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Hildah Magaia rescued South Africa with a late equaliser against Ivory Coast in a WAFCON Group B match. Photo: AFP JOHANNESBURG: South Africa snatched a dramatic 2-2 draw with Ivory Coast at the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) on Friday, but their hopes of reaching the quarter-finals hang in the balance. The Group B … Read more

Authorities file cases against hundreds of demonstrators after some clash with forces, shouted abusive slogans ​at PM The Cockroach Janta Party protests have emerged as one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. PHOTO:AFP Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he wanted to forgive students who hurled expletives at him during protests … Read more

. SIALKOT: Government College Women University Sialkot (GCWUS) on Friday paid tribute to Madar-e-Millat Fatima Jinnah on her birth anniversary, recognising her contributions to the Pakistan Movement, women’s political empowerment and national development. In a statement, the university said Fatima Jinnah, born on July 31, 1893, in Karachi, stood steadfastly alongside her brother, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad … Read more

HOCC says its ‘safe transit service was a voluntary and cost-free service’ Container ships sail across the Gulf of Suez towards the Red Sea before entering the Suez Canal, in El Ain El Sokhna in Suez, east of Cairo, Egypt, March 17, 2018. Picture taken March 17, 2018. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo Yemen’s Houthi-run maritime … Read more

Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz speaking at the inauguration of the Nawaz Sharif School of Eminence in Arifwala. SCREENGRAB LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has sought a province-wide plan within five days to ensure the supply of safe drinking water to every household. Chairing a meeting of the Punjab Saaf Pani Authority, she … Read more

. GUJRANWALA: Three alleged criminals were killed and three others injured in six separate encounters involving Gujranwala Police and the Crime Control Department (CCD), while more than 12 kilogrammes of narcotics, stolen property and illegal weapons were recovered during the operations, police said on Friday. According to police, the operations were carried out under the … Read more

. Despite the passage of seven years since the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A, India’s narrative framing the move as a historic achievement of peace and integration is utterly unmasked by severe economic distress, rising unemployment, relentless political unrest, heavy militarization, and demographic engineering. According to defence and foreign policy analysts, mere economic statistics … Read more

RAWALPINDI: The first torrential monsoon rainfall of the season, which lashed the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Friday, brought Rawalpindi to a standstill on Friday, inundating roads, markets and residential neighbourhoods, disrupting transport and utilities, and exposing significant shortcomings in the city’s drainage and flood management infrastructure. The district administration declared a rain … Read more

ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s blunt assessment that Pakistan’s governance system has “collapsed” and can no longer meet the country’s administrative challenges has triggered a sharp political debate, with opposition parties calling it an admission of systemic failure, coalition partners urging caution. Speaking at the first Pakistan Economic Summit in Islamabad on Thursday, Naqvi urged … Read more

Says if reset is needed, it should happen Accuses a defeated India of funding terror proxies Distances army from DG ISPR Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry addresses press conference. Photo: Screengrab ISLAMABAD: Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Lt-Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry on Friday said an administrative reset should take place if it was required … Read more