Category: International

US President Joe Biden expressed concern Monday over the response by Iranian security forces against peaceful protests, saying Washington will this week impose sanctions on perpetrators of violence against protestors. “I remain gravely concerned about reports of the intensifying violent crackdown on peaceful protestors in Iran, including students and women, who are demanding their equal […]

New Delhi: Indian securities authorities were on alert following a bomb threat on board an Iranian passenger flight when it was approaching Delhi. Sources said that IAF fighter aircraft were scrambled, which followed the aircraft at a safe distance. Intimation was received of a bomb scare on an airline bearing Iranian registration, when it was […]

Former prime minister Imran Khan has criticised the country’s intelligence agencies over the recent audio leaks – purportedly featuring conversations of incumbent and previous high-level government officials including the premier – saying that their primary responsibility is ensuring security rather than indulging in “political engineering”. In an interview with a local TV channel, the PTI […]

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday the widespread protests following the death in police custody of a young woman last month are not the actions of “ordinary Iranians” as he accused the United States and Israel of planning the demonstrations. The protests, now in their third week, have been met with a crackdown […]

Kabul: Forty-six girls and young women were among those killed in a suicide bombing on an Afghan education centre last week, the UN said Monday as it announced the total death toll had risen to 53. A suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday next to women at a gender-segregated study hall packed with hundreds […]

Balochistan CTD says four alleged terrorists who attacked the CTD vehicle early Sunday morning were killed after both sides exchanged fire at Nuttal National Highway in Naseerabad district. The unidentified armed men opened fire on a CTD vehicle. The CTD team also took positions and returned fire. Consequently, four [alleged] terrorists were killed in the […]

The Canadian government has issued a rather bizarre travel advisory for its citizens travelling to India as it warned them from travelling to Gujarat, Punjab and Rajasthan – Indian states which share borders with Pakistan – due to presence of ‘landmines’. “Avoid all travel to areas within 10 km of the border with Pakistan in […]

DUBAI — Iran’s parliamentary speaker warned Sunday that protests over the death of a young woman in police custody could destabilize the country and urged security forces to deal harshly with those he claimed endanger public order. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf told lawmakers that unlike the current protests, which he said aim to topple the government, […]

ISLAMABAD: Hours after a local magistrate in Islamabad issued warrant for Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s arrest, the former prime minister on Saturday said that the current rulers will try to arrest him and put him into prison ahead of elections and he was ready for it. “The last time I came to know […]

TAINAN: Two small Taiwanese groups at far ends of the debate over relations with Beijing marked China’s national day on Saturday with flag raisings and flag burnings, very opposite responses at a time of rising tension over the Taiwan Strait. Oct 1 marks when Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China in 1949, with […]