Category: International

Two Israelis have been shot dead south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank by a suspected Palestinian gunman. Israel’s ambulance service said a 60-year-old man and his 29-year-old son were shot in the Palestinian village of Huwara. Paramedics said the two people were targeted inside a carwash. “Both were unconscious and had sustained gunshot […]

ISLAMABAD: Former foreign minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi was arrested by a heavy contingent of police from his residence in Islamabad on Saturday, sources said. The senior PTI leader was arrested following a press conference in which he announced moving the Supreme Court over the likely delay in general elections. […]

KYIV: Kyiv on Friday welcomed a US decision to let Denmark and the Netherlands hand F-16 fighter jets over to Ukraine once its pilots are trained to use them. In Russia, the authorities shut down respected rights group the Sakharov Center and announced fresh international sanctions against its critics abroad. And earlier Friday Russian forces […]

ISLAMABAD: Confirming the reports that the next general elections would be delayed, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday announced its decision to complete the process of delimitation exercise on the basis of new digital census. According to the schedule announced through a notification, the date for the final publication of the delimitation is […]

Taiwanese Vice President William Lai said Wednesday that U.S.-Taiwan relations are “unprecedentedly good” as he stopped in San Francisco on the final leg of a trip condemned by China. Lai told supporters at an event that he wants to make Taiwan into Asia’s Silicon Valley as he touted Taiwan’s role in the global technology supply […]

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday allowed PTI leaders Shehryar Afridi and Shandana Gulzar to go home as it heard their pleas against their ongoing detentions under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) ordinance. It further said it will indict city Deputy Commissioner (DC) Irfan Nawaz Memon and a senior superintendent of police […]

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) filed a plea in the apex court on Wednesday, requesting it to direct the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to announce a date for holding the general elections within the constitutionally mandated period of 90 days following the dissolution of the National Assembly on August 9. The plea also […]

LAHORE: Multiple churches were attacked on Wednesday in Jaranwala tehsil of Faisalabad over blasphemy allegations. Media reports stated that a mob of over 100 people stormed a local Christian neighbourhood in Jaranwala and set ablaze at least one church, the Salvation Army Church, one of the oldest in the area. The United Presbyterian Church, Allied […]

The caretaker government has announced a massive hike of almost Rs18 in the price of petrol and Rs20 in that of high speed diesel, taking them to Rs290.45 and Rs293.40 per litre, respectively. The announcement came at midnight on Tuesday and a fortnight after the Shehbaz-Sharif-led previous government increased the prices of the two products […]

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani and Indian leaders have abandoned the tradition of exchanging greetings on their respective independence days, showing the deteriorating state of relationship between the two nuclear armed neighbours. Pakistan celebrated its Independence Day on Monday while India marked its freedom day on Tuesday. Although the armed forces of the two countries exchanged sweets on […]