Pak raises Kashmir issue during talks with UNGA president
Islamabad: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah MehmoodQureshi Friday raised the Kashmir issue during his meeting with the visiting UN General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espionosa. Espionosa arrived in Islamabad on her first official trip to the Asia-Pacific region since assuming office in September last year. She met Qureshi in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where the […]
India orders moving of strategic ITBP command to Leh
Move announced to counter the Chinese build up
New Delhi: Amid growing concerns over the Chinese military buildup along the eastern flank of the country, the government has ordered moving a strategic ITBP command from its current base in Chandigarh by over 960 km to the border of Leh in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said Thursday. The North West (NW) frontier of […]
Palestine takes over reins of G77 at UN
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the “historic leadership” of Palestine which assumed the chairmanship of G77, the global body’s largest intergovernmental organisation of developing countries including India. Egypt was the previous Chair of the Group of 77 (G77), a coalition of 134 members, along with China which aligns itself with the bloc. India’s […]
PIA bans entertainment on flights to Saudi Arabia
By M Zulqernain Lahore: The Pakistan International Airlines has banned in-flight entertainment for pilgrims travelling to Jeddah and Madina and will only play Quranic verses and naats for them, an official of the national carrier said Thursday. The decision was taken “in light of the peoples’ sentiments,” PIA spokesman Mashhood Tajawar told PTI. Cash-strapped PIA has […]
2,300 women to go on Hajj this year without ‘Mehram’: Govt
New Delhi: Over 2,300 Muslim women from India will go on Haj this year without ‘Mehram’ or male companion as all those who applied under this category have been exempted from the lottery system, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Wednesday. The Modi government had last year allowed women going to Haj without Mehram, […]
Taliban threaten to end peace talks with US
Say won’t meet the Kabul government representatives
Kabul: The Taliban issued a statement Tuesday threatening to end contact with the US even as Washington’s peace envoy makes another round of the region in pursuit of a negotiated end to Afghanistan’s protracted conflict before a frustrated President Donald Trump makes good on his 2016 campaign promise to end America’s involvement. Earlier in the […]
Top Taliban commander, three others killed in Pakistan
PESHAWAR: Security forces in Pakistan have gunned down four militants, including a top Taliban commander who masterminded the last year’s powerful bomb blast in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in which at least 31 people including three Sikhs were killed, reports said. Those killed in the exchange of fire include Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Islam […]
Gen Bipin Rawat warns Pakistan
Says army will not hesitate in carrying out 'strong action'
New Delhi: Army chief Gen BipinRawat on Tuesday warned Pakistan that India will not hesitate in carrying out strong action against inimical moves, asserting that its forces were giving enemies along the Line of Control a “befitting reply” and inflicting heavy losses. Gen Rawat also said India’s neighbour on the western border continues to support […]
Pak SC asks govt to back population control measures
Islamabad: Describing Pakistan’s fast-growing population as a “ticking time bomb”, the Supreme Court Tuesday urged religious scholars, the civil society and the government to back population control measures, including a two children per family norm, in the Muslim-majority country. A three-member bench led by Chief Justice SaqibNisar made the observations during a hearing in a […]