Category: International

DAVOS, SWITZERLAND: A specialist group of international criminal and human rights lawyers filed a criminal report with the Office of the Swiss Federal Prosecutor against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, maintaining that he committed crimes against humanity. The complaint was filed before the World Economic Forum meetings took off at Davos in Switzerland. Adityanath, […]

The United States on Jan. 20 designated Russia’s Wagner group as a “transnational criminal organization,” piling pressure on the private Russian army fighting in Ukraine. White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Wagner, controlled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman close to President Vladimir Putin, has about 50,000 fighters in Ukraine, 80 percent of them […]

LAHORE: Textiles owners on Thursday warned of a strike over non-clearance of imported cotton containers at Karachi Port amid the country’s struggle to boost fast-depleting foreign exchange reserves. “The textile industry will be forced to protest if the government doesn’t clear the imported cotton coming to Karachi,” All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) chairman Hamid […]

European Council officials said Friday they expect additional European Union sanctions to be placed on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), one day after the European Parliament called for the group to be added to the EU terror list. In a nonbinding resolution late Thursday, the parliament voted by a large majority to add the […]

ISLAMABAD: At least 42 journalists were killed in Pakistan during the last four years, stated documents submitted by the information ministry in the Senate.The documents elaborated that out of the 42, 15 journalists were killed in Punjab, 11 in Sindh, 13 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), and three in Balochistan. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Murtaza Javed Abbasi […]

DUBAI: Saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a prominent cleric accused of using social media to stoke unrest, according to a court document seen by this news agency on Thursday. Awad al-Qarni was among dozens of prominent clerics and dissidents arrested in September 2017, three months after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman became […]

BIRMINGHAM: Tehreek-e-Kashmir (TeK) UK leader Fahim Kayani on Wednesday said the World Economic Forum (WEF) must stop Indian politician Yogi Adityanath from attending the Davos conference as allowing his participation is tantamount to legitimising his “terror” regime. “India is pushing Ajay Singh Bisht aka Yogi Adityanath to the international stage through the Davos gathering of […]

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday that four security personnel were martyred during “terrorist activity” from across the Pakistan-Iran border in Balochistan’s Panjgur district. “Today, in a terrorist activity from across Pakistan-Iran border in Chukab sector, district Panjgur, Balochistan, four security forces personnel have embraced martyrdom,” the statement said. It further said that […]

Islamabad, Pakistan – The provincial assembly in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been dissolved, the second such move in less than a week as former Prime Minister Imran Khan pushes for early national elections. The governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Haji Ghulam Ali, on Wednesday signed a letter dissolving the provincial assembly “with immediate effect”. He […]

DAVOS: Saudi Arabia’s finance minister said on Wednesday the kingdom is changing the way it provides assistance to allies, shifting from previously giving direct grants and deposits unconditionally. The kingdom was encouraging countries in the region to enact economic reforms, Mohammed al-Jadaan said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “We used to give direct […]