Can’t qualify for Olympics eating chana and khajoor: Imran
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's hockey coach on Tuesday blamed the government for the team's failure to qualify for next year's Olympics, saying lack of funds had badly hurt their preparations. Pakistan finished…
Players from Pakistan’s street child squad on EPL’s radar
KARACHI: Raziq Mushtaq-the 2014 Street Child World Cup bronze-winning captain-may have a shot at being recruited to one of the world’s elite football leagues in the coming months. The 15-year-old,…
centarus Mall relaxes Rs100 entry fee stipulation after online criticism
ISLAMABAD: Following a barrage of criticism on social media, the management of Islamabad’s largest shopping mall has apparently relented in its decision to impose a Rs100 entry fee. The management…
China expresses displeasure with Turkey accepting Uighurs
Beijing expressed displeasure with Turkey on Friday for accepting 173 ethnic Uighurs who fled China. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the Uighurs had left China illegally, and that…
ISIS in Egypt claims rocket attack on Israel
Militants of the Sinai Province group, which is affiliated to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), said on Friday the group had launched three Grad rockets towards "occupied…
Pakistan meets sanitation MDG target, says UN report
Pakistan is one of the 95 countries that have met the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for sanitation aimed at halving the proportion of the population without access to basic…
Unidentified drone crashes near Working Boundary
SIALKOT: Pakistan’s security forces took into custody a drone which had crashed near Sakho Chak village in Shakargarh along the Working Boundary on Friday. Villagers said they heard a loud…
Centaurus Mall Islamabad starts charging Rs100 entry fee.
Centaurus Mall is one of Islamabad's hottest attractions. Yet the mall's management caused a roar on social media when it announced on Thursday that the mall would enforce an entry…
Operations to continue till Pakistan is terror free, says General Raheel
ISLAMABAD: Chief of the Army Staff General Raheel Sharif on Friday directed all concerned law-enforcing agencies to continue intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in the country to apprehend all terrorists, their facilitators,…
Magnitude-6.4 earthquake in rural China kills three, damages thousands of homes
A strong earthquake has hit a rural part of China's far western Xinjiang region, killing at least three people, injuring dozens and destroying or damaging thousands of homes, the government…