Category: International

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 […]

China has removed its defence minister, the second ousting of a senior leader in three months, raising questions about the stability of the leadership team around Chinese President Xi Jinping. General Li Shangfu, who has been absent from public view for two months, was dismissed as defence minister and state councillor on Tuesday, according to […]

At a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York, secretary general Antonio Guterres said that “the 7 October attack by Hamas on Israel “did not happen in a vacuum”. Guterres added “The Palestinian people been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their lands steadily devolved by settlements and […]

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and allied countries have welcomed Türkiye’s decision to move forward with Sweden’s accession to join the alliance after more than one year of negotiations. “I welcome President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan’s signature of the accession protocol for Sweden and its referral to the Grand National Assembly. I look forward to a speedy […]

The apex court on Monday annulled the trial in the military courts of civilians accused of the May 9 violence that broke out following the arrest of former premier Imran Khan in a graft case. A five-member apex court bench — headed by Justice Ijaz Ul Ahsan, and comprising Justice Munib Akhtar, Justice Yahya Afridi, […]

KARACHI: Financial crunch-triggered crisis of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) aggravated on Sunday, affecting the flight operations adversely as 77 flights were cancelled due to the ‘reported’ halt of fuel supply by Pakistan State Oil (PSO). According to the spokesperson for the national-flag-carrier, 52 international and 29 domestic flights were scheduled for Sunday, of which […]

MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit the Iranian capital Tehran on Monday for talks with regional counterparts, his ministry’s spokeswoman has confirmed. Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported earlier that the foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia had been invited to meet for the talks. “We confirm Lavrov’s planned talks in […]

China believes “force is not a way to resolve” the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and is once again calling for a ceasefire, its envoy for the Middle East pleaded in Egypt, the foreign ministry said Sunday. Egypt on Saturday hosted a “summit for peace” where UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for swift “action to end this godawful […]

A decade after the commencement of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Pakistan awaits the project’s benefits through the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) A congregation of global leaders was hosted by Beijing this week to commemorate a decade of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Amongst the several dignitaries who attended was the Caretaker Prime Minister […]

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo and former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif has termed the ‘good relations’ with neighbours vital for development of the country. The former PM who landed in Pakistan on Saturday after spending four years in self-imposed exile was addressing a historic ‘homecoming’ rally organized by the PML-N at Minar-e-Pakistan ground to […]