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The Iranian national team are ​continuing to prepare for the World Cup finals and have no intention of pulling out of the tournament ‌even if they will not travel to the United States, soccer chief Mehdi Taj said on Wednesday. Iran were one of the first nations to qualify for the finals but their participation has been in doubt since the conflict between the Islamic Republic and the United States began in late February. The tournament runs from June 11 to July 19 and is being staged in the US, Mexico and Canada. Team Melli are scheduled to play all…

Nora Fatehi’s song has been banned after outrage. The song, featuring Dutt and Nora Fatehi, was released on YouTube two days ago and quickly went viral for its shock value and lyrics that almost describe a ‘sexual act’. A Samajwadi Party MP in Lok Sabha on Wednesday raised the issue of the controversial song “Sarke Chunar” Sanjay Dutt’s “KD The Devil” and the government said it has already been banned. Anand Bhadoria raised the issue during Question Hour and said unchecked content on OTT platforms and social media was a bad influence. In his response, Union information and broadcasting minister…

Selling pressure returned at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) amid escalation in the Gulf region, with the benchmark KSE-100 Index shedding nearly 3,000 points during intraday trading on Thursday. At 11am, the benchmark index was hovering at 151,313.56, a decrease of 2,978.69 points or 1.93%. The selling comes amid a global panic over an escalating energy crisis. “Overnight, the conflict in the Gulf reached a dangerous new peak, after Israel struck Iran’s South Pars field, the world’s largest, Iran retaliated against Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG hub,” said Behtari Capital on Thursday. “Since Qatar is Pakistan’s primary gas supplier, this is…

Lionel Messi scored his 900th career goal on Wednesday to become the second player to reach the mark in elite men’s ​football after Cristiano Ronaldo. The 38-year-old Argentine World Cup winner brought ‌up the milestone with a left-footed strike in Inter Miami’s 1-1 draw with Nashville SC in the CONCACAF Champions Cup. The 900th goal came 21 years after ​Messi scored his first in senior football for Barcelona as ​a 17-year-old in 2005. Inter manager Javier Mascherano said Messi’s tally ⁠was “insane”. “I’ve been lucky enough to see most, or many, of the ​goals he’s scored, much closer than you all,…

ISLAMABAD (DI NEWS) :  The Head of the Pakistan EPS Center, held a meeting with OEC regarding the Employment Permit System (EPS) and the points-based selection system. The main topic of the meeting was the efforts of both institutions to expand the dispatch of Pakistani workers in the future. During the meeting, the Center Head responded to questions frequently raised by job seekers as follows. 1.Low Referral Ratio for Pakistani Job Seekers Under the Employment Permit System (EPS), employers receive referrals of job seekers through the computerized system operated by the competent local employment center for each workplace. Based on…

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran, said a U.S. official and three people familiar with the matter. The deployments could help provide Trump with additional options as he weighs expanding U.S. operations, with the Iran war well into its third week. Those options include securing safe passage for oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a mission that would be accomplished primarily through air and naval forces, the sources said. But securing…

LONDON: A proposal from the UN’s shipping agency on Wednesday calls for a safe maritime corridor to free some 20,000 seafarers stranded in the Gulf by war in Iran. Hundreds of vessels have dropped anchor since Tehran threatened to attack ships attempting to leave the Gulf via the Strait of Hormuz. The proposal submitted by Bahrain, Japan, Panama, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates and backed on Wednesday by the United States called for “a framework such as a safe maritime corridor”. It was submitted at a meeting of the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) governing council in London. “The…

OSLO: NATO chief Mark Rutte said Wednesday that the military alliance’s members were discussing the “best way” to open the Strait of Hormuz, through which a large chunk of the world’s oil supply normally passes. “I have been in contact with many allies. We all agree, of course, that strait has to open up again. And what I know is that allies are working together, discussing how to do that, what is the best way to do it,” Rutte told a news conference during a visit to a NATO exercise in northern Norway. “They are working on that collectively, to…

In the first two months of 2026, the China-Europe Railway Express operated 3,501 services and moved 352,000 Twenty-foot Equivalent Units of cargo, reflecting year-on-year increases of 32% and 25%, respectively. A survey conducted by CGTN among global netizens shows that 88.8% of respondents believe the China-Europe Railway Express demonstrates China’s strong resolve to advance high-quality opening up and foster an open global economy. As a crucial bridge for economic and trade exchanges between Asia and Europe, the China-Europe Railway Express offers a shipping time roughly one-third that of sea freight and a cost of about one-fifth that of air cargo.…

A senior Chinese diplomat said on Wednesday that China is deeply concerned that the entire Middle East is being pushed toward a dangerous abyss. Fu Cong, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, made these remarks during a speech at a UN Security Council meeting on Syria. Fu emphasized that when discussing the situation in Syria, the broader regional context cannot be ignored. The continuation of conflict in the Middle East will only bring more suffering to local people and cause significant negative effects on both the regional and global economies, the Chinese diplomat added. Fu called for an immediate…