Former captain of Pakistan cricket team Sarfraz Ahmed says that captaining the national cricket team is not an easy task. Speaking on the occasion of a function of Quetta Gladiators in Karachi, Sarfaraz Ahmed said that he advises young cricketers to play cricket quietly. He said that Shaun Masood captained Australia well. It should be…
Karachi: In a residential apartment in Khada Market, Lyari, a gas cylinder allegedly exploded with a loud bang, resulting in burn injuries to a husband and wife and a baby girl. According to the details, a gas cylinder allegedly exploded in a flat located on the first floor of a residential apartment near Al-Aqsa Mosque,…
Photo: File Defending champion Nasir Al-Attiyah of Qatar won the fifth stage of the Dakar Rally. In the overall standings, the first position of Saudi Arabian driver Yazid Al Rajhi is maintained. In the motorbike category, Chile’s Pablo Conte Nila finished first. In the fifth stage of the Dakar Rally, the drivers had to cover…
Presenting the latest quarterly report by the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, which covers the period from 27 September to 26 December 2023, he expressed hope that this year will be a decisive one for peace. “Despite the many serious challenges this country still faces in extinguishing the embers of an armed conflict that has…
In a flash update, the Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that since the intensification of aerial attacks on 29 December, approximately 3,000 families had seen their homes damaged across Ukraine. That day saw one of the deadliest attacks since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, in which at least…
Since 1 January, in Kabul and Daykundi provinces, UNAMA has documented a series of hijab decree enforcement campaigns by the de facto Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, aided by Taliban police units. In the capital, Kabul, large numbers of women and girls have been warned and detained, said the…
Filed with the Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ), a UN court, on 29 December, South Africa’s case stated that Israel, particularly since 7 October, “has failed to prevent genocide and has failed to prosecute direct and overt incitement to genocide”. So, what is the Genocide Convention? The basics The 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of…
Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council, Leonardo Santos Simão, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General, said that while some nations have made significant democratic strides, others have been subject to military takeovers, posing wider threats to regional stability. The presidential election in Liberia and the peaceful transfer of power was a decisive political moment for…
The rate of access denials by Israel so far this month marks a “significant deterioration” over December, OCHA said in its latest update, issued late on Wednesday. Between 1 and 10 January, only three out of 21 planned deliveries of food, medicines, water, and other lifesaving items to the north of Wadi Gaza got through, it revealed. Denials, delays and…
The rumour began when Mr. Khrushchev travelled to New York at the height of the cold war. During the Assembly’s general debate for Heads of State and Government on 12 October 1960, he indicated that he wanted to make a point of order about the way his counterpart from the Philippines referred to the Soviet…
