Category: International

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif appeared before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday during the hearing of the missing persons case. PM Shehbaz assured to resolve the issue of missing persons with sincerity. Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court Athar Minallah was hearing the case relating to missing persons. The Prime Minister said a committee […]

Switzerland has summoned the Chinese ambassador to express concern about the human rights situation in China’s western region of Xinjiang. “Switzerland is convinced that the best way to safeguard its interests and the respect of fundamental rights is to conduct a critical and constructive dialogue with Beijing,” the Swiss foreign ministry said on Thursday. The […]

Türkiye rejected the Arab League’s “unfounded allegations” against Ankara that were stated in the resolutions and the communique adopted at the Council of Foreign Ministers meeting of the Arab League held on Sept. 6. The 158th meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Arab League has become “a stage, once again, to resolutions […]

WASHINGTON: The US State Department has approved the potential sale of F-16 aircraft sustainment and related equipment to Pakistan in a deal valued at up to $450 million, the Pentagon said. The principal contractor will be Lockheed Martin Corporation, the Pentagon said. In a notification to Congress, the State Department “made a determination approving the […]

UNITED NATIONS — A senior U.N. human rights official said Wednesday that her office has verified that Russian soldiers and affiliated groups subject Ukrainian civilians to an invasive process called “filtration,” and called for access to those being detained by Russia. “In cases that our office has documented, during ‘filtration,’ Russian armed forces and affiliated […]

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) reported 12 more deaths on Wednesday due to flash floods, taking the death toll to 1,355. The total number of injured reached 12,722 after two more were reported injured. Massive floods that earlier wreaked havoc in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and South Punjab are now devastating Sindh’s districts and pose a […]

BEIJING: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will meet next week during a regional summit in Uzbekistan, a Russian diplomat said Wednesday, in what would be the Chinese leader’s first trip abroad since the early days of the pandemic. “In less than 10 days, our leaders will meet at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit” in […]

US President Joe Biden struck a note of confidence on Tuesday on meeting his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 summit in Bali this Fall. Asked if he would see Xi Jinping at the gathering of world leaders, the president said, “If he’s there I’m sure I’ll see him.” The comments come […]

LAHORE: An accountability court in Lahore on Wednesday deferred the indictment of Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz in a Rs16 billion money laundering case after the prime minister and his son moved fresh pleas seeking acquittal in the probe. Sharif and his family are facing charges of money laundering of billions of rupees […]

TAIPEI: A group of French lawmakers landed in Taipei on Wednesday, the first high-level European delegation since China conducted huge war drills to protest a visit to the island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Democratic Taiwan exists under constant threat of an invasion by authoritarian China, which claims the self-ruled island as part of […]