Category: International

An alliance of ethnic rebel groups in Myanmar has launched coordinated attacks on the military across the country’s north, with local media reporting many casualties. Friday’s development poses a new challenge to the military government, struggling to quell resistance to its rule since the 2021 coup sparked renewed fighting with powerful rebel groups in northern […]

BRUSSELS: EU leaders called for pauses in the violence unfolding in Gaza to get humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave after days of wrangling that highlighted divisions within the bloc over the conflagration in the Middle East. In a declaration agreed at a summit in Brussels, the leaders of the Union’s 27 nations expressed the […]

ISLAMABAD: In response to President Arif Alvi’s fears that elections may not be held in the last week of January 2024, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday announced that it would issue the election schedule after the delimitation of constituencies is completed and the polls will be held next year. “After the publication […]

The men, including decorated officers who once commanded major Indian warships, were working for Dahra Global Technologies and Consultancy Services, a private firm that provided training and related services to Qatar’s armed forces. New Delhi: Eight former officers of the Indian Navy have been handed death penalty in Qatar following allegations of spying for Israel, […]

The number of people worldwide living in forced displacement from their homes is estimated to have exceeded 114 million, the United Nations said Wednesday — a record figure. “The number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights violations globally is likely to have exceeded 114 million at the end of September,” UNHCR, […]

New Delhi: India will partially resume visa services in Canada — closed last month amid a diplomatic row — from October 26, the Indian High Commission in Ottawa said on Wednesday. Services will resume for entry visa, business visa, medical visa, and conference visa, the High Commission said. “Further decisions, as appropriate, would be intimated […]

ISLAMABAD: Senior politician and lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan on Wednesday filed a constitutional petition in the Supreme Court against the practice of enforced disappearances. Ahsan, despite being a PPP central leader, always had a soft spot for the PTI, which has been facing a crackdown ever since its attacks on military and civilian installations on May […]

ISLAMABAD: The government will file an appeal against the Supreme Court’s decision to declare civilians trial in military courts as unconstitutional, it has been learnt. Two cabinet ministers, on condition of not being named, when contacted on Tuesday, told The News that an appeal will be filed in the apex court against its verdict announced […]

NEW DELI: The ongoing violence between Israel and Hamas has underlined the challenges facing an ambitious initiative to build a new trade route from India through the Middle East to Europe, according to analysts. Announced at the Group of 20 summit held in India last month, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, or IMEC, is seen […]

PARIS: Journalist Mortaza Behboudi, who had spent 284 days in jail in Afghanistan, said he thought he would never make it out alive. The French-Afghan reporter was covering a gathering of students in front of Kabul University when he was arrested in January this year. He was imprisoned just two days after entering Afghanistan. What […]