Category: International

ISLAMABAD: The federal government spends over Rs8 trillion on paying its 1.92 million employees and providing pensions on top of over six dozen kinds of perks, privileges and other dole outs, yet knowing little about their contribution, outcome and impact on taxpayers. While the judiciary gets the highest in perks, it is the Pakistan Administrative […]

Israeli forces detained at least 92 Palestinians in the West Bank in the last 24 hours, a local human rights group has said. The Palestinian Prisoners Club said the detentions took place mostly in Hebron, Jerusalem and Bethlehem. At least 560 Palestinians have been detained so far since October 7, the group added. More than […]

ISTANBUL: Eleven journalists have been killed in the Gaza Strip, with more than 20 injured and two missing since the start of the recent Israeli airstrikes, a Palestinian journalists group said in a new report. According to the report released Sunday by the Freedom Committee, affiliated with the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, 11 Palestinian journalists have […]

Authorities in Chicago said Sunday that as many as 14 people were shot leaving three dead in the latest incidents of shootings across the city, as officials are investigating and identifying the suspects involved in the gun violence. According to the police, two people were fatally shot in two different shooting incidents on the West […]

BEIJING/ MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Xi Jinping in China this week in a bid to deepen a partnership forged between the United States’ two biggest strategic competitors. Putin will attend the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Oct. 17-18, his first trip outside the former Soviet Union since the Hague-based International […]

Islamabad [Pakistan], October 14 (ANI): The pen-down strike in Punjab government departments entered the fourth day on Friday as the employees refused to resume work till their demands were met, Dawn reported. On the call of the joint alliance of government employees, teachers, and revenue officials under the platform of the All Government Employees Grand […]

Israel has declared its northern border with Lebanon a closed military zone after deadly clashes with Hezbollah as fears grow of the opening of another front amid an ongoing bombardment of Gaza Strip. Israel on Sunday warned civilians not to come within about 4km (2.5 miles) of the Lebanese border or else they may be […]

UNITED NATIONS: Iran warned in a social media post on Saturday that if Israel’s “war crimes and genocide” are not stopped then the situation could spiral out of control with “far-reaching consequences.” The post on X by Iran’s mission to the United Nations came after Axios reported Tehran warned Israel – in a message sent […]

ISLAMABAD: As repatriation of Afghan refugees via Chaman-Spin Boltak border to their country continued on Sunday, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said that Pakistan has been hosting Afghan refugees for the last over 40 years without receiving any funds in return. Till now more than 5000 Afghan refugees have repatriated to […]

Fewer prople in both Israel and Palestine believed the two-state solution and think the two states cannot co-exist peacefully – even before last weekend’s terror attacks. Public sentiment among members of the public in both Israel and Palestinian-controlled areas was moving away from the idea of creating a two-state solution for the region, even before […]