By Amjad Mahmood Every tribe, ethnicity, empire, dynasty, and nation for ages has held some form of authority, power, and influence during different segments of recorded history. This instinct stemmed from basic human traits to fight, resist, survive on its own terms, adapt somewhere and forcing own will whenever possible or permitted. Each seat of...
BIRMINGHAM, England, Aug 7 (Reuters) – Australian Kelsey-Lee Barber won Commonwealth Games javelin gold on Sunday, after defending her world title last month and then overcoming a bout of COVID-19. Barber, Commonwealth Games bronze medallist in 2014 and silver in 2018, was nearly denied a ticket to Birmingham after testing positive for COVID while on...
July 16 (Reuters) – England test captain Ben Stokes will miss the upcoming three-match Twenty20 international series against South Africa and the Hundred to manage his workload and fitness, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said. Stokes, now playing the one-day international series against India, will feature in the 50-over matches against South Africa from Tuesday...
By Dr Majid Khan Dr Mughees Sheikh writes in his doctoral thesis, “After the end of the Cold War, Islam will be an eminent ‘threat candidate’ for the US media”. Mughees Sheikh’s findings in 1992 did predict the inception of a socio-political and media discourse that we now call Islamophobia. But Islamophobia comes into the...
ISLAMABAD (Correspondent): According to Indian media, the Indian Army today produced a 33-page dossier document containing a claim of a “terrorist attack” against India by Pakistan. In response to this blame, Pakistan, FO said: A well-documented campaign for state terrorism and widespread human rights abuses at IIOJK. A FO spokesman emphasized that there have been...
SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 7 (Reuters) – An inspired all-round show from Hardik Pandya fired India to an emphatic 50-run win over England in the first Twenty20 of their three-match series at the Ageas Bowl on Thursday. India made a flying start after opting to bat, with Deepak Hooda (33) and Suryakumar Yadav (39) taking a...
By Muhammad Azhar Kaleem During the early colonial era, Europeans founded their first colonies in Africa. In the 16th century, the Portuguese settled in Angola and Mozambique while in 1652 the Dutch founded a colony in South Africa. In the late 19th century Europeans colonized most of Africa, South Asia and some other regions, primarily...
NUSA DUA, Indonesia, July 7 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was on the Indonesian island of Bali on Thursday preparing for a G20 gathering that will be his first face-to-face meeting with the fiercest critics of his country’s invasion of Ukraine. The G20 foreign ministers’ meeting runs until Friday in host country Indonesia,...
HOUSTON, July 5 (Reuters) – More than 5 million barrels of oil that were part of a historic U.S. emergency oil reserves release aimed at lowering domestic fuel prices were exported to Europe and Asia last month, according to data and sources, even as U.S. gasoline and diesel prices touched record highs. The export of...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) — Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow shredded India with unbeaten centuries as England rewrote history by winning their series-deciding test by seven wickets on the last day of the fifth test at Edgbaston on Tuesday. Needing 119 more runs to register its highest successful run chase of 378 in test cricket, England...