A major fire broke out at the Indigo Hotel near Hussain Chowk in Lahore’s Gulberg neighbourhood on Saturday, triggering a large-scale rescue operation that safely evacuated 275 people, officials said. Two individuals were still missing as search and rescue efforts continued. Rescue 1122 said it received a fire call from the hotel at 12:25pm. In […]
China said on Saturday the senior vice chairman of its powerful Central Military Commission (CMC) and another high-ranking official were under investigation for suspected “serious violations of discipline”, a common euphemism for corruption. The announcement marks the latest push in a sweeping drive to root out graft at all levels of the party and state […]
Chelsea boss Liam Rosenior poured cold water on reports linking Cole Palmer with a move away from the Premier League club, saying on Friday that the attacking midfielder was “very happy” at Stamford Bridge. Palmer has scored 48 goals for Chelsea in all competitions since joining the club in 2023 and was key to last […]
Novak Djokovic escaped the heat and doused Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp 6-3 6-4 7-6(4) at the Australian Open on Saturday to reach the fourth round and add another line in the record book during his bid for a standalone 25th Grand Slam title. With his 102nd match victory at Melbourne, the evergreen Serb equalled […]
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Saturday criticised what he described as the unfair treatment of Bangladesh in the ongoing dispute over the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, saying no country should be allowed to dictate terms to another in international cricket. Bangladesh have refused to play their scheduled T20 World Cup matches in India, […]
A severe cold wave continued to grip Karachi and the rest of Sindh for a third consecutive day, with temperatures dropping further across the province, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) said on Saturday. In Karachi, the temperature fell by another two degrees in the morning, with the mercury recorded at 8.5 degrees Celsius in some […]
Europeans were among 150 senior Islamic State group detainees transferred this week by the US military from Kurdish custody in Syria to neighbouring Iraq, whose premier urged EU countries to repatriate their nationals. They were among an estimated 7,000 jihadists due to be moved to Iraq as the Kurdish-led force that has held them for […]
Iran will treat any attack “as an all-out war against us,” a senior Iranian official said on Friday, ahead of the arrival of a US military aircraft carrier strike group and other assets in the Middle East in the coming days. “This military buildup – we hope it is not intended for real confrontation – […]
The UN Human Rights Council decided Friday to deepen its scrutiny of Iran over its crackdown on protests that left thousands dead, including children, amid demands it end its “brutal repression”. The 47-member body voiced alarm about “the unprecedented scale of the violent crackdown on peaceful protests by security forces” in Iran. With 25 votes […]
Bangladesh’s fugitive former leader Sheikh Hasina alleged Friday that elections next month would not be free or fair, in her first public speech since being sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity. The South Asian nation of 170 million people votes on February 12 to choose new leadership after prolonged political turmoil following […]