NEW DELHI: Fugitive 1993 Mumbai blasts mastermind Dawood Ibrahim has been hospitalised in Pakistan’s Karachi, as per TV reports. He has reportedly been poisoned. Reports, quoting sources, are also stating that Dawood has been kept under tight security at the hospital. Though several reports state that the wanted underworld don has been in Pakistan for … Read more
NEW DELHI: In a fresh setback for Imran Khan, Pakistan’s top election body on Tuesday disqualified the jailed former prime minister for five years after his conviction in a corruption case.The decision comes days after the embattled leader was arrested in Lahore in the Toshakhana corruption case.In a notification issued on Tuesday, the Election Commission … Read more
NEW DELHI: The political fate of Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan hangs precariously following his conviction and three-year imprisonment in a graft case.Khan, Pakistan’s main opposition leader, faces a long legal battle to save his political career ahead of a national election expected later this year.The outspoken PTI leader’s political career has seen a … Read more
NEW DELHI: India is now once again determinedly working towards the creation of theatre commands to build an integrated war-fighting machinery in a cost-effective manner, with a “consensus” being achieved among the Army, Navy and IAF after the original plan was tweaked to address all concerns.The plan primarily is now to have three integrated theatre … Read more
NEW DELHI: India has invited Pakistan for a meeting of home ministers and also defence ministers and NSAs in the run-up to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit likely to take place in the first week of July.The government will soon also send an invite to Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif for the SCO summit which … Read more
KARACHI: A gunbattle was raging Friday night inside a Pakistan police compound in the port city of Karachi, officials and witnesses said, just weeks after a bomb blast at a police mosque in the country’s northwest killed over 80 officers.The police are frequent targets of attacks by militants from Pakistan’s Taliban as well as rebels … Read more
As Pakistan lurches from one crisis to another, citizens are taking to the streets to protest a dual economic and political meltdown with little precedent in the nation’s post-independence history.For months, the world’s fifth most populous country has edged closer to a debt default, echoing the cautionary tales of other developing economies, including Sri Lanka … Read more
MELBOURNE: A few years ago Hardik Pandya had no idea what future would hold for him but once the fear of failure was gone, he loved the version of himself that emerged. Since he made a comeback to competitive cricket post a self-imposed rehab to get back his bowling fitness, he has led a new … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will attend the counter-terrorism drills hosted by India under the ambit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in October, despite a chill in bilateral ties, a media report said on Saturday. While Pakistani and Indian military contingents have taken part in counter-terrorism exercises together, this will be the first time that Pakistan will … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has claimed that the establishment is calling him but he has blocked their numbers and will not speak to anyone until a date for the general election is announced, contending that dropping an atom bomb on the country would be better than having “criminals” at the helm of … Read more