More than 40 people were killed in two separate bus accidents in Pakistan’s Punjab and Balochistan provinces on Sunday, officials said. All 30 people on board lost their lives when a passenger bus plunged into a ditch near the garrison city of Rawalpindi, police officials said. The ill-fated bus was travelling from Haveli Kahuta to More
Afghanistan have clinched the 2024 U-17 Central Asian Football Association (CAFA) Championship title. In a keenly-contested final in Dushanbe on Saturday, the national squad pulled a 1-0 triumph over Uzbekistan in, said the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF). In the tournament, the rising Afghan soccer stars Afghan team scored three impressive wins and exhibited their prowess. More
Pavel Durov, the founder of messaging app Telegram, has been arrested at Le Bourget airport on the outskirts of Paris, a media report said on Sunday. The 39-year-old tech chief was travelling aboard his private jet, Reuters reported. He had been targeted by an arrest warrant in France as part of a preliminary police investigation. Both More
Two children were killed and 14 people, including two policemen, wounded in an explosion in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Saturday. The blast happened at a busy market near Surkhab Chowk in Pishin district, from the casualties were shifted to the Pishin Civil Hospital. Dr Wakeel Sherani, the hospital’s medical superintendent, confirmed two children were More
The Pak-Afghan Liaison Committee (PALC) has called for the suspension of Temporary Admission Document (TAD) policy for truckers. A two-month deferral of the recently-enforced travel condition would help clear the long queues of goods-laden trucks stranded on both sides of the Torkham crossing. Businessmen made the demand at a meeting of the committee, chaired by More
Three people have been killed and four others injured in a knife attack at a festival in Solingen city in Germany, the BBC reported. The incident occurred during a festival in the city centre on Friday evening. The attacker remains at large. According to Bild, the assailant randomly targeted passers-by. Authorities have launched a massive More
Afghan boxer Mohammad Zakaria Zamani has lost his bout to a Russian opponent in Moscow. In the overnight match, Zamani entered the ring against Russia’s number 3 boxer and finally accepted defeat. This boxing battle in the 64 kilogram weight category had 10 round, each lasting three minutes. The contest was held on August 23 More
The second-largest diamond ever found – a rough 2,492-carat stone – has been unearthed in Botswana at a mine owned by Canadian firm Lucara Diamond, a media report said. It is the biggest find since the 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond, found in South Africa in 1905 and cut into nine separate stones, many of which are More
At least 17 people were killed and 40 others injured as a result of an explosion in Andhra Pradesh state of India, Reuters reported on Thursday. Reuters quoted Andhra Pradesh police chief M Deepika as saying the blast occurred at the Escientia Advance Science factory of Amakpali district on Wednesday, What caused the explosion was not More
The dead bodies of five Afghans, who were killed by unidentified individuals in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province last week, have been handed over to their families. The Afghan Embassy in Islamabad wrote on its X handle the corpses were handed over to the bereaved families at the Spin Boldak crossing as a result of efforts More
