Senior all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez has said he has tested negative for the coronavirus a day after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said he was among seven more players who had tested positive for the virus. “After tested positive COVID-19 according to PCB testing report yesterday, as second opinion and for …

By Kamran Yousaf The Indian Prime Minister chaired an all parties’ conference on Friday, four days after 20 Indian soldiers including a colonel were killed in a bloody standoff with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley of Ladakh region. China and India both have their own stories to tell about …

KARACHI: Gold rates shot up Rs2,000 per tola, the All Sindh Sarafa and Jewellers Association (ASSJA) said Wednesday, with prices around the world surging to their highest in nearly eight years as signs of an acceleration in the coronavirus cases kept investors on edge. With the increase of Rs2,000, gold …

By Dennis Etler The Trump presidency is in a state of meltdown. He has been exposed once again as “an emperor without clothes.” He is losing on all fronts and as a result, is lashing out in all directions. But all of his huffing and puffing is having no effect …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday said it was disappointment over the non-designation of an Indian national as terrorist by the United Nations Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committee. According to a statement by the Foreign Office, Pakistan had proposed the designation of four Indian nationals — Venumadhav Dongara, Ajoy Mistry, Gobinda Patnaik, …

MEXICO: A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck southern Mexico’s Pacific coast on Tuesday, killing at least six people and seriously injuring others in isolated villages, while causing damage to buildings hundreds of miles away in Mexico City. The fatalities were near the quake’s center in Oaxaca, a mountainous state …

PYONGYANG: North Koran leader Kim Jong-un has suspended “military action plans” against South Korea, in an effort to de-escalate rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Kim suspended plans to resume military exercises and deploy more troops near the heavily fortified border with the South in a meeting of the governing …

TEL AVIV: A large number of people have staged a rally in Tel Aviv to protest the Israeli regime’s plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank and the Jordan Valley. About 2,500 people gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Tuesday evening to protest the decision. Celebrities, activists, …

SANA’A: Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has said that all missiles and drones used in the army’s latest raid precisely hit their targets in Saudi Arabia, warning of further strikes on more sensitive locations inside the kingdom if it fails to end the bloodshed in Yemen. Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior member …

DAMASCUS: Syrian air defenses have repelled an Israeli airstrike in the western-central province of Hama, only a few hours after they confronted similar acts of aggression elsewhere in the country. Syria’s official news agency SANA cited an unnamed military source as saying that the Israeli military carried out airstrikes at …