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Pakistan will not travel to India for next month's Hockey Asian Champions Trophy, with Bangladesh brought in as a late replacement, after the PHF's request to shift matches to a neutral venue over security concerns was turned down.
Salman Agha's fourth ODI hundred set up a 305-run total, and Pakistan's pace attack held off a Pavan Rathnayake fightback to open the ODI tri-series with a 37-run win over Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi.
Fresh off a 37-run win over Sri Lanka, Pakistan face England in Rawalpindi on Tuesday in just the tourists' second men's ODI series in Pakistan since 2005, with Mohammad Rizwan's continued absence still the squad's biggest talking point.
Between an AI programme for diagnosing multiple sclerosis, a planned heavy-ion cancer therapy centre and a new Arab genomic reference, Abu Dhabi's hospitals had an unusually productive start to 2026.
Speaking outside Avenfield House in London, the PML-N president said the army's sacrifices were beyond doubt and that those carrying out terrorism should face no leniency.
Non-oil exports grew almost 24% in the first half of 2026 to a record AED452.8bn, the clearest sign yet that the UAE's decade-long push to diversify away from oil is showing up in the trade numbers.
Dubai's tourism sector has clawed back to its strongest footing since February, with nearly 7 million visitors through August and hotel occupancy almost doubling since the spring.
A clean sweep of 2026's global rankings — the world's strongest passport, the world's safest city, and the Arab world's happiest country — adds up to one of the stronger soft-power years the UAE has had.
DG ISPR Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry details the Makkah alliance's secretariat, its Article 51 legal basis, and a maritime coalition spanning Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeb, in an interview with Independent Arabia.
DG ISPR Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry says Islamabad has kept channels open to Tehran for months, warning that the region's repeating escalation cycle serves only those seeking chaos.
Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry tells Independent Arabia that Saudi sovereignty and the Two Holy Mosques are non-negotiable, and that the Makkah alliance's collective-deterrence clause is already in effect.
The UAE Space Agency has shown off the spacecraft for an eight-year journey past seven asteroids, the latest marker of a space programme that has gone from a standing start to a serious regional power in under two decades.
India's airlines say the squeeze from Pakistan's airspace ban and a global jet-fuel shock could sink them. Routes are being cut, but no major carrier has actually gone under.
Twenty-nine Air India routes cut in three months, a Vienna-Delhi link gone by Halloween, a lonely Chennai-Réunion service flying its last leg in October. The cuts are small on their own. Together they are a pattern.
India's airlines say jet fuel now eats up 55-60% of operating costs, nearly double its usual share, as the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz closure send ATF prices soaring.
A rolling monthly NOTAM has kept Pakistani skies shut to Indian carriers since April 2025, piling up close to $2 billion in losses with no renewal deadline ever truly final.
Dove Airlines folded into liquidation in January 2026 and got swept into roundups of airline trouble. It had not flown a single route since 2022, years before the pressures it is now blamed for even began.
I grew up in a PML-N house where the general was the villain of every story. Fifteen years on, I've stopped believing it.
Since July, a protest movement has tested how free India's institutions really are. The record the state has filed under oath keeps colliding with the one its own evidence shows.
After two years of decline, the Conservatives have edged ahead of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in a closely watched poll. Behind the numbers lies a larger struggle over the identity, credibility and future of the British right.
Rahul Gandhi and nine other opposition leaders have taken India's Election Commission to the Supreme Court over more than 130 million vanished voters.
Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the UN have converged on the same verdict about India's mass detentions, a record that 'mother of democracy' rhetoric does not easily survive.
He spent a career negotiating at the table of power. Now, locked out of the room, Maulana Fazlur Rehman has begun to sound like the man he helped remove.
Grandparents and students waved the same flag over the same grievance in central Delhi, a sign the Cockroach protests have outgrown their organisers.
A campaign that began mocking the Election Commission with an insect's name just drew a national film star and millions of online followers to Freedom Park.
Mobile data cut, journalists in judicial custody, a historic protest ground de-notified: Delhi's response to the SIR protests looks less like crowd control and more like attrition.
An extensive security investigation uncovered a sustained Indian intrusion into the publication’s digital infrastructure. With normal operations restored, The Thursday Times says its commitment to independent journalism remains unchanged.
Trump says his new spokesperson should reconsider the role, as reports say she is leaving after a short debut briefing and questions over her credentials.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has reaffirmed that Pakistan stands "shoulder to shoulder" with Saudi Arabia in safeguarding its sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, in a meeting in Islamabad with the newly arrived Saudi Ambassador, Dr Rajeh Tami Albugamy.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will land in India this week with a schedule that leaves out New Delhi and includes no announced meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Protests are gathering pace across India, with the Cockroach Janta Party set to hold another demonstration at Delhi's Connaught Place on Friday after the Delhi High Court refused to restrain it.
The UN, Amnesty and Human Rights Watch have criticised India over the mass detention of protesters, opposition leaders, lawyers and journalists in Delhi.
Pakistan's capital has beaten Paris, New York and London in Numbeo's 2026 Mid-Year Quality of Life Index, scoring 140.7, in a ranking that highlights Islamabad's safety, climate and affordability.
The federal government has moved to impose an emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to protect citizens and restore peace, with President Asif Ali Zardari signing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's advice on the province's security situation
Former chief ministers Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal and Pinarayi Vijayan were among those held as the Cockroach Janta Party protest at Jantar Mantar demanded the Chief Election Commissioner's resignation
he International Monetary Fund and Pakistan have reached a staff-level agreement on two programme reviews, potentially unlocking about $1.2 billion in financing, subject to approval by the IMF Executive Board.
US President Donald Trump welcomed Pakistan and Türkiye's military support for Saudi Arabia under the Makkah Alliance, saying "I think that's great."
The strongest defence of the Haramain would be one that keeps the turbulence of the region far from their gates. That is more than deterrence; it is stewardship of a trust larger than any single state.
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye decided at an emergency meeting in Riyadh on 5 October to move to the practical implementation of collective defence commitments under the Makkah Alliance for Defense, including rapid deployment of agreed forces in the Kingdom.
The International Criminal Court on 5 October 2026 unsealed four arrest warrants in the Afghanistan situation against senior Taliban figures, including Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani.
