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KATHMANDU: Nepal celebrated its stunning victory against the West Indies on Sunday, its first-ever win in an international cricket match against a Test-playing nation. On Saturday, Nepal defeated West Indies by 19 runs in the first T20 international of a three-match series in Sharjah. The win marks Nepal’s first triumph over the two-time T20 World Cup champions and represents a major milestone for the rising cricketing nation. “It is a historic win for us and helps improve our players’ standing in the cricketing world,” Chatur Bahadur Chand, President of the Cricket Association of Nepal, told AFP. After the Nepali middle-order…
Staff members load flood relief supplies provided by the Chinese government to Pakistan at Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport in Zhengzhou, central China’s Henan Province, Sept. 27, 2025. (Xinhua/Hao Yuan)ISLAMABAD, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) — The first batch of emergency flood relief supplies donated by the Chinese government arrived in Pakistan on Sunday, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).Two Chinese relief flights carrying 300 tents and 9,000 blankets landed in Pakistan’s eastern Rawalpindi district, reflecting China’s enduring solidarity with Pakistan in times of difficulty, said the NDMA.Speaking on the occasion, Pakistan’s Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan & SAFRON, Amir…
ISLAMABAD: Many world leaders who have visited the White House since US President Donald Trump began his second term in January have not been received warmly. The tense spectacle of Trump’s exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy remained fresh in public memory. Against this backdrop, there was keen curiosity about what awaited Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the Field Marshal during their September 25 visit to the White House. Observers speculated over the reception Pakistan’s civil and military leadership would receive. Trump, known for turning every encounter into a public performance, surprised many by keeping the engagement strictly behind closed…
NEWCASTLE: Arsenal defender Gabriel headed a stoppage-time winner from a corner to secure his side a 2-1 Premier League victory over Newcastle United at St James Park on Sunday and close the gap on leaders Liverpool to two points with a stunning late show. Arsenal climbed to second place in the table with 13 points from six matches while Newcastle are in 15th with six points from the same number of games. Newcastle took the lead in the 34th minute when Nick Woltemade rose highest to meet a cross from a short corner and head into the net after Arsenal…
A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying test satellites, Shiyan-30 01 and 02, blasts off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Sept. 29, 2025. The two test satellites were launched at 11:00 a.m. (Beijing Time) and entered their preset orbits successfully. The satellites will be mainly used for experimental verification of Earth observation technologies. (Photo by Yang Xi/Xinhua)XICHANG, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) — China on Monday sent two new test satellites into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan.The test satellites, Shiyan-30 01 and 02, were launched at 11:00 a.m. (Beijing…
UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan took strong exception when India called it “Terroristan” at the United Nations on Saturday, saying the attempt to distort the country’s name was “utterly shameful” and petty. “It is utterly shameful that India stoops so low as to distort the very name of a country, a member of the United Nations,” Pakistani diplomat Muhammad Rashid told the UN General Assembly, which saw a fiery clash between the two South Asian neighbours — the second in the current session. Rashid, a second secretary at the Pakistani Mission to the UN, was exercising his right of reply to his Indian…
Asian Cricket Council (ACC) chief Mohsin Naqvi on Monday warned India against “dragging war” into sports, saying that doing so only exposed India’s “desperation,” while responding to comments made by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who politicised India’s Asia Cup final win against Pakistan. In a post on X, Modi congratulated the Indian cricket team on scoring a win in the final against the Green Shirts, calling it a continuation of India’s Operation Sindoor, launched against Pakistan in the four-day military conflict between the two countries. “#OperationSindoor on the games field. Outcome is the same — India wins! Congrats to…
DUBAI: Pakistan’s bright start with both bat and ball went in vain as they were overwhelmed by arch-rivals India in the Asia Cup T20 final on Sunday — a thrilling contest marked not just by on-field drama but also political undercurrents, including a persistent no-handshake and India’s refusal to receive the trophy from Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi. Tilak Varma’s composed, unbeaten 69 and Kuldeep Yadav’s decisive four-wicket haul powered the defending champions to a five-wicket win, sealing a record-extending ninth Asia Cup title in the tournament’s 41-year history. It was the first time India and Pakistan had contested…
PUBLISHED September 28, 2025 In an age increasingly defined by the dislocation of certainties and the realignment of great power influence, Game Plan: Pakistan Economic Gateway emerges as a work of uncommon acuity and strategic prescience. Authored by Shahryar Khan Niazi, a strategist of considerable standing, the volume delineates a grand design of such breadth and ambition as to place it within the tradition of Spykman, George Kennan, and Mackinder himself—whose theoretical frameworks echo throughout these pages. At the heart of the work lies the concept of the Pakistan Economic Gateway (PEG), a proposed latticework of intercontinental trade corridors traversing…
DUBAI: Tilak Varma hit an unbeaten 69 as India defeated Pakistan by five wickets for a record-extending ninth Asia Cup title with no handshakes between the sides again on Sunday. Chasing 147 for victory, India depended on Varma’s 53-ball knock and a key 60-run stand with fellow left-hander Shivam Dube to reach their target with two balls to spare in Dubai. Dube got out for 33 at the end of the 19th over and, with India needing 10 off the last six deliveries, Varma struck a six and Rinku Singh hit the winning boundary as the pair ran off to…