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Journalist Khawar Hussain shot dead in Sanghar
Khawar Hussain, a Karachi-based journalist and reporter for Dawn News channel, was shot dead on Sunday in Sanghar, police said. Hussain had been sitting in his car for hours outside a private hotel on Hyderabad Road in Sanghar city, according to police. CCTV footage of outside the hotel has been obtained and is being closely examined, according … Read more
Arsenal ‘digging for gold’
LONDON: Mikel Arteta has challenged Arsenal to keep digging for gold as they prepare to start their latest bid for a first Premier League title since 2004 against revamped Manchester United on Sunday. Arteta’s side have finished as Premier League runners-up for the last three seasons, sparking criticism of their failure to get over the … Read more
Locals in Balochistan helping identify terrorists: DG ISPR
RAWALPINDI: The chief military spokesperson said on Saturday that residents in Balochistan are increasingly providing information on terrorists and their facilitators, a move he called critical to the success of counterterrorism operations in the restive province. Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif, Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), told students in a special session of … Read more
Outline emerges of Putin’s offer to end war in Ukraine
Russia would relinquish tiny pockets of occupied Ukraine and Kyiv would cede swathes of its eastern land which Moscow has been unable to capture, under peace proposals discussed by Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at their Alaska summit, sources briefed on Moscow’s thinking said. The account emerged the day after Trump and Putin met … Read more
Sabalenka and Gauff crash out in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI: World number one Aryna Sabalenka and second-ranked Coco Gauff were sent crashing out of the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Open on Friday as Carlos Alcaraz fought off a fierce challenge from Andrey Rublev to reach the semi-finals. Top seed and defending champion Sabalenka had no answer for Elena Rybakina, falling to the 2022 Wimbledon champion 6-1, … Read more
PSX scales new peak despite profit-taking
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) extended its bullish run in the shortened four-day trading week, with the benchmark KSE-100 index hitting an all-time high of 147,005 points before closing at 146,492, up 1,109 points, or 0.8% week-on-week (WoW). The rally was fueled by robust corporate earnings, Moody’s upgrade of Pakistan’s sovereign rating to Caa1 … Read more
Wang Yi to visit India for border talks
Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit India for the first time in three years to discuss the latest round of border talks, the Chinese foreign ministry has confirmed. During the trip from August 18 to 20, the top Chinese diplomat will serve as the “special representative of the China-India boundary question” in the 24th round … Read more
Iqbal urges joint push for $100b exports
[ KARACHI: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Prof Ahsan Iqbal, on Saturday, called upon the government and private sector to work shoulder to shoulder in achieving an ambitious target of $100 billion in exports under what he termed an “export emergency.” Speaking at a ceremony titled Marka-e-Haq and 78 years of Independence … Read more
