UNITED NATIONS - The economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic and surging food prices are keeping almost two billion people in Asia and the Pacific from healthy diets, United Nations agencies said on Wednesday. According to the 2020 Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition, ...

*PARIS: * Former French prime minister Edouard Balladur goes on trial Tuesday on charges that he used kickbacks from arms deals in the 1990s to fund a presidential bid, a case known as the "Karachi affair". Balladur, 91, joins a long list of senior French politicians pursued for alleged ...

LONDON – Pakistan faces another barrier in the legal process of former premier Nawaz Sharif's extradition as Britain refuses to take action on the basis of the non-bailable arrest warrants served by the Pakistan High Commission in London. In response to a letter sent to Prime Minister Boris on ...

*Karachi - British Parliamentarian Naz Shah has said that from 2015 onwards, Britain sold more than half a billion pounds-worth of arms to India, which will contribute to shedding the blood of the Kashmiri people.* Addressing the UK Parliament on "End the siege in Kashmir", Shah said: "Without ...

LONDON – The United Kingdom has asked India to lift all restrictions imposed in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K) and allow a team from its High Commission in Delhi to visit the occupied valley for a first-hand assessment of the situation. The demand has been made by the UK ...

LONDON – The UK High Court of Justice has dismissed a plea of Broadsheet seeking an order for the attachment of four Avenfield Apartments owned by the Sharif family in a default case against the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The Broadsheet had asked for attachment of the four apartments ...

LONDON: Pakistani nationals looking to fly back to the country have not been able to board flights at the Heathrow Airport. According to Geo News, airlines have refused to fly back passengers despite Pakistan government's directives that Pakistani passport-holders and students would be allowed to ...

LONDON: Israel backed news agency has apologized for its earlier gaffe in reporting which said Prime Minister Imran Khan’s aide on overseas Pakistanis Zulfi Bukhari had visited Israel last month and said it has removed the news piece claiming the development. Earlier today, SAPM and state ...

ISLAMABAD/LONDON – British journalist and host of the BBC’s Hardtalk Stephen Sackur said the PML-N leader Ishaq Dar "wanted to be on the show himself." The 56-year-old said that he "enjoyed" the intense conversation with former finance minister Ishaq Dar. Speaking with BBC Urdu ...

LONDON: Five months after sensationally reporting that Pakistan was the origin of and responsible for half of Britain’s imported coronavirus cases, two influential UK newspapers have accepted that they published misleading and false headlines. A story was first published on July 26 by *The ...