Sarfaraz lauds Umar Akmal’s return to Quetta Gladiators

LAHORE – February 13 (ONLINE): Quetta Gladiators’ captain Sarfaraz Ahmed lauded the brilliant performance of his teammate Umar Akmal against Islamabad United in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) match on Saturday night. Gladiators won the match by 5 wickets. Akmal, who was playing his first […]

US defends evacuating embassy as Ukraine urges calm

WASHINGTON – February 13 (ONLINE): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the “imminent” threat of Russian military action in Ukraine justifies evacuating the US embassy in Kyiv. His words came after Ukraine’s president urged calm, saying the biggest enemy was panic. More than […]

Armed men kidnap five UN staff in southern Yemen

ADEN – February 13 (ONLINE): Five United Nations employees have been abducted by unknown armed men in southern Yemen while returning to Aden after a field mission. The staff was abducted on Friday in the Abyan governorate, according to Russell Geekie, a spokesman for the […]

Mahira chooses her favorite Hollywood actors

ISLAMABAD – February 13 (ONLINE): Leading actress Mahira Khan in a twitter conversation with fans has recently revealed her favorite Hollywood stars. Mahira did a question and answer session with her fans on social media networking site Twitter. During the session, one user asked Mahira […]

3,31,150 voters to exercise right of franchise in LG By-polls

PESHAWAR, Feb 13 (APP):As many as 3,31,150 voters including 1,56,541 male and 1,74, 609 female would exercise their right of franchise in local government by-elections holding in 12 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to Spokesman of Elections Commission of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a total of 237 […]

Winter Olympics sets off ice, snow economy boom

BEIJING, Feb. 13 (APP):The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics has ushered in a rare development opportunity for China’s ice and snow economy. By October 2021, 24.56% of the Chinese population — some 346 million Chinese people — had taken part in winter sports and recreational ice […]

UK car rally highlights Kashmir battle for freedom

Bradford (PNI) Continuing its efforts to spread awareness about illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir by India, Kashmiri diaspora groups in the UK held a car rally on Saturday. The participants during the car rally urged the British and the Europeans to come to the […]

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