Pakistan Today

QUETTA: Cricket Australia includes Pakistan Captain Babar Azam in the World Test Championship’s “best XI.” Players who excelled throughout the previous two years, from 2021 to 2023, were chosen by Cricket Australia to make up its World Test Championship Team. To construct a side that would perform well under any circumstances, Cricket Australia declared, “This ‘best XI’ salutes those who...

KHARTOUM, SUDAN: Thousands of residents fled Sudan’s capital Wednesday as fighting between the army and paramilitaries raged for a fifth day after a 24-hour truce collapsed. Roughly 200 people have already been killed. The violence erupted on Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy, Mohamed...

ISLAMABAD: Record-breaking Pakistani mountaineer Shehroze Kashif on Wednesday said that he would complete his ambitious goal of scaling all 14 peaks above 8,000 metres before the year end. The 21-year-old has already climbed 11x8000m above peaks with the latest summit taking place on Monday when he along with compatriot Naila Kiani and other members of the Seven Summits Treks’ team...

BEIJING: Chinese authorities said on Wednesday they had detained a dozen people over a hospital fire in Beijing that left at least 29 dead and forced desperate survivors to jump out of windows to escape. The blaze, which broke out on Tuesday afternoon at the Changfeng Hospital in China's capital, killed mostly patients, and left scores of other people injured. Dramatic...

LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to file a petition in the Supreme Court seeking appointment of administrators in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as 90-day tenure of caretaker governments in both provinces is going to end on April 22. Former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, ex-KP CM Mahmood Khan and Fawad Chaudhry will submit the petition as PTI...

Despite the numerous health warnings and campaigns against smoking, the habit continues to be a significant health concern globally. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cigarettes kill more than 8 million people annually, with over 7 million of those deaths being a result of direct tobacco use, and around 1.2 million resulting from non-smokers being exposed to second-hand...

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday annulled the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) order on the recount of votes in six union councils (UCs) of Karachi. IHC Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan pronounced the decision on Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) request to stop the recount. JI lawyers Qaiser Imam and Hasan Javed Shorosh, and ECP officials and lawyers of other...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a clarification and rebutted news items published in print media which alleged that the top court wasn't audited for the last 10 years and that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) summoned the court's registrar. According to clarification issued by SC PRO, reference news reports regarding audit of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, published...

ISLAMABAD: Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly was informed that four billion US dollars were given on zero-interest rate in the PTI tenure. The disclosure made in the PAC session chaired by its Chairman Noor Alam Khan. “One billion dollars were provided to a petroleum company, while three billion dollars given to 600 people on zero-interest rate.” The PAC...

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday served notices to the Capital’s Police and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in a case seeking the details of first information reports (FIRs) against Hassan Khan Niazi. Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir, hearing the case, instructed the FIA and police to submit the cases record to the bench by tomorrow. Hassan Khan Niazi has...

ISLAMABAD: Umer Sharif, Pakistan’s king of comedy who had taken the genre of comedy to new highs, was born on April 1955. He started off his career a stage performer by the name Umer Zarif and later on changed his name to Umer Sharif. Two of his very famous comedy plays included ‘Bakra Qiston Pe’ and ‘Buddha Ghar Pe Hai’. He...

SHEIKHUPURA: The residents of Tiba Khuda Yar Sheikhupura blocked a road and lodged a protest over the death of woman who died of alleged ‘physical assault’ during police raid at her house for the arrest of a suspected robber. The incident took place in the jurisdiction of Factory Area police at Tiba Khuda Yar near Kot Abdul Malik where a...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazir Tarar on Wednesday blamed the recent wave of terror on the ‘wrong policy’ of the previous Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government to engage militants and allow them to resettle in Pakistan’s tribal areas. Speaking on the floor of the Senate, he said, sacrifices rendered by Pakistan's armed forces for the elimination of...

DI KHAN: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari along with a delegation on Wednesday arrived here at Jamiaat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s native home in Abdulkhel to offer condolence on the sad demise of Mufti Abdul Shakoor. The foreign minister condoled with the JUI-F leadership on the demise of Federal Minister for...

SRINAGAR: In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, a man, reportedly an ex-serviceman, shot himself and his wife in Kishtwar district. According to Kashmir Media Service, police official said that Ghulam Hussain shot his wife and later shot himself with 12 bore rifle in Thakrie area of the district. The official said the lady survived but the man is now critical....