Beijing: At least 18 people were killed and 19 others injured after a fire broke out at a hotel earlier today in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. The fire started at 4:36 am at Beilong Hot Spring Leisure Hotel in Songbei district in the city and was put out at 7:50 am, according to Global Times. […]
Sixteen members of newly-elected Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s 21-strong cabinet took oath at a ceremony held on Monday at the President House here. President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to the nominated federal ministers, reports Dawn news. The new cabinet comprises 16 federal ministers and five advisers. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) vice chairman Makhdoom […]
Kabul : Gunmen have launched an attack on an Afghan intelligence training center in Kabul, officials say. Police officer Abdul Rahman said on August 16 that the attackers were holed up in a building near the compound overseen by the National Security Directorate in a western neighborhood of the Afghan capital. He said the gunmen […]
Sanaa: Forty children were among 51 people killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in rebel-held northern Yemen, the Red Cross said in a new toll today. Fifty-six children were also among the 79 people wounded in the Thursday strike on Saada province, a rebel stronghold that borders Saudi Arabia, the International […]
Taliban fighters overran a northern Afghan army base, officials said today, killing at least 14 soldiers with dozens feared captured and others said to have fled in the latest blow to the country’s security forces. Militants gained control of the base in Ghormach district of volatile Faryab province after days of heavy fighting, according to […]
Tehran: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today that there would be neither war nor negotiations with the United States. “Recently, US officials have been talking blatantly about us. Beside sanctions, they are talking about war and negotiations,” he said via his official Twitter account in English. “In this regard, let me say a […]
Islamabad: Pakistan today released 30 Indian prisoners, including 27 fishermen, from jail as a goodwill gesture ahead of the country’s Independence Day tomorrow. The release of the prisoners “is in line with Pakistan’s consistent policy of not politicising humanitarian issues,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said in a statement. The 30 prisoners being set free […]
Beijing: Chinese state media has defended the planned demolition of a mosque in the country’s north west, saying that no religion is bigger than the law even as thousands of ethnic Hui Muslims continued sit-in protests against the plan. Thousands of protesters thwarted attempts by officials in Wuzhong city on Thursday to demolish parts of […]
Islamabad: For the first time, Pakistani soldiers will undergo training at Russian military institutes after the two countries signed an agreement related to it, in a sign of further strengthening their defence ties amid Islamabad’s increasingly uneasy relations with the United States. The agreement was signed yesterday at the conclusion of the first meeting of […]
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday appeared before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in connection with misuse of KPK government’s helicopters, Geo News reported. The TV channel reported that Khan was accompanied by Pervaiz Khattak, Asad Qaisar, Babar Awan and ALi Zairdi The NAB has prepared a questionnaire for Imran KHan as part […]