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Olympians, ex-players call for radical changes in PHF after Pakistan fails to qualify for hockey World Cup

KARACHI: Erstwhile powerhouse of the game, Pakistan's failure to qualify for the men's hockey World Cup has created a furore in the nation with former players finding it "hard to digest" and calling for heads to roll in the national federation.

The Times of India

Afghanistan's Taliban step up coal exports to boost local budget

The Afghan Taliban are stepping up coal exports to Pakistan and have raised duties on sales, officials said, as the group aims to generate more revenue from its mining sector in the absence of direct foreign funding.

Reuters

Asia Cup 2022 | Indian men's hockey team qualifies for knockout stage with massive win over Indonesia

India and Pakistan finished on four points each behind Japan but the holders qualified for the Super 4s on the basis of a better goal difference

The Hindu

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India and Pakistan's heatwave is a sign of worse to come – podcast

India and Pakistan have been sweltering under an unprecedented heatwave, the severity of which scientists attribute to climate change. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we explore how much worse heatwaves in the region could get and how farmers can prepare.

The Conversation

Pakistan hikes fuel prices to unlock IMF funding

Pakistan on Thursday announced it will hike fuel prices so that it can resume receiving aid from a $6 billion package signed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2019, the country's finance minister said.

Reuters

Pakistan's ex-premier calls off planned sit-in, demands vote

Pakistan’s defiant former Prime Minister Imran Khan cancelled a planned, open-ended sit-in in Islamabad on Thursday, temporarily assuaging fears of protracted civil conflict after he led thousands on a march toward Parliament demanding the government’s resignation

The Independent UK

Ousted Pakistani PM Khan calls off protest march after clashes, gives ultimatum

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan disbanded a protest march by supporters on Thursday after clashes with police outside parliament the previous evening, but he warned that they would return unless an election was called within six days.

Reuters

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Indian, Pakistani killed in UAE gas blast that injured 120

A gas cylinder explosion in Abu Dhabi earlier this week that injured 120 people killed an Indian and a Pakistani national

The Independent UK

Pakistan: Khan gives six-day deadline to gov’t to announce polls

Imran Khan warns government to set new polls in six days or he will again march on the capital with millions of people.

Al Jazeera

Day will come when Pakistan will be able to engage with India diplomatically and economically: Zardari

That day we will unlock our full economic potential, and all will share the fruit of prosperity, Pak. Foreign Minister says

The Hindu

Asia Cup hockey | India eye big win against Indonesia, favourable result in Pak vs JPN match

Japan will have to beat Pakistan to keep India’s faint hopes alive

The Hindu

Bhutto scion rejects Khan allegations, rebuilds ties with West at Davos

(Adds dropped letter, paragraph 14)

Reuters

Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto writes to U.N. rights chief on Yasin Malik verdict

The Pakistan Foreign Minister wants Kashmiri separatist leader acquitted from all charges and freed from prison

The Hindu

Indian court sentences Kashmiri leader to life in prison

An Indian court has sentenced a Kashmiri separatist leader to life in prison after declaring him guilty of terrorism and sedition, triggering a clash between protesters and police and a partial shutdown of businesses in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir

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Gujarat: BSF seizes Pak fishing boat near border in Kutch

AHMEDABAD: The Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday seized an abandoned Pakistani fishing boat near the border in Gujarat's Kutch district, an official release said.

Al Jazeera

India sentences Kashmir rebel Yasin Malik to life imprisonment

A court in New Delhi sentences the top Kashmiri pro-freedom leader to life term in ‘terrorism’ funding case.

The Guardian - UK

‘It seems this heat will take our lives’: Pakistan city fearful after hitting 51C

Residents of Jacobabad say loss of trees and water facilities makes record-breaking temperatures unbearable

Al Jazeera

Pakistan: Clashes as defiant ex-PM Imran Khan marches to capital

Police fire tear gas and baton-charge Khan’s supporters to stop them from reaching Islamabad for already-banned rally.

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Pakistan police fire teargas, baton-charge supporters of ousted PM Khan

Pakistani police fired teargas and baton-charged supporters of ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday to block them from reaching the capital Islamabad, officials and witnesses said.

The Hindu

Anti-child marriage crusader Ashok Dyalchand wins Swedish award

Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai is voted WCP’s ‘Child Rights Hero of the Decade’

Chicago Sun-Times

Climate change means South Asia’s devastating heat wave a ‘sign of things to come,’ scientists warn

It made the intense heat sweeping through India and Pakistan 30 times more likely to occur — and future warming would make heat waves more common and hotter.

Reuters

Saudi Arabia finalising extension of $3 billion deposit to Pakistan -Finance Minister

Saudi Arabia is finalising the extension of the kingdom's $3 billion deposit to Pakistan, Saudi Minister of Finance Mohammed al-Jadaan told Reuters.

Reuters

Pakistan bans ousted PM Khan's protest march after policeman killed

Pakistan's government on Tuesday banned a planned protest march by ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is demanding fresh elections as a political and economic crises deepens in the South Asian nation, officials said.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Report Reveals New Details on Collapse of Afghan Forces

Many Afghan soldiers reportedly escaped to Pakistan as the Taliban attacks on districts and provincial capitals intensified weeks before the Afghan government’s collapse in August 2021, a US report revealed. The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released an interim report, “Collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security…

The Guardian - UK

Sisters allegedly murdered by husbands in Pakistan ‘honour’ killing

Six men arrested after Pakistani-Spanish women tricked into travelling to Gujrat where they were shot

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