AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe in the 5th and final ODI in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday in a thrilling match by 2 wickets with 2 balls remaining. Zimbabwe batted first and scored 248 in 49.5 overs setting a target of 249 for the Afghan cricketers. Afghan hero and Man of the Match Gulbadin Naib was there ...

LIBYA: A truck rigged with explosives crashed into a police training camp in Zliten, Libya, on Thursday, killing dozens and injuring up to 200, according to various sources. At least 65 people were killed, Reuters reported citing hospital sources. Civilians were among the casualties who were transferred to a hospital in nearby Misrata, witnesses told Reuters. At least 60 policemen ...

AFGHANISTAN: Leadership council of Taliban, which is also known as Quetta Shura, was reportedly comprised of Pashtoons only but the group has now included members of Tajik, Uzbek and Turkmen tribes into it. According to Pakistan’s The Express Tribune news agency, a news source of Taliban, the new leader of Taliban Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour has almost completed re-organisation of ...

KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has taken notice of children’s deaths in Tharparkar and directed concerned Sindh provincial ministers to visit the district. One more child died due to malnutrition in Mithi Civil Hospital, raising the death toll to 17 over the past one week. Currently at least 46 children are being provided treatment at malnutrition ward ...

AFGHANISTAN: 18 militants belonging to Daesh group have been killed and a number of others wounded in a clash with Taliban in eastern Nangarhar province Spokesperson for the police headquarters of Nangarhar told media that the clash erupted in Farm-e-Chahar area of Bati Kot District on Wednesday. According to Colonel Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal, those killed include the group’s so-called military commander ...

ISLAMABAD: A man has been arrested for protesting against Saudi Arabia and trespassing inside the Diplomatic Enclave, police said on Wednesday. The suspect was later produced in court and was sent to jail on a judicial remand. Earlier, various gatherings of a few dozen people assembled in front of the Diplomatic Enclave near Shams Gate, police said. They added that ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Wednesday issued guidelines in the wake of the recent Saudi-Iran row, advising media houses to deal with the matter “professionally.” A notification issued by the body advises all television channels to remain cautious while airing talk shows and analysis on the issue lest they harm Pakistan’s diplomatic relations with friendly countries. “We ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has asked Bangladesh to withdraw one of its diplomats from Islamabad, Dhaka said Wednesday, in an apparent retaliation after the expulsion of a Pakistani envoy who allegedly funded a suspected extremist on trial for espionage. Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Shahidul Haque said Islamabad had on Tuesday asked Dhaka to recall senior diplomat Moushumi Rahman from its high commission in ...

Will the leading man Vin Diesel be romancing Deepika in the upcoming movie? While most rumours are baseless, some stem from the truth. For a while now, it had been doing the rounds that Bollywood’s sweetheart Deepika Padukone would be making her way to Hollywood. She added fuel to that fire when she uploaded this Instagram post where she has ...

SEOUL: REUTERS: North Korea said it had successfully conducted a test of a miniaturised hydrogen nuclear device on Wednesday morning, marking a significant advance in the isolated state’s strike capabilities and raising alarm bells in Japan and South Korea. The test, the fourth time North Korea has exploded a nuclear device, was ordered by young leader Kim Jong Un, state ...