Critics hammered Australia’s bowling line-up and selection “stuff-ups” after the country’s shock T20 World Cup exit in the group stages. The 2021 champions were knocked out of the T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka on Tuesday. Zimbabwe qualified after their match against Ireland was rained off without a ball being bowled. The washout gave each […]
South Africa sent a T20 World Cup warning to co-hosts India after romping to a six-wicket win over the United Arab Emirates in New Delhi on Wednesday. After restricting the Emiratis to 122-6 on a pitch enlivened by morning rain, South Africa raced to 123-4 in just 13.2 overs to complete a perfect group phase […]
Match-winner Vinicius Junior hit out at “cowards” after accusing Benfica’s Gianluca Prestianni of racially abusing him during Real Madrid’s 1-0 Champions League play-off first leg victory in Lisbon on Tuesday. The game was stopped for more than 10 minutes due to a racism protocol after Vinicius complained to French referee Francois Letexier about the alleged […]
Former British prime minister David Cameron and hedge fund billionaire Alan Howard were among hundreds whose passports and other identification documents were leaked online after attending an Abu Dhabi finance conference, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The FT, citing documents, said scans of more than 700 passports and state identity cards were discovered on […]
Australia said on Wednesday it would temporarily ban one of its citizens held in a Syrian camp from returning to the country, under rarely-used powers aimed at preventing terror activity. Thirty-four Australians in a northern Syrian facility holding families of suspected Islamic State militants are expected to return home after their release was conditionally approved by […]
Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia were due to begin a second day of talks in Geneva on Wednesday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the United States was putting undue pressure on him to bring an end to the four-year-old war. The US-mediated peace talks in Switzerland have been taking place as US President Donald […]
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has named a former commerce minister to steer the country’s troubled economy and kept the defence portfolio for himself as he formed his first cabinet. Rahman was sworn into office on Tuesday after a landslide election victory, taking over from the interim administration that had led the country of 170 […]
Central Ruet-e-Hilal Committee will sight the crescent moon for Ramazan 1447 AH in Peshawar today, with fasting expected to begin simultaneously across the country, committee chairperson Maulana Muhammad Abdul Khabeer Azad said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference in Peshawar, Azad said the committee’s meeting was being held in Peshawar, while zonal and provincial committees convened […]
At least two officials were martyred and three others injured after terrorists attacked a police station and a nearby customs camp in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district at 1:30am on Tuesday night, police said. According to a police spokesperson on Wednesday, an unknown number of unidentified armed men suddenly opened fire on Yark Police Station, […]
Two suspects were arrested after a joint Pakistan-Qatar operation foiled an attempt to smuggle 4.48 kilogrammes (kg) of cocaine at Islamabad International Airport on Wednesday, officials said. Pakistan’s Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF), working in coordination with Qatari authorities, carried out an intelligence-based operation at the airport. Acting on shared and verified intelligence, ANF personnel intercepted a […]