Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the BRICS summit to be held in Johannesburg next week, said Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson. The two leaders will discuss bilateral relations and cooperation within the BRICS framework. The 10th BRICS summit is scheduled to take place from July 25 to […]
Hamas announced early Saturday that a ceasefire has been reached between Palestinian resistance movements and Israel. “A ceasefire has been reached between the [Israeli] occupation and the Palestinian factions under the mediation of Egypt and international sides,” Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum said in a written statement. The statement did not provide further details. Three Palestinians […]
Popular instant messenger service Whatsapp has launched a public awareness campaign in Pakistan to tackle the spread of false information ahead of the July 25 general elections in the country, according to a media report. The Facebook-owned application has rolled out several easy tips to identify fake news, the Express Tribune reported today. Asserting that fake news often goes viral, the Watsapp media campaign stated that just because […]
Ahead of his meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, United States President Donald Trump on Monday blamed Washington DC’s, foolishness and stupidity for the poor state of relations with Moscow. He also criticised special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation stemming from the alleged election meddling by Russia in the 2016 US presidential election, […]
Islamabad: A petition has been filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party chairman and former cricketer Imran Khan over his ‘donkey’ comment against rival Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party. On Thursday, Khan said in a rally at Narowal, those who went to receive embattled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif at the […]
Islamabad : Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has taunted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over his “friendship” with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and accused the two of creating the law and order situation in the country and tension at the border to manipulate the situation in favour of the rival PML-N. Sharif and […]
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday supported High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein’s call for an independent investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Kashmir on both sides of the Line of Control, PTI reported. “As you can imagine, all the action of the human rights high commissioner is an […]
BEIRUT: An air strike killed at least 28 people in an Islamic State-held area of eastern Syria near the border with Iraq, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. The Syrian state news agency and the pro-Damascus al-Watan newspaper, in its online edition, said the US-led coalition carried out the air strike near the […]
Peshawar, July 13: At least four people were killed and 14 others injured today in a bomb blast on an election rally in northwest Pakistan, the third miliant attack on a political rally ahead of the July 25 general elections. Former federal minister and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) central leader Akram Durrani received minor injuries in the […]
JALALABAD: Gunmen attacked an education department office in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday and held out against security forces for some four hours before the assault ended with at least 10 people killed, officials said. As the attack ended, the provincial governor’s spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said the casualties included 10 people wounded. […]