DUBAI (AFP): Knowing that another loss would all but end their championship defense, Pakistan will play their bitter rivals, India, in a Champions Trophy thriller on Sunday in front of a sold-out crowd in Dubai. Due to political sensitivities, the neighbors only clash in multi-country tournaments. This match is beingContinue Reading

A police officer stated that Pakistani officials had released 22 Indian fisherman from Karachi’s Malir Jail and would begin their repatriation procedure on Friday. Arshad Shah, the superintendent of Malir Jail, verified that the fishermen began their journey back to India once the appropriate paperwork on the Indian side wereContinue Reading

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist serving an 86-year sentence at the Federal Medical Center (FMC) Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, has requested a presidential pardon ahead of the US presidential election, describing her imprisonment as “a blatant miscarriage of justice”. Siddiqui, who has been imprisoned in the United StatesContinue Reading

According to a media source, Bangladesh has published new textbooks that state that Ziaur Rahman declared the country’s independence in 1971, replacing earlier ones that attributed the proclamation to founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The Daily Star newspaper said that the new textbooks for elementary and secondary pupils featureContinue Reading

Reuters, NEW DELHI – The gentle-spoken Manmohan Singh, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 92, was seen as a “reluctant king” during his first term as prime minister and was undoubtedly one of India’s most effective leaders. Singh served a record two terms as prime minister fromContinue Reading

WASHINGTON (AP) — While briefing the media in Washington on Thursday, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller stated that the US supports free and fair elections in Pakistan. Matthew Miller stated: “We support free and fair elections and do not take a position one way or another.” In response to aContinue Reading

The opening of a cross-border market marked a significant development in Pakistan’s relations with neighbouring Iran, although the United States chose not to remark on the bilateral relationships between the two nations. In an effort to increase bilateral commerce, Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Raisi and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif metContinue Reading

ISLAMABAD (A News) : According to a Guardian story, India may not declassify the 1947 Kashmir letters because of worry about the repercussions on its diplomatic relations. According to the article, the Butcher papers – the official term for the letters – include the discussions that prompted India’s first PrimeContinue Reading