BRUSSELS: The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has decided to maintain Pakistan’s status on its grey list of countries. The country has remained in the list as it has been unable to comply with six of the 27 points in the global terror financing and money laundering watchdog’s action plan. ...
Read More »Zimbabwe cricket team arrives in Pakistan
LAHORE: The Zimbabwe cricket team arrived in Islamabad to play two limited overs series against Pakistan. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials welcomed the visiting team at the airport. Players of the Zimbabwe team – who are visiting the country after five years – will spend their first week (Oct 21 ...
Read More »Kate Middleton and Prince William play Pictionary with Pakistani students
LONDON: Recently, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William and Kate Middleton, joined some students from Pakistan for a virtual game of Pictionary. A video of this, shared on Kensington Palace’s official Instagram account, went viral and garnered over a million views. View this post on Instagram ...
Read More »Pakistani footballer Karishma Ali marks a spot at Forbes, 30 under 30
CHITRAL: 21 year old Karishma Ali is the first-ever girl from Chitral to play football on the national as well as international level. The Pakistani footballer secured a spot at the prestigious Forbes ’30 Under 30′ list. ‘Baba, look how far we’ve come,” she tweeted. As President of the Chitral Women’s’ Sports ...
Read More »India behind high-profile terrorist attacks in Pakistan
NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD: National Security Advisor to Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mooed Yusuf revealed that India was involved in at least four high-profile terrorist attacks in Pakistan, saying that Islamabad had “proof to the T” of New Delhi’s involvement. In an interview to veteran Indian journalist Karan Thapar for The Wire, Yusuf said ...
Read More »Indian Defence Minister accused Pakistan, China creating border dispute with India ‘under a mission’
NEW DELHI: Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh accused Pakistan and China of raising tensions at its northern and eastern borders “under a mission”. The minister made this statement while he was virtually inaugurating a raft of Border Roads Organisation (BRO) projects. “You are well aware of the conditions created on ...
Read More »Pakistan assures Afghanistan of complete support for peace process
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday assured Afghanistan of Pakistan’s complete support for the Afghan peace process, stating that Islamabad wanted to be “friends not masters”. The foreign minister was speaking at a conference at the Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad alongside the chairman of Afghanistan’s High ...
Read More »At UN, Pakistani leader calls India a sponsor of hate
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday assailed India’s Hindu nationalist government and its moves to cement control of Muslim-majority Kashmir, calling India a state sponsor of hatred and prejudice against Islam. Khan said at the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders that Islamophobia rules India and threatens the ...
Read More »Pakistan govt passes all FATF-linked bills via joint session
ISLAMABAD: After a series of defeats in Senate, Pakistan government pushed all pending legislations on terror financing linked to FATF compliance through a joint session of parliament amid loud protests and a walkout by Opposition members. The Imran Khan government’s desperate move is part of efforts to get Pakistan out ...
Read More »Pakistani women raped, robbed of valuables on motorway
LAHORE: A mother of two children was looted and raped at gunpoint on motorway near Gujjar Pura area of the Pakistani Punjab metropolis. The woman was reportedly travelling in a car along with her two children when it developed some fault near Gujjar Pura. Some unknown accused overpowered her when ...
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