Category: International

DELHI: A high court in western India rejected an appeal by opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday to suspend his conviction in a defamation case, quashing for now his hope of returning to parliament and contesting national elections due next year. Gandhi can now take his appeal to a larger bench of the same high […]

ISLAMABAD: The country’s civil and military leaders on Friday inaugurated the Land Information and Management System – Centre of Excellence (LIMS-COE) to addressing the pressing issues of food insecurity, malnutrition, and soaring import costs in the agriculture sector. The inauguration of groundbreaking solution of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General […]

The Foreign Office (FO) said on Thursday it had received the decision of the Per­manent Court of Arbi­tration — a non-UN intergovernmental organisation located in The Hague — which declared the body competent to adjudicate on a dispute between Pak­istan and India over the construction of two hydroelectric projects in occupied Kashmir, pursuant to the […]

LONDON/ NEW DELHI: Freedom of expression cannot be used for “legitimising violence”, India said on Thursday in response to media reports citing comments by Canada’s prime minister on Ottawa’s handling of supporters of a separate state for the Sikh community. India summoned the Canadian envoy in New Delhi to register its protest after Indian media […]

ISLAMABAD: Clashes with militants and a suicide car bombing in northwestern Pakistan overnight killed at least four soldiers, including an army major. A military statement said Thursday the violence occurred in Khyber and North Waziristan districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, both bordering Afghanistan and known former strongholds of militants. The statement said that Pakistani security […]

BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) has decided not to send its election observer mission to Pakistan for the next parliamentary polls, citing certain internal constraints as well as a non-invitation from Islamabad, as a senior EU Parliament member stressed that the fate of any party or leader must not be decided by a “third force”. […]

The Israeli army on Wednesday announced the end of its raid and the withdrawal of all its soldiers from the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. In a statement for the Israeli army radio, army spokesman Daniel Hagari said, “All the (Israeli) forces have left Jenin,” claiming that the raid’s “goals have been […]

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial emphasised on Wednesday that the recent boat tragedy on Greek shores, which claimed the lives of more than 300 people from Pakistan, was a grave issue concerning human rights. At least 350 people, almost all of them men, from Pakistan were on an overloaded boat that capsized and sank […]

Amid world-wide protests and outrage over the recent incident of desecration of Holy Quran in Sweden, the United Nations Human Rights Council will hold an urgent session to address Islamophobia and religious hatred. Addressing a press briefing, a spokesperson for the Geneva-based UN council said that the session will discuss the rising religious hatred in […]

Chairman of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has termed July 5, 1977, as a black day in national history. He said that this day will continue to remind us how a power-hungry dictator pushed the entire nation into the mire of extremism, terrorism, Kalashnikov and drug culture under the guise […]