ISLAMABAD – Rising Pakistani boxer Muzaffar Khan knocked out the Afghan opponent and bagged the Arabian Sea Championship title in the country’s federal capital on Saturday. Reports in local media said the match lasted for five rounds. The 27-year-old Pakistani ringster earlier seemed ...

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia on Thursday reimposed social distancing measures at the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Makkah, after recording the highest number of infections in months. Workers have returned floor markings removed on October 17 to guide people to social distance in and around the Grand ...

DUBAI – The United Arab Emirates has signed an $18 billion mega-contract for 80 Rafale fighter planes during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to the Gulf state. Reports in French media quoting defense ministry officials said the order represents the biggest bulk purchase of the ...

ISLAMABAD – Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday hoped that two million Pakistanis will go abroad for employment in the next two years. In a tweet, he claimed that Pakistan sent more than 1.1 workers to different countries in three years of the PTI government ...

WASHINGTON – US envoy for Afghanistan Thomas West will travel to Doha next week for two weeks of meetings with Taliban leaders. US state department spokesperson Ned Price, in a press briefing on Tuesday, confirmed the crucial meeting with the Taliban leaders in Qatar’s capital. Ned said ...

ISLAMABAD – Commander Qatar Emiri Naval Forces (QENF) Staff Major General (SEA) Abdullah Bin Hassan Al Sulaiti called on Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi at Naval Headquarters, Islamabad. Upon his arrival at Naval Headquarters, Commander Qatar Emiri Naval Forces was ...

WASHINGTON – The United States and Qatar have agreed to sign an agreement, allowing Doha to facilitate any formal communication between Washington and Kabul where the Taliban are in the power. The move shows a potential direct engagement between the US and the Taliban, who seized control of the ...

BEIRUT — Saudi Arabia ordered the Lebanese ambassador to leave within 48 hours on Friday and banned all Lebanese imports in response to critical comments made by a Lebanese minister about the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen. The diplomatic rupture throws Lebanon’s cabinet into ...

A number of flights to and from the Allama Iqbal International Airport have been called off on Sunday including an inbound and an outbound flight to the United Arab Emirate flights as operational reasons cited behind the falling short. The Dubai flights were of Pakistan International Airline ...

Turkey urged the world powers to unfreeze Afghanistan's foreign accounts immediately. A high-level Afghan Taliban delegation held talks with Turkey's foreign minister in capital Ankara on Friday. Talking to media after meeting with Taliban-appointed foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, Turkish ...