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ISLAMABAD – Pakistani authorities are still investigating the exact cause of the plane crash incident airlines Pakistani International Airlines (PIA) that killed 47 people on Sunday. The worst incident in the last four years was also killed former rock singer who became a preacher, Junaid Jamshed, two infants and three …

Friday, 9 December 2016 The World Bank has cancelled a $100-million loan to Pakistan for a natural gas efficiency project, citing zero progress in achieving the objectives of a five-year development plan and no interest on the part of the gas distribution company in honoring the agreement. Back in 2012 …

THE 11TH edition of the Punjab International Trade Expo (PITEX) 2016, involving SAARC countries, kicked off in Amritsar Thursday. Although some stalls will exhibit Pakistani flags and products, it has been the first time when the neighbour country will remain largely absent from the trade show. Organisers blamed demonetisation for …

ISLAMABAD (APP): Pakistan Air Force (PAF) clinched the 1st Chief of Air Staff (CAS) National Kabaddi Championship on Saturday played here at the Jinnah Stadium of the Pakistan Sports Complex. PAF beat Wapda in the final with the match score of 48-36 to win the Championship. Air Marshal Asad Lodhi, …

A Pakistani snooker player says he is still waiting for a large cash reward promised to him by the country’s sports minister for winning last year’s Asian Games Championships. Hamza Akbar says he was told he had be sent the money, but months after coming to the UK for training …

KARACHI: The government has given go-ahead for Pakistan’s participation in the Junior Hockey World Cup in India in December. Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) secretary Shahbaz Ahmed told ‘The News’ that Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) has informed him that the government had permitted participation in the Junior World Cup, scheduled to …

The Pakistan International Super Kabbadi League will be held in March next year, secretary general of the Pakistan Kabaddi Federation (PKF) Rana Mohammad Sarwar said. Sarwar, who is also the general secretary of the Asian Kabaddi Federation, said that the Pakistan Super Kabaddi League would be organised for the first …

Thursday, 14 September 2017 :  Al Qaeda militants have called for support for Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, who are facing a security crackdown that has sent about 400,000 of them fleeing to Bangladesh, warning that Myanmar would face “punishment” for its “crimes”. The exodus of Muslim refugees from Buddhist-majority Myanmar was …

Friday, 18 August 2017 :  Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize when she was 17, said on Thursday she was “excited” after winning a place to study at Oxford University. Yousafzai said she had been accepted at Oxford to study Politics, Philosophy, and …

Wednesday, 19 July 2017 KARACHI: 5 people died when an apartment building collapsed in southern Pakistan early Tuesday as most of its residents were sleeping, officials said. Rescuers struggled to pull survivors from the rubble of the 3-storey building in the southern city of Karachi. “5 bodies were recovered from …