Ali Hamza also qualified for the National Snooker Championship. Photo: Sindh Snooker Cup Ali Hamza won the Sindh Snooker Cup title for the first time. In the final, he defeated Pakistan number three Zulfiqar Qadir by five frames to four. In the final of the event held at the Snooker Club of Ghazri, there was…
Photo: File The Pakistani club’s participation in the first SAAF Club Football Championship scheduled for next year has fallen into disarray. Attempts by the Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) to nominate a club for the event did not receive an encouraging response from the clubs. The first South Asian Football Federation (SAF) Club Football Championship on…
Photo: Social Media The International Cricket Council (ICC) took action against Usman Khawaja for expressing solidarity with the Palestinians during the Perth Test and charged him for violating the rules. Australian cricketer Usman Khawaja wore a black armband to express solidarity with the Palestinians in the Perth Test against Pakistan. Earlier, he had written a…
Photo: Screengrab/Social Media After the injury of fast bowler Khurram Shahzad in the tour of Australia, the Pakistan team management decided to reduce the workload of Shaheen Shah Afridi, while the second bowler is currently not being sent to Australia as a replacement for Khurram. Fast bowler Khurram Shehzad suffered a rib fracture during the…
Wad Madani is located some 140 kilometres southeast of the war-torn capital Khartoum and sits at the heart of Al Jazirah state, known as Sudan’s breadbasket. Nearly half a million people have fled to the state since war broke out in April between the Sudanese Army and a rival military group known as the Rapid…
5:55 PM It’s been a day of intense activity in and around the Security Council at UN Headquarters but it does now look as if ambassadors are going to go into consultations at the top of the hour, to try and bring the United States on board with the resolution which it is hoped will…
The latest grave assessment from the World Health Organization (WHO) came after UN teams reached Al Ahli Arab hospital and Al Shifa hospital on Wednesday, amid reports of intensifying ground operations by Israeli Defense Forces and continuing airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, in response to Hamas’s 7 October terror attacks on southern Israel. “Patients were…
Briefing ambassadors at the Security Council, Geir Pedersen, UN Special Envoy for Syria, noted that though there have been some diplomatic breakthroughs none led to tangible changes on the ground for civilians. He also raised the alarm over the impact on the region of the devastating Israel-Palestine crisis. On top of killings, injuries, displacement, abduction…
Pramila Patten, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, called for the immediate, safe, and unconditional release of all those who remain in captivity. Ms. Patten met this week with the mother of one of the young women taken hostage who expressed the pain, despair and helplessness that families are facing as they…
Soon after becoming a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1988, she went on a mission to Ethiopia, where years of drought and civil strife had caused terrible famine. After visiting UNICEF emergency operations, she talked about the projects to media in the United States, Canada and Europe over several weeks, giving as many as 15 interviews…
