Category: International

Russia has successfully tested an experimental nuclear-powered cruise missile, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, while also warning that the country’s parliament could revoke its ratification of a treaty banning nuclear tests. In a speech at a forum of foreign policy experts, Putin announced that Russia has effectively completed the development of the Burevestnik cruise missile […]

NEW DELHI: Indian police expanded on Thursday an investigation into suspected illegal foreign funding of a news portal, accusing it in court of having sought to create an incorrect map of the country and also sabotage general elections in 2019. An official of the home (interior) ministry said Delhi police began questioning nine journalists and […]

Abu Dhabi; October 5: India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the 11th high-level task force on investments, signed an MoU to strengthen and develop industries, with special emphasis on technology transfer, artificial intelligence, and space technology, and while adhering the applicable laws of both the countries. Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal attended the […]

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) has taken a U-turn from its accountability stance against ex-army generals and former and present judges of the Supreme Court as Shehbaz Sharif Wednesday during a pub­lic gathering in Lahore elucidat­ed that Nawaz doesn’t seek re­venge but the development of the country upon his return. The sudden paradigm shift […]

Pakistan’s plan to evict hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees and migrants is “unacceptable”, says the Taliban, denying Islamabad’s allegations that Afghanistan’s citizens were responsible for Pakistan’s security problems. “The behaviour of Pakistan towards Afghan refugees is unacceptable,” Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban administration in Kabul, said in a post on the social media […]

NEW DELHI: India’s external intelligence service is a feared foe in its neighborhood: Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal have all accused it of political meddling and involvement with outlawed groups that have perpetrated acts of violence. Now, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation last month that Indian government agents were involved in the June killing […]

Activists have accused Iran’s morality police of beating a girl for not wearing a hijab and posted a photo purportedly showing her in a coma. Armita Geravand, 16, collapsed after boarding a Tehran metro train at Shohada station on Sunday. Officials said she fainted and released CCTV footage in which she is seen being pulled […]

RAWALPINDI: The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said Tuesday that security forces gunned down 10 terrorists in the Pezu area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Tank district. The military’s media wing, in a statement, mentioned that the terrorists were killed when the security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation on the “reported presence of terrorists”. Whilst the operation was […]

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested after two people were killed in a shooting at a luxury shopping mall in the centre of Bangkok, police say. The shooting happened at the Siam Paragon mall, the city’s most famous mall and one of the most-visited places in Asia. The victims were from China and Myanmar, Thailand’s […]

In a recent discourse, India’s External Affairs Minister, S. Jaishankar, pointedly criticized Canada for harboring individuals who advocate violence and terrorism due to its political leniency. This assertive statement sheds light on an issue that can no longer be swept under the rug. While Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau aims to fortify the ties between […]