endorsements from The Stranger have become a must-have for some politicians, who know to bring snacks to their meetings with the paper’s writers.
The United Nations’ top human rights body ordered an inquiry into mass killings and sexual violence during the country’s worsening civil war.
