Category: International

WASHINGTON: The Biden administration on Wednesday added 24 companies and other entities to an export control list for supporting Russia’s military or defence industrial base, Pakistan’s nuclear activities or for supplying an Iranian electronics company. The entities, based in Latvia, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore and Switzerland, were added over US national security and foreign policy concerns, […]

The United States says it has not “encouraged” Ukraine to strike into Russia after drone attacks on bases widely seen as carried out by Kyiv. “We have neither encouraged nor enabled the Ukrainians to strike inside of Russia,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters. “But the important thing is to understand what Ukrainians are […]

An Afghan man convicted of murder was publicly executed in Farah on Wednesday, the Taliban said — the first confirmation of such a sentence since the group returned to power. Last month, Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada ordered judges to fully enforce aspects of Shariah law that include public executions, stonings and floggings, and the […]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the federal government to constitute a new Joint Investigation Team (JIT) comprising independent and senior officers to probe the Arshad Sharif’s murder case. Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial on Tuesday had taken suo motu notice of the journalist’s murder. Headed by CJP Bandial, a five-member bench […]

Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) President Maulana Fazl-Ur-Rehman, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is a contentious organization that should be eliminated. He stated that he has always stated that NAB is being utilized to retaliate against politicians and discredit them. The PDM chairman told that the NAB’s 22-year success is in front of our eyes, but […]

ISLAMABAD, Dec – Pakistan’s Supreme Court set up a panel of five judges on Tuesday to supervise an investigation into the death of a prominent journalist who was shot and killed in Kenya, the court said.Journalist Arshad Sharif, 50, was killed on Oct. 23 while travelling in a vehicle on the outskirts of the Kenyan […]

Dec – Pakistan is committed to completing the International Monetary Fund programme while meeting external debt repayments on time, the country’s finance minister said on Tuesday during a meeting with the ambassador of its top bilateral lender China.An IMF review for the release of its next tranche of funding has been pending since September, leaving […]

LAHORE: A top Pakistani court on Tuesday suspended a summons issued to ousted prime minister Imran Khan by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in an inquiry into an audio leak relating to the ‘cypher’ controversy and sought a reply from it by December 19.Khan on Monday had challenged the government’s inquiry against him in the […]

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Tuesday, praised India’s pursuit of renewable solutions to its growing energy needs on the second day of her two-day trip to the south Asian country.During a visit to the small village of Khori, south-west of the capital New Delhi, Baerbock said, “India has the potential to skip light years […]

NEW DELHI, Dec – India is better placed than many other emerging economies to weather the impact of global headwinds, the World Bank said on Tuesday, revising up its growth forecast for the country to 6.9% for fiscal 2022 from an earlier estimate of 6.5%.The estimate was within the government’s own recent guidance. Asia’s third-largest […]