Islamabad (Hassan Raza) On September 1, 2025, the Embassy of our country in Islamabad celebrated in a grand manner the 34th Anniversary of the Independence of the Republic of Uzbekistan.✨ More than 500 guests — ministers of the Government of Pakistan, members of parliament, representatives of the armed forces, the diplomatic corps, business and academic […]
Rescue teams struggled Wednesday to reach survivors as night approached days after a powerful earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, as access to remote areas remained obstructed. A shallow magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit the mountainous region bordering Pakistan late on Sunday, collapsing mud-brick homes on families as they slept. Fearful of the near-constant aftershocks rattling the area, people […]
Reigning champion Jannik Sinner marched into the US Open quarter-finals Wednesday as Amanda Anisimova avenged her Wimbledon thrashing by Iga Swiatek to set up a last-four clash with Naomi Osaka. World number one Sinner swept aside 10th seed Musetti 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 in the first all-Italian men’s quarter-final in Grand Slam history. “It was a […]
Reigning US Open champion Aryna Sabalenka takes on home hope Jessica Pegula in the semi-finals Thursday, with Naomi Osaka meeting Amanda Anisimova in an intriguing last-four encounter. Sabalenka beat Pegula in the 2024 final in New York but the undisputed women’s number one is yet to add to her Grand Slam collection this year, losing […]
United States President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he plans to hold talks about the war in Ukraine in the coming days after his Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in August failed to achieve a breakthrough. Trump said he would be holding talks in the next few days. A White House official said […]
The United Nations said Wednesday that Israeli drones dropped four grenades near UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, with Israel insisting there was “no intentional fire” at the force. UNIFIL, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, called Tuesday’s incident “one of the most serious attacks” since a November ceasefire ended last year’s war between Israel and Hezbollah. […]
President Xi Jinping urged world nations to “eliminate the root cause of war and prevent historical tragedies from recurring” as China held a massive military parade in central Beijing on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of its victory in World War II. This was only the second military parade of its kind since 2015, […]
Flooding across northern India killed at least five people on Wednesday, officials said, with more thunderstorms expected and local media reporting that 10,000 people have been evacuated from the river banks in capital Delhi. The monsoon season in India has been particularly intense this year, killing at least 130 people in August alone in north […]
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday held a series of high-level meetings with senior executives of China’s leading enterprises in Beijing to boost business-to-business (B2B) investment cooperation between the two countries. The discussions focused on expanding cooperation in priority sectors including textiles, information technology, agriculture, industry, mines and minerals, road and digital connectivity, e-commerce […]
The Khorasan chapter of the ultra-extremist Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s suicide bombing at a political rally in a provincial capital that officials said killed 17 people and injured many more. The Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) made the claim through its propaganda arm. The suicide bomber detonated the charge during the rally of […]