Category: International

NEW DELHI: India and China disagreed during a meeting of their defense ministers Thursday on the importance of restoring peace along their disputed border to developing bilateral ties. India called such restoration key to developing the ties, while China sees the border situation as largely stable, the respective governments said in statements issued after the […]

Security forces responded bravely and killed seven terrorists while three security personnel were martyred in three attacks, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday. The ISPR said a motorcyclist was involved in a suicide bombing near the check post of security forces. Afterwards, terrorists started firing at the security personnel. Four terrorists were killed […]

A senior lawyer from the Ahmadiyya community was booked and arrested on Thursday in Karachi on the complaint of another lawyer over allegation of using “Syed” in his name. It was the second time in as many years that Advocate Ali Ahmed Tariq had been booked on similar charges. The first information report (FIR), a […]

India’s defence minister has accused China of eroding the “entire basis” of ties between the two countries by violating bilateral agreements, a reference to a nearly three-year-old standoff involving thousands of soldiers stationed along their disputed border in the eastern Ladakh region. Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met with visiting Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu […]

Palestinians have described remarks about Israel by the head of the European Commission as “inappropriate, false and discriminatory”. It follows a congratulatory video message by Ursula von der Leyen on Israel’s Independence Day on Wednesday. In it she praised Israel, including for having “made the desert bloom”. It has sparked an unusual diplomatic spat between […]

ISLAMABAD — The United Nations Security Council is set to vote Thursday to demand Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership swiftly reverse their restrictions on women’s access to education and work and to condemn a recent ban on U.N. local female staff. The draft resolution, seen by VOA, expresses “deep concern at the increasing erosion of respect for […]

Six policemen were killed in an encounter with robbers in the Mauladad police jurisdiction in Jacobabad on Wednesday. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Samir Chana said police chased a gang of robbers who opened fire as a result of which three officials were killed on the spot and three others lost their lives during treatment […]

BEIRUT — Syrians living on opposite sides of the largely frozen battle lines dividing their country are watching the accelerating normalization of ties between the government of Bashar Assad and Syria’s neighbors through starkly different lenses. In government-held Syria, residents struggling with ballooning inflation, fuel and electricity shortages hope the rapprochement will bring more trade […]

Pakistan has called on the United Nations Security Council to take “bold decisions” to secure the compliance of States with the U.N. Charter’s principles and its own decisions such as to grant the right of self-determination to the people of Kashmir and Palestine. “The Council has various means available to it, under the Charter, to […]

US President Joe Biden launched his re-election bid on Tuesday with a promise to protect American liberties from “extremists” linked to former president Donald Trump, who he beat in 2020 and might face again in 2024. Biden made his announcement in a slickly produced video released by his new campaign team that opens with imagery […]