Category: International

New Delhi: The world is witnessing an unprecedented rate of urbanization and development, however, this has also exerted an equally significant impact on our environment and the quality of life. As a result of the urgent environmental challenges facing the world, the United Nations created 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), calling for actions from all […]

The leader of Indian’s opposition Congress party Rahul Gandhi has said his disqualification by parliament was politically motivated. On Friday, India’s parliament stripped Mr Gandhi of his MP status a day after he was sentenced to two years in prison in a defamation case. He was convicted by the court for 2019 comments about PM […]

NEW DELHI: India’s parliament disqualified the leader of the opposition Congress party, Rahul Gandhi, on Friday, a day after a magistrate’s court jailed him for two years in a defamation case linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surname. Gandhi “stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha”, a parliament notice said, referring to the lower […]

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND — China attempted on Thursday to block a prominent Uyghur activist from speaking at the United Nations Human Rights Council, where he demanded the body urgently address allegations of serious violations by Beijing. Dolkun Isa, a Uyghur activist based in Germany and president of the World Uyghur Congress, spoke up during a general […]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday that decisions regarding the constitutionality, feasibility and timing of provincial and general elections “rest solely with Pakistan’s institutions”, clarifying that there was “no requirement under Pakistan’s Extended Fund Facility-supported programme which could interfere with the country’s ability to undertake constitutional activities”. The statement from the international monetary […]

The United States has condemned the attack on the Indian Consulate in San Francisco and any attack against diplomatic facilities within the US. The country has pledged to defend the safety, and security of these facilities as well as the diplomats who work within them. “The United States condemns the attack against the Indian Consulate […]

Sri Lanka must not allow entrenched corruption to undermine a bailout for its bankrupt economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday after signing off on a $3 billion loan for the crisis-hit nation. The IMF approved its long-delayed rescue program on March 20 after China, the South Asian nation’s biggest bilateral lender, offered debt […]

A U.S. federal court unsealed indictments Tuesday charging Iranian and Turkish defendants with conspiring to procure and export U.S. technology to support Iran’s weapons programs. The U.S. Justice Department said that between 2012-2013 Amanallah Paidar, of Iran, and Murat Bükey, of Turkey, sent a device used to test fuel cells from the United States through […]

The annual US report on human rights has listed “significant” human rights abuses in India including unlawful and arbitrary killings, challenges to freedom of press, interference with privacy, and violence targeting religious and ethnic minorities, with the Biden administration strongly urging Delhi to uphold its rights commitments. ”The US and India regularly consult at the […]

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN / D.I. KHAN: Five security personnel, including a senior military officer, were martyred in separate attacks in South Waziristan and Dera Ismail Khan on Tuesday. According to an ISPR statement, Brig Mustafa Kamal Barki from Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), while leading the encounter from the front, embraced martyrdom and seven soldiers got injuries, two […]