The Essa Lab 15th National Women’s Softball Championship commenced with a vibrant and grand opening ceremony at the KMC Sports Complex. The event was formally inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Provincial Minister for Excise and Taxation Mr. Mukesh Kumar Chawla, who opened the championship with a ceremonial hit. The opening ceremony was attended by a distinguished gathering of sports officials, …

Pakistan Women U19 registered a thrilling 13-run win over Bangladesh Women U19 in the first T20 at the Cox’s Bazar Academy Ground on Wednesday. The second T20 of the five-match series will be played at the same venue on Friday, 5 December. After opting to bat first, Pakistan posted 88 all out in 19.4 overs, a total built largely around …

KABUL: The shooting of National Guard members in Washington, DC, over which an Afghan immigrant has been charged, has nothing to do with Afghanistan’s people or its government, Afghan Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said on Wednesday. Muttaqi’s comments are the first on the incident by the Afghan Taliban government, and come a week after events in Washington when …

Paleontologists have identified a new species of sauropod dinosaur, Mamenchisaurus sanjiangensis, from a partial skeleton discovered near Chongqing in southwest China, a find that sheds fresh light on sauropod evolution in East Asia. The dinosaur lived during the Early Oxfordian age of the Jurassic, around 160 million years ago. The bones were recovered from purplish‑red silty mudstones in the middle …

ISLAMABAD: As the maiden meeting of the National Finance Commission is set to put a spotlight on performance of provinces, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in particular, Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal has proposed multiple options to redistribute resources that would benefit the Centre and smaller federating units. Despite giving more weight to the variables that strengthen the fiscal position of the smaller provinces, the …