Photo: File Pakistan’s Owais Iftikhar has qualified for the final of the ongoing Asian Snooker Championship in Qatar. In the semi-finals, he defeated Iran’s defending champion Amir Sarkosh. In the semifinals of the Asian Snooker Championship, Owais Munir faced veteran and defending champion Amir Sarkosh of Iran. However, the Pakistani cueist showed excellent cue control…
Photo: Jang Sahibzada Farhan, the better of Lahore Qalandars, has said that when the performance is rewarded in the domestic, it is a pleasure. Talking to Geo News, the Lahore Qalandars’ batter said that winning and losing is a part of the game, our Agha is not good, it also happens in the game. Sahibzada…
Photo courtesy of PCB In the eighth match of Pakistan Super League (PSL) 9, Quetta Gladiators won the toss and decided to bowl first against Islamabad United. No change was made in the Quetta Gladiators team in this match being played at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Two changes have been made to United’s team,…
In a letter addressed to the President of the UN General Assembly, which provides the agency with its mandate, he said the agency’s ability to fulfil that mandate “is now seriously threatened”. “In just over four months in Gaza there have been more children, more journalists more medical personnel and more UN staff killed than…
In a new study, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimated that over the past two months, the volume of trade through the Suez Canal has fallen by a whopping 42 per cent. “With major players in the shipping industry temporarily suspending Suez transits, weekly container ship transits have fallen by 67 per…
Appointed by the Secretary-General in early February following Israeli allegations that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in the Hamas-led terror attacks in Israel in October, the group also aims to meet Palestinian Authority officials and may request a visit to Gaza, said its chair, former French former minister Catherine Colonna, who spoke outside the Security Council after…
Tor Wennesland, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, told ambassadors that “there is still no end in sight” as the war approaches its 140-day mark. “No end to the trauma of those impacted by the horrors unleashed on 7 October. No end to the suffering and desperation the people in Gaza. No…
“Russia’s full-scale armed attack on Ukraine, which is about to enter its third year with no end in sight, continues to cause serious and widespread human rights violations, destroying lives and livelihoods,” he said in a statement launching a new report. This month marks not only two years since Moscow’s all out assault, but also 10…
–File photo In the first match of the tri-nation blind cricket series, the Indian team set Pakistan a target of 213 runs to win. In the first match of this series in the United Arab Emirates, India scored 212 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. Indian captain Dargah Rao scored 61…
–File photo Football is the most played and watched sport in the world and it is also a source of earning not millions but billions of dollars for the players. According to a foreign media report, Brunei’s prince and footballer Valkya Bolkiah owns $20 billion and tops the list of richest footballers. Argentina’s Lionel Messi…
