MELBOURNE: Dominic Thiem ended six years of Grand Slam frustration against Rafa Nadal on Wednesday with a seismic 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 7-6 (8-6) upset that booked his maiden Australian Open semi-final and rocked the old guard of men’s tennis. After pulling off a nerve-shredding win that quashed doubts about his prowess on hardcourts, […]
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LONDON: England fast bowler Jofra Archer has been ruled out of the three-match Twenty20 International series against South Africa starting next month with an elbow injury, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced on Wednesday. Sussex quick Archer headed back to Britain on Tuesday in a bid to regain full fitness after a sore right […]
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KARACHI: Former Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Munaf passed away on Tuesday in Amsterdam where he had been living since retirement from PIA. He was 84. A right-arm fast bowler, Munaf was educated at the historic Sindh Medressatul Islam school alongside Little Master Hanif Mohammad who was to later become his team-mate in the Pakistan team. […]
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LAHORE: Former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara will lead the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) squad for their visit to Pakistan next month. Sangakkara, who is the president of MCC, would be captaining the club’s 12-man squad on the Feb 13 to 19 tour during which the visitors will play a one-off one-dayer and a Twenty20 […]
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The Foreign Office on Wednesday rejected Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “belligerent rhetoric” against Pakistan, stating that his recent remarks were a “reflection of India’s incurable obsession with Pakistan”. In a statement released today, the FO in response to Modi’s remarks from yesterday urged the international community to “take cognisance of Indian leadership’s continuing belligerent […]
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan the “slap of the century” on Tuesday as thousands of Palestinians held protests in Gaza and the West Bank. Hamas said it would confront Trump’s “aggressive” proposals and accused him of talking “nonsense” about Jerusalem. Confounding some predictions, Trump’s plan proposed a “two-state” solution […]
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A Pakistani man arrested earlier this month in Islamabad over the 2005 killing of a British woman police officer does not want to be extradited to Britain and is asking that he be tried in his home country, his lawyer said on Wednesday. The 71-year-old suspect, Piran Ditta Khan, appeared before a court in the […]
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Two mortar shells were fired into Pakistan from the Afghanistan territory, said Foreign Office spokesperson Aisha Farooqui on Wednesday. No casualties were reported. Following the incident, the Torkham border gate was closed off for security reasons, she added. “The matter is being coordinated with Afghan authorities,” Farooqui said in a statement, adding that the gate […]
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The government is initiating a programme to privatise a number of public institutions to make them profitable, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Information Firdous Ashiq Awan told the media on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference, flanked by Minister for Privatisation Mohammad Mian Soomro and Secretary Privatisation Commission Rizwan Malik, Awan said that […]
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Two polio workers were killed on Wednesday when their team came under attack in Swabi’s Parmoli area. According to Swabi’s District Police Officer Imran Shahid, unidentified men opened fire at the polio team while they were on duty. As a result of the firing, a lady health worker was killed on the spot while another […]
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