The Australian Open may crown Jannik Sinner champion for a third straight year or hand Carlos Alcaraz a career Grand Slam, but lurking in the shadows are a handful of players grappling with harsh truths about their title chances at Melbourne Park. Novak Djokovic’s quest for a record-extending 11th Australian Open title appears a long […]
Alyssa Healy, a mainstay of Australia’s dominant women’s cricket team for 15 years and latterly its captain, has announced that she will retire from the game after the upcoming multi-format series against India. The 35-year-old wicketkeeper-batter was part of two one-day international World Cup triumphs and six successful T20 World Cup campaigns before taking over […]
Novak Djokovic returns to Melbourne Park looking to roll back the apparently inexorable tide of the “Sincaraz” era and produce an Australian Open triumph that would establish him as the most successful Grand Slam champion of all time. The Serbian clinched his 24th major title at the U.S. Open in late 2023, but Jannik Sinner […]
Four members of a local Aman (peace) Committee, including a father and his son, were killed on Tuesday when unknown armed men opened fire on their vehicle in the Gulbuddin Landik area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district, police said. Police said the attackers targeted the committee members while they were travelling. The gunfire shattered the vehicle’s […]
President Donald Trump said on Monday that any country that does business with Iran will face a tariff rate of 25% on any trade with the US, as Washington weighs a response to the situation in Iran, which is seeing its biggest anti-government protests in years. “Effective immediately, any Country doing business with the Islamic […]
Afghanistan’s Taliban government has appointed their first senior official in India since the group returned to power in 2021, charged with leading its embassy in Delhi. India has not officially recognised the Taliban government, but the move signals a deepening engagement, with New Delhi seeking to exploit divisions between Islamabad and Kabul. Noor Ahmad Noor, […]
The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) has approved by majority vote the confirmation of three additional judgesInaam Ameen Minhas, Muhammad Asif, and Muhammad Azam Khanas permanent judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC). The commission has also approvedby majoritythe confirmation of Justice Najam-ud-Din Mengal as a permanent judge of the Balochistan High Court (BHC). However, […]
Pakistan has conveyed to Iran its intention to shelve the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline project under an out-of-court settlement framework, while also offering to revive the project if a waiver from United States sanctions can be secured, sources said on Monday. The IP gas pipeline project has remained stalled since 2014 due to US sanctions […]
The federal government on Monday vehemently blasted Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi for questioning claims that Afghan soil was being used for terrorist attacks against Pakistan, triggering sharp reactions from several ministers who accused the PTI of undermining the national narrative on terrorism. The controversy erupted after Afridi, speaking during a media interaction at the […]