Pakistan Hockey Federation set up inquiry committee over World Cup failure

The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) president has formed a three-member inquiry committee to probe the performance of the Pakistan team in the ongoing Asia Cup in Jakarta after the national team had failed to qualify for the next year’s World Cup. Surprisingly, two members of the probe committee namely Kaleemullah and Nasir Ali are also مزید پڑھیں

Japanese Red Army founder walks free after 20 years in prison

Fusako Shige­nobu, the 76-year-old female founder of the once-feared Japanese Red Army, wal­ked free from prison on Saturday after completing a 20-year sentence for a 1974 embassy siege. Shigenobu was one of the world’s most notorious wom­en during the 1970s and 1980s, when her radical leftist group carried out armed attacks worldwide in support of مزید پڑھیں

Seven Indian troops killed in accident near disputed border with China

At least seven Indian soldiers were killed and 19 others injured in a road accident in the remote Ladakh region, close to the country’s disputed border with China, police said Friday. The world’s two most populous nations redirected tens of thousands of additional troops into the high-altitude Himalayan region after a deadly hand-to-hand battle in مزید پڑھیں

Benazir Bhutto paved way for women and mothers in international politics: Jacinda Ardern

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addressed students at the Harvard University Commencement on Thursday, where she reiterated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s call to deepen democracy. The New Zealand Prime Minister emphasised the importance of democratic systems, echoing Bhutto’s 1989 speech at the university, in which she emphasised the “fragility of democracy.” In مزید پڑھیں

Russia commits ‘all its forces’ to take Ukraine’s Lugansk, Kyiv says

Russia on Thursday made an all-out effort to capture the rest of the industrial region of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine, officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of seeking to commit “genocide” across the eastern Donbas. As the fighting intensified, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba aired Kyiv s increasing frustration with the West, accusing allies مزید پڑھیں